{"id":15115,"date":"2013-12-18T11:28:01","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T05:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/?p=15115"},"modified":"2013-12-18T11:28:01","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T05:28:00","slug":"windy-but-nice-and-warm-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/2013\/12\/18\/windy-but-nice-and-warm-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Windy but nice and warm today"},"content":{"rendered":"

Again I have been remiss in posting what goes here\u2026 That\u2019s ok cause I have been busy\u2026 A little more than a week ago I got the garage floor coated\u2026 no I didn\u2019t do it, I have figured out that something’s you are better off hiring others to do.  If they screw up I can complain to them but if I screw up??? It came out pretty good<\/p>\n

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Nice when the garage is not full of stuff\u2026 and the floor can be cleaned with a little water<\/strong> and won\u2019t stain\u2026 although that lead to the fact that something was still leaking with my radiator\u2026 remember I had gotten it flushed<\/a>\u2026   I noticed some small areas of water<\/strong> (the nasty read stuff that was still in the system)\u2026 anyway Monday morning<\/strong> I made a couple of stops and noticed it was dripping worse and when I got home\u2026 POW\u2026 it was spraying\u2026 at first I figured it was the radiator\u2026 since it was so nasty and we had it boiled out a little over a year ago\u2026 I called the mechanic shop to see about swapping the radiator\u2026 they sure get it in\u2026 I rushed it to them after putting in a lot<\/strong> of water, and then when it wasn\u2019t spewing crazy we found out it was just a hole in the lower hose\u2026 but I was still a bit<\/strong> worried so had them replace the hose<\/strong> (a job I would normally do) but also had them pressure test the whole thing\u2026 vacuum and pressure to make sure there were no other weak spots\u2026 the vacuum would not hold till they replaced several of the hose<\/strong> clamps\u2026 the old clamps were just not holding so I had leaks in more than one<\/strong> spot for sure\u2026 then put 15psi on it and held that for 15 minutes and I was then feeling better that we had finally gotten it to a \u201cholding\u201d position\u2026 all that was done before lunch time\u2026 and I was out of there by 11:50 for a cost of $69\u2026 not bad when you consider we had to refill with antifreeze and at $11 per gallon and about 1.5 gallons for 50\/50 mix it was pretty well worth it this time\u2026 <\/p>\n

Yesterday I worked a lot<\/strong> of the day<\/strong> on my new radio\u2026 yep, got a new on\u2026 I had sold an old Icom 706 and was going to buy a new Yaesu 400DR<\/a> this month they were on sale so I got one\u2026 it was less than I had sold the other radio for\u2026 <\/p>\n