Stijn!!

[GH85Carrera]

Well, as I suspected all along, it was the controller board. They replaced it with a "updated" universal controller board. It ended up costing $600 for the entire episode. They knocked off all the labor time they wasted trying to diagnose the problem.

I figured it was the flame detector, or igniter, but they said they both tested fine. So just a new controller board, and several new stickers that will show the next guy what the controller is, and now I have a red and a green LED to diagnose the boards functions. Before it was just a single red blinking light. So $600 for the green LED. Ouch.

And of course it was 80 degrees yesterday and only got down to 70 so the heather was not needed. I suspect sometime soon this fall that will change.

[Porsche-poor]

but if you had waited the temps would be sub-zero and the part on back order for weeks.

Moring all.

[Jim Richards]

Cool, windy & wet here tomorrow. I wonder why I signed up for this.

[Outback Porsche]

Going for a top of 34C, yesterday it was 40C.

Couldn't get the steering rack fixed this week - invoked plan b

[Porsche-poor]

plan b? remove the one from the neighbors?

[Outback Porsche]

Haha. Now that would be funny

No, the Qantas/Hertz plan b

[GH85Carrera]

The heater had to run for a little while this morning. It is 44 outside. Supposed to hit mid 60s today so it sounds like mowing weather. The grass has slowed way down in growing.

[Porsche-poor]

Its 50* here and not supposed to stop raining till next Wednesday as in they claim we will see several inches of the wet stuff.

[GH85Carrera]

Phew, about done working on a goofy Texas project. Them crazy Texans would go to a area, spit on the ground and say that is the start of my survey project and it is zero and zero point and we measure everything in the world from here. Then the rail roads would come through, and they had a totally different survey, and then some rancher would start another survey on the other side of the tracks and start at zero zero all over again. And somehow in 2019 they try to tie it together.

And even worse, almost none of the streets or roads run N,S,E,W. In the middle of nowhere, the road just goes off at 44 degrees rotated from North. WTF, crazy dang Texans.

And of course, when they do order a print, they want to see their roads as straightened up, so we get to rotate the map 44 degrees. In the mapping world, north is always up at least in the northern hemisphere. Mapping software really chokes when you try to rotate the earth to fit some silly view. But hey, they have money so we make the world fit their view. We like to make pretty pictures and make the customer happy so they give us money.

[Porsche-poor]

Sounds about right. Client has one set of drawings referenced to 0,0 or a plant monument. Civil firm gets a survey done based on local state or county grid. Hands whole mess to us to put together in one drawing. The CAD crew is usually bald and gibbering about at the end of the day.

[Jim Richards]

For Glen:

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/chevrolet-introduces-the-el-camino

[flipper35]

Morninish all.

We had a good frost Monday morning but so far it has not been jacket weather. Sounds like next week will be and it will be time to put winter tires on the truck.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Porsche-poor

Sounds about right. Client has one set of drawings referenced to 0,0 or a plant monument. Civil firm gets a survey done based on local state or county grid. Hands whole mess to us to put together in one drawing. The CAD crew is usually bald and gibbering about at the end of the day.

We get that all the time. No one on the planet uses that plant's system but that one plant. We have to convert our State Plane cor coordinate map to some plant system.

And they use the plant coordinate system, only because "it has always been done that way" of course.

If they write the checks, we do it the way they want. We may slip in a small pain in the butt fee for the privilege.

[RKDinOKC]

Went to back hospital feeling weak. fell trying to get out of chair and coudlnot get up. Laceracted a kidney in the wreck and lost two units of blood. Still really bruised but they claim internat bleeding is over.

[High Life]

Originally Posted by RKDinOKC

Went to back hospital feeling weak. fell trying to get out of chair and coudlnot. Laceracted a kidney in the wreck and lost two units of blood. Still really bruised but they claim internat bleeding is over.

Wreck?? Dont recall that - what happened?

Hope your back in the saddle soon..

[RKDinOKC]

1st wa slow and over a month ago. Big landscaping truck pulled out in front of me. Totalled cayenne.
Replaced cayenne, week ago Sunday crossed in front of SUV. Sun made it impossible to see on coming car.
Broadsided at 50. Bounced around behind belts and airbags. guts bruised from chest to hips.

[High Life]

Oh my...

Lucky to be alive... Were you in a new Cayenne? or something else?

[RKDinOKC]

Replaced my 2005 with a 2006.

Now they are both totalled.

[Porsche-poor]

Morning all.

Richard glad to see you are back and on the mend. Hope you feel better soon.

[RKDinOKC]

my health is such that going to have to sell my 928 GTS as is. Just don't have the abilbity to fix the few things that need to be done.