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meetings tonight and tomorrow night so i won't be able to get back to the bench until Friday night, but i'll probably give a few of these ideas a try.
Another thought about the wires from the overhead light mounted on the telephone pole, I don't think that wires running down the outside of a phone pole are unusual at all. In general I believe that the wires making the electrical connection in reality would have run overhead or run exposed down the outside of the pole and underground to a structure. Nothing magical about that. Just an observation about what you see around you everyday.
Now if you'd prefer not to see two wires running down the side of the pole get an ultra thin brass tube to run them through. I make my goose neck lamp connections in O-Scale using very fine Special Shapes Company brass tubing (TT-61X), (Stock#06036).(1/32" x .006 Brass Tubing). The ultra fine lead wires from prewired LED's should pass through this tube very easily. They did for me.
Later, Dave S. Tucson, AZ
The wire most of the time was never exposed so while climbing the pole they were not in the way.
became this:
No, no I'm sure it will last..
while that dried i applied 3/8" square stock to the "ceiling" of the veranda (I drilled a hole in it so i can add a light from above because the light i installed above the door doesn't light it up enough. i think it's because i diffused it with about 1/8" thick clear plastic) and trimmed and glued the gable i sided to the blocks and the edge of the floor.
then, getting back to the flashing, it dried and i applied it to the front valley on the gable roof.
i made a cutting jig for cutting the shingles to fit the valley. in the shingle sheet itself i had to cut out every other row and put it back in the sheet in the opposite postion so all the cuts would make sense. i will align the shingles in their carrier sheet and place this cutting jig over the shingles (after lining up the left edge), and butting a steel straight edge up against the jig, and then cutting all the shingles out with the valley angle cut in them so i'll need to align them according to the edge of the flashing. i hope that made sense. it only will if it works though....
i also measured and cut the ridge support for the main roof. i didn't have any wood left, so i cut it out of 1/4" square styrene. i'm not sure if it'll attach to wood though. gotta either reasearch that or just order some wood.
then i figured out a way to make sure the veranda supports were the same legth, and added two more.
it's a quarter to five and i think i'm gonna crack a beer and call it a day.
Rick
all that time i could have spent shingling.
by the way ed....i love these shingles.
I have no affiliation with Evans Design but i can tell you that they have made so simple a nitwit like me can do it. I strongly suggest you order from them unless you know electronics, then it doesn't matter who you order from.
ixnay on the charging double. i'd have to go back to dpm kits.....
and i finished shingling the gable roof and cut the valleys, but haven't done the ridge cap yet:
i still have alot of figuring to do for the main roof panels......
What do you think a year or two to finish?