Search results

My 928S has that knob. If gubmint is going to regulate anything, they should mandate driver adjustable headlights on pickup trucks. I hesitate to say, "automatic", because such systems can easily make things worse if not overridable. Especially how every Urban Cowboy feels the need to lift his...

Mild SciFi with travel to the moon and WWIII starting in a space battle? The first 2/3rds is great. Perhaps I understood much of the innuendo and inside jokes? Renate Richter was a hot blue-eyed blonde ****! (The actress is French) You know they made that movie for only €7M ? Lots of...

Yeah, didn’t watch that one either.

Good guy hits bad guy who gets up. Bad guy hits good guy who gets up. Repeat until the allotted time has been used then the good guy hits the bad guy who doesn't get up. Boring.

Why? Shifting the load on the trailer gets the job done.

TV shows and movies with car chases and fights rarely hold my interest, especially during the chase and fight scenes. These are just chaos with no sense for however long the writer and director desire. Quite often cheaply staged as short close ups so close you can't really see anything...

In the USA we "know" the bigger the number the better! So you say 5%, we up the bid to 10%! Must have 10% on the tongue! And now we have gotten tired of that and can do better, 15%! Tune in again in 5 years and it will be 20%. As I originally said, the tendency in the USA is to put too much...

Yes. The DoD procured "multifuel" trucks after WWII that had a lever to select gasoline or diesel. GIs found it ran like a scalded dog with gasoline in diesel mode... until the engine grenaded.

The propane station at Tractor Supply was charging $3.60/gallon this week. Costco was somewhere around $2.78. Haven't had need to check the big propane distributors for delivered price but last time I did that a 100# tank, delivered, was horribly expensive. So much so I think I could have...

They do funny things with DI, that is why they go to the effort to implement Direct Injection. They can inject multiple short bursts to control combustion speed for better efficiency and emissions. Ford did same starting with the 6.4L Powerstroke diesel. Controlled the timing of the...

I stand on the bumper or hitch of the tow vehicle, measure the sag, and knowing how much I weigh gives me a calibration. Then when trailer is hitched I measure again. If same sag as with me standing on the bumper then I know the tongue load is roughly my weight. If twice as much sag then I know...

But you are citing rule-of-thumb numbers. Rarely do we have a scale to measure. Too many who read such instruction conclude the solution is to put as much on the tongue as possible. In my cited example a trailer long enough for 2 SxS had only one parked at the very front. With a marginal tow...

There is a balance to it. Maximizing the load on the tongue can also have negative effect. My Subaru Outback really shouldn't be pulling an open 16' tandem axle trailer, but when I have if a SxS is all the way to the front the butt of the Subaru drops and the rig porpoises on bumps. A good...

Others tell me 18650 Battery Store - Trusted Supplier of Lithium Ion Batteries is a reputable source of the Good Stuff. Interesting web site, seems to be honest and above board. Catch-22: one needs a battery spot welder to assemble cells for a battery.

Maybe so, maybe not. Harbor Freight used cheap Chinese stuff to get established but in the past 10 years has been working on producing premium products at value prices.

Of interesting note: The circuitry in an EGo battery will self-discharge to 50% if unused for 30 days. It will place itself in the safest hibernation it knows how.

I mowed my lawn for 7 years with 1 EGo 7.5Ah battery. That I can tell, it still has 80% or more of it's original capacity. It still mows at least 50 minutes. Past year I can't walk more than 35 minutes so I do the front one day, back the next. My Tesla will be 10 years old in December. Has 92%...

Come back when you learn the difference between "fuel economy" and "fuel efficiency".

I said 1966 and you changed to fit your narrative. So you admit vehicles are getting more efficient in spite of emissions regulations. Not a question. My 2018 4x4 F-150 is much bigger, faster, capable, and nicer than the 2001 Sonoma I had. MPG is better in the F-150. No doubt the F-150 meets...

Ok, you placed the bet, I call, show your hand. How is there any doubt today's automobiles are not more efficient than in 1966 when there was no smog control? 1966 VW Beetle might get 30 MPG! My 2016 Subaru Outback's 26,338 mile average (26,338 miles divided by 908 gallons purchased, you can't...

Willy is silly. Today's automobile emissions are at least 100 times cleaner per mile than they were in 1966. Better running. Faster. And more efficient.

Because the Nordstream event was supposedly big enough to disrupt the climate and all life on earth but did not. If prosecuted it would disprove popular climate theory. It does disprove popular climate theory, but we can pretend it does not by ignoring it. Sadly this is the way the world works...

Can't prosecute because that will revive the event in public memory. A perfect crime. The Climate Crisis is so important to The Powers That Be, that this event must be ignored and silenced. Almost every "climate model" in the vogue at the time of the Mt Saint Helens eruption predicted an event...

There are many YouTube videos on how to rebuild different power handtool batteries. Cells on eBay are not trustworthy, too many fakes. Many smelly vendors on Amazon too. Not purchased anything from 18650 Battery Store - Trusted Supplier of Lithium Ion Batteries but it comes highly recommended...

No, the large carbon flakes are harmful to your lungs while the smaller carbon "ash" (according to the PDF you cited) is not as harmful and according to the EPA is no longer a particulate. To make CO2 there has to be 2 oxygens for every carbon. Where are you getting that? Is not in the fuel...

PM or particulate matter is defined as being larger than a certain size. The DPF only re-combusts the big chunks of C2 into smaller chunks. And some becomes CO2 but there isn't any oxygen added to the regeneration process but that in the fuel. Think man. Carbon. A nuclear reaction is required...

The carbon is still there, just small enough not to form soot.

Did you see what Mexico City was like in recent decades? That is what happens with non-smogged diesels. As recent as 1989 Mexico was trying to buy retrofit DPF systems and force drivers to install. Was hiring American companies to design the systems. I will agree it is nonsense to stifle...

Yes it would because no F-150 is rated to tow 12,000 pounds. The HDPP option put a heavier frame, rear axle, springs, Load Range E tires, 7 bolt wheels, essentially making an F-250 in F-150 skin. Rides like an F-250 too. Yuck.

Back then I was told the book time was 3 hours off, 4 hours on with the correct jig. And based on what I have seen SuperDuty mechanics get a lot of practice.

You are making the wrong comparison to spin things. The correct comparison is the F-250 with Powerstroke vs Godzilla. I bought both F-250 and F-150 from a large Ford truck dealer. The road behind is on a rise so one can see over the fences. Is not unusual to see 10-15 SuperDutys in service...

Posers.

"But but but, diesels are the miracle perfect solution to all problems and everybody gets 20 MPG towing 10k." Or that is what the proponents say. 2008 was not 20 years ago last time I checked. Huge changes in diesels from 2003 to 2008. My truck was not rated for 15,000 pounds. Based on how it...

6.5' "long bed". 🤣 I have SCAB with 6.5' bed and wish it was long enough for the dirtbike with the tailgate closed. The GMC Sonoma had a "7' bed" which was 88" and exactly long enough for dirtbikes.

My lifetime average on 2018 F-150 with 2.7L twin turbo 325HP unmodified 4x4 is 22 MPG. It beats the pants off the 2008 F-250 4x4 Powerstroke diesel (350HP 14 MPG), and 2001 GMC Sonoma 2.2L 5speed (120HP 22 MPG) I previously owned. 1971 Dodge Charger with 318 struggled to get 14 MPG.

I have a 2.7L EcoBoost in my F-150 with 325HP. MPG beats the 2001 GMC Sonoma 2.2L 5spd I once had. Plus the F-150 is 4x4, more comfortable and quieter. I used to wear foam earplugs if I was to drive any distance on interstate in the Sonoma. Paid 3x more for the F-150 in 2019 than I paid for the...

Citation please. Nonexistent. Only kWh is a billable unit. If you understood the difference between a Watt and having a Watt delivered for an hour then you would understand. One has a 100W lightbulb, one doesn’t pay for 100 Watts. Leave it in for an hour then one pays for 100 Watt-hours.

I don't think NiMH is used, only know of lithium. Yes, many purchase replacement sensors on Amazon or eBay, DIY, then complain their vehicle never sees the new sensor. Some vehicles are capable of auto-detecting sensors but this is not 100% reliable, and if a new sensor is not woken from...

The TPMS sensor sleeps when not rolling so the spare is problematic to check. They use a 125 kHz RF wakeup burst (simple CW) to wake a sensor without rolling. Same as the "TPMS Clicker" widely sold on eBay and Amazon. At a minimum this tool is needed to wake a new TPMS sensor from manufacturing...

That was the thump thump fender screw I stopped to remove. Then no leak.

4 or 5 in 85,000 miles on street bike. Am very careful about where I put my wheels, crud at intersections, etc. Flats are always on the rear. 2 lane country roads. The porcelain slit was on urban roads. Very few on my automobiles. One on Subaru while touring my property. Oddly I have only had...

Ford Godzilla 7.3L is pushrod. State of the art too. Well, $30 is a high DIY price. Autel MX sensors are usually (4) for $120 at Amazon. Model specific OE-compatible sensors are less. Friend's 2011 Ford went 11 years before one sensor battery failed, 2 reported weak, and 1 was still happy as a...

I had a Prius for 7 years. The Prius driveline can not use the engine to back the car, there is no mechanical reverse gear, it has to be done with the hybrid electric motors. Backed out of a friend's steep driveway which wound beside and behind his house. That was the only time I ever heard the...

With twin turbochargers, no less. Oh, and he traded it fearing the transmission would need major service. https://www.f150forum.com/f118/465-000-mile-2-7-a-389552/ Save you 50 pages of posts, this is where it is said he sold due to transmission...

Cylinder deactivation. I love TPMS. I put aftermarket TPMS on my streetbike and on my trailers. Saved my butt many times on the streetbike providing early warning during a ride that the rear tire was deflating. Yamaha FJR1300 doesn't do bad things going straight until the tire is very...

That is the fictional EPA MPGe based on kWh. I claim the honest metric is MPG$. The cost per mile of electricity vs gasoline or diesel. $ is the only honest measure of resource consumption. Scarce resources cost more to ensure they go to those who can make the most use of it. Labor is necessary...

6k vs 6kW is getting fuzzy because your use during the day is not a flat line, and solar production is not a flat line. So you need something to buffer either battery or grid. There is no longer an incentive because the utility was getting shafted. Which is what I am also building for my new...

You are confusing Tesla Solar with Tesla Roof. The online quote for 10kW of Solar Edge inverters and optimizers is about $26k installed. Similar Tesla Roof is over $100k. The first Powerwall costs more than N+1 because a Tesla Energy Gateway is needed to ensure one doesn’t out Powerwall power...

May I suggest you check with https://www.tesla.com/solarpanels before rejecting solar. Seems to have the best upfront pricing. Also Tesla Powerwalls with a Tesla Energy Gateway is the cat's meow in managing your power generation and consumption. Tesla watches your weather and will bank power in...

The utility company already has the generators running and if they pay you full retail for your kWh then they were deprived of selling their kWh and making a profit. Federal law dictates a minimum of the Audited Incremental Cost of Generation. As I said this is 1.5¢/kWh for TVA. Plus fuel...

Because in all likelihood they are paying more than they charge you for peaking power and for buying from adjacent utilities.

So you think the tractor dealer should sell your trade for what they paid you? There is profit built into their 10¢, but to sell your power at 10¢ they get nothing but the bother of billing and shrinkage (loss in the power lines).

I'm not going to search this thread to find where 1.5¢/kWh was first mentioned, but I know I mentioned the TVA Audited Cost Of Incremental Generation is 1.5¢. I didn't mention Alabama Power is 2.5¢. TVA also applies a "fuel cost surcharge" but doesn't itemize on the consumer's bill, which is...

Husqvarna (used to?) offers a titanium core trimmer string. Last bought a pack in 2007.

Ain't Never Gonna Happen. Very few EVs have bidirectional charge ports. No Teslas. The premium model of Ford F-150 Lightning does, but not the base model. Is touted as an emergency home power backup. There may be a voluntary program one day, but as you point out the wear on the battery means...

Went looking just now. TVA's Fuel Cost Adjustment is $0.0408/kWh in July 2023. Month before it was $0.0280. So if I had PV grid-tie I would be expecting $0.055/kWh. Am paying $0.103320/kWh as of June 3, 2023. So if I would get half then it isn't so bad. Better than throwing it away. But the...

I think even if the water tank was in the front of the bed the truck could have broken like that and the tank slid to the rear. Think no matter what bed liner it would slide. When the frame broke if the rear wheels were pushing the truck I think it could bow up like that.

The Federal law governing grid-tie states the utility can charge a connect fee "to pay for the distribution network", and only has to pay the audited incremental cost of generation. For TVA that is $0.015/kWh plus fuel surcharge. A pittance.

Yes, but when PV systems appeared the utility learned to add a ratchet to the wheel preventing it from turning backwards.

I don't see what is so complicated about that. The "Line or Supply Side" model is used but there is a 2nd meter between the PV disconnect and the utility grid. If I do not sell power to TVA then the disconnect is as shown in the picture. The meter is configured to only increment when power in...

Publicity stunt designed to fail so as to "prove" The Government Is Not Doing Enough! She toured government subsidized CCS chargers. 1 of 4 was broken. Tesla drivers have no such troubles. Years ago people thought it would be funny to ICE Tesla Superchargers. Tesla posts phone number at most...

Put a tracker on it at CamelCamelCamel.com to get an email when price drops to something interesting.

Yes. That is the traditional definition of Grid Tie. Net Metering traditionally lets one treat the grid as a free battery. They pay full price for what you give, you pay the same to take it out that night. Total rip-off for the utility. Now only available in Progressive Left states. He said I...

The 18" is perhaps twice as powerful. Borrowed a 16", got the job done but wasn't gushing with joy. Later borrowed an 18" and was blown away. Bought an 18" for myself. Also have 21" SP lawn mower since 2016, still using the original 7.5Ah battery no matter I have accumulated several more as I...

It totally matters which battery chainsaws were used?

Around here one must have the system "designed" by a holder of an NABCEP certificate to connect to the power grid. NABCEP is a solar industry lobbying group. The local NABCEP certificate holders have a monopoly and know it. And make the most of it. Just across the state line I was told by a...

Since 2007 automotive diesel engines require a very specific ULSD formulation, with some variation allowing a very specific biodiesel to be mixed. Presumably Tier 4 tractors as well. Else the emission components in the exhaust are destroyed.

Not necessarily. Peak MPG is somewhere higher in speed. Apparently you have never tried. This is what I did this morning in the Subaru Outback. This is what the Fool Computer says. This is what the gas pump says. Previously filled same station 2 weeks ago. Parked 2 weeks. This is lower than...

Gee, that settles it! Everyone build 2002 GW Golf TDI clones to solve all the world's issues! VW couldn't/wouldn't clean up their diesels to meet emission standards which were laxer for diesel than gasoline. That is why the TDI died. I tried to buy a new 2005 VW Golf TDI but the dealer was...

Just wait until it gets cold.

Maybe it wasn't on this site but this is the direct link:

This is not true. Deep cycle batteries are rated for amp-hours on a 20 hour test. A current is drawn for 20 hours and if sufficient voltage is held at the end then it is rated at 20 times the current which was drawn. This link says car starter batteries are tested for 10 hours...

Many report only using 1% of full range per day camping. The review video posted here or in the "Battery based..." thread. Two guys, two Lightnings, and a 3rd "influencer" with a red press Lightning from Ford.

Wh is the true measure of the battery's capacity. It is a number one can use to compare batteries irrespective of voltage. Short circuit amps (as with CCA) will taper off as voltage declines as battery discharges. For many batteries the Ah rating is measured as a continuous amperage for 20...

I think a Lightning would have done as well. Years ago found myself in a similar situation. Grass field in Mississippi with about 200 dirtbikers at an enduro or hare scramble. The race was a mudfest, and getting out after was perhaps more so. And I was camped at the far end of the field. When...

LiFePO4 "upgrade" batteries are popular in the motorcycle market for being lighter than AGM. They suffer at 50°F, and while they have spectacular lead-equivalent-CCA ratings, as you say, when the engine doesn't start quickly the battery quickly depletes for lack of total Wh. LiFePO4 can't rate...

kWh is independent of voltage. Amp-hours requires knowledge of the voltage to determine kWh. Amp-hours times voltage equals Watt-hours. Amp times volts equals Watts. I know, in this day and age math is hard, and racist. And in support of @WinterDeere the CCA rating is hyped by starter battery...

Watts is significantly different than Watt-hours. When you cutsie slang shorten Watt-hours to Watts the meaning of what you are saying totally changes.

Electric billing is also in kWh, not Watts.

But the ability to deliver Watts for an hour is the true measure of battery capacity. Wh or kWh.

You are shopping the wrong parameter. Buy itself amp-hours is as meaningless as voltage. Shop for Watt-hours. Voltage times amp-hours equals Watt-hours. Divide by 1000 for kiloWatt-hours, kWh. If 100ah at 12V the it would be half the power of a 24V 100ah battery. This is why your electric bill...

Just look up the SEER for each to compare.

Horribly energy inefficient. Worse even than hydrogen. Far better off building batteries to charge.

Put a wet one in one side and a dry one in the other. See what happens.

Not uncommon at Honda Goldwing WingDings (convention). Favorite I saw was a trailer with two MiniTrail 50s behind a Goldwing.

kWh, not kW. $0.104/kWh here. Cost to me. Delivery included.

Long ago there was a company selling trailers for VW Beatles like that. You need to find a video of it's turning radius. The VW can turn around 180° and push the trailer. edit: OK, I see I was beat to the punchline.

“Measured from grid the Tesla is using 330 Wh/mile for 24369.84 kWh. At $0.10/kWh that is $2,436.98 or $0.033/mile.” This month my rate is $0.104/kWh, but was under $0.080 when the Tesla was new. So $0.100 is a high lifetime estimate. Then total cost was $2,436.98. The answer to your question...

Wasn't exactly a choice on the Avalon. I have tried that with a good wind load in the back of my F-150. Trusted Fool Computer for 10 miles in 10th then reset and locked out 9 and 10 forcing it to run in 8th. Under that load and conditions, as close to the same as I was capable of telling. Long...

It is an intersection of 3D curves, drag vs velocity, engine specific-output efficiency vs RPM, and engine HP output vs RPM. Velocity is the governing variable for wind drag. Then at that drag we know what HP is needed. At that HP we need to find the optimal RPM for efficiency. Perhaps a CVT...

Nothing wrong with using ocean water. A reactor in Florida had similar problems with environmentalists and local fishermen. Was forced to build a long canal for their spent cooling water to further cool off before reaching the ocean. After a few years their output pipes were clogged with...

Well, you did it the long way same as I initially did with actual miles driven. Your way is easier for those to compare your results and my results for those mathematically challenged. EPA rates my Model S 85 at 380 Wh/mile but I am not driving 70+ MPH very often, have a private not-utility...

Yup, but there is at least one unicorn out there. A 2000 Toyota Avalon with OE 16" wheels maxes MPG around 67 MPH. I drove about (20) 500 mile days in mine to know. It was the damndest thing but 28 MPG at 60 MPH and 30-34 at 70 MPH. Back down to 28 at 75. Miles on odometer divided by gallons...

The math is easier using 0.33 kWh/mile. 0.33 kWh/mile × $0.4246/kWh = $0.140118/mile $4.793/gallon ÷ $0.140118/mile = 34.20 MPG$

You can not buy gasoline for $3.359 where the electric rates are $0.35/kWh. Tesla Solar is quoting $26k installed for a 10kW PV system. That will pay for itself pretty quick at $0.35/kWh. And you can make your own EV fuel. Just try to do that with an ICE. Lots of work to make ethanol but a PV...

Posers and virtue signalers today imposing such ridiculousness will be retired and sitting pretty when their foolishness actually has to be implemented. Which it will not.

Westinghouse was building modern modular nuclear reactors in China 15 years ago.

So, you failed math. 73,848 miles in my Tesla. 0 gallons. Miles divided by gallons is infinity.

The old voltage regulator should be totally disconnected. I suspect those extra wires were between old voltage regulator and alternator to control the field. This function is performed by the internal Chevy regulator. The output of a modern excited-field alternator is controlled by the strength...

Yes, with a tube it goes flat immediately rather than take hours. I don't think that is better. That it is leaking slow suggests the tire is tubeless. The O.P. can try adding Slime which may or may not help. As others have said it may have dirt or grime between rim and tire bead that can be...

2016 Subaru Outback Limited 2.5i 29.17 MPG, 25,628 miles, 880 gallons. 2016 Yamaha FJR1300A 49.21 MPG, 85,498 miles, 1740 gallons 2018 F-150 XLT 2.7EB 4x4 22.37 MPG, 9,548 miles, 427 gallons 2013 Tesla Model S 85 infinity MPG, 73,848 miles, 0 gallons Measured from grid the Tesla is using 330...

Seriously, a Prius gets better MPG than any practical motorcycle. And the tires are less expensive outright, and less expensive per mile. Also be sure to price motorcycle tires. Typical radial tires last 5,000 to 10,000 miles and cost $150-$300 each. Minimum $50 each to mount, $100/wheel on...

Everything I have seen printed with a 3D printer was rough with laminations from the print head passes. Would make a very bad oil pan, or pan for anything dirty, without having the surface machined or heavily sanded.

Don't worry, will never happen. There is no such thing as a compact EV with a 1 ton battery.

I don't find wear on the rear tire seriously affecting my FJR. The front governs handling. Only the T31GT rode like new to the very end and set a personal mileage record too. Plus it was darn near cheap at Rocky Mountain. I'm now a fan. But having said the rear is less important I didn't like...

On the relatively heavy Yamaha FJR1300 the Michelin Road 5 wears fast and handles poorly the last half of it's tread life. The PR4 and PR4GT are less bad on the front, but wears wonderfully and long on the rear. In 85,000 miles I have found nothing as good as a Bridgestone T31GT on the front...

That is interesting in how it says not to use with a DC970. I think the 18v tool I most want to keep running is a DC970, will have to check. The genuine Dewalt adapter is infamous for running the battery down when not in use.

Ditto. New tractors on the lot are financed. Financing usually subsidized by the manufacturer. Meet sales goals and get discounts and extended flooring terms. But a trade-in has to be paid in full unless a 3rd party flooring/finance company is involved. The problem with this is the flooring...

I've been to the Jesse Owens museum in Danville, AL. They got a lot of money from someplace to build it.

BTDT! SPI master is easy, slave needs to use level-sensitive interrupts. Asynchronous send is easy enough with timers, but writing a good receiver is difficult.

I worked 3 years designing "smart meters" for a company that was too stupid to stay in business. They thought they could produce a "collar" to insert between existing meter and meter box, wouldn't eat the cost to develop the actual metering device. And they wouldn't develop a communications...

No, if you use bigger wires then the heat is the same. But then more current means greater magnetic field. Higher voltage lower current needs longer wires to generate the same magnetic field, upping the resistance. 6 of one, half dozen of the other. There is an advantage to 80V over 20V but it...

Clearly someone doesn't know how to stack pipe. Good thing the Tesla got safely past! Any chance the load hits the underpass?

I have used EGo 16" and 18" saws. The 18" is significantly more powerful than the 16". Got my 18" pre-COVID on sale for $250 with 5Ah battery and charger.

Yes, but it is planned feature-itis. They'll make 100V tools as soon as 80V sales peak. Voltage is not difficult to make. I don't respect brands such as Greenworks, Worx, and others who create deliberate pricing tiers based on voltage. Heaps of respect for EGo who decided everything will be 56V...

I think it will have whatever chain speed the designer chooses no matter what voltage.

Is important to mention your voltage because a 4Ah 40V is equivalent to a 2Ah at 80V.

Check Lowes and/or Home Depot if you really want to know.

Who? Not me, you don't really understand what I say. When I posted I had just returned from purchasing 5 gallons of 93 E0 for the dirtbike. I know of what I speak. Street legal E0 with 100 AKI (R+M)/2 rating? Pictures or it didn't happen.

For 100 AKI E0? Amazing. Pictures or it didn't happen. 93 AKI E0 is $4.199 at Buc-ees here. 87 E0 is $4.599 at a Shell station where E10 is $3.599. 100 AKI is E85 around here.

That is race gas. Just wait until you find it costs $12/gallon.

Not for engines of recent manufacture. Any manufacturer who isn't using ethanol-safe materials the past 30 years is negligent. The "ethanol problem" with small engines has to do with unvented fuel systems which fail to keep moist air away from ethanol. It is this moisture which causes the...

All EGo batteries are 56v and none work in anything but EGo. IIRC Greenworks also sells their designs as OEMs. Suspect 80V Kobalt and Bad Boy buy from Greenworks. Also B&S 82V.

Same here. Is barely holding together. An exellent example of how to teach programming. Brief and precise.

Sadly stamped steel pulleys breaking the welds to machined hubs is not uncommon. Doesn't seem to require one to hit anything. Local mower dealer keeps a couple laying around. The weld was clearly defective, didn't penetrate the hub. And small, little more than a tack weld one would use to hold...

RTS and RTI.

Oil in the gasoline goes bad.

Yeh, he pretends there were no problems before ethanol. At first premix oils were not formulated to mix with ethanol. No matter, go research shelf life of premix in gasoline. The other problem with ethanol is it carries water in solution. The ethanol doesn’t hurt anything, the water and...

Real programmers use simple C on bare metal CPUs.

That is not a sure solution. Talking about chainsaws and power lawncare tools? 2-stroke? The oil in premix goes bad with age. The safest way to store unused tools is to drain the gas tank and run the carburetor dry. But even this is not sure-fire.

The first SGI machines I used had Motorola CPUs, and came with the source code to the flight simulator for users to learn how to code SGI's 3D engine (name escapes me but is in most computers these days). So somebody tweaked the Cessna 150 performance to something quite excessive. Later, MIPS...

I have the EGo 18” which is significantly more powerful than the prior 14”/16” version. I have limited gas chainsaw experience but this one with new chain and bar cuts significantly better than whatever similar size gas I last used with unknown age chain and bar. Don’t yet have need for massive...

By late 1991 made the mistake of demonstrating competence at Unix, in the midst of my employer’s DoD contracts getting re-written by the government (apparently they can do that) and I was transfered from an engineering development and analysis position to a well funded contract as a security...

https://www.ocregister.com/2023/08/03/hyundai-and-kia-warn-drivers-of-90000-vehicles-to-park-outside-due-to-fire-risk/

Intellectuals can do the math until they are blue in the face. All that matters is real world application. An EGo 56V 7.5Ah battery will almost mow my lawn on one charge. Previously a Snapper Ninja 21SP mower with B&S engine could almost mow the lawn on 38 oz (1.2 quarts) of gasoline. 56 *...

You are getting screwed. This site says the average residential cost is $0.1753 in Lancaster County, PA. https://findenergy.com/pa/lancaster-county-electricity/

EGo 56V batteries have a lot of smarts built in. If left to sit a month on full charge they will intentionally self-discharge to 50% and stay there a year or more. 50% is the optimal long storage SOC for lithium-ion.

I mowed lawn for 7 years with the same EGo battery.

Well, sort of. Been using an EGo 56V 21SP since 2016. Got to the point I can not walk 20 minutes behind. Bought a Country Clipper 42" zero-turn with 18HP Kawasaki engine. Still have EGO blower, trimmer, hedge trimmer, and chainsaw.

When I was a wee lad, I had a child's toolkit with a real saw, a real but small hammer, and a wooden level. Something happened to break the bubble glass. Dad took me into a lab one Saturday at Virginia Tech and we worked on making a new bubble with glass tubing on Bunsen burner. I don't recall...

You compared a level to another level? You know if it says the surface is level then you turn the level around every which way and it sill says the surface is level, then the level is square and accurate.

Back in my ancient days of say 1979 on a Sperry Univac our Fortran card stack started with a job control card which stated limits on how many $ of CPU time and pages of paper this task was allocated.

A semi-retired deputy sheriff friend was serving papers, left his cruiser's door open, returned to find goats inside and on top of the car. Video went viral.

IIRC Honda has announced an exit from this market? No more mowers either. ”According to a recent press release, Honda notified its power equipment dealers in October 2022, informing them that it would stop manufacturing lawnmowers and other gas-powered equipment effective September 2023.”...

1986 VW Golf too, but only the premium version, not the base model I had. Was a variable proportioning valve attached to the rear suspension. After a couple near misses with brakes on the VW I added ABS to the essential list for next vehicle. Bought 1993.5 Infiniti G20 5-speed. Perhaps the best...

Is a mistake to make a general statement about the ability of ABS. Some manufacturers make excellent ABS which works in all conditions. Some make an ABS which only works on dry straight surfaces. I remember about 25 years ago GM started putting rear wheel only ABS on pickup trucks to deal with...

There is a lot to it. Lithium chemistries all differ and none can be safely charged with the caveman methods used for lead-acid, NiCAD, or NiMH. Most lithium fires come from shorting the output. Low internal resistance allows massive amounts of instantaneous current. Is the low internal...

Yeah! How come they allowed machine-woven straps to tug trees out of the way?

Boo hoo. You think they should not have tried to build that mall in the first place? It was once a good business proposition until the city ruined the environment. Players staked their positions, "I'll accept this much risk for this much profit." Turned out to be riskier than they believed...

I think I would have routed clearance under the trim for the window tabs.

With current tax law, bankruptcy is a valid business plan. But also note T had business partners who ran most of the operations. Consider the recent announcement of a mall operator in San Francisco walking away from their mortgage, returning the property to the banks. Is the contract the banks...

Harbor Freight digital dial calipers eat a battery every month whether used or not. A Mitutoyo will go for years of heavy use on a single battery.

Yes, boiling water and frozen water are 180 degrees apart. So in Fahrenheit one can heat beyond boiling to complete the circle back to frozen again. Clearly frozen at 32°F, boiling at 212°F, and frozen again at 392°F. This is why we cook frozen Christmas turkey at 400°F, because that is the 2nd...

Well, it is the same if you use decimal points.

My point is that UL’s standards for safety have more to do with preventing harm to humans than preventing fire.

Braking a wagging/oscillating trailer with the tow vehicle increases probability of jack knifing. Application of trailer brakes but not tow vehicle brakes can dampen the oscillation and allow one to safely stop. This is possible with the electrically controlled brakes and tow vehicle trailer...

UL never approves of anything. Look again at the UL logo on your device. You can get a UL Listing if your product is submitted for testing by a UL certified laboratory. However having been forced to study UL (and ETL) testing I caution they don't care so much as to whether some things burn so...

I find it hard to believe that rusty cylinder ran for 3 hours immediately before disassembly.

It cost much more than a Bad Boy (at same dealer) but I got a Kawasaki engine, joystick steering, and a fantastic extra cost option handrail and front step I couldn’t find anywhere else. Makes getting on/off significantly safer especially considering my purchase of a ZTR was driven by recent...

My 911 removes 150 ft-lb pickup truck lug nuts. That is what I wanted. Got it with (2) 5Ah batteries for $235. Recently had to work on my “tractor”:

Am told they are terribly expensive to insure for liability.

I have a 911.

It was packed well. Picture taken 20 miles after loading, before unloading. Nothing was going to come out, it was secured down and secured forward. This is unloading:

The Tesla battery is also heated by it’s coolant. And possibly to your surprise, it may be heated to prepare for Supercharging. When navigation comes near a Supercharger stop the car will start “preconditioning” the battery for what is to come. It tells the driver this is occurring. If you...

What is so funny about $125k? In that market one can easily spend $1M on a Provost diesel pusher.

Oh no! I only had yellow tape for a flag!

If double the cells but same voltage then cells are paralleled. This reduces the resistance allowing more current to flow. However, larger capacity cells can be used, and internal resistances vary widely among lithium cells. Lower resistance will result in less heat. The borrowed EGo 16" saw...

Try wrapping your hand/wrist when using the brush cutter. And, wear a wrist brace at night. I too will wake at night from carpel tunnel pains in my hands but sleeping with a simple loose "wrist brace" is all it takes to get through the night.

The thing is LiIon batteries are fairly complex requiring precision control to prevent damage, as witnessed by that complex battery control module. Perhaps the module knows what it is doing, that one cell is acting up necessitating shutdown to prevent a fire? Does sound like you are due a...

But what will it cost to replace?

Your choice of wording suggests all F-150s might apply. Very few configurations break the 10k tow barrier. And perhaps 1 configuration of 50 has 3300 pound payload.

That looks like "Road Trip MPG" on iPhone in dark mode. The app has a field to record what the Fool Meter claims is your MPG. Then in Statistics you can plot it against the calculated MPG. This is my F-150. Red is the calculated. The fine ghost lines above red are what the Fool Computer claimed.

Max Tow is not Max Payload. Max Payload was only available with 3.5EB. Max Tow was simply a bundle of popular towing options including a receiver hitch not just bumper hitch. You have to learn how to read the doublespeak used in the brochure. The 2018 F-150 brochure says, Max. Trailer Tow...

I was trying to cut dead dry sassafras with the 16" and was not terribly impressed even with a brand new chain. It struggled. But since my 18" has cut similar with ease.

I haven't noticed the .5 rims being significantly different from automotive tubeless rims. What I did notice back in 1978 was how truck tubeless rims were .5 inch so as to keep monkeys from mounting tube type tires on tubeless rims and vice versa. Yup! I'd buy one of those in a heartbeat if I...

Yeah but... my air chucks don't work unless the valve core is installed in the stem. Surprised me. I was fighting the tire beads trying to inflate new ST trailer tires. I've been shopping and think I have one that will inflate air w/o core but haven't tried it. Was years ago but ultimately I...

I shopped the specs pretty hard and didn't find it easy to get 11k towing, but did find it easy to get lost in the tables and calculations. Ultimately drove 3 virtually identical 2018s, one each 2.7EB, 3.5EB, and 5.0 Coyote. The Coyote sounded fun but at non-hooligan speeds the 2.7EB was simply...

My 2018 F-150 XLT Supercab, 4x4, 2.7EB:

Didn't say I am towing 10k with it, I just said I am pleased as punch. 325 HP and 400 lb-ft at 2750 RPM is nothing to sneeze at.

Confused about the tractor tire. Was it punctured or did it just roll off the rim then let the air out? Based on the 60 or so tubeless tires I have mounted (mostly motorcycle, all much smaller than your front tractor tire) once the tire bead is in contact with the rim seat (not the lip you...

So it is emotional rather than rational. I am pleased as punch with the 2.7EB in my F-150. Terribly glad I didn't get the 3.5EB as Ford doesn't seem to be willing to do what it takes to fix the cam phaser reliability issue. Yet got it right on the 2.7EB.

Not knowing what review or Stihl saw I believe you are comparing Stihl 36V 7.2Ah (260Wh) to EGo 56V 2.5Ah (140Wh). The 18" EGo comes with 5.0Ah (280Wh). Watt-hours is the most accurate measure of battery capacity. The runtime of the battery also depends a lot on how hard it is worked. The 16"...

The workers at the Huntsville plant have rejected unions believing they are treated better than union workers. As a result the Huntsville engine plant is the only Toyota plant in the world to build 4, 6, and 8 cylinder engines. It didn't start that way. And recently there is a joint venture with...

I would not buy the EGo 14” or 16” at all. But the 18” is a no-apologies saw. Not familiar with the Ryobi.

Trailer is supposed to have brakes of it’s own sufficient to stop it’s mass.

It is marketing. Obfuscate. Pretend a corner condition applies to all, then C.Y.A. with fine print directing one to manuals to calculate actual load and tow ratings.

Golly, I didn’t know Mexico was a suburb of Kansas City, MO. Learn something new every day. Disinformation AIs would not have allowed the above posting if it wasn’t true.

Minus taxes. Minus payroll. And in the end we get Toyota trucks to keep. But then again, one can purchase stock in Toyota and share the profits.

As others have said the F-150 can be optioned to 13,000. What I was finding was same as the poster I replied to found: the trucks on the lot were optioned for comfort not capacity. Some had only 4500 pound tow rating. A RAM 1500. I reiterate determining actual tow rating is very difficult to...

That is the number printed on the hitch receiver. That is not the tow rating for your truck. To get actual tow rating requires research and calculation. For some reason Ford won't say it outright, nobody does for their trucks either. The 10.5k rating F-150 will be a single cab with HDPP...

when I looked at RAM the towing capacity was poor vs F-150. When shopping for tow capacity one must download a couple PDFs from Ford and become a good student of the contents. Not all F-150's with HDPP and Max-Tow are capable of 10.1k or 13k towing.

And the engine in Huntsville, Alabama.

Toyota makes good car-trucks but not so much truck-trucks.

I have used the 14" and 16" versions of EGo's chain saw. Exact same saw, different bar. The 18" EGo in comparison is a delight. I think you will be pleased. All EGo tools use compatible batteries, all 56V, only the amp-hour capacity differentiates. More amp-hours the heavier the battery. The...

I'll say it again, "synthetic is not a motor oil performance specification". And mention B&S currently sells engines "which never need an oil change". Advertises as such, just top it off. Sticker on side of the engine says so. Wiser minds note this is a self-fulfilling prophesy. "Don't change...

Put Slime in the tire, drove around for 10 minutes, parked, couple days later the tire was down from 14 to 9 PSI, noticeably low. Pumped it up and immediately mowed the lawn for 25 minutes, 2 days later it doesn't look flat. Doesn't really matter the tire has dry rot and a new one is on the...

Read it yet again. We have paragraphs for a reason: "The bottom end Country Clipper Avenue comes with a Kawasaki FR600V engine. Exmark uses an Exmark branded Chinese engine. Bad Boy uses Briggs & Stratton."

Read it again. The low end Country Clipper uses Kawasaki, the low end Exmark uses a Chinese engine, and the low end Bad Boy uses Briggs & Stratton. Country Clipper also uses Kohler engines. Exmark also uses Kawasaki and Kohler on their higher end models. When Briggs & Stratton purchased...

That is not true. Country Clipper uses high quality parts and real metal in fabrication. The bottom end uses the common Hydro-Gear EZT but moving up the line CC uses 1 grade up transmission in comparison to the competition. The bottom end Country Clipper Avenue comes with a Kawasaki FR600V...

Meh. If the repair fails it is no different from any other flat tire. I have added TPMS which has alerted me to problems as they develop before they become a real problem. A while back a 250 mile day to/from Barber Vintage Motorcycle Museum I noted rear pressure falling the last 20 miles...