Strobe's

Applying holes for Condensation Evaporation. I used a soldering iron to melt holes into top of plastic lens. I hang my strobes upside down, so the holes are at the bottom.

They worked great I had no problems during 2007 display.

Wire Tree's "small Mini tree's"

I used 1/4" round rod 10' long. I then cut three smaller piece's of 5' off of these. I built a triangle base at 24'' each piece. welded them, added the 5' up right piece's, after they were welded I made a small 9" triangle piece slipped it over the top to add support to the 5' up right piece's and welded them. I then painted everything black.

My wire tree's have 300 mini's on each tree. I hope to expand them to 500 mini's per tree in 08

we will see how much power I have after everything else I'm adding this year.

North Pole's Project

North pole's are nothing new to a lot of you. I did change the way the Pole's

will mount to the ground or should I say "Set-up".

I didn't like the way the rebar was hanging out of the bottom

of the Pole's. So I changed this, as you well see.

This makes it a little nicer for storage also.

3" black PVC, For what ever reason

Nobody carry's white 3" PVC in

Southern Oregon.

3" couplers

1/2" emt pipe

Emt just big enough so 1/2" rebar

will slide in with very little play

in pipe.

Painted 3" PVC, cut down to 39 1/2" peices

1/2" gray pvc elec. conduit. cut to 39"

I taped it inside 3" PVC so it wouldn't

move while I sprayed foam Insulation in pipe.

I inserted 1/2" emt and than sprayed foam insulation

at both ends. foam will expanded and hold all piping

in place.

To center the 1/2" emt I used cardboard cut to shape of pipe

cut a cross in middle of cardboard pushed pipe through

and taped in place while foam dry's.

Bottom taped Note: the bottom is set inside

of the pipe so it is flush with ground.

Secure tops with cardboard and tape

and let dry for a day.

Drill a hole big enough for power

cord. make sure you drill through 1/2" gray pvc

this were cord goes through to top.

I used a old C9 cord set and cut off each socket as needed

for the pole's.You can see I left about 1 1/2" on one

side to tape to the 1/2" emt pipe.

Power cord cut off female end. I used 6' cords here.

Insert cord until it comes out the top.

Attach C9 socket to power cord.

Tape it to the top of the 1/2" emt pipe.

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Install coupler

I used Red duck tape for the strips

Here is a look at pole's before the globes go on.

Finished Pole's with the golbes. I used 6" golbes