Some days things just do not go as planned. The idea for this month was to get tires on van and trailers. It ain't happening. Choice was get two new tires and let very thing else go or get materials and wait on tires. Who know it would be so hard to find 11 lousy tires in decent condition.
The good news is almost all materials have w been bought to complete the house. Still looking at counter top laminate for kitchen counters, a few bits of dry wall, tiling the surround for the wood stove etc. Little stuff like that.
One day at at time.
Friday, November 18, 2011
Monday, November 7, 2011
We have an EARTHQUAKE
I,n 2 days (11/5 & 11.6 20011) Oklahoma had 5 or 6 earthquakes all over 2. something on the rector scale. I felt two of them . One the night before last, Then last night one hit that we all felt. I've felt tremors all the time. Slight tremors happen a lot. This was not just a tremor, It was a full fledged earthquake!!
According to reports it was felt as far away as Wisconsin, Illinois,Kansas, Missouri. Texas and of course Oklahoma.
24 earth quakes in three days in Oklahoma!!!!
Information taken from
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.html
6 are on record for the 11/05/2011
Normally I keep my prayer life private, but I want to publically thantk The Creator of The Universe for keeping us safe and our house and possessions unharmed.
At first I thought all that had happened as a result of this was the curtains moved, Turns out the joint inside the chimney came just loose enough to see when I was painting the pipe. Good thing I had not painted it before I never would have noticed it until smoke started coming ut.
As a heads up if your new to earth quakes, and if you have a wood burner or fire place, check your PIPES after an earth quake!!!!
Today started out as not one of the best days. Every time I tried to grab my sander SOMETHING came up.
FINALLY every things calmed down enough to actually get some work done.
I have come to one very serious conclusion. Using an orbital sander for this takes to long!
As much as I hated to spend the cash, I decided to bite the billet and get a belt sander. The Dremel 4000 is just going to have to wait another month. Have not had a chance to use it. By the time it was here it was to late at night to actually let the neighbors have the thrill of sharing its finely tuned electric motor. I bet you can guess wast I'm going to be doing tomorrow?
Some misc shots of what we have gotten done in the last day or so.
My Bed room floor in no particular order
This house has been remodeled at least once. Pipe were apparently ran inside this room at one time. History of house says it was used as a beauty parlor. Maybe they ran pipes through bed room?
First coat of stain in progress.
NO photo of i but I finally got the rest of the last living room window stained except for the bottom which I need to clean since it has drops of paint all over it. It was to late to run sander so that waits till morning.
That's all for now.
Sail safe but sail!
According to reports it was felt as far away as Wisconsin, Illinois,Kansas, Missouri. Texas and of course Oklahoma.
24 earth quakes in three days in Oklahoma!!!!
Information taken from
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.html
| MAP | 2.9 | 2011/11/07 08:12:36 | 35.505 | -96.778 | 5.0 | OKLAHOMA |
| MAP | 3.4 | 2011/11/07 01:26:32 | 35.519 | -96.758 | 4.9 | OKLAHOMA | |||||||
| MAP | 3.3 | 2011/11/07 01:17:13 | 35.525 | -96.773 | 5.0 | OKLAHOMA |
| MAP | 2.9 | 2011/11/07 00:03:52 | 35.490 | -96.766 | 4.7 | OKLAHOMA |
| MAP | 3.3 | 2011/11/06 18:26:57 | 35.478 | -96.864 | 5.0 | OKLAHOMA | ||||
| MAP | 3.7 | 2011/11/06 17:52:35 | 35.547 | -96.819 | 5.0 | OKLAHOMA |
| MAP | 3.9 | 2011/11/06 15:07:06 | 35.535 | -96.909 | 5.0 | OKLAHOMA |
| MAP | 3.0 | 2011/11/06 11:16:21 | 35.523 | -96.844 | 4.9 | OKLAHOMA |
| MAP | 3.4 | 2011/11/06 11:03:52 | 35.539 | -96.825 | 5.0 | OKLAHOMA |
| MAP | 3.9 | 2011/11/06 10:52:36 | 35.567 | -96.797 | 5.0 | OKLAHOMA |
| MAP | 4.0 | 2011/11/06 09:39:57 | 35.506 | -96.865 | 5.0 | OKLAHOMA | ||||
| MAP | 3.4 | 2011/11/06 09:22:05 | 35.585 | -96.823 | 5.0 | OKLAHOMA |
| MAP | 2.7 | 2011/11/06 08:14:12 | 35.474 | -96.794 | 5.0 | OKLAHOMA |
| MAP | 3.2 | 2011/11/06 07:32:41 | 35.544 | -96.901 | 4.9 | OKLAHOMA |
| MAP | 3.8 | 2011/11/06 06:31:11 | 35.559 | -96.874 | 5.0 | OKLAHOMA |
| MAP | 3.0 | 2011/11/06 04:54:00 | 35.540 | -96.687 | 5.0 | OKLAHOMA |
| MAP | 3.6 | 2011/11/06 04:03:42 | 35.554 | -96.760 | 5.0 | OKLAHOMA |
| MAP | 5.6 | 2011/11/06 03:53:11 | 35.537 | -96.747 | 5.0 | OKLAHOMA |
6 are on record for the 11/05/2011
Normally I keep my prayer life private, but I want to publically thantk The Creator of The Universe for keeping us safe and our house and possessions unharmed.
At first I thought all that had happened as a result of this was the curtains moved, Turns out the joint inside the chimney came just loose enough to see when I was painting the pipe. Good thing I had not painted it before I never would have noticed it until smoke started coming ut.
As a heads up if your new to earth quakes, and if you have a wood burner or fire place, check your PIPES after an earth quake!!!!
Today started out as not one of the best days. Every time I tried to grab my sander SOMETHING came up.
FINALLY every things calmed down enough to actually get some work done.
I have come to one very serious conclusion. Using an orbital sander for this takes to long!
As much as I hated to spend the cash, I decided to bite the billet and get a belt sander. The Dremel 4000 is just going to have to wait another month. Have not had a chance to use it. By the time it was here it was to late at night to actually let the neighbors have the thrill of sharing its finely tuned electric motor. I bet you can guess wast I'm going to be doing tomorrow?
Some misc shots of what we have gotten done in the last day or so.
My Bed room floor in no particular order
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| what is left of a mark where some one drug something really heavy across floor. Its gone now. |
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| Another section of same mark. |
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| What was left of the trail before I finished sanding it. |
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| The big picture. |
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| Just to give you an idea of the before and after to this point |
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| Another view before and after |
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| It really is this bad in spots. |
This house has been remodeled at least once. Pipe were apparently ran inside this room at one time. History of house says it was used as a beauty parlor. Maybe they ran pipes through bed room?
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| That thing standing up behind hole is a piece of metal that was covering it. All holes had thin metal sheeting covering holes. I'm betting this made house a lot cooler. Once I put some spray foam in holes this room was noticeable warmer. |
First coat of stain in progress.
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| I forgot to sand down the wood filler before I stained. *&^*&^& |
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| Corner cabinet re-stained and almost completely reassembled. |
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| Stove pipe painted with new high heat stove paint |
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| Finally I got the last wall in living room textured. !!!!!! |
NO photo of i but I finally got the rest of the last living room window stained except for the bottom which I need to clean since it has drops of paint all over it. It was to late to run sander so that waits till morning.
That's all for now.
Sail safe but sail!
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Global "warming" brings COLDER TEMPS?
What in the heck is going on with this weather? Last winter was a bone chiller.This last summer was like we were in death valley. In fact on many days it was hotter here then it was in Death Valley.I checked just to see. The first of June was 105 degrees hot and it stayed that way and hotter until all of a sudden in September it went to cool and now the first of November is is cold to the point of below freezing already. In the over 20 years since I have lived here, this is NOT normal. This is more like upper Midwest not South west!
Now I'm fairly easy to get along with . I have learned to roil with the punches but this is ridiculous!
All the talk about global warming that I hear makes me wonder what the SAM heck is going on. How can we be having :global warming if the winters are slowly getting COLDER?
This gal has had enough!
Now I'm fairly easy to get along with . I have learned to roil with the punches but this is ridiculous!
All the talk about global warming that I hear makes me wonder what the SAM heck is going on. How can we be having :global warming if the winters are slowly getting COLDER?
This gal has had enough!
Thursday, November 3, 2011
EZ Kitchen Cabinets
If you really need kitchen cabinets but cannot afford them or do not know how to make them , here is a simple, cheap and effective way to accomplish that goal.
When I removed the original cabinets in the kitchen I was shocked. It was nothing more then a bunch of supports nailed into the walls that supported the drawers and shelves attached to the walls then a facer board put over it . Simple yet served purpose for many years. Here is what we did to duplicate this simple , cheap and effective cabinet making.
As you can see form the photos it is basically stained and polyed board fastened to the studs with metal brackets. Then a facer board and doors put in place. It works well
Tyhe upright s support the top. This side is til in process of being completed..
This side we already have facer board and doors on
Polyester, Woood and Wood Stoves.
On this page I am making the pics larger then normal to show detail. I'm not sure if it will make it upload a lot slower and be a pain for viewers. Please , feedback on this would really be appreciated! Thanks.
Poly trimming was good practice for using the Dremel I used the EZ lock cutting blade and was very pleasantly surprised how it did and how long it lasted.
Resin I am using for this part of project
The resin container says it is water proof. This is their general all purpose house hold use bondo. The little tube is the hardener that came with it. The small bottle is what I bought at Oreillys. The mixing bowl I got from Oreillys. I really like them, They cleanup really well with an acetone soaked rag and if you look a the photo below you can see it has multiple markings for different types of resin. Not bad for less then a buck
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| It originally has Bondo liquid hardener written on it but the lettering came off as I used it due to sticky hands from resin. |
If you remember what I had after the poly cured was a real mess around the edges from having the plastic I used underneath.
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| Front |
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| Back |
Some close ups of the mess on V berth tip board.
Shots of the trim job in process
I forgot about taking shots before I started this but you can still get the general idea. I started by just taking it off a little bit at a time with scissors. Probably not a great idea but it got the largest part of it off. .If I had to do it all over again, I would use the Dremel for this part.
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| You can see where the resin from both sides overflowed the board. |
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| I now know how to make ice cycles out of resin. |
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| The back of the first board I did No plastic under the board.. |
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| the resin sealed the edges really well in various places. It seemed a pity to cut it off but it had to happen to fit. |
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| Front |
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| Back |
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| See the void? |
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| Separation of cloth due to plastic moving things around so I could not keep the cloth in place. Next time I think I will use staples to keep cloth in place. |
Time to use the Dremel.
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| First we take off the biggest part, making sure we leave enough room to not gouge the wood. |
Close ups of what we have left
On to the porta pottie board.
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| Ready for final sanding to pretreat top side. |
My Blue heeler standing by to make sure I get it right.
I still have to sand the excess poly off the front as that looks really tacky and has to be done before I pre treat for poly on the top sides but one step at a time I'm getting it done.
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| Looking GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
Even that first board I did for the porta pottie looks decent on the edges now that it is trimmed up.
I got busy with starting the job of trimming up the wood for the bulkhead between the bow flotation and the new storage space. Am using the wood that was in the middle section. It is a tad to short across the beam but I can use a board stretcher made out of the other piece to fill in the gaps. I HATE throwing perfectly good wood away, Once it is in place and fiber glassed, it will be fine. For those if you that do not know what a board stretcher is, it is simply adding extra pieces where it is to short.
See the weave
These are close up shots of the first board I polyed. I did not know about pre treating it. You can see the weave of the cloth which as I understand it is a bad thing. Even I can tell this is not a good thing when compared to the board I pretreated with the diluted poly. This board, if put under water for a sustained period of time, I do not doubt for a minute would have severe delamination and form blisters.
This is I suspect why so may are down on using poly based resin for boat repair. When it comes to the hull or rudder, there is no way I would use polyester based resin. But for my purposes of interior it should be fine. Heaven forbid me ever being proven right about this by my boat being underwater! The board I pre treated with the diluted poly s does NOT have this problem.
V Berth Storage Bulkhead
I was truly surprised how long that one cutter lasted. I started out with trying to use my sons battery operated circular saw. The blade is getting really dull and the batteries are needing replaced, so I changed over to the EZ lock on my Dremel. I finished the second slant cut with it, did all the trimming on the two v berth pieces and got one of the hull notches done before I needed to change blades. Not to bad IMHO for one blade. It was burning the wood instead of cutting it by the time I got to the second notch.
That's all for now on the boat.
We finally got the wood stove ready. It was covered up out side but still got rusted. I guess metal absorbs moisture even if it is covered really well. Any way to make along story short we had a mess. It got rusted and I was NOT going to put it back in the house looking like that. I went out to Ace hardware to get some primer and stove paint.
While I was there John ( manager) reminded me about rust converters. He showed me a product but I did not like the idea of it turning a gray or white color. I noticed a little bottle of Rustoleum Rust reformer sitting up stop shelf so even at 8 dollars plus for a 8 oz bottle I bought it since it turned the rust black, which was more in line with what I had seen on you tube videos about another product. Plus I figured if it went well I would not have to repaint. I was not looking forward to having to have the guys brush all that rust off, sand it level and then prime and repaint that stove. Long story short, it took a couple of coats to do it. On some really bad spots we used three and four coats but it looks pretty good, even if I do say so myself. It is a more rustic look then if we had sanded it and painted it but that is OK. I don't think any one but me is going to care about that. I do want to put a light coat of paint over it later so it matches the stove pipe better . We sprayed the chrome pipe so it matches . One thing I do need to mention if you use the rust converter or paint on a stove MAKE REAL SURE YOU BURN IT WITH A REALLY GOOD SOLID STRONG HOT FIRE BEFORE YOU PUT IT IN HOUSE! That first fire is going to stink so bad it will drive you out of the House! PLEASE TRUST ME ON THIS! WE PUT A PAPER FIRE IN IT THINKING THAT WOULD DO. I WAS SO WRONG!!!!
It ended up taking the best part of 2 bottles but it was worth it in just the work saved of not having to brush, sand, prime and paint the stove.
Shots of in progress stove rust conversion to show the color after rust conversion.
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| Not to shabby |
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| Looking good and working just fine!!!!!!!!! |
I finally got around to ordering the parts for the Lumina. 100 bucks USD but what are you gonna do? It has to be done. We basically are replacing the entire coolant over flow system.
I can't believe how much they want for new tires for this van! It is outrageous! 500.00 for tires? I'm having my son go check out the salvage yards. Same issue for the boat trailer and little trailer.
One thing at a time it will get done.
The house is getting really close to being done. Have a lot of little stuff still to do then we are good to go.
That's all for now. Sail safe but sail
And never forget to USE DA GREY MATTER
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