What did YOU do today?

[mikkelstuff]

Spent the day with my lovely wife at the hospital. She was transported from the ER on Sunday night. The ovarian cancer has spread to her lungs with bone marrow cancer as well. There is no more treatment. Now given a few weeks to live.

Understand that I am the luckiest man in the world to have found her again just ten years ago.

But please, make sure the women in your life know the symptoms of ovarian cancer. This cancer is so so nasty.

All looking up for the moment. Off all oxygen and home with Hospice. Only time will tell.

 

[Uncle Gump]

Dang @mikkelstuff

That's a tough pill to swallow.

You and your family are in my prayers.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Dang @mikkelstuff

That's a tough pill to swallow.

You and your family are in my prayers.

+1

 

[Blmpkn]

Saw a smashed up McLaren 720 on the way back to the shop. Rich guy problems.

Super sad really.. the majority of super spendy cars up this way seem to be AMG SLS's.. followed by R8s.. then lambos.. then Ferrari.. almost NEVER see a McLaren. Damn thing all smashed up is probably still worth more than all the vehicles I've ever owned.. when they were new glad Im not the one who's gotta deal with that insurance premium increase..

 

[Bgunner]

Welp, after the upgrades to the laptop things seemed to work well till yesterday when I noticed my zero button in the 10 key section no longer worked. I figured no biggie I'll just use the one above the letters but while running a game yesterday I noticed the function key was somehow stuck on. In this case I couldn't use my F keys which are used in the game.

So today I pulled the keyboard surround off and had the same issue. I then removed the keyboard and checked the connection and all was well there but the keyboard worked properly. So I installed the keyboard and tested again, all worked properly, and then installed the surround and all is currently working properly.

Guess at the issue? Mine is that because it is old and finicky when installing it the first time there was a bit of pressure from the southbridge thermal pad, since it uses the keyboard as a heatsink, it flexed the board just enough that it caused a loose connection in the board to act up. IF I have issues later on I can get a used board for $20 and new for $80 so I have options.

 

[racsan]

Didn’t do much today at all, had a PFT (lung test) in the morning, weekly shopping trip then home, was pretty drained & fell asleep for about 4 hours. Checked out a big craftsman tool box set at lowes, decent deal. Not sure I will get it though.

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

Went to have my hands looked at via ultrasound. I had xrays done several weeks ago. The tech isn't supposed to say anything but thinks I should ask to see a hand specialist when I talk to my doc. I have lumps growing on the tendons...(my diagnosis...not the techs). FML!..

 

[scotts90ranger]

The other day I put the door handle I rekeyed to the house key onto the shop and officially was able to remove a key from the key ring! The new to me Schlage lockset is nicer than the cheapo one that came with the door, if you turn the key 1/4 turn in either direction it unlocks and opens the door, just gotta push the button on the inside to lock it, if you want it to only be able to be opened from outside with the key you push and rotate the button on the inside... not gonna use that feature but just gotta remember...

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

I've been doing some work to my pontiac Sunfire. I hate where the coils are, down under the intake,just above k-member, and barely able to see when under the car. I was finally able to figure out how to swap the sparkplug wires. Scratched my arm to hell doing it too. Then there was a bad grinding noise while the starter is engaged...

My temporary fix;

Then drive an hour round trip to get a new starter. Currently waiting for cool down before install.
Next is probably water pump.

 

[scotts90ranger]

Took the '97 to near work to the Kershaw factory sale and spent way too much (have a lot of friends that want cheap pocket knives and there you can get a $30 knife for $11ish so I stocked up) and got some gas in the Ranger and diesel for the shop heater... Then I got home and made a tray to put under the dishwasher, conveniently I just stripped a clothes drier a couple weeks ago and the side of one of those is exactly the right width for the hole for the dishwasher! Apparently the top layer of flooring is particle board and no one put anything under the dishwasher... I thought about plastic but then I remembered I had the drier... Was even able to use the bevels on the corners so any leaks will go forward hopefully. The drain valve did leak but apparently it's one of the most common older dishwasher so it was less than $10 for the seal and push lock nut thing on Amazon so I fixed that.

Then I started cleaning the shop so I can work on the '97 Ranger tomorrow and getting things moved around so I can work on the loft in the shop in a few weeks... lot of junk to move

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

More damage pics;

I can't figure out how it happened. Only thing I can think of is somehow snow and ice got in there and refroze, expanding enough to break. Or maybe its just a fatigue crack or weak spot that finally let go. There is no sign that it was a developing issue. The broken edges are fresh.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Finally finished chopping my cornstalks.

Walked by the tractor getting ready to put the 3 point on it for blading snow and noticed one rear was half flat.

Great.

So I ran it out of the way and got a jack stand and under it to keep the fluid in it until I get something figured out.

 

[scotts90ranger]

Finally finished chopping my cornstalks.

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Walked by the tractor getting ready to put the 3 point on it for blading snow and noticed one rear was half flat.

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Great.

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So I ran it out of the way and got a jack stand and under it to keep the fluid in it until I get something figured out.

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Oof, no fun, I dealt with that earlier this year and fixed mine myself, pulling the fluid is the hard part, I don't think the filling valve will work backward with the vent button... those tires are taller than mine so probably 20 gallons in each... tire places charge by volume each direction from what I've heard and I was cheap so I got a fluid extractor and pulled it myself then got a drill pump and a tire filling kit and fixed my tube...

Did a little more cleaning in the shop tonight then worked on straightening out my brothers knife as while I was at Kershaw they said they would try to fix the thing... he lost it getting off a tractor then found it a few days later after he'd ran the tractor tiller over the area, lets just say it wasn't exactly straight afterward . I wish I had a before pic so I could show a before and after, now it just shows some bumps and bruises instead of being a horseshoe... putting over an hour of labor into straightening a $60 knife might not make sense but it was more of a "can I" thing and just laughing at the situation, it'll have a story... it really only needs a pocket clip and 3 or 4 screws and maybe the isolalater between the two sides, we'll see how much they laugh at me...

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Oof, no fun, I dealt with that earlier this year and fixed mine myself, pulling the fluid is the hard part, I don't think the filling valve will work backward with the vent button... those tires are taller than mine so probably 20 gallons in each... tire places charge by volume each direction from what I've heard and I was cheap so I got a fluid extractor and pulled it myself then got a drill pump and a tire filling kit and fixed my tube...

In a perfect world sure. I would love to pull it all apart, sandblast and repaint the rim too, I would even spring for a new tube and just delete the fluid.

But on December 8th I have other wishes for my snowplow tractor...

The original rim was blowing apart, this is the "good" one that came with my WD, I stuck the whole wheel assembly on over the summer trying to buy more time. It has a 20 mile tractor ride, a couple trips across the yard and then today's shredding on it... so it didn't really buy much time.

 

[scotts90ranger]

BTDT, I know the drill, my brother has a bunch of tractors we keep limping along... a couple years ago I put on my spare front tire and it lasted like 2 days, ended up buying new fronts and tubes... for my brother he found a pair of radials that fit on his when he struck a water leak , blue tractor with orange wheels looks kinda silly but it don't matter...