Awake: 5:55am Temp 55 sleep 6+00 early light rain overnight @ Nicktown.
Yesterday, when visiting the Foote family, I volunteered to take a Eureka vacuum cleaner & a Microwave oven back to our motorhome in hopes I could get both items working again.
So after breakfast this morning, 1st I tackled the Eureka Bagless vacuum. Melissa's complaint: the beater bar doesn't work & she needs to have that fixed. I was impressed at how clean & good looking this vacuum cleaner was; no marks, scuffs, or signs of heavy use what-so-ever. Inside where the beater bar was located, the motor itself, looked brand new, but there was a circuit board.
I plugged the Eureka in, took some voltage readings on the circuit board & found the voltage going into the motor to be extremely low.....too low for powering the 120 volt motor. With no schematic diagram to do justice, I called Bernie in Johnstown & discussed this circuit board.
Bernie told me that the circuit board is all about protecting the beater bar motor from burning up if & when the beater bar stalled. He didn't encourage me to dig deeper into a repair job on the circuit board or to get a new board. "They've had a lot of trouble with that unit" Bernie told me. So I put it back together & stored it for now, in a waterproof place.
Next, I brush cleaned a plugged up muffler on the Stihl weed whacker; of course I had to test it by whacking some of our own weeds down. So now, it starts easy & has a lot of power. Tomorrow I'll return it to its rightful owner.
Finally, I worked myself up to the Microwave oven; the complaint on this unit: the door won't open when pushing the button. It turns out...I don't have the proper tools to open the casing. I have (1) tool but I don't have the complete set. I'll put the oven aside until I find the proper tool.
(1) more job this afternoon; neighbor Chuck has oil leaking from his oil filling tube on his walk-behind Lawn Boy mower. Just by luck, I had a gasket that fit pretty tight so that job took less than (20) min.
About the same time I was finishing up this project, John B drove in & paid us a visit. John was feeling better today about his new knee & I was happy to hear that. I suggested that he hang around & have a glass of wine with some crackers & cheese which he did, so we sat in the sun & had some good talk time.
Before dinner, Kathy & I went outside & each picked a bowl of wild strawberries.
Dinner: Fish Tacos on whole wheat tortillas.
Almost forgot to mention, while I was outside trying to fix a few things today, Kathy baked (42) peanut butter cookies for the KK & others.
Later evening, we got a surprise call from Mark & Joan in Ohio; we brought each other up-to-date on our kids, grandkids & each other, etc. We even reminisced about the week we spent in our motorhome parked next to their garage & home; a new twist for visiting them.
We really enjoyed our time together as well as the extra touring that we were able to do with the time saved by not having to motor back & forth to a campground. Thanks again you guys, for going the extra mile without us going the extra mile.
Lights out: 12:58am.
Yesterday, when visiting the Foote family, I volunteered to take a Eureka vacuum cleaner & a Microwave oven back to our motorhome in hopes I could get both items working again.
So after breakfast this morning, 1st I tackled the Eureka Bagless vacuum. Melissa's complaint: the beater bar doesn't work & she needs to have that fixed. I was impressed at how clean & good looking this vacuum cleaner was; no marks, scuffs, or signs of heavy use what-so-ever. Inside where the beater bar was located, the motor itself, looked brand new, but there was a circuit board.
I plugged the Eureka in, took some voltage readings on the circuit board & found the voltage going into the motor to be extremely low.....too low for powering the 120 volt motor. With no schematic diagram to do justice, I called Bernie in Johnstown & discussed this circuit board.
Bernie told me that the circuit board is all about protecting the beater bar motor from burning up if & when the beater bar stalled. He didn't encourage me to dig deeper into a repair job on the circuit board or to get a new board. "They've had a lot of trouble with that unit" Bernie told me. So I put it back together & stored it for now, in a waterproof place.
Next, I brush cleaned a plugged up muffler on the Stihl weed whacker; of course I had to test it by whacking some of our own weeds down. So now, it starts easy & has a lot of power. Tomorrow I'll return it to its rightful owner.
Finally, I worked myself up to the Microwave oven; the complaint on this unit: the door won't open when pushing the button. It turns out...I don't have the proper tools to open the casing. I have (1) tool but I don't have the complete set. I'll put the oven aside until I find the proper tool.
(1) more job this afternoon; neighbor Chuck has oil leaking from his oil filling tube on his walk-behind Lawn Boy mower. Just by luck, I had a gasket that fit pretty tight so that job took less than (20) min.
About the same time I was finishing up this project, John B drove in & paid us a visit. John was feeling better today about his new knee & I was happy to hear that. I suggested that he hang around & have a glass of wine with some crackers & cheese which he did, so we sat in the sun & had some good talk time.
Before dinner, Kathy & I went outside & each picked a bowl of wild strawberries.
Dinner: Fish Tacos on whole wheat tortillas.
Almost forgot to mention, while I was outside trying to fix a few things today, Kathy baked (42) peanut butter cookies for the KK & others.
Later evening, we got a surprise call from Mark & Joan in Ohio; we brought each other up-to-date on our kids, grandkids & each other, etc. We even reminisced about the week we spent in our motorhome parked next to their garage & home; a new twist for visiting them.
We really enjoyed our time together as well as the extra touring that we were able to do with the time saved by not having to motor back & forth to a campground. Thanks again you guys, for going the extra mile without us going the extra mile. Lights out: 12:58am.
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