Good morning!!!!

[RedNeckGeek]

How about tapping a thicker steel plate to accept the tie down and welding it in place, or perhaps use rib nuts if they will clear the obstruction above the fuel tank.

This thing as way too many electronic devices on it to risk welding, Paul.

The uncollapsed length of the rivnuts is 19mm, but they'll only go into the holes 8.5mm before they hit the obstruction.

In the photo that shows the 1/2" thick steel plate mounted in place, the four holes in the plate that have no bolts in them are the ones that are obstructed. There's about an inch either side of center that is not obstructed, near the hex shaped hole and the smaller round hole. I could install two more rivnuts there, but they'd have to be squeezed together a bit to avoid the two existing holes. Or I could just enlarge those existing holes for the rivnuts, but I'm too OCD for that...

 

[m7040]

This thing as way too many electronic devices on it to risk welding, Paul.

The uncollapsed length of the rivnuts is 19mm, but they'll only go into the holes 8.5mm before they hit the obstruction.

In the photo that shows the 1/2" thick steel plate mounted in place, the four holes in the plate that have no bolts in them are the ones that are obstructed. There's about an inch either side of center that is not obstructed, near the hex shaped hole and the smaller round hole. I could install two more rivnuts there, but they'd have to be squeezed together a bit to avoid the two existing holes. Or I could just enlarge those existing holes for the rivnuts, but I'm too OCD for that...

Did you check if the attachments points may be there already but covered up. I think the sprinter has the nuts welded in even if it was not ordered

 

[kenmbz]

Mousehog ouch and welcome to the Good morning thread.

So it looks like I can get a Energy Kinetics Ascent combi installed for about 13,500.
Adding on an external storage tank is at least $4-5000, though I think if I need it I can do it later on. The EK 2000 setup would be 18,000 installed.

EK is local in NJ and Crown is local in PA, but none of them spec'd Crown so far.

The mini split heads showed up, but not the compressor unit. Parts seem to show up randomly each day with no invoices. Almost ready to install the external disconnect and spike arrestor, but it would be nice to have the outside unit so I can mock up the placement .

More loans, more wife screaming. Such happiness.

On my Jeep, there are hidden tie downs under the carpet. Fingers crossed RNG, but knowing you, these would have been found a long time ago.

 

[daugen]

RNG, only for the road.
my driveway is very protected, in lee of woods or house

If I had a nice weather screen on my dash, like I might on a good marine chartplotter/radar unit,
I might try to outrun a storm. But in the middle of Kansas, I have no idea where to go.
I'd rather get in early, since most bad storms seem to come in mid to late afternoon, and then take the time to
tie down the rv. Obviously no awning out and likely no slide out either. Really depends upon what campground layout is like.
might not be a good idea to be under a big tree in a storm. If something was big and iffy too close to me, yes I'd move until storm passed.

I check the upcoming weather every morning before I get on the road.
When I have my coffee in the morning, I'm checking the weather radar.
winds over 20mph start making driving too hard, 30 mph gusts are downright exciting.
If it is going to be windy, will have to drive extra slow.

hands and arms sore, tried to wax the impossible place on the rv, the eyebrow over the windshield.
It really needs to be power buffed but I don't have scaffolding like the rv dealer did. Rest of rv is fine,
shiny and looks good. But that upper eyebrow is flat, no shine left. A little bit now after using cleaner wax.
but could not reach the middle or the tops.

74 psi in right rear tire this morning, was 71 yesterday. Sun must have been hitting the tire. Should be 80 cold.
Ordered a new tire inflator, that comes in tomorrow and will hook it
up to my compressor and top off the tire.
Needed a better solution to take with me on trips so also ordered the Makita cordless air inflator. Compact and hopefully powerful, takes up least amount of room
in storage. I've tried DC Vi-Air units before, they were heavy though well made. I already have two Makita batteries on board, so this makes sense for me.

 

[ronjhall]

Nice job Ron
Can you still dump the bed?

Yes I can still dump. I do not use it. But wanted to have access to transmission and it’s controls.

 

[Wagtail]

Is that a real estate value based tax?

It's based on a Government assessment, done every 3-4 years.

The assessment $ amount truly scares the he11 out of me as my property has quadrupled in value since I bought it 25 years ago, yet my 'rates' have remained quite reasonable. Were I to sell, I'd get a LOT more for 'Wagtail Park' than what it's been assessed for.

 

[Wagtail]

70 outside right now, heading to upper 80's. 98% humidity. Slight, ever so, rain. Is there a term right below drizzle but above fog?

Hope all have a great day today. Be safe. Those ailing, best wishes for better health.

A wee Highland mist?

 

[Wagtail]

Good (Thursday) morning. Overnight Low of 4.1C and it's presently 13.5, mostly overcast with a slight breeze. There was 0.5mm in the gauge @ 0800.

All tasks 'in town' accomplished yesterday.

Today, I have a 'foot dude/farrier' appointment (in about a half hour from now) to have my toenails clipped and calluses tended to. It's a Type 2 diabetes sort of thing.

Nothing else planned after that.

So, that's about it, take care all.

 

[Thomas]

66F cloudy humidity dropping fast.

Morning was wet afternoon taste fall in the air.
Not much exciting just putter afternoon way,shed got good sweeping,cover l o n g row stack wood,rake up apple in pile show be interesting if gone by day break.
Recliner and watch little tv about it.

Enjoy your evening all.

 

[riptides]

Took the day off and made it a date day with the wife. Then watched the sun go down.
Hope all had a productive day.
Good evening...all.

 

[Popgadget]

Good Afternoon,

PopG, yes you can get a good boiler for 5 K, but then there is all the labor to disassemble the old one and remove it in sections. Your probably talking a 5 section boiler, so that’s a job in itself ! Boilers last a long time, so that means some piping may need to be replaced! It’s not to hard to come up with 5 to 10 thousand in labor charges on a big project like that !

I only answered the question of what a boiler costs. Wasn’t suggesting that installation would be cheap. Last boiler that I removed weighed in at 800lbs at the scrap yard. No way it was an inexpensive install.

 

[Popgadget]

Looking at the photos, I might have to be satisfied by drilling two more holes in the center where there are no obstructions behind the step...

Or maybe low profile rivnut?

McMaster-Carr

McMaster-Carr is the complete source for your plant with over 595,000 products. 98% of products ordered ship from stock and deliver same or next day.

www.mcmaster.com

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Ordered a new tire inflator, that comes in tomorrow and will hook it
up to my compressor and top off the tire.
Needed a better solution to take with me on trips so also ordered the Makita cordless air inflator. Compact and hopefully powerful, takes up least amount of room

I took one of those Makita pumps along with me when I picked up the new-to-me trailer, Drew. It had been sitting a l-o-n-g time, and none of the tires registered more than 20 PSI. I didn't measure the time it took to get each one up to 40PSI, but it was in in the 3-5 minute range. There's no lock down on the trigger, so it was a bit of a PITA hunching down on the ground to hold down the trigger. It's a lot better than nothing, but there are probably options out there that are better suited to automotive applications. I wouldn't buy one again.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Morning all, 70 going up to 79 and cloudy, calling for rain tonight.
Did some drywall patching last night to finally close the ceiling where the pipes were fixed. Still need to sand and coat again, then paint. Been a while since I did this, looks fine so far.

Another high school friend passed this week. Died in his sleep.

Be well,

Sorry about your friend.

On the hwy I travel to work, there is an intersection where one highway has a blinking yellow light and the crossing highway has a stop sign with blinking red lights. Tragically, an 18 wheeler loser, just blasted thru the stop sign and killed a young 24 year old woman, a couple mornings ago. Hope they tested him for drugs, and his travel logs for proper rest. It happened at about 6 15 in the morning. I came by at 7:20 Senseless.

Sony WH-1000XM4

Had a pair of these for years. Use them daily. Still like them and recommend them. Turns my crumpled steelskin into a Cadillac soundwise. They really only blocks road noise, voices, radio and sirens are just barely muted and usually easily heard. We had bought them hoping our autistic daughter would use them. She wouldn't. But now she watches things on her cell phone with some wired ear buds, which insulates her from her environment really good.

I need something for underneath the motorhome. In the event of a tornado alert while in a campground.
I've ordered some heavy duty straps and earth augers
Now I need the mounts on the vehicle

being a gas vehicle I'd prefer avoiding welding under there so
drilling the frame for a bolt is preferred.
I wonder if a magnetic drill would make this easy.
They are often too big to fit

I use a cordless impact drill to drive in the earth augers.
before I drill anything need to look under there and see if there are
any existing openings that could be used.
This is mostly to keep it from moving or tipping over.

Wind pressure is given by the equation P = 0.00256 x V2, where V is the speed of the wind in miles per hour (mph). The unit for wind pressure is pounds per square foot (psf). For example, if the wind speed is 70 mph, the wind pressure is 0.00256 x 702 = 12.5 psf.

So, if rv is 8' x 14' it would equal 1400 lbs of force. But this is a googled answer, and I'm not an engineer. So it is only worth the money you paid for it. There is much more to consider which are the vectors of force applied to your straps/anchors holding things down. Easier to pull out straight up vs pull from the side (shear)

Yes I can still dump. I do not use it. But wanted to have access to transmission and it’s controls.

Maybe you might have some passengers you need to dump???

Took the day off and made it a date day with the wife. Then watched the sun go down.
Hope all had a productive day.
Good evening...all.
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Date days are fun. Nice pic.

Very busy at work, finally got an older cnc mill working with a 5 axis trunnion. Had to revamp an old post processor to work with the 2007 machine. Switching the trunnion from x axis alignment to y axis alignment takes a lot of edits to the post....and trial and error to the cam program.

Prayers for our team.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Or maybe low profile rivnut?

McMaster-Carr

McMaster-Carr is the complete source for your plant with over 595,000 products. 98% of products ordered ship from stock and deliver same or next day.

www.mcmaster.com

I wish I had a Mcmaster Carr near me, and that they would offer a "will call" order system. Like curb service with orders...fast!

TxDon, I hope you are doing alright. It seems hospice is fairing well. I am interested in your upcoming estate sale. Will it be an auction? Or just come and buy like a garage sale?

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

I wonder what will happen if they converge? Remember playing the spinner game, with the dished concavity arena? or playing with tops? One of the plastic spinners in the game was named "Tricky Nicky"

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 69ºF for the start, clear sky, light breeze. Light wind, partly cloudy sky, and high temp was 95ºF. Men's meeting to start day, then putter until wife woke up from nap. Did get tree watered, irrigation guy called, areas not watering correctly, Got back on handyman waiting list. Opened new screen closure for gold door, hope to install that tomorrow. Friend came over with bike he is trying to ride, talked about how to adjust to fit him better. Did get nap in, Mexican for dinner tonight.
Ron glad coffee is good. Hope to see pic of jump seat soon Nice pic
Drew hope you are drying out some. Hope you can fix RV tire leak. Hope PT went well. Have fun kite flying on the beach.
Buppies sorry pond not up. Hope you get back to work. prayers sent.
Drew never heard the term before. To each his own. I did my share of tent camping in 90ºF+ temps and sun burned on top of the temps. I don't plan on RVing it anytime soon so maybe I have you beat .
Billy glad you got rain, sorry it messed with your sleep. Hope you are getting close to done on windows. Hope new coffee good.
Mike I don't know of anything under light drizzle, maybe Paul or Buppies do.
Don hope the cooler weather is helping get the estate sale ready.
Frits sorry no rain, hope wife's infusions went smoothly
Thomas hope morning work was productive, and puttering went well.
Kilroy glad you have plenty to do.
Sea2Summit welcome to GM thread. Hope you are not in flooding path
Ken glad you got some mowing in. That price sounds like "I don't want to sell you one" price. Enjoy the figs.
Dennis I thought I was doing good at 100K miles on Saturn SL.
Dennis glad more rain, sorry it woke you up.
RNG sorry about the smoke from the fires. Hope you can find a satisfactory answer to using other 4 holes. Glad all your deliveries came in.
RNG crazy link on FB.
Ted sorry you missed out on rain, no rain in 10 day here either Hope you got started on drip line.
Drew good luck working out strapping system for RV.
David hope Sophie's flight not delayed.
RNG anchors look substantial.
RS hope you find the parasite draw, we had a problem with the light in the sun visor for mirror. Hope prepping for sale went well.
Ron nice jump seat, thanks for pic.
Dennis glad life is good.
Mouse welcome to GM thread. where about do you live?
Ken sorry about the wife issues. Hope the mini split finishes coming in.
Drew tornadoes go north and/or east. You can see direction of movement of thunderstorms on radar on phone. Not sure what is wold take to get 2,000 lbs holding on ground anchor. Hope inflator works for you
Randy(wag) hope the foot appointment went well.
Thomas glad day went well.
Mike that is the spirit. nice sunset and pic
RNG thanks for inflator review.
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle /Daughter, /mom's breathing, /friends upcoming new baby, /son's migraines, Bird /aging issues, Ron /heart, Billy /mom hypertension & congestive heart failure, David(moss) /remodel, /divorce, Buppies /sleeping, /wife healing, Thomas /gout, Phil /reflux, Frits /veteran son with mental issues, /granddaughter with Evans Syndrome, Ken /dad possible dementia, Steppenwolfe /son-auto immune disorder, Grev /wife's eye, Ted /knee recovery, /retirement & disability red tape, /family issues, Lou /eye issues, /heart issues, Doug and wife/health issues, / hand nerve and surgery, /fall and recovery, / wife headaches and heart eval, / David(sadamo)/Sophie's hip or leg pain, Scaredy/shoulder dislocation, /marriage dissolving, / friend stop drinking, Dennis /retirement, /neighbor issues, /land development, /favorable winds not in the forecast there "alligallyitus" and back in hospital, Drew /back operation issues, /friend's wife cancer diagnosis and recovery, mike /wife's healing from surgery, Scotty /back pain, Helogabals /second opinion, /wife's friend situation, Fatjay /father broken hip, Ukraine war, and Country.

 

[Buppies]

64 high in low 80s no effects from hurricane no rain in forecast blah blah.

Sorry about truck driver accident Kyle, do not know answer Kyle. Sugar level out of control working to find solution

Prayers for all our Country people dealing with devastation in hurricanes path long road for many

Prayers for all our country people suffering who need help

 

[ronjhall]

Drinking hot coffee. 43° with clear skies this morning. Heading to 73° with sunny skies. Mule Jump seat project is done. Grocery shopping this morning. Then clean up shop and barn from seat project.
Stayed up late and got a picture of Super Blue Moon.
Super because Moon is close to Earth.
Blue Moon because it is Second Full Moon in one month.

Everyone stay well and safe.

Good Morning All.

 

[daugen]

good morning all
up way too early
going to be a lovely day, high in upper 70's
but the forecast....five days in the 90's coming up.
Indian summer for real.

hope my niece in Charleston is ok, she says her house sits up a little but hope she wasn't planning on going anywhere
today. I assume they shut the schools down.

RNG, that's a disappointing review, will let you know how it does pumping up my 80 psi tire. Says it goes to 150.
my alternative is hogging up an entire storage compartment for a "real" air compressor and I don't have the room.
I have a beautiful small Makita 2hp compressor at home, I eyeballed it to see if I wanted to take it along, since I have an exterior
110 outlet near the rear tires. just too big.

Ron, awesome pic, have been waiting for it