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| Lining up to cut some unistrut... |
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| Cutting unistrut - look at those sparks!!! |
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| One piece cut! |
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| Mark for drilling of hole for hinge |
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| After cutting the unistrut, it is pretty rough on the end... |
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| Grinding off the rough edges... |
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| Drilling the hole for the hinge |
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| Drilling |
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| We need hinged racks over items that we need to be able to get to on the roof - like the storage pods. Michael got the first two panels installed in no time... but we got slowed down when dealing with the hinged panels. We finally got the first hinged one completed late on Wednesday (3/14). |
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| We tried several designs before landing on this one... |
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| All the existing items on the roof make it VERY challenging - designs that would work for the hinge at the end that is closest to the camera position didn't work at the other end because of the roof vent that is there. But, we got one up and working... then set about to duplicate that for over the tire and the other storage pod. Unfortunately, the gas struts that we had gotten from O'Reilly were all that they had in the Phoenix area! After calling many places, we found that Pep Boys could get them in by today (Friday, 3/16). |
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| I don't *just* take pictures.... sometimes I do some work too! |
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| It looks like most of the sharp edges are smoothed off! |
We could never have done this without Michael - he is so knowledgeable, about solar, and Bluebirds, and machine-shop things! Can't say how grateful we are for his work on this for us!
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