Good morning!!!!

[Looking4new]

Talk about pushy door to door salesmen, back when I was about 12/13 Mom had a vacuum cleaner salesman come to the door. When she opened it ( swings inward) a little he stuffed his foot into it so she couldn't shut the door. Well on the corner of the kitchen counter was a claw hammer and after she politely said 'NO' many times and tried to shut the door which wouldn't shut because his foot was in the door, I grabbed the claw hammer and let him have it on the top part of his instep. HARD! He pulled his foot back and I told Ma to shut the door. She says you hurt him. I said he got his foot out of the door didn't he? Win, win for us. I didn't give a dam if I hurt him. She had cookies baking and they were more important that the bogus vacuum cleaner he was selling.
I think door to door sales people are just there to 'case' your house anyway.
NOBODY gets into my house that I don't want in it. I usually stand on the deck which is about 4' higher than the driveway and I stand about 6'4" tall, long hair and beard with tattoos on both arms. Intimidating to say the least. My standard question as interlopers are getting out of their car/truck is, "You must be lost". If you are on this property then you are lost. Please leave. (Polite the first time). Second time not so polite. Along the lines of GET THE F$%^ off my property! Third time I just call the cops.
Religion pushers, I let Junior handle. He has a saying that makes them run.

 

[daugen]

nice blue sky out but way too cold
so puttered inside
more cukes planted, these are all the 3 to 4 inch ones you buy in a pack of five or six in supermarket.
My favorites. But at .75 to a buck a piece, I'll likely just eat them off the vine.
these will be planted and grown up a trellis
when i try to post it says a 5.12 mg file is too big.
uploaded image is too big

clearly doesn't like me.
I wonder if the machine is telling me something.
next, I will just disappear like Navalny....
perhaps it doesn't like cucumbers, gives it gas
mine are burpless, so there

pics later

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

My approach is to dive deep in customer's issues, do engineering and cost analysis together. Rather often we together discover that ROI for new machine will be unnecessarily long, for such guys it's better to go for smaller model or second hand.

I am not selling but rather "waiting order to fall in my hands".
Till now I doesnt had a single sales guy. But 5 service technicians. Looking on my competitors which have opposite picture I can tell you that dirty hands service technician (who doesn't control his mouth very well) is selling much better than smooth and shiny sales-boy.
We are working with industrial customers only, highly specialized and focused. There is some market with lower level craftsmans, too, that's where this new guy will work


Really hate those hyper-salespersons, which doesn't respect my personal space, doesn't take my no for answer etc

I like this approach.

Hope BMW comes out of hibernation ok.

Daughter is beautiful.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Happy B'day Sassy!

Popgadget, that looked like quite the job. I hope you had some help lifting things in place to stab a bolt to hold. Hope wifey is happy with old trusty vehicle. That Parilla was really cool back then. It looks about what a GP bike in the day looked like. Did the engine have a belt to drive the cam, or was it a bevel gear shaft? I rode an RD400 to school my junior and senior year.

I tell every biker who will listen, During the day ride with your highbeams on, to make cars think it is a locomotive coming down the track.

Drew, sorry about all your toils with the makeshift greenhouse.

 

[sodamo]

63°F and .58 inches rain. Sun forecast for this afternoon. That would be so nice. Need to start drying out.

Guys won H&F. A nice back and forth game, we were fortunate to prevail.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Texas Wildfires. Sad and serious. I heard if they can't snuff them out by Sunday it is looking like dry windy conditions will kick them in high gear again.

https://satlib.cira.colostate.edu/event/texas-panhandle-wildfires/

This is mostly ranch territory. There are quite a many stories coming out. If there are green wheat pastures, they are cutting the fences to let cattle seek safety over the green fields. Neighbors helping neighbors.

 

[Popgadget]

That Parilla was really cool back then. It looks about what a GP bike in the day looked like. Did the engine have a belt to drive the cam, or was it a bevel gear shaft? I rode an RD400 to school my junior and senior year.

I tell every biker who will listen, During the day ride with your highbeams on, to make cars think it is a locomotive coming down the track.
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The Parilla had a gear drive camshaft that was mounted high on the engine, but still had short pushrods and rocker arms.

I agree about lights. If you look at the picture of my wrecked Sportster, you’ll see the tail light is on. About the only thing on that bike that wasn’t stock (or period correct) was the Hella headlight reflector and super bright white LED bulb. And the tail light is proof that it was on at the time of the accident.

 

[scott_vt]

Good Afternoon Helo,
Beautiful bike, nothing like Deutsch engineering !!

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I tell every biker who will listen, During the day ride with your highbeams on, to make cars think it is a locomotive coming down the track.

I drive my car in the daylight now with the lights on. However, just a few moments ago, someone coming other direction just weaved over into my lane, I had to brake hard, they were swerving for a trash can sitting at the side of the road. apparently they thought a head on collision was safer than possibly scraping the side of a trash can.

 

[daugen]

got all the plants back out in the greenhouse, a pleasant 84 in there now
planted a flat of elegans lilliput zinnias
then fed the birds
now sitting and resting before helpers show up
old friend just called sounded awful, tested pos for covid today, so he sure isn't coming.
but another younger helper can so will have enough hands.

Will be raining tomorrow, but good day to work inside rv and hook it up to water and see
that everything is just dry as a bone.
dry as a bone with the water turned on.
maybe

no weather below freezing in ten day forecast

still can't post pics, keeps saying too large.
guess I'll go back to the regular camera and see if that makes any difference.
what's with these HEIC files?

 

[ronjhall]

This is my Husqvarna 400 from 1970. Picture was taken at Grand Canyon NP. West of main park. Back then you could ride the trails along the canyon after registering at park main office. It was a great ride.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

This is my Husqvarna 400 from 1970. Picture was taken at Grand Canyon NP. West of main park. Back then you could ride the trails along the canyon after registering at park main office. It was a great ride.
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That was one of the most powerful dirt bikes you could buy in 1970. I would love to have a running model of one of those right now.

 

[m7040]

Since many posted pictures of their bikes here is a picture of my Suzuki back when living in Marin County CA early 1970's. Trailered it up to a bike park North for some fun with it
Pretty light and powerful and would lift front wheel in any gear

 

[buckeyefarmer]

got all the plants back out in the greenhouse, a pleasant 84 in there now
planted a flat of elegans lilliput zinnias
then fed the birds
now sitting and resting before helpers show up
old friend just called sounded awful, tested pos for covid today, so he sure isn't coming.
but another younger helper can so will have enough hands.

Will be raining tomorrow, but good day to work inside rv and hook it up to water and see
that everything is just dry as a bone.
dry as a bone with the water turned on.
maybe

no weather below freezing in ten day forecast

still can't post pics, keeps saying too large.
guess I'll go back to the regular camera and see if that makes any difference.
what's with these HEIC files?

I turn off HEIC and save as JPG, Iphone calls it compatible mode I think.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

little fun on the farm

 

[rswyan]

49F and cloudy @ 15:00, which is the high predicted for the day.

Got hopper and 2 tube feeders refilled yesterday, plus scattered cracked corn, cheap bird seed, peanuts for the ground feeders. Also took about 2 gallon of whole corn up and stuck it in the deer feeder.

Collected mail while I was up there.

Woman took her car down to the local repair shop yesterday afternoon and dropped it off to have it aligned. Brake light came on as She was heading over there. Shop called this morning and said right rear wheel cylinder was leaking ...

Interestingly, the guys at Discount Tire had a very hard time getting the right rear tire and rim off when we got the new tires installed, had to beat the crap out of it to get it off.

I'll need to grease/anti-seize all the rims at some point in the not-too-distant future when it warms up a little more and the sun is out.

Got some clean up done in dining room, plus all the plants in there watered. Woman said to keep doing whatever I'm doing with the banana tree. Yeah ... it does like a drink every now and then ...

Also moved the old clothes washer across the kitchen, clearing a space for the old refrig on the north wall. One step closer to the front door ...

Woman has been cleaning the interior of it this afternoon, now out for a walk with the neighbor.

Got back into the master bedroom bath last night. Attempted to remove the old shower drain collar by unscrewing it. Got it to turn but it didn't seem to be unscrewing/rising. Put the propane torch to it and was able to pry it up a little. About that time I came to the conclusion that it was probably a leaded joint. Which was confirmed by the oakum on the bottom once I got it off.

Getting it off allowed me to remove the top layer of subfloor in that area that the drain comes up through:

Once that was done I chiseled out the shoe plant on the bottom of the 2 x 4 stud (left side in above picture) on the shower entry and then trimmed off the stud where it was rotted with the oscillating tool.

Also cleaned up all the wood debris, nails, and screws.

Had heavy consultations with the "construction supervisor" while all that was going on and got a decision made as to which direction we're going to go on the new shower pan. Need to get that ordered today, should have it in around 10 days or so.

Next on the agenda in there will be a very close inspection of the bottom portion of the subfloor to determine what parts of it need to be removed and replaced. Then start trimming it out.

Was tempted to pressure treated plywood for the subfloor ... but considering how wet it tends to be when you get it and the shrinkage from that, I think I'll probably stick with regular plywood. May even have enough plywood here leftover from the router table/woodworking bench projects to refloor the area but need to verify the thickness (is it 1/2" or 3/4" ?)

Repair shop just called: Woman's car is done. She's back from her walk and headed off with the other neighbor to go pick it up ...

Hope everyone is having a decent Friday ...

 

[Wagtail]

Good (Saturday) morning. Overnight Low of 11.2C and it's presently 15.1C, calm with high overcast.

I'm 'up' early for my get away to Launie; leaving in a half hour. My medical 'procedure' is at 1100... the Urologist is going to have a look in my bladder (and there's only one way he can put a camera in there ). I'm going for a 'local freezing'. It'll sure be a new 'life experience' for me.

I should be back home by 1600.

That's about it, take care all.

 

[rswyan]

The motorcycle was the one after the H-1, had it for 30 years and 50K+ miles. Pic was taken just before selling it.

Nice ...

RS hope you made progress on something.

Thanks, a little forward movement.

RS quite the wreck. Had a 1000 shaft drive after the H-1.

I went shaft drive on the next one after the LTD - a '78 or '79 XS 750 Special triple - very similar to the one below (sans luggage rack, backrest, and fairing):

Was the 2nd bike I bought new from a dealer (the 1st being a 1972 Kawasaki F7 Enduro)

Ended up putting a set of low bars and a custom exhaust (SuperTrapp !) on it.

Glad you had success with the computer ...

 

[rswyan]

RS, also nice machine !

Thanks !

It was ...

Lot of fun on all of them !

Indeed.

After I broke my leg, wife wouldnt let me get anything that went faster than a tractor ! Even thats not entirely true, I got Polaris Ranger 570 EPS in 2018. That thing will easily do 50 or more !

I've been tempted over the last couple of years to pick up another scooter myself but have thought the better of it ...

Still no harm looking ... right ?

Hope all have a great evening, time to feed my two cats, they are hungry now !

Hope cats had a good feast ...

 

[m7040]

Here is pic from back then in Bates leather protective gear.