The gate

[wroughtn_harv]

1. Morning Bird. I haven't been doing it long enough to see a difference. I suspect I'm speeding up the deterioration process, not unlike pouring muriatic acid on steel to speed up rust.(patina?) /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

And that's okay for two reasons. First of course is I seal it with a good sealer after brushing off the dust. And I get the old look right out of the gate.

2. I haven't been there but will keep it in mind if I get in that area.

 

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The other day I ran the coax and power cable from the cabinet to the star. I used some liquid tite between the overhead where I'd welded on a nipple. And a weather tite box that I'd screwed and siliconed in.

Here's the north end of the southbound star.

 

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This is the southend of the southbound.

I had two bags of grout from tiling our bathrooms, different colors. A little of this one and a little of that one, some water, and I love being lucky more than anything. Don't ask me how but the color came out close.

What I did was use some packing foam to position the camera in the cavity. Then I grouted in the part that would show.

This way if there's a problem it will be easy for the security crew to chip out the old grout and free the camera.

 

[_RaT_]

Rotten, your gate is suberp. I enjoyed the post and all the pictures. Thanks.

On the gate equipment side, I have an Apollo operator. I would like to add some kind of sensor to open the gate along my gravel driveway. Who, what, where has the stuff? I have no keypad and perhaps that will someday be an option, I'm sort of in a temporary situation. Thanks again for all your generous advice and even more, your artful work. Rat...

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Morning RAT,

In place of the keypad I often suggest posting the phone number to the home. That way they can contact you for access.

I use a product called a "free access probe." It comes with seventy five feet of cable. You bury it parallel to the drive and then you can set the sensitivity in your box to where a four wheeler can set it off or only a car can.

I'm doing the finishing up today and tomorrow which includes installing the free access probe.

Yesterday I installed the talk box and key pad. I recessed them in a chunk of stone. I think we got lucky one more time.

 

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Here's a shot of the installation.

 

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And another.

 

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Leo wanted a better shot of the star. So I got up in the bucket and son in law made like an elevator operator.

 

[_RaT_]

Great job Harv!

 

[dummy]

That homeowner should be very tickled with what you created for them. Amazing what you can come up with. Since this is the kind of stuff you do for work, what do you do for play???