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frankpaige
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# Posted: 22 Apr 2025 10:26pm
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Have you ever? Built something that worked, but looking at it think? I don’t want my name on that.
The solar system worked. But, it just was not something that I could look at and think it was enough.
Looked like it was thrown together.
After a couple of years, I could not leave it as it was.
Dismantled it, brought in metal and reassembled it to where it doesn’t catch my eye Everytime I pass bye.
Works the same. But after I am gone. The next owner will not go “ What was he thinking”.
At least it wasn’t a major redo.
Sitting and spitting time is back.
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 23 Apr 2025 11:06am
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You hit the nail on that one.....
My inherited legacy 600w solar at the cabin we bought in 2020 seemed to be about 10yrs old and pretty much thrown together enough to function. Up through '23? I redid it about 4x making it better each time (inc relocation) then pulled completely apart and put into storage intending to do the full, permanent rebuild.
Since my stroke it aint happening.
Other than my 1948 Harley Davidson panhead I dont think Ive reworked anything else more.
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FishHog
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# Posted: 23 Apr 2025 03:56pm
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Every time I rush something, then when I have more time look at it and I'm not happy. Wish I took the time to do it right in the first place and redo it.
Or things I built 10 years ago, are harder to operate now so I redo them to make them easier to deal with. Like the boat lift I've spent a bunch of time with this weekend making it easier to deal with.
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MtnDon
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# Posted: 24 Apr 2025 08:33pm - Edited by: MtnDon
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I can't think of anything I built that was so bad I tore it down. But I do have a history of almost completing the task, and then taking forever to finish the final details. Like finishing the cabin interior but the final trim around the inside of the door took a few months, as I had moved on to some other larger project.
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DRP
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# Posted: 25 Apr 2025 08:49am
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One of the more memorable ones; We were building in the middle of a corn/bean field in Ill and Annoyed (my wife's name, apologies to natives). There was a false overhang roof that needed to be hung on the sidewall of a shed dormer to balance the look of the house. We spent the majority of the day up and down ladders building it and were cleaning up. I walked into the field and looked back at it... What in the world was I thinking! It was well built but clearly wrong, I had picked the wrong intersection point and it pulled your eye in with a question "What's going on here?!".
Happily with fresh experience we tore it off and installed the new one the next day. Now that I'm remembering, 9/11 happened within a week or two after that.
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