Saturday, March 25, 2017

3.25.2017

So...Jim's light refit parts came yesterday so he planned on working on some of that today.  Before he left, he opened up the box - he looked at the ballast and it didn't appear to be correct.  He looked it up on line to find out that it wasn't the right part.  So frustrating - Jim went over and over exactly what he needed and the guy assured him that he would send the right parts.  And then he didn't.


Jim thought he could at least put in the new connectors in - this is where the bulb fits in.  However, you can see from the picture below that this piece isn't right either!  Jim made one work by cutting out the steel opening to fit, but when faced with 28 to do, that's kind of crazy too.  Nothing is easy sometimes.  This will be a phone call on Monday morning that Jim will have to deal with!



Thought I'd send along a spring picture to everyone else in the country who is enjoying warm weather!  We had a crazy giant snowflake kind of snow all morning.  These flakes were huge - Jim said some were about half the size of his fist!  We don't mind though - Jim is working inside and I'm swamped with fire school.  Let it snow - it was awfully pretty!


 
Jim spent the morning working on more blocking in the kitchen - continuing with the top blocking for the upper cabinets.  He needs to get more wood already.


Then the rest of the afternoon was spent on electric work and lights in the wood shop.  Jim got another GFI circuit all redone - so that's 4 out of the 5 circuits done!  Jim has to spend a lot of time moving things out of the way to get to all these receptacles.  The last circuit requires moving his radial arm saw table - which is insanely heavy.

He got the light mounted and all of the conduit attached and up (again working off ladders on wood piles!).  So at this point, all of the lights and conduit are now on the ceiling! 


Then he started the wiring - these all have to be daisy chained together so it's quite a bit of work to get all this wire in and out of the conduit.  But the wire is now to all of the lights too!  He got one of 4 of the lights that need to be wired finished. 

 
High 37/Low 18 - snowy morning!
 

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