I'm a moderator for a motor scooter help site on the internet. There I approve or not new members, ban people (only one to date), watch for profanity and when I see it delete it and send email to the person top knock it off or I will ban the person, give any help I can to anybody that ask a question.
I have a 250 cc and 150 cc scoots and going to sell the 150 cc that has never had the engine started I have just taken it out of the crate.
Answer some questions on AP but not like before.
Do wood and metal working projects. I have the tools for both.
Some gardening.
BBQing on my 8 foot long BBQ pit mostly briskets and chicken
Reading of Clive Cussler and Stephen Coonts books.
I use to buy up houses and sometimes gut them, then do all new plumbing, electrical, heating and a/c, insulate, sheetrock, paneling then rent them out for several years then sold them all.
Built a shop building bigger than my three bedroom house.
Built a combination 10 X 16 gazebo, 14 X 14 room for hot tub(solar heated), and storage area.
Maintaining the house and buildings now
I do not have any YouTube videos only been into the site a few times
The solar panels I got from a salvage yard several years ago for $25 each. They were cutting them up at the time and only had 5 that they had not destroyed. I purchased all 5 along with 13 extra sheets of the tempered glass and they threw in the gaskets free of charge. I use a very small pump that is connected to the to the botton of the hottub to get the coolest water. The little pump has a hard time pumping the water up to the solar panels that I connected together with high temp water hose. Once the water starts coming down it creates a vacuum on the water going up, The end result is the litlle pump has a very easy time and cost about 10 to 15 cents per day to heat the hot tub. As of right now using a 24 hour timer to turn on and shut off the pump. In the future will install temp differential switches along with agasts for timing so if it the water comeing from the panels is a lower temp than the tub the pump will shut down for say 30 minutes then start up again for a test of around 5 minutes, if the water coming from the panels is hotter the pump will continue to run.
Years before I had done a lot of research on solar cells and panels.
I did take welding and woodworking in school but learned most of the woodworking from my father.
Projects have included cutting a 36 inch wide door down to 34 1/2 that a lumber yard said was impossible to do for enlarge bath door for a girls mother for when then they came to stay at my house.
Building a door out of siding, plywood, and 2 bys for my neighbor when he built a small workshop and wanted a door that could not be easly broken down.
I told him how to build cabnets and workbench and let him use the ones I built as example.
I have the tools to make furniture but I do not make it only any repairs.
Metal working includes BBQ pits, go-cart, compost tumbler, trailer to carry a paraplane with rolled flat bar to hold the main wheels down on trailer.
The only work I have contracted out is concrete.
The U of Florida did a lot of research on using the sun for energy. They even built a house to test what they were trying. All of the hot water used in the house and the Air Conditioning was done with solar panels supplying hot water. Believe it or not but green almost the color of the old USMC utilities asorbed the most heat from the sun.
The Mother Earth News magazine which I have not taken in several years has a lot of very good ideas for saving energy from micro hydroelectric plants, putting black poly tubeing in a compost pile to supply hot water, building a house out of bales of hay, to using a water cooled engine coupled to a generator to supply hot water and power if you are a long distance from the power grid.
I had never installed solar panels before this project but like I said had done a lot of research about them and this research was before the net. Now doing the same research would be a lot quicker, cheaper, and easier. At one time I was going through a complete roll of 100 stamps per month, now I may send one letter every two to three months by "snail mail", thank goodness for the net and 800 #s.
Typo "agasts" was to be "agastat" (a special electropneumatic Timing Relay).
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