rswyan
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- Northeast Ohio
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- Kubota B2910, Cub Cadet Pro Z 154S, Simplicity 18 CFC, Cub Cadet 782
85 degrees at 15:30 with mostly sunny skies ...
Just woke up and actually got up ... on my first cup.
Stayed up until around 06:00 the last two nights ... got a good nine hours of sleep last night, but only three hours the night before ...
Our oldest came up yesterday morning for a visit and stayed most of the day ... hadn't seen him in quite awhile. Got the full "show and tell" (complete with pictures) on his summer internship with NASA ... was really very interesting to hear about the exotic welding technology and procedures that he's been studying and using. We spent the better part of the day up in the shop, trading stories about the various projects we had been working on, and in my case, the ones I've got lined up but have yet to start. He's got about a week or so before he starts back to school, and he might end up coming back up to work on some of the welding projects I have in the queue.
Eventually the wife made her way up to the shop and we spent another hour or so talking about extended family and friends. His mother fed him some of her spaghetti and sent him home with a couple of pieces of her blueberry pie that she had made.
After he left I went back up to the shed and finished up installing the 1/2" air hose and quick coupler from McMaster that UPS had delivered earlier in the day that connects the compressor to the hard piping in the shop. Then got the wife to come and give me a hand putting up the last section of 3/4" copper to complete the hard piping ... so we now have air.
There were (and are) a couple of minor things to fix ... I had left out a teflon sealing ring out of one shutoff valve, so it was hissing when I pressurized the system. I also missed installing a coupler and drain valve on one drop ... had the coupler but have to pick up the drain valve at Home Depot or Lowes later. Also have a coupler of small but steady leaks on the east wall where I tried to cheap out and use a couple of black pipe unions on either side of the filter/regulator/shutoff valve ... I'll pick up a couple of copper unions at the Depot to replace those.
Got a bunch of empty boxes from tools and equipment moved up to the attic to get them out of the way ... the attic itself is a winter project ... there's a snot load of stuff (lumber, pvc and copper pipe, and who knows what) up there that needs to be removed and moved down to the barn. I also discovered several large mouse nests made out of shredded paper towels and pink fiberglass insulation of all things ... so I'll need to put a bunch of mothballs up there to discourage them from hanging around.
Started to fasten the 6-3 wire that powers the outlet for the compressor and welder to the wood shelves ... it's just been laying there across the shelves, so it needs to cleaned up and tied down. Hafta move the compressor though to finish that.
Got a text from Home Depot that the third (and hopefully final) order of drawer dividers for the storage cabinets are in ... hopefully will get all the remaining fasteners and small parts stowed and put away tonight. That should really make a difference. I've gone thru the bottom toolbox and cleaned out all the drawers and organized it, still need to do the same for the top box. You can tell it's starting to get pretty heavy, when you try to roll it around.
Day before yesterday I pulled the Sawzall apart and cleaned out the old grease from the front and middle gear cases and repacked 'em with fresh stuff ... Sawzall now sounds like a new machine. Took a bunch of pictures of that, so I'll probably start a thread and do a write up on that. Did the same (but without any pics) for the angle grinder the day before.
Time to go get a shower and get cleaned up and see how much, if any, the west side air system leaked down overnight.
Hope everyone had a good day.
Just woke up and actually got up ... on my first cup.
Stayed up until around 06:00 the last two nights ... got a good nine hours of sleep last night, but only three hours the night before ...
Our oldest came up yesterday morning for a visit and stayed most of the day ... hadn't seen him in quite awhile. Got the full "show and tell" (complete with pictures) on his summer internship with NASA ... was really very interesting to hear about the exotic welding technology and procedures that he's been studying and using. We spent the better part of the day up in the shop, trading stories about the various projects we had been working on, and in my case, the ones I've got lined up but have yet to start. He's got about a week or so before he starts back to school, and he might end up coming back up to work on some of the welding projects I have in the queue.
Eventually the wife made her way up to the shop and we spent another hour or so talking about extended family and friends. His mother fed him some of her spaghetti and sent him home with a couple of pieces of her blueberry pie that she had made.
After he left I went back up to the shed and finished up installing the 1/2" air hose and quick coupler from McMaster that UPS had delivered earlier in the day that connects the compressor to the hard piping in the shop. Then got the wife to come and give me a hand putting up the last section of 3/4" copper to complete the hard piping ... so we now have air.
There were (and are) a couple of minor things to fix ... I had left out a teflon sealing ring out of one shutoff valve, so it was hissing when I pressurized the system. I also missed installing a coupler and drain valve on one drop ... had the coupler but have to pick up the drain valve at Home Depot or Lowes later. Also have a coupler of small but steady leaks on the east wall where I tried to cheap out and use a couple of black pipe unions on either side of the filter/regulator/shutoff valve ... I'll pick up a couple of copper unions at the Depot to replace those.
Got a bunch of empty boxes from tools and equipment moved up to the attic to get them out of the way ... the attic itself is a winter project ... there's a snot load of stuff (lumber, pvc and copper pipe, and who knows what) up there that needs to be removed and moved down to the barn. I also discovered several large mouse nests made out of shredded paper towels and pink fiberglass insulation of all things ... so I'll need to put a bunch of mothballs up there to discourage them from hanging around.
Started to fasten the 6-3 wire that powers the outlet for the compressor and welder to the wood shelves ... it's just been laying there across the shelves, so it needs to cleaned up and tied down. Hafta move the compressor though to finish that.
Got a text from Home Depot that the third (and hopefully final) order of drawer dividers for the storage cabinets are in ... hopefully will get all the remaining fasteners and small parts stowed and put away tonight. That should really make a difference. I've gone thru the bottom toolbox and cleaned out all the drawers and organized it, still need to do the same for the top box. You can tell it's starting to get pretty heavy, when you try to roll it around.
Day before yesterday I pulled the Sawzall apart and cleaned out the old grease from the front and middle gear cases and repacked 'em with fresh stuff ... Sawzall now sounds like a new machine. Took a bunch of pictures of that, so I'll probably start a thread and do a write up on that. Did the same (but without any pics) for the angle grinder the day before.
Time to go get a shower and get cleaned up and see how much, if any, the west side air system leaked down overnight.
Hope everyone had a good day.
