[This blog entry was not completed during our last days in Guam, so have decided to publish it now, even though it is late!]

This morning, using the lathe and less than $1 worth of plastic, I made a bushing to replace the one that failed at the bottom of the gear shift lever in the Toyota Highlander (see our blog entry for “2014/07/19 — Saturday.”  I made the bushing to be a force fit, so hopefully it won’t come out of its place.  It ‘popped’ into position using pliers and worked nicely — a lot cheaper repair than the $400 for a replacement cable, plus the labor required to remove the cable and reinstall the new one!

At noon, the TWR Guam staff had a farewell dessert for us at  the transmitter site, since we will be leaving in less than two days.

Kathy and Joanna setting up the dessert table.

Between rain storms I helped with making parts for connecting the antenna switches.

The 30 kilowatt inverter for the solar panel arrived arrived about quitting time via FedEx.  There was some cosmetic damage to the housing, but it should be useable.

The 30kw inverter is so light that the FedEx delivery man offloads it himself! Jim and Joel were there to help, but not needed

Due to poor packing materials and methods, the inverter suffered some dents and scraps during shipment.

The shipping company did not pick up the 40 foot containers (with old transmitters) today, so it will not be possible for them to make it onto the ship departing this week.  [In answer to the prayers of many these containers were finally picked up on August 7, a week after we were back in Elkhart].