kaymccampbell
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I'm surprised they don't have jacketed vessels, so they can recirculate clean water through the boilers to heat their goop.
What did you do "IN" your garage today?
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Beerhippie
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A "softener" that uses salt just trades calcium ions for sodium ions--which is worse than nothing.
What we need is a full-house RO system--which would require a new building, which would require more land....
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Ooh! Shiny!
Fresh out of the oven. They came out better than I expected given the conditions.
Fresh out of the oven. They came out better than I expected given the conditions.
niget2002
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Made a little chicken hotel for the 2 silkies. Chickens are pretty cold hardy, but we only have the 2 silkies. They don't sleep with the other birds because they can't get up into the roost. Wife and daughter are afraid they won't be able to keep each other warm enough, so we put them in the heated shop.
I know the shop heater won't keep up with the single digit temps, but it should stay above freezing.
Daughter was told she'd have to check on them twice a day for food and water. We'll see how that goes.
I know the shop heater won't keep up with the single digit temps, but it should stay above freezing.
Daughter was told she'd have to check on them twice a day for food and water. We'll see how that goes.
kaymccampbell
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A jacketed vessel circulates your selected thermal transfer fluid through your heaters/coolers and then around the inner vessel, which holds your ingredients. It's indirect heating. It allows you to use an extremely pure heat transfer medium, which allows you to preserve your boilers. A jacketed steam pot in a commercial kitchen is an example. So is the humble bain Marie in most home kitchens.
DGersic
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Finished the repairs on the Christmas decorations. Used some clear heat shrink to patch and reinforce the ends of the decorative candy cane lights. They’re ready to store for next year, but it’s -10F out and I don’t feel like taking them out to the shed right now.
larry4406
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Replaced dead batteries in lanterns.
Wire brushed corroded terminals, soldered repaired as needed to restore function.
Wire brushed corroded terminals, soldered repaired as needed to restore function.
Beerhippie
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We do use boiler steam for heating our wort in the kettle, where it's concentrated to the desired gravity for brewing. Our mash tun--where all the important chemical reactions take place that turn malted grain into wort--has a steam jacket, but we've learned not to use it. If you use the jacket to heat the water to the desired temperature for each reaction, it "gellifies" the starches, preventing them from breaking sown into sugars--in other words, it makes a useless mess of things. The hot water we make using the Rinnais is the "mash-in" water--which starts the reactions that break down the starch--and the "strike" water that's used to extract the resulting sugars from the mash.
We once had a hot water system that used a steam heat exchanger in the storage tank. It fossilized.
M.Brane
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Cleaned, and put away tools left from little projects. Drained the moisture from the compressor. Re-organized some stuff. Got beer out of the fridge.
kaymccampbell
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So heat the water through a non-steam exchanger, then apply it to your goop. If you use filtered, softened water as the transfer medium for your jacketed vessels, you won't suffer from the fossilized heat exchanger syndrome. My residential water heater is just a big blue egg with a huge heat exchanger fed by my hydronic boiler. Because it's all just below boiling, it never builds up calcium, etc, unlike a steam plant.
Yes, it's more complex. Yes, it's not as efficient. But the savings in heat plant repair drama has got to make it up. At least it does for me.
rktinc
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Well despite the incoming blizzard disaster, the temps stayed good inside today. My limewash experiment is working very well on my non-faux distressed wall project. Glad to get rid of that nasty yellow.
Sounds a whole lot like me... I have a ton of different tools and skillsets that don't always seem to go together, but works well for me. Right now I have my 3D printer going more than anything. I have a couple of things I want to do on the wood CNC, I just don't have the time to deal with it at the moment.
dwall174
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Nothing, it's too damn cold here in Southeast Michigan to try heating my garage.
I have a couple of 240V heaters that will heat the garage, but it's just too expensive to run them when the high temperature is only in the lower teens.
Maybe by the end of February, I'll get back to working out there again.
I jumped my JD Garden Tractor with the Snowblower on it that sits in my little shed and got it moved over to my garage for the impending weather. I put it on the trickle charger and will give it a good once over tomorrow afternoon.
Beerhippie
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Understand, this one does not.
The heat exchanger fossilized on the heated water side. Short of the whole-house RO system, not much can be done about that problem. Heat high-carbonate water at atmospheric pressure--or just drop the pressure--and it leaves calcium carbonate behind.
Possibly a full jacket on the hot water tank would work... for a while. Lime scale is a pretty good insulator, so as soon as it builds up, heat transfer drops like a rock. Besides, getting a jacket installed... just ain't happening.
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dwall174
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In the meantime, I'll be working in my basement on rebuilding the quick-change gearbox & the apron for a 13" South Bend lathe I've been working on for a while. I also need to wire-up the control panel for it which I also currently have in my basement. The lathe has a 3-phase two-speed dual winding motor & I'm planning on running it off of my 5hp RPC using a dual-speed starter along with a reversing starter.
Doug
kaymccampbell
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I didn't know. I've got wicked hard water. Left to its own devices everything crusts up with lime. The only thing that doesn't is my hot water maker, which is an Amtrol unit, that's urethane lined and runs off a zone on the boiler.
Maybe your water is harder. If mine were any harder I'd have gotten a full stainless jacketed one with an access hatch, so I could scrape it down occasionally.
Beerhippie
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Now, that's a proper distribution of outlets for a shop!In the meantime, I'll be working in my basement on rebuilding the quick-change gearbox & the apron for a 13" South Bend lathe I've been working on for a while. I also need to wire-up the control panel for it which I also currently have in my basement. The lathe has a 3-phase two-speed dual winding motor & I'm planning on running it off of my 5hp RPC using a dual-speed starter along with a reversing starter.
Doug
dwall174
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I have basically the same 120V & 240V lines on the other side of my garage.
Things were a little disorganized in this pic. but you can see the outlet boxes on the wall. A work bench is normally on the left side under the shelves, but it was moved into the center of the garage for cutting down some plywood.
bugnut
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@kaymccampbell Very well stated, I have tackled things and bought equipment to allow conquest of projects. Some I relish some I hate, but then for a while stuff sits. It's fun to try new things as usually the second time bores the hell out of me.
bmwrd0
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Right now is why I am super happy to have a basement shop. There is a building on the back of the property that I had thought about using when we moved here, but dodged that bullet (although it would have been sooooooo much easier to move stuff into it.
Anyhoo, was busy with some crisis yesterday (like turning 55, among other things) to do much shop time, but did manage to get the change gears for the Logan inventoried and get some things packed for shipping.
Anyhoo, was busy with some crisis yesterday (like turning 55, among other things) to do much shop time, but did manage to get the change gears for the Logan inventoried and get some things packed for shipping.
Mike65
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Yesterday after we brought my wife's Bronco Sport home from the dealership, we parked it in the garage/shop for the duration of the storm. With my Mustang & her two motorcycles in there her Bronco fits better than my F150 would. My F150 gets the carport.
budo55
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Nothing, it's too damn cold here in Southeast Michigan to try heating my garage.
I have a couple of 240V heaters that will heat the garage, but it's just too expensive to run them when the high temperature is only in the lower teens.
Maybe by the end of February, I'll get back to working out there again.
Nothing as well. Also SE MI..... woke up this morning to -19 at the house; official NWS temp was -14....ugh...Nothing, it's too damn cold here in Southeast Michigan to try heating my garage.
I have a couple of 240V heaters that will heat the garage, but it's just too expensive to run them when the high temperature is only in the lower teens.
Maybe by the end of February, I'll get back to working out there again.
16again
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9am and already 77* out there. Waiting for the sun to dry my lawn so I can give the new Honda battery mower another run in the green stuff.
evildky
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They may not advertise them as small body but they are. Same size as my snappy. I'll try to grab a pic.Missed a Small detail
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413dan
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Not a damn thing done in the shop today. Woke up and it was -3 Fahrenheit. Won't be much warmer the rest of the day, too cold for working with hand tools in an unheated shop. I'd like to continue on rebuilding a small engine I have apart, but that'll be an early Spring project from what it's looking like. Stay warm everybody!
BonzoHansen
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Right? i woke up to 4*, and isn't supposed to go above the 20s this week. No garage!
gearhead1960
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Put away tools and such from working on the "new" truck in the driveway. Re-arranged so can pull in SWMBO car prior to impending snow storm.
PhantomEB
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what you looking at is 5.50 to 1 low low gear reduction doubler box and NP205. Gotta clean it up and resilicone it up then throw back in but with vent hoses attached. Should tackle the transmission vent too then all I got to worry about with river crossings is the motor.
micromind
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In the meantime, I'll be working in my basement on rebuilding the quick-change gearbox & the apron for a 13" South Bend lathe I've been working on for a while. I also need to wire-up the control panel for it which I also currently have in my basement. The lathe has a 3-phase two-speed dual winding motor & I'm planning on running it off of my 5hp RPC using a dual-speed starter along with a reversing starter.
Doug
Allen Bradley starters....the best there is!
Old Man Roger
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My initial thought was the well water got filtered through the rock and sand but my well in south florida smelled like eggs and had enough calcium to form dinosaur bones.lol
You could have said water heater, but your way’s better.lol
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dwall174
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I bet you're not "Throwing" that transfer case back in with one hand & tightening it down with the other hand.
I replaced one by myself years ago in a K5 Blazer with just a small hydraulic jack & some 4" X 4" wood blocks. Laying on the ground & trying to lift the transfer case with the jack & get everything aligned with the other hand was a PITA! Not something I would want to try again.
Beerhippie
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Ran over and got the fire started at Rocky's shop. Laid out my tools so they won't stick to my skin when I get to work. I hate working with gloves on.
Beelzeboss
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I folded out the bottom edge of my Jeep Rod bodywork to clear the exhaust and form an attachment point for a full length heat shield.
those sets are same dimensions across the entire Tekton line
1/4 drive specs are very close to Icon G1. Guess that's why the Tekton 3/8in small body kits fit. I kinda like the thinner, less bulky plastic handle and 1/2in longer on Icon. Not sure why Tekton doesn't sell the prebuilt small body with soft handle but can be done with extra kit, $9.