Must be winter

Ian

No posts for 2 days…..

Formulaben

Yup.    
Hopefully there will be a lot of activity here shortly, March is right around the corner.

Dream_Inn

yes, very soon there will be more topics.  I was just looking, and last year I had the boat out on the bay on March 2nd.  I may be a week later this year, just depending on the weather here.  It has been much colder.

captkevin

Supposed to be almost 50 here next week - won't be long

LaRea

OK I will post something.  Today I figured out that a loose bolt destroyed my washer-dryer.

You know washing machines sometimes shake like crazy in the spin cycle, right?  Well, the drum has a concrete counter-weight to help keep it balanced.  It's held on by two bolts, one of which apparently fell out.  Eventually the other bolt broke, so the weight fell off.  Without the weight for balance, the drum went crazy and bashed into the control panel.  As part of the mayhem, something caused a short that burned up the primary power relay and almost started a fire.  

Bottom left, concrete counter-weight.  Top right, toasted power relay.  

captkevin

Washing machines can be a real pain in the butt. We had a front loader for 14 years that developed a violent shake for 5 seconds. Would vibrate itself across the room. Tried everything. Ended up replacing it with top loaders.