grouch
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I'll tell you what I didn't do.....I didn't change my clocks at all. Huge that's to you Arizona!
What I did today -instead- of Rocketry.
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Sooner Boomer
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Oooohhh - I *love* apple squeezing. Would love to have a few cans...or gallons.
Charles_McG
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I have kegs, too. Gallons is an option.
Construct_VA
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Spent the day at Epcot with the wife and kids.
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Wait, when did you move to Phoenix?
grouch
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October. It's been pretty awesome.
Glad to hear you are liking it. I love the desert, but the wife has informed me that will always be a hard no as far as living in/adjacent to one, and I love her more.
dr wogz
Fly caster
The sucky job of vacuuming..
Revived my Hot Springs Jacuzzi. Came home from last weekends launch and the hot tub was at 93*
. Went online and found a troubleshooting guide which lead me to a circuit board that had lost it's magic smoke, evidenced by some residue next to the relay that controls the heater. Amazon.com to the rescue with the upgraded replacement part delivered yesterday, installed last night and hot water this morning for our first hot soak this week!
. Went online and found a troubleshooting guide which lead me to a circuit board that had lost it's magic smoke, evidenced by some residue next to the relay that controls the heater. Amazon.com to the rescue with the upgraded replacement part delivered yesterday, installed last night and hot water this morning for our first hot soak this week! Worked on removing a transmission from a car to change the rear engine seal. Been chasing an oil leak the past few days and pretty much cleaned up engine and already changed any seal that could potentially be the culprit. Also put in new timing belt and water pump as records of last change were unknown.
Color of the leaking oil?
Dark amber/bronze, like old used motor oil. Smelled of engine oil too and not transmission or brake/powersteering fluid.
lakeroadster
When in doubt... build hell-for-stout!
Hopefully it is the rear engine seal. I had a tranny overhaul done and the motor oil leaked. Took it to the dealer, they said it's coming from the rear seal. Told the tranny shop. At first they denied it was a bum job. Later they fixed it at no cost at my insistence.
If you can get the vehicle on a lift maybe you can pinpoint the source.
If you can get the vehicle on a lift maybe you can pinpoint the source.
Problem was it's been slow leaking whilst driving for some time now and the leaked oil sort of migrated along seams and crevices every which way and also started "caking" with outside dust/dirt. Basically, it was hard to specifically pinpoint the source and combined with mileage and not knowing maintenance history, decided to just change out many of the seals and gaskets - cam seals and end caps, front/rear engine seal, distributor o-ring, oil pan gasket. Since everything is nice and clean now, I'm thinking to run UV dye in the oil just in case there's still something leaking after all this work.
I've always found wrenching on cars to be therapeutic, this time no exception and welcome even.
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Held day 2 of a hiring event out of town. Got three candidates show up and only one hired. /sigh
Nytrunner
Pop lugs, not drugs
Found a 2020 census call in the mail. Went ahead and knocked that out between paint coats
Did some baking to bring to work for (early) Pi Day.
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Held orientation for the hires from earlier in the week. Expecting 4, had two show up on time and one arrive 30 minutes late and leave ten minutes later.
John Taylor
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Pretty major work! Excellent job to do that yourself. That seal is a bear.
Sold my 2002 Jeep Geand Cherokee Overland. Just need to complete the relevant inspections and paperwork now.
Prepped land for a 'test' planting of organic olives to go with the organic mangoes, pawpaws, finger limes, lychees and guava. Long term stuff.
Getting a bit tight for floor space in my workshop so I took a shopvac that had been annoying me for a while and flicked it under the linisher that it normally attends. Wired to run at the same time. Workshop more useable in a few ways .
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Continued the Pi Day celebration by making a quiche for breakfast. Last night my friend made two pies that we rought to the MARS build session this morning.
I needed to take the base off of my PC monitor so I watched a YouTube video on how to do it and actually ended up removing it successfully and putting the framework back together on the monitor, so now I can mount it up on my shelf and tie it to the wire shelving up on top so that I can have 3 monitors across my shelf.
o1d_dude
'I battle gravity'
This has been my sanding set up for years but my sander is a bit smaller/less industrial sized.Getting a bit tight for floor space in my workshop so I took a shopvac that had been annoying me for a while and flicked it under the linisher that it normally attends. Wired to run at the same time. Workshop more useable in a few ways
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Sander is mounted on a wheeled steel stand with plywood base between the legs where the shop vac sits. Both are connected to a short multi-tap adapter. Move the stand where I want it, plug in the single plug and let the sanding begin!
Great minds think alike.
Charles_McG
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Let it freeze solid and pull the whole frozen block, with the leaves inside, out?
My niece asked me to teach her how to drive a manual stick shift car, so I gave her lessons in both my Tacoma and Miata. She picked it up well (and clutch/transmissions survived, lol), but more practice/repetition is needed.
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