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A large air conditioner condensor coil. Plan was to make a small 1hp thermal solar prototype of the larger system, using this to dissipate the heat to the air. The larger system would have used water cooling. It's 4ft tall, 2 layer, about 9ft long if unrolled. The neighbors and their dogs happened, and i no longer have a use for it. I had to enclose the porch with chainlink so i could open the front door, and just tossed these out to the side of the house. There's three car radiators laying on the ground to the right.
This has stopped all known cats from sliding or flipping the water bowl over. It's a large brake drum with a small frying pan bolted to it. Had this not been heavy enough, the brake drum has enough empty space up in it to attach more plate steel or cast lead. I painted the drum to match the pan.
This "bucket" is made of frozen water, hence "a bucket of water of water".
Just an interesting pic of patterns on the tin roof, made by rust, paint, and dew. I saw it one morning, and thought it needed a remembering photo.
Wow, i didn't know version 255 was out already!
When i had to get the automatic transmission rebuilt in the truck, it was a good time to move the engine away from the firewall. The engine was not the original one, and whoever put this one in figured a simple bolt-in was fine. Problem was, the distributor rubbed the firewall, and opening it to replace the distributor top or clean the rotor or anything else was out of the question. There was a lip in the firewall sheet metal that prohibited lifting the distributor cap more than 1/2 inch. However, there was nearly a foot of space between the fan and the radiator. I attribute the engine being so far back to the difference between long and short-tailed transmissions. And the fact that this is a long wheelbase, and the conventional way to handle this at the factory is to install a two piece driveshaft,, which would have made this replacement engine job not a simple bolt-in.
So i made new engine mount to bring the engine forward about 3 inches and up an inch or so. The "up" was to clear the fan over the frame cross member, and the "forward" was to get the distributor off the firewall. I also had to make new transmission mount, pull the exhaust pipe and muffler forward and remount them, make a cross member to hold the 2-piece driveshaft, and get that new driveshaft made. As the old mounts were trashed anyhow, i had to unbolt the engine and replace mounts anyhow, and while the transmission was out at the garage being fixed, i figured: why not? The fan shroud fits better now too.
One way of moving large rocks is to not move them in one piece, especially if you need some small flat rocks. I made up a device from a 1/4hp blower and a 2ft section of 3/8 wall 10 inch square steel tubing. By packing wood into the tubing, lighting it off with the blower running, a 10 inch square blue flame was formed, resembling a jet engine in afterburner, but way quieter. Directing this to the large rock made it spall off smaller rocks in a hurry, some small shards simply fell off, some exploded off with enough force to send them 70ft or so. One rock in particular would not spall small rocks, and instead after a lengthly heating up, split off a 2ft tall, 1ft thick, 3ft wide hunk, shaking the ground as the parent rock was torn.
This is a pile of the small shards. The plan was to attach them to the plywood kitchen/livingroom divider structure, and grout between them, making a thin fake rock wall with real rocks. But since the legal system here has essentially given the neighbor's god, i mean dog, the right to confine me to my house, or not allow me access to my property, i am not staying here once the boat is built, and i have no use for these rocks. There's four large piles like this of assorted shard sizes, from 4x4 inches to a couple feet.
If you're driving a vehicle, and need to carry stuff that won't fit into or onto the vehicle, you use a trailer. I got fancy with it, the wchair tires are fat knobby bike tires (bike rims, wchair hub, i respoked and balanced them), the trailer is 24inch with the same tread pattern, and the wchair front tires are lawnmower tires with the same tread pattern.
Sadly, very sadly, most of the 280's floor pan rusted out, and the suspension mounting points for driverside rear and passengerside front rusted away, there was no steel there to attach the suspension to. The windshield was multiply cracked, the side windows were pitted, i was worried the front seats would fall thru to the pavement while driving, so it was time to take it off the road as unsafe to drive in any circumstances. I saved anything i could not easily make, like the engine. I luved that car.
One local grocery's storage is infested with these beetles, and they get into pasta and paper products.
I got tired of the "push down while turning" child proof tops on stuff. So i fixed that problem with recycled screws. I demo here how to mark the inside of the lid, if you can't locate it otherwise just magicmarker the bottle's top (the bottle itself), then screw the lid back on; this will leave a ring on the inside of the lid. Clamp the top of the lid and the bottom/inside of the lid together with a small "C" visegrip, then you drill a 1/16 hole (to fit the screw you have) just inside that hole. That way it won't contact the bottle when screwed back on. Make the screw blunt and short, so it won't contact your fingers should you pick the top up with a finger inside the lid.