Capt, like the rest, I am amazed at all of your work, and high quality of work the you do.

I wanted a pit for my little one car scissor lift. As a guy with ample grey hair, I decided from the start to hire it done. 6 guys showed up in two pickups. The sawed the hole, used a pneumatic jack hammer, and broke it up and hauled it all out to the trucks. The went down to the sand from the initial construction. Put in the rebar, and poured the new pit, the walls, and a trench for my hydraulic line, cleaned up and and were gone that day. I did not have to go to the Dr. with a injured back, I did not have to haul away the old concrete, and I would never have figured out how to form the pit walls and floor like they did. It was money well spent for me.

You are a lot tougher than I. I do know my limits, and that was way over my limit. I do love my lift, and when not in use, it is sunk into the floor, and covered with a piece of plywood and there is nothing in my way of parking there in my daily driver.

I can't store multiple cars, but I figure three cars for two people is enough for me.

Keep up the amazing work.

More amazing work, Capt.
Try Line is getting closer....

Had my drone out for a flight tonight.........picture of my wee little shed. :D

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This pic reminds me of the pole barn a buddy a mine built for himself to live in at an unknown location in the woods. One wall of the living quarters was actually the pretty side of an insulated garage door that opened up to his shop. Very kool and in violation of many codes:

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Rusty, my house would fit in your shed!

No building progress to report, been hunched over a desk in a cosy, warm office, creating fast shapes on a CAD screen

This build and the below kit car I built in my 20's are the only 2 projects I've ever built for myself. Been too busy creating 50 odd race cars for other people

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Took 5yrs to build, made from 21 different cars ranging from a Mini to a McLaren F1 and even wing mirrors from a F1 inshore world championship powerboat

Drove it wearing ski goggles and black balaclava. Ski googles aren't designed for 135mph, had to blink as fast as I could to stop my eyeballs drying out or couldn't see a thing, even the dash mounted monster 5" rev counter. Speedo was from a bicycle for uber-lightweight-ness

Set off car alarms everywhere, spat flames out the side exhaust and so loud Mrs Ahab could hear me coming home from well over a mile away.

One night I pulled over thinking the cops we're trying to stop me. Was only the flames being reflected off the hedgen rows

In the wet it would spin the wheels in most gears, Only car I've ever owned which got my adrenaline going before I'd even sat in it, way more so than my 930

Only crashed it once, went off in the wet at a relatively slow speed, luckily missed a clump of trees and came to a stop in the shrubbery with a barb wire fence across the hood within arms length

Repaired it with new flip front, sold it quickly to a German who took it back to Germany. I had to, before the beast I'd created had a 2nd go at trying to kill me. Never ever heard from him again, RIP Franz

Used the money for the deposit of our house in this thread

^What a visceral machine! Love the power to weight ratio.

Wow, that kind of project car is exactly what you need to get the adrenaline flowing, but at some point, as you discovered, you just have to let the beast go. Glad you had fun building and driving it.

Yep - same with me. Sold my early Series 1 E Type Jag to bulk up the deposit on our family house.

Jag was so good & fast it would have killed me. E Types have soared in value, but our home did too (plus we raised our small family there). I sometimes miss the Jag but family came first.

My Christmas present arrived, a Flir One Pro, it clips onto my smart phone, has its own battery, very easy to set up, only used it once and 1st impression is, wow very impressive!

This picture is from outside, the hot area under the lower right window is the heat from a central heating radiator mounted to the inside of a 2ft thick stone wallhttp://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1674692395.jpg

Heat from my fire place after a fire the previous evening
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Exterior picture of a window from outside showing heat loss between the wooden window frame and stone wall
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My dog has a cold nose
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I could even see the hot spots on tyres of cars as each tyre rolled off the tarmac as they drove past past me when I was outside

That’s very cool and it looks like you already have 1000 uses planned. Regarding the third picture of the window, are you going to go through the entire house to see if there are any leaks?

I chuckled too at the doggie eyeball bullseye.

Nice, that camera is pretty good at showing where the heat is escaping! Love the tools we have today.

Steve, in the first image there seems to be a "hot spot " in the east gable. Has that upstairs area been finished yet?

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Les

Les, you're right, that part of the house has been finished a longtime ago. I made Mrs Ahab cry with that work :(

She went away for a weekend and came back to find no stairs, stripped back bare stone internal walls and me caught red handed shovelling rubble into a wheel barrow stood in the middle of what looked like a bombed out house

The top right hot spot on the gable end near the roof I think is from a warm chimney

The lower left is I think a combination of fire place and a thinner 1-1.5ft thick external wall where the spiral staircase is

The images are fascinating, but the real information comes from knowing the temperature range represented by the spectral representation. Ie: does the shift from red to yellow represent 2 degrees or 20?
Thanks for sharing. The availability of that level of technology is great.
43 years ago when Canada got our Aurora anti submarine aircraft, I got to tour one. One station aboard the aircraft was for the crew person monitoring the infrared camera mounted under the nose. Using a tracking ball, I could scan the crowd at the airshow and noted that a fellow walking away carried his wallet in his right hip pocket. I asked the crewman about the temperature gradient and his response was,"I don't know and if I did it would probably be classified. "

Cool stuff!

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Les

Just checking in to make sure this thread hasn't disapperared like the original 2023 F1 thread :confused:

Disappointingly I've got nothing new to post as I'm still busy with my desk job :(

End of April I'll be back to building again, can't wait and I'll be back to posting updates :)

You are forgiven. For now. ;)

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Les

I was inspired by your FLIR... I did the home thing - it worked great but revealed no great surprise, nor do I have a clue what I can do to solve the issue. So my windows surrounds are cold.. Fireplace yeah... The door I knew about... I need to try from outside now ;-)

Then I did the car thing, I can see where that will be useful detecting a bad cylinder

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Old bimmer, apparently on 4 cylinders !

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For the last 8 months I've no 'waiting' time spare to spend on my man cave build :(

This quote explains in more meaningful words than I can think of, for the reason why there has been zero progress :cool:

Getting my priorities in the order this week so I'll be back to being a 5 days a week builder, 2 days a week F1 design engineer until the end of Aug.

Let the updates begin :D again ;)

Nice! Still, until you win the lottery, unfortunately, the other stuff is a necessary evil. And I assume in your case, not really all that evil. I have to think that designing for race cars or sports cars, is pretty cool in the grand scheme of things.

Yep, a necessary evil but not a bad evil to spend a life doing

Another boring race at Miami but it's race results like today's that remind me it can occasionally be a good use of my time :rolleyes:

Can add another pole position, fastest lap, 1-2 finish, another 4 finishes in the points and my 385th race to my F1 score card :cool:

Big milestone though is I've broken through the 1000th time over the finish line for a car I've helped design :eek:

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