Lt.Dan
Solar Wizard
70kW holy cow, and you're adding 13kW? How much power usage do you have???
Or is that meant to be kWh?
Thanks,Dad, For Teaching Me to DIY Stuff
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Or is that meant to be kWh?
Quattrohead
Solar Wizard
My daughter was soldering at 10yrs old and can identify components and read a basic schematic.
My son is all mechanical.
My son is all mechanical.
Nobodybusiness
Solar Sponge.
It’s good your children come home to help.
My oldest is almost 50 with 2 children in their 20s.
It’s mostly my Grandchildren who help me now..
That is fun.
Soon to be great Grandchildren.
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B-Mod
Solar Addict
kw, I am at 57kw now, going for 70kw total now, might be done after that. Probably will build a solar trailer next after this.
Lump532
New Member
Agreed. I’m an avid DIYer and my dad had nothing to do with it.
Lump532
New Member
My kids are 7 and 11 and I love having them help me. So far they seem interested, but who knows. I try to keep it casual, they usually head off to play after a bit. I’m not trying to teach them how to do it, just that they can do it. In the end, I’ll be happy if they know how to change a tire.
profesor79
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What about your mum? I think it is not sex related, bur rather personality and environment - what do you think guys?
Mom’s rarely are the “fixers” that I am aware of. I’m sure there are examples but by far men are the ones who swing the hammers and change the motor oil.
Lump532
New Member
I agree with you, but not in my case. I am a graduate of YouTube University.
profesor79
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I love this answer :D - it is in the spirit "I AM NOT GIVING UP, just need time to learn what is needed",
Still remember when I bough a book that price was almost half my first income. The title was: Delphi BIBLE :D
My dad was useless and thankfully my mother divorced him when I was around 4 so I was luckily brought up mainly by my grandparents.
My grandfather was a driver/mechanic during the north Africa campaign in WWII.
After the war ended he returned home and became a heavy plant engineer at the local steelworks.
He raised me to be an engineer. I learnt to walk by pushing an old Briggs and Stratton motor around the garden.
The dummy helped as an air filter for the leaded four star. After I had the walking down pat I went on to learn as much as I could about said motor and it became my pride and joy.
A few years later the pram was removed and the motor fitted to a home made gokart, no accelerator only a clutch and because it was rear wheel drive and I was so light a bumper made of lead pipe had to be added.
I left school early as academics was of no interest to me and went on to a technical college as a manufacturing engineer and toolmaker but sadly my grandfather passed away suddenly before he got chance to see me graduate. Since then I went on to start my own company as a service engineer and tried to get as many open qualifications as I could while working. Luckily I got the chance to retire at 30 and live in Thailand, here we are 8 years later and I'm living the life of macgyver here in very rural Thailand with the only regret being my grandfather will never be able to visit and cause trouble with me on the farm.
My grandfather was a driver/mechanic during the north Africa campaign in WWII.
After the war ended he returned home and became a heavy plant engineer at the local steelworks.He raised me to be an engineer. I learnt to walk by pushing an old Briggs and Stratton motor around the garden.
The dummy helped as an air filter for the leaded four star. After I had the walking down pat I went on to learn as much as I could about said motor and it became my pride and joy.
A few years later the pram was removed and the motor fitted to a home made gokart, no accelerator only a clutch and because it was rear wheel drive and I was so light a bumper made of lead pipe had to be added.
I left school early as academics was of no interest to me and went on to a technical college as a manufacturing engineer and toolmaker but sadly my grandfather passed away suddenly before he got chance to see me graduate. Since then I went on to start my own company as a service engineer and tried to get as many open qualifications as I could while working. Luckily I got the chance to retire at 30 and live in Thailand, here we are 8 years later and I'm living the life of macgyver here in very rural Thailand with the only regret being my grandfather will never be able to visit and cause trouble with me on the farm.
Lawrence_SoCal
New Member
My gas hot water heater a couple of weeks back... holiday 3-day weekend. 9 yr warranty device lasted 23.5 yrs!
I wasn't willing to pay exorbitant holiday weekend rates... Ended up simply replacing it myself (sweating off all the old coupling, etc, replaced everything except copper pipes coming out of wall).. in talking to next door neighbor, he also recently (this year) replaced his gas hot water heater. His initial quotes for tank and install were $3K. He felt good negotiating down to $2K ... but all he got was a 40gal tank w/6yr warranty (local retail around $600) ... ouch
Yea, reminded regularly of how much I appreciate what I learned 'helping' my dad
He designed/built last 2 family homes, and I was old enough (~10 years old) with 2nd house to be actively involved in electrical, plumbing (lots of soldering of copper pipe), laying hardwood floor, etc. Oh and trenching for irrigation for back orchard, and animal pens, etc.
Then 70's Olds diesel (PoS converted gas engine - that blew head gasket every 1-2 years, and he started rebuilding on his own and needed a helper... so I thought nothing, at 17 yrs old, with help from buddy of taking head off a late 70's Celica I got from my grandfather that had been driven so little, such short distances, there was more than 1/2" of carbon caked on top of each piston that had to be scrapped off ... without damaging pistons)
So with my current house, when we purchased and it needed some remodeling ... we ended up removing a load bearing wall (fun engineering to do that right), etc... no big deal, just do it .. properly (Dad came down, and brought an extra helper, as remodel was multi-month project) ... fortunately, he had all the tools needed.. huge help/cost savings
And yea, trouble getting my kids to have much interest (including son, who love robotics )... oh well
I do make sure they understand the financial savings of the DIY when practical... and yea, stuff I don't play with as well
So, yea, thanks Dad... truly appreciated .. Happy Father's Day
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