Mr. Tool Pauses to Brag
October 11th, 2008I Know How You Enjoy It
It has been hours since last I blogged about how great I am, so I feel I am way overdue.
Today I have been distracted by web issues, but I am about to get back to work on my electrical project. At last mention, I had fixed the outdoor portion of the job and installed one square box (with outlets) in the garage. Last night I made myself go in and install the other box. Now the job gets easier. Instead of working in a tiny steaming space with poor visibility, I get to work in a tiny cool space with poor visibility. I have to yank the wires from the second box into the garage, attach the second box, install two banks of lights, run stuff to the lights, and attach the whole mess to the outlet box I put in the closet a few days back.
The closet will still be an eyesore. Years of rot from a leaky bath area on the other side of the closet wall have taken their toll. But at least I’ll be able to see when I’m in there.
I have a truly nutty idea. there is a water pipe in there. I plumbed the condensate line on the AC air handler so I could hook it up to a hose and flush the crud out with water. What if I cut into the water pipe and installed a faucet to which a hose could be attached? Man, I’d have the air handler closet from hell. When the crud backs up, you turn two valves, wait thirty seconds, and turn them the other way. No more snaking a hose through the house to a utility sink.
I realize you are all in awe of me. That’s perfectly understandable.
October 11th, 2008 at 6:58 PM
Make sure you put a check valve in that “flush” line so your crud doesn’t somehow manage to back up into your water pipes and spoil your next batch of home brew.
October 11th, 2008 at 7:02 PM
That all depends on whether I can get the Workmate in the closet with me.
October 11th, 2008 at 8:24 PM
I ran across Brother Andrew’s follow up book “The Ethics of Smuggling” at a used book sale, so I picked it up.
Send me a mailing address and I’ll drop it in the mail to you.
October 11th, 2008 at 11:37 PM
You know whats needed besides:
1: A picture *large* of Maynard at the top of this page.
2: More YouTube video logs of Maynard.
Noted: 12.10.08.
Whom your first pet YouTube videolog was about, and which scored 17k views.
Whom was then deprived of all his viewers.
Whom then had his audience handed over to Marv.
Whom has *ALL* YouTube video logs now.
…whilst Maynard has one. 1. Uno.
Oh YES.
It’s all SO VERY MUCH CLEARER NOW!!
..Cockatoos are known for their lively conversation.
..yet Maynard does not talk.
Depression most probably.
::looks sternly at Steve-EN::
What’s needed is a piano YouTube log. with Maynard listening on top of said Piano.
October 11th, 2008 at 11:40 PM
…as in Nora the Piano Playing Cat.
…suppose if you let him peck at the keys, it might damage his beak though.
October 12th, 2008 at 12:25 AM
I agree with Virgil on the backflow preventer. There are some made that just screw between a faucet and a hose inlet and work by breaking any vacuum. Of course, those little cheap ones like that probably don’t meet code but if they work that’s what counts.
You don’t want to end up siphoning a bunch of cruddy old ac drain water into your water system.
October 12th, 2008 at 12:29 AM
Oh yeah, forgot the suck up part of the post.
The site looks really good. I like the blue a lot.
Honest.
October 12th, 2008 at 1:46 AM
Whew! One of my favorite bloggers is looking GREAT!! And Connie is SO right – more Maynard. And Marv, too – I’m an equal opportunity bird lover.
I saw that Snowball, the famous dancing Cockatoo, has made his first commercial – it’s quite wonderful:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbud5WnNpbI
Marv better see if he can make a commercial.
October 12th, 2008 at 5:41 AM
They call me MISTER tool….
October 12th, 2008 at 8:42 PM
My dad has been having a problem with his AC condensate drain line blocking up and the cellar starts to collect a serious puddle. My former brother-in-law buried it so that it’s impossible to find the outflow when they redid the house a dozen years ago( he was the contractor ). I suggested he plumb in an air line fitting with a couple petcocks so that he could just take a compressed air bottle down there and just blow it out.
October 13th, 2008 at 1:05 PM
Simple solution I used on my A/C. Just rig an adapter to your shop-vac hose, cut the line and put in a rubber repair sleeve, the kind that uses hose clamps. Then, when the line gets crudded up, just break the line and hook up the shop-vac and voila’ the crud is gone (and nicely contained in the shop-vac for easy disposal). You should make sure to suck out both directions, though as the blockage an be about anywhere.