It was cool out today as I got it going so when I went outside I wasn’t into doing too much except sitting around.
I did feed the chickens and then let them out to graze while I sat around looking for that sun that never did show up.
Need to improve my Wi-Fi
I puttered around and had a look at my wireless stuff and decided I might as well get some network cable and fix things up by running a cable out to the chicken coop. I stepped off the distance from my computer to the chicken coop. I figure 175 feet should do it.
I got on the computer and ordered some up from Amazon.
Today’s main goal
My main goal today was to get some work done on my brake repair job on the Toyota. But it was in a cool damp spot so I had a hard time getting started on it.
Around 3 I finally got to it and was making progress when my hand vacuum pump came apart. I tried to repair it but it just kept coming apart.
Remembered my electric vacuum pump
I remembered that I have a vacuum pump. Doesn’t everyone have one of these things like me. Maybe I’m just weird but a vacuum pump is a neat toy.
That didn’t work out
The only problem is I haven’t used it since some time in the 1990’s. I hooked it up and turned it on. It had a hard time starting but finally got going.
The only thing was it wouldn’t pull a vacuum.
Water in the oil
After a bit I pulled the oil drain and drained the pump oil and what I got first was rusty water which wasn’t a good sign. I have more vacuum oil so I drained things out and refilled the pump with new oil.
Here’s the vacuum pump getting some new blood.
Disappointing
I turned it on and was disappointed it still didn’t work. I wasn’t into taking it apart further at this time as I wanted to get some brake work done.
Adjusting the brakes
Since I’d bleed the brakes some I needed to continue adjusting the shoes manually so I worked on that to see if I could get some brake pedal. I worked on that until after dark and stopped at 7.
The way they made things it was real hard to get the brake adjusters to turn as there wasn’t much room to get the adjuster tool into the spot it had to get into. The brake adjuster tool was just too big so I got a very small wrench about a one quarter inch one and used it as a pry bar to turn the brake adjuster. It worked a bit better than the brake adjusting tool but was still difficult that’s why I didn’t get done until 7 PM.
Brakes are looking good
When I checked the brake pedal I had some brakes without pumping the pedal so things are looking up. No spongy brakes either. I have enough brakes now to get the tires back on so I can move it and then I need to see what I can do to repair the muffler a bit.
That was my day and good go get that part of the brakes done.
Nice to get a few of those things done, getting the brakes fixed is a real good thing too.
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There are over a hundred pictures that are served up randomly every time you visit or change pages. They are of earlier pictures of interest and also some just to remind me of things.
A Sony AX33 4K, a video camera that takes stills too. What am I doing with that? I take pictures from my Kayak a lot. I found I was missing interesting shots, because my pic was being processed in my camera, before it would let me take another pic. Since I like to take what I call action stills, I bought this camera to take videos, that I could make stills out of, but, as a bonus, this camera also came with buttons to just take stills and that's what I mostly do, unless something is real interesting or too far away for my still zooms. My digilat zoom setting for video goes to two hundred x, and sometimes I need that, but usually, I only use the 10x lens zoom. Because this camera is HD and 4K, the quality has to be real good and it has a lot of stabilizers on it which really helps out a lot for taking pics on the water.
The other thing it has that is a must is a view finder and I had to buy Sony's top of the line cam to get it. This is a must for taking pics on the water, as you must hold the camera as still as posible and putting that eye piece to the eye forms a tripod with your arms that helps a lot. The eye piece is also a must as it works way better than a LED screen to see what you are taking a picture of in the daylight as the LED screens wash out easily in sunlight.
I also have another video camera, a Canon VIXIA G30. I use them both to mostly take stills. The Sony takes higher resolution stills than the G30. That was a bit of a disappointment as I bought the G30 to replace an older camera I dunked in the river, but then had to buy the Sony to get higher still picture resolution that the G30 was lacking.
Nice to get a few of those things done, getting the brakes fixed is a real good thing too.