so waht ya doin today?

[462]

Congratulations to you and your wife, Bret!

Yep, spent a lot of time perusing titles, in Borders, till they closed. Now, I buy used books from the library ($1 hardcover, $.50 paperback), the Goodwill, and on-line from Thrift Books. I keep a few to read again, and the rest get recycled back to the library and the Goodwill.

 

[Winelover]

Water people are coming later this week to set up a UV sterilizer on the household water.

I opted for chlorination. Chlorine injected, as soon as, the well water comes into the house. Recommended by The Water Store/Kinnetico dealer. Chlorine removed when water goes through their filtration/softener system.

 

[Rick]

We're working on buying stuff we didn't want to ship or carry to the free world. New mattress for our bed is a pretty high priority.

I'd recommend mattress shopping first at Butlers and then at the Sleep Mart. Highly recommend staying far from "The Furniture Depot". Rip off artists of the highest order.

 

[Ian]

UV sterilizer is what we use. No chlorine, no carbon filters, just sediment and fines filters and then the UV. I found it interesting that the UV "sterilizer" does exactly that, sterilize. They don't kill bacteria, they make it impossible for them fo multiply, which means the water still has taste.....a good or bad thing depending on what kind of anaerobics are living in your system.

 

[Ian]

Congratulations, Bret, 35 years and several complete lifestyle changes plus kids with challenges must have been quite a challenge for the two of you, obviously you make a good team.

 

[fiver]

or work it like we do and pretty much ignore each other.

 

[Ole_270]

Went through Mountain Home a year or so ago on the way down to the wifes Uncles place outside of Batesville, little town of Newark. Nice country. Mother-in-Law was raised down there. Wife's uncle move back after retiring from Boeing.

 

[smokeywolf]

I opted for chlorination. Chlorine injected, as soon as, the well water comes into the house. Recommended by The Water Store/Kinnetico dealer. Chlorine removed when water goes through their filtration/softener system.

Same folks recommended the UV to me. Said it would cost less in maintenance over the long term. I suspect the price of the lamps have come down over the last decade.

We're going to have to buy several pieces of furniture over the next few months. Good to know about the 'less friendly' businesses in the area.

Shopping for a new toaster this morning while I ate bacon and eggs.

 

[JWFilips]

Well the weather here turned seasonal over the past week ( I guess no more freak 80 temps!)
Actually it is kind of nice working in this cooler (50-60's) weather...sure made the job of trimming trees around the property much easier. It has been many years since it has been done ( I never had the time) But now that I am home more, I started cutting into my giant yard job list!

We had frost yesterday early am, so decided to harvest what I can from my chili pepper plants The tops are now killed from the frost ......good thing it didn't touch my red sails lettuce, spinach, peas and broccoli which I hope will be a good fall crop.
Right after lunch I set about making Sweet Hots as I like to call them. They are the hotter chillies pickled in a sweet pickle brine.....I started doing this years ago when I ended up with 2 bushels of Very Hot Thai chillies on the last harvest, and they became a big hit in our household and with are friends!

Since I harvested, this morning , all the different types that grew this year I decided to mix them all up and Sweet pickle the mix!
I shall see but I don't think they will be bad. The pickle brine syrup I make up is a simple one of Cider Vinegar, sugar, ground cloves , allspice , dill and some canning salt boiled for about 10 minutes then I throw in the cut up chillies ( I like to leave the seeds out so there is no hot surprises) and boil for about 5 minutes....spoon in to sterile jars cover with a plate to keep in the heat, then boil the brine on last time before pouring it into the jars.
Clean the jar tops and seal! If the batch is small I Just refrigerate after cooling and sealing! If it is a large batch to be stored at room temps I will do the traditional water bath canning process.

 

[Intheshop]

Drilling fixture for my accessory handles for handloading bench.

 

[Intheshop]

Putting 8-32 inserts in with epoxy. That's an arrow tip,the chuck centers it and applies downward pressure. Visegrips work great here.

 

[Intheshop]

Home on the rang..... errr,bench.

 

[Ian]

Its still 100 here, great day for going after a leaking front evaporator.



Now to buy some more constrained-layer damping material and some mass-loaded vinyl to completely rebuild the whole crumbling firewall blanket. Couldn't just R&R stuff, oh noooo, have to rebuild and repair every piece. Will need about ten rolls of Tesa tape and a couple tubes of plastic-weld epoxy to re-wrap all the harnesses and connectors and glue back all the obsolete plastic that broke.

 

[462]

Holy-smollies, Ian, even back in the days when I did all my car repairs/modification/etc., I never would have tackled anything like that. But, back then, under/behind the dash was pretty much empty, other than uncomplicated gauge wiring, especially with my Brit and Jap sports cars.
If you are ever out this way, maybe you would be so kind as to reattach my F-150's fuel tank selector switch.

A friend invited me to join him on a visit to the Bass Pro, in San Josie. Came home with a pound of IMR 4831, four .44/.45 plastic ammo boxes, and a spiffy Fall-themed shirt for my wife. The powder was pricey, but, that it is not available locally, and that the 03A3 absolutely loves it with Sierra 165-grain SPTs, I was only semi-reluctant to be taken advantage of.

 

[Ian]

A lot of dashes come out more or less as a unit after removing some peripheral trim panels, a few electrical plugs, and dropping the steering column down. This is not one of those. It comes out piece by piece (I didn't photograph the heap of parts). Then the HVAC module comes out as a unit and after taking the case apart, out comes the offending evaporator (or heater core as the case may be).

Just another day at the office for a good auto tech, but we try to keep this part away from the customer, I've had more than one person come out with the service manager to retrieve spare keys or paperwork from their vehicle and break right down in tears seeing the entire interior gutted like that. People have no idea what some of this work takes, and often cannot imagine it all being out back together correctly again with no rattles or missing screws. But we do it. That's why it costs $2500 to fix your leaking heater core.

 

[Brad]

That 2500 bucks is why my Ram 1500 went down the road with a still leaking heater core.

 

[S Mac]

We had a customer some years ago that saw his cab lifted (6.4) and ordered a new truck. He was afraid it wouldn't ever be the same.

 

[popper]

Oh the day when the heater core was under the hood and the AC was in the trunk! Dash was steel and the top came off?

 

[462]

I can't imagine wanting to be a mechanic, in today's vehicle world, with its remote control (computerized), and the entire drive train, and who knows what else, crammed into a very small engine bay.

 

[Ian]

I have a hard time imagining that someone would want to be a project manager or a retail salesman, or anything else that requires continuous interaction with people. Different strokes ya know. Some of us are pretty dang content to make our living in relative peace and quiet fixing broken vehicles.