Wild Senior citizen fun projects ...
which always needs corrections and updates
Welcome the world of the wild [not evil] ones

VWs, Ford trucks, real world computing, fishing, hunting, Alaska, and
senior citizens [fun when you consider the alternative to not growing older]

Monday January 13, 2003 14:39

Don

Morales and I hit the the legal system hard this afternoon.

Working with another expert is much better than working alone.

The idle variation problem is still present.

I have to pick up a door handle chrome cover tomorrow, so I'll as opinions at Discount.

How to get to retirement with some money is getting to be a BIG problem. Look at the Forbes article.

Last Sunday I went to look at a Honda Element.

When I left the Honda dealership, Grey Rabbit's idle speed was very, low.

I reset it but it wandered all week from about 800 to 2,000 rpms.

Saturday after noon I got serious and measured the pressure

Looks good. You see 55 psi when hot. Not varying.

Then I changed the fuel filter. Not that either.

My next theory was that crud from a gas tank was blocking the fuel pump.

When in Austin the NAPA fuel line leaked. So I removed the after market fuel filter.

I had previous bought a section of 13mm outstanding German fuel line with the braided fabric cover. So I reinstalled the filter.

Dig the copper tube to provent fuel line collapse!

Not the problem.

I located on vacuum leak and taped it up. Not the problem either.

So I began experimenting pinching off and disconnecting the top vacuum line to the distributer. This caused similar problems.

So I advanced the distributor slightly. This helped.

I sometimes think I've seen about all possible problems with VW rabbits. But I get surprised.

I moved more on to the digitize at the sensor page.

Have a good Monday lunch hope all is going well.

Economic disaster stories abound. But those with the good products should do well. Next year, according to Weyerhaeuser.

Tuesday January 7, 2003 20:34

Let's not worry too much about the hardware and software redesign of jra's stuff.

This can be done provided, we

• Digitize at the sensor
• Gigahertz PCs
• Microsoft's Visual Basic 6.0 integrated into Microsoft Office, Visual C/C++ with exquisite in-line assembler
• USB 2.0
• Super fast 80C32 USB 2.0 SOCs running BASIC-52++™ and 80C32 Forth operating systems, of course!
• Internet software distribution and maintenance.
• Interactive hardware and software problem diagnosis over Internet with Netmeeting ... using BASIC-52++™ and 80C32 Forth operating systems, of course! on the peripheral end.

Some things are more important.

Despite the advent of a vaccine four decades ago, flu-related deaths in the United States have risen dramatically since the 1970s, and influenza now claims more lives each year than AIDS, researchers say.

The rising death toll is attributed largely to the nation's growing number of elderly people, who are especially vulnerable to the flu.

Only about 65 percent of older people get vaccinated, and the annual shots do not protect aging immune systems as well as they do younger ones.

The U.S. death toll surged fourfold from 16,263 in 1976-77 to 64,684 in 1998-99, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported. Flu deaths now average about 36,000 a year, up from 20,000 in previous estimates, the CDC said. ...

The death toll pales in comparison to that of the worldwide flu epidemic of 1918, which killed more than 20 million people, including 500,000 Americans.

We are reminded why we want to get flu shots. Even if the don't work very well on senior citizens. Damned! 1 2

My dad and his younger brother, Vic, are lucky they didn't expire from flu instead of German bullets! But their younger brother, Roscoe, may have.

A hardware redesign is about enough to make everyone sick.

But these things happen.

And you, of course, have procured the necessary white paper bags.

Friday January 3, 2003 17:35

Don

Let's hope everyone is in the problem solving mode.

Redesign time is definitely here. Now that we know exactly why!

Kind of looks like there is a generic problem in jra's three designs. But, fortunately, the clt signal strength is very much above the noise level. But, of course, the noise level was sufficiently high to mess up the mux in one installation.

Zero crossing detection, on the other hand, redesign will be more of a problem. Then there are microwave measurements to improve.

Valid reliable numbers should sell better than invalid or random numbers.

We need to take think positive steps for future good business.

The white paper bags are a must for Monday lunch, if redesign plans aren't announced, of course!.

Have a good and thoughtful weekend.

And jra, KEEP AWAY FROM THE TENSION PROOF TESTER if other employees are near!

Those pesky error bits. But I look a them positively, I had to learn Windows VB 6.0 app programming!

Onward to superior products and profits, again. Providing we all survive 2003, of course.

Tuesday December 31, 2002 19:51

Don

Why are we even talking this computer stuff when here's a beautiful picture of grey rabbit in Austin equipped with road cb equipment.

jra

This is the third anniversary of me asking you what is the plan is, so I am dredging-up some of what you told me.

You, I think, told me that you were handling moisture compensation computations.

A Ph.D. physicist buddy lent me his copy of

.

Temperature compensation computations requires a graduate degree involving lots of math.

You don't have this. So what have you done?

Not digitizing at the sensor has proved to be a bad idea for numerous reasons.

Are things going to get fixed or not?

Think of the alternative.

There is a reason this has all been done in writing for the past several years.

Don

Here's a picture of the Zilker Zephyr!

Temperature was about 70 degrees. Train full.

Maybe next time!

Here's the old philosophers statues.

And here's what one of them wrote. 2

Digital cameras, in this case, works better than pdas for recording text!

Grey rabbit had lots more power in Austin which is at lower elevation ... and greater humidity!

Let's all have a great 2003, providing jra returns to what he does best.

Burning eproms.

Monday December 30, 2002 17:39

jra

Time to move ahead.

80C32C SOCs. USB.

Or not?

I'm going to post a page about where to digitize. And why.

Time to correct a problem?

Redesign?

Or?

I recall our December 31, 1999 conversation. Clearly.

Don

Grey rabbit and it's hot 1.8 Fox engine did it again

But Sergeant Happy Brake [no kidding] was very nice and gave a warning ticket. No doubt another senior citizen benefit.

A trucker on I-40 told me he was going 70 mph. Grey rabbit's speedometer read 66 mph.

New Goodyear Club tires no doubt caused the speed problem.

They were made in Turkey!

Our kids gave us a new super small cell phone for Christmas.

Note the USB connectivity!

Let's hope others are seeing the merits of USB and digitizing at the sensor.

I thinking out a page outlining arguments why digitizing at the sensor is nearly essential. This is to make the December 31, 2002 third year anniversary of when I figured out what happened.

Have a good lunch.

Sunday December 22, 2002 07:19

We're off to Austin. And have to out-run a snow storm.

Have a good holiday.

Richard Hanson said,

There is a beginning, a middle, and an end.

We were discussing small businesses. And failure to digitize at the sensor.

Wednesday December 18, 2002 11:00

Interesting news about Washington

Washington Governor Gary Locke proposed cutting 2,500 state jobs along with other spending reductions to eliminate a budget deficit of $2 billion without a tax increase.

Locke proposed a general fund operating budget of almost $23 billion for the two-year period that begins July 1, according to documents released by the state's Office of Financial Management. A slowing economy and job cuts at No. 1 plane maker Boeing Co., the state's largest employer, have reduced Washington's tax receipts.

``Times are tough and I'm presenting a budget that lives within our means,'' Locke said at a press conference. The state is about $2.4 billion short of revenue to maintain current services and ``we can't keep doing things the way we have in the past.''

Maybe Price read the above?

Price stepped down Wednesday after 14 years as football coach at Washington State, a school he turned into a national title contender, to take the same job at the troubled but storied program at Alabama.

Think positive

• Digitize at the sensor
• Gigahertz PCs
• Microsoft's Visual Basic 6.0 integrated into Microsoft Office, Visual C/C++ with exquisite in-line assembler
• USB 2.0
• Super fast 80C32 USB 2.0 SOCs running BASIC-52++™ and 80C32 Forth operating systems, of course!
• Internet software distribution and maintenance.
• Interactive hardware and software problem diagnosis over Internet with Netmeeting ... using BASIC-52++™ and 80C32 Forth operating systems, of course! on the peripheral end.

to avoid being shaken out.

“Many who, for a brief season, had emerged from the humbler walks of life, were cast back to their original obscurity. Substantial merchants were reduced almost to beggary, and many a representative of a noble line saw the fortunes of his house ruined beyond redemption.” - Charles Mackay

And get some neat products ready for 2004.

Friday December 13, 2002 07:38

"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one." - Charles Mackay

Redesign time?

Thursday December 12, 2002 14:35

I think I may have found another example of where they may have digitized inside a PC rather than at the sensor.

Cold Fusion.

Both the Axelson and Hyde second editions arrived.

I had the most recent version of the Anderson and Dzatko book. It cost me $2.81 to fix that error.

Other mistakes are more expensive to fix.

The future is before us.

Providing we survive 2003, of course, both economically and physically.

Survival is not clear at this time!

Saturday December 7, 2002 18:58

I would highly recommend fixing the original problem and getting the custom hardware connected over USB 2.0.

I see that Jan Axelson has linked to csd.

A writeup about developing a project with Cypress' EZ-USB. From Computer Systems Documentation.

I ordered Hyde's book yesterday.

Today I ordered the second editions of both the Axelson and Anderson and Dzatko books.

The first editions of both books are exquisite!

A body of knowledge is being developed by lots of absolutely brilliant authors who build on the works of others on usb and wdm drivers ... and maybe even 80C32 USB SOCs hopefully running BASIC-52++™ and 80C32 Forth too!

This is opposed to the purple people who have untethered fits of unmeritorious NIH originality.

Those who have psychotic episodes at the keyboard.

We're going to go to Austin visit our kids and grand kids over Christmas vacation.

Our granddaughter has gotten real friendly. She wasn't earlier.

She screamed and gabbed her mother by the leg earlier when I approached her.

She now sits on my lap while I read her my favorite childrens book. 1 2 3

We're thinking of buying a laptop so that I can work with the software in the three new books when we are in Austin.

On the other hand, I really don't want another computer. So maybe I'll just read in Austin.

It might be a good idea to get hopping and upgrade DriverWorks 2.0 to 2.6 too. I'm sure Numega has fixed many bugs since 2.0.

Don

When it rains, grey rabbit's oil pressure light flickers. Fahrvernugen, of course.

But being conservative, of course, I measured the pressure with mechanical fuel pressure gage they way we did it in front of your house in 1999.

It's fine and even the high pressure relief spring works. I think the spring on the 1.7 was not working since I got about 125 psi of pressure at high rpms.

I've got the timing and CO adjusted so that grey rabbit still has plenty of power, but not the max, but doesn't use any oil or pollute.

Wednesday December 4, 2002 20:34

I just read.

In a community where the primary concern is making money, one of the necessary rules is to live and let live.

To speak out against madness may be to ruin those who have succumbed to it. ...

The foolish thus have the field to themselves. None rebukes them

Especially if they are getting retirement checks! And have web pages! And thoroughly enjoy high tech! Within reason, of course.

For the past 42 years!

There were impelled to it by the seminal lunacy which has always seized people who are seized in turn with the notion that they can become very rich.

It is difficult not to marvel at the imagination which was implicit in this gargantuan insanity. If there must be madness something may be said for having it on a heroic scale."

John Kenneth Galbraith may be right?

Not digitizing at the sensor was not a good idea.

Time to correct?

What's jra's plan? If only for curiosity's sake.

I add the underline.

the notion that they can become very rich.

This internet stuff, now especially with Google news is even more fun!

Google news advertises

Search and browse 4,000 continuously updated news sources

It's very important to keep up with the latest hardware and software technology.

Old high technology leads doesn't sell.

Tuesday December 3, 2002 17:45

I was curious to see of the students returned to Pullman in the snow or not.

So I visited Intellicast. I got this link from Karen at Monitor Masters.

We must all keep up with technology.

jra is being conspicuously silent.

Time to fix the problems and get ready for the next bull market.

A new study of American demographic patterns and the stock market predicts that while the market may rally periodically, its overall direction will be downward until around 2018.

Let's hope it's before this. Like 2004.

Don, keep the white bags handy just in case you don't hear the right words.

Fast 80C30 SOCs, USB 2.0, html as opposed to rtf, internet documentation.

And most important digitizing at the sensor.

Too much of a random number component is introduced digitizing inside a PC. There are better ways to generate random numbers.

Wednesday November 27, 2002 16:33

Don

Drew gave me four of these

He was going to use these for his crunched Golf.

They look awfully wide to me.

Since I just got new tires, these are about 2 years away.

I'm getting into the gory details of Windows 2000 serial port and USB.

Windows 2000 is fairly restrictive about what one can do accessing the ports. But this is generally true as windows products evolve.

jra has been conspicuously silent.

Time to move on to digitizing at the sensor and USB. The zeitgeist on these two subjects is here.

Have a good thanksgiving.

I always remember that either its snows when the student's leave or when they return.

I got an email from Narsingh Deo. Their three kids are doing just fine. His daughter has a PhD from Northwestern in chemistry.

On the way back from the coast in about 1975, Deos rolled a VW van in the snow to the west of Dusty!

Drive carefully!

Thursday November 21, 2002 10:00

Here's New Mexico and Arizona quail forecast.

Be sure to keep looking at Over here, over there. Another horror story may be posted.

Damned grey rabbit and its hot 1.8 fox engine.

I complained to the arresting officer that I was innocent ... of that charge.

Grey rabbit's speedometer pegs at 85 m.p.h.!

The nice officer gave me a senior citizen discount. I got a warning ticket.

Look what TI is doing with the 80C32 USB 1.0/2.0 SOCs!

Time to think to the future.

The Ebus should be retired. Same for the PC/104.

USB needs to take its place in the future.

And an 80C32 SOC, not just any microcontroller, should be placed between custom hardware and a PC.

And that 80C32 microcontroller should be running a BASIC-52++™ or Forth operating system, of course. To make money.

No water. No grass. No quail. But it was still fun.

Grey rabbit got stuck in the sand.

Grey rabbit's muffler came off. But we later found it!

Grey rabbit doesn't steer quite the same as it did.

But it was still a good trip.

My senior citizen hunting partner showed me new neat places on the east side of the Florida [FLOREEDA] mountains. But no quail this year.

We drove through Columbus, NM.

In the predawn darkness of March 9, 1916, the Mexican bandit general Pancho Villa swept across the United States border to strike Columbus, New Mexico, and butcher the town.

To extract revenge, and to bring a halt to repeated border violation, Wilson named John J. Pershing to invade the inhospitable mountains of Chihuahua— much against Mexico’s wishes. It was a campaign of frustration, political bungling, heroism, stupidity and daring: George S. Patton’s controversial reputation began during a two-gun duel with Villista officers; Villa was almost assassinated by one of his own men; the 1st Aero Squadron was completely destroyed, but not by enemy guns, and one pilot accidentally started one of the largest forest fires in Mexican history.

And we visited Palomas, Mexico on foot to buy some senior citizen essentials. Oso Negro and Jose Cuervo.

And we walked to the restaurant next door for dinner. You can't get a WWI.

Sunday November 17, 2002 12:08

We're on our way to Deming, NM for quail hunting on Monday. The temperature should be in the high 60s to low 70s.

Here's Drew Payne and Bob Wallace returning from a quail hunt in the Tres Hermanas just outside Columbus, NM in the 1980s.

Have a good lunch on Monday. And be sure to read Adam Hamilton's article.

We have to be ready for the future. USB 2.0, 80C32 intelligent sensor SOCs.

And Windows. But we're already there with windows.

Digitization at the sensor needs a bit of work. And USB too.

Monday November 12, 2002 07:44

My senior citizen card worked!

I got to avoid the flu shot line yesterday. I almost felt guilty about avoiding that line.

And, after that, I read jra's emails.

Not as bad as they could have been.

Yes, the software needs to be recompiled using the most recent version of the driver skeletons.

I am sure that mistakes have been corrected. We're about 6 versions out of date.

Apparently USB 2.0 is being tested in the lab now. And will be released with the next version.

Doing most of the software on the PC, as opposed to the peripheral, side seems to be doing bad things to some of the peripheral side microcontroller folks.

Silicon valley is having a disproportionately hard time. And this may get worse as USB 2.0 catches on.

It will be interesting to see whose USB 2.0 peripheral side solution catches on. Cypress's 80C32 design is pretty neat. All software with NO ROM!

Sunday November 10, 2002 08:34

This morning I was photographing the Rio Grande at the Angostura diversion to compare it to the photo I took this summer.

And I met Marty, Jake [woof], and recently deceased duck who were all returning from duck hunting.

We discussed hunting in Kansas and near Deming.

Wild ones? We guarantee this!

Kubelwagen shop tour and Aschwanden!

Tuesday November 5, 2002 19:34

Don

Let's see how long it takes google to find this page.

Getting parts for unusual old cars is very difficult. You may have to machine your own parts.

Rabbits are still made new in South Africa and kept forever in South America.

So getting parts is not a problem. And you need lots of parts!

If you can't fix your rabbit yourself, then you couldn't afford to own one.
Art at Discount Auto.

The chart

Beetle reality!

is very important for any project. About everything has a lifetime.

ISA bus is about dead. The serial and parallel ports are on the endangered species list. But USB and 80C32 SOCs are on a positive slope curve. For many very good reasons.

And, hopefully too, 80C32 Forth and BASIC-52 will become more popular, if not indispensable. Thank goodness. Bill should revise at least his 8051 Forth book.

How Basics Work, applied specifically to BASIC-52 running on a SOC with, of course, a Windows USB interface should also be revised.

But, hey, we can't do everything.

We got to get the legal messes settled.

Other meritorious projects are at hand.

Solving the lawyer problems is a very meritorious project. But getting old after more than 10 years.

Dig the NSA letter received yesterday!

Internet is making things possible which were never possible before. Litigation by the little people, we sincerely hope, is one.

Or maybe even Kubelwagen sales.

----- Original Message -----

From: bill payne
To: George Parada
Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 9:12 PM Subject:

You links [ hey, we all makes mistakes!]

Hi,
My book site is at
http://www.achtungpanzer.com/kagero/

George

And, too, software distribution, maintenance. and diagnostics.

Parada's books look pretty interesting. Let's see, in practice, what this links does.

Mapes' email was pretty informing about the power of Internet.

Monday November 4, 2002 18:24

Don

Grey rabbit has all its power back prior to the emissions test. I advanced the timing a bit. But I didn't mess with the CO adjustment.

I'm a bit concerned about too advanced of iginition. I don't want to burn the engine up.

The blaupunkt speakers fell off their mounts. So I'm fixing this. I went too fast over a bumpy dirt road.

I actually broke both front spring coils on 1978 green rabbit.

And I'm a bit suspicious that the water pump thermostat isn't working right. But, hey, more Fahrvernugen.

Dig the email from Lynda Mapes of the Seattle Times.

I'm into coding the BASIC-52 and Forth interfaces between Windows and 80C32 SOCs which will eventually use USB 2.0 communication. This is the future! And those who don't prepare for the future .... But this is just too terrible to contemplate.

I'm still trying to work up courage to read the four emails.

So have a good lunch and keep the paper bags handy, just in case.

Sunday November 3, 2002 17:32

There may be a better reason why we have many google references.

We are not doing this ourselves. We are reading and trying to select the best stuff for you.

NIH [not invented her] is totally stupid. Always study what others have done before trying to do it yourself.

Japan bought about 8 VW rabbits and reverse engineered them before starting their auto onslaught!

There are lots very smart people out there. Some of them actually have college or graduate degrees!

He got a college education. But it didn't take.

Tom Duncan, builder, Albuquerque

So let's look at Skunkwerke. Let's contact Skunkwerke, find out how much one of there kubelwagens costs, and details. Maybe even some jpgs if we're lucky.

Grey rabbit will break the ice with them. And contacts at Discount and Foreign Aide too. Maybe we can take a tour with a digital camera?!!! I head Skunkwerkes has a complete metal shop which includes metal bending equipment.

And, of course, keep look at our legal site. Gibson should get the package tomorrow.

The legal stuff, unfortunately, is very serious. The dead kids. This is, unfortunately, the real stuff.

Lawyers are trying, or have succeeded in taking over the US government. Who else would waste their money on that nonsense.

But one cannot dwell on what happened. Let's all move ahead.

We made number 3 on google for Results 1 - 10 of about 38,100 for

Monte Carlo computations ... Thread Index] Monte Carlo computations. To: [email protected]; Subject: Monte Carlo computations; From: bill payne ; ... www.shmoo.com/mail/cypherpunks/may99/msg00066.html - 5k - Cached - Similar pages

beeline is Alex in Russia who I haven't heard from for some time.

Be sure to read about Riconoscuito.

How do we keep doing this?

Interesting content perhaps? And pehapsTRUTH too?

The contemplation of things as they are,
without error or confusion,
without substitution or imposture,
is in itself a nobler thing
than a whole harvest of invention.

Francis Bacon

Now that we got the lastest legal document mailed, I'm going to focus attention on jra's email.

This could almost be more painful than litigation. But I must buck up.

Q What's the difference between beer nuts and deer nuts?
A Beer nuts cost $1.49 a bag. Deer nuts are under a buck.

A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor

Hey, Kubelwagens are being manufactured in Albuquerque! See Christoph's information about abq kubelwagen. And Parada's too.

Oops. we're only 5 out of 9 for

csd homepage

... Picture of the kubelwagen might bring tears to the eyes of some of the FURB and Federal University of Santa ... Albuquerque Journal Wednesday October 30, 2002. ... www.geocities.com/computersystemsdocumentation/ - 101k - Nov. 1, 2002 - Cached - Similar pages

What happened here is about the ultimate worst that could happen for any country.
This is Nazi stuff.

Thursday October 31, 2002 07:45

I'm still try to muster courage to read jra's email.

Note remote BASIC-52 and Forth jra.

Your PC Anywhere idea but using Internet and 80C51s, of course.

Hey, we made number 2 out of 1,160 google entries for

The People's Cruise Alaska by ferry is an inexpensive close-up, ... ... But in ten days of ferry travel, I had ... bill. To and from Alaska Wednesday April 24 ... Trip 4/25/02 1:21 PM Alaska Ferries 800 382 9229 William and Patricia Payne ... www.geocities.com/computersystemsdocumentation/ alaska/alaska.html - 31k - Cached - Similar pages

Nothing evil. Only fun for those who want to have a totally neat non-cattle boat trip to Alaska. And stay upwind too!

You get to meet people speaking German, Dutch, ... and even Australian!

The Australians fly to Calgary. Reason is that the Australian $ and Canadian $ are only about 60% of the US dollar.

They get a great deal. But so do US citizens in Australia and Canada! But use your credit card. Let them figure out the difference.

John and Carole Sobolewski returned on Saturday for a 5 week tour of Australia on Saturday October 26, 2002. A Real bargain, John said!

But if you want to take a cruise ship [cattle boat] tour of Alaska, that's totally neat too! We all walk the same places in Ketichikan and Juneau.

Here's Juneau, in June ... the most sunny month ... on the way back from Haines.

Juneau is totally neat to visit. This is the Alaska ferry terminal which is about 14 miles north of downtown Juneau.

Don't miss is AJ mine museum just outside of town.

Or the Douglass mines walking tour. This is across Gastineau channel.

And the Alaska state museum and city museum. Both are GREAT!

Here's what you will see in Ketchikan.

This is just across the street from the cruise ship landing ... and about a half hour walk from the Alaska ferry landing ... which we walked on our way back from Haines to Prince Rupert.

Here's white ford resting with Patty and Bill on the Frazier river on its way to Prince George for lunch.

We saw more moose [mice?] in Canada than in Alaska.

Since so many of you are reading this, you will have just as much, if not more fun, on the sun deck on the Alaska ferry as you would driving and tens of thousands dollar motor home. For lots less money!

And you can rent cars in Juneau, Ketichikan, and even, perhaps, Haines.

Haines is a totally friendly place. No tourists. No Haines. Haines citizens simply love tourists!

So. Experiences are far more important than material possessions.

As Patty and I read in a cider and folk song place on mission beach in San Diego when we lived there 1963-66.

Short time here. Long time gone.

So let's all enjoy IT!

These pages may be leaving, so grab them and store them if you wish!

Best from Patty and Bill!

Thursday October 24, 2002 13:45

I saw the four emails from jra yesterday. But I've been too busy to read them.

Plans, at last I hope?

Please save copies just in case there is another disk crash.

We upgraded to a TKD 48x16x48 cd burner.

The Acer was retired. I sure burned a lot of bad cds with it and its Easy CD Creator 4 software.

Roxio has taken over Easy CD Creator but they currently want $99 per copy.

The TKD comes with Nero Express. This works well, so I bought a copy of Nero 5.5 when it came on sale today for $49 at Best Buy.

There sure is a lot happening with USB so I think it's time for all of us to swich. Fortunately, the 80C32 seems to be at the heart of the peripheral side swich!

Tuesday October 22, 2002 18:48

Let's hear from the purple engineer.

What's the plan?

Google is insidious.

About Dynamometer Numbers

The dynamometer (chassis or engine) can ... Friday August 30, 2002 08:25. Thanks for the wheel lecture yesterday. You saved me money and grief. You can do a headliner and rear panels yourself. ... www.geocities.com/computersystemsdocumentation/don/don1.htm - 88k - Cached -Similar pages

The numbers out of jra's designs remind me of dynamometer numbers.

Time to correct?

Tuesday October 22, 2002 15:03

I reinstalled Winzip 7.0, then upgraded to 8.1.

Winzip has about the best software maintenance and purchase system I've encountered.

After installing Winzip 7.0, I entered my pass number. I was recognized as a purchaser.

Then I downloaded 8.1, reentered my pass number and now have a licenced copy of 8.1.

I discovered the real problem with the Coleman 200 yesterday afternoon.

It was the fuel cap. I pumped and carefully listened.

Patty frequently asks, "Do you use hearing protection when you shoot?" I always respond, "What?"

Wallace told me that none of the WWII gunnery people used hearing protection. Wallace's hearing was fine.

The rubber gasket had deteriorated after 38 years. $3.99 was the replacement cost.

There is the failing old fuel cap on the match box.

I bought a Gerber multifunction tool. Reason was that I got my downrigger lead ball caught on the bottom of the Navajo reservoir dam. I had nothing to cut the cable with. Fortunately, Drew had a wire cutters that worked.

That tool came in super handy in Alaska and on the mule deer hunt. It works great for repairing Coleman lanterns.

Please note that the lantern is in its original 38 year old box. With some repairs, of course.

Perhaps the 200 is increasing in value 1 2 . White Ford, in today's dollars, is worth about the $4,050 we paid for it in 1972.

What is the plan, if there is any, about the pci bus das. I'm getting interested in doing something. But I still have the thought of those pesky error bits in my mind. And trout.

And are there any thought about getting peripheral equipment connected to a PC though usb instead of the E bus?

Loring Wirbel has a good quote,

I realize that many good companies have lost sight of Judy Estrin's famous warning to avoid eating the seed corn.

I'm a bit concerned that this may be happening.

Since jra's two email message went to digital hell with the disk crash, I'd be interested to find out what they said or a revision of what they should have said.

Onward, I think.

Monday October 21, 2002 13:15

I had a great real world time hunting deer.

Here's looking east from the San Mateo mountains.

There are quail, deer, and other critters out here. But where? As you can tell populations are sparse. Walking to hunt is not a good idea.

I arrived after dark. I ate dinner. Our Coleman 200 single mantle lantern didn't hold pressure and did not work.

After dinner I tried to inflate an air mattress. Our granddaughter used it about a week ago. Someone forgot to install the cap which lets out the air.

So I had an extra glass of Merlot and slept on the front seat of white ford.

In the morning a set up an ambush site on a hillside. And waited. A black diesel pickup was traversing about all roads. This is good since it will make deer move. Other hunters work well as beaters too.

No deer.

Two Hispanic males and one female in the truck stopped. We talked for a while. They told me where water holes were and said that they only saw one small buck too tiny to shoot.

I visited the Rosedale mine where my buddy had annotated my map. Tons of hunters. None with deer.

So I decided to troll for deer in white ford.

Dash mats work really well to hold a rifle.

I found a neat water source at AJ Springs.

The temperature was near 80 degrees.

I drove to north side of hunting area just south of the VLA.

Then up into the mountains. No deer.

So I camped at the Monica house campsite.

Sunday morning I slowly drove back to AJ Springs.

I had 8 deer within shooting range exiting corral. All of them does.

The radio and heater motor quit working. I was in low range 4 wheel drive. The trails are VERY ROCKY and rough. Things shake loose.

I think I had a good chance of getting a buck at AJ springs. But I got bored and returned to ABQ.

White ford's oil leaks were greater.

I replaced both the pump and generator in the coleman 200. Still no pressure. Oh dear. Some times you can't fix it and have to get a new one. It's only 39 years old!

Shooting a buck is a mixed thing. After my first buck kill in Pullman, it had to be cleaned, dragged off Kamiak butte, loaded into white ford which was a major effort, then had to rent a food locker at Finch's.

Venison was good but, in reality, steak is better.

So this brings to mind the advantages of varmint hunting. You don't have to clean them or otherwise dispose of the body. Nature does this for you.

Getting rid of an elk body was a major problem.

So I'm not especially disturbed that I didn't shoot a deer .... and possibly come down with CWD.

Bird hunting, of course, has more action, the bodies are smaller and easier to dispose of, and the birds don't get up until about 9 AM and retire about 3 PM.

Deer, on the other hand go to bed at about 9:30 AM and don't get up until about 17:00.

So is there any plan to get the software running on a pci bus das card?

I'm getting interested in doing something in drivers and maybe even peripheral side hardware/software so long as it involves pci/usb buses.

jra, I have the epson perfection 1250 plugged into a USB adaptec NEC 5 port hub. Works fine! But someone has some bugs in initialization and release of the bus.

If the scanner sits too long inactive, I get a message that someone else if using the USB bus when I try to use the scanner. I have to reboot.

The amd 1.6 gig running 98se is now [after fixing the memory problem] lots more reliable than the p333 running 95 osr 2.

Having our internet computer malfuctioning is almost as debilitation as having grey rabbit not running right.

I hope you had a good lunch.

And Don's efforts were not required.

Later

Friday October 18, 2002 14:55

Yesterday when I returned from the shooting range I realized I had some more work to do.

Then I discovered that I didn't have any 30-06 180 grains. So last night I reloaded

Note cartridge box lying on top of two unopened letters from New Mexico supreme court.

This morning I returned to the range.

Here's my best group at 50 yards.

100 yard results were even worse.

Deterioration of '06 shooting skill may be due to advancing, age, lack of practice, and certainly too much legal stuff.

I have the Epson perfection 1250 scanner plugged into a USB 2.0 adaptec to PCI bus card. Works great.

USB is the future.

So I'm off to deer hunt. Rather than bringing beer, I bought a bottle of Merlot. Intellectual, isn't that?

I'm bringing three pairs of latex gloves. Not only is CWD a concern but there is always a possibility of an HIV positive buck.

Have a good weekend.

Wednesday October 16, 2002 20:29

Guys

The service department of PC Pro is composed of teenagers.

Yesterday I brought the AMD 1.6 gig back to them for about the 5th or so time.

They thought they solved the problem of the no blue screen crash on Monday for $47.

This time I told them that it crashed when I tried to install Photosuite 4. They asked me to bring Photosuite 4 to them. I did. And it crashed.

But one of the two teenagers exclaimed, "Now we can find it!"

Yesterday afternoon, two of them told me, "We found it!"

I gave Wes two 256 meg memory sticks. They were not of the same manufacturer! All PC 133 memories are not the same. Sam Chan warned me about this a long time ago.

I'm now running with 256 meg but about 5 times faster than the 333 P2.

Being in the real world, the Epson 1250 scanner didn't work when the 1.6 XP did. The scanner worked when I bought the machine to PC Pro.

So I talked to Wes.

Wes suggested unplugging the USB cable, letting 98SE boot, shut the XP down, plug in the 1250 USB cable. This did not work.

Finally I hot socketed the USB and saw the plug and play wizard. The scanner now works.

I know exactly what the programmers did wrong. They didn't field or schedule the call back in OnStartDevice.

While looking to find the scanner USB problem, I saw

While I continue to believe that E Bus should be supported both with ISA and PCI, I think that it would be a very good idea to plan a USB connection to equipment for the future.

When business emerges from it current doldrums, USB connected equipment looks to be a winner. Not doing the right thing now could prove fatal, as Manners points out.

So it will be interesting to see what you guys decide to do.

Richard Hanson just left a few minutes ago. Richard has some ideas for consulting for both of us.

Morales and I have to write a response to Wechsler's proposed order, then I have to sight in my '06.

Speaking of other horrible problems.

Chronic Wasting Disease has been discovered at White Sands!

And I'm going to be hunting just to the west of there the weekend. Close to the Warm Springs Apache reservation where Geronimo surrendered to General Miles.

Latex glove time, provided I shoot one, of course. This is where hunting enters one of the less fun stages.

I shot an elk near Buckhorn, NM some years ago. It nearly killed me carrying it out. And nearly all of the elk went to the homeless.

Later

Monday October 14, 2002 18:22

Don

Grey rabbit failed emissions test on the first try. I was only about three to six times over allowed limits.

I looked at the spark plugs. Sooty.

So I adjusted the CO my way.

I run the 3 mm hex wrench counter clock wise. The rpms increase, then precipitously decrease. I had to turn about 2.5 times until the decrease. Then I go clockwise until the engine seems to run evenly.

I could see black smoke when I went more clockwise from the original setting.

I didn't adjust the CO after installing Fox [Zorro, en la idioma nueva national de los estados unidos] 1.8 JN. This cost me $10.

So I took a fast [75-80 mph] to Sedillo hill, returned and ran grey rabbit through the emissions test again.

LOOK!

Grey Rabbit/Fox PASSED!

Nothing can ruin you life like a car not passing emissions. Time consuming, expensive, frustrating. Litigation is preferable.

But the horsepower seemed to decrease a bit. Hmm. I'm thinking about how to fix this. Without polluting, of course.

The next problem is to get our internet machine working properly. It's still crashing lots.

So today I bought it to PC Pro. They got into the safe mode, deleted all drivers, reinstalled drivers, and charged me $47.

This evening I phoned Wes at CP Pro to tell him that nothing had changed. The AMD 1.6 gig still crashes like gangbusters.

But this is the real world.

So far, knock on wood, I haven't made a trip with jra to fix a driver in the field. Williams Lake had me a bit worried, but that turned out to be a network card problem.

I explained to Wes that I'm into rabbits. Wes said his brother is also into hot rabbits.

And, as we know, it takes a bit of time to find out what's wrong and fix a rabbit. But this is part of Fahrvernugen.

But rabbits are almost more fun than computer hardware and software problems.

Both jra's two emails went to digital hell with the 4 gig disk crash.

I dumped the message files and address files in Outlook Express. All have mostly random numbers in them.

I hope you all had a good Monday lunch.

Why do some of the designs remind me of the homepage of J Orlin Grabbe? Or the results of the work of another PhD Harvard grad?

I know. More creative thoughts implemented. But this is what makes life interesting. Genius on the hoof.

Grabbe sure wrote a fine commentary of what really happened.

I tried out the Epson 1250 USB scanner on the crashing 1.6 internet machine. Works well. But maybe Epson really goofed by putting a microcontroller between the EPSON PERFECTION 1250 and the PC. There may be a better way to do this. And I know just the engineer to explain to Epson how to do this!

Photosuite 4, which now works on 2000, thinks Epson USB has a problem and won't scan. Surely a Roxio software bug. But I can work around this using the Epson scanning software, then save to a file. I then open the image file from Photosuite 4.

Software development costs by the line. No one can avoid this cost. And those who don't calculate the cost eventually come to personal and financial grief.

Those I know who have gone bankrupt in the software business worked long hours doing so.

I prefer to work less and use the bad experiences of others to avoid software unpleasantness.

There is a lot of money to be made with super reliable app using the 80C52 SOCs, wdm, drivers, pci bus, and usb. We're ready for this.

Monday October 7, 2002 13:51

Don

Now I can concentrate on technical and legal issues

but I got to find out why the back up lights aren't working. I'll time share on this problem.

Look what has happened to ARM stock.

But the 80C32 continue to look good.

I got the left rear lens assembly this morning at

There is so much VW stuff in that store

that I'm surprised that the building doesn't collapse.

I'm meeting Morales in a few minutes to discuss what the next step are in our legal projectS [13 of them], then I will install the lenses.

And maybe either think or, in fact, read email.

Richard Hanson phoned this morning. He, his wife, and one of his boys will be visiting us next Saturday. Hanson report that consulting activity is improving for us seniors.

Have a good lunch.

Sunday October 6, 2002 20:56

Don!

Saturday there was a VW, all air cooled, exhibit in ABQ. In the Covenant church parking lot!

This is opening day of the Balloon Fiesta.

Dig the Kubelwagen!

Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2002 9:28 AM
Subject: Re: albuquerque kubelwagen

Hello!

If you mean the "KEY"-symbol it is of the 1.SS-Pz.Div. Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler.

Christoph

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Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 7:50 PM
Subject: albuquerque kubelwagen

The tan Kubelwagen has a shield with a key in it. This was the WW2 German tactical symbol painted on all 1st SS Panzer Division vehicles. The VW bug has a white German type steel helmet. This was the tactical symbol used on all vehicles of the Großdeutschland Panzer Division.

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Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: albuquerque kubelwagen

Hi, It is a Waffen SS licence plate.

George 1 2 3

----- Original Message ----- From: George Parada
To: bill payne
Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 5:31 PM
Subject: Re: You links

Hi,
My book site is at
http://www.achtungpanzer.com/kagero/
George

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1st Panzer Formed October 1935 at Weimer; based
IXth Military District Kassel.
Major Units:
Panzergrenadier Regiments 1, 113
Panzer Regiment 1
Panzer Artillery Regiment 73
Panzer Aufkl Abt (Recce Section) 1.

Campaigns:
Poland 1939; Belgium and France 1940;
North and Central Russia June 1941-Feb
1943; Balkans and Greece 1943; Ukraine
Nov-Dec 1943; Hungary and Austria June
1944-May 1945.

PANZERS AT WAR A J BARKER

Kubelwagen shop tour!

It's to the right. The two the left are phonies.

And here's a jpg from of the dash

The speedometer maxed at 80 kph [50 mph], I presume. 50 kph in the middle.

Kübel I read in a German dictionary means "trash bin".

Those who rode in these things didn't have a long life expectancy.

Hey, I getting a NEW left rear display tomorrow!

Used plastic displays are fragile and amber, not yellow.

So the display at the left really fits on the right. And the one on the right is used and is AMBER.

Us rabbit fans have to have TRUE STUFF!

Have a good lunch tomorrow. And keep the white bags CLOSE just in case.

Friday October 4, 2002 19:25

Parthus 1 2

Look to the future!

Our son in law is an analog chip designer. BSEE Rice, MSEE Stanford.

He designed the analog Blaupunkt Alaska digiceiver chip when he worked for Moto. I have one of these in grey rabbit. Patty commented after using grey rabbit yesterday that the Alaska was much better than her Honda civic radio.

He designed a very successful MP3 player chip.

Last night he told me last night that kids nearly demand shoes with electronics in them.

Green, red and yellow LEDs which are activated by a jitter switch.

He, Tanya, and our two grandkids are here for the balloon fiesta.

He told me also that his company is going USB 2 also. And going to use a 80C52 core.

ARM is too expensive.

I went to lunch with Drew's friend Bob today.

They are also learning they must digitize at the sensor and have on-board power regulation. He said his company, too, is going usb.

I continue to believe that I'm going to read email and hopefully see what's going on. But I can't rush this. Especially when I'm concentrating on writing a criminal complaint affidavit.

Have a good weekend. And we all must think of the FUTURE and how to make bucks to satisfy customers. Improve the product. And make money.

I talked to Ernie at Discount. I told him about my rear seal problem. Ernie said that there are two different types of seals. One with the wipers raised. So I may have gotten the wrong seal!

I talked to Ernie at Discount. I told him about my rear seal problem. Ernie said that there are two different types of seals. One with the wipers raised. So I may have gotten the wrong seal!

Live, ask questions, and learn.

Note the hideous missing lenses for the back up lights. And I recently broke the right rear by letter an Albertson's shopping cart run into it.

First the upholstery goes, then windshields, then the paint, then the plastics, then the wiring, then the body, and maybe somewhere along the line the transmission and engine.

But all can be replaced, of course. With a little money and labor.

We have to remember what actor/director John Houston said.

Q Mr Houston, what do you attribute your longevity to?
A Surgery.

Discount has one new and one used rear light panel. I'm going to "trade in" the GTI exhaust for these.

Then I'll try to get the back up lights working. When I switched from the 4 to 5 speed transmissions, the back up lights still failed possibly telling me that the problem was not in the switch in the transmission. This has been on my pending problem list for about 14 years. But this doesn't bother us hunkesi.

Problem solving is always fun. No bugs, no fun.

We are getting legal problems hopefully solved with criminal complaint affidavits and appeals.

I hope all is going well and that the white paper bags were unnecessary.

Reason will prevail, I'm sure. Eventually.

Monday September 30, 2002 11:03

Before we left for Alaska I was trying to upgrade our 4 gig WD driver with a 40 gig MAXTOR.

Max blast crashed using both disks while trying to copy of 4 gig to the 40 gig.

Time to put that project down and rethink options.

The two MAXTORs cost about $79-99 each.

I'm taking advantage of a possible solution from yesterday's Sunday paper

Tough to believe, a 40 gig WD for $49.

I'll do a back up of the 4 gig, pray lots, then try to format the 40 gig and move the contents of the 4 gig to it.

jra, I went to PC Magic. They sell NO motherboards with ISA bus slots. It will be interesting to see what you do. Configuration management problems have been created by the demise of the ISA bus.

USB is the future.

Have a good lunch, but just in case, Don I hope is ready with a stack of white paper bags.

Sunday September 29, 2002 19:18

Welcome to the real world. I'm working on building courage to read jra's email.

I have to decided on what non-computer or legal project to do next.

Put together a boat trailer?

I bought a spare tire on Friday. Harbor Freight sells a spare plus holder for $29.

The red foam pad is used to protect senior citizen knees from concrete while working on vehicles.

China appears to be doing what Japan did after the WWII. Most of the Sears electrical tools are now made in China.

Or try to fix white ford's right head problem and oil leaks?

Perhaps white ford is should be next considering that a boat trailer might not be too useful because of New Mexico water problems. But I'm thinking of Henry's lake too.

Litigation is progressing well. We will be filing criminal complaint affidavit on judge Parker and Downes on Monday.

This will be the first set. Morales and I will jointly file additional criminal complaint affidavits on Downes and Parker when and if Downes rules on civ 01 634.

I'm thinking about Monday lunch and the future. And I'm thinking about reading email too.

I want to get some techie stuff started. 80C52 futures combined with USB 2.0, pci bus, and wdm C++ drivers talking through a C dll to a Visual Basic 6.0 app sure looks good and profitable. And internet software distribution and support.

I need to revise my book 1 2 for System On a Chip 80C52s.

The 8051 systems sure made a lot of money and funded jra's research projects.

Time to get things fixed and redesign for the future. But keep white paper bags handy for Monday lunch just in case you hear bad things.

A friend of Drew's from Kansas State just took an engineering job with a start-up company in ABQ. The company is funded by Smith and Wesson to build electronic locks for firearms.

We are going to have lunch this week.

Thursday September 26, 2002 07:18

Don

Drew told me, the rabbit is back as the POINTER! But only in Mexico. For now.

Wednesday September 25, 2002 16:50

Don

Grey rabbit had a flat spot when it was running at a constant velocity where it seems to hesitate slightly in an irregular manner. I thought that this might mean that it was running a bit lean and needed adjustment.

When I messed up and slipped the cam shaft band cogs, then readjusted the valve timing and ignition timing, grey rabbit didn't sound right.

So I advanced the timing so that the dot on the back of the cam sprocket show about 3 cog wheels above the valve cover.

NOW NO FLAT SPOT AND GREY RABBIT HAS EVEN MORE POWER!!!

Things take time.

As to our other project, we're working at sending W's dad to the Evin for question and answer time. It'll be fun to get that project finished to devote more time to VWs and perhaps getting the clt working right and making money again.

Perhaps means no more mind games.

Yo estoy jubilado. Ademas yo entiendo que pasa Deciembre trenta y uno mil novacientos noventa y nueve. El mundo actual un otra vez.

I bought the Fel Pro seals for grey rabbit and white ford at Autozone. And a pan gasket at Autozone.

Autozone is stocking lots of VW parts. Autozone looks to be doing good in this economy.

New Mexico has other problems too.

It looks to me that the JC Whitney seal may have a design defect. Too many raised wipers.

Either design defects are fixed, jra, or customers move to other vendors. No more JC Whitney seals for me!

Water War Enters New Stage Ruling Puts Projects in Jeopardy BY BRENDAN SMITH, JOHN RUDDY AND DAN MCKAY Journal Staff Writers A federal judge’s landmark ruling to protect the Rio Grande silvery minnow could jeopardize planned water diversion projects all along the Rio Grande, State Engineer Tom Turney said Thursday. That includes Albuquerque’s $192 million plan to tap the Rio Grande for drinking water. “It looks disastrous for the cities. It looks disastrous for the Indian pueblos,” Turney said of Chief U.S. District Judge James A. Parker’s ruling. Parker on Wednesday ordered federal water managers to release San Juan-Chama water ear marked for cities and irrigators to keep the Rio Grande flowing for the endangered silvery minnow. “You can’t manage a river for one sole entity or stakeholder,” Turney said. “It has to be managed for many needs." The San Juan-Chama project diverts water from southern Colorado into New Mexico, using Heron Lake for storage. Albuquerque and others have contracts with the Bureau of Reclamation for much of the water, which is delivered via the Rio Grande. “When the river runs dry naturally, what are we going to do next year when all the (water) bank account up in Heron Reservoir is empty?” asked Turney, the state’s top water manager. “There is not going to be the water in the future if we have a drought and I think we have to think about the future." The ruling does not have an immediate impact on most water users in Santa Fe and Albuquerque, which depend on wells or local reservoirs for water supply. But Mayor Martin Chávez warned Thursday the ruling could threaten Albuquerque's plan to divert water from the Rio Grande for drinking. The project includes a diversion dam and treatment plant and would slow depletion of the aquifer, now the city's sole source of water. “If this judge has his way, then there’s serious questions about these projects," Chávez said. The city of Albuquerque will appeal the judge’s order and seek help from New Mexico’s congressional delegation, Chávez said. “I cannot abandon this drinking (water) project,” he said. “It is my belief that we will get this matter resolved” and have the water as needed. Albuquerque had planned to bring its drinking-water project online by 2006. Speaking to reporters at City Hall late Wednesday, Chávez said if the city had to abandon the project, it could be open to a lawsuit “on behalf of taxpayers of the city who’ve spent $47 million for this water on the premise that it be used for drinking, only to have it used for habitat preservation.” Chávez said that only about 25 years of “quality” water remain in the aquifer beneath Albuquerque. Continued mining of the aquifer could cause “subsidence,” which is when land collapses after the water beneath it is pumped, he said. Turney said the ruling has some “major impacts for lots of people in northern New Mexico,” as well. A proposed $60 million project by the U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Bureau of Land Management, the city of Santa Fe and Santa Fe County would divert about 18 million gallons of water per day’ from the Rio Grande. Espanola is requesting $9.2 million from Congress this year for a $16.7 million project to divert and treat water from the Rio Grande, using the city’s 1,000 acre feet of San Juan- Chama water rights. Santa Fe and Espanola already face critical water shortages. The ruling also could jeopardize plans for a proposed $150 million diversion project to settle the 36-year.old Aamodt water rights case in the Pojoaque Valley. Turney wants to buy up to 6,000 acre feet of San Juan/Chama water rights from the Jicarilla Apache Nation for the project, which could supply water to area users including Pojoaque, Tesuque, San Idelfonso and Nambe pueblos. Meanwhile, the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District is reviewing its options on how to respond to Parker’s order. District chief engineer Subhas Shah said the district, which supplies water to irrigators, gets 20,900 acre-feet a year from the San Juan-Chama Project. “If the judge takes some of the water for the minnows, then it’s going to affect the deliveries to the farmers in the valley,’ The impact on Indian tribes’ water rights is unclear. Lawyers for the six middle Rio Grande tribes — Isleta, Sandia, Santa Ana, San Felipe, Santo Domingo and Cochiti — plan to meet today. Their fear said Derrick J. Lente, chairman of the Six Middle Rio Grande Pueblos Water Coalition, is that as others’ water resources are taken for the minnow, the pueblo’s water rights will come under greater scrutiny. Congress has given Indian tribes’ special protection under federal law, recognizing they have “prior and paramount” water rights. “If there’s no water left but ours next year, then it becomes the Endangered Species Act versus the Indians’ prior and paramount water rights,” Lente said. “That is something that is very frightening to us.” Journal staff writer Leslie Linthicum contributed to this story. Cities and Farmers Vow To Fight BY TANIA SOUSSAN Journal Staff Writer New Mexico cities and farmers are vowing to fight back following Chief U.S. District Judge James A. Parker’s ruling that orders more water released into the drought- stricken Rio Grande. “I’ve got to get the federal judge’s hands off the city of Albuquerque’s water,” Albuquerque Mayor Martin Chávez said Thursday. The city of Albuquerque, the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District and the state of New Mexico plan to appeal to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals early next week after Parker enters his written order. They are also expected to ask for a stay that would put Parker’s ruling on hold until the appeals are resolved. On Thursday, Chávez asked the New Mexico congressional delegation to change the Endangered Species Act, or take other action, to help preserve San Juan-Chama Project water earmarked for the city and delivered via the Rio Grande. “Everything’s on the table,” the mayor said. Meanwhile, environmentalists who asked Parker to order the. water releases for the silvery minnow said Thursday they were “ecstatic” about the ruling. “It’s a great legal precedent and victory,” said John Horning, executive director of Santa Fe-based Forest Guardians, one of the environmental groups involved in the court case. Those groups argued that more water is needed this year to prevent the tiny, endangered fish from going extinct in the wild. Strained supplies Drought has so strained water supplies this year that flows in the Rio Grande bit record lows end extra water was taken out of upstream reservoir storage earlier in the year to help the minnow and extend the irrigation season for farmers . The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation will run out of water previously set aside for the minnow within days. It had planned to allow the river to dry up as far north as Algodones and to work with wildlife officials to save as many minnows as possible. Parker’s ruling will force the agency instead to take water from a San Juan-Chama Project drought reserve in Heron Reservoir to continue keeping the river flowing for the fish. The San Juan-Chama Project imports water from the Colorado River Basin for cities and farmers, and it is that water that is in contention in Parker’s ruling. The judge’s ruling is considered unprecedented. It is likely the first time a judge has ordered water imported from one river basin to be used for a native endangered species in another basin, said Assistant Attorney General Stephen Farris. In this case, the basins are the Colorado River Basin on the west side of the Continental Divide and the Rio Grande Basin on the east side. “It is going to have an immediate and very serious effect on San Juan-Chama water,” Farris said. “... It truly is an emergency.” Parker has ruled before in favor of federal control over the San Juan-Chama watery even though Albuquerque, Santa Fe and other cities, in addition to farmers, contract for its use. In April, Parker said the Bureau of Reclamation has the authority to use San Juan- Chama and Middle Rio Grande Project water for the minnow. On Wednesday, he told the federal government to implement that earlier ruling. The impact of Parker’s ruling will probably not be felt until 2003 or 2004. He told the Bureau of Reclamation to take water from storage this year and to consider cutting deliveries to Albuquerque, Santa Fe, the conservancy district and others next year to make up for the releases for the minnow. Lawmakers disappointed Most members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation said Thursday they were disappointed in the decision. Sen. Pete Dornenici, R-N.M., called it “pretty far out.” “I am sure this decision will be appealed by every defendant in the case, including the agencies of the federal government, said it should be appealed," he said. Dominici said he, Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., and Rep. Heather Wilson, R-N.M., have agreed to work together to find a legislative solution this year, if possible. But he expressed doubt that it could happen in the few remaining months in the 107th Congress, set to adjourn later this fall. Chávez asked the delegation to turn the title for the federally managed Hero n Reservoir over to Albuquerque to get the water stored there out of federal control. Chávez also wants Congress to exempt non-native water supplies, such as the San Juan- Chama water, from the Endangered Species Act. Bingaman said “the ruling tells me we need to be much more aggressive in implementing a recovery program for the minnow.” Rep. Joe Skeen, R-N.M., said the Endangered Species Act is outdated and does not reflect the dire water needs of drought-ridden states, such as New Mexico. Parker’s ruling raised several questions that will probably be taken up during appeals. For example, he said the Bureau of Reclamation must compensate contractors who do not, receive full supplies because of the minnow releases. But he did not say whether they should be paid money or given back the water in future years. University of New Mexico law professor G. Emlen Hall said Thursday that Parker’s ruling could force New Mexico to face the realities of administering a limited water supply in an arid state. Until now, water held in reservoirs has been used to avoid serious enforcement of water rights, he said. Journal Washington correspondent Michael Coleman contributed to this report. Albuquerque Journal Friday September 20, 2002

Tuesday September 24, 2002 10:19

The new seal is in. One day to get the transaxle out. One and 1/2 days to get IN.

The driver side intake manifold bolts fell out and landed in the hydraulic lines. Lucky catch!

I still don't have any irrefutable evidence that the problem was with the JC Whitney cheap seal. But I've had two failures with the JC Whitney cheap seals so I'm suspicious.

There is also a possibility that the oild leaked in from the top of the engine down the engine side of the transaxle engine separator plate. I put some form a gasket 2B on the top and sides this time to possibly stop this leak source..

The whitney seal is on top. The Felpro [national] is on the bottom.

Notice how many wipers the whitney seal has in comparison to the national.

The replacement sachs clutch is at the right. Note the bigger rivets compared to the whitney, at left.

I moved the jack under the engine then used the cherry picker to lift the tranaxle into position.

Notice the chain hooked to the hole at the top of the transaxle. The transaxle mated with the engine perfectly. But it took me several hours to come up with this solution

Here's a neat view of the Sandia mountains I took Saturday afternoon after removing the transaxle.

Saturday morning I visited

to buy

in preparation for a leaky rear main seal fix on white ford.

Grey rabbit has gobs of power.

I had a bit of a problem getting both the valve and ignition timing adjusted since I slipped several cogs on the timing belt at the cam shaft. Nothing looks right with a timing light... but grey rabbit sure runs well. AND NO OIL DRIPS FROM THE SEAL DRAIN HOLE!

This weekend we had about 400 hits at pro se fights.

Maybe implicating George Herbert Walker Bush as one of the masterminds who caused the Iraq/Iran war had something to do with this?

You might enjoy the article about Paul Stokes.

Stokes too is a gofer who got promoted above his ability but eventually made it back to gofer work. In Iraq. Geech!

Friday September 20, 2002 18:18

It's going to be interesting to see to grey rabbit if passses

But this is the real world.

Please get prepared for Monday lunch. For you guys are in the real world too.

I haven't been reading email since I've been so involved with litigation, but I'm thinking about reading eamil. Merely thinking, of course.

I'm also thinking of changing the rear main ... following the FelPro instructions ... a National seal ... tomorrow. Perhaps.

Have a good weekend.

Thursday September 19, 2002 19:18

Here's the latest on lawyers.

Judge Orders Water Released for Minnow

BY Tania Soussan
Journal Staff Writer

A judge on Wednesday ordered federal. water managers to release water earmarked for cities and irrigators to keep the Rio Grande flowing for the endangered silvery minnow.

Chief U.S. District Judge James A. Parker said the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation must maintain continuous flows through Albuquerque and provide a minimum flow of water below the San Acacia Diversion Dam.

This summer’s drought has so strained water supplies that the bureau had expected to run out of water for the minnow by late next week, eventually drying up the Rio Grande as far north as Algodones.

Now, Parker’s ruling will force the bureau to release some water from upstream storage, preventing dozens of miles of river from going dry and potentially saving the silvery minnow from extinction in the wild.

“Judge Parker has tried to follow the Endangered Species Act in which Congress said we protect species if at all possible,” said Laird Lucas, an attorney for several environmental groups who sought the court action. “He’s erring on the side of the species.

The only place where there is enough water to meet Parker’s order is in the Heron Reservoir. Taking water from that pool will likely mean reduced supplies next year for the city of Albuquerque, the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District and other users.

“Federal Judge Parker today of all the options presented to him chose the path most destructive to human beings in the city of Albuquerque,” said Mayor Martin Chávez. “It’s difficult for me to articulate my disappointment, and, frankly, my anger at what the federal court has done.”

The city and the district said they will appeal the ruling, and Chávez said he would ask the congressional delegation for help.

There is about 168,000 acre- feet of water in a drought reserve in Heron. The water is owned by the bureau and used to, ensure deliveries to San Juan-Chama Project contractors — including Albuquerque, Santa Fe and the conservancy district — in dry years.

The San Juan-Chama Project imports water from the Colorado River Basin into New Mexico for use by cities and irrigators.

The Bureau of Reclamation estimated that it will take 30,000 acre-feet of water or more to meet Parker’s ruling.

The daylong hearing came after environmentalists asked Parker to order the bureau to release stored water for the minnow. After testimony from biologists and water managers, he did just that. Parker said the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was wrong when it decided there was no reasonable way to avoid jeopardizing the minnow’s survival. He said the agency’s decision was “arbitrary and capricious.” He made several findings, including:

• The Fish and Wildlife Service and the Bureau of Reclamation did not fully consider releasing water from Heron Reservoir this year.

• The agencies did not fully consider making water available this year by reducing or prorating deliveries in 2003 to San Juan-Chama contractors and to the conservancy district under a separate project.

• “The best scientific evidence does not support the conclusion that the silvery minnow can be assured through artificial assistance or augmentation.”

Parker then ordered several actions. He said:

• The bureau must keep the river flowing from Algodones to Isleta and must provide a flow of 50 cubic feet per second below the San Acacia Diversion Dam

. • The bureau must compensate any contractors who do not get full supplies in the future.

• The bureau and the Fish and Wildlife Service must start a new formal consultation process to plan for next year.

The service said last week it would be better to save the water in Heron for future minnow needs, such as triggering a spring spawn. It said it would be possible to keep some minnows alive in the Albuquerque area until then.

Environmentalists argued that the water is needed now or there might not be enough minnows in the wild to save the species next year.

This was the first time a judge has been faced with this type of case, said U.S. Department of Justice trial attorney Andrew Smith.

“We’re in uncharted territory here,” said Dale Hall, regional director for the Fish and Wildlife Service in’ the Southwest. “Obviously, to us, this is a scary situation for the survival and recovery of the species.”

Conservancy district attorney Charles DuMars said: “We feel that the river will be dry next July and the amount of water that we expend between now and the end of the year will not be available next year when the minnow really needs it.”

Journal Staff Writer Dan McKay contributed to this report.

Albuquerque Journal Thursday September 19, 2002

I hope is all going okay. I'm looking forward to a written plan from jra.

And litigation, along with George Herbert Walker Bush's involvment of killing Iranian kids, is going okay too.

Wednesday September 18, 2002 10:19

I'm preparing to fix my rear seal mistake.

I'm following the Fel-Pro Installation Tips to the letter.

I'd never seen thread sealant before. But this may be my problem.

I'm now thinking about the PCDS 2 code.

Jra moved the ebus code from the dll to Visual Basic.

But there may be a problem with this. Here's the dll code.

EBusRead PROTO FAR, PORT:WORD
EBusRead PROC FAR EXPORT, PORT:WORD
Prolog ; Prologue macro
mov dx, Dio1 ; Dio1 base address in dx
add dx, 1 ; point to port b
mov ax, PORT ; e.bus port address in al
out dx, al ; write port address to B
add dx, 2 ; Dio1 control word port address
cli ; turn off interrupts
mov al, 2 ; pc1 (-rd) low
out dx, al ;
mov al, 0 ; pc0 (-stb) low
out dx, al ;
mov ax, RdDelay ; at least 150 ns
call delay ; wait
mov al, 1 ; pc0 (-stb) high
out dx, al ; wait 40 ns
mov ax, 1 ;
call delay ;
mov al, 3 ; pc1 (-rd) high
out dx, al ;
sti ; turn interrupts back on
mov dx, Dio1 ; port a address in dx
in al, dx ; read port a value into ax
sub ah, ah ; clear ah
Epilog ; Epilogue macro
ret 2
EBusRead ENDP

Strobing the 8255 from Visual Basic doesn't allow interrupts to be controlled. If an interrupt occurs when the strobe is low, then noise can possibly cause false triggering. This is a REAL PROBLEM we've encountered .... and solved by turing off interrupts while strobing.

Time to fix problems and move ahead.

Drew suggested, other than buy good parts ... not JC Whitney ... that I spend one day removing the tranny, one day recovering, and a third day installing it!

Tuesday September 17, 2002 14:54

Isn't the real world interesting?

Litigation, too, is much different in practice than in theory.

But things like this make life really interesting.

The important thing is to figure out what's really going on. Then you can do something about it.

I'm back to senior citizen projects.

$20 off normal price. It's made in Taiwan, not China. So!

The too I'm getting prepared for

I bought 4 feet of bungee cord from REI to lash the tripod to the gun stock.

I tried 1 and 2 feet of bungee cord but neither would support the about 1 1/4 to 1/2 lb weight of the tripod.

A tripod definitely aids hitting a target.

Now I have to do a bit of garage roof patching. I think I found a problem I've missed for about a year. The leak originated from the opposite edge of the roof from where I though the problem was!

I discovered this by placing the ladder on the opposite side of the roof.

Monday September 16, 2002 11:27

What emails?

I'm surprised you haven't been following my emails of the past several months.

Don, be vigilant and please remove any white bags with smelly eggs or soft tomatoes from the lunch area.

We have interesting new news here too about the silvery minnow and judge James Parker.

Feds Say Time Is Running Out for Minnow

By Tania Soussan
Journal Staff Writer

The endangered Rio Grande silvery minnow is in dire straits, and there are no options to avoid putting it in Jeopardy of extinction in the wild this fall, federal biologists said in a report released Friday.

Similar situations have come up only two or three times in the history of the three-decades-old Endangered Species Act, experts said.

“We find ourselves in a position seldom, if ever, encountered by the Service in evaluating a project under the act,” the U S Fish and Wildlife Service in a new biology-based report about what should be done to protect the tiny fish. Extreme drought has left the Rio Grande Parched; and federal water managers have almost no water left in upstream reservoirs to supplement the river’s flow for the minnow.

The river is expected to dry up through Albuquerque within days and as far north as Algodones soon after that Only treated waste water from the town of Bernalillo and the city of Albuquerque will keep the river flowing.

That means more than 100 miles of river — the bulk of the minnow’s occupied habitat — will be dry, the Fish and Wildlife Service report said.

It also means the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation could wind up in Species Act, which bars federal agencies from taking actions that jeopardize the continued existence of a species.

The bureau could take the unusual, last-resort step of going to the “God squad” — endangered species committee of high-level federal officials that is convened as needed — and asking for an exemption front the requirements. of the act

Key indicator

Environmentalists consider the minnow’s survival to be a key indicator of the health of the Rio Grande ecosystem.

Meanwhile, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals this week denied several appeals filed in a federal lawsuit seeking protections for the minnow. The court said the case is not ready for appeal.

The appeals court decision, along with the release of the Fish and Wildlife Service report, leaves the question of what to do for the minnow up to Chief U.S. District Judge James A. Parker.

He will conduct a hearing Monday afternoon to consider a request from environmentalists that he force the Bureau of Reclamation release more water into the Rio Grande.

Parker could disagree with the Fish and Wildlife Service and decide there is an option available to keep the river wet. That would likely mean using water stored upstream at Heron Reservoir.

The minnow has fared poorly this year.

Sampling studies have shown a steady decline throughout 2002, and population levels are “alarmingly small,” according to a report prepared for the Fish and Wildlife Service by biologists Robert K. Dudley and Steven P. Platania.

The Fish and Wildlife Service said the water left in Heron should be saved for next year.

“The Service believes it is prudent to reserve the water in Heron Reservoir until the use of that water becomes absolutely necessary to ensure a spawn in the river,” the agency’s report said.

Because the minnows live only a year or two, a successful spawn in late May or early June is crucial, according to the report. Minnows are prompted to spawn by a spike in river flows that normally comes from snow melt runoff in the spring.

Rescue plan

Letty Belin, an attorney for the Land and Water Fund of the Rockies, which represents the environmental groups in the Lawsuit, maintains there is enough water in Heron to release some for minnows this year.

“Clearly, there’s going to be enough water in Heron for a number of years under any scenario;” she said.

Federal officials could not comment op the report Friday because of the ongoing litigation.

As the river goes dry, trapped minnows will be rescued and moved upstream or into captivity, but even that poses problems. Some fish have already been rescued from downstream reaches and moved to the Albuquerque area this summer.

“With repeated capture and release, these fish may become less likely to survive and reproduce in the wild,” the Fish and Wildlife Service report said.

There are 150,000 ‘to 200,000 minnows in captivity that can be released in the Rio Grande when water levels allow, the report said.

“While we do not believe controlled propagation can be considered a long-term solution, the fact that we can ensure the silvery minnow’s survival during this drought of record through artificial assistance is an extremely valuable tool,” the report said.

But environmentalists and some biologists question whether there is enough genetic diversity in the captive minnow pool to ensure the survival of the species.

There are “significant drawbacks” to relying on captive- born fish to repopulate the species, University of New Mexico biologist Thomas F. Turner said in a report.

Saturday September 14, 2002

The picture of the Rio Grande Angostura diversion is several miles downstream from Algodones [cotton]. If the worst happens, I'll take another picture.

Now for the grim news. The real main seal must be replaced. I bought a FelPro for about $20 this morning.

FEL- PRO INSTALLATION TIPS

FLYWHEEL BOLTS

REINSTALL FLYWHEEL to crankshaft. Note: On some engines that use a one-piece rear main bearing seal, a condition may exist where the bolt holes in the crankshaft rear flange have been drilled too deep by the manufacturer. This can result in oil seepage which may be misdiagnosed as coming from the oil pan or rear main bearing seal. To prevent seepage, coat bolt threads with PRO LINE® TIGHT® thread locking sealer. Torque securely to OEM specifications.

ROTATING SHAFT SEALS

PRIOR TO INSTALLING THE ROTATING SHAFT AND/OR SEAL apply a thin coat of lubricant, such as grease, on the sealing lip and shaft.

IMPORTANT: Do not install any seal without break-in lubricant protection.

Tom told me that the seals on the clt were installed without grease on the seal lip.

IMPORTANT: Rubber seals are properly installed when its largest raised sealing lip is closest towards engine.

ATTACH AND ALIGN SEAL RETAINER GASKET.

Apply a thin coat of gasket sealer such as PRO LINE® BRUSH TACK® or SPRAY TACK® to both sides of gasket(s).

I used Indian head but I didn't put sealer on the six bolts.

This time I'm going to follow the instructions to the letter.

But I have to look at the postive side. I get great exercise for a senior citizen.

Grey rabbit does 85 mph with the accelerator about 7/8 to the floor. And it is possible to make the clutch slip in 5th gear between 3,500 and 4,500 rpm.

Have a good lunch ... but keep the white bags in reach ... just in case. Reason will eventually prevail ... we all hope.

Friday September 13, 2002 09:02

This is a great email!

Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 11:19 AM
Subject: RE: 8051s
I'm surprised you haven't been following my emails of the past several months.
If you were you would know the digitization problem was solved many years ago in the original PCDS.
Bad Data = Bad Conclusions

Gee, I guess all of those who digitize at the sensor are wrong. But they probably didn't get a degree from Washington State University so they wouldn't realize their mistake.

Let's talk about time.

Here's Patty's father, Kenny, with Tanya in the summer of 1968

with Tanya and 1967 white dodge [It only made it 216,000 miles ... when I sold it - not VW or Ford quality] at Ocean Shores, WA.

Our granddaughter is about twice [4 1/2] age now as Tanya was then.

Now Dr. Tanya Lynn Payne.

We were pursuing our interests.

Here's Kenny and his girl friend in Florida this past March.

Kenny is the same age as Bob Wallace. And Ronald Reagan.

Kenny is 89. To be, Allah willing of course, 90 in December.

Hey, when I was in Florida in March I both looked and felt like a teeny bopper.

There is one thing worse than growing old and having fun while doing it. Not growing old!

Wallace and I were out hunting birds the Sunday before his prostrate cancer surgery.

Wallace commented, "If I die that's really going to fuck up my retirement."

Wallace survived but as he pointed out, "with one fewer pleasures of life."

Here's Wallace, Jerry Horak, and Kevin Church prarie chicken hunting in Kansas

That's Sam behind the kennel and Zoe in front of Kevin.

Horak wrote

Time marches on.

I'll make a proposal for porting the isa das wdm driver to a pci bus das card.

And I want to have fun while doing this. And make some money too.

Morales' and my other project is going fantastic since we are now in the criminal complaint affidavit, both state and federal title 18, stages.

Don, Morales is restoring a 1974 Bug. I get a jpg for us all.

Jra, I point out to you that there is a business equivalent of hospice. The bankruptcy courts.

Redesign time is coming.

Thursday September 12, 2002 18:15

Here's a younger picture of Bob Wallace

I met Wallace for the first time when we returned from sabatical at UI Champaign-Urbana in 1973.

He looked at bit younger than this.

Wallace was one of the most articulate people I ever met.

He used to recite poetry when we went hunting. Like most of the verse of the Eve of St Agnes.

Wallace ended his recitation with, "Hey bill, he fucked her." What eloquence!

Wallace also said

What Mexico and Santa Ana failed to do with violence at San Jacinto, Mexico is now doing with sex.

And this time it's a lot more fun.

I hope we all realize how it ends. Hospice visits.

I saw an email from jra.

I'm working up courage to read it.

Keep a good supply of white bags for Monday lunch. Just in case.

Criminal complaints affidavis are almost as fun as software.

Tuesday September 10, 2002 07:38

Here's an interesting article on 80C32 SOCs.

This is the future along with USB.

Lots of legal excitement in New Mexico.

Si1very Minnow Can’t Count on Heron Water Judge Delays Decision On Release Order

BY LESLIE LINTHICUM
Journal Stall Writer

The government will not consider taking water from Heron Reservoir to keep the Rio Grande from going dry — and that means peril for the silvery minnow, according to the preliminary drafts of a federal report.

U.S. District Judge James A. Parker, asked Monday by environmentalists to order the release of more water for the endangered fish, delayed his decision until next week so he can read the report and question federal government policy-makers.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service hydrologists and biologists are finishing a “biological opinion” on the winnow that will be completed by late Thursday or early Friday, a lawyer representing the Fish and Wildlife and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation said in Parker’s court Monday.

Environmental groups argue that the silvery minnow will not survive as a species if the Rio Grande goes dry in their prime. habitat — the Rio Grande between Albuquerque and San Acacia in Socorro County.

Department of Justice attorney Andrew Smith said initial indications are that the Fish and Wildlife Service’s opinion will say just that — that the fish’s future in the wild will be in jeopardy in this year of drought if the Bureau of Reclamation does not force the release of enough water to keep the Rio Grande flowing as far south as San Acacia.

He said the preliminary indication is that the opinion will offer no alternatives to prevent the threat to the fish. Environmentalists want mil- lions of gallons of water owned by Albuquerque, Santa Fe and other cities to be released immediately from Heron Reservoir into the dwindling Rio Grande.

Hydrologists suggest that the river will go dry next week — save for the city of Albuquerque’s treated sewage discharge — if mere water is not released.

However, it is the position of the Bureau of Reclamation, Smith told Parker, that “no water released from Heron is the best alternative for the minnow because that water will- best serve the minnow next year.

Their theory is that, with water woes predicted to continue, the water would be held in reserve to prevent still worse problems next year.

Letty Belin, attorney for one of the environmental groups seeking the water release, compared the government’s logic to withholding the last cup of water from a man dying of thirst.

“That doesn’t do them any good tomorrow if they’re not there,” she told Parker, referring to the minnows.

Meager snowfalls last winter and a hot, dry spring and summer, adding to a continuing drought, combined to tap reservoirs and set the stage for a three-way fight for Rio Grande water.

Attorneys for the litigants — valley farmers, municipalities and advocates for the minnow — lined two large tables in Parker’s courtroom Monday and spilled over into chairs reserved for jurors.

The hearing Went on despite a request by lawyers for the state Friday that the U.S. Court of Appeals stop it. State engineer TomTurney argued in the state’s petition that Parker did not have jurisdiction to make any rulings regarding the minnow because his earlier ruling had been appealed.

The 10th Circuit Court of. Appeals dismissed that argument late Friday and so all of, the parties —30 people in all — crowded into the courtroom Monday morning prepared to argue the issue of bow the little water left in storage should be managed.

An endangered species, the minnow is covered by the Endangered Species Act, a federal law designed to ensure biological diversity by protecting animal species from extinction. Under the act, the federal government must design policies to protect endangered species. It is rare, Belin said, that a federal agency will decide that there are no good alternatives to leaving an endangered species in jeopardy.

Smith described the situation with the minnow as one with no good options.

“It’s not just a case of jeopardy or no jeopardy,” he told the judge. “It’s a case of jeopardy, jeopardy and jeopardy. What’s the least jeopardy?” Parker said he would hear the issue again Monday afternoon.

Albuquerque Journal Tuesday September 10, 2002

New Mexico has too many lawyers. We're going to try to do something about this. By using criminal complaint affidavits in an attempt to reduce their numbers.

I hope no bags were filled at yesterday's lunch. Fixing the problem is the only way out of this one.

Monday September 9, 2002 08:33

Here's the Angostura diversion dam on the rio grande several miles north of Bernalillo.

This diversion supplies irrigation water to Albuquerque.

I took this on Saturday. Reason for the picture is that the rio grande may go dry in two weeks unless water is released from Heron reservoir. But Santa Fe needs the Heron water for its supply.

Judge James Parker, of Wen Ho Lee infamy, is going to hold a hearing today to decide whether the feds' silvery minnow will survive or the rio grande goes dry.

The feds drained Jemez reservoir, just outside Bernalillo, to keep the silvery minnow alive this summer.

I am guessing the Bob Wallace departed since the Navy published.

Last time I had lunch with Wallace he commented on his chemical haircut.

I went to Best Buy yesterday afternoon. All digital cameras use USB.

This is the future. But I agree that a pci das board should be implemented during the transition to a standard serial bus. Too bad about the E Bus.

Keep a stack of white bags on the lunch table today. Just in case. In the real world, things like this happen. But we all know "Shit happens."

Speaking of this. Drew may have my leaky rear seal problem source explained. J C Whitney!

I have a plan. I'm going to go to Chama to ride the train. If the leak gets worse, then I will replace the seal with a Fel Pro at AutoZone for about $20.

But the leak might go away too. It did before. Then it got worse after I started the Berryman B12 engine oil change procedure. I'm not using the Berryman procedure any more. It may damage seals and make an engine too clean.

Wednesday September 4, 2002 11:00

Don and Drew

It took about 1.5 hours to install.

No major problems.

I started to saw the muffler input, then the input separated from the exhaust! So I have an about another exhaust system.

The output from the cat is 2 inches!

Note the Idaho tamarack safety log.

I notice two things:

1 loud deep growl
2 more power

Hey, who wants to drive and listen the radio at the same time?

Jra

Here's a plan on how to install a techtonics exhaust system.

.

Perhaps you might write a similar plan on where we're going with the clt?

While you wrote us that the pci bus is in the future, a long term plan on how its going to do the job for the customer and make money would be useful for those wanting to make future plans.

Don and Drew. I'm curious to see what performance enhancement results. Headers made a big difference.

IT arrived.

The two inch pipes look enormous.

I'll install it early tomorrow. Then its quits for grey rabbit. Unless I have to fix the small oil leak problem.

But

1 The problem stays the same which is bearable.

2 The problem gets better. This is what one wishfully hopes for.

3 The problem gets worse and requires action. After my recent 1.8 exercises I think I can get the engine and transaxle out in several hours.

But now it is FORD TIME!

I'm now studying bipods. I built one in Pullman that worked great for ground squirrels. Rest their souls.

My hunting license fee also has gone from $26 to $18 this year.

Being a senior entitles one to go the the head of the flu shot line!

We are reminded why we want to get flu shots. 1 2

I'm researching both the KD tool Chinese finger clamp and Lisle Sneaky Pete oil seal removal installation tools. Both are available in abq. The KD is about $29 while the Lisle is about $7.

I just used Gunk to clean off white ford's engine and transmission.

Here's white ford on Saturday beneath spectacular southwest clouds. It was about 95 degrees when this picture was taken.

I'm reading

REAR-MAIN SEAL

There are two types of rear-main seals. The original seal is the rope type. The later seal is neoprene. Both are two-piece seals and work well when installed correctly, but the similarity ends there.

The neoprene lip-type seal is far easier to install. It lasts longer and creates less drag on the crankshaft. Most gasket sets include the lip-type seal. If your gasket set includes only a rope seal, spend a couple of extra bucks for a lip seal.

If you plan to Plastigage the bearings, do it now, before installing the rear-main seal.

Plastigaging Bearings—Clean the main-bearing journals thoroughly and carefully lay the crank into the block. The bearings and crank journals are dry, so don’t rotate the crank. Install all the main-bearing caps except the one you’re checking. Torque the cap bolts 95—105 ft-lb. Don’t bother to install the cross bolts on a cross-bolted 406 or 427.

Lay a piece of Plastigage on the crank journal in line with the crank and install the cap and bearing. Thread in the bolts and torque them 95—105 ft-lb. Do not rotate the crank or the gage will smear and you’ll have to start over.

Remove the cap and use the scale on the paper sleeve to measure the Plastigage width. Compare the width with the printed scale to find bearing- Lo-journal clearance. Clearance should be 0.0005—0.0025 in., with 0.0005—0.0015 in. desired.

If the clearance is out of specification there is a problem. Remove the crank and recheck the bearings and crank journals. Again, the time to correct the problem is now.

Lip-Seal Installation—If the engine came equipped with a rope seal from the factory—most did—there may be a pin in the cap. The pin keeps the rope seal from turning in its groove and eventually tearing, leaking or bunching up. You must remove the pin to install a lip seal.

Drive the pin out with a small punch; knock it out from the back of the cap. This will keep you from inadvertently hitting the bearing-bore surface and distorting it. Seal the pin hole with silicone sealer and wipe away the excess.

Oil the bearing inserts and install the seal in the block; lip toward the front of the engine. One end should protrude 3/8-in, above the cap mating surface.

Install the cap half of the seal facing the same direction. Offset the opposite end of the seal 3/8-in, above the mating surface. When the cap is installed, the seal mating surfaces won’t align with the cap-to-block mating surfaces. This lessens the chance of a leak.

Rope-Seal Installation—If you are installing a rope seal, leave the pin in the cap. Squirt oil on the seal halves before installing them; this will help them expand. Lay the rope in the groove of the block or cap and start it into the groove with your fingers.

With a hammer and a piece of round stock or a large socket, tap the seal into place. Don’t damage the bearing-bore surfaces while installing the seal. Roll the socket or piece of stock back and forth while you hammer on the socket.

After the seal is seated, trim both ends. Hold the seal in place with your thumb and cut the seal flush with the mating halves of the cap surfaces. Use a sharp knife or razor blade and cut away from the bearing bore. Do this on both seal halves.

How To Rebuild Your BIG-BLOCK FORD Steve Christ

I found the link for a jaguar which gives a pretty good idea how to use the tool.

Studying what other have done before beginning is a good idea. Unmeritorous creativity gets punished.

After I mount the 2 inch exhaust, I'll have to go on a test drive to do

Scenic Railroad On 7-Day Schedule
The Associated Press

CHAMA — The Cumbres& Toltec Scenic Railroad is now running trains seven days a week after being shut down, then operated on a limited basis due to wildfire danger.

The passenger service resumed a regular operating schedule this week, departing daily at 10 am. from terminals in Chama and in Antonito, Col., the Rio Grande Railway Preservation Corp. said Thursday.

The train will run until the regular operating season ends 0ctober 20 The train had been operating only five days a week since it reopened in mid-July. It was closed for almost six weeks because of extreme fire danger. Since reopening, the railroad has operated with several fire prevention and sup- pression measures. A 6,500-gallon tank car on every train sprays water between the tracks and 12 feet to the side of the tracks. Motorcars with 200-gallon water tanks and firefighting tools follow each train.

Albuquerque Journal Saturday August 3, 2002

On Saturday while zooming across the desert, the clutch slipped! One reason is that the engine continues to gain more power.

I stopped at Dalies and adjusted the clutch. It didn't slip anymore. This probably, as Drew pointed out, didn't do the throwout bearing any good.

Here's the receipt for the 5 speed transmission.

I rebuilt the 1.7 and installed the 5 speed shortly after paying this bill. And reached a conclusion about what I heard on December 31, 1998.

Here's some thoughts for jra out of Raven's book.

About Hot-Rodding

When it comes right down to it, hot-rodding your car means making it quicker, or faster, or both. Whether you are talking about quarter-mile speed or time through a slalom, hot- rodding your car makes it perform that operation better than it did when you started.

C. Van Tune, editor of Motor Trend, can climb into a car he has never driven before and, at the end of a 0-60 acceleration test, guess within a couple of tenths of a second what the car ran. Most persons cannot do that, which is one reason stop watches were invented. Lord Kelvin once said, "When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it, but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind: It may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science.”

And, of course, one wants to get correct numbers. Not random numbers.

Fortunately many know how get correct numbers. Digitize at the sensor.

Don, keep the white paper bags handy. Just in case.

Have a good three-day weekend. And think about doing your '83's headliner yourself. Just in case jra presses on. We may all need other lines of work.

Thanks for the wheel lecture yesterday. You saved me money and grief.

You can do a headliner and rear panels yourself.

Grey rabbit's were a mess.

but for $200 plus tax here's what resulted

Here's Ronnie Martinez who did the work.

Martinez told me how to do a headliner. It's easy he said. Just pull out a panel from the top of the car to which the headliner is attached.

The headliner material is cloth with a foam backing. Glue with spray the new headliner, then push the panel back in.

Martinez does a great job on seats. He's going to redo the driver side on September 19.

Hopefully the 2" Techtonics exhaust will be here soon. That will complete work on grey rabbit .... until the next time it falls apart.

We're going to have some real exciting stuff on judge and defendant W John Brennan. A neighbor reported that the fellow is on coke and buys it at the Rio Grande Cantina.

Thursday August 29, 2002 09:50

The importance getting the right numbers at the right cost is again illustrated by Raven.

Raven also emphasizes the importantce of compensation for temperature and humidity. This, of course, requires knowledge of mathematics and likely an advanced university degree from a reputable university.

But we know how to get the same number independent of the computer system. Digitize at the sensor.

Please explain this to jra. Hopefully without use of the purple word.

Let's hope for a neat lunch time plan to move ahead with the right answers in the future. Hopefully delivered to a PC over USB and the associated pci interface.

I remind all. Use of the word grapehead is not recommended. This word may be appropriate, but not recommended.

Morales and I are into journalism with our Crisis in our legal system article. We're working at solving a problem in writing.

We hope that jra follows our lead and presents a written plan on how we get from here to success.

Let's switch the subject to things unique in New Mexico.

New Mexicans are simply wild about green chile. In the later summer Hatch green chile is roasted for customers.

Roasting, then letting the chile steam in a plastic bag softens and separates the tough membrane surrounding the chile.

I bought a bushel of Big Jim medium hot chile.

We'll bring an emergency shipment to Austin.

Here's a jpg of the roasting process.

Don, please don't forget the white bags. Dan is right.

Thursday August 22, 2002 16:04

Breaking news!

Discount found a rabbit GTI Exhaust system. $60.

I'm going to get to tomorrow... after I fix the trip odometer.

Drew and Don

Ben is checking their about 4-5 GTI rabbits for good exhausts.

Ben agrees that the 1.8 is seriously exhaust limited.

The new problem is that the odometer stopped working after I disabled the OXS LED.

Us VW owners never lack for something to do.

I've been writing a criminal complaint affidavit this afternoon. That sure is fun. Especially when you got them in writing committing felony perjury.

Drew

About GTIs.

Tray at discount pointed out that the main design goal of a GTI was to see how fast the car could go from 0 to 60 mph.

As a result the transmission is geared way too low. So maybe a switch of white golf's tranny with a GTI tranny might be a good idea.

VW owners always have a project available when they get bored.

About the economy, here's an interesting article on debt load.

Reference leads here.

Here's more about what what Raven says about engine swaps.

Costs

The affordability of an engine swap is something only you can determine. The best way of looking at it is in terms of what else you can get for the same money. For example, just the parts for swapping a VR6 engine into your four-cylinder A2 Golf is going to be more money than a supercharger kit, and the installation on the supercharger kit is typically less involved than an engine swap. If you’re not sure about supercharging, cylinder head work, cams, manifold porting, and other go-fast mods are going to run about the same amount as a supercharger, which is still less than a VR6 swap. This doesn’t mean you should never do a VR6 swap, just that you should look at all the options you have for the money you are spending.

Al Swaps

Al cars have the lightest weight chassis, so dropping more power into the engine compartment results in a big difference Unfortunately, that engine compartment is smaller than the later-model cars, and the chassis have the most flex (and the smallest brakes, and so on.)

Your best performance trade-up is the 1.8-liter 16V engine from a late model Scirocco, rather than from an A2 GTi 6V or Passat 16V. (The 2.0-liter 16V engine is more work, and 1.8-liter 16V is fine in the lighter car.) Next best is the horsepower 1.8-liter GTi engine. If you want a newer engine with only a little more complexity on installation, an 8V engine from an A2 will fit if you use the Al exhaust manifold.

The A3 “tall block” engine is about the same, again with Al exhaust manifold, with the addition of a longer downpipe to match the extra height of the block. The downpipe is available from Techtonics.

The Corrado G-60 engine is not recommended unless you are an ace fabricator. All U.S. G-60s came with air conditioning, which necessitates chassis surgery, and then you have install the intercooler.

Also not recommended is the VR6, which in addition to 100 more pounds than the stock four-cylinder engine, adds much more complexity to the installation. Fabricating the motor mounts alone is torture. Few Als are going to be worth the amount you will have to spend to get a VR6, and don’t get you will have to upgrade the suspension and brakes at the very least to get the package to work right. From a financial point of view, you are better off starting with a later model car.

If you want a late-model motor but love the early CIS with its simplicity and flexibility, you can have the best of both worlds, assuming you are swapping in a 1992-or-earlier 1.8-liter engine from an A2. One problem you will run into is that the 1.8-liter engine has the crankcase breather mounted on the left side of the engine (facing front in the Volkswagen) where the CIS warm-up regulator is supposed to go. To get around this, you must remove the breather and use your original valve cover. Techtonics offers a kit that allows you to mount the warm-up regulator where the breather used to go (that is, where the warm-up regulator is supposed to be).

A2 Swaps

Compared to the Al, the A2 is a much better recipient of an engine swap, not only because of the larger engine compartment, but also because Volkswagen has used a wide variety of engines in this chassis. Even so, swapping the G-60 in to anything except a Corrado G-60 is going to be more difficult because of the extra plumbing. Still, that leaves the 8V, 16v and VR6.

An A2 16V swap is going to be easiest if your A2 car has the CIS-E injection, rather than the Digifant. If the VR6 is or your list, you will save yourself a lot of aggravation if you get the engine, transaxle, and other parts from a Corrado, as the wiring matches up well. The VR6 change, though, also requires modification of the shift linkage (to switch from conventional linkage to the cable shifter, and the installation of a hydraulic clutch.

The trick setup for swapping a G-60 engine into a Golf or Jetta II is to obtain the Euro-style intercooler assembly. The G-60 appeared only in the Corrado in the United States, but it was an option in the European Golf.

There is another possibility for a “half swap,” involving the block from a 2.0-liter A3, and the cylinder head from a 1.8 liter. This combination gives you more horsepower, and allows you to use the earlier ignition and fuel injection, with which you can make more power than with a built A3 and Motronic. This “half swap” will not be legal in any state with pollution control laws, because the older engine almost certainly will not meet the more modern standards mandated for the A3.

A3 Swaps

Because of their relative newness, A3 models are more likely to provide an engine than receive one, although predictions are that the 1AT engine will change that. Even the standard 115-horsepower, four-cylinder, 2.0-liter engine is a strong performer. The new, shorter 2.0-liter four-cylinder from the New Beetle and A4 is also rated at 115 horsepower, making a swap senseless from a performance standpoint. On the other hand, those with the four-cylinder are justified in considering the VR6 engine for a swap. Who wouldn’t want a VR6-powered Cabriolet, for instance?

As mentioned elsewhere, this may all change when the turbocharged 150-horsepower, five-valve, four-cylinder 1AT engine arrives in quantity. (A version of this engine with a larger turbocharger and higher boost is said to put out 180 horsepower for the upcoming Audi TT, and Audi is working on a future version with sequential intercoolers and still more boost that is good for 225 horsepower.) The first to try this will no doubt be those for whom the promise of up to 400 streetable horsepower is too much to resist. Even those who stop at the more realistic 200 horsepower level (easily achievable with a chip and free-flow air filter) will be attracted by the thought of having more horsepower on tap than in a stock VR6, with better fuel economy and lower weight.

On the other hand, a stock VR6 engine with a supercharger easily puts out more than 250 horsepower. Another way of saying this is that at 250 horsepower, the VR6 engine is under a lot less stress than a IAT engine putting out that same amount of horsepower. All things being equal, this should mean that the more lightly stressed VR6 should last a lot longer than the more highly stressed 1AT engine, horsepower for horsepower. Peaky turbo engines can be thrilling to drive, but for day-in, day-out satisfaction it’s difficult to beat a big, torquey, understressed engine like a VR6.

As with A2 swaps, the most difficult part of installing a VR6 will be modifying the shift linkage and installing a hydraulic clutch. It remains to be seen what the IAT engine will cost, and how much work it will take to get the turbo plumbing installed. The move by Volkswagen to standardize wiring harnesses among cars with different powerplants will no doubt greatly ease changing over the wiring.

Sounds like you are getting right dollar out of white golf. By getting it back for $99.

Now for an upgrade!

Wednesday August 21, 2002 10:47

Don

I was able to turn off the OXS led on Saturday. This morning, on the way to get a dent removed from the left side of white honda, the led illuminated again.

Tanya backed into the side of white honda while we were in Texas. She's good at this. She put dents in white ford, white dodge, and grey rabbit.

I decided to do something about the led problem. I took out the instrument cluster and disconnected the red OXS power lead.

A permanent solution.

Let's hope jra and others are coming up with good solutions to the get the correct a/d readings problem. Random numbers don't, or shouldn't, sell very well.

Here's white ford waiting to go through the Whittier glacier to Whitter 2.5 mile combination rail tunnel.

Here's what is called 'combat fishing' at the confluence of the Russian and Kenai rivers

The state operates a ferry, which you see in the background, for fishermen.

Here's Patty photographing in Homer

As you are purchasing agent, I have a suggestion. Perhaps you might with to visit the airport. Any buy about 20 of the white bags available in airplane seat fronts.

If jra announces his intention to proceed with his buy-out a/d board program on at Monday lunch, then quickly pass them out!

I even fixed by grey rabbit Blaupunkt Alaska installation problem this morning.

Retirement has advantages. I can take the time to do it right and, of course, more freely express my, or Moe's, thoughts.

Monday August 19, 2002 12:37

Don

Here's my air shrouded injector solution. I visited Discount and studied Foxes and Golfs.

Note the tee.

There is an adapter going from the large hose connected to the head to the small hose going to the tee.

I noticed about a 500 rpm increase in idle speed after the connection was made.

On Saturday grey rabbit went to Lamy. It came back through Madrid. Some 75 m.p.h. speeds on I40 but mostly 55-65.

On Sunday morning I filled it with gas after the about 152 mile trip. Grey rabbit got 37.45 m.p.g.!

I'm thinking about a GTI exhaust. But I've heard that gas mileage goes down without some back pressure.

Here's my trailer hitch installation.

Neat!

Drew will hear about what they are going to do with his VW today or tomorrow.

I have to be careful with all of the additional horsepower not to crash grey rabbit.

Moe sure mastered clear communication.

I hope jra decides to improve the accuracy of the 8051 clt. The same digital sensor units can be made to work in a redesigned system.

The 8051 is doing to be used in many new, like the TI, usb products.

The synchronous serial expansion bus of the 8051 can be used to read and command a digital sensor. Then the data can be sent to a pc over usb. This is the future!

Saturday August 17, 2002 19:14

jra

All of the 8051s need to be replaced? This what you told me.

I think not. All of the 8051s need to be fixed. See the yellow dot.

All of the PC data systems [ 1 and 2] need to be replaced after YOU, or someone else, fixes the digitization problem.

One must digitize at the sensor.

Understand? I'll elablorable further.

Moe:"Now listen, grapehead, I'll explain it so even you can understand it!"

Your idea of "buy out" a/d boards doesn't work in electrically noisy environments.

Also you writing tons of basic code is not working.

Redesign is now required for the future. To satisfy customers, make money and have a fun time at business.

Friday August 16, 2002 13:19

Don

Here's something about the air shroud injector problem http://www.sjmautotechnik.com/injector.html#inject

I went down to discount auto and looked at several golfs and foxes.

In general the injector air connector is connected through a valve to the input side of the throttle body.

I went to Foreign Aide and got what I think are the necessary hoses for $2.23. Hopefully this will solve the problem.

I will wait until the engine is cool before trying the mod.

Yesterday I disassembled a Sears battery charger which appeared not to work.

I found one diode had failed in a short condition. And a second didn't seem to register right on the meter.

The top of the transformer was discolored. I plugged the unit in. No voltage on the secondary winding.

This went into the garbage.

Sears had a closeout sale on a more powerful charger with a three year warrant for about 1/2 price. So I bought one.

I speculate that with all of the mods on this rabbit, there are some problems which could be difficult and expensive to fix. The .040 oversize concerns me.

Grey rabbit about goes into warp speed at between 3,500 and 4,000 with the 1.8.

Have a good weekend.

Thursday August 15, 2002 12:46

Don

What is your opinion of what I should do about the air shroud injector connector?

Current opinions include closing it. Leaving it disconnected. And putting a fuel filter over it.

Drew old me that his was connected to both the before side and after side of the throttle body vacuum lines through and electrical vacuum switch.

Raven's book does appear to have anything on this.

Drew's white golf may have been totaled last Friday. A fellow going about 10 mph clipped the left rear while Drew was stopped. The offender got a ticket. And has insurance. So Drew may be shopping for a new bunny.

Yesterday I had lunch with Bruce Hamilton, owner of Shefler-Kahn.

Shefler-Kahn reps Cygnal. We both agreed that USB 1-2 is taking over.

With 5v at 500 ma supplied through the cable, many applications don't require an external power supply.

In Cygnal's new 8051 usb part, there is a 5V to 3.3V regulator on the chip! Some of the new 80C52s will run at 100MHz, Sookram told me.

TI ran the ad

in the August 12 issue of EE Times.

I think it's going to be essential to upgrade to USB communications to be competitive.

Redesign time.

We've all got to listen carefully when Dan speaks!

I continue to recall Dan's statement, "It does work." My impression was that he was expressing his shock.

Time to move on.

Tuesday August 13, 2002 10:32

Don

Here's grey rabbit in the shade at Dalies NM. Temperature was in the mid 90s.

This is the BNSF mainline. Trains, like this, run about every ten minutes.



Here's grey rabbit pondering a mud hole in the middle of the road near Dalies.

It usually rains somewhere on the desert each afternoon during the monsoon seasons [July, August, September] but some places may not seen rain for years.



New Mexicans, of course, solved the problem on getting through the mud hole.

Grey rabbit has so much power it's almost scary.

Letting a kid have a rabbit with a hot 1.8 in it is probably not a good idea. Or even a senior citizen for that matter.

I broke grey rabbit's 1.8 in on Saturday. It got 33.2 m.p.g. which included some 75-80 m.p.h. freeway driving to Cochiti reservoir and back on I25.

No oil or water leaks ... after I replaced the heater hose ... so far.

The 1.8 seems to be very clean. No smoke at all.

Buying an upgrade engine was better alternative to overhauling the 1.7 for a second time.

Later
bill

Friday August 10, 2002 15:15

Don

The fellow who aligned grey rabbit reported that the rack and pinion has problems. Of course, he wanted to replace it.

There is some internal play and if you turn the steering wheel left, it returns to center. Turn right and it doesn't.

The next time the struts go bad, I'll replace the rack and pinion.

The engine has about 250 miles on it. No lifter noise. No blue clouds. Lots more power than the 1.7.

New tires next.

And the trailer hitch finally gets installed.

Here's a photo I took from a restaurant in Seward.

The further north, generally the more spectacular the scenery. On the coast, of course.

Alaska has spectacular mosquitoes inland. My wounds are still healing.

Let's hope everyone is carefully thinking about the technical future. Pci/cardbus, USB 1. - 2.0, digitizing at the sensor, windows, as opposed to DOS, apps, ...

So we all can make a lot of money and have fun too.

Have a good weekend!

Friday August 10, 2002 11:06

Don

Here's the inside of our messy garage during the 1.7 to 1.8 switch. The 1.7 is on the hoist.

Here's the 1989 1.8 Fox engine going in.

And here's what caused the cough in the 150 psi number 4 cylinder.

A blown exhaust gasket!

Here's what I bought

But there is a difference between what should be and what actually is.

I measured the compression before starting the engine.

Ernie at Discount advised driving the car for 300 miles, then recheck the compression.

Grey rabbit has GOBS of power! And the engine is running fairly smoothly after about 230 miles.

I therefore assume that all cylinders are near the astonishing [I'm measuring at 6,020 feet above sea level] high compression of 150 psi!

Low compression causes hard starting. The 1.8 starts real quick.

Here's some Alaska pictures jra requested.

This is Ketichcan, Clover Pass.

Patty and bill camped here. Just behind the building you see here.

See the picture of the dock on their home page.

This is where the above picture was taken.

You can rent a 14 foot outboard for a half day [all you really want] for about $35!

Try for high tide. Fishing is best then!

Here's the Chilkoot river outside of Haines, Ak.

The road side at the left and the bear side at the right.

Fewer people fish the bear side.

23. If you're a hiker, or like to fish, or if you're planning to do anything in the woods while in Alaska, please be safe. The three easiest ways to kill yourself in Alaska are: drinking while boating, leaving the trail, and airplane accidents. Moral: Boat-Smart; Always be prepared to spend a few extra days, let someone know where you're going and how long you'll be gone; and if the weather isn't good, don't go.

Perhaps the most immediate potential for a bad time in the woods is to encounter a bear. Your life may depend on keeping a clear head. Never run from a bear--it could be fatal. You're safest in a group--the more the better. Make plenty of noise while hiking, so you don't surprise any bears; and remember that sound doesn't carry far in the woods. You're safer if the bears know where you are. Bears have poor eyesight and rely on hearing and smell to detect you. Often when they stand up, they're just trying to get a better smell or trying to see where you are. If you should see a bear, don't crowd it; give it plenty of space. Black bears might be scared away by yelling at them but brown bears are completely unpredictable, and you should treat them like you would any serial killer: Get as far away as you can (without running). Make noise and raise your arms to make yourself look bigger.

If charged by a bear, it is best to stand totally still, even if that means peeing in your shorts! Most bear charges are false and the bear will usually pull up a few feet short. This would be a good sign that the bear doesn't want you around, and you should leave as soon as you can, without running.

If you are actually attacked, your best hope is to curl up in a tight ball, covering your head with your arms and play dead. Escape from a brown bear is possible by climbing a very stout tree, since adult brown bears are usually too heavy for tree climbing, but there's no guarantee. Black bears, on the other hand, can climb a tree faster than you can fall out of one. And brown bears can outrun a quarter horse! Pepper spray is a definite must when traveling in bear country, probably much safer and effective than a gun, as the only thing more dangerous than a bear is a wounded bear.

You, of course, can guess which side I fished.

I got four fish on.

3 of the fish ran downstream and took how many yards of 20 lbs Berkeley iron silk line.

I didn't land any. But that's okay. They were kings about ready to spawn.

Here's the Exit glacier of the Harding ice field just out side of Seward.

Here's Patty on one of the AMHS ferries.

AND here's White Ford at the Yukon/British Columbia border!

White ford did 8,040 miles of this trip ... with the left valve bank cough at 1 low altitude, 2 high temperature, 3 more timing advance, and 4 load. And the rear main started leaking. The real world again.

But in the first 3,000 miles, before the oil leak started, white ford only used one quart of oil. And a total of 6 for the entire trip.

I've bought a rear main seal. Then I need to look inside the valve cover to possibly locate a failing spring. Or maybe I'll have to pull the head again. Geech!

The US customs officer on the Alberta boarder asked what year white ford was. Then proceeded to spend about 10 minutes telling me about his 1974 F250 4x4.

He told me 360s have valve problems. Yep!

A long line was forming behind us so we had to proceed!

I'm looking forward to get back to some technical projects.

Our legal projects are going pretty well now that we're in the state appeals and criminal complaint affidavit phases.

On Monday July 29 I had lunch with Cormac Sookram in Austin.

Sookram works for Cygnal, builders of 80C52 SOCs.

Sookram is working on a USB 1.0 chip with on-board 5 to 3.3 power conversion.

We really need to get some pci/cardbus, like what jra suggests, and USB 1.0-2.0 projects started.

USB and 80C52 SOCs are the future!

Thursday June 6, 2002 10:47

Don

Here's white ford at Discount Auto yesterday.

After discussing whether or not to remove all of the R12 with Trey, we decided not to do this. Too many negatives.

The air is working fairly well. The low side checked-out okay, but the high-side was a bit low. So we added one can of R12 at $34/12 ounces.

I learned that in New Mexico people put propane or butane in their air conditions. It works well, Trey told me. The down side is, of course, that it's flamable.

Ernie told me how to replace the valve seals in gery rabbit. Remove cam, take out spark plugs, put compressed air into cylinder. But you need the special tool you have to depress the valve springs.

Discount will lend me a bunch of shims if I decide to do the valves.

I'll do a compression check, then decide what to do.

I'm going to post a really interest USB 1 and 2 cable article soon.

USB is definitely the way to go for a safe future. And will make money too.

I have a lot of legal work to do today. What a project! But it sure is interested.

Morales is getting very annoyed with the feds. So I think we are going to appeal in federal court. It's our right!

White ford got lubed and its fluids checked. So we are about ready to make the long trip northward and up-wind.

What an adventure in a 30 year old truck.

Tuesday June 4, 2002 10:47

Don

Grey rabbit is leaking oil badly. Time to do something. Grey rabbit must be brought into environmental compliance.

It's looking like an Exxon Valdez. 1

I recently heard on the news that about 1/2 the amount of oil spilled by the Exxon Valdez is dumped onto the streets of Los Angeles each year.

Tomorrow I'm going to Discount VW. They will remove the R12 from the air contitioner in white ford, suck-down the system, reintstall the R12 and add whatever is needed.

I'll ask about how to replace the valve guide oil seals at that time.

Litigation is really heating-up. The feds are into the bald-faced lies mode.

Monday June 3, 2002 07:50

Yesterday I bought a load of chamisa to the Eagle Rock transfer station. It was in the high 90s. I started the air conditioner in white ford.

I installed the Sears [ARA] after market air condition in the driveway at 310 Winter in 1972.

The air conditioner started making horrible noises, then only hot air came out.

This caused me concern since we are headed to Alaska very soon.

On return home, I cleaned out the back of the truck, then looked for the air conditioner problem. The belt tensioner came loose! Simple fix!

Many years ago a hose on the air broke. I merely cut it off and reattached it. But I didn't suck-down the system before adding more R12.

Here's the compressor and you can see the new MSD electronic ignition in the background

The local VW recycler offered to suck-down the system for $50. Since it's nice and hot, this is a good time to do this.

How do you keep a 30 year old truck body functioning. Extend and fiberglass!

I just gave it the second coat this morning.

Now on to my next project. Replacing shakes on the south part of our house.

Note the ladder. I just put it up and am doing some calking prior to the shake work.

I got three bundles of shakes. We get nasty winds which removes shakes.

The nasty weather in New Mexico comes out of the south west between July and September. And wrecks shakes.

Morales just phoned. He got three lawyer letters, I got two. We're going to meet at McDonald's to open them at 08:30.

It will be nice to get our legal projects finished. In our favor, of course.

Note our patriotic appeal with Heartland.

611 is coming quick!

Saturday June 1, 2002 09:09

In order to get into the spirit of Alaska, I saw the movie INSOMNIA

last night.

The move was okay.

But Al Pacino character was really stupid.

In one scene Pacino was stacking stuff around a window so he could get some darkness in his motel room. Midnight sun problems.

There is a better solution. For $10 from Eagle Creek.

Patty and I bought two of these.

We all need to seek better solutions. Like digitizing at the sensor.

Friday May 31, 2002 11:01

How do I get into these things?

It's not how you get into these things that's important. It's how you get out of them.

John Sobolewski

Sobolewski's advice might also apply to jra's creative ideas too.

Digitizing at the sensor is a good start.

"There comes a time in the affairs of a man when he has to take the bull by the tail and face the situation." (Tille and Gus)

WC Fields

Do it like others do it.

I have look up the rules on a state appeal this morning. Then write notices that Morales and I will be unavailable from about the second week in June until nearly august.

If all goes as planned, I start getting nice checks from TIAA/CREF for WSU retirement on June 1. Retirement from funds invested from 1966 to 1979 paid-off very well.

Social secuity is there merely to keep senior citizens off the streets. So one should try to have additional sources of income.

Morales and I are working on this!

Morales thinks that the Brown letter may do it to the opposition. Let's hope.

Time to get on to other projects.

Grey rabbit rear main leak is becoming worse!

Yesterday the red OXS led went on. I never saw this before!

Our yellow primrose and purple verbina are in bloom.

Soon the primrose will quit blooming.

This primrose has flowers each morning. By the end of the day they turn yellow/brown.

The verbina came from John Wisniewski's [Johnny Wiz], rest his soul, place in Edgewood, NM.

So lets hope are next projects are as interesting as our last projects. And make good money! Morales and I are more optimistic as time goes on.

We will do more discovery and a rule 11 warning letter.

Litigation is as fun a computer stuff. But both have to be done right.

It was 101 degrees yesterday. About the same today.

I'm planning the grey rabbit post-engine and strut fix break-in trip. To ride the

Cumbres and Tolec narrow guage railroad from Chama to Antonito, then return by bus.

Cumbres and Tolec needs to do some fixing TOO.

Due to right-of-way upgrades currently in progress, the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad will open its 32nd season on Saturday, May 25, with a limited train schedule. For the first few weeks of the season, trains will only depart from Chama, running over 10,015-foot Cumbres Pass to the Los Pinos Valley and return--a round trip of approximately 45 miles.

We expect our full schedule of trains, including departures from Antonito, to resume in mid-June.

I'll camp at the RV campground in Chama. I did that last year when Patty was in Florida.

Us retirees [on 611, Allah willing, of course], litigants, software, and book writers have to keep active!

I hope you get to see Sum of All Fears.

It's opening today.

I read in today's Albuquerque Journal that they nuke Baltimore in the movie. NSA is in Baltimore.

They nuked Denver, home of the Tenth Circuit, in Clancy's book.

Sum of All Fears

AFTERWORD

Now that the tale is told, a few things need to be made clear. All of the material in this novel relating to weapons technology and fabrication is readily available in any one of dozens of books. For reason which I hope will be obvious to the reader, certain technical details have been altered, sacrificing plausibility in the interests of obscurity. This was done to salve my conscience, not in any reasonable expectation that it matters a damn. The Manhattan Project of World War II still represents the most remarkable congregation of scientific talent in human history, never equaled, and perhaps never to be exceeded. The vastly expensive project broke new scientific ground and produced numerous additional discoveries. Modern computer theory, for example, largely grew from bomb-related research, and the first huge mainframe computers were mainly used for bomb design.

Cheers and, of course, keep up-wind

Wednesday May 29, 2002 14:08

Forth and 8051 technology sure made some good money for you guys.

I'm sure wdm technology products will too. Once digitization is done at the sensor, of course.

And 80C52 microcontrollers go between custom electronics and a PC over USB 1/2.0 communications. Standard buses are the only way.

The Tyson chicken model used in PC Data System is also the way to go too. Keep the code in the microcontroller simple and let the PC do the hard work.

Java is a variation of Forth.

Today I read that ARM with its Java accellerator is in a lawsuit with Nazomi as of May 28.

Best to avoid lawsuit, if at all possible. But if forced into one, than Morales and I recommend going pro se. First to achieve visibility, then to get the money.

Don, grey rabbits coolant temperature sensor failed ... like semiconductors do. The output went from normal to zero. $10.90 for a replacement at Foreign Aide.

White Fort was blowing black smoke when cold. I adjusted the fast idle and automatic choke. And got it right!

This morning no black smoke and horrible performance. Good acceleration even when cold.

These adjustment are always a crap shoot. The fast idle adjustment is at the back side of the carb. It takes a mirror to find the fast idle screw.

It's about 90 degrees in abq. New Mexico is in one of the worst droughts since the 1950s.

Hope all is going well.

Later
bill

Monday May 27, 2002 08:44

Saturday I replaced a leaky wheel cylinder on white ford.

Both the tire and brake drum are really heavy. You don't need to remove the wheel from the drum except that both are too heavy.

My next nasty job is to upgrade a 4 gig wd to a 40 gig maxtor. This, of course, is a a risky operation.

I'll try to copy the 4 gig to the 40 gig.

Patty and I went to a party on saturday evening. A lady told me here anti-lock brakes went bad. $1,500 to fix. This computer stuff has some great disadvantages if things don't work right.

I got all of my retirement papers filed. I have lots of VW parts too. The front struts of grey rabbit are in bad shape. You can tell this by the noise when grey rabbit goes over speed bumps.

Also the valve seals need replacing.

VW sent me a recall notice on green 1978 rabbit for valve seals. Green rabbit used about one quart of oil every 300 miles. After seal replacement green rabbit used one quart of oil every 4,000 miles.

The down side of such oil economy is that the valve guides wore out!

I better do the disk upgrade. If I screw up, then this means lots of work!

Friday May 24, 2002 16:13

Another fine day with litigation.

Geocities has problems today.

The Alaska trip got prepaid yesterday.

Pat of the reservations of the Alaska ferry system told me her husband is driving a 1966 Ford from Texas to Alaska.

We paid our Allstate insurance. Barry Rampy prepared a proof of insurance card for us for Canada. New Mexico requires this too. People break into your car to steal these!

New Mexico is very corrupt, as you might guess. But so are lots of other states.

My ph.d. physics consulting partner and I had lunch on Thursday. He is going to lend me his wood materials book when he retrieves it from his cabin.

While computing skills don't require formal education, advanced mathematics and numerical analysis associated with temperature compensation do.

Doing the computation in the PC is a good idea. FORTRAN, required for math computations, is available. So someone with an advanced degree competent to do such computation can do the programming.

We can hook the code into the ring 0 data gathering.

Tomorrow I will fix some sort of a leaking seal on the left rear of white Ford's wheel.

Good exercise.

Have a good and safe memorial day weekend. Up-wind, of course.

Monday May 20, 2002 14:21

In 1998 I bought a Smith and Wesson A22 pistol on a special promotion for about $150. And got about another $20-30 of 22 ammo from Gart Bros.

The gun never shot in the same place. Then the sighting ramp broke. I returned the pistol and S&W replaced both the sighting ramp and slide.

Several weeks ago the frame broke right above the trigger. S&W sent me a free fed ex label to send the gun back.

This time S&W replaced the frame and barrel.

Just like a hammer. Just two problems.

But now it looks like a new gun for the reason it is.

And it shoots well

Nine of the 10 shots hit the target.

Notice the intersting people, like crooked judge John Conway, I get involved with.

The netchip USB 2.0/pci bus 80C52 SOC might be built in Seattle.

It's too expensive both in learning and maintenance to try to support more than one type of microcontoller.

A company can go broke supporting more than one type of microcontroller.

But fortunately the profit-making 8051 clt was done the right way. High-level language and on-board operating system.

Similar reasoning is why Southwest makes lots of money just operating 737s.

Don, I just bought a tie rod end and rubber/plastic shields for the front stuts. Grey rabbit's front end is making horrible noise. Maybe going fast over the washboard road to Dalies, NM to shoot the above groupt caused the problem? Dalies is the middle picture.

I got my steelhead/salmon pole and shimano 6000 reel.

Hopefully I'll be able to get out of town before being nabbed by the FISA court!

Later

Friday May 17, 2002 10:35

All continues to be very exciting on the legal front in New Mexico now that a new lawsuit has been filed.

And we have the attorney general of New Mexico involved at the request of both the Better Business Bureau and chief judge of New Mexico supreme court.

About a mile from us Lowe's is putting in a new store.

Lowe's took apart an entire city block of shops. It looked like the WTC demolition.

About a year later it's almost done.

Here'e two different shots taken this morning.

Grey rabbit's front struts are shot.

Autozone has lifetime warranty struts for $19.99.

Billstein's are $114.

Drew has Billstein's on his Explorer. Not worth the bucks he says.

Autozone is good in that they lend you tool - like spring compressors.

Senior citizens look to have a major effect on the US economy in coming years.

Have a good weekend.

bill

Monday May 13, 2002 11:00

Don

Grey rabbit's valve seals need replacing. So do the struts on at least the front. And, of course, the rear main seal.

Patty is going to Lafayette, Indiana on about the 18th of July. So I'm making plans slowly to disassemble Grey Rabbit at that time.

The Holley-rebuilt carb plus the MSD ignition seem to have solved white ford's problems.

Failure in the middle of Canada would not be good. But I've always met nice people on the road when fixing grey rabbit or white ford.

Speaking of fixing things and slow and careful planning, I hope all is going okay.

I'm thinking of Monday lunch up there. That's always fun.

Look at the Santa Fe phlox in our front yard.

The flox came with the piñon tree.

Here's a picture of the Rio Grande I took last Sunday

Morales and my litigation efforts are going wonderfully.

And I'm now posting senior citizen articles!

Later

Tuesday April 30, 2002 09:51

Let's hope jra is

Not renewing the Numega contract was not a good idea. Time to rethink that one too.

Not a good idea to field obsolete code [version 2.0] when version 2.6 is available.

Unless, of course, one is trying to show the code is failing for some reason.

Fortunately, the 80C52 work is going to pay-off hansomely.

Analog Devices now has an 80C52 system on a chip available too.

Friday April 26, 2002 15:28

Don

Grey rabbit is off probabation tomorrow. Back to jack rabbit starts?

Us seniors have to slow down. I've just got to convince grey rabbit of this.

Alaska trip planning is going well.

I've got to order a shimano stradic 6000 reel, a salmon steelhead pole, and other stuff in preparation for the trip.

I also need to install the trailer hitch. But after the Viton seal is installed.

I hope jra read why one must digitize at the sensor.

Morales and I hope the opposition corrects their problems too.

Have a good weekend.

Tuesday April 23, 2002 14:11

Don

Parts from JC Whitney arrived today.

Look

The little boxes are for the rear strut mounts.

Now for the really important part. Look at the red slash.

Yahoo! Yipee! Cowabunga!

All seals for about $44. Just the Viton rear seal would have cost me $17 from techtonics.

I getting mentally prepared to replace the seal!

I elaborated a bit more on digital sensors. This is definitely they way to go.

The "buy-out" board was an interesting experiment.

I discovered that I needed active military duty to qualify for VA benefits. Small price to pay for not qualifying.

I'm in final stages of applying for senior citizen benefits. The I can spend lots of time on Volkswagens, Fords, USB 1-2.0, pci/cardbus, 80C52 Forth and Basics, writing, and, of course, litigation!

Morales and I are being encouraged to write a book on pro se litigation.

Tuesday April 23, 2002 09:02

Guys,

Dusty made the BIG TIME!

I'm a bit concerned that the concept of remote digitization might require redesign of products.

Especially those where small signals relative to background noise must be processed.

Like zero crossings.

But fortunately clt signals are strong.

Problems are confined to only insignificant low-order bits.

And the digital 8051 clt works outstanding! Because of superior hardware and software technologies, of course!

Most important, it makes lots of money.

So I express my concerns about remote digitization in electrically noisy environments at computersystemsdocmentation.

Litigation is going very well. Now that we understand the differences between a breach of contract and a tort.

I'm arranging an Alaska June trip this morning. Hopefully the stock market won't crash. But I'm not sure about this.

Onward

After correct timing the BLUE CLOUD went away!

Apparently grey rabbit is very sensitive to timing.

I examined my Top Line rebuild gasket set. I see the idler shaft seal. I didn't touch the idler shaft.

My conclusion is that the JC Whitney gasket set did include the rear main seal.

The Whitney gasket set was about the best I've ever had. So I ordered another tonight. I also ordered at clutch disk, front and rear strut mounts.

I tried to order a tie rod assembly. Out of stock. My guess is correct. JC is discontinuing water-cooled VW parts.

Another tragedy.

Budlong will rebuilt a head for Drew for $85 but can't adjust the valve height. No shims. I'll try to get some shims from Discount or Foreign Aide.

As so as I get the gasket set, I'm in the right mental mood to fix the rear main seal.

Grey rabbit's idle is perfectly steady now. For whatever reason, of course, I'm not really sure. The real world again.

Drew just phoned. It definitely need hydraulic lifters. Tray from Discount told me that the thought all the big valves were solid lifters.

Best

bill

Tuesday April 16, 2000 08:36

On friday evening I noticed that the idle rpms were going up and down gradually.

The last time this happened the rubber band which drives the valves broke.

So I hit the panic button on Saturday, bought a new timing belt, idler, and rented a tool to adjust the tensioner.

The timing belt looked okay, but I changed it any way.

I returned the steel idler since I have a neat composite on on it.

But the alternator-water pump belt had problems. See

That's the rented tool inside the belt.

Also the foam pad works well for protecting knees on concrete.

Here's grey rabbit on ramps.

This makes it easier to remove the pulleys.

I ususally use two nails to adjust the belt tension. But this time I decided to do it right ... and got the belt to tight. It made noises. But it only took about 15 minutes to loosen it a bit.

I had to re-time grey rabbit. I couldn't remember whether or not the vacuum should be disconected or not. The neat Bentley manual which both you and I have said that it should not be disconnected.

Here's my jungle removal project

I let chamisa and apache bloom grow for 20 years. This was a mistake. Both take-over.

My next project is to fix the south facing lower part of our roof.

We debated replacing the entire roof with asphalt shingles. But only the south-facing lower part has real problems. So I'm going to repair it and save replacing the entire roof to just before we sell the house.

Drew phoned last night. He is having me buy a '85 golf GTI 40mm valve head from Discount Auto for $100. He is ordering a cam and have it sent here.

He wants Todd Budlong to rebuild the head.

I guess this is better than buying a new head.

I am getting ready to replace the rear main. I successfully, until the clutch slipped, delayed this for three years.

All of this high tech stuff has me a bit concerned about making money with it. It changes too fast for one.

I'm putting this a geocities. Comcast still doesn't have web space available.

Comcast is re-doing the work that Excite did ... and went broke to the tune of $9 billion.

I had to switch html editors since Comcast broke AOLPress.

There is a possibility that Comcast might bite the dust too.

I have some links.

I'll post a neat EETimes article about using PCs for industrial control.

jra's idea was very advanced. Putting an 80C52 between custom hardware and a PC might make things work a bit better and make money!

Back to litigation. I have to write a response today to Walz. Morales and I have to respond to Dow by Friday

Later
bill