Museum, library and laboratory.
Göran, what’s the number of staff in your mansion? 
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There’s stuff in the pictures that I have no idea what it is, both large and zoom in small thingies.
If it would be ok with you Göran, your place is on my bucket list of places to visit 
As time flies I would probably be lost for days
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Steve,
Curiosity is the most fun and dangerous word that I can think of. I have a Massai friend in Kenya who is constantly asking "What if…? Curiosity is the key to wonder.
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Hi SteveU, i had to translate that word, eclectic, in Swedish=eklektisk, very close, had to look that up
Well, it fits i have to say.
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Hi Bronlin, no, i have never used that injection molding machine, i got it for free 10 years ago when it was heading to the dump.
It doesn’t have a mold in it, but some heavy and sturdy clamps and screws to hold the mold closed and in place. I guess the company using it, used it for testing, development of mold construction, for making test pieces.
When i dragged it home, my thoughts was to make a mold for Sabots (a plastic liner for modern bullets use in a black powder muzzleloader rifle) as i was into black powder shooting at that time.
Nowadays i have tought about using it for making wax prototypes, for lost-wax casting.
And yes, it’s pneumatic, it’s a big air-cylinder powering the feeding plunge.
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Hi Bruce, weird, inexpensive, and functional is spot on!
If i liked weird, EXPENSIVE, and non-functional, i would collect modern art…
Sometimes i feel like im the only one in the world able to see the beauty in a old technical piece, but comments like yours and others give me hope.
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göran, the skulls are from historic woodgas victims in the garage?
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Hi JO, staff= i and me.
Boss=wife…
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Just plastic, but makes a good warning statement about carbon monoxide 
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You are much welcome Johan, if i can’t bore you to death with my chainsaw collection, i can try this room…
The “museum room” is almost ready for visitors, only trouble is our old cat (thats not with us anymore) had found out this room was a nice place to piss, he had probably some cat-alzheimers, i still don’t know how he get in there?
As soon im done with cleaning, it’s “open” 
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93c is the max temp for pex. I thought it was higher then that. It is higher then pvc which is 60c. I didn’t look up cpvc which i assume is closer to pvc then to pex…
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Before I put thermostat’s on my pumps for my hadronic system occasionally I would have the water in the tanks hit 212F/100C before I remembered to turn on the pumps. Never had the pex at the manifolds fail for what it’s worth.
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The north side of my roof is full of mossy growth. Instead of trying to manually clean the tiles where they are, I decided to replace them. I have lots of spares stored away. The mossy ones I can pressure wash safely on the ground.
I replaced 1/4 of the roof in the heat today. Sweating like a horse. No loader or hoist - only a ladder. When I renovated the house 30 years ago I was 27. Not the same feeling now.
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Oh, and wasps. They didn’t like it when I lifted their nests hanging from the tiles. Only thing I new I had was starting fluid. It worked. Some got dizzy and some fled right away 
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Looks very neat JO. Just wondering what is the advantage of using tiles like that instead of shingles or tin? It looks like it is easier to put on and may last a little longer. What would the snow load rating be for tiles like that? Or is that not something to be concerned about over there?
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Hi Bronlin! I guess a lot is about local tradition. Once upon a time wooden shingles was the norm and then red clay tiles, which are still used today. My tiles are made of concrete. Somewhat cheaper and sturdier. Traditional clay tiles frost crack more easily. Especially on the north facing side, where they don’t dry out as good. Tin is used as well, but mostly on barns and such. Some houses use tin, but mostly the kind that looks like tiles.
Shingles are not very common around here. Some may use them on a porch roofs.
Snow load. Well, from the top of my head I think the code around here is 2.5 m. My house is built 1946 and far from up to code. I shovel it when needed, which may happen once every 10 years or so. Not because of the tiles, but trusses and such.
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It’s been an abnormally dry winter so far here in southern Chile. Usually we get only one or sometimes two dry days a week. This year we have stretches of 6 or 7 dry days with only a day or two of rain in between. And the rain is light, not the monsoon like downpours we usually get.
This has allowed me to get head start on next year’s firewood. I figure I’m at least 2 months ahead of schedule. I like to get the wood split and in the woodshed by October. I could do it by August but for the fact that I wouldn’t be able to get to the dried wood for this year.
I discovered another way of splitting the wood. I’ve thought about this before and I’ve seen it in videos, but never tried putting the log in a tire to hold it. I finally got a tire and it works much better. No more bending over to right the log after each stroke. No more burying the maul head in dirt. The tire provides a nice cushion if the maul goes completely through the log. It only took me 40 years to figure this out. 
Moonrise after an afternoon of splitting:
All I need now is a bottle of beer…
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Seems we share the same problems, even though you live your life upside down.
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Hi All
We finally did get our 12 foot long and wide; must be 40 years old fiberglass boat out on the lake waters.
With its 32 year old Mercury 2 stroke outboard engine.
Ha! The delay was waiting for the very 21st century 12vdc electric trolling motor to arrive as a power back up. Still garage/estate sales looking for a set of used oars.
Honestly this my first personal owning experience with a water cooled 2-stroke. Amazing it has always started up on one rope pull unless I made the mistakes of not flipping the off-run switch to run. Or pulling out on the cold starting enrichment knob and flooding it on these now hot summer days.
Running it in a plastic barrel of water I could never get it up to true working heat. Ran. But with fuel wetting of the spark plugs. With s fair about of exhaust smoking.
Now out on the lake working, heated up, it runs then just fine. Can then idle along fine for a long time before losing good combustion heating.
Working IC engines it is the power and performance from as soon after starting then working capable into a fully warmed up stable is what separated out the truly excellent engine systems for the premadonna engine systems. Picky trailer-queens and garage-queens suck.
I still like better my air-cooled 2 and 4 strokes. Them put to work in seconds with the only concern is hard worked on hot days lubricants break downs. Use better lube oils.
On this Mercury I am using a 100-1 synthetic mix. I want the least trailing boat exhaust taste in my mouth. 92 octane non-ethanol is a treat for an engine designed for 87 octane.
If a 100-1 trashes out this engine then I can get the wife to spring for a new 4-stroke outboard engine. That will cost more than we have spent so far on everything for our hole-in-the-water, now we’re old peoples, boat.
Wife discovered why the wide fat assed end boat - she could stand very comfortably electric motoring up back to the boat ramp. A can standup to fish from boat.
Regards
Steve Unruh
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Steve,
I have no idea why you would be mean to that nice old 10hp Mercury. I don’t know as much as you about engines, and it might survive ok, but for now, if it was me, I would be running more oil in the mix. I believe 50:1 is even a little “lean” on the oil. After you run that engine hard for a while, you might learn to love it. 
Edit:
Looks like it has been barely used, and cleaned after salt water use!
Should get that boat up on plane(with patience and experimenting with load distribution), and get you 15-20 Mph.
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