Patrick Tipton

Branchville, NJ, United States

21 Nov 07:13

Working on them Steve...partially filmed, then got distracted by a butterfly.....working on it....🤫

21 Nov 07:12

Thank you Lance! Agree...strange to have them get "finished"...really takes the wind out of the sales as far as punch list too....I always struggle with "finishing"....hard to stay on task but we are doing our best!

He has been hiding and trying to occupy all of our time on jeeps! 

NUT CASE...correct!😂 Thanks Steve!

Unveiling soon!  Love me some new seats, even if they aren't mine!

We appreciate your support Steve!

Cheers Mr. Cassin...I did recently have a busted Pertronix...and learned how they work. I will do a video on them just for you...timing....??????😂 Ask my wife!

Cheers....in this case, I had the charger on and was messing with the ignition so the ignition switch was on. With the switch on, there is voltage running into the coil. Depending on whether the engine stops points open or closed (random), the secondary winding in the coil is either building up energy (if the points are closed) or not (points open). These coils are pretty hearty, but letting the coil secondary winding sit there and build up energy will eventually cause it to start heating up and eventually can cause it to fail (even explode if you remember that episode). I was worried about the extra "strain" since the charger is putting out close to 8 volts...so this is even more stress on the system with the points closed and the ignition on. With the ignition off, the battery tender is just putting small amounts of energy into the battery - no coil impact. Even with a tender on and me doing experiments with the ignition on, a tender puts out much less energy so I wouldn't worry!

Thank you for your support Robert....great to hear that the video was informational!

24 Oct 07:52

Thank you as always for the insightful comments Jay. The cedar lattice....I purchased many, many years ago and it was pretty cheap...like $30/sheet. The same product today is $180 for the nice stuff. I bought one pressure treated sheet for under the stairs...really junk! Making it would be fun and you could certainly end up with a nicer product. My local sawmill has nice cedar too....fire up the table saw and stapler and get after it.I did pay attention to wiring sizing and upped it for the big amperage stuff. The rest is a little heavier duty than original. Fun project and it definitely forced me to advance my electrical education. Love those hardener products like Wood Epoxy. I used their "consolidant" on these porch post ends and a little sill rot. The stuff is very liquid...soaks right in and hardens up nicely like you said. I used a little filler too...but in this case was dealing with the bottoms of the posts and mostly just fit new material. Cheers!