What did you do WITH your Ranger today?

[carmigo]

Yesterday the Ranger made a trip to Costco on Valentine Day so I could pick up new hearing aids. I gave up on my GN hearing aids as they never worked worth a damn. So with $2500 down the drain for the GN (Danish company and Costco branded Resound). So I tossed another $1600 at new Philips top of the line hearing aids with AI. Thought AI was a gimmick but it works well and I am quite pleased... Anyway Ranger sat in the lot minding itself except for the wind. Gusting to 65mph!

Then a Hazmat alert on the phone...Truck on I10 freeway overturned and was casting a red plume due to ruptured Nitric Acid drums. We had to vacate the area...Nasty stuff, that nitric acid...

Then a somewhat white knuckle drive home down I19 with cross wind gusting to more than 70mph which really shook the Ranger but it held its ground...

Anyway...Happy Valentine Day belated...

best,
Phil

What an eventful valentines day. Glad to hear your new hearing aids are working well. Good thing you have a Ranger that can handle wind without a problem, but I would still be terrified the entire way home.

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[Grumpaw]

I took some boxes to the Post Office in my Ranger today and saw this. It made me wonder why I hadn't thought to drive my Ferrari to the Post Office.

Oh. Perhaps it because I don't HAVE a Ferrari.

My wife then asked me why I didn't also back in for a quick getaway, so I told her that I don't need to back in since I can just drive over things.

I leave my Ferrari and the Porsche in the garage, hidden....drive Truck everywhere....gotta "dumb down" so neighbors won't ask for rides !!!

 

[subquark]

I know the problems.
When I was building guitars, I bought some Ivory from a Museum in Indiana about 14 years ago.
I had all the documentation from them stating that they were pre-ban, etc. I also bought fossilized walrus Ivory about a decade ago. Using both of them for nuts, bridge pins and bridge saddles for a few customer. Sent documentation along with the guitars. Sanding bone, Ivory is very dangerous and masks must be worn at all times.
The ebony if not to dried out would make nice bridge pins and tuner knobs.

Good to know and I'll assess the ebony come late spring. I think the poor thing was only tuned once in the last 35 years and that would have been about 22 years ago. But in the last 17 years, the piano was mostly in an un-insulated garage with the keyboard in an unconditioned basement (that occassionally gets very humid in big rains and snow melts ....

Before that, it was in Miami in a home that was rarely air conditioned for over 30 years - the heat and humidity were brutal on it (as was one of Kate's brothers who thought he'd polish the piano with who-knows-what in the 1960s, resulting in the finish orange peeling) ...

Your guitar building sounds fascinating and a true passion for you, I envy that and admire your talent! =)

 

[OrangeStreak]

I leave my Ferrari and the Porsche in the garage, hidden....drive Truck everywhere....gotta "dumb down" so neighbors won't ask for rides !!!

This is why I keep my truck garaged...

 

[tentspast]

I know the problems.
When I was building guitars, I bought some Ivory from a Museum in Indiana about 14 years ago.
I had all the documentation from them stating that they were pre-ban, etc. I also bought fossilized walrus Ivory about a decade ago. Using both of them for nuts, bridge pins and bridge saddles for a few customer. Sent documentation along with the guitars. Sanding bone, Ivory is very dangerous and masks must be worn at all times.
The ebony if not to dried out would make nice bridge pins and tuner knobs.

You might be interested in the latest Fender Dream Factory creation...
50,000 year old NZ Kauri wood body and Mastadon tusk for the fretboard inlays ?

 

[fob63]

Interesting. I would have thought they would have found some 4A older Ebony for the fretboard.

 

[TXRangerTim]

DON'T MENTION HOLES !!!!!!!!!!!!
Another thread started about holes, and look where that ended up !!!

Way too many threads about peoples' holes.

 

[TXRangerTim]

i wish my folks would get them. my hearing is getting damaged from the lack of hearing they have...

That's how it is everytime I visit me dad. He blast the TV volume then wants to talk. I have to yell back "I cant hear you! TV is too loud". He gets all butthurt but can hold a conversation at normal levels. He doesn't understand/care how that high a volume actually hurts my ears. He thinks his body is still as good as in his 20's except when it benifits him to not be so. Refused to get glasses with failing eyesight etc. I think it's parcial denial that he is old now & also him trying to show off his sound bar etc as if it matters.

 

[TXRangerTim]

I took some boxes to the Post Office in my Ranger today and saw this. It made me wonder why I hadn't thought to drive my Ferrari to the Post Office.

Oh. Perhaps it because I don't HAVE a Ferrari.

My wife then asked me why I didn't also back in for a quick getaway, so I told her that I don't need to back in since I can just drive over things.

I had a Corvette and it was just a garage queen. Nice to have but waste of money & space.

 

[9zero1790]

Today I left Ranger at home and took my small and simple LPG M/T car instead. I have to try to put some kilometers on my car instead of truck or the truck will be out of warranty period very quickly.
Ranger is so good to drive and it just collects kilometers. So good to drive it has 4 times km-s more on it than other car with same time.

show us the other car, the lpg m/t. sounds interesting.

 

[9zero1790]

dropped the 5g off at dealer for transmission problem this morning. expecting worst praying for best. ?

 

[IdahoRanger]

Today I left Ranger at home and took my small and simple LPG M/T car instead. I have to try to put some kilometers on my car instead of truck or the truck will be out of warranty period very quickly.
Ranger is so good to drive and it just collects kilometers. So good to drive it has 4 times km-s more on it than other car with same time.

Or you could just take the elephant.

 

[Grumpaw]

dropped the 5g off at dealer for transmission problem this morning. expecting worst praying for best. ?

Yoda say's, "Sad am I for you. Still under warranty it is, maybe" ???

 

[Kristina]

Or you could just take the elephant.

I don’t want to talk about it ?

 

[9zero1790]

Yoda say's, "Sad am I for you. Still under warranty it is, maybe" ???

still under warranty thankfully.

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