Thread: Buggar bum basturd!! I NEED ELECTRICITY!!

Bugger, Dingo! We'd have missed you, mate. :eek:

Either run some power or go Darkside. Me, I'd run the power.

If your wiring is not recent and run with 20amp capacity, don't try this one!

Just run 2 extension cords from the house power to the shed - one to the lights and one to the machinery power board - the power board with only have a 10amp rating, so any prolonged use with machinery near 10 amps will cause it to overheat & cut out - used to happen to me with my old stick welder in summer, but not in winter, I just had to go have a rest for 15 minutes or so, then re-start.

Another, possibly cheaper, idea: - get one of those LED keychain lights (the little <$10 ones), screw/bolt it to a piece of aluminium strip, then bolt that to your bandsaw. You can then bend it so the light shines on your cut mark - a lot cheaper than getting one of the hi-tech light arrangements from the Big Boys tool stores.

How come I only understood about three words in every sentence?

Is it because I'm American???


Faced with much the same problem a couple of years ago, I had an electrician come out he told what needed to be done. I told him to come back in a week and I proceeded to do all the 'grunt work'. Drilling through cinderblock walls, digging trench, running conduit and pulling wires, etc...

In a week he returned and it only took him an hour to do the hookups. I saved a pile of green (which I then spent on tools and beer) and everyone was happy.

Originally Posted by ciscokid

How come I only understood about three words in every sentence?
Is it because I'm American???

ROTF [F****n] LOL

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You Bustard!!!!! My Ribs aree sore and Gut's aching from Laughing

How come the the only Septics I meet in person
Have no SOH at at ALL.

CiscoKid, you crack me up

Originally Posted by ciscokid

How come I only understood about three words in every sentence?

Is it because I'm American???

:eek: Damn! You figured me out!! Buggar!

No seriously I carefully choose me words on the net just so I can come across clear as mud to anyone other than an Aussie... see Im conspiring... shhhh dont tell anyone okay?

One day I will be able to extrapolate on the reasons behind all the secret words and phrases but it cant be now... your just too young... no sorry homeland security fbi cia and all that cant be too careful you know

Now about the exention leads... I can ONLY run one... since I have only one outlet outside the house and that runs the hot water system which by the way is on the blink and cant be switched off unless we dont want hot water which really isnt needed just now seeing as the weathers nice and warm but you know sheilas gotta have their warm barfs and the 16 year old daughter tends to get rather phissed of with me if I come marchin into her bedroom and open her window lean out and bring the extention lead in through the window at 5am to plug into her outlet

So only one outlet and presently that has a double adapter stuck in it so the boywonder out in his caravan can have his noise pollution disguised as... well noise And heaven forbid I or anyone else dares unplug his power from his caravan!! So Im sorta in a bit of a bind with regard power anyways... But I do run the extention lead out there!!

Sigh... a little light like you suggest bsrlee would be a great idea... ACTUALLY!!! Ive got one of them magnifyin glasses with a light in it!! Alrighty now to work out how to attach that sucker to the bandsaw!! then I could kill two birds with one stone eh?... mmm but then the times I have used it it sorta confused me an I would turn it aside and peer down at what I was doin... came right close to bonkin me snozzle on a madly whirrling peice of jarrah on the lathe last time I was home just by doin that :eek:

I sure do need power to me shed Any one know a good cheep (as in several cartoons of the finest ale cheep) lectrician in the Bunbury area? mmmm?? heck I dont even care if hes friggin retired is blind as a bat and wears double hearing aids!! I have a future son in law whos an apprentice I can loan him for the day!... I sure do need power to me shed... and yes Im whining!!

Originally Posted by Wild Dingo

...homeland security fbi cia and all that cant be too careful you know

I know. I work in Washington.

Originally Posted by Wild Dingo

... I can ONLY run one... since I have only one outlet outside the house

Forget the outlets. You need proper power. Find the circuit box for your home. Hopefully, there will still be some unused slots for breakers. If not, buy a small extra breaker box. Bust a hole through the side of your house near the breaker box (preferably directly under it). Buy some bury rated conduit. I don't know what they call the stuff down there, but it looks like flexible metal conduit with a thick layer of PVC around it. Run the end of this conduit through the hole in the house and then proceed to run the conduit around your house, clamping it securely as you go, until you get to the point at which it is a straight shot to your shed. At this point it is time to go underground. Start trenching this conduit right on over to your shop and run it right on in. Install a small breaker box on a handy wall, fish some 12 ga. or heavier cable through it, and call an electrician.
At this point, all he has to do is make the connections in your house and then the connections to the box in your shed. (Most houses have gobs of electricity running to them and we rarely use up all of it)
Now you have an operational junction box in your shed from which you can run dedicated circuits to overhead lights, tools, or whatever you like.

I just performed this same operation last Spring running power out to my tiki bar. And yes, my tiki bar needed dedicated power with separate circuits. It's kind of a big tiki bar.

Good luck to ya!

Originally Posted by ciscokid

I know. I work in Washington.

aaaaahhhh shyte!! Im done mates they got me... shhhhhh from here on just whispers okay?

Originally Posted by ciscokid

Forget the outlets. You need proper power. Find the circuit box for your home. Hopefully, there will still be some unused slots for breakers. If not, buy a small extra breaker box. Bust a hole through the side of your house near the breaker box (preferably directly under it). Buy some bury rated conduit. I don't know what they call the stuff down there, but it looks like flexible metal conduit with a thick layer of PVC around it. Run the end of this conduit through the hole in the house and then proceed to run the conduit around your house, clamping it securely as you go, until you get to the point at which it is a straight shot to your shed. At this point it is time to go underground. Start trenching this conduit right on over to your shop and run it right on in. Install a small breaker box on a handy wall, fish some 12 ga. or heavier cable through it, and call an electrician.
At this point, all he has to do is make the connections in your house and then the connections to the box in your shed. (Most houses have gobs of electricity running to them and we rarely use up all of it)
Now you have an operational junction box in your shed from which you can run dedicated circuits to overhead lights, tools, or whatever you like.

You aint seen the wiring in this place have you? oooh its a true blue ridgey didge Aussie do it yerselfer this one I can tell yer... its got wiring from the 40s all the way through to new stuff from last year just hodge podged together... seriously!! Young Ben got up in the roof a few months back to check it out (apprentice electrician and qual lighting tech) and came scampering back down faster than a mating goanna on heat!... terrified him! The old part of the house is wired using that old time material covered stuff remember that? well one part of the house has that the main part of the house has newer stuff circa 1950-1960s and its in as near as he could tell sorta mmmm okay condition and the newer part is wired with a combo of the two... the blokes that "fixed" the wiring last year after the flood didnt and why the place didnt burn to the ground is beyond him (he and his boss came back and fixed all the problem areas new clips new wire to replace the wornout stuff but no major rewiring) and the underneath of the house is just as bad... how it ever passed ANY test is beyond them! Personally I dont think anyone has bothered testing anything... they just wired up as they needed to go an left anything they didnt need to alter... mind you the plumbings the same

Not making excuses just the way this damned house is... the power box Id not touch with a barge pole and Ben has his worries with it as well... sigh no Im gonna have to hang tuff for a few more months yet I suppose until we decide on which design of house we want and order the sodding thing at which time we will get Ben and his boss back and they can run a separate line out to the new place wiring up the shed as they go past... then once thats up we can DEMOLISH this nightmare of a house

Oh and I rightly blamer her bloody highness for all this!! Well if we had moved to kalgoorlie like Id proposed we would not be here and wouldnt have these problems... but no she bein her bloody highness the legendary possumpoop an master slave driver extraudinair who always knows best wanted this place sheilas sheesh cant give em an inch can we

Originally Posted by ciscokid

I just performed this same operation last Spring running power out to my tiki bar. And yes, my tiki bar needed dedicated power with separate circuits. It's kind of a big tiki bar.

Good luck to ya!

Show us the bar!!! Its bloody beer oclock down here and I want ideas!

Forget the electricity,

there is a simple and cheap solution,

become a darksider:eek:

Originally Posted by echnidna

Forget the electricity,

there is a simple and cheap solution,

become a darksider:eek:

You are worryin me young Bob I kinda like me modcons nowadays

Originally Posted by Wild Dingo

:eek: Damn! You figured me out!! Buggar!

No seriously I carefully choose me words on the net just so I can come across clear as mud to anyone other than an Aussie...
and yes Im whining!!

WD,
I once tried to explain "No Wucken Furries" to some Septics, without using any coarse Language.
Towards the end I commented that it might seem
"As clear as mud"

I then had 2 things to still explain
HEY!!
Any NON Aussies on here,
Yes you are welcome.

I do not include K1W1s as they KNOW they are always welcome,
even though we put heaps on one another

Mate... I cant say two friggin words to a septic without having to go into a long translation!! Really I do think their edjoomakashun system sucks to heck an gone... they SHOULD no read MUST get Aussie into their "english" classes!! :mad:

Oh an why in bloody blue blazes do we teach our hoonberries "english" for anyways? I mean were bloody Aussies teach the little buggars AUSSIE!!! An yous seppos should teach your nippers seppo too... buggar the english! let the poms speak that lingo

Hey Wild Dingo, I was just kiddin' you when I said I didn't understand you. Clear as mud, mate. You want a picture of my tiki bar? Build one of these in your back yard. Right next to the billabong. It's always beer o'clock here. Although I prefer a nice ale over watered down Budweiser.
The next shot is a how to on how to find your wiring. I'm on Christmas holidays here and my better three quarters has been whining about not wanting a certain wall in the house. Keeps talking about how she would just like it gone. So I walk in yesterday morning with a sledge hammer and a reciprocating saw. You shoulda seen her eyes! Two hours later the wall is gone and I'm sending her for a broom and a dust bin. I got more work ahead of me patching things up and all but the wall is no more.
Maybe she'll think twice before complaining about those picture windows. One good dining room chair should handle one of those! You ever get to Washington, you stop in and have a beer. We'll cook a pig. (I raise pigs and black Angus cattle, you know)

It's really hot here, Ciscoe. You kill the pig and we'll put on our cossies and be over for a swim.

Hey Cisco,

Since Dingo can't make it, I'll be up in Charlottesville Saturday and it would serve you right if I tooled up toward your place. If you have livestock, I'm guessing Leesburg area.