Day 3140

 I woke up about 8 and played games for a while.  Then it was up for pet stuff and breakfast.  After breakfast I loaded the laundry into the car.  Ellen took it to the laundromat while I stayed home to work.

I had two things on the plate.  The first was to fix the shower sprayer holder.  It works well, but was starting to fail to hold the sprayer up.  I took it to the shed, spread the center part apart a little, and inserted a lock washer.  Hopefully that will cause enough friction to hold the sprayer up.  Tine will tell.

The second thing was to fix the front wheel on the sprayer.  It's always been a pain in the ass.  The rotating wheel catches on the mount that I'd built.  That makes dragging the sprayer around in the gravel ery difficult.  It's just poor design, but I'd never gotten around to fixing it.

I started by trying to keep the current design that used U bolts.  I tried to remove the interference by grinding the ends of the bolts and using thinner nuts.  Unfortunately I ran out of threads on the U bolts.  The effort turned out to be just a waste of time.

Plan B was to build a new mount.  I started by using aluminum, but the parts I was using were too weak.  Then I used steel.  It was harder to cut and drill, but much stronger.  Removing the old mount and attaching the new one was made a lot harder because all I had to hold the sprayer was the two plastic sawhorses.  The sprayer kept falling off.  It was 2 and I was tired by the time I was done.

I went back inside and had a late lunch.  Ellen said the slow leak below the kitchen sink had started again.  I cleaned up the area and put down paper towels.  We'll see.  Then I sat down to watch videos.  That turned into a nap.  When I woke up I continued to watch videos until dinner.  Ellen fixed hamburgers.

After dinner was more videos followed by an early bedtime.