End of day here. Busy! Long. Did stuff.
Woke up, made coffee, drank it, read my onlines, got dressed, went to welding class. That was fun! We have to use 25' of round material in a project. Mine is going to make sparks, I think.
Coming home, I ran into a few obstacles. My last few days have been all about obstacles -- the wrong documentation from Germany on the communication protocol (so much thanks there guys, mmhmm, let's get it right next time m'kay?); the Ethernet card blew up at the end of day Friday just as I had to do stuff for people, costing me two hours overtime; the wrong bandsaw blade size (64.5" 24 tpi, 64.5" 18tpi, 93" 14tpi yeah, I didn't notice the 93 the first time, good layout guys); my drill press has a 13" throat and I needed to drill a 16" piece of material.
That last one was actually kinda fun. I looked at the problem at first and said to myself, "oh dang, the drill press won't fit this piece of material."
Then I thought again and realized I had mis-stated the problem. The correct statement was "... drill won't fit this material as it is currently designed."
I took the drill press apart a bit, put it back together a bit differently, and I could drill my tall part! yay!
All of the pieces are cut now for the main fire pillar pipe, and all drilled, and even assembled. I snapped one of the friction fittings off (it wouldn't go in the hole; I _did_ drill all the holes, right? Mmmmmmaybe), but that's not a big deal. The mobility of the vanes is temporary anyway.
Tomorrow I can weld it all together! Maybe even make the tripod stand and air chamber. We can only hope!
I moved my ginger cider to secondary tonight. Tasty! Very very ginger. Had some vapor-lock problems siphoning -- kinda fizzy I think. Wasted a wee bit, but got most of it across. It tested out as about 1.000 gravity, and 10% alcohol on the vinometer. The taste test was "yum". Gonna be very very nice, and lightly sweet.
No Tesla work today, maybe tomorrow. Also, need to do accounting and maybe some more kitchen cleaning.
There's a Pendark meeting tomorrow night at 8pm, for a show he is putting together. I think I'll have to defer on that -- wayyyyyyyyyyyyyy too busy right now.
Less than four months to flipside!
But now, I sleep. Mmmm, sleep.
Posted by Edwin at February 2, 2008 11:02 PM