Well finally the air conditioning in my car seems to be working. Today it went to Bilia (Volvo) here in Västerås where they did what I'd read was the usual fix for this model of car! Two other places had done different things, neither of which helped.
The first place, our nearest car workshop (where I usually get it serviced) just topped up the gas and said that it was all right. Because it wasn't all right I took it into a garage while on holiday in Skåne while the temperature was about 30 degrees. They said there was in fact a little too much gas in it, adjusted that, and tried it for a few minutes and declared that it was OK. Later the same day the very nice man had a demonstration of the fact that it wasn't fixed! He then fiddled with it for an hour or so, while I was there, and only managed to make it somewhat worse! At least I didn't pay anything for that hour's work!
Of course it won't be as hot again now until next year, but it did keep pumping out cold air all the way back from Volvo, and they did do what I expected them to (or rather just hoped they would do).
What did they do? They adjusted the electric clutch on the compressor. If you look up '1999 V70 AC fel' you will eventually find blog entries like:
Du kanske behöver schimsa ac-kompressorn, det är ju ett rätt vanligt fel på volvobilarna.
(You might need to adjust the shims in the AC compressor, a rather common fault in Volvo cars)
2010-08-16
2010-08-10
Grittleton 2010
Well I've been there and done that now. I put some pictures and videos on http://frank.mcnamara.se/Grit-2010.
It was, as always, great! We played the Frank Bridge sextet for strings. Our normal Rosemary, David & Jean group got two guest members in Pippa (1st cello) and Sean (2nd viola). You can see the result of efforts in the video that Sean arranged of our concert performance.
The other work was a quartet by C. V. Stanford. This is (justifiably) unknown! There is no known recording, and whilst this was an interesting experience one could understand why his music is known as 'bad Brahms'! We did perform one movement to another group in an informal session.
The afternoons were almost kept completely free, but the evenings were completely filled with informal sessions which included an unusually high number of Brahms Sextets this year. One highlight was playing the Mendelssohn Octet with Livia. She's 90 years old and as bright as a button!
Livia is an interesting person. She does both weeks (most of us are exhausted after one). She was Britain's first female professional horn player with the Halle Orchestra. She later stopped playing horn and went onto the violin when her front teeth became damaged (not uncommon problem for horn players).
The journey home was nice. Solbritt and I got a lift with Rosemary back to Fleet where we played, together with John, David and Jean, the Schubert double cello quintet, one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written. All this while Rosemary made lunch! We ate lunch in the garden in the sunshine, then Rosemary took us to the airport. A very nice way to break up a journey!
Thanks Rosemary and everyone else who helped make Grittleton 2010 yet another fine experience.
It was, as always, great! We played the Frank Bridge sextet for strings. Our normal Rosemary, David & Jean group got two guest members in Pippa (1st cello) and Sean (2nd viola). You can see the result of efforts in the video that Sean arranged of our concert performance.
The other work was a quartet by C. V. Stanford. This is (justifiably) unknown! There is no known recording, and whilst this was an interesting experience one could understand why his music is known as 'bad Brahms'! We did perform one movement to another group in an informal session.
The afternoons were almost kept completely free, but the evenings were completely filled with informal sessions which included an unusually high number of Brahms Sextets this year. One highlight was playing the Mendelssohn Octet with Livia. She's 90 years old and as bright as a button!
Livia is an interesting person. She does both weeks (most of us are exhausted after one). She was Britain's first female professional horn player with the Halle Orchestra. She later stopped playing horn and went onto the violin when her front teeth became damaged (not uncommon problem for horn players).
The journey home was nice. Solbritt and I got a lift with Rosemary back to Fleet where we played, together with John, David and Jean, the Schubert double cello quintet, one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written. All this while Rosemary made lunch! We ate lunch in the garden in the sunshine, then Rosemary took us to the airport. A very nice way to break up a journey!
Thanks Rosemary and everyone else who helped make Grittleton 2010 yet another fine experience.
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