Lab Build: Day 2 - 17/03/17

First thing in the morning was the delivery of the bricks and concrete blocks. Digging continued all day and the footings were nearly complete. At 2 o'clock I then decided to start the laborious task of carting all the soil from the garden to the skip. My friends were going to help me but didn't turn up at the agreed time so I became a one man work force. To make matters worse, all the wheelbarrows were in use by the builders so I had only a bucket to carry the soil in.

(Sorry for bad lighting, didn't get a chance to take a picture during daylight hours)

Things took a turn for the better though as my friends eventually turned up with wheelbarrows and as the builder got off at around 4, we could use theirs and their better shovels.

We continued for as long as we could until the skip was full enough that its door needed closing. This gave us load more room for soil but made it very difficult to empty the wheelbarrows into it. We fixed this by creating a large ramp using some of the concrete blocks that arrived in the morning as well as the doors from the old shed.

We pressed on even though it felt as if are limbs were about to fall off until it got dark. Knowing how big the job was encouraged us to get as much done in the time we had available so it was time to get out the extension cables and set up lamps. My friend made the job much easier as he rushed back to his house to grab his work lights. 

Eventually we filled the skip to a point where no more soil could fit in it so we had a rest, grabbed a KFC and called it a day. My friends left and I dismantled the ramp so our cars could get back on the drive. By the time all the extension cables were back inside and everything was packed away it was 10 o'clock; we had been lugging soil for nearly 8 hours. 

Just another 2 skips to go and we will be done.

As the skip doesn't get emptied until Tuesday, no more soil work can be done.

Lab Build: Day 1 - 16/03/17

Work commenced early Thursday morning, I was out for a few hours and was surprised with the work that had been done in such a short space of time when I returned. The tree in the middle of the site was cut down, the shed was torn apart and its concrete base was being jack hammered away. The skip arrived then the digging of the footings started.

In an effort to cut costs, it was agreed that the builders would leave the excavated soil in the garden and it would be upon me and my friends to transport it all to the skip out the front. This sounded fine in theory but not when we saw just how much we had to move.

That isn't even half of the footings dug. Looks like there's a LOT of work ahead of us.

Lab Build: Day 0 - 14/03/17

My lab has always been on the table of projects to be started, but it wasn't going to happen for a while as plans had to be submitted and the builders had to become available. However, only a few days ago we were informed that the builders had a job cancelled on them and so could start the lab build that same week. Before the footings could be dug, the entire area needed clearing and tidied to give room for the work to commence. The back of my garden is full of junk metal, slabs, wood, old gardening equipment and a shed that all had to be cleared. There was also out fire pit that needed emptying and have its surrounding brick layer removed.

Me and my friends spent the following 2 days clearing the area and moving things up the garden into the house. The entire shed was emptied too.

Damn you storm Doris, taking out the wrong tree!

The garden was only half the work. The entire back room (which was my temporary workshop) had to be completely emptied so the builders could get all of their equipment through. My tools and projects are now spread about the house.

Official construction can now commence tomorrow.

2017 Update (Big Reveal...)

How's it going guys? Sorry for not updating this blog in such a long time, so much has gone on over the years and so I haven't had as much time for projects and even less time dedicated to writing blog posts. A large part of this was due to Project Exodus which is now complete (for the most part). I am also spending a lot of time studying and revising for exams as well as trying to update things on my main YouTube channel. I am also getting prepped for studying electrical and electronic engineering at university.

But all that's about to change! Finally, after years of anticipation, preparation, planning, drafting and redrafting, I am finally getting my own lab. I will at long last have a proper workshop where I can work on all of my projects with adequate room and the proper utilities. I will have dedicated work space for mechanical engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, chemical engineering, raw material storage, equipment storage and even power distribution. This is a large scale, long awaited and exciting project that I cant wait to get working on. Before I can even think about starting new experiments I will need to outfit the entire interior of the facility with the help of my friends. Whats more is that I will have a dedicated video series on a second channel to document the entire process along with all of my future projects.

As construction has already started, more updates and information as well as regular progress reports/video logs and images of the labs construction will be posted in the coming days.

Quantum Eraser Experiment

Today I decide to do the quick and easy do it at home double split experiment along with quantum eraser to show lights wave particle duality property. (Sorry for no posts in a while, been working on the Tesla project)

Massive New Project

http://myprojectexodus.blogspot.co.uk/

07/07/2014 - New Inductance Meter

Finally got my first Inductance meter that measures up to a maximum of 20 Henrys. I already have a multimeter that does pretty much everything apart from this. This meter can also do capacitance and resistance that is also an added bonus. This is a vital part when making a DC resonant charging Tesla Coil.