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One thought, if you could make the ends oval. Just measure back from the ends and cut equally on both sides. You can get a piece of flexible siding ton make the curve. You won't stub your toe and it will look mor authentic. Just my .02

Wish I had the location to put one!

Usually we use 1/8"Masonite or a 3 1/2" piece of sheet metal would work better for making tight bends. also you dont have a deep seam to fill after you strip. You would have to extend the ends a bit...

jim,

thought about making some small radius corners like i have on these other small pads i'm pouring at the deck entrances. i have some thin ga tin i'll be inserting first to smooth the seams & using the wood as a reinforcing backer. will this work o.k.? in theory i think it should, but you have more experience with what works/fails in this field.



i would like to fully round the ends on the pump slab, but with where the large pad for the shop will be & the sidewalk going in, the island would be almost touching both with fully rounded ends & i dont want it to look "cramped" so think this would be a good compromise.

That is awesome.

things kinda came to a halt for a few days due to all the rain first of the week. the big slab & island was scheduled to be poured on mon/tues but 6" of rain killed that. plans are for the big slab to be formed tomorrow with concrete poured mon. i did get some work done on the pumps this week. got all the skins except three doors outside & sandblasted (forgot how much i HATE outside blasting, been spoiled with my inside cabinet). also stripped down the light manifolds & painted those, will wire them tomorrow & replace the sockets on one when UPS drops off my parts order. also got the top section of the light pole painted/clearcoated today. been trying to go slow & take it easy since my back went out weds. glad it doesnt hurt when i'm standing so i can do some work, but that bending over when i drop something is a killer! also started working on some small parts for a gilbarco 1000 i'm doing for a customer. will get some progress pics up tomorrow

have the concrete scheduled to arrive monday. got the big pad formed up friday.


couple of pics of the pump progress. got my parts order in friday, unfortunately, they sent the wrong globe faces. hopefully a simple fix, still waiting to hear back from someone on a solution.

one step forward & two backwards. they sent out another set of globe faces & they were the same as the first. i went into great detail providing part numbers etc. when i called. after the second set arrived i called back & was informed that they no longer carry the faces i originally ordered, switched the part numbers but never updated the website. not sure why they couldnt have explained this BEFORE sending out(and charging my card) for the second set. needless to say, some "customer service" skills are severely lacking! on to some progress...

concrete is finished, i even poured a small pad to set a bulk "lubester" tank on.






making a little progress on pump panels. since these will be outside pumps, i'm not going into as much detail as the inside ones. the insides of the panels will not be painted to match, i'm leaving them in 2 coats of white epoxy primer.


pump frames should be back from powdercoater on friday.

also finished up & shot some color on the bottom section of the light pole. may assemble/install it this weekend.

light pole is up!

I'm enjoying the progress you are making. Thanks for including us, especially the photos.

Your "life is short" comment really hit home with me after another guy I went to high school with died recently. I'm now working on my petro project that has not had much progress in the last couple years.

thanks jim!

sad thing is, after i posted that, a neighbor passed away a couple days later & then an old friend of the mrs was murdered. just gotta take the time to enjoy a few mins each & every day as we aren't promised tomorrow.

been busy with other things, but finally went & picked up the pump frames today & got them mounted.

Looking good. .. can't wait to see it all done

Very nice..really enjoy following this.

Gonna be SAWEEEET!!!!!

That's very Nice !!!



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