Nov 7th - Electrical Hat Today

Today I wore my electricians hat. After a trip to a couple of stores, more on that later, I changed out the entry panel in Kelsey & Andy's garage. The existing box was only an old two fuse box, but it was fed by 3- #8's. I installed a 100 amp panel, the #8's aren't good for 100 amp but it was cheap and the #8's are on a breaker in the main panel in their house. The new panel had space for a 30 amp 220v breaker for an outlet for "shore power" for our RV. Previously we were only plugged in with an extension cord. I limited the draw on the cord to 15 amps. It was enough for lights and keeping the house batteries charged. Now we have 30 amps on each of two 120 volt legs. It isn't enough to provide full capacity for everything running at once but it will be more than adequate for our needs while we are here.

The charger on my Hitachi cordless tools quit working while in Logan Valley. I called Hitachi, told them I bought the tool set last April and they told me to take the charger to any service center and exchange it for a new one. I checked their web site for service centers and found the address of "The Tool Barn" in Barnett, MO, about 13 miles from our granddaughters. We drove over there this morning. It is in the middle of nowhere! I walked in, told them my problem, showed them my receipt for the cordless tools, which I had purchased from Costco, and the guy grabbed a new charger off a rack and handed it to me. Check the place out at http://www.toolbarnllc.com/ and yes the place looks like the photo.

Saturday night at supper Elaine, Kelsey's mother-in-law, told us about some stores over in the area of The Tool Barn. When we left we went on west another mile or so and found the Dutch Country Store.

Below is the road we drove to get back to the store.

 This is the store. I'm not sure what is in the building on the right.

 Employee benefits include a stable for your horse and garage to park your buggy.

It was an interesting place to go.

It rained on and off most of today but that was okay because I mostly worked in the garage. Tomorrow I plan on wearing my carpenter's hat while starting some trim work in the house.

Good night to all and may God bless you and yours.