What home improvement work did you do today?

Yeah the videos I always see are with it closed and using two pegs/drift bars to tighten it to an iffy preload.

 

Yes, pics above worth 1,000 words.

Why speak lot word if few work.

 

Oh, you have different springs, I’ve got the round ones at the inside of the opening across the top

 

Torsion springs? Yeah I don’t f with those. These are extension springs counteracting weight of the door to not murder your motor.

 

Says the novelist……

 

Moi?! Oh la vache!

 

I got my projector screen drywall repainted and the new projector tested out. I went with a shade lighter of neutral gray this time, Olympus White. The projector will do 3840x2160 4K, but I'm not set up for that yet. It should upscale things but I'll have to see when that happens. Image and text are definitely crisper and brighter.

Broadcast TV I'm still just watching over the air with an antenna in the attic. Next step at some point is to mount the new projector to the ceiling, will go in a different place than the old one, this one has a shorter throw.

 

That's what i was thinking.
I don't see those around here, just the big torsion spring above the header.

I've been in a shop when one of those let loose on a 14' door. Sounded like a 12ga.

 

It'll fill with water just from condensation.

If it was my house, and there are no splices or damage to the jacket underground I'd just leave it. But i suppose if you wanted to fix it, at least replaced the underground section with UF and put a weatherproof junction box at the base of the post and splice there to the romex just above ground.

If the romex will move in the pipe, you could pull it out and pull in THWN wire and you'd only have to dig up the ends to add the junction boxes. Dawn soap makes good lube.

 

This is the only type of door I’ve ever seen. This and screw-drive. I mean, I’ve seen others on TV and in videos, but this style of garage door setup with extension springs is absurdly common in the south/southeastern US.

 

If you got an android phone which one would you get. Samsung, Pixel, or?

 

What do you got against garage doors, huh?

 

lol, my multiple thread navigating needs some work that’s for sure.

 

Pixel, bonus they're on sale right now.

 

Yeah, I’d skip also. But if I had no choice, I’d definitely rely on Samsung over Google any day.

 

BlackBerry it is.

 

yeah it’s my wife. She’s been talking about getting a new phone for years, and she has some LG POS. She’s finally talking more seriously about it because her friends have a Samsung 24 something. All I know is Apple. I tried an Android phone years ago, and I got tired of having to customize it, and then the customizing would go away when it updated. The I phone just does its thing, without a lot of brain damage. I just need my phone to be a basic tool. I’ve tried to talk her into IPhone for years, and damnit I give up. If she was not on android my life would be easier that’s for sure. We can’t even share a simple shopping list.

 

The customization losses haven't happened on Android for a long time. The Pixel is just basically plain jane Android, Samsung adds their flavor on top of it.

 

Former (unless the next gig lands me back in it) decades long technologist here.

Apple’s ecosystem is a no-brainer. But in my dealings with Android, from embedded devices to tablets to phones and so on, Samsung’s Galaxy world of devices exceeds anything Google can directly make to the point Google (early on, maybe now) had Samsung manufacturing devices for them. You can’t go wrong with anything in the Galaxy realm. People geek out on the flexibility of Android devices, I get it. But I honestly hate how convoluted Android devices tend to be, and how OS-version-limited they seem to be to me. That’s oversimplifying it to a grandiose degree but … yeah.

tl;dr - stick with Samsung/Galaxy on Android phones. LG for smart TVs and their appliances are pretty solid. Apple on phones if you don’t want headaches. And if you just get a MacBook for any reason, avoid the touchbar like the plague if you can, it was a colossal fucking failure which Apple has failed to address with their customers.

 

Totally get it. Sorry if I seemed short - been a hell of a week so far and was coming off of a 22-hour day of work and travel.

Primary concerns are

1. Wood isn’t watertight, and it inherently contains moisture
2. The blue plastic boxes aren’t sealed in any way, allowing moisture to get into that space and into your wiring
3. Standard romex will deteriorate quickly with any exposure, and the paper core will wick moisture through the jacket and down the length.
4. Wires should have some air around them (direct burial rated wire when in the ground being an obvious exception). Conduit fill volume is 40% Max of the total cross section so that heat can dissipate.

What I would consider is to split the post lengthwise diagonally (hides the seam when you glue it back together).
Route out a channel down the center to run the conduit - you can even oversize so long as the strength is still there. Mount a sealed box near the bottom that has threaded connection and line that up with the centered channel so that you can put a threaded vertical conduit up from your underground that you can spin onto it. That will also serve as a pull box and junction point. Then use another sealed box where you want the outlet (or skip the bottom one and run the conduit longer to hit your outlet box). Finally, from the outlet box up to the camera I’d also run it in conduit but that right angle corner will be a little tricky to work out… maybe run some direct-bury rated stuff with seal-tight connectors on the boxes, but still keep it in an open channel down the middle that leaves extra room for heat dissipation. Make your camera mount also a sealed box.

this way, when you attached the gasketed face of the outlet box cover and camera cover to them, your splices are contained in a “sealed” environment instead of the remodel box that lets moisture work into the whole thing. We know that stuff isn’t perfectly sealed but it’s a lot better than the blue box and regular romex

another thought - build the frame out of hollow tube steel and route the wiring inside that (more like a traditional lamp post). Skin the metal post with mitered wood pieces.
Carefully cut the locations of the outlet and camera box and weld in the front face of a box for those that extends out to be flush with your finished wood skin and you’ll have a nice finished product. If the wood ever fails, you can easily just rollover the skin. That post itself will last forever!

Good luck

 

You’re talking about the long springs on either side, not a center torsion bar setup, right?

 

helps if I finish catching up before I respond.

 

It's an older and simpler design compared to the torsion murder springs. Also used on the old single-panel carriage doors.
I've got the same setup in my garage.

 

Absolutely none taken at all,shit the way I see it is,if I'm willing to float out pictures of my personal life on the Blabernet for all to see then I'm also able to accept comments and criticism as well.

Your information makes 100% sense and in this case it's free knowledge for me to run with and I completely appreciate it.
The whole concept of the condensation how the water is created makes sense to me and actually answered questions that I thought of from years back,I had always wondered how water got into conduit that was completely sealed. Well now I know!
Pretty damn cool!

I was going to boar out the post but my concern was the bit drifting after several feet and concerned about structural rigidity. So I took the easy way by routing and making an inlay.
I'm going to pull the post out and re do it,and do it properly for a couple of reasons,I don't leave loose ends when knowing that I'm more than capable to correct it.
1. It'll be done right and I really don't mind the work,it's kinda rewarding to me and secondly Who's to say I'll be around in a few years or even be able to re do it when it fails, because it wasn't done right the first time, I don't want that to be a burden for the Misses.

Thanks again for your honesty and knowledge, this site has been very rewarding to me and I enjoy coming on and reading about just about everything under the sun,this site has more to offer than just truck stuff and I'm glad I stumbled onto it!
Oh BTW it's Friday so you can get ready to kick back and chill the work week is done

Bob