Good morning!!!!

[sodamo]

RNG. You make me glad I went with the yellow poly gas line.

 

[sodamo]

65°F and ,01 inches rain
Energy conservation day ahead.

Trying a chicken adobo recipe in slow cooker. Hand and Foot later.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[RedNeckGeek]

What I have done is if it is a home depot or Lowes product order it for delivery to the store and pick a store in Vermont,
one of my other options is I have kids in other states I have had them order products for delivery to their address and then have them reship to me,
it's a pain and not cheap but does work.

A couple weeks ago, Amazon did the same thing with another item (forgot what it was), but I was able to order it on the Home Depot website and pick it up at a local HD store. Just goes to show how senseless these rulz are...

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Good Morning!!!! 45F @ 6:15AM. Some clouds this morning will give way to generally sunny skies for the afternoon. High 66F. Winds light and variable.

Most of the big brand battery companies guarantee their products won't leak and damage the device in which they're installed. So they'd replace those Bose headphones, Rick, if you were using a Duracell or the like.:confused3: Now I'd better go check mine, if I can find 'em. Haven't used 'em since I retired because I haven't been on an airliner since I retired. :cloud9:

Nice job on the blade fixture, Ron. I like the way the handles on your clamps face away from the blade. Mine face the other way, and the rubber covers have become hard from the heat. Took me a long time to mill the slot for grinding the blade bevel, and didn't see a need to cut two of them, though.

Not much progress on plumbing the gas line yesterday. Got the first piece of pipe cut and threaded, then installed it and a 10' stick in a 90ｰ elbow just fine. But then I couldn't find the 3/4" cap to block off one end for pressure testing, but did find another gauge and adapter to match the one the propane man left me with. Put 'em both on, ran 100' of hose down the hill from the compressor, pressurized the pipe, and took a break for lunch. Came back to both gauges reading zero. Took both gauges off and reinstalled 'em using both Teflon tape and pipe dope, and this time when I pressurized the pipe I could hear air hissing out of the test gauge I found. Turns out the housing was split where it threaded on to the pipe. Went back to my junk drawers and found another one I hadn't looked in before, and there was a 3/4" pipe cap with a Schrader valve already installed. Using that, the elbow joint passed the pressure check just fine. The next length of pipe extended down past the end of the terrace, so I had to figure out where to cut it and if a 90ｰ or 45ｰ elbow would be best to follow the contour of the trench bottom. Turns out that they were both wrong, and I needed a 22 1/2ｰ elbow. Have any of you ever tried to buy a 22 1/2ｰ 3/4" NPT elbow? Amazon had ONE, for FIFTY-FOUR DOLLARS!:shocked: Google found a couple for ONLY half that. None of the box stores or True Value even carried them. So I did what any red blooded American with a machine shop would do, and cut and beveled a couple short sections of pipe so I could weld 'em together and make my own 22 1/2ｰ elbows. I figure if they survive the torque of installation, they'll hold up just fine under less than 1 PSI of propane. And yeah, I checked the metallurgy of "black iron" pipe, and it's plain old low carbon steel, not iron at all. In fact, most of the pipe is seam welded, but because of the high cooling rates when resistance welding is used, pipe made that way is annealed at 1000F post welding. So as long as I don't quench my GMA welds, they should be just fine.

And then there's the nomenclature by which those elbows are named. A 90ｰ elbow really is a right angle, and should be called a ninety degree elbow. But now look at a 45ｰ elbow. The included angle isn't 45ｰ at all, it's 180ｰ - 45 = 135ｰ. And a 22 1/2ｰ elbow is 180ｰ - 22 1/2ｰ = 157.5ｰ, and the correct angle for each half of a DIY 22 1/2ｰ elbow bevel is half of that, or 78.75ｰ. :confused2:

Before all that, though, I did a little reading about CSST, the new Corrugated Stainless Steel Tubing that is suitable for natural gas and propane. It would have been perfect for my application, except it has to be run inside a non-ferrous conduit if it is buried, and I'd be right back to fooling with rigid pipe again. But at least 22 1/2ｰ elbows are available in PVC, and I've already got some to do the electrical runs.

Now I wonder why I just don't get the pipe bender out and tweak a couple of 22 1/2ｰ bends in a piece of pipe. But then how would I screw it into a coupler when it's down in the trench? I'd have to lift the whole mess up out of the trench, I guess. And then read the building code to see if it allows rigid pipe to be bent...

I'm not even out of bed this morning and my head already hurts. I need a nap...

Hope everyone enjoys the rest of their weekend...

RNG, what about this type of stuff?

https://www.homedepot.com/p/HOME-FLEX-3-4-in-IPS-x-100-ft-DR-11-Underground-Yellow-Polyethylene-Gas-Pipe-19-0711100/301892364?mtc=Shopping-VF-F_D26P-G-D26P-26_1_PIPE_AND_FITTINGS-Generic-NA-Feed-LIA-NA-NA-PIPE_AND_FITTINGS_GasPipes_Fittings&cm_mmc=Shopping-VF-F_D26P-G-D26P-26_1_PIPE_AND_FITTINGS-Generic-NA-Feed-LIA-NA-NA-PIPE_AND_FITTINGS_GasPipes_Fittings-71700000055362047-58700005218218029-92700048703590924&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIv46Y-K3o5wIVCdbACh3q7wuYEAQYASABEgK0i_D_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

edit: I see Sodamo used it for his.

 

[sodamo]

That’s (1 in) what I used partially, Kyle. Pressure tested very well, no loss at all.
Plumber did his run with something compatible but with the tool for connections. Tool was a heat sealer lent (rented?) to plumber by wholesaler.

 

[Thomas]

Ok.... went from sunny and calm at 40 degrees to windy, dark skies, and near white-out conditions in about 10 minutes. Temp dropped to 31 in that time... I was not expecting snow!

Good thing you weren't in the back 40 on the tractor.

 

[ronjhall]

Nice job on the blade fixture, Ron. I like the way the handles on your clamps face away from the blade. Mine face the other way, and the rubber covers have become hard from the heat. Took me a long time to mill the slot for grinding the blade bevel, and didn't see a need to cut two of them, though.

I cut grooves with bandsaw. Did not have a mill cutter small enough for .025". That why I had to make 2 slots. Had my thinking cap on backwards. :confused3:
Will see how well it makes the 20° angle on saw blades. I have to make a repair on my belt sander before I can do that.

 

[Thomas]

39F clear sky high temp of 50F mid afternoon. :cool2:
Great weather day to enjoy the last weekend of February. :cool2:
Deer starting to arrive for supper standing just inside.
Got everything done I wanted and little bit more,than Mrs. found out Kubota dealership had B2650 with cab and want to see it etc.,I think I talk her out of the cab not unless she wants to purchase snow blower $$$$"s.
Time to throw couple steaks on the grill while Mrs.does the filler part of the dinner,and watch some NASCAR.

Enjoy the evening all.

 

[toppop52]

It got to 62° after a low of 21° at 6:07 am. 41° now, a beautiful day to be sure. Went to church, visited mom and finally got the last of the old shingles off my trailer and buried in the old scrap pit the county abandoned decades ago. Cleaned up the trailer, aired the tires, checked the bearings, etc... Ellen helped me get the trailer cleared, then we loaded the recycling and she took that.
I’m having trouble getting seat time in the truck, Ellen keeps finding jobs for it!

Back to rehab tomorrow.

 

[Buppies]

Toppop glad you are enjoying your truck (Ellen) and that you are getting better and better

wngsprd not sure

Thomas go for the gold