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Old item while Taisho period(1920) comes out from my junk box, probably this was used by a noble woman to watch some theatrical and opera in ancient time before the world wars. The assembly structure by a specific craftmanship with manual one by one assembly does not permit disassembling so easily as in the mass-production goods seen here and there. The failure is the rusty screws set in the center of focusing mechanism, once loosened it would be possible to clear all of the optical lenses in side. Though chemical lubricating material has been applied there, heating method would be done if black enamel paint might be peeled. Anyway, this cute Opera glasses would be repaired and maintained into like new soon.

While arranging old luggage found out several instruments and devices for experimental researches of good old age studying and making developing experiments 40 years ago. Greatly am I embarrassed how to treat those old literature and bibles in my field, where to keep or desert all of them? Really interesting memories in my live as a researcher comes up in my mind as if the impressive incidents happened yesterday. I'm too old to open new field aggressively from now, but staying in the situation now is not my favor, find out another way and proceed to different direction from old days, let's consider about that deeply before I go up to heaven.

This morning I have received a bad news that the home being born and raised of my intimate friend was buried in sediment flow because of recording heavy rain these days in Yamaguchi Pref. Tsuwano, but nobody was killed nor injured there. He dropped in me just say to his pent-up feeling. Sad feeling of loosing home could be understood not a little by me in the similar condition, I'm loosing my villa in the mountain. I was busy yesterday to carry out the baggage of memories with some pay back of shoulder and arm muscle pains, some of them were deserted thinking of regret at parting now. All are impermanence following time flow and power of nature.
Not a few tom of a famous professional medical field were piled in my garage, how shall I take care of them?

Early this morning I drove XH200 B-Vectra for the first time in a long period, impressed I was as usual especially on the total balance as a passenger's car. Though some trust angle discrepancy remains probably around plus 30 second angle value, it has superb capability to satisfy myself at all. Shock absorbers are replaced into Monroe Reflex lust year, they plays very well in combination with original suspension coil spring's physical property. Designing the well balanced compliance is one of a very professional job to be required a supernaturally special abilities with keen five senses. I want to send the praise to the OPEL factory professional engineers who had participated in this production program with struggling to rise in the blood. I don't know the car to be wanted to continue all through my life, except B-Vectra.
There is no possibility nor room that the better results might be obtained if any remodeling by an outsider might be applied on the original complete car, except narrowing the factory constructive tolerance errors, the less the better. This is why I insist on wheel alignment correction especially on Zero Thrust condition.

Air-cooled VW 1302 Super Beetle had some operation in replacing knuckle ball joint boots on both side and produced very slight discrepancy in thrust angle, because the sway bar bush clumps were loosened and re-tightened for the working convenience inviting positioning error. Thrust angle adjustment must be performed again by the rear trailing arm length regulations. Even so, the quality of rubber boots material is not well controlled in the imported parts, it might be better to replace them into domestic company made ones prior to setting if the replacement accessory parts might be new avoiding double efforts? Time, labor, cost, motivation and persistence are required if the user of passenger's car want to drive at it's ultimately best condition of designed specifications.

Knuckle ball joint boots in VW 1302 Super Beetle have replaced safe, of course Chrome Molybdenum grease material was fulfilled inside. Because I have perceived the boots fracture before ball joint was invaded by rust attack, it's smooth function was not lost. Replaced rubber boots made in Japan, Ohono Rubber Company has enough capability and capacity to be moved continuously and rotate in every turning phase, in addition it has a small grease nipple for additional lubrication. I would be relieved by this measure for the time being.

I'm obliged to organize my villa in the mountain side, yes the upper construction would be destroyed soon and be sold as a flat ground. The place that supported me for a long time would be disappeared, my corner stone of heart would be deserted. I will participate in the gathering there tomorrow with some loneliness. Memories of good days will not remain after the affair.