Car accident in Kyoto

Over 1,5 ton heavy body weight and big powered sport car cannot be controlled by a layman who is 18 years old just after obtaining one year ago. Deeper consideration on this problem by the manufacturer Nissan Motor Co. would be required without no argument. Young kid like this driver cannot control his car as well as his own emotional condition at all.

Vehicles & old songs

About VW1302 Super Beetle, a strange habit to run left side when braking has disappeared completely after some distance running and additional maintenance on rear brake system disassembling attained tight and definite feeling on brake pedal working with very slight step sense compared with side brake operation. On the other hand, stability while straight running does not come to the same level with BC7 SUBARU Legacy LSi US model, XH200 B-Vectra and SXE10 TOYOTA Altezza in spite of precise adjustments of wheel alignment and axle constructive geometry. Once adjusted on those indispensable constructions, the condition does not change after some distance of use, this is because the tire treads wears as it is in good conditions. The reason why only old Beetle cannot obtain the stable condition dues to the neglect of replacing the rear trailing arm hinge bushes into new ones, so I guess. I must proceed to the complicated and hard muscle work sooner or later.

The wiring of a 40W fluorescent lamp electric stabilizer mechanism torn of in the module was tested if it is alive or not by digging into hardened resin material resulting in that was alive. This will be set on the deepest portion of my garage with additional wiring with switch saving money about 2,000yen. This work would be performed tomorrow.

Recently I am addicted in YouTube, Mireille Mathieu while she was young in full bloom, that nothing but wonderful at all! When I was young I had often enjoyed LP Records with Tube low frequency amplifier. I have realized again that the power of a song entertains me much more with movies.

Autumn and tired a bit

Fine and refreshing weather we have this morning feeling some astringency and far cooler air, no cloud is found high up in the sky, actually we have gotten true Autumn season. A poetry came into my mind, "Tsuki idete taifuu ikka Koorogi naku", in Kanji, "月出でて台風一過蟋蟀鳴く", the meaning in English is like this, After the storm, the Moon is in the sky and the weather condition is calm and stable as to be  discerned the voice of Crickets in the Autumn evening.

My garage had been occupied by my son these two holidays, he used my servicing pit to maintain his car that had been modified into specific purpose for his hobby playing, enjoying drifting technique in the closed circuit. '97 TOYOTA Cresta 2,5L with manual trans-axle, shock absorbers and suspension spring are changed into 3rd party products. In spite of very rough use, he insisted to adjust and establish wheel alignment and axle geometric construction, so I did assist him ultimately from early in the morning till late at night being exhausted. A Radiator electric fan module that had been removed because of circuit running purpose was set as that was and worn ISCV diaphragm parts was replaced into new genuine parts. He could understand the widened wheel often cause the discrepancy on the scrub point on the tire tread leading to the reduction of natural transient property on steering reaction.

Natural phenomena & Beetle

Relatively stronger typhoon #18 did harm on Japan Island especially on Kinki, Toukai and Kanto areas and still now rains hard, TV News tells that it rained cats and dogs and winded hard causing considerable damages miserably. Our experiences piled every year cannot overcome and prevent these kind of natural disastrous phenomenon even now. The energy exerted by Earth is far stronger than our imaginations. It shows that our desperate effort in Natural Science cannot ride over the huge mountain.

3 residual brake operative cylinders and involved linkage construction inside in VW 1302 Super Beetle were checked and anchor mechanism were fairly adjusted. Especially, much attention was paid on the fitting between anchor adjuster groove and brake shoe filling to establish not line nor point touching but surface to surface connections at an adequate position as mentioned before. Resulting of these procedures, tight and firm brake pedal touching could be obtained and some precise rear brake shoe clearance with the drum inner surface made the difference of brake pedal activating angular positions with the conditions parking brake lever is pulled up or not. Also, rear hub inner and outer bearing were lubricated with Chrom-Molybdenum grease, just removing hub outer cap with 4 of 14mm head bolt and longer injection needle made it possible to put an additional lubricant on the position that cannot be reached unless removing the hub from hub case built in the trailing arm. Thank to these servicing and maintenance, any anxiety on lack of lubrication in any moving places belongs to this vehicle has wiped out and probably my Super Beetle would live longer from now than I myself do.

Irregularity of brake power

The maintenance on frontal right brake shoes in VW1302 Super Beetle caused a difference of brake power resulting left side distorting torque when a bit harder operation. This phenomena is reduced gradually in accordance with an establishment of precise fitting is attained on contacting surfaces between a shoe and a drum. In order to keep the catalog performance, keen observation and periodical treatment and development of a small part are indispensable especially on an old car. AD motor is in good combusting condition at ATDC10 degree in relatively cooler climate atmosphere. Heavier and muddy steering response must caused by movable rear axle construction mainly depending on distorted and altered hinge bushes both inner and out sides. Replacing them into new parts are desired including fixed trailing arm inner bushes because those replacement parts are all already obtained. Also, the rear hub bearings are the same.

VW1302 brake system out of order

Brake shoe sticking phenomena on frontal right leading construction happened this morning on air-cooled VW1302 Super Beetle after a panic stopping full braking phase. The sticking point was at the operating cylinder shoe guiding plunger on leading side, sludge in the sliding surface was the criminal, lubrication there solved the problem thoroughly and the lower shoe support groove was flattened with a hand file on both sides. The necessity of periodical checking on the moving portions was reconfirmed.
Though I intended to go for a photo shooting today, almost of my free time was occupied by the work on VW Beetle brake maintenance, but I have no regret because it is too hot outside like a Summer season not a suitable day for the initial purpose.

Safety & defense

Too kind and too much safe country Japan makes Japanese travelers to foreign counties defenseless so much to be easily killed like sitting duck in the hunting field. Turkey's neighbor country Syria is now in the internal war condition at all! Why did the Japanese female University Students had chosen such a dangerous place for their traveling destination and why their parent gave them permission to visit there? As Olympic Game place selecting committee denied the place because of safety, that was not the place for infants to go. Remember that all the foreign countries are not the same as Japan!

MC TELE ROKKOR-HF 30cm/4,5 on EOS

Old Minolta MC TELE-ROKKOR-HF 30cm/4,5 lens has successfully modified to adopt onto Canon EOS digital body solving the problem of 0,5mm shorter flange back distance without any additional optical lenses behind the original construction. And trial shooting with this lens revealed some incredibly superb performances, no complaint about color balance, resolution, contrast and deformation, the picture produced by this lens is just alive. As the climate condition has become better and better day by day, I am going to take this with me for photographic shooting, huge briliant tinted autumn leaves are waiting for me in the mountains!

2020 Olympic Game in Tokyo

Early this morning cleaned my face with fresh water not because of usual habitual manner but because of removing tear from my eyes, future Olympic Game in 2020 would be held in Tokyo so decided a few hours ago, all the people in relation with the result are in the vortex of pleasure at least all day long today. Our Bid Committee should be appreciated enough because of their own desperate efforts for a long time of interval. The Olympic economy would rise up more our economic conditions much higher like the former 1964 Olympic Game in Tokyo, just more than half a century ago. We Japanese has some strong tendency to be following blindly to a specific direction, no doubt exists in facing up our economy being influenced by the result. But, we must not forget the fact that two another countries had also made effort toward the same purpose and we should appreciate their diligent works, especially we must think over about miserable internal war killing each other in Syria that is one of a neighbors of Turkey.      

MC TELE ROKKOR-HF 30cm/4,5

Minolta MC TELE ROKKOR-HF 30cm/4,5 could be obtained from YaHoo Auction at a cheapest price like nothing, the condition of the lens was just like New Old Stock with no scratch nor distorted damage except some mold breeding with a moderate colony on the anterior surface of the rear lens element. Consequently, it was needed to be disassembled to clean there in addition to the remodeling as usual into Canon EOS mount without any adapter containing optical modification, lack of flange back distance must be compensated by arranging optical axis to focus at infinity position, or just moving all the lens element backward 0,5mm(between Minolta SLR and EOS) taking the latter method as usual. The weight of this TELE lens is heavier with around 1kg compared with recent engineering plastic utilized ones, but the construction is solid and firm to satisfy user's desire like myself. The heavier the equipment of the weight, the better photographic shots would be obtained with superior performance, this is one of a superb model as an one sided opinion.

Autunm rain front & Typhoon

This week firs half would rain with high humidity because #17 Typhoon has born at Southern China Sea area and the problem of water shortage would be solved soon. I hope any disaster with too much rain fall would not happen. It becomes cooler and cooler acting in concert of Typhoon invasion in our country as usual.
As I mentioned before the tip of my right side index finger was invaded by a very small but sharp glass piece 10 days ago. I had been in nervous condition because of intermittent sharp pain when some external stress was added on the portion from some specific direction. The tissue around the foreign matter became harder and harder forming a round shape, probably this is one of a natural reaction of body reaction changing in the tissue construction into fiber one. I made up my mind to cut and open the wounded place by cutting into cornified epithelium to squeeze it out, the nascent fiber tissue would play a good part to exert enough pressure to make the glass piece out, my strategy for this problem was just waiting till it is surrounded by a nascent fiber tissue, of course any bacterial infection there should be avoided by sealing the wound with Cyanoacrylate bonding material and by oral administration of antibiotics medicine. My imagination was to the point and the criminal was arrested safe and the epithelium tissue was sealed with the same glue again, it goes without writing that an unpleasant sharp pain phenomena disappeared thoroughly after the itching operation(without Regional anesthesia procedure). We must remember that we can live safe because our body surface is full covered with epithelium tissue, no forming of additional hole anywhere is permitted by God.

Forefather's lesson

I studied some lesson written on the wall of a Japanese Buddhism temple.
"Patience with no haste, keeping a mind at rest condition without any sharp corners, no anger, refraining from name-calling then you will live longer.".
There is not a little idea about all of them.
I'm going to study much more about the lessons left by forefathers. Now I'm interested in the "5 Reflections" and I am follow this everyday lesson that had been invited in the Military Academy of Japanese Imperial Navy while the WW2.
1. No against with self Sincerity?
2. No Act mismatch with what was said?
3. Mental Strength was enough?
4. Did you make enough efforts on everything?
5. Did you tackle on the tasks to the utmost?
These forefather's lessons are worth inviting in my daily life, this decision would affect on my residual life, though I do not admire the past ruined militarism.

I had experienced tail slip sliding phenomena when I was in Air-cooled VW1302 Super Beetle last night in rainy condition, in the scenery of excessive turning in spite of relatively low speed, then I realized that I was in R/R drive train car. Also, lack of lateral grip of rear tires in a slippy condition, 165-80-15 Bridgestone Radial tire "Sneaker" has not enough capability? Changing into 185-70-14 might be an idea?
Another imagination comes in my mind that any play in rear trailing arm hinge portions inner and outer might exist because of the distortion of hinge rubber bushes especially toward antero-posterior direction, check and correct the inconvenience!

Replacing all of the bushes in axle construction of BC7 SUBARU Legacy LSi US model into original ones made it possible to feel comfort while driving instead of a feeling to and fro laterally, but acceptable if this mild axle setting had been obtained. I will continue this first generation Legacy long from now. Almost of the construction of this car in small parts had been understood by myself.
In order to know the effect of 10kg weight on the rear over hung in BC7 SUBARU Legacy LSi US model, the spare tire was unburdened as a trial attempt. Actually the steering response was improved to quick both rising and convergence and the aspect of pitching dynamics changed into unstable movement, I conclude from this experiment that the weight balance both on near the center of gravity and on over hang has much to do with the aspect of dynamics, this kind of attempt must have been done by the research and development division of the factory repeatedly before rolling out as a new model. So, the weight balance of the vehicles is one of an indispensable experiment matters for the researching engineers in the field.

As for a measure for the bad smell of mold in XH200 OPEL B-Vectra, blowing in several tear drops of wood oil of cedar from the rear gate utilizing an electric fan, the cabin was filled with some astringent smell eliminating indigenous one.