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<\/a>After a leisurely breakfast, Virginia accompanied me to the transmitter site.\u00a0 While I continued installing capacitors, Virginia spent most of her time in the air conditioned transmitter hall.\u00a0 Another diagnosis of her rash is that it is a result of the heat, so we will see if this will help.<\/p>\nShortly after starting on the\u00a0installation of the capacitors, Dave Pederson came and began helping.\u00a0 This really sped things up as he would take the capacitors out of their special padded boxes [vacuum capacitors are fragile and very expensive!], and remove the bolts from the bottom plates.\u00a0 While he did this, I would quickly consult the Kintronic photos to verify the capacitor orientation, then properly orient the capacitor and bolt it to its mounting plate.\u00a0 By 1pm, all the remaining capacitors were installed and we headed home for lunch.<\/p>\n
We headed back to the site about 2:30pm where I began doing the short connections within each capacitor bank.\u00a0 These connections consist of copper tubing, normally about 1.5 inches in diameter.\u00a0 Kintronic has made a nifty connector that slides inside the tubing and expands using just one set screw to join two pieces of tubing. \u00a0 I’ll try to remember to take a photo of this connector next week.<\/p>\n Some of the Kintronic connectors had some light corrosion on them, so Dave used sandpaper to clean the corrosion off and Brasso to polish them. \u00a0Again, it was necessary to consult the photos to connect the interconnecting tubing to the right connections of the capacitors.\u00a0 By the time one was connected, Dave would have the next two Kintronic connectors cleaned and ready for the next connection.\u00a0 By 4:30, all the possible short connections were done.\u00a0 For now, we decided not to do any of the longer connections between capacitor and inductors (coils).\u00a0 There is still some solder-brazing of copper straps to be done and installing the longer connections will restrict access routes too much for doing the solder-brazing that still needs\u00a0done.<\/p>\n For supper, Virginia prepared macaroni and cheese with bacon and lettuce with grated carrots, then iced tea in two variations — with lemon and with peach flavor.\u00a0 We are still using up some of the food supplies that our team shipped in the container from Niles. \u00a0Later we had brownies with walnuts for dessert.\u00a0 This proved to be a yummy ‘practice run’ for the desserts that she will be preparing next week.<\/p>\n Virginia’s rash seems to be looking a little better this evening.\u00a0 Your prayers for her would be appreciated.<\/p>\n We do not plan on turning the alarm on again for tomorrow morning.\u00a0 Everyone sleep well!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Slept in this Good Friday morning until about 8am!! After a leisurely breakfast, Virginia accompanied me to the transmitter site.\u00a0 While I continued installing capacitors, Virginia spent most of her time in the air conditioned transmitter hall.\u00a0 Another diagnosis of her rash is that it is a result of the heat, so we will see […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bonaire-2017"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2399,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393\/revisions\/2399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>Well, I had my usual PB&J sandwich for lunch — I like them, always have!!\u00a0 My nap ended up being 30 minutes today — again with my feet elevated to help reduce the swelling, especially of my left foot and ankle.\u00a0 Virginia got word from our family doctor to try hydrocortisone cream and\/or prednisone to see if that helps her rash.<\/p>\n<\/a>On the way back to the duplex, we decided to check out the nearby beaches. \u00a0\u00a0 Every beach was crowded and there were lots of tents and temporary kitchens made from old pallets.\u00a0 Since Bonaire is a small island, many use their long weekend for a vacation camping on the beach.\u00a0 It costs too much to fly anywhere else!\u00a0 We decided not to go for a cool-down swim with all this crowd!<\/p>\n<\/a>We also noticed that the ship Logos Hope ( https:\/\/www.gbaships.org\/en\/meet-logos-hope<\/a> ) was at the dock in Kralendijk.\u00a0 We had seen it coming in last night.\u00a0 The Logos crew has organized a special tour of the ship for TWR staff tomorrow at 2pm.\u00a0 We also have tickets for a theatrical presentation of “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” on board the ship on Monday at 2pm.\u00a0 On Tuesday, several of the Logos staff plan to assist with various projects at the TWR facilities.\u00a0 TWR’s Jonas used to work with Logos ships and helped outfit this ship when it was first obtained by GBA Ships.<\/p>\n