OffGridForGood
Catch, make or grow everything you can.
Love it,
and the LFP cells on the bench in the background !
and the LFP cells on the bench in the background !
What was your most interesting recent non solar project?
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400bird
Solar Wizard
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
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Wow you must be HUGE!
skyking1
Solar Enthusiast
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.
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
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New outhouse with Port-a-potty inards for students to use and my wife's new greenhouse half assembled.
Q-Dog
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We still have a way to go with mounting our prehistoric Bison, but it is upright and starting to look like something.
SoggyShoes
Solar Enthusiast
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
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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
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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.
PreppenWolf
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Got the greenhouse done. Started on the farrowing huts by building the pad today. Socks thought the rock I put down was very tasty.
Starting a project is easy. Now finishing it is the real trick. The last ten percent seems to take 90 percent of the time.
Q-Dog
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Welding up the armature for one front leg. I doubt this gets OSHA approval.
Daddy Tanuki
Emperor Of Solar
Log splitter engine replacement. I built a log splitter from scratch about 8 years ago. I used a 1983 B&S 8hp snowblower motor i found on Yahoo auctions and it worked pretty good for about 6 years. I bought a small kubota diesel engine pre-covid from a rice combine and was planning on swapping it eventually but never had time.
well this year it finally crapped out and I was forced to start the engine swap project. Last week I welded up a cradle to support the engine, radiator etc. and I pulled the flywheel so I could machine out the center to hold the love joy coupler. this week I framed up the engine to hydraulic pump adapter and got it all set into place.
When I bought the engine it was from a junkyard with 600 hours on it, the frame had rotted out but the engine was low hours... but the junkyard cut all of the soft fuel lines. took a while to figure it out. the engine was new enough to have a automatic bleeding system that bleed the pump, the lines, and lastly the injectors. once I figured that all out it fires right up with no glow plug at all.
now the next part. and please anybody with an idea chime in. it has a little itty bitty alternator but it does not put out DC.... it puts out 19 volts AC. I am guessing that there was some kind of system to change the AC to DC. anybody got any ideas? I would love for it to charge its own battery so i don't have to pull the battery and bench charge it. I will get photos next week when i go back.
well this year it finally crapped out and I was forced to start the engine swap project. Last week I welded up a cradle to support the engine, radiator etc. and I pulled the flywheel so I could machine out the center to hold the love joy coupler. this week I framed up the engine to hydraulic pump adapter and got it all set into place.
When I bought the engine it was from a junkyard with 600 hours on it, the frame had rotted out but the engine was low hours... but the junkyard cut all of the soft fuel lines. took a while to figure it out. the engine was new enough to have a automatic bleeding system that bleed the pump, the lines, and lastly the injectors. once I figured that all out it fires right up with no glow plug at all.
now the next part. and please anybody with an idea chime in. it has a little itty bitty alternator but it does not put out DC.... it puts out 19 volts AC. I am guessing that there was some kind of system to change the AC to DC. anybody got any ideas? I would love for it to charge its own battery so i don't have to pull the battery and bench charge it. I will get photos next week when i go back.
Hedges
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Alternator likely had an external bridge rectifier and regulator. Or the internal bridge rectifier and regulator might be shorted and passing AC directly to the output.
42OhmsPA
Who likes Electrical Gremlins?
Nothing to exciting, just getting the garden started.
I've been expanding it every year. Had a pile of cinder blocks and pavers laying around so I rednecked a potato bed this year, they really are fun to dig up come harvest time.
The strawberry's have been spreading nicely the past 2 years. I'll have to move the peppers to a new spot this year.
Beans and peas will go below the pole and I'll string some new netting up, last year they almost climbed to the top.
I ran out of fabric staples so I resorted to a pile of bricks I had to laying around until I get some more staples.
I have onions, spinach, lettuce, celery, parsley, broccoli, cucumbers, potatoes and tomatoes in. Still need to plant peppers, beans and peas. I want to get something else simple going but I don't know what yet, I'm thinking radishes.
It's somewhere around 80 degrees and to damned humid so I took a break before planting more and hooking the irrigation back up.
"pro" tips. A blow torch works excellent for making holes in the fabric and an auger makes planting really easy.
I've been expanding it every year. Had a pile of cinder blocks and pavers laying around so I rednecked a potato bed this year, they really are fun to dig up come harvest time.
The strawberry's have been spreading nicely the past 2 years. I'll have to move the peppers to a new spot this year.
Beans and peas will go below the pole and I'll string some new netting up, last year they almost climbed to the top.
I ran out of fabric staples so I resorted to a pile of bricks I had to laying around until I get some more staples.
I have onions, spinach, lettuce, celery, parsley, broccoli, cucumbers, potatoes and tomatoes in. Still need to plant peppers, beans and peas. I want to get something else simple going but I don't know what yet, I'm thinking radishes.
It's somewhere around 80 degrees and to damned humid so I took a break before planting more and hooking the irrigation back up.
"pro" tips. A blow torch works excellent for making holes in the fabric and an auger makes planting really easy.
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HalfBaked
Ever the student
Don't forget the okra!
I installed a couple of hanging chairs yesterday, but instead of a pic of that, inspired by 420's view, I'll just post my current view from the new hanging chair.
I installed a couple of hanging chairs yesterday, but instead of a pic of that, inspired by 420's view, I'll just post my current view from the new hanging chair.
Brucey
Velcro Man
No open toed shoes, what more do they want!
OzSolar
Whatever you did, that's what you planned.
Same here. But I was all over the place - Did the cat, the wife or the groomer die?
Zwy
Emperor Of Solar
I'll bet that feels good falling down into your socks. You should use the cutting torch that way too.
I always wear pants with high top boots, pants never tucked in and never wear pants with holes in them.
I speak from years of experience.
underdog5004
Solar Enthusiast
I got a free above ground pool from an ad on Craigslist. I went and picked it up strapped it down brought it home leveled a pad unloaded it started putting it together and discovered that I am short one of the critical pipe pieces that support the side so...
SoggyShoes
Solar Enthusiast
Well no project can be completed without at least 3 trips to the supply store!
OffGridForGood
Catch, make or grow everything you can.
I will put it this way: if you decide to weld wearing shoes, have a five gallon pail half full of water nearby - without a lid on it... just saying...I'll bet that feels good falling down into your socks. You should use the cutting torch that way too.
I always wear pants with high top boots, pants never tucked in and never wear pants with holes in them.
I speak from years of experience.
Unless one of the components says “universal “ then it is only two trips lol
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