Coffee Pot #3 MARCH 2013 NINE years [April 1 is Anniv.] and going strong and its for all to chat. Plenty of coffee and sweet ice tea for all. Come and join us and chat. Grits for the Yanks.

[Lehigh Valley 2089]

submmbob

LV - working on a 1/72 scale Piasecki H-21 model (that's what the olive drab and ZC green are for). These things were rear-engined and air-cooled, the way it should be... There's actually an outfit in Pomona, CA that has restored one of these to flying condition This I am going to have to check out.

Sounds cool. I am having some issues with the wings on my P-38, but I am thinking maybe glueing some cotton balls on the spots, pulling the cotton out and making it look as if some fuel tanks got hit, but the fuel didn't catch. I'll see about some rivet decals before doing this though.

Good morning. Uneventful day other than that I finally have some work again. The paycheck that I'm getting today will be great. Estimated to be about $150, give or take $10.

[Demay]

Konbanwa,

We had unseasonably warm weather today – it reached 61 this afternoon.  The workday flew by and nothing exciting happened.  We grilled some burgers for dinner tonight: topped mine with bacon and grilled onion.  The wife also made homemade vanilla-maple ice cream.  It was quite tasty, especially in a glass of root beer.  We’ll spend the rest of the night relaxing together. 

Laz – That’s cool your wife won the Coal Cracker 10K before.  I remember you telling us about the race you and Minnie ran last year. 

Hey Roy!  I hope you’re surviving that crazy Texas weather.

RT – I hope your back feels better soon.

Sayonara,

Joe

[submmbob]

Hello all

Back at work again.  Couldn't get to sleep Tues night so I went up to the dining hall around midnight to catch up on the pot. Night manager wouldn't let me turn on the lights, so I couldn't post since I can't see the keys in the dark (they are not backlit). Discovered tonight that my old IBM thinkpad has a nifty little reading light at the top of the screen though that should help next time.

Got called off on Wed. since they needed someone to take two observers from the University of Stockholm to the telescope on Thurs. They are real academics as apparently niether drive Telescope was still down anyway due to the computer problems from the aforementioned (and preventable) UPS issue we had before I left last week. On that note, I am working on becoming at least an assistant 'Field Marshal' in order to actually deal w/ some of these problems. We'll see where that goes.

So since I had yesterday afternoon off, I went to the electronics store and the local hobby shop. A few more parts for the circuit breaker and voltage/amp readout box. Still looking for an amp gauge, but that can wait. Also exchanged the olive drab paint I already had for zinc chromate green and picked up a nifty little mixer from Badger to stir up all my 30 yr old model paint. And yes, it separates but it still good after mixing.

Then I finally put in the new needle and seat fuel inlets in the hardtop carbs. When heat soaked (shut down after running for more than 5 minutes) the carbs tend to bleed fuel into the heads. These are aftermarket spring loaded ball valves which help prevent this. Idles much better now. The idle mixer screw actually means something. Ran great under load before but idled like I had a heck of a cam in it and was hard to start due to the flooding.

Next check I can hopefully get rear shocks.

Computer controlled door locks? Please.....Yes, I know they have them, remember me swearing at the electronically controlled 4WD in the work vehicle. As a famous general once said, "nuts". OK, I have had problems with my doorlock mechanisms too. I broke off the little plastic pull knob when I tried to put something a little too big in the back seat of the Corvair recently

Phish - good to hear from you. If you come thru AZ this summer would be happy to give you a personal tour of some of the sights.

Jack - 7 yrs is not an old car

Kev - dug something out of the storage unit on Monday you may be interested in

Ryan - someone dumped off a very young kitten a couple months ago at my current residence. One of the guys in my house adopted it. This cat already has no fear. Considering who it's living with it's going to be one heck of a cat some day. Had to pull him out of my dufflebag today in order to keep from taking him to the mountain.

SPRay - Some friends of mine used Affordable Auto Painting a number of years back and were pleased w/ the job. Don't know if they have these in CA though. Someday I may take the hardtop to someplace like this to have it repainted, but it still looks decent right now. The Corvan I am going to try doing myself.

Chief - my Ruger 10/22 will soon be finding a new home w/ my friend in the Corvair club who helps me out quite a bit (he helped me move the van last Sunday). I knew he was into handguns, but last Sunday he showed me some of his rifle collection including a Russian rifle circa 1922 and a Smith Corona rifle from WWII I think. For all he has done for me this is the least I can do. It's been sitting in a friend's gun safe for the last 7+ years anyway.

LV - working on a 1/72 scale Piasecki H-21 model (that's what the olive drab and ZC green are for). These things were rear-engined and air-cooled, the way it should be... There's actually an outfit in Pomona, CA that has restored one of these to flying condition This I am going to have to check out.

Laz - regarding the salvage yard work, what's a chicken?

My first OGR didn't show up last week. Either it's still on the way or there's someone in the local PO that likes trains magazines,  but not paying for them...

Time to find some dinner I guess.

[ChiefEagles]

A special toast to Christina who is a lady who knows how to dress.  

Enjoy the the friendship all. 

Sleep tight and good night.