Recent content by frazelle09

Finally came up with a design which seems to work better. My son and i decided that what we had was too complicated, so we purchased an 8 foot long aluminum channel at Lowe's and used about 4 foot for the vertical part and about 3 feet to be attached to the back of the metal box to receive the...

Well, it's Wednesday - i went up the street about 6 blocks to the local iron-worker (he also bent our parabolic ribs) and he had a machine with what looked like a one foot, thin abrasive wheel on it and made short shrift of the holes i had made, creating the channel on both sides. Cost: $2.00...

elegysix... Thanks for posting and offering suggestions (and questions - lol). At this point we're trying to do away with the rectangular contraption with the little plastic wheels and are trying something else. We're just going with the long alum. tube. The threaded rod has a 2" steel piece...

"... like kids playing on the seashore ... finding smoother pebbles ..." oMMCheeto - i think you've got the idea... Have a great afternoon! :)

Wow, Travis_King - we really appreciate your comments. Nothing like reading your comments to confirm that for this type of project it's better to have some knowledge of engineering than not - lol. We'll take your wonderful ideas under advisement (like they say) and see what more trial and...

" Am I correct in my assumption that this little pump will require much less power than an AC's compressor?" Yes. Much less. Have a great day! You're gettin' there! :)

Perhaps instead of "building" something, we could just use this SCS20UU 20mm Liner Motion Ball Units Series Pillow Block Slide With Bearing and run a round rod through it instead of the square one we are currently using... Any thoughts? Have a great afternoon! :)

O.k., i went upstairs this morning and disassembled the rod and slider (i guess that's as good a name for it as anything). i also removed the poor threaded rod. i'll have to buy another one since it's permanently bent. You were correct Travis_King -- the inside of the aluminum slider plates...

If your area is not very humid, swamp coolers work alright for cooling. All they are are a box with some absorbant material through which water flows, usually from top to bottom. At one end of the box there is a fan which blows through the box into the room. People usually mount them in...

Thanks, Travis_King. Wow, i hadn't expected another response - lol. Yes, last night before i went to sleep i was "imagining" that i would need to check to see if there is some sort of spacer on either side of the rollers. i was also thinking that perhaps the rollers that we had purchased were...

Ok, Travis_King. We really appreciate your input and will see if it's binding. At least it's pretty simple setup and should be fairly easy to fix. Maybe some more space between the plates/bracket that surround the rod would be in order... Thanks again and your input makes us very happy...

We are working on an electronic solar hot water heater. We had it working but decided to change the way the aluminum tube was connected to the frame by running a 7" bolt through both the alum tube as well as the support (see photo 02, bolt at top). We thought that it was going to act as a...