What did you do today?

X3 Skier said:
Yesterday I gave a personal tour of the USAF Museum to @GoFly and his son who is an F-15E Pilot. They didn’t seem bored.

Anyone who might be interested in a similar experience, let me know when you’re around.
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We were far from bored. Rick is a wealth of information, and has fascinating stories from the world of aviation. Capt Chris and I loved every minute
 
Replaced the starter motor on my aeroplane. Didn't really know where to begin looking for a new one, as it wasn't a typical pedestal mount. Long story short, found a Nippon-Denso label on it with half a part number, did some digging on Rock Auto, and found one in stock at the local O'Reilly for $70. Source: 1990 Toyota pickup with a 22R

God bless E-ABs. :cornut:
 
I put my house on the market today. I am now one day closer to hitting the road on my bus. If I leave next month, I should be able to make it to western Kentucky by the end of April.
 
Wrote some code to automate going to a customer shipping portal and enter everything automagically.
 
WOW.!!

It is a rare day for the mountain to be that clear of clouds.!!

I always wanted to ride the train between Anchorage and Fairbanks in the winter, but I never did.
 
Zeldman said:
WOW.!!

It is a rare day for the mountain to be that clear of clouds.!!

I always wanted to ride the train between Anchorage and Fairbanks in the winter, but I never did.
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Yeah, they told us it's only about 3% of the time that it's that clear. We were very fortunate. After raining all day Sunday, Monday's weather was beautiful all the way to Anchorage. The train ride was terrific.

If we had it to do over again, I think we'd do the interior tour first and save the cruise portion for the end. The interior was wonderful but exhausting and it would have been nice to finish with a few days on the ship to chill out and relax.

We had a beautiful suite on the ship, excellent food, and the crew really spoiled us. It would have been a perfect finale to the trip, but the whole trip was fantastic nevertheless.

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Finished a couple of small cabinets to go under my workbench. One with three drawers, one with a door and shelf, with a 2’ deep pull-out bar clamp rack attached to the side. All melamine, my very first attempt at making cabinets. They’re not perfect by any means and are somewhat over-built, but good enough for a workshop and they let me clean up a lot of disarray under the bench.
 
With all the hype these last few days about hurricane Erin, I decided to take the safe approach. I flew the 'Coupe from my "usual" airport (tied down on the ramp) to the airport where I have a T-Hangar leased. The move from Delaware Coastal (GED) to Salisbury, MD (SBY) is only 22 NM but it will provide peace of mind next week. Both airports are about 40 minutes drive from our home. I would consider spending more time at SBY (because of the hangar) but my wife really likes the restaurant in the terminal building at GED.

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Jim K said:
Put some new shoes on the big horse.

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That is not a fun job… the older I get the more I reluctantly realize that though I “can do it” it’s better off jobing out some tasks. A service truck with a boom crane, cribbing pads and hydraulic take off for their jacks can do in 20 minutes what I “can do” in a day…..
 
Flew with my buddy to KSFY, walked two miles each way to a biker bar so he could relive his glory days of riding in college. He drank a few beers while I got to sip on... orange fanta. Then flew back. Fun fun!

On the bright side, I saw a fun Malort ad.
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I spill't water on my crotch while driving. that was not on my to do list but I to do'd it anyways.
 
Work on tax returns like always. Although, it’s always a beautiful thing when my recon ties.
 
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ArrowFlyer86 said:
Flew with my buddy to KSFY, walked two miles each way to a biker bar so he could relive his glory days of riding in college. He drank a few beers while I got to sip on... orange fanta. Then flew back. Fun fun!

On the bright side, I saw a fun Malort ad.
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The comments section is gold.

 
Got 2 more years of IFR eligibility with the plane.

Talked PA46's with the shop. Thinking its probably in our budget in a few years.
 
Our delivery route driver told me his truck (2016 Freightliner M2, Cummins ISL) feels "a little sluggish" and that the check engine light came on. Got the laptop connected, found a smorgasbord of fault codes, many of which indicated an intake manifold pressure anomaly. Huh.

Opened the hood and found this latest offering from MNDOT's salt brine fairies. Big metered air leak right between the compressor discharge and intercooler inlet.

New OEM tube arrives Monday but the truck has to be dispatched Sunday. Thankfully I had a scrap of 3 inch steel mandrel bend left over from an exhaust system I built circa 2006 under my Merkur XR4Ti. Little TIGgery and we're back in action.
 

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Almost forgot: I gave myself a nice 240VAC buzz, too. One of the employees must have come into my maintenance shop and tried to use my 3-phase Fein belt grinder without turning on the rotary phase converter. (How would they know? They've never been trained to use any of my stuff.) I can only imagine they leaned on the machine's momentary pushbutton 'on' switch as the motor groaned on two legs until smoke came out of the enclosure. Everything inside is melted all to hell, and part of the machine's switch enclosure was hot with line voltage.

Thanks, guys.
 
Flatiowa said:
That is not a fun job… the older I get the more I reluctantly realize that though I “can do it” it’s better off jobing out some tasks. A service truck with a boom crane, cribbing pads and hydraulic take off for their jacks can do in 20 minutes what I “can do” in a day…..
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Ah, but it gave @Jim K the opportunity to take 3 days and weld up a hydraulic/pneumatic doohickey for the job, and top it off with a 3D printed part to make it “just that perfect.” :lol:
 
Spent most of the day working on the restoration of a "free" canoe, a project I started two years ago but then life got in the way. I painted the plastic hull today, and worked on new wood gunwales and thwarts, which were all rotted out. Ash is the traditional wood for such things, and as all the local ash trees are being killed by the ash borer beetle, our cabin community bought a sawmill, which provided the wood for my canoe.
 
MauleSkinner said:
Ah, but it gave @Jim K the opportunity to take 3 days and weld up a hydraulic/pneumatic doohickey for the job, and top it off with a 3D printed part to make it “just that perfect.” :lol:
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I think you underestimate my laziness. I do actually have a pneumatic-over-hydraulic bead breaker, though. There wasn't enough room for it on the inside though, so I had to break out the porta-power. The job isn't all that hard if you have the right tools, just time consuming. Helluva a lot easier than implement tires. It took about 2hrs/side. Tire shop wanted a $250 service call plus $50-100/tire; I don't remember. Either way, I figured it paid well enough to do it myself. The forklift does a really good job handling the heavy stuff. I also learned that I can still flip a 480/80R46, so that's good, I guess.
 
Jim K said:
I think you underestimate my laziness. I do actually have a pneumatic-over-hydraulic bead breaker, though. There wasn't enough room for it on the inside though, so I had to break out the porta-power. The job isn't all that hard if you have the right tools, just time consuming. Helluva a lot easier than implement tires. It took about 2hrs/side. Tire shop wanted a $250 service call plus $50-100/tire; I don't remember. Either way, I figured it paid well enough to do it myself. The forklift does a really good job handling the heavy stuff. I also learned that I can still flip a 480/80R46, so that's good, I guess.
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Next up, World's Strongest Man competition.

Also April wants to know if you can can get in one of those tires and she can roll you down a hill.
 
Saw Rob Schneider with the lady friend
 
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