TOTALLY RANDOM POST II

[Three Berries]

Transplant day, 27 days old Granddaddy Purple. Solo to 2 gal. FoxFarm Happy Frog soil with a little more perlite added. Initial wetting and run off; which I save for first watering, pH was 6.4 (7.4 going in) and ppm is 750.

Filled the bucket with soli with a solo cup inserted, then watered and packed the soil down. Using a small paint brush dipped it in some Mycorrhizae inoculant dust, powdered the sides of the solo cup indent in the bucket.

Making sure the plant is well watered but not dripping, dumped it into my palm and put in the hole. Water with saved runoff and save that runoff again. Sing a lullaby to her and night night.

 

[Weezard]

So . . . Santa brought me a stupid tiny washing machine. A plastic POS. One shirt might fit into it. And might is the key word here.

Now, what the hell am I going to do with it?

Make bubble hash, buy tiny shirts, knead dough until the motor fries, mix paint, polish gems, wash fruit, mix nutes, sell on ebay, the possibilities abound, yah?

 

[moose eater]

Oh wow. I'm feeling highly objectionable towards that pricing. The pickup part is half the expenditure, and it's just nothing.
I would have to have it all out at this mileage. I wonder if the pump is actually stalling due to debris, as apposed to needing replacement. Which for me would be a Walbro, as that can't be a downgrade.
The delivery tubing (fuel line) is a bit mystical. One pipe goes from pump to two places, but can't. I guess it could be either and the 20$ hose (13) links them. What is in the middle of that through, where arrow 12 points. Fuel filter?
It's unfortunate the diagnosis is so weak. Like a ripple in pump current is what they are actually seeing. Which doesn't actually mean pump, but does a good job of narrowing it down. Though you had fuel pressure in mind already.

I have never felt comfortable putting pumps and wiring connectors in the tank. I just realised I didn't see the fuel level sensor, which troubles me equally. The idea is you can't burn fuel without air. I'm sure I can see air though. It's like, I just had the tank open fitting it, how is there not enough air. It's troubling.

I guess changing the lot for 500$ isn't the end of the world, if you just want it fixed to use it. I have chucked money as problems just to make them go away at times. It's all about the greater good. If you need it tomorrow, then you don't have time to even look at the old one.

There was a possibility of some minimally visible crystalline contamination in the tank a couple or 3 years back, but it has run fine since then.

Fuel pump assembly ought to get ordered today unless there's a snag of some sort.

Everything here came to a stand-still last night, after, for the preceding 2 days & nights, we'd gotten a fair bit of snow (cumulative, over a 2-1/2-day period, of perhaps 13 inches. Then the rain cut loose, and it was pouring liquid rain at +20 f. (yes, below freezing). Trees heavy with snow, then got heavier with ice and water-weight from the rain, and thousands of folks lost power.

We lost ours yesterday about 2:30 P.M. or so. So, today, about 3:00 P.M., after I had snaked a 100 ft. 12/3 arctic cord out to the shed, carried a 2200-watt Honda generator out there, hooked up a surge protector to the boiler, and got everything ready to go, after bei9ng without power for just over 24-hours, came in the door, and the power came back on RIGHT then!!! Murphy!!

Too wet to blow any more of the driveway, though we got most of what fell before the temps got above freezing 2 nights ago. But now we've got standing water under 4 inches of fresh ice-glazed snow. Neighbor called down and said he'd seen that our drive was a mess and asked if he could take care of that for us with his truck or piece of equipment. Merry Christmas!!

When upper atmosphere and ground temps are below freezing, but liquid rain is falling nonetheless, often freezing on contact, the NOAA folks here have referred to that as 'frizzle'. Water below freezing... with no salt required...

And yes, re. the prices for the Bombardier/Skidoo parts, almost anything that has the word 'recreational' attached to it, the parts seem to be about 400% of the cost a person might think they ought to be. Where the friction comes into play is the fact that while these machines can, indeed, be used for recreation, they're more apt to be used to haul freight, haul firewood, haul meat/game, etc. So, the fact that the average urban yuppie takes their machine out a few times a year to see how fast they can go up a hill, means that the rest of the consumers who use their equipment for more pragmatic purposes, will have to continue paying the prices for 'recreational vehicles', or buy after-market, which I loathe, due to the WIDE fluctuations in quality and fitment from many of those sources.

 

[f-e]

Interesting read regarding your weather over there. We don't even have snow chains here. I have a 4x4 and wish I could find worse conditions than a bit of rain to play in. I have not seen 13" ever. With 12C quite average in the middle of the UK. Sat along the 52 degree line that also passes through Canada. The Atlantic conveyor warms our prevailing winds, but only while the pole keeps frozen. We will one day have similar climates.

I noticed the Walbro came with a filter sock that meant ditching the twin pickups. That's certainly a different fitment. Going to the trouble of making that ridiculously expensive twin inlet setup must offer some benefit (hopefully to the consumer, not just the manufacturer, who's markup must be colossal)

 

[moose eater]

Interesting read regarding your weather over there. We don't even have snow chains here. I have a 4x4 and wish I could find worse conditions than a bit of rain to play in. I have not seen 13" ever. With 12C quite average in the middle of the UK. Sat along the 52 degree line that also passes through Canada. The Atlantic conveyor warms our prevailing winds, but only while the pole keeps frozen. We will one day have similar climates.

I noticed the Walbro came with a filter sock that meant ditching the twin pickups. That's certainly a different fitment. Going to the trouble of making that ridiculously expensive twin inlet setup must offer some benefit (hopefully to the consumer, not just the manufacturer, who's markup must be colossal)

Yes, Walbro is an original carb and fuel pump/parts/pieces maker for all kinds of equipment over the years. Everything from chainsaws to ice augers, to ... cars.... and more. I preferred their older stuff for my ice augers.

A classic filter sock on any pump would be awesome, but they can (depending on the micron size) also add slight additional resistance to fuel flow, depending on the operating pressures of the pump, etc. The machine in reference runs a fairly high-pressure fuel system of roughly 38 to 48 psi.

(*I just was informed that when we tested pressure from the pump to the lines the other day, it was at about 60 psi, which makes ZERO sense to me, but I'm told now that an internal short might affect back-off pressure in the system by leaving the thing just pumping away merrily, regardless of the pressure already in the lines, but topping out at the max pressure for the pump's seals, etc.

Hmm...

Snow amounts here in the Interior of Alaska are increasing over the last decade or 2. We have more traditionally been technically regarded as an 'Arctic Desert', and have had intensely warm summers (traditionally), colder-than-Hell winters, relatively dry summers most often, and only moderate snowfall as a rule. All that began changing about 30-35 years ago. More mild winters, even on a La Nina year like this one, more snow in winter, more rain in summers, and less of the +90's f. summer days, and far fewer of the -60 or -65 f winter days (No, I DO NOT miss those severely cold winter days... The unofficial cold temperature record down at my old cabin on the Tanana River, was -74 f., the winter of 1989, same winter as the Exxon Valdez oil spill; nothing to miss in ANY of that).

We moved to Valdez, Alaska the year after the Exxon Valdez oil spill and polluting of the N. Pacific Ocean, specifically, Prince William Sound. The winter of the spill, 1989, Valdez had a cumulative snow fall of over 50 ft. That was where I first seriously screwed my back up, in 1990, shoveling out a huge propane tank when we'd set a snowfall-record at that time for a 24-hour period (48 inches). But they're coastal, so they get the more moderate weather in winter, albeit with more precipitation, to include cooler summers.

Climate-wise, the whole things's a mess; 2 years ago, during the outset of the pandemic, at Copper Lake, in the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park & Preserve, our second morning there for our annual lake trout fishing gig (having brought a new mercury and glass thermometer to post to a spruce tree there in the shade between the cabins, we were into the beginning of the 2nd week of March, and it was -43 f. Found all sorts of things to tinker on at the cabin that morning. Gutting fish at those temps HURTS!!

These days, all of our vehicles are either 4-wheel drive, or all-wheel drive. Would never go back to front wheel drive only, let alone rear wheel drive.

 

[f-e]

Hmm indeed. Where is the FPR? I don't see it or the related pipework, but it does exist https://www.powersportsid.com/2008-ski-doo-expedition-tuv-fuel-pumps-components/
I did point to the impossible pipework situation at the heads before. I'm missing something. I see all the shared pipework, and it's not there. Is it by the weak injector? What's on my mind, is if the FPR is at the head, then measuring pressure in the pipework before there, is just seeing the pumps maximum, and 60psi is a reasonable expectation. Most smaller car pumps max out in the 60-70 region. However, if the FPR sits at the pump, that pipework should never see 60psi from what you say, unless the FRP has failed. I'm still not seeing a vacuum pipe, but just maybe, it's fixed pressure. Though I have not seen such a thing.
I reckon it's in the pump assembly, allowing the notion that it's a pump issue. Stretching further, I think you could have one sat wide open, giving the injectors full pump pressure. This in turn is seen as unburnt fuel, and the ecu reduces the duty cycle/on time of the injectors to compensate. However, the injectors are not delivering equally at this reduced duration, as the actual time taken to physically open and close is becoming a significant proportion of the duration. A problem seen trying to idle drag cars with massive injectors, leading to banks of smaller injectors. In your case, the high fuel pressure is outside the injectors spec, and might be delaying the action. Perhaps even stopping them from seating properly at all. Earlier injectors were simply opened by increasing fuel pressure. It's not a huge stretch to think excess pressure would effect two identical injectors a little differently. Testing sets of identical units to actually find the differences is common. I have the best matching 4 out of 6 tested in my toy car.

Damn I wish I was there.

Actually... No I don't, it's ******* freezing


My motors called an Escape over there, but I don't think it would. It slips on the salt we put down. Temperatures like those would probably turn the oil to tar.

 

[moose eater]

The fuel injectors on this are set to only disperse X amount of fuel, regardless of the pump's output, or at least that's my understanding.

My understanding now, re. the (ground short at the fuel pump) code, is that it's a somewhat common short or break that occurs in the pump after a long period of use over time.

Pump's now set to get ordered tomorrow, assuming it doesn't get put off again.

Neighbor did a nice job on the driveway, considering how the place had resembled a frozen lunar surface, with all of the jutting ice peaks, frozen puddles, etc. Gave he and his son each a bottle of Guinness Extra Stout as a neighborly gesture.

Moving my truck tonight, after the neighbors left, I had to take an ice breaker/chipper bar and carefully break the ice surface in front of and behind all 4 tires before we tried to move it, due to it being frozen into puddles from the rain and snowstorm. Ended up needing to put it into 4-wheel Lo range to get it to move. It refused to budge initially in 4-Hi, and we figured that if we were too aggressive, we might destroy the driveline, transmission, or the rear differential. But after proper preparation with the ice chipper bar, it broke free.

The track-driven Honda snowblower we have had suffered just such an injury before I acquired it. The owner had let it freeze into a puddle, then, without freeing it from the ice, he reportedly slammed it into gear, and toasted his transmission. Pretty serious expense, that one. His error and lack of thoughtfulness led to our acquiring a decent snowblower at a reasonable price.

Off to water my handful of remaining, angry, neglected mothers, as well as the clones.

 

[Three Berries]

Freezing rain is the worst. We are on the borderline today in Central Illinois. Have a Christmas dinner today, don't know yet whether to take the winter beater or hot rod yet.

We have not had any snow yet this year except for a trace.

 

[flylowgethigh]

Pushing a shopping cart seems to be a good way for a kid to learn how to roller skate.

 

[armedoldhippy]

77 degrees yesterday on Toledo Bend reservoir in Louisiana. doing yard work with no shirt on in late December. fuck, i may move...

 

[CosmicGiggle]

The buds on my Quince bushes are ready to pop. Normally they put on a solid, eye-popping display from Feb.1 through April 1, but this year (like last year) the show will start Jan.1 and run until early April.

Spring is almost here, I'ma bipass Winter, just ignore it completely with my superior Jedi mind tricks.

 

[Sunshineinabag]

play this to them




Keep it greasey so it'll go down easy

 

[Green Squall]

So . . . Santa brought me a stupid tiny washing machine. A plastic POS. One shirt might fit into it. And might is the key word here.

Now, what the hell am I going to do with it?

They're life changing! I also recently ditched the work bag and put the material straight into the machine. Its a bitch to clean out afterwards, but I'm getting better results.

 

[tobedetermined]

I wondered about the work bag. I watched a vid from Bubble's site and he said the same about results. How long do you wash?

 

[moose eater]

In further feeding the flames of masochism, I figured I'd research the average payment for sperm donors.

Turns out that one prominent clinic pays a total of $70/donation, but only $50 is up-front, and the $20 is paid when that deposit is requested/withdrawn to be used. Some of the claims for total earnings from this 'occupation', in a month's time, were a bit mind-boggling. Like, what do these guys do in a day, beside masturbating, if they earn THAT much in a month from $50 and $70 payments?

But the end objective in the research was to compare the hundreds of thousands of dollars wasted birthing unappreciative, self-absorbed children, who seem to believe they're above being corrected, versus the approximately $210 I -could- have been paid, had the seed (x 3) been deposited to the 'bank' rather than bringing about another group of humans into this place to further screw it up.

So, I boiled that down into something tangible, monetary-wise, from years gone by; imagine choosing between spending HUNDREDS of thousands of dollars (or more) to eventually have proverbial sand kicked in your face far too frequently, versus being PAID enough money for 2-3 grams of good, relatively clean cocaine? Or perhaps 10 decent large pizzas. Same commodity, but very different outcomes based on options for 'investing.'

If I could have read the future more accurately, I'd have probably chosen to buy the coke or the pizzas, and never watched another episode of the Waltons EVER again.

The whole process and the last couple years reminded me of a Director I'd had years ago at a mental health clinic I'd worked at, who used to joke (maybe he wasn't joking?), saying, in re. to children, "Eat them while their bones are soft."

Yep, Bob, you may have been right. Indeed.

Now where'd I put that grill-top rotisserie and the charcoal lighter fluid?

 

[Sunshineinabag]

Can I freeze yesterday's loads if they were closed? Asking for a friend

 

[f-e]

I was a donor. I did it for free. Outside of the legal framework that should of protected me though. Then the bills started to arrive.

I suggest the opp is money well spent. Though without doubt, people that don't have kids, are the one's wondering what the meaning/purpose of life was. Because they have time to, during early retirement.

 

[Sunshineinabag]

"Legal framework" lol

 

[f-e]

With 20-22c in and 24-27c out, I was seeing about 6L of water used per meter. I knew it was low, and I had been a bit tight with the K and was seeing signs of it in the final weeks. So.. Up went the K about a third to a reasonable 180ppm, and now it's at 7L. The biggest change, overnight. Where the run off basically stopped as they took 7.2L and run out. I reckon I will see 7.5L but it's not a great crop anyway. It's just seeing K's water movement potential in quantifiable terms that I found satisfying

I had already lowered Ca, but it was the K that really mattered. I wonder how this sits with LED dry leaf posters. These K signs were to exposed upper fans. Slight serration lift. Typical signs people see as too much light

 

[Sunshineinabag]

Happy to be growing in soil