6 screws out and the fixture is gutted. Click the driver and tubes onto the fixture box. Plug them in together. Marrette the main power to the driver and you have light.
10 minutes max.
Not exactly cheap, but I can't think of anyway easier than this! Magnets! Brilliant! The tubes and driver also have provisions for attaching them with screws if you wish.
The only downfalls; they are 5000K, so kind of super white, clinical, not warm, and they take a second or two to come. on. I'm sure there are warmer out there if you look.
We can see the stove now!
The driver has two wires coming out for the dimmer, For Connect 0-10V dimmer. Kind of misleading, says Dimmable in the listing. Yeah, right. I guess it must be a dimmer you'd have to mount to the fixture somewhere?
Mowed a few areas of the lawn growing pretty good. Got one of the Turds out and drove it to work. after the First stop she would not go again. Had to hammer the starter. First repair of the season
Bought a cheap battery tester. Came today. $80. The Topdon 100. Dumb name.
Reviews on line say it's decent. They don't trash it. I know, it can't possibly compare to a real $800 carbon pile load tester, but it apparently has a chip that can actually simulate this load to a certain degree.
I'll let you know how it goes. I have at least two suspect big lead acid batteries.
When I was still at the dealership we quit using the carbon pile tester, I would guess by about 2015 maybe? We used the same type as in your picture. I forget who makes it but I know we were quite happy with it's performance.
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars
Beautiful weather here in PEI the last couple of days. Sunny and +10. Yesterday I tackled three trees that fell like dominoes onto my yard during Fiona. Two are spruce, one is birch. I decided the spruce (two of dozens I lost) will be discarded while I'll harvest the birch for firewood. I got the trees cut back as far as the edge of the woods yesterday. There are "tree dumps" now set up all over the island for homeowners to dump trees. There's one about 5 minutes from my place. I took three truckloads. This dump looks to be about 10 acres in size and it's almost full. Sad to see. There are dumptrucks full of trees going to these places every day. I suspect they will eventually be ground up into biomass which the city of Charlottetown uses to heat most of the gov't buildings.
Today I fixed a large rip in the greenhouse thanks to more high winds. It was at the top which made it difficult to reach with a standard ladder. I have one of those ladders that can be "bent" in different shapes so I had it in the back of my truck which was parked next to the greenhouse. I had the ladder set up in such a way that the first 4 or 5 rungs would extend from the truck at about 30 degrees then bent to follow the shape of the greenhouse roof. I was pretty much on my belly on the ladder which was certainly sketchy. I managed to fix the rip with special greenhouse tape so we're all set to start some early seeds in there.
My son took advantage of a day off and mild weather to check our two bee hives. The did very well over the winter. I think the fact we left a box full of honey on each hive for winter food played a big role in how strong the hive is. He applied a "pollen patty" which will keep the bees going until the leaves and flowers bloom.
First oil change on our new Canyon. First 4 wheel drive I've ever owned. (Not totally true I guess, I had a 67 Power Wagon short box for a little bit when I was early 20's)
Anyway, it was kind of nice to do an oil change on the garage floor, no jack needed. Dropped the oil, put the plug in, changed the filter from the top, wow what an easy one to change oil on. Next time I have it on the hoist I'll check all the rest of the fluids, didn't feel like doing that on the floor.
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars
Kudos to you Carl (any anyone) that still does the oil change themselves. I long ago lost the joy. I even pay the quick lube shop to install my own special oil and filter on the old cars. I trust them...they let me watch underneath if I want.
But a hoist sure can't hurt!
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65 Laurentian post, 67 Grande Parisienne 4 door HT.
Kudos to you Carl (any anyone) that still does the oil change themselves. I long ago lost the joy. I even pay the quick lube shop to install my own special oil and filter on the old cars. I trust them...they let me watch underneath if I want.
But a hoist sure can't hurt!
Oh man, I can't imagine letting someone do an oil change for me. I actually just came back from the dealership. I helped our daughter change the oil on her car, (yes I was helping, she knows how to do oil changes because dad taught her!) and swap the winter to summer tires (which she also knows how to do, including setting up the torque wrench to do the wheels). I enjoy doing that stuff still. I help with or do the maintenance on both our kids vehicles, it's fun!
I'm amazed that a guy who builds engines, rebuilds TH400's, does diffs etc won't do his own oil changes!
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars
Kudos to you Carl (any anyone) that still does the oil change themselves. I long ago lost the joy. I even pay the quick lube shop to install my own special oil and filter on the old cars. I trust them...they let me watch underneath if I want.
But a hoist sure can't hurt!
Oh man, I can't imagine letting someone do an oil change for me. I actually just came back from the dealership. I helped our daughter change the oil on her car, (yes I was helping, she knows how to do oil changes because dad taught her!) and swap the winter to summer tires (which she also knows how to do, including setting up the torque wrench to do the wheels). I enjoy doing that stuff still. I help with or do the maintenance on both our kids vehicles, it's fun!
I'm amazed that a guy who builds engines, rebuilds TH400's, does diffs etc won't do his own oil changes!
when I buy a new car I tried to take it back to the dealer for the oil change while under warranty. The first oil change i had done on the new vett left me with a puddle of oil under it. Took it to my buddies shop and put it on his drive on rack. Oil filter was loose. Caddy gets free changes till 80,000 km
We have fire restrictions. You need a permit to burn. The dump is free. I suspect they'll be chipping all this wood and sending it to Chartlottetown to be used to heat the gov't buildings. There's a large biomass facility there that supplies heat to a number of buildings.
hawkeye5766 wrote:
Canadian Poncho wrote:
Four more trips to the tree dump today.
Don't you just have a big bon fire....????? Or is the tree dump the bon fire?? Does it cost to dispose of?
The box has a lot of scratches now. The first one hurt the most lol. So far the exterior is scratch free. I do have a Rhino Liner kit to spray in the box at some point. I just need the ambition and time to do it as you must sand the entire inside of the box. It was fun enough to do this when I painted the truck. Hindsight being what it is I should have applied the liner then.
Caddy gets free changes till 80,000 km