Friday July 12, 2024 Guerneville CA.
Metal rack work
I worked on this project for a couple hours today. I cut the rest of the pipe shelves and ground them down a bit to make them smooth and remove some rust to make them easier to weld.
I cut the last little pipes for the shelves.
Neighbor’s diesel problem
My neighbor came over with his parts to show me what he found when he got the stuff apart. Seems a small spring was missing on the throttle linkage and is now likely down in the engine crankcase.
I also talked to him about how to test the fuel injection pump and the throttle linkage in a vice. This way one can test the unit to make sure it’s all working right before trying it in the machine again as when the parts are in the machine, it’s hard to see what is going on.
I hadn’t realized the little spring might be in the crankcase yet, so in the evening I walked over to the neighbor’s place to see if I could find the little spring as it would of fallen out when he took off the cover the throttle linkage was in when he removed it. I looked but no spring and it looked like it might have gone down a hole that went into the crankcase where all the oil was, so he’ll have to get a new spring.
Headed home
Heading back to my place, I crossed this little creek.
I noticed his horse was standing over by the teepee.
Looks like a nice horse, I wonder if I can ride it.
Looks like I could ride it, but not go very far.
As I passed by the teepee, I thought I saw someone inside so I had a look.
I didn’t expect to find this Indian maiden in there. I guess I should of knocked.
Power out
About an hour before dark, I was in the house when I heard a big bang outside and all the power in the house went out.
I could see this red light flashing on this pole from my window. That was new, I’d never seen it before. This is the pole that the big fuse just blew out on that made the big bang.
Eventually, the power guy showed up and after he came down from the pole I asked about the new red light. He said it was a new thing to help them find the bad stuff faster and said the power is out past this pole but the rest of the line would come back on in a minute as soon as he called the main office. Fortunately, I’m on the part that came back on.
Nice day.
Something happened on beyond you to fault the line, and the fuses blew to shut down the power. A recloser somewhere (towards the sub station that feeds you) opened up and shut down the power to the whole circuit. That is what caused you to lose power. They have the reclosers set to remain open in the summertime to reduce the possibility of a fault causing a fire. Probably in the wintertime, the recloser would have worked as it is designed to and you would still have had power, but it would have been off past you because of the blown fuses. They would have to find the fault before they could re-fuse and turn the power back on beyond you. You can see the blown fuses hanging down to the left of the transformer in your picture. The flashing red light sure makes it easier to find blown fuses, especially at night.
Yes, that’s pretty much what the guy said. He said in fire season a blown fuse shuts down the whole circuit and deosn’t get reset until they check it out. I hadn’t realized it worked that way.
Thanks,
Bob