Good Morning!!!! 57F @ 6:30AM. Sunny to partly cloudy. High 78F. Winds W at 5 to 10 mph.
I can't count the number of times I've put something away in a "safe" place where I would be sure to find it again, and you know what happens when I go lookin' for it...:confused2:
I agree, I don't know how some people ever got their driver's license in the first place. Makes me think there should be an actual on-the-road driving test at every license renewal, and you go back to driving school if you flunk. I bet there would be a tremendous shortage of driving school teachers!
The best projects, no matter how small, Ed, are those that are for or help the wife. Just make sure she knows the lathe or mill played a part so that next time you need a new piece of tooling, she's all for it.
When the inspector for the insurance company came earlier this year, he asked if I'd had the water heater replaced. Not since I've had it, and it was built in '07, so the tank is probably 11 years old. He said that the insurance company likes to seem them replaced every ten years. Probably because the most common failure mode is the tank leaking, and the water can cause a lot of damage, damage that insurance companies end up paying for. The heater here ran for several years without the benefit of a water softener, and the water is very hard. I've never drained it, so it's probably got tons of sediment in it. It's propane fired, and every time the burner lights, I hear crackling and popping which is probably cavitation caused by the sediment insulating the metal so it gets very hot and then the water comes in and causes a micro steam explosion. So I should probably replace the tank, but since it's in the garage, if it does leak nothing will be damaged unless the water runs under the wall and into the master bedroom or kitching. Thinking outloud, the kitchen has porcelin tile laid directly on the slab, so it'll probably be OK, but the cabinets are sitting on the slab and might be damaged. There's laminate flooring in the bedroom, but it sits on a moisture barrier that I was careful to extend up under the baseboard, so it should be OK. After writing this, now I'm thinking I should replace that water heater and save myself some grief. I'm told it takes a building permit. Is that the case where you live?
BTW, lots of people say "hot water heater". Isn't that a little redundant?:laughing: Wouldn't it be more accurate to say "cold water heater"? :confused2: Or if you're lazy like me, just "water heater" will do...
Mixed results on yesterday's van drive into town. I managed to sus out the wiring for the Neutral Position Switch problem, and it appears to work since it didn't throw the P1101 error code. And the steering wheel shake is gone after I had the tires balanced. But it still runs into the rev lmiiter at about 67 mph in 4th gear. This time I had the code reader hooked up, and it reported that the van was doing 111 MPH, so there's some kind of problem with the way the computer in the van is sensing the speed. More homework to do there. I'd hoped to swap out the coolant level sensor controller for a known good one, but when I dropped by the mechanic's place at 4:30PM it was buttoned up tighter than a drum and no one was around. He didn't answer text messages all day, either, so he's probably dealing with another one of his family or business emergencies. :banghead: There was also a new error code thrown, a P0505, which is something to do with the idle air control valve. More homework...
TGIF gang!:drink:
