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Site seems to have a problem with pictures. Anyway, the FMC picture with chem trails and the like is an altered Delta Airlines dispatch message that some bored pilot changed to read Chem Trails, Mind Control, etc. I'll bet there are some who see it and believe it like flat earthers and the like. Cloud seeding is a real thing in an effort to increase rainfall. It doesn't actually create a cloud but certain clouds that have sufficient moisture in them can be encouraged to release it with a tiny amount of silver iodine. Everyone talks about the weather but no one does anything about it! Well, cloud seeding actually does but in very limited cases - increasing snow in the mountains for spring runoff or maybe just for some rain on crops. There has to be clouds and they have to have moisture in them enough to encourage to freeze and fall.

Light is probably the answer. Unfortunately it probably couldn’t be made today and pass safety requirements. I’m really becoming sold on hybrid technology. Last week my wife and flew to Bar Harbor, rented a Toyota Camry hybrid, drove it all around then up to Lubec and East Port and back getting 51 mpg in a very nice car. I’ve had some other hybrid like Prius but they were not as nice. My wife has a ‘24 Traverse and it gets around 22 in mixed driving. I think a Highlander hybrid will be the next one. It seems batteries are lasting just fine and you never have to seek out a charging station.

It's hard to compare older gas auto engines with the later ones. Things like VVT increase fuel mileage by up to 10%, generally around 6% in all-around and reduces emissions without EGR. Fixed cam timing cannot match it. Direct port injection computer controlled along with variable ignition timing is another advantage vintage engines don't have. Watch a scan tool's data stream while driving or preferably while someone else is driving and see how much the engine computer is varying everything to maximize efficiency and driveability. AF ratios vary according to load as does timing. There's no way a vintage carburetor engine with fixed everything can match it. Driving down the highway in an older car the only thing that might change is ignition timing due to the vacuum advance responding to higher manifold pressure. Watch the timing on just a constant speed mild downgrade in a computer controlled engine go waaaayyyy advanced. A/F ration will go leaner too.

i replaced a completely worn out C221 in an Industrial 3616 with a C301 from a combine. It has way more power for loader work and consequentially drinks more gas. It gets used often. Since the C301 is, after swapping lots of parts around, drop in, It would make little sense to convert to a diesel that never lived in it. It was a good rescue of an older machine.

Nice straight tin. Time for a bath!!

Yeah, cab, heat, AC.

Doesn't weld worth a crap either. Looks great!

Industrial loaders are built as loaders but if you need another ag machine …..

My MIL was in the early stages of dementia, not too bad but really shouldn't be driving. She wouldn't listen to any family member so my wife called the DMV. They needed a signed letter and, apparently to prevent any malicious intent told her that they would reveal who dropped the dime on her mother. She did it anyway and then had a conversation with her mom telling her what was coming. That didn't go well. A couple of days later when driving to the Senior Center she mistook a new wide sidewalk with a tiny pedestrian stop sign for a road, jumped the new high granite curb and blew three tires. Unaware, she parked the car, attended the Senior Center event, called her husband and told him she had a flat. Other than the tires the car was undamaged. The DMV letter arrived and she flunked the written test and decided not to take a retest. She had begun a rapid decline and shortly after ended up in a nursing home draining my FIL's finances. After a few months became hospice care with an estimated 4-6 weeks that turned into a year. Wife's brothers live in CA and FL so it's been all on her. It's been a relief for both her and her dad when her mom finally passed. Make the call to the DMV and take the consequences rather than let someone get killed because you don't want to be the bad guy who took away an elder's independence. Get them an Uber app.

Drive or driven gear? I wonder if there's enough wear that the load side is cocking the gear a bit? Drive gear being loaded a bit by shaft?

Parts cannon miss. Bummer. Hopefully they have a proper scan tool. It's a shame that unlike cars medium and heavy duty trucks don't have to comply with OBDII. I've heard the complaints of the subscription costs for proprietary systems at a local shop.

We occasionally had to take large detours around Iceland and various Pacific Rim areas due ash clouds. The flight manual has specific actions to accomplish if inadvertent penetration. It's brutal on engines often causing flameouts and sandblasts windshields to near opacity.

Our house has a lean-to garage added sometime after automobiles were invented. One night my wife and I heard a tremendous crash and thought something had hit the house. We looked but didn't see anything only later to discover one of the garage door springs had failed. I replaced it only to have the other fail shortly thereafter, both failed in a rusty spot. I hope your spring lasts long enough to test the machine before investing several hundred in a new one. Edit: New garage door springs have a cable inside to contain them if they fail. That garage only had storage stuff in it, good thing as a car may have been damaged or a human badly hurt by the spring flailing around.

It sort of depends on where in the time zone you are. New England as a whole is geographically much better suited to Atlantic time like our Maritime neighbors and most of the New England states would move IF Congress allows it. Permanent DST would accomplish that. Sunset mid-winter is around a terrible 4PM now. The Canadian Provinces just north are Atlantic time.

Why do cattails need to be sprayed?

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Does it show any codes?

Looks good. Last exhaust system for that car before rust death.

Weld it, see if the rest of it works correctly. If it does that would justify a new spring. It's likely to break again shortly but there are methods as some have described. The temporary fix will let you evaluate the rest of the machine.

I worked in a garage in Brookline, MA home to a large Jewish community. The shop was two doors from the temple. This was late '60s and there were a lot of Holocaust survivors in the area. In summer with short sleeves you could see their tattoos, many were customers. Some sadly had not survived unscathed. The inhumanity of the Nazis towards people who looked just like any other folks appalled me and has stayed with me. Yeah, the Holocaust was real. The never again attitude of the Israelis is admirable and justified. Antisemitism is BS.

Not being taught in school, just social media and conspiracy websites along with flat earth, chem trails and sovereign citizen and Moorish American nonsense. The willingness to believe that crap just amazes me.

By February and March you'll have more time after work you did not have on standard time. Kids will have time after school if they're not stuck on their phones.

We're on the far eastern edge of the Eastern time zone. I've said we should be on Atlantic standard year-round for years, effectively DST year-round. The problem with that is there would be four time zones in the contiguous US but Canada has five and lives with it. Kids going to school in the dark is BS. It's already dark in the AM mid winter. As far as the time change causing health problems I call BS on that. One hour change is absorbed in a couple of days. I put up with as many as 12 hours for years and found I quickly adapted. I laugh when I hear people say jet lagged when they have only moved one or two time zones. Let's have a little more daylight on the end of the day. Permanent DST!!!! China, a pretty big country, has only one time zone!

I went with Bosch heat pump and 96% condensing backup propane furnace. Five years so far of comfort. It replaced a combination wood/oil furnace from the oil embargo days and window unit ACs. No more hauling/cutting/splitting/hauling wood and lifting window units. Bosch has been flawless. Air source heat pump will work into the single digits but since we lower the temp to sleep it recovers slowly at those temps so I set the change-over to around freezing so it recovers promptly on propane. One time I'd forgotten to order propane and worried about running out so let the heat pump run into single digits which it did while awaiting a delivery. We bought the 500 gallon tank so as not to be locked into one supplier but we've been with the same people for oil and gas for 30+ years and they've been good. The Bosch units mate for a nice compact package.

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