Frivolous At Heart

I’m helping install an I-Beam that is 30ft in length. No one has ever installed one before and so I naturally took the job onto myself and installed it alone. The beam roughly weights 2000lbs. It wasn’t hard to install – the only time consuming part of the ordeal is and was in the PREP work.

I had to make support pillars that would hold the beam to be winched up slowly – 2ft at a time. Here are some photos of my weekend 😉

It’s up and sitting on two 6×6 pressure treated beams. It was fun! The house looks incredibly more spacious after the beam was installed!

Pulling the beam through and setting it on the wall was also tricky but with a winch, you can move mountains!

I’m making a new portable colloidal silver generator and so far so good. Using a 1 gang electrical box and stuffing all the electronics inside. I got a cigar box magnetic stirrer off of eBay for $50. The reason I’m making this portable generator is because it will be powered by the ubiquitous micro-USB phone charger that everyone seems to have around the house. Inside I’m boosting 5v to 30v w/ a 1k ohm resistor to run the generator at 30mA. Then I’m stepping down the voltage to 12v for the magnetic stirrer. Seems to be working nicely. The power supply must be 2A max to have enough power to power the stirrer.

I have been using a glass beaker (4000ML) to make ionic silver. Once completed, I would heat up the beaker and convert it to colloidal silver. Needless to say, it cracked and there goes a gallon of colloidal silver down the drain. I saw it coming long while back because there were small minute hairline cracks visible on the bottom of the beaker – it was only time! I’m not going to be purchasing another one b/c that beaker was a pain in the butt to move around. I’m using gallon plastic pitchers at Walmart to be the vessel in which ends will meet. It’s been working out nicely might I add. I’m using a presto fryer to heat up my water. Works great! Wish I had done this years ago!

EDIT 6PM: I use to make my ionic silver then heat it up in the 4000ml beaker to convert it to colloidal silver. I would start by heating a gallon of distilled water up first for 8 minutes @ 400F so it’s warm but not scolding HOT, then run the generator for 80minutes to produce 20PPM CS. This has been the most consistent batch of CS I’ve made so far because I had absolutely no floating silver in the solution. I will continue this process because using the glass beaker was more of a balance act. I’m making some beautiful colloidal silver and I’m absolutely thrilled about it!!! I’m having some new wonderful ideas on making a new generator soon!

Don’t you hate it when the sink is clogged? I specifically asked the ladies of the house if they had ever dumped oil down the drain – yeah yeah… Shouldn’t even ask because there won’t be an honest ănswer. I tried the conventional way of unclogging it – snake – didn’t work out so well. I just dog it up and ran new piping like a BOSS

I bought a table saw from a guy for $75 bucks (saw + some blades). Saw ended up being $35 or something like that. Took it home and made a cart for it a year later. It was a great deal. Now I can rip sheet goods 50″ wide. The saw was made in 1982/1983 – can’t remember. Nice craftsman and buttery smooth! Can’t complain!

I had always wanted a way to save my oil after frying a batch of fried chicken wings and used a funnel and napkins to do so. I came up with an ingenious idea of doing so. I used two food grade containers and an aluminum strainer purchased from Amazon.

This thing was tiny and I could see good use of it if you were frying eggs or meat and wanted to save the oil. I deep fry so I use massive amounts of oil compared to frying eggs. I needed a way to do so.

Took two containers (Rubbermaid 7J72) and cut one hole inside the bottom of one container and the other hole in the lid itself. The containers snap together so it was convenient to choose this route. The aluminum strainer fit perfectly into the cut out. Works extremely well.

One of the things I like to eat while drinking some Budlight is Muc Kho.

I got tired of making it on the electric range, gas range, and on a fire.

So a few weeks ago I started using a bread toaster. Figured why in the heck not?!!! Come to my amazement, it worked great!!! I hope this catches on. Makes life so much easier b/c I can put the toaster right underneath the rang hood and it sucks all the foul smell from burning squid! Cheers

The kit for installing my Ipad was $200. That includes sliding kit plus the 90 degree 30 pin connector. No thanks. So I purchased an Ipad extended battery and used it. I purchased the bezel from SoundManCa though, to fiberglass ontop of my contraption. So far so good. Keep in mind, I have never worked with fiberglass before. Since then, I’m loving it. Easy to work with and so many countless of jobs you can use it for to bond with anything. I know i need a new blade thought 😉 It’s okay though b/c I wont see the opening once the ipad is installed! Almost finish! Bondo and bezel installed = Finish

So I purchased an infrared thermometer and it works quite well. Only thing is that it looks cheap and feels cheap – do I really care? Not really 😉 It works and works well. I use it to see the difference in body part temperatures (sprained ankle vs one that isn’t) to let me know how to proceed. That’s one of many other uses. I’m happy now…

I purchased a new Optima 27F yellow deep cycle battery. The technician didn’t do a very sound job. The terminals were still wiggling after the install. You can pull on it and it will move. He’s the “manager” of the store. I took it home and tighten the battery terminals in less than a minute with a 10mm wrench…