Alex's Boot Experience

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Started the day by working on the insinkerator hot water under sink heating element.

Spent a good few hours breaking down all of the calcium deposits that built up using citric acid and even occasionally baking soda

Then we went up and chainsawed some dead standing trees that were already felled by nature.

We got a few logs chopped to size and hoisted up onto the truck Roy. He struggled a bit to get up the frozen hill, but he made it up alright.

Took a bit of work to drag the logs over to the truck using some log carriers and ran past Stephen's fallen tent that was felled as well, but by the weight of the snow.

After hoisting the logs onto Roy then getting them down the mountain we went back to descaling and fixing the sink issues. Aside from the hot water spout on the insinkerator spitting out hot water after it turns off, it was also leaking into the sink cabinet.

We had to readjust the sink's pea trap as the threads are shot on the main drain under the sink.

Unfortunately after the insinkerator was all put back together, the gasket was no long doing gaskety things and so the insinkerator is now on the repair shelf with a replacement coming in through Amazon. Can't win every battle, i suppose. but some potential solutions were looked at, such as using cut out gasket or fill in gasket to fix the leaking.

We then spent the remainder of the day getting the sink back in order and cleaning up the mess that existed beneath the sink.

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Thank you for documenting your experiences at the lab!

I love to see what is going on even if I am near the opposite coast.

Hey Alex, I hope you have a wonderful time at Wheaton Labs!

Thank you Timothy and Jeremy, more to follow.

Just fighting to get the GoPro Video imported to linux so I can upload to youtube, etc.