Good morning!!!!

[Popgadget]

Good Morning. 32 and fog here. Looks a forecast high of 40 with rain.

Yesterday was mostly a shop day. Did some clean up, worked on the speaker, opened some incoming packages to sort out presents that I will have to wrap.
Made a quick trip to Doylestown airport to help my son bleed a brake. Unfortunately the master cylinder needs to be rebuilt.

Today I’ll be making some sawdust, I’ve got the router templates on the speaker, so I’m going to make the cutouts and recess for the handle and input plate. Possibly back to the airport to deal with the master cylinder depending on son’s schedule.

I’ve found that the stock in the bins at the big box stores is mixed up more often than it’s correct. It’s not so bad when the difference is obvious, but subtle differences like the drains on the valves can catch me napping, especially if I’m grabbing a quantity of the item.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 43F @ 4:30AM. Sunny. High 59F. Winds light and variable.
Mild and sunny weather continues 'till Friday, when showers move in for the rest of the forecast period.:thumbsup:

Generator cover looks good, Drew. Maybe keeping propane in the garage will keep it warmer to work better?

Thanks for the master class in turkey frying, Rick. Think I'll start looking for a VFD out here selling fried turkeys. :laughing:

Always ad the acid to water, Chris. As you found out, adding the water to acid causes the water to vaporize into steam, splashing the acid everywhere.

I haven't worn a watch since I retired, now more than ten years ago, David. Still haven't figured out a use case strong enough for the iWatch, though I have a drawer full of various generations of old Casio memory watches. You must have some DEEP pockets to fit that Max iPhone.:laughing:

The CV19 vaccine roll out is looking a lot like the one for chicken pox, at least for me, Don. Took almost a year before I was able to get it, and now I'm not sure if I ever got the second dose.:confused2: Does the CDC publish what they consider to be medical conditions sufficient to jump to a higher tier?

Are you getting close to breaking your bicycle mileage record yet, Bruce?

Glad you got the order straightened out, RS. HD and now TS are both on the "don't shop online" list for me. Just too many fowled up orders, or stuff not on the shelf when the website said they had plenty. It's now over two weeks ago since I got a response from the TS complaint saying I'd hear from a store manager in 48 hours or less. As expected, there's been none.

That's the first I've heard of a Covid mutation being "out in the wild", Eric. Early on it was expected, but maybe not so soon. I'm staying "home alone" this year, though there haven't been as many invitations to travel as usual, I'm sure due to CV19. I think Christmas dinner might be a quail or two cooked out on the rotisserie, if there are any left on Wednesday when I make a run into town.


Too many clouds to see the planets here last night, Mike, but they sure made for a pretty sunset. If it's clear tonight, maybe I'll dig out the old telescope and see what I can see. Same ol' problems with shipping here again yesterday, with a fairly expensive torque wrench left unlocked at the cul-de-sac.ullinghair: Very tempted to file a false "porch pirate" claim, but it probably wouldn't make any difference in the service and I don't need two wrenches.

I think that's a cowbird too, Ron.

Do you ever find yourself straightening out the mixed up bins at the hardware/big box store, Paul? Somehow I just can't stop myself.:banghead::laughing:


Got both sets of hoops welded up and attached yesterday, and it seems like the stacking idea is gonna pan out OK. There is enough scrap left over to weld some extensions at the top and bottom of the hoops to make the top pallet a little less tippy, so I'll do that today. But I think most of today will be spent moving stuff out of the shipping container back into the pump house where it belongs, then digging the splitter out of the box trailer.

Hope everyone's week gets off to a good start...

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Kyle, is that you talking on the compressor video ? After what you said before about your accent, I was pleasantly surprised to clearly hear and understood every word without needing a translation app!

haha Eric, the first oring comments were done by my no accent California friend, the last comments were done by me. I speak south Texas "hick". Hope your sheep keep faring well.

 

[Popgadget]

Here’s what the templates look like

 

[lostcreekranch]

RNG : "Glad you got the order straightened out, RS. HD and now TS are both on the "don't shop online" list for me. Just too many fowled up orders, or stuff not on the shelf when the website said they had plenty. "

If you go to HD or TSC yourself and find mixed up parts bins .. imagine what happens to the "genius" pulling your online order .. for pickup .. who wouldn't know a ball valve from a ball peen hammer?

 

[riptides]

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Too many clouds to see the planets here last night, Mike, but they sure made for a pretty sunset. If it's clear tonight, maybe I'll dig out the old telescope and see what I can see.
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That's a really nice sunset. You should send that to marketing. LOL.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

RNG : "Glad you got the order straightened out, RS. HD and now TS are both on the "don't shop online" list for me. Just too many fowled up orders, or stuff not on the shelf when the website said they had plenty. "

If you go to HD or TSC yourself and find mixed up parts bins .. imagine what happens to the "genius" pulling your online order .. for pickup .. who wouldn't know a ball valve from a ball peen hammer?

Thanks to RS's misadventures, we don't have to imagine anything, Rick. Even though it's awkward, maybe even a little rude, to open the box or bag and see if what you ordered is inside, while the clerk is watching, I should do it more.:grumpy:

 

[txdon]

Good morning! Happy First Day Of Winter!! Also the shortest day of the year and the anniversary of the day I gave my wife her engagement ring 46 years ago.
30˚F heading to the 70s. Clear skies.

RNG I was wondering the same question on medical conditions. You cannot advance from the 3rd level to the 2nd level only the 4th level can advance to the third level.
Does anyone know how many doses of vaccine are produced a day or week? I figure I'm a 100 million+ doses out.

I need to do some quick chain sharpening, it appears we will go to the park this week. Last week they called it a killer week because we got a lot done but two chain saws were killed, mine was the only one still working at the end of the session.

Ron will you be able to get a zoomed pic of the planets this evening?

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I put on a long monotoned YouTube video about a spectrum analyzer and fell asleep in the lazy boy. Wife came by twice to wake me and I promptly fell back asleep. The video was interesting, the guy started by taking the circuit board out and explained all the circuitry and what it did as the signal was processed, then I went under as he was using it.

32° and heavy fog. Will go into the office later to finish one test.

 

[PJSprog]

37°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 55° today.

Busy weekend. Wife took the foster puppy to her new home in Chatham IL, just south of Springfield, Saturday morning. I did some errand running while she was gone. I didn't plan on it taking the whole morning, but I got back home shortly before 1pm. Took a short nap, then puttered around the house the rest of the day. She took her youngest son Xmas shopping Sunday morning. I did some more stuff around the house in the morning, then finally got some studio time late afternoon and into the evening while she finished wrapping presents.

We were talking about things we have in storage yesterday, and the Wife brought up my old telescope. Would be nice to have for tonight's celestial event, but not sure I want to spend the time after work digging it out. I guess binoculars will have to do.

Magnificent story about the ewe, Eric.

Welcome to the GM thread, Joe.