… every time some transportation has to be done. The new fridge for the van almost didn’t fit inside the coupé, The station wagon would have fitted four or more of these boxes…
I miss the station wagon…
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Fusion Festival
Candyland deluxe. No advertisement whatsoever. Noncommercial. Eyecandy, human candy, any candy. Everywhere. Everything which draws your attention is either art, music, fellow human beings or food. No distraction from the beauty of it whatsoever. You enter the festival area and show your ticket once to get a badge and after that there are no controls anymore. You can bring whatever you like. Only the presence of children and animals is discouraged for their own safety. Disputes are extremely rare, the security is staffed by fellow punx or activists. The best festival I know of.
Main Stage (Hangerbühne). Awesome decoration with four video beamers and a freeform screen. Haven’t seen this technique before…
Some art on top the salon de bailles. Made from festival toilets
View in the direction of the Turmbühne
What’s up?
No time for blogging 🙁
I did quite some work on the van. It isn’t finished yet but I removed it from the workshop anyways because I’ll leave for the fusion festival today. So meet you there or you will hear from me in about a week.
Cheers, Andi
Stuff I haven’t seen before #2
This head unit from a Merc W210 was completely filled with oil. The internet says it’s quite a common failure with these models, some seal breaks and some capillary witchcraft transports the oil along the wires. Weird.
Wiring done wrong #3
Basically soldering wires together is a good idea. But just as with welding you either got to do it right or you should resort to another type of bonding (something with screws for example).
Connection between alternator and both batteries. Unfused.
I’m not quite sure how much current the gel acid battery can pull but certainly more than 50 amps. The wires are 5mm in diameter. A good joint is recognized by solder flowing in between the little wires and a flat & shiny surface. That’s because solder really flows like oil if it has the right temperature. Here the solder is only dabbed on top. To get a nice connection you have to heat up the copper to the melting point of the solder (close to 400 degrees Celsius). Since copper is really good in conducting heat you would need something like a little blowtorch to get such a cable to the right temperature. This would also ruin the insulation. In short: Do not try to solder thick wires. Use terminals. And don’t forget the cable end sleeves on screw terminals. They save lifes! If you just screw the wire in you will damage the little wires and by time the connection is so thin that it heats up and / or get’s disconnected. Since the whole body of a car is connected to ground / the batteries the loose cable just has to hit the metal to produce big sparks and to get really warm. Like red hot.