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Offline DeadNutz

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Re: what did you do today?
« Reply #1275 on: April 04, 2020, 09:25:25 PM »
As long as I don't have to shovel snow to get to the shop for the next few days I am good. I will be happy to get a good soaking rain but just one shower when I drove to the mailbox to check the mail so far.

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Re: what did you do today?
« Reply #1276 on: April 04, 2020, 09:32:04 PM »
As long as I don't have to shovel snow to get to the shop for the next few days I am good. I will be happy to get a good soaking rain but just one shower when I drove to the mailbox to check the mail so far.

There's that word -- "snow"! Glad we had a mild winter here in the Mid-Atlantic. Hope you have some luck with the weather DN.

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Re: what did you do today?
« Reply #1277 on: April 04, 2020, 10:34:26 PM »
Yard work with my boy. Been stuck inside doing floors and such. Was great to be outside all day!

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Re: what did you do today?
« Reply #1278 on: April 05, 2020, 10:47:59 PM »
My one day weekend had roof sealing, shop cleaning and half a dozen odd small jobs.

The most important was honoring the memory of our last housecat.  My son thought this was appropriate.
« Last Edit: April 05, 2020, 10:53:48 PM by strik9 »

Offline bonneyman

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Re: what did you do today?
« Reply #1279 on: April 05, 2020, 11:01:09 PM »
Did an upgrade of sorts on my mop and bucket.

Did some mopping the other day and noticed (again) the back flexing. I just have fear at the back of the bucket will give way when full of dirty water and then spill it all over. And I won't be able to mop it up because the buckets broken!

Only paid $5 for the squeege and bucket, so if I destroyed it no loss. Took some PVC fittings and made some "foot" extensions to mount on the bottom edge of the squeege so when you lean on the handle you're pressing against the bottom - so it reduces the flexing of the back. Nothing big and fancy but needed to be done. And I have the time, now. :91:

Offline hickory n Steel

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Re: what did you do today?
« Reply #1280 on: April 07, 2020, 08:38:36 PM »
 Got my federal refund today,  and already spent most of it  :a102:
Had to replace my cellphone because it up and decided it no longer wanted to charge  :38:
That's $200 gone   :106:
Then I bought a cheap 8'x6' steel shed at HD which cost me $307 out the door.
 It's the same model me and my brother put together for my grandmother last summer , and she played less than $200 for it  :38:

Should be worth it to make some room around  here having  a place to put boxes and stuff.
« Last Edit: April 08, 2020, 01:11:12 PM by hickory n Steel »
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Re: what did you do today?
« Reply #1281 on: April 08, 2020, 01:19:40 PM »
Now comes the hard part.
Working on clearing  out a pile of junk, and mowing / weeding so I can get the ground  level where the shed is gonna go.


Man this would be so much easier with a tiller, hell I don't care if it was an old school manual  push " roto tiller "
Oh well, I'll get it done so the fun part of assembling  the shed can start hopefully  by next week.
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Offline DeadNutz

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Re: what did you do today?
« Reply #1282 on: April 08, 2020, 09:36:05 PM »
Fired up the Lincoln welder today after cleaning it and repairing the leads and it is good to go. Have to take it to my sister's house tomorrow to weld some angle iron framing for pavers.

Offline Rural53

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Re: what did you do today?
« Reply #1283 on: April 09, 2020, 12:21:28 AM »
End of week three of working from home. Just finished having Friday night drinks with my team via Skype (because tomorrow is Good Friday and a public holiday). Now preparing for four days off without being allowed off the property except to go to the supermarket. My plan is ...

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Re: what did you do today?
« Reply #1284 on: April 09, 2020, 09:13:36 AM »
Working on a 32” diameter stack damper for a 1200 hp boiler (roughly 50 million BTUs/hr)
jack

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Re: what did you do today?
« Reply #1285 on: April 09, 2020, 09:28:15 AM »
Looks good Platty.

Is 1200 hp small, big or average for what you work on?

The biggest pressure washer I have worked on is about 1 million btu and most are 450,000 btu or less

50 million btu is a whole lot of energy to me.

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Re: what did you do today?
« Reply #1286 on: April 09, 2020, 09:31:46 AM »
On the larger size of average, we work on bigger, but most are in the 400-1000 hp range
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Re: what did you do today?
« Reply #1287 on: April 09, 2020, 10:07:00 AM »
Cool project Jack - thanks for taking the time to post.

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Re: what did you do today?
« Reply #1288 on: April 09, 2020, 10:08:56 AM »
Great looking work as always Jack. You must have some good steel suppliers near you.

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Re: what did you do today?
« Reply #1289 on: April 09, 2020, 11:12:03 AM »
Looks good. I see your putting the social isolation to good use. Working from home. :bravo_2:

 All I've been doing is spending money. not making any.