what are you doing ?
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#1051 Re: what are you doing ?
Keeping warm.
I found a German quilted tank suit. It was my brothers, but I inherited it when he died.
Toasty.
I found a German quilted tank suit. It was my brothers, but I inherited it when he died.
Toasty.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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G-Popz THE easy listening connoisseur. (Philip)
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G-Popz THE easy listening connoisseur. (Philip)
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#1052 Re: what are you doing ?
Victory!
Replaced the tensioner, idler, serpentine belt & alternator. Refitted power steering pump & reconnected hoses, aircon pump, electric radiator fan etc.
No warning lights now! Battery charges just fine. Car runs perfectly! All good!
Happy Volvo V70 again, plus about £250 in labor charges saved. Whole fix cost about £200 for the bits.
Also dismantled and repaired the dead HU-850 radio/CD player that has a known series of failures and did a bit of SMD replacement, so the radio/CD now works too...
Basically various bits overheat and fail with time. You can see in the photo some of the PCB damage - I replace the current measurement SMD resistors with bigger ones and the failed regulators on the topside, plus added a heatsink to them (cut down from one I had lying around) attached with thermal pads.
These radios are really good quality and very expensive, but eventually all of them fail like this. The fix took me an hour to work out what to do and then to dismantle, fix, then reassemble. AFAIK there are no videos or even details about how to do this repair on the web, so I should probably write it up as it's a common question on the Volvo forums...
Replaced the tensioner, idler, serpentine belt & alternator. Refitted power steering pump & reconnected hoses, aircon pump, electric radiator fan etc.
No warning lights now! Battery charges just fine. Car runs perfectly! All good!
Happy Volvo V70 again, plus about £250 in labor charges saved. Whole fix cost about £200 for the bits.
Also dismantled and repaired the dead HU-850 radio/CD player that has a known series of failures and did a bit of SMD replacement, so the radio/CD now works too...
Basically various bits overheat and fail with time. You can see in the photo some of the PCB damage - I replace the current measurement SMD resistors with bigger ones and the failed regulators on the topside, plus added a heatsink to them (cut down from one I had lying around) attached with thermal pads.
These radios are really good quality and very expensive, but eventually all of them fail like this. The fix took me an hour to work out what to do and then to dismantle, fix, then reassemble. AFAIK there are no videos or even details about how to do this repair on the web, so I should probably write it up as it's a common question on the Volvo forums...
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#1053 Re: what are you doing ?
What’s the betting it runs a wheel bearing next week?
Cynic? Me?
Cynic? Me?
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#1054 Re: what are you doing ?
Not jealous at all.
(That's sarcasm BTW )
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#1055 Re: what are you doing ?
As worn by drivers of the German quilted tanks.
"Once you find out ... the Circumstances ; then you can go out"
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#1056 Re: what are you doing ?
I always thought German quilting was a type of crochet... a bit like the wooly hats folk put on letter boxes...
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#1058 Re: what are you doing ?
Tantalum caps!!!!
Who laid out that board?
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#1059 Re: what are you doing ?
.. what was i doing yesterday ... i hear you ask ?
Off work and stomping around in the snow for some photos :
photo download
cdn upload images
Back to the car in good time for tea !
Bit of a treat to have snow in mid December, if you're a photographer. More chances yet in January.
Off work and stomping around in the snow for some photos :
photo download
cdn upload images
Back to the car in good time for tea !
Bit of a treat to have snow in mid December, if you're a photographer. More chances yet in January.
"Once you find out ... the Circumstances ; then you can go out"
#1060 Re: what are you doing ?
Sorry, I couldn't resist!
#1061 Re: what are you doing ?
Nice photos Mark.
#1062 Re: what are you doing ?
More SMD soldering practice today;
It's one of these;
https://www.diyaudio.com/community/thre ... ts.375955/
It's one of these;
https://www.diyaudio.com/community/thre ... ts.375955/
Sorry, I couldn't resist!
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#1063 Re: what are you doing ?
"Once you find out ... the Circumstances ; then you can go out"
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#1064 Re: what are you doing ?
Yes great photo’s
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#1065 Re: what are you doing ?
"No matter how fast light travels it finds that the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it."