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    OT: Painting our house

    in General Klipsch Info

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    The CWF actually sounds pretty good as I'm sure it protects the wood but my house is already stained a dark brownish red and my wife wants to change the color to something a little lighter...and we all know who's going to win that argument. Is the CWF only to be used on bare wood?

    CWF kinda looks like varnish to me. As far as I know, it comes in "clear" and "cedar tone". We have always used the cedar tone.

    Ours certainly isn't light, but it isn't real dark either. It's probably a little darker than brand new unfinished cedar.

    Every 5 years my painter just pressure washes the house and then sprays the CWF on. He's probably sprayed it 3 or 4 tmes for me over the past 18 years.

    Perhaps a serious pressure washing with mineral spirits would take some of the dark stain color out of yours and then CWF it?
    I say that because one of the times that my house was sprayed, the painter's workers got a totally different product than CWF and sprayed it instead.
    I came home and freaked. It looked like they had sprayed it with orange paint. It looked awful.
    I called the painter and told him to get that stuff off of there before it totally dries.
    I remember him telling me that he thought he bought every gallon of mineral spirits in town getting that stuff off.
    It was definately lighter after the mineral spirit wash, but looked as gorgeous as ever when he came back and sprayed the CWF.
    He probably lost a fair amount of money on that job, but the upside was that we didn't see any bugs for a long time after that.

    OT: Painting our house

    in General Klipsch Info

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    endover,

    It sounds like my house has the same "rough side out" cedar siding that you have. What part of Florida are you in?

    I have my house sprayed about every 5 years with "CWF" (Clear or Cedar Wood Finish) with the cedar tint in it and w/UV protection . Available at Home Depot.

    The wood looks gorgeous, especially right after its been freshly sprayed. This finish maintains and beautifies the natural cedar wood look.

    It does seems to dry out and gets some mildew on the bottom after 4-5 years. I guess the rain & sun gets to it.

    My painter says it would probaly last longer if I had gutters to keep some of the water off it.

    Another cedar wood house in my neighborhood used to look very similar to mine and then they went & painted it with dark brown paint.

    It now looks horrible. IMO they totally ruined their "cedar wood look".

    Wade

    PINCHED NERVE RELIEF

    in General Klipsch Info

    Posted

    In my case, 3 years ago I had intermittent severe neck pain and also severe right elbow pain with numbing fingers. The elbow pain felt like whacking your funny bone and would last for hours.

    I tried all the usual things to no avail. I had been steadily on vicodin for sveral months and wanted to stop them. When the symtoms started to get worse, I got a CT scan and an MRI and went to see a neurosurgeon. I had 3 herniated discs, C5,C6 & C7 I believe, and also part of the vertebrea around them was pressing on a nerve root.

    He told me that if I didn't have the fusion surgery that I likely would end up paralyzed in at least my right arm.
    Even though it was a scary procedure, I chose to go ahead and have the surgery, knowing that my neurosurgeon was known as the best "neck guy" around and he had done the procedure many times before with good results.

    Besides removing the 3 discs, he had to grind away the section of vertebrae that was pressing on the nerve root.
    He then installed 1 large bone graft to replace the discs and held it all together with a titanium plate and screws.

    The operation was a complete success and recovery was very fast. I did not even have to wear a neck brace due to the titanium plate.

    Today, I have zero neck pain, zero elbow pain and no fingers numbing.
    Also, I have at least 95 percent of my neck mobility. Even more than before the surgery since the pain was restricting.

    I did end up with one minor side efect symptom though. I lost some of the fine motor skills in my right hand which totally changed my signature and effects my hand writing to a small degree, but no big deal. I'll take that over the pain anyday.

    I would not hesitate to recommend this type of surgery if you know you have a good surgeon.
    I know of at least 3 other people who have had similar surgeries, all with excellent results.
    Although, I did hear about another person who had a similar surgery and in his case his body rejected the bone graft and he ended up with some paralysis.
    I believe that is rare though.

    Take care

    Tube schematic for a Hammond chord organ, type S-6 ?

    in Technical/Restorations

    Posted

    Here's a B3 schematic, if the tube's in the power supply it'll almost certainly be a 6X4 & is missing because they are somewhat failiure prone!

    Thanks Phil,

    Yes the missing tube is in the power supply which has 2 tube soockets.
    The tube that is there is a 5U4 and the other socket definitely takes a different tube.
    Do you think the missing tube should be a 6X4 ?

    Thanks again for the help.

    Wade

    What does this economic down turn mean to you in real terms

    in General Klipsch Info

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    Not so good for me.

    I've been self-employed for 32 years, owning a 6 bay auto repair shop on a busy street.
    Business has been steadily declining for over 5 years now and currently is terrible.

    I've been hanging on by a thread for awhile now, just trying to stay in business.
    I've tapped every financial source available to me just to funnel money into the business to keep it running and keep my 2 employees in a job.
    I have not laid anyone off and have not reduced anyone's salaries.

    I am now tapped out and don't know how much longer I can remain open, unless business seriously picks up.
    I don't have any savings, retirement accounts, nothing to fall back on. I wouldn't even qualify for unemployment.
    I am almost 56 years old and highly unlikely to be employable in this market.

    The only thing I do have is the reputable 32 year old business that I built and the real estate it occupies.
    Although now would not be a good time to try to sell it.

    My wife works for a knee surgeon who is expected to retire his practice within a year.
    Without that job we will be without health insurance, which is a scary thing since I have had 6 surgeries in the last 5 years and she has had 2.

    Sounds kinda bleak I know, especially as I write all this, but I don't feel nearly as bad as it sounds.

    I have a lot of faith and know that God is my source, not the world, so I just continue to hope and pray.

    Need some legal/auto

    in General Klipsch Info

    Posted

    You're right. It's quite possible they're being entirely truthful but unfortunately a good many of us come to expect the worst. It kind of gets down to how much you're willing to trust your mechanic as most aren't going to make stuff up. I've had no real problems with the ones we've used locally.

    You're absolutely right. It is definately a matter of trust.

    There are far more reputable, competent & honest repair shops / technicians than ther are bad ones.
    It's just that the bad ones give us a bad name.

    The disturbing thing to me is when people automatically assume that a shop, whether mine or someone elses is trying rip them off or sell them something they don't need. Granted this does happen, but not in my shop and not in many other shops that I am familiar with.

    In my opinion I think people should give the shop / dealership / tech the benefit of the doubt and conduct business on the basis of trust unless they do something to betray that trust.

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