[pianotech] OT- Winter

[Paul T Williams]

Not so snowey here Ron.  but I think we're only going to get to 3 or 
4....lots of "light wind, too" ,  you know the drill, eh.  wind chill of 
-25.  Sometimes I wonder why I live in the dead center mid-west!!

Hang in there.  supposed to be a balmy 45 by Saturday.  shorts and BBQ 
weather, eh?

Paul




From:
Al Guecia/Allied PianoCraft <alliedpianocraft at hotmail.com>
To:
pianotech at ptg.org
Date:
02/08/2011 12:06 PM
Subject:
Re: [pianotech] OT- Winter



That's the thing about a good piano technician, You've got to know a 
little of everything, and be able to think your way out of most jams :-).

Nice work.

Al -
High Point, NC



On Feb 8, 2011, at 12:32 PM, Ron Nossaman wrote:


Today, we're being treated to a bit of "light " snow, at 9°F. Total 
accumulation of said "light" snow through tomorrow is forecast at 6"-11". 
At least this one isn't accompanied by the "light" breeze that can and 
does also relocate mobile home parks in this part of the country.

Of more immediate interest, to me at least, is the furnace. It's an 
outdoor unit, and the combustion air blower started making bearing self 
destruct noises late Friday afternoon (naturally). The part was put in the 
queue to be ordered Monday morning first thing. They're made right here in 
Wichita, but the replacement part has to come from Las Vegas - naturally. 
So sometime around 4:00-5:00 am Monday, the blower died. No blower, no 
fire. Oh boy! Yesterday was fairly pleasant, so I spent the day cutting up 
a bunch of firewood, and jury rigging a heat source. The furnace in the 
attached shop still works, so I hung a squirrel cage blower in a normally 
closed window into the utility room so it blew through and into the 
kitchen, where I stationed a big Vornado fan to blast it into the living 
room. Jacking the shop heat up to 76° and turning on the fans eventually 
got the house up to about 63° with some fine tuning of fan speeds and 
direction, which is about where it is now. Not bad, considering! The 
furnace part ought to be in tomorrow so if my fans keep working, we're 
fine. So far, this is way nicer than the week we spent without electricity 
in similar temperatures one winter after an ice storm took the power lines 
down all over the area.

As I observed to my HVAC professional neighbor, "Furnaces never break down 
in July". At least not at this latitude. He agreed.
Ron N



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