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Hello Jack, well let's see, I'm up here at my friend's place again going to do painting today. I meant to get a little earlier start but I had to get a fresh gallon of paint and that took a while and all that. So I'm a little bit behind, I was trying to get this first coat on before the sun came around and I'm kind of losing out on that because I decided to get in a shady spot on a hill and check in. Anyway, yesterday my little plumbing thing, well it ended up being successful if you will recall. In the last episode I had water dripping through the pipe that I was trying to solder, some copper pipes. And well, the truth is that with the water dripping through the pipe that it was too cool to solder because it was just like cooling it off and so I went. So I had to come up with a solution and the solution was I could put some kind of suction down the pipe to suck the water before it got up into the area where I was working. And I thought, well let's see, I can't use a straw, like a plastic straw, it's not long enough and besides it would melt. I can't use any kind of plastic tubing because that will melt when I'm soldering. So I went to the hardware store and got a few feet of, I think it was like eighth inch copper tubing and I straightened it out and then I put a little bend in the end just enough where it would be able to dip down into the pipe that was coming up where the water was coming from and I'd be able to suction that out. So that looked like it might work. I hooked it up to a wet and dry vacuum cleaner, put the whole thing together ready to solder, turned on the vacuum cleaner, got all the water out, heated up with a torch to evaporate the water that was in the pipe and then soldered it successfully. So it took me about 20 minutes to go through that whole rigmarole, but it worked out excellent. Bread or anything else I could have stuffed into the pipe just would not have worked. It would have, in that 20 minutes there was about a quart of water that came out into the wet dry vac. So it was pretty much a continuous stream. Anyway, that's it for me. Now I'll get on to my painting job, enjoy the weather, and hopefully have good weather for a couple more days because then I can put on a second coat tomorrow. KI-7-CEI. This is repeater station KI-7-CEI. Alright, success for Tim for the win. That's fantastic. Well, yeah, and I liked Sris' idea yesterday, KK7-HCD, saying use some white bread, put that in there. But man, with a quart coming through there, I would just push that out no problem. Oh boy. Anyway, well you made it all work and it sounds like you have a no-drip situation. That's excellent. Alright, Tim, well good luck with painting. Yeah, I've got some painting to do too. I was doing some sanding the other day in preparation for that and moving on to the next phase a little bit later today or tomorrow while we've got this nice weather. Well, let's go find out how James is doing. WQ7H, it's now 1223. I'm Jack, KI7RMU. James, take it away.