Over the Moon

Tonight, I feel over the Moon. I just finished renovating a 30y old solar thermal installation that couldn't hold its glycol-mix anymore. It's been a 6 months project, with several interruptions including a few weeks of contracting and a couple of light but painful injuries on the project. I got to learn that one must always secure a ladder as to prevent it to slide at the worst moment, and I got to learn the name of what seems to be a large muscle that binds the femoral sockets through the back of the coccyx – piriformis had remained anonymous and inconspicuous for so long, now it's on my map. The renovation consisted in... getting the collectors on the ground, opening them without breaking the glass panels, discovering the extent of the problem, discarding the insulation material that was heavy of glycol, cutting off the collector pipe at the bottom of each circuit, cutting off the rust-rotted part of the casing, re-building three 4m long cases from the 6 amputated cases, rebuilding…

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