The hoped-for car event – the Virginia City Hill Climb – was indeed cancelled, the rumor being that they were unable to obtain the necessary city permits. I’m skeptical that next year’s event will happen because once a city starts weighing the liabilities versus benefits, it’s a small step to permanently cancelling the whole thing. Guess we’ll see.
Was going to take the car out and glanced in the engine compartment, only to see that again, the alternator bracket broke. As some of you may recall from earlier diary entries, this has happened several times with both my bracket and a commercially-available part–there must be some really nasty resonances going on. My solution, like last time, was to add more reinforcing. Eventually the failures will stop, or another unit will be produced out of much thicker material.
During repair, one thing crossed my mind that might not have helped things: I may have dunked the hot bracket in water to cool it off after welding. That’s a great way to harden metal–making it much more brittle. This time I let it air cool so we’ll see how that goes.
