What Cheered You Up Today? (2 Viewers)

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My neighbors across the street are in their late 80's and are wonderful people. Talking with them the other day I found that both their cars were not operational. Their main vehicle, a 2005 Ford Explorer, refused to crank. They had replaced the battery and then removed the starter and had it tested; it checked out fine. Finally they made an appointment to have the vehicle towed to the Ford dealer and repaired but they could not get to it until 22 Sep - and they scheduled it at least 10 days ago. Then the older pickup truck that they used little developed a water leak in a location where it would be very difficult to repair.

It bothered me that they had no car. I told them they could borrow one of mine and then yesterday I went over and started troubleshooting. Sure enough, the car just went "Thunk" when you tried to start it. I did some research on the Internet and went back this morning. I suspected that the transmission linkage was loose, leading to the system not being able to tell if the car was in Park, a known problem with those vehicles. But being able to see the linkage was impossible without some dismantling, Finally I crawled under the car and found that the power lead to the starter solenoid was good but the connection to the starter itself was very loose and in fact lacked a nut to hold it on the stud. Those cars have a history of poor connections to the starter and that had likely been the original problem When my neighbor took the starter off to have it tested the nut securing the power lead had gotten lost. I put a locknut on it.

The car started fine. Then we took the Right front wheel off to allow better access to one of the new spark plugs, which had not been tightened enough.. I used a spark plug thread clean out tool to help that. Finally the car is all back together and running well. Hooray!

And the parts I needed for my airplane got delivered today; they were not even supposed to be shipped until Monday!
 
Got out to a local model show, lots of good models, lots of good vendors, and I got my build for GB-54 Pacific Theatre. This is the Hasegawa A6M5 Zero and I picked up an Aircraft Pictorial "Aircraft Painting Guide" from Dana Bell and signed by him.
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Instant gratification vs research, construction, adjustment, paint, decals, weathering, base...
Agreed! I have about 125 sheets of decals for IJNAF and IJAAF aircraft. Just need the aircraft. I find I always look for aircraft I can paint that suit my decal collection. Today I was looking for two Tachikawa Ki-36 planes to apply some interesting paint schemes.
 

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