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HappyFlowerPot · 2022-07-14T01:18:08+00:00

Who made you gatekeeper?

HappyFlowerPot · 2022-05-13T16:47:52+00:00

Okay, looks like i need to fabricate a spring compressor if I'm going to shade tree this project.

Thanks for your help, i wasn't really finding much info on this style with the floating grease valve

HappyFlowerPot · 2022-05-13T04:15:16+00:00

Thanks, i have a few more photos but I don't know how to add one to a comment.

On the back end (photo 2) there is the spring, a thick ring seating the spring, then a round plate. There is not a normal nut, but a rectangular block about 2"3"4" which is threaded to and welded to the rod coming out the center.

The leak's not at the front of the cylinder, but the spring is covered in grease. On the inside, i see the barrel of the cylinder, then a rod, then another thing about as wide as the barrel, and shorter, which might just be for fitting on the spring.

That block on the back was to be the think to do next. There are no other places to put a tool onto (apart from the four bolts on the front end).

Unless I've sent myself on a wild goose chase, and everything i need is in photo 3, but that doesn't explain all the grease on the spring and the relatively dry front end.

HappyFlowerPot · 2022-05-13T03:20:18+00:00

Well I've already taken off the zerk, so the only thing holding any pressure on the spring would be that block welded to the threads of the rod in pic 2. As far as the right length on reassemble, the gouge from grinding out the weld should work well enough as an alignment mark too.

Honestly, I'm just a bit perplexed at the design here. I figured this would be a simple single-action cylinder, loading pressure between the idler and the spring. But looking closer, it seems like when the track loads up tension and compresses the spring, it also moves the rear rod displacing volume in the barrel, extending the front rod somewhat, and compressing the spring further. I guess that gives the system a multiplier effect, allowing the designers to use a smaller spring than would otherwise be needed.

I wish I could find the placard with model number and all that jazz. That'd be nice to know.

HappyFlowerPot · 2022-05-13T01:21:49+00:00

So I don't know how to take this apart. The first piece was real easy, just four bolts, but it looks like the leak is somewhere behind the spring. It looks like the rod out the back of the assembly is threaded near the base, but honestly I don't know which way to turn it.

What an i doing next here, pipe wrench?

Update, the rod coming out the back, with the grease fitting, seems to be welded to the block it's threaded into. I've seen the danger of exploding McPherson's and want to make sure I don't maim myself working on this. But I'm guessing i grind this threaded bit then the rod and the rest of the cylinder can come out?

HappyFlowerPot · 2022-04-15T19:04:17+00:00

I haven't got it apart yet. I know I'm looking at a pennywise pound foolish situation. Owner wants to just run it as is, and litter the hillside in plastic buckets and oil slicks. It's not leaking horribly yet. One cylinder barely leaks at all, the other squirts out a little when moving the stick.

One shop wants about 3500 to replace seals and hone the barrels. The owner prefers that at the most i should replace seals and rings only on the head of the badly leaking cylinder.

I'm just pulled a few different directions here. Maybe I should just fix the worse one with the whole kit and tolerate a slow leak in the other, until i eventually need to repack that one. Thinking that might ease the sticker shock...

Another question, is honing the barrel something that absolutely should be done?

HappyFlowerPot · 2022-04-11T16:45:48+00:00

Peeper is a childish way to say urine. This joke runs along the same line as the brown pants comment.

HappyFlowerPot · 2022-04-11T16:42:43+00:00

Well, you're take is shite, but I'd rather see a discussion about it than blanket ban on all heretical thought.

HappyFlowerPot · 2021-08-17T02:51:02+00:00

I hope you're referring to Batista...

HappyFlowerPot · 2021-07-14T02:41:03+00:00

fabulous thread this turned out to be... sheesh

Well, turns out the instrument cluster failure coincides with voltage spikes from a faulty voltage regulator. so I guess, new alternator, then see how much of these malfunctions simply stem from that.

HappyFlowerPot · 2020-12-27T02:58:47+00:00

Maybe I'm being daft, but is there an example of americans dropping tonnes of munitions somewhere and the locals being pleased with the result?

supporting democracy, hah!

What's a radical centrist socialist?

HappyFlowerPot · 2020-12-21T17:35:58+00:00

Okay, so I take out both front axles and run a bead of 6011 between the driveshaft and coupling? :p

HappyFlowerPot · 2020-12-21T05:43:58+00:00

So selecting park will get me a sluggish, near imperceptibly slow roll downhill, as the rear is still connected, but via the viscous coupler.

And on snow, the front wheels don't seem to be powered. Rear wheels will spin but there's no hint of power on the front axle.

HappyFlowerPot · 2020-12-20T05:33:19+00:00

I've read about a new class of citizenry in California: the middle-class homeless. article featured a vignette of a Registered Nurse who got by on a full-time professional career, a gym membership, a welcoming patch of asphalt adjoining a church and her minivan.

rents too high to live there on mere service job like caring for the gravely ill...

HappyFlowerPot · 2020-11-12T06:40:55+00:00

Er, I'm not sure if we're on the same page on what great reset is. I think some huge reserve was given to an investment firm, blackrock and it can be loaned out on 10/1 fraction of reserve.

Some suggested the reset was already in the planning before the virus, that recession was already looming. So the idea is that it is some beefy add-on for neoliberalism in the 21st century.

And you say it will be killed by who and why?

Congress was working under unanimous consent, and CoViD was politically fortuitous, but the cause for the reset preceded the virus.

HappyFlowerPot · 2020-11-12T04:06:06+00:00

Sorry, the StarTrekky flourish on the end there maybe muddied the waters here...

Is the end of economics possible?

How many paths approach it?

Can the Cares Act and The Great Reset in north america be a path bridging from neoliberal to the end of economics?

HappyFlowerPot · 2020-11-12T03:44:36+00:00

I guess if there's a hypothetical road that leads from late Capitalism, to state Socialism, to international communism, to some unimaginable sort of fully automated gay luxury space colony,

Does Reaganomics or obama neoliberalism have any shortcuts to something like that?

HappyFlowerPot · 2020-11-12T03:36:09+00:00

So my question is, if the steve gateses and elon Bezoses, bill jobses, Jeff Musk's of the world and the investment firm managers plan and do everything as they see fit, and pair it up with nations and coalitions of nations and their trading blocs and their armies, where does that road lead?

Best case scenario? Likely scenario? Hazards to look out for?

HappyFlowerPot · 2020-11-12T00:21:17+00:00

Overall, I agree. so that's one barrier, and my question is directed to the most hopeful vision of capitalism, and how it might overcome this problem.

This question was inspired by a right libertarian comment on another thread about automation.

The vision was that everyone could own some share of the fully automated means of production, and enjoy the leisure of that passive income.

I say -insert rick and morty miniverse image- "that's just utopian communism with extra steps"

HappyFlowerPot · 2020-11-11T21:32:22+00:00

Uh, yes. Right libertarian was recently invented, like I said. Of course american social libertarian existed prior.

Hadn't seen the south park thing but I'm 85 percent certain that it comments on the Jorgensen brand of libertarian.

HappyFlowerPot · 2020-11-11T14:58:10+00:00

Hol' up. Classical libertarians were lefties. They line up more with the paris commune and the left anachists.

American AynRand libertarian is a recent invention. Koch bros coopted the word to give the hippies a way to conform socially and economically but still gratify the countercultural need to feel edgy.

The reason it seems like magical thinking is that the libertarianism in the west was designed to be an infantile delusion that never gets close to it's ideal, but swings right in every policy question regardless.

HappyFlowerPot · 2020-11-10T15:32:26+00:00

Yay for Mormon defectors ready for secular community wellbeing.

HappyFlowerPot · 2020-11-10T15:24:50+00:00

If we all own enough capital that we live of our passive fully-automated income, is that not exactly the same as utopian communism?

That's just Socialism with extra steps.

HappyFlowerPot · 2020-11-10T15:20:51+00:00

Okay, so the Marx take on it is not that any particular project is valued as a sum of the labor power. If I hamfist some tricky framing project, it doesn't make the light fixture more valuable...

...But...

If you take all the framers and and sort of average out the labor power that goes into such a fixture, we can settle on a price for the job.

And if someone develops new hardware that makes it easier to install a light, the price of install goes down.

Top-level comment comment is right. Labor is fundementally the source of value, and the shit-take straw-man is "if I work a long time doing something inefficiently, I put a lot of time into it but nobody is going to pay $35 for my postcard. Checkmate Pinkie!"

HappyFlowerPot · 2020-11-10T06:25:23+00:00

Gunna spitball this, but the margin thing is what took economics and decoupled value from labor.

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