Better and worse
Some bits better and some are worse.
Got the Nissan Pathfinder done today. Or as done as I am gonna get it. Air bleed plug is in and fluid topped off, though not in that order. 😉 Hatch inside cover put back on with new clips, and light switch disconnected. Steering column reassembled. Lights all working. Coil mounted and relays remounted as they were supposed to be. Done, done, and done.
Got a job that requires air pressure in the tank. Last few times I have needed it it would climb to 120 and sit there for quite a time and I have just been cutting it off. Took the head off the compressor this afternoon to see what the problem was and have got a large hole in a spring steel valve. Spent the rest of the daylight looking for a piece to make another one out of. So far no luck. Gonna go to the yard sale trailer and see if I can find anything over there that will work. After that am gonna take a seat belt roll up unit apart and see what kind of spring they have in them. I know something around here will work. Just gotta find it. 🙂
Got Cat a new hard drive today. Now to figure out what process/program(s) to use to copy the old one to the new one. Old is 120 gb new is 250 gb. Think she wants to dual boot too. Guess I need to download the latest and greatest pclos for her to install.
Looks like we are gonna be selling airsoft products and equipment out of the yard sale trailer soon. Tim got the license today, so I’ve got to clear a bunch of stuff out of the main room asap. Also need to get that bathroom torn out and ceiling repaired. And a entry way built. Bit by bit… 😯 🙄 Ought to be an interesting few weeks, months, whatever till things get to the point they are workable.
Got to get a mail box set at that gate too. And move the boat and camper shell. And clear out all the crap in the back parking lot.
When I said tin, I meant galvanized metal roofing, most likely of the 5v style. Did a price comparison a couple of months ago and per square foot it was cheaper by far than the 3 foot wide stuff. Depending on the amount of rain we get or don’t get tonight and tomorrow, I am hoping to get a start on clearing the area to build the work shed on.
Tis early and all but I think I will close and try for an early day tomorrow.
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Sounds like a nice little job on the Pathfinder. One of these days, I need to do something in that vein (fix up a lot of little things) on my pickup, the only question will be when/how to stop. 😀
Air compressors can be fun. We had a monster at work that had been around since ~1930-something (this was in the late eighties/early nineties) and the valves started getting weak. Doing much like yours, wouldn’t get to the pressure we needed before crapping out. Actually, there was a release valve that got weak, and we couldn’t find a good replacement. We contacted the company that built it (or it may have been the company that had taken over the company that built it) and tried to get parts/information about that compressor, and made the guy’s day when we gave him the model number and build date. They didn’t even have RECORDS going back that far by about 10 years. He had heard anecdotes about those compressors, and how long they lasted, but parts (we were going to do a rebuild) were something that hadn’t been around for a LONG time. We wound up getting another compressor. The old one may still be laying around, a good machinist looking for a project could no doubt make the parts to rebuild it, but it would take a good machinist with a lot of time on his hands.
There are some HD utilities on the Ultimate Boot CD that will copy over the material, ala Ghost. I used one on a machine a while back that Ghost wouldn’t do-the HD had been overfilled, I believe, and there was some kind of corruption of the file tables, and Ghost didn’t like that. This program just copied it over without caring, and the only real problem I had was that it made two partitions in the drive-one the size of the drive it had copied over, and the other the rest of the available space on the new drive. That might have been because the BIOS didn’t naturally support that large a drive-160 GB. Worth checking out, anyway, methinks. Used another utility to get the partitions as good as I could, as far as the BIOS would let me.
Sounds like more trailer modification fun. Trailers are good for that.
Yeah, tin is just a generic term. I don’t think “sheet tin” has been “tin” for a long time, just like “tin cans” haven’t been tin for ages. Too much money to do it that way, we got steel nowdays a lot cheaper.
Well, gotta get ready to go do the day. Check-out the e-mail I sent about the hand-made vacumn tubes.