Neanderpundit

Plug the hole.

This plug will have to be put in the well, which means the blowout preventer will have to come off. Hard, but I know it can be done.

The plug will have a rigid steel core with a tapered nose for ease of insertion.

The blue annular rings, shown in cutaway, will consist of soft internally tapered rings, and red hard externally tapered rings. The collar on top will be threaded down as far as possible, and the screws shown will bear on the rings causing them to deform and conform to the inner surface of the pipe. Then attach the pipe to a new BOP, and turn it off.

Everything is easy with the mouth, right?

that after last weekend my garage is a neat and tidy workshop, suitable for use by master mechanics.

Fact is, I just wanted to be able to see some of the floor- not even all of it. I vacuumed out enough cobwebs to fill the shop-vac to the 1/4 mark (Anyone need 23 lbs of cobwebs?) I scraped out the snakeskins (Big garter snakes slither among my jackstands to shed their skins- I have one skin about three feet long, and nearly 2″ diameter).

The spiders are another thing altogether. I bet I vacuumed two hundred from mite sized to silver dollar sized, and let’s not talk about the centipedes and millipedes.

but, the empty or partially empty spray cans are gone. All the power tools are on their own shelves. All the accessories for the power tools are on their own shelves. The oil, trans fluid, etc. have all gotten their own place, and now I know I have TOO MUCH atf +3 and not enough Mobil One. (anyone got a Chrysler they need some ATF for? doubt I’ll ever use it again)

No, i just straightened out the mess a little, and cleared up a lot of trash that should have been thrown out ages ago, and I still need to finish sorting out sockets.

And that took the better part of a three day weekend.

The fun it just never ends.