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[Andy44]

And thanks to some shameless diplomacy, our custom design was even fully recognized for official fights in the various BT organisations in Germany.

Awesome!

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Managed to catch the light level signal of the eclipse with my cheapo 10-bit ADC despite high overcast. Partial eclipse started at 17:28 UTC, reached maximum at 18:47 UTC, and ended at 20:00 UTC, 64% maximum coverage.

 

[Notebook]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-40999000

Saves me having to do anything.

N.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Yay, did driver side motor mount in my Civic and didn't snap any bolts! Transmission mount is tomorrow's battle. :dry:

Also cleaned the mouse nest (actually contained some desiccated mouse corpses) out of my wife's Corolla's air box, changed the filter and cleaned the MAF sensor. Amazing what proper air flow will do to engine performance.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Transmission and motor mounts are done. Not nearly as bad as I was expecting. I had long attributed the clunking during the shift between first and second gears to the notoriously hard-shifting Honda transmission, but it was actually my transmission mount bottoming out as the marshmallow fluff bushings were all worn out. Changed out tie rod ends, got new tires and an alignment, and flushed the transmission. Thing drives like a dream now. 325,000 miles on the original engine and transmission and both are in great shape.

I'm really going to be sad when I have to send this one to the junkyard.

 

[MaverickSawyer]

I'm really going to be sad when I have to send this one to the junkyard.

That'll be a loooooooong way down the road, TC. The chassis may rust out before the transmission dies.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

That'll be a loooooooong way down the road, TC. The chassis may rust out before the transmission dies.

This car gets almost nothing but highway miles, 78 mph at 3000 rpm. Engine and transmission have had a nice life with me. The old transmission fluid was clean and clear and no metal on the plug. Phenomenal. It has some rust bubbles on the hood that I'm actually thinking about bringing to a body shop to get fixed since everything under it looks pretty solid.

The only thing that I wonder about with regards to reliability would be ancillary stuff, like the alternator or starter dying out of old age. Not that that stuff would be hard or expensive to fix, but when the wife and I both need cars to get to work tomorrow that can be problematic. I'm thinking of purchasing a new car pretty soon, but I think I'm going to keep the Civic and her 2004 Corolla as our daily drivers and just use the new car as the weekend trip / long haul / emergency ride until the Civic or Corolla dies hard (whenever that will be).

 

[Urwumpe]

Also, all this plastic inside will age with UV radiation.

Plastic is also the first real damage on my new car after three years and mere 39000 km. The loudness knob on my radio broke. What does that mean, "it only goes to 10"?

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Also, all this plastic inside will age with UV radiation.

We're well past the break-in period. The cloth trim on the inside of the car has long since dry-rotted and I pulled the last tattered remnants of it down a few years ago, so I have a reddish-yellow contact cement interior. One of the trim pieces over the mirror lever broke when I had to take apart the door to repair the lock tumbler. And I'm pretty sure the driver's seat only really fits me comfortably now, and there is a permanent heel mark on the floor where my right foot rests.

I was waxing nostalgic with a friend a few weeks ago about the day I bought this car. I bought it at a small used car lot with a very good local reputation. I walked in, said I was looking for a very basic commuter car, and the guy just pointed at this car and said it just came off the truck, ex-lease, base model with no power windows, locks, or ABS. Road tested and paperwork signed in about 30 minutes. I'm positive my wife spends longer picking out clothes in the store than I did buying this car.

 

[Urwumpe]

We're well past the break-in period. The cloth trim on the inside of the car has long since dry-rotted and I pulled the last tattered remnants of it down a few years ago, so I have a reddish-yellow contact cement interior. One of the trim pieces over the mirror lever broke when I had to take apart the door to repair the lock tumbler. And I'm pretty sure the driver's seat only really fits me comfortably now, and there is a permanent heel mark on the floor where my right foot rests.

Why not improving this and make the car a bit more unique... like putting a thin wooden veneer where the cloth trim was? Or a space image on the ceiling? Just stay away from plush, its evil. :lol:

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Why not improving this and make the car a bit more unique... like putting a thin wooden veneer where the cloth trim was? Or a space image on the ceiling? Just stay away from plush, its evil. :lol:

I have a friend who is an artist; I have seriously considered just presenting my car to her as a canvas for her talents. She does some wonderful image-making with quilted and embroidered textiles as well as paint. That would pretty much mean that my car would probably end up as an exhibit in an art show instead of going to the junk yard. I think I'd be afraid of driving the car after she got finished with it - it would be like having the Mona Lisa in the back seat and you terrified of getting in an accident and destroying it.

 

[Urwumpe]

it would be like having the Mona Lisa in the back seat and you terrified of getting in an accident and destroying it.

I think that is really what makes art great: If its so vulnerable, that it could be lost and thus, is really a part of your life.

I had also seen a nice black Volkswagen Corrado with a really nice airbrushing on the hood - too beautiful to hide it in the garage and too fast to drive slow.

Looked similar to this one:

 

[Thunder Chicken]

My Civic is of an age where I am not too concerned about aesthetics. I'm more concerned about structural integrity and rust control. Two years ago a co-worker inadvertently scrubbed my driver side door with her car's fender pulling into the adjacent parking spot. She was horrified, offered to call her insurance for a claim, etc., but I just walked out, licked my finger and rubbed the mark and saw that it just chewed up the clear coat a bit, and told her not to worry about it. There is a certain freedom and relaxation that comes from driving such a car.

 

[Urwumpe]

My Civic is of an age where I am not too concerned about aesthetics. I'm more concerned about structural integrity and rust control. Two years ago a co-worker inadvertently scrubbed my driver side door with her car's fender pulling into the adjacent parking spot. She was horrified, offered to call her insurance for a claim, etc., but I just walked out, licked my finger and rubbed the mark and saw that it just chewed up the clear coat a bit, and told her not to worry about it. There is a certain freedom and relaxation that comes from driving such a car.

Yeah... I remember that with my first car... had to decide between hitting two girls or a road sign. Afterwards, all my car needed was some polishing to hide the scratch in the gray metallic paint...

Especially those painted bumpers are evil... really expensive to fix if you damage them.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Two weeks without the wife at home and there is now nothing in the refrigerator except beer and mustard.

 

[Notebook]

Sad, but understandable...
(should be just beer and a tomatoe)

 

[Urwumpe]

Two weeks without the wife at home and there is now nothing in the refrigerator except beer and mustard.

I live in luxury. For me its beer, pepsi, mustard and Sambal oelek after two weeks. The vegetable drawer in the fridge is perfectly made for storing beer, why store vegetables there?

 

[jedidia]

Beer, Milk and Mayo for me... :lol:

 

[Urwumpe]

Well have a new record evacuation because of a UXO in Germany next Sunday, 70,000 people will have to leave their houses in Frankfurt.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Well have a new record evacuation because of a UXO in Germany next Sunday, 70,000 people will have to leave their houses in Frankfurt.

Being an excavator driver must require a whole new level of insanity over there. Good luck.