Tuesday, May 23, 2006
I got’s your extra credit right here punk!
The floor continues, slowly. With finals I have been unable to dedicated as I wanted to be. Its not that I am spending more time at school just that the drama quotient is always very high this time of year. You can tell a kid all term that he is not going to graduate w/o a superhuman effort on his part and he will blow it off. Tell him the same thing 4 days before they walk the stage and watch the sparks fly. All of a sudden he has been a model student all year and your out to get him, you lost all of his school work, just don’t understand the work he has done... on and on. Sure just pat him on the back and say its all right, the Marine corps will understand. What a crock. Is there any extra credit? Yah, I have your extra credit right here you lazy, cheating, mama’s boy hunk of... well as you can see my attitude is not conducive to home repair progress. Drop a tool or have some one pester me with questions while I am working and I blow. Best if I don’t take on much technical stuff right now. I was able to figure out the floor goo sequence. I have to strip and scrape once, then strip again and hit it with a wire brush. Scrub as the stripper dries out and it balls up, easy to remove with a broom. Next scrape the floor with a big Red Devil pant scraper. I then scrub with pure lacquer thinner and a stiff brush. Wipe up the mess with paper towels and repeat. Still plugs the sander but I can get a little farther first. I also don’t have to grind as much of the brown out so there is less to do. My cracks remain goo filled but with the lacquer thinner it seems to dry hard. Hardened crack goo is as good a crack filler as anything else, um I hope. I have included a random sequence of photo’s in no particular order: cat climbing out of the furnace intake the dog chased it into, dog watching the sander and a wide shot of the floor with the sander and the little wheeled cart I made to roll around and counter sink the nails I expose as I sand.
