Mind boggling attention

[Josh]

I suppose they are fabricating the arrays into different thicknesses of steel and aluminum and they can borrow someone’s rail factory at night to make a custom track. Still…it feels so over-the-top crazy.

[Josh]

So far I’ve applied two coats of polyurethane to the bottom curve and bottom of the back of the two tracks. I haven’t tried to put any on the inside of the tracks. This strategy works better for the “near” track, where the inside is facing away from the rest of house. The other track doesn’t have as good an angle and is a bit further away. Both tracks go mostly through the wall of plastic on the inner side of the garage, but the near track can shoot through the concrete floor to where I sleep.

It’s looking like the polyurethane is an interative fix, but I’m not sure how many iterations I need or whether I’ll end up needing to mess with the inside of the far track.

[Josh]

So far so good. The door itself operates more smoothly than the one it replaced, because I had bent those tracks in the process of locking them to keep Spook out and then forgetting about the lock and trying to open the door.

I don’t know how it is possible to install new tracks in 10-12 minutes, I guess I’d have to watch a video to see the technique.

[Josh]

Now I see what the ladder truck was doing on Sunday when dropped Riley off. Trying to install a new EMF gun drip edge behind the sun porch in back. It didn’t get connected quite right and so a new or old section is hanging down. I am going to try and nail it back while I drill holes in the new section.

[Josh]

The newly replaced drip edge is a different design. It’s thick and hard. Probably all carbonite except for the electronics. It’s taking a long time to drill. If it was warmer out I’d try using the polyurethane, though it would be harder for me to notice when that got swapped out.

[Josh]

It is pretty hard stuff, and the outer coating is especially hard. Drilling is like boring with a very tiny sander.

[Josh]

There’s another piece of metal in the soffet/gutter assembly that was replaced. About a 3 foot section was cut out and replaced with the new hard, shooting version of the EMF steel, near an inner corner in back.

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