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First World I know, but fck me I'm weary.
This isn't a typical morning, next stop is the Headstock distribution centre to pick up my new amp! My coat might say Tu but my heart is rocknroll. \m/
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
Video* or it didn't happen
I am currently sat at my desk, mulling over a particularly tricky music brief for a very exclusive hotel, wondering whether to dive in and immerse myself into it or whether I am going to have to go to Bristol on a service call. Bristol basically getting me off the hook with this music for another day...
(*of the amp in use, not of you picking it up from the distribution centre!)
Wish I was getting a new amp today...
electric proddy probe machine
My trading feedback thread
Modern lorries don't have a dipstick you can access any more, it's hidden under the cab for only technicians to use when servicing.
There is a menu level on the digital display on the dash whereby every morning you check your oil level.
The dash is reading half full of oil but when the breakdown man came and rescued me we tilted the cab to find the dipstick bone dry.
One seized engine. Probably will need a new one. Ahem £17k !!!
That was one very expensive faulty sensor reading the oil level.
So now I'm sat waiting for a hire car to arrive so I can get home from the Midlands. I also have no truck to drive for around 10 days while they inevitably fit a new engine. It's a 14 litre turbocharged, 460hp straight six and it's not a little job to change it.
All because a dipstick, the way trucks have been since they were invented, was apparently too much hassle to use.
God bless technology eh.
Oh and by the way, when the engine seized it stopped working completely which meant all the steering failed and locked. This happened around 3 seconds after I had got it onto the hard shoulder in a straight line. If that had happened while I was in the middle lane overtaking or worse still on a bend on the motorway, or a downhill stretch, the consequences could have been catastrophic.
I am sitting here feeling very lucky right now.
oddly enough @jd0272 and I have not dissimilar jobs ( although I think I'd be his boss if we worked together, so none of your lip sonny...) so that may explain a similar disposition toward weariness.
electric proddy probe machine
My trading feedback thread
J/k aside, having once seized an engine on a motorway, in a similarly "Just got it onto the hard shoulder before the steering locked" brown-trousered moment, you have my sympathies. That was many moons ago, and also down to a dipstick. Alas, in my case the dipstick was ME.
I'm currently bored crapless, and trying not to order a pedal (or 2) from Coda.
In othre news, there "might" be some incoming noisy stuff (not from Coda).
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)