We did it again and that is the second time this spring. It was a sunny, not so warm day and windy again. The fishing wasn't so important as it was all about the “Princess”. The pictures tell the tale. Between the two crab nets and the two fish she caught she was pretty busy. I, having a sinus and ear problem, was of absolutely no use other than for putting up the hammock and taking a nap. Sufficient on the first and outstanding on the second. There was some excitement when I gave the hammock a test flight as the fine Chinese rope broke and dropped me like a stone. It was only about 8 inches to the ground and it was soft dirt and grass so no harm was done. You can't trust anything from China.
She is much better at casting than I am and more diligent about the crab nets.
If it were up to me the crabs would get a nice lunch while I took a nap. These little blue crabs here are sort of like peeling and eating a Valencia Orange. They are just too much trouble for what you get.
She let this one go but eight or ten of these makes a nice meal.
Catching fish is not all that important but “going fishing” is.
There was hammock time.
Then there was this tree.Update on Elmer, the air compressor
I guess I was working on it in my sleep a few nights back as when I woke up I had the answer. As soon as I could stand to be up on my forked end (I'm not much good in the mornings) I took it apart again and removed the reed valve. The reed valve is the the part in the drawing outlined in red. It is a paper thin piece of spring steel. I polished it with fine steel wool (000). The seat I cleaned with my thumbnail and some more fine steel wool. It is pitted and there were minuscule bumps of carbon on it but I got it clean before my thumbnail wore out. There is nothing cost effective that I can do about the pits. The seat is pretty rough and needs to be perfectly smooth. I then put it back together (breaking only one head bolt) and started it up. It worked. There is still some blow back at the intake but the pressure comes right up to 110 pounds faster than it ever has. It should be good for another 50 years. So what do I do with the new compressor I have ordered?
Your are looking at the bottom of the “head”. The “Air In” and “Air Out” holes are on the other side and go into their respective manifolds to do their business. The dotted lines indicate internal passages.The “Piston” is not actually the piston but is a slightly depressed area the size of the piston. The clearance is about the thickness of the reed valve. It is a very simple and effective design. This is about half size.
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