Bob, I said what I said last night... Look at me now! I just bought a small drafting set. It came with some mechanical pencils, an eraser, shaped like a pen and some triangles. I don't think I've used vellum since high school. The triangular scales are made for architectural work. 1/4 inch on your print equals a foot in real life. Things like that. I do have engineers scales that have survived the shop roof collapse, but glad to get some new stuff.
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What is vellum used for? People might ask. The idea is that you would create a master drawing, then file it away in a safe place. The master drawing never hits the shop floor, in the case of an engineering drawing, or hits the job site in the case of something architectural. The idea with vellum is that you can put the master drawing back on the board, take a sheet of vellum, as it is somewhat transparent, and re- draw every line and feature from the master. It's a way to make a shop copy of the original. Nowadays, that's just unheard of, but back in the day, when rocks were still soft and electronics have barely started, you had to do what you had to do. I've worked with draftsmen at my Company, and they really knew their stuff.
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Link? I still like designing with pencil and paper...then prototyping with cardboard and masking tape!
Nope, sorry, I bought this bit of kit at auction. But I like your attitude. I can suggest Office Max if there's one in your area. If you go to Hobby Lobby, you can still buy a fancy compass and a few mechanical pencils. But not like back in the day. I bought my first compass set from a company called Broadhead-Garret. They used to put out a catalog about the size of a yellow pages phone book from Minneapolis...here's my set of compass that I bought through them in high school. I don't know if they are still in business or not. My set looks a little worse for wear, but it did survive the roof collapse. (BTW, the plural form of a compass is still spelled and pronounced... compass.) I learned that through studying about the Masons, even though I never became a Mason.
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Marc, my original gold band was cut off my finger by someone in the operating room 60 or so years ago and I wore the second (thinner) band out about 30 years ago. This third one was $40 from a pawn shop and it's a small, simple 14K gold ring. Went online to find out what a new one would cost and Amazon has one for $177. I took a look at the ring and thought I could 'fix' it with an impact socket and 1 oz. ball pien hammer. A 12 mm to make it roundish and a 13mm to make it close to perfect.Bob, it's been about 7yrs+ since I've worn a metal wedding band. My original is made out of cobalt, which cannot be sized, it just breaks I guess. They (Helzberg), would however, replace it for "free" with the care plan purchased. I'm not willing to part with it, biggest problem is the 35lbs I've gained since my nuptials
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I've worn a few different silicon rings over the years, some look very similar to metal, some didn't. I like how they don't scratch the finish on cars, attract weld activity, or simply tear away when caught where your finger shouldn't be.
The ring still has a crack part way through but I consider that a feature. In the event it gets caught on something, the ring is soft enough and thin enough that it will break before it rips my finger off.
Cody, I was shocked at the price of a Toro Dingo. $29,000 for a used one with no accessories and $48,000 for a new one and my hheart skipped a few beats. I thought the new stand-up commercial mower my lawn guy uses was expensive. I askd how much and when he says $11,000, I pay him his fee and make a heavy sighing sound.
I'm going to print a little label with the bouncy advice on it. OK, maybe a couple hundred sticker labels.
The silicone rings looked interesting but am old fashioned and the gold band just feels right.
Cody, I looked at the cobalt rings and marveled at the special diamond edged nippers needed to cut them off. Then I looked at my stump and decided breakaway soft gold was good enough.
Kay, I believe you have gotten your money's worth out of your Dingo.
Cody, any week that passes without me fondling a pen or mechanical pencil is a good one. The pen I carry with me to check off items on my shopping list is a Parker jotter Ink Gel pen. Very small chance it will ruin a shirt, like so many fountain pens do.
Cody, my chance of taking out a wall with a Dingo is probably less than 100% but nowhere near 0%. That would be true for the narrowest one they make.
Rick, I got my ring repaired, my dishwasher fixed and swapped cars in the garage.
The dishwasher problem was interesting. At first I thought it was a clogged screen at the mascerator (chopper), reducing the flow of water. https://www.amazon.com/W10083957V-D...UDS30FXSS1/dp/B082TRN6PK?tag=atomicindus08-20
Did a little searching and discovered this model Kitchenaid doesn't have a screen so I just felt around inside and sure enough, there's no screen, just the really fine filter screen cartridge that I had already cleaned.
The lower rack items were all coming out really clean so I pulled both racks out of the dishwasher. The weird section of the rear manifold looked to be in great condition so I checked the dual height connector on the upper rack.
I see a problem. The lower connector opening has been damaged and the flapper valve is no longer seating properly.
The inside of the connector looked even worse, with sections blown out and the flapper valve being permanently open.
New part arrived today. Because it included the rubber flapper valves, backing plate and manifold, it was $45. I ran the empty dishwasher with a cleaner tablet in the dispenser and we shall see if I really avoided a $1,300 replacement bill.
Rick, during my job's downward spiral in the Hudson Valley, my office was located 3 mikes from my department and my name was not on the routing tickets attached to important (?) documents. The rest of the employees in the department ran giant blueprint machines, cranking out blue copies of the vellum masters. They also ran the printing machines that made copies of documents and bulletin board pages. My job was Text Processing, using HTML markup language to format formal documents and maintenance manuals. I'll never forget the ammonia smell coming out of the blueprint room.
Rick, that's how IBM made changes to the original vellum engineering drawings. The traced copy with changes was submitted and when approved by all the cafeteria workers, was made on the vellum masters. I still have the electric die grinder style eraser somewhere.
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I still have (and occasionally use) my old Staedler-Mars professional compass set and a stack of green plastic drafting templates that got me through a cartography course in college and a rough employment patch in my early 20's. Sold my big old drafting machine and table 25+ years ago, could probably use a compact version now and then.
Nice!! I wish I could help you more. That company that made your compass sounds German to me and they make some nice things. I often go to tractor shows and always have to check out the flea market. The past few years, I've bought quite a few tools, to the point that I need to include a two wheel dolly, of some small sort, just to get me through the day and back to the truck. I have bought a nice compass set and need to show you a pic of that. Cartography sounds like maps to me. Tell me more. I've been interested in the surveying part of owning a property out in the sticks. I have read through your whole thread. I especially liked the park benches that you made for the community.
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Anyone who has 500 hours of work for a Dingo will definitely get their money back. Unless you buy the big Dingo, then you need maybe 1000 hours for payback. Last time I looked at the hour meter it was over 5000 hours.
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I rented a Dingo for a week (after 3 days it's the same $$$ as a weekly rental) to expand the parking area at our new summer place earlier this summer.. Didn't have room for the full size Bobcats they had in inventory at the rental yard. I was skeptical at first, but this thing was a beast. Probably moved 100+ bucket loads of dirt, relocated 20+ big basalt boulders (3'-4' across ) and spread 5 trailer loads of crushed granite. Had great digging power, fast, easy to maneuver, controls were very intuitive. If I needed it more often one would be sitting in my garage now...
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Majored in Physical Geography with a minor in Geology. Had to map caves, landform features, and geologic formations as part of the curriculum. Quality of the drawings was important, freehand pencil sketches wouldn't cut it. Some of them had to be done in ink... Bought the compass set at the college bookstore (along with an Estwing rock pick).
Used them both for 2+ years when I was in school, still have them both. The rock pick is now my welding hammer; used the compass set during my brief tenure as a Mechanical Draftsman during a rocky stretch of (un) employment in the early 80's and occasionally still today when I am designing a welding project.
You're definitely a glutton for punishment if you read through my entire project thread, but thanks for the compliment on the benches, potentially still have two more to build. Maybe.
I did try my portable air conditioner yesterday. I didn't set it up, properly, but it did put out some cool air. That part is good. My thought was to open both doors on the tin can, to the point that a gap starts to happen, then put a 2x10 in the gap, cut a hole, large enough to handle the plastic hose and another 2x10 on top and bottom, with the angle of the doors cut on them. I looked at the remote control and it has a button on it labeled "Follow Me". It makes me wonder what that feature does. Would it follow me around the place like a lost puppy? 
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I can't find anything indicating the company still exists. They had a website, but nobody's home.
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Did you use your Arnold voice?
(I had an Ahnuld joke to make earlier this week and haven't gotten around to it yet, this this comes up!)
I see that I spelled the name quite wrong, but thank you for doing some research on it. My Dad used to buy some chemicals, powders, and magic potions ( flux) to be able to cast aluminum parts at home. I still have a 12" metal shaper that was sold by them. ( I bought it used). B-G was kind of Sears and Roebuck, back in the day, but really concentrated their efforts toward the industrial side of things. Kind of like McMaster nowadays.
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Holy ****,you need a secretary!Drives, thanks for the kind words,
Also, thanks for checking up on me. Here's the looong story:
I know you've been doing your best to stay healthy and maintain or improve your strength. As you approach your seventh decade, the side effects start to show up and it's hips and/or knees letting you know how long you've been stressing them. Please take care of those things sooner rather than later. At a younger friend's funeral I overheard: "He was so healthy and fit so dropping dead on the tennis court came as a complete surprise."
My heart issues reminded me I was 75 when AFib (atrial fibrillation) came knocking on my door. Couple of cardioversions (mine involved the word "CLEAR") temporarily fixed the problem but when it came back for a third visit, the surgeon shoved stuff up my femoral artery into my heart and fried or froze the parts of my heart causing the problem. I've always had a slow heartbeat but when it scared the **** out of the doctor and nurses doing another invasive procedure (involving the hole right next to that femoral artery) it was suggested I get a pacemaker. What scared the **** doctor was the pulse alarm never shutting off. According to Gargle: "A heart rate exceeding 100 BPM (tachycardia) or falling below 60 BPM (bradycardia) while at rest may indicate a potential issue..." My pulse rate at rest was 37bpm but it would quickly go to 130 during a heart stress test. The little smartphone in my chest lets my pulse rise quickly but provides little electrical shocks whenever my heart tries to slow below 60bpm.
About three weeks ago, Liane fell in the garden. She loves working on her gardens and often bends over to pull a weed or pull leaves out of her bromeliads (the Pineapple is a member of this family of plants). While bent over, she took a step and something tripped her. She fell the short distance and hit her right shoulder. It began hurting the next day but she was going to see her Pain specialist the following week. He moved her arm through a full rotation of her shoulder and told her it was an arthritis issue. We saw our primary care physician this week and after poking and prodding her shoulder, prescribed an x-ray. There is a lab connected to our big fancy hospital on the first floor of his building so she had one taken on the way out. Next morning (this past Friday) he called to tell us nothing showed up on the x-ray and gave her the name of the orthopedist he uses. Hopefully the first proposal isn't a joint replacement.
An hour before the call, Liane asked me to move a pot full of Aloe plants to one of her potting benches. I picked the pot up and moved it to the granite slab that's sitting on a couple of wooden saw horses. Turned around and was heading back to the house when my bare foot caught on a section of metal edging that keeps the curved section of 12x12 concrete pavers in place. Over the years the pavers have settled so the metal edge is an inch higher. Feeling myself headed for a fall, I took a step forward and simply extended my fall. The side effect of the Prednisone (and generic Zytega that suppress testosterone, the fertilizer for prostate cancer cells) causes muscle weakness, especially in the long thigh muscles. I extended my arm to break my fall, now headed to a block wall, and impaled my left chest on the gate fence post next to the wall. That slowed my fall but I still bounced off the impaler and landed on the pavers. My hand did a good job slowing the fall but I still hit that post hard. I know my hand helped because the gate latch bent and cracked the wedding band. Liane immediately sprang into action and slathered Arnica Gel on my chest to prevent bruises to form on my otherwise perfect chest. It seems to have worked, with the only evidence being some red spots and a line from the edge of the post. That white scar is the pacemaker installation locator:
The shot to my left chest was concerning because that's where my pacemaker is located. After lying on the walkway for five minutes (felt like five but probably only two) while Liane repeatedly reminded me to breathe, even when I suggested the blow was to my chest and not my head so I still remembered how to breathe. Got up, went in the house and got out my cellphone and Kardia Mobile device and determined my heart controller was still working as designed. Put the pulsometer on my finger and the blood pressure cuff on my arm. Pulse 60, oxygen 98% and blood pressure 128/74 and confirmed 60 bpm. I told our primary care doctor about the incident during his call about Liane's x-ray and called my cardiologist (his office monitors my pacemaker from the wi-fi box next to my bed). I assured both I would schedule a visit if anything changes.
As to the ring, it looks like we'll be shopping for another. My first wedding band was cut off my left hand when I arrived at the hospital in 1965. Had they waited for Liane to arrive and make the decision to amputate or try to re-attach my useless left forearm, they could have cut the damn finger off instead of ruining a gold band. Pawn shops, here we come (I'm thinking another flimsy one that won't rip my finger off when this sort of thing happens again).
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Kay, I'm going to order a few more sets. They are much easier to use than a drill bit because they have that loop on the end of each one. I can also grab the whole set without worrying about scattering a bunch of my best guess drill bit sizes around the yard. My forceps/vascular clamp tray sounds like a good spot, along with both welding carts. Turns out Jeff's river has a set of four on sale right now:
Cody, you know I always havethoughts oftrains of thought that go off track. I forgot about your attached garage. You realize this is the GJ so buying triplicates of every tool is completely reasonable and respected. Have you thought about a trio of forklifts?
@gman007, after a very brief search of the Internet, I discovered the reason for the problem:
"The left brain/right brain" concept refers to the idea that the two hemispheres of the brain are specialized for different functions, with the left hemisphere associated with logic and language and the right hemisphere associated with creativity and spatial reasoning."
Obviously my right brain put the thing away in the perfect, most ingenious and space saving place possible. When my left brain goes looking for it, it's not in the logical location and I utter a continuous stream of curses until have used them all. The next time my right brain is conscious, I find the thing exactly where I put it. I am fully aware that neither side of my brain works very well.
Mat, I think you have the right term but the image that term triggered in my mind was more along these lines:
[I believe I have to pay to show the movie character Hannibal Lecter but CPAP Bob is a freebie.]
Mat, thanks for diving down that rabbit hole. I worries me that the tool requires the strength of the Terminator to lift it. The reason I buy so many Milwaukee M12 tools is for their lighter weight. I do buy other battery powered tools but they either take AA or AAA batteries or have a charging port (and are therefore disposable when they stop holding a charge).
Andrew, I had Parker 21, Cross and Schaefer fountain pens that i really liked. The Parker was old and didn't take cartridges so when it wouldn't refill itself from an ink bottle, I stopped using it. When our daughter asked for a calligraphy set, I bought two. She mastered the skill and made some really nice unofficial invitation and award cards I gave out at IBM (boy do the managers who didn't do that show me some hate). I should probably be embarrassed that I have 20 fountain pens and all the tools and parts to repair the non-cartridge ones). The calligraphy pens are not shown but this is the current stable:
When I was simply signing store-bought cards, I signed them with calligraphy pens but now I use Hallmark Card Studio on my Windows desktop (There's a Mac version as well). They also have IOS and Android apps if you prefer to send electronic cards.
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Dan, if the Bosch batteries fit, our son would be interested (if the price is right).
@gman007, if they're first cousins, I don't think you can legally put the batteries in them both.
Rick, it's not a healthy obsession. The pen side has already been confessed but the pencil side is about as bad. The mechanical pencils are 0.3, 0.5, 0.7 and whatever size the IBM Electromagnetic lead is.
Now you tell me I need more variety in my pencil leads. I'm beginning to perspire....
Rick, I feel a little better but I'm looking away. I can only take so much pen and pencil overload.
@Squankum, is he talking to my maid?
Rick, I have read a fair amount about the whole subject but in bits and pieces from magazine articles in auto enthusiast and science magazines. I tried to explain it to Liane but she wasn't interested so I took her to an empty parking lot after a decent snowstorm in the Hudson Valley. I showed her how to recover from oversteer and when trying to turn and brake at the same time be able to decide if changing direction or stopping was the desired result. Never told her it was 'understeer.'
@Squankum, in Florida they require people to renew their driver's license every 10 years -- until you reach 80 when it's every 6 years. I am doing my best to control my impulse to drive like I did 60 years ago, avoid tickets and above all not have an accident. At $4,700 a year for our three vehicles, a little OOPs could be very expensive. Should I ever get the big block Corvette back on the road, all bets are off.
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Bob, I've been reading through @nicholam77 thread. He has some pretty neat projects going on, with his woodworking projects, and then he bought a 3-D printer. Had some issues with it, but marched on with it. ( I'm only about 2/3 of the way through his thread) And think I should wait until I'm done reading through his thread before responding to him. He's a VW guy. The only VW I've owned was a 1972 Beetle Bug. Bright red.... Loved that car, summertime.
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Kay, I can believe that. (You make me look lazy.) You've replaced the engine at least once, worked on the tracks, too. Added a dog eater. (snowblower) Then reconstructed the dog eater to improve it. That Dingo sounds like it was a very good investment on your part.
You spent a bunch of time, working on a boat. Have you had it out on the water yet?
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No boat. I need to test the motor. Which, in my current state of health, will be a month long process. And before I could do that, I needed to clear the welding table, which required that I install the chip filter on the water softener. Which required that I finish the firewood, which took months.
So, firewood finally dealt with, to clear my mind and my parking space.
Welding bench cleared.
Filter installed the other day.
I still need to clear the metal bench, do the research in the documentation for the premix. Get the premix. Mount the motor. See if I can get it running.
Which all also has to fit in with Drs appts and tests and life.
And I get maybe an hour a day, if I'm lucky, for everything in life.
This is what I get for taking a break.
I thought it was a big deal moving up from the compasses I used in grade school.
Because my parents wanted me to forever remember how poorly I did in school (compared to my brother) they saved all my report cards in a file folder that I found while cleaning up my mother's condo after she died. My second quarter grades and third quarter attendance took a hit because I was getting married. The shotgun was painted white in honor of the event.
With some decent SATs and aptitude test scores I earned a Regents scholarship that paid my tuition at a New York State University. Took me 15 years to earn a Bachelor's Degree in English at night but managed to graduate *** Laude while working full time at IBM, helping to raise two kids, fixing everything that broke, digging septic pits, finishing a basement and building a deck. All while partying my *** off with the wife, kids, neighbors and friends. I took advanced algebra in college and got a 4.0 -- the professor didn't deduct for arithmetic mistakes.
Scott's thread is a wonderful place to hang out and see some amazing fabrication. He's the kind of neighbor most people love -- the others hate people with skills and taste.
Scott, I skip the whole prototyping step and make/fix my stuff with cardboard and masking tape. When I need to make/fix something stronger I just rummage through my pile of scrap metal until I find something that might work. From there it's weld, grind, weld some more, grind some more and eventually I run out of wire, gas or daylight and call it good enough.
Rick, I never bought a kit but I did add a better compass (as well as a circle template) to my collection. Last time I used it was to find the center point of an aluminum disc. Compass and ruler to the rescue.
I thought it was a big deal moving up from the compasses I used in grade school.
Scott, my engineering education stalled at college calculus. I almost failed high school algebra [Math 12A] but passed the final [Regents] exam by the skin of my teeth (90% of my mistakes were arithmetic). I did OK in high school geometry [Math 12B] but at the end of the fourth quarter my teacher wrote all the names of the kids in my class on the blackboard in two columns [Pass and Fail]. I was at the bottom of the Fail list because I was unable to perfectly memorize theorems and reproduce them on tests. The New York State Geometry Regents exam included a slew of true/false and multiple choice questions and required students to complete three of five long problems. Two required reproducing theorems and three required solving problems using those theorems. There were yellow books available that contained previous Regents exams so the game was to figure out which theorems would be on the 1962 test. I chose the three problems and got the highest grade in the class. Boy was that ******* teacher pissed.
Because my parents wanted me to forever remember how poorly I did in school (compared to my brother) they saved all my report cards in a file folder that I found while cleaning up my mother's condo after she died. My second quarter grades and third quarter attendance took a hit because I was getting married. The shotgun was painted white in honor of the event.
With some decent SATs and aptitude test scores I earned a Regents scholarship that paid my tuition at a New York State University. Took me 15 years to earn a Bachelor's Degree in English at night but managed to graduate *** Laude while working full time at IBM, helping to raise two kids, fixing everything that broke, digging septic pits, finishing a basement and building a deck. All while partying my *** off with the wife, kids, neighbors and friends. I took advanced algebra in college and got a 4.0 -- the professor didn't deduct for arithmetic mistakes.
Rick, I avoid flea markets, auctions, garage sales and thrift stores. I cannot bring myself to go to one and not return with SOMETHING. Liane can shop for days on end and never buy anything. I see no point in hunting without killing something. Last week Liane made me stop at the hospital thrift store. I think she found one white blouse. I found a pair of Levi red tag jeans in my [new] size that appeared to have been worn once for $6. I also bought a Cuisinart Automatic Grind & Brew 12-Cup Coffeemaker (DGB-400 Series) that appeared to have been used once or twice for $25. It eliminates the separate coffee grinder from the coffee bar and makes a nice strong brew from my Blue Mountain Jamaican coffee beans (Costco staple).
Scott's thread is a wonderful place to hang out and see some amazing fabrication. He's the kind of neighbor most people love -- the others hate people with skills and taste.
Kay, I could easily find 500 hours of work for the Dingo but my frailty excuse for not moving plants and re-shaping the landscape would no longer work.
Scott, you already do too much heavy lifting. Liane saw one of your landscape posts just as my system inexplicably crashed and I explained it was not what she thought it was. I told her it was ****. That was a close one!
Scott, one of the classes I loved was Earth Science and the teacher was outstanding. Because of that class our the trailer my parents dragged across North America in the summers was always listing because of unusual rocks I found and hid under the double bed.
Rick, whenever I do stuff like that with my garage door I unplug it from the ceiling outlet when I'm finished with the setup. One bay in my garage has a pull-down stair that prevents the door from opening more than a couple of feet. I wired an interlock micro switch to the stair panel but don't trust my wiring logic.I did try my portable air conditioner yesterday. I didn't set it up, properly, but it did put out some cool air. That part is good. My thought was to open both doors on the tin can, to the point that a gap starts to happen, then put a 2x10 in the gap, cut a hole, large enough to handle the plastic hose and another 2x10 on top and bottom, with the angle of the doors cut on them. I looked at the remote control and it has a button on it labeled "Follow Me". It makes me wonder what that feature does. Would it follow me around the place like a lost puppy?
@Squankum, that happens to me a lot. Usually it's just a 404 message but sometimes it's a site that does nothing.
With all the testosterone blocking drugs I take it's more like an Aretha voice!
Rick, we've lost so many great companies and brands in my 80 circles around the sun. Hudson, Nash, Kaiser, Packard, Studebaker, Oldsmobile and Pontiac to name a few. Edsel came and went so fast it's not a fair example. AMF produced my first bicycle (a Roadmaster) and now they're just a thrice removed bowling machine company.
@Uncle murph, Indeed I do. Actually, Liane played one in a Club Med skit. You've got me thinking. Oh $hit, I'm going to be Dabney Coleman's protege.Holy ****,you need a secretary!
Indeed!!!
@Squankum, sure doesn't look like me.Scandalous gossip! Rumors! She's a gold digger! The boy looks nothing like Arnold!
Rian, most of the time you are a truly wonderful person. Then your evil twin shows up.
Rick, Kay makes us all look lazy.
Kay, I don't really feel your pain but I am in the same Drs appts and tests and life process. The pain across my chest comes and goes and I'm telling myself I'm feeling better every day. More precisely I'm telling Liane that. I laid down on my back today and flopped around on the bed like a beached whale for way too long just to get to a standing position. Whenever I get the urge to cough I take a teaspoon of Nyquil and try to clear my throat without the horse kick to my sternum.
The KitchenAid dishwasher repair was a complete success. Liane drinks a brew every morning from a Tervis 20 oz. tumbler. A level tablespoon of Half Caf in a 4-cup coffeemaker makes a tea-like liquid. The tumbler gets six packets of Splenda, three squirts of Jordan's Sugar Free Skinny Syrup and two coffee scoops of Coffee Mate. You would expect the upper rack of a dishwasher could clean that tumbler but with that leaking connection it didn't even get the tiny coffee grounds out.
After replacing the upper tray water manifold the dishwasher noise disappeared and the KitchenAid was so quiet I had to check the light to see if it was in the wash, dry or finished status. All the dishes are cleaner, including the ones with a little egg yolk and cheese on them.
Decided to start on the PT Cruiser's front passenger door window problem. I can move the window up and down by hand but not in the straight line the regulator does. I pulled it up as far as I could with the deflector in place and pulled it into the garage. Accessed the shop manual on the garage desktop and opened a YouTube video on the garage laptop that's connected to the 40-inch TV above. Removed the door card and could see a mess. Not sure exactly what went wrong but it didn't look like the pictures in the manual
As shown in the YT video, I used some blue painter's tape inside to hold the glass in the fully closed position. Not feeling confident with the blue tape I cleaned the glass a little and added a strip of duct tape on the outside with a piece of paper towel protecting the paint at the top of the door.
I started unbolting stuff and removed the motor mounting nuts, releasing the motor and unspooling all the wire.
The motor, mounting bracket and window clamp are sold as a single unit for around $80 and it arrived today in a rather large box. Maybe install it tomorrow.
The new motherboard, USB 3.0 PCIe card and a few cables arrived today so the crippled desktop I'm using today will probably be on the garage workbench tomorrow to be repaired on Saturday.
I ran out of one of my drugs this morning and called the cancer center pharmacy to get a fresh bottle this morning. A couple of Liane's prescriptions were supposed to be ready after 3:30 this afternoon so I planned on picking all of them in one trip. Not paying attention to the time, it was 4:00 pm before I knew it. The cancer center pharmacy website said they were temporarily closed so I called. No, they would be open for another 20 minutes, closing at 4:30. Jumped in the Cadillac and was at the CC pharmacy at 4:20. Told them the 0.9 mile run had winded me. Left there and headed to Walgreens where only two of Liane's five prescriptions were ready. Based on the advice of the pharmacist on my last pickup I asked about generic Narcan (Liane takes three opioid drugs that might cause her to pass out and stop breathing). The kid checking me out says it's over the counter up at the front so I head there. Girl at that checkout looks at the shelf behind her and asks if I want Nicorette or nicotine patch. No Narcan in sight. Back to the pharmacy and ask another clerk. She tells me it's on aisle 30 or 31 so I start at the back wall and work my way down the aisle, looking left from top to bottom, looking right from top to bottom and take a step forward. On the top shelf at the very end of aisle 30 I see a box marked Nargreen or some such generic name. Contains two nasal spray devices for $35 so I go back to the front and check out. I get in the Cadillac and turn the wipers to intermittent. It's raining so I turn the headlights on with the directional stalk. The message: "Auto lights off" so I push some buttons and the TPMS display shows both front tires at 35psi. Press the button again and it shows right rear at 35psi but the left rear at 29psi. Make it home and connect the trickle charger to the new connector I put on the battery located behind the right rear tire. Grabbed one of my little hand held inflators and filled the left rear tire to 36psi. Will check TPMS tomorrow and maybe remove the wheel to do a close inspection of that tire. Maybe even a trip to the pool for a bubble test.
After replacing the upper tray water manifold the dishwasher noise disappeared and the KitchenAid was so quiet I had to check the light to see if it was in the wash, dry or finished status. All the dishes are cleaner, including the ones with a little egg yolk and cheese on them.
Decided to start on the PT Cruiser's front passenger door window problem. I can move the window up and down by hand but not in the straight line the regulator does. I pulled it up as far as I could with the deflector in place and pulled it into the garage. Accessed the shop manual on the garage desktop and opened a YouTube video on the garage laptop that's connected to the 40-inch TV above. Removed the door card and could see a mess. Not sure exactly what went wrong but it didn't look like the pictures in the manual
As shown in the YT video, I used some blue painter's tape inside to hold the glass in the fully closed position. Not feeling confident with the blue tape I cleaned the glass a little and added a strip of duct tape on the outside with a piece of paper towel protecting the paint at the top of the door.
I started unbolting stuff and removed the motor mounting nuts, releasing the motor and unspooling all the wire.
The motor, mounting bracket and window clamp are sold as a single unit for around $80 and it arrived today in a rather large box. Maybe install it tomorrow.
The new motherboard, USB 3.0 PCIe card and a few cables arrived today so the crippled desktop I'm using today will probably be on the garage workbench tomorrow to be repaired on Saturday.
I ran out of one of my drugs this morning and called the cancer center pharmacy to get a fresh bottle this morning. A couple of Liane's prescriptions were supposed to be ready after 3:30 this afternoon so I planned on picking all of them in one trip. Not paying attention to the time, it was 4:00 pm before I knew it. The cancer center pharmacy website said they were temporarily closed so I called. No, they would be open for another 20 minutes, closing at 4:30. Jumped in the Cadillac and was at the CC pharmacy at 4:20. Told them the 0.9 mile run had winded me. Left there and headed to Walgreens where only two of Liane's five prescriptions were ready. Based on the advice of the pharmacist on my last pickup I asked about generic Narcan (Liane takes three opioid drugs that might cause her to pass out and stop breathing). The kid checking me out says it's over the counter up at the front so I head there. Girl at that checkout looks at the shelf behind her and asks if I want Nicorette or nicotine patch. No Narcan in sight. Back to the pharmacy and ask another clerk. She tells me it's on aisle 30 or 31 so I start at the back wall and work my way down the aisle, looking left from top to bottom, looking right from top to bottom and take a step forward. On the top shelf at the very end of aisle 30 I see a box marked Nargreen or some such generic name. Contains two nasal spray devices for $35 so I go back to the front and check out. I get in the Cadillac and turn the wipers to intermittent. It's raining so I turn the headlights on with the directional stalk. The message: "Auto lights off" so I push some buttons and the TPMS display shows both front tires at 35psi. Press the button again and it shows right rear at 35psi but the left rear at 29psi. Make it home and connect the trickle charger to the new connector I put on the battery located behind the right rear tire. Grabbed one of my little hand held inflators and filled the left rear tire to 36psi. Will check TPMS tomorrow and maybe remove the wheel to do a close inspection of that tire. Maybe even a trip to the pool for a bubble test.
Bob, the one time, I've had to machine a part at home, on my own machines. One of the things that I had to do was to find the center of a circle of three points... First up was a circumscribed circle. With oddly placed points. Then I tried three points and tried an inscribed circle.... There's more to that with polygons and things. Very much more. Big deal, amiright?
I thought I had heard some complicated coffee orders but I'm not sure what in the world that drink is.....lol
Bob, we did get the Ring door bell camera working at Mom's place. I hired the Geek Squad to help us out. It (camera) works on both of our phones, even though I live about 1-1/2 hour from her and her WiFi. That part is good. I'm going to visit Best Buy next week to pick up a spare battery to have charged up and ready to switch. I charged up the battery in the first place, at home, and, granted I used a USB cord from my laptop to do this, but it took about 9 hours to charge the battery. Because of that I can see the need for another battery to do the swicharooo. About 30 bucks for another battery. I think it's worth it. I can't say enough about the Geek Squad. They really came through for us.
Bob, you're missing out... Trying to avoid auction sales, flea markets, garage sales and things. My entire life is based on that. I've always loved sales like I've listed. But, I come forward with quite a bit of honesty. I grew up with my Dad, and he loved auctions. He was a bad influence on me. Ha i always tried to buy tools, to make my fixing cars happen faster. I bought machine tools to make my life better, but then spend a year, making tooling for them, so kind of a double edged sword in some respects. But I'll never not ( a double negative) stop at a pretty good looking sale of any kind.
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Miss the Pontiacs
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Hiya Bob. Thought I would drop in and check out what you have been up to. You mentioned that you had a wedding band cut off 60 years ago. Did you have it repaired? I’ve wore my band every day for probably 35 years before I had to have a 1/2 shank added once it wore down a bit. My future SIL’s Dad took a healthy dose of DC voltage directly to his wedding band and burnt the hell out of his finger. Said he wasn’t wearing it anymore and used some very colourful language telling me all about it. Haven’t seen him since and don’t know his ring status.
I don’t know how you have any time for projects or home upkeep. Seems any thread I check out Bob. has already been there.
Noticed on your report card that anything below a 65 was a fail. I would have had a hell of time passing at your school. Our fail mark was 49% if you had 50% you had it made.
Hope you have a great week and I’ll catch you later.
I don’t know how you have any time for projects or home upkeep. Seems any thread I check out Bob. has already been there.
Noticed on your report card that anything below a 65 was a fail. I would have had a hell of time passing at your school.
Our fail mark was 49% if you had 50% you had it made. Hope you have a great week and I’ll catch you later.
madison069
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How the progress on the PT cruiser window install Bob?
jon72vega
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Hey Bob,
Checking in to see what has been going on in your world lately.
Checking in to see what has been going on in your world lately.
y'sguy
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hi Bob, I'm travelling today and wanted to check in on you. Hope things are well. I could use your experience and advice in moving around this world. You are fortunate to have experienced so much and are willing to share.
All, I apologize for going MIA. Unimportant stuff took over my life and then important stuff happened...
My school grades reflected my relationship with the teacher. Most disliked me because I got good grades without doing any of their 'homework' assignments. I hit it off with Mr. Bernstein in 6th grade and came real close to straight A's like my brother.
Apparently these 'refurbished' desktop machines come from companies who manage all their PCs through the network. That means my 'new' machine didn't come with an optical drive (or card reader slot). In addition, the i7 processor is 7th generation so Dell doesn't support Windows 11 on this machine (Microsoft changed the cutoff to 8th generation processors or newer). Being a fart smeller I moved the SSD (Solid State Drive) data drive in the PCIe X16 slot from my primary Windows 10 system to the same type slot in the Windows 11 system. Worked great but I can't swap the SSD back because Windows 11 put a lock on it. I have to transfer the files back to the old system with a data transfer cable or external drive but fearing Windows 11 will put a lock on the external drive, it's probable it would lock that drive as well.
With nothing better to do, I found an optical drive and card reader for this model Dell system and also found the correct front panel that has an opening for the card reader. An additional 32GB (2 X 16GB cards) of memory is also on its way to my office. In addition to the 1TB NVMe on the motherboard, the system came with a 1TB 2.5" SATA drive so I added a second 1TB 2.5" SATA drive with a power extension cable. Hopefully 64GB memory, 3TB storage, optical drive and card reader will handle my immediate need for a Windows 11 system. It seems like yesterday I was upgrading my 64KB PC to 256KB and thinking I was done.
Enjoy your travels. The memories they provide never go away (at least not yet for me).
Rick, I know how important math is in life and it starts with simple arithmetic. We moved from Flushing, New York to North Babylon, New York in April 1952 when I was in second grade. The Flushing school was teaching how to add and subtract two digit numbers and the North Babylon school was teaching how to add and subtract triple digit numbers. It completely threw me for a loop and I never really recovered. Didn't bother memorizing multiplication tables so I just used addition, which meant I rarely finished a math test in time. Years later, when I joined IBM I learned binary, octal and hexadecimal number systems and it was like a lightbulb going off in my brain.
Logan, Liane never drank coffee growing up (I went from breast milk to light coffee with extra sugar) so it was usually tea for her. She tried a sip of someone's foo-foo decaffeinated one time and asked me to make that for her. I started with regular coffee with two sweeteners (= 4 teaspoons of sugar) and Coffee Mate with light whipped cream on top. It made her jittery (sensitive to caffeine) so I switched to decaf and then to half-caf. The light whipped cream was too many calories so I just added vanilla extract. Final stage was more sweetener and flavored zero calorie flavored syrup. My coffee taste went the other way, eliminating sugar first, then milk and then to fresh (finely) ground whole beans with double the recommended amount of beans per cup.
Rick, I installed a Ring doorbell and it worked for a few days but wouldn't work with the whole-house intercom that made the doorbell sound. Bought an 8-camera system and installed four cameras (front door, above garage, north side yard and south side yard). I can (but don't) access the system from my phone so the system is a one-time expense and limited to the home network.
Rick, I suffer from an addictive personality so I can't control my drinking or smoking and bargain hunting. If something is marked BOGO (Buy One, Get One free) I have to have it, even if we don't need it or we won't use it. My parents were retail shoppers and my father paid car dealerships whatever they asked. I have at least broken from that path. I shop online, where I can compare prices and I bring one signed check to used car dealers with the amount I'm willing to pay filled out. Their name goes in the 'Pay to the Order of' space if they accept my offer. If not, I take the check elsewhere.
Emil, Liane took the ring to a jeweler and cashed it in for the weight of the gold. That paid for a similar ring at a pawn shop. Of course gold was selling for $35.50 an ounce back in 1965, not the $2,500 it is today.Hiya Bob. Thought I would drop in and check out what you have been up to. You mentioned that you had a wedding band cut off 60 years ago. Did you have it repaired? I’ve wore my band every day for probably 35 years before I had to have a 1/2 shank added once it wore down a bit. My future SIL’s Dad took a healthy dose of DC voltage directly to his wedding band and burnt the hell out of his finger. Said he wasn’t wearing it anymore and used some very colourful language telling me all about it. Haven’t seen him since and don’t know his ring status.
I don’t know how you have any time for projects or home upkeep. Seems any thread I check out Bob. has already been there.
Noticed on your report card that anything below a 65 was a fail. I would have had a hell of time passing at your school.
Hope you have a great week and I’ll catch you later.
My school grades reflected my relationship with the teacher. Most disliked me because I got good grades without doing any of their 'homework' assignments. I hit it off with Mr. Bernstein in 6th grade and came real close to straight A's like my brother.
Cody, the window regulator went great. The Cruiser reminded me it has turned 22. Several plastic fasteners disintegrated and the generic stuff I found isn't a match. Mostly door card/arm rest attachment plastic mollies. I'll probably end up at the Chrysler dealership to get replacements. It's all back together and working fine but I know there are bits missing.
Jon, I have been on a Microsoft Misery tour for the last two weeks. TurboTax sent out an e-mail notifying users that this year's software won't work on a Windows 10 system because Microsoft will no longer support security updates beyond October 2025. Microsoft tested all of my Windows 10 system and told me they couldn't be upgraded to Windows 11. I don't want to learn a new tax program so I ordered a refurbished Dell OptiPlex 7050 SFF (Small Form Factor) desktop with Windows 11 Pro pre-installed. My first search for a new machine resulted in a minor stroke but the refurbished Dell was only $272.48 delivered to the door.
Apparently these 'refurbished' desktop machines come from companies who manage all their PCs through the network. That means my 'new' machine didn't come with an optical drive (or card reader slot). In addition, the i7 processor is 7th generation so Dell doesn't support Windows 11 on this machine (Microsoft changed the cutoff to 8th generation processors or newer). Being a fart smeller I moved the SSD (Solid State Drive) data drive in the PCIe X16 slot from my primary Windows 10 system to the same type slot in the Windows 11 system. Worked great but I can't swap the SSD back because Windows 11 put a lock on it. I have to transfer the files back to the old system with a data transfer cable or external drive but fearing Windows 11 will put a lock on the external drive, it's probable it would lock that drive as well.
With nothing better to do, I found an optical drive and card reader for this model Dell system and also found the correct front panel that has an opening for the card reader. An additional 32GB (2 X 16GB cards) of memory is also on its way to my office. In addition to the 1TB NVMe on the motherboard, the system came with a 1TB 2.5" SATA drive so I added a second 1TB 2.5" SATA drive with a power extension cable. Hopefully 64GB memory, 3TB storage, optical drive and card reader will handle my immediate need for a Windows 11 system. It seems like yesterday I was upgrading my 64KB PC to 256KB and thinking I was done.
Alan, I'm doing pretty well. Earlier this week I learned our youngest great grandson, who just turned 2, is blind in his right eye. It suddenly put all the petty stuff in perspective. Don't yet know if it's the eye or the brain causing the problem but I have to feel relieved he has one good eye (kinda like me). Yesterday I learned our oldest granddaughter's husband has been diagnosed with leukemia. They ran tests in the West Palm Beach hospital and started him on Arsenic treatments but he's being transferreed to the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida. I'm huddled in the fetal position waiting for #3 to hit.
Enjoy your travels. The memories they provide never go away (at least not yet for me).
gilr
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Hi Bob,
Your estimate of the price of gold is more than a thousand dollars low as of yesterday, it was $ 3561.00. Makes me kind of wish I had bought the gold bars last year at Costco! Hopefully your family's health issues will be solved soon.
Your estimate of the price of gold is more than a thousand dollars low as of yesterday, it was $ 3561.00. Makes me kind of wish I had bought the gold bars last year at Costco! Hopefully your family's health issues will be solved soon.
OutlawDrifter
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Good to hear from you Bob, prayers for good outcomes for your family.
kaymccampbell
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Geez Bob, the first part is fun and the second comes round an snaps you in the ***. Hope your fam gets better.
Bob, I'm glad that you're feeling better. Life's a beech, ( beach?)( a beach with beech trees?) especially where you live. I started thinking about the triangles I wrote about and the inscribed, circumscribed circle in my example. Thinking that both circles have the same center point, but, now think that a circumscribed circle actually uses the corner points on a triangle. Whereas, an inscribed circle has to touch each side of the triangle. In the case of an Isosceles triangle, (short base, taller sides), that really changes your center of the circle as compared to the inscribed circle. I was only trying to hook up a 1/3 hp motor to an old washing machine pump. Through a weldment, a chunk of water pipe with a flange on each end. I wanted my drive rod to stay centered in the pipe. Kind of a homemade sump pump, to pump out the flooded barn.
PugetDude
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Hey, Bob- just checking in; glad you're feeling a bit better.
bugnut
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Bob, thoughts and prayers to you and the family!
Bob, I did read back a page or two on yer thread. You had mentioned cameras at some point. I know your history, with trips to Alaska, Mexico, and many of the States of the US. I became a camera bug, many years ago, and wanted to buy a 35mm SLR. First, I read a very old book and learned about F-stops and things. That was many years ago, so I don't remember much about things, camera-wise. But I did buy a Vivitar. One of the reasons I bought this camera was to go to John Deere Days at the local dealership. I was invited to such an event! My first one. Nobody else had a camera, so I left my brand new camera in the truck... There were many weddings happening, back then and everyone but me had a pretty nice camera. I felt left out. Once I bought the camera, it took so long to make all of the settings happen, that all of my subjects lost their smile. I did try to take landscape pics, and tried three shots. One underexposed, one normal, one overexposed. With the price to develope film, I only tried that a couple of times. My camera did have an electronic light meter on it, but everything else was manual.
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