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Is it a front loader? 'Cause it's a common failure on them since it's a carrier bearing. They tend to elongate after a while in the direction that gets the most weight. That deforms seals and they leak. If you know what model it is, there are kits you can find online to replace the bearing and seal assembly for many…

Hence the reason I have to resurface it. But the path you see in the picture is not level and with the framing being pulled on by the posts, I can't put a new surface down until I fix that lean or I'll be redoing the resurfacing again in a couple years. I also wasn't sure why all the boards there seemed to be pulling their…

OK, pitchur time! So this is the deck with the 3 bothersome posts marked. They are leaning towards the direction of the camera. The pool is 4 feet deep and it's a 4 inch separation from the top sides so that's a 1:12 ratio for the pitch. If I take my 2 foot level and hold it up against a post and then move it until the…

Yeah, I don't have a chainfall I can use easily and I'm not going to go buy another one. I'd sooner pull the 12K pound winch off it's current location, strap it to the lawn tractor and deadman it to a tree before I drop a couple hundred on a chainfall that's manageable. I mean, there is a large hole in between the two…

They gave me an arrival date of June 22nd and coming by freight which is absurd since the only place I could find them "in stock" was selling them at $26 for a 4 pack.

Chainfall? You know that's a hoist, right? It won't put lateral tension on anything and I'd have to rig it up in a manner that would make using it an exercise on my profanity vocabulary. Besides that, the only one I have is on my gantry crane and I'm not going to screw around with a 4 ton hoist that weighs 80 pounds and…

I can't do that. The ground tends to get saturated and something sitting on top of the soil will just shift around like warm toast on peanut butter. Plus...frost heaves. I think that the reason I have such deflection in this one area is because the pool freezes in the winter and the expanding ice pushes on the top of the…

Glacial till. So sandy/loamy with clay/marl underneath. Also, water table is high. So part of the reason these posts are sinking is because of no lateral stability. Additionally, high weight on a small foot print. Which all sucks because digging down 4 feet, you start hitting the water table. The frost line is around 3…

That's actually a good idea but...shipping on them sucks. $8 bucks each, $154 shipping. Sonotubes and concrete bags for all the columns cost $225 and I'll still have to dig an awkward hole. But, I found this on their site too: https://www.midwestpermacolumn.com/product/fp12 Which doesn't need any concrete at all. I have to…

That's pretty slick! Seems like I can't get them here before the middle of June, though.

The other thing I'm thinking now is that unless I completely disassemble this and pull the post out completely, I will have to stretch a come-a-long across the pool to the opposite side of the deck and use it pull the pool wall vertical again and straighten the post out. I only say this 'cause, I'm stronger than the…

3 frickin' feet Part of the reason these posts are sinking is because they are sliding underground. The "footing" (i.e.: two bricks) is only about a foot and a half down. So the freeze/thaw cycle with pressure from the deck and pool wall is shoving it all around. An 8" footing is going to need a 12 inch hole with a base…

That new fangled foam says right on the package that it is not suitable for structural use. It doesn't support weight, it's only intended for mailboxes or fence posts and stuff. Believe me, I wish it was weight stable, would make things WAY easier.

Ohhhhhhhh....it's in reference to the installation. I thought it was some fancy new kind of cement or something!

Protruded concrete? That's a new one on me. What is that?

https://youtu.be/u8ccGjar4Es?si=D87P586zurEKbVRw

As long as we get to say "I told you so" when it comes back.

Those look like Aspens, dude. You are in the range of Quaking Aspens which aren't just in, like, Colorado. They do look like Birch too and they do grow in large clumps, often many shutes of the same tree. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populus_tremuloides

Yeah, well, if I made the enclosures for mine to recommended enclosure volume, the enclosures alone would total about 1.5 cubic feet. That's a box that is 18 inches wide by 18 inches tall by 8 inches deep for the internal dimensions. Add an inch and a half in width, depth and height to make up for materials and you're at…

Oh, also, if you go out to Parts Express and look at some of the customer submitted projects, a few people lined the inside of plastic ammo boxes with Dynamat to help dampen vibrations. I'm planning on building mine out of plywood so I'm not going to worry too much about Dynamatting it.

I was thinking that too, Ken. In fact, I have about 8 pounds of polyfil that I was planning on stuffing in the chambers I make for my box. Was also going to cut some "triangles" to nail/glue into corners to kill standing waves. To build the enclosure effectively, it would end up being cumbersome to move around so any trick…

18650's come in many colors, it's not necessarily indicative of the size/type. It's more indicative of the brand and the mAh ratings. But if that battery module holds three 18650's, though, then that's a 12v power supply. 18650's are 3.7 VDC Li-Ion so 3 of them gets you to 11.1VDC, not quite 12v but serviceable for a…

Sweet I found a box of components to do something similar over the weekend. I got it in 2018 and apparently forgot about it. Gonna build a bluetooth "boom box" with a 50x2 and 100x1 so I can put a small sub in it too. Got some Tang Band full range drivers and a Peerless sub for it.

I have a Porter Cable benchtop that was inexpensive but Lowe's stopped carrying them so I dunno where to get one now if PC is even making them anymore. This Grizzly is nice for the price, though, and uses common blade types. Has a ballsy motor too so doesn't bog down on tight scroll work.…

Why are there no donuts?

I did french presses for a little while. I had a job which had garbage office coffee. This Flavia stuff. Tasted stale to begin with and the always supplied these paper cups that weren't meant for hot drinks. So it added this flavor and aroma of melted wax and cardboard. It was stellar. I used to go to the Dunkin Donuts…

I must be a caveman compared to all y'all. I ditched all the electric coffee maker stuff years ago now. Got tired of the maintenance, the cleaning and then the breaking and needing replacement. So I fell back on my trust, stainless steel, camping coffee pot. 9 cup stove top percolator. The thing is probably 20 years old at…

That's pretty much all I get anymore. Whole bean stuff at the grocery store keeps coming in smaller and smaller packages. The whole bean stuff I would get from Peet's is up to $12.49 a package that is down to 10.5 ounces. At pretty much $1.20 an ounce, it's $20 a pound now. The Kona, on the coffee club "subscription" is…

https://www.konacoffee.com/

So, having spent some time navigating the NJ back bays on small craft, there is this thing that happens when you are in a channel and you cross a junction with another offshoot channel. It's not intuitive because the opposite happens than what would be expected. I'll use left and right instead of port and starboard to be…