I bought good paint, as for pressure washing the doors, two things, first I need to get a pressure washer and second, I will have to get some paint that will stick to the metal once I do that. My former colleague who is a paint specialist at NNS told me if I want something that will stay on and not wear off quickly as the main doors roll and unroll I need urethane. That is going to have to come from an auto painter, meaning I need to be real nice to one or both of my friends who own MAACO franchises.

 

Shouldn't be a problem, Bill. Aren't you always super nice?

 

I don't think you need an automotive paint, and find them to be super finicky with reactive reducer ratios, solvent temperature, humidity, etc...

Major paint manufacturers all sell industrial maintenance coatings including catalyzed urealkyd's and 2 component epoxies that hold on like a tick and maintain their color and gloss for at least a decade.

But if your guy at Macco is giving you a great deal and you want to deal with using it outdoors, I'm sure the results will be impressive.

 

One of the MAACO owners owes me. I used to tune his Spridget race engine, did it so well the engine builder wanted to talk us into coming to his place for a free weekend engine dyno session. I just had to be there to tune it.

Jim, I will look into that, my Chemist at NNS was talking best quality, and trying to avoid the real nasty stuff that doesn't clean up very easily.

 

Another step today, went up and signed the easement paperwork at the electric company office and paid for the installation. Now I need to mount the meter base and get the inspector to ok things and I will have my permanent power installed.

 

Power to the people!

 

I picked up the meter base on the way back from ANEC. Today I had another Ford truck owner who is an electrical contractor come by and verify exactly how ANEC wants things done and what the electrical inspector will want to see. I went up and got my 4-0 aluminum wire, some 2" PVC conduit and a bottle of ALNOX so I could run everything. As Gary Lewis says "without pictures it didn't happen".

 

Hey, it DID happen! Although, is that ground "driven" or dropped"?

 

Wow they made you pay for it?
When I built my shop. The electric Coop came out ran overhead wire 300 some odd feet, blasted a hole in the ground and set a pole about 20 feet from the shop.
I set my own meter box,
made sure the ground rod was 8 feet in the ground and the mast 12 feet in the air.
The Coop came out inspected it, it passed, and he called the pole crew, they came out within the hour and set the pole and over head wire.
Except for the stuff on my end, I didn't pay for anything else.

 

Gary, it's driven, the light piece you see is overspray on the temporary line.

 

Ok, first, on the power, ANEC is putting it underground as that is now their preferred method (a little more hurricane proof). Second, electrical inspector came by and left this:

 

Congrat's!!!

 

Just talked to ANEC, it has been turned over to construction and I should check with them mid-week to see if they have a time frame.

 

I called ANEC yesterday morning and was told they were waiting on a utility survey and it might be Friday, but most likely next week I went out to pick up mail and drop by to order new glasses. When I got back the Verizon underground runs had been marked.

This morning around 8:45 ANEC arrived in force. By 10:15 they were done and down the road.

 

It is always a beautiful thing when things happen earlier than expected.