What have you been doing today?

Bentwings · Dec 23, 2022

Ha, how true it’s I have so many projects stalled for the finish operation , need maybe a single part or make one easy part but don’t have material which is ordered now delivered but working on another project . The problem is if I pick up everything and put it some place I’ll forget where it went then I have to move stuff all over looking for it . Now have bigger mess Han I had to start with .

Bentwings · Dec 24, 2022

It 5:am here so I’m not even out of bed . I’ve already corrected the frozen water pipes it’s just cold enough to freeze the valves once I get the hot water running I’m ok . I think it’s about -15 deg f that seems to be the be cautious point I have heat tapes but they are not the greatest. We have about two feet of snow on the ground the well is supposed to be below the freeze line but I think they miss measured . I just turned the heat up a little as there is a little more radiated heat then I dry a load of clothes the dryer vent pipe is under the home so it heats the crawl space some. it’s supposed to warm up some over the week end . Not enough to thaw but closer to just freezing wind chill is about -30 deg f very dangerous to be outside . We had white out yesterday . I had to move the garbage bins and shovel their spots out yesterday even full winter clothes wasn’t enough . I have new electric blanket so made good use of it . I’m not walking up to get mail today . I don’t think there is delivery anyway .

Merry Christmas everyone

ajoeiam · Dec 24, 2022

A right wonderful Christmas and a blessed New Year to one and all as well.

Steamchick · Dec 24, 2022

Merry Christmas everyone!
HO, Ho, HOO!
K2

Sprocket · Dec 24, 2022

Spent today cooking for tomorrow.
Happy Holidays to everyone!
Doug

Richard Hed · Dec 25, 2022

Spring time is on the way.

roncohudd · Dec 25, 2022

Bentwings said:
It 5:am here so I’m not even out of bed . I’ve already corrected the frozen water pipes it’s just cold enough to freeze the valves once I get the hot water running I’m ok . I think it’s about -15 deg f that seems to be the be cautious point I have heat tapes but they are not the greatest. We have about two feet of snow on the ground the well is supposed to be below the freeze line but I think they miss measured . I just turned the heat up a little as there is a little more radiated heat then I dry a load of clothes the dryer vent pipe is under the home so it heats the crawl space some. it’s supposed to warm up some over the week end . Not enough to thaw but closer to just freezing wind chill is about -30 deg f very dangerous to be outside . We had white out yesterday . I had to move the garbage bins and shovel their spots out yesterday even full winter clothes wasn’t enough . I have new electric blanket so made good use of it . I’m not walking up to get mail today . I don’t think there is delivery anyway .

Merry Christmas everyone

Merry Christmas

Bentwings · Dec 26, 2022

That’s good strategy I have lost two pkgs on Amazon and they made good on both promptly usps and ups are both problems they go right by my home yet wil smash a pkg in the over size box so bad I’ve had to cut the pkg open just to get it out. Yesterday one of them slogged through 3 feet of snow jut to put a pkg at the wrong door they had to get around two big trash bins too I purposely leave that side un shoveled the other door is completely clear I’ve asked several times for the delivery to be marked deliver to west door they ignore it all they would have do is kick the pkg out in the street and I would see it . The I get handed to resident notice I’ve yet to see this excep last summer when I stopped the drive and did I’ll take it from here .

Bentwings · Dec 26, 2022

Amazon Walmart and pet co delivercorrectly every time

ajoeiam · Dec 26, 2022

Bentwings said:
Amazon Walmart and pet co delivercorrectly every time

Lucky you!

Not true here!!!!
Package shipped (truck freight!).
Freight company - - "address doesn't exist(!!)" people have been living here for some about 150 years - - - rueful grin.
Package returned to Amazon's center further east.
Now to reorder would cost more than $1000 extra.
So far I am resisting a re-order.
Amazon had a list of excuses about a mile long too!

Bentwings · Dec 26, 2022

When they switch carriers it seems they have issues . I give poor ratings for messed up deliveries . I got one call from Amazon after a poor rating that I was able to voice my thoughts

Bentwings · Dec 26, 2022

Rolled out of bed just s few minutes ago . I had way too much to eat yesterday then stayed up way too late . Just bumped my nose on cupboard for so I’ll be down a few minutes stopping nose bleed . I have to take blood thinners so I’m really susceptible tical to bumps and bruises . At least it’s sunny and above 0 today. Still a little wind however

Steamchick · Dec 26, 2022

Hi Bentwings, Sorry to here you have a little wind. I do too when I over-eat.
What I did today? Not a lot. Just drove 1 1/2 hours to Whitby with nearest and dearest and daughter, just to look as it is so beautiful when sunny. And we had clear skies and sun until sunset just after 3pm. Enjoyed a meal in an English pub. Wind in Whitby was an icy blast! Not nice! And then I drove home again. Then ate some chocolate so I am expecting some more wind later.
Has anyone dismantled an LED tube replacement for a fluorescent tube? I did on Xmas eve. I have 3: 2 last "forever" and are used for hours every day but the 3rd in my garage only gets 1/10th of the usage time of the others and stopped working a month back.
When I dismantled it I found one Ower unit OK but the second unit NG. No power out. The 8 ft LED strip flashed ON-OFF-ON repeatedly with just the working power unit. I guess it can only manage a 4ft length?
Can I fix it?
Happy holidays!
K2

Lloyd-ss · Dec 26, 2022

Steamchick said:
Hi Bentwings, Sorry to here you have a little wind. I do too when I over-eat.
What I did today? Not a lot. Just drove 1 1/2 hours to Whitby with nearest and dearest and daughter, just to look as it is so beautiful when sunny. And we had clear skies and sun until sunset just after 3pm. Enjoyed a meal in an English pub. Wind in Whitby was an icy blast! Not nice! And then I drove home again. Then ate some chocolate so I am expecting some more wind later.
Has anyone dismantled an LED tube replacement for a fluorescent tube? I did on Xmas eve. I have 3: 2 last "forever" and are used for hours every day but the 3rd in my garage only gets 1/10th of the usage time of the others and stopped working a month back.
When I dismantled it I found one Ower unit OK but the second unit NG. No power out. The 8 ft LED strip flashed ON-OFF-ON repeatedly with just the working power unit. I guess it can only manage a 4ft length?
Can I fix it?
Happy holidays!
K2

Steamchick, I have been fiddling with the LED lighting for years, and love the challenge of the vast variety of types that there are. I have found some to be repairable and others...... not so much. It seems that some last forever, and others just fail quickly, even within identical lamps purchased in the same lot.

The flashing you see when doubling the length of the light tape might indeed be from overloading the power supply. Some of them are constant current, and some are constant voltage, but most are built only as robust as they need to be. But you might try cutting the 8 foot tape into two 4 foot pieces and wiring them in parallel instead of series.
Lloyd

Brian Rupnow · Dec 26, 2022

Setting around trying to digest yesterdays feast, and trying to buy a depth micrometer from the local "buy and sell" adds. Found one for $35 but its about 100 km from me. Now I'm waiting to find out shipping costs.

Steamchick · Dec 26, 2022

Hi Lloyd Thanks for comment.
The "tube" comprised 2 x 4ft LED strips joined in parallel (in the middle of the tube) with one per supply feeding one end and t'other feeding t'other end. Simple packaging to mimic an 8 ft tube. 240 volts fed from 2 pins on 1 end... from the choke, with a shunt instead of a fluorescent starter.
Tomorrow I'll wire the single working power supply to a 4ft length of LED. And see what happens.
K2

Stoker87 · Dec 26, 2022

Bentwings said:
When they switch carriers it seems they have issues . I give poor ratings for messed up deliveries . I got one call from Amazon after a poor rating that I was able to voice my thoughts

I should start doing that - leaving poor ratings for poor delivery. Unfortunately the delivery drivers don't make much. You can only expect so much for minimum wage I guess.

cjstein_2000 · Dec 26, 2022

I'm just starting the design process for a 5 inch gauge railbus, As i live in Thailand it has be difficult to source materials, but I'm getting there slowly. the attached picture is about what I'm aiming for.

Richard Hed · Dec 27, 2022

Stoker87 said:
I should start doing that - leaving poor ratings for poor delivery. Unfortunately the delivery drivers don't make much. You can only expect so much for minimum wage I guess.

Actually it's much worse than that. amazog takes advantage of their drivers, forcing them to become their own little company. that way amazog isn't responsible for wages, insurance, time off, unemployment help--NOTHING! and then they turn on the drivers and use them till they finally figure out they must quit that business--of course, some of thse people lose thousands of $$ trying to make a go of such a business. You can view the problems on utub if you search for them. It's worse than disgusting. the advice is DO NOT form a small company in order to be an amazog driver. Fedex used them for a while and this year (2022) or last year, quit using them and went back to their own trucks and delivery drivers.

I had a job like that once in which I was a draftsman for a small local company but I could not work for them unless I had my own "business". So I araagned all that then began to learn the proprietary drafting program. Well, I wasn't allowed to take it home to leaqrn it, so I had to learn it on the job. I thimpfk I lasted a week before being fired for not knowing the program. LOL, what total a$h holes they were. They are now out of business.

As far as amazog's business practices go, they make sure the people they are recruiting know nothing about business--claiming they will train them, no need to know anything. That's a ruse to get sukkers desperate for their own business, but it's just all a ruse to get people in the door -- really, they are victims.