It’s likely nylon, which you’ll find in all sorts of internal combustion engines. Auto manufactures have used nylon timing gears for almost fifty years to quiet engines. In a tractor it’s a poor cost cutting measure, but the use is not unheard of.
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In this case, it is a part that inevitably fails before any other part of the tractor has suffered any measurable wear. It was a terrible idea. I had not heard of plastic timing gear in cars until I read your post, so I looked in some of the car forums. They seem to be pretty unpopular.
I got rid of my last BMW car several years ago because I was tired of replacing the window regulator assemblies when the plastic sheaves failed. After the third set, I was either going to make aluminum sheaves on the lathe or get rid of the car. I got rid of the car.
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I’ve pulled several over the years, the only one that had failed was on a Ford Contour. I find many mechanical forums populated by the “steel is real” crowd, no matter the part.
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AUUUUUUUGH MY WASHING MACHINE IS NOW LEAKING! Went to go check on dryer. there is a pool of standing water in the fucking laundry room. Not from the water heater. the space between it and washer is fine. under washer. Standing goddamned water.
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Carlisle United, you know that rectangular frame with a net attached to it? Why don’t you try kicking the ball into it?
They have gone 596 minutes since the last time they scored a goal.
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That combination of football plus net is a Benny Hill skit waiting to happen.
(Interesting. Autocorrect thinks I’m more likely to type ‘furball’ than ‘football’. It’s…probably right, there.)
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Just a response to myself here and a bit of an update. Washer got fixed. Somehow a dryer sheet got in the water intake. So… both yay for it being a simple thing and God I feel like a fucking moron.
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Good to hear from you. Dryer sheets - just say no! Vinegar is much better for your clothes.
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Wait, I hadn’t heard of this. Vinegar as a softener?
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Yeah, just throw a cup or so in the fabric softener slot. If you add a drop of lavender oil in, you get a nice scent. The softener sheets add stuff to your clothes that makes them break down faster.
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Neat! I will try it, thanks.
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Dryer sheets also make towels much less absorbent.
The one caveat with vinegar: it’s great for setting color/dye, so if you’re worried something might stain, don’t use it in the rinse cycle until you’re sure the stain is out. Otherwise it’s there forever.
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HP may DIAF. I’m having the expensive razor blades, cheap handle problem with an ink cartridge on a Designjet 500. It’s a monster wide format, so absolutely not worth junking/replacing. Printer was working fine, so was the Raspberry Pi print server we use with it. Cyan has been low for a while, but I mostly print b/w and line, not images, so it’s NBD. But something is wrong. Nothing is going past the server. And it’s bitching and moaning about the cyan cart.
So to figure out what’s not working means getting another laptop up and running with all of HP’s bloat, then printing one damn thing, then figuring out what line of firmware HP fucked in their most recent “support” update, then figuring out what line of code is fucked in the Pi. The stupid monster is happier with an official cart with 5ml of ink than a full one from somewhere else.
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Someone left some dryer sheets in the storage cabinets of one of our cabins last summer. All of the food took on the taste of the dryer sheet smell. blech.
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I had no idea, but it makes sense.
Asking for a friend, I shouldn’t use pickle juice, right?
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My sympathies on the DJ500. The one I worked on years ago was always problematic.
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You try it and report back to us.
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My new fragrance is named in honor of the Beastie Boys, “License to Dill”.
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Yeah, and I knew that going in. It’s not new, and hasn’t been new in a long time, but it was built for an enterprise environment, so it’s mechanically more reliable than consumer HP printers, and for wide format, my choices are HP or Epson. It was fine for about 6 months before shitting the bed (and I think it might have been a MacOS update that triggered the shitting of the bed, because we have a complicated, poly-operating system home network). It just happened at the worst possible time.
I need to find an old laptop that I can keep air-gapped from the network. I’ve got three machines right now that are happiest with obsolescent tech (a very low mileage embroidery machine that can’t recognize a memory card bigger than 1gb and gets paranoid when confronted with USB3, a knitting machine that wants input from a Tandy floppy drive, and this printer) so it’s in my best interest to make a stable build that works with all three, kill that machine’s wifi so it never updates and never gets near any source of infection, and relearn the beauty of sneaker-net. I’m kicking myself for sending the last iBook and netbook to the crusher when we moved two years ago.
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