On Thu, 31 Dec 2020 16:46:23 -0600, Vic Smith
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On Wed, 30 Dec 2020 23:08:09 -0500, wrote:

On Wed, 30 Dec 2020 16:04:57 -0600, Vic Smith
wrote:

Thought I'd pass this on after reading Trader's post about his wired lights.
A few months ago I installed 4 of these lights:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08C2F2WFB...roduct_details

Didn't really think it through, because I've got 18" eaves that would block the solar
collectors from the sunlight. I had to hang them on the gutters. Too late to return them,
and I didn't want to throw away 80 bucks. After looking around in vain for some kind of
connector that would attach them to the gutter, I came up with this idea.
I cut 4 8" pieces of 3" PVC pipe, then cut a lengthwise slit in each one. Used an angle
grinder with a cuttoff disk. My son went on the ladder and somehow spread the pipe and got
it past the formed gutter lip. He was cussing. I noted the position of the slit - about
7:30 o'clock when looking from the left. Then I screwed the base of the lights on the
pipes at 3 o'clock using the wall plugs that came with them. I tried cutting some wedges
to spread the pipes but gave that up, and used 3" C-clamps to pry them open instead.
He didn't have any problems putting them on. You can slide the pipes until you hit a
gutter hanger, making for some adjustability. They don't look elegant, but they work.

No table saw huh?

No. Could have made the cuts with my 10" compound mitre saw, but I wanted a thin kerf.
It was surprisingly easy to use the angle grinder on the line I drew on the pipe. Lightly
clamped the pieces in the vise.

Why not cut two slits and take out a big enough chunk that it drops
over the gutter lip? If it moves too much shoot a screen cage screw
down through a hole in top and into the lip.


Thought of that, but wanted to avoid holes in the gutter, though it wouldn't have mattered
on the formed lip. Took me a while to figure out the C-clamp trick of spreading.
But on second thought the PVC might not have moved with a wider slit anyway, given the
thickness of the pipe and that the lights aren't too heavy. It was cold outside and I
didn't feel like experimenting.

I make lots of stuff out of PVC. The White PVC will last longer than
the light, in spite of the legend but I do use gray if it is supposed
to last.

Yeah, it's nice stuff. I had 7' of the 3" left over from "squirrel proofing" the bird
feeder. But they can easily climb 3", so I had to add a wide plastic tray at the top.
Hot glued it to PVC.

Squirrels are tough to keep away from food. They learn pretty fast.
There is a youtube of a guy who gave up fighting them and decided to
just see what they could do. He created a very complex obstacle course
with trap doors and even a catapult that sent them sailing but they
still figured it out.