[AT] Check your grounds, OT news, and Portland

George Willer gwill at toast.net
Wed Jul 20 19:51:56 PDT 2005


Dave,

I watch very little TV, so there may (Certainly) be more to the story than I 
understand.  I think from what little I know the problem is with a fuel 
gauge.  They were hoping (desperately) that they could get it working by 
wiggling the wires!!!  That brings up the question... if the gauge starts 
working and they find they are running low on fuel, Who is going to bring it 
up to them?  :-(

The CA can wait, but Portland will run right on schedule... count on it! 
:-)  See you there.

George Willer



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David A. Laughead Jr." <daljr at bright.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 8:11 PM
Subject: [AT] Check your grounds, OT news, and Portland


> Sounds like NASA needed to take Farmer's age old advice.
>
> I just watched a NASA press conference. They beleive a weak ground caused
> the faulty reading of the sensor that caused the scrub of last weeks 
> launch.
>
> They are hoping for a launch on July 26th. They have extended the launch
> window to Aug 1st with the possiblity to Aug 4th.
>
> NASA TV is great!.
>
> Other news...
>
> Bad Day on the lake here. Took ye ole boat to Lake St Mary's, after about 
> 15
> minutes We had a catastrophic failure. What I beleive happened, a crack in
> the lower unit formed then through vibration split a peice of trhe 
> aluminum
> casting off creating more vibration which cause a bolt to snap under
> increased stressed which in turn caused another bolt to snap. When I 
> pulled
> the boat out of the water the prop wasn't inline with the motor anymore. 
> Big
> Thanks to the nice man who pulled us back to the launch ramp.
>
> Found another LU on ebay that I think will work so in the end everything 
> is
> OK.
>
> Portland...
>
> Due to a recent shift change for the worse at work, I  may have opened up
> some extra time for me at Portland so I may now be able to bring the 
> camper
> up and stay a few nights.
> The bad news is that the Allis CA is still in a million pieces. Maybe next
> year.
>
> Hope to see ya'll at Portland,
> Dave Laughead
>
>
>
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