Hello all,
As both mother nature {we have had over 6" of rain in the past two days} and the dreaded honey do list. I just can't seem to get anything done.We have a storm system stalled over us here in coastal SC,that has just killed my shed work.The wife has had me replacing the kitchen sink,tiling the bathroom and a host of other projects.Hence the life of a married man....sigh.
Oh well,enough of my whinning.
I have gotten all the walls up,sheathed and Ty-veced. Windows and door installed,my step son wired the outlets for me. So in a few days I can finnish my shed and start building the steel mill layout.
Patrick
Beaufort,SC
Dragon River Steel Corp {DRSC}
Fear an Ignorant Man more than a Lion- Turkish proverb
Modeling an ficticious HO scale intergrated Scrap Yard & Steel Mill Melt Shop.
Southland Industrial Railway or S.I.R for short. Enterchanging with Norfolk Southern.
Well, at least you could use the rainout time. Your honey-do list had lots of inside projects. That list wouldn't go away by itself, and if you'd had good weather, then you still might have been obliged to do sinks and floors instead of working on the train shed.
My number 1 priority this weekend was the bathroom sink, which failed Friday night at 1 AM with the cold water running full blast. Once I shut down the water, I took the thing apart and discovered that the whole valve-and-handle mechanism was badly designed, or maybe they took the mechanism from one model and put it into a bigger one. Anyway, I went down to the workroom and found the perfect fix-it collar I needed. It was the top to a glue bottle of some sort, that I'd been saving as a scenic element for a roof somewhere on the layout. I "re-purposed" it with a drill, and solved the sink issue. Then, I went back to modelling.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
I had to stain the cedar fence then clean up the airless sprayer. Back to the trainroom at last!
Joe
When the Chancellor of the Exchequer comes up with something she wants done, I either do it RIGHT THEN or commit myself to a firm schedule of material acquisition and labor completion. As a result, my honey-do list is almost entirely, "Honey. DONE!!"
The one thing not mentioned in the original post was whether or not the new shed will have a bilge pump.
Out here in the dessicated desert we actually had a rainstorm! It must have lasted a whole hour (0230 to 0330.) OTOH, it dumped anywhere from 1"+ to 2"+ on the whole of Clark County, resulting in the usual flash floods. No problem here at the house, but now the humidity is about 8 X normal, and there's an extreme heat warning posted for the unwary.
I wish there was some way for all you folks who are getting inundated to pipe all that precipitation to the Colorado River drainage. Both Lake Mead and Lake Powell are in dire need of a serious transfusion.
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)