Good morning!!!!

[rswyan]

75.6F and sunny @ 11:15, predicted high today of 86F.

A southwest to northeast line of thunderstorms developed just south of here yesterday ... unfortunately we got nothing to speak of, if anything at all. Forecast is still showing about an 85% or 90% chance of storms on Tuesday. Sure hope it happens.

Got another 5' of bead run yesterday on the soil screen frame ... probably have another 10' to go, which I'll try and get done today and then get started on the SSQA.

 

[rswyan]

get in a comfortable position
I tried.
Pretty sore back and neck at the moment from a lot of bending over though.

Yeah ... me and bending over don't get along well at all.

Generally, I'll try to move lower to whatever I'm working on, or raise it ... both to avoid bending. Most of my welding is done with my butt planted on something.

I've found that just raking all day, leaves me with a sore neck ... might have see about getting one of those neck braces.

Some times i could sit, that was good, until my leg got burned by sparks.
Now I should just think like I'm a computer guided laser, always even, always consistent.
And next time I should wear jeans.

Yup ... I personally don't do much welding in shorts ... plenty enough problems getting burned even when I am covered.

I have done a good bit in short-sleeved tee shirts though, but I'm starting to try and even avoid that.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

RNG, a pic of the capacitor/clock job perhaps when you have time?

New and old capacitors, old one on top:


I sourced the capacitor from Studio Sound Electronics. PJ would get a kick out of that site; they seem to cater to folks repairing electric guitars and amps...

 

[sodamo]

72°F and .01 inches rain.

Gonna make breakfast for wife, then it's looking like some tractor time.

Thanks for all the nice comments. I'm pleased that the work kinda matches the existing and not stick out like an after thought.

Be safe
Have a great day.

 

[daugen]

did not follow Ron's advice, went out and trimmed all the bushes around the house for two hours, plus some woodlines where I was pretty sure there were no bees,
cleaned up that mess, heat index 103 and after two sports drinks,
time to come in. Bright sunshine today.

Had to hack two big bushes pretty severely because they had grown out under the overhead power lines back to the barn. The utility company was going to cut them down and I pleaded that I would keep them trimmed. Ahem. Little late on that but here's a better late than never special. Had to use loppers and the bushes are pretty ugly now, but the lines won't fall into the bushes and cause flaming infernos to endanger the neighborhood and emergency workers. I said I would trim them and finally they got trimmed. Hopefully they will live and look better sometime soon. And I no longer feel guilty that job wasn't done. Spent enough time doing fire police work watching downed wires light up bushes and trees to fully understand utility's concern.
Probably a job I should have done in February.

But you get to them when you get to them.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

did not follow Ron's advice, went out and trimmed all the bushes around the house for two hours, plus some woodlines where I was pretty sure there were no bees,
cleaned up that mess, heat index 103 and after two sports drinks,
time to come in. Bright sunshine today.

Had to hack two big bushes pretty severely because they had grown out under the overhead power lines back to the barn. The utility company was going to cut them down and I pleaded that I would keep them trimmed. Ahem. Little late on that but here's a better late than never special. Had to use loppers and the bushes are pretty ugly now, but the lines won't fall into the bushes and cause flaming infernos to endanger the neighborhood and emergency workers. I said I would trim them and finally they got trimmed. Hopefully they will live and look better sometime soon. And I no longer feel guilty that job wasn't done. Spent enough time doing fire police work watching downed wires light up bushes and trees to fully understand utility's concern.
Probably a job I should have done in February.

But you get to them when you get to them.

Sounds like time for a cool glass of tea with lemon and mint.

Got home from church. I'm cooking a large roast in the pressure cooker. Old school, on top of the stove cooker. And a side of rice. Not sure what else to put with it. Maybe some green beans or lima beans.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Dry run for the eclipse tomorrow. I'm not in the totality zone, but should be interesting to see what the camera captures nonetheless.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

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New and old capacitors, old one on top:
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I sourced the capacitor from Studio Sound Electronics. PJ would get a kick out of that site; they seem to cater to folks repairing electric guitars and amps...

Thanks for posting. How did you know it was the capacitor? (I know capacitors are quite typical failures nowadays in many electronics)

 

[daugen]

I think they show a dead short if bad but let RNG confirm this.

93 degrees out, trying to find a movie to watch this afternoon. So much of Amazon Prime are tv shows, and I no longer have Netflix.
And YouTube seems to be an endless source of videos on just about everything.
I enjoy the train ride videos in overseas countries; glad I'm not on some of the trains
When an EMD powered train goes by with a good microphone recording, I can hear the room
rumble from the subwoofer. 900 rpm makes for power strokes you can feel

 

[toppop52]

Worked on my little tractor yesterday,

Randy, what did you get? sorry if you already said

It's just a little Cub Cadet 1864, I just had to have something to work my driveway and spray weeds and such. It's a $650 tractor, a stop gap, I'm still looking for the garden tractor front end loader.