tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70889375732333587692024-03-13T13:45:29.319-07:00Black ShoeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088937573233358769.post-18152931821723188022011-12-20T21:58:00.000-08:002011-12-22T06:17:58.923-08:00MGB Wish List<br />
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<u>Our MGB's</u></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">We bought our 1976 Tahiti blue MGB in Bothel Washington in 2004 from Pete Soul at Performance Motors. We named it for "Blue Boy" by Gainsborough. We call that B him, "Gainsborough". </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">We've recently had the interior redone and a new windshield put in at Mini-motors coach and upholstery in Salem. It was a beautiful job. He was looking good. My MGB allowance for 2011 was already spent on those repairs.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">Gainsborough was a beautiful ride to work the morning of December fifth;and, I was really pleased with Gainsborough. That evening pulling out and down the parking garage ramp was the sudden sickening realization something was now wrong with the drive train. He wouldn't go into second gear.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">On December 6, 2011 I found out about clutch slave cylinder's failing. I couldn't shift through second gear, and from there shifting deteriorated to not at all. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">It deteriorated from the slave cylinder to a new clutch. It's sad to see our whole prim-and-proper show piece have to have its guts out on the shop bench. </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">On the positive side, I'm really pleased with how clean and new the engine is looking at Harold's MGB's in Portland as the drive train is being reassembled. They're putting a lot of attention into the long term, what needs to be done for Gainsborough to last for years. </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">The list engine parts below are what I've heard would put him into top condition again. </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">Also, Billy at Harold's has isolated why Gainsborough was leaking on our garage floor. He's taking steps to improve that aspect of Gainsborough. he'll have a lot of new hoses. He'll be a much cleaner car under the hood and floor boards.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">Our white MGB was part of the estate from Dick Freeman, a great resource to the British car community. He was a regular winner of the Concourse De Elegance in Forest Grove with his red 1967 MGB that looked like it was fresh off the show room floor. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">I've had some weird ones with my White B, one night coming out of the garage, the lights were flashing by themselves. The following night I opened the hood and there's nothing to hold it up? That was the night the hood prop came undone; and, where did those two screws fall out at. Got those taken care of.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">It amazes me how suddenly a screw can fall out and I'm left wondering where it came out of. Today there was one on the back of the white B's console. There's nothing for a 3/8" long sheet metal screw right above there.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">Yesterday morning there was one fell out of the driver's door onto the garage floor. That one was from the door window sill, one of two screws on the outer edge of the sill. Someone had put in round headed screws. I put flat head brass screws in and, gee the door closes a lot better now.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">For the white B, I've come to call it "Whitey". It seems less socially correct. But it is a very accurate reference. If you have a more correct nick name for a white MGB, let me know.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span">We're looking for these MGB parts for our B's, that have been recommended for them:</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px;">For Whitey We're looking for:</span></span></span></span></div>
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A friend of mine passed away. Dick Freeman. I had the world of respect for him.<br />
He helped me with my Blue 1976 MGB. <br />
I have purchased one fine MGB he had when he passed away. It is this beautiful White 1976 MGB V-8.<br />
It is a thrill to drive this car. It has a well tuned exhaust which has a growling rumble when you're out cruising. It's purr is a rrrr-umble type exhaust sound.<br />
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This picture is of me in the White V-8 MGB on 57th street in S. E. Portland.<br />
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This is one fine MG. Dick Freeman was a winner at the Concourse D'elegance in Forest Grove. His Red 67 MGB looked like it was a show room car.<br />
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Thank you Dick Freeman. Rest in Peace.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088937573233358769.post-65645649477891650352011-11-16T21:14:00.001-08:002011-11-16T21:15:46.862-08:00A Cat Can be a Best Buddy.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Otter was it. A dignified, laid back male Ragdoll. He was 15 years old.<br />
This is in tribute to his faithfulness to us. We miss him.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088937573233358769.post-24313468737802351312011-11-16T21:02:00.001-08:002011-11-16T21:09:05.471-08:00What's wrong with Adware.Don't Amazon and RD.A9.com get it;<br />
When they implement adware, don't they know the customer isn't going to look at their product if the adware software stops the user from seeing their advertisement or ordering their product.<br />
It would be great for the vendor if the idea was to stop the sale of the competitor's product.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088937573233358769.post-77294151651062497552011-03-26T09:06:00.000-07:002011-03-26T09:15:39.086-07:00Who Thought This One Through<a href="http://www.geostrategy-direct.com/geostrategy-direct/">We</a> gave <a href="http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2011/ss_military0284_03_15.asp">Libya's military our foreign aid.</a><div>Now we're in combat with them, and <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8407047/Libyan-rebel-commander-admits-his-fighters-have-al-Qaeda-links.html">Al Qaeda is joining the rebels</a>!</div><div>OMG</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088937573233358769.post-37574753342690894202008-12-29T15:13:00.000-08:002008-12-29T15:33:36.546-08:00Navy Boot Camp; Great Lakes Company 739 of 1966Hi!<br />I was at the US Navy's Boot Camp, Recruit Training Command (RTC) Great Lakes from December 22, 1966 until May 9, 1967.<br />I am using my blog as a way to find other recruits who were there over the snowy winter of 1966-1967.<br />If you're a member of company 739 or fellow companies, I'd enjoy hearing from you.<br />After a twenty-two+ year career I retired from the Navy.<br />Our recent 21 inches of snow in Oregon brought back memories of that winter, and I am looking for leads as to where those other recruits may have gone or ended up.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088937573233358769.post-91270974406786129372008-12-23T20:53:00.000-08:002008-12-23T21:25:42.278-08:00Heater Condensate PumpOkay. I'm hear to brag about my Loving Wife (LW) again.<br />So on the first day of freezing weather, we got up to no heat.<br />Freezing has been unusual here in West Linn Oregon until this past week.<br />I was due at work. So LW sent me off on my way and assured me she'd take care of the heater problem.<br />Our Trane furnace-air conditioner a TRANE XV90 has a condensate reservoir and pump which pumps the water to outside the back of our garage.<br />About 10:00 AM I called and we talked about the problem. LW told me the condensate pipe to outside the garage had frozen. Our heater has a shutoff mechanism which triggers to turn off the furnace if the condensate pump reservoir is overly full.<br />She disconnected the pipe and the heater started to work.<br />Then our neighbor who was venturing out in the snow and cold agreed to get her some pvc pipe and 1/2" hose.<br />LW hooked up the hose where the pipe had previously come out of the pump, and put a length of pipe under the garage door to protect the hose from the garage door. It worked.<br />Then the next morning, I discovered the pvc had frozen. I just put the frozen pipe into the sink and warmed it up. We now leave the hose in a bucket each freezing night.<br />Our one son's house has the same type of heater. His hose drains from the basement furnace to the condensate pump reservoir and then into the basement deep sink by the washing machine. The warmth of the basement keeps it from freezing.<br />We may take a lesson for the success of one installation over the other.<br />Our garage furnace is adjacent to our laundry room. It would be easy, but require a hole through the wall between them, to drain the hose into the toilet tank, bowl or sewer drain pipe hole there. We haven't decided yet. I'll let you know what we agree to do.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088937573233358769.post-34260009245891596402008-12-22T21:22:00.000-08:002008-12-22T22:52:57.282-08:00Lath and PlasterSo if your working on an old house, and it has lath and plaster, that is wood slats with plaster on top, what should you do to mount a switch box in the ceiling. If you cut the board, the lath, you cause the whole plaster system to be unstable. In my case it was compounded by putting in a feed to provide the electrical wire to the box on the other end of the same piece of lath. Unwittingly I had cut both ends of the same piece of lath. After the fact I realized to put the hole for one end in one board and the hole for the other in another board. Granted you won't be able to get the two in line nice and symmetrical like an obsessive compulsive might want to see it. But given the choice between the plaster being sturdy with a board behind it holding it up or not and being in a nice neat line, I'd have preferred sturdy.<br />My very clever LW came up with the idea to put a piece of plywood over the affected plaster anchoring the loose plaster with liquid nails onto the plywood which was then holding up the liquid nails, paint, plaster to the beams the plywood was anchored to. The wiring boxes on each end were held in place onto the beams screwed in as a sturdy solution to replace the structural integrity which was lost by the lath behind the weakend plaster not being anchored to anything.<br />Still it would have been easier if someone had told me don't cut into the opposite end of the same piece of lath.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088937573233358769.post-74821075989536790742008-12-21T19:05:00.000-08:002008-12-21T20:36:54.340-08:00Snow in OrgeonWell I've always told visitors to Oregon we only get one snow storm per year.<br />I've never said how long they were; well maybe a day or two....<br />Wow! This storm reminds me of winter storms in Quakertown, PA. Just North of Philadelphia we used to get at least one doozy winter storm, every year in March. Snow would pile up in drifts 3 to 6 feet tall.<br />Then when I got to Boot Camp in Great Lakes, Ill. December of 1966 I just figured God had been preparing me for Boot Camp. Great Lakes that winter I was in one of the companies which had to handle Service Week for the long winter build up for Vietnam. We shoveled snow every day and every night for four (plus) months we had snow. I remember the train from Milwaukie to Chicago with the snow blower on the front coming down the track swaying on the rails, blowing a column of snow off into the night. It's headlight shooting ahead into the dark like a laser with snowflakes shooting down through the light.<br />O’Hare Airport was shut down for two weeks. On Boot Liberty to Chicago we got as far as North Chicago. In the streets the snow had been shoveled and built up so the sidewalks were like canyons of snow.<br />Firefighting at Great Lakes was burning down the WWII barracks in the night. The firefighting water was go cold it froze coming out of the firehouse nozzle.<br />Going to our swim test was c.o.l.d. Hitting the water from the dive tower was like hitting a concrete floor. The cold water was as though it were extra dense from the cold. The drill instructor told us it was 40˚. Our bare bodies in that cold water were freezing, chattering teeth cold.<br />Walking,.. Marching back from our swim tests was freezing! Company 739, December 23, 1966.<br />We got our shots and everybody came down sick. Those of us who could stand did the laundry for the whole company, then out into the cold yard in the middle of the barracks to tie everything up on the line with “little string ties”. Of course we were bare for that too since All of the clothes had to be washed and hung out ready for the next day’s inspection of our clean clothes… although a bit frozen.<br />Great Lakes was packed that year. San Diego was shut down by hepatitis. Everybody got sent to Great Lakes. We had to stand in line for the chow hall first at Main side then near our newly built concrete barracks… Camp Dewey Porter. We learned to stand really close together in the Illinois wind while we waited for chow. About half of my company was on mess cook duty for the four months. I only had to do mess hall for a couple of days and then got to be outside doing something else…. But shoveling snow that long and that cold… well it eased up well before the other guys got out of being mess cooks.<br />The two companies before us and after us went straight to Marine Corps indoctrination to go on to become corpsmen. About 300 guys went that route, roughly 75 guys per company, while I was there. Word was out that it was not a good thing to get to do, more like a death sentence for the bulk of them.<br />I was gun shy of that calling, corpsmen. I’m thankful for the path I was given. I had choices to go to First Army, Naval Academy Prep School, go to Nuclear Power School. So many options it sounds like now. My cousins husband, Lcdr Charles (Chuck) Hary, was teaching Mechanical Engineering at the Naval Academy. After talking with him I took Nuclear Power School, but ended up at Polaris Electronics (missile school) at Dam Neck, Virginia.<br />On my way there I visited Chuck and Barbara Hary at their quarters on the Naval Academy grounds. It was by the boat house on the Severn. Chuck even took me to a football game at the Sailor's and Marine's athletic field where I got to sit in the faculty section of the bleachers with us all in uniform. I was in my cracker jacks and Chuck in officer winter dress blues. I was agog at all of the officer uniforms.<br />It was there that Chuck put me on the track to watch for and sign up for the Navy Enlisted Scientific Education Program (NESEP).Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088937573233358769.post-26771837903113847092008-11-28T09:19:00.000-08:002008-11-29T12:17:41.631-08:00Checks and BalancesBetween the three branches of our government how does anyone come to the conclusion the President alone is responsible for the state of our nation with regard to finance, war, taxes... We have three branches which are checks and balances on each other. Congress could have imposed laws to protect us from greedy investors. The Supreme Court most likely wasn't brought cases for the corruption in our mortgage system yet. It'd be worth investigating if our courts had any opportunity to exercise their power over the issues of mortgage fraud or the legality of us being in IRAQ.<br />What action did the Supreme Court and the Congress take to exercise their power with regard to our biggest national issues? The effect of their Powers, the Supreme Court's and Congress', on these issues leaves open the question for how much impact will they have on future Presidents. <br />Is it a logical conclusion that the Supreme Court gets involved on an after-the-fact basis in the government process?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088937573233358769.post-833762178718444752008-11-27T22:23:00.000-08:002008-11-29T12:21:21.884-08:00Give Obama a ChanceOkay, so Senator Obama is the President Elect.<br />I believe we're all in the same boat.<br />Come January and completion of the Inauguration he will be Commander in Chief. If you are a uniformed service member, you have to abide by your oath sworn to defend the Constitution and carry out the orders of the officers appointed over you including the President of the United States. Politics aside Senator Obama becomes the one person we as a nation all stand behind to support.<br />"I, A.B., Do Solemnly Swear (or Affirm), that I Will Support and Defend the Constitution of the United States Against All Enemies, Foreign and Domestic That I Will Bear True Faith and Allegiance to the Same That I Take This Obligation Freely, without Any Mental Reservation or Purpose of Evasion And That I Will Well and Faithfully Discharge the Duties of the Office on Which I Am about to Enter So Help Me God."Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088937573233358769.post-91041653242906248582008-02-25T05:59:00.000-08:002008-02-25T20:01:48.377-08:00Tagged by BlunozHere are the rules<br /><div>THE RULES:<br />1. Once you are tagged, link back to the person who tagged you.<br />2. Post THE RULES on your blog.<br />3. Post 7 weird or random facts about yourself on your blog.<br />4. Tag 7 people and link to them.<br />5. Comment on their blog to let them know they have been tagged.</div><br /><div> </div><br /><div>1. <a href="http://blunoz.blogspot.com/">Blunoz </a>tagged me.</div><br /><div>2. Above</div><br /><div>3. My seven things...</div><br /><div> 1. I am a Christian.</div><br /><div> 2. I do not understand folks who terrorize other people. We all are vulnerable and live at the mercy of God. People who bully, rape, terrorize, abuse others make no sense. They too can be the subject of their own stupidity. Jesus' Golden Rule was "do unto others as you would have them do unto you."</div><br /><div> 3. I love my wife, our children and grand children dearly.</div><br /><div> 4. I have fond memories of the wonderful things my Sister Ruth did for me.</div><br /><div> 5. I love my parents.</div><br /><div> 6. Blunoz's tag comments meant a lot to me.</div><br /><div> 7. I spent 23 years in the USN rising from an E-1 draftee to O-4E serving in Vietnam as an Amphibuious Forces officer, and retiring off of the USS ENTERPRISE CVN-65 on the Battle Group staff.</div><br /><div> 5. I grew up in Quakertown Pennsylvania.</div><br /><div> 6. I attended Lehigh University in 1964 through 1966.</div><br /><div> 7. I can't count. God has given me so many blessings its hard to not mention more of them....</div><br /><div>I plan to tag Sagey, Badger, my MS, and YS on their my space, and Blunoz's sons as soon as Blunoz has them start their blogs.</div><br /><div> </div><br /><div> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088937573233358769.post-48866176973602982232007-12-22T19:03:00.000-08:002007-12-22T21:06:12.875-08:00What is a black shoe?You may wonder what Black Shoe is about.<br />I was commissioned an Ensign in the Regular Navy, USN December 22, 1971 in Albuquerque New Mexico. Uniform of the Day was Navy Dress Blues. I had at that time been promoted to Electronics Technician Second Class (ETN2, or E-5) with designation of (3324-SU, for Ships Inertial Navigation Technician Submarine Unqualified). I was given the choice of commissioning via either NESEP (Navy Enlisted Scientific Education Program), NAPS (Naval Academy Prep School) or continue enlisted with duty going next to New London Connecticut. I had chosen NESEP and spent the following 40 months in Albuquerque at the University of New Mexico, UNM.<br />In those times there were two officer groups referred to; black shoes and brown shoes.<br />It was in the Zumwalt era, Adm Zumwalt was the Chief of Naval Operations July 1970 until 1 July 1974 Black Shoe Navy referred to the Surface Navy Forces, while Brown Shoe Navy referred to the Navy Aviation Forces.<br />Black shoe seemed a misnomer, since surface officer summer uniform was khaki colored with a brown belt and wore brown shoes, sometimes referred to as the Buster Brown uniform. Aviators on the other hand had a similar belted blouse top in dark green. Every USN officer had three dress Class 'A' uniforms, Blues, Whites and either Surface Officer's Khaki or Naval Aviator's Greens. <br />The last version of the belted Greens I saw was on a blimp pilot in 1974.<br />I loved being in the Khaki belted blouse uniform for its trim professional look.<br />The White Class 'A' uniform was sometimes referred to as the Good Humor uniform, perhaps a reference to the ice cream company of that name. I believe my wife fell for the Dress White uniform.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088937573233358769.post-80140806346387918342007-10-29T22:04:00.000-07:002007-10-29T22:08:19.570-07:00The State of Oregon has a ballot measure, Measure 50, to make health care part of the Oregon State Consitution.<br />[1] <a href="http://www.christonium.com/corvallistidbits/ItemID=11922419655532">http://www.christonium.com/corvallistidbits/ItemID=11922419655532</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088937573233358769.post-34939470012082329092007-10-19T06:01:00.000-07:002007-10-19T06:07:14.093-07:00First CallThis is my first blog entry on Friday October 19, 2007.<br />My whole family has blogs and I've been really pleased with what they have had to say on them and how they have conducted themselves on them.<br />This link was spawned from my son's site, <a href="http://blunoz.blogspot.com/">http://blunoz.blogspot.com</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1