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Actually, a touch of OCD would probably help me get through the more mindless and mechanical aspects of my job.
Dartmoor in the Distance over the Hill's, great night for a Hot Air Balloon Ride.
I am firmly on the ground when I took this shot.
Late afternoon at Hemavan airport, and a wee bit surprised to see a BAE ATP appear. For those of us from Scotland this was a BA and Loganair stalwart back in the 90's. Of the 64 built, around 40 are still in the air, but most as freighters. Nextjet are the only airline to still fly the ATP as a passenger aircraft.
People at work think I'm crazy about my Dog Sky!
The wall behind me in my cubicle is filled with pictures of SKY! HeHe!
I also have a wall of my family.
This is what I look at 9 hours a day 4-5 days a week!
Hands are starting to feel carpel tunnel syndrome .
I need to get away from the computer for a while.
It's like a Drug I can't go a day without turning it on.
I picked out everything for this booth. Designed the background and found the place to get it printed (in Atlanta), picked out the furniture and lighting and built the product racks out of a coat and magazine rack from ikea along with some pvc pipe and spray paint from Home Depot and the shag rug came from "as-is" at ikea.
Now the fuckers have to pay me for my work. Can you believe they're actually giving me shit about it? Losers.
Photos posted to link to this car's project thread on the Cadillac message boards.
Wow, I think this marks my greatest length of thread-neglect! Almost 5 months! This isn't the new normal though, I will have some time again to work on the car and clear out my parts shelf which once again is getting a little cluttered with the crap I buy on ebay.
I have not done much to the car since my last update besides drive it until the first snow in December. The alternator remains un-rebuilt. Fortunately (?) I made a discovery that the noise I was hearing under certain conditions was not the alternator at all, so it won't need anything besides diode replacement (coming soon).
Now, I did find where the noise was coming from-one of the A.I.R. check valves had failed and sounded something like an accordion for a few minutes when the car was restarted hot. The A.I.R. system switches between two modes of operation-one in which the pump pushes air into the exhaust manifolds, and another in which air gets shot into the catalytic converter-both of which help to keep emissions down. The mode selected depends on what conditions the ECM sees. The check valves keep the boiling hot dirty exhaust from flowing into the hoses and pump which would ruin them in short order-ironically kind of like a diode! In my case, the check valve for the exhaust manifold had failed or was beginning to and on a hot restart the air from the pump would disturb it to create that annoying noise. So it needed to be replaced. Here is the part in question in case you have never heard of/seen it (I didn't)
It is in the vicinity of the power module
The little bastard screws onto a "T" fitting that looked more like plumbing equipment than an auto part to me. On each side of the T, there is a metal line that runs to each exhaust manifold. Clean air flows through the check valve when the switching valve directs air to it.
While the two lines came off easily, the check valve itself was stuck like you would not believe. The tee fits into a 7/8ths wrench, and the captured nut on the valve is 1 inch, and using my two largest wrenches on each with every ounce of strength I had I was only able to break them loose after soaking in transmission fluid for a few days. And even then just barely.
The exact part number of the failed valve was not available so I substituted another one that was otherwise identical. I suspect the differences in part numbers (there are a ton of them) have to do with unique backpressures for every engine configuration GM made across all their cars. I bought one spec'd for a 307 Olds V8, which I figure is as close to the 4100 in terms of back pressure as I could get. Could be totally wrong on that too. Anyway, it no longer makes the noise!
Now the other part of the A.I.R. system is for the catalytic converter. The check valve on this one was good, and I suspect it lives a much easier life than the one for the manifolds as it is not subjected to the high pressures or heat. But it needed love too, when I had the catalytic converter changed, the shop cut off the end of the pipe which entered the old bead converter at a 90 degree angle and used high temperature hose to make the connection.
I can't say I was happy with the way it looked but it seemed to do the job. Except that when braking or accelerating hard, the hose would allow the metal tubing (now loose) to move back and forth which made for an annoying knock. I wasn't sure what to do but I was certainly surprised when I learned Rockauto still stocks this pre-bent metal tubing unique for the 84-85 Eldorado. Go figure. I ordered it and when it arrived, I was disappointed to discover that it lacked the mounting bracket that goes up near the engine. So I ended up taking my old and new tube to a welder who transferred the bracket to the new one for me.
I also put a new check valve on it. Note that this valve lacks the captured nut. That is a catalytic converter check valve and it is physically smaller than the one for the manifold. They thread size is the same, but the nipple is the part that won't allow you to put the other diameter hose on it.
Here it is mounted to the "new" cat. I have to spin that clamp at the Y fitting, it should face the passenger side. Bah shops! So, that concludes today's edition of what invisible repair I managed to waste my time and money on!
At work last night, one of the techs came in and asked me what size shoe I wear. When I said "eight" (on my left foot, anyway), she got all excited and said she had a pair of Chuck Taylors for me. I had no idea she was talking about Converse, and started to worry that maybe she was giving me a pair of dress shoes or something.
She put them in my locker and I tried them on and they fit (my left foot, anway)! Yay for pink Converse! I've wanted a pair for a long, long time, and I'm so grateful that she gave these to me. She was going to give them to Goodwill, but they're still in great shape, so she wanted them to go to someone she knows will get a lot of use out of them. That lucky person was me!
I'm so excited. My feet are over a size and a half in difference, so I never buy shoes. Ever. It makes me cry. I have to buy two pair to get one pair that fits. Norstrom will let me buy a mixed set, and I did buy my running shoes there about two years ago. Other than that, my last pair of shoes were the Birkenstocks I bought in '02.
*CINELLI* mash work complete bike
BLUELUG CUSTOM
SPEC
Frame: *CINELLI × MASH* work frame
Stem: *THOMSON* elite x4 stem
Seat post:*THOMSON* elite seatpost
Handle:*CINELLI* mash bullhorn bar
Head set：*CHRIS KING*
Front Wheel: DT SWISS*RR440 x *PHILWOOD* high flange track hub
Rear Wheel:* DT SWISS*RR440 x *PHILWOOD* high flange track hub
Tire: *CONTINENTAL* gatorskin
Brakes:*TRP*
Brake lever:CANE CREEK* crosstop brake levers
Crankset: *SUGINO* sugino75 DD crankset
Saddle:*SELLE SAN MARCO* zoncolan urban saddle
Photo of my two daughters on my desk at work. Brightens my day whenever I look at them and always keeps me motivated.
Vanity Street tattoo shop série...
Leica M3 Summitar 50/2
First roll with the new Leica M3 !!
i wanted one.... i was waiting.... it is done !
An amazing pleasure to use it !
several months ago that I had taken more pictures ...
the Kowa Six is ​​a beautiful device, but very "awkward" ...
Always Mess-Baldix not far ....
But I wanted for more time to find a more compact device ... return to 35mm?
I had the opportunity to buy the Leica M3 with the Summitar, a legendary camera ....
So I cracked.
I'm not used to this unit (remove the lens cover ^ ^)
but it is extremely nice.
Thank you Stephane "stephane_marco " for your Help !!!!
I hope you are all well and fine.
I took this photo in "Vanity Street" tattoo shop where I work.
Here Jack "Boss" at work ...
Since this is my work laptop I keep it simple. (Now that I think about it, I keep it simple all the time.)
Wallpaper is a modified version of an illustration in Thomas Edison's patent for the light bulb (public domain).
Original version can be found here:
my desk and the wall above it.
the desk wall is getting as messy as my desk is. it's no wonder I don't get things done with all those colors and distractions.
Trackwork under way at Ashley on the afternoon of 30 June 2019. I assume this is to lift the semi-permanent speed restriction which has hitherto existed at this location.
it's pretty easy to pretend you're at the beach when there actually IS a beach at work.
(this is almost sooc, except for a gray hair that i had to clone out [eeps!]. the lens vignette is there because i have too many filters on my lens, and they're visible when it's zoomed out to 18mm.)
for 365 days.
Two Fairyland event heads I picked up off the DoA marketplace for a good price. I don't know if they'll stay in my collection but I'm having fun working with them. The littlefee Sarang I'm going to repaint again... I want more mutes colors. The Minifee Soony just arrived this week so I've been working at cleaning her.
We did a set of photos at work last year. One photo each was serious, one silly.
I couldn't think of what to do but, as I happened to be wearing my Welsh rugby shirt that day, figured I'd grab the flags from my desk. And the colleague taking the photo suggested the cans, as that's how everyone at work perceives me — they're radio-headphones, so I wear them walking around lots :o)