Tuesday, March 26, 2024

6:17 My part and tool came, newest version of the catch can is nearly done. Screwed the die on a 2x6 on the couch, drilled a hole in the tube...

This... tube will go in the place of the smaller black one, so the "in" line will open near the bottom, surrounded by a piece of chain mail, hopefully splashing spitting less.

Thread would have come nicer if i could find my WD40, however is functional. I tried and searched everywhere, i think is in the car, but they started to pour in by my butt while i was searching in the trunk, kids started to yell like crazy, so i just gave up.

Tried with engine oil, on aluminum is worse than nothing. A thin lubricant is required.

All i have left to do is measure and cut, however i can't find my hack saw.

6:55 Upstairs, still doing the unthinkable. A person trained to do just that. Stomp and squeak following my actions downstairs. For an hour now, furiously.

8:25 It stopped after i wrote. Restarted about 10 minutes ago, made me breath dust after i ate.

8:44 I don't know what to make of this. Last night i was bing watching on NETFLIX Rise of the Ottomans and saw among others the naval battle between Genoa's and Sultan's fleet with Baltoghlu loosing an eye and being spared by the sultan at the request of many. The name is so close semantically with today's event that when i first searched, misspelling, this is what it came.

Baltoghlu, ships, water, 800 years old chain securing the harbor, chaos.

BTW the name's etymology (from the movie) means son of an ax. Baltag is a Romanian word for a similar tool, probably inherited from Turkish and the name of a very famous novel written in Romanian by M.Sadoveanu.

And i remember something else. The huge 8 meters 1.5 tons balls guns used by the sultan were made by a Christian Hungarian man named Orban, using the bronze of many church bells caught in the Ottoman empire. Hungarians are sometimes classified as Turkic people, though my opinion is a bit more refined.