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Use a shoulder type remover. If it breaks they just turn out. Can't post pictures so Google it.

Yeah, RFK, not JFK. Can't post until 2nd cup of coffee when brain becomes awake.

I got the one shot years ago and then the Shringrex yeas later when it became available.I had very minor and expected side effect with both shots, just tired and sore arm for a day. I'll take those over getting Shingles again any day. Sadly some folks, like you, get some not so easy side effects. Bummer you can't prevent but just hope you don't get them.

Get the vax! It's painless and for sure you don't want shingles as it can be very debilitating. I had minor chicken pox as a kid and my shingles episode was considered minor as well. If that's minor I don't want major. Our dispatcher got it on her face and eye. She was in pain for months. JFK junior is full of crap and doing a great disservice to kids.

Thank the ice age.

That’s a lot of digging! Underground service runs?

‘Zactly! Last factory manuals I bought were for’90 something GMC and it was 5 volumes. Today, with everything computer controlled on various data busses it would easily be double that. No longer do you activate a switch and it makes a direct connection to whatever you wanted to do but no, it makes a request to a controller that checks with a bunch of other controllers to see if you’re allowed to turn it on! CAN buss or LIN buss mostly. It’s nice as long as it’s all working 😉.

Alldata.com is where I go. Get a single vehicle subscription. They’re for one month minimum, fairly inexpensive, and totally necessary for today’s vehicles. I do print out wire diagrams for what I’ve had problems just in case they reappear.

They may have gotten away with salvaging a very unstable approach if they'd deployed the spoilers to get it firmly on the ground so both the brakes and thrust reverse would work. Auto ground spoilers are great, as a passenger you can feel the plane suddenly sink when they deploy. You can also back them up by manual deployment which those of us flying into short strips will do - have the PM pull them immediately on touchdown actually beating the wheel spin-up actuation. As Lazy WP said: GO AROUND when well past the window. Most use 500' in good VMC, 1000' IMC, and those of us still having to do circling approaches, 300'. I confess that my since 300' was allowed for a circling approach that was the absolutely lowest I've ever gone trying salvage an approach.

I watched the whole video and it was very informative and step by step including the mistakes and corrections. If this was a road truck I would do exactly as he did. Interestingly it seems that there were no leaking o rings but the injectors were dribbling badly and one was completely dead. He found a rebuilder who did them for $85: each, which I thought was a bargain. Still too much time and effort for my truck.

So I looked closely at what it would take and weighed the effort required v the amount of time I use the truck and just changed the oil. It's a bucket truck and the engine mostly idles for hours doing whatever chore I need - tree work, siding, roofing, etc. Simple things like adjusting the TV antenna. Yes, still get local stations over the air and stream Netflix, Prime, and Britbox for entertainment. Right now I'm doing some siding work. I can't imagine going back to staging and ladders. Detroit's first shot at a 4 stroke engine and they got a lot right and sadly, some big things wrong. I think we bashed it here years ago. It's still getting fuel in the oil.😁. It's really too bad. Truck will sit for months and start right up even when below freezing.

Yeah, I know it's a POS but it's simply a yard truck. It's also the best starting diesel I've ever seen. Anyway, it's probably some sort of injector seal and I wonder if anyone has ever tackled it without all the special tools that are apparently needed? I don't want it to be perfect, just stop the diesel getting into the oil.

Well, the people who are have the least chance of being financially responsible use the sort of loophole because no one is enforcing financial responsibility until after the fact. I suspect but don't know if our uninsured motorist cost is higher due to no compulsory requirement. Doesn't matter as i need it anyway. I have an umbrella policy simply because of all the ambulance chasers. All of the lawyers promising that "you may deserve compensation" simply drives up costs as insurers weigh the cost of fighting v settling.

Dunno

Blades look like these? https://www.rrproducts.com/flail-blade-fine-cut-r510670.html?srsltid=AfmBOorRpqaX8lYkEa6t_Uwz3zrn1Jk0AmvbMq0H8rrP3ACqEUmM9CQO

You didn't outrun them, they gave up after they figured you'd had enough! Yellow jackets cruise around 10 mph but can get close to 30 mph for short bursts. While running away in an opens station in road gear they easily kept up, so I looked it up.

'zactly! I tried running a matched pair of singles but they would get tossed. No local source for the banded B section belts, which are available online, but I found it ran fine with just a single B belt so never bothered to put a banded one on it. My Scag mower has a propriety banded belt that for which seems to be no aftermarket replacement and they're really proud of it! Thankfully they run for many hours.

Nah. When a rock takes a couple out you just replace them. Aftermarket flails are what I used. When you look at it have the seller run it. Big bearings on the drum are expensive and should be greased regularly. Look for cracks.

Irish twins refers to children born less than a year apart and often ending up in the same grade in school. It was used it to mock large Irish-Catholic immigrant families in America. Birth control was considered a sin by the Catholic Church - take what God gives you, propagate the faith.

We have an above ground pool with a deck. Brown wasps nest under it and never bother anyone so I leave them alone. Yellow wasps of some type got in the house under the eves and I ended up making a device on a long piece of strapping with a hose full of insecticide strapped to it triggered with a couple hundred feet of air hose from the shop. It successfully blasted enough powder in two attempts to kill them all. They had gotten deep in the house. I like the liquid spray. I hit a bald face nest with foam and they seemed to just bathe in it. Liquid soaking the nest took care of those aggressive SOBs.

Too soon!

Here's a good explanation from a reliable source of what data centers are and there are several different types: https://www.forbes.com/sites/technology/article/what-is-a-data-center/

Red Tail Aviation out of Moab, Utah, set up a temporary landing strip and ferried moneyed folks from Reno in their Kodiak planes. Some of the later flights I did transferred to them to get to their well provisioned RV already staged at Burning Man. Red Tail runs the FBO at Canyon Land Airport. We visited often as the principle had a home on the Colorado River there. Since we bought lots of jet fuel and our plane sunk into the ramp they cast a concrete parking area just for us. It was good incentive for us to keep buying more fuel than we needed for the courtesy.

Certainly a good idea. Here in the "Live Free or Die" state there is NO requirement for any auto insurance. I guess it's OK for someone living up near the Canadian border who doesn't drive very far but overall it's crazy. Drivers are supposed to be able to prove financial responsibility but that doesn't stop you from registering a car and police don't ask for proof of insurance if stopped for a minor traffic violation as in other states. If you cause a crash you have responsibility to pay and will likely to be sued and loose driving privilege. I guess those living in a dilapidated trailer in the woods with meth teeth don't care. Those with enough money to be financially responsible buy insurance. It's all strange.

No but I was fortunate enough to be at Kilauea during an unforeseen two day eruption back in the early '80s. After having toured the whole Big Island including the many craters I heard that Kilauea had become active after having been quiet for years, so I drove up there. It was spouting lava in spectacular fashion in the caldera below Volcano House. There were only a few other spectators on the rim with me, maybe a hundred or so max. After a while it got very cold on the mountain so I drove back to my hotel in Hilo. As it got light I drove back and the eruption had died down to a huge pot of bubbling lava. The rangers let the small group of us get right up to it and the heat radiating was more than the biggest campfire - you had to rotate. It was blowing lava into the air which cooled a bit and came down like rocks with a soft core. When the wind shifted we had to back(run) away. The Hawaiian rangers were really laid back but the radio chatter increased, the ground rumbled and cracked we we beat a strategic retreat. Where flowing lava stops it often leaves a toe. I put my foot on one while walking past to feel the heat through the shoe and it cracked open! Volcano went quiet that day and was so for some years until wakening with a vengeance. Since I was then regularly flying there I got to see it again and fly over it often. Yeah, I had a great career.