Thursday, May 29, 2014

From THIS to THIS:

 I scored a whole piece of diamond plate @ the habitat for pennies! Just enough to trim out one of the wheel wells.... so I cut it to fit.... here is one of the decks folded up like it will be for travel

 and I used the rest of trim out the new bike trailer I built by cannibalizing my old kid styled cart!
 It's hot pink and has diamond tread plate on it!
 So we took it for a test ride
Went to the woods to go hiking
 and got caught in the rain on the way back! It has been 90 + degrees lately. t felt so gooooood!

 I started out with blocks of cherry, and using my drill hammer and chisel I removed wood to make room for plumbing, so that the wood can hold the bath tub faucet and be mounted on the wall.
 Then I put them together with screws and covered the screw heads with plugs


I finished it with polyurethane.  Here is the faucet, a rebuilt antique from the civil war era, in the block, as seen from above and below.

 This is a plate taken out from under neath my friend's Chevy Impala, which used to be a cop ar. it was used from ramming and driving over stuff. According to the instruction manual of my washing machine it needs to be installed on a solid piece of meal under neath it... my friend didn't want to put the plate back on his car.. too heavy and dirty, but it is perfect for under neath my washing machine
 Although it is filthy. I scarped off the layers of tar and sludge and then wiped off the rest with a gasoline soaked rag
 Once it was cleaned I cut it to fit in the compartment where the washing machine lives


 and smoothed out the gouges from the cops ramming into things

 and.. there is goes, just like a charm into position!










How to wire trailer lights brakes

 This is the switch, mounted to the hitch. There is a pin that is inserted into the box which is connected to the tow vehicle. If the trailer and the tow vehicle become separated

trailer lights and brake wiring diagram


 break-away switch. Pin inserted into box, attached to tow vehicle by cable. If the trailer and tow vehicle become separated the brakes on the trailer engage. Legally required.
white wire grounded to the frame, black & blue wire inserted into corrugated tube and added to the loom. Black leads to emergency brake engaging battery, the other to the brake signal wire
 
7 prong connector


 
been collecting a lot of corrugated tubing lately

 and escutcheon plates, like this one that would normally go at the ends of shower curtain rods. I drill holes in them and use them as covers for holes in the side of my house where wires have to pass from the outside to the inside
 as seen here in the wheel well. There is one of tyhe these per tire, because each tire has wires
 tube passes through wall of wheel well
 
brake hub wires protected by a vinyl tube, cut from a sink sprayer


 
brake signal wiring and ground wiring




running light etc wires wrapped around the Mc cable for support


and finally up to the front where everything connects to the wires from the plug and the break away switch

Saturday, May 17, 2014

If concepts are not clear, words do not fit.
If words do not fit, the day's work can not be accomplished,
morals and art do not flourish.
If morals and art do not flourish, punishments are not just.
If punishments are not just, the people do not know where to put hand or foot.

~Confucius, Analects, XIII,3

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Finally finishing the plumbing

THANK YOU STEVE CARSON, A MOST AMAZING MAN AND PLUMBER FOR COMING TO BEING THE DESIGN AND INSTALLATION WORK OF THIS HOME-MADE TRAILER PLUMBING SYSTEM. THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR THOUGHT AND ATTENTION TO DETAIL, SENSE OF HUMOR, TROUBLE-SHOOTING, PATIENCE AND FAITH. THANK YOU ALSO FOR LETTING ME CHARGE SUPPLIES @ THE STORE ON YOUR BUSINESS ACCOUNT TO GET A DISCOUNT. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!! I AM READY TO PROCEED AND FINISH THE WORK MYSELF, BUT I COULD NOT EVEN BEGIN TO APPROACH THE WORK IF IT HAD NOT BEEN FOR YOUR HELP.


Today is like my birthday. I have been saving, and today I bought the PEX 1/2I crimp ring clamp tool, the cutters, and 100 feet of tubing so I can finish the plumbing system.
Pictured with the tools are the fittings I will be using, the crimp and screw tighten rings, compression adapters, filters, shut off valves filter, Teflon tape, pipe dope and hose bibs.
 So, I have been connecting things... the filter to the pump, shut off valvues

 These are the feeds that join the copper, leading up above the bathroom floor.
 strapped to the bottom of the floor joists
 Start out wanting to connect the filter to the tank outlet.
 make the connection between a shut off valve
 crimp!

 gauge each crimp
 connect to thank
gauge each crimp

 boom... tank goes to shut off valve goes to filer go to pump

Here is the copper drain connected to the tank.