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,

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.

irkli,

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

A duck? Or another bird, most fowl?

Sorry.

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,

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,

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

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.

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,

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, (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,

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,

Lol cannot unsee.

And yeah, I don’t need to experience everything.

irkli,

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

Not a trustworthy 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.

irkli,

BUT HOW COULD I KNOW.

irkli,

Makes sense, if for no other reason than poor nutrition is poor health.

We’re animals that need to eat bulky low energy density foods and shit daily. Simple.

Discussions of “fiber” is a polite and useless avoidance of saying out loud that you need to shit, and shit requires volume. Whole grains, fruit, etc…

TIL that following the Roman departure from Britain (410 CE), systematic construction of paved highways in the UK did not resume until the early 18th century (en.wikipedia.org)

After the Romans departed, systematic construction of paved highways in the United Kingdom did not resume until the early 18th century. The Roman road network remained the only nationally managed highway system within Britain until the establishment of the Ministry of Transport in the early 20th century.

irkli,

Europeans were not a sophisticated bunch of people when the Romans invaded. Pretty much every idea “from Europe” through 1900 was borrowed (lol) from somewhere else. Including industrial era basics like iron.

irkli,

So, in essence, you want to make people’s decision for them?

irkli,

No argument from me. Only defense is I was speaking loosely and about this moment in the US. Def not about Israel the state.

To me religion is a weird crutch, like an illness. Religions in practice can be (to non participants) benign to toxic. Internally, no comment, no experience except creepy catholicism in my long ago youth.

irkli,

Sorry, didn’t mean to be dickish. I just reread my post. Saying “sounds like you’re expecting a corporate experience” was an observation is not an insult.

Decentralized stuff is fundamentally different than centralized coordinates corporate stuff. Serious question, do you understand how it is that so many people can start so many similar communities?

irkli,

I never saw porn on Reddit though I suppose it was there.

But “communism”? Wtf are you talking about? Like actual 1950s style red scare stuff? Lol

irkli,

Lol, I had to ask.

irkli,

Make sure you check out LeMons racing, which is pretty different from others.

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