Lathes are nice
Yes indeed they are. Had a line I needed to plug and had no plug handy. Found an old rusty bolt and after grinding down the hex head to close to round chucked it up the lathe and turned it down to the needed size. Rounded the sides a bit so they wouldn’t cut the hose and clamped it into place. Should work for many teh year. 😉
The screw in the top radiator hose is indeed a air bleed screw. Drilled it out, after removing the fitting from the hoses, and ended up having to use the torch to heat the nylon up and inserted a square shank screwdriver and waited for it to cool and it came right out. Looks like a trip to the Nissan place in Oxford in in my future to get a replacement part as the guy at the local parts house looked at it and laughed at me. 😕
Just got off the phone with the owner of the Pathfinder. He’s fine with the repair and the price. Will go and get the parts and finish it up tomorrow.
Now I been thinking again… 😯 🙄 Looked at the portable carport prices today, and I can get the tin to build a permanent structure for less than the cost of one that will not last more than 5 years on the outside. I think I will go to the building materials center and buy tin instead. True it will not be portable, but it won’t fall to pieces within a couple of years either and we have piles of lumber to build the frame with. Just needs a bit of cleanup to be usable.
Tis early but I am about done in. Till the morrow… 😎
Themocracy
Lathes are nice. Being able to USE a lathe, that’s nicer. 🙂
I thought I had seen a bleed screw in a Nissan top hose at some time or another. Like I said earlier, the only thing worse than a bleed screw is NO bleed screw. I can still remember specific models that really, really, REALLY needed a bleed screw. Jeep Cherokees with the straight six head the list. I mean, any vehicle where the main ways to get the cooling system full involve either taking a heater hose that really doesn’t want to come off loose, or filling it as full as you can, and then running it for about 10 minutes, waiting for the temp to all of a sudden spike, turning it off IMMEDIATELY, and then waiting 30-45 minutes for it to cool, and then (maybe) being able to fill it, is a bad design. No other way to put it.
Tin sounds good. (Sheet steel, actually, I doubt that tin is very affordable nowdays, but I could be wrong.) I think it is a very nice building material, and I love sheet metal roofs.
About to turn in for the day, the funeral activities lasted quite a while. Good to get to interface and confabulate with Sue’s folks, but it was a little long. And then I had to get the dryer up to the repair place. All tis done now, though, and it’s time for lights out. “And there was much rejoicing!”