{"id":1211,"date":"2024-02-05T10:41:17","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T08:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paluweb.nl\/?p=1211"},"modified":"2024-02-05T10:41:19","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T08:41:19","slug":"cricket-proof-way-to-run-wires-into-a-paludarium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paluweb.nl\/?p=1211","title":{"rendered":"Cricket-proof way to run wires into a paludarium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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If there is one thing I have noticed (and my wife hates) is that through ANY hole in a paludarium, crickets will find<\/strong> a way out. One of the toughest problems to solve is how to decently create a feed-through for wires and 6mm hoses that are guaranteed to be “cricket escape proof”.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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It still starts with large holes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In order to make sure I can always run any wires or hoses into the paludarium, I started out with having three large (40mm diameter) holes drilled in the top of the paludarium:<\/p>\n\n\n

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I my case the company that built the glass encloseure only had a limited set of hole sizes they could cut. I ended up with 40mm. I measured them afterwards to get the exact size (and glass thickness). I then fired up Fusion360<\/a> and drew up a design that would allow me to place a neatly fitting plug in the holes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next, I designed 6mm holes in the plug, and I also printed tiny sliders that can cover those holes. The end result:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Top and bottom view of the cricket-proof plugs<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

These plugs are now inserted into the large holes on top. By default all the sliders are closed, but whenever I want to run a wire or hose I simply open up a slider and feed the wire through. I then reclose the slider as far as I can, effectively sealing the holes shut. No crickets shall pass!<\/p>\n\n\n

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If there is one thing I have noticed (and my wife hates) is that through ANY hole in a paludarium, crickets will find a way out. One of the toughest problems to solve is how to decently create a feed-through … Read more »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paludarium"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paluweb.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paluweb.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paluweb.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paluweb.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paluweb.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1211"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.paluweb.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1218,"href":"https:\/\/www.paluweb.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions\/1218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paluweb.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paluweb.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paluweb.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}