{"id":943,"date":"2012-05-30T18:15:12","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T01:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/?p=943"},"modified":"2012-05-30T18:20:33","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T01:20:33","slug":"the-carbon-filter-experiment-postmortem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/30\/the-carbon-filter-experiment-postmortem\/","title":{"rendered":"The Carbon Filter Experiment Postmortem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/filter_FAIL_resized.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-944\" title=\"filter_FAIL_resized\" src=\"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/filter_FAIL_resized-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Damaged active carbon filter\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/filter_FAIL_resized-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/filter_FAIL_resized-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/filter_FAIL_resized.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So apparently it's a <strong>really bad idea<\/strong> to use aluminum mesh as a container for active carbon! After sitting around for a couple weeks the aluminum screen became extremely brittle after reacting with the active carbon and the whole thing sorta fell apart. I'm going to probably be replacing the mesh cage with a basket made from perforated stainless steal when I've got some free time, after the <noindex><a rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Kansas City Maker Faire\" href=\"http:\/\/www.makerfairekc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas City Maker Faire<\/a><\/noindex> most likely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So apparently it's a really bad idea to use aluminum mesh as a container for active carbon! After sitting around for a couple weeks the aluminum screen became extremely brittle after reacting with the active carbon and the whole thing sorta fell apart. I'm going to probably be replacing the mesh cage with a basket [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":947,"href":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions\/947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}