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Making A Wind Cover


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So I hear how great windcovers are and how much they improve the smoke...so I thought "its time to make one"...I'm broke, so I can't just go buy one

so far I've got about two and a half hours into it, the rest has to wait
started out with a giant, empty soup can...on the end that is still closed, cut away most of the "lid", the other end cut away a third of the can...then took a tiny soup can and cut it in half, hole in top. put them together and sealed by cutting up a plastic cup and melting it around edge on top....
so, once cooled down...on the interior was a gap between cans, filled it up with mud (wall patching plaster)...covered the the interior and exterior...waiting to dry, if I can find something to sand with, then will smooth and paint exterior...maybe with ink from colored pens...might have to apply more mud first, will find out tommorrow when all is dry...pics will come in next stages
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right now I'm drying the drywall mud by putting the windcover over a candle...otherwise, with how much mud I used, it would take over a day and I'm impatient
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already starting to dry...will get a pic up of what I have soon

still will need sanding, more mud, more sanding, find where the holes in side I made are and open them back up, and then coloration...
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QUOTE (NickReppinThe909 @ Apr 27 2008, 09:45 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
QUOTE (indian_villager @ Apr 27 2008, 07:04 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I just rolled a piece of foil around a coke bottle and it worked fine!


you know plastic contains almost as many carcinogens as cigarettes right ?

I think you misinterperted what I meant. I rolled aluminum foil around the plastic bottle and then removed the bottle so I just have an aluminum foil cylinder!
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hmmmm, *starts scanning the pantry shelves for proper-sized canned goods* lol As long as the can isn't coated inside, I think that would work fine for a temp windcover.

As far as drywall mud, I will be interested to see how that turns out when it gets heated up. Pics please when finished!
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