Good Morning!!!! 65F @ 6:30AM. Abundant sunshine. High 94F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.
Gosh, Drew, sorry you ended up with a stinker for a buyer. Same thing happened to me when I was trying to sell the undeveloped lot my mom's boyfriend left to me. I was working through a realtor that didn't have much drive, that was all the way across the country. The lot featured a beautiful view, but the house next door was a double wide. Mom's house, a custom build, on the other. It seems like every other week the buyer would come back with a lower offer, and I'd counter by dropping the original price a couple hundred bux, each time telling my realtor if it happens again, put it back on the market. It did, and my counter was instructions to put it back on the market. It closed at my last counter, but it still left me with a bad taste in my mouth of being taken advantage of. I hope you have better luck.
Gotta cheaper ways to tenderize moose flesh, Bill.
Thanks for checkin' in.
I like a little breeze when spraying as well, Eric. But not too much, right? Just yesterday, I took the notebook containing the operating procedures I wrote and placed it atop the battery cabinet, so at least I'll be able to easily locate it. The lithium battery can withstand a much higher depth of discharge without damage than can a conventional lead acid battery, so I figure if it can maintain at least 80% of capacity before switching to the grid for a recharge, I'll be OK in the event of a fire. What is not clear is how to quickly change the controller settings to take advantage of that 80% without wading through menus on a tiny 2"x4" screen that I have to be standing on a milk crate to see. If the generator fails to start and grid power is also down, I might even have to do it in the dark, and I'm not sure that the display is illuminated. And we still have to have the discussion of just exactly how does battery voltage relate to State of Charge, especially since I've seen that the data supplied by the battery company president doesn't correlate well with the behavior I'm seeing in "my" battery. I'm not even sure where the battery voltage is measured; the display inside the battery cabinet has never agreed with the value reported by the system controller.:confused2:
Yes, Thomas, where did June go? Here we are in the heart, and heat, of summer already. What happened to spring?:confused3:
Peekaboo with a diced snake. Nice, Kyle. Maybe a couple moth balls under the hood would have them looking for somewhere cozier to curl up in?
The portion of the oil pan that's leaking was where the mechanic had me make a cutout for the flywheel, necessary because he wanted to use a Subaru flywheel instead of the original VW one that the oil pan was designed for. The guy that made the pan wouldn't do it, and the mechanic's welding skills weren't up to it, either. I tried to minimize the distortion on that part of the pan by clamping it to the steel table when I welded it, but either it wasn't good enough or whoever put the pan on the engine didn't use enough sealant. I used machinist's jacks to bend what distortion I found to under 0.010", but again, who knows what happened to it after it left my hands. I have a new Felpro pan gasket (none was used when the mechanic put it together) and once the 5900 Loctite gets here, it'll be time to take everything back apart and see what's what. That'll be some kind of fun, as the oil pan is also part of the rear engine mount, and I need to figger out how to support the engine while I take it off.
Pretty lilies and no work. What's not to like, Ron?
All this talk of pizza, and in summer's heat, baking one at home in the oven just isn't something I do. Even the toaster oven heats up the whole kitchen. So I'm planning to use the propane BBQ outside, and I'm finding all the "experts" call for a "pizza stone". But most of those are porous and that makes 'em a PITA to clean. So I looked at "pizza steel", and sure enough, most people like 'em. But the
store bought ones cost upwards of a hundred bux! So I found a place online that'd sell me a 16"x16" x 1/2" chunk of A36 hot rolled for fifty bux, and ship it for another seven. Still a lot of money for a chunk of steel, but I couldn't drive to the steel supplier here and back for $7, so I went for it. Then I guess you need a "pizza peel" to get the thing on and off the steel. The cheap ones are either aluminum or painted steel, and I don't like the thought of either one on my food, or they have floppy folding handles that just might cause you to end up with pizza on the floor. So the money I saved with the A36 will go toward a stainless steel pizza shovel with a nice long wooden handle. Now all I need is a good vegan pizza recipe. Don gave some hints earlier, but I've managed to lose 'em...
Spent the better part of yesterday checking and rechecking what I'd done to try to solve the hard cold start problem on the van. Came up empty handed, and after reviewing the guru's suggestions, am down to checking the Mass Air Flow sensor, so that's on the agenda for today. Got all the alarm system components out and sorted again, and even got two of the wires connected, so that was a start. Next is to cut the coil wire to route it through the disabler relay that comes with the alarm system, but I need to find a better place to do it than under the steering column, which is where any self respecting thief would look first...
