{"id":14215,"date":"2018-08-12T19:57:04","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T17:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=14215"},"modified":"2018-08-12T19:59:16","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T17:59:16","slug":"finishing-off-the-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/finishing-off-the-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Finishing off the job"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’d thought about going flying this morning but didn’t have enough time to before the temperature began escalating after I’d visited Madeleine and Manja, Victor’s daughter, selling off their ‘junk’ at today’s Fleurac flea market. But just as well, because it gave me the chance to finish off making good after yesterday’s plumbing repair.<\/p>\n

My idea was to make a simple thin plywood panel that could be slotted over the water supply inlet ball valve, thus holding it at its bottom, and held in place at its top by the cupboard shelf. And it worked fine as the following shots show.<\/p>\n

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I had a suitable plywood offcut that I cut the panel itself out of using a small electric angle grinder with a thin cutting wheel. It was the first time that I’d done that and I found that the result was far better than using a jig or circular saw which always ends up fraying the cut edge of the plywood. That didn’t happen with the angle grinder.<\/p>\n

I also cut out the slot for the ball valve handle using the same tool and it made a neat enough job. I just gave the panel a coat of white spray gloss and it was dry enough to put in place after being outside for ony a few minutes in the hot sun.<\/p>\n

The cupboard back panel is still stained from the leak and I couldn’t do anything about that today as I didn’t have any of the special paint that you need to cover water stains, so I’ll have to deal with that later.<\/p>\n

So that was that – job done. I’ve got my cupboard back and also my kitchen table that many of the cupboard’s contacts have been standing on for …errr… several weeks (months actually). <\/p>\n

And the good news is that having got this job out of the way, my decks are clear to start on the Savannah’s wing this week. All I’ll then need is to get my car back repaired and things will start to look as though they’re getting back into shape again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’d thought about going flying this morning but didn’t have enough time to before the temperature began escalating after I’d visited Madeleine and Manja, Victor’s daughter, selling off their ‘junk’ at today’s Fleurac flea market. But just as well, because it gave me the chance to finish off making good after yesterday’s plumbing repair. My … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14215"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14223,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14215\/revisions\/14223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}