Thanks Dan for the extra info! Have you ever seen a Hemi, 4-speed Superbird or Daytona in person, I haven't. There's something special about a 4-speed, Hemi car, I'll take a 2nd look at the Satellite. Like so many of the premier late 60's/early 70's Muscle Cars, I believe alot of them were destroyed at the track or on the street.

 

Good morning everyone.

Pretty busy morning for overtime. I had a few wheels left over from Saturday, so that helped push me to 16 wheels signed. So look at me!

Other than that I got nothing. Nice morning out at 3 when I left. Gonna be nice all week and then rain on Saturday when I need it to be nice. Maybe that will change by then.

Hope everyone has a good day.

 

Turning off kitchen lights prior to going to bed last night I heard an unusual noise near refrigerator like an intermittent pulsating hiss. Evaluated interior freezer/cooling compartments were functioning. Noticed the automatic ice maker ice cubes were somewhat bright & shiny. Noticed some moisture on tile flooring next to refrigerator. Suspected small plastic water line from under sink to ice maker. Turned off cold water supply under sink & noise/hiss stopped immediately. Don't know if the ice maker water supply line came off, developed a pin hole/slit leak or what's up? Refrigerator is ~20 yrs old which means the supply line is same age. Looks like my day has been planned out for me.

 

Hopefully it is a quick and painless fix.

 

Keith - Shouldn't be too bad - fingers crossed. Have to empty/remove a half dozen cabinet drawers - a couple of the lower drawers have marginal slider operation (I think one rear center slider rail holding bracket is broken) remove everything from under the sink, pull out refrigerator so I can get to the water supply line. Eh, SOS...repairs, repairs & more repairs.

 

As Rosanne Rosanne'a Dana would say "It's always someth'n"

 

Norm Sure hope it isn't critters

 

Norm - Good luck, I hope you don't run into any significant snags! 🤞

 

Jim/Chris - Thanks. Always a chance for a critter e.g. mouse chewed through the line.

 

Here's the b-day boy, Monty is 8 today. Very hard to believe we've had him that long, he's such a joy and a clown!

I'm still having considerable discomfort and pain in my left shoulder, with little to no improvement after considerable rest. I called this morning and made an appointment with an Orthopedic Specialist/Surgeon for September 25th. This guy came recommended by my youngest daughter who worked on the Orthopedic Surgery floor when she first started at the hospital where this guy practices. I'm glad I am able to get in as soon as I am, find out what's really going on, and see what my options are. I certainly don't want to deal with the pain forever.

Hope everyone has a great day!

 

Chris, feel better or get fixed and feel better. I think my right shoulder has an issue, I may get checked. I hurt it in 2021, and it's been slowly healing.

Norm, I hope it is the supply line and not a line in the unit. I am fortunate to have it have its own shutoff, and I can feed the slack up behind the unit from the basement and then roll it out. My nook is not full size fridge sized, but I don't need one that big.

Newsletter is off to the proofers, and I just finished the second side of coat 5 of 6 coats of polyurethane on some shelving. Should be done by this time tomorrow.

 

Thanks John! Good luck wrapping the shelves project up. Give us a pic or two when they're finished. Hope your shoulder continues to get better without intervention, although it sounds like it's been a long time coming!

 

John - Appears to be an opening (somewhere) in the water supply line somewhere behind the lazy Susan in the back corner of the cabinet. There has been water intrusion in that area. Internal supply lines look fine.

I pulled the cover to the refrigerator innards, to give everything a good look-see regarding compressor, transformer, etc. & vacuum the compressor, & all innards. I was about to head out to the man-cave to retrieve my small vacuum nozzles but this tropical depression elected to move a large outer band on the NE side of the system over land & we got ~1.5" - 2.0" of rain is <1 hr. Big lake in back yard. Next, remove lazy Susan, several more cabinet drawers and pull the water supply line. Of course, cleaning is occupying ~50% of my time/effort.

 

Polyurethane is great to work w/ for wood finishes. I waiver between Tongue Oil & Poly - depending on wood type and usage. Drying time is often the hardest part.

 

Norm - Sounds like chasing the water leak down is a real PIA, best of luck. Makes me appreciate I have a dedicated copper line from the basement with it's own shut-off.

My wife uses alot of that MinWax Polycrylic on her painted stuff. It ain't cheap, but does a nice job of protecting painted surfaces and it drys fast.

I forgot to mention earlier, probably because I wanted to forget, that my Annual Physical is tomorrow at 0830. I hate going to that, will probably get poked 3 times, flu shot, new Covid vaccine, and blood work. Oh, the Horror!

 

Chris - You may have missed it. I have a shut-off & it is shut-off. That is a non-issue.

Well, I spent ~1 hr on the floor crawling/weaving about like lizard w/ my various vacuum nozzles removing/cleaning dust/grime from the refrigerator innards.

I noticed a very small leak on the floor - very small but noteworthy. I'm not sure if it's oil or freon. Based upon age of my refrigerator it could be freon. Since these things aren't inexpensive I think I'm going to call my appliance man for an evaluation. Addressing the issue now is most likely the best thing as it will likely save me large costs down the line.

 

Also, you have it all out to look at.

So, I don't do woodworking as a hobby. This is driven by two of my actual hobbies; old stereos and books. I made some extra shelves for a set of toy shelves, which, with extra shelves, became good bookshelves. The rack was for my stereo, and I made one for my television too, which I have not put together in 3 years. The current project is an expansion of the original stereo rack, so I had to research and remember what I did to match. I remembered six coats of wipe on gloss Minwax poly, but I forgot which stain and how much. Once I did it, I remembered it was 3 coats of stain, and I pulled old records and found it was Minwax Golden Pecan color stain. Once I am done with this, all the crap is getting tossed and the sawhorses go into the basement.

I'm done with roller painting white onto the plyboard for basement paneling, too, so that's good. I still have to saw the allthread to the right length and spray bomb all hardware with two coats of black satin rustoleum. I have to have the garage cleared out of this project by Wed.

 

You keep busy, John. I like projects. I have a large stack of solid Mahogany & solid Teak in the man-cave - all cut to various mostly usable lengths/widths. I bought this wood for literally pennies on the dollar. There was very large veneer commercial manufacturing plant (Atlantic Veneer) here for many years. I knew a guy who worked there as a salesman when I first moved here. I went to the plant a couple times - making wood veneer is quite the process as you can imagine & the size of the rolls produced fascinating - very large ones because they were a big-daddy plant. These rolls were like ~8' wide, some only 1' wide & ~3' diameter. Can't recall how many linear feet but I suspect somewhere on the order of 500 ft. They shipped it all over the world. It certainly helped there is a port authority here. I don't know the thicknesses of the veneers they manufactured most of it looked like millimeters in thickness. I used a fair amount of my Mahogany/Teak pile(s) when I had my last boat.

So, on this large sticker on the back of the refrigerator it states 134A REFRIGERANT which answers the refrigerant question. My appliance man's wife called & it looks like Thursday might be a good day for her husband to get to me. He gets $95/service call - which includes evaluation & part(s)/work installation if required upon return. Not so bad. Refrigerator was $1700 new (2003). Replacement likely more. Even if he says wait for it (whatever "it" is) to die (compressor or whatever) I'll have a knowledgeable evaluation if I have an issue & future options.

 

Turns out three kitchen cabinet (maybe four) drawers have broken rear center rail mounts. Hell, one (lower) drawer doesn't even have a center slide rail & another (big/tall drawer one that's supposed to be used for a trash can) is missing the two lower rollers. Looks like I'll be doing some cabinetry work/upgrades. Water supply line is nearly completely revealed except for behind the Lazy Susan in the corner cabinet this is where there has been some water leaking & I suspect location of the issue. I wonder if when I installed this supply line 23 yrs ago the line might have been rubbing on the lower shelf of the Lazy Susan and wore through? Hmmm.....I didn't have to disassemble the Lazy Susan when I installed the supply line & I installed small hold-downs when routing. Disassemble of the Lazy Susan up next.

Quick-fix my A$$. I don't mind though. Much more which requires repair gets done - no biggie. I know I would not be so enthusiastic if I were still working away from home flying around the globe as a used piece of jet trash every week.

 

Norm I flew one round trip last year and two this year. That is more than enough. Covid, the TSA, and people getting huge and bitchy has ruined flying for me.

 

John - Understand. I've experienced it all.

 

Norm, when I worked at Chris Craft almost 50 years ago, we had Mahogany plywood with Teak veneer on it for the cabin cruiser doors and surrounding framing. teak is a beautiful wood. We used mahogany for the transom boards on the inboard/outboard set ups, and for the inboard V-8's. I could buy a wheelbarrow ful of scrap Mahogany for one dollar, and it filled the trunk of my '70 SX, with extra on the rear floor of the car. I had a guy at a campground ask me about it, as I was using it for firewood. I left the campsite for a couple of hours, and a bit of my firewood was missing when I came back.. Hmmm. Very moisture resistant and hard as all ****.

 

Lazy Susan disassembled. Flooring of the cabinets is that cheap particle board or MDF board. I HATE this stuff. Shelving, cabinets, doors, drawers, etc. are all cut-to-fit solid wood panels - the floor boards? No, not so much - just this cheap/punk particle board or MDF, which I despise. I'm not going to say that $HIT is soaked in a large area, but it's soaked through and I'm hoping other areas are salvageable w/o much to-do about it all. Thankfully I was home when this occurred; yet, I'm not 100% how long it's been seeping. Fan on HIGH and drying out the entire corner - this will take a couple days minimum to dry. Next, disconnect supply line from feeder line under sink, pull it out and identify the leak.

 

John - In the 12-months immediately following 9/11, I was managing several contracts for "crisis" data with multiple contractors that did work for us who were located in multiple cities across the U.S. In that 12-months I made 26 trips to those various contractors to evaluate progress and the quality of the data. Immediately after 9/11, security was at a ridiculously high level and made traveling even more burdensome. Those 12-months pretty much ruined me on flying forever. I have not flown since I retired in 2018.

 

As a used piece of jet trash I averaged 117 flights/year.

 

That's frickin nuts, a miserable existence, regardless of the pay!

 

Poor Man's Beef Stroganoff, made with ground beef instead of shredded or sliced Beef. Still damn tasty!

 

The year (2005?) I installed the network monitoring/management system for MD Anderson, Houston, TX I had 176 flights (4 flights/wk x 44 weeks). EWN>CLT>HOU on Monday HOU>CLT>EWN return each week.

 

That would definitely be miserable!

 

Looks good. I had Baked Ziti last night & just finished another helping for this evening's dinner. Best Beef Strok'n Off I've ever had was at a small family-owned villa/lodge in the village of Götzens, Austria. Husband & wife did all the cooking. I stayed there one week as an exchange student (1969). I think the husband or someone told me he (they) marinated the beef for something like one week? It was cubed beef flank steak. Hot diggity it was delicious.

 

I flew in/out of LaGuardia each week for ~1 year (2008/2009) installing network monitoring/management @ Merrill Lynch (~152 flights that year). Most flights Sully (Chesley Sullenberger) was captain - after some months we'd sometimes share a conversation boarding or departing. Sully lives/lived in Charlotte & LaGuardia was his basic US Airways A320 cash cow. Hell of a nice guy, too. How bouts your avg Joe Blow regional commuter (puddle jumper) pilot and/or crew. They often average ~5 flights/day x 4 days/week (20 flights/week). If they work 44 weeks flying (on average) that's 960 flights/yr. They don't make much more than a city bus driver.

 

That will put you out for sure. Lotsa carbs.

More garage cleaning, first half of the last coat of poly on the boards.

Making Yankee ribs at the moment.

 

Damn Norm sorry to hear about the can of worms. Good you caught it now. Now ya know.

Would there be any merit or a way you can re-route a new line through the lazy susan sleeved within a flexible liquid tight raceway of some sort. I know it's application is for electric conductors, but the idea just popped in my head.

 

Keith - That would be a good suggestion. I didn't follow up on my finding. There is/was no abrasion on the water supply line. No vermin/critters, no mouse poop. A pure & simple pin hole spraying water. Plastic not even weak anywhere, no creases, no hard bends. I have a theory. Suffice it to say I'll be replacing the entire supply line w/ new supply line. The fan is doing an excellent job of evaporating the water soaked boarding.

Chris - Sorry about your shoulder. That pain makes you miserable I know from experience. I'll most likely be immobile for the 1st hr tomorrow morning after having crawled around on the floor like a lizard the better part of the day.

 

Thanks Norm, I really appreciate it. Trying to stay positive hoping it can solved with rest, PT, and possibly ultra sound deep tissue heat therapy, without the need for surgery. Hope you're not crippled come morning from all the crawling around on the floor.

 

Before retiring I'm going to down a couple crickets, a grasshopper & a small bird egg I found.

 

So today we hit triple digits again and set a new record. That’s a week short of 4 months of triple digit temperatures.

 

🐍 LoL

 

Ouch, not a record I'd want any part of!

 

I feel so privileged to have been a part of this record setting event.
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