Horun wrote on 2021-07-03, 01:02:

That is great ! Don't get vacations since my Dad died in 2017, was 88 and promised to take care of my mom before he went so all my vacation and weekend time is fulfilling that promise. Wish he was still here !

That's sad. Just in case you weren't aware, stuff like this exists.... https://www.silvertraveladvisor.com/blog/acce … ty-requirements where some provide full service with carers so you could send her off on a break while you go somewhere else, or there's some that give cut rates for carers, so you could go with her and at least get out of the house. Or there's a sort of roll your own option, since you can get senior residences that take people for a week or two respite care, either use one near home and go away, or make arrangement with one near a destination you can drive to, and you take a hotel or camp or whatever, and take her out for the day a few times and do your own thing the rest.

sirotkaslo wrote on 2021-06-22, 11:09:

Jed118 wrote on 2021-06-19, 01:57:

then you are from the same generation 😁 I still have the tape in my retro car 😁

Which I spent 6 hours on this week just getting a replacement door on straight. Hinge pins - no body shop wanted to touch it, I ended up making it work with a 5/16ths trailer pin, a washer, and a few drillbits that I burned getting the orignal pin from 1984 out. I do not wish this on my worst enemy, that was some seriously tedious work.

Now I have to sand down the door and get a primer coat on at least, the door's like 4 different colors, my 2.5 year old counted them earlier 😐

Also in to cars 😀? I only have an old 57 vespa to restore, but haven't gotten around yet. Good luck with the car, they can be a pain to fix 😁

The car is working well enough for now. Door is painted but I need a carburettor, I tried to change it to another one I had and then take apart the original one and clean all the jets and passages. Its slightly better now, but I have a new carburettor on order.

The paint will be redone in a week or so, for now I'm just enjoying the car 😁

The oil stains on the driveway are as a result of applying oil to the inside of the doors as I take them apart. The car does not leak a drop.

Jed118 wrote on 2021-07-03, 01:32:

The car is working well enough for now. Door is painted but I need a carburettor, I tried to change it to another one I had and […]
Show full quote

sirotkaslo wrote on 2021-06-22, 11:09:

Jed118 wrote on 2021-06-19, 01:57:

then you are from the same generation 😁 I still have the tape in my retro car 😁

Which I spent 6 hours on this week just getting a replacement door on straight. Hinge pins - no body shop wanted to touch it, I ended up making it work with a 5/16ths trailer pin, a washer, and a few drillbits that I burned getting the orignal pin from 1984 out. I do not wish this on my worst enemy, that was some seriously tedious work.

Now I have to sand down the door and get a primer coat on at least, the door's like 4 different colors, my 2.5 year old counted them earlier 😐

Also in to cars 😀? I only have an old 57 vespa to restore, but haven't gotten around yet. Good luck with the car, they can be a pain to fix 😁

The car is working well enough for now. Door is painted but I need a carburettor, I tried to change it to another one I had and then take apart the original one and clean all the jets and passages. Its slightly better now, but I have a new carburettor on order.

The paint will be redone in a week or so, for now I'm just enjoying the car 😁

The oil stains on the driveway are as a result of applying oil to the inside of the doors as I take them apart. The car does not leak a drop.

Nice job. The car looks great can't wait to see the finished paint job.

I've been planning a hydrostatic transaxle swap to my 08 John Deere LA145 from a weak Tuff Torq T40/k46 to a much stronger K58r. I have a sizable 2 acre lot with some decent hills and the transaxle in it is not raited for hills or towing. So I was seeing what would easily fit and the K58r will bolt right up and it's raited for everything I need and it's alot cheaper than throwing down 9 grand or more for a new lawn tractor.

chrismeyer6 wrote on 2021-07-03, 01:51:

Nice job. The car looks great can't wait to see the finished paint job.

I've been planning a hydrostatic transaxle swap to my 08 John Deere LA145 from a weak Tuff Torq T40/k46 to a much stronger K58r. I have a sizable 2 acre lot with some decent hills and the transaxle in it is not raited for hills or towing. So I was seeing what would easily fit and the K58r will bolt right up and it's raited for everything I need and it's alot cheaper than throwing down 9 grand or more for a new lawn tractor.

i'm suddenly reminded of this video classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w

Yah but that's for stationary plant use, he probably wants the Chrysler version.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY5WjIvyEXo

Just back from a nice wee ride on some premo winding undulating back country roads. After ride check done and now she's ready to go to bed.

I also have a project car/daily driver that I've been working on myself since 2016: my 2001 Oldsmobile Intrigue GX. Did the brake lines last year, fixed the ABS issues, replaced the crank sensor, O2 sensor post-Catalytic, and fixed the exhaust leak. Needs new pads and rotors up front, rear suspension, the rest of the front suspension, and an undercarriage rust removal with the pinch weld repairs.

It's got over 129,600 on the original motor and transmission and it runs smooth to a point (except when the RPMs drop to 500 when stopping once it's warmed up, which might be an issue with something, but no codes).

Which reminds me: it's time to replace the fuel filter and order a spare fuel pump in case the 20 year old part gives up (easily accessible as I fixed the broken float sensor and pressure sensor).

And back to the retro activity subject, I attempted to fix the bad 72 pin edge connector for the NES by reflowing the pins with solder and that didn't do squat and close to being done with the hard drive archiving for the FMA7600 TFT Pentium 75 laptop in case the drivers are hard to obtain online.

bjwil1991 wrote on 2021-07-03, 06:01:

I also have a project car/daily driver that I've been working on myself since 2016: my 2001 Oldsmobile Intrigue GX. Did the brak […]
Show full quote

I also have a project car/daily driver that I've been working on myself since 2016: my 2001 Oldsmobile Intrigue GX. Did the brake lines last year, fixed the ABS issues, replaced the crank sensor, O2 sensor post-Catalytic, and fixed the exhaust leak. Needs new pads and rotors up front, rear suspension, the rest of the front suspension, and an undercarriage rust removal with the pinch weld repairs.

It's got over 129,600 on the original motor and transmission and it runs smooth to a point (except when the RPMs drop to 500 when stopping once it's warmed up, which might be an issue with something, but no codes).

Which reminds me: it's time to replace the fuel filter and order a spare fuel pump in case the 20 year old part gives up (easily accessible as I fixed the broken float sensor and pressure sensor).

And back to the retro activity subject, I attempted to fix the bad 72 pin edge connector for the NES by reflowing the pins with solder and that didn't do squat and close to being done with the hard drive archiving for the FMA7600 TFT Pentium 75 laptop in case the drivers are hard to obtain online.

Sounds like you might need to try cleaning your IAC sounds like it's sticking. I had a similar situation with my 01 suburban replaced the IAC motor and it's been perfect ever since.

luckybob wrote on 2021-07-03, 01:56:

i'm suddenly reminded of this video classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w

BitWrangler wrote on 2021-07-03, 02:02:

Yah but that's for stationary plant use, he probably wants the Chrysler version.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY5WjIvyEXo

Somehow I missed all those videos. Good stuff. Reminds me of the whole 1990s Hamilton 95 parody on BBS threads. The OS for everyone.

Caluser2000 wrote on 2021-07-03, 05:10:

Just back from a nice wee ride on some premo winding undulating back country roads. After ride check done and now she's ready to go to bed.

Cool photo man (minus the laundry basket 🤣). Has a very cinematic color graded look to it.

It kind of reminds me of Terminator 2 even if it's a totally different bike (and the terminator does not do laundry).

liqmat wrote on 2021-07-03, 14:28:

Caluser2000 wrote on 2021-07-03, 05:10:

Just back from a nice wee ride on some premo winding undulating back country roads. After ride check done and now she's ready to go to bed.

Cool photo man (minus the laundry basket 🤣). Has a very cinematic color graded look to it.

Cheers. I've had the ol gal since 1996 and she now has 163,000kms up.

Today I tried a DOS HWinfo program on Athlon-800.
It probably does not work because I have installed W.ME as an operating system, the DOS version is therefore too recent, to make it work you need to start the PC with an older DOS.
In the evening I added Win 1.03 IT in the CF of 386DX-40 (Canon 8MB), the windows starts but probably due to lack of memory or other I can't start the programs for Windows, here I have DOS 4.01, I don't think a version is needed previous, from memory it worked on a 286 PC, maybe with a 386 it can give problems?

PC@LIVE wrote on 2021-07-03, 19:22:

Today I tried a DOS HWinfo program on Athlon-800.
It probably does not work because I have installed W.ME as an operating system, the DOS version is therefore too recent, to make it work you need to start the PC with an older DOS.
In the evening I added Win 1.03 IT in the CF of 386DX-40 (Canon 8MB), the windows starts but probably due to lack of memory or other I can't start the programs for Windows, here I have DOS 4.01, I don't think a version is needed previous, from memory it worked on a 286 PC, maybe with a 386 it can give problems?

You shouldn't really go through all that pain and suffering man....😉

Caluser2000 wrote on 2021-07-03, 19:27:

PC@LIVE wrote on 2021-07-03, 19:22:

Today I tried a DOS HWinfo program on Athlon-800.
It probably does not work because I have installed W.ME as an operating system, the DOS version is therefore too recent, to make it work you need to start the PC with an older DOS.
In the evening I added Win 1.03 IT in the CF of 386DX-40 (Canon 8MB), the windows starts but probably due to lack of memory or other I can't start the programs for Windows, here I have DOS 4.01, I don't think a version is needed previous, from memory it worked on a 286 PC, maybe with a 386 it can give problems?

You shouldn't really go through all that pain and suffering man....😉

You're right, thanks for your concern.
But it's not as bad as it sounds, it's a tiny CF (only 8MB) that I'm setting up for future use on an archaic PC (XT possibly).
Obviously if I had more space I would have put Win.3.0 and DOS5, I had tried a 128MB CF from SanDisk, unfortunately no disk drive is detected, perhaps it is a BIOS or compatibility problem.
I will try with other more capacious CFs, but I have to wait for them to arrive.

chrismeyer6 wrote on 2021-07-03, 10:14:

bjwil1991 wrote on 2021-07-03, 06:01:

I also have a project car/daily driver that I've been working on myself since 2016: my 2001 Oldsmobile Intrigue GX. Did the brak […]
Show full quote

I also have a project car/daily driver that I've been working on myself since 2016: my 2001 Oldsmobile Intrigue GX. Did the brake lines last year, fixed the ABS issues, replaced the crank sensor, O2 sensor post-Catalytic, and fixed the exhaust leak. Needs new pads and rotors up front, rear suspension, the rest of the front suspension, and an undercarriage rust removal with the pinch weld repairs.

It's got over 129,600 on the original motor and transmission and it runs smooth to a point (except when the RPMs drop to 500 when stopping once it's warmed up, which might be an issue with something, but no codes).

Which reminds me: it's time to replace the fuel filter and order a spare fuel pump in case the 20 year old part gives up (easily accessible as I fixed the broken float sensor and pressure sensor).

And back to the retro activity subject, I attempted to fix the bad 72 pin edge connector for the NES by reflowing the pins with solder and that didn't do squat and close to being done with the hard drive archiving for the FMA7600 TFT Pentium 75 laptop in case the drivers are hard to obtain online.

Sounds like you might need to try cleaning your IAC sounds like it's sticking. I had a similar situation with my 01 suburban replaced the IAC motor and it's been perfect ever since.

Good idea. It's been 2 years since I replaced it since the aftermarket one I installed in 2014 stopped all of a sudden.

A sticking IAC valve can cause a whole host of weird issues

Installed the Mario NES shell in place of the one that had crumbled to pieces.

Modded a Commodore64 kernal rom to use different colours (border, text and background) plus changed the text to fit my ATX64 machine's design better....

I used a simple HEX editor for the job.

Joakim wrote on 2021-07-03, 14:57:

It kind of reminds me of Terminator 2 even if it's a totally different bike (and the terminator does not do laundry).

Of course not - he just demands new clothes, boots, and motorcycles.

bjwil1991 wrote on 2021-07-04, 06:15:

Installed the Mario NES shell in place of the one that had crumbled to pieces.

IMG_20210704_004132186~2.jpg

IMG_20210704_004124458_HDR~2.jpg

That's badass. Polish colors too. 😁