Good morning!!!!

[toppop52]

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[toppop52]

Either 20' or 22' i think out of the ground. Goes in a 4' deep sleeve in concrete. Single piece aluminium. Dogwood tree next to it has gotten big.View attachment 561612

Mine is 25’ with a 42 inch sleeve in the concrete, it’s two piece aluminum and I have it adjusted to 22 feet, just looks right at that height. I’d have liked a nicer pole setup, but mom gave it to us so I’m going to use it if it holds up, I have lot heavier American made flag on it than that printed junk it came with and this one stresses the pole a lot more in strong winds.

 

[Ed of all trades]

RNG, thanks for the video, you surely have a pretty view.

Buckeye, PM sent.

Have a great day. Ed

 

[sodamo]

68°F and .95 inches rain. Hoping it clears as we are scheduled for our helicopter lava flight in 7 hours. Hard to predict. I can see a blue sucker hole here, but that’s not indicative of wx over the flight area.

Don, those are some serious biking schedules. I think I’d be looking for a D or E group.

Drew, please take it easy in that heat. Actually, everybody be mindful of the heat.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[daugen]

David, am taking the day off, figured I needed to. Lawn is mowed, garden sort of weeded, and rain is coming in.
Before then need to go pick okra and tomatoes. Melons are starting to ripen so have to pay attention there.
Fondling a lot of vegetables...

My older friend with the shingles is doing ok, pain shots they gave her really helped and she appreciated the week's worth of
healthy food munchies I brought her this morning. Then watered all her plants out on her enormous patio that faces the golf course, must have had thirty flower planters back there,
and took her flags down with storm coming. My good deeds done, time to come home.

Met my fireman helper who is going to do a little weedeating and he helped me put the big finish mower back on the rear of the Kubota.
The pto even gave him a hard time, would have defeated me. Just not enough hand strength for more than a short time.
Why don't they redesign this thing with super magnets instead?

I think using a lathe or metal mill is one of the heights of personal creativity. Almost as good as PJ's guitar riffs...
To make something finished out of bare materials is a neat feeling, but I only know woodworking.
Maybe metal is just like really, really hard wood...
I only know about melting it with a welder. Never crafted anything in it.

And here is Ed just making a new gear when he needs one.
I'm impressed. Several of you know how to do this and I want
to be on the island (with a full machine shop of course) with you guys on it.
And a huge number of adoring women. Each of you may have as many as your wives allow you.
heh heh heh
Let's see, how do we machine a big zero...

 

[daugen]

forgot to mention the big breakdown.
heading out the driveway in golf cart with helper and we just stopped. No power.
A battery cable had corroded through, despite my good attention to keeping the area clean.
Broke off right at end of connector. Yup, that will do it.
Down to the barn, found an old ground wire of lesser gauge and put ends on that.
Worked just fine.

Question. My friend tells me it's a ground wire so it doesn't have to be as big as the power cables.
Does one ever get heat buildup on a ground wire? Current wire is fairly thick but not battery cable for sure.
Local Napa shut down for weekend. Will be interesting to see if wire melts through like a big fuse before I can replace it.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Question. My friend tells me it's a ground wire so it doesn't have to be as big as the power cables.
Does one ever get heat buildup on a ground wire? Current wire is fairly thick but not battery cable for sure.
Local Napa shut down for weekend. Will be interesting to see if wire melts through like a big fuse before I can replace it.

Technically, some of the energy from the battery is converted to heat and never gets back to the battery through the ground cable. It's a measurable but small amount. I like to eliminate as many voltage drops as possible, and since it's so easy to use larger than needed positive and negative leads on battery installations, I try to do that whenever I'm presented with an "opportunity" such as the one that has now been gifted to you. Just keep an eye on that little ground cable, keep any flammable:laughing: material away from it, and try to minimizing the hooning around and I think you'll be fine, Drew.

 

[daugen]

Thanks RNG. I'll pick up a new cable on Monday, short thing, no more than six inches, I just don't know the wire gauge.
I put the melted one in a bag and will match it.
But bottom line is my friend was right then.
ah, just a little hooning please?
Just not extended hooning.

Trojan red batteries I put in three years ago are doing fine.
All the terminals were clean, except for this one.
This golf cart is used like a mini truck and goes everywhere so it gets bounced around a bunch.
Funny the thing would die though on a glass smooth surface.
That I guess is when this cable gave up the ghost, would have liked to have seen slow mo photography internally of the
wire coming apart. Connector was fine, wire gave up, possibly a dissimilar metal issue, no idea.
No matter what, I need to give it all another thorough cleaning. It really didn't look all that bad, and then it just failed
totally. Will put some battery spray on connectors when done.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Funny the thing would die though on a glass smooth surface.
That I guess is when this cable gave up the ghost, would have liked to have seen slow mo photography internally of the
wire coming apart. Connector was fine, wire gave up, possibly a dissimilar metal issue, no idea.

If the terminals were soldered on instead of crimped, there's a good chance that flux was left in the wire and accelerated the corrosion that lead to the failure. It's a progressive failure that progresses each time current flows, which heats up the wire, which accelerates the corrosion and cuts the cross section of the wire strand by strand. Fewer strands carrying the same current heat even faster, further accelerating the failure process. Try to find crimped ends when you shop, and keep them clean and soaked with a dry film lubricant that will exclude oxygen.:2cents:

 

[Buppies]

Buckeyefarmer our pole came from the same place off Hwy 9