Perhaps it's time.

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Cooler, much cooler by feel if not really.  It's still at 75 in here, ~70 out there.  That should be cool enough to tinker.  If I work more slowly, I don't raise core temp, which allows me to work longer and better.  At least with regards to the projects at hand.  If it's just muscle work, it's best to speed through.  That has a serious restriction, more of time than output.  I can get the cuts to the pipes, check how everything fits, and see if the elbows are right.  I looked at several places in town.  What I have for pvc elbows is pretty much all I could find.  Plumbing supply to the big boxes.  While there is the heat gun, that will only work up to a point.  I am not absolutely certain that will work with the elbows either.  Perhaps heated in the vice, though even that will take some finesse.  Crushing or deforming would be easy to do.  Fixable, but at some point there simply might not be enough tolerance left in the structure.

After I have done that, or what I can, I may try to rig the mini drill press for the shelf arms.  I'm not absolutely sure what size drill is needed.  The suction cups have a quad-spade shape, that compresses into a hole, then expands to keep it attached.  Too big and it won't stay in, too small and it won't fit.  Thankfully there is enough room on each shelf to make many errors, to be honest, and still have enough right sized holes.  I figure two or three holes is all that will be needed, per arm.  Each arm is about 18 inches.  Yeah.  Still, I am hoping between this and that to hit the right size first shot.  It's possible.

Depending on where I get on what, I will consider the rest of the day.  I won't do any actual drilling until daytime.  If this was vital, sure.  But it's not.  I do honestly try to be a good neighbor.  I am not one, but sometimes all I have is good will.  This time, I can use practicality.  I've had neighbors work late, but that's vital, for business and such.  If anything, through time, I sort of felt sorry for them having to work so late.  And obviously so hard.  Jealous a bit.  Wanted to go visit, see if I could help, but I knew better.  That was back before my heart was being treated, or even diagnosed.  And it was late, would have spooked and probably not been all that welcome.  Imagine Lurch knocking on your garage door at 3:00, even if you are awake and working.  You rang?

I'll try to keep the noise down.  But no electric tools are required, no hammering.  Just measuring and guessing.  I could make some huge mistakes with the structure.  I'm still not exactly sure how to secure it to the kayak.  Yes, the kayak had d-rings every, say, three to four feet.  If I put the joints right on those, I still have to figure out how to secure them.  I could drill holes, in the joints or in the pipes, and tie them on.  There are a number of ways.  I just don't know what would be strongest, yet easy to take down and set up, but not a risk should heavy winds or water hit.  I'm not sure just how much trouble that could cause while up, how much force it would take.  It might be a bonus in really bad weather, or a fatal mistake.  It's all experimental.  Only one way to find out.

If the joints just don't work, I may have to search online.  I have done searches before, for other fittings, to no success.  I might just have to dig deeper.  I have some net-mojo, if pressed.  And I really did use some of that.  But the thing that goes with mojo is time.  It's the two together that solves problems.  Here's to hoping it just works. 

I do need to pick up something from the post office and order another medicine.  This time I'll keep up on the medicine, putting a post it to remember to check if I haven't heard in two days.  I can see they are doing what they can to cause troubles for me, in every way.  Not even sure keeping tabs will help, but it's all I can do.  They really do need to go through the V.A. with a fine toothed comb and pick out the ones who hate vets and doing their job, especially the crossover.  It almost seems as if there is a requirement to have veterans to work at those places?  Well, it's pronounced, and yeah... we hear ya.

Later.