Month: November 2023

Sport, Off-Road, Touring

Election Day Eve Edition of SORT
As of Monday, November 6, 2023 at 8:00 AM pacific time:

Sport Off-Road Touring
2018 Audi R8 2019 Ariel Nomad 1965 Chevrolet Van
Because we just moved and the change of address thing took a little while we didn’t get our ballots to mail in for this election. They must have gone to Klamath Falls and there possibly might be a way to vote in person, but it doesn’t matter too much, next November will be a different matter though.

Here is what last week’s cars sold for, or bid to (if the reserve was not met):
Sports: 1972 Chevrolet Corvette Sold for $43,000 on 11/1/23
Off-Road: 1978 International Harvester Scout II Bid to $35,250 on 11/2/23
Touring: 1954 Lincoln Capri Coupe Sold for $63,348 on 11/1/23

Maybe That Is Why It Was On Sale

When we packed up our stuff in Klamath Falls for our move to Fairview we left behind a bunch of stuff we didn’t think we’d need anymore. We also left several items that, while still serviceable, we wanted to buy new to get something newer or better.

One item we left behind was our Dyson Upright Ball Vacuum. It was one of the first things we bought when we moved into the house in Klamath Falls. It had served us well for nearly 4 years, but recently it had started to sound like a fighter’s jet engine on shutdown when we turned it off.

This time when it came to buying a new vacuum, I wanted to stick in the Dyson camp, but get a smaller one without a cord. After doing a little online searching I found a V8 Origin at Target that was on sale for about $100 compared to its regular price of little over $400.

After about a week of using it, the fancy Motorbar cleaner head would randomly not spin. It got progressively worse so that it would only work a tenth of the time, so I Googled “dyson v8 power head not working” and got several YouTube solutions to the problem. The trouble was that none of those actually applied to my particular model or my generation.

Most of the solutions recommend cleaning the contacts that run from the motor section down to the brush head. I looked at them and they don’t look dirty at all. Maybe I should get some electrical contact cleaner and spray it liberally at all the places along the way…