Good Morning!!!! 44F @ 5:00AM. More clouds than sun. High 61F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.
To spoof the electric eyes into letting the gate opener work, I used electrical tape to fasten them together, and the alignment wasn't real great. Took it back apart yesterday and found some screws long enough, and made up some spacers, and it's really solid now. That seems to have fixed the problem, though the answer seems to simple. But in the process of sorting that out, also dug into the exit loop sensor, and rewired it. Doesn't seem to have made a difference, though. I have a replacement on the shelf, so if I get time, I'll try that today.
Got a letter from a collection agency yesterday about the T-Mobile charge I'd disputed, and that T-Mobile had said was taken care of. Tried to get T-Moble on the phone, but gave up after 45 minutes on hold. Called the collection agency, and they told me that the debt had been cancelled. Looking back at the paperwork, T-Mobile turned the matter over to collections only two days after sending me the first warning letter, which took 10 days to arrive. With business practices like that, it's doubtful I'll ever give T-Mobile another chance.
Got another pair of steel pallets cut up, but the Bosch angle grinder packed up half way through. Bad bearing in the angle drive seems to be the issue, but it looks to be a readily available part and fairly inexpensive. Finished up using a comparatively under powered Makita battery tool, and it took six batteries to get it done, plus a 3/4 recharge of another. Like the battery powered chain saw, it didn't take much to stall the tool, which then required a on/off/on cycle to reset it. And the more charge was used, the easier it was to stall, so it really slowed things down. The first pallet came apart in half an hour, the second one took an hour and fifteen minutes. Yeah, I'm gonna fix the Bosch. I also have a Makita 120 VAC body grinder, so I'll fire that up today to smooth up the cut welds. It's so heavy it doesn't get much use, but I bet it'll go faster than with the smaller Bosch.
I've run into a fair number of Scotsmen in my time, Eric, and most of them have been fairly easy to understand. The pair I ran into in a Salzburg bar, though, were entirely unintelligible. They were roaring drunk, and apparently were trying to ask us to buy them another round. Once we caught on, we tried to ignore them, then ended up leaving the place when they started to get disorderly...
Glad you got the DEF issue resolved, Lou. Another reason to hang onto my old Diesel Ford.
Happy St. Patrick's, and Hump, Day!