My Desultory Blog

RichC | December 10, 2020

Well, it happened again. The stainless steel heater element pipe in our Caldera Hot Tub has failed again (last time was 2013). There must be some electrolysis accelerating the corrosion unless the stainless steel tubing is just that poor of quality? On the other hand, like the repair guy commented, your hot tub is far […]

Category: Archive, Personal, Photos, Recreation, TBT | No Comments »
Tags: backporch, backyard, caldara, corrosion, element, heater, hot tub, hottub, porch, repair, spa, TBT, throwback, thursday

RichC | May 26, 2020

It is never as easy as expected? I’m accustom to opening the pool each season now that I’ve been doing it for 20+ years in Cincinnati and another 5 or so in Hudson before that. Each season it should get easier, right? Nope. There always something … and the job is MUCH more challenging to […]

Category: Archive, Personal, Photos, To-Do, Weather | No Comments »
Tags: bearings, chores, clean, corrosion, electrical, house, motor, opening, pool, pump, rebuild, yard

RichC | November 15, 2019

  While looking to purchase a can of the highly regarded CRC Heavy Duty Corrosion Inhibitor, the shipping can sometimes become an eye opener. Perhaps Amazon Prime shipping is a good thing? (let’s hope this is an Ace Hardware – Google Shopping glitch?)

Category: Humor, Shopping, Technology, Tools | No Comments »
Tags: ace hardware, corrosion, crc, google, Humor, inhibitor, online, Shopping, tech friday, techfriday

RichC | March 19, 2019

Nothing like getting bogged down in wasting a weekend trying to repair a quartz clock that should just be replaced! I had the best of intentions on Saturday morning as I was up early and had my weekend project list ready to start. Initially I started to organize my workbench after ordering new bearings and […]

Category: Misc, Personal, Photos, Sailing | No Comments »
Tags: ani gif, anigif, battery, clock, corrosion, encore, gears, project, quartz, sailboat, workshop

RichC | October 22, 2018

In 2016 my friend Jeff gave me his old grill as I finally gave up on our well loved and well used old aluminum shell grill. His was a 4 burner Charbroil propane model that I was able to cleaned up, converted to natural gas and add some new internal parts. It has worked great […]

Category: Archive, Misc, Shopping | No Comments »
Tags: burners, charbroil, corrosion, ebay, grill, jeffp, parts, repair, stainless, steel

RichC | June 16, 2015

The photo above is not mine (thankfully) but from a sailing aquaintance anchoring in SE Asia. He has been noticing fairly rapid chain corrosion in only 3 years and in particular on his anchor shackle. It spends a significant amount of time under the saltwater and we suspect that the shackle of inferior grade — […]

Category: Sailing | No Comments »
Tags: anchor, chain, corrosion, encore, rust, sailboat, shackle