Good morning!!!!

toppop52 · Feb 9, 2018

buckeyefarmer said:
Tuesday, driving home from work after dark, i noticed my headlights would occasionally flash brighter. Also got a check engine light, code P0142 low voltage. The other thing is my gas mileage has dropped way down.
This is my honda with 350k miles, not sure i want to spend much to investigate. Replaced alternator last yr. Not sure what is causing the lights to flash.

Bad diode in alternator will do that.

300UGUY · Feb 9, 2018

Up early, went out to a business group mixer at a local brew pub. Beer was great. Food sucked. Hardly any people in the place, but it was snowing outside. Didn’t sleep well, so got up early, I prefer sleeping until at least 6, but I made coffee at 4:30. Looking at more snow plowing in my future, and if I didn’t have my Kubota, I’d be screwed. 1 to 3 inches plus what we had last night. Amateur hour compared to some of you guys, but enough for me!&#55357;&#56881;

toppop52 · Feb 9, 2018

Aren’t these golden years great?! LOL
22 going to 50ish.
Warm wet weekend coming, I’ll take warm.

PJ, music quality is great but like Ron, I haven’t listened to long hair in years. Currently got ZZ Top Legs streaming, trying to wake up. I love the little old band from Texas!

TGIF, weekend orders are, get well have a good time!

Buppies · Feb 9, 2018

Feeling some better today big doctors appointment end of month lots to go over

Looks like a rainy weekend coming up and next week too. Looks like we are setting up for very hot summer

Prayer for all of those in need

ronjhall · Feb 9, 2018

OK, we got our 4". It can stop now.

300UGUY · Feb 9, 2018

Yuck. More snow. &#55357;&#56861;

RedNeckGeek · Feb 9, 2018

Eric Salop said:
RNG's Vanagon expert has been in the elite club for a couple of years now with instant excuse for every delay

And he's not done yet, Eric. Yesterday's excuse had something to do with a clutch throwout bearing, a Subaru turbo clutch, and an RJS bell housing not fitting up the way they need to. And once again, all the parts have been sitting in his shop for at least a year...:banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead:

PJSprog · Feb 9, 2018

30°F and cloudy this morning, going up to 55° today. Bottom falls out again over night tonight, and we'll be frozen and miserable for the weekend.

Not a Popping Johnny, but funny nonetheless:

PJSprog · Feb 9, 2018

You have the patience of Job, RNG.

RedNeckGeek · Feb 9, 2018

Good Morning!!!! 59F @ 7:00AM. Partly cloudy. Near record high temperatures. High near 70F. Winds WNW at 5 to 10 mph.

We've broken the high temperature record two days running so far, and there's another chance at it today. Not looking forward to this summer.

If your lights are flashing in time with hitting road bumps, Buckeye, you've got a loose or rusted connection somewhere. I'd start with the headlight switch, unless you're seeing other things flash, then either something in the charging system or the battery connections. Happy hunting!

The stock market has erased all the gains made since last November's election, and is now officially in correction territory. It's also returned to the historical average rate of gain, so perhaps things will settle down soon. Been using the declines to take nibbles with an S&P index fund, and someday I'll look back and probably wish I'd taken bigger bites.

Got a call from the mechanic yesterday at about 8:30PM, but didn't want to ruin an otherwise pleasant evening by answering. Probably wants me to machine up an adaptor of some sort to bandaid his problem.

ullinghair:

Made arrangements for the new homeowners policy yesterday. Still well over double the old rate, but better coverage with a smaller but well rated company. Hopefully there will be more options next year if competition increases as new companies enter the market. My guess is there's a huge demand after last year's fires, and with another blazing summer on the way, fire weather will be back, too. The only saving grace is that so far the lack of rain has kept the brush from growing so much, a major factor in last year's troubles due to the record rainfall then.

TGIF gang!:drink:

CWB Wyo · Feb 9, 2018

33* for the low this morning, it made it up to the low 50's yesterday. Today is going to be in the mid 40' partly cloudy with the wind 20-25. It doesn't look we are going to get any snow for next week. But they still show the wind.

Eric... That looks about right for Feet per second. I only shot it ones over a chronograph and it showed just under 1300 fps. The only difference from what you have put in the program, is the bullet diameter is .459 and barrel length is 34 inches.
I haven't seen any evidence of tumbling in any of my loads. I was at a shot one time and there was a guy there that had just started getting into this kink of shooting. I'm not sure how he loaded the bullets but you could hear them go down range. Because of the way they were tumbling.
I like your tea kettles. I drink 2-3 cups a day.

Not much planned for today, I'll go out and see what I can get into.

Hope everyone has a good weekend.
CWB.

RedNeckGeek · Feb 9, 2018

One ray of sunshine did fall into my shop yesterday when I found a long lost can of Brownells Flute Juice tapping compound, something I don't use much of but that works very well. It had "disappeared" shortly after the move up here, but I'd limped on with the little dispenser bottle until it emptied last year. I'd searched at least a dozen times for it with no luck. Yesterday I tried to reassemble a couple of parts that had been off to the chrome platers, and found that the plating prevented them from going back together. So I was looking for some silicon carbide powder to make up a batch of grinding paste. I keep that on the same shelf as the Flute Juice, and the first can I grabbed to look at was the Juice. :confused2: Either it's been there all along, or it had phased back in from that other parallel universe in which it's been hiding. The rest of the day's quota of good luck was used up when I also managed to find the empty dispensing bottle, and then got it filled without spilling too much of the pudding like stuff. I had to turn down the chrome plated shaft to get the two parts to fit, which is why I'd provided written instructions to the plater that the shaft NOT be plated to begin with. Wonder why I have second thoughts about using them again.

Patience of Job, indeed.

I guess if I never tried to do anything I wouldn't need any patience at all. But then what fun would that be?:laughing:

sodamo · Feb 9, 2018

Sitting here in San Francisco airport awaiting flight home. Only 900 posts to get caught up. Can’t wait to get home and get over this crud it seems most of us have been fighting.

ronjhall · Feb 9, 2018

PJSprog said:
30°F and cloudy this morning, going up to 55° today. Bottom falls out again over night tonight, and we'll be frozen and miserable for the weekend.

Not a Popping Johnny, but funny nonetheless:

That would keep me awake.

ronjhall · Feb 9, 2018

sodamo said:
Sitting here in San Francisco airport awaiting flight home. Only 900 posts to get caught up. Can’t wait to get home and get over this crud it seems most of us have been fighting.

Did you get the Mainland, East Coast Crud? Safe travels home.

buckeyefarmer · Feb 9, 2018

toppop52 said:
Bad diode in alternator will do that.

Would bad diode cause such an intermittent flash of the lights.?

300UGUY · Feb 9, 2018

Back again. Waiting for evening for snowplowing. Still snowing, so I have time to surf!!

ronjhall · Feb 9, 2018

Went out and plowed about 10” of snow. That’s because I have not done it since Monday. Radar shows we will get a few more hours of.

daugen · Feb 9, 2018

Almost home David, you are champing at the bit...
Good luck catching up...I can tell you no huge changes since you went on walkabout.

Great fun at Garden Club this morning. Nice to see other guys there, even though
we might have different "persuasions". Nice guys, met them for lunch with another garden club member, someone I actually knew,
at the local beanery/grill around the corner from my house.
She's a founding member I think of the local country club and I was a little surprised to see her "out in the sticks".
Speaker today spends half her year at her home in France and did a presentation on two small undiscovered public
French gardens. Lots of topiary.

headed outside to run the pull behind rototiller with the brand new engine over the entire garden, if raising it all the way (remote electric is really nice)
will take of the tops of my humps. Ten hour oil change recommendation for break in oil

last time I took the Super A out it didn't smoke as much. It has some issues, maybe just age, that I have no idea what they are. You feel like you are going along at just above idle and it torques its way through it. Never slowed down, growled a bit, but all normal I'm working noises.
But I'm a nonsmoker and so shall be my tractors... until it gets worse, it will just be part of the aging charm. Most guys I think just drive them up and down the roads, paint them, and take them on parades. I'm actually working the old girl. Now I did take extra time to oil a number of parts this time, and perhaps i was rewarded by less smoke.
Wish it worked that way...

58 degrees in full sun and light wind. Marvelous time to be outside.