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Post by milly on May 9, 2020 16:56:33 GMT -5
Took a trip to a county park with the kids. On the way there I was thinking there are so many curves this would be a great road for 2 wheels. On the was back someone on a sport bike decided to take a shortcut through a field approaching a curve. I looped around to check on him. Besides a bruised ego and being covered in mud he was fine. I’ll still take one of the bikes there tomorrow... Wow some big boulders there, I presume natural deposit of them by river or glacial movement?
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Post by ryan_ott on May 9, 2020 17:06:56 GMT -5
Took a trip to a county park with the kids. On the way there I was thinking there are so many curves this would be a great road for 2 wheels. On the was back someone on a sport bike decided to take a shortcut through a field approaching a curve. I looped around to check on him. Besides a bruised ego and being covered in mud he was fine. I’ll still take one of the bikes there tomorrow... Wow some big boulders there, I presume natural deposit of them by river or glacial movement? Interesting find when I looked to see the source of the rocks. Formed from freeze/thaw cycles. An Ott in 1890 used the stones as instruments for a concert. I’ll have to look into this more. pabook2.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/Ringing.htmlbuckslib.org/the-sonorous-stones-of-ringing-rocks-park/
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Post by milly on May 9, 2020 17:47:18 GMT -5
Interesting write up Ryan thankyou
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Post by FrankenMech on May 10, 2020 0:02:09 GMT -5
The park will be a field of pea gravel after the tourists get finished with their hammers.
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Post by ryan_ott on May 10, 2020 9:22:20 GMT -5
The few times I’ve been there it still looks the same. Some popular rocks have a little wear but I don’t recall seeing any destruction. It’s mostly little kids beating the rocks with smaller tools.
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Post by milly on May 13, 2020 15:38:45 GMT -5
Today I got the wife's shed out the unit I put there about a year ago after taking it down from across the road and now the base is layed my mate came and looked at panels to see if any bits needed due to damage which was less than I thought, main thing being some marine ply to strengthen the floor as the osb board is a bit weak and then we poked it on the trailer and carted it over ready for tomorrow afternoon.
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Post by milly on May 17, 2020 9:31:36 GMT -5
Well shed nearly up was going to put preservative on it after using the washing machine but wife said no you might break it so she put it in, then it was a no to do the shed I might make a mess. lol Strange sometime's how people think
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Post by pinkscoot on May 17, 2020 11:02:24 GMT -5
Fixed my AC unit. Yesterday we realized that it wasn't cooling. I think oh sh*t time to call my HVAC buddy. I checked and the compressor and fan weren't working. So after a night with doors and windows open and a soaked tee shirt I decided to do what I do and googled it. I had power there, the fan on the air handler worked. I had no way to check the capacitor so I found one online that was affordable at HF. I then went and scratched my head and vaped and looked it over. Ahaa I hadn't checked the relay. Back to Mr. Google and I had my information. I did the tests and it wasn't working. I got the thermostat back on and found no signal to the relay. If the air handler worked its the line to the outside. I started following it back and about one foot from the unit I found the wire cut. Crimped them back taped it all up. Zip tied it to the power cable to avoid anymore abuse. I have to be honest I don't know that its been running all season. We did some yard work in that area last fall so that could have been when it happened, who knows. It's cool again. oldgeek would be proud.
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Post by oldgeek on May 17, 2020 12:04:43 GMT -5
Fixed my AC unit. Yesterday we realized that it wasn't cooling. I think oh sh*t time to call my HVAC buddy. I checked and the compressor and fan weren't working. So after a night with doors and windows open and a soaked tee shirt I decided to do what I do and googled it. I had power there, the fan on the air handler worked. I had no way to check the capacitor so I found one online that was affordable at HF. I then went and scratched my head and vaped and looked it over. Ahaa I hadn't checked the relay. Back to Mr. Google and I had my information. I did the tests and it wasn't working. I got the thermostat back on and found no signal to the relay. If the air handler worked its the line to the outside. I started following it back and about one foot from the unit I found the wire cut. Crimped them back taped it all up. Zip tied it to the power cable to avoid anymore abuse. I have to be honest I don't know that its been running all season. We did some yard work in that area last fall so that could have been when it happened, who knows. It's cool again. oldgeek would be proud. You likely cut it last fall during the yard work. If it is a heat pump, you were definitely running on the auxiliary electric heaters all winter. Luckily you didn't let the magic smoke out of your low voltage control transformer, would have had to fix that too.
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Post by FrankenMech on May 17, 2020 14:07:45 GMT -5
I stuffed my AC unit control wires inside some liquidtite to protect them from sun, squirrel, and yardwork damage back in 84 and they have been good every since. I also check my furnace and AC current draw several times per year, seems to be my OCD. I also keep spare caps, xformers, contactors, and other control components around.
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Post by pinkscoot on May 17, 2020 14:49:51 GMT -5
It was cut clean so not shorting out. I now know as much about an HVAC unit as I ever want to know.
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Post by jmkjr72 on May 17, 2020 16:47:18 GMT -5
got called back to work for monday so im done working on camp for a while
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Post by jackrides on May 18, 2020 0:43:32 GMT -5
Frankenmech, that is a real good idea. A few years ago my heat pump kept tripping the breaker. A loose screw where the wire attached to the breaker reduced the currant carrying capacity of the breaker and there it was. Your test would have found it.
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Post by FrankenMech on May 19, 2020 20:22:27 GMT -5
Frankenmech, that is a real good idea. A few years ago my heat pump kept tripping the breaker. A loose screw where the wire attached to the breaker reduced the currant carrying capacity of the breaker and there it was. Your test would have found it. That is one of the reasons that a professional should look at your HVAC system periodically. They will tighten those connections and test the equipment. Homeowners usually skip those trouble indicators like overheated wires and contacts. My house isn't 'safe' because I leave the cover off my main breaker panel also. Of course I am the only one in the house...
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Post by fuzzyruttin on May 22, 2020 21:19:14 GMT -5
All the toys seem to be broken one way or another, and luckily three days off this weekend. Gorgeous weather. Much rather be riding, but don't like repairing under the weather neither. - New motorcycle with almost 2500 miles is making all kinds of engine head noise. Valve noise presumably, but long story. Was gonna tear it apart this weekend then dealer said they want to fix it under warranty. Well then, ok. You should! Despite an aftermarket exhaust and ECU kit. I was transparent about it, so that's cool. - Got Redline oil and MTF waiting to be installed in the roadster. After getting the S on jack stands, it becomes readily obvious there is a bad tranny leak. - Scoot just needs some love. General make-over, take off outside extremities (carb) and overall check for leaks, wear, damage, bleeding flesh wounds - Finally screened off area where I've been fighting a robin from building a nest in my porch for a month now. Shittin' mess all over, so aggravated. Egg even fell out and splatted yesterday, figured that was the end. Nope, back n shittin' all over. Argh!! Up goes the screen, now the real test of whit, stupid friggin animal - Odd n ends. Got new porch table design in mind, and sketched out. - Hops bines are going super fast
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