Summer Sojourn, Day 02

Wasted no time getting to work...

The lawnmower (used at least once a week) needed new blades.




No pictures of this, but the motor from a salvaged cement mixer came apart easier than it looked like it should. Examining the internal wiring made me wonder how it could have ever worked (although X was pretty sure it hummed when plugged in, and may have turned)—two adjacent brushes were connected together, I could feel stubs of wiring on the other two, unconnected to anything; four wires from the stator ended up as two to the plug (through a tape-wrapped glob that I didn't bother to peel apart), and their internal insulation was cracked, dry, and missing in many places. It went onto the scrap pile.

Then we found some time to play with a crossbow I drop-shipped from Amazon.


At ten yards X managed to "Robin Hood" an arrow...


...once that happened we'd aim at different points on the target.

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