Exactly. Why do you think I seem so confused in all my posts?

 

Lol... Seriously though, I have met some real winners over the years. One of these days I'll have to tell you about the Mars rover project leader for JPL who couldn't understand the directions in his trunk about how to change his spare tire. Drove it 30 miles on the rim because the whole concept completely eluded his mental capabilities. lol

 

Doing last minute checks today, getting ready for AOAA on Saturday. It will be her maiden run with my owning it.

 

I somewhat agree with that. I am glad Hen is going to college. He is a smart kid so I dont think he will get sucked in to the nonsense. Me on the other hand, I just got lucky to find a job that needed no college education and stuck with it through the years. So now my years of actual hands on experience are far more valuable then having a degree. Again, this only applies in a few situations and jobs.

 

Same here. But I think the situation is different now. There was a time when common sense was taught alongside advanced skills. Now it's all about the money and they really don't care if the kid learns anything or not. And self reasoning and common sense are discouraged. It seems they don't want these kids to think for themselves and question anything, especially anything questioning the rationality and methods of what they have been taught.

 

I re-keyed my new ignition lock cylinder and installed it.

My low beams went out a couple of days ago, so I traced it from the factory headlamp plug "trigger" to the relay connections in my headlight harness back to a sketchy power connection at the PDC that no longer could carry enough current. It showed up as a slightly low voltage at the "30" supply pin of the relay.

 

Did you re-key that yourself?

 

Yeah, I just re-coded the new one to match the original tumblers. It was simple and should have done it a long time ago. The original cylinder was really worn and sloppy. I had extra tumblers left over and put all new tumblers in the old cylinder as well with the original coding as a backup.

 

Way to go man! Absolutely, it's not that hard at all and I am elated to see someone from here actually do it. Been doing it for years and have boxes of extra tumblers now. I have even handmade a lot of keys using the tumblers and cylinder to work from as a guide for my file cuts.

Man all the problems and aggravation people put up with because they are afraid to slide those covers off and just do this.

Seriously... thank you for sharing!

 

Having worked in the electronics industry for years, I don't often shy away from small parts. But anyone can do it with a little patience, and it's certainly nothing to be afraid of. Actually, the hardest thing was reading the codes on the old worn-out tumblers, but it's not hard to hold them up next to each other to match them up if need be, since there's only 4 possibilities.

It's pretty cool that you've had the opportunity to cut/file new keys to match. Once I took it apart I had a clear understanding of what was going on and could see how that wouldn't be too hard to do.

 

Save this image for a future reference guide, you can buy these tumbler sets cheap to have extra tumblers if you are re-coding a cylinder to fit an existing key. After awhile you get so you can eyeball the cuts in the left side and determine the number even after it is worn off.

And I have been telling folks that for years, just take the darn thing apart and it is pretty self explanatory. lol

 

X2 on that. Proud of him for it.

As for me, well... I just didn't have the desire to continue to put up with the B.S. from professors and adjuncts to return to college after leaving for family issues. I'm sorry, but if I'm citing sources on a paper using the APA format that's in a book that the college I'm going to handed me at the beginning of the semester, then you can't tell me that it's not acceptable APA formatting. That's just ridiculous.

 

Well I can say as a professor myself, I've never been that nit picky about it. As long as it was in there in the normal standard way. I'm more concerned with a student grasping the material than saying hey... points off for not italicizing the correct part of your citation. I mean seriously. lol.

 

It was literally THAT bad! lol... (you sure you don't know this guy?)

I mean, I had several professors that were really cool. But there were some that were just absolutely ridiculous and, as someone who was EXTREMELY OCD about the work that I turned in, I took it pretty hard when someone would come at me with something like that - especially when it was because I was following the APA layout that the college itself provided.

 

Don't know how to do a double quote on my phone or really on the computer since I never use it, but thanks 5-speed and basslick much appreciated.