Well, the saga of the aching shoulders is nearly at an end. I called Home Depot to see how much a 5 inch core bit would cost. They said twenty bucks. Not bad. And forty bucks to rent the drill. WO! I don't need the drill I have one. No, this isn't a regular hammer drill they said. This has a special SDS chuck. I said, I know, I have a bosh demolition drill with an SDS chuck. Sorry, we can't rent the bit without the drill. I said, go blow.
I called a couple of other tool rental places which all seemed to be closed except for one which would rent me the bit for 75 bucks. I decided to go it on my own. Sure, a stupid plan but no one said I was very intelligent. Working for a couple of hours on each of two days, I finally managed to smash a hole in the foundation wall. I used, at various times, my hammer drill, the demolition drill, and my trusty three pound sledge and assorted chisels. the hole isn't all that round, but there is a whole in the damn foundation wall. I HATE!! plumbing. That is HATE!!! in all caps and three exclamation points. I decided to put a new flexible gas line on the dryer since I was doing the new vent anyway. It took three trips to the friggin store before I got all of the right fittings to connect the damn hose up. Apparently, there are a couple of standards in play and I accidentally attempted to switch between the two. Lord have mercy on your soul when attempting such a thing. I managed to mortar two bricks into the place where the original dryer vent had been. I have a sneaking suspicion that you could probably tell which ones were replaced. Tonight I will attempt to patch up the hole for the new dryer vent to seal it up nice and tight. Of course, I am pretty sure this will require another trip to the hardware store as the five foot flex hose that Teresa picked up is about three inches short for my purposes. I will make a valiant attempt to get it to stretch those extra inches first. This weekend is going to be spent digging the footers for the posts. I think the temperatures are supposed to go back down below the mid 90s. I hope. Later. -- Blue skies. Dan Rossi Carnegie Mellon University. E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (412) 268-9081 To listen to the show archives go to link http://acbradio.org/handyman.html or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml Visit The New Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following Address: http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ Visit the new archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
