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Showing posts with label welding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label welding. Show all posts
Sunday, April 3, 2016

How dangerous is it working under a bus?

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Well, today I went under my bus and worked on installing my second waste barrel. This one is for the handbasin. I've installed it rather...
Saturday, March 19, 2016

How bloody frustrating is that?

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Yup. It's a broken drill bit! Not a wussy little drill bit either. That's 3/16th! I'd been battling to install roller blinds whe...
Saturday, February 27, 2016

Unexpected achievements and a bad Kahr.

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Today was, I had thought, going to be a day of zero progress on the bus. How wrong I was. I did most of the things I intended to do for tomo...
Wednesday, February 24, 2016

What a day!

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Two entries - would you even believe it? Yes - today has been exceedingly eventful. What with no electricity in the morning followed by inte...

My first meal

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Today, just as dawn was breaking and the cock was crowing there was a power cut in m'lady's household. That, for her means no water,...
Sunday, February 21, 2016

Those damn hillbillies!

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Today I looked beside my interior sub panel and discovered I have 9 inches of space between the panel and the woodwork. That gives me ample ...
Saturday, February 20, 2016

Probably the worst welding in the world!

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Yesterday I was reminded of my 2 year anniversary of meeting m'lady. Needless to say I'd had subtle reminders for the past week or t...
Saturday, February 13, 2016

Fighting real nastiness

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Today started with my cutting and welding into place, the sides of the new breaker box compartment. My first side was cut too short but I we...
Friday, February 12, 2016

The new monstrosity emerges

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Just when you thought it was safe to let the women and children out on their own, my monstrosity emerged from the capable hands of my Harbor...
Sunday, February 7, 2016

Meandering toward perfection

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Not feeling much like doing anything today I started by gathering up most of the garbage in the bus and by putting it all out in a big cardb...
Saturday, February 6, 2016

More welding excitement

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Reading about welding last night, I found the difference between 6011 and 6013 rods is that 6011 is a penetrating steel that will flow into ...
Saturday, January 30, 2016

How much work was done today?

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Well, it doesn't sound like a lot but decisions were made which makes for big advances. Physical progress was limited to derusting and p...
Saturday, January 16, 2016

That was bloody exhausting.

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After today's exertions, I am absolutely exhausted. Heaven knows why but I find welding very tiring. I suppose that could be because it ...
Sunday, December 27, 2015

One of "those" days *sigh*

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Today was a day when nothing went quite right. I woke with a headache which is never a good portent of things to come. After a leisurely bre...
Sunday, December 20, 2015

I got me some sugar!

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Yup - after spending a rather unproductive time using soda as a blasting medium with my Harbor Freight air blasting tool, I located a small ...
Saturday, December 19, 2015

Progressing again

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Now that work has put up the shutters for the next two weeks, I can apply myself fully to working on the bus. Yesterday though I made a slig...