Two stoves

Finally our 20" stove arrived, 20 days after the internet vendor said it would. A bit miss leading -"Stainless Steel Like".  We thought about sending it back but the more we looked at the color we changed our mind.  Before using our new gas appliance I will call our gas company and have them come up and do a low pressure test.  It's the right thing to do and keeps us proper in the eyes of the propane and insurance company.

All that's left to do in the kitchen is the cabinet doors and drawers

20" Danby Designer

Our other stove is wood burning.  Haven't decided if, or where we will use it.  Now this is not one of the newer air tight models but here in Kingston there are no clean air laws.  We paid $150 for it.  I took it part, cleaned, painted and replaced all the nuts and bolts with stainless.  Not a true restoration on an antique.

We were in Las Cruce visiting our neighbor at work and happened to mention to one of the staff that were we looking for a small wood stove and he said my uncle has one he wants to sell "would you like to follow me and go look at it?".  Not that this was an impulse buy but on the other hand it was.  The uncle also had another one, smaller, which was us, but he would not let go of that one.

This would be called a Sun No. 40 from King Stove and Range Company out of Sheffield Alabama.

While at $150 this stove was inexpensive, to use it properly it will cost us a $1,000 to add a chimney system.

74

Time line would be around 1974, a couple years out of high school. A buddy, Dave and I drove down from Seattle to the Sierra's in mom's 1972 Datsun 1200 with an automatic to go back packing up in the snow fields around Mammoth. I still have that old Kelty pack and blue foam pads. Those were the days. Lost touch with Dave.

I had one of those crush hats and a mustache 

Mom's had hub caps

1971 Datsun 1200

Dad had a MG 1000 until I dropped the clutch in gravel and spun the teath off the fly wheel. Dad junked the car for 50 bucks. Sorry Dad, that was a great little car.





My favorite car from those times was my 1967 Datsun 1600 Roadster. Not as good looking as this restored one but I did have a new paint job.

Ouch

Won't be playing with my trains any time soon. Won't be doing anything. Can't even watch TV. We don't have TV.

Tore off my finger nail last night. Only held on with the last remaining edge. Surprisingly not much blood. Now I will be loosing two nails. 

I was cutting a piece of thin steel with a hack saw in a vice and forgot to stop pushing when the cut was done. Always in a hurry, not for a while now.

Will try and hire a neighbor to help finish up my plumbing job. Not that much to do really, only 8 fittings and three hoses to be installed before the water can be turned on to begin testing and adjusting.

Your right, I wasn't wearing gloves.

I was wearing gloves when I smashed my other finger while moving some logs.

Lots of Pipes

Finally my pump house plumbing job is coming together. Still need a few more parts. One of my suppliers sent the wrong item so those will be here in 3 days. Satomi and I need to make a trip to Las Cruces for the rest.

Today the sewer drain line was completed thanks to Satomi's help again.

Had to add a replacement 4" Combo Wye. Lucky that the last plumber didn't use much glue so the old part came off easy.

Satomi sifted and back filled the trench, good as new!. Better!

Once inside things get tight. Just enough room to add a P-trap and air vent.

Vent line tucked in the corner.

Here we see the two black poly pipe drain lines for back flushing the media tanks.  I plumbed the drain two ways, one to the sewer or by changing the valves, the drain can be diverted to a spare yard line.

Here we see the final pipe routing in the SW corner waiting for the media tanks to be set in place. A little electrical work first.

Tomorrow the 40 gallon retention tank will go in the far left corner.

That's it for now.

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Day four in the tiny pump house

Only hit my head three times today. No pictures since inside the pump house pretty much looks the same as yesterday behind all that equipment. PACKED!!!

Of course the plumbing work is behind all that "Stuff" and like I mentioned, today I went ahead and did a few changes to help me run the drain system and a little better access to the Apollo valves. It is tight. Now I'm on hold waiting on a few more parts.

Tomorrow Satomi and I are heading in to T or C for most of the day. A day off except I will be buying parts for the job so never a day off.

More Pump House

Another long day inside this tiny pump house.  Today was 1" Pex pipe day.  Now that I'm almost done running pipes I already want to change the layout.  We will see.

All the components in place

Heart of the system is the chemical dispensing tank and pump.

Two different media tanks. Both Fleck 5600 units.

Piping behind the two media tanks.

Pipes everywhere!

This is called a Tank Tee.  Water from the pump enters the tank tee on the left through a check valve.  Mounted on the Tee is a 30/50 Pressure regulator switch, a pressure relief valve in case something goes wrong, a drain valve for a garden hose and what I call the main shut off valve.

 Pretty standard set up.  What I see a lot in these old pump houses is the previous guy used a gate valves.  I don't use gate valves, all that turning, I want the water off now!

For this job I purchased 1" Apollo full flow ball valves.  What I like about these valves is the ball is solid stainless steel rather then chrome plated brass which fails here in Kingston with our hard water.  Apollo valves cost more but they last a lot longer.

My beer with dinner tonight sure tasted good!

Well?

Oh Boy! Another well pump house to re plumb. Another one here in Kingston for a neighbor over on North Street.

Due to an Iron Bacteria problem a Chlorination /Dechlorination system has to be installed along with a water softening system for the tank less on demand water heater. All this gear was purchased off the internet from AffordableWater.us

Going to be tight fit and a puzzle of pipes and valves.

The Chlor/Declor system requires a 40 gallon retention tank, a chlorine tank with a pulse pump and a filter media resin tank. 

Whipped out this rack in just under 2 hours. Nice to have steel inventory at my shop for little projects like this.

Yes it's level

Added a 6" steel well casing extension, a new well seal along with a new brass tee. I wonder why the last two professional plumbers that worked in this pump house did not do this.

Reworked the Tank Tee to accept Pex pipe. Still need to replace the dial gauge and drain valve.

Satomi spend most of the day digging in the hot sun.  Had to expose the house sewer drain for the two filtering system drains.

Out with the old.