On the road again

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by herr_oberst

Funny thing about those snap-toggles. Personally, I absolutely love 'em. I never have a problem using them and they are so much better than the molly bolts of yore, In my humble opinion..

This wall has fiberglass batting in it. I think what was happening is the square corners on the toggle were getting bound up in the fiberglass. Those old steel toggle bolts will power through anything. Yes, this was not a job for Molly bolts. I like them for lighter duty applications.

[wdfifteen]

A couple of days after I finished the laundry room, the boring company showed up to run the conduit for cable between the solar panels on the barn and the inverter in the house. I'm biting my nails here. They have six days to get this system up and running, and they haven't pulled the cable yet.



They only had 350 feet of boring pipe and the distance from the barn to the house is 490 feet, so they had to bore from the center out toward the barn, pull the conduit through to the center, then move the machine to the house and run a bore to meet up with the conduit.



They hand dug a hole halfway between the house where the bores would meet up.



They moved the boring machine around to the house and ran the bore from the house to the end of the first run, hooked on to the conduit, and pulled it through.
This technology is amazing. From 250 feet away, they shot a pipe through the ground and got the end of it within an inch of the end of the first run. The whole process took less than 4 hours and cost less than having a backhoe dig a trench.

[Scott Douglas]

We had our water pipe from the meter at the street up to the house done the same way. Cost a bunch but we didn't have a torn up yard to deal with afterwards, just two holes, one down by the meter at the street and the other in the flower bed by the house.

[wdfifteen]

After a lot of calling and badgering, the solar company said they would be here to finish up on Dec. 31. It has to be finished by Midnight Dec. 31 to get the tax credit. I'm not happy with these clowns.

Tried to get a few things done in the shop amid all the cookie making and other Holiday cheer stuff. I needed a clock, so I made one. One worthy of a shop.







I made it out of an old saw blade, the movement out of a 2nd hand battery clock I got at Goodwill, and some numerals that I had to buy. I had to scratch my head a while to come up with a way to hang it. I finally settled on cutting a piece of plastic tubing appropriately and gluing it to the saw blade.

[oldE]

Excellent!. I like it!