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[londontime]

Or it might be the alternator.

Might be the alternator not charging the battery. Just guessing here, maybe one of the gear heads here will be better help.

Last time that happened to me it was the alternator.

So... any of you guys know anything about cars?

(Sucks teeth)













Could be the alternator, chief.
I can express the parts, but I ain' gon' be cheap....

 

[Cinderella's Fella]

...unless she’s been buying cheap batteries...

 

[pkondz]

Thanks for all the input. I think if it was the alternator, the car wouldn't run at all if the battery was dead.
(Quick Google search: The car will only run until the battery is dead if the alternator quits, which might be 5 minutes, might be 30.)

But... I'll take the battery in and get it tested/replaced. And buy a multi-meter to test whether the new/recharged battery is getting charged while the car is running. Go from there.

 

[londontime]

I'm on the naughty step. We are in Xmas movie watching mode. One of Lady Ks favourites is Love Actually. I thought it would be fun to play the game of "point out the London geographical inconsistencies", like which way the car turned and a cutaway shot from one minute and they are suddenly 5 miles away in the other direction. For about 3/4 of the film.

I'll be honest with ya guys, that game went down about as well as a fart in an elevator.

 

[Cinderella's Fella]

I'm on the naughty step. We are in Xmas movie watching mode. One of Lady Ks favourites is Love Actually. I thought it would be fun to play the game of "point out the London geographical inconsistencies", like which way the car turned and a cutaway shot from one minute and they are suddenly 5 miles away in the other direction. For about 3/4 of the film.

I'll be honest with ya guys, that game went down about as well as a fart in an elevator.

My condolences, sleeping on the sofa tonight?

 

[londontime]

My condolences, sleeping on the sofa tonight?

Its never that bad chief

 

[Zmack]

Morning peeps.

Not much new up here. A bit chilly at 6F/-14C, but for this time of year that's a bit above average, so I'll take it.
Not much on the docket either. Have about another hour and a bit to go at work then heading home for a nap.

So... any of you guys know anything about cars?
My eldest DD has a 2013 Civic. She bought a battery last year.. and seems to need a new one every year. Yesterday was the coldest day of the winter so far. She used her remote start and the car started and ran for 15 minutes before it automatically shut down. She went out shortly after and the car wouldn't start. Battery dead. I jumped it and ran it for 10 minutes or so to recharge it. But when I tried to restart it, nada. Battery dead.
Thoughts?

I'm late to the suggestions on the battery/ alternator problems on your DD Civic. I would start with a load test on battery, next , I would use a multi meter to see if the alternator is charging the battery fully. It could also be a parasitic draw on the battery. If you have a multimeter it is easy to do. I'm not great at typing so it would take me hours to type how to do it.( this much took me 20 min). I checked on Google under parasitic draw, the video from BBB industries explains it quite well..

 

[declansdad]

I'm on the naughty step. We are in Xmas movie watching mode. One of Lady Ks favourites is Love Actually. I thought it would be fun to play the game of "point out the London geographical inconsistencies", like which way the car turned and a cutaway shot from one minute and they are suddenly 5 miles away in the other direction. For about 3/4 of the film.

I'll be honest with ya guys, that game went down about as well as a fart in an elevator.

Good movie, way to ruin it.

 

[pkondz]

I'm on the naughty step. We are in Xmas movie watching mode. One of Lady Ks favourites is Love Actually. I thought it would be fun to play the game of "point out the London geographical inconsistencies", like which way the car turned and a cutaway shot from one minute and they are suddenly 5 miles away in the other direction. For about 3/4 of the film.

I'll be honest with ya guys, that game went down about as well as a fart in an elevator.

Worth it?

I'm late to the suggestions on the battery/ alternator problems on your DD Civic. I would start with a load test on battery, next , I would use a multi meter to see if the alternator is charging the battery fully. It could also be a parasitic draw on the battery. If you have a multimeter it is easy to do. I'm not great at typing so it would take me hours to type how to do it.( this much took me 20 min). I checked on Google under parasitic draw, the video from BBB industries explains it quite well..

Thanks for that.
1. I took the battery in for the test and it's done. Got a new battery (for free) with 2 more years left on the warranty. Hopefully won't need it... or maybe... hopefully I do need it juuuuuuust before the warranty expires.
2. Bought a multi-meter just to ensure that it is charging. Will do that probably tomorrow.
3. Thanks for the tip on the video, I'll take a look and do that too. I did notice a red light that was on her remote start unit. So that will be drawing constantly. Enough to drain a battery? Dunno.

 

[Cinderella's Fella]

Anyone else cold this morning... ☃❄

 

[declansdad]

Morning All

 

[declansdad]

Anyone else cold this morning... ☃❄

 

[CapeCodTenor]

Morning, Gents, from a, finally, cold Cape Cod/New England! Not that I was really complaining about the warm weather, but we need winter to come around. It's been so warm the moths were starting to come out again. New England's supposed to be getting a big storm tonight and into tomorrow, bypassing the Cape mostly, but we'll see how that goes. This storm could track further south and hit the Cape, it's been known to happen, so we'll see.

Now on to some good news: I HAVE A JOB!!!! That's right, I have a job. I don't know the title of the position, but I'll be working with Cape Cod Healthcare (they own everything health related here on the Cape) transferring data from their old system to their new one. I got this position through a recruiter I've been working with and was told I'd have a phone interview. Well, this is how it went:

HR Person: (Tells me about the position, then asks) "So tell me about yourself."
Me: "Well, I'm an experienced data entry clerk specializing in Litigation Docketing with experience in supporting 160+ attorneys by tracking all important dates and deadlines to ensure that no date or deadline is missed with the court. I've also worked as a Records Clerk helping to manage Central Files room and Corporate Minute Books."
HR Person: (after a pause) "Well, you are way over qualified for this position..."
Me" (thinking to myslef) "Great, here it comes."
HR Person: "...however, I think we can move you to a position that's more inline with your qualifications when this one is done. So, do you want the job?"
Me: "Uh, yes, thank you." I was truly caught off-guard by that. I thought that when she mentioned I was over qualified I was done for...thankfully she went the other direction. And the fact that she's already thinking of keeping, or at the least, bringing me back on for another role before this one even starts is a good thing...I thanked her for that. I'm so happy right now. It truly is a Christmas miracle. Now, I will say that while this isn't the actual job I want, I'm working towards medical coding, it is within the healthcare industry, so that's a start. And this organization is extremely difficult to get on with, so the fact that I'm in, even as a temp, is a good thing.

I did like that beach picture. Again, good luck on the job search.

I have definitely climbed aboard the depression train, and hope that it doesn't last the year long Retirement Board exile. It's not looking good.

It sucks when that happens, and I've certainly done that a few times during these last two years. This time around, however, was different. I think it was due to the fact that I was ready to leave my last place. While I like my job and the people I was working with, it's not what I wanted to do, and things were starting to annoy me, so when I left I knew it was time to look for something I wanted. So thankfully it didn't happen this time around.

Sounds like a plan. I’m going to go to work.

Didn't happen, but I'm going to try and get around to it this weekend, maybe even tomorrow if there's enough snow on the ground.

Now that sounds like a magnificent plan if you can pull off.
Looking forward to the pictures.

Unfortunately the DD got wicked car sick, so it didn't happen. I am, however, going to see what the snow situation is like tomorrow morning, and maybe even try it this weekend.

Given the time that the foundation has had to work on the ship and the good level of support and visitation, I'm not surprised. Its sounds at least equal to the access offered aboard BB-55 and BB-60 and for the same reasons.

The one place I'd love to check out on the Massachusetts is the Captain's quarters, but it's blocked off, as is higher up on the mast.

I read that recently. Apparently, they were even setting off fireworks around Fall River as part of the filming in the last day or so. A little extra prize for the folks that live in the area. No clue as to how good or bad the film will be, but I'll keep an eye out for it.

They were setting off fireworks. If you Google it you'll be able to find a video of it online.

Kind'a what I'm doing.
Can't travel reasonably right now to take new images and I've never really taken time to clean up and share any of my backlog of pics with anyone.

For me it comes down to me not being a landscape photographer. As much as I love landscape photography and the such, I don't consider myself good at it. As a result, I have all these pictures that I've never edited. Now, some are good and some are bad compositionally, but I'm overly critically when it comes to things I do, so most pictures I wind up not liking.

That's a function of not thinking much of myself or considering that anyone else would care. Trying to work past that handicap and unfortunately for y'all, you're the ones that are having to suffer through my feeble attempts at correcting a character flaw. I appreciate all of you' for humoring me.

I'm with you, dude. We are all critical of ourselves and the things we do. If you share, I'll share.

Well, I best go on ahead and toss out the last group of pictures from that trip then.
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(This time it's your fault, you do realize, right?)



There are two major warships open to the public down in Mobile.
By their USN designations they are BB-60 (which you've already seen), and SS-228. That one is more commonly know by her given name:
USS Drum.


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November - India - Gulf - Tango
OK Mark, you can go ahead and decipher that one for us)

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This is a Gato class USN diesel-electric sub that was launched in 1941 (on my birthday actually, though in an earlier year obviously) and commissioned in November just before the US would enter the ever escalating conflict.

And I give props to the foundation down there for finding the resources to haul her up out of the water as a dry-land exhibit. Far easier to maintain in that configuration.

Like the Bamma, this one is opened up inside as well.


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Forward torpedo room.
Six tubes forward, four more aft and up to 14 reloads available on a single patrol. A fairly impressive primary armament were it not for the fact that the Mark-XIV torpedoes carried at the time were notoriously inconsistent weapons. Still, this ship conducted 13 patrols in her career and took down 15 IJN ship totaling over 80,000 tone of hardware not counting any cargo.


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One of the officers cabins...

Basically the Taj Mahal as compared to the regular crew's areas...

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That compartment is over top of the aft battery space and would have contained as many as 36 bunks during hostilities serving the guys working mostly amidship. The bunks for the crew manning the torpedo rooms were actually hung in between the the spare torpedoes in their work spaces (no sense in being too far from your post). And if this sounds rather tight, consider that US subs, ship for ship, were measurably larger then those of the other nations and were all considered to be somewhat luxurious (with the inclusion of such niceties as fresh water distilleries and even A/C.)

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A couple of shots of the command and control areas...

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One of the four engines (a nine-cylinder diesel)

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And the aft torpedo room.



OK, one more smallish post coming latter on and then I promises I'll move on to a different subject.

Love the pics.

Some pictures from the Albacore.

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Love the pics.

Are they related to BB-8? Since star wars is in the future, I would have expected a higher BB number.

Wish some would tell the ball an....err..DW that.

Nice shots.
Thanks.

I think they also add to my observation of it being easier to date a ship more by what you see on the inside spaces then from the exterior silhouette.




Welllll...
as a matter of fact...
(and yes the sly reference is both obvious and quite funny but, you really shouldn't present me with such opportunities to go on out farther into the weeds; as such, this time it's your fault).

BB-60 is directly related to BB-8 in one particular way. They're both named in honor of the same state: Alabama...

"Battleship #8" though (and obviously) was much older, having been commissioned into the USN in 1900. She was an Illinois class "pre-dreadnought" designed along similar lines as the Royal Navy's Majestic class of ships...


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As were other battle-wagons of the period, the main armament was only 4 guns; 2 forward and 2 aft (in this instance, they were 13'/35 cal weapons), accompanied by a secondary batter of smaller guns (6'/45s for these ships).

Thoroughly outclassed and obsolete by the beginning of the "Great War", ships of this type spent about two thirds or better of their service lives in secondary roles. BB-8 would end her days as a target and would finally being sunk in a series of exercises that first heralded the inevitable changing of the guard from guns to bombs...


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But there are many sailors that will tell you that this somewhat ignominious ending is more fitting for an old fighter then to be dismantled by a scrapyard's torches...

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Nope, cant help ya' there; you're off the map now.
'Fraid you'er on your own.



May have, I'd also have to check.
That said, subs - especially before the age of the "Boomers" and nuclear attack ships - were often referred to as "boats" even by their crews (it's both a matter of habit and an honorary call back to the days when subs were considerably smaller craft). The fine line between boat and ship though is a mite subtle and while certainly it's all about the overall size of the vessel, it's still open to a fair amount of interpretation. The most consist distinction I've ever heard is that a "boat" is small enough to be carried aboard a "ship". By that definition, most subs would be ships, but again, depending on the times and context, there is room for argument there.



Nice...
Don't think the crew would appreciate that one quit as much, but still...



It's all relative, so to speak.

The U-505 at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry is a German Type IXc. While being one of the larger German designs of the period it was most certainly smaller and more cramped (251' long and 1232 tons vs the Drum's 311' and 2060 tons submerged displacement). But then again, that design and especially the preceding even smaller Type VIIc boats (there I go again) were also considered to be some of the most pure designs of their day. All business, nothing wasted, precisely what was needed to accomplish the task at hand with the given technology of the time, and not much more. The crew was there mainly to service the ship, not the other way around.

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OK, last little bit of images from Battleship Park, Mobile.
(and then I promise to move on to a different subject)

(unless y'all throw me another softball that just has to be swatted back, so keep that in mind.)

The foundation down in Mobile maintains a very nice collection and as y'all have already noted, there's more there then you might expect. Aside from the main vessels, there's a couple of smaller patrol boats, a mock-up of the Civil War era submarine Hunley (which reminds me that I really need to go see that original artifact down in Charleston) and several additional monuments and memorials.

There is also a small display hall on site dedicated to vehicles and aircraft.

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I'll be honest and tell you that I didn't spend quite as much time in here as I might have. Partly because it was getting late; partly because there are other venues that I've encountered (and intend to travel to), that have more extensive collections, and partly because I'd pushed my Missus (and my luck) plenty far enough that day as it was. As such, these exhibits got a little bit of short shrift on this trip, but I'll tell you that the building is still very much worth checking out if your there.

One of the more impressive aircraft on site was too large even for this space, though...


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The B-52 strategic bomber that I saw from up in the ships battle-mast is quite the beast and despite being relegated as an outdoor exhibit, it's still well maintained.

There were other larger air frames that are just too big to be housed indoors as well, such as this "Mitchel" B-25G

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and a C-47 (the military variant of the commercial DC-3) that is done up in D-Day markings (but, could use a bit of refurbishment)


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There's also the collection of armor that I've shown y'all before, but here's a little better resolution of part of that group...

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and lastly, I rather like the placement of this particular gun...

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A single 5'/38 mount standing guard to protect "LA" (Lower Alabama) from any marauders or tourists that might consider attacking from the East...

Just finished an in-person meeting with a group of more that 3 in months. It was nice to "see" everyone again.

Nice when that happens, huh? There's a group of us that's been doing breakfast every Saturday for over 20 years. Well, when Covid hit we went online...and it just wasn't the same.

We use to see them flying over us all the time when there was a base just across the border at the old SAC base in Loring, Maine. Went to an airshow there as well and saw one up close. They are massive. The were running a loading competition that day and the top crew could get it fully loaded with bombs in under 30 minutes.

We have an old SAC base in my hometown of Roswell, NM, and the Air Force use to come to town once a year for training. It was always fun to sit and watch the crews run out to their planes and get things going.

 

[CapeCodTenor]

Anyone else cold this morning... ☃❄

Yes.

 

[declansdad]

Morning, Gents, from a, finally, cold Cape Cod/New England! Not that I was really complaining about the warm weather, but we need winter to come around. It's been so warm the moths were starting to come out again. New England's supposed to be getting a big storm tonight and into tomorrow, bypassing the Cape mostly, but we'll see how that goes. This storm could track further south and hit the Cape, it's been known to happen, so we'll see.

Now on to some good news: I HAVE A JOB!!!! That's right, I have a job. I don't know the title of the position, but I'll be working with Cape Cod Healthcare (they own everything health related here on the Cape) transferring data from their old system to their new one. I got this position through a recruiter I've been working with and was told I'd have a phone interview. Well, this is how it went:

HR Person: (Tells me about the position, then asks) "So tell me about yourself."
Me: "Well, I'm an experienced data entry clerk specializing in Litigation Docketing with experience in supporting 160+ attorneys by tracking all important dates and deadlines to ensure that no date or deadline is missed with the court. I've also worked as a Records Clerk helping to manage Central Files room and Corporate Minute Books."
HR Person: (after a pause) "Well, you are way over qualified for this position..."
Me" (thinking to myslef) "Great, here it comes."
HR Person: "...however, I think we can move you to a position that's more inline with your qualifications when this one is done. So, do you want the job?"
Me: "Uh, yes, thank you." I was truly caught off-guard by that. I thought that when she mentioned I was over qualified I was done for...thankfully she went the other direction. And the fact that she's already thinking of keeping, or at the least, bringing me back on for another role before this one even starts is a good thing...I thanked her for that. I'm so happy right now. It truly is a Christmas miracle. Now, I will say that while this isn't the actual job I want, I'm working towards medical coding, it is within the healthcare industry, so that's a start. And this organization is extremely difficult to get on with, so the fact that I'm in, even as a temp, is a good thing.

 

[pkondz]

Morning boys.
I think I'm still half asleep, but the day must start. Busy time of the year.

Anyone else cold this morning... ☃❄

Nope. But I haven't gone outside, either. So there's that.

Morning All

New England's supposed to be getting a big storm tonight and into tomorrow, bypassing the Cape mostly, but we'll see how that goes. This storm could track further south and hit the Cape, it's been known to happen, so we'll see.

Good luck! Uh... whichever way you want it to go.

Now on to some good news: I HAVE A JOB!!!!

All right! Way to go!!!

HR Person: "...however, I think we can move you to a position that's more inline with your qualifications when this one is done. So, do you want the job?"

Niiiiice.

I'm so happy right now. It truly is a Christmas miracle.

 

[CapeCodTenor]

Ok, I've been inspired by @GoofyIsAsGoofyDoes to post some pictures. Enjoy.

 

[pkondz]

Where is that?

 

[CapeCodTenor]

Thanks!

Good luck! Uh... whichever way you want it to go.

Thanks...part of me wants it to hit so I can go out and get some pictures, but the other part doesn't want it to hit so I don't have to shovel a lot of snow. Decisions!

All right! Way to go!!!

Thanks!

Niiiiice.

Right?!

Where is that?

Great Marsh, which is part of Barnstable Harbor in the village of Barnstable.

41.706093, -70.298235 - for Google map.

 

[Captain_Oblivious]

Thanks for all the input. I think if it was the alternator, the car wouldn't run at all if the battery was dead.
(Quick Google search: The car will only run until the battery is dead if the alternator quits, which might be 5 minutes, might be 30.)

But... I'll take the battery in and get it tested/replaced. And buy a multi-meter to test whether the new/recharged battery is getting charged while the car is running. Go from there.

I just want to say good luck. We're all counting on you.

I'm on the naughty step. We are in Xmas movie watching mode. One of Lady Ks favourites is Love Actually. I thought it would be fun to play the game of "point out the London geographical inconsistencies", like which way the car turned and a cutaway shot from one minute and they are suddenly 5 miles away in the other direction. For about 3/4 of the film.

I'll be honest with ya guys, that game went down about as well as a fart in an elevator.

This is all fun and game until someone starts questioning why you can hear explosions and engine noises in space during Star Wars movies.