Simple Fixes, etc
Another brutally long weekend at work - madness, utter madness. This, until the end of summer, and I've got to start planning my move indoors - November, I hope, change of job - the same.
The jeep, the drivers front tire making that noise, "ffft ffft ffft", like a warped rotor - so this morning jack it up and pull it off. 4 of the 5 lug nuts are finger-loose. Get the tire off, look at the rotor, not warped, the brakes, crumbling but still good, the undercarriage, the structural rust, nuts, bolts hidden under centuries of rust, as if this were an ancient shipwreck. Any repairs on this are not going to be easy.
Maybe it's as simple as the lug nuts being loose? (and if this is the case, how did it happen???).
Remount the tire, tighten everything up - and - presto, rubbing/chafing noise has disappeared...
So, Tuesday, August 9th - it's going to be a hot one for sure - where to go, what to do...the jeep is ready to fly...
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Road Casualties
And you see these on the logging roads, abandoned trucks/jeeps that didn't make the grade. Not worth towing out for salvage or scrap...
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Night Photos
Night Photos and others. The new camera is great, the photographer needs some work.
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Tues, Weds Off
Tuesday, pay bills. After Stupid Money I find I'm not anywhere as rich as I think.
In the evening, test out the new phone / Camera with some generic views of Nelson and the Orange bridge. I'll post those later.
Wednesday, up early and off to the races. First stop, and aquamarine/black tourmaline pegmatite. A couple of hours banging and very little found. This location needs a backhoe - it's there, the logging road criss-crosses the pegmatite - the first intersection has it filled with garnets, the second with black tourmaline and a little off-color aquamarine/beryl at the seams. But it's hard smashing up the rock. Worth another visit, but need to line up some heavy equipment...
The other two stops of the day, both locations that held promise for quartz crystals - some previous finds, but none today. So they're now scratched off the list and ruled out for the rest of summer, no need to revisit, the pay-off too low to be worthwhile.
Then, out of the heat, the drive up lake to the ferry, the drivers side front wheel is making a rubbing sound, perhaps a rock stuck in the brakes? It gets worse.
Stop, a fashionable cafe filled with mosquitos in Crawford Bay, try a couple of appy's, they're trying for upmarket city food but somehow not-quite succeeding, interesting but not particularly worthwhile.
Ferry, drive to Nelson, I work again in the morning. The rubbing on the wheel grows worse, I'll have to dismantle and see what's up, whether I have a warped rotor and need new brakes or if it's as simple as a rock caught in the brakes/wheel, this will be determined on Monday...
Prospecting, this summer - despite all this extra time off, has not been so far too successful. Time now to highlight some new roads on the map and once again begin voyages of discovery...
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