Good morning!!!!

daugen · Feb 15, 2022

dftodd, it was a very good thing I was standing nearby. Heard this zorching, crackling sound, like electrical current grounding.
I looked in the microwave and saw sparks and a small flame and immediately opened the microwave door, stopping it and letting out some nasty
smelling smoke. No damage to the rest of the unit.
I sent them this pic, apparently they have seen much worse.

perhaps in order to file the proper notice I should have stuck my bare hand in and picked it up while smoking....

daugen · Feb 15, 2022

Buppies, when I was little on the farm our family's NJ cousins would come for an annual or every other year picnic.
Then unfortunately there was a falling out in that side of the family and the picnics stopped. We were disappointed.
This was back in the early 60s and our cousins would arrive in a beautiful large Jaguar sedan, BRG, wire wheels and tan leather inside.
And oh the little walnut tray tables in the rear. We would sit in the back of the car and put those tables up and down.
My mom's Biscayne s/w sure didn't have those...

All that lovely wood. And the amazing smell of all that leather, leather everywhere. Probably Connolly hides.
I think the last Jag they had was a Vanden Plas, with those two inch thick mouton sheepskin floor mats, like Rolls and Bentley used.
The feel of taking off our shoes and running our bare feet in that super soft carpet.
I don't think my father even opted for any carpeting until the 70's when it probably became standard.
That's what a rubber mat was for, right?

I would be like a little boy of 8 in that Bentley Mulsanne.

Dftodd · Feb 15, 2022

daugen said:
dftodd, it was a very good thing I was standing nearby. Heard this zorching, crackling sound, like electrical current grounding.
I looked in the microwave and saw sparks and a small flame and immediately opened the microwave door, stopping it and letting out some nasty
smelling smoke. No damage to the rest of the unit.
I sent them this pic, apparently they have seen much worse.

perhaps in order to file the proper notice I should have stuck my bare hand in and picked it up while smoking....

I was prepping dinner one night. Started the oven to preheat. Went out in the garage for a few minutes to finish up a quick project.

Came back inside to the dog banging off the back door and it sounding like someone was welding in the kitchen

I bailed back out to the garage and shut the breaker down for the oven. There was no way I was gonna touch it with power going to it.

The electric heating element in the oven broke in half and was contacting the bottom of the oven.

Called the wife and had her pick up a pizza on her way home

daugen · Feb 15, 2022

welding sound, that's it.
Remember the sound when the Terminator arrives in all that electricity?
Bzzorch plus

I just read that again. Live electricity up against the frame of the oven, making it all live likely.
Genuine electrocution hazard.
Something about the design of that heating element is just wrong, shouldn't be allowed to come apart so easily and for sure
have a fail off mode.

kenmbz · Feb 15, 2022

Drew- glad your kitchen did not catch fire.

Dftodd- how poorly made that the element cracked like that?

Last time I saw a heating element break was due to age and impact. Seems like yours had neither, maybe a factory defect.

My grandfather had Jag mk7 with the burl wood tray tables and a silver tissue holder in the back.
He got rid of it as maintenance was so expensive.
Had two gas tanks and fillers. Fun English designs of the era.
Fun as a kid to have pretend classy picnics in the back.
Looked like this one, might even have been this color:

Rich B1 · Feb 15, 2022

Good afternoon! 28° and sunny now. Was 5° when I woke up this morning. Supposed to be mid, upper 30's today, mid 50's tomorrow into Thursday, then rain and falling temperatures.

Finally got the IRS paperwork for the pension done. I redid it 3 times. Likely still not right but I gave up trying to make sense of it. I had other people look at it and they figure I was sorta close to right. It doesn't have to be that arcane......

Need to get into something useful this evening, not sure what yet

Anyone had any experience with an aftermarket canopy for their tractor? I finally have decided sitting in the sun mowing is getting old.

Everyone stay safe out there!

buckeyefarmer · Feb 15, 2022

7° this morning, 33° now.
Frustrating night trying to get the new Dell computer to make sound. Did get an email back this morning with a long list of things to try. Most I have done, but they suggest an older version of the sound driver. Downloading at home was taking hours, downloaded all they want me to try in the office, took a few minutes.

MVA did extend the emissions test deadline for my truck and said no late fee. They ignored the part about refund of late fee on the Honda I did yesterday, so resent that request. Will probably do the truck soon regardless of extension, since it doesn’t extend the next test date, just means I’m testing in the middle of the 2 year window instead of at beginning, next test date stays the same.