A Few things going on at Casa De Garabaldi.....
One thing that I did was buy a car cover for "My Precious", since I am not driving her as much since I am driving the Focus a lot more, I have had problems with Dead Battery, and I went to Harbor Freight looking for a "Trickle" charger and found one...
Started the Install process,
I like Zip Ties, Keeps things neat.
This shows the actual plug, it matches the plug I use for my Motorcycle trickle charger.
Completed the install, Now to dig out the actual charger....
Plugged it in...
This I did several weeks ago.
When the weather warmed up a bit, I pulled the cover off of "My Precious" so I could check the charge and saw this
Battery was at full charge, I moved the trickle charger and cranked up the truck and let her idle for 20 minutes while I was doing some yard work and cleaning up some yard debris. Got done and covered the truck back up.
I was trying to repair the battery jump box that I have, My son had manage to get one of the clamps broken while it was in his charge....Get it.....Charge....I will be here all week, try the veal and tip the wait staff. Well any way I was going to try to repair the clamp...
Well I had folded a piece of metal at work and I was going to try to see if I could use it to "Brace" the clamp over the break...
Well it work initially.......But I then used a dremel to trim some excess metal and destroyed the structural rigidity that was necessary to make it work.....crap. So Plan B
Yeah......Amazon.....I had gone to Harbor Freight and to several Auto Parts stores looking for clamps large enough and there were none available....Now I could have bought a Jumper Cable and destroyed it and took the clamp...but wanton destruction ain't my thing....so I went to Amazon.
Finished it......Finally Kept the box with the "Negative" clamp in case I need it.Meanwhile I had bought a oil filter for my daily driver...Remember this one..?
Yeah, one of those.....I bought one of those 6 months ago and paid $7 bucks for the filter, well I bought a filter last night and it cost me dang near $10 bucks.....Jeez "Lets Go Brandon"
This was a temporary install to facilitate maintenance and we of course made sure that it was labeled appropriately so there was no doubt.
Got rid of my Cub Cadet today, the only good thing about that mower is the motor, I got tired getting nickel-ed and dimed by it. I have to decide in the spring to either fork over 2 grand for another riding mower and deal with the associated maintenance cost like fuel, blades, oil, ete,ete or have a lawn service cut my grass, I have to weigh the pro's and cons, basically do a cost analysis. In the past I thought it was strange to have someone do something that I am perfectly capable of doing, but after dealing with this lawnmower the past year, I can understand why people pay someone else.
laid out the .45
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