CloverKnollFarms
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Adjusted. Just picked up this thing for a song! Previous owner didn’t have the tables adjusted correctly. Cleaned and waxed tables and adjusted them. Zero snipe.
Your latest "fixed" thing.
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CloverKnollFarms
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Oil filter cap o ring leak on the Polaris. Those rings get dry, shriveled and brittle in 12 months and give up the ghost
rScotty
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Free bandsaw....just needed bearings, blade, tires, power cord, & adjustment.
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Got to recabinet our Generac 21KW standby genset, the one that supplies the farmhouse with emergency standby power when the utility fails (which is frequent out here in flyover country).
When I bought the units (I have 2 of them, one 21KW propane fired unit for the farmhouse and one 35KW diesel powered unit for the shop and outbuildings that runs from the 500 gallon diesel tank that I fill the tractors from), both units came housed in powder coated steel cabinets. Over the years, the unit that powers the house has slowly but surely corroded away, leaving the internals exposed to the weather which is no good at all. The diesel powered unit has never corroded at all (glad of that).
I had to special order a new enclosure from Generac to the tune of close to 5 grand delivered. The new enclosure is powder coated aluminum, not steel and we had the remove the existing and located it in the shop, completely take out all the guts and electronics and install them in the new aluminum cabinet (which also had to be assembled) and then reset the unit on the concrete pad adjacent to the house which was quite the undertaking tp say the least.
For the life of me, I cannot understand why Generac didn't just build aluminum enclosures in the first place (like they do today) as all new units are housed in aluminum enclosures and not steel, but it is what it is.
I'm glad it's finished and back to operating correctly and the old, corroded enclosure (what was left of it) went to the scrap yard.
I considered just purchasing a new unit already housed in an aluminum enclosure but the cost of a new 21KW unit was quite a bit more than the existing one and besides, what would I do with the old perfectly operating unit? Toss it?
I also suspect that there are a ton of owners that purchased the steel cabinet units years ago that are also corroding away and will have to make the same choice I had to make, strip out the guts from the steel corroded enclosure and put them in the aluminum cabinet or buy a new unit. Tough choice considering the cost of a new one today.
When I bought the units (I have 2 of them, one 21KW propane fired unit for the farmhouse and one 35KW diesel powered unit for the shop and outbuildings that runs from the 500 gallon diesel tank that I fill the tractors from), both units came housed in powder coated steel cabinets. Over the years, the unit that powers the house has slowly but surely corroded away, leaving the internals exposed to the weather which is no good at all. The diesel powered unit has never corroded at all (glad of that).
I had to special order a new enclosure from Generac to the tune of close to 5 grand delivered. The new enclosure is powder coated aluminum, not steel and we had the remove the existing and located it in the shop, completely take out all the guts and electronics and install them in the new aluminum cabinet (which also had to be assembled) and then reset the unit on the concrete pad adjacent to the house which was quite the undertaking tp say the least.
For the life of me, I cannot understand why Generac didn't just build aluminum enclosures in the first place (like they do today) as all new units are housed in aluminum enclosures and not steel, but it is what it is.
I'm glad it's finished and back to operating correctly and the old, corroded enclosure (what was left of it) went to the scrap yard.
I considered just purchasing a new unit already housed in an aluminum enclosure but the cost of a new 21KW unit was quite a bit more than the existing one and besides, what would I do with the old perfectly operating unit? Toss it?
I also suspect that there are a ton of owners that purchased the steel cabinet units years ago that are also corroding away and will have to make the same choice I had to make, strip out the guts from the steel corroded enclosure and put them in the aluminum cabinet or buy a new unit. Tough choice considering the cost of a new one today.
kenmbz
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Replaced the battery in a Dyson Vacuum, was actually pretty easy.
Fixed some halloween decorations,
Replaced the sediment filter for the house water.
Cleaned out the dryer vent, seems some bird put a few sticks in there trying to make a nest.
No nest, but it backed up the lint, what a mess.
Fixed some halloween decorations,
Replaced the sediment filter for the house water.
Cleaned out the dryer vent, seems some bird put a few sticks in there trying to make a nest.
No nest, but it backed up the lint, what a mess.
Oz_Kioti
Silver Member
High on my "to do" list is to replace four dodgy/failing/failed PV panels on the shed roof. They're such heavy awkward things that unfortunately it's a two-man job to manoeuvre them up onto the roof and into place. Added to that is that they're replacing panels with built-in optimizers (Tigo) so it'll be a bit of a fiddle getting the standalone optimizers fitted.
So much for renewables! The ironic truth is they need to be renewed, and a lot sooner than the 15 or so years we were told they'd last!
But financially worth the effort, with the generous Feed-In-Tariff we're signed up to until 2028. But I wonder what happens when local council land fill sites start getting overwhelmed and filled up with all this stuff. Not to mention wind turbines (those that don't self-combust beforehand of course...)
So much for renewables! The ironic truth is they need to be renewed, and a lot sooner than the 15 or so years we were told they'd last!
But financially worth the effort, with the generous Feed-In-Tariff we're signed up to until 2028. But I wonder what happens when local council land fill sites start getting overwhelmed and filled up with all this stuff. Not to mention wind turbines (those that don't self-combust beforehand of course...)
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Only solar we have are the panels on the RV and it's usually parked inside the barn unless being used which is infrequently.
Panels certainly have a definite life expectancy and disposal (if you do it right) has to be in a haz mat landfill.
I'm in sort of the same boat as you. The ventilation fans on the big Clearspan Truss Arch building are powered by dedicated solar panels (came that way) and they are needing to be renewed as well. Each fan module has a 100 watt PV panel that powers the motor.
I would have preferred to have them hard wired but not an option when the building was put up.
Panels certainly have a definite life expectancy and disposal (if you do it right) has to be in a haz mat landfill.
I'm in sort of the same boat as you. The ventilation fans on the big Clearspan Truss Arch building are powered by dedicated solar panels (came that way) and they are needing to be renewed as well. Each fan module has a 100 watt PV panel that powers the motor.
I would have preferred to have them hard wired but not an option when the building was put up.
polarred21
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Well I hope it's fixed. One relic sitting on top of another. This CO-OP 55k btu heater is around 40 years old. Needs a tweak each year. Starting fuming after 5 minute run this winter so had to dig a little deeper. Several YouTubes later, fingers crossed.
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Have one of those as well but I never run it indoors because one, it stinks and two it produces carbon monoxide while it consumes oxygen so it must have lots of ventilation. Mine 'quits' as well sometimes. The electric eye that controls the burner gets carboned up and must be removed and cleaned with mineral spirits on a shop towel.
polarred21
Platinum Member
^^^ Possibly fuel rich and can tweak up the atomizing air pressure. This one is supposed to be at 3 psi, falls off to 2.5 after it runs for 10 minutes.