BreakPoint
Random Posts (An alternate to side discussions)
Looking back at this thread, it looks like I never shared the update about the new arrival. Since I have a Sea Story to share I will cut-n-paste what I posted on another web-site for your technical entertainment.
Another Sea Story!
When I worked for Diebold back in the early 80’s, I had the opportunity work with one of the world’s finest safe crackers. He used to attend conferences etc. and really knew his stuff. Now a bank had lost two employees that knew the combination to a cash machine and nobody else. My coworker found an identical cash machine and carefully measured where the bolts were located and examine the mechanism that activated the bolts. He then proceeded to mark the bolt locations, drilled and tapped the holes and inserted large hex-head bolts into the threaded holes. Then gradually taking one turn at a time on each hex-head pushing the bolts back. The weak link was an aluminum arm that bent back as he tightened the hex-heads. Once the bolts had been pushed back, he backed out his hex-heads and the door opened. Now to complete the job, he replaced the aluminum arm, inserted hardened bolts into the tapped holes and then welded them in place from the inside. Cut them off flush and after some grinding and touch-up paint the chest was more secure than it was when first built! I am taking the time to tell the story now because his skill warrants being recorded. His name was Tommy McMaster just for the record.
It took the supplier three attempts (first to spy out the approach, second called off due to snow and the third requiring a small army of brutes to build ramps and bridges to get from the truck to the basement).
Last night, after settling on the arrangement for the long arms, I installed the dehumidifier that came with the safe. Tucked it away in the back corner of the bottom shelf where it out of sight and doing its job.
The Princess decided an autographed artifact I have ( a copy of LabVIEW 2010 autographed by Jeff K. himself still in the original shrink-wrap) should be one of the first things to go into the safe. The safe comes with a "Cool Pocket" to protect documents incase of a fire. Since we though the LV CD was cool we decided it should be the first thing to go there. The day previous the G-Daughters had selected two Teddy Bears.
Ben
My wife and the rest of the family have been busy. This video offers a glimpse of the activity at the first LLC.
After an afternoon of digging a drainage channel from one part of the excavated crawls space to the other part where the sum pump is located we had what looks like an escape tunnel.
All of the dirt was loaded into 5-gallon buckets and then the bucket brigade transferred them out of the hole and loaded into a DR Powerwagon. We were ready for a break after that. And just to make sure we are optimizing all of our options, I signed the paper-work for the second LLC on Saturday as well.
As is the norm in my family, the questions "Are you having fun?" and "Are you covered in dirt?" have the same answer.
Ben
