OT - What are you doing now? (2024)

Ozzie_Isaac

GrateEggspectations said:

kl8ton said:

Canugghead said:

Front and rear plastic grills of my favourite turbo fan literally disintegrated due to age. 

Resurrected with stolen parts from a retired surplus fan

I think you should run without grills. Looks cool!

The downside is that it might not be so good for the grandchildren. 

Growing up, my now-deceased grandmother had a fan that featured a grill with spaces so wide you could literally get two or three fingers in between there. It looked stunning though. 

My grandmother had one!  All the grill would do is keep the blades off the ground if it fell over.  They were sweet metal blades too.

zaphod

GrateEggspectations said:

kl8ton said:

Canugghead said:

Front and rear plastic grills of my favourite turbo fan literally disintegrated due to age. 

Resurrected with stolen parts from a retired surplus fan

I think you should run without grills. Looks cool!

The downside is that it might not be so good for the grandchildren. 

Growing up, my now-deceased grandmother had a fan that featured a grill with spaces so wide you could literally get two or three fingers in between there. It looked stunning though. 

who are you to get in the way of Darwin?

paqman

GrateEggspectations said:

The downside is that it might not be so good for the grandchildren. 

Growing up, my now-deceased grandmother had a fan that featured a grill with spaces so wide you could literally get two or three fingers in between there. It looked stunning though. 

And the blades were made of metal? 

Edit: Read @Ozzie_Isaac post just after finishing this one

kl8ton

I can't find the what are you buying right now thread.  The search function = useless.  

I am restocking my store of dizzy pig seasonings. Free Labor Day weekend shipping!

Canugghead

kl8ton said:

I think you should run without grills. Looks cool!

Looks cool without grills and not running. However, when it's in action as in last pic, even at medium speed you can't see the turbines. It's light weight, quiet and powerful, that's why I can't let go of it.

Canugghead

GrateEggspectations said:

kl8ton said:

Canugghead said:

Front and rear plastic grills of my favourite turbo fan literally disintegrated due to age. 

Resurrected with stolen parts from a retired surplus fan

I think you should run without grills. Looks cool!

The downside is that it might not be so good for the grandchildren. 

Growing up, my now-deceased grandmother had a fan that featured a grill with spaces so wide you could literally get two or three fingers in between there. It looked stunning though. 

My late M-I-L had a fan just like that. We found out the hard way when she was babysitting our oldest kid 

GrateEggspectations

Canugghead said:

GrateEggspectations said:

kl8ton said:

Canugghead said:

Front and rear plastic grills of my favourite turbo fan literally disintegrated due to age. 

Resurrected with stolen parts from a retired surplus fan

I think you should run without grills. Looks cool!

The downside is that it might not be so good for the grandchildren. 

Growing up, my now-deceased grandmother had a fan that featured a grill with spaces so wide you could literally get two or three fingers in between there. It looked stunning though. 

My late M-I-L had a fan just like that. We found out the hard way when she was babysitting our oldest kid 

I shudder to think of the potential results. Hope all ended up okay. 

Canugghead

GrateEggspectations said:

Canugghead said:

GrateEggspectations said:

kl8ton said:

Canugghead said:

Front and rear plastic grills of my favourite turbo fan literally disintegrated due to age. 

Resurrected with stolen parts from a retired surplus fan

I think you should run without grills. Looks cool!

The downside is that it might not be so good for the grandchildren. 

Growing up, my now-deceased grandmother had a fan that featured a grill with spaces so wide you could literally get two or three fingers in between there. It looked stunning though. 

My late M-I-L had a fan just like that. We found out the hard way when she was babysitting our oldest kid 

I shudder to think of the potential results. Hope all ended up okay. 

Fortunately it wasn't too bad!

JohnInCarolina

On the road.  Headed up to Chicago for an all-day meeting tomorrow on behalf of Uncle Sam.  

I’ll see my nephew who works in investment banking tonight for dinner.  We’re checking out this place:

https://www.avecrestaurant.com/

billt01

Re-homing an old license plate

lousubcap

Safe travels and enjoy the dinner.  

RealDonaldTrump

Don't forget to VOTE

Stormbringer

Enjoying.a NY steak after a fabulous day in Yellowstone 

GrateEggspectations

Preparing duck confit from scratch. Two legs into the sous vide for tomorrow night; four for the freezer, already seasoned and vac sealed. 

ColbyLang

Painting my daughter’s bedroom ceiling and walls. Prepping for wallpaper to be installed by the wife. Watching football and was watching the Presidents cup simultaneously, Sorry you Canadians on the forum. 

Botch

ColbyLang said:

Painting my daughter’s bedroom ceiling and walls. Prepping for wallpaper to be installed by the wife. Watching football and was watching the Presidents cup simultaneously, Sorry you Canadians on the forum. 

Hope she volunteers to remove said wallpaper, when/if it becomes necessary.
I will never, never do that again; I'll burn the residence down and rebuild it before that.  

Gulfcoastguy

I agree Botch. Every place that I have ever lived post university has had wall paper , including currently, has had wallpaper. In every case it started to peel. What's wrong with painting?

ColbyLang

Botch said:Gulfcoastguy said:

I agree Botch. Every place that I have ever lived post university has had wall paper , including currently, has had wallpaper. In every case it started to peel. What's wrong with painting?

ColbyLang said:

Painting my daughter’s bedroom ceiling and walls. Prepping for wallpaper to be installed by the wife. Watching football and was watching the Presidents cup simultaneously, Sorry you Canadians on the forum. 

Hope she volunteers to remove said wallpaper, when/if it becomes necessary.
I will never, never do that again; I'll burn the residence down and rebuild it before that.  

Fellas, my wife is an interior designer. I gave up a long time ago. Use quality wallpaper and removing it ain’t bad at all. Score it, spray with 50/50 water and liquid fabric softener. Wide putty knife. 

Ozzie_Isaac

ColbyLang said:

Botch said:Gulfcoastguy said:

I agree Botch. Every place that I have ever lived post university has had wall paper , including currently, has had wallpaper. In every case it started to peel. What's wrong with painting?

ColbyLang said:

Painting my daughter’s bedroom ceiling and walls. Prepping for wallpaper to be installed by the wife. Watching football and was watching the Presidents cup simultaneously, Sorry you Canadians on the forum. 

Hope she volunteers to remove said wallpaper, when/if it becomes necessary.
I will never, never do that again; I'll burn the residence down and rebuild it before that.  

Fellas, my wife is an interior designer. I gave up a long time ago. Use quality wallpaper and removing it ain’t bad at all. Score it, spray with 50/50 water and liquid fabric softener. Wide putty knife. 

Fabric softener is a godsend.  Removed older heavy wallpaper.  Took an evening to remove and another evening to remove rest of glue and skim coat with mud.  Really not bad.

Canugghead

zaphod said:

I use something like that which I built from 2" abs pipe with an adapter for my 60 l (16 gal) shopvac. sucks the crap right out of the gutters as I stand safe on the ground.  When I was younger I would take the shopvac up on the roof with me. Took the wheels off it, but still dropped it over the edge of a 2 story house once. cracked the housing, but still works 20 years later.

Thanks again for the idea, I finally did it after visiting ewetube. Used central vacuum PVC, lighter and cheaper than ABS...

murphy's law struck twice... 1) the roofer left too much shingles protruding over the gutter, had to flatten the nozzle to squeeze in, damn

2) The ancient shopvac's on/off switch died, had to bypass it and use a smart outlet as switch...

Not bad in spite of the constricted nozzle, even sucked up a broken piece of shingle...

Ozzie_Isaac

Have been driving 32 of the last 35hrs, 8 more to go.

kl8ton

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Have been driving 32 of the last 35hrs, 8 more to go.

Did you get the horse?  I'll go check the WAYBRN thread!  😀

zaphod

Canugghead said:

zaphod said:

I use something like that which I built from 2" abs pipe with an adapter for my 60 l (16 gal) shopvac. sucks the crap right out of the gutters as I stand safe on the ground.  When I was younger I would take the shopvac up on the roof with me. Took the wheels off it, but still dropped it over the edge of a 2 story house once. cracked the housing, but still works 20 years later.

Thanks again for the idea, I finally did it after visiting ewetube. Used central vacuum PVC, lighter and cheaper than ABS...

murphy's law struck twice... 1) the roofer left too much shingles protruding over the gutter, had to flatten the nozzle to squeeze in, damn

2) The ancient shopvac's on/off switch died, had to bypass it and use a smart outlet as switch...

Not bad in spite of the constricted nozzle, even sucked up a broken piece of shingle...

awesome! rock and roll that thing. before I did this I took the vacuum onto the roof (sans wheels) for gutter cleaning. the crack to the left is from when it fell off one year.



craftsman. grunt grunt grunt.

Ozzie_Isaac

kl8ton said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Have been driving 32 of the last 35hrs, 8 more to go.

Did you get the horse?  I'll go check the WAYBRN thread!  😀

We did, horse was very nice.  She isn’t real happy with 19hrs in a trailer, but her disposition has been real good.

kl8ton

Ozzie_Isaac said:

kl8ton said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Have been driving 32 of the last 35hrs, 8 more to go.

Did you get the horse?  I'll go check the WAYBRN thread!  😀

We did, horse was very nice.  She isn’t real happy with 19hrs in a trailer, but her disposition has been real good.

Awesome!  Get some sleep!

GrateEggspectations

Congrats, @Ozzie_Isaac. What’s her name? My vote is “Fourty”, for the hours of suffering you endured. 

Gulfcoastguy

Demonica because you had to go to hades and back to get her.

zaphod

buttercup

fishlessman

GrateEggspectations said:

Canugghead said:

@GrateEggspectations been thinking of moving to a bungalow as we get older ... no stairs to climb inside and no fear of climbing the roof, lol. Wish we have decent selection of bungalows in our neighbourhood like yours.

We must say that we liked the prospect of being able to grow old in the home. The only potential obstacle is that we have a sunken living room. It’s only two steps down and we love the additional space it creates in the room, but it would pose a challenge were one of us to require a wheelchair. I suppose ramps could be added, but not as convenient as a single plane.  

Come on up! Ottawa ain’t that bad. 😉

i believe mr brady from the brady bunch designed the camp. half the living room, a bedroom, and the bath tub are sunken. running thru the house to get a sick dog outside and tripping over those streps is a bit problematic in the dark, stepping down into a wet slippery tub though is insane

Ozzie_Isaac

Nerd stats on the trip to Nebraska (proving one could do a quick weekend trip to Nebraska driving from AZ).

2483 miles
203 gallons diesel
5.5 gallons of DEF
40 hrs and 10 minutes of driving
Total elapsed trip time, just shy of 45 hrs.

Doing the math, that is an average speed of 62 mph