Seems to be really quiet here lately!

Hope everyone is OK!

I'm here! (Or is that why no one else is?)

Ian A.

Hello all, I'm still here, just had nothing of note to add to the forums but still pop in around 3-4 times a week. Work and home have been busy so little time for me to peruse the board/s

It's been a little slow around the shop lately, coupled with some fine late summer weather, which has been keeping me outside and away from work and the computer. Not that I am complaining, mind you.

Still there, just very busy with mopping up winters backlog work and heading now to a warm spring in NZ.

You are correct that it is quiet lately.

Regards, Raymond

Hey, I've been lurking around and reading posts here and there but I too have noticed a decline in activity.

Hope everyone is doing well and stayin safe.

We have a refueling outage coming up on the 24th of this month too...btw:D

Less mod activity too in generating subjects.
Plus we got more lurkers than registered. Just now for instance we have 2 registered and 47 lurking.

Ah, perhaps the 'pot' needs a little 'stiring'!

Nice to see some of us are around; and yes it has been a nice summer up here.

HEY....all you guys lurking, why not register and say hello???

It's free.....no charge...no debit/credit cards...no backround checks. (Thanks to Mr Bill)

Been busy...

I'm suffering from the "not enough hours in a day" syndrome at the moment, and I'm desperately trying to get essential outside work done (new front door, replacing rotten window sills, car maintenance, etc.) while we still have reasonable weather.

Oh, and Happy Birthday Ian!

Yes, do join in the forums, it is a wealth of knowledge for all concerned, even the historical parts & international forums are of interest to mosty if not all on the board.

The busy time of the year is about to hit early this year, its two weeks into Spring and we have had 2 days so far above 30 degrees (high 80s).

I'm already getting enquiries about servicing evaporative aircons, fitting split aircons & pool equipment upgrades.

Then theres the "snowball jobs" (the ones that start out with one small thing & end up with a rewire), got one for a TV antenna that may end up with a new switchboard with RCDs & replacement of the buildings earth system from the new board to the spike.

At this rate, Christmas lunch will be a can of beer & a ham sandwich!!!

Thanks Paul.

Ian A.

Not everyone anonymous is not registered. I often lurk without logging in.

Happy Birthday, Ian.

There, I just logged in. I'm here at least 4-5 days a week.
Just don't always have much to say.

Happy birthday Ian

Happy Birthday Ian
hope its being a great day for you.

Sounds like my cue to bring up my favorite "stir the pot" topic: shared neutrals!!

I think we all know why I haven't been on much lately..in fact on my way to a doctor's appt. right after this.....

Oh, and Happy Birthday Ian!!

MX:
Feel better & good luck at the Dr.

Wow.....11 registered users here NOW. and 34 guests...and there all reading posts....

Happy Birthday to The Electric Old Man, Ian!!!
Joe

I will have some pictures to post of some current jobs I have done. A few before and afters as well.

~Matt

Have to admit I don't often log in, mostly a lurker.


Happy Birthday Ian!
One year closer to that apprenticeship?

I haven't had much time to post, I'm doing a mix of highschool and college this year, and college hasn't started yet, so I've been working most mornings until noon, running to school, and then I have football after school, so I've been reading, but not posting much

-Will

ps, happy b-day Ian

I visit once a day

Thanks guys.

I get a late present today, in the form of "Rip down a wall in the garage looking for a flying splice in the dryer circuit! Pictures to come!

Ian A.

Sorry I haven't been around much, I have been tied up working on my new place and whenever I can I have been up in Parry Sound at the Girlfriends cottage relaxing! Hopefully the cool weather we are now having will bring me indoors and here more often!

Hey Ian: Happy B-day! Did you enjoy your "late day prez"? LOL

A.D

Still here.. trying to get through this AZ heat.

Still here, but only just.
Been really busy with work and a few things around the house lately.
Should have a bit of free time from now on, now that I'm ahead of things for once.

Yes, we are all busy & that's a good thing. It's good to see that basically all of us are well.

I usually stop in a few times a week.

The EC I was working with for the last year slowed drastically after the GC we were working for decided he was going to go Ch. 11... with the jobs basically awaiting trim-out. The HO's had paid the GC for the electrical work.. he also shorted his own carpenters. We had 2 jobs nearing completion and two more awaiting startup.

So I'm out $4-6K and my buddy (the EC) is out as well (most likely a much greater sum of cash).

Just been doing small jobs here and there, and submitting pics as I discover them.

I have been working on installing a new garage door. That has been a full time job since Friday. This thing is a big honker. 16' 150 MPH wind code door. I bet it weighs 400 lbs. The reinforcing ribs hit stuff everywhere and the bigger springs displaced my pretty EMT run for the outside lights and some receptacles. I even had to move the garage door opener up and now I figured out it isn't big enough to move the door.

Doug:
Sorry to hear about your problem. Hang in there.

Greg:
Sounds like a situation that you can handle, although you have to invest more time & $$$ for a stronger opener.

Take care

Hey John! I'm still around, just don't post as much anymore. I'll be seeing you at the school, I'm going 4 nights a week this semester. Power Generation, PLC1, Controls 1, and NEC 1. I'm hoping to graduate next year!

Shock:
Nice to hear from you. OK, it's Wed and that's Basic nite..NEC 1 should be Thurs....IF there's enough bodies!

Well I sure hope NEC goes Thursday night.

I already paid!

Ron:
As of Wed PM, NO NEC class due to lack of people. Swap it out for something else, or refund, or credit for next semister.

I switched over to Calculations 1 with Tony U.

He told the story tonight of the EC who installed a panel in an attic and the ol' current-filled swimming pool u inspected recently.

An ATTIC!!!

Unbelievable!

hi everyone been around lurking,been real busy lately.still learning lot from a great bunch of fellas!

It's good to hear that everyone has been and is 'busy'!

Now, Iwire..? Harold Endean?....Don?....Mr. Bill?....

Busy here too with a few projects.

Bill

The end of the long garage door nightmare may be close to easy soon. (hope I didn't jinx it there)
I bought a Sears 3/4hp opener. The photo eye was bad. Back to sears. Then the door wouldn't clear my air piping. Back to Ace for pipe parts. I already had to rerun the EMT over it. Then my shelving wouldn't clear the door, Move everything down the wall 6". Then my welding table wouldn't fit, Weld a bit, changing the location of a leg so it can encroach on the spa equipment basin a couple inches.

Now I am left with the real delima. My service panel is disturbingly close to the track wioth the garage door open and blocked 6" with the door down.
I can still open the roor 90 degrees but I don't have real working space. I am going to feel bad until I move it.
What a nightmare.

I check in two or three times everyday, but just haven't been posting, I've been pretty busy all summer.

Roger

Roger,
Ditto. I couldn't have said it better myself

It's been a busy summer for me too. I've been able to make it to the Chat often, but my early bedtime has cut that short as well.

Greg,
I'm having the same sort of dilemma with a garage here at the place I'm renting.
The landlord asked me to fix the building up during my hypothetical "free-time" and it's slowly turning into a nightmare!
The last guy that lived here, fancied himself as a bit of a carpenter, consequently, everything remotely made out of wood in this building (concrete block construction) has bent nails sticking out of it.
Not your ordinary nails either, big 6" flat-head ones.
The guy made some pretty scary looking shelving in here too, nothing is square or plumb.
I've got rid of the spiders-web of lamp cords that were in here when I moved in, that supplied all sorts of lights, an old 2-bar heater (!), the garage door opener and a couple of lamp-cord "sub-mains" that head out of the garage and I've yet to trace where they actually go to, I've disconnected them in the meantime.
The garage "tilt-a-door" itself has been struck a few times by a vehicle (from what I can make out) and is rediculously bent out of shape, the guy had tried to repair it with lengths of 4x1 timber and nails and has made it worse, I'm too scared to open it with the garage door opener unit, the door makes some pretty scary sounds even opening it manually.
I'm not going to tamper with the thing, I've heard that them springs they use are liable to kill you if they become un-attached and hit you.
One quick parting question, what is the best type of paint to use on concrete block (cinder block??) walls?, now that the weather is starting to warm up, I'd like to get some painting underway.

Cheers.

regarding the garage door springs. Are they torsion springs or extend / contract style? If they are extend / contract style, you can thread some steel rope, that is securely fasten to the wall, thru them to capture the spring if it breaks.

Larry C

Larry,
I'm going to leave it alone, I like having things like a head and internal organs.
I'm going to ask that the land-lord have it replaced by a specialist door installer, they aren't actually that expensive.

The springs on this monster are two big torsion springs about 4" in diameter and 3 feet long. They are wound up 7.75 turns each. On the end of an 18" rod it is a pretty good push.
If these babies ever let go it won't be safe to be in the room. Chips of the concrete tie beam will be missiles.
I did anchor the bracket with 5/8" read heads in the tie beam so it should stay there.
This is probably a 400 pound door. It is 150 MPH without supplimental bracing.