Thursday, July 06, 2006

The sign of a budding engineer or just crazy?

Now I would never call myself an engineer but all this work on the race car has defiantly taught me some things.
So today I had a problem to solve and used these newly obtained skills in finding the solutions. Or maybe I am just a bit crazy !

Problem.
Well I had some bedding that need to go out on the line to dry. Good idea as its nice and warm at the moment and should not take long. Problem was that we have thunderstorms forecast for today. Hmm what to do?

Solution.
So my solution was to put the bedding (sheets, duvet covers etc) on the drying line and to erect my garden parasol in the middle of the spinner so as to protect the drying items from any rain whilst still allowing the drying breeze to pass the items.
I even puts some weights on the base in case the wind picked up.
Here's a picture for your amusement!

Whilst I am posting, you can also see from this image what the bonnet side now looks like with the new fancy catches installed. Its nice to have a bonnet back on the car and even better for it to be secured correctly!

1 comment:

simo said...

What happens if the rain doesn’t fall straight down (as I tend to find is usually the case) you need to be able to set the shade to alter it’s angle so that it can protect from the rain whichever direction the wind is blowing