irkli

@irkli@lemmy.world

I make things of metal and code. I do road trips.

My main website is sensitive research (my queer scifi novel [The Delivery]is there), Rambler automobiles, Rambler Lore.

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irkli,

This was all done decades ago…

irkli,

I wonder how many complaining here actually read even this bland and uninformative article.

At issue I believe (because it is not stated, but discussed elsewhere in better venues) is that UK wants to be able to see inside encrypted comms and files, under the guise of CSAM detection. Apple is right to oppose it.

Arguments based on hypocrisy real or perceived in other venues (china) has nothing to do with this decision its just piss-taking. Give it a rest.

irkli,

Fkn vote like your life depends on it. It does. Call on sick if you have to.

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    irkli,

    In the internet biz since 1993 here (retired): choose your registrar as carefully as your domain name.

    Lowest price is the dumbest reason. It’s never the way to choose anything. ID what your needs are, what satisfies that, then shop for the best price…

    Anyway at the moment for my purposes the EU with it’s gdpr and other rules is the best choice for many reasons. I’m using joker.com.

    Top level domains (.ml etc) have their own rules, you gotta read them carefully. I don’t know anything about .ml and whether they allowed that usage or not.

    irkli,

    Hmm … I think the point of this post, and comm, is being (righteously) annoyed. When leavened with humor, of the self-deprecating kind, it’s good.

    But public indulgence of righteous indignation is kinda gross. Once in a while maybe…

    irkli,

    No offense to anyone, but “the country” is an abstraction they doesn’t exist.

    But helll yeah this country, it’s people and institutions, know what the effects of labor laws do.

    Most – all? – large pools of money are right wing and exploitive. Can anyone think of a major for profit, traded corporation, that isn’t?

    So yeah you me and everyone we know knows putting kids im dangerous jobs is fkn mean.

    Money says, “what are you gonna do about it?”

    We need to find ways. Unions are a big one.

    irkli,

    Vim

    irkli,

    Don’t eat shit food for a meal, and snacking is usually a bad idea.

    Though it’s counter to American practices, eat a large breakfast and lunch, and lighter dinner. You’re active in the day, that’s when you need food. Sleep on an emptyish stomach.

    Processed foods are not good for you. “chips” are not food as in a meal.

    Foods should be mostly recognizable growing things or made from them.

    Fats are good for you sugar is fine – in reasonable quantities. You need fat! You probably don’t need sugar, lol, but it is tasty. But it’s a shit food source.

    Erasing your Reddit history is an asshole move, and does not really help "the cause"

    Users removing their entire Reddit history might block people from reaching useful info that was in that history. Think of people, who may not be Redditors themselves, searching in the future via google, or whatever, for some useful info that was in your deleted history, just because you wanted to feel good about yourself...

    irkli,

    I’m with OP. It’s clear that on Reddit, it’s the users posts that are valuable. That reddit hostscitcis fact, and their ruinous behaviour puts those posts in a new light.

    But erased, no one will ever know wtf the issue was about.

    All I hear with the “erase my posts” is emotional grandstanding.

    Fabricating a new coil-per-plug ignition system for an orphan engine

    In another post on this community, partially just trying to generate a conversation, i asked about adaptable coil-on-plug modules. A couple folks were helpful, but it’s still thin on the ground here, that’s cool, it’s all new, etc. Here it is: lemmy.world/post/1263808 (not much)....

    irkli,

    Not the first rockAuto error I’ve found.

    irkli,

    YES! Thanks!! Wow, the devil’s in the details… They “all look like that” but on the few I’ve seen, the long snout is cast plastic and not removable. That makes a huge difference. Thanks so much for the detail!

    Gonna get to an LKQ (junkyard) next week and try to find one for a look-see. Nothing like having a thing in your grubby hands for gathering information.

    Seriously, I can’t thank you enough. This is great info.

    irkli,

    I’d rather not use Holley/MSD stuff. It’s aimed at the high-horsepower, GM V8 scene, grossly oversized for my 125 hp engine. I find Holley’s tech not all that well made, and definitely not OEM quality (though OEM quality is highly variable… and aftermarket replacement parts can be sketchy). Those are $100 per coil, and I need six. The stuff is physically huge. And if one fails, they have to be ordered from Holley or Summit or something. I’m making 20 hp/cylinder and it can’t possibly rev past 4500 rpm.

    The last part will get me flamed but tough shit: Holley’s support forum for their EFI is admin’ed by a guy I had to battle to even sign up to. Bible quotes on every reply. Shitty and officious and incorrect technical advice.

    But it’s also more interesting to work out properly-scaled OEM stuff I can adapt from junkyard sources.

    I will go look at Nissan too, thanks for the hint! A coil-near setup will be tolerant of some lead length too, I kinda don’t want to “research” subtle coil behaviours that result in failure “later”!

    irkli,

    OK I rummaged around in search engine and RockAuto.com and found some cheap, common Toyota coil on plug modules for which I can get connectors too. And bought one. The issue is (see photos) this is an old pushrod OHV motor, cam in block, and all COPs are designed to fit down through the valve cover etc. So it dangles. This is a really small car, and even if I make brackets to support them, it’s bust. I’m not relocating the battery (umm low center of gravity was not ever considered…) so this scheme won’t work.

    I think coil-near-plug as a smart Volvo fan suggested is the next thing to look at; I’d ordered this part before that post. I’ll post on that when I find one to examine.

    In the mean time here are photos of failure, lol. Projects like this are failure every step of the way through success.

    Plug side of the motor. It’s a very small car, same wheelbase as a Yaris (within 5mm). Tiny engine compartment especially for 1960.

    Plug side of the motor, stock form

    COP on plug #2. Immediately obvious to me not gonna work. Simply too tall. Cyls 1, 2, 3 maybe, but 4, 5, 6 are under the battery and I’m not moving that (again). Too cluttery.

    Yeah, no, not good. Coil mass too far from block.

    Lifted by hand to in-line with the plug.

    I’d fab a bracket to place it about here…

    Here’s the module itself. Lovely thing! Coil and MOSFET driver right in the sealed unit. I lurv this new shit.

    Heres’ the candidate Toyota COP module.

    irkli,

    This one? www.rockauto.com/en/moreinfo.php?pk=2417170&cc=14…

    Here’s the NGK part: www.rockauto.com/en/moreinfo.php?pk=9165460&cc=14…

    Does that long neck come off? Or is that the wrong part?

    QR25DE

    irkli, (edited )

    Last post today: the distributor (no photos yet) is a typical old Delco Remy, they’re OK, but all of them are worn out after 60 years, shafts wobble, etc, and new ones don’t exist and no one rebuilds them any more (I do my own).

    The plan is to replace the distributor guys with an optical coder that gives absolute position so the first cylinder fire position reached actually generates a spark – [EDIT:] 60 degrees of crankshaft rotation, not 720 etc. Pertronix II needs a full rev to determine angle and another I think to work out coil dwell.

    I use MegaJolt/e with EDIS-6 on one of these engines in my sports car, but that stuff is old now, I dislike the single-source Megajolt now, 10 years later. With COP it;s just some logic drivers, sensors, and a spark map. I’m running two fuel maps now for the carb (AFR and enleanment feedback) so spark will be easy.

    Here’s a distributor stripped to the housing, shaft, and drive gear. The mechanical advance was stripped out of this one, but for fail-back purposes the one that goes in the car will have the advance junk retained, just pinned to disable, so in theory the contact points could go back in.

    https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/bf1370d8-13b1-4e54-a362-c730d11f2335.jpeg

    irkli,

    HA! Never do what you’re told. I like the COP modules for their integral driver. Saves a lot of design and power issue transporting spark coil power around…

    So I yanked the rubber boot off the end of the toyota COP module… aaaaand it turns out that it’s shape is nearly identical to a distributor cap tower socket. Aaaaaand a regular spark plug wire fits it. Instant coil near plug…

    Now I know these things are designed with very thin margins… and I’m not sure if the module will tolerate the added cable (inductance and resistance). So at the least I’ll set one up on the bench with a “long” plug wire and run it for a few thousand cycles and see if it bursts into flames or something. (likely death will be a hole punched in a silicon barrier and… silent death).

    20 bucks each and driver built in and available at autozone on the road…

    https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/da17f521-452a-4ecd-88f9-56948a831ae5.jpeg

    https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/1c96028e-6974-4e23-90bd-3c6ec415ded9.jpeg

    irkli,

    Also on RockAuto there’s a separate replacement part for “spark plug boot” – which seems to be exactly your removable part, so that gives me more clarity. This search shows it… www.rockauto.com/en/…/+ignition+coil+boot,10150

    irkli, (edited )

    Ok cool explains the diffs re: rockAuto. Or they have afu listings, hardly the first time… I’ll hunt those down.

    What do you do for work? If I did this, I probably wouldn’t do it for fun! Lol.

    I like doing work from first principles. Luckily since I basically have no choice. Electronics and software was my living, once. .

    irkli,

    Oooh thanks! Will look em up when I get home!!

    irkli,

    Fox news is fake news, selected and engineered even if this story is true.

    Not a trustworthy source.

    irkli,

    Capitalist mechanisms are what those people in the US use to profiteer. It’s what it’s for, absolute maximum extraction of “value”.

    irkli,

    I wish everyone EVERYONE would stop saying “ai”. It is not in any way intelligence. These are large language models.

    This is a bit long, but John Sayles says it right.

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot4z1UrPvZY

    irkli,

    BUT HOW COULD I KNOW.

    irkli,

    Wow that’s pretty good. Well structured code to work like this.

    irkli,

    Lol, I’d love to know who downvoted you!

    A duck? Or another bird, most fowl?

    Sorry.

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