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I took the time to disassemble the button and clean it with contact cleaner and got rid of any moisture and hiding fuzz. Circuit board was clean. Little bit of rust/corrosion on battery terminals. Used a brass brush to get them clean and sprayed the battery terminals down with a bit of WD, dried...

The little blue tooth button that controls our Culligan RO Water system is on its way out. The rest of the system works great. Installed it in 2017 and at the most have just had to install batteries. The button display freezes, does not trigger the unit to send RO water to the tap or won’t...

Everything on the South rim was open. North Rim is closed from the fires last year

We got there Friday around lunch. Nice drive from Vegas. Took Rt66 across for some

Took the wife to the Grand Cqnyon for her Birthday. Thought it was supposed to be warm in the desert. Woke up to 28 with a windchill that felt like 14. Took the train in. Great trip!

Came home and the Mrs was making stuffed cabbage. I spied the left over cabbage and that was dinner. Boiled cabbage, butter parmisian cheese and some fresh cracked black pepper. Now bettter go make the spare bed up because I’m an hour I will be banned

Looking to do a hydraulic fluid drain and fill on my log splitter. Figured I could go off the label on the splitter but it states to use only ISO VG 32, 46 or ATF. Pretty sure it is not ATF since it is clear but how do I tell 32 from 46 and the answer is not is it 14 different. The manual is...

55 and sunny in Feb? Took the opportunity to split the red oak I dropped back in the fall. B3200 FEL makes light work of getting the rounds up to the splitter

Wel. Went to start up all the equipment his morning and noticed blue fluid by the wheel of the B3200. Looks like I have a leak around the rim. Now I have to figure out out how to get all the washer fluid out, clean and reseal that rim.

On my B1700 I got burned by a voltage drop across the safety switches. They all worked and ohm’d out properly but I was dropping around 4 volts across 3 switches which prevented the starter solenoid from engaging. Check you have 12V in to that solenoid. Installed a relay and no starting issues...

Dinner tonight. Beef Ribs braised in red wine, rosemary, carrots and tomato’s. Served over home made egg noodles with some fresh grated parmigiana cheese and a side of sourdough bread.

Make sure you get the right gift cards for payment. I would start with Buckey’s. Require them to provide an initial payment of 25% in bitcoin to show their good faith before you flash the Buckey’s gift cards. If that doesn’t work, throw in a 25% off coupon from Harbor Freight.

When down to the road and started gravel cleanup. The neighbor had someone with a snow box plow his drive and they deposited about a yard of stone from his drive in to the ditch blocking the culvert. I dug it out and used the bucket on the B3200 to carry it out and top dress some of the shared...

Did drift/pile management on Sunday. Looking at those 7’ blades on smaller tractors than mine has me thinking. I’d also like to do the angled chute to get more throw out of the blade. My issue is once I get 12-14 on the ground I have created a sunken path that is hard to get snow flung out of...

Couple inches of snow and strong winds made it time for some bucket work with the B3200