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Trying to Quieten the 110KVA Generator
awemawson:
I’d intended to use U channel initially, indeed the fellow I got the panels from was going to bend some up from zintec for me as he has an 8 foot folder. But in the end I decided putting a single 6 meter long angle iron was simpler and easier.
Last night I cut a 3 x 3 inch infill from an old 5 x 4 fence post to make the wall that I’m working off a simple vertical (upper feather boarding sticks out 3” from lower masonry) the plan is to fix a horizontal batten sticking out from this wall at an arbitrary height, and use it as a datum to take measurements up an down to transfer onto the panel for cutting..
awemawson:
Depressingly little done today (cottage guests leaving, cleaners on holiday, cottage guests arriving - you get the jist !) But I did manage to fix the 3x3 timber wall packing piece in place. All of three 10 mm clearance holes in the timber and 10 mm into the masonry for the frame anchors, but it came at a cost . . .
My Bridgeport milling machine doubles up as a drill press, and drilling the first 10 mm hole in the timber resulted in a dramatic bang and flash of flame with a tripped main breaker :bugeye: Holes had to be completed on the drill press in the woodwork shop, but that's another fault that needs tracking down. I had a very brief look in it's control box and I suspect the motor contactor as a bit of it's insulation is now missing, but that will have to wait until later to be properly looked at as I'm back 'on duty' :bang:
awemawson:
I LOVE it when our cottage guests actually ring up and say that they will be arriving late - suddenly I have another 90 minutes of TIME :clap:
So I devised a way of supporting a horizontal lath as a datum line, and took 'soundings' up and down from it having marked the widths of the two (different) panels on the lath. This allowed me to transfer the datum onto the one remaining 1 metre wide panel, mark off it's odd shape and that of the rafter and cut it to size.
Still with time in hand I decided to try and fit it - it fitted like a glove :ddb: Just clamped no time to screw it as they'll hove over the horizon any moment now - but that's the PENULTIMATE panel in place - so definite progress.
awemawson:
I finally got ALL the panels fitted this morning - no major dramas.
I nearly forgot that as the panel engages 50 mm into the one on the left I needed to leave an extra 50 mm on the rafter 'notch' for this to happen - just remembered it time.
Having won the auction last night for the PVC strip door parts on eBay then the door closing is now determined :thumbup:
awemawson:
At long last I managed to find a few minutes to hang the PVC strip curtains. Simple enough once I'd mounted a piece of wood up top to act as a transom.
As the strips have been roiled for quite some time the bottoms are very curly. Hopefully this will 'hang out' given time - if not I'll dunk them in a bucket of hot water to encourage them.
I'll eventually secure the two outer strips to the panels with strips of 2 x 1 to keep them close to the wall, but I can't do that until they uncurl.
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