Goners.

I saw the dentist (the lovely Brittany) the other day and she advised me that's time to call it quits on my two upper front teeth. They're sound but any filling she could do would be only a short term repair due to my bite putting undue pressure on them, as it destroyed the previous repair job.

Oh well it'll just be an even more gummy Jimby in the near future.

Poor Brittany really feels for her patients so I'll have to make sure I put her at ease about this job on me when she gets me in the chair for the job. She's a great dentist and deserves any success that comes her way but I hope she stays in the public system. 

I think she's a gunna make another set of dentures too, I'll likely need to use them a plenty too.

I love this, 1100 km until empty.

We went to Townsville today and I bought two tyres for Oscar, good Chinese ones that have ratings, not brand name ones that offer no information to the customer except they have a tread pattern and come in various sizes, I'll fit them in the near future.

I've been working on improving Oscar's economy and 1100 km is a good predictive range considering Oscar had done 135.9 km since filling its 60 litre tank, and done with the A/C on the whole time too, as well as stuck in the traffic jungle of Townsville.

This genuine Anchee is what Oscar will soon be wearing, note that it has both USA and EURO ratings which are quite reasonable, Australia it seems has no rating system for tyres and it sure seems that the makers don't want us to have any knowledge either.

The UTQG of 420 is the USA wear rating number, probably too low to be acceptable in the USA market but likely way too high for our traders to handle.

Caliper bolt.

The upper caliper bolt fell out of Oscar the other week when I was at Chris's place to check his weather station, my fault as I'd failed to torque it properly, this created a really weird problem as the caliper rotated and wedged cam like against the inside of the wheel rim, you can see the contact point at the lower right of this photo. Anyway Chris was a hero to me and even drove me up the road to get a bolt that fits, which got me out of trouble until the fancy proper one arrived.

I was really rattled for a while having a car that wouldn't drive forward yet could be reversed. Another case to put into your memory bank.

A little wave to Grace.

It's ANZAC day so I popped out to the cemetery to say hello to Grace, as well as to the veterans who are buried there. No flags for the veterans this year but COVID is affecting everyone and every thing.

A happy and surprise fix.

Our oven gave up the ghost a while back, or rather the oven display stopped displaying, which meant some fancy sleuthing required for this stumblebum. Judging by the heat damage to the board I was thinking capacitor drama as there was no marks on any components. So I ordered some new supply ones which I've fitted one at the far left here with the much larger one behind (weird that as they're the same value except the new one only rated to 400 V Vs the old one at 450 V, which I'm hoping is good enough), in hindsight that one was likely OK and just stressed by parts downstream, the two green capacitors to the right of the yellow transformer I replaced from my parts bucket, these were larger but are 100 V Vs 50 V originals (going up is no drama), I replaced one the other day when the line it was using only measured 7 Volt when 10 V was indicated on the board. That brought it up to 10 Volt but only resulted in a faint glow for the temperature side of the display, however that gave me hope.
When the ordered capacitor arrived I replaced that and the second of those twins on the right which supplied another power line, then got a lovely surprise when powering up the oven again, back in business and I'm chuffed too as I have grave doubts that it could have been fixed locally if I didn't do it.

Another one bites the dust.

The fancy filling fell out of my number two incisor a few months ago and left a sharp spike in my mouth, today it was time to have it pulled, poor Brittany the Dentist was only hopeful of it working when she repaired it last time, today we signed off on the old thing.
Nine and a half hours later my mouth is still bleeding but it'll come good when it's ready.

It's Grace's Birthday,

So I popped out to the cemetery to say hello. As per usual though the wet season has struck at this time and it wasn't a pleasant time to be there. I'm dressed up fancy style as I'm on my way to see the Doctor, at least there was no bad news this time except I have to do another blood test in three months time.