so waht ya doin today?

fiver

Well-Known Member
be glad it ain't an International.
they used green with a black stripe.
gray with a black stripe
black with a black stripe
black with a grey stripe
and black with a green stripe.
oh and occasionally just red [usually with a black stripe]

guess what color they all are after 15 years of dirt roads?
 

Ian

Notorious member
The number-one DC electrical skill to master is the voltage drop test. Checking circuit, switch, and connector resistance @ 5 mA current does exactly that, confirm it can carry 5 mA. Power probes are outstanding tools for things like sorting out WTH with the end of a bunch of wires real fast (like trailer plugs on that truck you bought from Billy-Bob) or for forcing power through dead circuits, or providing a test ground, but there's no substitute for a DVOM/skills. I think Power Probe has a model out with a voltmeter readout, which if I'm right would make the tool about 1000 times more useful.
 

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Bill and Fiver, thanks for the suggestions. Sounds like I could start with something simple like a sticker with a hole poked in it.
 

Ian

Notorious member
The only issue with the aperture thingy is if you have vitreous floaters in your central vision.
 

fiver

Well-Known Member
I don't know quite how it works, but some eye issues can be 'temporarily' over come with a pin hole in a piece of paper.
like if you lose your cheaters, you jam a safety pin through a piece of paper and hold it over your eye to focus better.
 

Intheshop

Banned
Installed Timney 510,hunter model trigger in ADL 223 this afternoon. Easy peasy, adj to 2-1/4#.... finally, get to sit in loading room and dry fire practice. 20181016_102505_resized.jpg
 

Chandler

Member
JonB, no luck. I called a mobile forklift repairman and hopefully he can get here tomorrow. I did remove the floormat, floor pan, steering wheel shrouds and kick panels so everything is as open as can be. I pulled all the connectors and sprayed them with CRC but the gremlin is still there. I located a few ground connections and moved the wires and they seem tight. I don't have the luxury of time to disassemble and test each circuit. I wish I paid more attention at times to those that knew how to diagnose electrical problems. I know what isn't wrong but not what is wrong at this point which I guess helps some at least. I have 2 pallets of wax coming Friday and may have to spring the coin for liftgate service. Its always something as we trudge along.
 

Ian

Notorious member
Voltage drop test doesn't require taking anything apart, quite the opposite. Google it up.
 

JonB

Halcyon member
JonB, no luck. I called a mobile forklift repairman and hopefully he can get here tomorrow. I did remove the floormat, floor pan, steering wheel shrouds and kick panels so everything is as open as can be. I pulled all the connectors and sprayed them with CRC but the gremlin is still there. I located a few ground connections and moved the wires and they seem tight. I don't have the luxury of time to disassemble and test each circuit. I wish I paid more attention at times to those that knew how to diagnose electrical problems. I know what isn't wrong but not what is wrong at this point which I guess helps some at least. I have 2 pallets of wax coming Friday and may have to spring the coin for liftgate service. Its always something as we trudge along.
Well, that's a bummer. I hope the repairman shows up tomorrow.
 

fiver

Well-Known Member
I hate electrical issues, I have sold some good cars rather than chase down some stupid problem.

well I went for a nature hike again this afternoon, after piddlin around in the basement some, and then pulled the battery's and gas tank from the boat.
I moved the little trailer over but didn't move the Boat away yet, the Bronco should be coming home pretty soon and I want to tow the boat around with it some before putting it away, and if we get a little Indian summer I might put it back in the water again.

anyway the Nature hike turned out pretty well, we rolled up one canyon and hiked up on top of the ridge.
we could see all the way back to town and down into the next canyon over after we got up above the Quakie tree line.
we wandered down a bare rock ridge for a bit and was watching about 1.5 miles of canyon side when some ladies in bright green and orange outfits come blabbing up the road followed about 15 minutes later by some guy's in a truck pretty much blaring their radio loud enough we could hear it 600 yds. up the hill but not understand a damn thing the guy they were listening to was yelling about.

we dropped off the ridge and cut back to the truck and moved down the road some.
I was going to drop down to almost the bottom and walk up on another ridge I had seen some deer on the other night, but happened to glance out the side window and seen a deer cutting through another draw.
I flipped around and sent Dawn over a small ridge to try and cut it off to see what it was.
she popped out a minute later and signaled me that there was some deer in there but she didn't see what some of them were before they cut up the hill.
I told her to walk up the draw a little further and wait and I would move the truck and come in.
figuring we could maybe work both sides and maybe move something into an opening.
it was waay too steep and thick for that but we could walk the one side in the old growth pine trees I like to hunt anyway and watch the other.
we had gone about 1/4 mile up when I seen some deer up on the other side of the hill about 5-600 yards away, and I couldn't make out exactly what they were through the tops of the trees.

so we walked down until we got parallel to them and I started climbing up the hill trying to see over the tree-tops, actually getting further and further away with each step.
finally I could see them fairly well and sat down and started glassing them I could see all of them but one, he finally gave me a look and I could see it was a buck but he was behind some does and I wasn't sure how far it was across the canyon.
finally Dawn says I got Trystan's range finder but I can't see the deer from here.
well can you see those holly bushes?
yeah.
okay give me a range to them and I will figure the rest.
she hand signals back 286 and your 30 yards behind me.
ahh crap 316 plus another 10-15 up behind the Holly bushes close to 330
I signal down to her 330yds, and she whispers I can't make that shot with my rifle and scope.
well I can but,, I need a little better rest than this stick I'm using.
she is like there is a stump about 10 yards behind you.
come on man,,,, another 10 yards..
up I go slowly since the lead doe is now looking our direction, and I'm afraid of slipping down the hill, get behind the stump and settle the rifle and myself down for the shot.
it takes the Buck another 5 minutes to walk out from behind the Doe and I settle the crosshairs and take the shot.
I seen him react immediately to the impact of the 25-06 and his back legs kind of buckled then I kind of lost him in the scope then seen him take a jump and another one before i can cycle the bolt, and he is out of sight.
the Boy is below me near the bottom and is moving up the hill and Dawn heads out as soon as I say I hit him and hit him good, I stay up there so I can direct them to the spot.
Cody gets up to just about the spot and says he don't see any blood and then heads off in the wrong direction. [he is handicapped, and doesn't know what to look for]
I holler for him to stop and wait for his sister who can track but not run up a mountain like he can.
she gets up there and I direct her to the spot and the direction the deer went.
she doesn't see any blood immediately but about 5 steps later she signals back she see's good blood and sends her Brother ahead to look around, he immediately hollers out he found the deer down the side of the mountain where it had rolled and slid to a stop.
when I caught up to them, Dawn said you could see it took about 2 bounds and just crumpled up in mid jump and pretty much fell for the first 15-20' on it's face, then rolled down the Mtn. until it hit some small aspen tree's about 35-40yds below, and come to a stop.
thankfully the hill he went down was actually toward the road [but not the truck] but I'll take that any day.
 

Pistolero

Well-Known Member
Bret -

It is "the pinhole camera effect", a pinhole, basically anyhole from about 1/16 down, or even a bit larger in
some cases, acts like a perfect lens, puts EVERYTHING in focus, regardless of distance. Impossible any other
way, no real lens can actually do that, but a pinhole can. The cost (nothing is free) is loss of brightness. Works
best on a sunny day. This is a benefit from peep sights, they put the front sight AND target in better focus, if
there is enough light.

It actually works by excluding all the light rays which don't happen to be in perfect focus for your eye by random
luck. Only the focussed rays are lined up and make it through the aperture/pinhole.

Best to have clean edges, which is why a piece of thin aluminum clamped between two piece of wood and
drilled works really well, edges are not rolled over and hole is pretty round. Both help. Going much smaller than
about .025 or 0.030 and you lose so much light that it starts being too dim except on the very brightest days.
A 1/16 or 3/32 drill works very well, smaller is dimmer. Up to 5/64 works pretty well, too. Effect starts to fall away
above about 0.090" or so.

Bill
 
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fiver

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no pics.
he is hung and skinned down being cooled off.
we barely made it down to the road before total dark and after I walked to the pickup and drove back, then got it loaded etc.. I was in no way posing for pictures.
I just wanted dinner and a shower, and I didn't care in what order they come in.
 

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Thanks Bill, makes perfect sense. I'm going to it ASAP. Right now I'm struggling just to walk and that's taking up most of my time. This knee pain is a real killjoy!
 

Chandler

Member
My forklift starts, yay! The mobile repairman came and listened to my diagnosis, the starter relay is bad, but said nothing. He saw my shiny new power probe and looked in his truck and exclaimed he must have left his on the last job LOL. He used mine to spark the starter solenoid. It cranked. He determined the positive battery cable connection to the starter was a bit loose. I installed that cable as the old one was toast. It worked fine until it didn't. I thought it was tight. I have snapped wheel lugs so I wasn't about to over do it on that terminal. It is in a hard to access location and apparently I didn't interpret the wrench feedback correctly and thus the gremlin. There is no room for a torque wrench. Lesson there is I should have chased the threads on that lug and used a new nut. He got it tight and now it starts every time.

I bought that power probe to work on the electrical issues on my ebay 70 Imperial. I still haven't started that project. I do want to give Ian a shout out though. His suggestion to investigate the voltage drop test via google has enlightened me. I still dread chasing circuits but now I feel, I can diagnose issues where before I was lost. Thanks for the tip Ian.

A big weight of stress was lifted this afternoon here. The tech did notice some other regular maintenance issues I need to address and I'm glad he did. I need to have the transmission oil and filter serviced soon. It has signs of water. I like this mechanic. He and his wife have been doing this for over 20 years and that is why he looked elsewhere than my relay theory. He said they rarely fail.

I had a flu shot a day ago and feel like I've been in a football game. No illness, just muscle ache.
 
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waco

Springfield, Oregon
Just helped an old buddy who is a State Trooper mount his new Vortex Viper HST 6x24x50 to his Ruger American Predator rifle.
Looking to shoot deer at 4-500
6.5CM
The bonus is he lives only 5 miles from me and can shoot up to 700 yards on his property. Guess who just got an invite to come shoot and help him cut his teeth into long range shooting???:p:D:p:D
 
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Will

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Waco let me know how that 6.5 Ruger American predator shoots.

I really like the looks of them with the new magpul stock.