solo79 Mon Aug 18, 2014 7:16 pm
Myloth wrote:I don't envy the work involved but that is a nice pan!
Thanks! I don't envy it either.lol It was a TON of work by myself and even though I had 10 batteries and 4 chargers it still took almost 2 days to get it out. There's a lot of thinking that goes into it and figuring out where to cut it and then fighting dead batteries that won't charge because they are too hot. After the first day, I took all of the batteries home and put them in the refrigerator for about 2 hours then began charging them all back up. This allowed me to finish the next day in less than 3 hours. Fortunately, the car was up high enough that I was able to tilt the floor at an angle, slide it down under and out from the car. Otherwise, I would have had to take the doors off one side and cut the door pillar out which would have been a major job and probably another day since by the time I was finished cutting the floor out, I was down to my last 2 batteries.
I used a combination of a dewalt grinder with a 6" cutting wheel and a dewalt sawzall with short and long metal cutting blades. The yards don't allow generators and don't allow torches or plasma cutters for insurance reasons, so battery power is all you're allowed. They do let you charge your batteries in their office though.
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