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by Dan Boward, Maryland Department of Natural Resources
The Maryland Water Monitoring Council held its 25th Annual Conference at the Maritime Conference Center in Linthicum on Friday, December 6, 2019.
These are old TV monitors that met their maker at the old Central TV studios in Birmingham. This picture was taken while on a tour of the old studios in 2007. The place was derelict and awaiting demolition, having closed 10 years earlier in 1997. It was like time had stood still, equipment stood standing as it had the moment it had been switched off 10 years previous. Sad to see what was once a major broadcasting centre in such decay, it long ago having been replaced by a very much smaller facility just for news.
This is "Gunship Grey" paint I picked up at the hobby shop this afternoon. Everybody seems to say the Monitor was black on top, but the photos of the crew on deck show it to be clearly lighter than the crew's uniforms. So I'm going with a dark grey.
There was an exhibit on the Monitor in popular culture in the museum, and in addition to things like monitor salt shakers and songs about the epic battle, they had the original version of the Lindberg Monitor and Merrimac model I built last summer. It seems that the original kit came with an electric motor so you could run the Merrimac in the bathtub!
Modified monitor base - After peeling off old stick-on feet, holes were drilled into base plate and 7 new feet attached with 4-40 hardware. This eliminates the problem of foot migration which leaves a sticky adhesive mess trapping dust, dirt, and hair. Mouser part number 534-720.
Procedure: Monitor has an odd center of gravity so pick it up by the neck where the stand joins the back of the monitor cabinet. Place the monitor face-down on a soft flat surface such as a couch cushion or bed. All of the weight should be on the front bezel with no pressure points on the delicate screen. Remove (4) Phillips head screws from the back of the monitor cabinet to detach the stand. Remove (4) of the (5) screws on the bottom of the stand. The center screw is the tension adjustment so do not remove this screw. Remove (6) small self-taping screws from the base plate and pull off the plastic shroud. Peel off any square stick-on feet that remain and use WD40 to soften and remove the adhesive. Each foot pad has a square outline etched into the metal to indicate the (7) foot locations. With a #2 pencil, draw an X on each of these squares to find the exact center. Place the metal plate on a couple small wood blocks and using a sharp pointed punch and hammer, center punch each hole location. Drill holes using 7/64" bit, then remove burrs from the other side by hand-turning a 1/4" bit. Attach new feet (Mouser 534-720) using 4-40 hardware. Place a gob of silicone cement over each lock washer & nut to lock into place. After silicone cement has dried for a few hours, reassemble parts. Do not over tighten the (6) base screws as they thread into plastic columns that strip easily. Just snug them up.
I was planning to paint black lines on the top of the turret to simulating the grating, but the hobby shop didn't have thin enough tape to mask. So instead I decided to do an actual three-dimensional grating with .020 x .030 styrene strips. here they are, cut to 3" long and held down with a prism, which just happened to be the most convenient suitable weight. At the left is the turret roof with the grey paint sanded off.
OK eagle eyes out there. I have a regular flat screen monitor connected to my laptop/notebook. How much difference do you think there is in the colour and in what way?
The rudder and its supporting structures will be the same color as the rest of the bottom of the ship, so I glued them in before painting.
24/03/2023 - Vereadora Fernanda Miranda participa de mobilização contra a falta de monitores e professores na Escola Piratinino de Almeida, no Bairro Areal. Fotos: Gabriel Xavier
Skylight faces north, collector will be behind blank roof, pipes run immediately down into this space. Duct is humidity vent from cold cellar.
Groundwater monitoring with Kevin Masarik, groundwater outreach specialist with UW-Extension. Photos by Bonnie Willison.
Attendance monitoring is among the many things that a supervisor will look at when reviewing an employee. But as most supervisors would say, attendance monitoring has never been an easy task, especially with the absence of an efficient employee attendance monitoring system, and more so, when the company or organization in question happens to hoard scores of employees.
In July, community volunteers joined Harris Center naturalists Karen Seaver, Susie Spikol, and Brett Amy Thelen to survey for monarch eggs and caterpillars in a Harris Center-conserved milkweed patch in Peterborough.
Our data were collected and submitted to the Monarch Larva Monitoring Project during the International Monarch Monitoring Blitz, an annual research effort aimed at understanding and protecting monarch butterflies throughout North America.
photo: Brett Amy Thelen