[LT7A]

Originally Posted by special-K

I had a much worse "damn" last summer. The lean-to side of the barn I'm moving has a nice dry steel roof. I noticed the steep barn side of the roof, which still had old mossy cedar shakes was leaking at the bottom, starter coarse gave up the ghost. The wall of the barn would be wet in a couple areas, so I put steel on there, too. Nice and dry in there now.

On that lean-to side I have shelving with parts, shelves are about 3' deep. I needed to remove everything to get some work done. One thing I had stored there, since '07, was a posi with 3.42 ring & pinion for my '67 project. I had it in a 3 gal. plastic bucket with lid snapped tight. Good safe place for it, right? Inside under a good dry roof sealed inside a watertight container, right? I went to move it, and heard water swishing. Took the top off and for who knows how long it has been bathing in water. "How in the...????". Oh, I was highly upset! Still am.

It turns out, water had been running down a rafter and dropping right onto the bucket, and nowhere else of course. It was a paint bucket with a screw on cap in the lid. Apparently, it wasn't screwed on tight enough to totally seal. So, when the lid with a lip filled with water it could seep through the screw cap threads! Why me??

Nice!

I hear you. That kind of thing chaps me. Rumor has it, it rains some here. And when you go through elaborate precautions to protect something of value and it not only gets wet but hides the fact that it's doing so... you want to start throwing things or break stuff. Don't you have some demo you can do out there?