Sounds like mower mechanics can be as shady as auto mechanics.
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I've been following this family for quite a while....... you can guesstimate by the time that covid has been around.
Well, that plus the name of the group.
One kid is a fantastic drummer and the other one has picked up guitar like a pro. The little girl's name is Bethany. They do most of their videos at home and all she does is dance around and be goofy. That's a bit of a disguise because she's pretty talented too with her timing. She does tambourine and a bell and I think she's learning other instrumentals.
When it's her time to hit the Bell or something else, she's dead on with her timing. I think she even notices when one of her brothers screws up.
This is the first time I've ever seen her actually sit still.
A talented father has taught his gift to the kids.
Well, that plus the name of the group.
One kid is a fantastic drummer and the other one has picked up guitar like a pro. The little girl's name is Bethany. They do most of their videos at home and all she does is dance around and be goofy. That's a bit of a disguise because she's pretty talented too with her timing. She does tambourine and a bell and I think she's learning other instrumentals.
When it's her time to hit the Bell or something else, she's dead on with her timing. I think she even notices when one of her brothers screws up.
This is the first time I've ever seen her actually sit still.
A talented father has taught his gift to the kids.
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Well it's time to go golfing. I have 6 rooms seamed up and the last two rooms trimmed, sealed and ready to put together.
Well I'm doing that I'm going to have my brother down there with me today preparing the tack strip and pad that's already been installed. It's a mess.
Each unit has one room with carpet about 18x20. That's approaching $5,000 per room for the carpet and pad.
You're damn right I'm moving slow on this one.
Well I'm doing that I'm going to have my brother down there with me today preparing the tack strip and pad that's already been installed. It's a mess.
Each unit has one room with carpet about 18x20. That's approaching $5,000 per room for the carpet and pad.
You're damn right I'm moving slow on this one.
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Nice Carpet High, looks like “D” pin tackless would be best..... The split crew is becoming a head ache for you. My last split crew job was NO FUN. Slow and steady wins the race ! Like this female Snapping Turtle looking for a suitable place to lay her eggs. I saw her when I was actually playing golf last week ( I pared the first three holes and shot an amazing 86 ) but I really wish I was helping you at the golf club. 
and shot an amazing 86 ) but I really wish I was helping you at the golf club. 
I’ll stage and photo some tools, hopefully I get the chance to send them to new care takers at bargain numbers.If he has a pair of Starrett dial calipers, dial indicators, magnetic bases, or micrometers that would be cool. Especially if they want 10 bucks a piece for them.
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The only nice part about that carpet is if someone else was installing it.Nice Carpet High, looks like “D” pin tackless would be best..... The split crew is becoming a head ache for you. My last split crew job was NO FUN. Slow and steady wins the race ! Like this female Snapping Turtle looking for a suitable place to lay her eggs. I saw her when I was actually playing golf last week ( I pared the first three holes
I wasn't supposed to be doing any installation. My job was to put the seams together, then go away.
I called Mohawk and they recommended a c-pin commercial or tritac, or double width standard C pin.
The downstairs individual rooms at this building are installed with Bloomsburg carpet. That's the gray, plaid wool.
My internet work is done via my phone these days. I hate internet searches using a phone, they give crappy results and I can't even find a stretching diagram for a woven Wilton carpet..... It's looped pile not face to face.
I'm heading back down there today to begin stretching one room. I'm going to stretch it every direction, hopefully be able to keep the lines parallel with the walls. the rooms seem to be quite square that some of the fireplace faces are off 1/4 to 3/8 parallel to the width, so correction is impossible. I'm going to fudge it to perfection along the wall with the bed.
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Wht happened to just do the seams and go away??????
You saw the pictures of the tackstrip and pad didn't you? I'm going to be a novice woven installer teaching a novice woven installer.
I heard the guy installing the tack strip complained about the cement and it being hard to install. I thought it was because the cement was hard.
Because I didn't think the tack strip he installed would hold, I bought a box of inch and a quarter tapcon screws. I figured I'd secure the tack strip because it was mostly installed with camerax 948 urethane adhesive.
Ran into some problems.
Number one there's two rows of tack strip and as soon as my drill went through the first or second row of tack strip, it hit dead space.
I pried on one piece of tack strip to find out what was going on and it lifted right off .....clean.
It was stuck to the paint residue or dust.
I removed the second piece of tack strip., It too lifted right off the floor with no effort at all.
A:
tack strip does not stick to dusty painted concrete
B:
There is a 1-in piece of foam in between the concrete slab and the foundation. There is absolutely nothing for the tack strip to grab onto but foam....
......foam, covered up by 1/8 inch of concrete.
Even commercial two inch wide or tri-tack has nothing for nails or screws to fasten to no matter where you put them.
Because I didn't think the tack strip he installed would hold, I bought a box of inch and a quarter tapcon screws. I figured I'd secure the tack strip because it was mostly installed with camerax 948 urethane adhesive.
Ran into some problems.
Number one there's two rows of tack strip and as soon as my drill went through the first or second row of tack strip, it hit dead space.
I pried on one piece of tack strip to find out what was going on and it lifted right off .....clean.
It was stuck to the paint residue or dust.
I removed the second piece of tack strip., It too lifted right off the floor with no effort at all.
A:
tack strip does not stick to dusty painted concrete
B:
There is a 1-in piece of foam in between the concrete slab and the foundation. There is absolutely nothing for the tack strip to grab onto but foam....
......foam, covered up by 1/8 inch of concrete.
Even commercial two inch wide or tri-tack has nothing for nails or screws to fasten to no matter where you put them.
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Do you remember the bracket made years ago that screwed to the wall and was L shaped? It had a trough that held the tack strip. It is hard to explain. Daris will know what I mean.
Ya I remember. You drove it under the wall plate. I think I tried once to find out how well it worked. Evidently I didn't like it as I never used it again. High I think i'd go back until you can get beef enough to anchor the strip and then lay 1/4 pad in behind the strip glued down and also glue the carpet. Tell them they will nee shoe mold to kind of hold things in place.
So... we all remembered my lawn mower repair, right?
Well apparently drawing 180A from a 90A alternator on a 24 year old car makes said alternator last about 37 seconds. Just ordered a 350A one and until it gets here, in the same vein as my lawn mower well, I fixed that too!
Just carry two batteries.
I'm only dropping from 12.87 to 12.22 volts to work and back so I got this for a few more weeks lol
Well apparently drawing 180A from a 90A alternator on a 24 year old car makes said alternator last about 37 seconds. Just ordered a 350A one and until it gets here, in the same vein as my lawn mower well, I fixed that too!
Just carry two batteries.
I'm only dropping from 12.87 to 12.22 volts to work and back so I got this for a few more weeks lol
I have one of those brackets around somewhere Rusty. If anybody makes them I don't think they'd work because I don't know what the plate looks like, for all I know it might concrete.
There's no base shoe going on this job. When the tax strip was originally going in weeks ago, somebody should have talked with the contractor have them dig out the foam and fill it with plywood, concrete ......... .something. it's kind of late in the game to do this with all the pad down and carpet in place.
I can't really do anything until this gets figured out. I think in the areas where the carpet butts up to the tile and that metal edge, the tax strip should be torn out and shimmed up with a strip of linoleum or some other dents commercial vinyl about that thickness. The carpet heights at the transition would still be lower than the tile but much better of an edge. If the tax trip was torn up and replaced with a strip of vinyl under it the tack strip could then be positioned properly instead of varying from 3/16 to 3/8 of an inch. it also gives a tiny bit more depth to tuck the edge of the carpet into, another benefit.
I wish I had been called down there before the job was started kind of like a consultant and make some requests and set some specifications on how the tax strip should be put in. I don't think the installer even looked at the carpet to see how thick it was.
The skinny carpet that goes in the foyer or entry area is about 10 ft by 40. That carpets barely over an 8-in thick and all the wood trim and door casings are the same height as the tile entryways to the rooms. That entire area should be floated with self-leveling concrete about a quarter inch thick to bring everything up to the correct height.
My conclusion is nobody talks, and nobody cares........
Until the architect does a walk-through and puts a blue tape on each of the entryways and each of the doorways and request that it be raised up. Boy won't that be fun after everything's trimmed and finished.
Where the heck do you get a 350 amp alternator?
You must do electricity better than I do you got one of them fancy schmancy meters.
It's funny how minds think differently when it comes to problems and repairs. There's a girl that has a YouTube channel called Blondie hacks. She does work with metal using a lathe and milling machine. They're hobby type machines, meaning smaller motors but still pretty serious tools.
She does a show every Saturday morning. She was machining a 2-in thick by 6-in diameter piece of cast iron into a base to add to her milling machine. The base is a precision base and she was machining it on her lathe. Once it was faced and machined to the correct diameter it needed a hole in the center. She started with a 3/8-in bit as a pilot hole and then used the largest bit that she had which was a one and 1/8 in drill bit. It bogged down and came to a stop and blew the fuse. She said that puts a lot of torque on the small motor I'll have to switch to a smaller drill bit.
I put a comment in the comment section that said to "either use a smaller drill bit or a larger fuse"
......I then added hold my beer, watch this.
She put a like on the comment.
She does a show every Saturday morning. She was machining a 2-in thick by 6-in diameter piece of cast iron into a base to add to her milling machine. The base is a precision base and she was machining it on her lathe. Once it was faced and machined to the correct diameter it needed a hole in the center. She started with a 3/8-in bit as a pilot hole and then used the largest bit that she had which was a one and 1/8 in drill bit. It bogged down and came to a stop and blew the fuse. She said that puts a lot of torque on the small motor I'll have to switch to a smaller drill bit.
I put a comment in the comment section that said to "either use a smaller drill bit or a larger fuse"
......I then added hold my beer, watch this.
She put a like on the comment.
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Amazon! I was into competition CB radios maybe 10 years ago and I ran a 200 amp alternator in my Ford work van with 4 Northstar batteries. They are plug n play. Some of the big shots out there would fab up brackets so they could run multiple alternators for semi trucks.
I think my little S10 has a 105 amp alternator. I modified and installed an electric dual fan unit from a Dodge Intrepid. I was able to figure out the wiring and it has a high and low setting. It drives too many amps on the high setting but thank goodness it works adequately on the low setting. It draws too much current to add a direct wire and a switch so I have it set up to run from a relay so the wire is shorter. Long wires and DC current do not mix at high amperages. That's about all I know about electricity. Ask me how I almost caught my truck on fire after installing a new distributor. I learned a big lesson about 75 miles from home .....on the highway.
I learned a big lesson about 75 miles from home .....on the highway.
Welding wire can handle the amps
