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Fire away. I've been pretty open about what I do for a living. Glad they arrived, and good luck with the wiring.
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Worth noting, if you intend to do harness work often, I recommend dry vinyl harness tape rather than electrical tape. It clings well if wrapped tightly but doesn't leave goop behind, you use friction tape to hold the loose end down. That's good friction tape, I'll have to pick some up. If you use electrical tape, use the best stuff you can get your hands on or it'll turn into a melty goopy mess, especially in an engine bay with chemicals and heat. 3m super33 is pretty good.
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You can get cloth tape for wrapping looms which is great too!
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What kind of bee?
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If you have wild honeybees consider it luck. I keep bees, my most hardy stock came from local survivor swarms. Varroa wiped out most wild colonies during the 1990s. Whats left, around here anyways, tend to be hardy, swarm often, and act aggressive. But they survive. I removed a colony from a very old camper that had been active for a decade and survived a couple poisoning attempts by the property owners. Everyone there got stung, they chased cars for half a mile, but the colony is still going strong. None of the fancy genetics or $200 nucs I have bought have fared as well. They are calmer stock but succumb to mites quick if your not careful. If they are still around and actually honeybees and not hornets most likely there are a dozen or so beekeepers in the area who will come get them for free.
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Krakkles posted:Surprise midweek update: hey, bees are good! Its wasps/hornets that need to gently caress off! Can you not get a beekeeper to come move them? If a car starts after major electronic surgery its always a good start! have you just got to re-wrap it now or is there more to check and fix?
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A beekeeper would be happy to help you out.
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Goonfleet is inquisitive about your spacecraft repairs
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I haven't seen a bee in ages. 
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Looking good. It's a shame you didn't solder any of it, that Type E wire solders like a dream. Looks like plenty of length to tuck things away, and hopefully it takes care of the issue!
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Yeah, so, wild be populations in the US have largely been wiped out. There is a mite that lives on them called varroa destructor. In addition to the damage caused by being a parasite, the mites are also vectors for a number of viruses and other diseases. They first appeared in the us during 1990s and took out probably 99% of the wild honeybees. What you see there is a swarm. What happens is the bees outgrow the hive, the queen lays some eggs to hatch that will be new queens, and then she takes off with half the workers. The workers gorge on honey before they go, to the point where they are docile and so fat they have a hard time stinging. Not that they can’t, its just less likely. Bees, varroa and insects have a defined life cycle. Swarming disrupts the laying of eggs in the hive and breaks the life cycle of varroa. So the wild hives that are left tend to swarm often.
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We have a place (small bit from an old farm) that we use in the family. Haven't seen bees there for ages, but this year there are tooooons of bumble bees. I think I'm gonna put up some dwellings for bees to use. but as far away from the house as possible as my mom is VERY allergic.
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Varroa destructor is one of the reasons why domestic hives in Ontario must be registered and their locations given to the government.
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Krakkles fucked around with this message at 23:30 on Mar 15, 2022 |
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Krakkles posted:edit: Googling made me realize there's an Ontario, OH also, though! I was just there today!
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Krakkles posted:At first, for whatever reason, I read "Ontario" as "Ohio", and felt confused that people are apparently willing to register their bees but not their guns. On the other hand, I can totally picture Ohioans having an armed protest about having to register their bees.
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Beekeepers are different. I like to wear masks (well, a bee jacket) because getting stung on the face sucks. Also, my hives are registered with the state because I don’t want pesticides sprayed on them. Most beekeepers here are the same way.
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You aren't gonna find another that's in better shape. They're basically all like that. Hell, when I did the custom harness merge for Sandbaggers YJ EFI swap in 2012, the harness I used was like that.
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Krakkles fucked around with this message at 23:39 on Mar 15, 2022 |
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Yeah, I was helping a friend by inspecting the WJ they just got - that makes three out of three Jeeps I've had my hands on where that poo poo is crispy at best.
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The only way to really fix that is going to be to find the crimp pins for the connectors on that section of the loom (shouldn't be super hard, most of them are very common) and depin all the connectors, rebuild that section from scratch using the fsm schematics, then reloom it. Which honestly isn't a bad idea. But given that I only ever see breaks on a few spots I don't think I'd bother. Spots I see breaks: - right at the back of the cts plug - right at the back of the TPS and IAT plugs - the upstream O2 harness sometimes gets crunchy Plus the area you are already fixing where it bridges from the engine to firewall. That's about it. I've literally never seen a conductor break inside the plastic raceway that clips to the head bolts. It gets metamorphosed from wire-limestone into wire-marble, sure, but it never seems to actually cause harm, just frustration when doing harness work.
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This reminds me. Krakkles, Kastein, what crimper dies do you use for those heatshrink splices? Kastein gave me a box of them for AISS a few years ago, and when I finally went to use them a few months ago I didn't get a good crimp using the regular RBY dies for insulated terminals. IIRC the terminal kind of squirted out of the jaws sideways. Happened twice in a row, so I ended up soldering and heatshrinking (not an automotive application). I seem to have thrown away the mis-crimped terminals; should have saved them to look at how they failed.
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I use a regular old ratchet crimper. It does damage the heatshrink a little but not too badly. I picked up an astro 9477 crimper that I love for many things including regular rby. I haven't tried it on heatshrink butt splices but they do make an A1 quick change die for it too that's designed for rby heatshrink splices, though I've only bought the H6 and H7 dies for it (besides the five sets of dies it comes with) so far.
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kastein posted:I use a regular old ratchet crimper. It does damage the heatshrink a little but not too badly. I picked up an astro 9477 crimper that I love for many things including regular rby. I haven't tried it on heatshrink butt splices but they do make an A1 quick change die for it too that's designed for rby heatshrink splices, though I've only bought the H6 and H7 dies for it (besides the five sets of dies it comes with) so far. Yeah the one I was using is just a regular no-name ratcheting crimper with the common RBY dies. If you have good success with these, I'll try them again next time. Must have been a fluke. Thanks!   That Astro kit looks pretty nice, I'll keep them in mind for when I need to buy my own instead of just using the stuff work issues to me.
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Krakkles fucked around with this message at 23:40 on Mar 15, 2022 |
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They look like mine too. The astro one was suggested to me by a guy on sloppy mechanics. I haven't had reason to use anything but my h6 and h7 dies so far which work really nicely, I used them to make a maf adapter cable to plug a truck maf into my van harness. Hoping I can find dies for all the other stuff I do, it's nice not having to unscrew and rescrew the bolts holding the dies in like on a regular ratchet crimper.
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kastein posted:They look like mine too. We have one of these Click-n-crimp things at work that is pretty convenient for the same reason, but it goes one step further and holds several sets of dies in the handle for easy access. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9jAcppzSOQ
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