So I get what you are trying to do. You will have a neat installation, but couldn't you have done a quick and easy thing like this?
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Ahhh grasshoppa'! You have learned how to think like an Artisan!
Alas this EXACT thinking was a miserable failure. This is exactly
what I did, I kid you not, THEN I realized the silly cover will not go on! BLAST!