Saturday Coffee 10-10

Good day! Can we get ten ten fours on ten ten? Oh ya! Truck on in & sit a spell while we chat about the week. 'Maine Stay French Toast" will be coming out of the oven soon. It's worth the wait. Sugary apples, baked into bread with a happy amount of cinnamonish spices. No syrup needed as it makes it's own. Yummmmmm

Last night I fired up my home made Leer jet/hovercraft & took a leisurely trip around the Northeast. Using my laser heat gun and coal-o-meter I could see all the houses that have struck their match and are enjoying the warmth of their coal stoves once again. There's more this week than last, and on the way home I saw 7 new coal heat sources. SIt seems several people skipped Friday night pizza just so they could stay home & light their stoves.

I thought I sold one of my Jutol 507's. Some guy in Washington state wanted me to put one on a pallet & ship it out. He seemed real legit....good English, all seemed OK. He asked about how to pay & I told him Paypal or bank check, that if suddenly he had to make a trip to Nigeria and was sending a check from there...forget it! Haven't heard from him since. But, someone is coming today to maybe make a deal.

Hope you all have a fine weekend!

Freddy, you made a big mistake! That guy from Nigeria is a Prince! A real Prince. He's sending me a big check so I can help him sort out his vast fortune. I only have to send him back part of the money once his check arrives. I think maybe I'm taking advantage of him since school only goes to grade 3 in Nigeria.

Good Morning to the Coal Forum! I slept in this morning. Felt great. I had to take a trip to Nigeria, and got home late last night
Coffee is brewed and being sipped as I type this. Wife went to work, kids still sleeping. Dog walked and fed, now he's sleeping. Its kinda grey outside, but warm 60-ish.
We'll goto a Church picnic this afternoon, then it'll be a nice evening to rebuild my Stihl 066Mag.

You will have to post the recipe for that special "Maine Toast" it sounds delicious...

My week in review...

-I checked out the advice given by rewinder about the hop/skip to salem to get bagged reading pea size from dodges. Was a greeat trip considering the reduced price for superior product and the addition of 3/4 of a bag of free coal.

-Tried out the new-to-me size coal when it was 40* outside the other day. Kept my house a balmy 71*-74* for about 16 hours with no attention.

-Got out of some madated OT at work (2 weeks in a row)

-Computer is probably going to find its way out the window due to some virus' im sick of this crap!

And now im actually at work (last day before 4 days off) just waiting for the lunar zombies to show up from the moon dust fallout

'Maine Stay French Toast" will be coming out of the oven soon. It's worth the wait. Sugary apples, baked into bread with a happy amount of cinnamonish spices. No syrup needed as it makes it's own. Yummmmmm

Never thought I'd say this.....but I want to have b'fast with Freddy!!

Well, summer had its swan song yesterday – high around 75*. We’ll be moving consistently downward on the thermometer from here on out. Freddy, be on the look out for those pictures we spoke about. My husband said he’d get to it this weekend.

Me, I’ll be working in the wilds of our back yard again this weekend (all ¼ acre of it). Our good neighbors of 20 odd years are moving into an adult community and I feel I should at least pick up the sticks and other yard debris that are there so our place looks as if someone cares. Maybe they will be able to sell it faster – the market is a mess here. The backyard is still a work in progress but even a little attention will help. At least my stash of coal looks “mmm, mmm good” sitting in its new location all covered up with the tarp. We’ve been trying to get anything to grow on this steep hill for years but between the bad soil (think a lot of hand size rocks) and the dogs we haven’t been very successful. We put in a “dry creek bed” of rocks to redirect the water flow of hard rains down the fence line and into the woods and that stopped the erosion at the fence line and their yard. It actually catches the dirt which we relocate back to the top of the hill yearly. The neighbor’s yard looks great with lush grass and flowerbeds while that section on our side looks like a moonscape. It’s depressing to say the least.

Well, daylight is burning and I don’t want to waste any of the morning. Take care and have a good weekend. Lisa

My project for the day is to fix a leak in my boiler plumbing. I've re-plumbed my oil and coal boilers into a true primary secondary system and I've got two leaks at the "closely spaced tee". It will be a bitch to correct. It's 1-1/2 inch copper with two sweat ball valves within two inches of the tee. All a big heat sink and the solder just doesn't melt very well. I've half-heartedly tried before with an air-acetylene torch. Just not enough heat. I'll get out the oxy-acetylene torch with a rosebud tip. That works best for pipe soldering a reducing flame or an oxidizing flame adjustment?

I had an interesting week.

Earlier this week, as I sat down to my computer with a cup of coffee in hand I heard this soft sound: beewooo beewoo beewooo beewoo..

I got up to look around and then, as suddenly as it started, the sound stopped.

The next morning as I sat down to my computer with a cup of coffee in hand: beewooo beewoo beewooo beewoo..

Again, I got up to look around. Again, the sound stopped... Am I hearing things? Am I going crazy? Are voices next? And what will the voices tell me to do?

The third morning I was ready. The television and cell phone are off, the dog is outside. No extra sounds to confuse the issue. Suddenly, out of the recesses of my chest: beewooo beewoo beewooo beewoo.

That is when I realized it's my implanted defibrillator letting me know it's getting close to the time I need to have it replaced.

I called my Doctor and although there still is about three months before it needs to be replaced, I might as well have it done sooner than later. After all, its not as if I could grab hold of jumper cables and recharge. Hopefully, Monday I'll be able to schedule to have the replacement done in the next couple of weeks.

Yanche wrote:My project for the day is to fix a leak in my boiler plumbing.

Yanche, sounds like theres too much copper/brass/mass, too close to the elbow. A HOTTER torch isn't the answer, you don't want to overheat the copper in a single spot . A LARGER flame will work. On 1 1/2" You can use 2 or even 3 torches to properly heat that mass all the way around. You need a trustworthy helper .
Once the entire diameter is brought up to temp, the solder will flow normally.
Another trick I like to use is to include a union or 2, if a sweated connection is too close to the brass. Solder the union into place, then just a twist of a wrench to connect. Its an expensive alternative, but I like being able to disconnect the pipe without un-sweating.

Freddy, sorry for stealing the thread

Whats the topic? Oh yeah, coffee... kids woke up and I toasted up some Old-Fashioned Donuts. Yummy! Crispy donuts, our favorite.

phew! that might be a real good idea!

beemerboy wrote:That is when I realized it's my implanted defibrillator letting me know it's getting close to the time I need to have it replaced.

A buddy of mine had one of the defective ones, that would shock him at random I guess it was bad leads, or something. I hope yours was never like that.

beemerboy wrote:beewooo beewoo beewooo

For sure, get that bad boy fixed!

When I was doing plumbing on occasion we'd hit a big mass that needed more heat...our answer was what DVC suggested....more than one torch. Two Mapp gas did the trick for the issues we encountered. Good luck with it Yanche, that type of leak can drive ya crazy. We once had a pinhole leak, tried three times to fix it before we realized the leak was actully an out of sight elbow over a foot away...it was spraying an invisible stream through the air and wetting the one that we thought was leaking. Arghhhh!

You can't steal a Sat coffee thread....it's meant to talk about anything & everything!

DING! That's the noon bell.... we all get the rest of the day off. Wooohoooo!

Yanche wrote:My project for the day is to fix a leak in my boiler plumbing. I've re-plumbed my oil and coal boilers into a true primary secondary system and I've got two leaks at the "closely spaced tee". It will be a bitch to correct. It's 1-1/2 inch copper with two sweat ball valves within two inches of the tee. All a big heat sink and the solder just doesn't melt very well. I've half-heartedly tried before with an air-acetylene torch. Just not enough heat. I'll get out the oxy-acetylene torch with a rosebud tip. That works best for pipe soldering a reducing flame or an oxidizing flame adjustment?

My biggest fear would be overheating the joint and melting the teflon in the ball valves. Wrap some wet rags around the ball valves. Heat it quick, sweat that leak and cool the valves by pouring water onto the rags. if the joint is overly dirty, this will mess you up. Sil fas 5% is an alternative. Works better on older joints. I used this method when silver brazing. may be a little overkill for 95/5.

DVC500 at last wrote:

beemerboy wrote:That is when I realized it's my implanted defibrillator letting me know it's getting close to the time I need to have it replaced.

A buddy of mine had one of the defective ones, that would shock him at random I guess it was bad leads, or something. I hope yours was never like that.

About two years ago my ICD shocked me but that WAS needed. It did what it was supposed to do.

I've had "sparky" about four and a half years now so its about it is to be replaced anyways. ICDs have a life of four to six years. At least the replacement procedure is not much more than replacing the battery in your car. Open the "hood"(cut open over the ICD) unplug the old, plug in the new and close the "hood" (glue the wound shut) and turn the key (test). In by 8 out by 3.

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