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It seems like they're happy to gnaw on just about anything. I re-wired a Wellcraft with Ancor wire and had no mice issue even though they transformed a locker to a luxury condo by using a whole roll of Bounty paper towel! Ancor says no soy in their wire but that doesn't mean rodents don't find it tasty. PVC, yum! When I tore down the ceiling of our bedroom I found Romex with lots of bites. Perhaps since the wire were hot they got a bit of a shock and stopped. The old farmhouse was in disrepair when we bought it and red squirrels had got in it along with the mice. I was pelted with their crap and hundreds of nut hulls. I shot every red squirrel I saw as well as the gray ones in the barn. My wife got tired of emptying mouse traps so just poisons them now. We never had a cat but the Lab we had was a good mouser. Upon discovering a nest he'd toss them high in the air, chomp, then run after another. It was just like I see foxes do except my dog didn't eat them. I hate rodents.

I bought an EGO 56V replacement battery - not marked up as a counterfeit and it seems to work as well as the OEM. The thing I worry about though is that counterfeits will run away while charging and burn the shop down. There are enough laptops and phones burning up on airplanes that they make special containers for the crew to place them in. Interestingly what I thought was a logical place to put one, the ice drawer, is not recommended rather put them in the sink and run water or soft drinks over them to cool them. If already burning put fire out with halon or water extinguisher then cool. Trouble is they tend to blow up! Plenty of videos on battery fires especially counterfeits

West Marine tinned extra flexible like welding cable in red or black for ground cables. They have Ancor brand lugs with extra heavy corrosion protection for salt water. They also have extra heavy adhesive type heat shrink. We're in the salt belt. Both my kids have BMWs with open woven ground cables between the frame and engine which rotted out resulting in a no-start. They now have 2-0 boat type cables I made. and they're just as flexible.

My wife is in the school system as well. We schedule our winter vacations around her schedule.

If the traffic in Beijing is a good indicator the Chinese have become much more affluent. When I first went to China in the '80s Beijing was a sea of bicycles, very few cars. Now it's gridlock traffic. When I first visited the great wall the crew had it almost to ourselves. When I last visited about 10 years ago it was crammed with tour busses filled with Chinese. I suspect their diet has changed also.

I've been fortunate enough to visit the Arizona many times over the years. It's a most somber place. The visitor center has been upgraded and is well worth it. If you make it Hawaii be sure to go. https://pearlharbor.org/blog/interred-inside-the-uss-arizona/

I was going to drag the old buzz box out to fix my trailer but can just back it far enough into the shop to MIG it - lift gets in the way. Rods I have are all too old to use anyway.I was going to look for a fresh 1lb of 7014 based on the conversations here.

Ditto. Good actor and apparently a good guy.

Ha! Some years ago first rental car I had with lane alert steering wheel buzz was reacting to unremoved temp construction lanes on the freeway around SFO. At first I had no idea why but then experimented by intentionally crossing the lines. Until then I was going to write it up when I returned the car. My first rental with adaptive cruise was similar: "Why is this thing slowing down?" Once I figured it out I kinda like adaptive cruise since I use cruise all the time. My wife's car has it; my truck too old.

Gotta love things that fix themselves for no apparent reason. Break and stay broken. Not operator error?

My dad pulled a sign down in a parking lot. Didn't see or imagine the drooping wires to the sign were overhead and not buried. I have a hard time understanding drivers going down the highway with the bed up as I hope I'd notice something missing in the mirrors. I do admit starting to drive with the PTO still engaged but figured out what the racket was right away. Since I don't have a light or anything else other than handle position for indication my solution is to disengage as soon as the bed is up. When I was a kid one of the drivers came into the yard with a wrecker PTO U-joints smoking. New guy had driven miles with it engaged despite the big red light! and all the noise. He got fired for something else a few days later. I think it was because he wasn't smoking cigarettes!

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Luckily we have a local shop - Fastener Warehouse, that has good prices and is constantly increasing their product lines and inventory. Owner was from Johnson dairy farm across the bridge in Maine. He and his sons run the place and keep having to add employees to keep up with demand. Honor system, you can browse the aisles and get help when you need it. Local Fastenal is next to useless.

Gasoline slipped under $4 here, probably due to lower demand after Labor Day not increase in supply. Diesel still brutal. I was in CA a few weeks ago for my BIL's funeral and practically needed a mortgage to fill the rental car's tank. Healthy living slim 59 year old suddenly died while cycling in Yosemite. Pedaling along and fell over dead. Buddy behind him rushed up and tried CPR but he had no pulse. Autopsy results not back yet. When your number is up.............

I was working on something and heard a strange sounding gunshot. I wondered what the neighbor was shooting. A few days later I found an 11:00-20 on my bucket truck had just blown out. Another time my wife heard one and wondered who was shooting near the house. Nope, tire on wood chipper had given up. I replaced that one with new and walk way around the the other one.

Friend had spurs removed and he reported vast improvement. I got a new knee almost 5 years ago and it's like it never even happened. Hiking in Arcadia last week on trails/rocks that required using all fours and it is still performing like new. Conformis custom built for me. My recommendation is don't cheap it, get the best surgeon and replacement parts. Ask questions, seek reviews, etc. Good luck!

I changed thousands of tires on a Coats 10-10 while working at Firestone after school. All car tires: 14" and 15". Bias Deluxe Champions mostly, four for $100 on sale. They wore out in 10,000 miles. Salesmen would be in every 2-3 months for a set. They're a good machine for steel rims within their limit - way better than the gas station manual I used. Flats fixed $1.00 TL, $1.50 tube.

I have the double pump type - fast low pressure pump and slow high pressure so it gets in position quickly. Sliding ram started leaking badly but it was just seals so easy fix.

When I was a kid driving a wrecker in Boston we routinely pulled over height vehicles from Storrow Drive, Soldiers Field Road, and Memorial Drive under passes beside the Charles River. The college students arriving in September I could understand - new freshman, new driver, lost in the city but regular truck drivers? I almost hit the nine foot on Memorial Drive with a brand new wrecker. Lights on the boom just barely scraped no damages unless you climbed the boom. Boss would have been mad. We usually kept the boom really low for the parking garages but that truck was a brand new one ton.

If the snap rings don’t fit well the yoke ears likely got bent in a bit. As Seth said it’s better to cut the cross with a torch then support the yoke ears on a vise open just enough to support them when driving the cups out. Bent ears also make it harder to install cups as the cross and cups are not aligned. Cutting cross use gloves and maybe a face shield as if there’s some grease in the cross it tends to splash out in search of bare skin while burning. The voice of experience 😄.

I considered putting one in the dump truck to talk to the scale house lady but it didn't seem worth it. Place I go now has scale house window to talk directly. I never got into the craze. When listening to a friend's CB I was amazed that everyone talking had some sort of southern accent - in Boston! Anyone who used CB lingo on aircraft frequencies was quickly shut down. There's no place for that kind of talk. Sometimes we'll hear some pilot respond to an ATC traffic call-out with "I've got it on the fish finder" referring to the TCAS display. It's meaningless and inappropriate and often will get an anonymous reply to stop it.

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I wonder why the Air Force has a T34B as they were the Navy version? It does look like a T34 B as it doesn't have the little fairing under the trailing edge of the rudder. The A model was certified as the Beechcraft model 45. Amongst other things it had adjustable seats while the B had adjustable rudder pedals. A had eject-able canopy while B had a nitrogen powered emergency canopy opener that retained the canopy. A had nose wheel steering while B had free castering. There other differences too. I flew As at the Air Force flying club and maintained Bs under a Navy contract while working at a Beechcraft dealer.

Here's the high torque version: DEWALT 20V MAX XR 1/2 in High Torque Impact Wrench (DCF900B) – 1,030 ft-lbs Fastening, 1,400 ft-lbs Breakaway Torque

Gas powered weed wacker was aggravating a nerve in my elbow. Cordless only runs when actually cutting and variable speed is nice for easy cutting stuff. My air 1/2" is Ingersol Rand and the DeWalt seems a near equal. It was stronger when brand new but still ok - hasn't failed to break any lug nuts.