Day 3688

 I woke up at 7:30, played games, and then got up for pet stuff and breakfast.  There was no reason to hurry to get up, the temperature was 22.

It stayed cold all day.  We may have gotten to a couple degrees above freezing.  The melted some of the sleet on the ground.  Of course that brought out the idiots that don't know how to drive.  There were crashes all over the metropolitan area.  1826 was closed all day a little north of us.  We stayed home like sensible people.

The warm up caused the sewer alarm to complain for a lot of the day and evening.  It does that when there's a heavy rain, too.  It's really annoying because you can't shut it up. 

I started the day looking at what it would cost to build a RC trailer.  I went out to the garage to inventory what I have.  I have all of the metal except the L strips for the edge of the deck.  I also have lots of acrylic for the deck.  Unfortunately the L strips are going to be expensive.  The stuff is a lot more costly than I remember.  Fuck Biden.

Amain sent me an email saying my credits had come due.  I logged on to their site and ordered the Corvair body.  I also ordered hing pins for the MT10 (I bent one) and collars so I could install the Opel sway bars.  That got me to $50 so I could use a coupon.  With that and my credits I got 1/2 off. 

I have more work to do on pricing the trailer, but after that I decided to go back to the Opel.  I started with the differential and immediately ran into an issue.  The kit instructions said us 30K fluid, the instructions said use the 3K fluid that came in the kit.  I ended up on a time consuming internet search to find the correct answer.  I didn't find a definitive answer, but I found a Tamiya videos that indicated use the fluid that came with the diff.  After that building the diff was easy and kind of fun.

From there I went back to work on the kit.  I met the common unclear instructions.  I also found that the ESC I'd bought didn't fit.  I searched, but Hobbywing doesn't make a smaller one.  Luckily I figured out a way to make it fit by using stuff I had in my parts box to modify the mount.  Never throw anything away.

I worked on the Opel until dinner time.  I managed to install the drive line, motor, and the shock towers.  I used carbon fiber shock towers.  That slowed the process because I had to get spare parts to make them work.

Ellen fixed waffles and sausage for dinner.  She put fruit on them.  The were really good.  After dinner I surfed, watched videos, and continued pricing the trailer.