Theoretically speaking, certain Armee units would benefit from training on cruise ships. Or in someone I know's case, using the cruise ship as a training aid. Guessing here, there would be tight and unusual places to try and stick a helicopter. If I were doing such a thing, I'd invite all the soldier's families to cruise along, while the Armee and the squids theoretically, did their things.

Switching gears to the pleasure boat thing, I hate em. Last time, not only did she get pregnant (Not a bad thing actually) but not only that, but some drunken so called friends called me up in front of a huge crowd to sing God Bless the U S A. So I did it. Then at every port of call, the locals who I could normally send scurrying if I was carrying my pistol, M4, or shotgun...Well those pesky pepes hassle you and follow you around. As a non saved guy, in Key West, I did the Duval-Crawl. A drinking-bar hopping thing that soldiers, Marines and squids do to prove who is the most stupid. But as a tourist, it's all different. "Safe" or something like that. FOr some reason, I don't like "Safe"

Now she wants to go on another cruise. And I have become the non supportive husband for not wanting to go...Ultimately, I'll be forced to go and I'll get sick again. lose a lot of money and sleep, and get in trouble if some girl in a bikini happens to walk by. Apparently it is wrong...Biblically way wrong to acknowledge, look at, or speak to such a person. So I lay on my stomach all day and get sun burned so I don't get in trouble.

I hate cruises...

Thanks Gentlemen

He is home and all doped up. Goes in for an evaluation at the spine/bone specialist place tomorrow

Lastly (For tonight) I purchased a new 10 foot step ladder which will shortly be abused and broken.

If you recall the pic of the shed, south side, lit up at night by the barn lights, you may recall there was a dark spot. I added a motion detecting security light in there for good measure

The at the door top, it had been working in and out and had elongated the catch hole some, so I screwed up two 2X4's so that it closes and is held solidly

Scout seemed to miss that whole deal

And attached it to the work bench with 4 screws

This reel has a 12/3 wire which supports a triple tap on the end

The first step in any good country boy project is to disregard and remove the safety decals and tags!

Getting started in a shed which was below 10F, the first thing on the agenda was to get some heat in there

First of all, the skirting has made a big difference. The outside temp was in the low 20's when I showed up yesterday. But inside I would estimate was in the 40's somewhere. All the water was running and no sign of a freeze up.

Last night it got down to 8F and stayed that way until around 9AM when it started to warm. I think it might have gotten up to 10F but the wind started in, so I would estimate the felt temp was around zero. The furnace barely used any Propane and heated the camper to whatever I wanted, which was 72F last night. All day long the furnace had no problem with a zero wind chill so I am feeling more confident the skirting and added insulation is working.

For projects, the extension cord reel came in, so I got started on it

Cruise to North Korea
Classic!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtfaZMahSUU

Quote from: Flyin6 on December 13, 2016, 07:53:22 PM

As an FYI, the Rustoleum stuff I spread all over the shed floor, I have spilled gasoline, diesel, charcoal starter fluid, motor oil, bar oil, and carb cleaner on it with not effect to the coating.

A bit clumsy, is that where you are going with this statement?

That, and I still have Kids...oh, and Dogs!

Lord help ya!

Got sick on one

Got a lifelong gift (pre Ranger) on another one!

I no longer go anywhere warm!

Found another diagram of this contraption:

Something like that on the Mother Earth hippy page you sent me to. In fact loads of great info and projects there

Well, after the experience I had last summer helping a pastor (More like a viper/warrior/gladiator) do his thing to a demon possessed guy, I have zero doubt as to the spiritual side being a very real thing...

But one thing I also learned and now know very well, is that they cannot come against the holy spirit. Can't touch him! You pray a line of protection of the blood of Jesus around you and those and you love and you just encased them in kryptonite!

Quote from: moto123 on December 13, 2016, 04:49:54 PM

Quote from: Wilbur on December 13, 2016, 04:06:19 PM

The thing I found was that the air didn't move fast enough on its own

This is caused by the fact that the supply duct at the top of the collector is short.  If you were able to increase the length of this duct upward before the air outlet, you would see an increase in air flow.  This is due to the stack effect, also known as draft.  The same principle is applied to fireplaces and other appliances that heat air.  The farther the flue or chimney extends above the heat source, the greater the air flow.

That makes sense moto....I am ignorant on a lot of this part for sure!

Don here's a site (there's tons out there) that will help explain what the best angle of the collector should be for your location (presumably for winter given what you want it to do):

http://www.solarpaneltilt.com/

Saw that already

Well say 40 degrees north latitude

And the rule says when facing south or a bit south west to be perfect, add 10 to your latitude and I come up with a 50 degree tilt angle to make good N' hot air for my cold water storage tanks

LoL.. after this thread, I will never see pink foam board the same way again.

And to defend myself here.... I was on a ladder fighting with some petrified Fir my home is built with and the crow bar was hanging on the ladder when I climbed up there. After 15 minutes of trying to remove said petrified lumber the correct way and getting no joy...I asked for the crow bar and large mall to be handed up. The four people in the room all looked for the crowbar...it just vanished. I recently confirmed...it is not in the walls LoL

So still a mystery. Maybe this place is haunted like my wife and kids claim?
Who knows....

Don't get on the haunted thing

Bad subject in my home right now

Note: DOTin' up my own thread)

It started the other day when I come home to find the garage doors open, and it's cold and windy outside

So I come in and place my boys on restriction, problem solved

I come home yesterday and guess what? Yup, the garage doors are open again!

So I restrict the boys again and they come to me and swear, up and down that they didn't do it. So I give them grace (Because I told them that they are not allowed to lie...ever)

I come in the house and the thermostat is on 73 and the red light of death (Aux heat is running) is on. This unit burns five dollar bills to produce heat!

So I call the boys in and again they say...swear, cry, that they did not do it.

So I set the temp to 70 and lock the thing down. Normal heat, 70F, done.

I go in and tell Kathy about all these strange occurrences and she says, it's the ghost. I jokingly comment, "Oh we now have a poltergeist?" ...And she answers, "Yes we do!"

What? A real live (or dead???) Ghost?!

Questioning the boys, the little guy tells me of the several times he has seen a man in the doorway of the closet. Hmmm, little boy imaginations. Well, the other much more mature one says, yes, its true, he is here. Great! Everyone things we're haunted! Then later on in bed, Kat tells me that on the nights I am gone to the farm, someone plays the piano in the basement. I explain that it is just the cat. She asks, "You mean the cat that sleeps with me in the bed?"

I didn't know that kat slept with kat in my bed!

Note: the kat is now in the last days of its life.

So I was a bit perplexed as I drifted off to sleep. Then around 2 AM I wake up freezing. I walked over and checked the thermostat and guess what? It is now set to Air conditioning mode and to sixty something!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OK, this is not funny...

A couple suggestions:
1.  You need to be able to seal off the solar unit from the room at night time.  Otherwise all your heat gained during daytime will be lost at night time when it gets cold outside and the process reverses.
2.  This system was designed to work with an existing double hung window.  For better performance, the cold return duct would be connected at the bottom of your conditioned room to pull the coldest air off the floor.  It would then be routed flat to the bottom of the solar heater.  This would require an additional floor or wall penetration.

OK, based on the little I have read so far: Responses in red

1.  You need to be able to seal off the solar unit from the room at night time.  Otherwise all your heat gained during daytime will be lost at night time when it gets cold outside and the process reverses.

This is true. However there are more factors to consider here. The first being the principal of therman mass. Big thick, dense things collect and store long wave radiation like sunlight and collect ambient heat or cold. Basically they work to egual the temp. So if a bit of warm air is circulating about the cooler thermal mas pulls in that heat.
Know what a good thermal mass collector is? A big tank of water is a great one. So the working theory in my unstable brain says that if I can use a big delta of heat over ambient during the day, to warm up the big thing which is a 330 gal tank of water, then that big thing will radiate the heat in short wave radiation for much longer...i.e. over the night. So open or close the clod would have a harder time making a big mass cooler, that the effort of collecting heat during the day that occurred.

2.  This system was designed to work with an existing double hung window.  For better performance, the cold return duct would be connected at the bottom of your conditioned room to pull the coldest air off the floor.  It would then be routed flat to the bottom of the solar heater.  This would require an additional floor or wall penetration.

I think I'll build mine a bit differently. I was thinking I'd have a port at the top which connected to the water tank box, and on the bottom of the unit run a few air duct lines which originates from the bottom of the water containment box. So, yes it requires openings in the top and bottom to work properly, with the lower inlet connected to the heated space to be most efficient

Nate..... I never thought of that. Ya know, when I get a minute I will grab one of the metal detectors and check and see for that possibility. Why didn't I think of that?....wait I know it's because I would never do something like that LoL....but I did have a grandson here helping, he could have tucked it behind some insulation....I better check, I was planning to waterboard the kids until they confessed to stealing my favorite crow bar to mess with my head. LoL

Gotta self confess here

I nailed Norm to a cross over the CRS/crowbar admission...

But just yesterday, I was looking for my rake down at the farm

I was using that rake to move the graves around the underside of the camper while I finished up closing in the underside with the pink stuff...

Well HH6 and I took the dogs for a walk at the beach.
We both commented how it seemed colder than earlier.
Even the dogs weren't all that cool with it...

Turns out were under an extreme cold warning.
Wind chill in excess of -45 to -55...
Yeah it cooled off some...
-15 this morning, -30ish base temp overnight.
I'm fearing what Mother Nature has in store for us now, being November was so warm relatively speaking.

I've only seen -29 one or two times. One in Korea and one in Afghanistan up in the "hills"

Had to fly on that day in Korea. To get the aircraft fired up we had to attach a herman-nelson heater to each engine fuel control, and the hydraulic pumps and reservoirs. It took a couple hours to heat it enough to get it to start without fear of blowing some shiny hydraulic line off some manifold somewhere

Changed my mind, it's not for sale...

Guess I like it too much!

That and on every trip I get 18-19 MPG (With 4.56 gears!)

Don, I don't know if you've considered "totes" for water storage, but they're pretty handy, fits in a truck easily (I've had 2 in my long bed), and you can pick them up cheap. I got a couple used ones for free from a friend, and I could use them for drinking water if I cared to, because they were labeled "corn syrup".  I am using them now, in conjunction with a 2" waterpump, for dust control. They come in 275 or 330 gallons. The steel cage around them, could be welded on for different ideas that you may come up with (like stacking, etc.)

for example : http://www.plastic-mart.com/product/11874/330-gallon-re-bottled-ibc-tote-ibc-btl003?gclid=Cj0KEQiAsrnCBRCTs7nqwrm6pcYBEiQAcQSznOlYGzV6xXTbjmi6p-Q_QvgV7qkI22KoRsFrdJTJ3bkaAjIg8P8HAQ

Ken,
I know exactly what they are and that is exactly what I was thinking of using, the 330 gal units. They sell for $60-$75 around here and they look almost new. I was thinking of using one or possibly two of them in tandem. Might run gutters and a cheapo rain collection system off the camper and route it into the tanks