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Rescheduled my launch. June 6. That's painfully, embarrassaingly late.

No excuse not to get my varnish dealt with, I suppose.

Why so ?

Because of the cabin sole ?

I seem to have accidentally posted this twice...

Well, my original launch date was the 11th. There was no way I was going to make that date, cabin sole or no. Unfortunately, the 6th of June was the first day after the 26th of May (Heather's graduation) that he could put me in.

You posted twice because it's doubly embarrassing, apparently!

What will be embarrassing is if your varnish isn't in prime condition by launch time this year. No excuse now.

I'll see your bumped launch date and raise you a REALLY embarrassing bonehead move;

I finally got around to setting the idle with the new fuel system. Well, TRYING to set the idle. I couldn't get it to idle below 1100. As soon as it dropped to anything approaching an idle speed, it would just cut out and die. After a bunch of headscratching, thinking that the idle jet couldn't POSSIBLY be plugged ALREADY, it occurred to me that perhaps I had the oil pressure regulator set too low, that insufficient pressure at idle was cutting power to the fuel pump.

but then.... wait a sec... I remember sucking the oil out last fall. Did I ever refill it?

NO.

[looks at the ground and shakes head while muttering incomprehensibles...]

Better box up your new A4 Tim...

Luckily we are talking Atomic Fours and they don't really need little details like lubrication. Since you didn't REALLY start cussing I am going to assume the engine is okay.

Based on a work history in aviation I have learned... Always, always, always, check the oil before starting the engine. After years and years of training it has become just a habit of mine to randomly pull up dipsticks and check them. One of my many charming quirks now.

Figment wrote:I'll see your bumped launch date and raise you a REALLY embarrassing bonehead move...

but then.... wait a sec... I remember sucking the oil out last fall. Did I ever refill it?

NO.

D'oh!

Nathan had a unique (and effective) way of remembering to re-add oil to his engine the other winter. He might have a picture, though it's not necessarily family-oriented.

bcooke wrote:Based on a work history in aviation I have learned... Always, always, always, check the oil before starting the engine.

Are you saying that if you only discover there's no oil after you're airborne that it might be a bit of a problem?

Ah, Britton and his charming quirks!

No, no lasting damage of course. There was enough oil in the sump to make 25psi at 1500rpm. The only way to change ALL the oil from an A4 is to pull the cover plate from the gearbox, and I've never been THAT motivated.

Interesting to note that the engine would REALLY have to bugger itself in order for the oil pressure safety switch to come into play.

Tim wrote:Nathan had a unique (and effective) way of remembering to re-add oil to his engine the other winter. He might have a picture, though it's not necessarily family-oriented.

I don't have a very good picture. But maybe you can see what my note says in this image here:

Yeah, that'll work.

Figment wrote:Yeah, that'll work.

;-D

That'll work, until your son starts reading. Then your wife will make you edit it.

The sacrifices we make for our families!

I'm a glutton for punishment.

I am without speech.

I'm sorry, did your eyes melt from their sockets?

I might've warned you to don a welder's helmet before viewing that pic.

Ahhh, a gravitationally stabilized horizontal storage system with both a frequency of use matrix and and a materials integration factor that is off the charts. Amazing!! The department of Mad Scientry sends you a humble accknowledgement of your greatness. we would kneel in garthian unworthyness if we could find our floor through the junk strewn about the head quarters.

r

Wildly busy, stressful day at work - yet I'm still laughing out loud as I read this.

Thanks,

Rachel

If not for you, then do it for us. Wear this before you go below.

Hey Fig, what are you doing aboard my boat?

Today old oil came out, and new oil went in.

It CAN learn.

Fun dredge! Did you get sopped with rain while you were at it?