USA Mega Trip - July & August 2022

[Alex]

Mike could probably do with Kira redoing his photos and @AdamJ redoing his website, but he's a stubborn old goat…

[SKT]

@Alex what a beautiful spot. Hope you guys can enjoy some “downtime” between work destinations. Looks like an easy place to relax

[Madame Buttonfly]

Loving this thread @Alex and, as already said, some great photography by Kira.

Give our love to Andros and have an amazing time 

[louisbosco]

the cube is a nifty little lovely car ️

[Alex]

not when it has 250,000 miles on the clock it's not hahahaha

[Nik]

Wow looks amazing

[jordanscollected]

@Alex there's nothing like waking up to the breeze coming in and the sounds of birds and waves. That must be next level relaxing. If you ARE working, this is the spot you could be designing the Iron Heart Linen easy pants.

[Alex]

Nice idea @jordanscollected !

So this week I have taken off as paid leave, though I obviously can't completely switch off as you can imagine..

That said, I have my hands full with other work… Today I fit a new TV - the last one got blown out by a lightning strike - and did some repairs on the aircon unit I fitted last time I was down here. It wasn't holding pressure, so we had to track down a leak.

[Alex]

Long story short, I either fucked up the flare on the copper pipe last time, or when I joined it to the compressor it wasn't sitting quite right, either way you can kind of see where it sat wrong

Vacuum pumped out the system to check it could hold pressure, rather than waste refrigerator gas on the troubleshoot…

[Alex]

Loaded up with 410A after a successful vacuum test, and called in the big guns (Mike) to make sure I hadn't fucked up twice.

Now to wait overnight and make sure that it's solid, but at least we have AC in our bedroom tonight, unlike last night!

Happily the leak was not in the joined pipes under this deck, so I didn't need to get back under it to redo anything there. Nice cool place for snakes and tarantulas to hide from the summer sun 
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[ROman]

Those stiffener inserts can get tricky. Even with the compression nuts supplied.

[louisbosco]

@Alex:

not when it has 250,000 miles on the clock it's not hahahaha

well, someone's gotta put the miles on it to make sure it's reliable. heck, it's Japanese. if it hasn't got 500,000 miles on the clock, you're barely scratching the surface… ahaha

[Alex]

Today I'm checking the pump houses that pull water from wells and into the filtration house before pumping onwards into the main building. There was a large bees nest in the first one I checked.

No match for some IH denim, and a face mask though!

[jordanscollected]

dare you to approach airport security wearing that

[popvulture]

@jordanscollected:

dare you to approach airport security wearing that

I can't say why exactly but I feel like the jeans tucked into socks into Birks especially create a person of interest.

[Giles]

As too, the cap…...

[Jett129]

I figured it was that Bengals cap that scared the Bees away.

[Oaktavia]

Hahaha

[goosehd]

@Alex Has Kira just looked at you and shook her head or wondered what she got herself into?  Hopefully your adventure went uneventful and both of your are laughing at it now.

[Alex]

Used a girder to flip the lid off

Grainy still from the video cameras 

The hive was in the lid of the pump house, so one I had flipped it off, I duck taped a can of WD40 to the girder, then taped the button down, and spayed it into the nest

Mission accomplished