What did you do today?

Today I was doing some pattern making with strips of 1/4” and a hot glue gun. I have the Traxx 100 watt glue gun and lemme tell you that shite burns when you get a hot snot glob that drips on your finger. I thought it peeled a layer of skin with it when it finally cooled and I was able to peel it off. Luckily it didn’t but damn that’s hot.

On the plus side we got the kegerator working. Chilled mugs and some beer fresh from the tap to finish the day off. Hope you all are having a great Friday as well.

JPfloor said:

And pin tape for the doorways...

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I wonder how many installers today would even know how to use pin tape or have even seen it.

DarisMulkin said:

I wonder how many installers today would even know how to use pin tape or have even seen it.

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I have seen it, but only on demo. Tore up my blades cutting up the carpet for roll-up.

DarisMulkin said:

I wonder how many installers today would even know how to use pin tape or have even seen it.

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Do they still make hair pad?

I think I have mentioned working in KC for Big Bob's used carpets. He would give 25 cents a yard for anything except green or gold. I installed new stuff for him. He advertised the used carpet as twice cleaned and professionally sanitized. They used a bug sprayer to spray dry carpet cleaner on it twice and vacuum it after each time. Then he used another bug sprayer to spray sanitizer on it and it was ready to sell. His real name was Dave Alcar.

Floorist said:

Do they still make hair pad?

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yes they do but it is called fiber pad, but I think it is recycled fiber from carpet and washed and sanitized, but I could be wrong.

DarisMulkin said:

yes they do but it is called fiber pad, but I think it is recycled fiber from carpet and washed and sanitized, but I could be wrong.

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I googled "hair and jute pad" which is what we called it. There were barely any results and they were either about auto mats or historical references. Took out "pad" from the search and it seams they use synthetic fibers and some still call that "hair and jute". I'm guessing it's just not cost efficient to manufacture with actual animal hair.

Floorist said:

Daris, what was that cheap, crappy tape?

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CT11?

DarisMulkin said:

It was called hand sewing with latex tape, no beads.

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I was going to hand sew a 28" seam in a Stanton polyester patterned carpet. It's a head seam in the center of a 15 foot hallway. The carpet will just be fit to the walls. No pad, not being stretched.
I don't have any needles that would pierce that stuff..... Man is it dense.
I'm gonna seam it, not see it.
What the hell got into my mind when I actually thought of sewing it.

My water heater has had a small drip for quite a while. It can't do any damage where it's located so it hasn't been a big deal.
Was working for a customer who bought a condo. 12 years prior to her purchasing it an older lady had passed away. The family lives out of state and after her passing, they did a very nice remodel complete with crown molding, total repaint an added some very nice furniture
For 12 years after that lady passed away, not one family member ever stayed in that condo. It appears during the remodel they installed a new water heater. It was installed in the master bedroom closet.
The new owner had a water leak and replaced some pipes and while the water heater was out someone mentioned it was installed in late 2008. It was working fine but she bought a new one anyway.
I asked if the old heater worked and she said yes, it worked fine.
She said I could have it, so I brought it home.
Today I bought a new anode, not knowing the condition of the one it had in it nor what the condition of the tanks inside. I figured if the heater was junk, I could just return the plumbing stuff I had purchased.
I removed the anode and it was intact. Eaten up a bit, but probably 80% or more was still there.
I took apart an old LED flashlight that didn't work and removed the led and circuit board. I soldered on a 3 foot length of wire to make a lighting system to lower into the tank to check its condition. Worked out slick. The tank and elements look great.

To see how hard it would be to clean off the residue on the tank wall, I gave a 3 or 4 second blast from the hose. The scum comes of easily. I'll just rig up a bent copper extension for my hose nozzle to point it all around and blast the walls clean.
Here's an after and before photo. I was able to get this one side pretty clean with a short burst, shooting through the hot water outlet hole.

highup said:

CT11?

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Yep and CT11 SB, which at least would not stick to the pad.

I heard a rumble in the sky above the house about 10 minutes ago. I clicked on flight radar 24, a website that tracks air traffic.
I saw something I've never seen before. Two Lear Jets, both LJ60's we're traveling one behind the other with less than 1,500 ft difference in elevation. One Learjet was heading to San Francisco on the other one's flight path said NA.
Me and myself had a consensus.
Two wealthy buddies came here to go golfing and are headed back home. It's obvious they're both headed to San Francisco because they're halfway there and still on the same flight path. Both planes are identical. Digging up some information on them says flying one requires a pilot and co-pilot.
I'm not a golf fan so if I was going to fly 600 miles in my jet, I'd probably just get a peanut butter sandwich and go home. Yes I'd buy one for the pilot and co-pilot too.
I'd by the stewardess a thermos of hot buttered rum.

Arriving side by side in San Francisco.

Water heater cleaner. Hold my beer, watch this.
Those hoses that shrink up when you turn the water off don't last forever, but they have used after death.
The inside is just floppy silicone tubing. I cut the reinforcing jacket off the connected it to the hose.
With the water on that thing whips around ......like a whip.
Inserted it into the tank and it started whoopin' about knocked everything off the tank walls.
All shiny now.

Incognito said:

I googled "hair and jute pad" which is what we called it. There were barely any results and they were either about auto mats or historical references. Took out "pad" from the search and it seams they use synthetic fibers and some still call that "hair and jute". I'm guessing it's just not cost efficient to manufacture with actual animal hair.

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I can’t put an exact date on it but it’s been at least 50 years since they used actual horse hair in the pad. I ripped up a bunch when I was a kid.

DarisMulkin said:

I wonder how many installers today would even know how to use pin tape or have even seen it.

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Just the old ones…Heat tape kinda did away with the need for it.

I remember the first time my uncle tried using one of those new fangled heat irons…. Didn’t come with instructions. Boy did he make a mess of it…

JPfloor said:

I can’t put an exact date on it but it’s been at least 50 years since they used actual horse hair in the pad. I ripped up a bunch when I was a kid.

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And you’re still itching

JPfloor said:

I can’t put an exact date on it but it’s been at least 50 years since they used actual horse hair in the pad. I ripped up a bunch when I was a kid.

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Gone the way of bubble rubber.

MSLI said:

And you’re still itching

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Whenever I think about it, yes... The urine soaked ones on hot, humid summer days were always a special treat...