ATM Pier Stance

[Anthony Stillman <atmer@flash.net>]

Status

The cables are laid.  The trench is filled.  The bricks aren't back in place.

The routed cables are:

 1  12 gauge 3 wire power cable (+, -, gnd)
 1  parallel data cable
 1  USB 2.0 cable
 1  RG-59/U coax cable
 1  nylon swine cord

Cause I know I'll never ever, not in a million years, need all this.

After gluing the "conduit" together, I slopped on half a tube of RTV.
After the RTV had cured, I slopped on the other half over it.

I'm hammering out, literally, a make shift equatorial head coupling from
the steel lamp shade of a track lighting fixture.  I've got to get moving
on this.

I hit a little snag.  The pier's too short.  The shed roof is obscuring
some  reasonably useable sky.  The short term solution is a cinder block
and threaded rod.  Long term I'm thinking I like the hollow fluted column
cast from concrete idea that Scott mentioned.

Monday the foundation will be 29 days cured.  My artificial must be
operational by date is only a few weeks away now.  It'll be close.

Anthony


fac et excusa.
Do it and make excuses later.