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That's what I used in my hangar for many years. Never saw a mouse sign, in my hangar, but others in other sections had mouse problems. Works in the attic to get rid of squirrels too.

"Ass Raat" (That's right)

I got the fittings I needed to finish the tester today. Put it all together, used a 3,000PSI gauge I had, added some power steering oil and hooked up a hose I had made up and needed to test. Pumped it up to 1,000PSI and it held just fine. It'll be nice to test hoses before they are installed.

Yep, same brand.

I did get the tractor put back together last Tuesday, buy didn't get any pictures. My cousin was in a hurry to get it back together so he could get his yard mowed before we got some possible rain showers. It all went together fine. I Pressed the hub out of the used knuckle, pressed the new wheel...

I have had 300# of weights on the back of my 430 that has a snow blower on the front for 25 years, and have never had a problem. That is an entirely different setup than the AWS tractors use.

The splines were still good and tight, and as I mentioned, I had to use a gear puller to get the stub shaft pressed out of the hub. It did fit the new hub really well with no play in the splines.

It's not normally a big deal, it's a fine balance between throttle setting and adhesion on those engines. Plus, a little moisture on the rails from the cylinder drains on the front engine can be just enough to get some slippage. Now, setting in one spot and spinning the drivers will flat spot...

I occasionally make up hoses for various purposes, and although I rarely have a problem with them, some of the ones using braided stainless steel are buggers to get put together. I recently made one up for the power steering on my Nova, and when I started it up it leaked out of both ends. So I...

There was an International Truck garage in town next to the river for 30 or 40 years. Behind the shop, the lot was pretty much paved in oil and grease soaked gravel from washing trucks and dumping waste. If you walked to the river after a rain, you could see a sheen from oil leaching into the...

Therein lies the problem. Just what humane punishment would be proportionate to inflict on a drunk driver with multiple convictions, no license or insurance, that kills a family in a traffic accident? That person needs to be removed from society, permanently, by one method or another.

I haven't had any JWs or other breed of Bible thumpers knock on my door for a long time. Apparently, the after my conversations with some of them, the word got out that a cranky old atheist lives here. And I wear the title proudly.

Another pet peeve is door to door salesmen that just keep yakking when I tell them I'm not interested. Had one this evening, a young guy, probably in his late 20s, was selling pest control. Told me a couple of neighbors to the north had signed up for their service. One of them I could believe...

There are things that could be done, but few have the conviction or fortitude to do them. The public in general are too squeamish for proper punishments.

When you meet an old friend for dinner, and spend two hours talking about all the surgeries and procedures you've both had in the last 20 years.

A friend bought an Epson EcoTank printer and was having problems, so I went over to help get it sorted out. Nice printer, good print quality, but the display screen is the size of a friggin' postage stamp, really, it was. WTF were they thinking? Had to use a magnifying glass to read the damn...

If you're talking about the over pressure safety valve on the drier, normally those are on the top of the drier, and wouldn't expel moisture properly. The dump valve on the bottom of the drier has to be pressurized to do that. What make drier are you using? Is it a regular truck type drier? If...

To use that compressor, I assume you're going have to use an electrically controlled clutch, like an A/C system uses. If so, you'll have to have a pressure switch to turn the clutch off when it comes up to the required pressure, and also an electric solenoid valve that will send reservoir...

Programmers, or maybe they're called coders today, should be required to use their improved software 10 times every day for a month before it goes live, and then if it does, they have to man the customer support lines for another six months to take calls from pissed off users.

Hah! I remember when the doctor, Ol' Doc Young, came to the house with his little black bag to treat you.

Same here,been at this address for 50 years, and have only had a couple of problems that were really due to bad packaging and not delivery problems.

That really ticks me off. What horrible disease do they think I am carrying, black plague, dengue fever, malaria? My GP walks in in scrubs and no mask unless there has been an outbreak of something recently. How much does all that PPE cost each patient?

Talked to my cousin today, he has all the parts except the hub, which is on backorder. In other words, they have no idea when or if they will get it. So, I found a couple on Ebay, and he is buying one of those. Should have it by Monday.

They put in a roundabout about four miles from me. It involved cutting back a hill, moving a lot of utilities and putting in a two tiered retaining wall. They got it done in six months.

That reminds me of several times that I had to take my father to the ER for one matter of another, mostly heart problems. After about the 3rd time of them asking me the same questions I had answered before, historical questions that were going have the same answer as before, I go a little testy...

Had an appointment with my GP doctor yesterday, so last week I get a text from someone who sends documents to be filled out prior to your appointment. I HATE THOSE DAMN THINGS. But I tried to fill it out and finally got so frustrated, wasted half an hour trying to get it to accept all my...

Last week, my cousin called me about his JD mower having a loose right rear wheel. I went over and looked at it, and it looked like the bearing had failed. He brought it over to my shop, and on closer inspection, the hub was loose in the wheel bearing. I'd never seen a all wheel steering mower...

I have gotten oil changes done at my local Jiffy Lube for the last 20 years or so without a problem. But, I always set in the waiting room where I can see them pour the oil back in. Whenever I am under one of my vehicles, I always check the drain plug, and it's always been tight. The only nit I...

Finally have the power steering project, almost, done, not without some drama, of course. I pulled out the plugs on that side, then removed the motor mount bolt, took the fan shroud loose, and using the cherry picker with a chain attached to the head, was able to raise the engine enough the get...

Probably the same slobs that toss their trash out of their cars into my yard.

I dump my oil into a cut-off 55 gallon drum that drains into a 55 gallon drum. I have a galvanized drain pan that holds 2 or 3 gallons, that I've had for ~30 years or so that I use for drain oil and gear lube.

Slobs that leave the table or booth they use in a fast food restaurant looking like a landfill. Chunks of food, full and empty catsup packets, gross napkins and spilled drinks are just some of the detritus they leave behind. That really burns my biscuits.

One our grade school teachers did that too. Don't remember which one though. Would have been in the late 50s. The principal had a big ol' paddle, The Corrector, that hung on his office wall. Was full of holes for better aerodynamics, and was made by the wood shop teacher for him. Didn't get a...

That is what is referred to as a normal DIY oil change. FYI, do yourself a favor, get a metal drain pan, I refuse to use plastic pans, they are an invitation to spills.

In driver training, they were called "dead foot drivers." I, on the other hand, use my cruise control all the time.

YKYOW 3 days a week you visit friends in the hospital, rehab or a nursing home. Gets depressing after a while.

And they drive like their running in the Indy 500. Jack rabbit starts, run way over the speed limit, and slam on the brakes to get stopped just in time.

They have cameras, so I don't understand why they can't catch the offenders. Guess I'm going to have to attend a county commission meeting and raise a few questions as to what's going on.

Our county had eight recycling collection centers several years ago. About four years ago they closed four of them due to excessive dumping of trash, furniture, TVs, etc. Two years ago they closed all of them for the same reason, and opened a new site across the street from the sewage treatment...

Marbles, tube of BBs.

When I drove truck back in the 70s, several times I saw people on the Dan Ryan expressway in Chicago reading books while driving. You can see a lot of interesting things going on in cars from a cabover Peterbilt. Several times I saw guys getting what Ron White referred to as a highway delight...

And thus began the digital lobotomy.

Another pet peeve, a$$hats that dump their ashtrays full of cigarette butts out in a parking lot, right where you have to step out of your vehicle.

Today I made some progress on the power steering installation. I jacked up the front of the car, put it on jackstands, then unbolted and removed the left header. It came out really easily, especially with the steering box removed. I received the new rag joint from Muscle Car Central this...

Women plying their trade in truck stops were called lot lizards.

I've been working on the power steering conversion for the last couple of weeks. After getting the pump mounted up, I discovered that I had put the part that the pump mounts to in the wrong orientation. It can go either way, but it has an offset, so when it was installed, the pulley wouldn't...

I think AI is dangerous in the same way that allowing school students to use calculators prevents them from learning how to add. subtract, multiply and divide. Learning math is an essential skill in life, just as learning to find the answers to questions by doing some actual research. When...

The Martin's on Mishawaka Road (CR20) just west of US 33 has a lot of different selections than the one in Goshen.

Harder than Kelsey's nuts.

Yes, I saw that. Martin's was bought out by Spartan a year or so back. I hope they keep the name for brand recognition. Hopefully, some bean counter in the new corporation won't decide to rename the stores.

Also, the local Martin's grocery stores give seniors 10% off on Wednesdays. Don't know about Kroger's.

I have a Speedway discount tag on each of my keychains. I scan it at the pump and I get $.05/gallon discount, and I regularly get emails that I can activate that give me additional discounts of $.05 to $.11/gallon. Plus, Every 7th fountain drink is free.

Never saw a Challenger hauled that way before.

If I'm wrong, I'll kiss your a$$ in the courthouse square, and give you two days to draw a crowd.

Grinning like a possum eating sh*t.

Sounds like it's time to put in a 12" diameter, 1/4" wall well casing sunk in 6 feet deep and filled with concrete. I used to have a 6" I-beam mail box post sunk about 3 feet in the ground. Only one car ever hit it, a teenager in his brother's Chrysler K-car. He hit it dead center, leaned it...

Those are what is used in my BX2230 and my JD430 fuse blocks. I have a few in my electrical parts bin.

Been working collecting parts to install power steering on the Nova. I decided to go with a Type II style pump instead of the Saginaw pump, and so far it's been a challenge getting it mounted, and devising a way to adjust the belt tension. I bought a March mounting kit and have had to modify the...

Here's an old nail apron my grandfather, who was a carpenter had, that I inherited.

Yep, those old fabrics shrink after so many washes. That's my story and I'm sticking with it.

An old crusty truck driver that worked for me back on the 70s said that a truck only has enough power if it can pull 100,000 lbs up a 10% grade at 100 mph.

I heard it as: Close only counts in horseshoes and atom bombs.

I didn't have any rivets (then), but had a bin full of bolts, so I used them. I considered staggering the rivet holes and plug welding the halves together, but went with bolts.

What we here in Indiana refer to as "doing donuts", i.e. doing a burnout going in a circle, in Minnesota, I'm told, is called "whipping shitties."

I had a pulley like that a few years ago on a friends deck that wasn't available. so I drilled out the rivets, the halves separated, popped the bearing out and installed a new one. Bolted it back together and it lasted until he junked the mower several years later. I think it used a standard...

Especially when you walk up the the real thing. I've stopped and looked at it a couple of times when I went across HWY 2 years ago. Those things were marvels of engineering being articulated and requiring flexible couplings for steam and valve gear linkage.

Today I finally got everything working as it should and got the instrument panel reinstalled. Not sure exactly was wrong, but I think there were several different issues that were intermittent or inconsistent. But, I got everything to work with it out on the floor, worked when set in place...

Yes, she wants me to build another one and take it to the UP for her. Not sure if that's going to happen. I do want to build a small work table for the garden, though.

Yes, she loves the outdoors, spends a few months in the UP on her property. She plants a garden in my back yard, then leaves and goes north. I do a lot of things for her, I'm her resident handyman.

One of my friends said "I want to die at 102, shot in the back by an irate husband."

I have a scratch built diesel, 10KW generator that I started building back in 2010. It had a serious malfunction on the first test run and bent the shaft on the generator. It sat in the back of my shop until 2020 when I finally pulled it out, repaired it and got it all finished up. Sometimes you...

At her property in the UP a few years ago.

I don't know about beat up, but I'm sure effing tired of taking the dash in and out. The crazy thing is, sometimes the left turn signal would flash at the normal rate and sometimes it didn't, have no idea why though.

Yesterday afternoon, I stuck the dash back in the car, hooked up all the wiring and tried the turn signals. Right side, good, left side, no indicator and I could hear the flasher clicking a lot slower than normal. Checked at the cluster connector and had turn signal, but was still flashing...

Goof looking Vette! I always liked that body style, way better than the recent incarnations.

I have a can of Deoxit, I thought about using it, so I will take it to the shop today and give the connectors a spritz before I reinstall them. Thanks for the suggestion, though.

Well, I thought I had everything working when I put the dash back together, and I guess I did, sort of. But, the next time I drove it, I noticed that the left turn indicator and the high beam indicator weren't working. Well fudge! (Not exactly the words I used.) After a couple more trips, my...

Those F1 engines were an amazing feat of engineering. 1.5 million pound of thrust each, and never had an in-flight shutdown. If I remember correctly, the turbopump for each engine developed 25,000HP.

Here's a link to the Oregon Gator blades I put on the 60" deck on my BX2230. Amazon.com

I was able to get a good supply of wire hangers from the uniform service truck driver that I got shop towels from. Still have a bunch of them. I do occasionally cut one up for some odd use, though.

Top picture lower right hand corner is the ferry that runs over to Neebish Island. Rode the ferry a couple of times when I had friend that lived on the west side of the cut, and I visited him there. Watching the 1000 footers coming through the cut was really impressive. The cut is 33-35 feet...

Thanks for the compliments guys! FYI, here is a link to the page where I got the plans. Simple Garden Bench Plans | Free Garden Plans - Gardening Tips & Guides - DIY Garden Plans

Could they be the same as the ones on a 430? If so, can you post a picture, as I have an extra set I bought when my 430 broke the right front spindle. I can measure the spindle diameter, because I think, depending on serial number, they could either be metric or SAE, and just enough different...

A friend has a garden in my back yard, works in it quite often. The other day she remarked that it would be nice to have a bench to sit on and rest sometimes, so I went on line and found some plans for a basic bench and used them to build it. I used pressure treated southern pine, so it should...

The Brits call an eraser a rubber.

There's a lot wrong in that picture!

Does the glow plug light come on? It should come one for a few seconds, even when warm. Is the solenoid on the fuel pump pulling in? The solenoid has to pull the lever on the pump or it doesn't pump fuel to the injectors. If it's extemded and doesn't pull in when the switch is turned on, check...

Thanks for the compliments, guys, I appreciate it. It's nice out today, so I'm going to take it for a drive this afternoon.

You did that too? One time when I was with dad, coming back from Chicago one night, we go on a finished, but not open section of I-94. Was kind of spooky out there all alone.

Any word on the reason for the transfer? I assume Presque Isle is having a mechanical problem.

Under the dash, behind the battery. I think there are only 4 or 5 fuses in the block, I'm sure one of them will be for the PTO.

Okay, problem finally figured out and fixed. Fortunately, I guess, it wasn't my wiring error or something I did wrong. After scanning the circuit diagram for the fuse block and bulkhead connector, I found a dashed line, the only one in all the wiring schematics, that was causing the problem...

Did you check the fuse?

Heck, I was young and cranky, never tolerated fools or jerks. I've become a little more tolerant in my old age, it just isn't worth the effort to try to make them see the light.

Yeah, but it's not always the years, but the mileage and the upkeep.

Looks like half the bays have been closed off.

Got a friend with a mill? He could probably make one out of a chunk of bar stock in an hour or so.

The booster suffered a RUD, rapid unscheduled disassembly, when it fired 13 engines for the landing burn.

Good video of what happens when trains hit cars. Fortunately, no one got hurt in the crashes shown, except the cars, that is.

I haven't gotten into it yet. Been busy with a few other projects lately, but I have been putting a few miles on it. The last two Thursdays, when the local cruise-in is held, it's either been raining or threatening rain, so I haven't attended yet. I'm probably going to pull the dash beck out...

Nice job on the pole. About 25 years ago I had a local Amish fab shop make me a 20' aluminum flag pole out of 3" .25" wall tube. The base is similar to yours, except the pole mounts with two 5/8" bolts between two plates. I can pull one 5/8" bolt and lay it down. Makes it easy to replace the...

I have seen those quite often. Easy way to move three vehicles at once.

Besides, a couple of more hours on the oil won't hurt anything.

We had some pretty severe scattered storms here in northern Indiana Friday night, lots of really high winds and rain. About 8:00PM my power went out, waited a couple of hours and it didn't come back on, so I figured it would be out for a while. Got up at 8:00AM Saturday morning and still no...

I once got a call for a reference for a driver I fired. Knowing I couldn't (legally) say anything derogatory, I simply stated that he was excellent at running flat tires until they shredded, very good at being unable to back up a trailer without jack knifing it and talented at being unable or...

Yes, I saw that, but forgot to mention it in my post. Thanks for adding that information. As conservative as Indiana is, especially it's legislature, I would bet it'll be a few years until pot gets any kind of legalization here. Unless, that is, they decide to tax it heavily to get a significant...

Probably ash pits for steam locomotives.

Just recently, Niles Township, MI, just north of South Bend, IN, started taking applications for pot stores, several have been made so far. They will be located just north of the Indiana state line, like as little as a couple of hundred feet, so the Hoosier potheads can slide up there and buy...

If a driver can't tell the difference between a 20,000 pound load and an 80,000 pound load, he has no business being behind the wheel.

I think I'll just keep using my 30 year old Lincoln grease gun, rather than spend $100 on one with missing parts.

As far as I know, it is solely the responsibility of the driver to determine that the truck is loaded and the load is secured according to applicable state and federal DOT regulations. In the past, I have had drivers call me and express concerns about the way that their truck is being or is...

Yeah, some truckers, and I use the term loosely, think they know how to load material better than someone who loads it every day. I had a customer years ago the loaded big stamping press dies that weighed 10K to 30K apiece. If the driver wouldn't let him load them where they should go on a...

Luberfiners used a large metal cased filter cartridge. They were a bypass filter, not full flow. I was in the trucking industry for 50 years, and never saw or heard of anyone using paper towel rolls in them. besides, the cartridge sealed at the bottom, and a tube in the center carried the oil...

If the manufacturers of the tractors had made the axle ends with a protrusion that would pilot the wheel properly, the bolts wouldn't be such a pain to deal with. But that would probably cost another dollar in material and machining. Same for one bolt versus a stud and nut.

The first time I tried the link to those studs, it didn't work for some reason, and I wrote my reply based on the supposition that they were normal type studs that are pressed in. Later I tried the link again, and saw that they were fully threaded studs that would install from the back side of...

In the picture of the front wheels, the studs only protrude about an eighth of an inch beyond the nuts, but the rear studs protrude about 3/8" of an inch or so. I just made them a little longer than the would have had to be, but it's not going to be a problem. Better too long than too short in...

I really don't get the tractor into mud, nor does it set outside when not being used, so rust is really not a concern. Also, the studs and nuts are cad plated, and I used anti-seize on them when I installed the nuts, which will protect the threads from rusting. Yes, the BX has a strange mix of...

Then the MBAs and bean counters will take over and it'll go to hell in a year.

Any pill bottles I ever had that were like that had a lid with threads on the top that you just turned over and screwed into the bottle to eliminate the latch.

I didn't read every previous post, so maybe this was posted, but today a local NPR radio station had a report that Bezos is in negotiations to purchase an old R.R. Donelley facility in Warsaw, IN to build the Slate EVs. It's expected to create 2,000 jobs once in operation.

Because that's what I had in my toolbox. Didn't feel like spending another $20 on a bottle of red that I would probably never use again. I mowed three acres with it today, neither of the wheels fell off, and after I finished up, I rechecked the nuts, the torque was still right at 70 ft lbs.

I haven't seen any detailed teardowns of failed engines yet, but one YT mechanic said he had heard from someone that had torn one down, and it appeared a wrist pin retainer failed, the pin shifted in the piston disengaging from one of the pin bosses, which broke the piston at the other pin boss...

Thanks for the suggestion, but I was very meticulous about making sure everything was properly grounded. The fact that there is a backfeed of ~3 volts into the accessory circuit seems to pretty much rule out a bad ground.

Yes, it's grade 5. Grade 8 would have been overkill and three time the cost. I have no idea how they could back out, between the Lock-Tite and the thousands of pounds of clamping force provided, I see no more possibility of them backing out than that of the original bolts backing out. Ain't...

I gave up drinking in my mid-30s when I realized how much it was costing me to feel shitty the next morning.

I haven't had to take wheels off my BX2230 very often, but when I did, I always cursed the damn wheel bolts. They are a real PIA to get back on, even after I made a couple of alignment studs. A while back, I replaced the front wheel bolts with 7/16"-20 studs and nuts, and the one time I have had...

Seems GM's 6.2 liter engines built between 2021 and 2024 have been throwing rods. Well, that's not good! https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a64611938/chevy-silverado-tahoe-cadillac-escalade-defective-v8-recall/

Easy to get it out of there. Pop the linkage off the leveling valve on the tractor rear suspension, hold the lever up so the suspension inflates raising the front of the trailer. drive it back to level ground and reinstall the leveling valve linkage. Even if you had to break the linkage, it...

Nice looking Rambler, don't see many of those around any more. I always thought they were a nicely styled car. The harness is a total replacement harness from American Auto Wire. It is loosely wired similarly to the original, as come circuits have to be basically the same as original to work...

YKYAOW: One friend has dementia, one is out of the hospital and in rehab for untreated diabetes(he refused to see a doctor until it was almost too late), one is recovering from a blood clot in his leg, one is recovering from a fall in the bathroom, one is obese with bad back problems, two more...

Here's a more in depth article on Ars Technica: A $20,000 electric truck with manual windows and no screens? Meet Slate Auto.

I was just getting ready to make a post. Short answer, no I didn't find what or where the leaking voltage is coming from. I spent a few days with the dash out tracing wires on everything I could imagine was the culprit, but couldn't find it. I even set the cluster up and resting on the steering...

Stoddard solvent or paint thinner.

Thanks. Unfortunately, Addnorth doesn't have it in stock presently, according to their web page. There are other manufacturers of similar colored PLA filament though, and I will order some soon, as I have a couple of other ideas for tool accessories. I'll check a few sites for such designs too.

Six 4 inch straps would be legally sufficient to tie it down, though I would also secure the front and rear axles with chains.

The flat car has DODX registry on it, so I would seem to have been military equipment.

When working on various auto accessories, I needed an easy to use 12 volt power source for testing purposes. So, I bought an adapter off Amazon that attached to Dewalt 12 volt battery packs, and 3D printed a small box that attached to it, with 4mm banana plug sockets installed. Now, I can attach...

Maybe use it just a little at a time until you see if there are any problems.

When I built my shop in '83, I plumbed air around the inside with 1" Sch 80 pipe. At the time, I was the house carrier at the local plastic pipe company, so I got about 120 feet of it (6 20 footers) for free. Over the years, I've had two glue joints fail, and one minor leak at a joint. Other...

I have been insured, home and auto, with a local agency since about 1980. Been through a couple of agents in the at time, but could always call and talk to whoever my account was assigned to if I had a claim or question. Recently, they were bought up my a big company, and now if I call, the...

My thoughts exactly.

How about this one:

The entire wire harness is new, so it can't be corrosion in the bulkhead connector, and it's never been exposed to moisture in the couple of years since it's been installed. Also, I was VERY diligent in making sure everything was grounded, in fact, just today I checked all the grounds that go to...

About 10 years ago, at my hangar party at the airport for the annual air show, I introduced my younger sister to a friend, and he said he didn't know I had an older sister. Ooops! But then, 50 years of smoking, drinking and a lot of sun exposure isn't going to make look like a 20 year old.

Well, a gremlin has popped up in the electrical system in the Nova. When the key is turned to the accessory position, the screen on the EFI hand controller flashes on and off a couuple of times a second. I pulled the EFI fuse and found there was about 3 volts being fed into the ignition circuit...

Loading at Levy was pretty neat, you scaled in empty, pulled to a call box told the operator who you were loading for, what kind of material you wanted and how much. Then you pulled under line of silos to a loading chute, a conveyor belt that ran under them was started, and as it traveled under...

Slag is commonly used as an aggregate for road beds if it is a combination of 1" down to fines. Specific sizes are used to replace similar sized gravel in some applications. The slag is primarily limestone and impurities from the blast furnaces. Back in the 70s, I hauled many loads out of The...

I have friends that live in Gaylord, MI, and were on the way back from FL when the storm hit up there. Fortunately they also have an apartment in their son's home here in northern Indiana and intended to stop here for a few days. They were finally able to get a call through to one of their...

The worst offenders I see are the Jeep drivers that run off-road lights. They really piss me off.

I allow myself one candy bar a week, a Milky Way Dark chocolate if the Speedway has one when I gas up on Saturday. I think I have one rattling around in the console in the Suburban from a couple of weeks ago when they were two for $3.

Dogs, horses, tractors, cars, boats, airplanes, tools, all ways to spend a lot of money you'll never get back. Pick you poison.

You must have gone to Martin's.

No, they had laid out a plan way earlier than that, and had carefully, subtly been changing you before you said "I do." You were just not discerning enough to realize it, until it was too late.

Our local paper, published five days a week, no Tuesday or Sunday paper, is over $100 for six months. It's usually only 12 to 20 pages, four of which are usually dedicated to sports, depends on how many legal notices there are. I read most of the articles, especially city and county council...

When did you lose control? Son, after you got married, you never had control, you just didn't know it.

I asked my doctor about it, and she said it was proven to be a scam.

Try DuckDuckGo instead of Google, a lot less spam. A hit it gave me was: Air Conditioner Belt - Dayco TopCog 15280.

When the county repaved the road last spring, they requested that I relocate the post as they were widening the pavement. So that's what I did. I was going to replace the ugly H-beam post anyway. I did use a hand operated post hole digger, not a powered one, so if I did find the conduits, I...

The collision at 4:40 in the video was caused by the Youtuber filming it purposely throwing the switch to cause the collision. He was arrested and charged for it. Morons.

So what's the fun in going to a Menard's and going directly to the item you're looking for? Then you never get to see all that other stuff you end up buying but don't need.

If there was an Amtrak from Chicago, Grand Rapids, South Bend to Florida to see my daughter I would try it. But the only way is via NYC and it takes four days. I can, and have non-stopped it in my car in under 20 hours.

I have 5 fiber conduits running through my front yard, I watched them plow them in years ago. They connect a local switch to one a couple of miles away. So last spring I was going to replace my mail box post, an old uglt, rusty H beam stuck in the ground about 3 feet deep with a 4" tube post...

I'll bet the Air Force would have a track on it, they track all space debris. I'm sure they'll figure out where it landed.

Been there a couple of times, great experience.

Coffee and beer are two things I could develop a taste for.

There are never too many tools, only too few toolboxes to hold them.

I'll bet that's a slow process, unloading one bug at a time with a crane.

They had Starship unstacked and back to the hangar within a couple of hours. Booster will be next. Depending on what they find, they may launch on Wednesday, but I wouldn't bet on it. This would take NASA a minimum six months, or more.

Yikes! Is that an old Buick? That ain't gonna buff out.

The cable on the left side drops directly off the winch, down to the eye bolt on the table handle. If you zoom in on the next to last picture, you can see it going down off the winch drum. It's hard to see, but you can also see it in the last picture too, if you zoom in.

Impossible, can't happen.

I still have my Dual 1212 turntable, two Sanyo cassette decks, Marantz receiver, 2 BIC speakers, probably 1000 CDs and at least as many 60s and 70s era LPs. I want to rip all the LPs to MP3s, just have to set up the equipment and do it. Soon, maybe.

Ever since I bought my20 ton shop press back in the 80s, I wished it had a winch to raise and lower the bed, but never got around to doing it. So a month or so ago I was at the local Runnings store (Think Tractor Supply, only bigger) and saw a boat winch that I thought would do the job. I also...

I found this video of some old movies of the Keweenaw Central Railroad made from some old 8mm movies.

That's what metric sockets are good for.

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That is common, either they dial in the wrong CTAF or it's been changed. Sometimes it's an old plane with no radio at all, but those were getting pretty rare, and now with the ADS-B requirement, all most non existent. About 15 years ago, a friend and I were flying into the Holland, MI airport...

It got into the high 40s today, the roads were mostly dry, so I moved the tractors out and took the Nova for a 20 mile drive. It's only the second time I've driven it since dropping in the new engine, it runs great and no leaks. Last week I added an overflow tank for the radiator, Made a bracket...

I've had three times in the last 20 years of flying, that a plane has taxied onto the runway I was on short final to land on, and I had to go around. They obviously weren't listening to the CTAF or they would have heard me announce I was in the pattern to land, and on final, let alone looked for...

Grumpy Old Men?

Before they removed the sorting machines from the South Bend, IN post office, I could mail a letter or check and it was delivered the next day. Since the moved the sorting to Fort Wayne, IN, it takes two or three days. I can't imagine hauling all that mail ~90 miles both ways is saving them any...

Metric sockets are good to use to hammer onto rusted inch dimension bolts and nuts.

Just look at who hired him. There's your answer.

Hope you're recovering well. Did you get the plastic piece with a ropes on it to put your socks on?

That's what I did this time. They're goodentight now.

Tire chains, I hate them. An hour later after shortening the chains and reinstalling them. I did both sides while I was at it. Also, manufacturers that use bolts to attach wheels instead of studs. What a PITA they are, had to make a couple of studs to get the wheel in place then install the...

I use my 3D printers to make tools and jigs to use for some of my projects. I can draw one up in Tinkercad, slice it in Simplify 3D and print it out on which ever printer will work best, usually my Hypercube. This is a drilling pattern jig for drilling holes in a winch spool I'm modifying for...

I wish my namesake uncle had lived long enough for me to get to know him. My mother said we shared many traits, like interest in science and electronics. He died before I was born.

"She was renamed the John J. Boland in 2000" Interesting contradiction in terms.

One screen shows the CPU is an Intel Core i9-10900 with 32 GB of RAM. that was not built in 1999.

Apparently, Cyber Truck leases aren't doing so well. Tesla Slashes Cybertruck Lease Prices As Demand Stagnates

I have a lot of Snap-On tools, bought mostly back in the 70s and 80s before they got so stupids expensive. I have bought a few since then, a couple of sockets and pliers, but I rarely need tools that I don't already have. I'm on my 4th Snap-On dealer now, probably be my last one.

We had some old Ruan DCF400 Internationals back in the 70s that had Spicer 4X4s. The guys that knew how to drive them, loved them, the ones that didn't, not so much. I spent many hour training drivers how to shift them, some got it, some didn't. Personally, my favorite was always the...

My 1970 Chevy Nova has a 5 speed Tremec TKX600, brhind a 434 SBC. Originally came with a 4 speed Muncie M20 and a 350.

The broker I worked for in the 80s had an IBM Selectric with a parallel interface to connect to a PC. We used it to print form letters and other correspondence rather than print it on a dot matrix printer, looked more professional. The changeable balls with different typefaces was nice too. It...

I always thought that was a pretty poor way to keep the front axle in position. The areas the bolt heads rub against wear more in the normal position, but less at the limits of travel, so you have to adjust them so they aren't too tight at the travel limits, but then they still have play in the...

Sounds expensive.