Good morning!!!!

[toppop52]

Buckeye, you may have a stomach virus, one going around like a wildfire. I had it a month ago, Mom and half the nursing home have it now, I’m staying away until the coast is clear. I can’t afford to be sick if I can avoid it. Showers now, clearing and 50’s later, very cold by end of week.

 

[toppop52]

Welcome Spiros and good to see you back Riptides. Hope everyone feels well.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Buckeye, you may have a stomach virus, one going around like a wildfire. I had it a month ago, Mom and half the nursing home have it now, I’m staying away until the coast is clear. I can’t afford to be sick if I can avoid it. Showers now, clearing and 50’s later, very cold by end of week.

Starting to feel better. Had a little to eat. I got flu shot about a month ago.

Wife put some meatloaf in the oven before she left for worship, looking forward to that.

Sunny here.

 

[ronjhall]

39 degrees here in Memphis, TN this morning. Fencing today and general cleanup.

Welcome to Good Morning Thread.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

RNG, my work position I started recently is test lead, for software and firmware for several of our products.
Before i came, it was all manual testing, every function, every supported os, etc.
I'm automating some of the testing. But all my test scripts themselves have to be tested to verify they actually perform the test correctly. Thousands of test steps. It's tough getting every possible scenario tested, but we try. We are getting ready for a major update, overtime approved. I'm going to be swamped...

 

[sodamo]

67°F and only 1.45 inches rain last 24 hours. I detect a slacking. Still reports of flooding and stuff.

Plan to watch football.

Be safe
Have a great day

 

[RedNeckGeek]

RNG, I'm not holding my breath with 50 years of corrosion. Will be amazed if they come apart. Are they galvanically corroded? Is it stainless? Stainless is horrible about galling threads. One should always use nickel based teflon tape or anti-sieze to put stainless pipe threads together if you ever hope to take them apart.

The shock body is steel with turned threads on the OD of the tube, the lower mount is cast iron or steel, and forms something of a cup that the body screws into. Since it's on the lower end, and the cup faces up, it's a natural reservoir for water. There was no corrosion visible where the two parts meet, and they live inside two telescoping sheet metal shrouds, so I'm hopeful the rusting isn't too bad. It might take a week to work, so patience, persistance, and time are my friends on this one...

 

[RedNeckGeek]

RNG, my work position I started recently is test lead, for software and firmware for several of our products.
Before i came, it was all manual testing, every function, every supported os, etc.
I'm automating some of the testing. But all my test scripts themselves have to be tested to verify they actually perform the test correctly. Thousands of test steps. It's tough getting every possible scenario tested, but we try. We are getting ready for a major update, overtime approved. I'm going to be swamped...

That's the LAST thing you should be worrying about right now, Farmer! Focus on recovering your strength and health, and surrounding yourself with supportive friends and family. Stress is a killer, and can slow down your recuperation if it gets out of hand.

I don't envy you that task, Farmer. At my last employer, I was being shoe horned into a similar position for a major piece of software that had been written in house. The developers had produced no documentation, comments were very sparse in the code, and there wasn't even very much in the way of design or performance criteria available. Real wild west stuff. The group leader, an ex Air Force Colonel, would go off on a round of schmoozing with his Air Force sponsor/buddies, come back with a bunch of "like to haves", then give them to the coders. Everything was scatter gunned, and usually blew up just before or during the demos. No time or funding to develop a spec, or even just put together a list of requirements and have them validated by the customers. Just another one of many reasons it was a perfect time to pull the plug on that job, cash in all my chips, and retire to the country.

 

[rswyan]

44F and sunny @ 11:30 ... beautiful outside but mebbe a little on the cool side.

Fell asleep on the couch last night after dinner, woke up at some point and crawled into bed and slept until after 10:00 this morning.

Got the 3PH frame and the angle that holds the tines welded together yesterday ... was a bit of pain ... had to weld the pivot pipe which was down in a 1/2 wide gap between the angle (which I was welding to) that holds the tines and the outer pivot tube ... without welding the inner pipe and outer tube together. Hard to get to and get a good angle on ... so it will be interesting to see if it holds together. Probably should have made the outer tube a little shorter, and left more of a gap.

Managed to weld them together in one small spot only ... which was quickly fixed with a zip disc in the angle grinder.

Also had to rotate the 3PH assembly to get all the way around the pipe ... which was a complete PITA, given how bound up it is. Used a 5' long piece of pipe as a cheater bar and I could just barely move it ... managed to avoid any really nasty falls, although I came close a couple of times.

Figured out the positioning on the hydraulic cylinder ... it's an ASAE cylinder and the end of the rod had about 3" of threads on it to allow for adjusting the clevis. That made it a little long, so I cut off about two inches of the threads. Got the base end attachment point positioned and tacked up on the frame ... have to position and tack the rod end attachment point on today, and then get them both welded on. Will need to stand the rake up on end ... if I don't want to do any overhead welding (which I don't) ... should be a real treat.

It's probably going to be real close on interference and whether the cylinder contacts any part of the frame ... unfortunately really no easy way to check it at this point, given how bound up the pivot is. Hopefully it will be ok.

Would be nice to get outside and get some stuff done today while the weather is still nice ... but he wants his rake and I just want this little project done and gone ... :laughing:

 

[buckeyefarmer]

That's the LAST thing you should be worrying about right now, Farmer! Focus on recovering your strength and health, and surrounding yourself with supportive friends and family. Stress is a killer, and can slow down your recuperation if it gets out of hand.

Developers don't like to test usually, but this group does. Documentation and config control better than most places. Always room for improvement.

They fired the guy before me, but they have assured me they love my work and not to worry about that.

Work so far is supportive of me getting well, but you never know how far that goes, coming in new. I have no sick leave or personnal leave right now, but they are letting me go negative. I havent shared the extent of my surgery, but a little more involved then others I've had in the past. I thought i would only be off a couple days.

I enjoy the work, and i can do most from home.

Our schmoozers came back with that list, and a pot of cash to pay for it. Lol.
Last thing i want is overtime, im too old for that.