Is your Mk1 actually "finding" and using all 16MB? If so, that's a first!

Found: yes. Using: don't know yet. I have the disk out of her mk1 here and am cloning it to a new drive for her mk2a, whose old disk died.

Seems I always have good luck at the meets. This year the front speakers in the van quit and the hard drive in my empeg kept losing songs and playlists and finally died. But Derrick got the speakers working and is copying my drive over now so all is ending well.

Hey, don't get excited until it actually works.

Let's all talk to each other over the BBS when we're in the same room!

Dude, cool, how about that dry ice?

Better yet, let's talk over IRC.

My Mk2 with 16 meg is running quite nicely in the corner too

Looks like Laura's player is it, but perhaps schofiel would have another say about the firstness?

And is John's the first Mk2 upgrade too?

(Closely followed by Rob's)

Didn't Hugo upgrade his Mk2 when all this upgrade memory business started...?

Stig

Yep, just to check it out - still humming along happily

Hugo

Hey.. does this mean that you figured out whatevertheproblemwas with that other Mk2 "upgrade" that had issues, say a week or two ago?

Shhhhhh...........

He's sleeping

Did you have him chained to a soldering station all night?!?!? That's cruel!

Man I wish there was a meet somewhere near me. You guys seem like would be a fun bunch to hang out with. I would have gone, tho I dont think my poor lil bug would have made it all the way out there with out some issue. Maybe if there is one next year Ill risk it.. Maybe then I can get my players memory upgraded.

Well, that's demolished my market for Mk1 upgrades

All day but not all night, well part of the night I guess.

The meet continues since Ian's car was towed off to the Volkswagon dealer and he will be staying another night. Him and Derrick are off sight seeing while I prepare for quests at my house.

It sounds like it was a successful meet. Congratulations to Laura and everyone else! And this sounds rather ominous - having a car towed from the meet...

Finally home...633 miles in 9:45....not bad...pictures to follow tomorrow.

Glad you made it back, Derrick just left around 9 after we had dinner with Ian at Skyline.

I'm back. Took me exactly 10 hours. I will post my pics tomorrow morning. Thanks again Laura. Sucks about Ian's car. What was the problem?

Hopefully all the money he made doing upgrades at the meet doesn't go straight into his car.

An attack of the blue smoke...

I had my local dealership change the oil on Wednesday before driving 900 miles on thursday/friday. When I checked the dipstick earlier, it looks like they overfilled it. Reading vwvortex, I suspect that the excess has caused the oil pressure to pump oil out of the crankcase vent and into the intake tract, thus leaving me with an intercooler, throttle body and intake manifold full of the stuff. Too much oil is bad for the cat too. I am seething to say the least.

Unfortunately, I can't be 100% certain that it isn't the headgasket or turbo oil seals. That's why it's sitting outside a VW dealership near Laura's, where they can sort it out before I put another 900 miles on it.

I'm hoping that it really is just a case of cleaning oil out of the intake tract, reducing the amount of oil in the engine, and sending the bill to the asshats that screwed it up.

At least I got to see Cincinnati, briefly visit Indiana and Kentucky, and try Cincinnati Chilli!

I have to publicly send a very big shouted THANKS! to both Laura and Derrick for digging me out of a hole. It would have been a real ordeal to be stuck out at the park without them around.

Pics up now:
http://www.spmicro.com/gallery/empegmeet_092404

No, I'm still at Laura's waiting for the service department to call. Unfortunately for me it's one of those dealerships that actually uses the appointment system(*), so the fact that my car sat there overnight means absolutely nothing. They said they should get around to looking at it 'early afternoon'. At this stage I'm hoping that it can be fixed today and beginning to worry that it may not be.

* Arrgh. Why?! This sucks. Whenever I need a service back home my dealership works on the first come first serve priniciple which is a pain if you have kids, yet the first time that such a system would really work for me, the dealership insists on appointments. Grrr.

Well, it seems like I'm missing a lot of pictures, but here's what I've got:

http://www.schooldynamics.net/jbjorgen/gallery/cincy2004.

I got back at 3:20am. I didn't exactly go directly:
http://maps.aprsworld.net/map/track.phtm...p;end_minutes=0

I got pictures of this "event". I'll put them up shortly.

Ah, past Beaver Falls. I did 2 weeks of training there when I first got my job.