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| Post# 79217 8/24/2009 at 22:13 (5,357 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
Take a seat...oh, you already are sitting. :-) Well, as usual, I'll take my time, spinning yarns, getting around to my title's subject... So, the sunny day did not dawn and it was overcast most of the day. Cancelled the boat trip and worked on a special project that's been on the back burner for almost 3 years. Then I went to Zellers for the Monday Senior Discount for lunch & stuff. You only have to be 55 to get the Senior's discount. My lunch today - Fish & Chips with a lemon wedge, coleslaw, gravy and a tall glass of real lemonade - $5.79 before tax. That's 3 pieces of battered mystery fish - I ate one already. On a Fish shaped plate, no less! yummy and fun. 
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| Post# 79218 , Reply# 1 8/24/2009 at 22:30 (5,357 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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My special project that took 3.5 hours this morning? You know I love my 1998 Subaru GT Ltd wagon and keep it in as nice condition as humanely possible, doing most of my own maintenance. With all this talk about clunkers and my decision to next purchase a lease return 2006/7 Subaru GT 2.5i turbo there is one major flaw I've been meaning to attend to...for 3 years now. Back when I first got this car after a year or two I returned one day from the Mall to find someone had backed in to my rear end with something sharp and pointy (stop that!) and somehow pierced the lightbar lense that runs across the tailgate between the main rear lights. I covered the hole with clear packing tape patch which gets renewed every autumn, to keep the moisture out. Fast forward 1 year. When I did grievous damage to my rear passenger door while helping a friend move I backed into a fire hydrant with the door open, putting a clever hand sized fold-in on the rear edge but more seriously, popped the door skin enough so the rear window wouldn't seal properly. Fixed that by clamping the door skins in a padded C clamp and pressed the structure back in alignment - window seal restored. At the same time I had my body shop order me in a used salvaged rear tailgate lens to replace the broken one, someday. Now I know what delayed that project - The wiper motor must be removed to access 2 of 8 nuts holding the lens in place. The nut on the outside glass side was frozen and I had basically rounded off the nut trying to get it off that first time. Today I sourced a metric socket that would fit the nut after I dremel-tooled the nut back to a hexagonal shape, dowsed it liberally in anti-seize and levered the dang thing free. Whew. 
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| Post# 79219 , Reply# 2 8/24/2009 at 22:32 (5,357 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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| Post# 79220 , Reply# 3 8/24/2009 at 22:33 (5,357 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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| Post# 79221 , Reply# 4 8/24/2009 at 22:35 (5,357 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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| Post# 79222 , Reply# 5 8/24/2009 at 22:37 (5,357 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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| Post# 79223 , Reply# 6 8/24/2009 at 22:48 (5,357 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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It has always bothered me that with an all-the-way-across red lens light bar that it doesn't light up all the way across. Without going into boring tedious detail of how I did it, I installed two 12" red 14volt cold cathode computer case lamps in the center section of the lightbar in a mildly curved space only 3/4" wide behind the SUBARU letters. Neatly spliced the transformers into the wiring harness disconnects. These are the same computer case lights I use in blue under my dashboard and rear seats to illuminate the floor in an all black interior at night. You know, when you drop something while driving and can't find it? I also use the white version of these 12" cold cathode lamps in my roll scanner to shine through the paper perforations on to the Contact Image Sensor. I have a pair of green ones inside my mainframe's window 'cause it looks so Steven King creepy and makes me smile. But Red ones are very hard to find anymore. i had a pair set aside for exactly this application. I've been using these lights in the car for over 5 years so obviously freezing or hellish temperatures don't affect them. So now, when I turn to the headlight setting, the whole rear end of my Subaru looks like no other Subaru on the hiway. It's just purty. 
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| Post# 79224 , Reply# 7 8/24/2009 at 22:50 (5,357 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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| Post# 79225 , Reply# 8 8/24/2009 at 22:55 (5,357 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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| Post# 79226 , Reply# 9 8/24/2009 at 23:06 (5,357 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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Then I stopped by Goodwill and found these. 4 packages of 4, unopened. Also 59 cents each. Here we have a 'model' of dubious style and posture. Gawd, a miniskirt in rough polyester upholstery tweed. ouch, she's clashing with the carpet. This horsey gal really should have left her bra on, methinks. Don'tcha just wanna pull her shoulders back and tell her to stand up straight for the camera? But at least she has the good sense to have both an upright and a canister for her housekeeping chores... That was my day...other than grocery shopping, renewing prescriptions, laundry, vacuuming out the car, snoozing with the cats and making a fine dinner of grilled salmon steaks with rice, asparagus, chocolate milk and now, rainbow gelato sherbet before bed. Dave 
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| Post# 79234 , Reply# 10 8/25/2009 at 03:08 (5,357 days old) by ohio_tuec () | ||
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Love that last package. From right here in good old Jamaica, New York :-) Wonder where they were located? | ||
Post# 79243 , Reply# 13 8/25/2009 at 06:21 (5,357 days old) by arh1953  ( River Park, in Port St. Lucie, Florida) |
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Not just any old bags | ||
| Post# 79324 , Reply# 15 8/26/2009 at 12:06 (5,356 days old) by portable (Corvallis, OR) | ||
Love those wall-to-wall lights!
Dave - I've often thought the same thing about those Subarus! Why have a lens that goes all the way across if you aren't going to light the durn thing? You did a great job. THAT will wake up the tailgater behind you on the road!!! PS: I guess the modeling agency was out of "A" models the day they dug up Ms. Home Care Products. Yes, I DO want to just wrench her shoulders backward. Maybe she knew that she had to hunch to fit below that slanted corner on the package! John L. | ||
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