It;'s not about winning, it's not about the medals, it really is all about what you set out to do and achieving your goals. Perhaps most importantly is how you conduct yourself on your pursuit of those goals.We've all seen it, you can have one team who are winners who you love to cheer for and another who have the same stat sheet but you can't stand them. The difference is how they win, how they conduct themselves and how they treat their opponents.
Jeff's Volleyball team set some pretty lofty goals earlier this year. Enough so that it raised a few eye brows from the coaches and bordered a fine line between lofty and arrogant. When Jeff told me what they had set for themselves, I too raised an eye brow, but deep down I knew it wasn't boastful arrogance but rather very matter of fact and ,yes, lofty. So you can imagine the joy of the players, the coaches and the parents when the boys did in fact do what they had set out to do. There were hurdles to overcome with injuries and hardships. But they banded together, never doubted each other and pulled it off with dignity and grace. They met their nemesis in the gold medal match and were in control from the start. I know they are proud of their achievement, only to be surpassed by the pride of their coaches and parents for staying true to themselves. Well done!
A bit of a stretch trying to segway between winning a provincial title and working on the water system on Fillmore, but here goes..
Last summer after numerous road trips Fillmore had his maiden camping trip in which he performed admirably. The major wrinkle that we ran into was the water system. Yes we had running water which made camping oh so luxurious, but only cold. When I would charge the hot water system the bypass valve on the hot water tank would open and all the water would simply discharge out the bottom. I wasn't sure what was going on, but on my list of possibilities was a faulty by pass valve and I was not looking forward to that.
Over the winter I did a fair bit of research into possibilities, I learned how to descale the system and what would be involved with dropping the furnace down and taking it apart to access the valve. I'll be honest I decided I was not doing this in the winter and this remained a spring project. So the time is upon us.To start I took apart the system and found that I had a minor leak where the supply enters into the unit. A very simple oversight and easy fix. But that still did nothing for the by pass valve.
Then the other day at work I was reading the online version of the operators manual for the Dual Top(Furnace/water heater) and I came across a line in the manual "for all sanitary water pumps capable of creating a pressure up to 2.5 bar". What peaked my interest was 2.5bar. I couldn't remember the coversion to psi. As I looked up the conversion (34.5psi) I became excited in that I may have just stumbled upon my solution. My pump, a Shure Flo 4008-101-E65 is rated to shut off at 55 psi. So if the heater bypasses at 34.5psi then I need to regulate the pressure into the heater!!
I love the internet, within 24 hours I had found what I needed and it was in my hot little hands!!
A little flush and test, and adjustment to the proper pressure
I had to change my water lines, and then find a place and way of mounting my new solution.
In the end, hot water, no leaks and cold beer in celebration!
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