June 11

12:40 Wanted to leave today but i've done something stupid. Yesterday when the sprinklers were on i went to adjust one of them because there will be a big yellow spot in front of the parking spots. However the sprinkler is touchy and unpreditable and the water stopped before i finished. So i don't know if i done it right or not.

If not, it could sprinkle on the building and there is an electric box for... programming the sprinklers. In fact it did that when the first started and had to adjust it and it took a long time. So i didn't leave no more waiting for 5:30 pm for the sprinklers to start.

I had several things to do at the car, including tightening some panels under that vibrate. After i've done so i went for a test drive and saw the voltage at the plug was 14.6 which indicate loose battery connectors or alternator connectors. Yesterday for example was 14.4 which is ideal.

The positive one was loose (duh!, they needed to do something for me to have on the road). I tightened it, had a doubt, untightened it and the solder joint broke. It lasted since January and numerous re-tightenings. I brough the battery inside and tried to break the other one too so i re-do both in the same time but i couldn't. In the end i cut it with a saw. Re-did both which involves some rosin smell.

2:10 I had to re-do it. Was in a hurry and made some mistakes. One of the joints broke as i installed the battery.

This is a note to self in the future. I have to heat the bolt on the red hot electric stove burner until the flux from the bubble of melted solder applied on the hex end start to come at the surface and become yellow, but not brown. Have to first clean, apply flux and tint the terminal, using the hot bolt as a soldering iron, cool with water, dry and apply flux and then reheat the bolt following the same rule. Have to press real hard the bolt on the terminal in one move and have to see bubbles of solder coming out of the joint all around. Cool right away.

9:46 None the richer.