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17 minutes ago, wally509 said:
I got some good news last week Thursday, and I think we all need some good news about this.
I only know one person who had this disease, a friend of my Dad's/acquaintance of mine. Heard from my Dad that last Thursday he has fully recovered.
He went into the hospital on or around April 30th and tested positive for coronavirus. He went home.
The guy is a friend of my Dad's from the VFW, a Korean War veteran who is 90 years old. When my Dad forwarded me the e-mail that Mr. B had contracted the disease, I thought he was for sure a goner given his age.
Unfortunately I don't know a lot of details about how bad it was and such. My Dad is pretty freaked out about this so I didn't drill him for a whole lot of answers.
I hesitated to even type this given the only other person I told immediately slapped me down with "WELL PEOPLE HALF HIS AGE ARE DROPPING DEAD LEFT AND RIGHT!". But whatever, I understand some people are really concerned this is the end of the human race. With the talk here of hundreds of millions of people dying from this, I decided to take the chance and put out a positive note.
Thanks for sharing, my father and mother in law both had it a couple weeks ago and are doing fine now as well, they are in their 60's and he at least is not the healthiest.
I realize this may be controversial but I think my family all had it around Christmas. All of the symptoms match and we were down for about a week, fever, headache, exhausted, lingering cough, etc. I think it has been going around here way before it was publicized but was not being diagnosed properly. An older guy at our church was sick for about a month around the same time and was told he had double pneumonia. It took him a long time but he is better now. Looking back I feel it is quite likely that he had it as well, there are reports from doctors around the country of odd pneumonia cases before the COVID-19 was documented properly. Being an instructor at a Technical school I am around a lot of people daily so I would assume that is where I got it. Maybe I am crazy but I'm not the only one who thinks it has been going around for a while.
This would actually be a positive thing because it means more people have had it and now have antibodies.
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18 hours ago, B C said:
Yes, usually 8-9 miles of driving to get to 190. Less if there is frequent stopping/sitting.
The S54 oil filter housing has a restrictor for the oil cooler. Racers will remove it or replace it with a different one
Oh that isn't too bad, is the oil cooler an air to oil? The V70R I had had a small plate HX for oil -coolant which I thought was a great design, very compact and it warms the oil to operating temp and then keeps it there. If I ever add an oil cooler to a vehicle I would do it like that, also no need for an oil thermostat because coolant temp is about perfect.
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You probably said it earlier but what brand? I haven't had to re-grease mine in a couple years. Are you sure the rattling isn't something else? They should be tight enough that the poly stays tight in the trailing arm and the only movement is the sleeve turning in the poly. I have seen some other designs that have an insert with a spherical bearing which is smart because it isn't completely a 1 dimensional movement at that joint.
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If they squeak they aren't greased well or with the right grease. Once I greased mine properly they made no noise. I had UUC ones but I am sure they are all similar.
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Cool, I had a Bayliner with a Volvo 4cyl, it had coolant in the engine and a second water pump that cycled lake water through a heat exchanger so winterizing was easy. I think a 2 stage cooling system like that is uncommon though for freshwater boats.
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Very cool, does it take a long time for oil temps to get up that high? I've monitored on other vehicles and it took a long time to get oil near 180F. Does it have a oil cooler/heater to the coolant? That would help warm up the oil quicker.
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I like to find information from sources rather than news garbage, all news is biased.
CDC guidelines right from the source about classifying deaths: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/coronavirus/Alert-2-New-ICD-code-introduced-for-COVID-19-deaths.pdf
Excerpt: "Will COVID-19 be the underlying cause? The underlying cause depends upon what and where conditions are reported on the death certificate. However, the rules for coding and selection of the underlying cause of death are expected to result in COVID19 being the underlying cause more often than not."
A personal example of how I see the numbers not being accurate. My Father in Law was working in Chicago, he and my Mother in law did not leave their house after he returned just in case. He became sick and was tested positive for COVID-19 at his employers request because they wanted him back if possible. My mother in law also got it but was refused a test for whatever reason. They are both fine now. So there were 2 cases that were only recorded as one because she didn't actually get tested and have a positive result. Also oddly he can go back to normal 72 hours after fever is gone. But she has an order to stay quarantined for 14 more days because she was around him, even though they were sick at the same time and recovered now.
Am I saying we should just ignore it all? No, but killing small businesses while so many "essential" things are excluded is BS. If they tried to shut down big business with money to fight back they know there would be push back. But the little guy doesn't have resources to fight back.
Do I wear a tinfoil hat and think the earth is flat? No, Do I trust the government to act in my best interest? Also no.
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Good call on the cargo net. My stuff always slams around. I can't understand how people can set 37 days worth of mail on their rear speaker area and it doesn't fall off... They must not be living.
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I first signed up for AAA the day I bought my non driving e30 vert, they asked no questions about "pre existing conditions" when I called for a tow a few hours later.
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AAA is great, 4 tows a year up Thew will tow to your home or any shop. Not always fast to get there but oh well.
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"Allegedly"
Also be careful with that jack if you should ever need it.
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Picked up a replacement M50 today and a transmission so I can use 2nd gear again. Pics soon.
- KaiserRolls, Jdesign and straight6pwr
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3 hours ago, suspenceful said:
I think all BMWs use that pinch bolt which clamps the strut in. But yes, you're able to just swing it out without disconnecting anything but the sway bar end link. The top of the strut is very close to hitting the fender, but you can compress it with your hands. Makes it so much easier than removing the whole strut!
E36 has 3 bolts to attach the strut to the spindle. Only advantage to that is arguably janky camber adjustment using shims on the lower bolts to add negative camber. The pinch style is nice because it perfectly goes back into place after disassembly.
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Much better! So in the front I see that the struts are mounted like an e39 where you loosen the pinch bolt and then slide the strut up. On this is there enough clearance to flop it out of the wheel well without loosening other stuff? The e39 you have to disassemble more stuff to be able to tip it out of the wheel well and actually slide the strut out.
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30 minutes ago, B C said:
Yes. They make things sound like a straight cut gearbox!
Actually I was quite surprised at how little noise I had. That's with aluminum subframe "bushings" and nylatron home made front bushing and stock ancient rear bushings so they probably absorb some. Maybe the Redline gear oil is just that good? Dunno, I expected a lot more noise, especially with my trunk being bare metal.
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4 hours ago, B C said:
Which diff oil are you using?
I had one diff that was a little noisy and tried back to back to back fluid changes.
Lucas and Royal Purple were about the same, Valvoline anecdotally seemed to run the quietest of the 3 but it wasn’t a science experiment.
Install solid bushings for proper analysis. Science.
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Virtual meet would be ideal with my broken timing chain.
- KaiserRolls and Rekpoint
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I didn't pull it yet. I'm going to remove the plugs and check with my camera first. Been busy with house projects all week. Maybe tomorrow.
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2 hours ago, B C said:
The electrical/wiring guy is completely inept with regards to critical thinking. At this phase I have the PLC all figured out, but need to troubleshoot all the sensors in order to satisfy the machine. This is where he, or someone qualified (like the electrical engineer that was fired) should be able to check through the sensors and determine which ones should be normally open or normally closed and be able to get the sensors to the state they need to be in to make the program happy.
Alas, here I am doing this job while I get even further behind on the work I was already far behind on.
20% of people in a company do 80% of the work
Is this a brand new machine? WHat is it doing/making? How much I/O are you dealing with? I assume not a ton if it's a Micro1400. I love fixing stuff, I do miss that not being in the field anymore.
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16 hours ago, B C said:
I am routinely in over my head on projects in every aspect of my life. I rely a lot on dumb luck.
Better lucky than good!
There is a lot to the network stuff. The subnet mask determines how many octets of the ip need to match, 255.255.255.0 in the subnet mask would mean that the first 3 octets of the IP need to match. 255.255.0.0 would mean only the first 2 octets of the IP need to match. The Gateway only is used if this is connected to a plant network and is the IP of the switch or possibly more complicated if there are a bunch of VLANs. If it just an isolated machine it is much easier. I sent you my phone number, call me if you have trouble.
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23 hours ago, B C said:
Not feeling great today as I didnt get much sleep, had to pick up a relative from the airport late last night and then he lost his keys and needs to borrow a car to get to work this week so I gave him my Honda and i'm driving the van until the weather stops acting a fool and I can get my dose of Vitamin ///M
I got to work a little extra early to meet a contractor who was supposed to be able to click-click-clickety-DONE and get me out of this mess for probably a lot of dollars.
When the contractor arrived, he called me from his car and said that he heard our painter was sick last week and wouldnt come in until he knew that the painter had been tested for covid-19. He has been sent home since he was sick last Wednesday and has not been tested. The contractor would not come inside. His boss called me and apologized, and told me he hopes I can find help elsewhere.Yes, me too.
I dont blame the guy, I just wish it could have been handled a little differently. He isnt willing to work over skype/phone call either.
More small miracles: I ended up finding instructions for establishing ethernet communication without having a Rockwell Automation service account, thanks to a cached version of the instruction page via google. I have the 2nd program loaded up and now it seems I just need to get the IP addresses synchronized between the display and the controller and I should be good to go.
I am not spinning my wheels just quite yet.
So you have a Micrologix 1400 and what kind of Panelview? The Panelview program has a programmed shortcut which points to the IP of the PLC, you can't change it without software but if you know what it is you can change the PLC to match. I'm assuming this is a Panelview plus?
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5 hours ago, straight6pwr said:
optional, at best. wheres the axle gonna go if the nut falls off?
Axle can't come out but the wheel hub can come off. The brake rotor would probable keep it from coming totally out though
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Mmmm, so pretty...
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It is so scary to start sanding on paint.