Comics, Macs, RAID, Linux, Gentoo, some science and a dash of atheism. No longer a wet lab molecular biologist, I now work for MacVector, Inc.
In a farewell to a fairly decent summer we gathered around the fire pit. It was actually the first of the year. For most of 2022 the heatwave and drought made garden fires irresponsible. But whereas the drought is still a worry, the recent rain means it’s at least safe and we had not used our popcorn popper gift at all this year.
I changed the fuel filters on Nora. The port engine is a 4.270d as opposed to the starboard one is just a 4.270. Apparently both are marinesed combine harvester engines. 1960 and 1961.
The manual pump is different on this side. It’s a plastic cylinder than unscrews then acts as a piston. It took 170 pumps to bleed both filters from empty.
The filters even have little handles to pull out.
It took 10 minutes in total to change both filters, Bleed them and start the engine.
I did not replace the o rings.
The plant that recovered:
The plant that was not affected:
The plant that is still afflicted.
Zoomed into the afflicted plant
It was one of the most gorgeous sunsets I’ve seen for a while last night.
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I had to go pick up some furniture that I’d bought online yesterday morning. It was so nice I ended up talking the dog for a walk along Aldeburgh beach.
The sculpture on the beach is pretty cool.
I do neglect this blog badly. Still blogging about our latest building project though.