Good morning!!!!

[hawkeye08]

Lots to catch up on, folks been busy


27F this morning, frosty outside, nice warm stove inside.

Worked on the stove Friday night, on and off all day Saturday, ready to order parts on Sunday, but decided I would verify first. We changed the pilot assembly (includes thermopile, thermocouple, igniter and pilot burner) out just over a year ago due to thermostat not able to control stove. This problem is not that as we have plenty on millivolts on that circuit so I put the old part back in and stove works great. I get another thermocouple to have as spare. Good news is I took most of the stove apart and cleaned the blower assembly and lubed it (past due).

Wife is getting better, slower than I would like. My congestion is less, and good news, even when my back hurts really bad, I know that exercise on total gym and ice pack will fix it in a day or two at most.

Stay safe, prayers for those in need.

 

[sodamo]

66°F and .01 inches rain

The guys got their butts handed to them again in Hand & Foot, almost embarrassing. At least the shrimp were good.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[Buppies]

Have a 2008 ram 2500 bought new . First year stayed in the shop 17 different times but I refused to give up. Lost alt of time but no money. The last time they fixed it was the charm we still use it today 276000 miles and still going strong. Still gets 20 mpg still in very good shape. My manager drives it every day

 

[RedNeckGeek]

if I can't find my old Apple phone in the next few hours, will go to Verizon and have them replace with older, and easier, flip phone I kept.
And then I will find the Apple I'm sure. Need to look under car seats.

If you have "Find My" activated on the iPhone, Drew, you can use an iCloud web page to give you a pretty good idea of where to look.

Your state may have a lemon law that would get you either a refund or a new replacement for that troublesome truck. Maybe Christmas will come early for you this year?:thumbsup:

 

[RedNeckGeek]

The automatic chokes never really impressed me, I still prefer a manual choke on a carburetor engine,
Fortunately the only engines that I work with a choke on are the older gas tractors and they are all manual.
Oh and weed wackers and trimmers which are all manual chokes.
I miss the ability to get an engine up on a fast idle for keeping a battery up while using lights and such,
or for boosting another vehicle off.

Now fuel injection is what I was glad to see, especially on equipment that isn't used everyday.

I mostly agree, Lou. The "chokes" on my motorcycles actually meter additional fuel into the engine for starting, and once set up properly, work very well. The fuel injected engine on the van, from Subaru, is another story entirely, as it depends on temperature and mass air flow sensors, and lord knows what else, to set the width of the injector on pulse and calculate how much air should be leaked into the engine at idle.

I've not had good experience letting fuel injected engines sit for long periods of time, either. More than once I've had to pull the injectors out and give them a bath in the hot ultrasound tank to get them to flow fuel again. With a carb, you can shut the fuel line off and let the engine run until it stalls, then drop the float bowl and empty it so there is no fuel anywhere to evaporate and leave clogging deposits.

Seems like the innovators of many of these modern conveniences spend little time considering the "what ifs" related to the system they're tinkering with. And in a modern engine, those systems interact to the point that the results are, as Drew is finding out, somewhat unpredictable. Now throw a computer or ten into the mix, and you not only have hardware that can malfunction, but logic errors in the software as well. Murphy rules the day!

 

[buckeyefarmer]

34 high of 49 today rain most of the day

Christmas tree up in house and one on porch feeling a little like Christmas

Both erns on concrete pads waiting to be wired up for lights

Went for a long ride in truck yesterday wife and I have not done that in years truly enjoyed ourselves and had lunch at Cabo Fish Taco

Prayers for all

Glad you had a nice truck ride together.

 

[PJSprog]

49°F and light rain this morning, going up to 55° today.

Got a late jump into the GM thread today ... seeing as it's 3:43pm here now.

Weekend evaporated before I knew what was happening. Seems like I started three or four projects, and finished exactly none of them.

Company Xmas party was Saturday evening. That was a pretty good time.

Walked out to close the chicken coop last night and was met by Pepe just in front of the barn, digging around in the mole tunnels. We'd been seeing some small holes here and there over the past few days, but wrote it off as squirrels. The weekly review of the game cams in and around the barn on Saturday morning revealed it was, in fact, a couple of skunks. Well, one was busy working on the evening meal last night, and in spite of my foot stomping, yelling, and flashlight wiggling, he seemed uninterested in my chore. I started to go back to the house for a gun, but talked myself out of it as I realized the wind would blow his last great act of defiance right into the coop and barn. So, he gets to live until I can get a live trap set where I can drag it to the pasture to ventilate him.

Kind of hoping he gets that infernal mole before that happens, though.

 

[LouNY]

49°F and light rain this morning, going up to 55° today.

Got a late jump into the GM thread today ... seeing as it's 3:43pm here now.

Weekend evaporated before I knew what was happening. Seems like I started three or four projects, and finished exactly none of them.

Company Xmas party was Saturday evening. That was a pretty good time.

Walked out to close the chicken coop last night and was met by Pepe just in front of the barn, digging around in the mole tunnels. We'd been seeing some small holes here and there over the past few days, but wrote it off as squirrels. the weekly review of the game cams in and around the barn on Saturday morning revealed it was, in fact, a couple of skunks. Well, one was busy working on the evening meal last night, and in spite of my foot stomping, yelling, and flashlight wiggling, we seemed uninterested in my chore. I started to go back to the house for a gun, but talked myself out of it as I realized the wind would blow his last great act of defiance right into the coop and barn. So, he gets to live until I can get a live trap set where I can drag it to the pasture to ventilate him.

Kind of hoping he gets that infernal mole before that happens, though.

Good luck with the skunk issue,
as I recall the skunks are actually after the same grubs the moles are,
not the moles per say be nice if they got both.

 

[jbrumberg]

Checking in from San Jose, Costa Rica. We arrived safely without incident This is the first time that we have flown first class; decent legroom; I am now totally spoiled.

Randy- I started putting out some + vibes on your behalf.

BEF- I hope your first day back to work went as planned and you continue to recover from what ever is bothering you.

Drew- Good luck with the dealership.

Kyle- I am happy that your boss is covering your back.

Hawkeye- Good luck with the stove and I hope that you and your Wife recover soon.

Paul- Good luck with the skunk.

It looks like lots of rain and not too much snow will be falling on my driveway during our absence. It seems that every time we contract short term plow duties with our local plow guy it rains.

My + thoughts, wishes, and prayers

 

[toppop52]

I found out my pre admission swab showed traces of staph so I have to get antibiotic swabs to use for three days before the procedure. Nurse said it was common and no big deal. It’s never a big deal if it is not you. LOL