#junkyard — Public Fediverse posts

I decided to check out my local junkyard first because if they had one it would come with a motor and not swapping the motor just makes the repair easier.

They had one Camry left with an intact wiper mechanism i could remove from this junk car for just $35.

My sweetie is very happy!

Also I now have a cool very powerful 12V worm gear motor to save for some other project! I’ll put it next to the much older Honda wiper motor.

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#repair #junkyard #camry #OldCars

The internal gearing that makes the drivers side windshield wiper on my partners 2006 Camry with about 313k miles failed! The motor still worked fine and the mating splines that lock the wiper arm to the drive shaft were still good. The wiper assembly that connects the wiper motor to the wiper arm was $100 at Amazon, and about $66 from RockAuto.

This is the motor and wiper assembly I removed from her car, it’s simple to do, many videos showing how.

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#repair #junkyard #camry #OldCars

For isn't it in our daydreams that we acquire some sense of what we are about? Where we try on futures and practice our voices before committing ourselves to words or deeds? Daydreaming is where we go to cultivate the self, or, more likely, selves, out of the view and earshot of other people. Without its daydreams, the self is apt to shrink down to the size and shape of the estimation of others.
-- Michael Pollan

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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Flowers #Junkyard #Minnesota

Information consists of differences that make a difference.
-- Edward Tufte

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If your brain is always multitasking, or responding to technoprompts, there is no time or energy for undirected mental play. Furthermore, if you are consumed by the same information loop circulating around everyone else, you don't have anything to stimulate you into thinking differently. ... You don't have access to unexpected knowledge. You're just swept along in the same narrow current as everyone else, which is swift but not deep.
-- David Brooks (Newsweek)

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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Flowers #Junkyard #Minnesota

Evidence decays over time.
-- Edward Tufte (Presenting Data and Information Short Course)

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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Flowers #Junkyard #Minnesota

Always assume the best about your audience.
-- Edward Tufte (Presenting Data and Information Short Course)

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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Flowers #Junkyard #Minnesota

#TBT to a couple years ago when I set up "junkyard therapy" for my (women) friends and my three daughters. We set up this junk car and let everyone work out their rage and aggression with baseball bats and sledgehammers. It was exhilarating!

#HisAndHearsePress #HisAndHearseRacing #ThrowbackThursday #Junkyard #Therapy #Rage #RageRoom #Catharsis #FemaleRage #Cars #Destruction #Demolition