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That looks like a win. I am not sure that I would let perfection triumph over good enough. If it works, it is safe, doesn't rattle the glasses, and your spouse is happy...

Those cuts are kerf cuts and allow the hard maple to bend to accommodate any irregularities in the floor. It helps keep them from splitting. All the best, 2Pbfeet

Just for a little extra perspective, Ohm's law, and all that, V=IR, or I=V/R. So with 240V, and 2.6 million ohms, the current flow would be 0.0923 milliamperes. Per Fluke, above that's not continuity. All the best, 2Pbfeet

Love the "first rule of troubleshooting"! Great news! When your extra pads get there, I would try some rubber under the bolt, but above the rail. It should help the absorption, but it will also reduce the forces trying to unscrew your bolt. More padding is not necessarily better. That is why...

If you are using more than one at a time, hooking two in series gives you a 24V LED system. But as @Evvy Fesler points out many have a pretty wide acceptance voltage. If you can, I would really try to avoid using just one battery of a two battery 24V system. It throws the battery charging out...

Definitely get some rubber on the pipe strapping. I would stick with at least three or four feet of flex before moving to solid pipe. Getting absorber is easiest to do at the beam, and you probably want it pretty stretchy. You could even pick up some exhaust hangers.;) If it were me, I might...

One of the things that I have fought in the past is that sometimes the best way is right next to the device; with any distance, you start to get sound reflecting off of the sound deadening material if the material doesn't have a layer of an absorber, like rock wool in between. At some point...

Your poor wife. The sound and vibration must be extra tough for her. My baseline is that these gensets are generally pretty smooth and vibration free, so I suspect it is something about the mounting or location that is giving you issues. I would start with getting the generator bolted to...

I can't imagine living that close to a cathedral. What an experience! Do you have a name for the gizmo? I have seen them on large generators, but I have never bought or used one myself.

+ 1 on @Digger556's comments above. If you get more pads, and put one, or part of one, with a large washer on top of it over the bolt and then bolt it down, you should get a lot more damping action out of the pads. Letting the generator bounce is not optimal...

@Sidis8 congratulations! Thanks for the follow up.

Bummer about the vibrations. It sounds like the generator is using the concrete pad as tamper. what kind of soil do you have? If the soil compacts it may get a little better. Dumb question, but is the vbration in the kitchen from the soil, or through the air? My '803 puts out a pretty...

@DD58 Congratulations on your kid to be! I love those old Dodge Powerwagons. They are pretty darn amazing. I got to take a pair somewhere quite special many moons ago. Given this project, I am sure that you will find a suitable project with your kid to be in the future. Nice battery set up...

@Sidis8 I tend to agree with the other folks that debris is a more likely cause than a crack. Brake cleaner, and brushes help. I would say that I have found more than a few extra copper washers lurking at the bottom of injector ports pretending to be part of the head. I sometimes think some...

Of course! That's what I meant. Poor choice of words on my part.

I would put hardware cloth on the bottom one especially. Rodents can do so much damage so quickly. I used stainless steel safety wire into the wire mesh and up around each of the four tabs that hold the acoustic foam plate up. If you bend a small "U", it is easy to thread the wire down and back...

It could also just be old fuel. Two thumbs up on keeping some SeaFoam in as the unit has been sitting around for awhile, and who knows what is stuck where. If it were me, I would have siphoned out the old fuel, changed the fuel filters, and tried it with fresh fuel as you load it up to break it...

Sorry about the meds. Can you explain what is wrong? E.g. two dead batteries, or batteries ok, but it won't crank, never has started...? All the best, 2Pbfeet

That is an interesting fan layout with three banks of four 24V DC fans in series... All the best, 2Pbfeet

@FarmingSmallKubota Congratulations on a great score! My bet is that with a little sleuthing you can find similar performance fans on any of the major sites. With that many fans and that age, I would be tempted to buy a few in advance. 30 year old muffin fans often have gravel like grease in...