Recent content by DarkBlack

Only good yellow jacket is a dead yellow jacket

I posted a link to a small study on this site last year. I think it was from the state of Texas. If I remember correctly, ATF actually scored worse than nothing at all on a wear test 🤷‍♂️ I wouldn’t add it, personally.

He’s simply rubbing a roller bearing against a rotating surface. All the additives have the exact same test conditions, so the results should be valid on the basis of relative results, under the same conditions. I don’t see how that is “designed” for gear oil. He’s simply measuring the power...

52f this morning High was 76. Nice late summer day 66f right now

Windshield wiper linkage……. Definitely, keep your cool

Plumbers and electricians make a good living around here. There’s no reliance on illegal aliens

My humble opinion is, that only software that can add and change it’s own lines of code, is truly AI, and not simply a sophisticated computer program. I think the majority of people, and companies (trying to boost visibility) are calling just about every computer program, artificial...

No way in h&ll I’d ever run a straight 10w oil in any of my engines, especially not an air cooled engine. I’m guessing you mean a straight 30w. That would make some sense

In order for your 4 stroke engine to be level enough for overhead cutting and your gas tank and carburetor to be level enough, you’d have to mount it steeply angled. Then when you bring it back down to horizontal to dismount it, how do you keep it level enough not to worry about gasoline...

Lighting retrofitting is fun especially when there’s rebate programs. I remember doing a high bay 450 watt metal halide fixtures to 4 tube HO T8 fixtures with occupancy sensors. No slow warmup anymore on cold mornings, so that cut back on complaints about the lights switching on/off Then they...

I did tons of two tube 8’ T12 fixtures to 8’ twin T8 conversions, with a roughly 40% utility reimbursement program, then about 10 years later the same program to replace the T8’s with LED. 8’ LED’s are hard to find, and the utilities know it so offered a good 40% program on replacing replacement...

I put those thousands of used T8’s on Craigslist and some other local media for free. I guy from a couple towns over was happy to take them. He used them for some school project

I’ve done multiple large upgrade lighting projects to LED, using the help of utility company reimbursement programs. Probably aren’t as many anymore, but I would still check. Combined with the energy savings, the payback is relatively short.

And who picks it all back up? What country is that? 😂