I think we will need to tell the listeners to the show, you finely got thru the wall. I would imagine some of them have wondered about that.
Good job, Phil. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Rossi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 1:34 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] My aching shoulders. > Well, the saga of the aching shoulders is nearly at an end. > > I called Home Depot to see how much a 5 inch core bit would cost. They > said twenty bucks. Not bad. And forty bucks to rent the drill. WO! I > don't need the drill I have one. No, this isn't a regular hammer drill > they said. This has a special SDS chuck. I said, I know, I have a bosh > demolition drill with an SDS chuck. Sorry, we can't rent the bit without > the drill. I said, go blow. > > I called a couple of other tool rental places which all seemed to be > closed except for one which would rent me the bit for 75 bucks. I decided > to go it on my own. Sure, a stupid plan but no one said I was very > intelligent. > > Working for a couple of hours on each of two days, I finally managed to > smash a hole in the foundation wall. I used, at various times, my hammer > drill, the demolition drill, and my trusty three pound sledge and assorted > chisels. > > the hole isn't all that round, but there is a whole in the damn foundation > wall. > > I HATE!! plumbing. That is HATE!!! in all caps and three exclamation > points. I decided to put a new flexible gas line on the dryer since I was > doing the new vent anyway. It took three trips to the friggin store > before I got all of the right fittings to connect the damn hose up. > Apparently, there are a couple of standards in play and I accidentally > attempted to switch between the two. Lord have mercy on your soul when > attempting such a thing. > > I managed to mortar two bricks into the place where the original dryer > vent had been. I have a sneaking suspicion that you could probably tell > which ones were replaced. Tonight I will attempt to patch up the hole for > the new dryer vent to seal it up nice and tight. Of course, I am pretty > sure this will require another trip to the hardware store as the five foot > flex hose that Teresa picked up is about three inches short for my > purposes. I will make a valiant attempt to get it to stretch those extra > inches first. > > This weekend is going to be spent digging the footers for the posts. I > think the temperatures are supposed to go back down below the mid 90s. I > hope. > > Later. > > -- > Blue skies. > Dan Rossi > Carnegie Mellon University. > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tel: (412) 268-9081 > > > To listen to the show archives go to link > http://acbradio.org/handyman.html > or > ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ > > The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. > http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday > > The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. > http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml > > Visit The New Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From > Various List Members At The Following Address: > http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ > Visit the new archives page at the following address > http://www.mail-archive.com/blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com/ > For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man > list just send a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > To listen to the show archives go to link http://acbradio.org/handyman.html or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml Visit The New Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following Address: http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ Visit the new archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
