Re: THe NAC Lots-O-Post Thread
I impulse-bought a food chopper on sale at the grocery store for $7. It's getting into chili season and it seemed like that'd be a good investment. :laugh:
Melamine bonding compound (trade name SeamFil) works exactly as they say it does...fast. Too ****ing fast. No wonder they make a retardant for it. By the time I finished the second joint and went back to clean up the first, it was already cured and was a total pain in the ass to clean the excess off. Will probably end up sanding it tomorrow.
Also decided that before I spend too much time getting the siding back up around my new rear door/half bath reconfiguration, I should probably plan my deck out ahead of time and bolt its main support to the house, so I don't have to redo all the siding again once spring comes around and I can start building the deck. Pretty silly to do all the siding trim work around a door that's still floating in space on the side of the house but I don't want to spend the winter with everything exposed either.
Also found out that the "wood" stove is actually a coal stove, handmade by some dude in the Pine Barrens, and that kicks ass. Looks like I'm heating with coal this winter. Should cost me about $250 for the equivalent BTU's of 200+ gallons of heating oil, and run for 12+ hours at a time...basically dump a bucket in the morning before I leave for work, dump one later that night when I get home, and shake the ashes & clinkers out before that second fill.
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