{"id":7202,"date":"2013-08-08T21:12:56","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T01:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=7202"},"modified":"2013-08-08T21:12:56","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T01:12:56","slug":"thursday-night-drained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2013\/08\/08\/thursday-night-drained\/","title":{"rendered":"thursday night – Drained"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ahhh.. the virtual end of a long week. I say virtual because I’m on vacation starting today.. I celebrated by meting up wiht my friend Kevin at On The Rise . There I had\u00a0 a new drink creation I invented.. half kambucha, half hard cider.. I call it an ‘outsider’… strong and medicinal. yum !<\/p>\n

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My last official act of my working week was to solve a vexing drain problem.. Gabe was taking a shower the other day when the top of oe of the shampoo bottles slipped down the drain.. there used to be a grill to stop stuff.. but it’s long gone… So.. we had this inch wide plastic top stuck deep in the drain.. which plugged it almost completely. . To make matters worse, the drain trap is completely inaccessible .. Somehow it was installed over a sheetrock ceiling.. and the only way to reach it would be to cut through the ceiling.. ..<\/p>\n

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I\u00a0 couldint see or feel the cap.. but I could reach it with a snake.. unfortunately.. there wasn’t anything to grab.. the smooth end must have been towards me.. .. Next thing I tried was inside out ductape on a cable.. no dice.. i wasn’t enve sure I was reaching it.. \u00a0 Then I had an idea.. i could drill through it.. I created a flexible drill with a bendable gooseneck drive.. and a small drill bit.<\/p>\n

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Unfortunately the hex drive drill bit I had was too long to make the bend in the drain,\u00a0 so out came the cutiff wheel (i love cutoff wheels) ,, I shortened the bit and hex drive holder.. and reinstalled it on the gooseneck<\/p>\n

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I was able to get the gooseneck in there .. pushed it back into the trap and drilled.. a few minutes later. i was able to drill it and pull it nearly out of the drain.. from there a snuc a wire through the whole I’d drilled and eventually pulled it free. soon . I was holding the offending cap n my hand.. Yeahhhhhh !\"IMG_2175\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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a nice cap to my week to be sure..<\/p>\n

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ok.. its only 9 pm but I’m having trouble staying awake.. so I’ll end here..<\/p>\n

more tomorrow from the road..<\/p>\n

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nite all. nite sam<\/p>\n

-me<\/p>\n

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Ahhh.. the virtual end of a long week. I say virtual because I’m on vacation starting today.. I celebrated by meting up wiht my friend Kevin at On The Rise . There I had\u00a0 a new drink creation I invented.. half kambucha, half hard cider.. I call it an ‘outsider’… strong and medicinal. yum ! … Continue reading thursday night – Drained<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[716],"class_list":["post-7202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-drained"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7202"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7211,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7202\/revisions\/7211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}