Good morning!!!!

[Buppies]

55 this early am looking for another nice day high of 70 later but by mid week back into low 80s before more rain/storms Thursday night thru Saturday some severe with large amounts of rain possible. Certain areas in the SE do not need this and I hope I'm wrong.

Enjoying new song Lighthouse one fine morning a fine Canadian group from the early 70s

 

[Eric Salop]

We are set for a wet day today, so it looks like I will be having the pleasure of working (unpaid) for the government today.

I think most of you will be familiar with the idea of a sales tax on the final sale of goods to a consumer. That happens in Europe too, however we also have to account for tax on just about everything, down to the last nut and bolt, of items traded between businesses too - a "Value added Tax" (VAT). Gathering information on such things comes naturally to accountants, but for those of us who are self employed it is an additional job to add to the list and one that must be done every 3 months without fail. Forgetting to file a VAT return has much worse consequences than Ron forgetting to buy a card. Apart from a fine, it would risk raising the wrath of a VAT inspector - the most fearsome creatures still roaming wild in the UK.


B7510HSD, awesome storm picture Pleased it only ended with a toppled chair, instead of a ripped off roof.

 

[daugen]

Buppies what are you doing up this early also? I went to bed early, bone tired, and the little internal alarm clock went off too early. My helper did not show yesterday so I fixed most of the driveway myself. Thought of you while I was out there putting down driveway patch.

Today I wash the truck, change out the muffler on the Massey, after giving it a coat of high temp barbecue paint, and load up the golf cart to take to the dealer tomorrow. Having a conversion kit added to my Club Car golf cart to add a second row of seats, the rear ones fold down for a utility platform. Not too expensive and sure cheaper than getting another golf cart.

Ethiopian coffee this morning. Local Food Lion has a brand of single country coffees reasonably priced at 8 dollars a pound. Like my wine, I don't go over ten bucks too often...

here's a question for our resident engineers. I have one paint, flat black, good for 1200 degrees. I have another can of gloss black, good for 1000 degrees. The gloss black would of course look nicer, but how hot does a tractor header pipe and muffler get? Am I ok with 1000 degrees? Seems pretty hot....

 

[RedNeckGeek]

here's a question for our resident engineers. I have one paint, flat black, good for 1200 degrees. I have another can of gloss black, good for 1000 degrees. The gloss black would of course look nicer, but how hot does a tractor header pipe and muffler get? Am I ok with 1000 degrees? Seems pretty hot....

Interesting question, Drew. According to this Wikipedia page on the temperatures at which various metals start to glow, your gloss black should be OK for the muffler, unless, of course, the muffler normally reaches "black red", or the lowest level of glow normally associated with steel. At that temperature it would also be subjected to accelerated oxidation, and I would hope that the manufacturer wouldn't have designed it that way. Practically, the only way to be sure is to mount the muffler, run the tractor hard at night, and look for the even the slightest glimmer of glow. Might get a good reading with an IR temperature probe, depending on the quality of the probe and the emissivity of the muffler. Or you could just paint it with the color of your choice and see how it does, and repaint it if the paint burns off. That's what I'd do...:laughing:

 

[daugen]

Interesting question, Drew. you could just paint it with the color of your choice and see how it does, and repaint it if the paint burns off. That's what I'd do...:laughing:

now we are sure on the same page. Going with glossy, see how it does. My gas grill temp gauge gets up around 600 at full blast; can't imagine the exhaust from this understressed diesel getting that hot. Likely to burn off around manifold connection. Three bolts holding it in, I PB Blasted them two days ago, letting them soak, taking them off today. No instructions whatsover. Going to try to go onto Agco parts and see if they have an exploded diagram somewhere. There is a heat shield that I'm not sure is meant to keep the heat off the tractor (inside) or off people(outside).

muffler is very nicely made, dull black primer of some kind, with an industrial quality metal plaque on it telling the manufacturer's name in India. I cleaned it pretty carefully with denatured alchohol and taped that impressively built riveted name tag. I figure if they take that much time putting a nice name plate on, they must be proud of their company.

 

[daugen]

AGCO Parts Books

that was easy, it's on the outside (need to click on horizontal exhaust; can't link to exact page)

should I be putting any anti-rust something on those pipe connections when I push them together?
sure hope they gave me a new gasket in the kit; didn't open the bag yet.

now this is odd; Eric, why do they call a gasket a joint? Is that a British term?
If I ask my parts guy if he has a joint in there I'm sure going to get some funny looks....

 

[General Lee]

Good morning all,

Off to bed I go, just finished the good ol' night shift. Hope everyone has a nice Sunday.

 

[Buppies]

Drew you might find my info off some but if I remember on the Cummings 5.9 diesel with pyrometer 900 degrees is normal for exhaust over 1200 turbo starts to melt. I had one on my 2001 and never saw anything higher than 1000 degrees. Fell asleep in my chair but could not go back to sleep

 

[RoyJackson]

2016-10-16, 0623

36 right now...should see about 70 later today.

Got the mowing done yesterday. Might be the last one, but I'm guessing one or two more before it's done. Also reorganized the garage and put the RFM in there. I probably should have rigged the snow blower back on the tractor yesterday, while I had it running...but I didn't.
I also swapped out the Ruger 10/22 stock (plastic camo) with a Hogue Overmold. That only took a few minutes, but when I pulled the action out of the camo stock, a pin (.25 diam by about 1.25 long) fell out to. I couldn't find any place it should have gone and there wasn't anything like it shown in the illustrated part breakdown. I have no idea why it was in there. The rifle seems to operate OK, but I didn't have time to shoot it. My guess, at this point, is the pin isn't part of the rifle and got left in there during assembly at Ruger. Any luck, I'll get some rounds through the rifle later today. If it functions OK, I'll just toss the pin or put it in my junk drawer...it's a black oxidized hardened pin...might be useful for something.

 

[Buppies]

We are set for a wet day today, so it looks like I will be having the pleasure of working (unpaid) for the government today.

I think most of you will be familiar with the idea of a sales tax on the final sale of goods to a consumer. That happens in Europe too, however we also have to account for tax on just about everything, down to the last nut and bolt, of items traded between businesses too - a "Value added Tax" (VAT). Gathering information on such things comes naturally to accountants, but for those of us who are self employed it is an additional job to add to the list and one that must be done every 3 months without fail. Forgetting to file a VAT return has much worse consequences than Ron forgetting to buy a card. Apart from a fine, it would risk raising the wrath of a VAT inspector - the most fearsome creatures still roaming wild in the UK.


B7510HSD, awesome storm picture Pleased it only ended with a toppled chair, instead of a ripped off roof.

The VAT man must be like the IRS in this country. Used to hear people say ones worst nightmare would be to answer at home on one side is an IRS agent the other Dan Rather