free materials, and rounding the corner.
Friday Morning , again, marks the beginning of my weekend. My chain saw is in the shop, with a stuck air inlet valve for the gas tank, so today's jobs included working under my kitchen sink to find a leak, and working on Union Station. I had thought the leak was a drain leak, as the drain pipe comes in at an odd location. Running new drain pipes in my 130 year old kitchen, I had to avoid a unplanned yellow poplar 2 X 10, which is actually 2 x 10 inches, unlike that stuff they try to call lumber nowadays. That and putting the sink directly under a new octagonal window, turned my drain pipes under the sink into a genuine monkey puzzle . with the nature of under sink storage, there was too much stuff down there, so I figured stuff pushing on the slip joints caused a drain leak. after getting it all cleared and cleaned out, it turns out the leak was on the supply side, where the hose to the sprayer fastens to the sprayer.
The next wall of the tower is going quickly, as the corner between two buttresses was done with the first wall.
On my list for tomorrow, haircut pick up chain saw , and shop for plumbing supplies. In the mean time I rounded the corner and started to do stone work on the possum Hollow side of the Union Station.
a good surplus source for closed cell foam, like what I'm using to cave the stonework from, are old meat trays . Instead of throwing them out I wash them thoroughly, and cut the flat parts out. These chunks of foam carve well, don't cost you anything except the amount of time you spend washing them minus what you would spend throwing them away.
they would be ideal for smaller buildings, they have the advantage over foam core, in that there is no paper to absorb moisture and warp. The close formed closed cell plastic carves well. the yellow foam in the building comes from chicken and pork trays.