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Theres a trick or two you can use .First on the old Cats is getting the pony motor started .Roll it over first on decomp then on fuel off .Use a torch over the intake to heat up the air then kick in the fuel .It will moan,groan,fart and finally fire up on two while blowing smoke rings for half...

Aha my problem has been solved .It seems I had mounted the furnace just a tad off out of level .Because of this it would not drain the condensate in a timely manner which caused the differential pressure switch to trip out sensing a lower pressure .Leveled it up and used the cross drain as a...

That goes back to the old saying---the best laid plans of mice and men .It's been a learning process I'll probably never use again .These "high tech " furnaces are much different than the older ones I'm familiar with .You have differential pressures, condensate etc .to deal with .To add to...

For a couple of weeks I've been working on a new heating ,HVAC system because my second geo thermal went out .Propane high efficiency system .It was all in except for the trench to bury the propane line which is 160 feet long .I've had a problem lining up a trencher and winter is fast...

I got the first of two Partner P-100's chainsaws running today after a couple of years of chasing down parts .Runs fine but I need to rebuild the carb .As luck would have it I already have a rebuild kit as I normally buy them 4-5 at a time . It seems to have plenty of power but with a "fresh"...

I'm not sure if they ever figured that triangle out .About once every couple of months we made the 10 day "booze" run to Bermuda .Filled a torpedo tube full of hooch and hung a sign on it saying weapon loaded .The customs officials were not even allowed in that area .Snuck them out a fifth at...

I wasn't actually trained in navigation but being on subs I had to be aware of a lot of things but not really an expert .Several years ago my lady fair went on a cruise to the southern islands and then to the gulf .I tracked her location using AIS readings and plots using course and speed which...

Even 50 years ago with electronic navigation ,not navset or GPS because it wasn't invented yet .We would pop up at zero hour Zulu time and take a shot of the north star to calibrate where in the world we were .Thousands of years old ,still works just fine if you know how to figure it .Somehow...

It's kind of like the song "Southern Cross" .It can't be even be talked about unless one had been there .I've seen it through a periscope ,never on the surface but I will some day because lady fair is bound and determined to take me on a cruise to Alaska .I've never sailed the seas on a surface...

The Monitor was just a low free board armored gun ship with a revolving two gun turret . It became a submarine once but it never surfaced again .The ones I served on always surfaced else I would not be typing this post .BTW I just got back from a reunion of the first one I served on in...

Got back from Charleston South Carolina Sunday evening about 11 PM .A tad over 12 hour drive .A reunion of the first submarine I was on ,bunch of old coots but still with a lot of orneriness left in them . So Monday put a few more parts on my old Oliver crawler that was brand new in 1954 .I...

I had to trim the hedge today .It's only once or twice a year thing ,slow growing .First I had to get the Echo trimmer running then I had to keep it running .The last 30 foot of it used a Stihl 200T .Any port in a storm they say .

Months of planing worked out good .Got Georgie girl moved in about 8 hours .Picked up the U- Haul in Toledo at 10 AM ,moved out a 12:30 .Drove 85 miles ,had it unload and returned before 6 PM .Had a beer or three after . That big gas engine in that GMC drank 42 bucks of gasoline in that short...

I graded another 20 tons of stone .Called three different suppliers of shipping containers before I found one who could speak fluent English and she was the cheapest and based in Ohio .I don't consider myself bigoted but maybe I am . It's one thing to try to get technical help or credit card...

My lady fair is a twice survivor .First breast which was a lumpectomy with chemo .Her once straw colored hair came back as a light Norwegion blonde .Then last year with an early detection of uterine which required no chemo .Caught by a blood test because she became anemic .She's fine and rather...

Sprinkler fitters are nuts to begin with. In the days of screwed pipes they'd ladder that stuff up with block and tackles and hang two 250 pounders on the end of a compound wrench with another bouncing up and down on the handle 25 feet in the air to screw it together .They never had very many...

I used to do stupid chit like carrying a 90 pound jack hammer up a 10 foot step ladder to drive ground rods .Father time catches up to all of us .

Soccer has not made the most popular sporting event on this side of the pond .It hasn't been here as long .It may in a given amount of time .

My garage door opener died on the vine after about 35 years on the job .Bad control board ,can't find the parts .New Chamberlain with all the bells and whistles .I farted around installing that damned thing for about 6 hours .Most of that was adapting using the more sturdy method of anchorage...

Moved some of Georgie Girls things in .Got the last of the stumps muddied out .Got the old Oliver crawler running like a top .The old duffer will still spin the tracks in second gear with dirt rolling over the top of the blade going up hill . Broke out the Stihl Br 400 to blow the last of the...