What was your most interesting recent non solar project?

[OffGridForGood]

Love it,
and the LFP cells on the bench in the background !

 

[400bird]

Love it,
and the LFP cells on the bench in the background !

Shh, this thread says non solar, you'll get us booted

Those 48 cells were my big project but the mill came up and the price was right ($0) so I couldn't pass it up

 

[BuffaloTrace]

I picked up a CNC knee mill that needs new motors and controls. The ways, ball screws, and bed look nearly untouched. The variable speed head is in the floor just out of shot. The thing was filthy and needed to be torn down to fit out of the building.

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Wow you must be HUGE!

 

[skyking1]

If interesting includes pain in the lower back, that's me crouched down and head out the window so I can almost see what I am doing.

They stripped the forms off that pool wall and we got a couple of pieces of 8" sch 40 PVC in.

The long factory bell joints do not push together by hand, so in this picture I am ready to gently pull it together with that sling.
While standing up and reaching back for the controls.


This is not the first rodeo with that.
Up in Mount Rainier National Park with a 65' long reach, a while back.

 

[PreppenWolf]

New outhouse with Port-a-potty inards for students to use and my wife's new greenhouse half assembled.

 

[Q-Dog]

We still have a way to go with mounting our prehistoric Bison, but it is upright and starting to look like something.

 

[SoggyShoes]

We still have a way to go with mounting our prehistoric Bison, but it is upright and starting to look like something.
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That is awesome!
But I did not see that one coming! Where do you get a set of bones for a prehistoric Bison? Is there some really cool tinker crate for adults that I don't know about?

 

[Q-Dog]

That is awesome!
But I did not see that one coming! Where do you get a set of bones for a prehistoric Bison? Is there some really cool tinker crate for adults that I don't know about?

I volunteer at a science museum. We are working with a company that casts and mounts all manner of prehistoric fossils. Our next exibit is fossil mammals found in Louisiana.

 

[Q-Dog]

Today we made a lot of progress on the bison mount. Steel frame bent to shape, and lumbar and cervical vertabrae fitted. Front legs next.