Pentosin leak found, cheap laptop closet cleanout mania

[Mike Arman]

Where oh where is the pentosin going? . . . noticed a *new* leak, line of
drops on the pavement after parallel parking.

Opened hood, looked around carefully, nothing visible, just the normal
not-too bad underhood grunge.

Started engine . . . one of the X caps on the PS pump is fizzing merrily
away - leaky O ring!

Which probably explains autocheck complaining sometimes on startup but not
others, even though the green gold level is good - the leaky O ring leaks
air into the pump as well as pentosin out of it.

Fortunately, this one is easy to get to - and the others don't leak, is it
possible I'm going to have a quick, easy fix for something on my type $$?




Clean engine vs dirty engine - if you keep it clean, leaks are very visible
- they are the only dirty part. If you keep it dirty, leaks are very
visible, they are the only clean part! Personally, I prefer clean because
that makes things MUCH easeir to work on.





End of Audi content . . . (apologies to the combine, but I'd rather these
go to someone I more or less know than hassle with eBay - and remember, YOU
can find ME if this is not as advertised! ;-)


Non-Audi question - is the small "D" shaped 12>18 volt power plug for
laptops (which goes into the laptop) available separately? These seem to
get broken often, and there is some resistance to buying a new power supply
. . . I'd like to get two or three of them as spares.

And for sale

Cheapie #1) NEC SL25C, 4 MB ram, 386/25 cpu, 1.4 floppy. And of course, as
soon as I plugged it in to find out what hard drive is in it, it stopped
working. Needs a CMOS battery, power is a 12 volt wall wart (main battery
is long gone), date of manufacture of unit is 1992. Screen has no bad
pixels - when it decided to stop working (right after I reset CMOS), it
made a series of broad horizontal bands, then things got very quiet . . .

I was going to ask $50 for this, but now it just discounted itself to $25.
Good for parts, or if you have another one that is broken, take two and
make one.


Cheapie #2) Dell Colorbook (Mk I). 486SX25, 4 MB ram, 1.4 floppy, a new
internal (slide-out) mouse (and the old dead one), a HUGE hard drive of 86
whole MB, but it has an updated BIOS and I have run a 1.4 GB hard drive in
this with no problems. Carrying case, 9600 and 28.8 PCMCIA modems, some
books and paperwork, AC power supply, DOS 7.0 loaded and working. $100 for
this one, and it works. Internal battery is of course long croaked, but
this one runs on 12 volts also, so it could go into a car, perhaps as an
MP3 player? Made 12/93 (late model!), could probably use a CMOS battery,
these are available under $20. Color VGA, 640 by 480, no bad pixels.

Add for UPS or however, your preference.



Best Regards,

Mike Arman

various stuff with 2, 3,or 4 wheels, wings, hulls, etc.