Anyone interested in 83 Pace Arrow Tear down and Rebuild?

Took the day off today. Hopefully, tomorrow will be a little bit more productive than today was.

Here we have it sitting in place. It's not fastened yet, but that should not take long to fasten it into place.







By the way, all of the drawers under this side of the counter top, will give us roughly about 28 cu ft of storage space.

Not too shabby!

Moving on. After picking up a piece of 3/4" plywood at the box store.

I moved it into the garage, sliced off a section from the side, and cut that up into pieces that I needed to continue the construction of the frame that I need to support the next set of drawers.

Using the Kreg jig, with glue and screws, I've now gotten the next section of the frame assembled.

Instead of trying to lift a piece of plywood and carry it into the garage all by myself, this makes a wonderful aid.

You know, just like all the off label uses of drugs ---- used for something they were not originally intended for ---- this works well or moving plywood! Wahoo.







I think his falls under the category of working "smarter", not "harder".

This info is worth just what you paid for it. Lol.

Sometimes the answer you need is right in front of you, if you just look around a little bit.

This skateboard has been a wonderful help to me over the years at times.

Here is a pic of the led I have that was used for the preceding comparison. It has 24 led's, 18 of which are spread around the outside, with an additional 6 on the end.

It works well, but I like the string lights more.

in case you want to look at these lights, here is the link to them on Amazon.

Led link.



Overall, I am happy with them, and they are dimmable, which will adjust the amount of energy used, in case you need to conserve some, or just want some mood lighting.

You can't see it in this picture, but I changed the size of the wire between the twisted strip light ends, and the power supply, to a larger size, and this happened.

The supply voltage went down a touch, the amps went up to 4.70, watts at 60.8, and the voltage at the end of any of the strips is now up to 10.80.

Proof that wire size changes things.

Now, with all of the incoming leads tied together, our incoming voltage dropped just a touch to 12.99 instead of the 13.11.

All of the strips are getting the same "high" voltage and our amps jump to 3.94 with the watts at 51.1.

Outgoing voltage on any of the 6 strips end up at 10.42.







You can also see that the lights are much brighter, (obviously), as well as using more amps/watts from the supply side, collectively.

Next step is to take 6 strips, and tie all of the incoming wires together, with the outgoing ends, not connected to anything.