Youtube comments of SeanBZA (@SeanBZA).

  1. Best part of the pen design is that the hexagonal shape fits a compact cassette, so allowing you to wind up a tape that is loose, without damaging the player, plus you could rewind a tape without wasting precious battery power.
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  2. Numitron backing is grey because RCA used what they had in spades, the sheet steel with aluminium coat that was used to make anodes and internal structures for thermionic tubes, and this was proven to survive the glass sealing and gettering operations. Thus they used the standard tools they had in the tube plant, the flat anode sheet, slightly formed to be a stiff backing, and punched out the holes needed to hold the filaments. Then used the technology they had to make glass beads with wire in them, and sealed those into the holes, making the filament supports, and then simply used a flat section of that steel wire that was bent over to hold a length of thoriated filament wire, also a common item in the tube shop. Length and diameter calculated for the brightness needed at the applied voltage, and then simply placed in location, the ends folded over, then spot welded together to trap the tungsten wire under slight tension. Then at the rear spot welds to a lead frame attached to a standard off the shelf 9 pin glass base, and you have the complete unit. Glass top attached, and then evacuated with the standard roughing pump, and as a bonus because of the low voltage, and no need to maintain an ultra low vacuum, the roughing pump and the heat sealing of the tube is all that is needed to operate, no need for a getter to be installed, and no need to flash it, just a RF heating during sealing to get a high vacuum, then seal. Incidentally there were small versions made, the same size as your common 7 segment LED displays, and they were very popular, as they ran off 5V, and interfaced with logic. They worked best using CD4049/50 CMOS level shifting buffers, as those would source or sink 50mA no problem. Using a buffer/inverter per lamp, and a BCD decoder or counter per digit allowed those displays to be bright, and as bonus you could also use the blanking input on the drivers to use PWM to dim them. Project to replace those displays with LED ones worked, just that it really did not drop display current use, it was still 5A of current at 5V, though it was good in that at least you had a display that now was available, using a tiny HP 7 segment red display. Do one conversion and you had 16 numitron displays to use to fix others, so we only converted 3 boards to the LED version. Biggest problem was the resistor value selected was too low, so the LED displays were running way too bright, so had to be dimmed. Rather than destroying the cordwood board made to fit them, I simply used 2 6A silicon diodes in the common line, to drop the voltage seen by the LED displays down from 5V to 3V8, which made them dim to exactly match the old displays. Those 2 diodes were hard to fit in the limited space left on the display board. Users liked the new crisp displays, the bright version got complaints that it was so bright it was unreadable at night with dark adapted sight, and it lit up the entire cockpit. Display dimming had to match the other display, and that board used unijunction transistors, and had a disconcerting habit of the power transistor unsoldering itself from the wire leads, it ran so hot. Base lead unsolders itself, transistor is still conducting, runs hotter and lamp blows. Select spare lamp and it also blows, unless enough time for transistor to cool below 200C junction temperature. Would have been nice to have had some of the more modern mosfets that can handle 50A, but not at the age of that design.
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  3. Worried about Americans figuring out that big is not better. They are popular world wide, and they are sold new all over the world.
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  4. Saying 1500 hours is akin to saying learner drivers have to have 150 hours of driving experience before they are allowed to drive on the road, but in the same breath saying that they cannot drive on roads to gain this experience, so either have to drive on parking lots, or pay to drive on special roadways instead.
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  5. My mother was a refugee in Tehran during the war, a Polish refugee from a Siberian camp. Her parents are likely buried there in the Polish cemetery.
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  6. Should also make it mandatory that all congress members every text, every message is published publicly as well, because they should also have nothing to hide either. Website to be no more than 15 minutes behind, and indexable by all search companies, and have no need for any form of paywall or login to read anything on it.
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  7. Grey coating is an insulator, to prevent circulating currents through the bearings from any slight imbalance in magnetic field in the motor. there is a single bearing that is grounded ( the shiny one) to prevent charge build up on the rotor and a flash over to the frame, but the rest have to be insulated so they do not have a shorted turn through the frame that can cause a high circulating current through the bearings that rapidly erodes them through arcing. There are current paths for this current via things like the output shafts and the selector forks, but they probably assumed that, being long thin wall section steel assemblies, this long path would both keep the current low enough not to cause any major extra wear, and also the long output shaft would be mostly self cancelling field wise as well. A lot of larger electric motors handle this with one end having coated bearings, or they make them with ceramic bearing balls inside, or just make both sides with insulated bearing mounting frames, and provide a grounding carbon brush assembly to handle shaft grounding. Drawback of the coated bearing is that you have to ensure that there is absolutely no damage to the coating on the outside and the side facing the frame, so that there is no metal to metal path. However, depending on the exact coating applied, this coat can be both insulating and tougher than the steel of the bearing itself. grey would point to a spray on ceramic coating, probably vacuum deposited before final bearing assembly or applied as a plasma coating.
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  8. The thing about the photography side was that the ultra fast gas switches were not used to fire the Xenon flash, which, for the technology of the time, was easy to do, using a simple high voltage pulse that ionised the gas in the Xenon flash tube at the cathode end. The big thing was they had to actually only fire the tube for a very brief period, so as to only have this very short burst of very bright light, so that the motion of the aircraft would not blur the image. Thus the need to develop a device that would be able to turn on very fast, and also handle a massive current pulse, so as to dump all the charge in the capacitor bank used to provide energy to light the flash tube, so as to drop the voltage across the flash tube (at this time it would be dropping from the 400V or so initial voltage, to the cut off point of around 60V, where the tube itself would start to slowly cut off due to the arc voltage being below the voltage needed to keep it on, slowly being in the order of tens of microseconds) to close to zero, and thus ensure it has a sharp cut off. Most devices at the time would either not last more than a single use, or would not have the fast response needed. This device was the original gas thyratron, and the need for fast ones meant they made them with a hydrogen gas fill, with early ones filled with neon being both slow, and too low an operate voltage. Hydrogen gave the needed high voltage stand off needed, and because it is light, it also ionised very fast, giving the very rapid current path build up, in the order of nanoseconds from fully off to fully on. This has led to them being now an export controlled device, and to this day an item that is still made, on the original tube lines, by some specialist companies in the USA, as the US military needs them for operational parts, and, because of the hydrogen gas fill being able to penetrate almost all seals with ease, a part that has a very limited shelf life of around 2 years, before you need to either replace or rebuild it. Neither are cheap either. You can test it at lower current, and do all your qualification at this level, as full power operation you only have around 5 uses, before it degrades to the point it is no longer usable. Selling them is ITAR restricted, as heavily as any part can be, because of the one use case, so there have been a few attempts to steal the technology. These days you still find it hard to get the same power delivery with small volume, it really is a part that is perfect in it's application. But you can do it, with modern high power semiconductors from specialist companies, with corresponding exotic semiconductor compounds, and prices that make the gold used to plate them the cheapest cost in production. Incidentally the bridge wires also underwent massive changes, from simple thin wires, to the modern ones, mass produced using semiconductor wafer processes, to make thin film metal alloy strips that are precisely controlled in shape, composition and dimension, so that all of them are as close to atomically identical as possible. The difference in timing between them is in the order of picoseconds, they are that identical.
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  9. dislike is the wrong word, i would think that the word detests is a more appropriate one, but Louis is not in Australia, and a flight of 15 hours to get to say it personally is the only thing that prevents him from going personally to his door, and expressing it the Bronx way, with a few woids, followed by a few more woids, followed by the need to find a local park, and go to Bunnings to acquire a pack of Hefty garbage bags, some bleach, and a decent pick and shovel. Then 4 hours of workout in a quiet spot in the park, and following that a thorough clean up of the house. The woids having been said, then he can fly the 15 hours back to his house, nicely relaxed, and able to talk under 200 woids per minute.
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  10. South Africa with an 87% non compliance rate, where the vast majority of people do not pay, and have no intention to ever pay. the standard way they used to detect was to simply have a list of valid licenses by street, and simply see which ones had more than 5% of houses without one, and drive past at peak viewing time, and knock on the doors, to see if there was the tell tale flickering light and the sound. But now those are no longer done, mostly because the ones doing that knock are sort of becoming an endangered species, and doing it in most areas will result in them becoming very unhealthy very rapidly.
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  11. Seen the coring team at work once, they were trying to get a sample of the sub base on a road, and had cored down half a metre through layer upon layer of top material, before they finally came to the sub grade layer. That road had been getting layers of top wear course added every few years since it was built, because the ground had subsided a little with time, and the swamp had been drained. Plenty of roads have thick wear courses, because they simply got overlaid with new, and the crown increased, and every decade or so the pavements were relaid higher. Old pictures from the 1930's of the building i lived in had a set of stairs at the front, now the pavement is level with the top step of the building, stairs all buried. Where I currently live 3 steps down from street level, for the same reason.
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  12. Do not forget to check after every update as well, because those might mysteriously be turned back on with a new silent update. Bookmark it, and check regularly.
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  13. Delta, predated the shuttle, survived the shuttle, outflew the shuttle, and worked out overall cheaper than the shuttle.
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  14. Along with prove it is him, using an official state issued ID, that can be independently verified by going to the government website as well. Then sic the ATO on him for concealment of income......
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  15. New permanent customer for Ray now.
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  16. Drive is running in CLV mode, so drive speed is location sensitive. That it runs faster than 3x is simply the drive firmware can write at faster than the specified rate for the original media spec. Drive firmware also makes a difference, having a much larger cache means it can just store updates to the inner tracks for a few dozen blocks of data, then only update the FAT areas when the cache is getting full and it has to free up cache memory. You can also see the areas of changed material as it runs the head and it changes state. If you were formatted as a non journalled file system, or writing a single large stream of data there would be no slowing down with the overhead of updating file location pointers at end of blocks. There are Linux file systems that only update state at the end of a block operation, faster but a lot riskier data wise.
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  17. Simple protest is for women to put down as name of father the name of one of those judges who overturned it. Instead of putting down "do not wish to disclose" just use one of the names, as after all, they are the reason for the child coming to birth.
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  18.  @alexanderkupke920  Jet A1 is kerosene that has been dewaxed, removing all the longer chain molecules, so that it will not turn to slush at -40C in the aircraft fuel tanks. The wax that is removed is further classified by melting point, so you get soft waxes that melt around 40C or lower, often sold as Vaseline or petroleum jelly, and harder waxes that melt around 70C, which are used to make candles, and as a base for many cosmetics and shoe polish. Higher melting point waxes are also used in industrial applications for various things. Diesel oil is very close to paraffin or kerosene, just has a somewhat less and slightly different range of melting and boiling points and density. To further confuse things you also have Rocket kerosene, which is a very highly refined Jet A1, that is designed not to freeze till around -100C, and which also has even less wax in it. In general you can run the diesel vehicle on kerosene, but it will run poorly, as diesel has additives in it to lubricate the fuel system, which is needed, plus the wax will tend to clog fuel lines and injectors as it flows through and undergoes local cooling. Same for a jet engine, which will run on diesel, though it will smoke heavily, as the fuel is not being fully burnt before it leaves the combustion chamber. Run a modern GDI engine on kerosene and it will very quickly fail, but older mechanical injection engines do not care, and will run on diesel, kerosene, Jet A1 or even vegetable oil, provided you can get it liquid enough to flow through the pump. Lamp oil can be also a blend, with it consisting of a mix of kerosene, diesel and even lighter oils and benzene to make it light easier, and also can have aromatic oils added to it to have an odour other than the distinct one.
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  19. Box is an electrical switch refurbishment kit, which while it is for the water distiller, those switches and parts would have been common throughout the U boat, so that kit would have been used all over, for switch and control maintenance, as the switches are a common ship part, and the ceramic parts used to contain the brass and silver contact blocks, and those do wear with use. That it was in the front was just that it was probably last used in the torpedo room as a tool kit, and then it stayed there, till it would be needed again for the water distillation plant, or there was more need for it at the front, or at least space to store it there, as often tools would be stored all round the ship, where you had a space free. BBC later on amalgamated with the Swedish Asea group, and then became Asea Brown Boveri, and later on also dropped the names, becoming ABB group. I have used Brown Boveri relays, they are an incredibly popular item in German built equipment, all the way through to this century, as they are both very reliable, and also very robust, with a lot of the relays going well past the rated million cycle guarantee, and some probably went well past the hundred million cycle point before they physically wore out.
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  20. There were a good number who knew, and who did little things to fight against it. That is how my father escaped from landing up in a concentration camp, the nurses at the hospital he was recovering at helped him to escape, a few weeks before he was due to be transported to a camp.
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  21. That is how my father was shot down, from behind and below, in the big blind spot of the Lancaster he was flying. Happened over lake Constance. He woke up in an Austrian hospital 2 weeks later.
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  22. Yes, warranty denied, because the vehicle was being used as advertised in all the material available from Toyota. Hard to sell them then if use as advertised is not allowed.
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  23. DC does not allow smaller cables, it just means you can use the cable at the rated voltage, and do not need to make allowance for the crest factor of the cable. While this is useful on HVDC (150kV or higher) power lines, where you get 40% more power transmitted, for the same current, and the same peak voltage, it makes absolutely no difference for lower voltages, or for anything that is going to be common in industry or homes, where your standard house wire in use has a 1kV rating. But it is never run even close to this, the only place where you run regular cable at higher voltage is in tunnels, where the supply for lighting and fans is typically 700VAC, as that is a big increase in power transmitted down the tunnel, for the same diameter cable, over using the standard 400VAC 3 phase supplies they normally use. Allows use of standard industrial cables and fittings, rated for 1kV, and also means they can put nearly double the load into the tunnel for lighting and fans, as they now just use either local autotransformers, to provide the local run, or have motors wound for 700VAC operation instead. Saves a lot of money if you do not need to make the tunnel 1m wider, to get the high voltage cables in and still provide the required separation, and also the need to dig big equipment rooms to house the big transformers, as opposed to simply running the cables on the walls, or under the road bed, where they are well protected, plus your control gear is almost all mostly off the shelf of Schneider or ABB, and not too much that needs custom manufacture and certification, as the regular switchgear is already rated in the most part for 1kV use under the Low Voltage directive, Low Voltage here referring to power distribution under 1000V. DC is common, just that it is typical in Telecoms, where you get a lot of equipment that runs off a nominal -48VDC rail, based on old telephony battery bus voltages, and it is also common in large industrial equipment with a lot of inverter drives, where they use a DC bus to connect all the inverter units, so that energy recovered from the one unit as it slows down a motor can be used by others to power them, instead of being dumped as heat in a brake unit. there you find 400VDC, 600VDC as common bus voltages. However a big issue is fault protection, as DC rated breakers, fuses and disconnects are quite a lot more expensive and larger over the same rating AC units, as the AC units have no need to break an arc, as it is naturally going to be extinguished twice per cycle, so all the unit has to do is prevent it from striking again, unlike DC units, which actually have to cool it down till it goes and stops, by no longer being able to ionise air. DC you can pull a very large arc, while AC it tends to go out easily. Look up the people doing welding using only solar panels in the sun, nothing else, and that they can draw pretty big arcs out of them, along with solar panel fires that only stop when the sun goes down, or the panels burn out completely.
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  24. For those saying it will never affect them, ask if they have anything worth over $1000, like a car, house, or even clothing or jewellery. All these have been seized under these acts, leaving the actual owners having to fight to get them back, and often these are taken just so the police can use them and destroy them.
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  25. note the chipped corners and edges of those tungsten carbide blocks, pointing to them having being dropped many times before.
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  26. Well, if you are at home alone, and the cucumbers have gone off, and the bananas are all rotten, and the postman is practising safe zones, so will not come indoors, even with the promise of all the cake he can eat, you need the essentials. You know that in 9 months, the most important medial profession will be a midwife or obstetrician, and right after this period of stay at home is lifted, you will need one of three professions: Divorce lawyer, Councillor and Gynaecologist.Perhaps all three. For plastic dick yes the comment section is correct, though with the commenters you cannot be sure if they want one, or want to have one used on them, or want to be one. You can be sure they all want it supersize though.
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  27. Incidentally the most stolen item at shops is baby formula, because of the cost of buying it. The only time that you see shops locking the stuff up, or with this being the only product that has a locking security tag on the can that has to be removed before it leaves the shop.
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  28. Yes imagine explaining to the return office that you crashed the truck on the roof of a house.
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  29.  @masterpython  Not likely, they will simply strip out the liner, call line and patient table top, and send that to the incinerator, and put in a new set. The rest will be washed down with a succession of industrial washing agents, starting with plain chlorine bleach at high concentration, then with a bromine based bleach, followed by a cycle of plain detergent washes to remove the first two wash agents, and then a rinse and dry. Patient bedding and mattress straight to the incinerator, and the room will get the same treatment as the MRI. Hospitals do have procedures for this, and many have had exposure to Ebola, and other deadly diseases, and have the protocols in place, and the right cleaning agents in stock. Surgical instruments pretty much all parts that contact the patient are disposable, and thus they will throw the entire kit away anyway, unless it is some expensive kit, which in that case they will simply replace all parts that contact patient. Things like respirators easy enough to replace all parts the patient breath comes into contact with, part of the regular service kit anyway, and surgical tools they are cheap enough to the hospital that sending them through an incinerator, and billing the insurance, is cheap, as yes they are hard to totally sterilise, especially if there are plastic parts, metal ones you just send through a high pressure autoclave, but even so they are sold as disposable items anyway.
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  30. Ethernet won out because the standard was free to use, and also did not need you to pay a license fee per card, unlike some of the competitors, like Token Ring, where you had to pay IBM for it, and Arcnet did not scale as well, even though it did use a very much cheaper cable, but in the end Ethernet would run on the same cables, and being low cost the cards got cheap fast, and of course got used a lot, so the peripherals grew fast, and the cost kept dropping. Still have the crimp tooling for Arcnet, which came in really handy doing CCTV work, as the connectors are almost completely compatible in most cases.
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  31. Tupolov has an issue in that a good chunk of the parts come from factories based in Ukraine and Belarus, along with a lot of "western" electronics parts in the avionics and mechanical assemblies, so they are not really able to actually build now, seeing as there is a issue getting delivery. As well the "alternative" parts market also has not only fake and expired parts, but also you have the issue of version mismatches, which can be anything from a needle calibration being different, to a part that works initially, but, because the differences are subtle, you can have it either fail after a few hundred hours, or it can corrupt the data after that time, or just have edge cases that result in a non noticed failure, till it is too late.
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  32. I heard a story years ago about a worker at the gold mine who goes to the doctor, very worried. he said a snake bit him, and immediately after biting him, the snake writhed and died. Doctor took samples, and found he had very high levels of cyanide in his blood, from working decades on a mine in the cyanide plant where gold was dissolved. He was fine, snake died from cyanide poisoning. Oh yes, also a lethal snake bite normally, but he was fine, aside from a headache.
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  33. Factoid about that early British research is that they needed to dump all that microwave energy during testing, and did not want to radiate it out. So they buried a lossy coaxial cable into a nearby salt marsh, where the late night testing caused unusual heating of the salt marsh, and a fog bank that was only over the dummy load area.
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  34. Thing is this has essentially closed a major harbour, and also stopped traffic flow for the entire area as well. Going to mean a massive delay all over the world, as ships that were contracted to leave do not, and cargo going in has to divert and wait at other ports, then get shipped by rail or road to destination.
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  35. You got a brand new customer for life now Ray......
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  36. Can't be FTC chair, Louis still has opinions and ethics, and does not shill for the highest payer.....
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  37. To be fair to Rolls, they want that engine to be as quiet as possible, and to last at least 10 years without needing an overhaul, while the Ferrari is likely to not make the distance, and in general will not be a daily use car like the Rolls. Thus run the engine in a lower stress region, but have the turbo small to maker it accelerate fast off the mark, giving the impression desired of "effortless power", the exact opposite of the Ferrari, which is meant to be heard.
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  38. Used to ba a treatment for malaria to gradually give you larger and larger doses daily of strychnine, to the point it killed the malaria parasites in the blood, but not quite killing you, Then taper the dose off again over a few weeks till you were no longer taking it. done when the British army had a lot of malaria cases in the tropics, and no quinine to treat it otherwise.
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  39. Not to mention all the manufacturers reducing the amount of actual cocoa in the product, replacing with either filler or using cheaper substitutes like hydrogenated plant oil, because that cocoa is still too expensive to put in and cuts into the profits. So instead of cocoa you get HFCS, a hint of the poorest quality cocoa, and the rest is dye and plant oil, carefully blended to look like brown instead of the pale colour it is.. Also, talking about cocoa, and showing video of tea being harvested, another tale of exploitation.
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  40. That Mirage F1 was repaired, and the pilot survived, becoming eventually the commander of 1 Sqn. Pretty cool person, and lots of stories from him. He ran out of runway, because the missile had destroyed his brake parachute, which he did need on that short runway. not visible in that photo is the berm wall a few meters in front of him when he stopped, and he was out of the cockpit, and having a cigarette, before the fire brigade reached him. Still with an armed ejection seat.
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  41. No 15 will absolutely bet the Jetta driver was on the phone on either FB or WA, and a look at their phone data logs will show this being consistent from the time they got on the freeway as well, up to the crash. Could result in them not only getting charged with negligence, but also with them getting a suspension, if not having the license revoked. Submitter can easily get a civil case from this footage, and claim back all the costs not covered by insurance, like hospital bills, lost time, rental costs and even for therapy and long term injury treatment.
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  42. Should that not have been covered as part of training, in that theft is against the law?
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  43. Her problem was she did not do this through a string of LLC's registered at a few locations, and used them to buy the stuff. Nobody in the US military would look at under $100 million and care, especially if she kept it under the line budget minimum of $10 million, which simply gets put on the local budget as a single line of "Misc. expenses, total", and then ignored. That would have allowed her to continue for 10 years, get herself all the money she needed to retire on, then go on early pension. Pay the taxes for the LLC's, run them with barely a profit with creative accounting, and pay the IRS a few thousand a year, and the DOD would never have found out.
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  44. Without the video truck driver is assumed to be at fault.
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  45.  @BriBCG  Yes but what about the OAP who, because they are on a disability pension, cannot use anything other than a bus to get around, and who cannot stand for more than 10 minutes without agony. Sitting waiting for a bus, because the schedule is something that no bus ever runs to, or even close to, for an hour is not a good way to spend the day.
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  46. They terminated people, thus admitting that they know they were in the wrong. Otherwise they would not have done this, so this will mean the case will never go to court, but will be settled out of court along with a NDA signed. However look at the filings for next year and you will see that in there, somewhat hidden, but a big extra chunk of changes as "incidental" expenses on the profit loss sheet.
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  47.  @Kelvasco  Yes the pressure accumulator and switch will help a lot, and to dampen the noise you just need to put the doghouse cover back in place, with the neoprene sound absorber intact, which will go a long way to making it quiet. Hard otherwise to damp it fully, as you need airflow around it to keep it cool. You can use extra rubber mounts and a metal shield to cover the top and bottom, which will help with debris control off road, and this can also have a neoprene rubber layer stuck on to damp sound more as well, but still allow cooling air to flow through. However I will say that the fluid reservoir is a little on the small side to run with an accumulator, it will need to be at least double the volume of the accumulator bladder, so as to keep enough fluid in the system to not suck air. As well you really want a spin on filter housing, and a hydraulic oil filter in the suction line, so as to keep dirt out of the system. The spin on filter should be there from the original Hummer parts bin, and it will go a long way to keeping the precision hydraulic parts clean. Plenty of chassis space there next to the pump suction line to put the filter in, and it will rarely need changing, just the annual lubrication service for the transmission will involve changing the filter, and topping up the fluid again.
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  48. Will also conform that a hard boiled egg, boiled to military cooking specifications, will absolutely shatter a windscreen of a vehicle.The eggs are boiled in a 44 gallon pot, and the process starts with filling it to a quarter of the way with water, then adding in a 2kg bag of salt. Then eggs are started loading, from trays of 60 dozen, and the cooker is turned on full. Eggs are loaded till the top, and then the unit is left till it is boiling vigorously. Then a 20 minute timer is started, and at the end of 20 minutes the power is turned off, and they slowly start to remove the eggs, packing them back into the trays, and back into the boxes. Then off to the walk in cooler. If you are lucky, you get one from the top of the pot, which only has been cooking for a half hour or so. Unlucky and you get the ones from the bottom, who have been cooking for 2 hours or so. Top ones are edible, bottom ones are black and blue all the way through, from the white to the yolk. They do bounce when dropped out of the bus at speed, and yes somebody did throw one at an approaching vehicle who was driving badly, and it shattered the windscreen. there is a reason the military cooked were nicknamed fitters and turners. They fitted it into the pot, and turned it into crap not even a pig would eat. Yes some of the messes had pig farmers who took all the surplus food, and sometimes even the pigs would not eat it.
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  49. Sending in prisoners you can bet half of them will almost immediately vanish, and wreak havoc on the Russian side. Then again you can also bet the top people have no worries about their children or relatives being conscripted, and all the conscripts are likely those who are in far flung areas, and could not5 get away in time.
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  50. You were lucky they cancelled the cruise, because many others would have carried on, letting the cancellation come in after return, saying it arrived after they departed.
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  51. Recipe is useless without the way you do it. Just like making a cake is to take sugar, water, flour, baking powder, eggs, milk and butter, plus some minor ingredients like cocoa, salt and vanilla, but you really have to know how to mix them, and in what order, to make something that will actually look like a cake.
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  52. Instead of calling it a computer call it a state machine, which runs from one state to another, with the ability to modify the output as required.
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  53. Remember insurance lawyers are on retainer, so the costs are fixed for the insurance company, so they are incentivised to fight every large claim and not pay out. Would say that naming the insurer will do them more reputation harm, in that they will see a definite spike in people cancelling insuring with them, on the grounds they are not going to pay legit claims out.
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  54. New clean oil also helps a lot, it transfers heat better, and without a thick coat of varnish on all the parts the heat transfers better.
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  55. My father was one of those interned pilots, though he did not land there, but rather escaped over the border in a '"borrowed" Adler instead. He was repatriated fast enough to go fly in Africa again and in Burma, after his burns from being shot down had healed. The Austrian hospital he was recovering in is now a hotel, and in the 1980's he went there just to see it. He was thankful to the Austrian people for helping him survive, and for the doctors and nurses who put him back together, after being found under a tree in a snowbank apparently dead. Helped that he spoke fluent German, just was in Glasgow in 1939, instead of Hamburg, looking to study, plus had a British Colonial passport. he found out in the 1990's just how the one German Ace had shot him down as well, watching Discovery.
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  56. The Shaik story is interesting, in that he did not spend any time in prison, being in a prison hospital, and released on parole as he was "deathly ill", and to this day is still alive, and living in his house, only venturing out to go to pray, play golf, and still is getting money from government contracts still, via his holding companies.
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  57. My mother had a succession of those, as that suspension is the only thing that could handle the roads of Central Africa, and not break.Yes low and underpowered, but perfect if you wanted to travel around, and that did drive all around, including a few 2600 miles trips, one way, to the coast as well. On roads that only later on even saw tar, and in general which were, at best, unpaved dirt, that possibly had seen a grader in the last decade.
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  58. Would have just put in a change of address, to the street address of the cemetery, and the lot number, just not the cemetery name. Let them serve her, and try to collect.
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  59.  @CastorRabbit  Would never pass the EU pedestrian safety rules either, let alone any NCAP crash rating. Pedestrian injury would fail it immediately, too much damage to the dummy.
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  60. Duracell also made blister packs of cells with the tester in, as discussed. The resistive element is actually screen printed conductive ink, which is based on silver powder, in a carrier based on printing ink, screen printed onto the plastic sheet, and then this thin sheet was dried, and the back had the thermochromic ink screen printed onto it, followed by the top layer being thermally bonded, to make a 2 layer sheet with the tester in it. Then the paper insulator was applied, pre punched out for the gap where the thermal heater needed insulation, and the one hole for the switch, the cutting die finishing separating the paper from it's supply roll. This was then punched out, and applied to the large sheet of battery label on the adhesive side, so you had a large self adhesive label, that had a release side applied, and this again got partly cut out, to leave the battery sleeve on the backing layer, excess being weeded off automatically. Then slit into working rolls, and applied on the line. Very complex, and needing lots of precision sharp cutting dies, so no wonder they decided the much higher cost and complexity per cell was not worth it. Thus the shift instead to use almost the same test unit, just with 2 strips of adhesive on the top, to the blisters, saving a lot of money, as you only had one per 4,6,8 or 10 cells. Then cost was cut again, and with all the assorted contract manufacturers not wanting to pay the cost, they went back to just labeling generic cells off a random production line, as Duracell is now nothing but a brand name applied to whatever generic cell was the cheapest quote to make a few hundred million cells, no quality required as they are running off name recognition. After all, no longer will they replace or repair equipment damaged by leaking batteries, they will only pay you a voucher for the cost of a new set, if you pay to ship the leaking batteries to them, at your own cost.
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  61.  @hank5747  Exactly what they want, save money, even if they have unhappy customers right after warranty expires, and they start getting knock and excessive wear.
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  62.  @glenchapman3899  Thing is that Kubrick detested flying and boats, so the movie would have to have been shot in the UK, and Equity would long ago have leaked who was on the set there.
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  63. Paddles work by resetting both RC circuits at the video vertical blanking interval, and then using a pair of comparators to measure the number of times the horizontal clock was generated. If the voltage went above the threshold on a particular line it set a latch, and enabled another counter that counted lines, and put that as the paddle position, Then the counter that was running to generate horizontal elements on the display would and this. This would go to two places, first to video out, as the paddle, height being a certain number of lines, and also to another and gate that has the horizontal position of the ball, so that if it was in the way the ball would have the direction reversed and returned, and if not it would be classed as a losing ball. Very simple, and the sound was generated out of internal counter overflows, using the logic for the hit to do the beep, gating in the clock for the paddle display, and for others using other counter outputs and different frequencies.
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  64.  @davidchou236  Means that people who are allergic to nuts cannot sue for there being nut contaminating foods, even those said to be free from nuts. companies will jump on this ruling to say that sugar free et al is a form of cooking, even for things like drinks.
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  65. Circumcision, along with sterilisation, is free in my country for men. Also very common when you are 13 for religious reasons, though there it is often done by less than professional people, and there are a good number of deaths every year from this, even though the health services offers a free full kit for the entire process. Yes there are a few every year who also lose it all, and end up with nothing.
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  66. Called that because of taxes on baked goods, so instead they were classified as sandwiches instead to get a loophole.
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  67. Tip for doing this job is a roll of plastic sandwich bags, that you use to hold all the fasteners and small parts per assembly, and a small zip tie or a knot to attach bag to part. Also the bags are good to cover ports and pipes, keeping debris from entering. Do not have to be strong, or ziploc, the cheapest ones will do fine.
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  68. Tugboats are basically massive engines with enough hull around them to store the fuel and make them float. Then you get deep sea tugs, which are the same, just they have enough fuel on board to get from one and of the ocean to the other, towing a ship many times bigger than itself. Crews are rough, and all are able to pretty much any task on board as well, simply because there is no room for more than the bare minimum of crew to sleep and live on it.
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  69. Hot dry air, probably around 60C, so the body was dried out and mummified before it could decompose. Kepy hot and dry there is no smell, and very little decay. Nobody goes behing the freezer till it breaks and is no longer repairable, when it will be moved out to replace with a new one. Any repairs are made by removing the internal shelves, and then working from the front to repair any faults with the refrigeration system, and if this one was running for 10 years with no refrigerant faults other than the usual fan replacements, done from the front, then the build up behind is usual.
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  70. Funny enough, I did once jump start a helicopter, which had a battery that had run down due to the DC bus being turned on overnight so the security guards could use the aircraft radio to listen to broadcast FM. Helped that I did my apprenticeship on that model, and knew the entire electrical system, and also the pitfalls that could occur with them running the battery down, and what to look for. Ground power unit and the ground power connection, start the ground power unit and power up the DC bus, and they press start. Low current, the ground support unit is designed to supply 8kA at 28VDC, and this little turbo barely made it to 400A during start, so after a half minute of idle, pulled the cable ( only way, there is no disconnect other than a sense contact on the plug), waited another 5 minutes at idle to see if the battery was not going to go into thermal runaway, it was still cold so gave them a clearance to take off back. As well used another ground support unit to jump an ambulance that had waited 6 hours for the casevac to get there, with lights on, and there had to grab jumper leads to make the link between the connector and the battery. those lights went very bright on 28V instead of 24, and that ammeter needle did not even budge off the zero during the very very vigorous starting. As to the LRV batteries being used to fire the ascent stage probably no issue, the batteries certainly were the same chemistry, they used a similar enough voltage. The major issue was the disconnection, as the LRV batteries would stay behind, and the ascent stage needed power to keep the valving operational, so they designed the systems to get you power from an alternate set of ascent batteries if the main ones failed, but use batteries on the ascent stage. You could not have kept the mass centre stable if you used the LRV battery pack and carried it with, no real space to place it (otherwise they would have had equipment or battery pack there already) and also it would move the mass centre from the engine bell outside the ability of the RCS system to compensate for the eccentricity. Silver Zinc batteries are heavy, and are only used in space applications because they are so reliable and tolerant to abusive temperatures and charge and discharge use, unlike the modern lithium chemistries. Thus you can have a smaller battery pack for the same high current draw, and not have to worry too much about it cycling from -100C to +200C every orbit.
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  71. The lithium hydroxide scrubber though is worse, it can catch fire if exposed to sea water.
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  72. Incidentally that lathe used to machine it is still in use, it was moved away from the shipyard, and even has appeared in a few videos of it being used to repair massive machinery. It is massive, yes still capable of incredible accuracy, and has been modernised with digital readouts, totally dwarfed by the massive machine they are used to measure.
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  73. Lawyer should have asked, as part of his argument afterwards, for an awarding of costs for the case.
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  74.  @RipliWitani  Yes, they would, seeing as she has a casino loyalty card, know exactly when she visited, and exactly how much she spent. Almost no casino works on cash, they all work on cards now, because that means they know you will overspend, and the only thing with chips and tokens are the roulette tables, which are still holding out, though there is also being made digital. They know exactly how much she has spent since then, and also probably also have all the video of the intervening time as well stored on some sort of system "just in case". One casino about to lose their money, and a whole lot of reputation as well, which is the bigger hit, as the only thing they have to get people in is that they are not crooked, because it is rare to only have one casino in any area.
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  75. Not quit, more like you buy a new vehicle, and can only use fuel, oil from a dealership, and also have to pay them for a driver to operate it. You have to buy a new key to open the door or close it every time you use it, the old ones will be single use only, and same with the seat and seatbelt. Want to travel on a road they have not built, not possible.
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  76. The tool bag is very good though for the car tools, which are very often the thing that gets you out of a bind. Also useful when you are at home or out doing DIY, as it can hold a lot of tools for small jobs. Well worth using, saving you from either not having a screwdriver or pliers on the road, or to carry stuff when at home.
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  77. The trick to being a "good" service advisor, is that you both have to have selective memory, and the ability to lie with a poker face. plus a lot of dealerships were instructed to lie, and to not accept any info about known issues, if the car was under warranty, and to wait it out and stall, till it was out of warranty, and then charge to fix it.
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  78. Roof trusses you sue the company, saying that the accident was entirely their fault, and preventable completely, and you want a replacement vehicle, same condition and mileage, or better, than the one you had.
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  79. The hotels probably thought they could break the contract, and sell them at peak rate instead, and still break even with the lawsuit costs. hopefully they get fined more than the original costs, and have to pay back the prices of the first contract, plus the costs of the new higher rate rooms, plus the difference in rates they charged.
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  80. Well, you get ionisation switches that go into the MHz repetition range, used for some military radar systems, so expecting less of air is no problem. Also some gas filled tubes would be quite happy oscillating at over 30MHz, so the gas ionisation must be capable of being quenched as fast.
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  81. Or send 3 emails, and take the resulting video as "any publicity is good, we can edit it to look great" instead.
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  82. Need old lead, no alloying additives like antimony and calcium, all added to make the lead a harder alloy. Old lead has a lot of silver in it, along with zinc, which makes for a soft alloy that will readily bond with cold welding.
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  83. Do not forget to clean out condensate lines, those block up with nasty stuff, and you then get an indoor waterfall. A good way to clean them is with a wet/dry vacuum cleaner, and suck the sludge out, till it is clear.
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  84. Lamp life is the emissive material on the filament failing, and then also sodium attacking the graduated seal that is there where the seal is, as they go from quartz glass to a softer glass that will handle the leadout wires going through, and also allows the vacuum system to pull all the gas out before introducing the Penning gas mix that provides the initial conduction. That is why your standard operating position is base up, or with the base no more than 15 degrees from horizontal, so the liquid sodium does not get near the filament area, and rapidly erode the glass, as it is a sodium oxide, so will dissolve in sodium, unlike the fused silicon dioxide of the rest of the arc tube. Warm up time is because you have to heat up the inner tube to the point the sodium inside turns to vapour, which is the yellow emission, and the indium oxide coating on the inner surface of the glass envelope and the outside of the quartz tube is there to reflect the IR energy back to the tube. Ballast is an autotransformer ballast with a tuned circuit in it, and likely the capacitors in there have changed value from self healing, and should be replaced. Identical value polyester motor run capacitors, one by one, and the power factor will improve, especially as the lamp warms to full brightness, and should land up at around 0.85 lagging when on for around 2 hours.
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  85.  @gregx5096  Electronic office consumed more CPU mostly in polling between keypresses, so as to give a more typewriter feel to the user, unlike engineering where you submit a batch job, which does use 100% of the CPU time, but only for a small slice of the overall time, and then releases the CPU. Contrast that to the electronic office, which needs hundreds of context switches a second to process any input, and generate output, so a hundred times a second the single CPU has to context switch, allocate the time in context switch to a user account, clear the memory by writing to disk storage, and then bring in the stored state of the electronic office user, write to main memory, restore all the CPU pointers, and then jump to the next instruction it was to execute before the scheduler triggered the task switch interrupt. Thus 100 times a second perhaps 1 millisecond of task swapping, for a user time of perhaps another millisecond to process the character typed in and update the screen, then another millisecond of swapping back to the task scheduler to run the next multiuser job. Nearly a third of user time spent in this one application, while the compute job is a single job, that is likely flagged as low priority, so is run during the night, when the multi user system is not running any real time jobs needing that level of time resolution, so can run it for 10 seconds at a time, switch back, and see there is nothing to run, and give it another 10 seconds of run time till complete. Difference is multitasking with high resolution, versus big chunks of time, as likely the overnight jobs are all large data jobs, but they can all run at any time, no need for precise3 scheduling.
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  86. Time to take the entire complaint class, and then tell them that, due to the complaint, they are now prohibited from buying, using or eating any Kraft product.
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  87. Because she showed independent thought, which is not allowed in school, you have to toe the line they give you slavishly, and they also have rules that are non negotiable, despite most of them being in most places illogical and contradictory.
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  88. That is why i have 2 chairs. One for me, one for the cat, with his blanket on it. I sit on my chair, he sits on his, and when I am finished with mine he sleeps on it as well. Tapping my arm looking for treats now, but he will just have to walk to eat his food, like she should. No cat treats till evening.
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  89.  @Merrsharr  Many projectors also had a very nice slide mechanism, where you had a second lamp and optical block there, that you simply slid into place to replace the failed lamp, and then had a few hours to allow it to cool down to be able to change it, and clean the optical assembly, as you would find then very dirty from contaminants in the air blown in to cool them.
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  90. Military aircraft had a 100 flight hour oil sample, and the GSU equipment also had a sample taken every time any aircraft was done, as the GSU can supply hydraulic oil pressure for ground test. Any non normal result and all aircraft there got a hydraulic oil change, and the GSU as well, flush out the system twice with new oil, and change every filter as well, sent off for analysis in addition. You did not get many hydraulic issues with that method, and this is needed as that oil is used to keep the engine cool and lubricated as well, and a single failed bearing can result in airframe loss.
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  91.  @silverwolf6866  They took his money though, he had a rental agreement with them as they have accepted money for him staying there. Either they return all the money, plus interest, and pay for all damaged, or they get to get told by a judge they have to do it, and treble the amount, for the wrongful eviction. The 2 cases are in no way connected, they would have needed to first of all tell him in writing they were evicting, and also serve court papers on him as well to contest this. They admitted they had not done this, by saying they went to the wrong unit in the first place. Pretty much any case they have they already had lost by tossing the stuff in the garbage, not placing in storage, with the first month paid up, added to the fee for eviction.
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  92. Then they need to evict the family of the judge for his next parking ticket. Enforce it on the city fathers for any ticket their families do, and let the IFJ take them to court to prosecute them on these rules.
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  93. About a year as well, though he still loves to sleep in the bed under the sheets in winter, and on top in summer. Currently sleeping on the couch near me.
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  94.  @-yttrium-1187  But also equally hard to cool, as only radiation to carry it away, and you need massive thermal shielding to provide thermal barriers.
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  95.  @codymoe4986  Also was a single use vehicle, and definitely was not going to be used again, even if you did manage to find it.
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  96. Otherwise flip the belt so the strings are inside, that way the rubber can flex and allow it to slip into place.
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  97. Also a lot of different propellant types, based on if they are derivatives of ICBM designs, or are made from designs appropriated from other countries. All controlled centrally, but they obviously are all different to see which ones are going to be best at getting reliability. My guess on the dual crater is that this second stage still had a satellite on it that was not disclosed, and it failed to release for a reason, and thus was still attached as it was approaching, and the tumbling just before impact tore the payload apart to make the second crater.
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  98. Another thing is that avionics grade PTFE wire is typically a foamed structure to reduce mass, so there would have been a large surface area available, but in a small volume. As Phil is in the EU there is no problems for him to look on Ebay for any cheap aircraft parts on auction, both from US origin, UK origin, French origin and ex Soviet era hardware, which almost always has PTFE wire involved in the construction. that will give a nice cross section of wire types and sizes, and of various ages and manufacture, to do a quick test. As a wire it is the correct form factor, and is not a pure PTFE, as typically the insulation used there has some filler or the other added to it to get it to extrude nicely onto the wire, which also has a nice silver plate on it to prevent any chemical reactions between the copper wire and the PTFE with time, contamination with chemicals and heat. The units are cheap in Euro prices, and shipping is very cheap as well. He will also get a good set of samples of the grades of aluminium alloys and stainless steels used in manufacture consistent with the era, for other tests.
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  99. If Jim has remote access to the computers a fitting finale is to post on the scammers facebook account that he is a scammer, and is stealing money from the elderly. then send this to his entire village, along with his contacts.
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  100. Time for him to hire a lawyer and get it expunged it seems.
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  101. It's not a GM product.........
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  102. Friend made some dried meat, and used a little too much salt in the mix, with the result coming out very salty. As he had rather a lot, he sold it to the one local bar, who loved it, giving it out as bar snacks. Sales of beer basically doubled while it lasted, and they then went to a local butcher, to place an order to make it for them always. The dried fish locally is a Bokkom, a dried sardine like fish that is almost half salt by mass, and which will keep for years with no refrigeration, just a cool dry space.
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  103. In the "good old days" you often had the garage simply have an inductive loop outside, drive up and door opens. Inside you then pressed a button by the door to open it from inside. The times when you parked your car, and went inside leaving the keys in the ignition with not a care.
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  104. 4:34 send the video to the base commander, he will absolutely sort out the driver, likely by banning him from the base itself, along with some other NJP actions as well, or even give a full hearing, and call for witnesses of the conduct, which will lead to a less than honourable discharge if there are enough provable complaints.
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  105. More like " I once bought a Vodaphone phone and used it, till they cut me off for not paying the bill"
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  106. Yes, but with a clear view of the vehicle deliberately polluting, they can send the video to the local traffic police, and they will very likely impound the truck for inspection, and give him a fine for deliberately defeating an anti pollution device.
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  107. My father had that years ago ( before they made closed cockpits on the MD80) flying with the family. As an ex RAF pilot he also got a short chance to fly the plane ( copilot in the other seat at the controls) a little as well, after he had chatted for around a half hour in the flight with them. Showed them the massive scar he had gotten from leaving a plane sans parachute, or the plane had left him, he was not sure exactly the sequence, when he woke up 6 weeks later in an Austrian hospital, in the 1940's. They did tell him his plane was about 2km away from him when it crashed and exploded.
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  108. Yes, closed down and opened again at the same address, with the same staff (all of which are classed as independent agents, despite them being required to work fixed hours, have a fixed payment, and are also not allowed to deviate from the schedule at all, but are also only paid in cash with no other records of them at all) just different name, and same inventory. Might still have the same forms as well, just the old name crossed out and stamped with the new one, till the "guy who knows how to use Word" gets there to change the form to the new name.
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  109. I use the old tubes to hold solder, taking a small roll off and putting inside, with the inside of the coil through the tip. Keeps it tidy, and away from your hands, plus also a convenient way to dispense it. Use the decoloured tip, with a hole made in it, to act as a stop, so the solder roll inside stays with the end out. Bigger markers hold ore, and you can have multiple different types in use each in their own marked holder, and not get them confused.
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  110. Thing is that there is an oil level sensor there at the bottom of the pan. Measures oil level before the starter is engaged to start it on the first cycle of starting, then displays on the display oil level. With stop start the sensor only operates during initial start, disabled if the start is too fast. However it does not work well in operating engine, due to the oil splashing and foaming, or if there is glitter in there, though it also has oil contamination sensing (check oil for conductivity, conductive oil either is water condensed there, or very carboned up oil) built in. Likely is the owner ignored the oil level warnings, just got in and thrashed the cold engine, and also likely did not bother doing any servicing, leading to the oil being contaminated, and also being used up in blowby into the inlet. So drove it till the oil pressure warning came on, and the vehicle ECM refused to allow engine starting. Then turned off and saw the low oil warning, so dumped in a full 5 quarts of oil, which was still low, so added another 5 quarts of oil, as again no dipstick, but now oil level warning is off. Then proceeded to drive it, and as the knocking grew worse, figured that they are well under water with the likely cost of replacing the engine ( JLR not going to rebuild a engine doing the macarena at idle for sure), plus likely still owing around half the original purchase price, but now it is valued at scrap metal rate of 2c a kilo as mixed. So decided to instead slam on the anchors on the highway, and be given a love tap from the rear, in the hopes insurance will scrap the vehicle, settle the loan, and they come out owing nothing, and with still good credit score, or at least not any worse credit score. Hope they did not get that payout, and the driver that hit them was in possession of a dashcam, or that a witness got this on dashcam.
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  111. Yes they made a truck that is a sedan, because nobody will use it as a work truck at the cost of the vehicle. Just following the consumers, who want bigger, heavier and more expensive, because they are compensating for something. Even a small side impact will total the vehicle.
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  112.  @xpusostomos  Sadly common. Company had a check that had been paid, and processed by the bank, washed by somebody who got it from the bank, and who washed it, and presented it as cash 2 seeks later. Same check number, so it should have been flagged, but was not. However this bank ate the cost after we flagged the transaction, though of course the police did nothing about the case.
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  113. The refuelling squadron will send your squadron commander that drogue if you tear it, signed by the entire flight crew. Then you will have a ceremony on your squadron where you, as guest of honour, get your panty presented to you, along with the bar bill for the night. Then it goes and is hung up in the squadron ready room, joining the rest of them. The OC also had his fair selection of them there as well, along with a few pieces of the aircraft he landed, after losing the rear half to a SAM.
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  114. That woman, and that attorney, needs to be both locked up, and the attorney needs to be stripped and disbarred.
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  115.  @aidanhammans9337  Small doses over a very long time, and a guy who would pass any fitness test with no issues. Knew one guy who, every year when asked his age, would reply "60", even though he had been doing it for a decade or more. He worked as an assistant for a mechanic, and we listened to his stories about his father coming back from "the Great War" when he was a child. And then about him working when the next war came around. At that time this put him at around 80, but he did not want to go on pension, and as he did not have a birth certificate, or any other paperwork, a common thing, he just kept on doing it.
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  116. Going to be bad for the new neighbour. The dragging to property line says the action was taken knowing that they were taking trees off property they did not own, so criminal trespass at a minimum, and the value of the stolen lumber makes it a felony.
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  117. Well, saved the customer money, and fixed what should not have been broken in the first place. But you taught all of us how to use those inserts properly, and also tricks on how to use them as well.
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  118. Heat transfer compound is a 2 component mix, that is poured in at final assembly, to fill all the voids. Stays flexible and somewhat sticky, as it will slowly flow with heat to help ensure all the voids are filled. Similar to the thick thermal pads used in equipment, in that it ensures better heat transfer from hot areas to the case, though it is not as good as a proper aluminium heatsink, but as it is cheap, insulating, and also helps with minimising creepage on the board, it is used.
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  119. Nickel Cadmium pack, you can replace the electrolyte in the cells with the right concentration of potassium hydroxide. Note as well that the deposits on top of the cells are incredibly corrosive, and will destroy clothing and steelwork with only a slightly humid day indoors, so wash the entire pack and the area with water, and lots of rinsing. Those cells can be refilled using deionised water to fill up to the level mark inside, and leave to charge overnight to equalise. You can probably still buy those cells, though your supplier likely would be SAFT. Yes you can replace with a 2S lithium ion battery pack, using a 2S charge controller, using the existing battery charger, provided it puts out less than 10V.
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  120. With all the things about these hypergolics, they are still the least dangerous ones that are in use, the more exotic ones proved to be a little hard to handle, so the ones that merely dissolve you are the ones in use.
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  121.  @heyholetsg0  No typical scale off an aluminium alloy heater. Only issue is that using pure water will cause the heater to corrode fast as well. No real way to get around that, as aluminium id always going to corrode when in contact with water and heat. You would have to make it out of another more inert metal to get better results, but this makes it more expensive to make, on an already expensive unit. That heater block is best regarded as a throw away unit, as it will leak after around 2 years of use, and shorter if used infrequently, or with hard water. Ideally should be made from some better more corrosion resistant alloy, but none are easy to cast, and especially to cast with the ceramic heater element inside it as well. You do not want to see what the inside of a cheap water cooler looks like after a year, the sludge build up is rather gross, and the fins are normally rotting away.
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  122.  @GeorgeLittle-ft2yx  Residual stress from whatever impact cause those initial cracks. Either the shaft got clobbered, or the one wheel was suddenly bound up with a large rock or ditch, and the shock through the transmission caused the initial cracks, but also left a lot of strain bound up in the bulk of the thin side. Just needed enough heat to stress past the yield point, causing the crack, or one of them spread from the heat input to the point it hit the stressed material, which could have been there from when originally cast. About the only way to have prevented it would have been to put the entire casting into an oven, and taken it up to 800C for 24 hours, then let it cool at a controlled rate of around 20C per hour to room temperature, which would have released most of the stress, and likely shown the casting was badly distorted as well. Big oven, and also inert argon atmosphere as well. Would suggest as well the new casting is bought along with a new output shaft, as that likely also has some buried cracks in it, which probably will show up, with eddy current testing or gamma inspection. Might be cheaper to buy the entire unit ready built, as that gives a warranty on the part.
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  123. Funny enough the military by me was not a fan of powdered egg, they would use it, but the fitters and turners in the mess could royally destroy real eggs to taste equally as bad. Now, the thing they served, that I still detest, is pineapple. 3 months of everything in the mess tasting of pineapple, from the water, to the food, to the coffee, to the bread, to the plates themselves. That, and the boiled eggs from the Skinner Street Combined Mess, which were almost universally inedible. Even food from the Food Factory at the base I was on was better, unless my neighbour, who worked there, told me to avoid certain meals in a day or so, saying in the most succinct way that it was not the best. Even the frozen, defrosted and warmed up fried eggs on soggy toast were good at times, just not the canned sausage they served with it, especially when it was minced up and blended with other left overs. fish was great, just take the thin pieces of "haddock" mornay, as those would not be glassy inside, but well boiled in the milk. Grab that, and a bowl of camo crispies (no snap, crackle or pop, though they often did swim in the bowl), and swap with my friend, who in no way would eat fish.
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  124.  @stevekaczynski3793  Was at night, he was actually going to bomb a factory he had been going past before the war, as he lived in Hamburg for a while. Were it not that he was a British Colonial citizen, and was in Liverpool in August 1939, he would have landed up in the Wermacht instead, or have been declared an "undesirable". He escaped from his intended fate of concentration camp thanks to the nurses at the hospital, who got him and his co pilot a complete set of SS uniform and helped him plan the escape. Blanket knotted up and thrown through the window, and they walked out the door late one Friday night, and "borrowed" the Kommandant's Adler, while he was in Berlin at a party. Drove like the clappers for the Swiss border, and because the car had SS flags and registration none of the patrols and road blocks even had them slow down before they went through. He was still, till he died, not welcome back in Switzerland, as he had belted a police man there, to prevent being sent back across the border without questions. Broke his nose, spilt ink on his uniform ,so landed up in jail and before a judge to prove he was a POW, as he spoke perfect German and English. They took a week to get confirmation that he was actually "missing in action, presumed dead", and got a detailed desription from the squadron CO as to distinguishing features, including his tatoo's. He was very thankful for the Austrian doctors and nurses who put him back together, more broken bones than intact. He did visit the hospital in the 1980's (now a hotel) and saw the room he had been in, and regaled the staff about how he had last been there.
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  125. Probably on the plan for doing "real soon, as soon as finances allow, but we have to fix up the lobby first, as the tiles are looking like last year's fashion" by the owners.
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  126. Would also recommend some valve stem extensions for the inners, so that you can actually get to the valve stem to check it. Many duallies the inner is always running underinflated, and the outer overinflated, because the inner is never checked at all, and the outer is pumped up because it looks flat.
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  127. Divide by 2 works because there is not enough time to process the LED drive in the time available. So halving the number of times, but still running in sync, will give enough time to output the data and still be above 30FPS. A thing to try is to have a loop in main running all the time, that simply times the revolution time , counting up the number of interrupts to say 254, and also using a hardware timer to get a clock, that is the number of clock cycles (probably will need a prescaler so that you have a counter with lsb being a few microseconds) taken to run, and then that adjusts the count timer to the new value per revolution. Now you no longer have to use interrupt from the fan, instead you use another counter that is counting down, and giving a software interrupt that runs the LED flash. This counter gets updated every 254 counts of the main timing loop, to be a time that will give the right number of cycles as blades per revolution. Should then run that code and still not exceed the time between interrupts. With a 9 bladed loop probably can get away with having it run 3 times per revolution as well, leaving more time to have that ADC routine run to read the pot, convert into a PWM value between 64 and 256, and set a PWM for the fan speed control as well. Going to be tricky, now we need at least 3 separate 16 bit hardware counters, but there should be enough in the ESP32 to handle it, though pin assignment will be tricky as some may not be easy to route, and you might need to actually have one or two actually go out and in again, but should be workable, as after all you do have a very fast core there. Not easy on a 8088, but doable, and there you can always add in extra counters till you run out of IO space, but you got entire message displays that ran with software running the multiplexing, on a 4.77MHz part, and they did not flicker except during scrolling, running low on memory because they only had a whole 2k of memory in there, plus another 2k of battery backed Dallas SRAM for the actual messages, which had 32 bytes for the RTC as well. Plus a thermometer that pretty much always showed that the CPU and board were getting well cooked, as the sensor was right next to the linear regulators.
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  128. World production is also in the sub gram a year region, simply because a single gram has to be diluted down a billion times, to get the concentration down low enough that an automated machine can use a few millilitres of this, to make a thousand litres of solution, that will be put in 1ml ampoules for the surgeon to use. Yes the dosage is such that you can count the number of molecules used in each injection.
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  129. Joke with Oceanos is that Greek for "Abandon Ship" is pronounced as "MeFirst".
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  130. Plus the bulk meter for the area would also show that there had been a massive flow if the meter had been correct, and it would show up on the reconciliation as well as a massive negative water use relative to the billed use, an impossible thing as most water systems lose almost as much water to leaks and non revenue water as the billed amount. Except by me, where they lose 51% to that, and blame 30 years of neglecting infrastructure as the reason, when the same council has been in power for that period.
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  131. No, dispute the entire transaction, then get the new card. Let them then prove you had the vehicle that period. Tip when returning a rental car is to video a walk around on return, along with pictures front, rear and sides, plus on roof, making sure to have registration plate and also VIN in one or more of the pictures, then picture of the keys, then picture of the return box if dropping off, or picture of the receipt. that way you have evidence, and if possible include in the picture the daily paper, or other such thing, to have proof of date other than picture metadata. Email pictures to yourself immediately as well, as email is harder, especially Apple or Google, to disprove or spoof.
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  132. I run a small one on citronella oil, which does a good job of getting the mosquitoes away. Citronella oil blended with paraffin, because that is what kerosene is called here. Small lamp is ex railways signal use, where it was in a housing with a glass bullseye lens, and has a reflector, intended for use as rear guard van light on very old steam trains.
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  133. that act is so broad and vague you could be arrested if you walk or drive across that kind of land, and leave with dust on you or your vehicle, or a pebble stuck in your shoe or wheel.
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  134.  @cubertmiso  Going on how tough diamond dressers are, they probably will not have much wear after 10 years and a million miles of filament passing through, unless you are using something like tungsten carbide or diamond powder filled filament, which probably will do 100 000 miles instead.
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  135.  @joekraska  Both GTA and theft of government property as well.
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  136. Yes there are standard recording papers for these, with a pressure sensitive surface the pens move on to leave a mark. Kienzle is the most common type, you should be able to get packs of them on eBay for cheap, along with the tacho mechanisms themselves. There are more modern ones, which in addition record things like engine temperature, oil pressure and brake application, so that you can reconstruct incidents after the fact. I did get a few broken ones to take apart when I was young, as my father was in control of a fleet of around 300 trucks delivering stuff, so had stacks of these cards around. The more common types are used for process control, you need to look out for pneumatic controllers, where they use air pressure and almost no moving parts to control valves, using air jets blowing on steel plates to control massive industrial processes.
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  137. Good thing to also have title insurance when you buy a house, which will cover the legal costs for this action. However the stand ground right also works, the title insurance is to assist with the aftermath when you might need to do some minor renovations to replace locks, and fill in minor wall and window damage from the illegal occupants getting a strong want to leave, or getting an even stronger need to sleep.
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  138. Plus a thick plate as load spreader, welded inside the box, because you can be sure lots of rigging will be in there, and lots of heavy chain as well. Sika Pro II HP will work well there, and with that you do not need the bolts after it cures.
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  139.  @wa1gon  Probably because there was a hurry to release, and then somebody selected the wrong file, containing all nulls, instead of the correct one. The file likely being there acting as a placeholder for a file currently under development, but which was still in testing, so the sequence numbering would not be affected. Released before QA finished the testing phase completely, likely due to either end of day and being chased to release, or simple lack of communication.
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  140. The human intervention was a human who simply placed a stapler on the enter key, to approve all tickets automatically, and then was scrolling on the phone the rest of the say.
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  141. Multifuse because there is one assembly step on the line to do it, instead of 10 steps, and the fuse block will rarely fail in use on most cars. The alternator has at least 2 shorted or damaged and leaky diodes as well, you can replace with a new part, or simply take the pain of getting the back end off and replace the diode pack. Would also suggest replacing that test light with a more modern power probe, which gives you benefits of actually showing voltage on the tip, and also the ability to apply battery voltage or ground to it as well, with a self resetting PTC fuse there that will disconnect the test point for excess current flow.
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  142. There has been a recent case about this, with a few hundred vehicles recalled, because the assembler that did a major part improperly fixed a robotic welding cell, and did not do the required recalibration of the cell, so it was not doing all the welds correctly, instead a good number being done with no clamp pressure, so they were not made. Do not remember which manufacturer, but this is the same. Would be interesting to look at the nearby VIN numbers for this model, to get vehicles assembled on the same day, and see if any of the owners have had to have frame repairs, which would, with 2 examples, force a recall for the entire week production to inspect, and if needs be, replace the frame as well. Wonder if there have been any involved in an accident as well due to frame failure, which would mean an even bigger issue arising, or if they had any other complaints. Will bet the manufacturer is absolutely looking at any of the vehicles in that week range that are in for any service at dealers, and checking they have all the frame welds done.
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  143. Even in the USA the big meat producers feed the cattle chicken waste, including the chicken bits, the sweepings out of the battery and such, all boiled down and homogenised, then turned into pellets. The chickens in turn get all the beef bits in the same fashion, and the prions will survive both cooking processes intact, as the only way to destroy them is to fully denature the proteins by high temperature incineration.
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  144.  @chicagonorthcoast  They got CAD and stress modelling, so started to run material much closer to the material limits, plus then also started to want larger interior open space without columns, so you got smaller columns, no headers, and long stressed member floors to do this. Then came along construction bosses who underpriced, and then decided to cut the most expensive materials, cement and steel, to come in and add extra profit. Building did not fall down and passed, and thus next they cut even more.
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  145. My father went to Sweden business class, and his luggage went to Kuala Lampor. He arrived in Sweden, and the airline gave him a voucher for a tailor in the city, who made him up a suit, and 3 fitted shirts, and 3 pairs of underwear and socks. His luggage arrived back 2 weeks before he did. His business papers however were fine, all in his briefcase which went in the cabin with him.
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  146. Should start to get a lot more active in prosecuting those who buy the stolen copper and lights, because if there is nobody who buys the stolen scrap there is no market for it. Yes pretty much everywhere you find the street lights are gone, there is a scrapyard within walking distance, with that scrap in it.
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  147. Mine likes the toilet roll, and loves to chase it. Laser pointer is also a game he plays, with some pretty specific rules about how to play as well.
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  148.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  It is a lovely measuring tool, and very useful as well, especially if you are going for close enough measures.
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  149. Time to get a lawyer and sue the college for that. Easily could get a year or three salary out of that case because of them failing to act on the that, a clear dereliction of care in correcting your records. Easy 5 figure settlement, especially if you were slated for the position, and all the cost to company benefits available.
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  150. Bet he will move just over the border, so as to still be able to drive on the roads.....
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  151. Should swap them for lead ones, and also if they have such faith in the company first flights on all aircraft should be done with them as passengers, and with a waiver that they will not receive any insurance payouts in case of their death or injury as well.
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  152. Manufacturer, as they want the entire vehicle to last just past the warranty period, and then you scrap it and buy a new vehicle from them. Dealership wants the vehicle to last as long as possible, as they make the money from servicing, not from new vehicle sales. Many examples of vehicles that suffer from severe engine wear that shows up just after warranty period expires, when you use the manufacturers intervals. More regular changes are not environmentally unfriendly, as oil is a very easy to recycle material, and there are generally a lot of ways to do so. ROSE foundation is quite willing to do it for you, and the oil is either refined for use again, or used in industrial processes, so overall it is not dumped.
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  153. Well the choice is order a new rod, or a 50 50 chance it can be fixed for half the price of the new nut. At least the air arc was a lot faster than the alternative of place complete rod in lathe, then machine the nut off it.
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  154. Even to support a single aircraft you have a large ground support crew, from messing, to needing security there, to needing a whole slew of ground support equipment that has to go there. Plus you need a runway first and foremost, which is not easy to airlift. 6 aircraft needed at least 4 transport aircraft for crews and tools, and another 10 vehicle convoy with heavy trucks, that took the stuff that does not fit, and then another 2 dozen general purpose trucks, and 100 warm bodies, rented from the Army, to provide the grunt work to assemble tents, put up the camouflage revetments for the aircraft, and provide security for the perimeter. Then also you needed water tankers, a few fuel tankers, and as well generators for power, to run mess and power the ground equipment, plus an important one being the honeysucker to keep the smell down, and some form of garbage disposal as well.
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  155. Yes, and they will be paying for 5 vehicles damaged or totalled in the accident, then also have to pay for their own vehicle damage, because the insurance will refuse to pay any of the claims out, citing reckless disregard and criminal negligence on the part of the driver. Then they will be stuck, even if insurance does pay out, on having to pay back the entire claim, and this type of debt will never prescribe, so they will now be without a car, high insurance rates, and no chance of vehicle loans other than at the pay here drive here places.
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  156. Biggest take away from this is that if it is done then doping in all sports is sanctioned, and legal. All female athletes will then take testosterone to just below the limit, and never fail any drug test. Legalised doping.
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  157. Now the legal standards body there needs to strip both of them of the registration to be lawyers, for the very provable charge of bringing the profession into disrepute.
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  158. They split those bearings with hydraulics, using a mandrel with a wedge forced into it to split the bearing at a score mark with a sharp edge, machined into the surface. For the single side ones you just have the single score mark, and a cage to hold it when it cracks, and then you use the elastic range of the hard tool steel to pop the cryofrozen ball in, there is just enough elastic range to get it in. If it breaks it was going to fail NDT anyway, as there was an inclusion in there somewhere
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  159. You can see a skirt on the base, so likely it was lowered onto the stand and sat on the skirt. Then they likely used multiple clamps to hold the skirt to the stand. Most likely is that one or more of the clamps either were not tight, or the bolts had been machined undersize, leaving not enough thread engagement, or only a part of the thread was engaged. Then the thrust snapped those, and the others that held tore the skirt loose, which accounts for the damage, as that skirt likely also damaged the engine bells as they rose up past the stand centre, and either bent them or fractured them. Bent ones got hot spots that later on failed, and the cracked ones were losing lots of cooling fuel till the uncooled areas melted away, and caused that engine to shut down because controller saw dropping thrust. Then the remaining engines were slammed to 110% to compensate, and this extra stress meant that one of the dented ones split open, and the parts blown off into the plenum damaged piping and such on others, and also likely destroyed the guidance controls, as it did not recover. Thus the big black cloud of burning fuel and hydraulic fluid, and bits of engine rich exhaust. Controller saw thrust was dropping on those engines, or pressures were dropping and flow rates were running wild, and shut off them, trying to correct attitude with the others by throttling them back and trying to correct with steering the remaining engines, and then it went horizontal. It probably detected a launch abort, and attempted to blow the destruct charges. Of course, seeing as this is a test firing, those likely were not fitted, just had the test bypass units in place, to pass the regular self test cycle.
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  160.  @robertgolding  Yes, rental company rep, never leaves the office except to go to their home, and never sees either the tenants or the properties, just pushes a pen to paper and clicks and types on a computer.
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  161. Very likely it is one of the mechanics, making extra on the side. Now with all this negative publicity they will find they have lost a tremendous amount of customers to other shops, and the best mechanics will up and leave as well, not wanting to be associated with them either.
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  162. Do not forget the writer who survived it, Kurt Vonnegut, who incorporated that as part of his writing style.
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  163. Banks used to store all returned cheques, along with copies of statements, as microfilm images, processed by some central facilities as they were processed. This film was then stored, undeveloped, for the required retention time, then recycled for the silver content. As the banks rarely had to retrieve any information off any roll, they left them in the canisters undeveloped, as the cost of developing them was pretty expensive, and thy relied on the fact that most of the time a query would come in while they still had a paper copy or the original around to use. If there was a need for one of the images they would then develop the film, and hope that the scan had been successful, or at least came out readable. IIRC less than 1% would ever need the processing and development, saving a lot of money on film processing, plus at the end of the retention process the film was more valuable as scrap silver, as it still had all the original active halide salt in it. Then the film would go and get stripped of emulsion, and the silver recovered from this residue.
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  164. My sister was supposed to be a passenger on that flight, but, because their luggage was in Kowloon, they elected to wait for the next flight, and flew to Kowloon to collect the luggage. They were at the airport the next day when the news broke. Funny enough on the 2 SA tugs, my sister also knew some of the crew as well, seeing as they regularly ported in Durban, and the crew would party hard.
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  165.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  Plus nice to hear Karen with the great voice over as well. Camera operator, Homie wrangler, office all rounder, director and video editor, plus now also added voice talent to the mix as well.
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  166. So they will pay nothing, citing "good faith", and the city will pay it all, or rather the ratepayers. If the money came out of the police chief's discretionary fund, so they lost the ability to have fun things like entertainment, or any non essential upgrades, for a year or three, it might make then think.
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  167.  @thetimebinder  Granted not man rated, but better overall safety record than the shuttle anyway.
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  168. My father left a Lancaster sans parachute, as it, along with the plane, were well ablaze. He woke up in an Austrian hospital 6 weeks later, after being found, apparently dead, in a snow bank under a pine tree. Morgue doctor listened, found a heartbeat, so he got a hospital bed. Back burnt all over, broken neck, broken jaw, broken collarbones, broken ribs, broken arms and broken legs, but he recovered well. He found out from the nurses that, once well, he was to be transferred to a concentration camp, Auschwitz, so decided, with a little help from the nurses, to escape, along with another British POW in the hospital as well. Borrowed an Adler staff car, and they went for the Swiss border a few kilometres away.
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  169. Other driver can also claim for lost time as well, plus a rental Tesla while his is in the shop. If a judge says this is deliberate and he has prior records he might award treble damages as well, just to drive the point home.
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  170.  @LeviHildebrandYT  Basically you are forever owing at least double the amount, even immediately, and they make the business model the finance charges added each month, along with the charges being applied to the purchase, but split over each payment, so it initially looks less. they bank on the fees being paid for missing, as that is the business model, make sure you will incur at least one fee every two or three payment periods, because you might only be paid month end, and they conveniently say each month is 30 days. Makes the Mafiosi at the cash loan place, that guy with the wall of fingernails as "reminders", your friendly local loan shark, look like a business owner with ethics and honesty.
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  171. Technically breast meat is actually wing, it is the flight muscle that normally is used to flap the wings, so yes it is part of the wing, unlike something like thigh meat or drumstick meat.
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  172. Other construction type for the 9v PP3 battery is that you have 6 AAAA cells inside, with a silicone rubber pad top and bottom, with punched out aluminium connections to place them all in series, and provide 2 tabs wrapped around to the top to contact the battery top connection.
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  173.  @mundanestuff  They hit for sure, jeep is prone to roll over because of height, but airbags already deployed means they hit the rear of the other vehicle, hard, and were launched up from the side by that impact. Likely wheel hit the other car on the side, and rode up it.
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  174. Only for 20 or so seconds before the engine cut out from lack of fuel. Pick ups are in the lowest part of the tank, and you do not have the inverted flight tank, that fighter aircraft have, that allows inverted flight.
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  175. My bet the thing that killed that engine was just neglecting oil changes, leading to the sludge. Then that also meant the early signs of the head failure went unnoticed, till they were gone.
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  176. Because they do not want to admit that they were both wrong and incompetent in the first trial, and that the confessions were obtained while the person was not in a sound state due to being heavily medicated against their will, which the original prosecutorial team knew, seeing as they got 4 different confessions out of a heavily drugged victim.
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  177. Probably because the warranty would pay more labour rate if they did it the kit route, instead of ordering a crate engine, which has the labour part included in the price only for install. They wanted to bill the extra 100 hours of doing all the assembly instead, as they could charge for the removal time as well per part. ie Remove head labour, remove oil pan labour, then remove engine complete labour, which was the only thing needed. Basically a warranty scam.
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  178.  @kevind814  Olympus had a pretty big share of the Japanese market, so likely they were aiming at Japan, where you would generally have crowded areas and thus not want to get all the other people in the shot. Also likely that film just was more expensive, and thus wanting to double the amount of images per roll and develop cycle was a selling point to the people who were all too reminded of wartime austerity in the 1960's.
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  179. Also a part with a very finite life, as it is designed so that it is very close to it's elastic limit in normal operation, so you have a very limited number of cycles before you run the risk of it failing from fatigue. Needs very special care to keep it from having any extra stress from installation, so likely is a bolted on part as well, not welded, especially in an application like this where the margin between operation and failure of the main structure is so small. Whoever is making them probably has a few dozen per batch, and tests half to failure to ensure the rest are going to be within the required range of operation.
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  180. Should take the assets of the cops and prosecutors, and all the money in their accounts, as by the same token they used, they have to prove it is not illegitimate money as well. As they took the money under threat of kidnap they should also be sentenced to 20 years hard labour as well, with no parole either.
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  181. Too neat to be an electrician...........
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  182. Yes steel will last forever (corrosion excluded) in cyclic loading that does not reach the plastic limit, but aluminium, unless you use some rather expensive alloying metals in the mix, most of which are pretty toxic in themselves, like beryllium, the aluminium will start to show fatigue cracking after only a few thousand cycles of even moderate strain. then these cracks will propagate and result in failure. unless you keep the cycle load so small that it is well under plastic limit, you will have to replace it after a certain number of cycles. Which is why a lot of aircraft are scrapped after 20 years of service, as the cost to replace all those fatigued panels and stringers comes up to close to the cost of a new aircraft, which will be both more fuel efficient, and will also have a better passenger capacity, and lower running costs. Just the cost of checking all the wing spars for cracking, the most critical part, are so expensive that when this is due most are going to be scrapped instead, as the parts are worth more as fix parts than as an airframe.
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  183.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  Driftable crane then. Going to have to do some truck racing with it though. The others come in Peterbilt or MAN, you come with a Franna. Plus as bonus can also recover any that wipe out in a corner as well.
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  184. Yes the title now is often printed on bond paper. Seen an old 1890's era title, hand written, in copperplate, with the paper being watermarked OHMS, and with both embossed seals and wax seals with ribbons on it, along with revenue stamps, also stamped and embossed, indicating the appropriate duties had been paid. Sadly went to the title office, where they had to shred it to cancel the title, and issue the new one with a plain paper, simply stamped and rubber signature, of the issuing office.
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  185. Exactly, that farmer will be putting up no trespass signs along the boundaries, that explicitly state no snowmobiles or skiing allowed, along with no trespass, and no hunting as well. Rest of the county will know exactly why, and who caused it by DUI and suing all involved. Will bet that if the drunk had hit a tree, he would have sued the farmer as well for putting a tree on the trail where he could hit it.
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  186. Something better left on the shelf, along with low fat, fat free and almond and soya milk. All purport to be milk, but resemble watered down white paint, and taste somewhat like it as well. Funny enough also use the same whitener as well, titanium dioxide, for the same reason.Raw mineral for this though is black, and is found on the beach where the tides are doing a density separation of it.
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  187. He has definitely changed from that tiny kitten that was so determined to go with you originally.
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  188. Should have allocated all the time and damage to his cost centre.
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  189. I would hazard that the case against them is so tight that this is the least expensive outcome, as they likely were told by their legal rep that going to court would not only have this as a minimum cost, but also would lead to criminal charges, and possibly a long sentence in federal prison. Selling up and all proceeds going as fine is what they did to avoid 20 years for something, probably for more than labour violations, and probably more for lifelong disability payouts to some person who had a hand sliced to uselessness by their operations, and that person was a minor at the time, and now is on disability pension. Then also likely tax evasion, and thus the prohibition on owning a franchise forever, likely the sealed part prohibits owning any franchise, or owning any store at all, and also prohibits them from having any directorships or control of any sort of company or closed corporation. Want to take a guess the next case against them will be an internal IRS court case, which is going to strip them of pretty much all except clothes on their back, a car, lowest value one they have, and a suitcase of clothes to wear while sleeping in said car.
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  190.  @Nirrrina  The keeping muzzled also likely cannot fly as well, simply because that then is preventing the dog from doing it's medical function in the most cases, akin to saying you cannot use a wheelchair on the floors because you need to not have the wheels touch the flooring. Hopefully the mediation comes up with the home owner getting at least half that amount, plus his costs, and the lawyers getting a black eye. Otherwise the judge giving full judgement, and prohibiting appeal on it.
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  191. Ford Kuga, where they use the same electric door latches and locks, where there have been a few cases of the driver burning to death in the vehicle, because they had defective hydraulic steering hoses, and the resultant fires in the engine compartment burned the electric wiring from the BCM, resulting in a failure of the CAN bus, and thus being unable to unlock the doors from the inside, or the outside, and the lock mechanism when electrically closed disables the existing unlock button, meaning you burn to death. the emergency release is not easily accessible from the seat when sitting in it as well, so you are effectively trapped and going to be cooked alive.
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  192. No, but can ask for a review of the judge, and have the judge then explain to the Law society as to what justification they had.
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  193.  @Jonascord  Did the same, they burn really fast, he got a single puff out of it before it was down to the filter. With LOX remember not to use shoe polish, it may not be the best thing. Was filling a LOX tank in the bay, and there was a snake in there. Broke it, as it fell out of the gloves when I grabbed it, and on landing on the floor at cryogenic temperature it broke into pieces.
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  194. Thing is that they literally have the glue bond inside out, as the ring should have had an internal structure as well, to transfer the compression force from the carbon fibre to the inner titanium ring via the epoxy, not put a tensile pull on the epoxy join. That would lead to the carbon fibre delaminating with pressure cycles, and failing. They constructed that join surface as if the join was for a pipe with pressure inside, where the pressure will hold the epoxy onto the cap, not the other way round. Pipe shrank under pressure, and eventually some microscopic section of the join, likely with an embedded air bubble in it that had been compressed to have a sharp edge, caused a stress that started to propagate through the bulk resin, because there is no stress relief in the resin bond, and this then eventually grew to the outside, where water was able to fill the crack. Now the water is applying pressure to a section that can flex, and grows the crack into the joint further, aided by the tension in the epoxy join, and this then rapidly, basically the speed of sound in the epoxy as the growth speed, grew to open the joint to the inside. That joint should have had an inner and outer lip, and have been filled with epoxy with a slow cure time, and then have the shell pressed down into it, also with a coat of the epoxy on the surfaces, and then pressed together, with a few vent holes for the excess resin to flow out in the titanium, that later on would have a cap bolted and bonded to it. Or a thicker section that you put a setscrew in to fill the hole, while the resin is still not cured, after it has bottomed out, then left and heated to cure fully before removing the pressure. That join section should have been at least 3 times thicker, and longer, with a taper on the inside to allow a flexible sealer to be there, to allow the join to flex with pressure, not a solid non flex epoxy only. you want to not have stress risers, and a solid join with the different materials will have that stress riser. This hull was likely only going to last 3 cycles before you would have to replace it, they should have done testing, using a deep water area, and a cable and cage, to measure the number of cycles to failure first, not used the passengers as alpha testers.
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  195. By me cooling is the much more important thing, but as a heat pump is pretty much the same price as a cooling only unit I went with the heat pump, as in the smaller sizes the cooling only is actually rare and expensive. 1 extra wire in the cable set is all you have, to control the valve, and thus easy to do. Actually used it for a whole 2 days this last winter, because it was unseasonably cold for the sub tropics, dropping below 10C on a day or two in the morning, so the warmth was a nice thing to have for an hour or so, before it was turned off again, and natural air was better. Summer time it was needed, keeping the inside cool and dry, as it was hot and humid outside, so well worth it. $350 for the unit was well worth it.
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  196. So familiar that cockpit layout, though there are definite variations between operators, and you get a whole host of things that are upgraded differently, but a lot of those instruments and displays are common between them, and the later versions of the Mirage as well. That NAV computer is also I would think, if original equipment, all electromechanical, using a whole collection of electromechanical boxes in the nose and belly to do the calculations, using the inputs from the centrally mounted Air data computer, behind the pilot and under a fuel tank. not a fun thing to change out, so you would find every other part of the system changed out first to troubleshoot a failure on the ATE systems. Moving map as well a blend of electronic systems and mechanical intricate parts, to be able to both have a film cassette with the desired areas of interest on them ,in multiple resolutions, along with being able to move the entire cassette in both X and Y directions in the particular frame, along with rotating the entire film cassette mechanism to allow the pilot to have a moving map display that faithfully represented the view outside. I helped repair a lot of those things, with the 12V 250W halogen bulb that delighted in burning out, and killing the driver circuit, so the pilot would select the spare bulb and not have a display other than a half second flash. We were using a lot of the old nav computer arrays as spare parts, the computer having been replaced with an all electronic inertial guidance system, which was both smaller, more reliable, but definitely equally power hungry. A lot of common synchro units in all the mechanical systems, and a whole host of the parts were FRU's and plugged in. That Cyrano RADAR is not at all bad, but by modern standards very dated, but still for the time it was designed, well capable for the limitations of the envelope. Well worth the modern upgrades though, you got so much more out, like a CRT display.
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  197. But he did merge behind the truck, and then entered the turn lane before being deliberately cut off. Truck driver is fully at fault here, and hopefully is charged both with reckless driving and criminal assault with a weapon as well, and is taken off the road for a few years as well. All his actions were both deliberate, and could easily have resulted in serious injury to the other driver.
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  198. Or, more likely than a tree in Ohio, a power company exec wanted to make a quick profit on power futures, and was driving the spot price up and up, till the grid overloaded, with too few power plants available to provide power input during peak power demand. One tripped out on overload, and the failure cascaded from there rapidly, as each successive grid section was tripping trying to either supply too much power, or to transfer too much power to areas that had suddenly lost the local plant.
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  199. They are happy to pay small winnings, on the bet that you will spend it again, and then more, at the casino immediately.
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  200. Would then suggest you do 2 coats, one by the glass green, then once dry a white inner coat to diffuse the light.
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  201. Probably was a lease, and they ignored the calls and emails to bring it in for service. Going to bet they will be charged for the full cost of replacing the engine, and for the towing as well. Though as the lease holder likely is a company the actual driver will not see much of the cost, unless the company decides that this is also coming out of their bonus as well.
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  202. SAP seem to regard themselves as report takers, if insured they just give a case number, and nothing else. Not insured they do not really care. Estates often make people lax, they let anybody in, they let people tailgate them, and leave doors open. you also need to have physical security in the home, do not rtely on the outside wall, because it is often very easy for criminals to get through there by one means or the other, and then go looking for the open doors and hidden spots.
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  203. A lot of very bespoke computer designs were around before the microprocessor came along and guided them into a few very rigid areas. Especially those that were made from discrete logic, and where the designers went and made it with instructions they needed, and little more, and where your software and hardware were very tightly bound. Designed for the purpose, and then made to be as compact as possible, with, in that era, as few transistors as possible, because they were both very expensive, and also not as reliable as diodes. So you had a lot of diode logic, with transistors scattered around where absolutely needed, to act as inverters and regenerate the logic levels. Many of those designs were translated into early IC based systems, and they often used EPROM to do complex functions, like a lot of glue logic, and also to store tables used in math, so as to simplify multiplication, giving you the ability to have 2 5 bit numbers be multiplied together, to give an 8 bit output, in a single clock cycle. Used a 2708 1k EPROM, holding the decimal number table, and allowing you to do multiplication in a few cycles through the table per digit.
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  204. Baen books also sells digital downloads as plain PDF, just watermarked with a web link in it. makes it easier to use, and they seem to be making business from it as well.
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  205. Many of the Kriegsmarine were first and foremost honourable people, they fought for the fatherland, even if they did not exactly like the current head, but they went to do what they saw was duty. The honour they had for the captain and crew was foremost, they went in against overwhelming odds, and did not ever consider backing down or retreating, thus the sending via a diplomatic channel the request for this from the captain and officers.
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  206.  @EngineeringExplained  Not charging while warm could easily be fixed in firmware, simply turn on a cooling fan, charge at a very low rate till the battery is cool, or just not charge if hot till it cools down, and then keep the charge rate low till the battery is either full, the temperature is low or if you have as part of the charger a timer that allows you to choose a departure time that it should reach for full charge. That would also allow off peak power use, and improve battery life. Active cooling however does mean that you use power to do so, out of the battery bank, IIRC this translates on a Tesla to 1% per day at worst ambient to keep the battery conditioned, not so good if it is low charge anyway.
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  207. No, they send the fine to next of kin, because they will not call for medical assistance, but arrest your body instead
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  208.  @knightmarex13  You remove the slide, fold it up into a very large box as per instructions, and send it to the manufacturer to have it serviced. Then you take a spare one from stores, complete with certification, and install it, along with all the surrounds that come with the kit. One day job if spares are there. Manufacturer takes the slide and examines it, tests it, cleans, does any repairs, then deflates it, fills it with preservative powder again, before folding up into the package, then replaces the initiators and the triggering mechanisms, and puts it back into stores as a refurbished one. Will take around a week all in all to do this, including all the checking and signing off by the various inspectors.
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  209. Yes, looks like it was a prototype for a documentation box, made to fit into the cockpit and to hold the flight manuals and all the paperwork for the flights for the day. From the interior you can see it was hand riveted, using a pneumatic tool on the outside and the hand buck inside, and all of the material was standard aircraft use. Those corners are normally made by taking a sheet and running it through a shear with a depth stop, to make the long strips, and then that long strip goes to a bending brake to be made into right angles. For the corners most aircraft shops have a right angle nibbler that will punch those out automatically, and for the rivet lines you also have a set of jigs to allow that correct hole spacing to be done easily. You can see it was made 1960's 1970's, because later on the thing to show off was TIG welding those corners to have a smooth bead, either a single smooth bead with no porosity, or a smooth stack of coins all even as bead, both sides. this was an internal prototype, made to show form and fit, and likely was later on used to generate a set of plans for a production box, if the design was not discarded, like so many were.
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  210.  @friendlyboylulea  She landed up in Nyasaland instead, never wanted to be cold ever again, so went to where it was never cold.
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  211. Also possible they are looking at the retrofit market, where a larger engine run at lower power setting can be a lot more fuel efficient, allowing an older airframe to get a low cost boost mid cycle to improve operational costs, and offset the massive expense of a new airframe with just a minor engine upgrade, providing there is still enough life in the original airframe to allow the saving in fuel to recoup the cost.
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  212. What ball joints, bearing life will be measured in meters. But then, it is a Lada, so just find some pebbles and put in there, and away it will go.
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  213. Bolts are not strong enough, you would need one per tooth, otherwise they would just snap. Remember this slew gear might be expected to move 20 tons of soil in a single pass, and also cope with the odd boulder that it has to rip out of the ground as well.
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  214. Yes and car driver gets both a ticket for obstruction, plus now has to pay for the damage to the truck, and then cry when insurance declines them coverage and any payment for deliberately doing the damage.
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  215. I remember being in an aircraft that used that overshoot once, rotated just about the end of it. Hot, altitude and a full load of fuel on board. Flew in ground effect for a while as well, till those 4 jet engines had burned off enough fuel, and gotten up the speed, so we could climb. Trees were companions for a few minutes, as well as the town we went over at a little above treetop and rooftop height.
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  216. Funny, must be a US thing, because here rolls for hot dogs are sold in 6's or 12's, and the mystery meat fillings typically come in a pack of 12, 18 or 36, so you either stick 2 of the bready red or brown flavoured sticks in a roll, or buy 2 packs of 6, or a dozen. Then you find there is that thing that is canned sausage.
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  217. Yes, called that because the Russian minister of propaganda, Molotov, called the bombs they were dropping "food aid", so the ever resourceful Finns made these cocktails, to go with the food.
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  218.  @Genesh12  It shows up in the records, unless he applies for expunging, in which case it still is there in sealed records, but the regular background checks come up clean, important for a lot of jobs. If you are looking to apply for a job that involves money they will drop the application if your record has anything more than a few parking tickets on it.
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  219. My sister was a passenger on the SAS Helderberg, just that she did not get on the flight, because while she was in Hong Kong, but her luggage was in Kowloon, and she decided to go there to collect it, instead of letting the airline to forward it. so missed the flight, which was a very good thing for her.
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  220. Would not put it past being collusion, with the front desk having knowledge of the person, and simply allowing this.
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  221. Riley needs a lawyer to help him go after the CHP officer, and get the department to pay out for the issue.
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  222. A very large number of those active ingredients also come from India, where there are massive plants as well.
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  223.  @paulvanallen-lononca  Insurance company will no doubt be suing the inn owners in turn, to recover the cost they incurred. Tree fellers out is the inn likely told them they had permission from the property owners to remove the trees, and that it was done when they were away so as to not disturb them.
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  224.  @bwhgs2  Still plenty of old stock around, just need to buy some and keep them safe, though with 35W SOX having an operational life of over 20 years it is not too much of a worry. Show me LED that will last as long.
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  225. Yes that one had been used either to smuggle, or had been used to do something in Canada, and thus is flagged in the sytem, and nobody ever actually went in and cleared the history for this rental car. Might not even have been this car, just the plate was flagged at some point in the past, and the rental company recycled it to a new vehicle again.
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  226.  @a_mustache_of_great_repute  You can bet the insurance companies will be looking carefully at the contract, to see if they can deny the claim as being an act of omission by Hertz, and thus invalidating the claim, leaving them on the hook for it.
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  227. Yes that is the issue, websites that do not rate limit password attempts for an account, or for multiple attempts from a specific IP range.
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  228. In the military there was an accident involving a military vehicle, and a tow truck took the vehicle, and were holding it demanding a massive fee. Friend, who was a motor mechanic on base, went and got that bill, and a lot of attitude from the tow operator and staff. So he went back, told his boss, who smiled, and picked up the phone. He went back with 2 APC's, 15 very bored fully kitted out reaction squad members, and the military tow truck. they went in all ready for bear, and held the entire crew on the floor at gunpoint, while the vehicle was hooked up to the tow truck, and driven away, and then the reaction force left, telling the tow operator that the next time he tried to tow a military vehicle withou a written authorisation, they would not come in politely, but would come in as if it was a hostile operation, starting with tear gas first and then coming in hot. Plus also that tow company was blacklisted on the government company database, so they would never get even a government tow job, or even a move vehicle out of the way job.
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  229. Or gather all info so he could sell it on the other side, and also use it to drain bank accounts as well.
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  230. Just went for $200 more on the next sucker, that is all.
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  231.  @alexclement7221  Just jack up the trailer, pull fifth wheel and leave it like that. fully laden he pulls out, slams on the brakes when the hose tears, and then the trailer drops to it's knees. Now he is also done over for failing to inspect his rig, and also for the cargo damage, along with the trailer.
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  232.  @DarthVader1977  He might not have had a job at the time, or the child support was more than he was earning. So now you have a person with no job, or a low paid one, and you now want to either prevent him getting a job, or getting a second job. Way to help him, by preventing from legally earning money, kicking him when he is down. Until you look at why all are assumptions, so easy in the USA to be fired because you had to go to court, and your boss is an undiagnosed sociopath, who gets off on bullying underlings, so he works at jobs where he can get away with it, and the company does not blink at a massive staff turnover, as this saves money on paying more than minimum wages for what they class as unskilled work.
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  233. Bear was drugged, guess the Air Force had a bear problem, as normally they did these sort of experiments using a full grown pig, as it very much approximates the human body in accidents. Normally after the test the pig has an invite to the BBQ, as guest of honour, after the autopsy.
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  234.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  That one needs to be called Big homie, as it wags it's arse just like Homie does when excited.
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  235. Same complainers who do not want mobile phone masts because of "reasons", but who will absolutely not give up the addiction to the mobile phone they never go anywhere (including the toilet and into the bed) without. Don't want the mast, convince all your neighbours to give up the mobile phone and no mast needed. Same for the wind turbine, don't want the turbines, then you should agree for your power to be cut off without warning during peak time, or for when there is heavy load on the grid.
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  236. Nobody, though he can go after every asset in their name, and refuse all the liabilities, as that was done fraudulently.
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  237. Also could have claimed to be short paid, as some could have been lost off the driveway in dumping them. Thus a charge for failing to discharge a debt ordered by a court as well. Then the cost of cleaning the coins, and cleaning the driveway as well.
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  238. BIL was building a garage on hos property. First inspector told him to dig a foundation that that had to go 3 feet into a solid sandstone hillside, which took him a month to get done, using 2 labourers, sledgehammers and a few cold chisels. Second inspector comes, and asked why he dug so deep, it would be fine just going a brick deep into the solid rock. Told about the first one, and second said he was known to be an ahole.
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  239. Or was too quick to pull it out of the oven, not allowing enough soak time for the relaxation. Probably might have relaxed after a week at red heat. Just the original length, being the end, had the most stress from being constantly the part hit the hardest in the rollers every size reduction, giving all the stress variations in the rod. So it has all sorts of crazy stress in the metal, and as it rolled during the foundry process it got each different one give a stress in a different orientation. Thus as you cut away a diameter the stress relaxes in a different manner.
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  240. Exactly, thin film is best, apply, and wipe most off again. Leaving a thick film is bad, you want just the slightest hint of lube to provide rust protection.
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  241. Take the money from their pension plans first, then sell off their assets to make up the remainder, and because of the shortfall the state can garnish their prison earning as well.
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  242. They interview well, or have connections that bring them in, and hide the dirt.
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  243. Had the same come up regarding a rental agreement, and I phoned the lawyer who said he witnessed it if he was willing to say so in court, and that I had multiple handwritten examples of the signature purported to be on there as the owner, and that he might want to reconsider if he wants to present that into court. He figured out that disbarment was not a good idea for presenting forged documents to a judge. Signatures wildly different, and also the handwriting, even to a lay person. the tenants got an eviction notice, after the unit was sold to defray outstanding levies and damage. Lawyer got the money, and I told all those who had outstanding damage to submit claims to him. All paid, and the rest went as fees and tracing monies, as the owner was MIA, dodging others. Took 2 years for the money to vanish like water into sand.
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  244.  @streetcop157  Still report them to the IRS for tax evasion on their part. They claimed the tax on that amount twice, which the IRS is not going to like at all. Turn them in, and the IRS might give you 10% of the amount they fine them. That will be tax free.
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  245. One reason they have not replaced them with LED is that they are old controllers, and thus also have old conflict monitors, which are there to monitor all the lights, so that no fault can cause the light to show go on cross directions at all, any fault that might do that will cause the conflict monitor to disconnect the controller and go to a flashing red all round as a safe indication of it being a 4 way stop. Old controllers are there till they run out of spare parts or the pile of others removed from service, and will only be replaced with new controllers when the old ones are out of stock completely. Newer controllers can have LED drive as standard, but are difficult to retrofit to the old controller, as they probably are from the 1980's, where the controller also had current sensing that allowed remote monitoring of lamp failure, allowing non reported lamp failures to be repaired without having to have a monthly check on all lamps by a crew, and also this showed the relays were working correctly, giving a backup for the conflict monitor. Had this happen here, where the last 2 Automotor mechanical controllers were replaced eventually with Siemens controllers, hope the old controllers were kept for the transport museum though. On some of the controllers they had to add "cheater" lamps in the controller case to provide enough load to make the controller and conflict monitor happy with LED loads, but as almost all the controllers also had lamp soft start built in the lamp life of 8k hours was more like 20k hours as they were either kept slightly powered by a low current or had soft start resistors to keep inrush current low. If the municipality wanted to save money they could also just get by replacing the red and green lights with LED, leaving the orange as incandescent, as the 5 second on time per cycle is really low power overall, but red and green are the major power draw. Plus the burst of heat in amber helps to keep the snow off, though here, where the last time snow fell was millions of years ago, extra heat is not exactly needed. Have seen LED clusters showing 2 colours on the same pole, then a 30 second flash as conflict tripped and made it all flash red, before cycling back again to normal for the rest of the timing cycle, and then rinse and repeat.
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  246. Still actually available, as pool lights, which is about the only place you find them as new fitment. Also you find you need a left and a right lamp, aimed internally slightly differently, though, to cater for cars driving on different sides of the road, they are marked as driver side and passenger side lamps.
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  247.  @duanejackson6718  Yes but there they are comparing images taken years apart, and looking for differences that then are investigated, from ground level. Here it was a fishing scheme, targeting all those in an area, or just some civil servant wanting to fix a slight they got from the one party. If this then is allowed all drone operators should fly by the houses and offices of the city councillors, taking video of them through all windows, as this ruling has said that this is legal so long as you are not law enforcement, and you are allowed to do it.
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  248.  @FakeJeep  Well hard to make a flourescent discharge lamp dimmable, they do not respond well to simple dimmer circuits. While you can definitely dim the long tubes, with an electronic ballast with dimming input, making one compatible with a wall dimmer is like having a McLaren F1 sports car, and expecting it to drive 300MPH on model T Ford wheels and tyres.
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  249. My father was taken out by a night fighter shooting his Lancaster out from underneath him. He landed in Austria, and woke up 6 weeks later in a hospital, with another one of his squadron there as well. Learnt from the unhappy doctors and nurses that when he was considered well enough to release he would be sent to Buchenwalt, so they planned an escape, and got across the Swiss border. Every time he went for a chest X ray the doctor said he had massive TB , but that was in fact the shrapnel from the plane, as his entire back was scar tissue from the parachute burning.
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  250. The highest power user in modern processors is just the distribution of various clock signals around the die, with more than half of the active power being used to drive clock signals that are used to latch the assorted logic systems. that is why there is so much research in cutting clock supply to any unused parts, even if only for a single clock cycle, not running that clock for say half of the individual ALU of a core, which for a cycle or two is not actively doing work, means a big power saving. Even the bus latches that are tri stated and not actively driving an internal bus will benefit from not having the internal latching clock, almost always there to latch the internal state before delivering it out, being turned off as well. That along with non clocked logic that relies on propagation delays to provide a smooth execution path, are all things done to reduce power use. If you want crazy look at how small cheap chips generate their internal clocks, using an evolved set of logic that, due to quantum interactions between gates supposedly not connected, makes for a clock system that both self starts, does not use large areas of silicon to make RC systems, the old approach, but instead becomes a VLSI macroblock of literal magic that you drop in from the EDA tool, designed for that exact process, that will magically spit out a clock with a reasonably constant frequency, and which is all within 5% on all chips, good enough to use to run say USB devices with no need for the 11MHz crystal normally used to allow the communications to take place, using the internal clock to start up, and then having another clock derived from the signalling to talk back.
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  251. Round seal by the input is the inlet anti drainback valve, the bypass valve is the little one in the middle of the bottom can, which will open eventually on enough pressure. The spring is integrated into the base along with the metal on metal stamped valve, which will always bypass a tiny amount of oil.
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  252. Got one in power down mode next to me as well, as usual sleeping comfortably.
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  253. Plus pictures, and instructions are in 2 languages, and yet still they get it wrong.
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  254. And a nighthood as well, though the previous ones also were very complicit in the scandal, and a few people died as a result of this.
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  255. Why do you think the Hubble mirror was flawed, focus length was to the original spec of 270km and not infinity.
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  256. Just grab the Twitter feed and route it to them. Should take around 20 seconds to crash the entire state IT systems.
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  257. I would also surmise that, despite it saying 100-120VAC on the outside, the board itself has 450VDC capacitors on the input of the power supply, and the controller is capable of handling input from 80VAC to 265VAC with no problems. As these are sold world wide, making 2 different voltage models is very poor manufacturing wise, much better to design it to be universal, and get economy of scale on the production run of the power supply. then you can make up the complete units and if desired place the outside sticker to localise for the country it will be used in. That they used no thermal compound, or even a silpad, means they designed this to have a shorter life than possible, as the pad would double the operational lifetime of the LED chips by improving heat transfer, and would enhance the operating range at the high end considerably. Those were used, judging by the yellowed look of the led chip cases, they should normally be bright white when new, but fade with the intense light of the dies with time. Here most of them use multiple strings of 5mm LED's and run them off a 12V SMPS supply, giving redundancy as the strings fail by having so many of them.
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  258. Send to the insurers and let them all file suit against the cause, and see how they like having multiple suits filed against them using the video evidence. As their insurer likely will pay out, and file suit against the driver as well, they will absolutely not be doing road rage in the future, as they will be walking to get around, because no car and no house.
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  259. Same here in south Africa, for the same reason. However a lot of the home made content was shot on 8mm and 16mm film, because the stock cost was a lot less than 35mm, leading to the film actually being equal to the broadcast video, though you can see the old broadcast tapes ageing with the reruns, they are a lot softer than any telecine conversion, even using the old hopping patch telecines that they used to have. As well a lot of the archives are from home recorders, as the broadcasters would recycle tapes a lot, as it was expensive, and nobody was really archiving anything other than the film stock.
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  260.  @EwanMarshall  Some also would switch to a low power mode, using a special ballast that had a tapping for full or part current, and thus the lamps would switch to low power at 1AM, and come back to full power 1 hour before sunrise. Still the same NEMA socket, just has a few extra contacts on the top, and a set of pins in the photocontrol inside the weather seal, that provides this. Designed to be backwards compatible both ways, plug the special control in a regular lamp and it works like a photocontrol, and plug a regular photocontrol into the power adjustable lamp and it works at full brightness like a regular one. The old ones used 2 relays and an extra ring, the modern ones work with LED fixtures to adjust the lamp current dynamically.
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  261.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  your stone supplier must love you though, each time you use it 20 sets of stones go out. Plus every 10 jobs a new roll of the filter media as well, filled up with a mix of powdered stone and metal dust.
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  262.  @ShackleYT  Crickets only make noise when alone, in a group they are pretty silent.
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  263. So that is the accident that happened to the outside table, these sort of got cut out of the missing chunk. Those 6 offcuts I foresee will be repurposed soon as washers for the mounting bolts that will be needed somewhere.
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  264. But antimony is a very important metal, as it forms part of many other alloys, and is a very sought after metal, that are worth money, not as much as gold, but still worth mining. It makes the modern car lead acid battery possible, as an alloy in the lead, along with calcium, it makes the plate structure harder, and thus allows a thicker layer of lead oxide to be pasted on, and also improves the conductivity of the lead, meaning you need less metal in an inactive form to conduct current in the plate structure.
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  265. Well, Bentley and Rolls Royce were the major manufacturer of aircraft engines till the turbine division was split off. Thus the engine designers in this era brought through the aircraft design philosophy, that fasteners should really stay fastened till service was due. Plus, as the price of the vehicle is rather high, the thought was that owners would be able to afford the service cost, even if half the cost in the service was labour hours. Rolls and Bentleywere not shy with pricing, but they also would make sure in those days that the stuff would not break, even if you abused it. Big engine, old technology, wet liners, that cursed hydraulic system (just wait to see the trans, it drives the rear brakes off the output shaft, so they come off when you stop) and the electrical system that could have "interesting" faults in it.
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  266. They have a steel multipart mould that they blow polystyrene foam into to make the pattern for the block. This pattern is a complete head, fully detailed, so that when sand filled you simply take it and pour in the liquid aluminium and it burns the styrene away so you do not lose fine detail. That allows you to make thousands of patterns and not have any major wear on the master mould, and also the fine detail that you otherwise could not make in a pattern, like straight sides and undercuts, along with complex internal shapes, is easy, as the styrene parts are easy to work with, rigid and detailed. Might be a half dozen styrene parts finally into the sand, but one assembly, and there is no danger of crumbling blocking parts. Just glue them together with a drop of wood glue on the bonds, and fill with your casting sand, and cure the sand before pouring. Instead of lost wax this is a lost mandrel process, and the detail is fine enough that the actual polystyrene beads detail is impressed into the casting. You can get a really thin wall casting out of this, yet not have many failures due to blow through or incomplete pouring.
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  267. Main heat source is the massively increased number of passengers, each of which is an equivalent to a 150W heater, plus each releases both CO2 and water vapour, so you need to actively remove those with the heat. the trains themselves are not really a big heat source, regenerative braking recovering a lot of energy, and brakes only to do the final stop, and the trains act like very efficient pumps, moving air in the tunnels to the stations. you have ot cool the air going in, or move massive volumes at each station, which is a problem with old stations with small ventilation ducts, in that to move air in you need lots of pressure, or bore out the ducts in the ground to be a lot larger, and have the passenger entrances with a high air flow as exhaust, along with mid tunnel sections that also exhaust large volumes of air to ventilate the tunnel and remove air from platforms. A big issue with there being no space to put this added equipment and needing to find space above ground to do the air inlet and outlets as well. Quite a few false buildings above underground routes that look like a surrounding building, but which are there to hide the massive fans and holes for underground rail ventilation instead.
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  268. Done because accounting saw it saved them a few dollars this quarter, along with top management. that it will result in a recall 5 years down the line that is a massive cost is not their problem, because by that time they have gotten the bonuses, and have taken off to destroy another company.
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  269. It has a very strong bias spring to keep it in the detents, as well as a very stiff action, as it drives cables down to the flap controls. Not something you want to accidentally deploy in flight, as you can destroy the aircraft that way.
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  270. Only the gem quality ones, the rest they sell for industrial use, or turn into diamond powder to be used for industry. They only sell the top grade big ones for gemstone use, and yes do have a century or more of stock in vaults while keeping the supply low, and also subtly pushing the myth to never buy a used stone.
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  271. I think his favourite sheep ran off with a guy in a Tesla.......😀
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  272.  @KNR90  Well, he will be on a no fly list for all airlines now, and will also be jobless as well when he gets to court.
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  273. Had a similar one years ago, 1742ft ASL, and a 41C day. The aircraft needed all the runway, 13094 feet, plus a tiny bit more, and yes was in ground effect for a pretty long time, at least 20km of it before it was able to gain enough airspeed to climb out.
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  274.  @mars6433  Hurt much, motor and engine is a pretty common interchange, all through industry.😃
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  275. Yes even the cheap kits are stronger than the parent metal, especially in aluminium alloys, as long as there is enough metal left around to spread the load. Also works for fasteners that are removed very often, so is very common in avionics as well to have 300 inserts in a unit to hold the screws that are used for hermetic covers, and on aero engines as well, in the assorted aluminium castings. Just have to use the right recommended corrosion treatments when assembling them.
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  276.  @webcomment8895  Low speed impact, vehicle was stopped so the airbags did not go off. Airbags are not made by Tesla, they contract the entire airbag and controller out to a specialist supplier, like Bosch, so use the standard deployment impact forces. You had the impact cause injury, but the primary restraint system (seatbelt) did prevent him getting serious injury, and the passive safety systems (crumple zones) absorbed the majority of the impact as well. If the airbags went off for every similar energy event, you would find them going off on things like hitting a kerb, braking hard, hitting a speed bump over the listed speed, or even a shopping trolley hitting the front. Would you like to have your airbags deploy like that old meme of the car honking at an old lady crossing slowly, and then she hit the front of the vehicle with her handbag, triggering the airbags?
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  277. When the major and only helldesk metric that is used is time on phone, there is incentive to do calls as fast as possible, and not to bother with actual things like verify the user, or to verify the information is correct, or that the phone number they are calling from is plausibly the user.
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  278. Not even, just calls for the tow, will get the warrant later on after they are at the station, and then break in and look for evidence. That quarter pane window was broken when the tow truck was there, despite the car video either missing that sequence with it having been manually deleted, or it is never shown in court that it was broken by the blue fist.
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  279.  @tjj2040  Made it to the Swiss border, but they wanted to send them back as German deserters ( dad spoke fluent German, as he had been living in Germany till 1939 going to school there, but was in the UK when war was declared. British passport) so they hit the policeman and tossed his ink pot onto him, so they went up before a judge the next day instead. got the confirmation that they were UK POW's later on, and got repatriated to the UK. Every time he went to Switzerland after the war he had to tell the Customs that he had a Swiss arrest warrant, and explain the story again. If they asked he would turn and show his back, all one massive scar from the skin grafts the Austrian doctors had put there to save his life.
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  280. I heard of one pilot who went through a cloud, felt a bump and all the gauges barberpoled. Comes out of the cloud a half second later, and ejected. After separation he saw the front of the plane falling down into the valley. The bump was the plane striking a mountain top, just behind the cockpit, and shearing off there.. Those tiny navigation errors do add up, especially in the days when GPS was still a US top secret thing, and all navigation was done with inertial systems, Decca and LORAN, and with following a map. AFAIK the remains are still there up on top of that peak, well burnt. Just 10 feet higher and he would never have known, and 10 feet lower exactly the same.
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  281. International one has a nice step by step set of instructions as well. M1568: RECALL 0635 is the one. 2 wheel versions firmware upgrade only, because there is only one sensor and one brake caliper, but the trike versions need to have an extra pressure sensor installed as well, so the BCM can see the rear brakes are being activated before it will attempt to do control via ABS.
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  282.  @michaelshrader5139  Going to cost them more than money though, fair is definitely never going to have anybody next year willing to attend or exhibit.
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  283. Yes they are being hit because they effectively had a sand mine on site, as well as a gravel pit mine. If they had dug the holes, dumped it all in berms, and left it, then brought in sand and gravel, they would be not mining, but likely the act of bringing in this aggregate would have jumped costs up ten fold.
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  284. Probably best to find the directors criminally liable for organised crime, seeing as they likely also did this across state borders as well.
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  285.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  And that is on a good day.
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  286. One major advantage of the single speed compressor is reliability, the inverter is a simpler 3 phase motor yes, but unfortunately it has a very big drawback in the inverter driving it is in general built down to a price point. 3 phase motor in industry is the most reliable thing around, when it comes to turning electricity into motion, and will last essentially decades with zero maintenance. Sadly the inverter that drives it is not, and is the thing most likely to fail, after the internal fans used to blow air inside the case, so that the coils and defrost mechanism can be hidden behind a cover so the buyer does not get confused by al this technology stuff. I see all manufacturers loudly proclaim the compressor itself has a 10 year or more warranty on it, in large letters, but in the much smaller print at the back of the manual, there in the 1pt flyspec font they use for all the writing in the "warranty" section, you find this covers only the compressor motor and the pump attached to it, in the hermetic housing. Not the piping, not the case, not the controls or the expensive ( single most expensive part in the unit, as the manufacturers will only sell this as a set with a brand new compressor as service spare) inverter board. Compressor only, and not if it rusts through from the outside, because it condensed water in the off time, and it pooled at the bottom of the case and rusted off the mounting ears. Changed way too many AC compressors under warranty for failing, and those had a 5 year warranty, and I was, due to painting the case inside and outside every year, and cleaning the coils as they corroded, plus good record keeping, able to actually get those warranty claims held up. The supplier did not care, I was buying shedloads of other spare parts in the interim, along with new units on a regular basis. Indoor compressor run in a calm environment I would never change it, but these were all outside in the sun and rain. Fridges and freezers they were never worth repairing once the gas circuit needed anything, at least for the last 20 years, where as before you had separate coils inside and out, that are repairable, even if they are steel or aluminium.
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  287. Going to bet the major cause was exceeding oil change intervals by a lot, and using the cheapest oil they could buy.
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  288. Laser pointer as well is great to get the energy out. Did upgrade it to a lithium cell though, got tired of replacing the little AAA cells in it, so the upgrade, along with a charge board, was great, and it now lasts months between charges.
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  289.  @Smartestpersonintheworld  Yes, which is why I got cheap ones with a very poor beam, large dot is much more tempting for the cat, and he does play with it for a few minutes before the get up and go gets up and goes, and he flops down to rest.
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  290. Build there so it is convenient to have the workers close by, and also the test engineers can stay at a local hotel, and enjoy the city, not have a 4 hour commute each way every day.
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  291.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  George will be back with the little ones come summer, ready to get food again, and teaching the babies that CEE is the place to go.
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  292. Yes because Toyota will supply them a new module to repair under warranty no problem, as it is likely a very common part, and while they might have to wait a week for delivery, then the area rep is not paying for a rental, just waiting for parts to fix a dealer stock that has not yet sold, so no actual waiting time costs with that.
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  293.  @steak5599  This is the company who decided that making the Pinto safe was too expensive, and when forced to test again specially imported a Canadian made model for the test, because it had been forced there to do the changes.
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  294. Or it was close to end of shift, so why get into overtime (likely unpaid as well) for a ticket that probably will be dropped by the DA when the other driver pleas poverty, or that they were not guilty.
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  295.  @volvo09  Civil asset forfeiture, the car is guilty of witnessing a crime, and the PD will kit themselves out with nice Tesla vehicles, and those will coincidentally be not able to provide any video evidence in any accident they get into, or where there is a court case in front of the vehicle.
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  296. You also get inadvertent jamming in built up areas, with harmonics of thousands of cheap poorly filtered power supplies and LED lights, all creating a much higher noise floor in the area, so that the initial lock of a GPS takes a long time. I often see that, startup time can be up to 10 minutes, or you have the GPS time out, because it cannot get a lock, yet when the power to the area is cut you get a lock within a minute just from the lower noise floor.
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  297.  @bushratbeachbum  Allows a tight bend at the fabricator, so that you can have them meet without a bulge, and also allows the bending brake to get the angle consistent right to the corner. Then on assembly you weld up the hole to form a perfect angle, even if you had a slight error in the cuts, it allows it to be removed.
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  298. Sue them in small claims court, they likely will not show, and the process is cheap. Pay to have them served, and all the costs from losing the day pay wise as well. Case comes up, present your side, then get a default judgement against them, and send a demand letter. They pay or you have the court attach goods to cover the debt, easy enough to attach the cash at the local toll booth.
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  299. Major driver was cost of licence. Sony had a per machine royalty, while JVC was a lot less worried, with both much lower costs and a lot less actual chasing up, so that manufacturers would look up the cost of making a machine design, and choose the cheaper option and make VHS. As well the actual mechanics were easier to make, quite a few clone manufacturers could do the entire machine easily enough, but only found the head drum assembly too difficult, so resorted to buying them as spare parts for larger brands. Did drive Matsushita crazy for a while IIRC, with the number of head drums they were selling to the repair market, till they finally found out why, and probably started offering them as a ready to use part instead, getting in an extra profit for essentially already paid for production capacity. Then the cloners got to the point they could actually make the whole machine in house. Sony however wanted tight control, which both costs money, and also stifles innovation and changes to the mechanism, while VHS found a solution to big drums in the VHS-C with the smaller drum, faster rotation and extra heads with switching, but which left a standard azimuth track on the tape, which also was used in a few full size smaller units as well. Assorted mechanism types were to get it either smaller, lighter, cheaper, or more compact for some application. Last VHS decks I saw consumer side were essentially one single plastic injection mould of all the parts, integrated with a single sheet metal stamping, to make the deck, complete with all of the tape mounts and eject mechanisms.
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  300. Yes definitely inside job, either a group who colluded, or they saw the big holes on security because the company was cheapening out on security.
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  301. He ran into a brick wall, multiple times then?
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  302. Yes, thinking closer to $6500 to fix that, Tesla service is expensive.
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  303.  @ludoviclagouardette7020  Those misters typically run at up to 1MHz, so probably around the right ballpark for this. The 3 droplets connected are likely each made from a single pulse from the piezo disk, and will probably all have about the same volume as the energy imparted on them is the same. They explode as the energy is concentrated into them from the compression wave, as the energy is able to reflect inside to cause the sides to rupture as the energy exceeds the surface tension in small sections. Water tentacle is the lifted water from each pulse accumulating on each cycle, as the energy accelerating it is moving the water faster than it can fall under gravity or surface tension, causing the fountain. That it does so even with the soap on the sensor is because the soap conducts the sound, and there is still enough cohesion to hold it together for a few seconds till it all dissolves in the water.
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  304. Hard to have water perfect for the fish, with low nitrate and nitrite levels, and still have enough nitrate for plany growth. The tablets just make a gradient for the plant, while the filter is busy breaking it down and removing it. What you want is Eichhornia crassipes, the common water hyacinth, which will absolutely grow there, and you will be forever ripping out mats of it to place in sealed bags, and freeze for a week, before dumping in the trash, because it will literally grow on any water surface that is slow moving. The fish will also use it for cover, and they will eat it, possibly even faster than it will be able to grow, but not too likely in a warm climate. Lovely purple flowers too, and it has built in floats as well. Should be easy to find at a pet store, or just look for the distinctive floating vegetation at a local lake. If grabbing wild take the plant, and use some pottasium permanganate solution to soak it for an hour or three, covering the entire plant in it, to kill off any nasty bugs that might hitch a ride with it. then leave in a bucket for a week to recover and start to grow, followed by another soak and week in fresh pond water. Big koi love them even more than cabbage.
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  305. Only problem is the ones paying the money are the Utah citizens via taxes, not the officer who did it, he should be paying it in full.
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  306. Plain dome is front, port is under the sand. Back section still has the glue holding. Front was blown right off, so likely the failure point was that rear dome joint, as the imploding section would not have had much energy, but by the time the piston of water had reached the front it had enough energy to blow the front dome off, blow out the viewport, and shear off all the mounting bolts, as they are not really there for any structural use, merely to hold the front seal in position till water pressure forces it into seal properly. The rear intact says that was the top that failed, probably the back third of the carbon fibre, based on all of it being wadded up into the rear dome, and not enough energy to blow the dome off completely, but tearing the fibre mat and folding it into the rear. will be interesting to see the front dome pictures, showing how it delaminated, and yes very likely the entire epoxy ring did pop off, but the poor adhesion probably was not too much of a factor here, as even if it did fail, the force would not have popped the entire dome clean off.
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  307. When you are running stretch bolts you have them, and also the same for any fastener designated as use once as well. you are getting it out of the elastic region and slightly into plastic deformation, so that the tension in the bolt is higher than any force between the surfaces. Now to get that you need to start at a known tightness, and then stretch it so much, thus the degrees from a known torque that has them firm against the gasket. The second round is so that you allow the tension to be relieved, and then stretch it even further, getting closer to the yield point of the material, but leaving enough margin so that you do not have any failing in use. Use once so that you will not use deformed bolts, though you can measure them in most cases, and if they are less than a specified amount they have not stressed too far, though if there is a region that is waisted narrower than the standard diameter that bolt is close to failure, and needs to be replaced instead.
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  308.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  Just wonder how much was spoiled by "Ah F*ck, another mouthful of dust, and mystery stuff" comments.
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  309.  @aBoogivogi  The Soviets had somewhat less good results, and have had a good number of failures as well. most memorable was the Kursk, destroyed by a leaking torpedo, a well known issue, that they had ignored as a possible cause for concern, because the torpedo tube was designed to contain the blast with the inner door closed. Too bad it did blow with the inner door not fully closed, because of a poorly designed or made electrical connector, another well known issue, combined with a catalyst in the tube, otherwise known as rust.
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  310.  @thomasdexter9646  If they are still alive, though at a minimum they should be stripped of the state pension and benefits for this, and this be paid to the victim instead.
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  311. Or that nothing actually got buried, but instead was sold off for a cash price. Very probable it is still running in some far flung place.
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  312.  @countbenjamin1442  True, but also subject to review by a board of their peers as well, which might not go down well if the judge has antagonised a few of them in the past.
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  313. Sorry, not up to Cat standards, no fisheyes or runs in the paint, no welds with bumps and ripples, and aligned correctly, so definitely not the standard CAT gets from the OEM shops who make for them. Was thinking that 8mm drill bit with half metre extension bar would be a shop made tool, seeing as it will be useful for a lot of drilling.
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  314. Tesla, where they control both parts supply, and if you use them for insurance you also have to use their body shops. that $12k is more than I have paid for motor vehicles my entire life added up. I can buy a new vehicle by me for less than that amount.
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  315.  @hewhohasnoidentity4377  Most likely on avoiding been seen on camera, nothing more, so they will dump in an alleyway instead. CEO should be stripped of all assets and put in the same position.
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  316. VW was just caught doing this, all the manufacturers actually did do this, just that they were not found out doing this, and VW was the only one who admitted publically to doing this. You make a very specific test to determine emissions, of course the car manufacturers will make a setting that will satisfy this, exact totally unlikely to achieve, setting.
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  317. Those that lied about the Horizon system being accurate should have prison terms, and be stripped of all assets, like the victims were.
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  318.  @TechnologyConnections  Not really, group control will take roughly an hour to switch the entire metro on or off, as each group photocell has varying amounts of shade on it, and the light levels are not too tightly controlled as to exact switch point, that has a pretty large variation between each photocontrol. Biggest thing is all those cold water heaters all sitting there already on, waiting for power, that is a massive surge.
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  319. I got a payment from my metro. Clobbered a pothole left by them fixing a water pipe, filled with water in the rain. Put in the claim for a new tyre, plus installation and balance, along with the filled in claim form, and with the pothole marked on a google street view image ( showed the valve they had dug up to fix the leak), and after 4 months got the settlement of 70% of the cost, which was pretty good considering the tyre damaged had around 50% of life left. Of course now they have so many pothole claims that it is easier to find streets with potholes than to find 50m without one. Then you get the stupid things like cities attempting to sue people for fixing potholed outside their house, because that is supposed to be a municipal job, but they have not fixed for a decade. That one the city is losing badly, both in court and in public opinion, because they are getting now thousands of pothole complaints daily, and also getting sued left right and centre for failing to fix them as well.
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  320. $50 million fine, as opposed to a $8 billion profit, is merely a rounding error in the accounting. Or the nett income from a month and a half of operation. The shareholders lost a whole 3 cents of dividend because of that for that quarter.
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  321. The birds keep them down, plus he is far away from a garbage dump and keeps the bins clean, so no flies. Bet there are a few red top fly catchers far downwind though, just for the stragglers.
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  322.  @AaronSmart.online  Ceiling fans are a definite must in the tropics and sub tropics ( so most of the EU, aside from those places around the Med, are out), and all of them I have met start off as high, medium and low. mostly because they tend to have bearing issues with time, and the bearings ( or bushings, depending on how old the fan is and who made it) will tend to become sticky with time, but so long as the fan is able to start turning they will run. Thus you start on high, to get the best chance of the bearing getting it's hydrodynamic film built up and thus reducing wear, as a slow moving bearing or bushing is going to have very high loss,, simply because of metal on metal contact. In general the fans only start to give issues when older, and often I cure it with a new capacitor, as most ceiling fans I meet are not shaded pole types, but split phase. Bearings getting stiff it is possible to lubricate them, but often the housings are pressed together, making it hard to get to them for a good repair, and the modern trend is to use that horrid CCA wire as well. The ones on my ceilings are around 20 years old, and still work well. The smaller fans almost all are split capacitor, though the old GE fan is rather odd, in that it achieved phase rotation by having variable reluctance in the pole pieces, using thinner sections of the poles to provide a saturating magnetic field. As the field saturates it appears to shift, allowing the fan to start as the field is moving, and not just varying with time, just like the shaded pole does, but without the need for the copper shorting coils to bring about the field saturation in the motor. higher starting torque simply because there is no circulating current in the pole pieces, so more energy available to induce a rotor current, plus the rotor is skewed, so there is a bias as to start direction built in. Yes 230VAC country, currently ( amazingly) 233.2 VAC , though it can go up to 247VAC at times, but after they replaced the 90 year old transformer across the park (it started leaking from the base valve, so went for repair instead of just a new valve) the newer one ( still around 30 years old, they are refurbished because of the cost of new ones) is set more closely to 230VAC instead of the old one being 240VAC. I lived in a place with the original 130 year old 250VAC supplies, and there cooking was great, but appliance and lamp life was not, though your lamps were extra bright. That will never change, as they would have to replace over 50 transformers at once, so keep the taps on the low side instead to meet spec for high voltage.
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  323. Right on red in an accident is still classed as red light running, so will get a good chunk of the blame still, as after all they deliberately disregarded a lawful instruction to stop, and did not check the intersection was clear before entering.
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  324. They kept on saying the system is absolutely perfect, and impossible for it to make any errors. Even though they knew that the system was well known for losing payments, making misallocations, and having faulty logic and not doing actions correctly.
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  325. Not even that, all you needed was a post box that was not welded shut, and where the slot was not stuffed to overflowing with mail marked "occupant", and if overflowing it would be in the pile on he ground next to it in multiples.
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  326. Yes, and the pool of suspects is only 60 million people, and if not there then only 300 million.
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  327. I know one rigging company that also moves trees. The owner has a yard full of palm trees, most of them protected species locally, that he was paid to move, but where there was no place to move them to. So to his yard, and planted there, and you can pay again when you find where it will go. $50k for a small tree is not an unreasonable amount, especially if for some he had to hire in a heavy lift helicopter, to move the tree 500m, to where a truck big enough could carry it on the road.
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  328.  @spiranomad  Yes but still a class 1 mains appliance, so it really needs to be grounded, so that if say tramp metal gets in through that missing gland, and shorts out the wires, the GFCI would operate before Adam becomes a glow in the dark ornament.
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  329. Well they are also likely in breach of RICO statutes as well, wonder if the FBI is going to investigate this for money laundering as well by the bank.
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  330. Wrong, a $5k car with $8k in repairs , with $5k being essential for safety of the vehicle.
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  331. Well, if there are enough firms are involved, how will the owner be able to get a lawyer, seeing as none of them will be able to represent the owner, without having a conflict, for being one of the people on the opposing side. Plus now promoters will be placed in the difficult position of being forced to repay ticket sales, plus being sued for discrimination, on the grounds of any number of reasons, especially if any of the banned fall in a protected class, and use this class as part of the reason. City will likely step in very fast, because they after all are the actual owners of the facility, the owner merely having a 99 year lease on it, or paying the city a fee based on some sort of deal. Their lawyers likely are already on those lists as well.
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  332.  @my2iu  Yes, and the USA will have to start a manufacturing base at 1800 level as well, with an added bonus that almost all the raw materials that made it are now no longer surface minable, and the coal they used is no longer allowed to be used as well.
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  333. No, too many big players who want to keep the status quo intact. Short term good for them, long term your grandchildren will be the ones having to deal with it, with those that profited from it either long gone, or wealthy enough not to care.
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  334. Such a transformation from a bridge troll cat......
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  335. To be fair, a lot of fighter jets are aerodynamically worse than a brick, but fly because even a brick can fly, if you strap a big enough engine to it.
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  336. Temp agency hiring is "you over 18 yes", and that is what they write down, ignoring the diapers and the bottle.
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  337. Yes though this time for sure Kurtis would have to break out the magmount drill and cutter to make it, though that possibly is being reserved for the side access holes he will have to make on that boom section later on.
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  338. Yes ship power delivery is a lot more complex, and the panels are largely automatic, in that they will automatically assign load priorities, so will, as the load increases, drop off the less critical loads to limit current, and keep the main systems powered. Container power will be a less critical load, propulsion related power is priority, and then lighting, as that has lots of battery backed emergency lights for it, and then cargo and non essential loads. The power trips here were very likely from the generator sets dropping off line for some reason, or one of them dropped off line, at a load that needed them both to provide more than 60% of rated power, and the second one had an overload trip before the emergency generator could come on line, and the load controllers could not drop loads enough to keep main power buses on.
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  339. Not likely much, cut to appeal to the average market, not any with the ability to think beyond Ooh shiny ball.
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  340. Especially as it is likely at least half the jury pool has at some point or the other lost money in a casino.
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  341. Same here by me, accident involving a minibus taxi, certified to carry 16 passengers. However you often have upwards of 30 claims coming in of passengers purportedly travelling on the taxi at the time.
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  342. Probably from toll plaza records of the big rig hauling in the empty cans and bottles, because if you cubed them the issuer place would be identified, so they had to bring in what essentially amounted to a massive truck full of air, and a little plastic and metal. So they used the sort of large trailer that you normally use to transport things like styrene, which are large volume, but low gross mass.
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  343. Die without a will and you land up in a long line awaiting a legal representative, out of a pool in the area, who will get to it in good time. Takes at least 6 months after that for Master of the Supreme Court to appoint the lawyer as Executor, and from there only then can they act. Then publish, wait 3 months, publish again, and then wait another 3 months for all creditors and debtors response, and then finally start to wind up the estate. So even with a will it will take at least 2 years to finally wind up, and without all these get drawn out to an extreme, especially with a large estate that falls over the tax threshold, so that IRS has to get involved to verify every part. Even with a will it can take a decade to get it finally closed.
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  344. Yes, and even if they replace the tree with one of similar size and age, which for a large one will be insanely expensive, they also have to pay for the care of the tree till it roots itself back and starts to thrive, which could be a year or two, and if it dies again from the stress, find yet another one to replace that one again. So whatever cost it is, might treble again, and could carry on for years of paying for the tree.
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  345.  @beowulfsrevenge4369  Crocodile does taste nice though........
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  346.  @marksmallman4572  If your new bearing is $1k, and refurbishing gives you half again at a minimum as much life for $300, it is worth it. For very large bearings all will be refurbished at some point, especially as the price goes over $5k, and lead times for new ones are measured in months. Some you have little option, as a new one might be a year or more to order, and you need the machine to run, while a refurbish might only take a week. For some you just have to do it, as the original manufacturer might no longer make them, which is common in older precision instrumentation, as the bearing races are actually part of the machine, and you simply polish them and put in matched sets of balls. There your refurbishment means you select from a whole series of slightly different diameter balls, to get the right clearances in the machine.
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  347. I was at a JLR dealer so often more than half the staff thought I worked there, and the vehicle had it's own dedicated parking bay, right at the office, with row after row of Freelanders, all awaiting engines and transmissions to be replaced. Do not think a single Gen 1 Freelander ever made it past 50 000km and still have the original engine and transmission it came from the factory with, most by 50 000km were on either the third or fourth warranty replacement. Some did not even make it from the harbour 1km away to the dealership for PDI before something blew up in that area.
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  348. Often the hoa board is not changeable because a developer owns 51% of the units so gets to control the entire hoa. Only thing there is to prove selective enforcement and the developer will fight you with your own money
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  349.  @disorganizedorg  just fill the trolley with random stuff, and your small purchases in a basket, then abandon the trolley, and go out to pay with the basket. If the trolley is full, go get a second or third one as well. "Oh I was just looking at these things......."
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  350. To keep the glass from frosting up there is a heater inside the glass, keeping it above dew point all the time. So it is always going to be warm to the touch, with half the heat going out ad half inside. Tempered glass as well, so it will not turn into shards when broken, so thick, and expensive to replace as well, as you need to have a new door complete, as the inner space is filled with dry argon gas to keep it from condensing on the inside, and thus is sealed at the factory during production.
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  351. Funny thing is I was looking at store models of recent phones, all with facial recognition software on them that was supposed to only take pictures when you were smiling at the camera. All of the software would not work with people darker than the average Korean, which in Africa means that 90% of the people cannot be recognised by it at all.
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  352.  @gorak9000  Yes you would need to have a single oscillator provide a feed to each dish, to lock their oscillator in place. Probably easiest to take one LNB and make a amplifier for the LO resonator, and feed to the other dishes, coupling to the LO resonator there so it acts to amplify and filter it.
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  353. Also your mobile phone absolutely depends on GPS, just to provide an accurate clock that allows for the time slots per device to be as tight as possible, allowing for maximum data throughput, but also to provide an accurate clock that allows the base stations to be able to use QAM256 to get as much data through per signal transition, using the GPS clocks to generate a very precise, as in down to single parts per billion accurate, clocks for the base stations, to do this. No GPS, no clocks, and very much degraded phone service, as the towers need to fall back to a very coarse clock provided by a heated crystal, good enough for one part per million, but now resulting in a much reduced data rate per device.
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  354. Don't forget the famous race, and a people who consider the ideal indoor temperature something like that in the fridge.
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  355.  @TommiHonkonen  Even if he did cut deep, Kurtis could still weld it up enough to cut that thread back again, probably even fixing the original damage as well, then cutting to match the original nut if they had one. But now he just has ordered a big chunk of good quality steel, and is going to take 70% off it, in order to release the inner nut hidden in the block. Hopefully one of the new tools is a set of diamond hole saws, to cut out the inner section of 120mm steel, so that he can either save cutting tools, or reuse it on another job as bulk steel rod. After all, if you do not make it into chips, you save a lot of time.
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  356. Same by me, 2 dealerships did this over a few months, and vanished before the house of cards came crashing down. First one left the sales staff holding the baby, second one they all left the country, or got themselves new identities. Sales staff of the first one have a request for info about the ex owner, dead or alive, though they want him mostly alive, to ask some rather pointed questions. Not that he will be after.
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  357. Just remember a massive espionage ring was also broken, because a computer scientist was annoyed by a 75c error in a bill for shared processing time for his department. The Cuckoo's Egg is the story about this.
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  358. By me the amount of people who do not pay tolls is around the 80% mark, a very unpopular toll road was created out of a public road, and eventually now the government is being forced to scrap the toll road, and also pay back the monies that all who have paid as well. However a phyrric victory, as the original debt (with a whole load of questions as to who got the bribes for it as well) still is there, and government has to find the money to pay it.
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  359. Correct, at 3k the error between the aiming point touching the circle of the sight, and then releasing the load, is a lot less than at 20k trying to both see your aiming point and decide it had crossed the mark. Even modern planes releasing non guided munitions have the same problem, one heck of a lot easier to hit the target when flying low and slow, than up at near max ceiling with all the different air currents moving the munitions willy nilly. Even with modern aids you are going to be hard pressed to get in the vicinity with any sort of precision. Only way round that is to go the B52 method and lay a carpet with multiple aircraft and multiple sorties, and even then actually hitting a specific target is hard. Attack pilots would go out and definitely make a mark, especially where they have a spotter with a radio saying the target is 1km north of the red smoke. 100% make a chunk of holes 1km north of the smoke, and might actually hit something as well. But more often than not just made the target hot foot it out at high speed back to the border. Good enough in most cases, and better than hitting your own guys. Sucked if you were a cattle herder, you got instant ground beef, and then spent a week rounding up the survivors.
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  360.  @eliasthienpont6330  Solved by having a dealership per state or two, and send out a tech to you. Then bill you travel based on distance from your dealership, even if the tech lives next door to you. Then bill for travel time, diagnostics, and then the part itself, so a $5 sensor, that you can literally buy at Autozone for the same price, results in a $5000 bill, because the faulty sensor now is replaced, but the computer now has to be told there is a new sensor there, to operate again.
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  361. Probably will need around 5 times the delta V to deorbit, though of course that is also something you can do with just using a large ion engine, and a lot of fuel for it, with power being provided by the on board satellite arrays, as you would need minimal power to charge batteries as they only will have to provide orientation and 45 minutes of low draw during the night passes, and will not really need to power much in the environmental system with no people on board, do you can simply shut down and drain a lot of the systems to safe them, then keep the bare minimum like attitude control, computer systems and circulation to even out temperature. You can close all the airlocks as well, and that will reduce the need further for power. Just your booster bus will need some redundancy power wise and control wise, probably like the shuttle, 5 general purpose computers to run it, and likely some solar panels to augment power, and also a lot of RCS fuel for attitude control. Easy to do if you have 2 of them one each end, and thus taking turns in providing thrust in orbit to raise it, and slowly over say a year getting up to a relatively open orbit. To get past LEO will take about as much ion engine fuel though as what you can fit into a Falcon 9 heavy payload fairing, as a single large cryogenic tank, so you probably will want to make the tank emulate the fairing and take it to orbit, it will save weight using the fairings as structural and insulation instead of discarding them. Would say 4 F9 heavy launches will get the lot up there, with 2 separate orbit lifter units and tanks, and then probably a final set of spacewalks to provide connection to them so they can share fuel and power
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  362. Because a bean counter did the comparasion, and the belt worked out to a few cents cheaper, plus it added 0.001MPG improvement in the standard test cell run.
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  363. Yes there are plenty of aero engines that use copper gaskets to seal, this one needs to have that gasket annealed, and also to have the cylinder and oil passage sections formed thicker, either with a set of shims riveted to the gasket, placing the rivets into the water jacket area, or bu using a press to form the copper thicker in that area, using a die set that displaces the annealed copper out slightly, thickening the area, then anneal again to make soft. Even a good number of 1950's era designs, with cast iron heads and blocks, that used copper gaskets to do all the seals, and where the head gasket kit was simply a set of cardboard boxes containing individual annealed copper gaskets, that you placed in the machined grooves in the block, and lowered the head onto them, fixing with the new bolts that came in the kit, and those were famous for not leaking easily.
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  364. The shops get around that $500 policy by waiting till they come back a few times, getting all the video together by person. The day it goes over the mark they arrest them, and then lay all the charges at once, so the total comes over that magic line, and the prosecutor will try them then, often with the additional charge being a habitual criminal, and if they went across state lines to a few stores, to changing it to be in federal court. Shops have a lot of cameras, and even more storage, and every part of the store is monitored. Did see in a bathroom a emergency alarm pull on the wall, which was green, so non fire, and with a large sign above it, in 3 of the 11 official languages, that activating this alarm will result in both security coming out, and that also the cameras in the bathrooms will then have the recordings viewed, which it is strictly not policy to do by anybody, including top management, and security, to do otherwise. Also false alarm calling is a fireable offense. Of course, that alarm pull was broken, with an out of order label taped across it.
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  365. Or they were parked on a military base, on land the city controlled, and the city started with towing for leaving them there.
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  366. Especially when you realise that the price of diamonds is artificially inflated. You pay top price for a stone of a particular colour and cut, but the same colour and cut stone, made in a reactor, is a fraction of the price, and almost impossible to tell apart other than the serial number embedded into the natural stones, and the purity of the artificial one being so much higher and better controlled. If you buy industrial diamond, even if it is natural stones, the price is so much lower, and if you go for the poorer quality synthetic industrial diamond it drops to under $2 per carat in some cases.
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  367.  @michaelfrench3396  Manufacturer knows the longer intervals get 99% of vehicles out of warranty before failure. Then you scrap it, and buy a new one.
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  368.  @doittoit00  Yes lying in an open dumpster is a pile of junk, or in a pile of garbage on the street kerb waiting for the garbage truck. Or was it in an open garage.....
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  369. Wonder if the city has any public swimming pools, and how they will react to a complaint about the lifeguards there, city employees, are wearing clothing that is breaking those same rules. I would guess making all lifeguards wear full wetsuits would result in them all either resigning, or being hospitalised for heat stroke in short order.
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  370. Only problem is the city taxpayers will pay this bill, needs to come out of the officer and police chief pension instead.
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  371.  @georgemead6608  Or perhaps they should also be kicked out without compensation, and as remedy have to find a goat that exactly matches the one they killed, in all respects, and pay for the entire life of the goat for it's full care.
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  372. My BIL would travel regularly to Holland, and his hand luggage was his clothing, and his checked luggage was Camels. He only got stopped once, customs asked him why he had 50 cartons of cigarettes, and he replied for personal use, he was staying for 3 months. got charged 200 guilders as tax, and went through. He was selling them in flea markets for 20 guilders a pack, seeing as official price was close to 30, and making a killing, as he was paying the equivalent of 10 guilders for them. Loose ones were 2 guilders each, and, as they were non EU product, they were a lot stronger. those cigarettes paid for his 3 month stay, and the flight, and all the other money he made there was bonus, seeing as he had a hustle with a truck, driving ahead of the garbage truck by 3 streets, and loading up on antiques people were tossing out, wanting to put in Ikea junk. Those went to a garage he rented, and then he would hit the ferry, and off to the UK selling at antique fairs on the weekends. Yes a few cartons went with as well, the UK cigarette prices were much higher than Netherlands, so he would get a better profit. He smoked about 3 to 5 a day....... And bought Chesterfields, as a change from Camel, as well.
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  373. I did help take aircraft down to the bare plates, no more rivets left. You know a thing has not been apart in decades when you want to undo it, and it falls apart, because you are trying to undo fasteners that have been together long enough that they corroded into one. That airframe was eventually a set of broomsticks holding a wiring loom, and a pair of jacks, as the rest of it was either away getting sandblasted and painted, or was sitting on the shelf next to the spot, waiting to come back together. I did find some minor cracks, and had them repaired, and a new coat of paint put on, plus installed new mountings, as the old ones were barely functional. Remember that the overhaul cost often is going to be more than the original new purchase price, which is why you often find commercial airliners being scrapped as this becomes due, simply because of the cost, plus that it can often take a year or more to complete properly. Only the military, and those with special purpose aircraft, that are otherwise irreplaceable, can afford to bear this cost. Same for engines, the smaller ones it is cheaper to replace than do the major overhaul, as the cost is almost the same for a small turbine compared to a large turbofan, due to the cost of all the labour and non destructive testing needed, plus the certification.
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  374.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  One job and the scrap bin was likely almost full, straight from empty.
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  375. Locally by me there was a studant who got a similar thing with her student fees. She spent a lot of it, but now has to pay back the money. She was studying to be an accountant, kind of think unemployable in that field now.
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  376. Thing is the US sweets and chocolates are terrible, and do not taste the same as the EU chocolates and sweets, simply because the US manufacturers use the cheapest ingredients they can legally get away with, while the EU manufacturers do the same, but have higher standards. Note Skittles are not chocolate, but are sold as a chocolate flavoured confection, as they do not meet the EU requirements, or the international ones, to be called chocolate, in that they do not contain any cocoa butter, no sugar, and no milk solids either, just small amounts of cocoa solids, hydrogenated oils and corn syrup, and lots of modified corn starch.
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  377. Must have been on a Friday night in the officers bar, after a good few bottles of liquid persuasion. One signing thought he was signing a bar chit.
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  378. Best when buying a car in Michigan is to take Steve with......
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  379. Should be changed to allow treble damages and costs, plus forfeiture of pension for the involved city officials, who proceeded with the case with no evidence.
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  380. If I was duped like that I would go past when the gate was locked, and first spray brake cleaner on the lock, then follow up with superglue. Do every time when you see a new lock. Plus video the payola, and then sue the manager for receiving the proceeds of crime. Yes you probably will not win in small claims, but he would have to explain that he was deliberately creating this income stream. Then report him to the IRS for this undeclared income. That will not get your money back, unless they paid for the information, but both the tow truck and the company would have a very uncomfortable set of interviews with the IRS over this undeclared money.
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  381. Easy enough, just have to have a backing to spray on, probably a waxed glass sheet, with a thin even spray of silicone oil on top, and then a lot of very light clear layers on top to build up the polyurethane paint to an adequate thickness, or just pour the mixed formulation into a former like they use for acrylic sheet after you vacuum degas it, then heat cure it. Will need to have a very low concentration of solvents though to avoid bubbles forming, probably hard to do as the solvent is around 70% of the clearcoat volume in the can.
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  382. @tacfoley Yes, to make the ring a separate part would involve each half of the section having to be as strong as the full ring, and you would need multiple clamping points to ensure that the inner ring is not going to distort. Would add easily an extra half ton of steel to the grader section, and would require the rest of the frame to b stronger, the attachments to be bigger, the frame sections there to be thicker, and the cylinders to be a size or so bigger. All in all would be probably an extra 2 tons mass, and you then run into constraints on wheel loading, and driver training and working ability. Easier for CAT to simply laser cut the ring as a single unit, then weld the outer brace on to it, and then have the side sections welded on, making a much stronger unit that is relatively light in mass. There is a laser cutting operation near me that makes those parts for CAT amongst others, and they will try to minimise waste in the sheet, so there is going to be a few other parts, that need that thick steel, cut out of the inner section before the ring is cut. All about maximising the usage of each sheet, to cut input cost.
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  383. Bait and switch is common, they have the cars they advertise, but they are shared between a few dealers, so will be used as the bait for a week or three, then sold after being used as bait. Done because the salesdroid does not get the full commission if he has to get the vehicle from another dealership, but full fat on anything on their lot.
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  384. You cannot be hired to be a LEO in some states if your IQ is over 100, because a smart cop is going to think for themselves, and not just follow the orders, and the thinking cop might upset the gravy train.
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  385.  @DarthVader1977  OK come stay by me, where if you do not have a car you will be waking up every morning at 4AM, to catch 3 or more public transports to get to your work, and again in the afternoon 4 hours getting home. So now you spend at least half of your income on transport, and spend the same amount of time getting to and from work, as you spend at work. Get home you have to cook, clean, get ready for the next day, and also in all that have time for the children.
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  386. With those speakers find a car audio amplifier, the lower end ones with separate mid and tweeter outputs to drive them. The amp runs off 12V, and has the crossovers inside and an amplifier for each speaker. Otherwise a simple crossover is very easy to get and place in line. You can even use a 2uF non polarised capacitor in series with the tweeter line and get it running that way.
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  387.  @flymypg  Antonov had that yesterday, probably seized compressor bearing and the fan decided to take a holiday, wiping out the AC electrical buses and the instrumentation and hydraulics, so the pilots had to do a really heavy landing with no brakes or spoilers. Tough aircraft frame though, it did not fail until after it had left the runway end and was ploughing the frozen field.
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  388.  @demanischaffer  At least they came back, the new "replacements" would have been lost airframes. Coming back with half the airplane full of holes, missing big chunks, an engine and no hydraulics was common, and they were relatively easy to repair as well with only the front line crews. Modern aircraft are more of "one pass haul ass" over the Warthog staying around and chewing up whatever is in the sights till it is no longer a hazard.
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  389.  @srelma  A lot faster, heavier hitting power, and a lot less vulnerable from attack because they can go fast and low. Helicopter has a problem of noise getting ahead of it, and a very fragile blade structure so it is very vulnerable. The Afghanis figured out the weak point of a helicopter is the top, and thus would climb high in the hills, and fire down at them, hitting the unprotected tops of the engines and rotors. A10 has armour on top, and in most cases is not going to be in position long enough to aim and fire, plus the speed means most rounds will fall short. Fire down and the guys up high will see you, and the next pass back will make you the target for some serious retaliation.
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  390.  @Danidasanic  ECU is detecting low pressure, so will not enable injectors, as the map disallows fuel flow when pressure is low, so as to allow the diesel high pressure pump to build up enough pressure in the rail. Once the pressure is above the minimum level it will enable the injectors again. Normally on a vehicle with a good pump and fuel system this will only take around one crank cycle to build up, but with the stuck injector bleeding off fuel it never got to that level. Another diagnostic test is to pull the dipstick and check the oil for that characteristic smell of diesel, with that amount of leak the oil will be very much past the full level as well, and much thinner than normal. Well at least most of the carbon deposits in the sump will now come out with the oil, as the diesel will have gotten them in suspension with all the cranking.
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  391. But luckily it broke at idle, and only bent 4 valves. Just before it had been at freeway speed, and there it would have turned all the valves, pistons and camshaft into metal confetti. Belt was just past the change interval by less than 1000km.
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  392.  @robertsmith2956  I guess the brother is no longer invited to any family gatherings, though i would say that the grandfather definitely would attend the funeral, and stay after to pay his respects, though hopefully with no ladies present to watch the respects being paid.
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  393. I have some old photos of my mother, when she was around 18, just out of a camp in Siberia, and repatriated to British Persia. Then another when she was around 20, dating my father, with her friend who was able to translate between Polish and English/German as interpreter. Till she died she never wanted to ever be as cold again, so of course moved to Central Africa, where summer and winter are just the wet and dry season, nothing else. Then South Africa, by the coast, where it never gets below 5C even in the worst weather. She wanted to keep the toes she had left. The originals are tiny little ones, I scanned and printed them up for her to A4 size, and framed them, so she could look at them. Not many pictures survived the move south, and the long drive with whatever would fit in the 2 cars.
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  394. Imagine if you have to pay for all the algae growing in the water of your fish tank as well. As well ,pet flowers, and what about pet rocks.
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  395. Center piece is there to keep the coupling from collapsing, easier to make it a separate part, than the make the more expensive mould, that you would need to have the polymer injection work, and not fill it with the green damper as well. Solid center on the mould to hold the part in place for the second run, making alignment easier for the robotic arm placing it in position. Likely made on a fully robotic plant, so as to keep consistency, and only a few workers who take the finished parts, do a final fettling and QC check, then place it in the bag, seal it, and apply the label for it.
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  396.  @big0bad0brad  As you have to service them every 6 months, it is not an issue, you would replace them and refurbish them every second cycle, long before they are possibly going to fail. Remember you are talking about radioactive things, and you do not just put them in a box and store for the next decade or three, like conventional explosives. You have to keep them in a 6 month maintenance cycle or they simply do not work. Anyway your ignition package is likely to need replacing regularly, simply because it lives in a very radioactive environment, and you are going to swap out the explosive pack in that 6 month cycle, because there will be degradation from the neutron bombardment that makes for all sorts of unstable new compounds in it.
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  397.  @erinfinn2273  Yes, that lamp is often referred to as a pressure lamp, as the fuel is heated by the flame to vapourise it, and the vapour is then burnt with insufficient oxygen to get a very sooty gas, which then is burnt again in the mantle to get both a complete combustion, and also have the rare earth oxide mantle get to white heat and emit brilliant light. Generally you have a small pump to pressurise the tank before lighting, which then is heated up by the flame, to provide enough pressure to get the fuel to flow through a small orifice to atomise it and mix it with air. Once running the flame will heat the fuel enough to keep it burning till empty. You have a small valve to regulate fuel flow, which also adjusts light output.
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  398. Slip it in as a rider for another omnibus bill, especially near the end of the year, and it will very likely get passed.
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  399. Yes, but being blasted to death with multiple blasts of ultra high energy X ray photons is likely faster. I doubt they survive long in that imaging operation.
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  400.  @jsalsman  Paint, unless you use a very expensive one, does not survive the processing, and pretty much all do outgas.
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  401. They probably still have copies of the original Basic paper tapes....
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  402. Plus in full HD video as well, likely to be a video played at the insurer office to all staff as a "look at this bonehead here". Has to now pay for the damage to their own vehicle, the damage to the Tesla, and likely also got a lovely ticket from the local traffic department for an illegal overtake as well.
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  403. Turbo would be overkill on there, biggest improvement would be just to put a silencer on it, and also upgrade the hydraulic lines to the lift cylinders, improving lift speed. Then fix the Donaldson, and put a cover over the engine. 2 rolls of masking tape, 5l of yum yum yellow, and it will be a brand new crane again.
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  404.  @karenkoe7096  Definitely, but so long as the first court says the documents are likely forged, the company is going to have a big climb to show they are not, and the directors will likely have to show up in court as well, and prove they are owners, and prove they have standing as well. Showing up in court makes them visible, and if they have done this before others might come forward, even with a NDA, because no NDA can be used to cover criminal activity.
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  405. Hopefully the cost of the legal fees gets taken from the PD discretionary budget, so that they cannot but all those fancy office toys like coffee machines. The reason they buy with confiscated money is because there is no budget committee looking at the money, they can use it with little to no oversight, and they are not getting audited on how it is used either, so this is rife with both abuse and outright fraud as well.
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  406. Simplest would be to use those airlocks throughout the station, and simply take modules out of service, and use a Progress to control the deorbit of the module or pair of modules, so that you gradually get a smaller station that is easier to control for the last unmanned missions to go up and automatically dock, so they can then have a full fuel load for control.
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  407. Let me guess, you had to replace the one in your house twice since then. The power saving over the 10 years definitely did not pay for that. The biggest drop in power use was insulating the water heater with a thermal blanket, cut the power bill in half. then 10% was swapping all lights to CFL and later LED. Only got 2 CFL lamps left, rarely used, so replacing them is not a priority.
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  408.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  That engine is still being made, at least in India and Pakistan, as well as in China, as it is reliable, low tech, and sodding reliable, so is still being used in the tens of thousands, and made by the hundreds every year. Plus no high tech to fix it, and you can literally overhaul it on the side of the road with minimal tools.
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  409. My father was doing a delivery flight years ago with a C47, and at one of his scheduled stops ( well was the last one for that particular trip) he came in to land, and half way down the, what he thought was newly tarred runway (it was on the schedule for doing "real soon"), he hit a pothole in the water, as it was not tar he saw at the approach in the evening, but heavy rain earlier the day had resulted in flooding. The pothole resulted in the one landing leg detaching, so he made the decision to lift the remaining gear, as he was too slow to go around, plus would have an issue still with only one landing gear. Thus the plane duly belly flopped, both props went and bent, and he skidded to a halt in a spray of water, right at the terminal building, just as the duty ATC came out of the pub to fire a read flare. None of the passengers actually noticed, even though they had, when boarding the morning, needed to use a set of stairs, but alighting merely stepped down into the mud. He called the airline, and the next morning there was another C47 flying up, loaded with a crew of mechanics, 2 propellers, the requisite jacks, tools and one undercarriage leg, plus some money to pay for their being there a week. Replacement plane flew the passengers on, and left the repair crew there to do the repairs, and the plane, arrived, a week late. Tough planes those. My last flight on one was also interesting, in that the landing gear did not show locked, so there were some rather interesting minutes with the door open, and me and the flight engineer leaning out to look under the wing, so see if the gear was down and looked locked. Faulty switch on the gear, fixed after landing, and I got back on it to carry on as well. Undoubtedly the best landing I ever had in a C47, somewhat marred by the fire truck pacing us on the runway edge, foam cannon on the ready, just in case. But, as the fuel load was about 2 minutes at the time, the fire was likely going to be survivable anyway. Just we still had the original WWII seats and belts.
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  410. Saw it where the new owner went in, with his dozen "assistants", all with very visible guns, an told the existing tenants they had till sunset to leave, but that at sunset they would be leaving, their choice to use the door, but after sunset the windows will be the preferred exit method. This on the 7th floor. Furniture was moving around 10 minutes after this was announced.
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  411. Incidentally the jet engine efficiency you talked about is backwards, 80% or so of the power output of the engine is devoted to compressing the incoming air, with only 20% or so providing the thrust. Turbofans improve things by taking the incoming air, and using some of the power diverted to power the compressor to turn that, making for a much larger volume of air being used to provide both thrust and cooling, with only a small amount of the jet output being used to provide thrust then.
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  412. Yes falls into the entrapment region, and if all are doing it, but only the one is being charged, then the boss is in even more trouble for both selective enforcement, and also likely the employee can win the case for unfair dismissal, harassment and get full unemployment as well, with the boss likely also getting done over for this costing the business owners a lot of money in legal costs.
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  413. Also the government can simply go into your account and give you a haircut, perfectly legally, under the same set of laws, and empty your account. So, you have a house payment ready to go to pay for your house, from the sale of your old one, and it simply is taken away under these rules.
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  414. Ideally that wood needed to be soaked as well, so that it slowly smoulders. Plus you can also add a small pot of water under the meat tray, or a filled up empty tin can, so that it keeps the humidity high.
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  415.  @civilwildman  Lack of quinine meant the doctors had to use alternative treatments, basically try to kill the parasite before killing the host.
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  416. Probably closer to 80%, at least she knew she had to be careful.
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  417.  @OfficeLinebacker-LibsSux  All done during downtime, so billed as shop time hours, but will get a decent crane at a tenth the price still.
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  418. At least that driver had chains on, seen plenty who do not. Yes have had the chain save my bacon.
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  419. You can bet, with this clear video, that she is being roundly criticised on social media now, as with a time and location, there is bound to be a few viewers in the area who recognise the airhead. Plus could also be charged with vandalism, and forever banned from the mall as well.
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  420.  @skycorrigan6511  Same for lobsters, and the best size ones are always found at sewage outfalls, eating off the stuff coming out.
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  421. Send in the form, and receipt, and you will get the rebate of 1c, but it will be in the form of a 1c coupon off, valid only at a store chain they do not normally shop at, and valid for 3 months from date of issue.
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  422. Popped the head, plus you will need to replace water pump as well, because that probably is the failure that killed it. Needs a new radiator as well, and a good coolant flush as well, especially heater core. Yes it will run with those broken boots, even though by me the set of leads as aftermarket is $20, you see many with just the rubber and no shell.
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  423. Plenty of evidence for a civil suit then, that should about cover the higher education of that student then. After all they denied her the chance for a scholarship, so the penalty should be paying for it.
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  424.  @ThePedro8161  Most diesel trains however here also have pantograph pick up assemblies on the roof, so they can use overhead lines for power where available. That way the rairoad saves on expensive fuel use on the final sections of lines, where you use electric power and have no urban pollution problems then. Most of the trackway here in South Africa is not electric, aside from main lines and the commuter train lines, and the trains are limited in most cases to 120kph, though they can go a little faster, but there are lots of speed limited sections around towns and where the rail lines go through passes, due to older track and clearances.
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  425. Video though is a slam dunk as to the claim for damages from the transit company. Just file in small claims, and wait for the date, and the no show default judgement with the video evidence.
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  426. Most of the retouching I did was removing dust spots, and taking out errant hairs in people, along with other minor blemishes. Yes also a lot of background removal as well, though luckily most of the model shooting was done with a plain unbleached canvas sheet backdrop, so as to keep white highlights down. Much easier to remove that than a brilliant white background.
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  427. Would ask the city if they are going to also install the same fines as well at public parks, no talking, no shouting, no running around, and no playing by children or adults, with the threat of a fine. There is a de facto dog park right by me, no problems with the dogs at all. The owners on the other hand..........
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  428. But you see the anger melt away when Blackberry climbs down onto his lap.
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  429. The "you are not my cat" is now your cat, because it has decided you are the nice place to stay, and the provider of food and comfort.
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  430. Probably replaced engine because that piston wrist pin wear was causing knock, and the ECU, thinking this was detonation, due to the timing on that cylinder, had pulled power way back. Then the lowered fuel input meant the cylinder was running ultra lean, and this, combined with probably a small carbon particle that got stuck on the valve, caused it to wear, and then the ECU carried on running that cylinder ultra lean, leading to the valve seat eroding as the combusting fuel mix kept on bleeding by. You can see the run marks of the metal being eroded away. Engine replaced because ECU told of misfire on one cylinder, bad knocking and lack of power, along with very lumpy idle. Compression test said cylinder really bad on leak test, so scrap engine instead of stripping head, because the used engine is cheaper than a strip, repair and assemble labour wise. Pump likely removed because it was faulty on the junkyard engine, probably leaking water, so to cut cost they swapped with the old one.
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  431.  @georgiapatriot4575  Yes let them lie, get it written down and signed as truth, then show them in the lie. Goes from a you said they said case, to falsely giving a statement under oath.
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  432. My aunt used to work at that plant for many years. She loved chocolate, but would not eat any Cadbury chocolates, having grown to dislike them over the years.
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  433. Mine does the same, except, as a somewhat feral rescue, he does nor meow much, if at all. Might chirp a bit and purr. However he wants his food to be both warm, and watered down a little, so that he can lick it up and not get a cold belly. Then will go and climb under the duvet to sleep it off a little, before going back to continue with seconds. Then he does not mind it cold.
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  434. Insurance will pay it out, because replacement cost (likely what it was insured for, especially if it is under a year old) is more than repair cost. I would guess the software fix was related to the ABS and traction control, which probably is the recall related to an erroneous rear wheel speed sensor reading causing ABS operation on one side. Part of the fix was a new software install into the BCM, and the addition of a pressure sensor switch to the ABS module, to detect rear brake operation, and thus to verify that the brake is actually being applied. Likely the old firmware would, on losing one rear wheel speed sensor signal, operate the other side brake hard, skewing the trike to that side, erroneously thinking the unbraked wheel was skidding and stopped, and wanting to regain control by braking the other side, without also verifying that the rear brake had been pressed, a fault in the software. The 2 wheel ones just get updated firmware, as there is only a single brake at the rear, and thus the BCM does get an input of brake activation, and there is only one wheel speed sensor, so no possible discrepancy in speed.
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  435. Part of that code on the ticket is a serial number, that includes not only the machine that printed it, but also a serial number of the ticket, which includes time and date of the ticket, and also a hash of the numbers entered in the ticket. The lottery has a database that stores all the details per ticket, so they can match the ticket serial number with the database, which proves the ticket is valid. Try to forge the ticket, and those numbers will not match, which is the common thing that catches the forgers out, as they simply use a ticket, and erase the thermal print on it, and then print it again, but the thing they cannot get right is the sequence number and the hash of the ticket, nor can they correctly print the barcode on the ticket, which is the same information, just in a easier to machine read format. The actual lottery numbers are the least important thing, that rest of the ticket is the thing that determines validity of it. Come with half a ticket, or where that is faded, and it is invalid, so check and collect fast, as thermal print will fade away fast, and is near impossible to preserve.
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  436. City of Fontana needs to fire those police, and also claim that $900k back from them, along with stripping them of their ability to practise law enforcement. Ratepayers need to all write to the city saying that they do not agree with the money they pay to the city being used to pay this case, and that they demand the city recover this money as well. I can see any convictions from this police department getting appealed, all claiming that this also was done to them, and all cases needing to be redone, and any that resulted in jail time being overturned, and then the victims suing the officers personally.
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  437. Captain Stevie Wonder at the helm.......
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  438. Hope you put some oil on those felt pads, otherwise those bushes are going to be very dry, especially after being scrubbed in the ultrasonic like that. They need 5 drop or so of 10W 30 engine oil added to each pad, which will then soak into the oilite bush and lubricate for a long time. Yes please get some crimp on ferrules, especially for cables like that, they will come loose otherwise. The common crimp on ones can also be soldered if you remove the red, blue or yellow sleeve, and then use some heatshrink tube after soldering, to make them both more robust and able to fit small places easier. Cheap eBay pack (throw the flimsy horrible crimp tool that comes with the kit away, all you need are the crimps, and some decent crimp pliers) and you will get at least 20 of the most common size hole lugs, in all 3 common cable sizes. Then you see which ones run low first, and buy packs of 100 of them.
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  439.  @stevechance150  The law specifically precludes this, it has to come out of his annual taxable income, not that of the company, because, in the eyes of the law there, the company was not the one speeding.
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  440.  @larrygriffis  Depends on volumes. 5000 cubic yards of rock is a mine, and thus a basement has to be really big to exceed that, and the same for a well, where you would probably have to exceed that per year. The mineral rights with the tribe are important, it would have been there when they looked at the deeds of each land owner when the company leased the land, as a critical part of leasing any large tract of land is zoning, and any title restriction that might be attached to it. By me there is a city with a fairly strict land title restriction, in that your buildings cannot exceed a specific height, and also that your land title has no mineral rights, those are assigned by the government to another entity. But between those you are reasonably free to build what you want.
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  441. Turned the rotors, code for they rotated the wheel after replacing the pads.
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  442. Very nice, was wondering why you did not make the shaft larger, then saw the clearance at the top. Would suggest as well getting a thrust race for the top, will make working with it better, or just turn a bronze washer to act as bearing, saving wear on the top of the machine. Like how the missing capscrew was replaced with the one removed for thread sample, when fitting that nice clamp. Suggestion would be to add in a small venturi in the feed line, so that you can have the option for air or coolant cooling, or by adjusting flow rates have coolant mist there, so that deep work with the tooling had the ability to remove chips fast so the finish is better. Just needs an air line and regulator, with non return valve in the air feed by the venturi, to allow this to run.
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  443. Think the kitchen installers will have to wait for a while to renovate that kitchen, though they definitely have the jobs for all kitchens in the neighbourhood now.
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  444. Plus many also actually had never taken out the loan in the first place, there were hundreds of cases of the suit being issued on the wrong properties.
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  445.  @riznliz  He is talking about the feed water to flush, not the water with sewage. No need to use potable water for a toilet if you already have grey water available to use in it.
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  446. Plus in the closing you can see the anti collision beacon on the tower far out of frame, out of focus, but still showing the pattern in it from clear air turbulence on the path to the camera, and all those patterns you see in the round dot are the disturbance of small temperature changes, and air motion, along the path. The source is a very good approximation of a point source, seeing as it is a LED cluster that is likely only 4 pixels if it was focused at infinity, but with the focal plane being so much closer it shows the great optics of the lens, in that the image is a perfect circle without any other distortion on it.
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  447.  @KAPTKipper  Do not forget that 100 mile limit also applies to rivers that are navigable from the ocean as well, and all the Great Lakes as well. So basically a huge chunk of the population and cities fall in this area.
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  448. Printed on the assembly sheet, next to the lock. Yes everybody in the packing line can see it, but once in a sealed pack and in a box hard to find without damaging the sealed pack. Plus you can change it in the field as well.
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  449. More than likely will, as it is their failure to install the new turbo as the instructions say, as Dan says, they give the new lines with the kit for a reason. Not even any reason to not undo that bolt, you would have to remove the line anyway to get the old unit out.
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  450. Plus also putting them in the right place to be self unlatching when pulling the cab off.
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  451. Probably best to fill those wall cavities with rock wool, and also add rock wool battens to the walls as well, so as to provide both sound insulation and fire resistance. Doors should be at least 30 minute fire rated, and at the rear entry there should be at least a simple winch with manual handle, that can be used with a bosuns chair and a swing arm, kept inside under the cover, but easy to pull out and set in a premade covered flush mounting hole in the concrete, so that you can egress everybody safely, and also use as a way to get heavy loads in and out if the main entrance is also busy.
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  452. Or when the initial measuring tool is a hand, and then you go to a finger after the first round, because your dial indicator does not have enough travel.
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  453. Funny enough the local factory used to be 50m away from the Hilton hotel. As I worked near there it was easy to tell which way the wind was blowing, though the Hilton was unfortunate in that it was pretty much downwind all the time. I like the smell, though the hotel did not, plus i used to go to the source every so often to collect yeast, and got to taste the freshly dried yeast, looking like cinnamon bark sticks, as it came hot off the drier, before it was blown up a floor to be ground up and bagged.
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  454.  @abbofun9022  I buy eBooks from Baen, where you do get the ebook with no DRM, so that you can actually read it wherever and on whatever device you have, plus as a bonus no need to have a working connection to unlock it. The free library of theirs is also amazing, plus you get samplers of all the works as well. Only thing against eBooks is they are ephemeral, and you will not be able to find one that has been sitting in an attic for a century, sit down one afternoon and discover authors you never heard of before. Book viewing devices change, formats change, DRM servers get turned off, and your digital library vanished into less than nothing. Plus no libraries where you can lend a book and read it any more.
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  455. Could have fixtured the remainder of the bit cut off, and bored it out, then framed it with a small caption " just needs line bore", and put it on the wall. Reminds me of a job, where the description was "first bomb fell on target".
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  456. So, next judge added another 5 years to the sentence, and made it sequential as well, with no parole for the second sentence. So he will, at a minimum, have served15 years, even with probation, though it likely would be the full 25.
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  457. Seeing the wear on that jig I guess the frame is pretty much a sacrificial part, and a nice bread and butter job that comes in regular. Now to have another 2 rolls of welding wire turned into a solid metal ring to join the 3 parts back together, plus put the plate on as well.
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  458. The good old days, when beer came with a pull tab.....
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  459. I have 2 that have a special call just for me, because I gave them eviction papers twice, and demolished the house they were making. But other than taking the jondolo away, I do nothing to them, the smart birds are nice to see, plus they do a valuable pest control service as well.
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  460.  @iamdmc  Aluminium and stainless steel, so no real issue with corrosion provided the antifreeze has protection in it for both. Expansion just needs a tank on the end of the radiator cap, and a 1PSI cap into a sealed bottle, or even just a simple accumulator, recycle a hydraulic one, as the expansion of the water in the system is going to be minimal, and probably can easily be handled by the PVC hoses expanding. Would though suggest adding some sleeving to all those hoses, especially where they run in the chassis, as that is where they will rub, and PVC in clear has very little abrasion resistance, and will also rapidly age. Best to replace with some braided hose now that the concept is proved, and use silicone rubber braided Goodyear hose, which will survive decades there, and fit the existing fittings no problem.
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  461. Was thinking that the DPRK is still lenient, she needs to be sent to Somalia as a school teacher.
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  462. turpentine trees are really flammable, in that the green leaves will burn very easily. We used to use turpentine tree branches and green leaves as firelighters, taking the thin fresh growth green branches and leaves, and using a layer of them, along with old newspaper, to light the charcoal of the fire.
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  463. The white centre is the element. The resistor is there to bleed voltage away. The sensor develops a voltage when vibrated, and the spring transfers it to the connector, and then to the ECU. The ECU will show knock, measuring the voltage developed by the sensor, reading up to 30V on the sensor for severe knock, and then adjusting to reduce it. The spring is the connection so it allows the disk to flex, as it is held in place only by the edge, and under it is a small hollow area so the brass disk can bend with the vibration, like a speaker cone. Exact same disk as is used in musical cards, held at the edge, and the voltage applied makes it flex, and produce a sound, but in reverse, the flex making a voltage. Resistor is there to bleed off DC voltage, and also so the ECU can tell the sensor is there, as the ECU applies 5V via a similar value resistor, and measures the DC voltage on the wire, to see the sensor is there, and the wire is not shorted or open. The signal is strong enough that the resistor does not interfere, you can test them with the tapping, after checking resistance is correct, by putting the meter into AC volt mode, selecting the 30VAC mode (as otherwise the meter autorange will make it display all over the place) and tapping it, where a good sensor should develop anything from 5 to 30VAC signal on impact, depending on where you tap, and also how it is held. Some of the sensors ( VW being one, but all that use a bolt through the centre are the same) are very sensitive to the bolt being the correct torque, too little and they do not work well, and too tight and the ceramic material breaks inside the housing, generating low or erratic output.
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  464. Lithobraking was done, due to them forgetting to make sure the software would work in simulation.
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  465.  @sandragarciaramos  Pilots making decisions for the flight crew again.......
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  466. M10 nuts on the insert tool will work, and the reason the tool was so hard to get on is that the Timesert has a thicker base, so the tool will drive it out to lock the insert in position. you did not get the thread tap in deep enough to make the hole, easy to get wrong. Plus the bolt going in for the tensioner will provide the locking needed on the insert.
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  467. Yes, and most likely would be either apple, pear or orange juice, in big cans. By me those were supplied by the Greater Letaba Canning Cooperative, and the juice was typically orange, pear, apple, guava and mango, though we did occasionally get the odd can of Marula juice as well, though much easier instead to go outside and grab the fruit off the local trees, as there were quite a few of them planted there, as they are indigenous, hardy and bear quite a bit of fruit. Just beware if you get the liqueur distilled from it, it is smooth going down, but will also put you down as well.
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  468. Yes, aircraft engines can run on gravity feed of fuel, just ignoring that if the pumps pack up they will not run for more than a few seconds, mostly because the fuel flow is now not even enough to run them at idle, and the whole pesky injectors need enough pressure to put it in against the pressure in the combustion chamber. Now fuel tanks in the wings are there to have useful volume in the cargo space, plenty of aircraft can have tanks in the fuselage, often things like tankers, where that fuselage is used to carry fuel as the cargo. Airlines however have that pesky need to move things, like people, cargo and baggage, so need that room to fit them in, instead of them sitting cramped up in the wings. So instead they fit the tanks in the wings, using self sealing bladders so they do not leak all the fuel out in all the rivet holes, and then, to keep it sloshing about, they use open cell fibre foam to provide both support for the bladder material on top and bottom, and also prevent sloshing around, but still allow flow down to the fuel pick up points.
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  469. For the car poor surface prep, plus did not strip down to bare metal and completely cover with a chemical rust converter to make the oxide a more durable phosphate, and also do the same on the inside of the vehicle as well. First remove the rust, make the material chemically clean, and passivate with a thin chemically bonded coating, then apply the primer, make smooth, then apply the correct automotive paints, and finish with the clear top coat. Has to be done both top and inside, though the inner section under the lining you do not have to bother with looking perfect, so it is faster there.
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  470. Yes send the repair bill to their insurer, and file a police report for malicious damage to property, and as the damage will definitely exceed the criminal threshold the company will be both paying for the damage, and also be sitting in front of a magistrate or judge to explain, with full video as well, exactly why they should not be found guilty, and have to pay. Accident would be if he was doing the entire road, but this is deliberate aiming, and also shows intent, in that it was done separately from any other work, and was also done by trespassing into the yard as well, off the mandated road clearing only.
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  471. Remember the Tamagotchi?
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  472.  @big0bad0brad  Because the internal pressure is critical, you would have to have an external chamber with gas at the right low pressure to have any hope to keep it correct, and that container would also leak hydrogen even faster.
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  473.  @limiv5272  To be fair, if a light cat landing on it would rip it out, then it was only a very short way from a gust of wind doing the same, and lucky nobody was on the ground where it hit.
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  474.  @screw_it_why_not  Which is why there is a half hour supply of air and a regulator on the suit, for emergency use. Plus he can pull a disconnect and release the umbilical, if it gets trapped and use that same air to inflate a small lift bag to get the heavy suit up to just under the surface, where the tender can attach and winch it up.
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  475. Welded the protection to the turret probably because traverse mechanism is inoperative, so the welding is there to hold it in position, and thus make it marginally useful.
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  476. A video of how you do the CAD work will be nice, those parts all look like they took a lot of work to get perfect.
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  477. The impact shows best possible impact, I doubt with most cases that it will be both perfectly positioned to hit the wing, and that it will not be diverted by the airflow around the wing to smear itself to pieces above or below the wing. Really need to have a wind tunnel large enough to get an actual full size production section of airfoil in there, and then fly a drone ( or more likely have a lot of them dropped in the hopes one will actually hit) into the wing, and see the damage. Radome hit destroying the radome yes, they have massive conflicts on thickness of material and absorbed power, so they tend to be thin and rely on the shape for structural integrity. Window I do not see anything other than it being badly cracked, as there are plenty of reported large bird strikes, that rarely resulted in penetration to the window, even for very large birds.
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  478. Yes, easily 2 tons of static load in each of those bathrooms, and as well all those tiled enclosures, which typically are filled with either rubble and cement, or with actual poured concrete to make them solid sounding. Easily another ton there alone, and the kitchens at least 2 tons extra in mass. Tile typically, for smaller tiles, comes as 1 square metre, or roughly 12 square feet, 12 tiles if they are a foot on a side, and come in for some of them at around 100lb per pack. Add in needing 50lb of grout to put them down per pack as well, and easily you get to 2 tons plus. Then you get the plumber needing to route pipes for drains and supply, and of course you cannot put them into the unit below, so they cut a channel through the concrete, going through all the reinforcing to get to the stack pipes. Cut and jackhammer the slot, bare steel left there without any form of treatment, and cracks all the way through the concrete. Plus stack pipes in the concrete, being from the 1970's I would say galvanised steel for the ones used to drain the roofs and balconies, and with threaded ends put together with couplers. Any pipe thread sealer would have rotted away by now, and the insides of the pipes as well, all that salt and rain scouring off the zinc, and the exposed threads rusting off the couplings, allowing water to sit in the concrete at each floor, making those columns weaker with time. Likely plenty of plumbing leaks, definitely going through floors. Would be interesting to see insurance claims for water damage over the years, seeing just how far each individual leak spread amongst units through the cracks in the floors. By me there have been some who enclosed balconies, so part was filling the floor, we insisted on engineering consult, and specified low mass fills as well, not concrete, so the majority have gone for Pratletperl, as it is a very light additive, and makes for a thick light screed to cover the thickness for the fill. Same for remodels, especially if you were doing structural changes to any walls, load bearing or not.
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  479.  @knerduno5942  Yes, but they can also drive away from the fire, so not really an issue, as after all they are meant to move you away from what is a very energetic candle. Fire fighters will be going the other way, but all they will be doing is using lots of deluge water to contain it to one complex, and then repair it afterwards.
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  480. Leave it stock factory, change oil on the ardous service timing and mileage mark, and do not take it past mid revs.
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  481. Yes the Pinto was proven safe, but only because Ford brought in the Canadian built version which did have to have those safety features installed.
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  482.  @MikeKayK  Probably they are built slightly different, but I would say they are also very worried, seeing as they share the same plan, the same soil conditions and the same cost cutting construction.They probably are quietly looking into seeing if they have the same failures that dropped the other one, but where the faults have not yet gotten to the same point of no return. A drive through video of the same areas would be interesting, and possibly frightening.
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  483. Steel plate is great, I would be worried about where that nice strong plate attaches to the rusted out original steel, because there is the failure point, either rusting out from inside where the paint got burnt off and never replaced, or the metal that is left is thin and stressed way too much now.
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  484.  @moeron9172  Yes do in the post combustion and post turbine exhaust, where the air is still hot enough, and has plenty of oxygen still to react with it. single injector there, cooled on the outside by the bypass air, and only energised with pressure when at altitude, so that it has enough time to cool off on the way down. Plus you can add in a purge valve, that will use compressed air to vent the line, and as the fuel likely will be solid at altitude, you would only need a little trace heater on the lines, that turns on after reaching 15000 feet altitude, and turns off and does the purge when descending again. Can be totally automatic as well, only a simple switch and light in the cockpit, or a message in the ECAM display, along with the others, and only flag a fault when it does have one. 20l of fuel will last quite a few flights as well, though the tank and pump will definitely need to be in a fire proof housing that will contain any leaks from damaging the airframe. Just going to be hard to fit, avionics bays tend not to have much spare volume these days, you can barely get in there to service them normally, and that space has to be there.
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  485. True, but they probably could go after the companies that supplied the waste, and get money from them, or at least take the shareholders and directors, and strip them of money.
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  486. most likely a way to carry the largest volume over the longest route cheaply, then lots of smaller ships to move it around the Americas, so the cost of small ships waiting is not going to affect transit times. Building a railway will be easy for China, though you can bet the entire crew will be imported labour and machinery, and almost nothing local to the area for that entire build, and operation and profits straight to China as well.
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  487. I worked on computers with ROM that, if added up, was 12k, and the RAM was made from a pair of Mostek MK4007 serial shift registers, giving you 512 bits of RAM in the 2 shift registers. Note bits not bytes.
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  488.  @sdrsignals  Yes, but they likely will be unable to actually show them all, unless the badges are 2mm by 2mm, and you make the clothing out of badges....
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  489.  @e-curb  Yes, but paying somebody to send them money, in a way that actually benefits them, in that they get the money either the same day, or next day, instead of in 14 days, is kind of stupid. It costs companies a lot of money to process cheques, in they have to collect them, so a driver is full time, or is not out actually doing other work. Then a clerk who opens the bills and enters the data, then another to handle all those to be deposited into the bank, and reconcile a while later all those RD ones, and then do the paperwork to have the account reflect, plus send the letter about the bounced cheque, which then has to be posted back, again the driver. Online payment boom, all done, saving needing 4 people full time to shuffle paper around, and then paying for archiving all that paper for 7 years, just in case there is a query. By me pretty much all bills are payable either by direct debit, or by EFT, with no charges at all to the customer, and banks have stopped accepting cheques 3 years ago, because there was too much fraud on them, and the banks were not willing to keep on losing that amount of money. You want a bank account, you open one online, or go get a gift card at many of the big stores and malls, and use that instead. But pretty much everybody, especially those on social pensions and grants, who have a free bank account from the grant agency, which is operated by one of the big banks, for free to the user, for this purpose. Easy to open an account with all banks, including virtual banks and a few nearly fully online banks, in that they actually use one or more of the large grocery chains as the branches.
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  490.  @npsit1  All new ones by me use a mix of cellular modems and a radio backup, because the most common thing thieves do is cut phone lines, though they are also stolen at an alarming rate. Phone company does not replace any more, they tell you tough, and port you to a mobile line instead.
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  491. They did not have a clue after either. I am sure the statute has expired though.
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  492. 160 point check, 159 of which are "is the engine still running" while it is going on the trip through the yard to the car carrier, and the 160th one is that the make and model, and colour, is sort of close to the thing written on the order sheet.
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  493. I got told by an ex railways guy about the railways police pulling over a railways intercity bus. They asked for the ticket book, all 65 seats sold. Then they told everybody to get off the bus, and started counting. At 65 the bus was not looking any emptier, and they carried on counting till it was empty. Then opened the luggage compartments, and there were more people crammed in there. So, called for a few spare buses to move them to their destination, and the case went before the internal tribunal. All had paid full fare to the driver, who kept that extra money. Tribunal and driver is merely told not to do this again, as his union lawyer brought up that they had not specifically told him they would be pulling him over. So the bosses solved the problem, and transferred him to a similar position, at same salary scale, in a tiny railway station in the middle of a desert, which had a goods train every day, and one passenger train once a week going through on the line. He was still a bus driver, but also the station was slated for closure 2 years ahead, because that once a week train did not stop there any more. He resigned, because his commute to work was around 4 hours each way, no station housing available.
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  494. Know a guy who spent 3 years in one, he was not the same when he came back. He was lucky, he got out.
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  495. Well, both sides of the front guides need to be painted, so that Karen has a good filming foreground. Yes long springs are a PITS, but you can probably get them made up for you easy enough, or get a roll of spring wire the right diameter, and use the big lathe, plus a mandrel that is shop made, and wind your own, as the tooling is easy enough to make out of a scrap of steel bar that fits the tool holder, and has a hole drilled through the length to feed the wire. Low speed, lots of lube, and new springs in a few minutes. Use the rattly lathe, because that will put a lot of stress on the tool post and the gearbox winding 2mm steel spring wire. 100m roll should get 2 4m springs out without issue, and only a little left over to make a few scale removal brushes out of it.
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  496. Easy, the doctors have outsourced the patient booking to a call centre. Tell the doc when you see them, not the call centre, that this is going to be very bad for the doctors reputation, and refer them to this video.
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  497. By me all are full service, and your card never leaves your hand. The attendant brings the speedpoint to the vehicle, and you tap or insert the card right there. No swipe on pump, that does not exist. Or pay cash, though they also have at least a dozen cameras on the forecourt, to catch those who do a runner. You see the pictures by the register of all those who have done this, and if they come back security company will hold them till police arrive.
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  498. Or could have simply carried on, and taken the next exit, and looped back, or taken an alternate route after the exit. Not like there is no exit after that one for 100 miles, or the road runs into the ocean.
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  499. However the subscription model also has issues in that once you are on it, leaving is hard. Ask all those with photoshop, with a lifetime use ability, but they are unable to use it on a new computer, because Adobe decided to turn off the ability to register it and thus it will not run any more, unless you pay for the subscription model, which you do not really own. Myself I get along fine for my use case using free alternatives, even though I did use Photoshop for a few years, but the cost to carry on was not worth it for home use. Also some companies actively bought out the free alternatives, and after a few years went to subscription, and you are now locked in, and changing is both difficult and expensive, as they will thwart any attempt to export the work you have with them, using that they have copyright on the software, and also never disclosing how it stores the information. MS did the same, you could buy Office, but now only can buy some parts, and for a very high price, but they will give you a subscription to the full set for a regular payment, but all of the parts are cloud based, and you never actually own it, or even have offline access to your information.
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  500. I did night service in a manual board. 20 or so calls a night, and at 10 the town operator would patch through his lines to me as he was going to sleep, then I would have the outgoing lines just in case there was a call so I did not have to wake him. Day operator was busy, she worked from 6H30 till 16H00, there was a roster for the rest of the time.
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  501.  @cmcull987  Not IT, but pretty much all of the tellers and agents inside have the ability to initiate a transfer, all they need is an account to draw from, and a SWIFT code for the recipient, and 10 seconds later it is done.
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  502. My last written off car was from that, daddy gave his son a 330i for his 21st birthday, and son ran a 4 way stop, totalling my car a week after he got it. Still got the nerve damage to my hand from the impact, and it will never go away.
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  503.  @billmoran3219  Think that all ran out during removal, seeing as there was not exactly any form of seal there on the piston, and to remove it you have to lift it vertical, so that all went, complete with chunks, to wash the arm and the fitter, plus the ground. wonder just how full of tramp metal the hydraulic tank is, and how often they are replacing hydraulic pumps because they got shredded from tramp metal, as normally the filter is after the pump, with only a screen to protect the pump, or a low pressure drop coarse filter. Shows how cheap regular oil changes are, and also that regular oil sampling is worth it, seeing as this machine likely needed both a full hydraulic system flush, new oil pump and a new hydraulic block, plus all the other cylinders and lines are now full of glitter to wear them out. $100k there alone easily, just because you went cheap on the $100 monthly oil samples, and not changing filters on time.
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  504. Will add that South Africa actually has now more households with microwaves than the number of houses with an electricity meter, simply because of the massive numbers of illegal electrical connections.
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  505. The plans are available, along with the patents. The big problem is not making one, but living to finish assembling it, as the least of the worries you have is radiation, the metals involved are all by themselves a pretty toxic group, and the radiation they give off is rather hard to conceal.
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  506. When you move away from "Do no Harm" to "HOW MUCH CAN WE CHARGE", there is a distinct change in service and attitude.
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  507. Take it the missiles there in DC are guaranteed to hit any target they are aimed at, unlike the ones across the Atlantic, which can only shoot down airliners flying straight and level.
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  508. Yes, not to mention a lot of trees deposit tannins in the ground, which discourages other trees to grow near them, so to plant a new one you need to remove a considerable amount of topsoil, and then replace with new topsoil, and tamp down carefully to get the aeration correct, before replacing the tree.
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  509.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  Well, guarantee the grease you put back was a lot more quality than the original, and you probably got all of the grit from the original casting out as well. Had that, take it apart for service and chunks of the sand from the casting was still in there, right next to the 1S bearings that were noisy. Sand all got moved, cleaned, and the new 2RS bearings went, in minus the one side seal, so the oil fitting could still work. then it got a nice fill of synthetic oil to make them happy. Original was something akin to road tar mixed with gravel....
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  510. The small taps are a "just how many of those per banana did you say I need?" moment. But they are great, the most common taps I have broken off in holes wereM6 and M8, so I have broken tap extractors in those sizes. Only improvement would be to stamp CEE and the date on each one. The shorter length and the step makes it more rigid, the step keeps it on the tool post, and the lack of length does nothing for clamping force. Would say it does not need any angles relief on the sides either, button is wider, but the pocket does transfer load well. Plus now you have all the tools needed to make other more custom ones, probably you will have a job soon where these are too short, so need a really long one, which will need a deeper tool to stop chatter, and that would be easy to make now. Next will be a button insert boring bar, to hog out material in holes, basically this one on it's side.
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  511.  @LadyAnuB  Just needs to partner with BigStackeD and have him melt down and cast them......
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  512.  @algdmycuz2121  My BIL would disagree with you. He feels a lot safer now having moved to NZ. When you are front page of a newspaper, which typically does not report on home robberies and crime at all, you have a reason.
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  513.  @jakedoom8807  Problem is that not all countries have a photo ID that is consistent, and keeping that kind of database is a mighty tempting target for hacking. however a cooling off period for new accounts, and rate limiting commenting on them for the first few months will cut this down a lot, but YT is very loath to do so, because ads are sold based on views and interaction, and bot comments are 'interaction' to them.
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  514. Lots of hours idling, and oil changes done if there was $20 left over from buying booze and weed, generally every 50k miles. Oil changed because they looked at the dipstick, and it was a few quarts low.
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  515.  @von...  Yes you have to remember the very first minicomputers did context switching by swapping out the entire job into storage and then bringing into memory the next job. They also stored all registers and the stack in a lot of cases, so your task switch took a good number of processor cycles, really important when your processor clock was something that could be generated by a cheap AM transistor radio, not the modern multi gigahertz systems. A couple of hundred cycles spent grabbing the state and shoving out to disk storage, then the same again bringing in the new state, before letting it continue on the instruction without it being aware at all that it had been interrupted. No multiple cores, massive memory or fast cache. Just a single processor on a few cards, and then a few kilobytes of memory, and some registers in the CPU, along with some slow disk IO to be done.
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  516. Incidentally by me there is a law that distribution of intimate photos without the consent of the parties involved can also result in criminal charges. So she can withdraw consent, and simply wait for any copy to surface, and he goes away for a sentence, plus also loses a nice chunk of money as well.
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  517. Imagine if you went looking for a John Smith, caucasian male, in a place like London, and all you had was name and sex. You could probably end up with more than all the local prisons could hold just using that.
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  518. Competitors gain though.
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  519. not going to worry the police, the bill and cost does not come out of their budget, but from the city. they will simply do more CAF to cover the cost and make a profit.
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  520.  @mrmolasses5366  Mich better is glitter that is blended with itching powder, so that the reaction of it touching them on skin is going to cause agony.
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  521. Still got a half dozen pieces saved from my old job, where they were spare parts for the signs. Now on the wall as a decoration that I power up on occasion.
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  522. My father had a garage in Central Africa. He had a customer who would send his Citroen 900 miles, on the back of a heavy duty truck, for every service. Truck needed because the roads in the wet season (half the year) were impassable for any passenger vehicle, even the Deux Cheval, with it's impressive off road handling. You are not going to drive when the mud is deeper than the height of the vehicle, and going off road involved a few axes to remove the trees, and possibly blasting as well, for the more obstinate ironwood and other hard wood trees. Dry season you has dry rutted road, which is why so much went via rail. Freight in very cheap, deadheading on the cars coming in to load up on copper anodes for export. Now they go via truck, and come down to South Africa to get to port.
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  523. The differences are easily explained by the differences in the blending. Fuel is never made with 95, 97 or 98 RON exactly, but is different components which are blended ( using an actual engine in the plant) to make a fuel that is around ( plus or minus a small amount, depending on the day and just how the output is at the time) the right figure. Your BP ULP and the ADSA ULP might actually have come from the same tank in the same tanker during delivery, but depending on what the actual RON of the rest of the tank ( and whether there was more or less water in the fuel) was easily explains the differences. The 97 and 98 RON fuels are exactly the same, blend wise, just a different additive pack ( or coloured dye in most cases to tell them apart in the tank) added at the refinery. I doubt they are all different refineries, likely all came from the same refinery in the vicinity, and just were delivered to the different garages in a tanker, either branded for the garage or plain white, depending on who was paying for the delivery. BP green tanker if BP was paying, white if the refinery was paying. Here all the same fuel, all delivered in the same tanker from garage to garage, so the BP tanker is a common sight at all garages, even non BP branded ones.
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  524. Belt squeal you can use belt dressing, but chalk works just as well. Tip for the VFD is to make a stand for it, because you will find a lot of other uses where you want a variable speed, so having a nice sturdy wheeled stand for it, to hold it at face height, with a lockable set o castors, a flat tray at the bottom, and a small er one half way up to hold parts, and a hook for an extension cord for power, plus a surface mount 3 phase outlet to plug the motor in. If you want get your brother to take a 2 button pendant, put in a KM start stop assembly, with the VFD inputs for stop start, and a separate speed control pot, as the VFD will operate remotely easily. Short cable to attach, and you have all the options for a simple small remote control, and still have the display readable, or get a remote box and cable for that removeable pront panel, though that will mean putting the VFD in an enclosure, as the wiring is at mains potential on the display. Do not ask how I found that out......
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  525. That is when you ask them for their bank account number, the PIN used to get money out of their bank card, and the login to the banking app on their phone.
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  526. 6 billion years ago there were natural reactors that formed at Oklo, and the decay products, with zero containment, are still there in the original site, and are being mined for the Uranium. About the worst area you can think of for a waste depository, sandstone, with water flowing through it, and still thousands of tons of those decay products are still there.
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  527. Simplest part of discovery would be to ask for a list of all buyers of those clusters, and the in warranty claims associated with them as well. Those reports will show a pattern of water intrusion, even while still under warranty, and will probably be a pivotal part of the case, in that even new vehicles had this, and possibly multiple ones under warranty, thus adding to the case, and possibly leading to a recall. You can redesign those clusters to fix a bad seal and still have original fitment, probably a different plug, and then a short pigtail that goes and connects to the original wiring connector, and a length of self amalgamating tape that is wound around it to seal it, or a shrink sleeve that does the same.
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  528. Helps having a thick armoured shell as well, so that they cannot bite him as well, but he can bite those tender bits in the mouth back. Those jaws will take chunks out, they are both sharp and well muscled.
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  529. Same was said of Dyson, the only product they sell that does not suck is the vacuum cleaners.
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  530. Not hated, but for sure you will find your sleep interrupted by each one every night.
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  531. Eskom board can never be competent, the selection process selects against competent people, as those who are competent are excluded by every criteria the choosing committee uses, as they need to be followers of ideology, yes people, and willing to pay facilitation fees.
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  532. Smallest I have gone is hand blowing fusible link PROMS to repair stuff, though the other crew did do a lot of core memory repair, which did involve using a sewing needle and wire to thread the cores. Only a 16 by 24 array though, storing 16 words of data. There was an upgrade developed, that replaced the core with a Dallas battery backed 16k RAM, which increased the storage to a dizzying 32 words, limited to that because the computer it interfaced to only had a 5 bit address space, hard wired into the interface controller, and while it was possible to modify it to larger, the firmware would have needed to be recertified as well, plus find a spare few pins to bring the data out, and rewire the aircraft to bring it up to the cockpit. Most of the firmware was literally hardwired into it, not stored in PROM, though there were a fair number of them, thus the need to every so often burn new ones, and we had no writer, but did have a lot of blank fusible proms, a test bed to check them, and a large collection of power supplies to do the verify and program voltages. Fun to fix a board which is a solid block of ceramic DIL packages, both sides. The original manufacture method was solder paste, glue the chips down both sides, rivet connector in and then reflow in a Fourinert bath at 300C, then spend a week with Xray checking on each joint, and a 2 week ATE cycle to weed out the marginal ones.
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  533.  @I_Do_Cars  Toyota 4 cylinder engine, though might be hard to find in NA market, as the Toyota 4 cylinder engines are reliable, and will tolerate incredible abuse. Have seen them rebuilt on the roadside, which included putting the old oil back into it when finished, complete with sand.
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  534. Happy to see the alpha male around, and really enjoying that there is attention and interaction.
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  535. You can actually get a pilot's license before you can get a drivers.......
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  536. Still working on that, almost can see half way down it now, and am hitting tupperware of meals frozen in the past.
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  537. Yes the defects can easily come from the tooling, thus will match a good number of barrels made with that tool, over a period of possibly weeks, as the tool gradually wears into another form, or is dressed again.
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  538.  @Razmoudah  Yes, but the tooling is regularly checked, and modern tools pretty much every part with CNC is verified during production with power profiling, so a worn tool is immediately flagged. Thousands of rifling passes on barrels will be identical, not like old gunsmithing days when a tool was used on perhaps 3 barrels before the tool steel needed to be reground, here you have indexable tips that are changed out regular, and each new one is as close to identical as you can get.
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  539. Linkage you are asking about is a universal joint. Cameras would have failed in high radiation mostly because the radiation damaged the semiconductors in the amplifiers for the vidicon tube, the actual tube itself would degrade slower, simply because of the larger mass of the photocathode meaning it would take much more to damage it. You would get ghost images from radiation off the video entering through the housing gap by the lens, but mostly for radiation all you would get was noise as the amplifier transistors got cooked. Same for the digital logic making the video signal, where ironically a few generation older cameras, all tube based, would have survived for hundreds of hours more, till the radiation finally changed the values of the components enough. Those would have been seriously radioactive then, as you would had made a lot of highly radioactive isotopes of all the metal parts, and would have a lot of noise on the video from the radiation interfering with the actual electrode structures. But they would survive short term, a few days, looking into the most radioactive parts of the reactor, provided you kept them cool enough. But the failed cameras, once removed and cleaned externally, would decay back to background levels in a few months, as the isotopes created from the gamma radiation and neutron bombardment all have relatively short half lives.
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  540. The only way to win at gambling is to go in with a small finite amount of money, and expect to lose it.
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  541.  @mwngw  All 3 short term profits, they vanished with all the profits as bonus, leaving the shell behind to nearly collapse because the only thing left was barely a name. But you also have to toss in the hedge fund companies, who buy smaller companies, hollow them out for profit, and sell off the remains as a brand name only, with nothing left of value.
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  542. Rasberry Pi is more impressive when you realise that fully half of the processing power in that CPU is sitting there unused, as the graphics cores are only going to be unlocked with proprietary instructions and licensing, so around half the silicon in there does not even get a clock applied to it after boot, but is just idle. Unlock the GPU side and performance would likely triple, as the original design was to drive a HD display on a set top box, with a snappy processor for the system side, and then graphics that would do HD video decoding and such with ease.
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  543. Took him 5 days to choose what hat to wear.
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  544. Will also bet you that hotline will be mostly unanswered, as they likely have only a single person working part time there, probably only from 10 till noon, and they simply ignore all the calls as policy.
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  545. Those 100W resistors are also only rated at 10W when in free air. To get the 100W rating you need them firmly bolted to a rather large thick heatsink block.
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  546.  @Keldor314  Yes multipath reflections and diffraction off of the sharp edges of the mountain peak, which means the signal appears to be shifted in time with the reflection off the other side, and also takes longer with the diffraction, so the GPS receiver calculated position is wrong, but to the GPS it is still a valid position on the internal map it has of the area.
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  547. Built to railway standards, where the pillar has to withstand a 300 ton locomotive hitting it, and come off with only light scuffing in the paint.
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  548.  @1dariansdad  Get a lawyer, they put a motion before a judge for cellphone location and metadata (remember this is not classed as personally protected data specifically by the US Supreme court, as it is classed as data used by the phone companies internally for billing purposes, so is not protected speech) which will give them all the details for that day. Then at endpoints and traffic cameras simply request footage, and see the renter was driving. Then the civil case goes ahead, plus the renter now also has, after losing the civil case, now additional charges of making false statements to the police, plus insurance fraud, and a few others that can be tacked on. then will also have to pat for the damage to the rental truck, plus the replacement of the other 2 vehicles written off by the renters negligence. That rollover definitely had injuries, you do not walk away from that unscathed, you will have bruises, torn muscles, and back and neck damage as well, just not fatal.
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  549. Best to take the entire sum out of top executive bonus pool, and not out of the rest.
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  550. Should not have the school insurance pay it, let the school board pay it out of their own monies, not school monies, or budget monies, but personally. That will make it so future attempts will be very much tempered by the realisation that the cost of the suit will come directly out of the school board salaries and pensions only.
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  551.  @bdf2718  They could not replace it, nothing else has the ability to withstand the use case, so it was replaced with a blend with some inerting fillers so the flammable volume was less. You can't really use any other plastic there, and ceramics and glass or asbestos fibres are too brittle.
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  552.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  The only thing you have to keep is the original serial number and plate, the rest is replaceable.
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  553.  @rgloria40  Or they moved the incompetent ones to shoreside duties, where they were less likely to kill the enlisted under them, and thus get a reputation for being as useful as a chocolate teapot, or being so bad that the underlings decide to allow the enemy to kill the idiot.
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  554. The lawyer you get can try to get a judge to unseal the juvenile record, as it likely provides evidence of prior intentional acts of violence, and once unsealed the DA will use it as part of the plea deal, telling the driver his choices are take the 4 years, or go away for maximum sentence and no parole.
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  555.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  You can eat steak again without needing a liquidiser?
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  556. Nice that they allow using a generic hub on USB, though even better if the USB hub also had a USB C port as well, so that you could connect a powered USB C hub or dock, and have it provide both connectivity and power.
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  557.  @MicahThomason  Vista was the early alpha of Win7. That code base was eventually fixed up enough that it was released, stripped of all the patches and recompiled back down into solid blocks, and sold as Win7, with a few search and replace runs to find all the "Vista" and replace with "7" on the source code. Biggest issue with Vista was that MS was deliberately allowing it to run on machines that were entirely too slow and resource constrained to actually run it, simply because those were the machines XP was able to run on with sort of good performance. Run it now on modern hardware and it runs well, though not with UEFI bios, but put it in a VM that has legacy BIOS and it is very responsive.
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  558. Very soft magnets there, which are unfortunately known to fail, though there are replacement magnet assemblies for them, but you need an alignment tool to get them in the right position and orientation.
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  559. Yes, and I worked on those systems. Also met a few of the pilots who were there, including the one who came back missing the back of the aircraft, because a SAM took it out.
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  560.  @george2113  Or things that they can prove from DMV paperwork with full confidence.
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  561. Yes, should have required them to pay back the full purchase price of the RV, and clear the financing as well, so the ones who were wronged got the RV for free, plus were also paid to take it. Having that would definitely result in them never doing it again.
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  562. Yup, first the university, then all the funders for the projects, and they will want all the grant money back, plus an equal amount adjusted for inflation, to start these experiments again from zero, and expect payment for the next 20 years as part of the bill.
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  563.  @crazeelazee7524  Yes but often the cruise lines shop around for the cheapest inspection price, take the list of defects and promise to fix them "soon", which could lead to never, as that list is simply filed away and forgotten as soon as they are out of port. Plenty of cases of this being done, latest was UK registered ferries firing all the crews and replacing with cheap untrained labour, because that way they do not have to pay UK wages and such, just the minimum wage for Bangladesh or wherever they wrangle cheap crews from. Often the crews now are not actually able to speak or read English, simply because they never were taught, but are now working with a ship exclusively operated in English.
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  564. They can not, because technically the position already has an occupant, so there will be a deputy acting as head for the next 7 years instead.
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  565.  @libbylandscape3560  Very much so, because in my experience buying a fancy fridge just means it fails in 5 years, about a month after the warranty expires. There are those that tout a 10 year guarantee on the compressor, but what they do not tell you is that the cheap steel they used to make all the evaporator and condenser, buried in the polyurethane foam in the case so there is no "ugly" coils showing, will rust through after around 8 years, leading to a gas leak, and thus the compressor will die. The 10 year guarantee also only covers the motor, not the associated control board, which, as a spare part from the dealer, costs half the price of the brand new fridge you just bought, before discount, and thus after 8 years, when the compressor dies, it also takes out the board, so you are in for a bill about half the cost of the unit new, and there is no guarantee on the repairs other than a 3 month one. Even then you change compressor, and 4 months later the pipes finish rusting out, because they were disturbed by replacing the compressor, and you now have a bill again for the unit more than it originally cost, let alone the $50 it is worth at best as scrap metal. Used to be fridge compressors, at least from the 1970's till 2000, were the most reliable part of the fridge, almost never giving issues till the unit rotted out, or the case of the compressor rusted away. But around 2010 they started to cost cut, first winding the compressors for 100/200VAC operation, saving on copper wire, then changing to CCA wire, because that is a tenth the price of copper, and lasts around 10 years before failing. You used to find small motors were wound with copper, but now universally all are CCA wire, and it is used to replace copper wire everywhere, as it is cheaper, even if the price you pay is not. Just remember that that appliance, you paid $500 for in the USA, was imported, shipped all the way from China, and the manufacturer paid all the shipping and import costs, but the 50% mark up was in the USA. Also the parts were from lots of other small suppliers, so that $500 appliance actually cost under $50 from the final factory, the rest of the price is mark ups on the price, from middle dealers and profit all the way at the end. Your material cost has to come out of that $50, plus the factory costs as well, and a small profit for the actual manufacturer. Of course they make it cheaper, because the buyers for the big retailers always demand that the new price is lower each time, never mind the quality.
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  566.  @dylanwinn3  Volunteers out of the prisons, who were offered free passes of remaining sentence if they did so. None were told it would likely be fatal for them, and they were run through till they could not go any more. Plenty are no longer mentioned in any records. Luna team would have been better off result wise if they had pulled old fighter plane tech out of the stores, and used the tube based avionics there instead, with the simple magnetic amplifiers and hollow state electronics, which would survive the high radiation a lot longer before failing. Yes you need to bring along 400Hz generators for power, but those are common enough, at at worst you could simply grab one of the helicopters, and run it as a power supply.
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  567.  @litigioussociety4249  Yes the series on YT is the real one, the TV show is just a pale imitation of it.
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  568.  @792slayer  DMC built these when that was a cheap power plant, and available with the entire transmission as a bolt on package, so they used them, as they got them cheap, and they worked well enough to demo the car.
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  569.  @MonkeyJedi99  Yes they need to either refund all the monies paid, or supply an equivalent value and condition vehicle.
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  570.  @tman1129  Time to change bank then to one that actually is useful. Visa does, Mastercard does, American Excess and Diners are cards few merchants accept outside the USA, and also not too many in the US either.
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  571. Monochrome CRT you can get to 20k lines with ease, just requires a very small beam diameter inside the CRT, this determines the spot size on the CRT, and you can make a very small spot if you are prepared to have a low brightness. Colour CRT you could get 2k screens, but they were both insanely expensive and a bear to align, and would have colour fringing if you moved them at all, and also would have fringing with any ferrous metal moving nearby them. The most common use for high resolution CRT's was film digitising, using the CRT as a line source and then slowly scanning the film past the line, with a photomultiplier tube getting the video signal off the transmitted light. The resolution possible on the best was better than most film stock. Colour was done using a colour filter wheel or dichroic mirrors to separate the colours and handle them separately, the CRT providing the white light source to drive them. Simpler ones were used regularly to transfer film to video for TV transmission, using a variety of methods to get the video signal off the film at TV scan rates with the film running at 24FPS.
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  572. Got similar birds by me. The Ibis is the standard, but also ringnecks, rock rats and then the geese, peafowl and the blue cranes, and the pelicans and storks. Then you get the kites and the fish eagles.
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  573. The one fibre installer we dubbed Digotel, because wherever they dug, you would find that every bit of brass, copper or scrap steel there, in things like meters, taps, water pipes, house numbers, manholes and such, and even gate motors, would be stolen during the day. Plus they would find every buried service, from water, power, including 132kV buried lines, sewer and stormwater, plus any other fibre or copper service, and damage or break them. After 6 months the city banned them from any further work, till they paid for the repairs they had racked up already. So now 5 years later on they are still not back. Saw one put a pickaxe through a cable, right at the joint. 11kV cable, blew the tip off the pickaxe off, but the operator was otherwise unfazed, the strong weed he smoked made him immune to that sort of shock. Took 6 hours for the metro crew to splice in 5m of new cable to fix it, though power was back within an hour, as they knew the substations either end, and simply moved the loop disconnect point to there instead.
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  574.  @WrenchingWithKenny  You are thinking of old generators, where you can get a failed voltage relay, that allows the generator rotor to be powered all the time, and then the one winding burns out from the current, going open. Thus the draw that will, because the engine generally will shut down at a preferred set of positions, depending on the cylinders holding pressure, so that you would get that open coil in position, and no draw, or get one that still works in position and a flat battery. Alternators draw will be constant, because you have at least one shorted diode, and one leaking one, so that the stator is now always having a current flow. Leaky diodes will not be too much issue, but a leaky and a shorted one causes draw, though normally a shorted diode is nearly unnoticed, as all it does is reduce current capacity of the alternator, and the voltage regulator still controls voltage. Second failed diode kills the alternator, but before that the ones that is opposite the shorted one is getting very hot. Had that before, one shorted diode, just a power supply that is a little more grumpy. 2 shorted on the same power rail it still runs, till it gets hot enough to burn out, which was a million dollar fix to order the spares, as the transformer came as a complete unit, as the cooking would destroy the entire inside of the equipment box, and fixing was going to cost more than that in spare parts. Was standard when servicing any of them to look for faulty diodes, and replace them immediately. I had a row of failed ones, used for spare parts that had not been totally cooked, for the others. My replacement power supplies came as ordinary untracked parcel post as well, despite being the price of a half kilo of gold.
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  575.  @peterbodzak7078  Know of one where they were towing, and did not disconnect nose wheel steering. AC went straight into the wall outside the hanger. Radome came in for a check, undamaged, despite the big 10cm hole it made in the blast wall where it impacted, but the pitot static assembly sheered off, and went through what was behind it. Box, electric control, did not appreciate having a tube pushed through it at the level of the internal chassis, slicing it in half while powered. Lucky there was a spare nose section from an aircraft undergoing major service, which was put on in around 2 weeks. Original one took 2 years to repair, as they had to strip it down to the individual panels completely, to get the damaged ones out.
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  576. My one is also looking at Taz......
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  577. New subscriber, and all great points people overlook. Especially about testing diodes, which people almost always, even experienced mechanics, overlook. Depending on the multimeter you can switch to AC volts, and some have a dual display, which will show both DC volts and the AC voltage on it, so that you can diagnose a failed diode pack without a scope. Others when in AC volts disregard the DC, so you get the AC voltage only. As well remember that there are 9 diodes in the alternator, 6 high current ones that feed the output, and 3 lower current ones that provide the excitation to the rotor, and those 3 also can have a diode fail. Most voltage regulators will have a terminal, or a place you can put a probe, to measure that field voltage as well, so your scope can test those diodes as well.
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  578. At least fix the horn......
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  579. @user-zh4nc1ub1t Yes as said, that boom was around a fifth of the cost to build as opposed to buying new, and the quality of the rebuild is better than the original as well, with much tighter tolerances and much better welds as well.
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  580.  @GrogAdHoc  Load paper tape, enter 5 command bootloader on the front panel switches, then press start on the tape reader, and wait for the terminal to give a ready prompt. Then you can load the actual operating system into memory from the mass storage device. Then you can start the GUI and use it.
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  581. Yes, use the camera to to do rolling violations, using it as an adjunct to a proper officer behind the wheel, and get the drivers who drive poorly off the road with fines. Not to club seals.
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  582. Thank goodness my cat is not fussy about the litter box. Seeing as he was a feral kitten, any litter will do, and he will go in the box no problem, just had to remove the flap so he felt safe.
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  583. You can also use it as PVC pipe weld, as that is the same stuff. Only issue with it is that it softens at around 70C, so parking in the hot sun might result in the coating running on the car. not a problem where Garage 54 is, but will be a big problem by me, where it is currently late night and it is 30C indoors.
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  584. You could say the same about SAA, which was similar to Quantas, and now is not even flying, sold for less than a dollar with a shady deal.
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  585.  @Serai3  Small amounts they do not care, so long as you win less than the average punter spend they will not worry at all.
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  586.  @Meenaia  Went to the dentist day after Boxing day, he works on holidays as well quite often, doing emergency work. Plumbers and electricians as well, The one least appreciated, refuse removal, they came by and collected both Christmas morning, and New Years day, exactly like usual.
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  587.  @threadtapwhisperer5136  Introduce him to getting a upgraded head stud kit in there as well, plus the upgraded gaskets available as aftermarket.
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  588. Also likely she is unable to bring the money into the USA as well, just because she has the account she might not have all the authority yet, like needing to go in person, to get the money.
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  589. You mean GM actually found a dodgier supplier that HF, who had to recall millions of jacks, that failed if you stood on them, yet were rated to lift a 2 ton vehicle. Soper Dodgy!
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  590. You also find a lot of furniture with the "real leather" label on it, but what they put, in the flyspec 1 point font on page 8 of the brochure, even smaller than the disclaimers about price and availability, and the return policy and warranty exclusions, is the type of leather used. Seat and back might be real leather, perhaps even from a cow, but the bolsters are horse leather, and the sides, rear and any other parts with a leather cover are actually fake leather, or vinyl embossed to look like leather. Thus only 2 hide sections per seat, and the rest is cheap fake, but your price is based on them both having real leather all over, and that the interior is actually made from real wood, not just made from pressboard cut into strips and used in place of the wood, and with urethane foam to fill in the rest of the volume.
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  591.  @JerryRigEverything  Well, going offroad in the cyber, you will be thankful for the Humvee, as it will be able to tow the cyber out when it gets stuck. Make a note to take along both some heavy duty straps, and turnbuckles, so that you can pull hard on the cyber chassis at multiple points, so you do not rip parts off. Plus as well some mats, to place on the ground, so you do not get too muddy and wet.
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  592. I worked with a guy who did aircraft tyres. His test station for the first inflation was a concrete room with 3 foot thick walls, with a blast proof steel door, and a roof designed to blow off in case something went wrong. Nicely far away from anything else, and he made sure that he never had to call in to get the roof replaced because of a fault he did. Those old aircraft tyres are sought after by farmers for agricultural trailers, simply because they are so tough that even driving through heavy thorn bushes will not puncture them, your tractor might need a patch on the big drive wheels, but the steering axle with those on will never puncture, though they are not street legal at all. But for the farm tractor perfect, lasting for many years.
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  593. Funny enough by me last time I was looking to change VW CV boots the cost difference between getting just the boot and the clips was only around $3 less than buying the complete CV joint itself, and as a bonus you get a new CV, grease, new nut and about a half hour saved per side. Just undid the nut, lifted the car, took wheel off, then undid the ball joint, tapped the CV loose from hub, popped it out and tapped it off the shaft, then new ready greased CV went on, and 5 minutes later I had it in the hub. Old joint was just scrap then.
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  594.  @mamaitaliano9774  I think the home in a trust can be defeated, as it can be claimed the placing of it in a trust, with the person in control of the trust, was a deliberate act to hide assets, and to evade the law.
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  595.  @NicholasRehm  Not likely, just that the computer systems are probably only going to be Intel 386 based at best for the core of the ISS, as those are currently the only, aside from some Motorola and MIPS parts, of around equal speed and complexity, parts with space grade reliability available, Laptops and other stuff they handle by having multiple devices, so a radiation induced failure is not terminal, and they do repair a lot of them by swapping parts around common devices. Remember most of the control software is either running on redundant hardware with error correction, and no method to update it, or is running older versions of operating systems that are different enough that your common malware will not run on them. However nothing stopping somebody from doing a Stuxnet style attack, though that requires intimate knowledge of the systems and how they are connected.
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  596. I lived in a town where you could predict the weather for the entire year as being light cloud, going to a maximum of 41.5C at 2PM, and it would be true all year round, except for the odd day or three every 20 years. Second hottest place in the country, the record was held by a place appropriately called Hotazell, which got to 41.75C in summer on average, with the odd days of 42C.
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  597. A lot of the deaths are hard to confirm, after all if you were a tank crew who got volunteered for a game of turret tossing, there is likely nothing left to identify you were ever there, unless they scrape the DNA off the inside and see if you were a match.
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  598. Bet now it is fixed the replacement machine will be put off for another decade, and you will see this machine come in again for repair. But a nice job there, looks like it was just off the factory floor, aside for the plate at the end.
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  599.  @mike-sk2li  Still liable, in that they did the wrong apartment, at a minimum they owe money to resolve that. Saying he was not on the lease will make it harder to rent out, in that all prospective tenants will also wonder if they will have the same occur, with the management company simply losing the paperwork as excuse as well.
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  600.  @zgelrevol9682  Still not going to be any sort of delay noticed, as all of these programs will fit into the L1 cache in their entirety, and thus will all execute in 8 bus clock cycles, and the biggest delay will be all the calls to the L2 cache for the DLL calls, likely cached there as they would be needed for other processes all the time, plus would have been called to load the EXE itself. The biggest delay would be the tens of thousands of CPU ticks that it takes for the glacial slow (to the CPU, which would context switch after the initial burst of calls as the process is now in a wait state) IO process to both graphics memory, and to the GDI instance to draw the window on screen. Probably all versions will have the window open before you have lifted your finger off the keyboard, and before the keyboard has sent the key lift code back to the south bridge keyboard controller itself. You might see a timing difference if you used a copy of Windows 98 (likely this code would run on it, though you would have to explicity use 16 bit code and change the linked libraries to ones that 98 worked with, and if you went further it would run on Win3.0 as well) on an original Pentium 25MHz, where you could literally see windows being drawn on screen, and Win98 would run very slowly.
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  601.  @llCoupDEtatll  Yes but can be extradited to the USA, especially if he does a similar crime in Pakistan, in which he will beg for the extradition. Unless he already got a fake ID and is back in the USA already. Not exactly difficult there. He could even have done a sham marriage to some US woman, and gotten a green card under that fake name already. She only finds out when she goes to marry, and finds out she is already married.
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  602.  @MoraFermi  Not necessarily, they can cut the cage, remove the rollers, and then regrind the races to fit oversize rollers, and put in a new cage. Cheaper than a new bearing, and you can still reuse the cage if you simply prepare it and weld it up again on the cut. Big cost saving on those large bearings to recondition them, and provided you have not let it get too worn, you get a good number of refurbishment cycles as well before you need to replace them.
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  603. Friend of mine in military was in transport. Had a military vehicle involved in accident, and a predatory towing company scooped it. He went there next day and asked nicely for it back, and got the massive bill, plus attitude from them. He left, and came back to base, and talked to his boss, and then went and got the wrecker ready, and arranged for 15 security squad members, fully armed, with bulletproof vests, rifles, tear gas, stun grenades, and attitude, to come with in an APC as well. He walked in, with them basically swatting the entire yard, rifles aimed, and putting everybody on the ground with hands behind backs. Then told the tow company they had 2 options, either sign this here release saying zero charge, or they all would go to military prison in the APC, and the vehicle would still leave on the wrecker. Sadly they chose option 1, as security was really wanting to do serious damage to that building, as a urban assault training exercise, and live tear gas grenades, instead of only dummy practise on an abandoned building they normally used. Funny how the attitude of the owner changed with 6 people in armour in his office, all pointing live weapons at him and his staff. Zero consequence if they had, against the law to tow a military vehicle under any circumstance, without authorisation from the controlling base top brass. Even the police will not do it, until they have gotten an OK back to do so, even to pull to the side of the road.
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  604. Yes, they would get sanctioned, but even worse is that most judges would then also be inclined to not give them any leeway in cases, making them lose more on technicalities as well.
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  605. Entirely possible, they just needed to mistype a card number to get a valid card, or an employee got your number to use to rent out vehicles for his buddies to use them as Uber vehicles.
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  606. Converting is simply a matter of replacing the clone Ranco thermostat with the appropriate fridge model, or retrofitting a digital controller and contactor into the space. then you have both digital readout, and the ability to have it go from fridge to freezer as required, plus the advantages of cheap digital thermostats being programmable for things like on delay, hysteresis and having open circuit sensor protection.
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  607. Actually pretty common in a lot of bridge designs, they are unstable when you lose a critical structural member, so will collapse till they reach a stable point.
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  608. Because then politicians would be found out about all the side deals and other illicit things they do, because their opponents would be doing FOIA on them all the time, day by day, looking for that.
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  609. Customer just carried on with foot flat till the last cylinder gave out.
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  610. They think they save money, which short term they do, but long term it is really expensive. Bet they also complain the ute needs an oil change every 15000km, then complain that, because they drive on dusty roads, that the engines and drivetrains are worn to nothing after 100 000km, because they never actually serviced them using the right schedule, which is in the handbook, and is 5000 km. 15 000km is if you drive on tar freeway, no dust, no dirt or water, and never stop running the vehicle except for servicing. But this will get it out of warranty, and then you buy a new engine, or buy a new vehicle, both profit for the manufacturer.
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  611. There is an EPA fine for that, so you can easily make it a federal case. They hit during the day, drive in in a van, park, open the side door and slip out with the cans. Then 5 minutes later pull the full cans in the van, close the door and drive either to another spot, or drive off. All it needs is to have working cameras at all entrances and exits, and have them have to stop at a boom for a few seconds entering and exiting, so that you get good video of the vehicle, driver and number plates. Front and rear, and when you get the cases look through the footage for the matching vehicle next to the car, and look up the plates. Then if they used false plates also have a link to some ANPR, so that you get fake plates flagged driving in, and catch them fish in a barrel style on the way out. Probably pay for the system in collected parking fines that were ignored within a year.
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  612. My father was scheduled to go bomb over Hamburg, but only made it as far as the Bodenzee, where he woke up in an Austrian hospital 6 weeks later. Only reason he was there was the coroner detected a heartbeat, so he went up into the hospital, where they put him back together. All he remembered was the aircraft being on fire, and his parachute on fire, and him telling the crew to bail out. The Austrians told him they found him 2km from the wreck, under a pine tree in a snow bank, and they had been pulling bits of pine tree out of him for a few weeks.
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  613. That is called waste spark, when the one plug fires on the exhaust stroke with another on the firing stroke. Saves needing 2 extra coils, and a transition between a distributor and a single coil per plug system. The canopy is great, just make sure to fold down every time, because they, despite the hold down pegs and ropes, do like to go off and fly away. Did stop one once, though it needed 4 of us and a screwdriver, the screwdriver to hold it sort of together, because the one middle arm snapped under the strain of the sudden wind and rain storm. It did not survive.
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  614.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  Time to make some casting moulds, and make CEE shaving epoxy coasters. Those should sell well, as you have enough chips to work it. That way you can have a sideline with Karen doing the odd batch of them.
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  615. Or more likely there is evidence that their internal IT had been complaining about poor security in the computer systems, and that the likely outsourced IT helpdesk was the ones who let the breach occur. Insurance likely not to pay out, due to the helpdesk not following the correct procedures, or they had outdated or incomplete procedures.
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  616. My mother was collected 5AM, taken to the one already chosen, and then went to be washed, and then after the viewing into a plain coffin and straight to the crematorium. Funny thing is the most expensive coffin there is actually the one made from plain pine and cloth, no nails, no staples and no frills, all biodegradable, most common used for the Hebrew burials, where they take the going back to the ground you came from seriously. But she wanted burial at sea, along with my father, who had been in the house for a few years then. So off down to the beach, and they went out with the tide. All was paid for there, and, once converted to USD, was around $250 all in all.
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  617. Thing is mechanical slide on rod is almost always going to win for reliability, speed of operation and power required to operate it. Solenoid operated valves are at their weakest force at beginning of stroke, which is precisely where pressure holding the valve closed will be at it's highest. As well fast operation means high current, and thus a lot of heat, in an already very hot area, making electrical failure very likely very fast. Connectors at that temperature and oil splash are not cheap either, for reliable high current flow, and are going to become very brittle very fast. Imagine having to change 4 actuators and wiring harness, per cylinder, every 50 000 miles as a "service part", because they will fail some time soon after that, killing an expensive engine controller as well.
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  618.  @jmdelapp  Hopefully you also reported them to the appropriate authorities that the signature on the documents was not yours.
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  619.  @outlawbillionairez9780  So just how many murder charges did he get.
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  620.  @0Triskelos0  A well trained horse will either go outside, or ask to go outside first.
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  621.  @bostedtap8399  That is why he records it, so he can look it up later on. Common on big machinery to have all the people using the phone to record photos of parts as they come off, so that you can put them back later on in the right place. Helpful if you have a cable with 200 cores in it, all with faded numbers. Roll of fabric tape and a permanent marker worked well.
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  622. T%he people of the town pay for all of it, as their taxes get used for this.
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  623. Which is why I will swipe for people who are in line with me that do not have the card, to both get them any discounts for shopping, and also to mangle the data collected. The one large big retailer has records going back on me to at least 1990, full, including the price paid. Useful to do warranty claims, as i just give the card and approximate purchase date, and they reprint the slip and see if it is still in warranty, which then gets a repair or replace done.
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  624.  @MrGonzonator  The losses are to a first approximation constant, so the heavier the load the more power output, and thus the ratio that these losses contribute per kilowatt are less. IC engines are most efficient at a pretty high RPM, but unfortunately they rarely spend much time in this regime, unless you have a hybrid powertrain or a CVT that tries to keep engine RPM constant, where you can have a lot of design optimisation that makes for a very efficient engine over a narrow range, but abysmal performance out of it. Most common on 2 stroke engines with a tuned exhaust, that has a very narrow power band, with impressive output, but a relatively poor performance outside that spot. If your engine is going to spend all the time either off, or at peak power, it can be very efficient as power source, though hard to use for a variable load like driving, but for power generation exceeding good, provided you always have a near full load on it.
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  625. They likely had an order to clean, and to rekey, so either had a locksmith come in to open and replace the key, or use the quickset to change the key bitting, or they had a set of keys for the complex, and were doing this to update and keep the ex tenants from returning. In any case the cleaning company should have moved the contents to storage, either by the company, or a rental unit they hold for this. Toss in the street is going to cost them big time.
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  626.  @volf4o  Funny thing is that when BMW took over Rover, they finally had a Rover engine that did not leak like a sieve from new, and the only started leaking after a high mileage. Maintain a BMW well and it will never leak, it only starts when you do not keep up on the little things and neglect regular oil changes. Seen plenty of BMW's of all types well into the 200 000km mark where, because of regular maintenance, the engine is still oil leak free and runs well. Of course that is only now for the first 7 years, while the vehicle is in Motorplan, as the dealership will keep it nice, and bill BMW for all that gravy work. After the Motorplan is over you will cry at the cost, though the good thing is that there are plenty of aftermarket suppliers of parts that will fit the engines, some of them coming from the OEM themselves, just not supplied in the BMW bag and box, but otherwise identical parts.
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  627. If this passes then Coke, Pepsi and all fast food places better start to worry, in that it is very easy to prove children are addicted to the product they have as well.
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  628.  @SpotTheBorgCat  Friend sold a hotted up VW, and that same evening the new owner wrapped it, and himself, around a freeway light standard. Light standard survived, the rest did not.
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  629. They would be 3 phase transformers, so the 6 diodes in the rectifier module would be under a lot less strain than if it was single phase. As well with 360Hz ripple current the capacitor bank ( probably rated for 800VDC and running at around 600VDC in use, using 400VAC phase voltages, as most IGBT devices are 800V rated) can be quite large, but the ripple current will be low for the power. More for riding out short mains power failures, and still having enough energy to safely brake the car string to a stop even if the power goes out totally, than to store the energy to drive it. The power required is I would guess around 500kW peak, but only in bursts, and having 2 big transformers is to have redundant network connections so one going down ( or being off for maintenance) does not stop the ride. They probably have separate rectifiers, fuses and only connect to the main DC bus via some big fuses. Smaller transformer is probably only powering the ride lights, aircons and the park area around it, not the ride direct, though it might do the control room and passage lights. Cooling fans for the ride will be powered from the big transformers, 400VAC 3 phase motors are very much more reliable than 120VAC single phase ones, and can be much smaller for the power output. You would also have associated with the ride a very large force air cooled resistor bank, to dump the power the linear motors absorb when they are used as brakes. In that control room you will have a resistor bank capable of dissipating 1MW or so of power, though it only has to do that at the end of the ride, or on emergency stop conditions. It will be direct on the DC bus, and use another big power controller ( more IGBT modules) to keep the bus voltage during braking from rising too high.
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  630.  @dtester  Yes since the new owner would also be a member of the suit, and he will in turn sue the seller for the new value of the property, and also the original seller will be on the hook for at least a decade on the replacement trees. Not likely after the legal fees to have any of the sale money left at all.
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  631. Diesel oil in a petrol engine is fine, the extra detergent will remove a lot off sludge and varnish off the engine, though you would be advised to do a second change of oil and filter after a short interval, probably around 300 to 500 miles, as the oil filter will be full of all the sludge and junk removed if this is the first time. Lots of farmers only keep one oil on the farm for all vehicles, and it will be for the diesel engines, the rest get the exact same oil. Knew one who when we looked into the cover that top end looked like it was barely out of the factory, despite the vehicle, VW Golf, having been driven for over 200 000km already, and it had been getting farm oil changes only for the last 3 years or so, being a second hand vehicle bought for the son, and had come with a lot of sludge in it. 20W50 was the oil needed, but all got the same SAE30 HD3 diesel oil, that arrived there in 55 gallon drums.
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  632. Wonder if they actually have insurance, seems like the one thing that might fall through the cracks to pay, as after all it does not bring money in......
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  633. Likely because that does not result in politicians getting their name in the news.
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  634. Yes front to get to the filter, and there is a nice hole by the drain to get it out as well.
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  635. Yes all the HOA has to do is file the claim with Uhaul in small claims, and when they do not show up, and the HOA gets the default judgement, they simply go to the local bank Uhaul uses and give them the garnish order. Uhaul will find the renter fast enough, and use the card to recover the money, plus tack on extra charges for damage to the truck as well.
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  636.  @rmanbike  Unless it was a really big basement, you fell way below the volume that is needed to call it mining. This is, as Steve said, 500 000 cubic feet, so you either excavated a basement big enough to fit a bunker complex in that holds 500 people, or you have a house with 500 bedrooms, and a multi floor basement with parking as well.
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  637. Little chirp sounds as well. My one does the same, i just have to remind him that those ibis are bigger than him, and have long beaks, and that the monkeys are also bigger, and have much bigger teeth as well.
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  638.  @ChernobylFamily  Yes old vidicon tubes would develop a shadow where the screen was illuminated the brightest, and CRT display tubes would do the same, to the point you could read the old menu it had on them even when off. Had a few in CCTV use, and the monitor had eventually a ghost image of the area burnt on it, that you could see even when off as it left a dark inverted image on the grey phosphor screen.
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  639. Only the customer support and service techs feel unhappy, the C suite still rolls in the cash, and do not care about the peons under them, who, collectively, make less than a weeks worth of their pay in a year.
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  640. Love the successfully met none of them quip......
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  641. Water hyacinth is a delicacy for all carp. Only way to keep them from eating it is to use a loop of pool noodle, and some mesh as a bag, so the roots are mostly protected. Otherwise they will eat the roots, then the leaves, and you will have the odd floating bit.
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  642.  @keithmichael112  True, but remember this is a suspended sentence, so caught using one, and the person would be, even on the last day, be sentenced to whatever the original sentence is, and another 5 years for contempt of court. So 15 years in prison.
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  643. Pretty reliable, once you remember the correct operating condition for the contacts. They run best with 24V across them when open, and 20 to 100mA of current when closed, which helps by keeping the contacts free from oxide, as they wipe across each other, and this make good metal to metal contact. You get a totally different switch, with thick gold contact faces, for low level signals, such as those from the hundreds of thermocouples and platinum resistance thermometers that were used to measure temperature, and the hundreds of bridge type pressure transducers as well. Those AZ-5 switches look like they break before make, so while you operate there is a brief period where all contacts are open, so as to prevent shorts. Others will be make before break, where you do not want interruption, while say changing the range on a meter. The mirror galvanometrs are very interesting, with them not only showing up as readout, but also being a simple interface to the SKALA system to be able to input state information without needing complex extra converters, and also associated programming on them as well to set limits. Just built into the existing display, annd an easy way to show if nominal, or which way the deviation is. Likely there is a further phototransistor there that also acts to inform that the lamp has failed, and print it out for a repair operation. 28VDC lamps, run on 24VDC, probably with a series resistor as well, so as to drop voltage to around 22VDC, so leading to greatly increased lamp life. The type of lamp is classed as prefocussed beam, as the optical path is fixed in the lamp construction, so that in use no further focussing is needed during changing the lamp, as all of them are adjusted in the factory to have the filament in exactly the same orientation and plane, so you simply swap the failed lamp out, and close the panel up.
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  644. Chief was getting some.....
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  645. Available very cheap in Ukraine, only one one owner, needs a new paint job, and ready to restore, once you collect all the pieces of it after the drone hit.
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  646. So the thing to come from this is that mercenaries will work for whoever pays them, and non payment will result in them sending you a message for payment.
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  647. Yes storage units tend to have lots of cameras, and if they cannot show the footage of the renter, they can be assumed to be involved.
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  648. _Plus you can can lard and fat, or vegetable oil, and the cooking during the canning provides a great deal of shelf life as it sterilises the inside contents. Often you also would find corned meat that is half fat, and an enterprising cook will render that fat out, and save it for the next meal instead, so getting a good deal more out of the single can. Canned beef, canned horse, canned chicken, canned pork all would be there, along with the canned hard tack as well, and square cans, as those packed better, even if they were more difficult to make in a factory.
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  649. Friend landed up in hospital after that. Go visit him after the day, and he asked just one thing. Take the shop van he drove to hospital with, drive to the base, get the section keys out of the duty room, and go into the locker room, get his clothes, his car keys, with his room keys, and most importantly his cigarettes and wallet. Did that, left the work van at the gate inside, and drove his car back to him. Next day got off the bus at the gate, and drove the van back to the section for his boss. 2 weeks later discharged, after giving birth to a 5 pound baby. Doctor tried enema, soft food, safe laxatives till eventually RN grabbed him, told him to swallow this, and to never tell the doctor ever. Rough and tough laxative, normally given to horses to "get them moving", and an old home remedy. 3 hours later Atlas moved the world.....
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  650. I entered a competition, and won a waterbuck. Bit bigger than a cow, and it was cut in half, but both halves still were dragging on the cold room floor. local butcher did the preparation, and there was around 800kg of wet meat after preparation, as I had to also pay for 2 pigs worth of fat to add to the sausage. After drying (a whole garage of wire, paper clips as hangers, and a 2 week wait) there were a good number of garbage bags of decent dried meat, even though the cat got in there and had eaten it's own weight in the wet meat. Around 200kg of dried meat for each of us, and it took 2 years to finally finish all of it. Coworker won 2 Wildebeest, and his solution, same butcher to cut it up, was to simply order 6 chest freezers on his account at the local shop, and filled them to the brim with the packs of meat. Still not enough space, so we all had a nice set of steaks for a week, because the garage was now filled with freezers.
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  651. Tastes about as similar to cheese as a cheap hamburger helper filled pattie tastes to the finest fillet. there are cheese spreads that do contain real cheese, they do taste a lot better. I just like the real thing though.
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  652. If you watch Australian dashcam channels you will find out that not many drivers actually can drive, and also that there is a distinct lack of enforcement.
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  653. It is organised crime, in that there was collusion between the parties to defraud the estate. They should all be charged with fraud and racketeering, and as part of the sentence the buyers should lose the house, to be auctioned off by the state to pay the estate the shortfall from the original price, and the squatter should be fined the $140k he wanted to get.
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  654. Surrender and live, in a conflict where you were conscripted in against your will.
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  655. There are actual standards for laundry detergent, often the ones the military have set out for their buying, and NIST has both the standard laundry load, plus the standard detergent dose, available for sale. Same for toilet paper, the standards cover things like dry strength, wet strength ( plus times, amount of water per sheet and such) and the amount of time it should take to dissolve as well, so that it does the job, but also dissolved in the sewer system to not create blockages. Note that washable wipes do not actually dissolve, they stay intact, and are the major cause of sewer blockages, along with sanitary pads and tampons. Those should be disposed of as dry waste in the household garbage.
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  656. Poor train driver, that is a traumatic thing to have happen. I knew a few train drivers, and one went on pension at 35, because of the union, because he had his full allocation of deaths. 6 incidents, and you are on pension, with full benefits, and increases at the prevailing rate as well. Train drivers cannot stop in time, and cannot steer, but are responsible.
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  657. The RAM chips have a weak NMOS transistor in them, which is tied to 12V, to act as a pull up, and to also supply a low current, as it is a very small channel device, so it has a high resistance. Smaller than using a polysilicon resistor, and as a bonus when at 12V it also acts as a clamp diode to prevent overshoot. The 470R resistor is there to damp down the transmission line of all the chips together in a long row, dissipating the spikes that would otherwise drive the chip inputs into clamping to the power rail, and thus also having a chance of turning on the parasitic PNPN thyristor inherent in almost every IC. Made by the junctions used to isolate parts, and, while the transistors made in that way are very poor, they do normally have a gain a tad over 1, so the 2 PNP and NPN structures can act like a thyristor, as they will latch themselves on, shoring out the power rails, if you exceed the allowed input current, typically 100mA, but in the data sheet you will see in absolute maximum 50mA, as pretty much all will not latch up at 50mA unwanted input current into the internal protection diodes that are part of these transistors. The resistor, along with the capacitance, damps down the rise of the enable pulse, and you still see this on your DDR memory, as resistors, typically 10-33R, in tiny arrays on the address and data lines to the DDR sockets, normally 4 resistors in a tiny package, that perform this function, though a lot of the DDR chips themselves also incorporate the resistors into the die itself as well, as that improves the speed at which it can operate. Done on all the address, control and data lines, turning them all into transmission lines, so all have to be the same length, so as to not skew the data applied, as 10mm extra trace on one line will mean you lose 100MHz, or more, in maximum clock rate you can use, as the chip will start to get errors, as the data or address does not arrive in step on all pins.
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  658. Not really, the field would very likely also affect operation of the craft itself, so much simpler is simply to have light mass shielding, or something that you need to take with do it as well. Most likely thing is that there will be a water tank that is also a shelter, with the water acting as shield, and also the required food rations can do the shielding as well. Probably there will be a thermal shield used on the spacecraft that does triple duty, acting as sun shield, and also as a micrometeorite shield by having multiple thin metallised mylar layers, and acting as a radiation shield by allowing the high energy particles to impact it, and the inner layers handling secondary emission, then the spacecraft hull itself acting as a barrier, with the rations packed so as to absorb it's secondary emissions. The dried waste would also be packed back into the same spot, so the shield gradually changes from food to poo as they travel along.
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  659. Japan also has chiming traffic light poles by pedestrian crossings, so the blind can easily find the pole, and also the push button, which allows them to cross safely. Chime all the time, which might be annoying to new residents before they become used to it, and a different one to indicate a green crossing signal.
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  660. Would simply attach a long rope and a buoy to the chain before release. Then dump the chain, and rope length will be actual depth plus a little more, so that the chain pulls the rope down more or less taut. Then afterwards a lift barge can come salvage the anchor, saving a good chunk of money for the owners, and keeping from getting a fine from the port operator for dumping in a shipping channel.
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  661. Well, even if it is a mule the best thing would be to help them along, and embalm them as well.
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  662. Bet he also is munching on the tasty fresh grass as well, just like mine does.
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  663. Because they have a way to collect the money by selling the property on auction. Trash, homeless and crime requires them to actually pay people to enforce the law, and also have court cases for this, but the ratepayers are an easy target who have to pay up always.
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  664. Louis has the perfect sign for Blackberry, right above where she was sitting, the Danger Peligro red tape there. But anything made in the USA electronics wise will also have a tariff cost added to it, because you cannot get all the component parts of anything that are purely made in the USA. Your PCB will use 3m epoxies, components of which are made world wide, and imported to be blended and formulated in the USA, the steel used for the cases and internal parts came from China, India and other countries, the aluminium ores for the parts all were mined, and for the great part refined, outside the USA. The copper came from mines all over the world, the silver used to make the MLC capacitors is a blend from all over the world, the gold used for the plating came from either Russia or South Africa to a great part, and all the cobalt and tantalum came from DRC mines, conflict minerals to a great part, despite the claims otherwise. USA did a great job exporting all the dirty process work to other countries with lax legislation (which is why India is the ship breaking capitol of the world, even the US Navy uses then to dispose of ships that are too expensive to break up in US ports) and lower cost of labour, and this was never actually used to lower prices, instead making the 1% richer, while cutting labour costs, and making massive pools of upper management that, in most cases, know nothing about what the companies actually do, and are only ever looking at a long term forecast of the next quarter for profit growth.
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  665. Also the 250VDC line power would wreak merry havoc with old phone copper in the cables, I had plenty of call outs for ISDN where the solution was to swap the pair in use with another one in the same cable to the local street box, which was actually in the basement of a building across the street, seeing as it was government owned, and the post office used to own the phone lines. they had a few racks of 3M pale blue punch down blocks, all dating from the 1970's, and the 50 pair feeding the building landed up in 3 rows of the outgoing cable, while the exchange side used a few 500 pair lead sheathed cables. Now these cables were old, over a century in service, and that basement was under sea level, so they all had had the steel sheath rot off them decades before, and not really were good at holding water out. So either swap to a good pair in the 50 pair, and hope that it would last a while, or the 50 pair was good, then you swapped with another pair in the 500 pair units, and hope it would be good. You know a cable is bad when you are splitting pairs to get 2 good wires to use, and eventually we were down to having DSL on the one good pair still there, with POTS on all the good wires in the others, and the TELEX line was sitting with the least noisy bad wire, and running with SWER connection, as the sheath was still mostly good enough to provide a common when bonded with mains earth. When cancelling that telex line I was told by them not to return the equipment, as they no longer wanted it. Turns out it had not worked in a year, failing quietly.
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  666. You can, just first have at least 6 months of driving training, which is done at a speedway, under supervision, and with teaching both speed, and control.
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  667.  @Kmac-oh5yj  Going to guess the 80% is so as to not interfere too much with the user experience, as Win10 will use unmetered connections to do a distributed update, sharing the chunks downloaded, and not yet installed, with other users in the same IP range, so as to reduce total bandwidth on the MS update servers having to serve multiple copies, even via a caching CDN, to a number of machines physically close to each other, or for corporate in the same network. Gets the updates out faster, but needs less bandwidth in the large long distance links, by getting it locally. You can disable it, or make it less intrusive, by making all your connections a metered connection, but will likely miss some optional updates, unless you actually check for them.
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  668. Corporate office did the PD report, and local office does not bother to check before renting it out, or local manager has so many of them they ignore all the warnings from the computer, and override them without reading.
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  669.  @SergeantExtreme  Exactly, the buyer had paid, and returned the goat. The fair had the cut of money, but instead unlawfully claimed the goat was stolen, and then had law enforcement come and take the property that was not theirs, and destroyed it. Pretty sure the 4H lawyers have told their clients they are up the creek so far without a paddle that the canoe is also not useful, and that they had better take any settlement offer, no matter how poor, because the court will very likely take them for much more, and also tack on hard time as well. At a minimum they are being charged with filing a false police statement, lying under oath, destruction of property and receiving stolen property. If any of them are in any other way in a job that has integrity standards, they likely also face disbarment from there as well, and revocation of the right to practise as well, along with being terminated without any compensation.
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  670. Fun thing is that the Gameboy also was incorporated into industrial controls, as a cheap easy to use display and processor. There were a few systems developed around it to do things like logging, graphical display of voltage and such, using the small form factor, plus the 32k of address space available in the system, and the Z80 processor that ran it, so you could get simple to interface systems, all in a cartridge and some glue logic.
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  671. Typical cat, listens, and only does if he wants to. Because you stop he carries on, looking every so often to make sure you are there still.
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  672. By me a good chunk of office space has been converted, mostly into student accommodation, as there is a regular shuttle service to the university so having a single set of buses is a lot cheaper to run. They also get used during breaks as tourist accommodation, making good use of the space again, as they are central to the city, and with good public transport to the beaches and other entertainment spots.
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  673. Sports cars, Johnny walker Black, luxury designer clothing, lots of KFC.
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  674.  @argunberkedogan168  Also remember they sank in water a lot warmer, so the steel was not as brittle, as it is a non linear relationship between the brittle failure tension and temperature, with a reasonably sharp transition temperature where the strength drops off rather rapidly, and thus the steel passed all QC testing when at room temperature, but cool it down to below freezing, even slightly, many samples would be considerably weaker. But other seemingly similar batches, with lower levels of impurity, would pass, it really depended on exactly what went into the furnace, and exactly how much sulphur was in that particular batch of coal that was used to reduce the iron ore that day.
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  675. @Today_Im_Living Baking and cleaning was to get most of the oil out of the cracks before repair, as it would otherwise add in a lot of carbon when welding, making the resulting cast metal be mostly iron carbide, and this is not strong, but when dissolved in the plain iron matrix in small amounts it prevents cracks from propagating, by fracturing and keeping it from growing. You have to do the bake and clean a few times to get almost all of it burnt out of the casting, so that your repair is almost the same composition. This casting that failed likely is actually cast steel, thin sections and large surfaces with thin section, which in pure cast iron is incredibly weak and very easy to crack. You make a steel alloy with carbon and other metals in there, which makes the performance better over plain pure iron, with large carbon inclusions which stop cracking, but your material has to be a lot thicker to have the needed strength. Cast steel is lighter for the same strength, and very little is actually made these days with pure cast iron, as a blast furnace only makes steel, and a scrap smelter also really makes steel, burning out the excess carbon and such from the metal, and you add in the desired things, like silicon and manganese, as extra material to the charge. Making pure cast iron is a slow process, not really done, when scrap steel is so much more capable and cheaper to boot.
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  676. Hopefully you also did a video walk around of the vehicle on acceptance and return, which included both fuel state and you handing over the keys.
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  677. Well, the 3 colour tube projection TV sets have a non shadowmask display, though the front screen is lenticular to provide a brighter image in the forward view by concentrating the light in that direction in rear projection sets, the ceiling mount ones use just a diffused screen ( or one with a reflective layer to provide optical image brightness gain to the centre for the same reason, higher perceived brightness for the same CRT brightness) to scatter the image in the room. Line resolution in a mono CRT and rear projection 3 CRT set is more to do with bandwidth of the video circuit, or how fast it can go from one predetermined brightness to another predetermined brightness ( typically 80% to 20%) and then how many of these cycles it can do in a single horizontal line before the difference between the 2 levels is no longer displayed. Thus you get the 500 odd pixel display resolution, which basically translates to the roughly 7MHz bandwidth the TV channel has allocated to it, the set cannot display more lines than that without exceeding this bandwidth, and this is the big reason for the resolution. Vertical it is fixed by the number of lines in the interlace, with the 2 half frames each drawing an image with half the lines, then the other half of the frame filling in the image in the blank space between the lines drawn on the other half of the frame. Overall it looks like a single image, but it is 2 with a line offset between them, the eye integrates the 2 half frames into a single one. With monitors that are not TV sets you can get higher bandwidth, up to 70MHz or more for the last of the CRT monitor displays, which meant you could get much higher resolution, allowing you to use a much finer pitch shadowmask in the CRT to get a sharper image, though the trade off is both more complex alignment in production, more complex drive circuits to get the beam to stay aligned perfectly in all the positions it scanned on the display, along with the smaller phosphor dots meaning you had to drive them with higher power to get a bright image, thus the big risk of image burn on these CRT units. CRT displays also used an aluminium sputtered backing on the phosphor layer to reflect light back to the front instead of losing it in the inside of the CRT, which did not affect the electron beam, but which doubled the brightness, though the thick dark glass reduced this again to give increased contrast ratio on the image..
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  678. That was also sold to multiple others, each thinking they were the collector.
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  679. Hand built, using likely BMW chassis and electrical system, with BMW batteries and drivetrain.
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  680.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  Yes the behind the camera woman is half the channel, with the great work she does. Deserves a little swap soon, showing she can also weld and cut. If John and Debs from Doubleboost can do that......
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  681. They probably look forward to them, a change from the hundreds of normal tests to see if a truck engine oil is still usable for the next 10k miles, or is it time to change it.
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  682.  @Jack_Russell_Brown  That he does like to dig deep ditches, and fill them with "land improvement" material that slowly is released to improve that ground, plus likes to plant trees on those deep excavations as well, to make good use of the nutrients and disturbed soil.
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  683. For one year, then they will be stuck for the next 3.
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  684.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  Might still be partly there by next Friday. BIL had a similar brindle, he gave him some old fabric belt motorcycle tyres, with the beads cut out, as chew toys. Those lasted around 6 months before he destroyed them.
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  685. Not in USA, and here legally you have to provide those records with a reasonabletime to view. Generally the ones looking for them will be prospective buyers, but the law also provides that all owners must get a copy of the audited books every year. Definitely there is crookery here, simplest is to have the IRS go in and investigate, bercause for sure there is shady non declared income for the president of that board, and likely others as well, along with the lawyers.
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  686. Best tip I can give to clean those oiled surfaces is a wooden outdoor broom, which you cut into small blocks, so you have 6 or so out of a single one. Hard bristles easily shift the dirt, and only a tiny amount of solvent needed.
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  687. Explorers are kind of known as a family to be rather prone to external engine combustion, after all they have had a long history of faulty power steering hoses causing fires, and also a good number of cases of turbo lines leaking oil onto the exhaust, and also for wiring looms chafing and rubbing through, or being incorrectly routed.
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  688.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  Crane is definitely not getting the Hayes assembly method then. Assembly is the reverse of removal is not exactly helpful.
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  689. Looked up the last memory there, Mostek Mk1002 shift registers, used to act as a serial store. 256 bits, in 2 128 bit shift registers, in a TO100 can. A whole 512 bits again. Was made from unobtanium then, only now do I see the datasheets on Archive.org.
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  690.  @SAOS451316  Propellers will survive a long time, and the anchors will soon enough also have the chain rust through, dropping them into the ooze, where they will, along with the ceramic parts and the bottom hull, survive for centuries, buried deep in silt, and gradually in limestone. Also things like lead sheathed cable as well, the lead protecting the inner insulation somewhat, and the copper cores doing the same, so the main power lines will still be there in some form after a few centuries, though the steel wrapping will be long gone. Junction boxes as well, steel casting long gone, but the cable in the lead wipe, the ceramic insulators and some of the brass still there in the bitumen fill.
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  691. Attention at last, and so happy at that.
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  692. As well the city was a convenient place to have the operators for the then top secret DUGA over the horizon radar systems, part of the Soviet early warning systems, and this also needed a massive amount of electric power to operate it, conveniently supplied from the nuclear power plant nearby.
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  693.  @sirhcmi3  No, they will sell you a new remote, for just short of the price of the box originally, with the batteries sealed in it. Same remote as before, just they put the cheapest batteries they could find in it, then glued the door shut so you cannot open it.
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  694. Funny how they used to come with grease nipples, and lasted the life of the car, then changed to not having a nipple, and needing regulr change, with now the aftermarket giving the grease nipple again, and it again lasting the life of the vehicle.
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  695. Was wishing the bolts that went back in at least had a few moments dipped in the oil catch tray, and also a paintbrush with used oil would make a world of difference to that suspension underside.
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  696. But likely that will only be for the next owner of the property, seeing as he likely to need to sell the property to cover the bill.
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  697. So 2 posties not have a valid SSN to use, better check your identity has not been stolen, and put a hold at all the credit bureaus, and check you have not suddenly got new credit cards, new home loans and new cars.
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  698. Had a similar thing, except the refill was a blend of colas into the tank, to get enough to get to the shop down the hill, where water was available. Sad thing was that there was an urgent "DO This NOW" recall for the hoses, and the vehicle had been at the dealer for a month already for other things ( minor things, like oil leaks, seat failures, failed electronic modules), but the urgent recall was not done, despite the hoses having been sent already to do it. You know you have a lemon when the dealership people thought i worked there, because i dropped it off so often, and also that it had it's own demarcated parking bay, right by the office in the workshop, right at the front of the long rows of Freelanders, all stripped, awaiting new engines and transmissions to arrive.
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  699. Stronger than most welds I see in new equipment as well, by his needing to use a BFH to break them, instead of just a pinkie finger.
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  700. There was a ring busted where the tanker driver would deliver a part load to a spot, pumped out into drums, and fill up the tanker with the same volume of water. Then deliver to the fuel stop, where the one pump attendant would sign off, and then, over the next night, dump the water out using the water separator. busted because the owner of the chain finally totalled up the delivery and sales for all tanks there, and noticed that this one tank set always was low. Looked first for a leak in the bund area, and found none, then looked at camera footage.
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  701.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  Time to grab the parts off of the scrap pile then and rebuild. you should know what moves, and what is common to get beat the hell out of as well.
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  702.  @666wurm  Could be, I generally only met the expanded stuff as wire, and it was nice and flexible, but somewhat fragile with time. The solid PTFE cable though was very common in high temperature applications, along with polyamide, though that would turn to crumble long before the PTFE itself would.
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  703. No, low background steel is still a problem, unless you go to the expense of taking iron ore and using a brand new blast furnace to refine it, and not do like most common operators do and add scrap steel to the furnace as extra charge. Thus you still need to get the old steel, and vacuum melt it to keep the contaminants out, then cast it into a mould and machine it. Still enough residual radiation from that old atmospheric testing, plus the releases from the assorted nuclear accidents, that you will want a old steel shield, especially if you are looking for very low levels of radiation, and need to have as low a background as well.
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  704. Turned off for Gulf war 1, because the US military needed so many GPS units they had to go buy off the shelf ones, and use them there. Then really never turned it on again.
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  705.  @mwhelan53  Don;t forget that the pins will go back in, though likely this time with a new grease fitting on them, and working grease points to provode lubrication as well. Bet that the body will soon enough move to the grass, where that section will have the junk water media blasted off, and then given a primer coat, so the new body fits perfectly, and no more rust there. Needs to have a good seat in the new cab, time to find a good condition drivers seat from a Toyota Hilux in the scrap yard, and put that in.
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  706. I will bet that if you look there is a product nearly like this that has been sold for a few years already, just the took it, added the "condenser" to it, the UV LED to the front, and a fancier control panel with display, instead of the original simple timer.
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  707. I had the opportunity to watch that air to air refuelling, and it is very stressful on the pilots, even in smooth clear weather. Would hate to think of doing it at night, in a storm, as even in the smooth air the new pilots took a few attempts to connect, and the one finally did so, but was not watching his relative velocity, so drifted to in front of the tanker. Corrected with full speed brakes, and in the tanker we all had a jolt as that pipe disconnected. The valves are not meant to close so abruptly, so the aircraft was gently banking away, nicely shiny and with a instant full wash in jet fuel, to go get into the correct envelope to do an in flight restart, because that sudden blast of fuel had flamed his engine out nicely. 10 minutes later he came back up, connected correctly, got his positioning right, and got his remaining fuel pumped in in just under a minute. You only need a minute or so to fill up, those pumps move the 2000 US gallons needed to fill you at a pretty high pressure.
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  708. It does in South Africa though. There is a memorial to it on the shore there.
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  709. Hopefully they ask for them back, citing that the warranty on them requires a return of the product if dissatisfied, which was on the package in small print, and accepted by her on purchase. Or that a judge considers this a frivolous lawsuit, and tosses it out, with prejudice, and she is left with having to pay the legal fees of her own side. Can bet her lawyer will not waive that fee at all.
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  710. I keep a cloth in the engine bay, tucked up in a corner, so that I can check oil easily, plus it also helps when you need to open any cap, or wipe off your dirty hands in an emergency. Plus also keep a few small bottles of hand sanitiser as well, good emergency cleaning agent, and a pretty good cleaner as well. Keep the gel type, along with liquid, so you have a variety of uses for it.
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  711.  @doubledrats235  Send a cheque for 50c instead, and wait for the letter saying they will send you to collections for the 25c. Good chance they will not look at the credit rather than debt.
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  712. Derek, you also want to go look at other standards laboratories, you might even be able to see the older standards, like the standard kilogram, which is suprisingly small when you look at it in the glass case.
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  713. Or even better fine them exactly the same way, small petty fines to all, and foreclose on them all the exact same way.
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  714. Yours has that high a rate. By me they got the rate to 90%, by simply dropping the pass mark to 20%, and also by riding the curve so that 90% will pass, and then simplifying the syllabus as well, dropping all those hard subjects like math and science. Then wonder why universities have a first year that is essentially remedial school they added on, to weed out 80% of the initial intake, to solve the issue that the government said all who passed could go to university, and they would have the free edukashun. Oh yes, and teachers with multiple cases of having children with the students under them, as young as 12, still teaching.
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  715. All those reactions use cheap catalysts, like pure iron, or iron oxide. However they also need those catalysts to be ultra pure, so the iron used to make them has to be specially refined, to remove all of the other metal contaminants that normally are added to improve strength and ductility, as they can also act as catalysts and make unwanted side reactions.
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  716. Yes, he is going to be billed for everything, every delay, every cost associated, and he will never fly, catch a ferry, board a boat, get any form of job with responsability ever.
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  717. Likely you will find there is one inspector for the entire state, and the state simply does not give enough budget to fix any bridge. Likely the reports are there, but have been put on the bottom of the pile for approval to go out to tender, and after that they go back to the bottom of the pile for approval as well. I would say yes one of the base posts gave way from simply being eaten away by corrosion, and the other 3 simply could not handle the sudden imposed load and failed. The buckle in the middle was likely the last one to collapse, briefly holding up the section, and then the top simply broke where the stress was greatest and the corroded understructure was the weakest. The middle of the roadway collapses also the same, years of salt corrosion that ate the metal away, and with the one side collapsing the roadway followed, and on impact simply snapped in the middle from inertia. Likely the temporary bracing either tore off, from no longer having material at the parent beam to support it, with it having contracted from the cold, and the extra snow load caused the base of the weakened beam to buckle slightly, providing that extra 5cm of motion to tear it out from increased tension. Braces were stronger than the bridge at that point.
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  718. Any other manufacturer would have been using 1mm steel, and the tack welds would have been all the welding done, relying on paint to hold it together. But CEE puts the same mass of weld down as the metal, and double the thickness of metal. Tip for the weld blanket is to grab some clothes pegs, or bulldog clips, to hold it to the extractor bottom. Will help keep the overspray down, and make it easier to clean up. Would also suggest putting an extension cord on the base with the extractor, to save looking for one each time. Long enough to reach the plug, and it will always be there. Cutting saw if it is single phase motor time to change the capacitors, or the start contact is worn out. If 3 phase you have dropped a phase, either in the plug, or more likely in the switch. Magpie swoop is most likely just asking for food, they know you now, and expect food, so are swooping hoping you would share......
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  719. Would be hard by me, the mayor has a APC as their SUV. Not for the armour, just to handle the lard, and the potholes.
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  720.  @cl7510  I would have responded to the insurer that I hope they do not have any art insured, because if they do that then they will land up in court soon enough with any artwork that is stolen or damaged, because it is going to be hard to find the exact same art for sale.
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  721. Running it at 2W, when it is really rated at 0.5W is kind of overdriving it. However it is a proper UV LED, though with the amount of light it can give off at 0.5W of power it is not exactly going to be the biggest killer of germs, unless they are right by it in the unit.
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  722.  @Nostradevus1  No they charge you for this service, a last chance to make a buck off you, after you already paid 3 times the value of the vehicle in interest alone, and again the value of the vehicle in "service fee" every month.
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  723.  @kpdvw  Good luck on that, they probably covered that in the fine fine print, written in 1pt flyspec font on page 11.
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  724. To keep the ants out you just shake borax all over the base of the AC outdoor unit, and on the base of the electrical connections. Redo every year, and you will never have ants again. Same for electric gate motors, I keep a bag with borax, another with blue death and a can of spray for the quick removal.
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  725. Just like financial trading then.......
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  726.  @wadeparent5360  Well, probably still driving with original drums, and brake linings, plus original brake fluid...... At least from the way that left rear locked up, but right rear barely slowed down.
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  727. My father did too, but also had the time to sit and look through the entire batch, looking for those with low mileage, and an absolutely clean interior and exterior. Often they had not even been driven enough to get to the first service, sitting in the lot for 3 years as a mid price rental, in an airport where the budget and top end were the biggest rentals.
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  728. She did not misuse the program, she merely was using a gift card handed to her....... Basically a fine on the part of the DUI person, but a nice source of untaxed income for the assorted officers in the police force to use. time for IRS to investigate this undeclared income by the office, as after all if one was taking them then it is very probable that more were sort of disappearing as well.
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  729. Those couplers are also used to connect aircraft for refuelling, and are designed to connect and disconnect without leakage, even with pressure and flow.
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  730. Insulation can be fixed, just use thin 2mm sleeving, and slide down the wires, to put the insulation back. Those windings can come out though, either there are screws hidden under the paint, or they can be pressed out. The switch as well should still be available, just look for the current model, and then get it brand new. So long as it has the same toggle diameter and body size it will work, they are still being made, or are available on the surplus market, though just as a generic switch.
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  731. Shows they at least put the bumpers out there to absorb impact properly, as the bumpers did the job they were intended to do. Yes granny in the camry was driving inattentively, and range rover will guarantee was on the phone in some way.
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  732. So you went a little over budget on what is the most important part of the crane, and the part that will see the most use, in order to get the best life you can out of it.
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  733. Too bad nobody actually makes a crossply tyre any more, except for a few speciality shops who produce them specifically for older vehicles which need them. Expensive to buy, and with a shelf life, but they still sell pretty much all they can make to the car collector market, and to those who own vintage and veteran vehicles who want them to look fully original. Almost universally replaced with the radial tyre these days.
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  734. Friend went to collect an illegally towed military vehicle, and they wanted money. He went back from there with the invoice, and instead his boss called base security, and he came back to collect. just did not have any money, but instead the base wrecker, and an APC loaded up with 15 fully armed, with live ammunition, tear gas grenades, and wearing full body armour, security personnel. No handcuffs, they were not going to arrest them, the towing company got told the first one to interfere would be shot, and the rest would be gassed. 5 minutes later left with the vehicle. Security was glad for the exercise, they had not had anything other than practice for months.
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  735.  @ScottDLR  Valve recess, the 2.0l is an interference engine, and the piston crown has a step in it to allow the valve protusion to fit.
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  736. The TSA consistently fails the very low bar they already have. She in fact is better off placed in the TSA, at least she might catch somebody.
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  737.  @Ms666slayer  True, I saw a Carrera 4S get T boned, and bent into a banana shape, along with being pushed 50m down the cross road. Driver uninjured, despite the impact being on the driver door. All airbags worked, the driver only had minor scratches and bruises from airbags and the window glass shattering. Despite that, that door still opened, closed and locked, though the 3 day old vehicle was a write off. Fiat Uno that hit him was crumpled up, driver needing to be cut out of it. Also uninjured, because he was both high as a kite, and drunk.
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  738.  @MSP_TechLab  There is, I have even seen the grounding bolt position on pneumatic foot switches, because there are areas which they are used in that are required to be intrinsically safe, and thus, even though there is no electric connection, there is still a risk of a spark arising, so all metal in those areas needs to be ground bonded. Even the all plastic bodied ones have the moulding in them to accept a ground wire, just to hold it in position to carry through the chain.
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  739. Etching as well the areas of steel that have the highest internal tension stress will dissolve faster into the acid, so those areas will etch faster, while the areas that are the most compressed will, due to the atoms being forced slightly closer together, be slower to dissolve relative to the stressed areas. Also any grain boundaries in the crystals will allow the liquid to penetrate, deepening those boundaries, and exposing the darker harder metal oxides there to see.
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  740.  @martinstrumpfer1620  Yes was thinking of Minne who had the same
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  741. Negotiating with customer is a part of the job, and they worked out the front alone is good for now, because they did not want to pay when the labour was very low with no vehicle in the way.
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  742. Subaru engine assembly plant has robotic arms that apply the sealant, so that every one has the same amount of sealant, so they do not leak during warranty period.
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  743. You know why, because I had to listen to it at 2x speed, just to get the voice to sound like a normal Louis Rossman voice, otherwise it was so relaxed you would swear that he really is being relaxed by the fish, and not speaking in his angry fast New Yorker way.
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  744. Why not, all use flash memory, and that is good for at least 10 years with no power applied.
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  745. I use old Chevy plug leads, as they grip well, and are pretty long.
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  746. I would think this is only the fine, there likely is a separate set of 176 cases coming up for the replacement of said vehicles, along with the fine.
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  747.  @safetyinstructor  meant the plane protection envelope was available, keeping it just short of a stall faster than the pilot could respond, allowing him the luxury to eke the most out of the available energy while looking for the crash site. Plus kept the attitude as level as possible so it would not cartwheel on impact. Not denigrating the pilot, but the plane systems did take a lot of the stress off of him, so he could concentrate on the important parts effectively.
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  748. We used to use the magnetron test load for the RADAR set as a pie warmer, as it would run typically at 150C at full pulse repetition rate. Put the cold pie on 5 minutes before lunch, and run your magnetron under test for the 5 minutes, and the pie is done.
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  749.  @willford7717  To be fair to company coffee, it does taste crap even when fresh, simply because I will bet you nobody has ever stripped the machine and cleaned the basket, or even the carafe, let alone run descaler through the water circuit. I do go to a place where they have the automatic machine, and the first thing I do there before pressing is run the cleaning cycle, which puts out a lot of nasty gunk every time. Then select espresso, and then cappuccino, and pour the first into the second. Only ever tried the stuff they call tea once, it tasted terrible, sort of vaguely tea like smell, but it was definitely not a good tea at all.
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  750.  @commonsenseisdeadandgone  That is why, long distance every time, does not degrade oil as much as frequent short trips, where the oil never gets hot enough to boil off the water in it.
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  751. So just how many times did a new hire go in and connect up a 6V battery to the wagon, while set to 12V boost charge. Or set it to boost charge, and go to lunch, coming back to a battery bulging and steaming, and acid all over the floor pan.
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  752. There are plenty of cases of the feds accepting a file, and rejecting it because it is too thin, so the filer simply printed it single sided, double spaced, double size text, and put each chapter heading on a separate page, and every image on it's own page, without changing anything. Making it double the page count, and this one was accepted and filed, never read, or ever used.
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  753. Father in law was driving a wrecker at 14, having started at 12 driving his father home from the pub. When he got conscripted he was 26, and married, with a baby, and was older than pretty much all the people in the training command, including the Colonel. his assignment in there, first thing, was training all the intake on driving, seeing as he actually could drive. From there panel beater and painter.
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  754. By me in Durban South Africa this is sold all over, including all the 5 star restaurants. the one thing you are missing in the spice line is the local variants all include curry leaf, and often star anise as well, with often tumeric added to make it yellow.
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  755.  @mgaus  Should be fined double all the exec bonuses for that period that upper management got, and be required to be paid by them, and also that said payment is non claimable as a tax loss. You can bet that the fine was less than a tenth of the extra money that they made, plus paying the fine also allows them to claim it as a business expense off company tax.
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  756. Pretty sure one of your viwers is an electrician, and is near you, who can do it for you. After all, there is already 230VAC power to the carriage, there for the digital readout, so it would be trivial to tap into that, and put a weatherproof metal Aus style socket on the back of the carriage, there by the connection box, to allow you to plug in the light, or any 10A max item you might need on the carriage in future. As well good idea to take that slack in the cable out, so it does not act as a massive swarf collection unit, and also to get some nylon air line, and slip over the cut cable, before you put the plug back on, to provide a smooth surface so it does not get chips in it, and to keep the cable from getting full of coolant and gunk with time, as those armoured cables are not really waterproof.
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  757. Lot of the dealerships by me do that, video camera all around the vehicle, inside, under, top of roof, in engine bay, then fill in the paperwork, and what is in the vehicle ( spare wheel, jack, tools etc) plus noted on the entry doc of all dents noticed. Then it goes in for service. When finished it gets detailed inside and out before being parked in the yard. Every afternoon at 5 before close, after the service department is already closed for a half hour, and it has been swept and neatened up ,all those vehicles outside come and are jenga'd into the workshop itself for secure storage overnight, so the lot outside is left empty. If they have to park them on lifts and then fit them in , it will be done. Even though there is 24 hour security, alarm and cameras this is still cheaper than having to pay for damage because somebody waited for the guard to be past and on the other side, and steal off tyres from 3 or 4 vehicles.
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  758.  @Rorschach1024  More to handle water than sediment, very likely to have water in the diesel than dirt.
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  759.  @steveg5122  You also get a drop in retrofit that changes the sealed beam to accept a H3 halogen capsule, giving you a replaceable lamp and a glass envelope, though you do run into issues of it no longer being totally sealed. Does however allow you to go to the 65W plus lamps with no problems.
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  760.  @AnonymousFreakYT  Less room than that, imagine living for 2 weeks in just the front seats of the original Mini. Wearing boots and a crash helmet, along with full motorcycle gear, including gloves.
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  761.  @8180634  Exactly, the pay scales they would have to pay them are more than the budget allows, so the posts are advertised, but none of the experienced applicants can pass because they will cost too much. So the post stays open, and that is because they only want to pay for the lowest experience, but want 10 years of experience for that price. Funny thing is that when you look at the entire pay structure, more than half of the money goes to top management and the boards, who would easily be trimmed to half with zero problems in the most cases, giving enough to double the teacher pay and number of teachers as well. But they would rather fire teachers, get inexperienced ones at low cost, and dump them after 2 years for new cheap ones. Now there are no longer new cheap ones, they are running out of ideas, so use legal slavery instead. I know most new teachers would probably be better off flipping burgers, lower hours, less stress, more money, but they think of the job as a vocation.
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  762. Very likely alternator died, and they disconnected it without disconnecting battery, and blew the fusible link when the alternator output lead shorted to the engine block. Then never thought the fusible link was blown. Plus likely battery acid had corroded the wires by the battery, so them twisting the wires together, after finding the link was faulty, still did not give good contact. Thus new alternator, new battery and still a problem so put in a used ECM, thinking that was the issue. Been down that road.....
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  763. Had the same, and the toll authority actually has a form on the website that you fill in, and attest to, that you are not the party involved. They have a department that deals with this, it is so common.
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  764. Thrust bearing will fail, you need to use a tapered roller bearing in a housing instead, which will handle the torque and force with no problem.
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  765. Would have snapped the back soon, as the sharp edges of the plates would have acted as tear points. The keel was strong with lifting from the bow or stern, but very weak in humping, as the plates that hold it together are not as strong in tension. That is seen as it tore in half with the stress just before sinking, when the empty stern was being lifted from the water. Making it strong enough would have cut greatly into the carry capacity, taking up a lot of the displacement.
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  766. Would say that the inverter has to turn on the cooling system eventually, especially at high load after a while, to cool down the inverter section, which is just using the standard input PFC and active power control circuitry, so adding it on was only a software change for the designers, as the semiconductors are already there, along with the filtering chokes, and you can make the power converter stage do double duty just with some clever design. That they make an adaptor is good, but really that needs to have the EV cable integrated into it, using the communication cords to do the output connected sensing, and then have the socket remote, so allowing you to have it actually waterproof, and leading to a dry place. Likely the inverter itself also has ground leakage sensing, part of the input protection, so it will also provide protection against you touching the live conductors, so you do not need to have a RCD in the power output.
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  767. Still got to clear those way oversize calipers and discs. Got to love Alfa who decided they wanted 19inch discs on a car, but 15 inch rims, so put them inboard like most sensible people. Not great for CV joint life though, but much lower unsprung mass made it a lot more responsive.
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  768. Be settled out of court with a sealed record, probably for around a quarter, as MGM will not want the public record to show how poor the internal security practises are, and are likely to stay that way as well.
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  769. Yes, seeing the old ones, and how they spray, and just the difference after they have been remade would be great.
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  770. Bet they will not be sending documents between the complainants via Fedex though.... Easy enough to prove, just put out a advert to people who bought ex FEDEX vans to come to a facility near them, where a mechanic will read the ECU odometer counter, and compare to the cluster one, along with the TCU reading as well, plus general wear and tear on the vehicle. If they find a good number the case will likely go ahead. NJ ones will probably end up as a special case as well, though of course the lawyers will eat most of the settlement money.
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  771. Yes solar still works, and is cheap to make, and every place in Africa has both the brackish water, and enough discarded glass, to make them up.
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  772. Exactly, shortest distance to move the property entrance, and thus the billing entity, as the land itself is likely all one, just had a boundary line drawn through it years ago, after it was subdivided into lots, and his parcel, lot 23 of 55 of the farm whatever, got that arbitrary line drawn down the middle of it, to make the surveyor's job easier instead of a mass of Gerrymandering of the boundary, and subsequent decades of squabbling in court around this.
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  773. One of the uses was as plating on phonograph needles. Still have a part box of them with the big slogan of "Osmium Plated" across the front of the box.
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  774.  @jamescollier3  Not likely, that would involve actually spending a lot of money, that is much better employed as dividends to the activist stockholders instead. They will however cut every division by at least 10%, and sell off and outsource every single thing they can, because that is a short term massive cash influx, and thus dividends, that they siphon out immediately, and also use projections to get massive cash influxes and loans, that also get put in the dividend pool. then after the share price is at a peak they slowly start to divest, till they are completely out at a massive profit, leaving a husk behind.
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  775. Well, seeing as the charts are sold in US dollars, and the captain and crew are Russian, that money was diverted into buying much more important things, like a still to make some vodka, using some of the grain in the hold.
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  776. The law should be that the HOA has to go before a judge to get the power, and that they need to have proof of service on the homeowner of that case. That is the case here by me, with a whole host of laws covering HOA's and COA's, with them needing to go through a lot of hoops to get before a judge. I have been the one starting that, took nearly 5 years before the case came up, and i had sold and moved a little before, but the tenant that was there came to court, absentee owner, and had forged a rental agreement, but the agreement was not at court, because i had phoned the lawyer who said they had witnessed the signing, and asked if he was willing to stand up in court and say he was a witness to this, because i had dozens of letters, hand written, by the actual owner, all signed with his signature, and even to me that signature would not be a match, and was he willing to bet his registration on that. Case came up, judge asked the tenant if he had anything other than verbal, and then told him he had no standing, and 30 seconds later default judgement. Off to auction, where it was sold one day, then buyer came, saw how it looked, and got out of the sale, as the sale was 10% down on hammer, and balance within 14 days, so he waited out the clock, and lost his deposit. Second one bought, came to see with some "assistance", and told the tenant that it was now 4PM, and that at 6PM he would be leaving, his choice would be to leave willingly by the door, or not so willingly, in which case door or nearest window. He left, and after the sale the lawyer for the BC landed up with a lot of money. Went to all the other owners, I knew all of them, and told them to bring all the bills through the years of damage to property they had from the last lot. All got paid out of the money, and the lawyer followed the legal trace route, 3 months get another trace from a PI on the owner, paid out of his money, till the money was all gone. Hard to trace a person when the last known location was Morocco, and he was there not for visual tourism, so was keeping off of visible places.
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  777. Do not forget the provenance of that film the Soviet luna orbiters used, being actually US made film that they "got" from the USA by a rather unusual method.
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  778. As well the question comes of those missing items from boxes, where the notes and inventory is not consistent with the claims of the owners, and where large amounts of cash, coins and such are just missing. As well they could ask for the coins back, especially a person with a coin collection who had some stolen, they want those exact coins back, not just another plain coin, as some coins have value over the metal content.
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  779. The important machine on the desk is the coffee-o-matic, because all know programmers only run when the blood stream is at least half black coffee.
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  780. The difference is that kitchen tools are in the open, this is hidden under water, and the talking airheads at the top, the clotted cream as you could say, figure that, since it has not gone boom yet, it should still be fine till they are out of office, and it becomes somebody else's problem again, and they are in the clear.
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  781. You need to watch Russian dash cams as well, where you have dogs, cats and even pigeons using a pedestrian crossing. None so far have shown chickens though. Amazing is that so many Russian drivers stop at them, while others just race through, generally being right on time for the accident.
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  782.  @DanMcD80  True, because you at least can sell a RV and be done with it when the paperwork is processed at the DMV. Timeshare often enough the only way to get out of one is to go bankrupt and have it foreclosed on. Even on auction they do not go for much, because once you consider those annual fees adding up, a week away at a 5 star resort comes in a lot cheaper, and you can choose a new one every time as well anywhere across the globe. There is a reason a lot of timeshares are being converted into residential blocks now, simply because they are 90% plus vacant most of the year.
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  783. Yes, but there is a big chunk in the middle of the throttle range that is not good to stay in long, you transit fast, because there you will have instability.
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  784. Went from the Rosslyn assembly line, half way across the planet, to the point it met Ray and Eric.....
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  785. Plus remember that the only qualification to be a SOE CEO is party affiliation and unswavering obedience. Actually having an idea what the SOE does is actively discouraged, as who knows, next the appointee might actually think and go against party dogma, and want to have something that works in the real world, not just a set of speeches while the SOE is robbed dry of all usable assets. Then, after every 5 year plan has failed, change the goalposts and the standards, so that the current state is now the thing you were aiming for instead.
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  786.  @Torsin2000  Does not help though when the tree feller is the first party in the suit, and is needing to hire legal help for the defense, knowing they will never get that cost, likely to be more than the damages awarded in court, back ever. Thus the first prove you are the owner, then they will cut it down, but still have the clause about the signer asserts to be the owner of the property, or have authority to order the work. That at least will solve 90% of these problems before a saw even is brought out, and the remaining 10% will give the tree feller a good defense that they did do due diligence as well beforehand.
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  787. Or the old Bedford bus, with the straight cut gearbox, and around 5 inches of play in the steering box and linkages. Did I mention this drove on mountain passes, and the brakes could often be called optimistic, especially when hot.
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  788. Lead you have is contaminated with Antimony and Cadmium, which makes it hard. You need to find old lead, like from an old roof, and melt it in a new clean crucible, then cast using that. Or smelt it from ore, and do it the old fashioned way.
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  789.  @Amberion  Only half, the local police chief would have allowed him to keep a quarter, so long as the police chief got the other quarter....
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  790. Especially as many of them never change the code to access them away from the default, and use blocks of SIM cards they pay for, so get the one number, and you can remotely disable any of the others with ease. A lot of them even do not need a computer, they use a phone call to them, and respond to touch tone commands.
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  791. That skid steer of Ray's will definitely be needed there for a few months.
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  792. That intermittent spark you can easily check that the wires to the internal module from the tiny pick up coil have the insulation fall off them, and intermittently short the coil so no spark. Available as a spare part, though the electronic module can also give issues, especially if somebody used silicone sealer instead of silicone thermal compound to mount it.
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  793.  @ohnosmoarlulcatz  Well tracking devices on hybrid vehicles require special training to install, because the average installer is not too bright, simply because the job rarely pays much above minimum wage, and hybrid cars often have high voltage wiring in those looms, and cutting the wrong wires can result in the battery controller module, buried deep in the battery case, disabling the battery permanently, by remote blowing the high voltage fuse assemblies, which are also not easy to either get to, or replace. Most are installed using no tools more than a screwdriver, side cutters and lots of insulation tape, and by twisting the wires together.
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  794. Boeing did not update the maintenance records, and we all know exactly what happened after that had been done, and this was not the first time it had been done.
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  795. Would say that Saturn is a candidate for brake fluid change as well, seeing as they likely never bled the rear ever, or changed the fluid.
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  796. Or if iti s a problem with a noise when hot the car comes in on fumes.
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  797. I remember seeing the first models of the "upside down Atoyot" pick up that arrived, and were offered for sale. Engine is "sort of" Isuzu, in that it looks identical to the Isuzu engine, but just nothing actually will fit, all are 1mm or so different in dimensions. Drivetrain is also sort of Atoyot, but the thing that is memorable is one of the first ones that was driven off the lot, and as he started to drive the drive shaft sheared off the gearbox, and dropped onto the road, making it sort of pole vault. Turns out they cheaped out on the bolts, using mild steel, off the cheapest supplier, bolts, not the correct high tensile strength bolts they should have used. Had to replace all of them on the vehicles off the lot, as the first model, sent for testing, actually did have the bolts correct.
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  798. Bet there was still at least one pax moaning about the change though, not considering that they were alive to moan, rather than being dead on time.
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  799. My guess was even before the text he would claim the light was green. Bet he now is stuck with points against him, no vehicle and having to pay for a trailer repair, if it was not written off for the damage to the belly.
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  800. Yup, and as soon as you finished gouging the end off, the rain stopped for the day....... Say hello to homie, he definitely is living the good life there, though you do need to train him how to stalk crows, so he can have some real chicken, and not the plastic type.
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  801. Which is why the countries that do not pay will not accept blood products from those who do pay. This has led to smuggling of the cheaper products to those other countries. Greatly reduced chances of transmission is not a zero risk.
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  802. I did drive a 1960's Renault van that had under 1000km on the odometer, and rolled it to over the 1000km mar, after it was over 30 years old. it drove 12km a year, 6km towed, 6km driven. A mobile test bench, which spent all it's time in a hanger, and with a massive roof mounted walkway that made it very top heavy. The 12km a year was for service.
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  803. Those shop made tools look better than the OEM part, and yes that nitriding came out great, lovely surface and no imperfections at all, and a perfect fit on the threads as well. Going to bet the most expensive part was those 4 bearings per side. Close tolerance bearings are expensive, as I have had to order some for machinery, but seeing as the originals lasted 40 years, with no grease applied to them for a long time, due to burst and clogged grease lines, and they only got replaced because one was scored, but still had no measurable play. Those will still be there when your grandchildren are running the shop.
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  804. At $50 to $200 each, they could make bank off them, and not even give any to the Feds.
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  805. Instead of a roll pin put a taper pin, then once it is held tight weld up nicely.
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  806. Theft by conversion at a minimum, plus sue for the cost of replacing every document there, plus the time it will take as well. Then treble the damages. Plus very likely the legal insurance they have will deny any coverage on this, citing they had been neglectful in first of all confirming the correct address, then again in not placing the items in storage as well, as now they can be also charged with breaking and entering, robbery as well.
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  807. So wanted to go and flip it back into the right shape....
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  808. Francois the object they used is a spark plug, which is hard enough and heavy enough to shatter the safety glass there. Best defence is to put in an anti shatter film on the glass, still will shatter, but now they are unable to gain access via the shattered window, as the film keeps the glass in one piece, like laminated glass.
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  809. But hard for them to actually pin it down, as those are not serial numbered, and neither is the packing. All they can go by is that, at some time in the past, those were returned, and the only hard cut off is when was the last time that bin was empty, and got fresh stock from the manufacturer delivered. Might be more than a few years of the parts coming and going when those returned ones came back and were restocked, either by somebody who failed to check, or who was the one who knew they were swapped, but did it anyway for some reason.
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  810.  @ronjurgs9799  That is why I learned whenever I am in a breaker panel to check all the screws, and you often find loose ones where the copper has crept with time. Some of them the only thing keeping the mains feed in was the spring tension on the cable, the screws being loose, and needing a full turn to get them tight again.
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  811. Well, if it is not claimed, and goes to auction, buyer will probably be able to get this cleared as new owner, and original one will have a debt against them, likely also reported to the IRS, who will collect it for them.
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  812. CV joint grease as top up instead of the oil does work with the beginnings of the whine. Did that and after 100 000 km the noise was still gone from the gearbox.
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  813. Scotch loks cost 3c each, but that dime store tape costs 10c a roll. They will use 1 roll for 5 vehicles, and save $1 on scotch loks in there. Do this 20 times and you have made an extra $50 in sales bonus.
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  814. Please explain just how you are going to escape when there is 400 bar of pressure on the outside, trying to get in. Yes no locators, and GPS shockingly does not operate underwater, and in general locators rated for that depth are still covered by US ITAR regulations, so not something they are going to allow into civilian use anyway. Yes late owner was ignoring many basic safety rules, and did not want to test a prototype to destruction, at least not willingly and in a controlled manner, and ignored the stress of running carbon fibre composites too close to the edge. But with the implosion you can be sure they absolutely did not know it was failing, the pressure pulse travelled faster than nerves can transmit information, and the brain was destroyed before it could even start to realise there was an issue. Those end caps though likely are the things they will recover, as they likely are the clue, they probably did not fail, though the attachments to the composite are likely what did initially fail. Rest will be left there, unless they want to bring up the entire thing. Reminds me of Arthur C Clarke's book, The Ghost of the Grand Banks, which has some eerie similarities.
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  815.  @FormulaFox  If the call was recorded, then that person claiming to be an attorney will result in further charges.
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  816. Module staying active because hood is open, keeping the module active, as there is a hood switch to tell immobiliser when the hood is opened, so the alarm will trigger.
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  817. You want the full details look on the Weber Automotive channel for a full breakdown of that EV drivetrain, and what the faults are on it. Great host, a teacher who shows you in a simple manner what is there, and how it works.
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  818. You could start with half........
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  819. Gap was critical with points and regular coils, but with modern ignition systems they are well capable of firing the plugs to a point. Antiseize is good, but yes a thin film, not blobs, as the thread will remove it at the contact points, and the rest will fill the voids, which is what it is there to do, fill up gaps and not allow rust to form. I use a white Loctite anti seize on boats, and where you have corrosion problems, and it works well to keep things from sticking, even in sea water. Boaters that do not use it generally replace motors every 2 years, because they turn into solid blocks of corrosion. Aircraft you use a yellow anti seize compound, which is specifically for aluminium, but it is a very expensive product, and I used it by the gallon. Worked, only took 6 of us with sledgehammers to remove the leg strut from the housing, and it was slathered with that from the last change a decade or two before. No compound, and we would have had to drill out 600 rivets, and replace the entire strut housing, and rivet the new one in place. We did not want to take another month on that service though. 2 in stores though, from the 1970's, in steel containers and in lots of cosmoline. Old stuff was hard as cement though, but the new strut went in with lots of it after cleaning out the housing well.
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  820. Note the disclaimer, because for sure the company now is about to be hit with a trademark infringement notice from the big river company for sure, along with a civil claim for misleading advertising as well. Big river had lots of lawyers on retainer, and some will love to get the case going, as they then can justify the massive retainers they get.
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  821. Problem worldwide.....
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  822. Instead of float switch use electric float switch and an old washing machine fill valve, or one from a scrappeed fridge with water dispenser, which comes as a bonus with all the fittings for that pipe as well. Then you just need to put a level switch in the tank, and control the valve, which makes it fill slowly, then shut off when full, exactly as you want, and the low flow rate means even a fault will only result in the pond getting a little more water in.
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  823. Leopard does not change it's spots, they are so corrupt that they steal, even from the party itself, with impunity.
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  824.  @dunhillsupramk3  The saying is if they drive a propellor or a car with five rings, they all come with cow poop for brains.
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  825.  @Jack_Russell_Brown  Well the one explosives facility has no cleaners, the staff there do cleaning as part of their job, and then the final dumping is done by a hazmat contractor, because there is a good chance the garbage is explosive. Another place the bus driver, a regular municipal employee, who drove the bus route that ran there, was required to have a top secret security clearance, because he drove into a facility where, for operational reasons, all people, including all service people, needed that clearance, or higher, to actually leave the roadway. I was getting training next to a building that, officially, and on all local maps, and many international ones, did not exist, and which was only available off Keyhole and Corona datasets. A few years later looked on Google Earth, and the satellite view of my office was at sub 10cm resolution, and you could read number plates off the vehicles, a good number of them I had driven. Leave the complex boundaries and you were back to the 1m regular resolution. Still does not have a street view of it. There was one group of people who had the official task of moving the dummy equipment, located a few hundred meters off of the real thing, and much more visible over the camouflaged areas, to make it appear, on the daily passes of the Keyhole satellites, that there was action, and misdirection, of the actions there. But a bit hard to hide the Borg cube that was the one facility. Must have been fun to demolish, but it was.
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  826. Yes, on fresh bread, nice and thick. Small jar or large one, lasts the same time as well.
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  827. Biggest impovement was the patch antenna, which placed most of the receiver filtering at baseband into a single precise ceramic puck, that not only was the antenna with a wide acceptance angle, but also the front tuned circuits and selectivity, and with it being a very high Q filter to reject out of band noise as well. Got rid of half a rack of cavity filters and amplifiers, that you needed to keep at a constant temperature, and also a good chunk of power needed for all the amplifiers and temperature control.
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  828. Any area subjected to stress will have had the paint and other coatings either cracked, or torn, to expose bare metal. and this will corrode fast, not only because it is exposed but also because the stress of deforming it has changed the material structure. Thus this will corrode faster as well, as it forms an anode compared to the rest of the bare metal, and thus corrodes. The water tank is still in good condition because, like almost all water tanks then, it was made from copper, and probably still has the enamelling inside intact, and the outside paint is still intact mostly. Last things to disappear, aside from ceramic parts, will be the wiring, with copper protected by tar paper, and also a lead sheath as well.
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  829. Lost all 6 little stray kittens that way, they just did not make it from the flu.
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  830. Adding a valve to that machine is easy, just put it in line with the existing 1/4 fitting, a common valve you buy at whoever supplies your pneumatics.
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  831.  @scurvofpcp  Yes but Irish labour lawyers are likely sending business cards to all those employees in Ireland, along with all those in the EU as well. They smell that they can get a few million Euro per person payout.
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  832.  @stevekaczynski3793  Near a river on a clear night, and by a distinctive bend. Yes I know how effective pinpoint bombing is, all you are guaranteed is that most bombs will hit the ground, and some might even be in the correct area. Even with modern bomb aiming you often miss, and often by a fairly large margin as well. Biggest miss I ever heard of was he missed the range entirely. Lucky for the farmer it was a practise round, just made smoke.
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  833. Phillips did make a nice range of lamps that were A shaped, to replace the A shape incandescent lamp. Just they cost around twice the price of a regular CFL, and had 20% lower light output due to the glass outer envelope. However they also used the glass bowl as part of the gas path, so were fiendishly complex to manufacture as well, and take 10 minutes warming up to full output. Still got one in a desk lamp, where it is visible and quite useful. Of course I prefer the old carbon filament lights i have over them, and the tantalum filament ones as well for orange light.
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  834. Brittanic ISTR the major cause for the sinking was all the portholes being open, because the designers had figured out they would all be normally closed in the cold Atlantic runs, but instead she was now in the sweltering Mediterranean sea, and the ventilation was in no way designed to cool the ship, more being designed around heating up the areas that would be losing heat really rapidly to the surrounding cold water, instead of the other way round.
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  835. Yes there is, there are weaknesses in the decoder, and the keys themselves have been leaked out. Not helpful is that there is one key per manufacturer, and you just need a few of the random keys to get the sequence roughly right and into the acceptance window. plus the fixed key systems are not too critical time wise, there is a lot of latitude in there to handle clock skew and clock drift.
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  836. Yes, that company was Sharp, who made the glass Z80 processor, and it worked. You can probably use this with the glass substrate as well, growing vapour deposited silicon active circuitry, then a thick passivation layer that has terminations through it, which then is ground flat for bonding the chiplets on top. bottom has the connections for the PCB, then through holes to the top, and you could even have active layers both sides.
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  837. Have to be better than a space suit, that only has to withstand direct sunlight and vacuum for a while. The suits need to survive conditions like that in the Jovian upper atmosphere. Jupiter's colours come from having an atmosphere mostly made from all sorts of nasty nitrogen and hydrogen compounds.
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  838. And he also has to remember that, using the massmeter outside the sealed enclosure, that the IR radiation from his hand moving into view without the blocking glass there will also make it read incorrectly. Never mind actual breathing.
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  839. A lot of insurance companies now will tell, based on age of the vehicle (ie if it is in or out of warranty) to put the cheaper aftermarket parts in.
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  840. Yes connector was disconnected before, and not clipped in correctly, just good enough to work for a while. then fell out while driving later on. Did it cost Kenny anything yes, a few minutes in the day, when he is the only one there, but he also got a happy customer, and likely a new one as well. A new happy customer is something that will bring in money over time, a lot more than a once only.
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  841. Only if it is too thick, the sail is designed to be able to surface through ice up to a few metres thick without damage, so they look for the weak spots.
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  842.  @callak_9974  Let us just say the recent crop of mayors is the reason jockey makes, and sells, 12XL underwear, and why the ladies size also goes up to a 56KK as a standard product as well. They do not market anything, even the most stretchy lycra, as "one size fits all", but instead have a few sizes, that also goes up to 12XL in spandex.
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  843.  @phlodel  Yes in other words they did not want to pay out, so he hopefully changed insurance providers immediately it was rebuilt. the $0.00 check certainly was him using their own logic against them, as they now had to process this, and likely it also had all sorts of problems for billing, in that they now had to process a cheque that cost them more to process than what it was worth.
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  844. The one thing you need is low cost replacement wheels that can go on regular chairs, as often they wear out, and the owner is often stuck for a long time waiting for repairs. Or those wider wheels that will fit a regular one, which then immediately allows use in places like parks, as they are less likely to get stuck.
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  845. Easiest way to get ignition is to have a second injector driven in parallel with the first, with the reservoir filled with distilled water. That will enure a nice jet of water with the sodium flame to ignite it, and also a cooling down of the flame front as well, so it might be easier to photograph as well.
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  846.  @glenchapman3899  When you have little to make you happy, a joke about the situation is perhaps the most correct response.
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  847. I saw years ago at a Ford dealership workshop the smallest skinniest mechanic, who was the guy they had who did all the interior under dash stuff. His speciality was clutch pedals, brake pedals and putting in the cable reinforcement kits, as he could get up under the dash and do the job, without needing to remove the front seats. When i did the same job I used a pair of chocks on the back wheel, then put the handbrake off, put the car in third gear, and went in from the passenger side, so I could get my head under, with the driver seat all the way back, and passenger seat all the way forward. Did not want to undo all the trim to get to those 4 seat mounting bolts, especially as the trim was almost guaranteed to loose another clip in the brittle plastic, and they were no longer available new.
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  848. You had me subscribe right when you made that worm gear!
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  849.  @GeorgeDolbier  Yes those tubes being removed almost hurts more than the operation. They also will tell you that the tube will be coming out on the count of three, and pull on one, because everybody will tense up on two.
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  850.  @davidh9638  Yes the younger you are the cooler they appear. Cigarette companies aim all campaigns at school children, as that way they have the longest time to extract money from you, before the product does as it is designed to do, and kills you.
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  851.  @alvinhyman6838  2 missing valves are in the exhaust system by the cat for sure.
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  852. PWM signal merely does rough work, high time (pull up resistor to 12V so it runs at full speed when not connected) simply enables the motor drivers, and they in turn are commutated twice per revolution by a hall sensor, to switch the 2 coils, the hall sensor output being sent back out on the tacho line using an open collector driver capable of sinking 1 LSTTL input load, or 10mA roughly, and this is the sum of the loop. PWM needs to be low frequency, under 50Hz, to get smooth speed control. The fan has a starter circuit, that is basically a pulse generated every second or so, that drives the one coil, if there is no tacho pulses detected for a second, which indicated a stalled fan. All done in one 6 pin package, which has all that on a single chip, largest area being the 2 current limited drivers, and catch diodes, and the hall sensor on the one edge of the die.
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  853. Put him in prison for contempt of court, for at least half the time.
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  854. Well, it would devolve to VFR from 1924, when pretty much the instrumentation was the pilot and his eyes. Would suggest a good upgrade would be to add in a standby compass, standby altimeter and a standby airspeed indicator, as a minimum flight instrument list, that will help in case the ancient Garmin decides to brain fart, as they are well known to do with some combinations of a complex map and some locations. All 3 can be bought used, and simply sent in for a certification, and then the standby compass will just need to be swung with the aircraft in flight ready configuration, to adjust the 8 cardinal point compensation screws. Memories of 3 hours in the swamp, in the compass bay, acting as the intercom link between my instructor melting in the rear, and the 2 pilots and flight engineer melting in the cockpit. After the 10 full circles to get the newly repaired fluxgate sensor aligned perfectly, the others decided to drive back on the tow tractor, while I elected to stay on board, and fly back with the 3 in front. They still had 3 hours of fuel left, but only needed an extra hour to complete flight hours for the month, so they did a little trip out to sea, and there I got to see them doing an aerobatics show with the 16 ton helicopter, doing all the daring moves, that are limited to 0G to +3G, that are permitted with a helicopter when you want to avoid chopping your own tail off, or having the main rotors separate. Sitting in the door, hand through the strap, and looking up at the ocean above me, and the sky past my feet, as they did a few barrel rolls around 1km offshore, with the closest place to swim to being the offshore oil platform. 2 very happy and now cool pilots.
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  855. Whichever government entity that did the survey and registered the boundaries messed up as well, because the standard for almost any property is that the registration includes a street address, and thus that it must have a way onto the property from the street. Yes it has a lot number, but there is also a separate description that includes a street name and number, which then requires there be a method to get onto this property from the street.
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  856. $ 400 to keep the job, even if you do not actually have the ability to do it correctly, makes it worth it.
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  857.  @domehammer  Bakery sliced bread is generally a week old when you get it, it is made, frozen then sliced, then kept frozen till it gets in the delivery truck, where there is a heater and humidifier to defrost it, and deliver it hot and moist. then it sits on the store shelf for 5 days before it is thrown away. There are enough preservatives, but the thing is the flour is both bleached and free of any protien, so it does not go rancid. Making bread at home from a non white flour ( otherwise you just get the same dead flour) and there is a definite taste difference. the sliced bread needs preservatives and moisture controllers, because otherwise it turns to cardboard fast, and gets full of mould. Try using some stone ground whole wheat flour and make your own bread, it tastes totally different, and you will find store bought bread flat and bland forever more.
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  858. Yes, and the 70 plus reading is probably from a failed pressure transducer that lost a bond wire off the MEMS sensor, giving a more than full scale high output, which the ECM interprets as over 70PSI, as that is the full scale range it has. Tiny little 3mm by 3mm silicon sensor in there, made from 2 wafers that were bonded together under high vacuum and heat, and with the middle having a small cavity etched in the silicon, and on top a set of diffused strain gauges that measure the flex of the silicon, plus a diode that is used to compensate for temperature. Absolute, so the cavity is a vacuum, otherwise the ones meant for gauge pressure have the bottom silicon wafer have a hole etched through to allow connection to the other side of the thin diaphragm, and these then get bonded to a reference port. Yes a fab that costs billions of dollars to build, and almost as much to operate, but the sensors coming out are in the cents price each, due to the massive volumes made. Make the sensor a little larger and you can integrate the entire electronic system on it as well, and by making the membrane thinner you make a MEMS microphone, that can be placed in a phone, and give you a complete microphone and conversion electronics, giving direct to digital output, only needing 3 connections to the outside, and capable of handling from a whisper to a scream.
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  859. Grab old rubber hose and place in the sun, to get them nice and hot, and slip over the pipe using some turps as lubricant. That gives a nice hard outer soft layer. You only need to do the outside sections, making semi bonded solid tyres on the steel pipe. Non marking then, and not as noisy.
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  860. Going to bet though the bridge report went through from Penndot to the local municipality, where it was promptly filed and forgotten. Who owns the bridge, and who is responsible for the maintenance, now that is the problem, because I can bet you these are two totally separate deparments in government, and each tries to pass the buck. But as to failure, yes likely bus was the final straw, though the bridge by that point likely was barely able to withstand it's own static mass, and the bus and cars, along with a few tons of snow and frozen slush, did finally cause the one support to buckle at the base. Then the other side got a step loading, and promptly sheered off, and the other side followed. I would say the far side from the bus was the one that collapsed, after the bus went over, and the buckled deck is indicative of the supports by the bus holding on a second or so as the bridge fell behind the bus, pulling them over, and then the roadway longitudinal members there, probably from years of salt corrosion removing most of the metal, folded, and the deck buckled at that stress point. The supports pulled off the base, leaving the plate behind, simply because the rusted bolts were stronger, and had more cross section, than the remaining support steel at the time. Coreten steel is amazing, but really does benefit from having a protective coating applied, just that you can do construction with minimal care, and only lightly blast the surface, or wire brush it, before you paint it, the rust will provide adhesion for the paint.
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  861. Well, having a busman's weekend there Kenny, but your neighbour definitely likes that you moved in. Now you might get some help with the garage soon, so you can both be comfortable.
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  862. Looks like it was bought as the winter truck, then sold when the rust was bad, with a quarter tank of fuel ,so as to not get the smell.
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  863. Yup he can write it off as a donation to the airport, which will bring him a nice bit of tax money, that he already has had to pay, back. Or better still take it as a loan, and forgive the loan, which is better tax wise.
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  864. Bought a yoga mat, and the cat absolutely loved it, to bits. Had to buy a second one for me to use, as the first one was shredded to pieces.
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  865. To fix costs money, so they ignore till it blows, then look to blame others, like pretty every city does, and beg for money to fix it, as it was always "unexpected it would fail", with them knowing it would fail, just hopefully not while they are in office.
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  866. Price is not the issue, but that likely a new one will be a 3 month wait for it to be delivered, as sending by sea freight. Airfreight would be incredibly expensive, from the mass alone around $5k, just in the freight cost, for getting it there same week. Kurtis remaking the cylinder likely only a little less than ordering new, but took less than 2 weeks for it to be back up and running, while ordering new you would still be at the "please make your payment into our bank account, and we will wait for it to clear" stage, with them only then starting the warehouse to pick it and ship it.
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  867. look at other countries that regulate HOA conduct, you find that having a set of basic rules that a HOA has to have, plus a set of rules they have no way to enforce, plus a strong method and ombudsman that can act as a fair impartial mediator, is a good start. Needs to have a set of laws that all HOA's must obey, and a set of actions they have to take before they even can levy a fine, with a set procedure they have to follow, or run the risk of losing the indemnity offered to the board, and thus them no longer having cover, and becoming personally liable for damages.
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  868.  C J B  Don't worry, there are plenty of airports like this in all countries, especially where there are commercial pressures to just move the planes, and fix the issues "soon soon", which gets pushed back always to "next year", followed by "it has worked till now, so why fix it even if it is broken", with the accident always seeming to come as a surprise, and always "totally unforeseen", with the report coming out pointing to this having existed, and having been written up, with no results, for years before, in a lot of cases.
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  869. Tiddles did a swan dive from 8 floors, onto the concrete pavement, after failing to negotiate a jump from one window to another. He survived, though he did break both front legs and his jaw. Lived a good number of years afterwards, just was very wary of windows then.
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  870. How about coffee bags, which is ground coffee in a tea bag, which you brew in a tea pot, exactly the same as tea, or in the actual cup itself, like a tea bag, removing when at the desired strength, and enjoying the brew as you like. Me, I drink instant coffee, and yes there are some brands that are better used as brown colour for dirt, but there are a lot of instant coffee blends on the market. Filter yes if I am out, but for what you get at the price, it is not always worth it. I go past the overpriced green logo coffee place to the shop behind them, which serves to my taste a better brew, and at the same time I can indulge in my fast food meal, a chicken salad with hot sauce, and peri peri chicken livers. Place the order and 2 cups, first for while I wait, and second for the walk home.
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  871. Normally they strip all the gold teeth and jewellery before that.
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  872.  @randymagnum143  Because the K jetronic was cutting edge in the 1970's when it was applied to motor vehicles.
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  873. Even if there was that there, the battery was removed, and the vehicle was chained to the hoist, there would be a sales ahole who would cut it off, cut the lock off, steal any battery that was closest, and start the car. Best would be to remove both starter relay and fuel pump relay as well, so that at least there might be somebody notice his attempts.
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  874. You can get bolts off without marks, but that means you use PVC sheet over each bolt to make sure not to leave marks. But no stealership will do that, it is reserved for the owners of exotics, who want it to be factory spec at all times, even after service, because no impact used, just plain hand tools and clean sockets, and lots of 250 micron PVC sheet to destroy.
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  875. Dog is going to go back near the water, did not learn the lesson. Going to become reptile poop.
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  876.  @ZirothTech  not really a new thing, just a standard synchronous motor with external excitation, using a planar transformer to power the rotor winding. Pretty much something common on high power generators, where they need to run long periods without stopping, making them useful in power generation for long run time, as the only thing you need to change is the oil bath oil in the bearings, and thus can run them for 10 years with no stopping, before stopping to clean and inspect them. Does not even need much in the way of electronics in the power transfer, you have a rotor coil with a bridge rectifier, and a exciter coil with some form of AC power, either simple H bridge at some fixed frequency, giving a constant current, or variable to allow you to vary current based on duty cycle of the bridge, allowing max field strength at low RPM with high current, and at high RPM you drop excitation to a lower level, or even turn it off, to allow the rotor to act like an induction motor, using the diode bridge to handle the freewheeling current, which will improve efficiency a lot, as now at speed no cogging losses in the magnetic system, while at low speed you get a very high breakaway torque. Much cheaper to make yes, and while you have a lot of copper in the rotor, and need to cool it as well to keep the heat down, it will work well, even with existing drives, with only minor changes to provide the excitation power, and the added temperature sensing needed. Your bridge rectifier will probably be improved by adding in active switches, as you otherwise will need beefy schottky diodes on a heat spreader to handle the high current, as high current is needed to get a strong field, and you will definitely want to reduce inductance. So schottky diodes rated around 100A per diode, or add in power mosfets, and a separate power winding to allow an active rectifier to be on the rotor as well. Slightly more complex, but allows an extra percent or two lower losses.
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  877.  @lbochtler  Yes the older type tubes had issues with slow response to bright light, as the phosphor got saturated. Backlighting, and then using a black level clamp to restore the video level back to black, removing the offset at the expense of dynamic range, did help a lot. Of course in TV studio use they simply blocked the iris way down, then put in a lot of light ( 10kW plus on a set was minimum, some went as high as 20kW for what was essentially a 2 desk wide area), so as to both have backlighting on the tube, and also limit peak white, so you could expand video level to a point below smearing, but still have a fast response with minimal smear. Using for CCTV you had more problems, but there again auto iris was welcomed, or manual iris and accept muddy video.
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  878. attorney will no doubt find himself in front of the law board for the state, and have to explain exactly why he should still be registered, and how badly did he not do due diligence on all the documentation presented by the claimant.
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  879. Would hurt MS as well, because so much of their back end systems run Linux now as well, they are doing a lot of code review and bug fixes just to be secure themselves.
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  880. In floor ones also come with a cam and spring, because they are almost always dual action, able to open either way. Made so you do not need a left and right one for double doors, only a single box buried in the floor, and the closer screwed to it. They do have speed adjustment for each side separately, so you can adjust them to be one direction only by screwing the other side valve all the way in, so it will not allow flow. they are also able to handle much heavier doors as well, and last for decades. Most common make by me is dormer, known to last a half century in use. They can also be rebuilt as well, as dormer does have kits of spare parts for them as well. you do need however to demount the door to do so, which means you need to pick up a very heavy door off the lower pivot after you unscrew the lever that retracts the top pivot. Or in the case of the one side, cut through the pivot on top first, as the adjuster had rusted solid in the 50 years of being there, so I got the 2 new complete units, and the one door was a breeze, just needed Rockset 5 minute cement to fit the new box in the old one, but the other one needed 2 days of work to get the door hardware off, and the new hardware on. Lots of 5 minute epoxy and wood to fill holes from old screws, and then grind the new socket to fit the pin, and same for in the frame.
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  881. Also the entire trucking industry should avoid if possible, not delivering there in out of state trucks, or doubling the delivery fee, because the truck likely drives through the state at least enough days of a year.
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  882. That, or the drive itself is one that failed QC as a 2G drive, so got programmed as a 1G drive with only the good blocks allocated, leaving the 2G drive controller ( which would be the same controller per generation) with it's much larger cache in there, but with the reduced main memory capacity. Another is that they ran out of the lower capacity chipsets, so instead ( probably as it is a single pick and place item, with a stacked die inside) simply substituted the larger cache chipsets instead as they are layout compatible, or they have depreciated the older controllers with the new higher capacity cache version, and there is a blend of the different size cache controllers currently in the supply chain, so they are refraining from updating the spec sheet till they are sure all the older versions have been sold off in the supply chain.
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  883. Bentley must have gotten a liking from the Citroen engineers about the need for "tool, special" to do things, because that engine screams that there are at least 20 special tools that you need to both maintain it, and overhaul it.
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  884. Fill with banana peels, no more oil needed, that will stop the leaking very quickly.
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  885. You see, he is using "blessed" radio waves, those are the good ones.
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  886. To be fair, pretty much every connected device phones home in some way or the other. The difference is in what it does if it does not get a reply.
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  887. Amazing how good the image stabilising is on the Homiecam. With the boom also time to get 4 matching LED lamps for the front, so you can replace all 4 with the same type. Those 2 new cylinders are guaranteed to be perfect though, and will be the best part of the whole crane as well.
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  888. Start working on aircraft, and you will come to appreciate that, where you are removing massive pieces of internal parts, panels and fuel tanks, just to get to the connector, then even more work to remove. And also you need a whole tool box of "tool,special purpose" all the way through, and even more so for the reassembling. Funny thing is an engine is so much easier, only a few dozen pipes and connectors, then typically 2 big pins holding it in. Mainly because the designers know that will be coming out pretty often.
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  889.  @Mr_Meowingtons  Measure once, drill once, then fill it and do it again.
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  890. Does he also sleep with a paw over the eyes like mine does....
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  891. Durban port, a very contentious thing by me, and the politics are massive, with a whole load of players who you would not think of being involved, and a whole lot of dealings, that are not in the best interests of the port and city long term, but which are very lucrative to those involved with them. Plus another 2 ports close by also aiming to get a part of this very lucrative market.
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  892.  @simonbone  Add in the safety margin was already removed by the original construction cutting cost down, and then poor concrete work, and all the margin was long gone. Only thing holding it up was the concrete slowly curing and getting to strength, plus the rebar manufacturers being conservative with the strength ratings on the product, even with better steel, that was more homogenous and tougher, than the original design rules for reinforcing expected when they got set in law.
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  893.  @danl6634  I installed an inrush limiter on a 7.5kW motor, because the original installer connected the DOL starter incorrectly, and it was starting in delta, then switching to star. Then dropped a phase in the one contactor due to arcing or dust. I replaced the lot, plus put it all, along with the 7.5kW soft start unit, into a dust proof cabinet, and set run up time to 30 seconds. Solved the issue of the unit tearing itself out of the floor bolts. Of course the biggest issue was to remove that 130kg cast steel frame motor from the gearbox, where the shaft was kind of not willing to separate, even hanging the entire motor mass off it. Had to use a BFH and crowbars, and the trolley I had under it suffered badly. New one was light, only 78kg, so easy to lift up with the chain block, and that shaft was well greased.
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  894.  @5Andysalive  The saying was in Apollo you were in a space craft, but in Gemini you wore a space craft.
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  895.  @SuperMarkizas  Still remember watching Chicken noodle news years ago (Gulf war 1 IIRC) with LA wildfires, and the one house left standing being a house built by a Korean engineer, and the bobblehead asking him why his house was the only one left standing. His reply was "I thought everybody know wood burns", outside his plastered brick house with tiled roof, and covered beams, so no embers could light them.
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  896. All the Helium you have on the surface of the earth is also not primordial, it came about as the result of alpha particles grabbing 2 electrons to become stable.
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  897.  @danielstickney2400  Or that the factory would take all the castings for the previous day, and place them in a furnace that had been used, and allowed them to heat up from the residual heat in the lining, and slowly cool overnight. That way any that cracked could be told using a ring test, and tossed into the pile for the next melt, and any that were too badly warped as well, while those that passed went into the machining shop to get cut into shape, most likely on a shaper as well, and then finally ground to final dimensions. 3 shapers , each with a jig, could do all the rough operations and not worry too much about hard spots, as the HSS cutter will only wear slowly, while a single operator for 3 machines will be able to keep up with the needs to swap tooling, and parts from jig to jig.
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  898. Power supply capacitors aging, and the top section of the picture there was insufficient beam current in the EHT circuit to provide a bright image. The picture started lower down as the scan current reduced as the scan got to the middle, and the lower half the scan coil, while still having an increasing current, this was stored energy in the coil being dissipated before the high energy pulse rerquired to do the retrace to the top again. The CRT is blanked during flyback in both vertical and horizontal, so the blanking interval was increasing as the set aged, and your particular set design used the vertical deflection circuit as the source of the vertical blanking signal. Other designs used a digital counter in the jungle chip to do this, you would have had a smeared image with the slow flyback instead, though generally the later chipsets also sensed beam current, and would shut off the horizontal and vertical drive to the CRT if the current varied beyond acceptable parameters, done by sending a specific set of pulses during the top overscan in sequence to get the dark current, a mid scale current and a full bright current, and storing to allow to compensate for tube aging. If you deliberately made the raster fit the CRT instead of being overscanned you would see a set of 3 red green and blue strips on the top 6 lines, with there being none on the left, then either 3 or 6 lines, one dark and one bright of each colour. This then set the black level clamp of each gun and the peak colour drive of each one instead of having to adjust them during service, so the hue did not change as the CRT aged.
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  899. More like the last part frame was corrupted by the digital signal processor and transmitter becoming fine gravel mid frame, with likely the last image still busy being DCT transformed in RAM by the image processor. Probably you have a part bit sequence that was received, but, because it was rejected due to failing the CRC check (for some reason) as the final part of the last scan line. The lines and such yes are probably partly due to varying composition, of what is basically a cloud of pebbles, dust, and well chilled assorted ices, suddenly being shocked, but I would say a good part is also composed of bits of spacecraft that has pressurised liquids and propellants reacting for a brief moment as they were scrambled and mixed together, along with batteries that briefly were free to express all energy as well.
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  900. Simple reply to them is that would they want to trust the lives of their children to that rigging strap, or would they pay for a new one.
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  901. Could be that, but a lot more likely to be environmental factors as well, that added to the dosage, plus exposure to chemicals, that inhibited the cell repair mechanisms, that were the cause. Live at high altitude, increased radiation from space, live by rocks emitting large amounts of Radon, increased risk. Live by large industrial processes, that dumped fine particulate matter in the air (coal, steel, oil refining, open cast mining amongst others) and water, or live down wind of large industrial plants, that emit waste gas and fine particles, some of which are radioactive isotopes, that are either natural or man made. Safest place to work is in the actual radioactive product industry, where they actively track down and monitor all sources of radiation. Had that, where the trigger was the road crew coming in, and triggering a monitoring well, as they had used a freshly crushed batch of granite, which had more than a little Uranium and Radon in it. The wash water, that they used to clean the dust off the gravel in the batching yard, before coating with bitumen, was a little above background level when they dumped it in a storm water drain, that was using the soak away the plant used.
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  902. He can still sue, as the court found the seizure unlawful, but the record is still there.
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  903.  @da-n-ny1742  Easy with an IP, as you simply block all of CA IP allocated blocks, and then put in TOS that you will not use a VPN to bypass the geolocation. Then also must be over 18. Also simply take those below 18, limit time they can use it. Set so they get 1 hour a day......
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  904. You want to see them go nuts drop in a few leaves of fresh iceberg lettuce, or a few cabbage leaves.
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  905.  @tonyandjackieholmes9546  Safety stands for the empty cylinders, cant fall over if it already is in sleep mode.
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  906. Yet another case of we cannot enforce the laws we already have on the statute books, so let us go and write a whole raft more of them, often mutually contradictory, and then wonder why they are also being flouted.
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  907. Container in sy poes geval, definitely South Africa....
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  908. Very common to have occur, so common in fact that the phone companies will try not to prosecute, mostly because it reveals that they have very poor security, with multiple people sharing the same passwords, and multiple employees using the same logins, and the details are never changed, even after all the staff have left, they can still login online and get full access.
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  909. not the repair people, but the CEO and the entire board is there to "assist" in this, right on the front line, and without any support other than what they have provided to the troops.
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  910. Prickly pear, you grab a branch of the acacia for the thorns on it, and use that to hold the fruit, while you use a sharp knife to cut in half, then use the knife to pull the inner pulp out, which is what you eat.
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  911. my cat has a special talent, he can sleep in amazing positions, so long as I am near.
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  912. No20, titled Grace Under Fire.......
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  913. The stuff you buy in Wallyworld is mostly clay and a little sawdust, but there are briquettes that are mostly charcoal powder and bonding agent, typically starch. However charcoal from hardwood is the best, almost as good as using the hardwood itself, which is going to take a half hour longer to get to coals. The most common charcoal here though is made from black wattle and other invasive and timber species, using the branches and trimmings that are left over from the paper and wood pole making, while the sawdust and chippings from the sawmills are often burnt to dry the wood, a lot is used for making particle board.
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  914. They do have the advantage when going offroad, as you are not going to worry about scratching the paint on your expensive 4 by 4, and to fix it you have the entire tool kit in the front, just need to find the nearest fence for wire, or bring some along. Plus you can climb into the engine bay to fix it, no tight spots, just remove the full size spare, the high lift jack and the toolkit and there you can fit in. Plus they also have a starter handle on them, at least the Lada Niva 4x4 did. the only vehicle that came, new from the factory, with both rust and a any gear will do gearbox. Looks junk, but will outdo a Landie in any respect other than towing ability and top speed, but can climb pretty any slope that you can drive up.
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  915. Cape town is shocked, come to Durban, where this is an every day thing. At least they leave the poles, here the pole is cut down, because of the little bit of copper and steel in the lamp, and then the pole is cut up as well for crap.
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  916.  @Veevslav1  Time for the suit to be filed on her behalf by some legal body though, like IFJ, as this is definitely a case of massive over reach, and needs to have the city face the result of failure to actually train the police.
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  917. Those lead antimony plates would be stored for a month or so, and then simply remelted back to make the next run of newspaper. However the current methods use a photographic process onto aluminium sheets, which are then simply placed in a bin until full, which them goes to be melted down again and recycled as well.
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  918. Question is if he also got reimbursed for the muffins as well, seeing as it is likely the police destroyed them when they arrested him.
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  919. Lawyers kept all of it anyway.
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  920. Have had that scam a few times, listing a place to rent of FB or the property websites, but using photos of another place they lifted off the websites, and a fake bank account they opened to do the illicit funds. Sad when an entire family with truck arrives, and asks for a non existing unit number and the keys.
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  921.  @TechnologyConnections  Only 20 or so small Phillips screws get all the outdoor unit covers off. Note where the screws and the small plastic washers go, as you really should put them back where they came from, as you will find there are a fine thread self threading type, and a coarse thread self tapping sheet panel type. Lift lid off and you get most of the inside details, which is typically 10 screws.
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  922.  @davidmiller9485  Normally the eve of holidays, Christmas and Easter you will actually see traffic police out on the road. The rest of the time they are not there, unless you happen to be at the shopping mall, where they have parked in the disabled parking, so they do not have to waddle far to the shop, with the wife/girlfriend/sidepiece, to go do shopping.
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  923. Russian dashcams also have this.
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  924. Instead of a wall plant some fast growing trees and hedge, which will attenuate sound quite well. Likely the original plans were passed because nobody actually read the meeting notice, sent to all owners, and ignored all the running of the HOA till it actually impacted them.
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  925. Hope the settlement includes assuming all employees worked the maximum, and he has to prove they did not, and they get paid the maximum in overtime, plus interest as well.
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  926. How about the dentist who did all her own dentistry, including root canals as well.
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  927.  @corssecurity  Yes in general the local bar will make the clients mostly whole again, using monies paid in by all other practicing attorneys in the region, collected as part of the dues over years. Then the others collectively will go against the one who did wrong, and there the wrongdoer has very low chance of coming out unscathed.
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  928. That shortage of aircraft is why my father did his pilot training in a Gypsy moth, as it was considered too old, too slow, and not at all capable of being a fighter aircraft. He probably also still owes then some money, seeing as he crashed it, after an engine failure during take off. They never asked him about that Lancaster he signed for though, that sort of fell apart around him by Lake Constance.
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  929. Well, Curtis did have to take a battery along to start it...... I do not see him towing it back with the Ute easily otherwise, even if it does come with the mother of all towing hooks at the front.
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  930. Which is where Petter makes his training work, as he takes the familiar flights and slowly introduces different situations, all leading to a better outcome for his students. Then a great deal of refresher training to make sure they keep on doing it correctly.
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  931. Well, the seals will make sure that they will regret it for the rest of their lives, though with that particular team that could only be as long as it takes to take them from their houses at midnight, and the trip either to a point 15 miles offshore, with the big bag of chum, or to the mine shaft on that old abandoned prospect in the desert, where they can experience zero G for 11 seconds.
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  932.  @truthshallfindyou-seekhim3074  his 15 bodyguards would do a lot more out on the street, rather than guarding the mad hatter.
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  933.  @osiris829  Then you send it higher up the chain, to the regional command, who will definitely be very upset at this then.
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  934. Sad part is the good ones get forced out, simply because the bullies aregoing to clan together against them.
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  935. Had that a few times by me, the run a scam in an area for a few weeks, then move to the next suburb after a few marks have paid the money for it. They choose an address, then grab other pictures from another place, and put it in the ad, and run this with a few dozen listings over and over. Sadly had to tell a few people that the place they were wanting to rent does not exist, and that they got scammed, and to go lay a charge at the police, who will just fill in a form, give them a case number, and simply then do nothing, then close it a week later on.
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  936. Note the rifle used is a WWII vintage one as well, they must be digging deep into the stocks of old stock to find working units now.
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  937.  @GARDENER42  Yes, the tractor has lower running cost and better fuel economy and performance.
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  938.  @EwanMarshall  UK now uses those NEMA sockets as well, simply because the US volume makes them very low cost to incorporate in the fixture, and a standard socket makes work easier as well for the councils. NEMA by me, and this is a old UK colony as well, we even still use the old UK plugs. Round pin, just like India still does.
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  939. Similar here, aircraft being towed out of the bay it was in. However there was miscommunication, and they did not disconnect the nose wheel steering link pin, so as the tug and the tow bar turned, the nose wheel did not. Frangible link did as intended, and broke, disconnecting the aircraft from the tow bar, and, as it was now on the slight incline out of the bay, it rolled down till it stopped in the reinforced earth berm 10m away. Guy in cockpit was pumping the brakes, but as there was no power, as battery was disconnected and removed, and he had no time to use the hand hydraulic pump either, so it rolled till stopped. Unfortunately the furtherest point forward was the pitot static tube, which pushed back, shearing it's mounting points, and moving back around a meter into the nose. Then the radome tip hit the wall, and penetrated the 3mm steel sheet. Radome actually survived intact, no damage to it or the rest of the radar cover at all. Unfortunately not so for the pitot probe, and the space behind it, which was the main electrical control box for the aircraft, and the aluminium alloy probe pole sheared through it right in the middle, cutting the main mount that held all the aircraft relays almost in half, relays, wiring and breakers and all. Damage was repaired in under 2 weeks, because there was another airframe undergoing a full rebuild, and that nose section was completed already in the rebuild, so it was shipped out, and put on in place of the original, which then went to have it's 7 figure rebuild, delaying the other aircraft only by around a month overall, but more than doubling the overhaul cost. That aircraft was odd till it's next major service, having 2 distinct different paint schemes on it front and rear. There was quite a bit of fall out from that, but luckily I was a spectator, though did get to see all the carnage up close, as the radome came in for inspection, along with the nose of the aircraft landing up outside our service unit doors for a month.
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  940.  @TechnologyConnections  The way those work is to use either the condensing coil fan to sling the water over the condenser coil, or to use a condenser coil below the evaporator coil, so it drips down via gravity and then is channelled over the condenser fins. This then allows the evaporating water to provide extra cooling for the coil, improving efficiency. The big drawback of this is the uncoated coils corrode really fast, and in general only last 3-4 years before they are only a mass of corrosion products on the inside, blocking the air flow, and bare piping that is running hotter than safe ( higher pressure, greater erosion inside the microgrooved pipes, oil breaking down from the high temperature into acid and carbon) and ultimately failing. Outside they look fine, but are totally blocked once you get to the fan chamber. Window wall units do the same, unless you remove the rubber bung and install the optional drain line, though most of the new ones do not come with a drain, and expect you to replace the entire unit after 4 years, from the case and coils being rotted through. Note the warranty is only 3 years on the compressor only, the rest of the unit is only statutory warranty ( often a year) and in general you find they never get a warranty claim, as if the compressor fails within 25000 hours ( they rarely do, even though they are cost cut way down, but that is another story) that is a rare failure. Coils however are often badly rotted after only a single season if you live near the sea, like I do. Split units have to have the 2 drains, though often the outdoor unit drain is rarely installed, as in heat pump mode the outside air will be very low humidity anyway in winter. They do build up amazing amounts of sludge and bacteria though unless regularly serviced and cleaned. The inside plastic parts are black, so the sludge mat does not show visibly, even if the rest of the unit is light coloured plastic.
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  941.  @SmilingIbis  Still to this day a few hundred tons a year, and often not only explosive shells, but rather touchy gas bombs as well. A brave job to be a farmer ploughing fields in Flanders.
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  942. Also a look at the Minimum Equipment list will probably say the CVR is not a requirement for a flight, and this probably has been pencil whipped, and flagged a few times years ago, till somebody removed the CVR warning lamp, or it burnt out and was never replaced.
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  943.  @splitsecondmagician  Yes, but this looks like a public space, or a government facility, so classed as a public road.
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  944. Handles need to be made from hemp rope, unwound from a thick rope so you still have the twist from the original lay, then with hollow hardwood handles with the rope threaded through, and into the side holes, with a similar one for the top. Agree on the modern screws being too good, need to mangle the tops a bit, making the slots varying width,m and hammer the heads to show more aging, using a plank with them screwed in, and then a small ball pein hammer used to round off the edges, make the tops uneven, and then saw the slots with a dull hacksaw to make them irregular, then dip tops in ferric chloride for a hour or two, to etch the heads to a more round shape, losing all sharp edges, like they were carefully hand made centuries ago, and worn down with time.
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  945. You even get a special grass pack that will grow indoors, for indoors cats. Contains oat seed which the cats love as seedlings.
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  946. Week ago a woman was killed because a car battery was dropped on the car from a bridge. Reason was to stop the car so they could rob her, and left her dead there.
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  947. That was probably the complaints line......
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  948. Other side likely has 2 thicker bearing blocks, and then a thick plate chassis joining them. Likely it will still break at the eye, or the pin will break first.
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  949. Just remembere he is merely following the Deathstar method, getting paid by the government massive amounts to roll out service, yet taking the money and only rolling out part, then going back and demanding more to carry on with the part service. That got you a monopolistic market, and you being unable to choose except between crappy and worse, and then having throttled service, and paying to receive calls and texts.
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  950. Yes, I did make my own postcards using a Selphy printer, and did not want to do too much retouching, so used careful placement and cropping, to get the best image I could, avoiding the uglier parts of the background. Did choose a nice afternoon though, to get the reddish sky in the late afternoon, with the clouds highlighted.
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  951.  @Michael-yi4mc  Full to the brim and one of those where the straps have to be cut and replaced, with the snap off bolts, when you do remove the tank, and you cannot drain it when it is up in place in the vehicle.
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  952. You also get a water recirculation unit for domestic homes, that has a pump on the hot water side, and a thermostatic valve by the tap, that allows cold water to flow till the water gets hot, circulating the cold water in the hot line back down the cold water line, so there is always a small volume of warm water instantly at the tap. Wastes power in the lines, so the suggestion is to insulate both water lines all the way, plus a small amount of power to run that circulation pump.
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  953.  @MentourNow  Think they will have a lot of sales now......
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  954. Well, it landed up in Russia as a scrapped vehicle, so yes likely it was well done already. Now the garage has a project on rebuilding something not made by Lada or Trabant.
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  955. Yes, did my drivers with a Datsun 680 pick up, with column shift, all 4 speed and reverse on the tree, and with the full Nautilus package, of no power steering and drums all round. Then owned a VW Beetle, same thing, just gearshift on the floor. Currently drive manual as well, simpler to maintain, no trans fluid to get dirty and die, and a clutch is cheap as well.
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  956. Know a guy who went for his drivers, and the examiner remarked he knew how he drives, seeing as he saw him drive in for his learners.
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  957. You mean like the policeman here with a $5 million house, and 200 luxury cars, all bought on a police constable salary. Yet still a police man, despite the cases against him.
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  958.  @veramae4098  Time for the voters to figure out that replacing them is cheaper than the forever increasing taxes they will pay because of this.
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  959.  @aygwm  There is, when the belt breaks the engine life is over.......
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  960. Expensive coloured urine, as your kidneys are pretty effective at dumping the excess.
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  961. Think of the problems if NTP stratum 1 servers are inoperative, after a day there would be growing chaos all over as timed transactions get out of step.
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  962. They would not be able to do it now, nobody competent left there at Spoornet, and all the overhead lines, along with good chunks of the track, have been stolen in the last year.
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  963.  @Oskar42  Most large power cables use a steel core for strength, to handle being stretched over a kilometre between poles, and then wind aluminium cores over the outside to provide the current carry ability. Not due to skin effect, just to get a good balance between cost and strength. Skin only becomes a problem well past the current and length of most power lines, you would need to have around 30 times the current density of current lines to start to notice the extra heating.
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  964. Toyota of that era has a reverse polarity diode in the feed to the ECU, which can also be blown open circuit. Normally in the fuse box as well as a plug in module.
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  965. Weber, expensive, and not really worth it, there are other manufacturers of this product who make it better quality. Never seen any recent Weber that lasted past 5 years, but the cheap Le Chef stainless steel unit bought in around 1995 is still around, and still gets regular use, though the home made unit is the one used the most, and that one is made from steel gotten from the scrapyard, and welded up to make the grill, and then with the fire pit made with brick and concrete.
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  966. My mother was part of that Stalinist general amnesty. She did not like Russians after the war.
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  967. Made plenty of those, cut the head off then either cut a slot, or grind into a square or triangle, that a 12 point socket will fit on. Especially on cylinder heads, long stud made from old stretch bolt works wonders to get alignment, you put the studs in the holes the dowel pins use, and it make putting on a breeze, and ensures it is right.
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  968. G overload you tend to pull rivet lines in the skin and internally. There is a set of G counters in the airframe, that increments with each cycle. Low level ones go up by hundreds of cycles each flight, the higher numbers rarely, and if you increment the top counters, other than the same with the test counter, that airframe undergoes inspection, which is a few hundred hours of work to strip it down enough to inspect all structural joints, and measure all critical dimensions. Pull high enough and that airframe will be scrapped totally, even if it flew back with no seeming damage, but all the structural members will be out of allowed tolerance, and your skin will have a lot of pulled rivets, showing up in the wings as weeping rivets in the tanks.
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  969. Makes sure the buyer gets a clamp with the part, and then reuses the old hose.
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  970. Saddest thing is that so many areas will pull up ancient ground water, replenished only over centuries, and then use it to irrigate grass with fresh potable water, while at the same time dumping the clean grey water from the sewage system into rivers, because it is "dirty", and then also mandating that people must have these lawns to "keep up the appearance of the neighborhood" as well.
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  971. Yes a much better option over a 100A relay, that will both not be rated for full time operating, and also as they normally come with always being able to remove the key in the off position, it is easy to see when the key is in use, and also have a convenient way to disable the system when not in use. Though if you are putting in the deep cycle batteries a much better option is to get a dual charge controller, and leave them always in circuit and charging when the truck is running, so you will both never have them not get a charge, but also they cannot discharge through the truck itself if the main battery is flat for some reason. 150A dual charge controller, that attaches in the lead out of the alternator, and gives 2 heavy duty feeds, one per battery, will work much better, and less problems. Will still be a good idea to have a disconnect switch there though, inside the box, just in case, and also a 120A fuse in the battery lead for protection. Car audio can supply all these parts, just beware of the cheap ones with CCA wire leads.
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  972. He could have had it corrected, and his entire debt erased, and him keep the vehicle. My bet is they looked, saw that the mileage was correct when they got it, but when it went up for sale the haircut had been done by the dealership they had it at, and they are hiding the evidence. Likely are going to cover it by "selling" the car at auction, "buying" it at auction, and then issuing a rebuilt title on it, to get all new paperwork, doing so in at least 4 states along the way to cloud the tracks.
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  973. By me all vehicles sold after 2012 have to have a datadot marking on them as well, which gives thousands of serialised microdot tags that are glued all over the chassis of the vehicle, including on the door panels, inside and under linings, and all over the underside. As they are held down with a good spray adhesive, and glow under UV light, a single one registered to a stolen vehicle is enough to mark the vehicle as suspect. Toyota since 2012 has been placing VIN stickers on every panel during assembly, many before the actual painting process, and many also inside welded sections, so they are hidden there, but are easy to find if required. Then after the shell exits the paint shop more are attached, so that every panel of the vehicle will have a sticker, near impossible to remove, that records both the VIN and manufacturing information, both in numbers and machine readable format. Used down the line to customise the vehicle if needed, so that you can run different models in a row, and have the assembly line machines and people simply pick the right parts to place per vehicle. Different trims simply by the trim coming in on a robot to the place, all ready to go in the vehicle, exactly as needed. Over 100 labels start with the panels, and all will be placed along the line, leaving only a carrier sheet behind, all labels being laser etched, so that the marking is near indelible, and hard to damage.
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  974. Will not blow up, but will make the roadway burn.
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  975. Decorative only, as edible as the marker ink is, so not really recommended to be eaten, though the FDA regards them as relatively safe except for the solvents in them. Washing they will wash off with water slowly, as it also is a polar solvent like alcohol, but will survive exposure to a dry atmosphere for a long time. Will fade in sunlight though, like the markers do.
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  976.  @goury  All were the same model of Deathstar I take it......
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  977.  @NeXMaX  Came from growing too big, and taking in toxic cultures from competitors.
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  978.  @the_synack  The unfortunate guy can then go to the insurance auction and buy his car back now.
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  979. Will bet the fuse has an upstream protection as well, in this case it will just mean that you blow the upstream fuse rather than the 15A fuse, which will probably result in the engine stopping as multiple feeds to the ECU units will be broken by the blowing of the 60A engine ignition fuse. Or he will have to buy a multifuse module if it has one.
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  980. Yes, even the gas axe is amazingly accurate, just makes the steel underneath warm, not a scratch on it. The carbon arc is so close that just a few minutes of grinding makes it like it came from the forge.
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  981.  @haydenc2742  Really depends which half was the highest at the time, if you are on the part that is suddenly going downhill at a rate of knots, with the other half just spewing hydraulic oil as it digs into the ground, you might need a new pair of pants, and a new seat. If you just dug into the ground, and watched the other half fly off, your pants will only need changing. Might take an hour or two though to get the seat out of your backside though.
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  982. Same for me, found at the door, and sort of moved in.
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  983. biker can always claim they were in lane, car turning across oncoming traffic is 100% at fault for deliberately turning against oncoming traffic, without it being clear to do so. they went despite the oncoming traffic having priority right of way, as the left lane was going straight, the right lane had turned and the biker was in the lane going straight, not lane splitting, he had the full right lane occupied.
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  984. Easy to do, they steal them, drive to a rented industrial lot, and stack them up to 4 up in the container, then ship them out with a forged export permit, either saying it is scrap metal, or by hiding the vehicle under scrap metal. Then when they arrive in Nigeria, or any of the West African ports, they get taken out of the container, and either then get falsely entered as vehicles into the systems there, or are smuggled across the border to another country, where you can get papers using just a bribe, then they take them, with the "legit" papers, and export them to other countries. The container cost is low, as the ships are deadheading back to China, so a hundred containers to Africa, even if you have to send 20% empty or with a part load of ewaste in them, and stolen cars the rest, will be cheap, and the ewaste will pay for the shipping, leaving the rest of the money from stolen cars as pure profit. Might be $500 to ship the container, including $500 for the buying of a scrap container, which will probably be resold as either a house, or a container to be filled and taken with scrap to China later on. The vehicles will be bought from the thieves perhaps for $1000 at most, for top of the line new ones, or anything from $200 up for common cars. Sell for the equivalent of $5000, including the washed papers, and they will be run till they fall apart, and can no longer be blacksmithed back together, then stripped for scrap metal, and spares for other vehicles. Half the stolen cars, common ones, will be chopped up before the container, to fit 20 engines and front halves into the container, and sold as running front halves, to be used as spare parts, or used to run equipment and farms.
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  985. Code reader issue normally is fixed by running the update tool, both for the code app, and for the bootloader, plus also a good idea to delete all the older reads from the history, after you email them to yourself, and save on your computer. Will get more memory to work on, and make it run faster.
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  986.  @taoliu3949  Yes and flipping the breaker disdables the alarm, especially if the alarm has already reported and been validated the alarm has been acted on, it will not send it again. 100% the janitor was tired of the noise, so went to the panel shown to be the controlling one (being a university likely the plugs actually are labelled, and say which panel controls them, and this is actually correct) and turned off the power, and left it off. Did not turn it on thinking the power had tripped, he definitely turned all off to shut the alarm up. Now the person and company is on the hook ,and the bill will just get larger and larger as all the funders for the experiments lost add in to the claim. Yes they should have had 2 fridges, yes they should have had backup power, but the board likely is one already on backup power, so he turned off all redundant power sources.
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  987.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  Going to bet it will still be on that machine in 5 years, still perfect, even with the rattlecan intact.
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  988. Yes exactly that, granite floor tile (not reconstituted quartz stone, but the real cut out of a mountain slab, and checked for it being optically flat) on a plywood base, and it works for me as a good enough for the stuff I do block. Got a second one just in case, that is still not used, but there are 2 granite offcuts, counter top reconstituted stone, that I use for a mouse pad. Big, heavy, works well with optical mice, and does not move, plus easy to clean. A third gravestone offcut, mostly polished before it cracked, got repurposed, along with a dial indicator stand I got cheap, as a microscope stand. Reminds me of the optical test benches, which used a massive granite block beam for the frame, for rigidity and temperature stability.
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  989. White paint surviving mostly because it is lead based, so the bacteria do not survive long when attempting to digest the linseed oil that is a binder and adhesion material. The hull also the same, though there the lead based paint is also mixed with copper as well, and lots of iron oxide as a filler and allowing a thick layer to be applied.
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  990.  @LMacNeill  Problem is that the manual release is often placed in a place where you cannot actually reach it when sitting in the seat, often either far up and back, or right down where the seat itself physically blocks you from being able to reach it.
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  991.  @Corro_Dedd  Because the anger over what he considered to be a massive slight against him was such that he forgot that the car is a driving camera. But as he now has a charge of vandalism against him, which might be taken as destruction of property over the threshold, he now ends up with a criminal record, and if he is in the country on any sort of visa the visa will never be renewed either.
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  992. Looks like it got stolen and recovered after a chase.
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  993.  @helplmchoking  The one who has a clue, but needs a clue by four applied to him. To be fair, those kind of electrical gremlins are often hard to find, especially on a machine that is at best described as newish to you. did spend one December fixing up an old packing machine, and getting it to match the manufacturers blueprints again for electrical. Real blueprints, and with a good number of the parts being made from Obsoletium in the electrical section, but was able to replace them with plug in industrial standard building block parts. Amongst all that also did the mechanical side, replacing a lot of the smaller bearings in there, along with a lot of cam followers. Those are expensive, especially when you go in and order them by the dozen. Then some linear bearings, and the steel rods they ran on, because the old ones had worn grooves in the steel. Got it down to only one Festo cylinder, replacing all the others with SMC, but that one was only available from Festo, and a pretty price. All pneumatics changed out, with the exception of 2 Numatics valve bodies, they got friends instead, as those had been in there since at least 1986, and even though I put a service kit in them, they actually did not need it, but the kit was ordered anyway, and was cheap. All went Numatics, they had proven themselves, and worked out costing less than Festo, especially after a year, which was the life of some of the valves, which refused to fail. got around 20kg of crap out, old changes over the decades, and replaced a lot of quick fixes as well, seeing as I was able to access the rear of the electrical panel, so put the bodge wires in there instead, and pulled the failed wires out as well. A dozen or so 8 pin and 11 pin bases to replace failed timers, and failed Brown Boveri relays, and then some work to replace the cursed Diazed fuse blocks with breakers, forever keeping me from needing to buy those fuses. Biggest change was an inverter, replacing the old Varispeed drive, as that was worn out, though, because of the gearbox, the drive belt stayed, I simply took the variable side off, and put in a double V belt pulley and Fenner lock block, with the pulley having the centre turned off it, to make it fit the varispeed belt. Main gearbox stripped, new bearings and seals, and filled with oil, instead of the NGLI0 grease it had, which was now nearly solid. Noise solved with molyslip. New clutch linings, fan on the drive motor as it was now going to run at 30Hz, so forced cooling was better, and the original 1970's era Lenze motor was still in great condition. That was one busy 3 week job, but the machine was running like new. Obsolete, but a replacement was nearly a million Euro, and the old machines are still in use around the world, simply because they work, though the Chinese copies are a tenth the price, and do about 50% of the capacity. OK they come as a ready assembled kit, and you really want to strip them down, and rebuild them off the bat, to at least get the dirt out, but they do work well. Bought Chinese instead of fixing the other, simply because one part quoted more than the price of the new machine, as a service exchange part, with a 3 month turn around time. It became the back up machine, though in 10 years we actually did not use it at all.
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  994. They could also have done him over for negligent driving as well.
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  995. Hoping one of them will turn state witness, to have the rest of the charges they have piled up stick, and pull in the owners and rest of management there. First to rat out gets that "keep out of club Fed" ticket, the rest get orange coveralls for uniform.
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  996. Guess the farmer wanted to not have his head baked in the sun, so built the cab to do this. Farmers are if nothing ingenious, and in general handy with tools.
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  997.  @TheOfficialOriginalChad  Lots of short cycles, and also water and air sitting in it for long periods. That then leads to corrosion, and thus a short life before failure, either by the build up of scale and corrosion by products, or by eroding through the thin walls. If you look at things with aluminium block heaters, like cheap coffee makers, you will find the heater block is corroding inside, unless you used stainless steel for the pipes that contact the water.
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  998.  @MrBlaadieblaa  As well remember the inside of the drilled hole will still be there as a sharp discontinuity, and this will grow a fatigue crack with cyclic loading just by being there. These bars undergo massive loading cycles, and will easily reach fatigue limits of the steel with the hole after a year or two. Only place to drill would be through the rear section down the middle, where there is no appreciable stress, and come out somewhere at the rear into thick metal. But hard to do, as the drill will wander with the residual stress in the forging, and is guaranteed to break out anywhere but the directly measured point. especially with a very thin diameter drill as vent, it will wander all over the place unless you are using a very rigid drill with multiple cutting points, and coolant. That drill probably will cost as much as he charged for the job alone, as it would have to be machined out of sintered carbide.
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  999.  @Chris-hw4mq  fuel going past the low tension rings contaminates the oil very fast, so regular cold starts, short trips (city driving, which is why you got the Ecoboom in the first place) and long oil change intervals make the belt suffer.
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  1000.  @TechnologyConnections  Time to then get a delivery on clearance, and stock up on them. A case of 48 should last you a long time.
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  1001. They likely will in the civil case, suing for the court and legal costs, plus extra damages as well.
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  1002.  @haqvor  My father had that, though the time between landing and take off again was in the order of 2 weeks. However, before that him and his plane had landed separately, plane not so good, him a little better, but not by much, as he was told 6 weeks later when he woke up.
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  1003. @ The heat comes from the passengers themselves, each one a roughly 150W heating element. the ground cannot conduct it away, and the rising number of passengers means more heat every year.
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  1004. Do not think the entire lot is worth that amount, and now they are no 1 in searches for dealerships there likely will be no business, either they change name and location or find a scapegoat that has no money.
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  1005.  @linusa2996  I have looked at a few cellphones with face recognition built into the cameras. They all would work perfectly on asian and white men, but almost none of them would even recognise Indian or African people as actually existing in the frame. Developers would be very likely to all be asian men, all around the same height, weight and age, so there it works perfectly, due to them likely being the test subjects it was written for. Going to guess a lot of the current software has similar biases that are implicit in it, due to the test image samples it was given.
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  1006.  @57dent  They do settle out because of density, and do not stay blended. Any bartender can demonstrate that for you with coloured shots.
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  1007. Most of those seals push in, so you remove the casting and press the old ones out, and the new one in. I would say that the cams are assembled using a jig that holds them all in alignment, and the cams and head are heated up to around 150C in an oven, while the shaft is in a liquid nitrogen or dry ice chamber, and then the shaft is aligned with the top casting and pressed into position fast, so that the cams shrink onto the shaft. Not easy to fix, but saves a lot of weight, in not needing any bolts in the upper head, and no chance for misalignment while boring out the bearing holes, though you will need to have very precise control of clearances.
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  1008. Not as critical, as the interference pattern causes a large variation in return light, but any pit approaching the required depth causes some interference, and the return light is less. The receiver in the player is not too concerned about the actual variation, just that, relative to the transmitted light returned from the smooth surface, there is some loss, and that this is enough for the player to discern the pits from the lands. There is a variable gain stage that compensates for the variation in return before the data slicer in the laser electronics turns this very analogue voltage into a digital signal for further processing. This analogue voltage is also filtered and forms part of the focus, as it tracks the average distance between the laser focus lens and the actual data layer on the disk, and the lens is kept a constant distance despite the actual disk having variability of up to 2mm per rotation in use. Then there is the fact the receiver is actually 4 separate photodiodes in a quadrant, so the signal is the sum of all of them, but the difference between opposite pairs of the diodes is used as info for the focus system and the 2 linear tracking servo loops that keep the laser beam following the single long spiral track faithfully, despite it not always being concentric in the disk itself. Incidentally almost all the laser modules were developed by Sony, and you find a whole range of KSSxxx laser modules used in CD and DVD players, all operating on pretty much the same principles, but with various layouts and mounting methods used in them for various players. Now almost an industry standard module, often no longer made by Sony, but still with the KSS part number.
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  1009. Yes but report the incident with the police anyway, so that he does not figure out the next day to say hit and run with his insurance, and get it fixed for free. Report sent to his insurance will stop that claim right off, as he basically admitted to the accident being his fault.
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  1010. Nice with the improvement over OEM of silicon bronze as wear band for the piston. will at least make it easy to repair, just machine off and redo, then cut again to size, without damage to the bore. Plus the birds, defective or not, as shop partners, and with Homie accepting them as well.
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  1011. Weakest link security, mostly because the customers are more often than not completely unable to use anything more complex, so they have to dumb it down so that people can use it.
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  1012. When they were made from brass, and all you needed was a gas torch, sandpaper and solder to fix them as well.
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  1013. Yes the owner of the truck is at fault for allowing a suspended driver to drive, so can be sued for the medical costs and the balance of the costs to make him whole again. That it might be a new vehicle instead of similar model age is irrelevant, lowest cost will probably be new.
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  1014.  @solarcheese  Well, the main issue I can see is that you would first have to find the remains of the barrel, because it would probably impact the ground at around Mach 10, and, assuming it survived more or less intact, that is more than enough impact energy to bury it at least 50m into solid granite. More likely though the barrel, assuming you used a standard steel 44 gallon one, would ablate through at around 100km altitude, leading to the oil leaking out, and then the remains of the barrel being torn apart by aerodynamic forces around 60km up as it hits atmosphere thick enough to register on regular gauges.
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  1015. When I was younger we had a similar tree cut. Dropped in the only place it could go, right on top of my mother's rambling rose, making it flat. To the right in the pool, to the left it would bounce into the neighbours property off a bank. After it was cut up we did have fire wood for around 3 years, though we were fighting with the termites for the wood near the end of this time. Friend also had a similar tree, he hired a tree feller, who dropped that tree in 1m sections, making a big hole in the rock hard ground, as each part came down from height, and as he came down those 1m sections got heavier and heavier, till he had to use the crane on the truck for the last 10m of trunk, as 4 people could not lift them. one went the wrong way, but the bougainvillea hedge bounced it back into roughly the right spot. We trimmed that hedge 6 months later, using a chainsaw, and found there was actually a fence, and a gate, there in the middle of this hedge, which had not been trimmed for at least 20 years. Chainsaw and 2 weekends work was cheaper than what the garden services quoted to cut it, though they were quite happy to remove the 5 truck loads of hedge afterwards. We understood why after starting, though I have done those again. Extension chainsaw works well there, you are at least a way from those lethal thorns and the spring on cutting a branch.
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  1016. Yes, and the clock is a nice branded one, from the bolt supplier, so not only a good show of the amount of time, with no wasted work, and a good bit of product placement as well for the supplier, who will always have customers coming in new, having seen the brand on the side, and choosing them when looking for fasteners. Plus good bolts, all of them looking nice and new, though in a year all will be back and need to be cut off, at least those that are not simply ripped right out.
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  1017. Just use epoxy to glue the head on. That way the bolts become only an alignment aid, not a stress carrier. As it will need to only survive a short while using some epoxy to bond to the head it will work long enough. Just have to make either the block top higher to compensate for the lack of gasket, or take a little more off the top of the pistons.
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  1018. Same for washing machines, I live in a soft water area, so use a quarter of the "manufacturer recommended" dose, and it works well, with no residue, and no floating growth in the machine either. Also not connected to hot water, and the generic Unilever store brand detergent as well, because, shockingly, the biggest difference between brands is the scent package, and the amount of brighteners added, along with possibly a slightly different amount of borax as filler.
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  1019.  @niyablake  I know that, so use a virtual card a lot these days, so that there is no way to actually bill the card again. try a second time and it will bounce. Bank gives this free to their customers, but i hear in the USA banks charge for this, or you have to use an external company. for an over internet transaction the card number and expiry date are exactly like a credit card, but the CVV is chosen by you ,along with the Visa verification code. Mismatch those, or just change it afterwards on the app, and the card no longer works, and you also can set a limit on transaction per card as well.
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  1020.  @PsRohrbaugh  Plus possession of such a jammer, or at least using one near an airport, will have a few government agencies find you, and have a very long and pointed talk to you. Ask the truck driver who did that near a US airport, because he wanted to jam the GPS tracker on his truck, so he could have some off time on the clock.
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  1021. Merch store sale items, genuine Franna bolts and nuts, and genuine Franna used spares.....
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  1022. Not mandatory here in South Africa, but many of the new units come with this by default, as the units are imported and thus they comply with the big US market safety and ancillary wise. Older units do not have anything other than chimes, and some that are from the 19th century are still in use, just having to have safety upgrades ( door glass with safety glass instead of window glass, inner doors instead of the lattice steel, an emergency light and bell in the car) to comply. The new ones are almost always, in a retrofit or as a lower cost add on to existing structure, a motor room less one, and the hydraulic powered elevator is almost unheard of here aside from in some very old, no longer approved for passenger travel, goods hoists that have no in car controls or lighting. Even a goods hoist new has to comply with passenger car regulations. When you upgrade an older unit ( controller and car interior upgrade, replacing only the inner skin, the floor and the lighting, plus the call panel and trailing cables, along with a new controller driving the existing motor and gearbox, sheave and cabling and shaftwork) you typically get the audible signals and direction signs as part of the package, though they might not be installed in some buildings due to lack of space and no wall boxes. Your building I would speak to the elevator service company, and they can plug the modules back in to the controller, and simply unscrew each panel and use the volume control built in there to drop the volume down to quiet. Suggest to the building owner that the penalties for non compliance with the ADA are pretty high, and deliberate non compliance can result in multiple lawsuits against them in person.
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  1023. You used the wrong defence. You needed to prove your vehicle was in that other city at the time, either with a toll ticket, or a parking bay ticket that had registration attached, or a expense report that you used your vehicle for the trip, and were with the vehicle in that city at the time of the alleged offense. I got tickets for tolls, and cloned plates are such a common thing that the ticket also has on it "if you are disputing due to cloning, here is the web link", and this leads you to a page, where among the options is a form you download, fill in and have witnessed at a police station, that this was not your vehicle. Did that, went to post office, got it witnessed, and scanned and emailed back. Never heard of it again.
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  1024.  @cplcabs  Most camera IR is poor, you really want light near the camera, no matter the colour, so as to get decent contrast. External IR sources work out a lot better, as there is no spill over into the camera from rain or spiders.
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  1025.  ss  you could say it was run till the last strand broke, by design.
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  1026. Also comes from different tax rates on things. White bread has VAT by me, but brown does not..... To make brown bread you take white bread flour, and add in bran to the mix.
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  1027. Don't forget the biggest problem is the CO2 that is exhaled. Only limited scrubbing capability, so you really do not want to have that compromised, because then you will be forced to dump the air overboard and release compressed air from a tank to dilute the CO2 concentration down, limiting your options for endurance.
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  1028. Green here means wait, look both ways (even at a one way street) and let the obligatory minibus taxi cross, because for him it was just "fresh red", and stopping at lights, and road rules in general, are a mere suggestion, and not anything he should actually worry about.
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  1029. No problem about the light, your smile was light enough Scott.
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  1030. Lovely to see the dual purpose gauging block for the taper thread, that also serves as drive shaft, proving the taper is perfect by not having any slip at all. Great work there, and also on getting all those measurements spot on. I would guess the piston that is recoverable would be good to machine up as a temporary "get you out of a bind" unit, so the mine owner can have it on the shelf to put in while waiting for the fix, with him knowing that this one will fail after a while, and not worry too much about the worn cylinder and rod, as those will all have to be done together, but at least he is not a machine down for a week or two, just 4 hours to replace a cylinder with a more or less working one while Kurtis does his magic and makes the old and busted shiny and new again.
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  1031. I just reply I have an 02 Cadillac, and if they will cover it, and when they ask the details i tell them it is a 1902 model, mostly original, and still has the original wooden wheels, but no electrics other than magneto ignition, and the headlights are acetylene lamps converted to run off kerosene.
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  1032.  @ExplainingComputers  Yes POE is becoming very common as homes get IP cameras and such installed, which all then only need a single cable run to the device. While IP camera prices are dropping, you still find it common to have cameras that use coax cable, though there you also have use of UTP cable as well and a balun at each end, so 2/3 pairs are used for power to the camera, and one pair is used for video back, allowing you to have 2 cameras at a single point, and only run one low cost cable. There I have often used CCA wire, as the cable is very cheap, not that great for flexibility, but as it will be installed once, and left alone, cheap in that you can run 2 or 3 to all locations for future expansion, as the hardware is upgradable, and the biggest cost of installing them is laying the cable, not the actual cable itself. I have used entire boxes for a 4 camera install in a small house, just having those spare cables tucked up out of sight meant the future upgrade to 8 or 16 cameras was very low cost to do.
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  1033. Frozen cat treat is very nice for him. Gets some cold and some water as well.
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  1034. Not a problem for me, he speaks well enough and consistently enough I can handle the data flow, on the recorded ones easier to listen at a higher speed.
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  1035. Think that he and Ray are working well together.
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  1036. I have a few XP virtual machines around, but they are not exactly my daily driver, but are there, each one for a separate task, as keeping a main VM image, and cloning it for each install, is a lot easier, and makes a mistake easy to fix, just delete that VM and clone again from the master install of that program.
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  1037. Classic one is Reiserfs.......
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  1038.  @_PatrickO  Luckily by me you cannot have a license suspended because of debt, only for a traffic violation directly related to it, which does not include speeding, parking or any of those violations, only things like negligent homicide of vehicular manslaughter. Only thing they do is put it on the annual registration, so you will either pay it, or just drive with expired license for the vehicle, like so many do. But police are not going to pull over a minibus taxi, unless they have at least 5 vehicles and full assault gear, so they carry on regardless.
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  1039. Probably being an annoying ahole is all. But if there is no light ordinance I would have gone, gotten a 5W green laser, put it on a tripod, and methodically burnt each LED out in those fixtures, because "it is just light, no limit on it" as defense.
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  1040.  @horusfalcon  Illegal to have residents provide common area power, must be a separate meter, so as to avoid a person who has not paid the bill and get turned off say stop the elevator from running, or the building lights to go out.
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  1041.  @johnathon007  To get that resolution you have to have very short exposures, and to get good contrast you need high intensity, so the source is a synchrotron that delivers picosecond with pulses, at massive energy, so they can get the resolution. Kind of like you putting your body into an electron beam, in that the material there gets absolutely destroyed after a few minutes.
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  1042. Will add the shrink on solder sleeves are great, as they do the soldering job, the shrink and seal at the same time. Just needs a perfectly clean copper wire, and also a nice clean outer sleeve as well, to make sure the solder joint is perfect. Yes not great if the wire is going to flex, but for joins that will be possibly exposed it works very well to make sure the repair works. Most common in a wiring loom where the entire loom is going to be wrapped up again, keeping it from vibration.
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  1043. First in line will be the ones in the village in the Cape, then nobody else, because the money will all be gone.
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  1044.  @spawnod  A lot cheaper than a new one for sure, and also going to be more than capable as well.
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  1045.  @FreiherrvonDinkelacker  Which is why pretty much every farmer by me has as personal car a 300D or similar Mercedes, or any other diesel truck or car. they only fill up with diesel when it is going in to the agents, under warranty, as those do test the fuel for contaminants, so they will have a 44 gallon drum of taxed diesel on the farm, and drain the tank empty, then fill it with enough to get there and back with taxed fuel. Out of warranty it will be red fuel, because out of warranty the dealership does not check to invalidate the warranty.
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  1046. One million in one month, but from previous history it will be one person in a million years.
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  1047.  @RCake  Rain means just it is cooler there now, so Kurtis can keep on working for longer before needing a water break.
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  1048. Little bit of that old oil on the underbody fasteners will help the next one to remove them, stopping them rusting into place.
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  1049. +EazyDuz18 Could also have been the winterised fuel with ethanol and methanol, added to the original summer fuel mix it likely had. A good place to look for the hesitation would be to clean the inlet system, and the PCV as well, to get the carbon out. Classic flat spot of a dirty inlet system and blocked PCV piping and valves.
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  1050. My sister was actually scheduled for that flight, except that the baggage was in Kowloon, and they were in Taipei, so elected instead to miss the flight and get the luggage instead.
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  1051.  @YogurtSnipe  Industrial diamond is cheap though....
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  1052. No, made in Korea by Daewoo, just like pretty much all of GM's line up.
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  1053. They will make the transfer hold till all outstanding metro bills are paid off. Of course they also forget to check, so you might find out a year or three down the line you now have historic debt you have to pay. Lots of rental properties have hundreds of thousands of outstanding bills from decades of tenants, so now the city insists that your metro bills are only allowed in the name of the registered owner, and never the tenant. Durban, which is why you see so many prepayment meters around from private companies, so the owner can be sure at least that his bills are being covered, Of course you get the owners who do not pay the bill, so the tenants get cut off, despite being in credit with the meter company.
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  1054. Will give you the hint to put a tube of Mo Di into that diff before you fill it up, and leave it then. Will make it shut up for a really long time again, and will slow down that fretting of the gears a lot. Yes will make the diff oil look like black goo, but it really does work well to shut up the whine. Gone over 100 000km with that, and it was not noisy again, and was holding up well enough.
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  1055. SLA batteries the amp hour rating is determined at a specific set of conditions. They charge it and see the capacity, say 9Ah. Then discharge it at a rate that it will take 10 hours to discharge, so around 1A for that battery, a C/10 rate of discharge. However discharging at a higher current the amount of energy you get out before the low voltage cut off is lower, so it will likely, at around C current draw, only show 6.5Ah capacity, and conversely, at C/100 it might run for giving an apparent capacity of 11Ah capacity. I took a 20Ah SLA pack, known to be poor, but still delivering 13.8V at 100% SOC, and loaded it down with a 3s white LED string, that drew 100mA initially, and left it to go. After 5 days it was now down to 11V, theoretically fully discharged, but still was able to light the LED string with 5mA, and after a further 2 days it was at 9V, and the LED string was still glowing, albeit dimly, and you could see the individual dies in the yellow phosphor coat. Another 2 weeks and it was still glowing enough to cast a shadow at night.
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  1056. My father travelled it a few times in Japan, and, due to an earthquake, the train was delayed by 15 minutes. There was a station master at the next station apologising for the delay, as it was a major delay, and he was very unhappy about the ground daring to mess with his schedule. My dad did however still get to his destination on time, to tick an item off his bucket list, to see all of the Soviet Union, as he had, during the war, seen the west side, travelled to Asia and seen the middle, but the far east side was still something he wanted to touch foot on. so he tot to travel to Vladivostok, and walk on the runway, as a part of a JAL crew there for a flight, just never leave the airport.
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  1057. No need to actually look for a new processor, simply use one of the more modern Space rated products that are still available in large volumes. Intel still does supply the 386SX and DX in space rated packages, using a SOS technology, which is a more modern and faster part. Yes likely just a few thousand fully tested dies in CA storage, ready to be packed and tested to order, but still a part likely to be around for the next 50 years. Buying an original Mostek or Rockwell part is still there, not robbing old equipment, you just pay Rochester Electronics to take a wafer and pack it, then test the result and get the qualification, they specialise in old silicon, buying up old wafer stock and storing them essentially forever. You need it you pay the price they ask, and smile. With gritted teeth, they price just below replacing the whole lot entirely, but still cheaper. However the 6502 is, thanks to it being out of copyright, one of the more prolific processors around, available as an IP core for pretty much all FPGA and ASIC families, as it is simple, very small and very functional. You have one in every hard drive, used to load the firmware into the ASIC and FPGA units that do the actual work, and it also then is a slow processor, but tiny one, that does housekeeping and monitoring of the hard drive, so that the drive can retract heads and shut down gracefully when power is removed. With only 64k of memory you can make half the fixed ROM, for bootloading the rest, and the rest RAM to handle memory, with a little bit of IO somewhere to feed data out to the rest of the array. Simple to implement in silicon, free assemblers and compilers, and no money to pay for a per unit license, it is very common to have it embedded all over in equipment as a processor doing something.
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  1058. Yes, not seen one that bad, but definitely a common issue on these cars.
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  1059. Yes engine was a junkyard pull, probably still has the painted on lot number as well on it, unless it is very very clean, showing they used a pressure washer to remove the number, and likely destroy the seals and vacuum pump as well.
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  1060. BMW, Broken Monday till Wednesday.
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  1061. More than half the police I see around are not wearing masks properly, let alone the public. Another law likely to be selectively enforced.
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  1062. Well, you have now met the French design philosophy, make it easy to assemble in the plant, when it comes as a complete assembly, and you simply bolt it in place. They put the rotor there to get it inboard a little, and leave space for a thinner rim with less offset, so it can be lighter, as there is more even loading off the sidewalls, but did not consider that you would need to change rotors outside of the warranty period. Figured pads would be changed every 2 years, and the rotor would not be worn below minimum spec before end of warranty. Who cares if it got grooves or warped, so long as it was outside warranty, more money for the dealership to make off book rate. The studs are simply using the existing holes for the threaded bolts, as they figured the US market cannot use a bolt into a wheel, too much training needed. So went for the stud instead, simply changing the tooling used on the CNC mill to a drill size for the stud, instead of a clearance hole for a tap, and then a spiral machine tap making the thread. One extra assembly step for the OEM, to put 5 studs into the unit, and press them into position, and on the assembly line just give them the 5 nuts, instead of the regular bolts.
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  1063. Mine does the same, though I have to remind him that the birds are bigger than him, and the monkeys also are bigger, and have much bigger teeth as well. He still wants to chase them from indoors.
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  1064.  @onebadsavage26  allistairc123 is pretty good as well, he makes but cuts on big stuff, cutting to a pretty good accuracy even for 10 ton parts that are being rebuilt.
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  1065. Buy used, let the first owner take that 50% depreciation hit on it, and all the teething problems. Also never buy the first year of any new model, wait till they have 3 or so years of production to find out all those little issues, like blowing transfer cases, grenading engines and electrical system failures. Look at VW, they made the VW Beetle for 50 years, and the VW Golf/Rabbit for over 30, and both are pretty reliable robust vehicles now, with plenty of after market support. Same for the Toyota models, the older long running ones are reliable, same for pretty all automakers.
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  1066.  @heartobefelt  Pretty much all run on 400V 3 phase power, 50Hz or 60Hz not an issue, as the motors are rated for both frequencies, and run at either 1440 or 1760RPM in each case, which still means they are capable of handling the load. Ship power systems are pretty much capable of running on 50 or 60Hz with no issue, all just are 3 phase with neutral, and the ship has transformers to handle the input voltage, and supply the appropriate voltages. Bigger ships have high voltage systems to distribute, up to 6600V, but most shipside power is 3 phase 400VAC, which is a normalised voltage, but can vary from 380V to 440V between phases and still comply.
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  1067. For the other mill probably best to get a meter of hollow bar with that hole in it already. Yes you will need to make a plug for the top section, but that is a lot easier than trying to remove a broken drill that is absolutely determined to wander.
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  1068. Otherwise known as the built in smoke screen maker.
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  1069. Could have had a same colour same model truck, and simply put a fake VIN over the real one, and false plates, so it looks, at first glance, legit. As the title loan place likely only checks VIN in windscreen, registration is matching, and likely only that vehicle is not rust held together by paint, starts and runs, they likely would give a loan on it.
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  1070. Finland, and the channel is Hydraulic press channel. Yes car was blown up, but the batteries and drivetrain were removed beforehand, because they have used part value. ISTR the money from the adverts blowing it up did pay a lot of the way to the scrap value of the vehicle.
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  1071. Got to rank as one of the worst welding positions I have seen you in, but a great job afterwards as well, even if you were welding with pretzels for arms and hands. Was wondering why you were taking it back to OEM, as I know that CAT does do oversize bushes for the machines, then you explained why that the operator wants it all standard size so spares are less of an issue.
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  1072.  @DKNguyen3.1415  Book keeper with no clue, or just could not give a damn.
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  1073. Yes they can, as after all they do have demonstrable damage and loss from this case, and can plead for recompense
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  1074. Or Col Sanders of KFC.....
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  1075. 747 INS was based on taking the closest 2 out of 3 separate systems. Each system used 6 small peanut gyro units, which are smaller than a fist each, in a redundant system, one per axis, to keep the inertial platform level, at the start position when powered on. It would turn 360 degrees almost in a day, the error being the amount the earth rotated along it's orbit, and if you left it running for a month you would be able to extract, from the residual noise, the orbit of the sun around the galaxy as a small constant offset. On this platform are the 3 accelarometers, which then get integrated to give you velocity, as a 3 vector output, and this then is integrated again to give you distance again as a vector output. Mapped by the computer on the IMU to a model of the earth, with known starting position as a point, accurate down to the foot, measured by the nose wheel being parked on a painted spot on the hardstand, and the body aligned to a line as well. They are accurate enough to fly waypoints to within a few feet half way around the planet, and to get you within a hundred foot of landing on autopilot. Replaced by the laser ring gyro units, which can do the same, but the drift is so much lower that you can let the autopilot fly till touchdown, with no worry that a gyro failure will get you out more than a few feet. Plus no more temperamental units as they aged, where you might find one of the dual redundant halves fail in flight every few thousand hours, and you would have a slight degradation in accuracy overall, but only see it when you landed and maintenance looked in the bay to see the one unit is showing a degraded accuracy flag on it. You need a class 10 clean room facility to repair them, not many of them left around who still have the room, the tools, and most importantly the skilled technicians to work on the units any more. I was lucky to get the tour of SAA Technical in the 1990's, as part of training, where as a group we spent a day in there, in the class 10000 clean room facility looking at all the work they did. Look into the clean area to see them strip them to bare bones, pulling the peanut size gyro units out of the housings to service and calibrate them.
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  1076. Same here, though it was Gedore, which is a massive seller, and while the new sets do not come in a steel box any more, they are still sold. Also have a set of Chinese sockets my father bought, brand new, for around $2, because the one size they did not include in the set was the 13mm socket, the most used one. So all he did was add one from his collection of odd sockets, and I still use it as well.
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  1077. I grew up when there were half cent coins still in circulation, and they actually had value, because you could buy 2 pieces of gum for that half cent coin. now that single piece of smaller gum is over 70c, in bulk.
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  1078.  @AlexBarbu  NaK also dissolves aluminium, and also will dissolve brass and bronzes as well. Very reactive, you need things like steel, which will only slowly dissolve, or stainless steel, which will survive longer due to the passivation layer that forms on it. NaK is used to cool nuclear reactors, where the entire cooling loop it is in is made from either ceramic or Hastalloy, which is pretty much only going to dissolve over centuries in it. Ceramic so they can use a magnetohydroynamic pump to circulate it without having to have moving parts in the liquid.
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  1079. Think that was done already.....
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  1080. Yes, a few orders of magnitude better than the original 747 peanut gyro units, that gave it originally the ability to fly around the planet, with Decca acting as backup and correction, and a star guide and sextant as the final arbitration.
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  1081.  @HumbleMechanic  I can always do with a few more of them, they come in real handy. But shipping is a bit of an issue from USA to me......
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  1082. No, just salt spray from the ocean collecting in the concrete from failed waterproofing, eroding the steel reinforcing and thus spalling away the concrete, till finally one was too weak and crumbled, and the load transfer to the others then caused them to fail as well, dropping the lower support away from the building.
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  1083. Lots of videos about pilot training on hypoxia, where the slow loss of pressure will make you manic and irrational from low oxygen before you pass out, and you lose coherence quickly as the oxygen concentration drops. Many only know how they reacted afterwards, when watching the video footage, they do not remember anything of the last few minutes, and lose the ability to act coherently even before that. Slow pressure loss might already have had the pilots incoherent and incapacitated before that alarm sounded.
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  1084.  @eno2870  That would be extra, as you then have to use medical grade oxygen, which has a much lower concentration of contaminants, most notable being nitrogen, which is pretty close in boiling point, so you have to do fractional distillation of the liquid, or use molecular filters to reduce the volume of contaminants. Expensive and slow, as you do need to keep a very precise control on the pressures and temperatures. For each passenger you would need around 3l of liquid oxygen, per flight, and probably around 15l of liquid nitrogen as well, so as to be able to make a one atmosphere environment, and simply dump all the exhaust out of the craft. Otherwise you need lithium hydroxide CO2 scrubbers to be able to recirculate the air, and then your gas needs are lower, but you do need a lot more mass in scrubbers. However the scrubbers need to be fed dry air, so you then need to extract almost all of the humidity out of the air first. So, probably a ton of scrubbers alone, another 2 tons of airconditioners, for the hundred passengers, to save the 1500kg of liquid nitrogen, but the LOX is not going to be much less. That assumes you want to have the passengers feel like they are in an aircraft, though you could get away with dropping cabin pressure to a bit lower, and increasing oxygen concentration, but having them need to spend an hour before and after each flight doing a decompression would probably not be a desired thing. After all, the space shuttle and ISS takes the best part of a day to get ready for EVA, because the low pressure in the space suits requires all nitrogen to be removed, and the time for the Starship will not be much less.
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  1085.  @roycsinclair  I did wire wrap, and often the easiest solution to a faulty socket, common thing on older designs where they lose tension, was to simply solder in a turned pin socket on top of the faulty one, and leave it at that. Generally done because the wire wrap invariably had the faulty socket as the bottom of the pile, and the original manufacturer went all out for reliability, so in addition to the modified wrap, they also soldered every single pin after test. Turned pin because those were a lot more reliable than the formed contact of the original wire wrap sockets, and you could also get the needle tip of a soldering iron down into the gap, unlike the regular socket.
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  1086. Don't forget the packaging probably has more carbon in it than the product could ever hope to absorb in it's lifetime, and just how much carbon can a clay bead absorb in any case when it is on your body, and gets clogged up with a blend of fat and dead skin. Then the mailer envelope, which is probably nice coated non recyclable paper, along with the nice brochure with non recyclable UV cure varnish, the plastic coated carrier and such, plus the shipping label with BPA to make the printing visible.
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  1087. In flight they sit in a nice insulated wheel well, surrounded by a really thick layer of insulating rubber from the tyres. They only really cool off when exposed to airflow in the time the wheels are down and the aircraft is taking off, and on final approach. When in the air stream there will be flow through the pack, but typically only the outside, as they tend to be touching all the time, held there by a set of springs so that the hydraulic system has a consistent volume of liquid it has to pump for a specific brake action. Inner sections will stay hot for hours, especially in hard braking, and having a RTO also means you have to have a brake inspection and probably replacement, as you likely lost more than half of the active material scrubbing off that energy. You will also likely need tyres as well, they will have had a lot scrubbed off them, even with ABS, as there will still be a bit of slip as the valves modulate grip. The original friction material up to the 1970's was asbestos, and it is still used in some niche applications, as there is nothing that is drop in. But the modern ones use a ceramic material, or carbon composite, as the friction liner. Thus temperature monitoring, though the bigger issue is tyre degradation from heat, which is why they have a fusible plug on them that will deflate in a controlled manner, rather than exploding.
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  1088. Drivers do not keep the taxi after hours, it goes to the owner, so the owners are complicit in this as well.
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  1089.  @kotori87gaming89  Activated charcoal filters, which remove the majority of noxious gases, though they do have a very limited capacity, and regeneration of them requires either a lot of heat to drive the adsorbed gas off, or a big supply of fresh ones. So they likely are reserved for emergency use, sealed up till needed. So yes the chef will never be making baked beans, cabbage or broccoli, or any food that can lead to gas being generated by the crew.
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  1090. No, that was Thiokol boosters. The USSR was constrained by needing to fit onto existing proven hardware that had limits as to dimensions and mass capability. they needed to have it work due to both material restraints and also engineering personnel restraints, so reuse of existing stuff and simply using more duplicates was the solution.
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  1091. Looks like pretty every manufacturing job and service industry is about to move out to other states, leaving any manufacturing out of state, and thus none of the tax revenue. Yes the biggest user is in hydraulics, so now the CA government will be unable to have their earth moving equipment serviced now, along with any of the mass transit systems either.
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  1092. What about you send it to the manufacturer, and they have farmed it out to some service centre in Mumbai, because it saved them 30c per hour on the repairs, irrespective that it now takes 6 weeks to get there and back, and often the service centre is just using somebody off the street, hired that day, to fix it, with no manuals, instructions or spare parts. Or you have spent $1 million on buying equipment, and a year and 2 months later you are told that it is discontinued, no longer supported, and that you need to buy the new one, at $2 million, which will also be out of support in 10 months. As well you find out you need to retrain all your staff on how it works, at your cost, in their facility in BFburg, for 3 months in order to use it. New stuff is the same as the old, just they changed colour of a screen and cover, and changed a critical connector so your old per patient spares no longer work.
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  1093. Lovely ring there, and that cat is great as well.
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  1094. You need to get the updated machine, which has the slides you use that also embosses the value directly on the bottom of the self carboning triplicate, so the bank can use the same OCR machinery that they use for cheques to read both the card info, merchant info and the amount off in a single pass, without needing to have any person do data entry. Does it have the brass embossed shop details still, or the later cheap embossed plastic tag as they were phased out, and relegated to backup for a regular card reader attached to a phone line. Got 2 of those, which were replaced by the bank as they upgraded systems to enable EMV transactions, and those in turn were superceded and replaced with ones that can do contactless as well. But all still have the old fallback of magstripe read, and when that fails you also can use manual card number entry, though you also need a supervisor PIN entry per transaction to do so. Even pizza places now have gone away from that, you either order via app, or pay cash on delivery, or the drivers come there with either a portable terminal, or use a regular mobile phone to do the contactless pay. No merchant (aside from the Post office, still stuck using XP, and the same computers they bought in 2000) does magstripe only.
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  1095. The A10 fires the short bursts more due to the massive volumes of gas generated from the gun, which is ingested by the engines. Too much gas sot the engines flame out, because there is no oxygen in the compressed gas, and as well it is very good at stopping the engine flame front from burning, blowing it out the rear. That plus the recoil is attempting to stall the airframe as well.
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  1096. Likely just paid the absolute minimum, but the owners are getting the increased profits.
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  1097. Or put in a claim with whichever government entity owns the freeway, as they all have self insured to cover damage. construction zone the onus is on the road owner to take the appropriate care and patrolling to prevent this.
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  1098. Definitely hinders, because every cent you "save" on feeding poor food, or packing in more prisoners per day, is extra profit. So food is the cheapest slop they can give that meets the minimum definition of "food", in minimal amounts, and as many bodies as they can fit inside, along with spending as little as possible on staff, facilities and maintenance, as all those detract from the income. So food is all bought as surplus, or lowest grade, and cooked and served in minimal quantity, and the last time the place saw paint or any sort of maintenance was when built. Light bulbs are replaced when they all burn out, so it is common to have cells with no light at all, and as the fittings are vandal proof, the replacement will only be done when they can get all the wing into another wing for a day, then get the cheapest contractor in, to do the shoddiest job, using the cheapest bulbs, so they fail again often before they are out. Toilets and showers will stay broken, till they get told to fix it by the overseeing government department at an inspection, and somebody forgot to hide all the buckets in the cells.
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  1099. Great as well telling the customer that, while you can fix it no problem, you want them to go and get it done for free, and get the manufacturer to fix it. Kenny loses out a little, but you can bet they will be back to get it serviced and maintained by him again, so long as they own it, now.
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  1100. Yes, got some of those rods, and about the best use for them is refacing mower blades, as the metal comes out really hard, so takes a lot longer to wear out cutting grass. Last lot though I bought new blades, there was not much left of the old ones.
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  1101. Bet it was a rental.......
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  1102.  @InsideOfMyOwnMind  Lots of shops have a wall of known shoplifters by the entrance, that were kicked out but not arrested because the theft will not be prosecuted by the local PD. The shoplifter will not sue, because then the case gets a countersuit for costs, and the theft as well, and does go to the point of criminal theft.
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  1103. Had slowed down to under 20, and had the lights on. Other driver at fault because you always have to check the intersection is clear before entering, and if the cars in all other lanes are slowing down and stopping that is a very big warning that the intersection has something happening there, and you need to slow down immediately and prepare to stop. Basic things in defensive driving.....
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  1104. Firing torpedoes that were, in the most part, defective by design as well. There were a lot of them that posed a greater danger to the ship firing them than the enemy.
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  1105.  @dertythegrower  Truck can still be taken and sold to defray costs.
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  1106. Yes, got to pay for the costs of 5 vehicles, plus the big rig, and also likely got hit with his insurer refusing to cover the damage for their own vehicle as well, citing the video as a deliberate illegal act. then refused coverage, so now has to both try to figure out how to pay for the damages, and get another vehicle as well, plus the court case that likely came from this.
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  1107. The sticker is not, just the refusal of warranty service based on the removal of the sticker, or damage to it. Heat tabs are not going to be disclaimed if damaged, but the claim will be disclaimed because there is no proof you did not overheat the unit, while the internal damage is consistent with overheating it.
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  1108. Neutron star mergers, best viewed from at least 1000 light years, especially if you want to be able to talk about it later on.
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  1109. Drop gearbox and engine complete, only have to undo cables, coolant and drive axles. Much less work then to separate engine, unless you want to leave the trans in the vehicle, in which case you can get engine out from the top, after a lot more stripping of it.
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  1110.  @JohnSmith-pl2bk  Clamps are more important than the hose, unless it is one that is no longer made, or special order. But there are companies who will make you a hose special order, if you are willing to pay the money.
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  1111.  @ursamajor26  True, but the rebuilders do make a living off this, especially for the more expensive types. Common to see the bearings that are used for things like bridges and other large infrastructure, along with things like slew rings for equipment, get a rebuilt bearing when they are serviced, as the price difference is often large, and the rebuilt unit is just as long lasting as original.
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  1112. Thing is that deaths are kind of required, by law, to be published, in at least one local paper, and one with large circulation, at least twice. Many large companies use this info because of the probate, as otherwise any claims they have after it is concluded are rendered void. Course did not stop me getting nastgrams about fees being owed, and I am waiting for a debt collector to call looking for it as well, because I want to show up in court with the empty box and the death certificate.
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  1113.  @budlanctot3060  Or just machine the bearing off, and undercut by 1mm, then spray on a new wearing surface, and machine to size again exactly like the others. Hard facing for the bearing, well bonded to the crank, and just as long lasting as the rest. either bore out the housing to take a single overthick bearing, or make them all oversize and spray weld up all the rest to match a standard thickness shell instead.
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  1114. With 11 official languages, and a lot of words that mean one thing in english, but are also a very offensive term in another, there is a lot of fun here. You can say cake, which can be, in another language, a derogatory term, and the USA will not know better. there probably are a few dozen ex SA people in the USA with very derogatory plates, simply because the US does not realise that. The Hungarian for cheeseburger is also used to refer to certain body parts, especially when less than sanitary. and yes there is a local person by me who has the vanity plate of snake, as he is also on Discovery channel. He is very busy this time of year, seeing as it is now snake season, and they pop up all over. They are only 20 minute snakes, not too deadly, as you have 20 minutes to get to hospital......
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  1115.  @Pisti846  Nope, it was from the base CO, get the vehicle back, and take along plenty of show of force to tell them this. Disagree and there were already lots of laws that would make the yard fall under military courts instead of regular ones, and very few lawyers would touch them then, as they now fell under military rulesets.
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  1116.  @currentfaves65  Plus keep your own copy as well, even if you use your phone camera to make a few pictures while there, and they say they will send to you later, the phone copy and the later one must match, otherwise the one you signed in person is the valid one, and the other is a forgery. If they do not want to allow photos tear it up there and then into small pieces, and write "Void" on top of a lot of the text.
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  1117. Aside from the ones never disclosed, like that a good number of those bars are actually tungsten with a gold plating on them. you only find out when you actually want to use the gold for something like making jewellery or gold wire. Or the fiction of gold shares, where tens of thousands of people think they are the sole owners of the same physical gold bar, but in reality they are only numbers in a spreadsheet, and the gold does not exist physically.
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  1118.  @edennis8578  They can appeal, but I will bet that this will have a massive effect on business, in that nobody will take vehicles there for service, because they cannot be sure that there will not be a suit against them for negligence on the part of the dealership or it's employees. Going to guess at the moment they can take any vehicle in for service, without any wait, simply because the bays are almost all empty, but the opposition is booked solid.
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  1119. Will bet the lawyer friend now makes sure the bills are sent monthly, and paid fast as well. Yes the $700 million is probably going to the shell, and will be whittled down to nothing. However if the "new" company still does that, they likely can be joined in the lawsuit, as they probably took over assets, so can then be deemed also liable for the debts as well.
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  1120.  @MichaelAStanhope  That valve is also likely to have issues, they are known to have daphragms that either crack, stick or just leak.
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  1121. They hide behind the "good faith" clause, because they know they did not actually do a proper check, in only using the easy to see VIN, not the others that are there, plus did not fully verify ownership in all states the car had been registered in.
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  1122. well, simple system and thus simple checks, like shown here. check voltages at the fuel sender, check the fuel tank grounds, and look up the resistance values of the sender and check that. Check the connections and you can easily see what the fault is, no need to use OBD to diagnose, just good old fault finding
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  1123. A similar kind of plant is in Africa, locally called the "wait a bit" tree, because of it's strong curved spikes. Drive past one in a vehicle, and it will pluck you out of it, leaving you hanging in the air in agony.
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  1124. Do it half, do it on the cheap, do it at least twice, plus likely this time they will have to approve the replacement of the other side, plus of course new seals, and new chains, guides and tensioners.
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  1125.  @hondaguy9153  ROI will suck with that, and in general most industrial electrolysis plants do not respond well to rapid changes in control, they all will have very bad transient response, and you will not get a good product out efficiently. Extreme case is an aluminium smelter, where the penalties for loss of input power are massive, and can result in the plant needing to demolish large chunks of the equipment and rebuild them. Electrolysing water also needs additives, and filtering out the most common byproduct, chlorine, from the system as well, plus it is also incredibly energy intensive. Your cost to make from electricity would be more than double than reforming methane or natural gas, or by using syngas from coal in the Fischer–Tropsch plant process. If you have enough biomass on a reliable scale syngas direct would work better to run engines, plus give a food crop as well, though it would probably be best used on the farm itself to run the equipment for modern agriculture over diesel.
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  1126.  @waylandsmith  True, but you can also provide some form of "thermostat' so that the heat is only there in colder times, making for lower overall power use. Plus a power resistor, that is running at low power per unit area, does tend to last a lot longer than the 15k hours mandated for the Traffic lamp designs, and is as well able to have better heat transfer to the diercast aluminium housing as well.
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  1127. Time to lowbed it to Florida for a service, and to save Ray from his midlife crisis.
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  1128.  @paulis7319  Likely lots of stuff that was either deferred or regarded as not necessary, and this probably extended to things like lubrication and inspection of hidden items as well, along with deferring maintenance or paying the cheapest contractor to pencil whip the records.
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  1129.  @paulis7319  Going to guess it will occupy at least 500 pages of the report summary, especially if they look into the service as an entity, and start to inspect the records, plus inspect the aircraft as they come and land on US soil. there likely will be criminal cases, and hopefully the ones indicted should be the CEO, not some poor patsy who had zero ability to prevent anything, or who never actually signed anything, but was convenient.
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  1130.  @ghostwalker100  Kurtis has welded up these kinds of cracks before, so not a problem for him. Doing it after welding allows time for the crack to appear and finish growing, especially after the heating done during the welding. Plus, as he said, he does the bending with the metal very hot, so not going to be a problem with cracking, though it sure will have a lot of stress in it, relieved by the weld annealing the metal.
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  1131. The state is very soon going to find the big companies, that have thousands of employees, and who pay a big chunk of the taxes that keep it running, will move out to neighboring states, mostly because of the increasing amount of laws they are piling on. Wonder what they will do when 80% of the money ups and moves next door, or simply moves offshore, and leaves them with the empty lots and massive tracts of unsellable housing.
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  1132. Rural areas you just get murdered in your house.....
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  1133. Doggo likes to have a nice motorbike tyre as a plaything, or at least pretty every Staffie I ever met did. Preferably one where it has only nylon belts, you can cut the rim beads off so there is no steel. One of course loved solid rubber tyres, ate them off the wheelbarrow.
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  1134. Or the first hard stump that goes through it.
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  1135. Will also add it can drive a lot of scanners directly, which improves the import process as it gets rid of the image conversion of the scanner software. If you are scanning use the highest resolution the scanner supports, and save as either a RAW image or as TIFF, not Jpeg which does a lot of compression on the image and thus reduces detail. Just remember that you can also add a description in the EXIF field as to image source and desription, though many online services strip this out as a matter of course. Otherwise you can make a text file with the same name as the image, containing the requisite details, which is saved with the image, though for a method that combines both look at making RAR images, which are a type that is first an image and then an archive of files that are all in a single file.
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  1136. Add extra insulation to the water heater tank, plus as well insulate the pipes coming in and out of it as well, at least for the first 6 feet. That way, with care, you will have hot water for 3 days, and warm water for a week. I added 3 layers of insulation to mine, and got that out of it, making the unit so much more efficient, as the standing loss on the common unit is pretty high, because the manufacturers just put enough foam to reach the EPA and energy star guideline, and most installers do not insulate all the water piping like told to do in the manual, because that costs money, and is not included with the new unit either.
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  1137. Could have rusted off, or went to have a CV boot replaced, and they forgot to put the tone wheel on, or it was hit just right with a rock to crack it and fell off when rusted near through. Otherwise you got mice with high carbon steel teeth.
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  1138.  @streetcop157  Your lawyer can show though that this is either a show of bad faith, or they are the most incompetent people around, and should be barred from handling money. However speak to your lawyer about filing a complaint to the IRS about this anyway.
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  1139.  @TheBry_Guy  Yes but you probably will want to only put a few bucks in, to get a quarter tank, and then try again.
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  1140. 9mm, probably from a certain group that is no 1 for losing firearms. Definitely a hit, and probably over routes and rival groups that want in.
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  1141. You are one of perhaps 0.0001% of the population of the world who is this lucky, the rest are not able to gain access to fresh water so easily. Desalination can work for them, and solar desalination is about the cheapest, all it needs is large areas of otherwise unusable arid surface to work.
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  1142. Thumbs down probably the salespeople who are not selling them a new one.
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  1143. Or landlord is a company, and they gave the wrong address or a management company did this.
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  1144. The getting out for time served means she will be back doing it next week. If they are caught again and again they are clearly not minor, and show they are doing this for money.
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  1145. No roubles, you use what came with the shop, and batteries freeze in winter.
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  1146.  @joelhart9020  Occasionally, though they are known to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory all too often.
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  1147. You can get a custom LCD made in China, which is a product that has dropped in price, though you might have to reverse engineer it, and order 100 of them, but you can always sell the other 95 to recover the cost, fixing other units that used the same display. But as it is likely a 4 digit common backplane display, and those are still common parts, should be easy to find a modern drop in, though you might have to do a little work to make the pin spacing closer, as the modern displays are considerably narrower, so the pins will all need a spacer.
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  1148.  @davidharding1732  Another read as Bomb tech outranks all at a run.
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  1149. Had the tiny ones do the same to me, bit pretty hard when I grabbed him to get rid of him away from the camp spot, where he was climbing to go grab bird eggs. Mynah parents objected till he fell out the tree, so I grabbed him to hustle him far away. Too bad for him I was wearing gloves, felt nothing, but had a little trouble getting him to let go once far away enough, till I took him for some swimming lessons, where he figured out letting go was a good suggestion. Only around 20cm long, but still a lot of courage, and not taking any sort of backing down.
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  1150. The thing is the copyright right exists the moment the book is created, so having to pay to send in the book is a tax on copyright, which should be free. Best thing government could do is pay the postage for the sending, like the IRS does for sending in your tax return, so that the book publishers can easily send in the books they want to be sure of, the rest still are copyrighted, but there is no need to send a copy in unless you want to, not because you have to.
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  1151. That part was covered in school in Driver's education, or when you went to get your vehicle licence. Just because it is not covered in popo academy does not mean it is unimportant, as after all they do not teach you how to read, write or wipe your ass there either, or how to put clothes and shoes on.
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  1152.  @niyablake  Can of spray air freshener make an effective training tool. Go close to fence and give him a smell when he barks, and after a few times he will associate barking with the smell, and stop barking at that area.
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  1153. Yes, they did have a reputation of slop from the beginning, but that would stay the same till it rusted apart. Yes get up and go, got up and went, but there was nothing the Lada could not climb, much to the chagrin of the 4x4 clubs, where the only thing that stopped them was rocks so big even the Land Cruiser was bottoming out, the Lada 4x4 was simply able to idle over all obstacles, and climb almost vertical slopes. Plus so cheap that you had no worries about damaging it, your Lada was cheaper than repairing the Land Cruiser, and you could just panel beat it back into rough shape, and carry on. Plus the engine bay you could climb in to to work on the engine, and the full size spare, high lift jack, good tool kit and starter handle were standard. OK not the fastest, or the lightest on fuel, but had a really good heater, and AC you opened the window. Still a fair number of them running around, rust in close formation.
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  1154.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  Till he gets a family, then he will be coming in to get homie's pellets daily, and Homie will just let him.
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  1155. Will bet was both driving too fast, and was well lubricated after leaving the pub. Accounts for the speed, because drunk thinks speeding will get them home faster, so less time for an accident, and also delayed responses means he was not able to follow the curve in the road either.
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  1156.  @ElectronicsGuy666  Only way is to have them vote out the mayor and police chief, and get ones who stand on a platform of not having these abuses of power.
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  1157. Yes a bus will float for a while, till it fills with water, as there have been many tragic examples of. This led to the requirement that all buses have to have glass break hammers by the windows, as it was found the windows that you can push out, the previous standard, were not effective if you were a child, or somebody not strong and fit. Took a busload of children going into a lake to get that one enforced.
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  1158. Bet there were little blue or maroon pills involved there, with him being both somewhat under the influence, and thus having less than normal ability to stand at attention, and also because at that age most men find that attention needs a splint, in the form of said pills, or, before they came into play, in the form of a rubber ring.
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  1159. When you first started this series i had no idea there were so many different spec ATF blends around, and just how specific some vehicles were about them as well. Thank you for the nice detailed explanation and examples. Generally I rarely deal with automatic transmissions, as most of the cars I drive are manual transmission, and in general those give very few troubles, though even there they are very fussy about the right oil fill. Industrial gearboxes thankfully are almost all going to use one of 3 different fluids in them though, and those are very easy to match. Some of them the original stuff that comes out is horrid, not even sure what it was before it turned into stinking sludge, but putting in new 320 viscosity oil works well in almost all cases, except for those that call for a thicker ( 630 viscosity IIRC) or some that used a NGLI 0 grease. I use Dexron as a nice general purpose lubricant though, especially for sliding parts.
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  1160. So long as the home owner has a non municipal bin they cannot control what they put into it.
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  1161. And poorly to boot.
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  1162. Money grubbing on her part, here the owner simply rents out the unit to some specialists, who will move in, and make her life hell.
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  1163.  @Jfk1245  Remember as well that avionics computers did not necessarily use a microprocessor, they often simply made them up out of lots of TTL logic, and the most complex IC was the 54138 and 54139 decoder.Lots of TTL simple gates and 5474 flip flops to make up registers, and then memory made up with Intel's earliest memory offerings, serial CDD or shift register memory, because making a serial adder and ALU uses a lot less gates, while still allowing you to use 18 bit words. Admittedly very single purpose devices, but they did so the job well. Numitron displays because they predated bright LED's, they were around but were not exactly daylight visible, and were very expensive as well.
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  1164.  @mccanlessdesign  They were just there as support for the 2 root passes, then served as a sacrificial area to run the weld out, so there is no start and stop puddle in the finished job. The plates did this perfectly, as the start and stop puddles all were ground away in the end, when the gas axe cut the plates off. did see a spot of red in the first big cut after the dye, assume that was just a puddle that was weeping out, and not the very bottom of a crack in there.
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  1165. Dogs get cold as well.
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  1166.  @skeetsmcgrew3282  For me watering the lawn most of the year not really needed, the rain does it.
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  1167. Yes and remember as well WD also uses another older technology on the silicon as well, in there being an embedded 6502 processor, with 64k of ROM and RAM, which is used to bootstrap the main processor, feeding in the configuration file and doing housekeeping, as the core is now royalty free to use, and there is a lot of tools to develop for it, and it is both also RISC, and also incredibly small as well, fitting well in the RISC architecture. So small you can fit it into a ultra cheap processor sold as a toy.
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  1168. Available commercially as a DALIK plating kit, which you need to have a better electrode to use, with a larger surface area, plus a continuous flow of weak acid, to provide a conductive path, and get good contact with the cotton swab. Make the battery case flat, and try again, with a cotton swab well soaked in a dilute phosphoric acid solution, basically that bottle with 3 times the volume of water, soaking it to be wet and not damp, and only a single thickness or two of cotton cloth, old well worn denim works there, to act as insulator and carrier. Wet the metal surface as well, so it does not dry out, and thus makes for even plating.
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  1169. Use a DOT5 brake fluid will work, as it has a very high boiling point, and is silicone based as well and will not do much to the seals aside from swell them slightly. DOT4 and lower however are basically alcohols and glycols, which is pretty much a solvent instead.
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  1170. Camera needs to be active all the time the engine is running then, as it is possible that thebus can be involved in an accident for other reasons.
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  1171. Not doing the Rainman Ray and making every job an EPA superfund site from all the brake cleaner. Stuff is expensive, and you really only need to use a little of it to get good results.
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  1172.  @aaronbuildsa  Better than milk crates are beer crates, they have extra internal support, and only cost $1 at the off sales as well.
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  1173.  @jeffostroff  No, the penthouse unit on the 55th floor, in flat 386290, with my entire irreplaceable stamp collection, priceless artworks. My car collection of 80 Bentley's, 15 Ferrari's, 200 Mclaren F1's and also my private boat, all in my garage bay. Also had all three arms broken, all 5 feet amputated, and thus cannot attend in person, so am sending my representative "Bob" in my stead, with a letter from my doctor, the Rev Hon Dr Mr Prof Sir IR Cheatam Esq.
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  1174. Not misuse of the vehicle, after all you can do actions in it that do not involve driving it and be covered. Loading, unloading (in this case only partially, and with special care in the cargo and methods) of cargo are a covered thing. Mattress you can sue if a spring broke and poked you, but so long as it provided support there is no other cover. After all that is an expected use for the product, and it did function correctly in supporting 2 adults using it actively.
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  1175.  @MrCarCrazy  True, but they will send him to BMW, who in turn will send him to the one dealer who deals with these types of exotic cars. Yes there are dealerships and independants who deal with them, but likely Ray is the one local, and the owner really wants the AC to work in Florida summer, because otherwise he will be cooked inside the can.
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  1176. Yes, but remember them it was absolutely cutting edge, totally new, and something that had never been done before. After Saturn that technology went on to be used in so many things that you find all over, even if you do not see them at all, but those spin offs still are having a profound change in the modern world. The servo system there used to track the drift of the IMU with wind eventually landed up being used to correct the laser beam used to read your modern CD. DVD and BD player and recorder, similar problem resolved with the application of that design idea.
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  1177. MAF corroded, and leak probably the tank connection , or the fuel cap gasket has rotted away.
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  1178.  @mechag9499  Pipelines routinely mix them when changing product being pumped. They just make sure to pump a massive amount per product, so the change over results in a low concentration of the wrong product.
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  1179. Really hard on the laser and galvo assemblies, in that you run them at full power, and for the galvo mechanisms you are also moving them very slow, so they do heat up in spots quite a bit with all that light energy on them, and being low mass they do tend to overheat, which will result in them failing or distorting, and needing to be replaced.
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  1180.  @MentourPilot  We can Categorically agree you are not kittening us on this. Why could the crew on the Egyptian flight not simply open the cockpit door, and then the cat would have been, so to say, out of the cabin/bag, and free to roam in the cargo hold. I would guess the cat came up looking for food, probably the maintenance techs took food up there, or there were rats in the plane. Rather a cat, than a catastrophic failure, because there was a rat in the cabin, eating up the wiring looms.
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  1181.  @DavesGarage  Yes, but I have used the products you developed, and till now you were just another faceless drone. now you are no longer that. Thank you, been using your product since Win95 retail came out on those 15 floppies. Still prefer the Sysinternals tools over some of the other MS products, was worried when they were bought. Funny thing is that Russian malware scanners flag the Sysinternals tools as malware for some reason, so just ignore the warnings from them when checking suspicious files against multiple sources. Wonder why..........
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  1182.  @scurvofpcp  Yes but they will be bleeding money all over the EU as well, so yes this will cost them, plus it might activate governments to go after them as well, sensing the loss of all that tax money.
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  1183.  @TwazkemUSAbi  They also have signs at the entrance and scattered around that you absolve them of all liability, though that may not stand up in law too easily. But most you will have to claim from your insurance for it, and then turn around and sue them civilly for the shortfall.
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  1184. Most modern engines the tolerances are so close that there is minimal extra care needed to run the engine in. See your average Toyota, where the first service is not at 1000km, but at 15 000km, and then again at multiples of that, and they do not generally blow up engines on the first day, even those that are run "enthusiastically"by the delivery drivers. Modern tolerances and assembly means that the sort bins used during assembly are so close that you just pull the parts out of the right colour coded bins along the line, for the critical parts, and put them in, and the engine works perfectly, and also most are tested on the line during assembly by a computer that turns it over, measuring dynamic parameters, like oil pressure per degree or revolution, and torque to turn, and can detect of the next size bearing shell was put in the crank on one position. Must have been a Friday afternoon engine, just before quitting time.
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  1185. Yes easy to leave something out. Just say I liked it so much I did it twice......
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  1186.  @xoose  Not grandfather, he was busy making bomb castings for the UK war effort in South Africa at that time.
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  1187.  @tcpratt1660  With all the registration issues and forgetting to do them for months, they might also have not paid that bill either.
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  1188.  @williamw5604  Just remember that an unpaid parking ticket can result in jail time, along with lots of minor things, like dropping a piece of paper, not sorting recyclables, and all those hundreds of petty little laws thought up by HOA busybodies. Tell me you never break any law at least once a day and I will ask what is your cemetary lot number, and even then you probably are breaking one or more laws in a statute book.
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  1189. Really depends on the manufacturer and how much they wanted to spend on the actual dye. Verbatim super azo dye is probably the best, I have some 20 year old CD-R disks that are perfectly readable, with only minimal attention to storage ( in a jewel case in a box in a cupboard) while the cheap common disks are suffering from bit rot after only a year or two of storage.
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  1190. True, but in those cases the owner or insurer of the location would also be told of the case, and would have replied that what they did was their own concern, and that the owner or insurer is in no way associated with the action. Here it was that the insurance company was told the insured was being sued for an action in the vehicle, covered by the broad wording of the policy for an "injury inside the vehicle, not excluded from the policy specifically as a class" and that they could be paying for it as insurer of the vehicle, but chose to not act on the case, and thus did not say that this is not an insurable action, leaving them open to the claim going against them.
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  1191. As well normally every 5 transactions it will ask for PIN as well, even for a $1 transaction, just to make sure the card has not been stolen. But in the USA it seems banks have to cater for customers who are, on average, dumber than the average bear.
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  1192. There is no audio in that application, just video, and often just mono video as well, as this needed less memory. Most switchers used a 2k RAM chip and a video flash ADC to sample the video, using 4 sample and holds to drive the ADC, and using the sync signal to determine where in the RAM to do the write. Output was a simple scan of the entire RAM to a DAC to generate video. The one I have somewhere used a Z80 and a 6116 SRAM for memory, with the control program being in a 2716 EPROM, plus the flash converter and a quad SH chip, along with some simple sync detection. Unused inputs would be set to a blank screen, and it could either do 2 or 4 on a single output, or switch in sequence, genlocking the output so the TV would not twitch during the switching.
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  1193. Worst pain is the heater core, followed by the blend doors, because the entire dash has to come out. While you are there might as well also replace AC evaporator and fan motor, because by now both are pretty close to knackered. While core is cheap, along with the blend door foam, the labour to change them is not, and you run the risk of breaking any one of hundreds of little plastic clips that are now brittle, giving you rattles. When taking apart silicone spray is your friend, lots of it as you go for the clips, so they are at least able to slip off easier. Then replace all foam again, and add more dampening pads as well inside, as the originals are likely now well sad and crumbling. The good thing is that by me I can get the entire lot as pattern parts, seeing as VW has been consistently the number 1 or 2 seller in the country, with Toyota contending for the other spot, and the VW Golf and variants are well represented in the spare parts market, with pretty much all the vehicle being available as pattern, or OEM from all the local suppliers, who made them for VW to assemble. Standard joke you only cannot get the VIN plate as aftermarket.
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  1194.  @gilliganallmighty3  But the law says that is legal, because the state is the one charging this, and the state makes the law.
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  1195. I take it you walk out your door at 6AM the morning after the neighbour has had a late night party then... A good few times, just keep forgetting that one piece of garbage to take to the can. Then a few times to check if there is post, and one or two more because you are checking why the dog is barking.........
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  1196.  @spaceflight1019  Used to use a speciality cleaner in the military, it would, with a new can, spray at least 10m away, though for wasp control it was always better to also have a flick of the BIC before spraying, so that you immediately converted the wasps to walks, and after 2 seconds of the flame they were no longer mobile, and cooked in the shell. Same for the nest, burnt to a crisp.
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  1197. I have a KIC microwave that I bought on auction in around 1995, made 1980, and still in use in the kitchen. I can still get parts to repair it, though often those parts come from other microwaves that I get free, because the case rusted away, or the fuse blew. Sadly even the reliable parts in microwaves are getting cheapened out, the parts you normally never have fail, now fail at a regular rate. Things like fans and turntable motors, and the filters in them, normally stuff that lasts forever.
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  1198. Does not catch those lamps that are EOL and cycling though, they normally take 30 minutes to heat up enough to start to cycle, and then will take 30 minutes on, 15 minutes off as the cycle for the rest of the night. Though you do get Osram lamps that are dual capsule, which will immediately start (30 second light off) if it is old and cycling. Also there was some success with making them low sodium and mercury, so they would never heat up enough when EOL, and thus stay with the dim blue Argon Xenon starter discharge in them.
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  1199.  @619Bob  Only the turbine side, now the car side is owned by BMW......
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  1200.  @davidmarshall5700  The UK, once a bastion of vehicle manufacturing, has had every single British name sold to non UK companies. Mini is BMW, Jaguar is Tata and Land Rover is a blend of Tata and Chery. Even Delorean is now owned by a US owner, let alone all those British motorbike manufacturers, and the smaller car brands.
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  1201. Time to do a chargeback on the stay, if you paid by CC, citing them as not providing the service as warranted, including the pass they provided as being proof of occupancy not being accepted as valid. The condo owners will definitely act against the towing company if it costs them money.
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  1202. But if they sell it to 20 people, each paying 10% of book value, it actually generated a profit for them.
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  1203.  @TimeSurfer206  Debt collection is always less than honest. If they mix up lists and sell them, they can sell them multiple times. Yes illegal, but only if somebody takes them to court, and most people being hounded by them cannot afford a lawyer.
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  1204.  @freemansgarage  Used to use old miliray uniforms, and as we got them direct from Q stores they also came with buttons and such. So first thing was cut off the buttons, and use them in a bottle as spares for any to use. But had to cut them up as well, except often you would find perfectly usable brand new ones in there, which would often disappear. Now I use rags, though for some things a roll of mutton cloth is used as it is undyed. However first thing to do is take the roll, cut to lengths, and put through the washing machine to clean the sewing oil off, as they are pretty much non absorbent till washed once or twice.
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  1205. No, just driving like an arsehole, driving too fast for the prevailing conditions. Just because he was 5 under the limit is not going to magically make the tyres grip better when you hit a nice patch of water and start to plane. Should drive according to conditions, not speed limit in heavy rain. Should have been doing under 30 in that condition, like the other drivers on the other side were doing.
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  1206.  @WeberAuto  The VW fluid is not expensive, and almost every dealership will have it as well. Would recommend regular oil changes on the Touareg though, using the ardous service interval in the book, as they are quite well known here for having oil sludge issues and oil pump wear in the hot climate. The 10000 mile/15000km service interval is not really the best for long engine life, especially if you have the TDI engine.
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  1207. Try SA ratpaks, a 7 day meal set in a box the size of your hand. At least it came with fuel tabs and matches, and I quite liked the one thong nobody would eat, the pilchards, so could always get a swap going. Coffee and tea together needed to heat up and soften the doggiebix that were included in there, and if it was moving extra protein. Never had one that was not either expired by a year or more, or close to expiry. But found one of those fuel pellet packs this year, and, 30 years after I got it, and it already being 10 years old then, it still was able to light and burn with no smoke, exactly as designed.
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  1208. Hello, as some have been known to do, vote often, make your vote really count.
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  1209.  @MonkeyJedi99  Very likely one is to the transmission, and the reason there are 2 is because the one section on the trans was put back incorrectly, it likely should have been between the trans and the mounting, not the crossmember.
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  1210. The problem is that this debt most likely has already prescribed, and them attempting to collect is both improper, and likely also illegal.
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  1211. Stronger than welding if done right, seeing as almost every big motor has interference fitted parts, and aircraft engines as well, and they run up to 1000C.
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  1212. You mean other than in politics?
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  1213. The thing is they put their name on the product, so that tacitly approve of the product. So they are the mark holder, and thus are the party liable for the product.
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  1214. Would do both wheel bearings at the same time, so that you do not have to do it again in 3 months when the other one finally gets water and grinding paste into it. After all, both original, both same batch, both same number of revolutions.
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  1215. Still used these days, though the case is smaller, lighter and it is a lot more expensive to repair when it fails. But for the mass cheap, easy to drive and very rugged, and it does work.
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  1216. Because it is faster, plus you get to upsell the customer on new hubs as well every few cycles, and break alloy rims as well for another upsell. Will also bet the place has a torque wrench, but it has never been calibrated, checked or even taken out of the box since new, unless they get somebody with a touch of knowledge as a customer, who will see it being used while they are present.
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  1217. Hey, he had gloves on, and was in a caged ladder, what more do you want?
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  1218. You really should fix air leaks. Air is the most expensive item in the shop, and leaking air is like you driving a car with the fuel return line disconnected, pouring fuel out on the road.
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  1219. Redundancy, so that you still have one if the other fails. No doubt they eventually will have a single system that is a tenth the size, with both integrated into it, and with a quarter the power consumption. then will demand 2 as well.
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  1220. I still use an Intellimouse 1.1, does the job perfectly, and has been in use for a really long time.
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  1221. No, that is a full wave 3 phase rectifier, as diodes are a lot cheaper than copper, so putting in 6 diodes, and only half the number of turns of thick copper (or for the cheap alternators the thicker CCA wire) to get the rated current output, is a lot cheaper than having to put in double the number of wire. Then make a larger case to fit them, and having to get much more expensive diodes, rated at 200V, as opposed to the regular diodes that are rated at 30V, and are designed to break over at around 40V, to handle the case of a load dump transient (which is part of the job of the alternator now, as electronics in a vehicle is so much more than when a generator was around to drive only a few lights and a coil with points), or a regulator failing and causing the alternator to go to full output. Ripple you see there 6 peaks per revolution of the alternator field past the pole pieces, because of the 2 phases, and at any time 2 diodes are conducting at the peak. The larger lower ripple is because of the rotor turning once in the housing, and also the slower response of the voltage regulator modulating the average output voltage, as it is being aimed at a particular set voltage by the internal regulator module. Typically 14V4 when cold, and dropping to 13V8 as the regulator heats up, to closely track the actual battery temperature, but still provide a high initial current to charge the battery from cold, tapering off with time. With modern alternators getting controlled from the ECU the initial voltage set is zero for a few second,s to allow the ECU to gain control of idle RPM correctly, and start the cold start warm up and keep emissions down, then it is ramped up to get voltage to 14V4 for a few minutes, to provide a full charge to the battery. Maintained till the ECU sees the battery current start to taper off, as the battery approached full charge, sensed by the sensor on the ground lead. Then it will depending on the model, either switch to a 15V charge for a few minutes, to desuplhate the battery, set by a counter programmed per the OEM battery manufacturer as to best profile for this, or will drop the battery voltage to a set voltage as determined by ambient inlet air temperature, and engine compartment temperature (coolant return temperature) so as to not overcharge the battery, and all the time monitoring, so that the sensed ground current in the battery is close to zero, so the alternator provides all the engine and vehicle current draw. this means that your alternator warning light comes on when the ECU detects the battery is being forced to provide current for more than 5 seconds, either due to the engine not running, or that the load exceeds the output 5 seconds after it has been commanded past 95% duty cycle on, and the alternator is not supplying this current.
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  1222. Funny how they never make a mistake and undercharge you, always overcharge. Travel agencies are vanishing though, most people these days look online and do it, and find that this can be a lot cheaper to do, especially if you are doing it regularly with the same airlines and the same hotel and resort groups. Return customers are much preferred, as after all they did make the choice to use them again, thus are satisfied with the service, and likely to tell others.
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  1223. I see they still have the original Halon cabin extinguisher there as well, just in case some of that original equipment decides to emit vintage smoke. You need the right vintage of smoke control in the fire extinguisher to put it out.
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  1224.  @martymcfly1776  Yes by me, in the third world, even having that disclaimer does not actually mean they can sell as is, especially if it is sold as new. There is a warranty of fitness, and the first one that landed up before a court would have them told to remove that clause entirely, and rescind it on all the sales as well. Only way would be if it was sold as second hand, with no warranty, on public auction, in which case the sales agreement would have to clearly say the goods are used, and have no warranty, sold voetstoets. No auctioneer would risk their registration selling stuff they knew was defective, just sell untested, and at a low cost.
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  1225.  @alanjohnson2528  Just eating too many of the chocolates, and having to finish them even if she only wanted a nibble.
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  1226. Probably because the toys are really highly loaded with bisophenol, and the non stick coat on the surface is PTFE applied as vapour. Both now classed as not suitable for toys.
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  1227. Power transistors are there for motor drive, for that big brushed motor used there to drive it. 8 power transistors, probably 2N3773 or 2N3055, so you need 2 in parallel, and then 4 of those pairs, to make the H bridge that provides the motor drive. Likely there are smaller transistors attached at the back to provide drive for them, along with more there to power the smaller motors used for attitude control as well.
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  1228. If they lose sell the land as section 8 housing. Then let the neighbours complain about it again.
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  1229.  @Rudy97  Roller bearings will last though, like used on a lot of motorbike engines.
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  1230. Drove past a lot of police today, near Durban Central, and all of them were wearing masks under the chin. All the other people at most 40% were wearing a mask in the street.
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  1231. Plus the material used for the walls got thinner and thinner, till they had to stop, because the craft was almost at the point it could not support itself under earth gravity. So thin that the crews who were building it had to take care not to step on, or touch the hull, as they could destroy it merely by putting a foot on the surface, and tear the skin. This would mean scrapping the entire craft, and building another, as the skin was too thin, and the joins so small, that they could not remove a panel and rivet in another, as the material would likely tear. The end material was barely thicker than the aluminium used to make cans, and just as easy to dent when not pressurised.
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  1232. Sadly the lessons the British learnt there got forgotten after the war, and have had to be taught time and again to the commanders, in the blood of thousands of dead soldiers, who in general would rather have preferred peace. War would be a lot less likely if the commanders led from the front...
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  1233. My father crashed 2 aircraft. One a Gypsey Moth during training, and the other was a Lancaster, that sort of fell apart around him over the Bodensee. All he remembered, before the 6 weeks of black, was the plane, and his parachute, being on fire, and him telling his crew to bail out. Austrian nurses told him they picked up his body in a snow bank under a pine tree, and thought he was dead till the coroner found a heartbeat. Then patched him up, removed most of the broken pine tree, broken glass and shrapnel from him, and did a massive skin graft to fix the burn that covered his entire back. Basically broke almost every bone in his body, but the Austrian doctors and nurses put him back together.
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  1234.  @grizwoldphantasia5005  You have to aim right into the core, as it has been proven hard to stop engines with failed controllers that run on, and cannot be shut off. You need at least 3 hose streams for around 20 minutes to finally get the engine to ingest enough to flame out. After all the original P&W jet engines were pretty good in rain, and they had no bypass, though you would get surging from water ingestion, and would have a lot extra wear on the first few rows of turbine blades as well from the water, but inside it creates a little more thrust by cooling down the mixture as it turns to steam, and then exits at a higher velocity, as the volume out has expanded so much more.
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  1235. that is merely an illusion, brought about by him wanting to not be there as a regular cleaner, and wanting to be something else.
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  1236.  @hawk_7000  More likely they were in a hanger far away, and habit of "we never use them, it will only be here an hour at most" meant they were in the hanger still. I remember my erstwhile trainer coming in white as a sheet, because he was out flying, and they had a fire warning, so put down on the nearest thing to level, then the pilot kept the helicopter planted down hard, while all were out looking for suitable boulders to chock the wheels. Only when the wheels were suitably boulder impeded did he finally power down the engines, and pull the fire extinguisher handles to put out the fire burning up on the top, then they went up after rotor stop and put the remainder out. Radio call came in for somebody to bring out the required hydraulic hoses, the tools to change them, torches, a lot of hydraulic fluid to fill the reservoir again, some cleaning material and something to drink. He left 07H30, and came in white as a sheet at 15H20, from what was to have been a 2 hour training flight. Next day fire bottles replaced, and the extinguisher sent in for service, and all the rest of the fleet had those same hoses checked, and a month later all new PTFE stainless steel braid reinforced hoses installed in place of the original rubber. Took a day to wash that oil off the chopper, it was literally in every panel and compartment, along with the soot.
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  1237.  @edwinhsingmaster9135  Going to guess the old box the new one came in has now got a filler, complete with stud, and the grub screw, just in case it is needed, though actually aligning that screw again with the threads right both sides is likely to be a task Kurtis will dread, simply opting to either leave it out, and rely on Loctite 603, or drill and tap a new one, or simply never change back.
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  1238.  @patrickday4206  They probably did keep the car in a straight line, as likely without it the one wheel would have locked up, and then it would have drifted off to that side, and then gone off the road. Biker would have survived, but the car driver would have a closed casket ceremony, with very little in there either, if at all, unless they buried her with large pieces of car as well. Safety restraint systems, like airbags, crumple zones, seat belts and such, do not work very well above 50MPH, and the car basically at 87MPH will shred itself apart in the ensuing rollover and cartwheeling. F1 vehicles survive because they put insane amounts of care into making a cabin cage that will survive 200MPH collisions with the wall, but you cannot fit that into a regular car, with standard non custom made seats, and custom made multipoint harness and helmet, that is also attached to the seat frame.
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  1239. ISTR that there is an option to add the dipstick, just the manufacturer blanks off the hole in the block, but the rest is there to do it. Saving 100g of metal to meet an EPA mass limit.
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  1240. VW includes in the tool kit, in addition to the little wire cap remover, a plastic threaded wheel alignment tool, that you thread into a hole, and slide the wheel over, precisely to do that alignment.
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  1241. That is a lock in for the warranty period, so that they get to do the minimum needed to run out the warranty, and keep the expenses of it down. After all the spares are, to them, almost zero cost, and keeping you locked in till warranty expires, and they can convince you to trade in on a new vehicle, is the profit motive. Also that service contract is paid up front, and thus they earn interest on the money, and you get to finance the service at the vehicle loan rate as well.
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  1242. Common VW problem, valve stem seals that have gone hard and no longer seal properly. Bit of a PITA to change them though, with the amount of work you have to do, and the number of seals and "use once" fasteners you have to get.
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  1243. My mother was one of those Poles deported to a gulag. Went in with her family, and only her and her younger sister got out, after walking from the middle of Siberia to the Black sea, and around to British Persia, where she spent time in Tehran before being sent to another British settlement camp in the federation of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Parents are apparently buried in the Polish Cemetery in Tehran. Her sister was sent to the UK, and she married there in the camp to get out, as my father was demobbed there. She absolutely hated Russian people, and stayed in the tropics, because she never wanted to be that cold ever again.
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  1244. Kraft fake cardboard and cheese also is sold here, probably the same stuff, and yes it says cooking times may vary depending on the microwave. yes frivolous suit, hopefully Kraft legal simply keeps them tied up till the other side legal team declares defeat, or the judge says this does not warrant class action status, and throws the suit out with prejudice.
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  1245. Yes standard for Dakotas with P&W engines if it was dripping oil on the runway get in and go, if no oil it has all run out. Those oil coolers always leak, no matter what you do, and the semi official fix is a set of wooden plugs and a mallet to fix the leaky tubes on the flight line.
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  1246. Only thing that would make this worse if the cleaners were not sent by their landlord, but by another, and they got the wrong unit number. But with the cleaning crews, they should by now realise that, when cleaning out a property, they really need to remove all stuff, and place in a storage location for 2 months, and keep it there secure, just for these cases where they go to a place and it is full. Going to guess that whoever is responsible is going to pay up a very large settlement, or they are going to own that unit , or both. and yes cleaning company should have realised that what they have is not just a few boxes left, but an entire household of stuff, and asked why, and made absolutely sure they have right unit, and that this probably will end up in a court case. Any "reasonable person", going into a unit, where it is full, to clean, and seeing this contains a full household, should have realised there could be issues, and just putting the stuff outside, unless they had a court order directing them to do this, was going to come down badly on them. If there was a court order, then they should have verified they were at the correct unit at least 3 times, and confirmed that they had to move all out to the kerb.
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  1247.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  Yes just had a storm hit last night, not a cyclone, that is scheduled for the weekend, but still this storm was a heavy hitter.
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  1248. Yes, definitely needs to at a minimum to have the compressor on nice thick compliant mounting pads, and also to have a heavy acoustic panel between the 2, preferably with more on the walls to damp sound. The compressor will, along with the storinator, need lots of cooling air, though the storinator exhaust air can go to the compressor and then out, as the compressor motor can survive hotter operation than the drives. A few panels of acoustic damping will help on the walls and ceiling there, but best to consider adding a room outside for the compressor, and put climate control into the old storinator room for it alone.
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  1249. Hopefully they will still prosecute the officials, even if they resign, but I do not think any of them will be told more than "don't be caught doing this again", with nothing else being done.
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  1250.  @william_mac  New owner is then likely now the heirs of the deceased, as likely they got the land as part of the restitution, as the shooter was not going to have any need for it for the next 30 to 50 years.....
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  1251. If there is a Dune II, will he be building a dynasty?
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  1252. Certified pre owned the only thing they certify is that it is not new, rarely nothing else.
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  1253. Normally that failure would come in with a properly Muntzed rod and cylinder, with the rod shattered into pieces, and basically only thing to keep would be the rod eye and the cylinder base, all the rest being new. Going to guess the customer saved $50k there catching it early. Hope they assemble it correctly now, with the right torque, not just a flogging spanner and a 14lb sledge hammer used by somebody with anger issues. Though probably they will just go for the tried and true method, flogging spanner and 6m pipe, and calculate just how many appies to attach to the end.
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  1254. The original shiny coating came from multiple applications of shellac and beeswax, dissolved in cane spirit to make it liquid, and applied like the coating, then tumbled to burnish the surface smooth.
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  1255. Even Liebowitz would say this case is not likely to be one you will win at, though he will take your money and 3 months to tell you.
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  1256. Of course depends on having those spare parts available, and also that your operator has confidence that those spare parts actually are going to work. Not always the case that you have spares, and that they are guaranteed to work, especially for parts that have been in storage for a long time before you use them.
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  1257. Funny thing about parasitic power is that, for the typical home microwave with a display, the most power over the life of the unit is used by that clock, simply because it spends 24/7/365 flashing 88:88, because nobody actually read the instructions on how to set it.
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  1258. Easy Germany also had a word for the officials, STASI.
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  1259.  @BTheBoomXer  Many banks these days barely have branches at all, and there are a few by me that are all online, barely even having a head office and regional offices.
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  1260. Not tested, but on the WHO list of essential medication for treating a wide variety of illness. Just nobody wanted to pay for the registration in SA, because there is little to no profit in it, and the costs are so incredibly high for any application. Approved in pretty much every other first, second, third and fourth world country though.
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  1261.  @thelasthourgetready  They actually work better under water, as the shock wave will be better coupled to the blast. This one would have, if it was in it's as manufactured blast ability, have collapsed the concrete wall and lighthouse there near it, and also likely have severely damaged the other side wall as well. Original design has a delayed detonation after impact, so that it is well underground. This one hitting water probably was not enough shock to allow the timer to start, or it and the backup one were defective or damaged on impact, common enough with these as the fuses are not amenable to testing on the production line. Designed to be a good depth underground, and for the blast to generate a massive underground cavity into which nearby structures would slump, and the blast wave coupled to the ground would shake buildings nearby off their foundations. Also used against reinforced concrete bunkers, detonating part of the way through the concrete top, spalling off the interior roofing in a blast of fragments that destroyed all in the interior.
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  1262. Yes average speed fines are becoming common, so much so that the one highway has them, because people speed down the hill, and there have been a good number of fatal accidents. They recently upgraded, installing a third camera half way, because the number of turn offs mean that some speeders will do 200kph plus on the uphill and downhill, because they turn off before the second camera. Now the common exits and entry points for speeders are covered, and the others are such (old road, 300 years old, and only upgraded for higher vehicle flow rates, with turn offs all along it) that speeding into and out of them will result in your vehicle meeting steel barrier rails. Average speed means I never get a ticket from there, and i can chuckle at those braking for the cameras, thinking they are point speed cameras, while they flew down, so get the love note via SMS a day or three later on (not posted, that takes up to 3 months....) or get a list of tickets when they go to renew the vehicle registration, instead of the tag.
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  1263. Magnetic viewing film, green and shows black where the field is.
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  1264. Common for the bike carriers here by me to have a spot to affix a copy of the plate, so that you do not run foul of this law.
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  1265.  @dfross87  Actually depends on the state, some do, some do not. Unfortunately Kurtis is in Queensland, where you need to have an electrician come to change a light bulb, unless you can open the fitting without any tools.
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  1266. Special low volume fuel cell, just the right volume to get the machine up the road for the service, a quick test, and then back down, so they can put the now cleaned out 1000l tanks back on, so it can drive to and from the work site without needing to stop along the way.
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  1267.  @forevercomputing  Yes, plenty of buses and trucks with odometers on the fifth or sixth time around here, some the owner has no clue, because it broke in the 1970's, and he never fixed it.
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  1268. One thing to add, when upgrading memory often you will find the slots are full of dust, so a can of contact cleaner is very useful, and often a non woven wipe soaked with it used to gently clean the inside of the slot and the memory module will result in good contact, as you wipe off the dust and the film of dirt that has built up there. Same for adding in cards, the slot can easily have a build up of dirt in it, which is not visible easily, but a spray and wipe with the non woven cloth and contact cleaner does wonders.
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  1269. Makes no difference, as he was impersonating a police official, and the only way not having that charge stick is if the dress up is for theatrical performance, and only on stage and to and from the dressing room, with the badge showing a fictional town. Police uniform, identical to the local ones, that is impersonation, and likely to land him on some strong jail time as well, as the impound was deception.
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  1270. Time to drive through the house then with a road legal bulldozer......
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  1271.  @AT-wl9yq  Even the pressed ones suffer from bit rot.
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  1272.  @LesDexia13  not an accident, Kurtis knows his door heights......
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  1273. That is when you have a use for that receipt of purchase, and have sent the paperwork in to the DMV as well.
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  1274. South African POW's, mostly stayed, I had 3 Italian POW's who stayed, and brought out their wives/girlfriends as well. Last survivor is the wife of one I know, now 92, and still sprightly enough. Comes from a half glass of watered down wine with lunch every day according to her. The husbands had built bridges, built buildings and made roads, and after the war they became engineers, machinists and such, and did well in it. Still an Italian club around, though mostly composed of the children, not many of the original members left.
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  1275. Kind of hard, exactly how many do not do this as a practise is vanishingly small.
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  1276.  @mirthenary  Coat of paint, and to the Russian navy sailors are cheap........
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  1277. The damage is because of the 10hP motor keeping on driving it till it made pressure. Not like a vehicle where losing compression and pistons makes it stop. A really good reason to check your compressor weekly, both for moisture, general condition and oil level, because they do tend to use a little oil as they age. At least you still have all 4 pistons, I had a couple where the pistons came out as chunks.
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  1278. It always only had one problem, just they left it so long every time something else failed as well.
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  1279. Open the exit door, using the big words and larger pictures there.
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  1280. Yes the steel did have quality poorer than modern steel, but it all did pass the shipyard testing for tensile strength, as they did test all batches that way for all materials. That only came in in WW1 and WWII, when they used sub par steel that had high sulphur content, which made it become brittle in the cold weather of the Atlantic. However the steel did still work to absorb the energy and deform, and the rivets that failed were operated well past design spec. Yes the modern testing did show they were not as capable as the best of the day, but none of them actually were defective by the standard testing of the day, even if they would have failed when cold. But test at room temperature, around 15 to 20C ,and they passed, even if they would fail at -15C.
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  1281. Well cared for machine there, they must have operators who actually do do the morning walk around, and also do apply grease to all the needed parts, at the needed intervals. Plus actually wash the machine regularly, to have it looknig that good.
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  1282.  @FireStriker_  90% of the time that 11A fuse gets replaced with a foil or wire, because they are $30 each from Fluke. You can buy similar rated fuses for cheaper, but not really going to be under $5 each for a proper rated fuse, as it has to also be able to withstand the breaking current at full rated voltage as well. The one in that meter of Ray's is either the jumper wire version, or a fake one.. Either way needs to be replaced with the proper one, and the shop needs to keep a few spare ones on hand as well.
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  1283. Plus knowing that, even if they finally rolled to the front of the list, that there would never be one for them, unless they had the money to "facilitate" the deal as well.
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  1284.  @DanielinLaTuna  But if you limit temperature, by say having nothing flammable right by the house, and no scrub brush close that can burn, you limit the received heat, and white paint works well to reflect it as well.
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  1285. No insurance, no insurer will provide cover to government, so they have to self insure, which means the taxpayers are the ones who pay for this ineptitude.
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  1286.  @smyers820gm  The bank can still remain the majority owner, just refinance with the new owner at the same bank, then technically the vehicle has not been sold, just refinanced with a different minority shareholder in the transaction, the original buyer. Bank still owns over 50% of the value of the vehicle for the first years.
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  1287.  @davidh9638  Hey, even third world banana republics have some standards.
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  1288. Easy if you are a Super Frelon, designed from the outset as maritime support. You just have to make sure all the drain plugs were put in when you were doing your pre flight, so the pontoon bottom would be watertight, and have the 2 inflatable side pontoons installed, so you can turn the engines off.
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  1289.  @Pinki-77  Yes but it has been started and run for a week, if alternator was not charging that battery would be dead by now.
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  1290. Toyota makes that harness exact length, because otherwise to add in 5cm of slack, on 70 odd wires, would add in 1kg of wire. Remember the vehicle was designed for assembly, and Toyota has been using Catia for decades, to design all parts to fit together in assembly. Often means you have to reverse the assembly order in order to get access to parts.
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  1291. Just needs to be around March and April here, when at 10AM the sun is within the field of view of the LNB, and swamps the satellite signal out for an hour. Easiest time of the year to align a dish, without using anything other than your eye, just aim it at the right time to cook the LNB front with reflected light.
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  1292. Big advantage of the ferrite magnets is that they are, to a large extent, also a ceramic, and thus an insulator, thus lower eddy current losses in use, and thus lower loss in the magnet due to induced current.
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  1293. They see the same part number, and put them in the same bin, so trashing the good supplier reputation, and getting rid of the fakes at the same time.
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  1294. Easy to do, the bank receiving the cheque simply puts the value in, and then only 2 days later does the ACB actually process the cheque, and simply puts the drawing account into overdraft, even if the account has a "no overdraft" flag on it. By the time the account holder gets the overdraft the money is long gone, either went through a cash withdrawal, or went into an account opened using false ID, and then taken out after a few more have been deposited, and then drawn over a day or three as cash at the ATM, or at a few branches as over the counter transactions.
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  1295. BMW offers it on new vehicles, where for the first 3 years you only pay for fuel, top up oil and tyres, the rest, aside from accident damage, is covered. Of course you are paying this in the price, and they are amortising it over a 5 year period, so after year three, when you get out of the warranty and motorplan, you either pay at BMW dealer price for service, or will buy the 2 year top up plan, which is only a little cheaper. They know they have you for those 3 years, paying interst on the services before you need them, and they also know the vehicle will not fail before then from history, and any accident damage they will bill you for. Scrape the belly pan, new one, at your cost, dent from a trolley noted and then your excess for insurance will have this charged under "betterment" if you claim.
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  1296.  @rotor13  Mostly because the US shipped off all the energy intensive industries to other countries, and started to import stuff that used to be made locally, because it worked out cheaper for the companies that did this. US used to be able to build a motor vehicle entirely from US resource parts, from the rubber in the tyres, to the steel, plastic and copper of the parts, but now almost all of those come in on a ship.
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  1297.  @MattH-wg7ou  Probably not calculated correctly, or they figured they could get away with it. Helped by a 6km long runway, not by it being 41C that afternoon, and bright and sunny. We did land mostly empty, part of the fuel load was transferred en route as practice for the other planes.
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  1298. First point of the suit is wrongful arrest, and part of the settlement is the expunging of all that arrest details from law enforcement systems, and destruction of all records relating to it as well. Then the Walmart is going to have to train their staff ( likely because managers have a very short shelf life, manager for a week then fired) more thoroughly on what to do with warranty and returns processes, and the different ways to handle them.
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  1299. Seals I oil them, as if the seal surface is dry it will stick, especially if the engine side is dry and oil free, then it will stick fast. Oil film on engine or filter seal it tends not to stick.
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  1300. For the piston tops get a old tupperware or generic container, and cut a hole the size of suction into it, then use as a clear cover.
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  1301. When you really want some nice fresh juicy KFC......
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  1302.  @AS-ug2vq  Yes but here at least a taper bearing that fits the shaft will have better axial load bearing capacity than any small thrust bearing, simply due to having more surface area of roller to handle the load. That tiny bearing used will simply collapse or shatter the race after a short time, when you really need a bigger contact area, and at least some form of lubrication. To scale up simple enough to find an old plastic injection moulder, and use it to extrude the plastic into a bar shape coming out, and cool it down in a water bath, then cut afterwards to length. Used to recycle PET bottles into plastic lumber, used to make robust outdoor furniture and other outdoor and marine use products, as the plastic does not rot like wood does.
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  1303. The modern way to get accurate time is a set of GPS locked hydrogen maser clocks at each location, so that the GPS signal, knowing your accurate location, and a long enough time, allows both atomic clocks to keep near perfect time with each other, and then you record the data with a time stamp and use a compute cluster to correlate the data to match each waveform to the corresponding one from the other. From that determine the delay due to distance, and solve the trigonometry. You have to sample at the carrier itself, which generates truly huge data sets, but you can use local computation to reduce the data volume, without sacrificing the time information, and once you have the data you can also average over a few minutes, to both get a motion vector compensation for the earth rotating, and also then the vector for the spacecraft moving. Before you would record both outputs using magnetic tape with an accurate clock, a Cesium atomic clock that was in a suitcase, that got flown there powered up, keeping the time from the master clock, and used to time stamp the data on the magnetic tapes. Then the tapes were flown back, and a room full of mathematicians solved the problem. Current methods rely on a high bandwidth link via the public Internet to do the backhaul in near real time, and NASA has the computer clusters to do the data handling as well in near real time as well, thanks to improving technology.
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  1304.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  Yes probably a failed unit from QC, and sent out to the refurbisher to fix. So they cut the friction weld off, and then pit in the spigot so as to keep as much material on the ends, filling up with weld to get the length overall in tolerance.
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  1305.  @taylorlibby7642  Going to lose his CDL for sure though.
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  1306. No worries, live in a low earthquake probability zone, and 80mmabove sea level, so will survive the tsunami wave. Last one was at low tide when it arrived, so even less issue there.
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  1307. The rubber insert is a pain, so I keep an old long plug lead top, originally for a GWM pickup, which is long enough to reach, and it works well to insert the new plugs and remove them once loose. Also acts as guide, so it will not get cross threaded, and grips tight enough to thread them down all the way before the socket does the final work.
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  1308. Australia has laws about importing the better beers, they have to settle for xxx or Fosters.
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  1309.  @ednorton47  The bastardised new Beetle did, basically a VW Polo that was left near the fire too long and had all the panels melt and bubble.
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  1310. Brake seals are all made from a synthetic rubber that is perfectly compatible with brake fluid. Other fluids though will make them start to swell, as they are absorbed into the seal, and this means the seals grow, and no longer can slide, and the hoses grow soft, and are no longer capable of holding pressure. The swollen seals in the master cylinder, the calipers and the back wheel cylinders now no longer can be moved back to the resting position by the release of the pedal pressure, so the calipers stay in contact with the disks causing a lot of extra friction, the drums will not be able to relax to the off position, and the master cylinder can no longer return, trapping fluid in the system under pressure, as as the brakes heat up the pressure increases, making them grip more, till the disks and drums are red hot and the linings are totally degraded and worn. You also no longer have working brakes, and as well if you have ABS you now also need to replace every rubber seal in the ABS control unit, which means a new ABS block, and for older transmissions where the trans gets brake pressure to disengage it, you now also have to replace the actuator in the trans as well. In a pinch, if you are totally out of brake fluid, you can add in pure alcohol to the system, as that is compatible with the seals, though it will need to be over 150 proof, to not cause damage, and will need to be flushed fully with new fluid as soon as possible. In ultra cold climates the brake fluid is mostly alcohol, either methanol or ethanol, as it will not freeze easily, though synthetic esters and glycols are more common there, but they are miscible with alcohol. With modern cars fluids are now critical, if it says use x fluid, use it, do not just chuck generic ATF into the power steering, as you will run into issues, and the same for trans fluids, where there are now dozens of different fluids, and the wrong one can be a very expensive fix. Even manual trans the fluid is critical, many vehicles need a SAE75 oil, and will balk with SAE80 oil, or grind with SAE70 oil in them, and some are even more critical with what they need, you put OEM in only. Even engine oil the same, SAE30 is not going to work on many, especially newer vehicles where the oil viscosity is critical in engine operation.
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  1311. Same here, a large flat bladed one with a clear red tinted acetal handle, which has not yet gone bad.
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  1312. Going to say the stuff started with a weak battery, that then dropped voltage as the vehicle sat, meaning different ECU units stopped working at different points, leading to the BCM and ECU loosing comms with the TCM, so the one set error codes, and then the error was left, and with the new battery the modules came back up, and communicated all the errors, refusing to allow start via the ECU because it was unsure of the status of the transmission, thus disabling starting till it could get a valid status. After all safety circuits only allow starting in neutral or park, and with an unknown status of the trans starting could be in gear, so default to no start till scanned and cleared. Other shop should have, as a first ting, looked at stored codes, noted them down, then cleared them all, as there are plenty of errors that will result in a no start, due to the modules inhibiting it. Either no scanners, or they are only able to be a box and panel changer. till, good money for you to fix their mistakes, just that it costs the customer in the end a lot more throwing the parts cannon at it, and not actually sitting and looking at it first. But we all often will do that, hopefully leaning along the way.
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  1313. Yes, just means they do not deal with that manufacturer more than once a year, so do not want to have the software cost, because that $50 per make adds up if you are dealing with multiple scan tools, and multiple makes of vehicle. Also some will charge you per use, unless you pay a stupid annual fee, or are a registered dealer for them, in which case they stop charging per time. Some just flat out refuse to deal with shops outside the dealer network they have, you have to go to them for coding of parts, or have a cracked version of that code around. Then you get the green tractor company, who will invalidate the warranty if you do not use the dealership to do everything, even change the oil on the more expensive things, and you have a very expensive field ornament till they decide to come fix your broken one.
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  1314. Only reason the driver was not cited is because doing so means the cop has to fill in another 2 pages of paperwork. So let the insurance company fill that instead.
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  1315. Lots of water normally.....
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  1316.  @WileHeCoyote  Well for the flush grey water, for the bidet function shower quality water will do, just does not need to be drinking water.
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  1317. Right on the truck looking less than great. Toyota tried making a vehicle that was all flat panels, and the TUV ( yes it has some odd name) never sold well, mostly because it was not as cheap as envisioned, but was also hard to sell into a market where TUV was closely associated, like Pajero to Spanish speakers, with the Zulu word iTuva, which translates to failure. Plus it was ugly, only surpassed by the PT Cruiser and the Fiat Multipla.
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  1318. Well, the original Vickers machine guns were valued by the Tommies more for the ability to boil water for tea than for accuracy, especially over long ranges. That hot water was a luxury in the trenches, especially as you otherwise only had a very poor ration heater to use.
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  1319.  @kinexkid  Yes all that dry river bed will have gold panners out in force there, looking for all the nuggets held in the river bed. Hopefully they will heed the warnings the river has overtopped this new dam, and not get swamped.
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  1320.  @ayporos  Problem with dimming LED lamps is that they actually will fail from other reasons, from the sharp edges killing the driver circuitry, though the LED chips themselves will be better off with lower current flow through them. Sadly LED lamps are all cost cut down a lot, running at just short of maximum temperature off the bat, because that way you get more light out of fewer dies, so what if the lifetime is now 1000 hours. Most LED lamp failures are the LED dies themselves failing, going open circuit from thermal cycling, or the capacitors simply blowing the vent because they run too hot in the nice cosy plastic case. Black spot of death is a common thing to see on them when doing the autopsy, and a skid mark from the capacitor juice.
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  1321. Just think about those locations where you need to call an electrician out to change that fixture. Now instead of a $2 lamp from Wallyworld, that you change out in a minute, you now need to pay $500, to have somebody come and replace it with a $20 fixture from Wallyworld, and they can only come out in a week.
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  1322. Note the rods are numbered, and they are in the wrong order now.......
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  1323. Here the bolt cutters that are waist high are called "The Free State Lockpick", from their use by farmers on the farm, where the farmers will, every year, go out and buy 200 plus locks, all keyed alike in sets of 10, for use on the farm to lock stock gates. Every farmer also has in the rear of the farm truck at least one of these bolt cutters, used, along with the now depleted box of locks, to open gates that either he cannot find the key for on his farm, or where the key does not work. So 5 seconds later there is now no lock, and the pick up goes through, and 10 seconds later a new lock is on. They also are useful for fencing, seeing as you can use them to handle barbed wire at arm's length, and not get hung up, and you can also cut the wire no problem as well, or lightly nip it to tension the wire on a post, or wind the wire around itself to set the fence. Those, along with a set of fencing pliers, are what I use for barbed wire and other fence work, as it is a lot less painful than gloves. The bolt cutters also work on the harder bushes when you need to trim them, but do not want to go fetch the chainsaw.
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  1324. Biggest problem, aside from running out of ammunition, is that they would soon run out of medical support, so any injuries that, in the modern war, are not even considered dangerous, would be deadly. A scratch and tetanus, and any infection without antibiotics another slow dying. After power and ammunition run out, they are back down to being as effective as the locals, and worse off, in that the locals know the terrain.
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  1325. Going to guess the reason for poor video on the converter at 5V is interference from the boost converter, as those do need a little bit of extra filter capacitor on the input and output to get lower noise.The converter also likely runs internally with a few small switching supplies to get the voltages it needs, probably a rail of 3V3 for HDMI, audio and video input IO drive, a 1V8 for the chip itself, and likely a 0V8 supply for the converter core of the chip. A better boost converter is to dump the XLsemi 6009 based one, and instead use the MT3608 based ones, as they have a much lower noise floor, running at 1.2MHz, instead of 400kHz, and thus the filtering capacitors are much more efficient. The boards themselves are pretty much the same price, and nearly the same output capacity, which is amazing in the single tiny SOT23 package, and the power loss in the converter is minimal, 97% efficiency and it really is tiny. Just no display on the board, so you will need to set it with a DVM before connecting, and make sure, before applying power to turn the little multiturn Bonrs copy pot to minimum output voltage, as otherwise it will do it's level best to boost to 100VDC.
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  1326. Or if you own an apartment in the building, and they raid another one, in no way related to you, but use the "well it was the same building" to do the same for your one, and take all valuables from you. Or then apply it to a street or suburb, and do the same.
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  1327. You mean Dirtbin has competition. Dirty hollow suffers from both poor management and also totally inept council.
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  1328. When you are giving the top devs new machines, the older ones sort of trickle down, and then the worst ones are left in the corridors for the garbage collectors to take away for recycling, or to take home.
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  1329.  @trim7911  Yes true, and more for the satire that goes right over the head of most of the conservative, as Adams intended, as after all he got this past the BBC, which was conservative to the hilt in that time.
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  1330. No varnish there, those are just plain nichrome strip elements, and the smoke is the burning off of all the dust and oil vapour that has been deposited from being in a garage where this is in the air, and where you also breathe it as well. Got a cheaper one, one setting non adjustable, and it too will smoke after 10 seconds of use, which is the duty cycle to test a battery, to emulate a typical starter load and time.
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  1331. Oil yes regular changes is important. For a cheap and safe engine clean simply add in a half quart of SAE30 HD3 diesel tractor oil in a few days before doing the next oil change. High detergent oil for farm tractors, it will clean a lot of the gunk off the engine, as it is meant to keep soot in suspension for farm tractors, that spend a lot of time idling. Yes filters almost always have a bypass valve ( though some of the no name brands do not actually put it in, adds 10 cents to the cost) that will typically open at around 20PSI pressure differential across the filter media, on the theory that having oil flow, even if dirty, is a lot better than no oil flow. But having this valve operate does mean all the junk and tramp metal the filter is supposed to remove, and a lot of the stuff it has removed, and which is inside the can, now can travel past the filters. Not great for bearings and the rotating surfaces, and definitely not great for small clearance holes, like lifters and variable valve timing actuators. Great on the oil, I got some filters for my car cheap, old stock ones that were sitting at a store on a shelf, at the price they were selling them in 2008. So next service filter is there already. Will differ with you on the dry filter, if the surface is just wiped clean, yes you can put it on dry, as the oil film on the housing will lubricate it, but if it has been washed clean with brake cleaner, oil the filter seal. I just grab a bit of the old oil and wipe it, then pull that seal out, flip it over and oil the underside as well, and make sure it fits back in the groove properly. Recently had a no name filter which, brand new, was leaking, I assume from the metal face not being true, and thus the seal not holding. I only buy 2 brands, GUD or FRAM, as they are locally made by me (20km away), and are the OEM brand for most vehicles in the country. 1 million Toyota filters made by them, they pretty much have it right. As to tyre pressure, the top end of the vehicle manufacturer spec is the one to go for, as yes that is the one for either heavy load, or for economy. You want comfort make sure you have a high profile wheel and tyre. Painted on rubber and all alloy is always going to be harsh ride, and noisy. Drivetrain yes likely dry universals, or they lost a needle when putting them in, grease will tell you quick if the UJ was dry, or if you are spending a hour changing both sides. Gearbox simplest first test is change the fluid, fill back to level, and run it, as otherwise the issue is a sticking ball inside, or a seal that is leaking when cold internally.
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  1332.  @oliviaharris6178  Except of course those who then go into the imaging chamber, where they literally get blasted apart by ultra high energy photons. But I do like jumping spiders, though do not like some spiders, those wounds take a really long time to heal.
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  1333.  @SabineHossenfelder  And your channel is getting popular, the telegram spambots are all over it now.
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  1334.  @randytravis3998  Cowboy transport, thinking a 3 ton lathe is going to be fine, using the straps they have used for the last decade or three to move fridges, and then making a turn at 60.
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  1335. Service is they replaced the red power LED with a blue one......
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  1336.  @thejuggernautofspades9453  Not really going to help, heating past the glass transition temperature will just anneal the epoxy, releasing the residual stress in it, but will do nothing to make the portions where it has already got tiny bond failures any better, just making them seem to disappear, as the interface material now is contacting again. Only way would have been to have had the mandrel it was wound on be a strength member as well, able to handle the pressure, and the carbon fibre merely to reinforce it, though that would have made mass much too high, and made the need for carbon fibre moot anyway.
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  1337.  @Xeonerable  Nope, probably by a US tourist who also complained that the camels smell, and also spit. Plus likely also that the handler was Arabic, and also did not speak English with a US midwestern accent. Plus also that the flight to get there was so long.
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  1338. Bearing races are in general fine to intermingle, if they are from the same manufacturer and the same batch, as they will tend to be all ground to the exact same dimensions. You can even use different batches, but for close tolerance they might be slightly different due to the settings being slightly different between runs, but changing manufacturer is iffy, but still you will get good life out of them. Only with precision bearings will you have to use matched pairs, but if you are using them in a vehicle almost no bearing is in any way going to fall in this category till you are into parts like the AC compressor, and the crank and main bearings. Fun thing is that VW rear bearing is very commonly used on trailers, so to repack the light duty trailers it is a lot cheaper to go buy the aftermarket VW rear bearing kit instead of the trailer manufacturer kit, and use it instead. Normally the caps will not fit off the bat, so you need to either reuse the old one, or spend a bit of quality time with a hammer to make the new cap shrink to fit the diameter.
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  1339. Had that a couple of times already this year.
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  1340.  @Wese28  I got that, though it does have a lot of Nickel and Cobalt in it as well.
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  1341. Money grabbing, they can fix it, but it brings in income to the DMV and the court, by you having to pay to get that clearance letter every 2 months, and if you are late to the DMV for a new license as well.
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  1342. Airbag I will take bets on a worn clock spring instead. But yes time to change CV joints, though by me you keep the axle, and only change the joint and boot, as that generally is a lot cheaper. $35 versus $1100 for the entire axle with joints.
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  1343. IRS also care, because you are doing tax evasion.
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  1344. That is the thing about film, always a compromise between resolution and sensitivity, you get to choose one.
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  1345.  @williampope3531  Yes which is why the threads are larger diameter, and also much longer, to allow the tension on the thread root to be low enough. However Helicoil also makes a special set of threaded inserts that are full depth, to repair those threads. Very popular with Subaru repairs, as they do love to strip those threads out.
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  1346. No, not voting is saying you are happy with the current ones. You must go vote, there are a lot of parties, choose one you think will do a good job, and vote for them.
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  1347. One with small gap was the dropped one. Plus not ignition coils, but plug leads. Rotor you just clean it up, along with the cap, and a new set of leads are all you need. Rotor does not have a resistor, it is inside the cap instead, so it really only needs changing if breaking down to the shaft.
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  1348. Yes, they last well there, and as a bonus the connection is always stronger than the parent thread.
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  1349.  @Stephane1995  Not tight enough so they will have full contact all around the rod and the shaft, you do need to give them a little compression so they do not float in the seal area, and are held tight.
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  1350. I would say the 5Mp cameras are likely cheaper than the old ones, as they are current products made in large volume as security cameras. So the cost to use them is more the updated firmware in the car to handle the higher data rate, and the different front end possibly to interface with the camera, though likely it is all still a standard security camera rate, and can be done with simply flipping bits in the front end interfaces. Thus actually no cost to improve the cameras, though probably most of the time the higher resolution will simply be downsampled to lower resolution, as after all lane departure and such really only works with edges, so more data is bad. Higher resolution possibly to improve sign recognition, and of course better in car video recording, though likely with a higher data rate a larger SD card for storage now needed. Cutting the sensors likely just relying on the computer and stored data, plus knowing accurately vehicle position, to provide the same level of detection, though it will not help against things moving after the image goes out of frame.
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  1351. You have to be pretty bad to get onto that disbar list, as normally you have to have multiple complaints that you ignored before they finally get to hauling you in for any form of discipline, and then you have to not attend, and ignore them a lot before they will go for the final acts. But the quickest way is not to pay association fees.
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  1352. Another consideration is noise, as engines can be loud. Even jet engines easily will clock over 140dB in a test chamber, and rocket engines can easily go over 200dB when you are in close proximity. Loud enough to destroy concrete and tear thin steel structures, and a thing you have to consider in both the design of the engine and the test area, in that if you reflect the noise back you can destroy working engines in seconds.
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  1353. Had the same with a roll pin, got it out, eventually, and instead of putting it back put a split pin in instead. Not much stress on the pin, and much easier to remove when it has to come out again.
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  1354. Here by me there was a fire in the deeds office in the 1970's, destroying a lot of the original plans, so there are massive lots of properties with no actual plans and boundary locations, just the physical, and whatever has been surveyed in the interim for either the next house or further from the datum point that incidentally marked the boundary out. Some the only plans are quick sketches, from somebody applying for an extension or alteration, where the plans they submitted were considered to be accurate and correct, as there was little way to prove otherwise. Sales often were the only time these were done, grandfathering all the stuff into the city GIS, though they could look on the aerial photos over time, and see massive differences, if they looked carefully, but those were considered as not being good enough to draw from other than to confirm construction.
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  1355. Top cover bolts are called shoulder bolts, or are also called die guide bolts, as the most common use for them is as die guides for plastic casting machines, to align the parts of a multipart die during use, so the plastic parts end up with a minimal seam.
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  1356.  @meloniedropik3539  Cruise ship they might be using foam mattresses, as those can come as a vacuum packed flat pack, with it being opened in the cabin and expanding to shape, making storing and transport in the ship easier. To take out you just use a vacuum cleaner and a bag to suck it flat again. Coil mattresses are a lot more expensive than foam, and on a ship, where you have hundreds of them, and likely will go through a number of them per voyage due to wear, cheap wins out over comfort, plus they are a lot lighter as well, which is important on a ship with a very large high amount of mass.
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  1357.  @wombatperson  Soviets used that narrow width flat screw for decades, as they had standardised on it, and it is a lot narrower than the Western version. Same for the connectors, old patterns with the focus on interchange between wildly different age equipment, as they tended to keep equipment in operation for many decades, and not upgrade at all, so long as it still could be serviced and worked. After all this was a central economy, where even getting a light bulb involved a lot of paperwork, leading to the black market being big in selling blown light bulbs, especially those with visible blackening on the glass, as selling the faulty ones was not frowned on, but they were difficult to get as a consumer new. So buy blown ones on the black market, and simply swap them at the factory, wait a day, then report them as blown, and the factory would change them, of course the electrician or store keeper keeping the blown ones, to sell as used.
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  1358.  @WakarimasenKa  Don't think it is much, more designed to leave them right there, while the aggressor is desperately wanting to be NOT there.
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  1359. Yes, saw the original on the largest screen in Africa, like Star Wars 2 years before. It was terrifying, and amazing at the same time. I wanted one.......
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  1360. Yes but once one wins in court, and they have been proven to have been economical with record keeping, all the claimants claims will have to be classed as entirely true, as there is nothing to say that they were not. Likely to be a very expensive day for them then, especially if people ask for the original documents back they had there, or their late dead child's shoes. Or grandma's wedding band and earrings, which was there for safe keeping in the box.
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  1361. Well, likely the new part will come, and as the machine is busy, and the repair holds up, they will not bother to put it in, till around 5 years later on when they need one for another identical machine, and take the one in storage out. Bronze on cast iron works well, and yes the bronze is stronger than the parent metal, and at least is a lot more ductile, as I have seen a few cases of the bronze repairs being a row of repairs all next to each other, with just a tiny cast iron seam between them, as the overloads exceeded the cast material capability, but the bronze was fine.
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  1362.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  Mostly to make is SFW I would guess..... Though admittedly those outtakes where the mind is in neutral, and the mouth is in gear, are often hilarious. And then the train........ and the birds. Me the birds would be green ringneck parrots and Ibis, with the few dozen Egyptian geese as well for harmonies, and the murder of crows.
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  1363.  @RiversJ  Expect that window tint makers will develop a film that is a RF block to those radar systems, and just a barely legal optical tint film, for use on cars. Of course totally legal, sold for use on windows of houses, and for protecting the interior against sun damage only.
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  1364. Would also suggest getting a trailer relay unit, so that you have the trailer load not on the existing vehicle wiring. Very important on modern vehicles, as the BCM is very often likely to fail with a short in the trailer wiring, though some do come with the trailer module already there, and often enough also will show faulty trailer lights and connections up on the cluster as well. Made my own, ran a fused wire direct from battery to the rear, and put 4 relays to drive trailer wiring, with the 4 relays driven from stop, left and right indicators, and the side lights, as all vehicles by me are regulation bound to have separate turn signals different from brake lights, EU spec. Thus any failed trailer wiring will just blow a 10A fuse in the front, and not blow an expensive ECU, disabling the vehicle till it is repaired or replaced. Also added in a simple current monitor, which will light up a small green LED on the console, to show that you have at least one functioning indicator or brake light.
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  1365.  @huwhitecavebeast1972  You mean like take them to the same place the goat went to, and send them through the same process, though it is likely the meat will be classed as unfit for use.
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  1366. They just are running through the address list of the area, and then cold calling the properties on the rates system to do this.
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  1367. Thing is the dealership, receiving the special order vehicle, will include, along with the paperwork of the delivery, all the details of the customer who ordered the vehicle, and thus they would have no problem contacting them to arrange delivery. Likely the dealership got it in, and somebody there wanted it, or had a client who wanted one, and sold it after a day or two, never contacting the customer to inform them the vehicle was there.
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  1368. Just like Prop 19 is.....
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  1369. Law courts by me still use it in some districts, as they bought a copy in 1990, and it can still be made to run on a modern computer. The rest use a copy of Word they bought in 2000, that ran under XP. Most of the government still runs on XP as well.
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  1370. They simply take that contaminated fuel and put it into a bulk tank, diluting it with a lot of petrol. The tank at the garage they simply pump dry, and then fill again, as a small amount of contaminant is not going to matter. After all you get fuel stations with a single nozzle that dispenses either petrol, diesel, E90, E85, and the small amount in the hose is going to be going into the tank of the next customer irrespective of the fuel selected. Most common thing is that the tanks will get filled with illuminating kerosene instead of diesel, as the IP is cheaper, so diluting the diesel is making more profit. The leaking tanks the water is normally pulled out daily, though there have been a few dishonest pump and attendant cases where the pump fills up the tank with a few thousand litres of water, and then the fuel, and then the "excess" fuel is put in another tank elsewhere and sold cheaply. Attendant then dumps the water out the tank to waste, and fudges the dip readings for a few days till the error is gone. Of course by me the refinery was phasing out the TEL, and when they finally emptied out the TEL tank they found a nice crack in the bottom, that had been leaking TEL into the ground for decades. Then the guy with a house near the pipeline who dug a hole in the ground, and it filled with fuel. Refinery spent a good bit of money first fixing the leaking pipelines, then also digging up all the properties along the route, and replacing the first 3m of topsoil, plus the garden and fences, all for free.
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  1371. Yes, but would you really like to still have to go to a special terminal in your house or office to send or receive an email, because the system would be owned and operated by the Post Office only. Plus delivery would be next day for all, and no other device other than the special terminal you lease as well, no mobile device, no printing unless you paid extra, and any attachment would be an extra charge depending on size.
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  1372. As the ads are only up for 24 hours or so, simplest is to filter the ads that last under 2 days for scrutiny, and also for insta to keep the images for longer internally, with those short period images being moderated more, and the accounts linked to them. Also easy to search messages for the words of other methods, including variants of the name, and anything that matches more than 30% of the name within 30 characters, plus at least 5 numbers within 30, should be assumed to be illicit and sent for moderation as high priority. But that of course means that they need need to hire cheap mechanical turk labour in third world countries, and train them, and pay them the $2 per 14 hour day that they do.
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  1373. Those that were, were left on the edit studio floor. along with the flat parts.
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  1374. Plus you now have very easy access to loans at a low interest rate, as there already is a loan registered on the property, and amending it is a lot easier than registering a new one.
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  1375. Just add water to the oil and you make your own in seconds. Or buy anything with a 1950' design V8 in it and it will do the same in short order.
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  1376.  @bogglesbiggins1101  Because cops will not bother, and the bike generally is a lot faster than a police car, plus can go through gaps as well that the car cannot easily follow. however the rider probably uses that route often, and it is easy to run a DMV check on all bikes that model and colour in the area, and then see which owners fit the age range of the rider, and then simply go to the registered address, and view the bike. No plate, tow it away, and illegal size the same. But not going to be done, because that takes 3 things the police do not have, ground work, thinking ability (police do not hire intelligent people as basic officers deliberately) and also wanting to be proactive about crime.
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  1377.  @ICDeadPeeps  Yes I like the clover in my lawn, and just regard the weeds as extra green cover. If they can survive being mowed they are welcome.
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  1378. Not taken out of the budget, taken out of the bonus pool for the top management alone. If they then have to pay in at the end of the year it will make them focus a lot on making sure this never will occur.
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  1379. Very likely much higher, as probably a good chunk are stuck with a long lease, even if they only use a fraction of the space now, and have turned the majority of it into storage instead, or are using it for warehousing space, because they cannot get out of the lease without penalty.
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  1380. Simple engines once you remove the emmisions stuff, but that is the most expensive part. When you go for high power, and maximum power output per kilo of engine is where you run into issues. VW made millions of the smaller 4 cylinder and 5 cylinder engines, and they are pretty reliable.
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  1381. Friends labs are avocado fiends, as in we get none from the tree that fall off as they will devour them. Yes there are foods bad for dogs, but in general they can eat pretty much what you eat with a little care. My fathers dog never ate canned or dry food in it's life, only what we ate, and was limited in chocolate as well. He lived to be 18, and his idea of fast food was to hunt moles in the garden.
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  1382. Seen a similar thing on a Ford 1.6 CVH engine, would start, but only run with throttle held near full, and not idle. was looking and wanted to check if there was actually oil in it, so pulled dipstick with engine running. Idle dropped to near normal, with still full throttle, and on removing oil filler, it dropped stone dead. We could have rebuilt it, but instead it was quicker to instead send it to Ford themselves, and get a complete new engine from them in return. Not cheaper, but the engine was needed urgently as otherwise there would be massive delays and lack of critical equipment. This engine was used to drive a hydraulic pump, and this in turn was a specialised vehicle that there were only a very few of, so a missing one was somewhat of a crisis. Not over revved, as they all had limiters on them ( though often bypassed, so we locked out the throttle plate range instead with a welder, to hold that limiting bolt firmly in place), best we could guess is somebody ran it without oil, or with low oil level, and cooked the bearings and rings, or had not checked coolant, and the engine had overheated. Same end result. Otherwise those engines were pretty robust and gave little issues. Those VW 2.0 TDI/TSI engines also are the power plant on a lot of fork lift trucks, where they live a very hard life, long idle times, frequent stop starts, hard running when cold, and generally just abused. Amazingly they do survive that quite well. Saw them often at plants, pop that cover and the VW logo is there, while the outside is quite a different logo.
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  1383. Yes, will likely scrap routes that are not profitable, and also cut costs down by selling off aircraft, selling off maintenance facilities, and getting rid of headcount all over. That will make for a good 4 or 5 quarters as those do not show up yet in reduced passenger numbers, and till the aircraft need expensive outside contractor maintenance, that comes in to hit hard as the airframe hours mount up. But they will have sold off the shares at a massive profit, leaving behind, after another year or so,an airline in serious trouble, with plummeting revenue, and mounting costs, because the core attributes have been gutted out, the assets sold off at pennies on the dollar in future revenue, and only short term profit that got taken out almost immediately in dividends. SW going to join the other airlines like TWA, that get taken over by another at a massive loss, and be carved up for scrap metal.
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  1384. I would say day one was measure and mark, day two was cut and fit, and day three was finish all the welds, probably with a few small jobs in the interim, to allow Kurtis to stretch his back, and not get cramped too much.
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  1385. Especially the top management, as in regional and national level. Branch managers that are tied because they literally have no working computers, or even paper to print receipts on, is something from the top. For a long time the post office receipt came printed on National Lottery paper, because that was the only paper the whole city post offices actually had. I would take copy paper there for them to use when getting a parcel, because they could not print the documentation they need to have. Even staples and pens for the same reason. Then eventually the branch was closed, but luckily the staff were absorbed into other branches, as I had known them for 20 years at that time. This year I stopped paying for a PO Box, because it got 15 letters other than junk in the year, so went electronic for most and changed to physical address for the rest, and the 6 weeks it takes to send a letter, literally in the same post office building, is beyond a joke. not the staff, who are for the front mostly overwhelmed but still give good service, but the back end and poor top management who are totally out of touch with reality, like most SOE top management are. more concerned with hitting a metric that they made up than actual service.
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  1386. FIL had his car stolen from his garage by a shady tow truck, hooked it up and vanished with it. Door to garage was open, as he had just arrived home and gone in the house. Was never recovered.
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  1387. Bought some the other day, just because i needed some 5mm drill bits for rivets, and am tired of the bits wandering as well. Plus you get 2 chances to break the drill bit. Will also say that if you have the misfortune to do work on 316L stainless steel that has been work hardened by being spin moulded, and not annealed, you will not go wrong budgeting one drill bit per hole. You might be lucky and get three holes before the bit turns into a friction stir rod, but generally just a shade over 2 holes per bit. Last few I had run out, so yes that 600W AEG drill was quite happy to cook the holes through it. The 800W Bosch could not turn fast enough, though it does have enough torque on it to drill 25mm holes through reinforced concrete, never mind if there is actual reinforcing rod in the way, plus the plain bits are cheaper than SDS. The 5mm SDS bit lost the tip, though it made no difference to it drilling, still went in fine, just a second more per hole. 6km of conduit with one drill bit is good, till I borrowed it from the electrician and found a bit of loose granite. Still in use as a centre punch. Building sites are brutal on power tools.
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  1388. You pronounce Koos not like goose, but more like kous, FYI.
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  1389. Could have charged them with desecration of a corpse, and if they are a medical doctor the state board definitely can censure them, and if not then charge them with impersonating a doctor, and performing illegal surgery. After all the patient died on the table, so it is at a minimum malpractise, and I could see a case going to court against them. State board deregistering them, and thus all other states doing the same, is pretty much going to cramp the ability to do this further, and all well within existing statutes.
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  1390.  @acrazedtanker1550  They have costed out towing icebergs there, and simply placing a plastic bag around them, so as to capture the melting ice water and use it. Lot less energy than desalination, and after all the fuel to move the ice there to the Saudi's is essentially free.
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  1391. Yes, composite overwrapped pressure vessels are common, but have a limited life at full pressure, and also a cycle life. I have one used as a water purifier, and while it is 10 years past it's life, it also is only used at 1bar of water pressure, not the rating of 10bar, and 20 bar test pressure. Should have a near indefinite life at that pressure, especially as it generally is not under pressure unless I need to draw water. I will probably wear out the threads changing the resin first.
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  1392. Realtime is very common in streaming, as you definitely need to have the packet stream going out in order with low latency in say broadcast, where you need to be sure that all incoming data is processed ( transcode, just a scaling to peak limit) with as little delay as possible, so that the presenters can get a near real time feedback audio, as anything past 50ms will result in uncanny valley audio to them, and make them stumble, especially if this delay varies with time. So small buffers, really tight timings, so there is minimal delay on things like audio, and same with video so that you do not lose sync between video and sound. Common in big broadcast media, and in things like broadcasts of live events visible in the stadium, where you need to have the big display no more than 5 frames or so behind the image being captured by the cameras, and the same for the audio support of say a concert, it has to be almost no delay, or it starts to sound weird.
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  1393. Or blown the alternator, looks like that is one thing that also had a fuse, but many older cars do not, so reverse jumping, or using a 24V jump, will fry the alternator completely. Best is it blows open circuit, worse it blows partly shorted, draining the battery, and still appearing to charge, from the front idiot light going out.
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  1394. Standard joke about flying on them was, if it does not drip oil on the ground, do not get in it, because that means there is no oil in the engine. That oil cooler was always going to leak, to the point the operators always had a ready supply of wooden dowels with the right taper, to tap into the leaking passages to block them, and a hammer, in the cockpit. Only time that did not apply was the turbine conversions, there that oil cooler was gone, replaced with a much more reliable modern one, and if that leaked you were not going to make it. I saw plenty of oil coolers with up to a third of the passages blocked off, but the aircraft would still fly, just use a little more of that thick goopy oil. Like molasses when cold, but hot was like water.
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  1395. Which is a big plus for bolts, impossible to put on wrong, though you can use the wrong length ones, and damage the inner parts of the hub.
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  1396.  @foxbodyblues6709  Because arrests are easier to do, convictions are a lot harder, and take months to occur. Plus always a good chance the evidence is not good, or the officer is a no show, and thus the case is dismissed.
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  1397. Had that with an AMT box, after changing the clutch. As no dealer support, they went bankrupt and closed, and left the country for a few years, and the new models and dealers do not support older models. Plus spares come from Malaysia via the UK, as they do not deal direct with my country for political reasons. So to teach the TCM about the new clutch, a bit of driving, using a few hills, so as to have lots of start stop cycles, and then drive it so it would hunt up and down the gear ranges a lot, and after around an hour the TCM had learned the new timings. Had to rebuild the AMT hydraulic pump, as the brushes wore out, and the cost of a new one, from Renault, was almost the value of the vehicle, so a new set of $5 brushes, salvaged from a Bosch alternator regulator, was a good fix.
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  1398. Not that there is no test for males, just it is expensive, and you need to do some rather "extensive" testing to detect it if dormant. However if active it is very easy to get a positive test for it, plus the visible symptoms are very obvious, like it's cousins Herpes Simplex.
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  1399. So that is how you can do multiplication using only shift registers and addition, with only a single register to hold the result other than the original 2 numbers.
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  1400. I bought a can once, on special, and actually used it on my sister's car, as it did not come from factory with a spare. Now she has a working spare, and the can got her through a month of not being able to get to fix the flat. Did check my spare tyre, and yes it was flat, but you have to remove it from the boot to check it. Also with that spare under the car, please take a can of dry chain lube, and spray on the threads of that stud, so it can actually come loose off there when needed. Dry lube, so it does not attract dust and become a dust block. Same for the jack, as they do not come with much lube from the factory, so spray with brake clean, and get the grease off, and spray with chain lube, and run end to end, plus on the bearings and pivots, and then wrap in a cloth, sprayed with a thin coat on the inside, to both protect from rattles, and to provide you with a cloth to clean your hands when changing. Yes have had the pleasure of getting the spare off, using a hacksaw blade, on the side of a highway, because the steel bolt rusted fast to the nut. Fixed that the next day, stainless steel bolt, and a loose fitting nut, with a nice coat of molyslip between then in the threads, and a split pin to prevent the nut coming off. Was a tank hold down bolt, but 10 minutes with a grinder and a welder, to make a plate that was used to fix to the trailer chassis, and it never gave any issues ever again. Worst came to the worst use a shifter and pliers to undo the 2 M8 bolts that held it down, and slip through the centre hole. Next time I had to change it, again on side of freeway, after finding a nail I assume (only had the sidewalls left, after the middle shredded itself off, actually same spot I twice had to dodge a Hiace half shaft and wheel assembly complete, as it came past me) it was so easy to undo, jack up with the jack, and get the bolts off the trailer wheel. Tip as well, lube the threads on the wheel fasteners, light coat works, and use a torque wrench to put them on, not Cletus and turn till it half way snaps. Impact driver to put them on means you never get them off with the socket in the car kit.
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  1401. My father crashed one, after leaving the one wheel in the middle of a pothole on the runway, hidden by the part time airport having had heavy rain in the morning, and on approach in the late afternoon my father had seen the shiny water, and thought that the airport had finally tarred the runway instead of being grass, and was just late in updating the charts they had with outside countries. Nope, was water, and on landing he was getting spray, and then the one landing gear left. So he decided to cut power, using those magneto switches, up there for making turning off the engines a deliberate action you could not do by accident, and went gear up. So skidded to a halt outside the terminal/bar, where the part time ATC was belatedly firing a flare into the air to denote to go around. Passengers did not notice the accident, aside from them not needing a ladder to disembark, and them noticing the 2 bent propellors. Long distance phone call was made, via a good number of operators, to the destination airport, and the actual owner of the aircraft that he was doing a ferry flight on. Next morning the new plane was there, dropping off a crew of mechanics, 6 blades for the propellors, and the left undercarriage complete, and the tools and jacks. This then left with the paying passengers, down south to Johannesburg. A week later the aircraft, now repaired, flew back down with the mechanics and the damaged parts. Very likely I did fly on that exact aircraft, years later, in the military, as they got the entire fleet as the airline upgraded. My last flight in the military was on one, and of course it had issues, with me and the FE leaning out to look at the gear, as the right side was very unhappy to show green. I was the human chain, holding his belt, and acting as audio relay, while we both agreed it looked like it was over centre, and thus locked. Best landing ever on a C47, smooth, almost no bump, though slightly marred by having a fire engine keeping pace with us, with foam cannon ready to use. Got in to destination 6 hours late, and when asked, I replied the C47 broke down over the last stop, and we all had to get out and push it the rest of the way.
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  1402.  @erege09  So the government will appeal, and drag this out for a decade.
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  1403. I guess his parts store is local to him, and has deliveries out 3 times a day, so as to allow this. By me that would be a guy on a bike, something small, around 80cc, and with a driver who occasionally uses the road to drive on. As we joke, the biggest biker gang in the country is the 60-60 gang, which delivers for the one nationwide chain. My friend knows all the drivers in her area by name, and they greet her all over as well. They get around $1 per delivery, so do around 60 deliveries a day, but do not own the bikes, so maintenance is not their problem, though fuel is.
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  1404. Not the bearing that is seized, but the spring and tensioner pivot point. Though the idler pulley itself is also pretty noisy as well. Will all come new with the replacement part.
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  1405. When you left school with being a sub functional literate person, and with no job prospects, and criminals are seen as being free with cash, this is appealing. Education wise the spend per pupil is the highest in the world, yet the only way to get the desired pass marks are to drop standards, then drop the pass mark to anything over 39%, and those under that get a conditional pass. For every teacher in a class there are at least 10 administrators, all of them earning much more than a teacher pay, and all of them having school holidays off. Telling thing is the number who drop out from grade 1 to grade 9, officially mandatory, and then a massive amount at grade 10. Universities have all had to add on an extra year to the degree paths, simply to teach what the schools should have taught, if they wanted to keep international accreditation.
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  1406.  @ChernobylFamily  I would say there is a lamp monitor in there, either sensing lamp current, or even simpler another phototransistor that detected part of the lamp beam, and if it went out would be part of SKALA that this input is failed, and needs service. Probably one of the printed messages that the operators got the most, x channel indicator inoperative.
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  1407. Time to ask Usagi electric to translate it, as that is his actual non YT job.
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  1408. They are there to reduce steering wheel kick back when you have a wheel drop into a hole, or slip off a rock off road, by limiting the rate at which the steering can turn. Keeps you from having a broken hand if the wheel kicks back. The one on the top does the same, in standard configuration, just needs extra help when you have the lift kit installed, so the 2 on the bottom are there.
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  1409.  @GTIFabric  Better quality plastic, but that costs a lot of money to do, so they go with the cheaper stuff that lasts 5-7 years before failing. Basically fail outside warranty.
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  1410. A good chance that the heavier steel will be cut up and vacuum smelted, as it is pre atomic age steel, so low background, which is very much in demand as shielding for scientific and medical equipment. So parts of it might be recycled into a space telescope, or into part of a new hospital machine, and not simply be turned into single use cans.
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  1411.  @poppedweasel  The British created the word Concentration Camp, Scorched Earth and considered every person to be a military member, and shot first. They were after the gold and the diamonds, nothing else. They also had incredibly stupid leadership, who would only use the manuals that they had been taught for generations worked, from a century or more before, and were absolutely unable to consider any change in tactics as an option. Nothing much changed between the Great War and the 2 World Wars until the leadership was totally replaced by new thinkers who, like the Canadians, had the luxury of difference, and the ability of the leadership at the Regiment not being as inflexible due to them having had to develop so far from the hidebound British structure. As well, the pronunciation of the names and places hurts, especially as there are enough sources available to get the pronunciation of every name and place correct.
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  1412. Done it on the side of the freeway, after going to the parts store to buy the wrong studs, but those were all they had in stock. Not helped by the axle being something from the 1950's, long obsolete, but that is what came with the trailer. Will add that using the washer best to use 2 or more on top of each other, and use some CV grease between the washers, the lug nut and the axle.
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  1413. And I would bet those same complainers either work for the university, or work at a business where the university is around 70% of the company income. Look up the complainers, and you will find that is true. Then you can suggest to the university that they might want to look into these meetings, as a resident of the town, and simply start to take notes. What they do with those notes, either in deciding which companies to do business with, or for staff advancement, is entirely up to them.
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  1414.  @JohnDoe-qz1ql  Standard courier you mean.
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  1415.  @Nilboggen  Or if it had done so during the morning or evening rush hour, when the bridge is full of vehicles both directions.
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  1416. Yes, and you can collect them from 6 to 9 months later on, if they do not get stolen. Seeing as they lose half of the parcels already, this will just mean more will be lost.
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  1417. Normally once it is in lockout it is a 30 minute timer, that has to sit with power on, before it will allow a single code entry, and then again 30 minutes if wrong.
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  1418. No you did not miss it. Those new bolts going with the old hitch...
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  1419.  @musaran2  True, and ASIC came out of wanting to reduce logic down from multiple boards to a single chip, to save cost and improve speed. Internally you either have basic blocks you stitch together, or have a full custom design.
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  1420.  @lawrencedoliveiro9104  This was over 20 years ago, when fabs were still all in the USA or Europe ( pre Eurozone), and yes modern ones will do semi custom fast, using existing stocks of sea of gate wafers. A step up from a FPGA, making it both cheaper and slightly faster, as you take your existing FPGA code and they translate it into a connection layer for the metal steps on the die. You get a fixed design, and no need to have a memory chip loading code, so it is now a place and use part, no programming needed.
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  1421. The shim is to take care of manufacturing tolerances on the plastic moulding. the sensors are mass produced, and then all get measured as to length from the moulding base to tip of the sensor, then put into bins accordingly. Then the shims are made to adjust the overall height to get equal signal strength out of the coil and magnet when in use, so the ABS unit gets an equal amplitude signal ,so that they all will switch at the right point (internally to the ABS unit the signal conditioning operates on both the amplitude and the zero crossing, to get speed and also allow it to operate and cut off the ABS control when the wheel is slow enough) and all will drop out at the same speed, so you do not get ABS operation attempting to correct what is thought of as a stopped wheel when you are very slow. Thus the shims, and a careful calibration in the plant to put them in the right height from the tone wheel.
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  1422. Must be an exhaust place. They can barely work with premade exhaust parts and think they are the most pro around.
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  1423. With all his bodyguards, who keep him safe.
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  1424. Plus, after 15 years, he would cry every morning, thinking that if he was in jail, he would have already been out on parole that day.
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  1425.  @nigelrichardson4327  Well, they did do the exact same thing with the Pinto, and sent in for the testing they were forced to do a vehicle not made in the USA, but made in Canada, where the Canadian government had forced them to implement the fixes.
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  1426. Shake the bowl to redistribute the kibble, it does help, making the surface level again.
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  1427. Would say that those objecting must them be sued, if any patient dies because of an ambulance taking too long, citing that by restricting competition they also restricted the ability of having a faster response, and this then directly relates to delaying emergency treatment.
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  1428. Only thing that really mucks up a compressor stage is ingesting a large bird. Small ones just vanish, pigeons sort of either come out as a puff of feathers, or just smoke, depending on where they hit on a bypass engine, and on a smaller turbine they just sort of vanish, leaving a smear on the first stage
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  1429. Yes done that to confirm valve cover is leaking slightly.
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  1430. That you are getting consistent gas there, and it does not stop, also points to a blown head gasket.
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  1431. Easy to get stonkig 0-60 times with a regular truck as well, just remove the trailer. A plain truck tractor is way overpowered, I have seen them beating almost all vehicles in light to light, simply from the massive power to weight ratio.
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  1432. Toyota can accept a lot of error in alignment and still drive fine. Likely they, from the damage, sideswiped a Jersey barrier, damage is consistent with clubbing the base of one, pushing front suspension back, and the rest is from the side of the concrete. Yes a thing that should have been disclosed, though the painter who worked it did a poor job, orange peel all over, fisheyes and clearcoated the dust, plus failing to fix the edge damage on A pillar. But matched the colour well, that charcoal colour is actually a really hard paint to match properly, too bad it was applied poorly. Rushed, poor prep of surfaces, and dust in the area. Yes if the price reflects the fact it was damaged, you take it to an actual alignment place (definitely not toe and go) and get that subframe correct, it should give no issues at all, though your range control will absolutely need recaibration, as the aftermarket bumper covers are different to OEM, which get matched at the factory before they get on the line, and this is then programmed into the ECU as it finishes the line.
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  1433. Why use Uhaul, there are other rental companies out there, must have been one closer than 600 miles from there with a vehicle. They cannot be the only rental people around who do trucks.
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  1434. You can easily buckle the rear of the frame with that kind of impact, as it will crumple as protection. That the manufacturers do not make that section as a separate piece, that you can simply bolt in as repair, is because those extra 4 inches of steel, and 8 bolts, was costed out as too expensive. Just like Ford and the Pinto, using a plastic shroud was an extra 60c on the price, despite it being required in the other major market. That they tested one "off the assembly line" to prove it was also faked, they deliberately brought one from the Canadian plant, that had the shroud installed for this market, and of course it did not catch fire, by design, while the US ones continued to burn, because they figured the cost of the lawsuits was cheaper.
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  1435.  @barbraabsalom4531  Most of the wear particles are no ferrous, so a magnet is not really much use. On a cast steel block, with cast steel head, it is a good thing, but with modern engines the only thing it will pick up is wear particles from the rings, and they likely will be caught in the oil filter anyway.
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  1436.  @BigBadWolfe63  Last one I changed was nice and easy, just a little hard to get the lock ring out without the right tool, but the large water pump pliers worked well there.
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  1437.  @shakerman55  Yes, and likely not covered under warranty either, as it would be classed as deliberate damage.
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  1438.  @calyodelphi124  VW has one, and it is loud and annoying.
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  1439. Yes I had the same issue, just the fuse block burned out on 2 of the fuses, so I went for the cheaper alternative of 2 inline fuse holders and crimped them into place, then used a ring to provide power to them. As VW on this one integrates half the loom into the fuse holder, a lot cheaper than the buy a new one alternative.
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  1440.  @JJayzX  They use a cheap microcontroller inside the switch already, so it will be part of that firmware. Not going to be long before somebody either sniffs the BT comms and gets the common key, or simply makes a new firmware to flash on the micro to bypass it. Kind of like having a TSA lock, where the keys are all alike, and thus no security at all.
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  1441. Plus absolutely designed as shoddily as they can so they break down all the time, and you find out the warranty is worthless, and repairs rapidly amount to more than the purchase price to get the vehicle to the standard it should have had in the beginning off the floor.
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  1442. Pairing requires they have the same secret code, and then the learning is simply where along the long sequence the transmitter is, so the receiver can keep a similar tally of the code. There is a window of right codes that still allow operation, and this gets updated each time the match is made. Press enough times and long enough outside range and the pairing is lost.
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  1443.  Frank Dilson  Recessed so it does not get smacked off by the first errant rock. Recessed at least has no sharp corners from Kurtis that act as stress raisers, and the sharp edges now are deep in the material where that will not have enough stress to form a crack before the surface does. Going to bet the failure now will be the shaft snapping at the weld edge, or the pin breaking inside the bearing.
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  1444.  @billydelacey  Not US DOD, but similar, and yes there was a lot of stuff that never was investigated, even though the controls were there, you did find special cases where the approvals were like magic, and there was supporting paperwork that was in files, but nobody put it there, and the signatures were illegible, or people who had long ago left.
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  1445.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  Love that jack though, I will bet it is about to become a well used tool in the workshop, as it seems to have a nice lift range, and will probably be in a video at some point holding up a job being done on the welding stands, and also holding the same up on a lathe.
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  1446. Got a crow foot spanner that is perfect for that, fits oxygen sensors, and has enough grip points to grab the sensor irrespective, and small enough to go anywhere, but strong enough that the spanner on the end works to break it loose.
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  1447.  @YouCensored  Seen plenty of PTFE wire with a pink tinge or a pink stripe in the insulation, there generally on sealed assemblies like motors, to allow you to indicate polarity on the motor during further assembly. Though yes the tiny amount of dye will be totally insignificant here to overall burning of the wire in the pure oxygen atmosphere when it got an ignition source. With pure oxygen at atmospheric pressure and above, many things that are normally considered fine, like lubricant oils and greases, are forbidden, you have to use rather esoteric lubricants, like molybdenun sulphide, and powdered graphite, as lubricant, and even skin oil from handling is considered to be a contaminant. Even such things like crush washers are a problem, they have to be copper, or ultra pure aluminium, or nickel, as the first application of oxygen to the newly crushed surface exposed to it will nearly instantly form an oxide layer, so the pressure has to rise slowly, so the reaction is not too violent during this time, and the heat can be dissipated. Not so bad as handling fluorine gas, where you have to do this even more carefully, as literally the only thing that is keeping your entire apparatus from dissolving, is the thin film of metal fluoride that is coating all surfaces, from the initial introduction of gas. Oxygen is only slightly less reactive.
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  1448. You can earn money in prison, and they will garnish that still.
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  1449.  @Doct0r0710  Even worse then, but those panels can be only a half inch thick and still work well, i had a small desktop fridge with that, which I got cheap as used, and finally scrapped because it corroded the evaporator coil out.
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  1450. That is why I have my own scanner now. Started off with a self built one for VW, then got a generic OBD one to handle other vehicles. Now got a much better one that handles most vehicles.
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  1451. Already out on monitored release, pretty sure that also means not even the golden arches will hire them.
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  1452. You already get that at the golden arches, and they call it a burger......
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  1453.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  Well you were honest with the customer, and they accepted that this thing was either going to work or was buggered. Big castings are hard to work on, at least with big aluminium castings repair is easier, had that a few times to fix cracked aluminium castings, and the fix worked well. On some the plates to fix it made it better than new, even if the plate was more swiss cheese than metal before being welded in place. Never broke there again.
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  1454. No, likely got scrapped, along with the rest of the Apollo era hardware, or taken apart and used for other projects.
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  1455.  @WrenchingWithKenny  Funny thing is every aircraft has hundreds of them in the wiring looms. Big difference is they are installed correctly, as they are not at all forgiving. Yes I have messed them up in install.
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  1456. Yes still remember using those kits, and even rebuilding master cylinders, as those also had kits. There were a few engineering companies that also did sleeves, making the bore standard size again, and stainless steel, so it would not need oversize kits. They are common in vingage and veteran vehicle repair, as often you cannot get the original part any more, so either resleeve the cylinders and get seals, or you have to modify (a sin in the classic car show market) to use a compatible modern unit. Even did rebuild a few Morris Minor indicator stalks, rewinding the coils that had burnt out, using modern enamelled wire which had a much higher temperature rating over the old varnished wire, so the new winding would not fail again. Getting those old rivets out was a pain, especially if you needed to get the rusted ones out intact.
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  1457. Hopefully you went and paid, as the fine was likely less than what you would get selling it again, as registered owner, after getting a copy of proof of ownership from the DMV.
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  1458.  @philspear73  Low battery is causing issues with communication with the immobiliser module and the instrument cluster. Probably will find dozens of low battery errors in every module, along with dozens of CAN failure to connect messages as well.
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  1459. Well, likely they are not exactly going ot be alive long enough to steal a vehicle again, with the time they will have to serve. the scrap yard workers though are not likely to live long either, along with the guy who carried it on his shoulder. Basically they got a similar dose as the Chernobyl liquidators did, though only a single dose instead of multiple, but will not exactly live long enough to get a pension.
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  1460. Input yes you can use a simple voltage divider, but the optocoupler works well to get some isolation, especially if you use a 4V7 zener diode in series with the LED to get voltage immunity to the signal, so a blown bulb does not leave the brakes on all the time from stray voltage. Resistor divider you also need a set of diodes to keep the voltage from exceeding supply rails, along with a small capacitor (roughly 100n) to provide noise immunity on the input. Incidentally reed relays work well, small, easy to drive, and the contacts interface well with MCU inputs as well, as they have very little bounce. Just have a pull up resistor to provide 2mA of contact current to keep them in good condition, and it works. I have added trailer relays to my car, as I do not want a faulty trailer wiring set to blow the BCM up, and used 4 relays to do this, using the existing lamp wiring as source, and an extra fused power lead from the battery. In the power line is a reed relay, with the coil replaced with 12 turns of enamelled copper, there to close the contact when current is over the draw of a 21W trailer lamp, and then the reed is powered from the 12V supply, and a lead runs off to a LED near the dash, that lights up whenever I press brakes, or turn, with trailer attached, as a confirmation that trailer indicators are working, and at least one brake light still works, and the plug is connected. Will guess your TRS80 issue was simply because the original designers ran out of space in the very limited ROM, and thus to get space to fit all the headline specs they had to sacrifice some things, and the full keyboard debounce was chosen, simply because it was not an issue with a brand new keyboard, or only minimally so, only getting worse as the keyboards aged and were made cheaper. New switches with clean contacts minimal bounce, but as they age, and the contact surfaces, with only a very small current, get dirty, there is a build up of resistance till the force is enough to break through the film. That is why industrial logic almost always has a 24VDC rail, and 10mA of current flow through a switch input, even if it is going to a MCU input only. The voltage is high, and also the 10mA of current, along with the 22n to 100n input filtering capacitor, provides enough energy to always clean the contact surfaces, so allowing them to be reliable. 5V logic needs that 10mA of current flow, and gold plated contacts, to be almost as reliable, but most keyboard designs, due to the demands for low power, and also limitations of the CMOS and older NMOS designs in ability to source current, only use much lower current instead, and thus the need for software debounce increases as the key switches age.
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  1461. 10 year old power supply, probably at least one of the capacitors in that power converter board is bulging it looks like, right there under the cabling. Power brick likely inside is somewhat well cooked as well, especially if it has been powered for a few years, cooking itself dry nicely.
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  1462. Or he regards the sperm donor and egg donor as something he regrets.
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  1463.  @gavnonadoroge3092  Probably sued the old owner for fraud, and thus got the title loan company to relinquish ownership in court.
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  1464. Taz saying I like the attention, but too much scratching, more just let me chill next to you......
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  1465.  @InsanitiesBrother  I know a lot of car manufacturers actually gave you a small bottle, think nail varnish size, with the vehicle, just for this. Not the exact paint they used on the vehicle, because that is a water based epoxy paint now in the majority of cases, but it is a solvent based paint that is the exact colour off the line, and compatible with the existing paint as well. Wonder if all do this, or only a few that want the finish to last. Mercedes and VW do this, though I would bet the dealerships just keep them to do touch up on vehicles coming in, and charge the customer instead.
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  1466. Easy for apart to have faulty heat treatment in a batch, and not have any idea this happens, if for example your treatment profile changed due to a failed sensor ( common enough in these ovens in industry, and they can degrade slowly before failing totally) and you only found out because somebody studies the logs in detail, and noted they took too short a time to cool down. Also could have been a batch of the steel was contaminated with impurities, or was the wrong mix in the furnace, or picked up the previous batch alloying metals from the lining and slag. That they identified was good, shows QC was doing the job properly, followed up with the suppliers to review them, and that the test samples, either customer aircraft that are serviced, and have all wear items inspected correctly to pick up abnormal wear, or laboratory accelerated lifetime units, are being properly reviewed. Rather that, than they just put in an upgraded part for spares purchase, and do not confirm that this part is going to need replacing due to it being faulty and having the recall. GM ignition switches anybody?
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  1467. The furniture is back! Rejoice!
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  1468. @SayAhh Hertz will flag it as stolen, and sue you for the cost of the vehicle, plus legal costs, even though you had merely asked them about renting a Hyundai i10, and had declined the rental due to the costs per mile compared to Avis next door.
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  1469. Going to be fixed when the spares come, because you will need to set pinion preload again anyway. So new set of shims there as well, probably new bearings as well, because if they have to come out they might as well go back new.
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  1470.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  Smart there, use the money to do something you both can enjoy for years, rather than have a dusty photo album and a DVD that is never watched. Justice of the peace wedding is a lot more economical, and you also get to enjoy sitting at home the rest of the day with your four legged son.
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  1471. He dumps it dry every time he uses it, along with empty out the catch canister into the used fluid drum. That way the remaining fluid stays clean in the hoses all round.
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  1472. Sharpie will not survive the solvent wash. The marks will not cause a leak, because they do not go the entire seal area, so still room for the seal, plus the gasket will fill them as well, as they are not deep.
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  1473. Nice machine and a bonus in that you now have common tooling for the other machine as well, so you do not have any issues where you wait on consumables for the one, but have for the other. Take it Homie has learned not to mess with George, having found that beak is sharp, and hurts. You know that come next summer you are going to have George, and the children, visiting you every day as well.
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  1474. Still is the ancestor of them, though the Saturn guidance system was developed in parallel with the missile guidance systems, as both were under development by the same companies, at the same time. Thus a lot of the problems share common solutions, though the modern ones have moved mostly away from mechanical gyro platforms, and instead use solid state gyro units, and rely on computers to correct them for drift, as that can easily be characterised during assembly and test, as you can use a reference platform to allow one axis at a time to be decoupled from rotation and get the inherent drift. They also use accelarometers, and computer based integration, to get velocity, and again to get distance, and then can use the ring gyro units to calculate a position, based off of initial conditions. Then you use things like GPS, or star trackers, to obtain the error you have, and use that as part of the drift correction applied. But the modern reference platforms are now so accurate that you have correction both for rotation of the earth, and also for rotation around the sun, and have to apply as well correction for the motion of the solar system around the galaxy core as well, simply because this does otherwise show up as a long term error. In the 1970's Boeing had inertial reference platforms that were stable enough that you could fly an autopilot based flight without any external correction, and have a single flight from London to Sydney do that flight, and at landing it would be within 100 feet of the true position. 3 separate gyro units in each inertial reference unit, and the logic would fault any single one that disagreed more than the specified amount, and still give a valid reference off the other 2, just with a caution that maintenance was required. 2 inertial units, just in case one failed, and as backup you also had the old standby magnetic compass, and the Decca beacon receiver to allow you to plot location, provided you did not use the wrong lane. Later on GPS with the Decca, until the Decca was finally phased out. But even in the 1990's Decca was still in use a lot, simply because the cost of retrofitting a lot of aircraft was expensive, so it was in use till almost every aircraft had been updated to both, before it eventually was slowly switched off world wide, though there are still a few stations running for some countries.
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  1475. Yes likely running 4 concurrent versions of Windows, with each hitting 256 chromium windows will work, as that will at least move the bottleneck from the Windows screen display to another point, likely memory bandwidth, or just the bandwidth to communicate with the graphics system alone. At least should be easy to do, given the 128G base, and split it into 4 31G VM's and 4G for the hypervisor, and 4 separate displays on the video side.
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  1476. State however will chase after that small amount, because the costs they allocate for the legal side easily get it to felony level.
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  1477.  @TwoBitDaVinci  Drilling a deep well will be better energy wise over trying to condense water out of the air. Your dehumidifier can be the house AC system, with condensate water going into your grey water system, but just cooling air to condense water is a massive energy hog. Better to drill down a deep well, get the local (probably polluted with all the industrial waste residue, if you are in an area that has had any heavy industry nearby in the last century) water table, which is stored in the soil from rainfall, and clean and use that. Otherwise you will simply double the energy you will need from solar panels, for only a small amount of water, that will still need to be filtered and cleaned to make it drinkable. Deep well with a pump requires a lot less power per litre of water than any AC condenser can ever achieve, and even with solar power it works out cheaper. If you want water from air put in a solar distillation unit, to get fresh water from the grey water instead, which will be much more energy advantageous to do.
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  1478. Remember the sinkex ships have all watertight doors opened and locked there, so they will sink fast. In active conditions all would be closed, so they would take so much more to sink them or disable them.
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  1479.  @Xerdoz  Federal reserve is where you get all the money.
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  1480. Flew in them a lot, as well had a nice tour during the Junkers being restored, seeing the aircraft stripped down to near bare metal. With the Dakota, plenty of hours in them, though they were a lot more modern inside, upgraded avionics in most cases, and slightly better canvas seats. With the original P&W engines it was always wise to check for oil dripping out of those oil coolers, because if there was none dripping, there was no oil, and not a good thing. However there are quite a few upgraded to a turboprop arrangement, with much better fuel economy and operating cost, and those are great to fly on. Converse applies there, the oil coolers actually work. Only one time I was worried flying on one was when we had undercarriage failure, and had to circle till empty before landing, after a few cycles of the gear, with me as the human lifeline holding the flight engineer, as we both were leaning out the door looking if the gear was down ( it was), and it looked like it was locking ( no green light on the pedestal). Best, smoothest, landing ever, though slightly marred by the 45 ton Rosenbaur fire engine that was pacing us down the runway with a running foam cannon. Switch was sticky, percussive maintenance and it was fixed enough to fly us the rest of the way. Got in to my destination 6 hours late, walked in and was asked why, replied the Dakota broke down, and we all had to get out and push.
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  1481.  @suedenim9208  Yes but the learning was done with the assumption of light coloured skin tones, easy to detect against a background, and then once you can guess at a face then you can pull out detail. The issue is that with darker skin there is nothing to get the light contrast they optimised for. Also seen it trigger as a face for things like a set of shelving with a light spot on it, that could possibly be a face, and AC ducts in the roof that are round, with a shadow cast across part of it.
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  1482. Yes, impact hard enough to trigger restraint systems, not the airbags, as the system is smart enough to detect the collision angle and direction, so merely fired seat belt tensioners on the occupied seat to keep the driver from flailing around the interior, and then also commanded the ECU to shut off fuel and disable the engine, plus also automatically unlocked all doors as well. So the driver can still turn off the car, and start it again, though there will be a big warning about safety systems faulty, and that service is required, along with a warning about limited performance mode being enabled. Bosch is clever that way.
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  1483. Reason why the law here by me changed, so that any auction of a home there has to be at least 2 separate independant evaluations on the property, and reserve price is set at around that price before the auction, to prevent exactly this kind of thing. Too many cases of an auction for a reason less than 1% of the market value, and the sale going through for half that price before. People colluding to buy houses worth a million for the equivalent of $10.
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  1484. They went for making composite explosives with controlled density changes in the bulk, so as to make the lens intrinsic in the material, not make it out of segments. More complex in production, but you can test them more easily as shaped charge sections, and then very easy to assemble. Still needs the precise control of detonation though, and you can easily disable them till firing time using a simple mechanical switch, that adds a delay to the one section of controlled time cable.
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  1485. Same with a Mirage F1 and a Golf GTI. Pilot also did give a fighting chance, and used regular take off power, and did not go full throttle and through the gate to full afterburner either. The one with a Mikoyan design engine, sort of "borrowed" from a Mig 23, was capable of a lot more than the stock Atar engine as well
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  1486.  @djksfhakhaks  Z rated Michelins or Pirelli no problem reaching that and staying on. Scary doing it on Kumho or Linglongs......
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  1487. Funny thing is when I was in you got a sheet for a vehicle with the vehicle, that you were supposed to fill in first thing every day. First parade sheet, where all defects were noted, along with the mileage, and who was the one filling it in. That sheet was ignored by most, but i filled it in every day, as you were doing a walk around of the vehicle, and checking fluids, so you had a good chance to catch things like flat tyres and leaks, along with low oil, before they got to a failure. Tyres and oil no problem, just drive it to the other side of the hanger, and grab a fill lead from the aircraft tyre bay, and oil also no problem, we had plenty of multigrade oil for GSE there as well, so there was always a part bottle with the odd pint or three in it. Could not go off base, but you were free to use it in all equipment on base.
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  1488. Drive it for about 30km going for as many shifts up and down as you can, especially on hills and with varying speeds. That way the controller will learn the shifting pattern and timing of the new valving, which should fix a lot of those issues, and also bleed the solenoid circuits properly as well. Otherwise see if the VAG tool can set the controller to relearn, which is the same thing, just less fun.
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  1489. Prof gave us copies, same book, and made on the university copier as well. His paper budget was pretty big, and he would never use it otherwise all up.
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  1490. Bet the only one fined was also one critical of the local PD as well.
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  1491. Yes the dealership messed up here, in not doing this, and thus the fault arrived at the dealership door, not the dealership insurance company. If they had gotten her to sign a rental agreement for the period, even at zero cost, the dealership insurance would have been the one liable for it.
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  1492. The fob on car works well for metros, who use a particular chain in the area, and thus all the vehicles can simply come in, and fill fuel. At the same time the CCTV also captures both the vehicle details, driver details, and the link also does double duty, with it also transferring info about mileage driven as well, so this all is automatic. The vehicles that either fill up too much, or who do not match the description on file, are all flagged automatically. I had the same, a tag that worked at the local garage, simple to go there, tap and fill up, no other things, as each driver had the tag linked to them, not the vehicle, but the recon at the end of month would have all data available, so looking up this was easy, just email a query, and it came back a day later complete with images and full data from the pumps themselves.
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  1493. And then you have to think that the uranium we mine today actually comes from ancient natural reactors partly, and those formed, and the by-products stayed close, so that literally a billion years later, they are still close enough that you can mine the uranium out of Oklo, and find evidence of these old natural reactors around, still where they were originally. no containment, and with water percolating through the rock as well. Most mines where you got the ore out, are good places to place the waste in, seeing as the stuff has been there long already without dispersal. Just fill it up, close off and leave it, and in a couple of centuries come back and mine it again.
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  1494. Well simply because they are rare, and there are not exactly a million cameras on Mars capturing video 24/7/365, only the odd camera on a spacecraft that orbits, taking a complete pass every few days for the low resolution, and every few weeks to months for the higher resolution imagers, simply because they are scanning with such a small aperture camera to get that increased resolution. 99.999% of the meteorites that hit earth smaller than 20kg are not recorded either, simply because they burn up out of view, or nobody looks at the footage, and only the bigger pieces actually make it down and leave any mark, so likely 99.99% also are never going to be found either. Big planet, small rock, and nobody knows when or where one will hit.
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  1495. That engine was always known as the 3 litre fuel eater........
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  1496.  @johnpenguin9188  Fifth ass ring is behind the wheel.
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  1497.  @consaka1  Basically a specially machined bolt and nut, with 2 ends, where one end is the minimum size for that particular thread diameter and pitch, used to check the thread is not oversize, and is the go size, in that it must fit without binding, and must be firm with no wobble. The other side is cut to the maximum diameter, at least just past the first few turns, and should engage a turn or so, so that you are sure the thread is not oversize as it stops going in. For the nuts the first is the maximum diameter, and all bolts should fit with no slop, and the other side is the minimum, and it should not go onto the bolt after the first turn or so. Unfortunately precision parts, and you need one of each double ended tool, per fastener pitch and diameter, so these are not common, normally used only for very close tolerance work where you are running the fasteners at a very close tolerance and at a very high loading. you normally see them in aviation maintenance, where they are used when rebuilding airframe and engines, to determine whether a fastener, which is normally an expensive part, as the cheap (under $5 each) fasteners are simply regarded as a part you throw away each time. These are for the more expensive ones, where you will use the gauge to check the fastener, and the hole, are still within tolerance, so as to allow them to be reused. $500 gauge, used to check a $1000 plus bolt, and the gauge itself has to be calibrated and certified annually, or more often, depending on use. Half of an aircraft repair facility toolbox is special measuring tools, so they use a Snap On toolbox, as that is often the cheapest single part in that tool box. Spanners have serial numbers in a lot of cases.
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  1498. And also working part time, like 8 hours out of 24, or only working 20 years out of 60.......
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  1499. Probably will go back to the tallboy concept, drop next to the bunker, penetrate deep into the ground, then detonate, and the cavity formed will damage the bunker so severely it is unusable. Collapse the entry and exit points that way and even the hard bunker is useless. Or we will be seeing mach 5 capable bombs, that are dropped from altitude with rocket assist, so they will penetrate deep before exploding under the bunkers, having guidance that brings them in at an angle to detonate under the bunker, as likely the floors are not as thick, and thus the blast will reflect off the roof, destroying all in the cavity.
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  1500. Here they necklace them, draping a used tyre on it, pouring 1l of petrol into it, then tossing in a match.
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  1501.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  I was expecting at least half those exhaust bolts to need the sparkle spanner, but they all actually came off. Keep that water pipe, it likely is a lot better than the OEM one, and for sure is much better put together than the OEM one. BYW, great work on those throw away welds on the nut, each one came out looking perfect, even though both were destined to be in the scrap bin 30 seconds after they were cooled down. As you have the base of the bolt available I would have first tried putting a nut and lock nut on the bottom of the thread, and taking it out that way, less thread to engage, and also the galled section will be easy to move in the same direction. One of the times a plain drill would work to drive it out as well, just drill it, and it will probably have zipped right down after 10 seconds.
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  1502.  @Garth2011  They likely looked at entry and exit records for the lot, plus fuel fill bills, which have location and time on them, plus any toll tag use.
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  1503. Also while you are there change that plastic water manifold, because having to take half the engine off to do the belt means you can actually get to that as well, so do it with the belt, because it is also about the time they start to leak as well.
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  1504.  @brandontyler1754  Please come visit me, where the US jail system is looked upon as really cushy, or even just go to a place like Philippines or Mexico, and get a parking ticket there that you do not pay. There are plenty of times you can get tossed in jail and stay there for almost no reason, say you are travelling, get into an accident, and lose your wallet, phone and all ID, then you are in a hospital with no way to connect to any friends, and they toss you in jail because you have no money. Then you stay there, because you have no way to pay, and no way to get anybody to bail you out. The hospital wants money, you have for some reason no way to contact anybody (no ID, forgot all numbers, all numbers are in phone)and the jailer will simply keep you there till a court date, which might be in a week or three. Your description matches vaguely somebody wanted, so they keep you inside till you are identified some way or the other. Even worse is that plenty of places you are guilty, because you are driving while being the wrong colour, or the wrong sex, or the wrong religion, or you had "too much cash" on you, so it all was confiscated as well.
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  1505.  @ProjectFarm  My cheapest ones were actually US standard sizes, they had not moved off the shelves for 40 years, since the country went metric, so were finally on sale, for only double of the price in 1970, so I picked all of them they had up. Only 3 sets, but covered all the US standard sizes I used on US built machinery, 1/4, 5/8 and 7/16 standard thread. Also got the 7/16 die nut, so I could make the shear pins that used that thread, instead of ordering them, at a ruinous price. 1metre of 12mm stainless steel hex stock made a large number of those shear pins for use. Machining the pins, plus the tooling, came to the cost of only 1 pin, and I got over 20 of them, with bar left over.
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  1506. Less hair to bite......
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  1507.  @alanmcentee9457  Thing is they were informed, but declined to participate.
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  1508. The same method was applied to all those government owned buildings. They were sold off to the tenants, making them now responsible for the maintenance headache instead.
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  1509.  @WrenchingWithKenny  Even came in handy a few times as starter for the BBQ charcoal......😀
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  1510. What dealer, likely there are none that half of the USA, unless he wants to send it via container across the USA.
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  1511. Fails when hot, my perennial Ford issue, so much so that in the vehicle there was always a distributor module, tested for a few days, a 7mm spanner, and the thermal transfer compound, all wrapped up in a cloth. Those were all aftermarket, simply because Ford/Mazda did not supply them any more, and even the OEM one was notorious for failing. But a 5 minute job to swap it out, and use the cloth to clean your hands, then go buy a new one to put in place of the spare. At the time they were under $10 each.
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  1512. Yes that does work, unless you are in tornado alley, or in hurricane area, flood area or earthquake country, or wildfire country, where that drawer can easily be destroyed in a single action. That is however a good backup, and a way to keep the password manager password safe.
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  1513. If you can get the engine cheap, and the rest of the body and trans is in good order, put a new one in. Or if not well the yard will find some use for the parts......
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  1514. Yes I bought industrial diamond as cutting and dressing tools, they are not expensive as that, and just get expensive when you want them to be gem quality.
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  1515. I do the same, just make sure the bolt and nut used are 8.8 or better, as plain steel wears badly after a while. With the nut I also try to use a nylock nut so it self grips, so you do not worry about the thread, though I also have done some with red thread locker to keep the nylock there forever. Nylock goes on insert end first, so you first do it regular way to cut the insert to the thread, then off, turn around, and put on the bolt backwards. For those with regular use (M4 and M5) there is a second nylock that acts as jam nut on the one for the insert, firmly pressed down nylon to nylon to deform them, and they do not move, even when used with a power driver.
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  1516. Yes, make sure the paperwork going to the bank says new, and the DMV paperwork says used, and pocket the money.
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  1517. Case in point Renault, making a vehicle with a 3 year warranty, that would generally have the gearbox fail after 4 years, and making the vehicle scrap. Designed that way, so as to increase sales, as it is easy to make a gearbox that will last, and not cost more. Case in point VW Golf 1, where the gearbox is almost unheard of to break, unless you either ran it without oil, or dropped the clutch at every light at 5000RPM, and even then the CV joints were more likely to snap first. Plenty of 40 plus year old ones still running around on the original box, might be rust in close formation, engine smokes more than a coal plant, but still running around.
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  1518. Suspended on full pay for the next year or five, till they quietly resign and all charges vanish. Disciplinary process is "naughty, do not get caught next time".
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  1519. Used to be a common thing with cheques, they would scan the deposit slip then edit it to show cash instead of cheque. Your account would show the deposit, but not that it was a cheque or cash, until a few days later when it would be reversed, because the cheque bounced. Finally the banks stopped issuing and accepting cheques, though there still is fraud this way, often using stolen accounts.
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  1520. Training to get this sequence into his long term memory, repeated till he does it perfect every time. Forgetting a bit during training is fine, Mentour will simply point this out afterwards, give advice and some help for the next test session. Having it all on video as well for review afterwards also helps, both see where they made mistakes or could improve, or where the actions were perfect.
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  1521. A spark plug is also classed as a criminal tool, especially if you have one, and do not own a car, as they are commonly used to break the window to gain access to the vehicle. Also however they are commonly used by fishermen as a cheap weight on the end of a fishing line, as they are easy to get from any car service centre as used parts.
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  1522. Software patents..... Just like you can now legally make and play a MP3 file without having to have a fee paid to Fraunhofer Society, for the software encoding algorithm. Now patent protection is gone, and it is public domain.
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  1523. My microwave has 2 knobs, and a mechanical timer. The 1980's vintage one I also have has only a single green "start" button, done to get the perfect cup of hot water out of it.
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  1524.  @bjackman16502  Government will never drop sin taxes, they will merely find another name to call them, and levy them harder. Biggest earners of tax are the smoking, drinking and fuel supplies, and while you can go without smoking and drinking, living without paying for fuel to transport stuff is a lot harder, simply because nobody is totally self sufficient, all things brought in to you have moved via some transport using taxed fuel.
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  1525.  @billyyank5807  It was a hissing spitting lost kitten, was just going to keep it the night, but fed it, and it sort of stayed. Took 2 months before I woke up one morning with it sleeping on the bed with me. Before that, aside from the food vanishing, and the litter tray growing ever bigger logs, I did not know I had a cat.
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  1526. Eric simply has to sue the other driver in small claims, for the full amount, plus costs, as it was the other driver who was negligent in clearing their vehicle of snow and ice before driving, which is actually an offense. After all he has video of the vehicle, and the side camera view of the driver. Driver claims to court he was not driving still has to pay as registered owner, then must either have a police report of the theft of the vehicle, dated before the incident, or sue the responsible party they lent the vehicle to instead.
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  1527.  @kenbob1071  Any excuse they can figure till they get a subpoena......
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  1528. Or Ford CVH ignition modules, which also were notorious for failing when hot. I used to buy 2 at a time, and run the one for a week, then swap to the other, so there was a known working one in the vehicle, along with the 7mm spanner and the thermal grease used to install it.
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  1529.  @nerd1000ify  Kurtis, got pilot hole, one stop full diameter.........
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  1530. Yes, and the 2 special cans I carried were a military grade WD40 and Tectyl. But we also got Tectyl in 44 gallon drums, we used so much of it.
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  1531. Definitely not the pitch drop experiment, and very likely a combination of the stressed metal from drawing, and a plug that likely was either cross threaded at some point, and sent home with an air gun, or just tightened to past GUTENTIGHT with an air impact.
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  1532. Product placement, advertising responsible drinking, so of course the largest brewer would like to get free advertising in something that will be flighted in cinemas as a free PSA advert.
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  1533.  @EngineeringVignettes  Smells like they outsourced it to the cheapest bidder, who in turn outsourced it to an even cheaper developer in a cube farm somewhere, who did the needful. Buggy code, passed the bare minimum of checking (did it work in test on a single point, then passed) and was deployed with no other checking.
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  1534. I tossed some koi in an old pool, now the owner loves to watch them, and has seen both herons, kingfishers and a fish eagle come to visit.
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  1535.  @Wallyworld30  He did not think of himself being that. He lost way too many good friends there, that were killed randomly.
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  1536. Hey, couriers will bend it in half anyway, sticker or not. Though I would probably have put a "fork lift only" sticker and a pallet with it tied to it, else they will use it, as it looks like, as a roller.
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  1537. Pentastar is a great engine, at least ofr the parts department, who can easily supply you with all the new parts to make it work again, and then soon blow itself up again.
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  1538. Yes needs to have the depressor plugs adjusted using the extractor tool. Common in AC use to need to adjust them when new to work, as the factory either sends in all the way, or only half way, never correct in any case.
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  1539.  @stephendrake8145  Insurer will often sell it back to you for less than the settlement, generally using the tables of scrap values they have, as that is what they would get for it anyway. Write the car off, and insurer has a list of what they got on the last year on auction per make and model, for those wrecks, and that is used for the year for buy backs. Often an insurer will total a vehicle for minor damage, especially vehicles with notoriously long lead times on parts, or where they need to use single OEM repair centers, so if the projected repair is more than 3 months out, and you have a rental clause in the policy, they will likely total it if not driveable. You can think of which one has the most totalled vehicles because of this, and it is basically a camera and computer with wheels. Plus a few dedicated YT channels as well.
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  1540. Smaller bit as pilot hole also helps. Just do not break the smaller bit. 8mm works well
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  1541. Lawyers will, him probably under a million. And a NDA as well.
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  1542.  @EC18FEA30B  Nope, just split phase power, and 3 phase outside of industrial and large commercial use is almost unheard of. I would guess you only get it when you have high density housing with on site substations, where running 3 phase power is cheaper copper wise, though the transformer is not.
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  1543. Yes first one sub imploding, second reflection off the ocean floor, and the other 2 are reflections of the initial and the ocean floor off of the surface back down to the very overloaded sensor.
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  1544.  @christianholmstedt8770  I use it to run XP, because I have stuff that needs XP to operate, and is not supported under W10, but runs in a VM with no issues, plus the hardware pass through works really well. Just do not update the XP VM at all, it is not connected to the network deliberately, so that there is no issues with updates breaking things like FTDI drivers.
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  1545.  @Derpy1969  So graduated up from the BMW driving school, and got tired of driving an Audi.
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  1546.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  Hey they are paying you that money to clean it, so their loss.
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  1547.  @BriBCG  Well, a university, with a whole facility generator, or at least a generator to power critical systems, will have a breaker box dedicated to this system ,and plugs dedicated to it all over. Thus you can plug equipment into the outlet, and it will have backup power for it, if the main power goes out. Either a battery bank and inverter for the few seconds till the generator powers up and comes on line, or it will have 15 seconds of no power, a good enough compromise for a lot of systems, who can tolerate 5 minutes of no power. This will be a separate breaker, and a colour coded plug, which in hospitals and such you normally find white outlets for regular power, a green one for patient care with generator back up, and a red one for IT equipment with both battery and generator back up. 3 separate breaker panels per area to supply them, normally next to each other, and normally just closed, or locked with a lock, and a break glass panel next to them with a key, in case of emergency. Cleaner went to the box, and turned off the breakers, till the noise stopped. That was a deliberate act, not an accident, and they knew it was gonig to turn off the equipment, because the plug and outlet were locked out, and had a sign on them. That action shows they did this with deliberation, and the company should have trained the staff better, not just hired you because you had a heartbeat, could make a cross on the paperwork, and vaguely knew which end of a mop was the one to use on the floor.
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  1548.  @MarkShinnick  At least the front did, have not seen the rear bulkhead, but I would assume the failure was there, and it blew off the front during the pressure pulse from the implosion. They got the rear well mangled, so the implosion was likely that end, simply because the rear would have been turned into shreds if the pulse of pressure had come from the front, just the back is mangled likely from the collapse of the tube there.
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  1549.  @Fydron  They were the first to have collapsible steering columns, and as the steering axle is below the driver the shaft actually is an impact absorbing member. Designed to fit a space envelope, and have maximum cargo space, so yes there are compromises. Also mostly used for short distance movement in a city, where you have many starts and stops, and lots of times you load and offload, which they are perfect for. The passenger versions are very common as taxi's, as you can get 6 people plus luggage in with no problem, and if no luggage 9 plus the driver as well, with some work. Had one at work, nicknamed the half loaf, and it fitted 10 including the driver, and went around the clock at least twice, with just regular service, and lots of brake pads and disks, seeing as it went up and down a mountain pass every day.
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  1550. Very high pressure, GDI engine, the one that needs a 100bar boost mechanical pump on the engine, to allow the injector pressure to exceed cylinder pressure by a fair amount, so that the injection into the actual cylinder can take place.
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  1551. Had the same kind of hand damage, so on with a bandage, finish putting the window in, and then off to the doctor to get the 6 stitches in it, after consulting with my neighbour nurse, who told me i was a silly fool. Had to agree with her though, because she was right.
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  1552. Telco's make money off these calls, along with the banks who do the transfers. Not going to stop that lucrative revenue stream unless the fines are more than they make in a decade from them each time. If they get fined $ 10k, but make $5 million a week from it, they just will regard the fines as a business expense.
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  1553. Exactly, your value can even depend on the street address, so some builders put the main entrance on a corner lot on the cheaper side, even though there was more frontage on the main street. Some small malls are like that by me, cheaper to have a side street entrance over a main road entrance, even though the longest length is main road, but they put parking there, as that section, barriered off by a small kerb, is technically city property so was not allowed to be built on. Side entrance, and tar is allowed though.
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  1554.  @Perfer92  Yes still got it, never lived in Poland......
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  1555.  @kanemcdougall8337  You would have to wrap it in a case of XXX before they would even go near it as well.
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  1556.  @zapityzapzap  Provided you have enough forced air cooling for that motor. Otherwise you have a very hot, then very burnt, motor and controller. Full power dissipation without the cooling fan on most motors is going to result in a very rapid rise in internal temperature.
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  1557. Yes my RE friend buys it by the case every month, and always has at least 6 bottles in the car, that he will drink from, or stop at a shop and buy more.
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  1558.  @noimagination99  Possibly a prototype, used only once to see it would fit in the volume allowed, then used to get a set of detailed plans that were used to make the flight items.
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  1559. They have been around since the 1970's, I remember not so fondly them on old ford trucks and cars, where they got baked inside the cluster by the lamps, and you had to fix them very carefully to get things like fuel gauge working again, or the lighting to work, as the plastic got brittle and crumbled, especially the blue ones.
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  1560. Telco companies make bank off robocalls, as this in their eyes is free money, even unanswered calls, or calls to voice, are generating income. Scammers regard the money they pay as a business expense, something to get from the ones who fall for the scheme, or they run the scam out of a legit call centre where some other company (often the same phone company outsourcing their call centre there) is paying for the building and call volume, and often even the call agents as well, so it is sheer profit. Telco has this income, and lobbies hard to keep this income stream going, as after all, like the Post Office, junk mail is a good part of the income stream.
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  1561. 8000 miles overdue on the oil change, the extended warranty has just left the building, which would have given a crate engine for free as replacement. That has terminal rod knock, it is only a few miles short of making an inspection port into the engine, and letting rodney out to play as well.
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  1562. Alternator can recharge the battery on idle, providing there is little load, so lights off, no blower fan running and no AC, no heated seats, no demister on and no radio on, so that all the limited power the alternator can deliver goes into charging the battery. Easy though to have more load than the alternator can do at idle, so best is yes to drive for a half hour to do something else, so that you both have engine RPM up higher, and thus more power available to charge, and also are not wasting fuel along with diluting the oil with blow by.
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  1563. Hey traffic police, they only know how to sleep next to a camera. Hard to become a traffic cop, they have a cut off point above which you are too clever for the job. Over 90 IQ do not bother to apply.
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  1564. Depends on the actual ion. Alpha particles definitely are not a good thing inside you, and in general most heavy metal ions are bad, in amounts ranging from tiny to quite large for things like the lighter alkali metals. Electrons are mostly harmless, except that the process for making them at STP tends to make monatomic nitrogen and oxygen, along with the ozone, plus nitrous oxides in some quantity.
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  1565. Because it is not illegal to have one, but a lion or other indigenous animal is illegal to have.
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  1566.  @graysonwagner1855  They then declare bankruptcy, the workers lose all the pension money they paid in, plus the jobs they had, assets are sold for pennies on the dollar, and the shareholders and execs walk away with no consequence, as the execs get their golden parachutes, and the shareholders just no longer get dividends. Then government has to step in and bankroll the rest of the recall, and the taxpayers get shafted again.
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  1567. Did get a few of those, dug out of a 1900's era rubbish dump, dug out to build a Hilton Hotel.....
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  1568. Bet Kurtis will still be finding coal dust in it for years, as it came from a coal mine, and had a rattlecan overhaul before it was sold, so it just looked shiny white on the outside, and inside was all shyte.
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  1569. Having come close to clocking one, yes that is a good thing. though that was the least worry of that night, further on came across a hippo, and definitely did not want to be involved with that. Emergency stop, and a very rapid reverse, because a hippo is quite capable of biting thorugh sheet metal of a car, or even biting through the radiator as well. Hitting not good either, 2 tons plus of by now very unhappy critter sitting on your lap, and they are, despite the massive bulk, both very fast and very agile. Elephants give them a wide berth, along with rhinos, and crocodiles, and all of those are very capable of defending themselves.
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  1570.  @ostlandr  Probably Sharp, had that with them, really good products, but only spares support was poor after 15 years/
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  1571. Hope you also sent a big bag of bolts to increase Ray's collection.
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  1572.  @WrenchingWithKenny  Neighbour we are taking her car in to trade in today. 9 year old vehicle, not even the equivalent of 9000 miles on it. But full service history on it.
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  1573. Yes, and by me the law also allows you to have multiple wives, and also recognises "traditional" marriage as having the same legal rights as the judicial one. Plus same sex marriage as well, and working on allowing polyamory as well. Seeing as they accepted the 20 year period as valid, it would now seem that he will now very likely lose all of that pension money as settlement to the, now truly, ex wife, after she and her lawyers take him to the cleaners. Only good thing for him is he will not have to worry about bed and board for the next 15 years at all, though the bed might be a board.
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  1574.  @jeffostroff  Took out 1950's cast iron baths, and while you need 2 people to lift it, they are not that heavy. All that stonework and ceramics easily adds 3 tons to the bathroom, for sure the taking up of all that per unit needed at least 2 days of moving it in the designated goods elevator, because it would never hold it as a single load.
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  1575.  @00-JT  Descale is an acid, normally an organic weak acid like acetic or other weak acid, that dissolves the scale and makes it soluble to wash out. Very expensive when you look at it, as the price of acetic acid in bulk is ultra cheap. Gallon bottles of vinegar are very cheap.
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  1576.  @andrewallen9993  True, they at least made sure that all the bolts got locking wires, and were tight. Just had some hidden flaws that caused a few issues, and the old 747 thing of taking off with 4 engines turning, and landing with 3, with the missing one having had an Atlantic burial.
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  1577. During Covid I went nearly 6 months with expired registration, till I got a chance to go to the one place that was open to do business vehicles. Did mine the same time, only 6 months expired, and I got another 6 months free with no penalties. Drivers renewal I just drove for 4 months, with both expired card and receipt, but being the traffic police are more worried about parking tickets and eating fast food, over actually pulling vehicles over, nothing to worry about. Now things are sort of back to normal they are clubbing you when you drive in to renew either, as the parking lot by the license area is classed as a public road. So did have to drive my friend in to do his renewal, as his was a few weeks expired. We went to the most bribe friendly office as well, but sadly did not have to pay the cooldrink fee.
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  1578. Cordite and nitro also had to be manufactured cold, as they could otherwise detonate. A lot of modern explosives need chilled water baths during production, as otherwise they could self react and run away.
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  1579. Yes but cans win down for convenience and fitting into almost any space, plus it can be a tad difficult taking a compressor with you to some locations, or even electric power.
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  1580.  @misterdeedeedee  some markets they have to warranty it for 7 years or 100 000 miles, so making a single engine that will just make it out of the warranty is better.
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  1581. Remember to check the spare tyre, if there, as well. Most often neglected.....
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  1582. Likely the most valuable part of that engine, intact injector plugs are worth money as replacement parts when they break. This engine likely lots of idle, and really long oil change intervals, and the final straw likely wearing bearings from poor oil pressure, then the crank breaking from a sharp edge left in manufacture, or a flaw in the steel casting.
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  1583.  @MummaBear  Well, in for a storm tonight. This one left 20cm of rain in a few hours during the weekend when it hit land, likely to be doing the same today. Lots of trees down already with the winds of it coming in.
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  1584. One for the turret, one for the tank, and one for the mine that blew it up.......
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  1585. Has to be, lots of tension applied to those threads when in use, so the area of thread has to be much larger than the rod area to not suffer from fatigue. Plus only half of the thread area is engaged at best, simply because of the machining, and needing to keep some space for the nut to turn when installing or removing.
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  1586. friend bought a RV. His best 2 days, the day he got this used VW bus conversion, and the next best the day he sold it. nothing in it was any sort of part you could get easily, simply because of how it was assembled.
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  1587. Nope, more likely parked in a fiueld with the windows open, and left there. Then no security, so that all you get back is either a shell, or even only a set of plates, with the rest having been taken by them as spares.
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  1588. And then he sends it right back in drier than a temperance bar. And at full power as well.
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  1589.  @thesmallerhalf1968  Yes, was still a British protectorate. The whole group was sent there, as it was a way to spread the refugee volume out, and closer than other protectorates, and was accepting of people.
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  1590.  @VladVlad-ul1io  By ship, and she and her sister, only ones left, wanted out of that camp. She married a demobbed British pilot, my father, and her sister got sent to the UK to finish school, and there she married as well. She stayed in the same house till 1966, though that was in 3 different countries.
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  1591. No 18 the one who turned is at fault, failing to yield to oncoming traffic with right of way.
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  1592. Well VW is second most popular vehicle in most of the world, after Toyota.
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  1593.  @DavesGarage  And Winzip with that annoying screen, that you had to look at to see where the close dialogue had moved to. Had to install it once, because I needed one thing folder integration could not do, which was make multipart zip files, though I went with ARC instead, just because. Believe me it was removed immediately after that, as I wanted to overcome the limit of FAT on moving a large file via sneakernet.
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  1594.  @markusgorelli5278  Problem is that cocoa does not like growing in groves, and also that there is a very big demand for the leaves, for other purposes, so a lot of the cocoa you buy is grown in plantations where the cocoa bean is more of a side earner, over the other product of Columbian marching powder.
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  1595.  @KrustyKlown  Those who were told by the bank holding it that it was written off.
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  1596. Yes the machines are all managed and networked, so that they can pull live data and also video out of them, as almost all now have cameras in them to be used to detect tampering and attempts to cheat the casino. They look poorly on people trying to take what they see as being their money from them. The staff are watched more, but in any casino you are recorded on at least 5 cameras, even before you enter the parking lot.
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  1597. Totally 100% CCCP made, as the same parts, in different grades of quality, were made for the military, and thus the consumer and industrial equipment used the lower grade parts, and after they started doing commercial production they simply kept on making the same parts, using the same machinery. USSR tech was always on the trailing edge in a lot of respects, as they had to both make the machines first, and then were loath to upgrade them to make newer versions. Some parts were utter junk though, especially capacitors, where they routinely used parts designed in the 1930's, when much more modern parts existed, but because the machinery was still working they made the old ones, despite them being shorter lived, and also making poorer quality parts. Got some old Soviet era metal can capacitors that are identical to the 1940's versions, but made 50 years later, and they are as unreliable as the originals were, degrading even when not used. westerm made units updated over the years, to make them much more reliable, and in many cases closer tolerance and better performing at the same time, and also improved material made them much lighter and smaller.
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  1598.  @ephanhymerable  Plus some also go to accident hot spots, and dump diesel on the road when it is raining, to make sure there are accidents that they can predate off of.
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  1599. As it takes a few months to renew anyway, I simply went a week before expiry, and did the renewal, then drove around with the expired one, and the receipt of application, as the card expires, not the actual drivers license. Never got pulled over anyway, last time was years ago, pulled over, showed them the card, and went on my way.
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  1600. Old spark plugs fishermen here by me use them as sinkers, as they pull nicely through marine growth, and are free, plus are environmentally friendly, though mostly because they are low cost, especially if you have a neighbour or cousin who is a mechanic, and has access to tons of old ones for free at work.
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  1601.  @xiradio  Really good format, and quite reliable. Just that Sony wanted all of that pie, and that is what killed it, competing formats that were cheaper, more manufacturers and most importantly good enough for the job.
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  1602. Also can occur if the owner put truck or agricultural diesel in, because that is high sulphur, and not great for the precision parts of the fuel system. Similar if you run illuminating paraffin or heating oil, or recycled cooking oil that has been sold as biodiesel.
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  1603.  @ricebike  Well, try now and see if they will come out. There is such an issue with them that you get plug removal kits for some engines, and they are needed if the plug breaks off inside. Change early, and put the new ones in with some anti seize. The only plugs I have seen coming with a coating are some specialist ones, the vast majority just come with the standard steel finish and a coating of oil from the factory, thin, to keep it from corroding in the box.
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  1604. Oh yes, please remember to get your shop a Recoil/ Helicoil set, with a pack of 50 M6x1mm by 1.5 length inserts, because you will be needing it for the Rubasoo timing belt covers, as those little M6 bolts get stripped out by the dealerships going in with the ugga dugga method, and tear the threads loose. Done a good number of Recoil inserts into either aluminium alloy valve covers, or on VW carburettors, where the centre bolt comes stripped, and there is only room to do the Recoil insert. Drill down deep, and put in 2 of the 6mm inserts, to get enough thread engagement to keep it from stripping out, and clean the hole, plus use green oil resistant threadlock on both insert and the stud.
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  1605. Well, for the most common door lock systems, there are under 50 keys anyway in all variants, and for most of them the driving thing is cost. the one the builder put on is just there to keep the door from blowing open, though most home locks are just as poor as the door anyway.
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  1606. That wax comment reminds me, Xerox Phasor wax printers used ot give black wax free. There was the one beautician, next to a repro house who used them, who used to get the black wax sticks they had in excess, and she mixed it with the regular beige wax, to get a dark wax for matching closer to skin of a lot of her customers, who loved that they got a black wax instead of the white. Those wax blocks come in CMYK color, so you will easily be able to blend them to make the right dull colour wax for the job, and the wax itself is very stable and very good quality. plus you can use a simple colour chart to get the right blend straight off, and just scale up the volume and proportions easily.
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  1607.  @stevenclark2188  Funny thing is the manufacturers of the CFL lamps mostly reused the same form factor for LED, often also including using the CFL glass to hold LED arrays, and the same base castings as well. Even those who made the incandescent lamps got in on it, reusing the old stem base machinery and the blown glass bowls to hold LED strips now, imitating the incandescent lamp look. Fun fact is that those glass envelopes used to be made at a glass factory and packed in wooden crates, with the only protection being an oil film from the moulding machine, and shipped by rail to the assembly plants. Less than 1% breakage from this method, and all your breakages are fully recycled as well, as the glass factory got all the little bits of glass from the manufacturing process back in the box as well.
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  1608. Fujitsu said Horizon was incapable of error, but admitted it made errors always, and this led to a good number of people dying after being accused of theft, and a lot going to prison, despite the prosecutors from the Post office knowing the software did make errors all the time, and that it would regularly fail. Using old photos, and poor photos, will cause errors, the old adage of garbage in garbage out is true, you cannot extrapolate a face form a 5 by 5 block of grainy pixels, and expect a perfect match. You will get thousands of 90% plus matches, and likely half will be the wrong sex, and 80% of the rest otherwise wrong. The 10% left likely the first name that came up, that lived there at some time, they put in the line up, and went for the arrest warrant, without any other checks.
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  1609.  @radicalrick9587  He cant actually close that, as then he will be done over for all the years of tax he was dodging while in Ireland with the cosy tax breaks. Close and get taken to the cleaners in the EU courts, or pay out what the Irish courts say is due, to all those in those offices, is the only thing he can do. US law does not apply there, as this was done exactly to avoid paying US taxes.
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  1610. Because the manufacturer gets one fewer oil change they are required to do under warranty, and they also know the vehicle will be traded in at a big discount for a new one, right at that time, so will be either exported or scrapped. Export it likely will fail soon after, but again not the manufacturer problem, out of warranty, and then they get to sell a new engine. The less oil changes in warranty the lower total cost of ownership they can prove, so they will go for 20 000km or 25 000km soon, knowing full well the engines will self destruct typically at around 200 000km, outside of warranty, which is typically 120 000km or 5 years by me, though some only are 80 000km or 3 years for some models. Only manufacturer that offered a 1 million km 12 year warranty is Chery, on the top range hybrids, wonder how that is going to turn out.
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  1611.  @WildStyleWorks  Get some ironwood, which is hard enough to both not burn, but which also sinks.
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  1612. Will fix itself within an hour of driving, after it is warmed up.
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  1613. They did find one, likely the other 2 are close by, or washed out to sea.
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  1614. Going to guess one of the terms of the Subway lawyers will be definitely to dismiss with prejudice.
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  1615. Depends where you get your water, it might taste better than the water in Flint MI, and possibly be better to drink.
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  1616. 2 mile radius is to keep ships and drunk boaters far away, the exclusion zone allows enough time for CG cutter to intercept before they are in the danger zone. Beam swinging was building up plastic deformation, and then as the steel cooled it finally fractured. The explosives are pretty inert until they put the detonators in, and likely here they are using coded detonators, which do not go off from stray currents, but which are addressed like stage lights, so they are all powered, and get sent a time delay command. Safer than a detcord as it can be tested for each charge right up to detonation, though a lot more expensive, and use once. But even with 5% failing that will still be successful in removing that beam structure, and then they can use larger charges to fracture the concrete after drilling into it to place them, or drill and use expanding mortar to fracture the concrete, so the claw and hammers can nibble it away.
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  1617. Just the one, though his next flight will be free.
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  1618.  @WN_Byers  Pilots hours start at the pre flight briefing. A delay means they potentially can run out of flying hours for the day, and thus will have to be put up in a hotel for the night, to get the mandated rest period to reset that flight clock. A 5 hour delay, on a flight that might be another 5 hours, will definitely mean there will need to be a relief crew, and if there are multiple stops with the same crew they will run out of hours before completing, and have to have mandatory rest period. But if maintenance says this is a 20 minute fix, they will board, and wait, but the second it was past the 1 hour mark, with no indication it was going to be done in the given time, they should have returned to gate, or deplaned and returned to terminal all passengers. But not wanting to have the 30 minute delay to get all on board again is powerful motive to keep you on the ground in the plane.
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  1619. Probably constrained by either production plant size, or by the control system to be able to control it, with only a single engine or three at the base, long and narrow to get the stability easier to handle, without a complex computer system on board. Narrow as they had to weld the parts together, and thus were likely limited by the diameter the horizontal lathe they used to machine the parts could handle in the rotating section.
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  1620. Out on bail tomorrow, or the docket got lost. Or they forgot to lock the door on the van.
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  1621. Ex ministers all get a state pension, though it is a lot higher than that for any other people. Not R2000 per month the SASSA pensioners are expected to survive on.
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  1622.  @shannonkohl68  Not concrete, but water after the tank was empty. Used to store the brackish water drained from the RO filter system, so it would not contaminate the garden and kill all the plants because of the salt.
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  1623. Another issue with spices is they also react with medication, not surprising, as many medicines are originally extracts of plant matter, and many are still available as a common spice, like cinnamon, a tree bark, and nutmeg, a tree nut, both of which have medicinal uses. Thus spices are very limited in use, along with needing to have a low controlled dose of salt, for those with renal impairment or those with unknown renal failure or hypertension, which means the food is generally lacking in salt to enhance flavour.
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  1624. Also the annoying odd occasion of a screen saying to enable DRM, which a reload normally will fix.
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  1625. Will work for a very short time till it polymerises. even worse will be linseed oil, that stuff will turn into varnish when hot. However castor oil is a very good lubricant, though strip and overhaul intervals will be measured in hours as it leaves so much gum. Grows wild here, the berries are plentiful, but I am not going to process them, I like living.
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  1626. You need higher speed on those small bits, up to 60k RPM for those to drill well.
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  1627. Possible, but not often used, as it was hard to make the image that small and still get high resolution. But making a roll of 8mm film and hiding it was very easy, especially when 8mm film was a common item.
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  1628. Gave up on welding Ford manifolds, as they all crack at the same point, so started to braze them up instead. Less heat, and braze is a lot more flexible than the cast iron, so the darn things no longer cracked. Plus did not have to remove that bloody thing again, saving a lot of hassle on gaskets, gun gum and the possible warping of the casting.
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  1629.  @bobbykozak6032  Works well, and braze adheres to cast iron well if it is clean, and you use a decent flux. Yes it will melt if the exhaust gets hot enough, but running a cast manifold at red heat is already a serious fault in the engine. Did see that once on an Atlantis diesel, we guessed that truck, with the coolest part of the exhaust being the tip at dull red, with some really nice Mach diamonds, would not make it to the top of the hill. Turbo was white hot, bright enough to actually cast a shadow in the twilight, and was visible to us from 2km away as a bright light. Engine was breathing well, and no shortage of fuel either, though that turbo was likely also acting like a combustion chamber of engine oil.
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  1630. The phone companies make money off the calls, so till they get hit with fines higher than the profit they will carry on. They need to be hit with a fine higher than the annual profit a few times, and this will immediately stop.
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  1631. Still around these days as datadots used to track assets, like vehicles, basically microfilm with a serial number printed on it, applied by the thousands to the surface, and then covered by a layer of urethane sealer.
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  1632. Thinknig that the pump could have been killed off by bad fuel, which sent the marginal pump out to pasture. With what came out the filter you probably had a nasty sludge build up that made the pump work hard, and finally die. high pressure at inlet, yet the engine side with barely anything, filter was clogged badly, and then this let the pump work to build up too high a pressure, which eventually caused it to fail, either shedding bits of the impeller, or by the high current draw against the high head, eventually heating up the rotor to make one of the segments go open circuit, not helped by the low flow making it boil the fuel in there as well, which then leads to cavitation, and the hard starting till it cools.
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  1633.  @Bartonovich52  Don't worry, you can still bend all 8 valves when that belt snaps. They say 120 000km life, but mine always get replaced at under 50 000km, along with the tensioner. Cheaper than a new engine.
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  1634. still can institute the claim, there is robably still is time left on the statute to claim for it.
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  1635. Yes, and you find the turn on surge is the thing that kills stuff, or simply blows out a substation and gives you a generous day or three of no power. Got a UPS, and put things on lithium iron batteries that can handle 4 hours of no power.
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  1636.  @DrDeuteron  True, but the decay products are not quite as benign after a while, as you get into the longer lived decay products, that are going to emit gamma radiation at some level. But the RTG would only have the core loaded just before final mating to the lift vehicle, so it is inert, aside from some testing during construction, then the fuel pellets are removed and placed in a cooling unit. But even then you can stand next to it for a few hours, as the shielding is very effective, and it also has to survive reentry at maximum velocity in case of a failure of the launch vehicle, and also explosion on the pad. That is why those RTG units are normally deployed on an arm, both for radiating heat away, and to keep the low levels they emit from interfering with other instruments, so have it far away, and calibrate it out.
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  1637. Well yes, the currents involved are minuscule, and the price really puts them in the "we got a budget that is not a worry, and we do not want a battery that will leak ever" camp, and the main use is as memory back up, as it really can only supply 100nA of current, so most uses are as standby power source for memory back up, where you need to first make sure your memory uses less power. Consider these batteries in the forms normally seen, DIP24 ceramic package, can be shorted out merely by a fingerprint on the board allowing enough current to flow, and you typically also use ultra low leakage capacitors (PTFE dielectric, none of that rubbish ceramic, electrolytic or tantalum capacitor will do) to store charge to allow them to deliver a current pulse for other applications. Yes you can make a clock that will run forever off them, though you will find it hard to find a foundry to make the large dimension IC to get low leakage, and a display will similarly have to be specially made, probably both will be a SOS (silicon on sapphire) structure, with the LCD laser sealed after filling with the fluid, to keep it from degrading. Might be done for a $500k watch, because for sure the mech will cost more than making the case out of platinum iridium alloy.
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  1638. Every complaint those cameras are going to be "broken", or the video was not working.
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  1639.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  I would guess also a dozen rods as well per side.
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  1640.  @jeffostroff  Patina is protective, except where the steel is exposed to chlorides, which penetrate this and keep on going through. note the architectural use is only where the steel is far up and away from roads, and also inland far from salt spray. Containers with coreten steel always have a very durable paint coat applied to them, just because the salt in transit will kill them otherwise. I have some pieces of that steel I used as flower bed borders, and while it is durable steel, they all have corroded from the bottom up, despite them all having intact paint finish on them, just that bottom cut end was enough to corrode through, after being kept wet for 20 years in soil.
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  1641. Another one. Why does the deluxe Trabant have a heater rear window? So your hands do not get cold pushing it.
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  1642. Strong material, what about going after the suppliers who gave you inferior material in the first place, or was this another case of the tenderpreneur getting the cheap stuff, and selling like it was made from gold cloth. Even the Proudly SA clothing lines were all made in China.
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  1643. Yup, I bought one of the clones from a scrap yard, there because it had fallen over and bent the blades. Made them and the guard straight again, and now it works well, though it normally is only used at speed 1, which moves air. At speed 2 it moves stuff not bolted down, and at 3 it moves cars.
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  1644. One building down the road from me was built, but not all the units sold, due to the price and the monthly levies. So now more than half of them are now on rental as AirBNB, still owned by the developer, and likely to stay that way for a long time. Not a bad block, but when you are paying the same as similar 80-100 square area units, with 2 bedrooms and parking, for a 40 square metre bachelor, and parking is also an extra, plus the monthly levies are pretty much 5 times the average. So many are literally unfinished, just windows, bare primer walls, and subfloor, with nothing other than service pipes and power as stubs.
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  1645. But hers will be pink.....
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  1646. The phone companies make money off the routing of the calls, so of course they want it to continue.
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  1647.  @bwhgs2  I run based on what you see still running with zero maintenance by me. Street lights from 2010, only a few original ones still alive, if you consider at least half the LED units are dead, the rest still light up. As to the rest shortest life was a week, and they all got changed out after a year, with the replacements lasting typically 6 to 9 months. Phillips fittings, not the cheapest, but they get killed by the heat and poor power quality, while the HPS units only fail from MVA and when the fixture rusts apart and falls out. The SOX and SLI ran since the 1980's with zero maintenance, and only got replaced with HPS when the rail yard was cut in half to build a stadium, where the stadium high pole lights did double duty and lit the track as well. Built for 2010 World cup, and still has original lighting on them. Yes might only have 3 of the 6 400W HPS still working, or less.
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  1648. JLR official oil change method is a vacuum pump to pull it out, then fill without taking that skid pan off.
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  1649. That is standard service, they are taking responsibility for the vehicle, and the failure not from any action on your side is what should be standard. The sad part is the other companies no longer do this, and expect you to solve it yourself. But again you also have to consider some will rent a truck, and swap out the engine or transmission for their own failing one while renting it.
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  1650. Labour cost, and not many places around any more that will recondition an engine and block. Cheaper to drop the engine out and bolt in another than strip the head off, send out to be skimmed, do the valves, clean off the block ,check block is still straight, get head back, and install again with new gasket on it. Especially US rates, though take it across the southern border, and the price to do that is halved, due to the lower cost of labour.
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  1651. Probably the wire was nicked during manufacture, and then this part of the loom got to spend time under water, due to leaves blocking the drain, and thus get water in when the vehicle was parked, causing the corrosion to grow. Hopefully the loom there got a spray of water repelling fluid before the tape application, so as to keep any other insulation problems from causing further problems. Also probably tell the owner not to park under trees, or at least to clean the leaves out, but that likely fell on deaf ears.
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  1652. Know of one used car dealer that did the runner with around 500 vehicles money, rolled them over on consignment, and then vanished. Left his salespeople holding the baby on the money. They want him badly, and if he ever shows up in a country with extradition he will be back to serve his sentence, but if they ever find out where he is in South America they will simply go there and get him themselves, never mind treaty.
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  1653. Give them 10%, but you first retrench the top by 20%, one in 5, and then for all those below middle management retrench one in 10. Close all those positions and remove them, and next year you can do the same for the remaining who want an increase. Public sector has way too many top and middle managers who do literally nothing of value.
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  1654.  @TwoBitDaVinci  It uses the magnet inside the meter that is rotated by the positive displacement pump in the meter. The pump turns one roatation for ever so much volume of water that goes through, and then this is divided down by a gear train to drive a rotating flag, blue on your meter, red on others, that turns the main gearing of the totaliser. The flag typically rotates 10, or some whole number, of revolutions per gallon of water. Here by me the metric meter is 200 revolutions per kilolitre (1000 litres, roughly 285 gallons US) on most meters. Sensed by either a reed switch or a hall sensor, outside the case, there for smart meter use, and then sent via the wireless link to some server, to update your account every few minutes as to water use.
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  1655. With an impact it acts as a long torsion spring, so the head flexes the shaft, but none of the impact is applied to the socket end. Hand you can wind to compensate for it, but the impact only acts to turn in small increments, so if the flex is such that it cannot click to the next position it will simply wind up and release the energy every cycle, and not apply to the driven end. Torque is still the same, just that the impacts that are applied are damped down in flexing the shaft. Using long ones, and a deeply buried socket, I have gotten to a quarter turn of flex, before the bolt actually got enough torque on it to break loose.
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  1656.  @-Gorby-  Reaction time of around a second, and another second to move the foot from go to whoa pedal, then probably a half second before it was all the way to the floor, though I will bet the SRS system data recording will show that pedal application was slow, and only went to full just before the SRS trigger even was recorded, and then after that the data showed full application, along with lots of yaw data as the car was spun by the impact, followed by a second hard impact, then just stopped data with the engine ECU having done an emergency shutdown and fuel system disable, along with body module releasing door locks, and activating flashers, then end of data. Most record 30 second before and 30 seconds after, only writing it into permanent memory instead of RAM if there is a SRS trigger, though you can with OEM tools read the last few minutes, if power has not been lost, in many cases. It will record peak speeds for last drive cycle, highest speed measured with time and date, and if telematics is connected, that will also be on the manufacturers storage, along with all driving info since the vehicle was first powered on, along with location and direction, plus any engine warnings as well, and brake events.
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  1657. Yup, showing outside wealth, but all of it was based on a shaky house of cards, and incredible amounts of debt that he had built up keeping the facade going.
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  1658. Lightning always best to have external lightning protection in the breaker panel, then add in surge arrestors in the outlets that feed the UPS. For lightning you need multiple stages of clamping, high power but high standoff at the power input, that can handle the high energy incoming surge, and attenuate it down to a lower, but still very high level, surge on the power to the breaker panel. Then the breaker panel unit will reduce it further, using the impedance of the wire from the meter to the panel, and ensure a lower level to the outlets. Then the outlet units can handle the lower level surge, and clamp to a safe voltage for the equipment. Then the UPS can handle this higher voltage without problem. Remember the lightning protection starts at the power line, with power companies using lots of surge arrestors and arc gaps along the power lines, because they all run outdoors, and are often the highest point on the landscape, and all the pylons are well grounded, so all of them will receive multiple hits in a storm. Thus there is a lot of protection, to limit the spikes that go to the customer side, where local hits cause a lot more damage, simply because the surge clamp ability is smaller there, as the power levels are lower, so the utility sizes them smaller. But also local lines tend to be hit less, as many are not that high, and are often buried as well.
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  1659.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  Yes, never seen that use before. Have done the bronze plate though, to fix up bores that were somewhat less than good, to get them to the point the shafting that ran in them, or at least the new shoulder bolts I used, would be a tight fit. Holes wallowed out, and the original pins were under 5mm diameter at the wear points. No way to get spare parts, seeing as the manufacturer, still in business, no longer supports a machine they made in the 1970's, and have less than a clue, though the parts likely are still on some of the modern versions, seeing as they likely use a similar version of the linkage. But the braze and drill was both faster and cheaper, and the shoulder bolt was $3, off the shelf. Now to get some flexible pneumatic cylinder shaft couplers for it.
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  1660.  @JoeOvercoat  Civilian aircraft cannot do inverted flight for long, only under around 10 seconds, before the fuel starvation stops the engines. Fighter aircraft have a fuel tank within the final feed tank, which allows inverted operation for a period of around 30 seconds at full afterburner, before it will start to run low. Yes it will gravity feed fuel to the LP pump, but after there it is pressurised, and fuel transfer from tank to tank in the airframe is done by pumps, generally self priming gear pumps, because the fuel in drop tanks, always below the fuselage, is always used first, so it has to be sucked up to the main fuel tanks, with overflow returning to the drop tanks till empty, then the shut off valves will stop that, along with the pumps. Lose the pumps and the engine stops in short order.
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  1661. Easy enough to simply grab all PD reports of cat theft, and tell owners to send in case number and address details, then cut them a check for the $50 recovered. Easy to reconcile case numbers and details as well, so not too easy to defraud there.
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  1662. I snagged the stamp roller and water tray from my local post office when the branch closed. The branch manager was fine with that, as most was scheduled to simply be dumped anyway. I wanted some of the furniture as well, but that was still bolted to the ground, and would be taken by the moving crew after it was closed. I also wanted the lottery machine, it would have made a great MAME arcade.
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  1663. Not that cats feel the heat, they love heat, but that they are more wanting to have short bursts of activity, then a rest, so they will need to rest regularly, to keep them from overworking their metabolism. Thus you will find almost invariably that Taz will sleep on arriving home, if he does not doze right on the way back, when picked up and comfortable.
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  1664. They farm out the calls to other countries with lower wages than the USA anyway, to get a lower cost of labour, and higher profits. No worry about benefits either, just change the warm bodies to another call centre when they ask for more money, and keep on shuffling around, as after all they are getting paid per call, not completion rate.
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  1665. He did, testing in the non start positions either side of the range for a brief moment, though I would guess foot was firmly on the brake as well.
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  1666.  @davidpowell3347  2 stroke engines will put those wrist pins all the way down the exhaust, in one piece, while you just have shreds of the rest around. Seen them come out the end intact as well.
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  1667. For a concrete building they make the roof the same as a floor, simply because there will always be things like water tanks, AC units and other service structures, that need to be supported. So you make the roof exactly the same load wise as a floor, as that is a lot cheaper as you use the same shuttering and pours as the previous floors. You often find as well the tops of columns there as well, just in case they later on want to add on another floor, or any heavy load bearing structure, so they have the columns already located to tie in to. Only thing different is they put drains in, then waterproof the lot. Done on pretty much every building here by me, if it has a slab roof and is not made from beams.
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  1668. Like the genuine Hoover we had, made in the UK around 1930, but they were unable to tell when, because the records pre 1940 were destroyed in the Blitz. But still we could get genuine Hoover parts for it, till finally the main casting cracked, and there were no more spare castings available in the 1980's, and it went to scrap metal. But every other part, from the motor, the mains cord, to the power switch, to the screws that held it together, were available off the shelf from Hoover, including rubber belts, rubber bumpers and handles. New ones you are lucky if they last the warranty plus a month, and if they still suck after 6 months, without stripping them to remove the dust from everywhere that clogs them. Yes i collect old tossed out vacuum cleaners, often for use as spare parts to fix others.
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  1669.  @samuhell14  Never said dealership is better, but they are able to parts cannon cheap, plus also do have the manufacturer specific software that can do a lot more work, and update the firmware on the vehicle to fix problems.
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  1670. most stores these days have ANPR cameras at the entrances and exits to parking, so easy to look up him at the one store, tracj him to the car he used, and then look up the plate of the vehicle, then simply query the ANPR database to get all the times he went into any store in the region for the last few months, then pull up the video off there. Also if he was using a loyalty card would also show up, but the ANPR also gets all the times he paid cash so as to not leave a trace, as it would be very likely the same vehicle each time.
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  1671. No need to have the phone unlocked, the police just connect it to their computer and the software they bought "totally for legal uses" unlocks the phone for them.
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  1672. Plus they are now responsible for the depreciation between the new vehicle price, and the used vehicle price, as now you are no longer taking first title ownership. So about a third less.
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  1673. State gets the money from the citizens. Judges should lose all pensions, all benefits, and spend the combined time of all the convicted people they put in there, you can be kind and allow half to be concurrent as well.
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  1674.  @bartphlegar8212  Triple damages, unless you make the board personally liable, only means the damages get paid by all the other members. you need to deliberately break the protection the board has by specifying this was a deliberate and illegal action on their part. After all the board cannot claim they were unaware of the lawsuit, seeing as they would have been served for it.
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  1675. So long as it is in a dry atmosphere it will be no concern. There is corrosion when you have aluminium and stainless steel in contact in a wet environment, where the aluminium is corroded away slowly, and the stainless steel eventually is free to fall out. For those joins you do not want to use aluminium rivets, but instead you have to go to much more expensive Monel rivets, which do not have this reaction as much, and will last a long time. Boat builders spend more on the Monel rivets than they do on the actual aluminium sheet in a lot of cases.
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  1676. The reset, NMI and interrupt locations are the marked addresses, but the program counter is simply set to that value, leaving all registers and flags as is, and it then executes that address as if it were a regular program location. Thus you would always store in that location a jump instruction, followed by an address elsewhere into the ROM, which actually has the right code you want to execute, and thus, aside from reset, which also clears all internal CPU registers and flags, you get the code to run from that new location, with the stack in page 0 containing the address of the last instruction before the interrupt or NMI was asserted. So after your code executed for int or nmi, you simply made sure you had restored all flags, and popped off the stack correctly, leaving it at the right address, and issued a Return from interrupt, which popped the stack back to the program counter, and the program would execute from the next instruction, totally unaware of interrupts. However the 6502 does not store flags in the stack, it is up to the programmer to first disable interrupts, to prevent another from dropping you off into lala land, then take the flags, and save them, and all registers you are going to use, into the stack, before doing your hopefully very short and very fast interrupt routine. Then on the end you restore all those registers, and flags, and finally, before you execute the return from interrupt, you enable interrupts again. Luckily for the programmer the 6502 interrupt pins are edge triggered, so if the pin is still asserted you will not get another interrupt till the pin toggles inactive and then active again. This is sampled as well by logic that only will assert it when there is an opcode fetch, not in the middle of an instruction. NMI is not so lucky, use with care, as there you can go out, as by definition you cannot mask a NMI event, though it does use the same logic for selection. Rest is the hard one, it simply uses the internal logic to force set all flags, stops the internal clocks from operating, forces all the address and data lines to the tri state condition, and same for all the control lines as well. Plus on the transition to logic low there is a small state machine that turns on the internal clocks first for a few cycles, then deasserts all the forced reset of registers, before enabling all the bus and control lines, before finally releasing the program counter from being frozen, with the pattern for the reset vector set into it from the logic, as that hard reset along with the interrupts is coded into this state machine. Been a while since I looked at the 6502 datasheet, and the errata for the later versions, alongside the early ones, have some instructions that were there, but later on got marked as do not use, dimply because there were some that did not work correctly on the early silicon, or which were as a result of a simple decode logic that had some that could work with multiple opcodes to do the same function. Those were used to tell early chips apart, as some would work, others would hang, and some did unexpected operations, generally needing you to press reset to gain control back.
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  1677.  @Zorbino88  Probably ran on a test bed at full power for 4 months, with oil changes at calculated intervals, and wear checks for metal only. then was called good for production and sent, no thermal cycling, no cold starts, no strip down and running with different fluids and fuels, except for the one ford made that did not degrade the belt.
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  1678.  @disorganizedorg  How about Fungi and yeasts, which are classed in their own phyla as well. Imagine the cost of a home brewer or baker, or anybody who buys a small bottle of drinking yogurt, or even unpasteurized milk....
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  1679.  @DavesGarage  Looks though like your supply is still single phase, fed by a 2 wire power line. If you had 3 phase you can get a lot more efficiency out of AC systems with reduced power draw, and much better motors, plus you can get a DC fast charger that is about half the output of a supercharger as well.
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  1680.  @RayO72  Well, remember that if it was not for poo you would not be here, as that is the part of recycling that makes a field fertile again.
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  1681. We are here for your great voice and knowledge, the colour shift, while not the best, is an acceptable compromise.
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  1682.  @Pilot_51  6 cameras, the 2 side cameras are typically not recorded, unless you ask Tesla to enable recording of them as well, as they are only used for the side collision avoidance and for blind spot coverage.
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  1683.  @scythelord  Carbon nanotubes are extremely easy to produce, just have any smoky fire with black smoke, and they are in there as a part of the smoke. Just not a strong tube, but plenty long enough to cause the same death as asbestos.
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  1684. Should always use anti seize on exhaust fasteners, the next one working on it will thank you, and with your good results that can be you.
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  1685. Principal was the drunk, and I had a few haircuts from him as well, for long hair. Just had to be sure you got it after lunch, when the DT's were then minimal, as he would shake a lot before lunch, and you might end up with a Van Gogh haircut.
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  1686. Depends on the dealer, and really with an engine or trans it is "strip to quote" because there can be a whole lot of sins hiding under that valve and crank case covers.
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  1687. Still many thousands of those Citigolfs running on the roads here in South Africa, even though they are all getting a little old, but the aftermarket spares are still around, and you can get almost the entire vehicle as second source parts.
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  1688.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  I will guess mostly on his back in muddy water, upside down to his mouth in dirty acid laden mine water, welding plates onto a machine so it can "finish this shift/week.month/year before we do a proper rebuild", and the welds has to last till then, and then some, because it would never be done, and he was laying patch over patch over patch of his. Just like my late neighbour, welding patches over active leaks in the paper plant, because to shut it down you had to wait till the 3 month window for overhaul, and the stainless steel pulp feeder would be a mess of patch over patch by that time, because paper pulp is incredibly abrasive. 3 month life for the 3mm stainless steel plate, before you started running patches, the titanium alloy version he made lasted 9 months before they had to lay on the stainless steel patches. Pretty much replace the pulp side every year during maintenance window, and you had to build the chute in place, because it would not otherwise get in there. not sure if they stayed with the titanium, because of the price, and he stayed on for 10 years after retirement to train 3 people how to join paper webs. Only way you could see his joins was the colour of the mesh from the silver solder, otherwise it was identical in appearance to the rest, so it would not leave a mark in the paper. Each 0.5mm wire bevelled, brazed and cleaned down, across the whole width of the web. Not bad for an ex POW from Italy, who got interned in SA during the war, and who never went back to Italy, but instead built bridges, and became a machinist and sheet metal worker at paper plant for decades.
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  1689. Probably because Daewoo had the moulds for the blocks, and the rest of the parts, already in Korea, so making them was easier, and they likely already had a big stack of them already cast and machined spare.
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  1690. You got to love the military spec for reinforced concrete mixes for high strength applications. One part each of cement, sand and specifically defined rock fill, with both sand and rock needing to be washed and dust free, and also with a well defined size spec. The kind of concrete with reinforcing that you will not easily remove again, or damage. Shrugs off damage that would destroy lesser buildings.
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  1691. Robrenz would be screaming at the use of the mallet though, and would have gotten that chuck to zero runout.
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  1692. Going to say 9 rolls of wire are a minimum, plus an additional one with only around 2 turns left on the roll at the end.
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  1693. Funny thing this morning there was a pedestrian knocked over on the road I was travelling on. Police were there as well, as they were the ones who knocked her over.Hard to have a pedestrian crossing on an intersection where there is also dedicated uncontrolled turning lanes on 3 out of 4 approaches, plus dedicated cross traffic turn signals as well.
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  1694.  @WaylandGaming  Then you know how to use a computer, and will also know how to get past these sort of blocking lists. These laws are aimed at the majority of the people who treat a computer as a magic box, when breaks buy new one, and who do not know that the back end even exists.
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  1695. Remember that a bike accident almost invariably results in a dented fuel tank, and a badly injured driver, who is acting as the crush barrier for the bike itself. You probably want to do all you can to protect that squishy bit of crash barrier there.
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  1696. Yes hard on the taps. But UNC threads is odd in Australia, though I would guess that it is used because it is an old tap, and thus either there are a lot of them around unused and sold for a pittance, or Kurtis is always grabbing them off auctions in boxes of nearly new taps. Going to guess though the machine it will be used on though was made in the USA, so it has a mix of UNC and Metric threads and fasteners through it.
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  1697. For those saying grinding off the side weakens it it might be true, but a wheel stud is one of the more over engineered parts of a vehicle. That 5 stud pattern is designed so that even 2 adjacent studs being in will still allow the vehicle to safely drive, and not fail for a good time, and thus with all 5 in they run at a very low stress anyway. More likely to snap off from being put on by Bubba, and his 12 foot long cheater bar, shearing off the threads at the end of the nut, than from pulling the stud through the hole when the lip shears off. Or simply having the threads strip off of a well worn stud because there is only a half thread engagement to the thread on the nut. By me it is so common to see a 3.5 ton Quantum minibus taxi, loaded with 25 plus people, driving at high speed, when you look at the taxi at the rank, and see it has 10 lug nuts shared among the 4 wheels to hold them on, and one will have all 5 still there. Yes common to have the wheels come off them (have been the recipient of that twice), but generally that is because the bearings have long gone out as metal powder, and you get a wheel, brake drum and backing plate, plus half shaft, come off as a unit. Same for buses, though there is is 30 out of 40 nuts, with the broken ones still there in the hub.
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  1698. No, he recycles them.....
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  1699.  @ShimmyX  Even better upgrade is to wipe the drive, and forget about 11, and go for something else instead.
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  1700. Steve is unable to do so. He unfortunately still has the ability to think, and follow logic, which, along with having morals and integrity, totally disqualifies him from political office.
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  1701.  @machintelligence  Find a local library, who in general will love to get new books to add to the shelves. Especially true for small libraries, where the budget is being stretched a lot of ways, and books are in general bottom of the budget pile. I did do a few libraries that way, as I used to go into the bookstore every few weeks and buy a few dozen softcover pulps to read, and after reading them I would generally give to the library, as the entire SF collection they had was an empty shelf. I at least got that shelf full.
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  1702.  @MonkeyJedi99  Our hanger heaters were large, took 8000l of jet A1, and were made in France. But never needed, because the record low was 8C. If it was hot then best place to be was the LOX bunker, which was always refreshingly cold, despite the good ventilation. But most of the base was buried anyway. The fake visible base for Keyhole observation was a few hundred metres away, with a crew who moved things when the sattelites were not in view.
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  1703. Wine will run quite a few versions of Office quite well, but you always have issues with mail, simply because it is so intertwined with the OS itself.
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  1704.  @solandri69  Most likely poor maintenance, they painted over the cables time and again, and you will probably find they trapped water in the cable, which led to corrosion cells and failure. The cables likely were made from hot dipped galvanised strands, which eventually had the zinc erode off, exposing enough steel to make galvanic cells inside the cable. I would say the design flaw was not in having enough cables there, so that you could safely remove half of them every 5 years per tower to replace with a spare set, and those removed went off to be unwound, serviced and inspected, and then greased, reassembled and recoated for the next tower rope cycle. 10 years would be plenty of time to find weak strands and remove them. Yes you would probably be splicing in repair sections every time, making the cable thicker in parts, but they would still be more than capable with that. That the initial cable failed at the poured zinc plug indicates it was very likely badly corroded inside from neglect, as that section is the one most protected cathodically, but had plenty of water ingress to corrode the inner. Likely all the lanolin applied during manufacture was long gone, and had never been replaced. Not that those were highly stressed cables, only a static load, no real dynamic force and no real bending. There are mine lift cables that are kilometers long, used dozens of times daily, that are probably older than those, but they also undergo regular inspection and lubrication cycles to keep them in operation. There are plenty that the cable weighs more than the entire telescope aerial steel structure, just in the cable alone.
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  1705. Varies from state to state, many do not even require a roadworthy when buying a vehicle, or even an annual check for fitness to operate. Also varies from country to country as well, many do not require insurance, and then the insurance you claim from your insurance, they pay out then claim back from the other motorist's insurance, or from the other motorist themselves. Really only in the USA is uninsured other party insurance a thing. Here by me all policies come with a high coverage for other party damage, which will cover the damage in most cases, unless you hit a supercar, or total 3 Teslas in a single accident, where you are completely at fault.
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  1706.  Daver G  Yes my father had one, and replacing the clutch involved a trip to the chemist to get hoof oil, and all of the cork topped bottles he had that were the right size. Throw the bottles away, and cut the corks to fit in the clutch plate, assemble, and fill with the hoof oil again. Hard to burn those clutches, as they were well cooled by the oil, though you could do it, and the cork would eventually glaze over or disintegrate.
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  1707.  @phillipsusi1791  Which is why a lot of buildings have gone to individual meters, so that you can both bill correctly, and also detect leaks, because a lot of people will not fix a leaking tap that runs all the time unless it directly affects them in the pocket. Amazing just how fast those get fixed after that change, even with taps that have leaked for years and left stains on the bath or basin, or toilets that pour water continuously. As the bulk meter was still there the bulk usage dropped by more than half.
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  1708.  @kenyattaclay7666  Yes here it is called cock tax, and it goes before you get the money. Leave the job and that gets taken off before your final payout, plus a letter or email telling them you have left the company, and that they will no longer be paying it.
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  1709. Thing is that silver is not often used industrially, but catalytic converters, and the metals in the ceramic cores, are used in industry in massive amounts, not only in cars, but in pretty much every chemical plant to do processing. Thus a demand that keeps on growing, and keeps the price high, as they are not the most common material, and mining them means you are getting less than 1g of them out of 2 tons of ore, and to get those 2 tons of ore you might have to move 100 tons of rock to expose it, or dig down 2km into the ground. Copper gold and platinum mines all are very similar, in all produce either copper, gold or platinum as the major product, but the other 2 are also recovered as well. PGM is used as industrial resource, not like gold and silver where it is mostly a bullion reserve.
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  1710. Titanium great news for the other producers, as they now have grown from around 40% to 100% and price must have risen a lot.
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  1711.  @SyntheticFuture  That old lead likely had signifigant amounts of silver and zinc in it as contaminant, which will enable fusion. Modern lead is likely contaminated with things like Antimony, Calcium and Cadmium, all there to make the lead slightly harder and thus more rigid, which is added to make it more suitable for the largest use of lead, in modern car batteries, which need a durable thin grid that will not degrade, so they can up capacity and lower the amount of lead not in active plate material. The silver and zinc are stripped out in production, as valuable by products, then the other materials are added. The lead they have likely is from recycled batteries, they need either old lead off a roof, at least a century old, or to go to a mine and get a few kilograms of ore, refine it and get a lead that matches 200 year old lead. Probably needing to have a higher silver content in it , along with a little copper, zinc and tin added as well, which are all things that are present in roughly refined lead. A few kilograms of Galena, plus a silver coin and a few zinc pennies, will probably make a nice soft alloy, that will both cast well, have a good finish, and also stick together on impact.
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  1712.  @firefly4f4  Most phones offer the option to encrypt your storage, which does take a little time to set up, but then the storage is a lot more secure. Caveat is that if the SD card brainfarts for any reason, your data is gone totally, and instantly, and no recovery tools will work to get it back. On phone storage in most cases is encrypted by default, simply to make the flash memory get even wear, even with changing data in the most common places in memory.
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  1713.  @thecloneguyz  No space left to fit those kinds of scrubbers, without taking something else out. Plus they will be degraded fast, like the candles, and need replacement, so the stored spares would be even more space that is not available. Breathable air, rather smelly, as opposed to not having any breathable air, but no smell, most would go for option 1.
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  1714.  @danieledwards1081  No, for a proper repair it needs to be fence wire, removed from the nearest fence.
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  1715. And it is a Manuel.......
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  1716. Yes, if the charger draws 45A peak, the manufacturer might require a 60A breaker on it, or a slow blow 40A breaker, so that the momentary 45A draw for a few seconds does not trip it.
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  1717.  @eden20111  Likely their insurance, though you can bet they probably will not cover the other party damages and will refuse insurance with them. Then will take them to court to recover the payout plus costs.
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  1718.  @TonyPombo  I do have some Sony stuff, including a selphy printer, that I got as used. Thus not giving them any money, and using the stuff till it is no longer repairable.
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  1719. Put on the sign the full court transcript, and in big print on top the damages awarded. After all nothing stopping you from publishing a copyright free, public access allowed, court document. That it is on a 30 foot high 80 foot long billboard, with lights to illuminate it at night, is your allowed decision, and right, so long as you follow local laws around erection of a billboard, and the local council approves it. Inn really cannot deny this, as otherwise you just hand out copies to every vehicle that pass by for the next year or three, looking to go to the inn.
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  1720. Common in smaller units, it is around a third of the price cheaper, though I change them to double pole ones when replacing them, even though I live in a country with 230VAC mains, as the double pole unit as a spare part means you only need to keep one to cover both use cases, and then a second 3 phase unit for bigger units that run on 3 phase, where you have a 4 pole unit typically, with 1 pole also used to power the single phase cooling fan separately. Double pole means less issues with tripping when the wiring outside gets wet, as you typically will have the unit hard wired, and thus simply turning it off will allow you to fault find and isolate the unit. Plus compressors often fail as a short to ground, with split phase the unit might keep on running at part power, till the motor itself burns out the wiring.
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  1721.  @sprockkets  Lucky for me compressors pretty never need a heater, too hot to ever get them freezing.
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  1722. They save by not paying them the cashier wage, just the regular "stocker" wage, so they are just making minimum wage, and the second there is no people in the self checkout they are now off the clock, but have to be ready to work with 5 minutes notice.
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  1723. Would have put a blob of sealer on the back of those 5 screws, just in case you need to take it apart again, and so you know you were the last to work on it. Yes the lift kit without all the moving parts fixed, a common thing, and the same with the lowering kits that are a half job.
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  1724. Put out food by the garden, and they will come there, and as stuff goes in stuff comes out. You just have to provide perches for them over where you want it to land. Water as well, the 2 bird baths have a regular morning parade of birds coming by, and the various types come by at various times to splash and drink.
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  1725. Yes the manufacturer warranty is worth it, aftermarket is cheaper, because they exclude all known failures on the vehicle. If the trans is known to fail, like a CVT is, they will exclude it in the small print, and claim any damage due to it is also excluded as well.
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  1726. Not if you want to provide shareholder return, that sort of actual oversight costs a lot of money. Just having something you call AI, and a few cheap overworked underpaid moderators, handling 100 queries a minute, is a lot cheaper, and this allows you to tick that checkbox on your government report as done.
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  1727.  @MetalmouthKing  Service manuals, which a lot of big manufacturers will actually give with the machines, or have available online. They sell machines and spares, and giving dimensions for parts allows you to tell when they are worn out.
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  1728. Most of it works...... Just because it is a little FUBAR there is no reason it should not work again till the heat death of the universe, he did after all unplug it without it falling to bits, so it should go back in right?
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  1729. Scary in a small helicopter, but not so in a large transport one. Was sitting with frustrated pilots one day ( compass swing in the middle of the runway/swampland on a steamy hot and humid day) and they did a "test flight" when finished, which included them doing aerobatics. Interesting to be pulling only positive G even though I was sitting by the open side door with legs out, looking down at the sea and up at the sky. You do NOT want to pull negative G in a larger helicopter, it gets very noisy. Only ever did an autorotation test once, the next time I just carried out the sandbags to get up to rated load and strapped them in the back..... Under 30 seconds from altitude to ground level, and darn near to basement level as well.
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  1730. Just remember that your extended warranty is not actually more than the base cost. Also take the receipt, make a photocopy, and place it in a clear plastic bag, that you then tape to the back of the unit. I got hold of a few courier POD envelopes, self adhesive, that they normally use to attach the paperwork to your parcel, and use them for that.
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  1731. And then ignore all the single critical points of failure, on the grounds of "it has not happened yet", till those swiss cheese holes all lined up.
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  1732.  @TimothyWelty  Yes but might be the only way they can do it. I remember one where a tow company illegally towed a car, and had to pay for a rebuild at a specialist coachbuilder, with a 5 year waiting list. Did not turn out well for the tow company. Same applies here, the rebuild might be the only option, along with the damages as well, for treble the cost of the rebuild, which they will have no option to pay either, and also find that insurance will not cover it either. Claim rejected because part of the drop off was explicit instructions not to leave the lot at all, and thus the dealership, along with those 2, are fully on the hook for all damages.
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  1733. BTW Tubalcain MrPete222 is holding a Starret sale, perhaps you might get that full line of tooling there, all of them well loved and tested, for a good price.
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  1734. That case style comes with a whole host of insides, all automotive related, from OBD to battery testers, and even test gear for cars. All seemingly made by a few small companies who do automotive tools and such. 100 names for what seems to be the same thing.
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  1735. Take it the slings were a little past the use by date, and would not pass as CEE slings, even if the only use was as Homie toy use.
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  1736. Cheaper than building a new one, especially if the technology in it is being studied to build your own. Having an example that works is worth it in experience and crew training.
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  1737.  @hellshade2  No need to write them down, just use a non colour copier and make copies of the numbers. If there is a lot of bills they normally just make a copy of the top of the stacks.
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  1738. Done the same, just use a hammer on the vice grips to let it know it will be coming out, like it or not.
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  1739.  @jasonbourne1596  Because those provisions were declared unconstitutional, but the HOA busybodies will still harass the POC that move in, till they get tired and move out. Unless you are WASP you are not going to feel welcome in a lot of US HOA's.
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  1740. Often HOA is the only thing available in an area. The city loves them because the city gets rates money from the houses, but does not need to spend a cent on maintenance of streets, power, water, lighting, garbage collection or general maintenance, and the property pays rates but gets nothing back, and in turn the residents pay again for the services the city should supply. All new developments are HOA, nothing is single house any more, unless you look for the odd house not in a HOA, which will demand top price precisely because of that, even if it an old house. Might be next to the HOA, but not bounded to the rules, and thus the selling price probably will be 20% more than the HOA ones, because of this freedom.
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  1741. Also used as shown here to walk a bolt hole if it is off, fixing a mistake a lot easier than making a new part. Very common on moulds, where you often just have to tweak a few of the mounting points for different machines that do not all fit a common pattern. Also done with bolts that need to handle a lot of load, so the parent metal interface is much larger, to spread the loading out to something it will survive.
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  1742. Well the two do correlate, generally after you eat at the king you get your own throne to sit on.
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  1743. I have a fish tank, with 6 fish.... they are there for cat entertainment, and as a water source for the cat. He does not like bowl water, so filtered water is the best for him
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  1744. Plus no real aftermarket parts either, all major parts with massive DRM that makes them worthless as spares as well without doing all sorts of non DMCA approved work.
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  1745. Will tell you that those big box stores order their appliances with a different part number and brand printed on it, just so they can offer to price match, knowing full well that they are the only one with that exact model number, even if the shop next door has the identical, down to the witness marks from the machines used to make it, device, just with a different model number and brand. Also they cut costs on them, swapping out say a metal bushing for a plastic one, knowing it will wear out in 13 months, and you will buy a new machine, instead of replacing a 10c plastic bushing.
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  1746. Not refrigerated so just going to be late, and thus shippers will be getting claims in from customers that had insurance that covered delays. Those without will get them, unless they were destroyed, when they just fill in and submit a claim.
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  1747. My father had a neighbour, who used to do fabrication at a paper mill, and his speciality was brazing the paper webs to make a continuous roll. Only way you could see the joint was to look for the line of yellow and blue on the shiny fine mesh stainless, where the heat had discoloured it, and the yellow was the silver brass alloy paste he used, to join the individual 0.5mm wires together. Did that for over 40 years there, and even in his retirement he would go in and do this, on a contract basis, well into his late 70's. He did train a lot of people in the job, though most of them left after a few years for better pay, so he was always doing the training, and also some specialist fabrication when needed. Don't think I could get to that level, I do not weld enough, and can do reasonably strong and ugly though. Filler and paint though can cover a lot of sins, and car body panels are not at all difficult to replace.
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  1748. Laws by me were amended for home auctions, in that the minimum price for the auction reserve is set to a large percentage of the fair value of the property, determined by at least 3 separate agents in the area. Also the owner is entitled to any excess monies left over, and these cannot be used to pay any other parties other than the one in the suit. So if you owe the municipality $x, and your home goes for $500x, you get, after the fees, $498x, and any other claimants have to go after the old owner to get paid, not simply attach to the auction with a note. Done after a string of foreclosures, where fully paid off houses were auctioned off for $100 or less, and went to a new buyer before even going on auction. thus also you see in the auction notices the following "the acting sheriff for x city section, the sheriff for y city section and z city section" where the previous ones are currently disbarred and serving time for fraud.
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  1749. You forgot the fourth type, almost stripped.
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  1750.  @postersm7141  Or the ones that arc across when open, so the motor sort of runs on. At least till the contactor catches fire.
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  1751.  @EudesRJ  Saw a fluke 77 the council arctricians attempted to measure the voltage on the primary side of a transformer, and applied 11kV AC to the input side. Meter stopped working, and the inside of the case was nicely coated with a thin film of copper, evaporated from all the PCB traces on the board of the meter below the display. Display still worked, placed in another meter to test, as that one had a cracked display, from the same group of low IQ techs, and the 9V battery was also placed there, and was fine. 11A fuse was the only intact fuse, the other 440mA fuse got blown, with the rest of the carnage, as the plasma arced through the inside of the case. However nothing escaped blast wise, very tough cases they have. Meter leads were a lot shorter from the arc as they got close, well cooked and in any case they had already broken the probes off, using the bare cores of the wire instead.
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  1752. Boiling for an hour helps when you had vegetables that were a little past their best, as you can not tell if the vegetables were fresh, canned or wilted and well past prime.
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  1753. Not likely with the currents by the South African coast and the typical routes ships used. If close inshore to use the northern flowing current to get cooler water they go north, and further out to sea the great gyre will eventually land them on the Australian coast, or north again when it makes a full turn. No, it went down off the coast, one of hundreds of wrecks littering the southern African coastline, and hard to find on that large area of ocean floor, that even today is not well mapped, though there are plenty of mappings that have been done for exploration for oil and gas, but actual side scan sonar mappings not much, though you have a fairly good gravitational mapping, but they are low resolution, so wrecks do not show up at all on them. Even wrecks that have actual positions known are hard to find.
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  1754. If VW just buy the front hub complete, and then the shock. will be quicker and easier. While you are there buy the steering boots, 2 CV boots and tie rod and ends, because they will all also very likely be less than willing to either come off, or worn well past happy.
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  1755.  @electrictroy2010  Please tell that to the Malaysian and Japanese, who have some of the tallest buildings in the world, all in major fault areas, and they pretty much all have survived strong earthquakes. Not the fault of the concrete or brick, it is the design and misuse that is done, as even in the USA most concrete structures survive earthquakes when they are built correctly.
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  1756.  @quittessa1409  Yes, also available in South Africa, so should be in Australia as well. Just the right combination of tough and chewy, plus made from cane sugar.
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  1757. So when it does pop Naples will have the distinction of being the first city in space.
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  1758. Yes, wonder if he will rescind the order now, which would immediately place it on them to make good all claims. All watching in the USA should write a letter to their congresscritter saying you demand they immediately put pressure on them to return all the stolen articles immediately, and that they need to bring in a bill to prevent such warrantless theft of goods and chattels immediately.
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  1759. When you opened the box, and I saw the thick plywood, proper box with metal corners, and then the heavy strap holding it, in addition to screws, that is a company that wants only the best product. Very good qality, and it should hold up well with the loading you place on it, and seems to have large holding faces all round to not have issues. Probably just by cleaning and setting up your cross slide again, you have improved repeatability a bit as well, just from getting all the wear out, and fresh lubricant in the system as well. Guess the rainy season in your area is around, seeing the background was all rain on a hot tin roof.
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  1760. Yes, because the small motor that drives it is more likely to lose to the gum.
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  1761. $100 million, likely barely going to pay for the clean up, and not even going to touch all the claims for late shipping that arose from this, plus the costs of the diversions needed. Not even going to cover a single bit of the replacement bridge either.
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  1762. Just remember that sadly the LED lights do not last as long as claimed, and do have an annoyingly high failure rate on some brands. But where possible put them in, as they do not damage the sockets from heat.
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  1763.  @UpLateGeek  Will most likely be interlaced, lower data rate and thus lower cost in the signal processing, and lower power. Also means you can use a smaller gate array to make the camera, and this means cheaper as less silicon used for the processor.
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  1764.  @richardclegg8027  Cape town your route would, depending on the actual interconnect your ISP uses, actually have been around the western coast on a long cable. Then a few hops in South Africa, and off to the UCT servers. My geolocation always comes up as 600km away, in Rivonia Gauteng, and i see yours does as well, so you are meeting an Akamai CDN, or the servers themselves are actually located there, and not at UCT. Big server farm there, who have as selling point that they are very prepared for DR, seeing as they still have power when Eskom does not, and also have a month or more of fuel at any time for the systems to run.
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  1765. Only time i ever had a filter fight me hard, and have the gasket stick to the block, was after the engine had been overhauled, and that surface on the filter housing was absolutely dry and oil free. But a regular change the oil that spills on the housing face provides enough lubrication. just make sure the seal is in the groove in the filter, because i have seen them loose, or twisted. Even had them missing, so the old seal went on in place of it.
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  1766. They need to remove all the containers to reduce draft, then they can start to dewater the front compartments that are flooded, likely not going to get all the water out with likely popped hull plates, but at least half way with lots of big pumps will make it more amenable to being pulled out backwards, possibly even with the ship engine in reverse as well to apply power, as it likely is still out of the mud. Not going to be able to run main engine long, likely all the coolant ports are clogged with mud, but even a minute of full power might be enough to pull it out. Otherwise they have to bring a dredger in with suction and pull mud from the other side of the channel, and wait for a high tide, or a spring high, to do the refloat.
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  1767. Yes jet fuel is a big one, because aircraft do not take a small amount of fuel per flight, and each flight has many tons of fuel on board. Easily 30 tons per flight, and with 5 flights a day per aircraft, that is 150 tons of fuel a day, now multiply by the thousands of flights a day, and you see a 6 day disruption will make for many cancelled flights, and the remaining ones being full to capacity. Then also all rental companies will be out of vehicles as well, from people renting a car to drive, probably a single occupant per vehicle in most cases, making it worse when normal fuel deliveries start and there are no rental cars at airports, or they all are at far flung points and not at hubs.
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  1768. Sweep under the carpet, hope that something new comes up, and corruption as usual again.
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  1769. Funny enough the manual version of those vehicles have a pretty bullet proof transmission, and the only thing that goes wrong with them are the seals wear on the input and output shafts, input you replace with clutch, output you change with CV joint service.
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  1770. Do not want to mix the shop mud with mine mud, or it could even be dump site mud.
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  1771. Had that with a fuel station, where the one pump was faulty, and was bypassing rather badly. Filled up my car, and, due to a blocked breather, I had to fill very slowly. Full tank was a tenth the price, so I paid, then next day phoned the fuel company, spoke to technical, and told them the garage, the pump number, and the fault. Still took them 3 months to fix it, so I filled up at that pump a lot. Garage not losing, the pumps are owned by the fuel company, and I was paying the correct price per unit. Those pumps can easily be pre-war manufacture, and originally were reading volume in one revolution of the output shaft per pint of fuel, but have long since had the mechanical meter movement, along with the mechanical reading, go digital, replaced with an encoder with 64 slots in it. Done when the price rose above R2 per litre, as the old mechanical gauges could only be set up to R2 per litre, and thus when it went over they needed to be replaced. Interim measure was to simply put a sticker by the price that said "Times two to get correct cash amount" and set the price down to half. Took around 5 years to retrofit all those pumps to electronic readout, though often, if you see them with the front panel open, the old mechanical Tokheim volumetric pump, and mechanical readouts, are still there in the frame, with the cost being the last one it had, and the price being some astronomical amount, as it no longer is being mechanically reset. Digital covers over the old frame.
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  1772.  @oldgoatherder  Sadly the local ratepayers will be on the hook for this, it will simply be taken out of the local coffers, and then they will cut services to compensate. The police most they will get is a slap on the wrist, to not be caught doing this again, and this will be ignored within a week.
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  1773.  @Azeazezar  Do not think the motherboard chipset will run without RAM, though you can just take the RAM and update the ID chip to have it report that you only have 16M of RAM on the chip, which would allow the PC to boot, though you likely would have to write a custom BIOS, basically making an old 1990's era BIOS run on a modern multicore processor, which would mean having to add in the core operating logic, to set up all the registers on the north and south bridge, to set them up like they need, then start to run the old bios as a direct task on it, and boot from there. Would need an old PCI graphics card, and also a PCIE to PCI adaptor as well, or even ISA and PCIE to ISA adaptor, to allow the VGA routines on the video card ROM to run. After all modern graphibns cards no longer likely support the older VESA standards, though it will be fast. Did think, when Pentium processors got past the 1GHz mark, that you could actually put a simple program into a ROM, and boot off it, to use that fast bus speed to directly synthsise FM radio carriers, and also the audio modulation, as a dual core could run fast enough to have one core do the DSP to read in audio, and the other core do DDS to generate the RF waveform direct, modulation and all. Just a simple low pass filter on the output needed. 300MHz processors could easily do AM radio as well, with a simple resistor DAC and a latch, with the enable being simply a write to any high order address line. After all, with 32 bits, and only needing 12 for the ROM, you can be very wasteful with address decoding if you need speed, and really only have 4 actual peripherals to interface.
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  1774. Just like MH380, autopilot can fly the plane for a long time, then finally give up.
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  1775.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  Let me guess, busmans holiday, just in case one of your customers calls you New years day with an urgent job to do, because you already have all the spares right there, and just need to do 30 minutes of work to get them running again, at urgent rates.
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  1776.  @austindearman2296  Problem them becomes how to hold that sleeve, as it needs to be a tight fit, so going to be a bear to get in and out. Simpler to bore them out to a size, and also make and supply 2 oversize piston and seal assemblies, so you can handle wear by going to 2 overbores. Sleeve works on a vehicle engine, where the sleeve is held top and bottom in the block, but the middle is exposed to coolant alone. For a cylinder not going to work well.
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  1777. Going to bet the check engine light is on saying cat inefficient, because the impact likely has cracked the core in half, and most of it has gone out the exhaust. Yes the stories are really great, please do tell them, easy enough on an afternoon to sit comfortably, speak into the phone, and do a 20 minute segment, that you can easily drop 5 minute chunks into videos over a week or two.
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  1778. Yes the "replace the boot" was to kick the can down the road, so that they would not have to pay under warranty for the racks failing. Of course they could just fill the fluid, and so long as the fluid use was less than the oil use, it would be fine.......
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  1779. No4 contact the military and get his pay garnished for the costs. He will not be able to get out of paying then.
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  1780. Bet the reason they are not a recall is because they hope they roll out of 10 years, so they do not have to do it as a non safety warranty recall.
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  1781. There is a whole kit of the plastic parts for this, either aftermarket or from VW spares. Mostly easy to install, though you will benefit from a lot of rubber grease to help with the places where they go into the housings and where all the sliding parts go. My VW was sloppy, and the one plastic bush for the ball was out of stock, so replaced the rest, and then simply used a lot of cable ties and rubber grease to make the fit better.
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  1782. Not really, the condenser for most of them is the outside metal casing, so extra insulation will literally cook the compressor and the contents of the freezer slowly.
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  1783. Seen one Datsun Go, with around 100mm of spacers on it. Wheels are also skinny rubber on wide rims, and look like they will pop off at the first pothole, plus ultra low profile tyres. Figure the wheels and tyres, plus the spacers, cost more than the car, and do nothing to improve stability either.
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  1784. By me no natural gas, you have a choice between electric or LPG, and by far the more useful is the LPG unit, as it is a lot more effective cost wise than electric, and more importantly also works when you have rotational load reduction, which is a very big reason for it being so popular. The induction cooker I have sits in the box most of the time, it is so rarely used, but the portable gas cooker is the most heavily used thing.
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  1785. By me it is 27C, though to be fair, it was raining earlier, 40mm plus in around 2 hours, and it is summer here in the southern hemisphere sub tropical zone. So it is a lot cooler than the other day, when it was 32C and 80% RH.
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  1786. Yes, then used the new one to cross the border. As he did so before the search was concluded and he was assumed dead no flags, and once out of the USA very little checking is done on passports aside from verification as to face and possibly a fingerprint, so he went from Canada to probably EU at Schipol, and from there a few hops to get to Uzbekistan, all done with the local passport info. But the DHS looked at the passport use after the death was reported, and tracked him down by enquiring at all the airports he went through, and got the video from the gates and airports to confirm it was him, and not an imposter using the passport, and thus the investigation was updated this was a false death attempt.
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  1787. Yes and the 8in filter blocks are both common, and cheap, unlike the speciality ones. Tip is to get the ones filled with carbon granule,s as those come apart, so can be refilled with fine charcoal instead of buying new, making it much cheaper to run. Plus add in a 0.3 mincron filter before the carbon, and another after, to keep the water going into the charcoal clean, and to strip the fines out of the water after the charcoal is done. You can also add in some ion exchange resin as well, to remove both heavy elements and a lot of dissolved ions in the water.
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  1788. Same for South Africa, amazing how you cannot get police to attend on payday, no vehicles available, but they are all out "on patrol" at the local malls, being loaded with the odd bag of groceries to pack in all the alcohol.
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  1789. Only reason I have a M8x1.0 tap, proximity sensors in that case size, and thick castings to mount them in. A good accessory for hand tapping is going to be a broken tap extractor, sooner or later you will need it, and the worst tap to break is a spiral high speed tap.
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  1790. New Mexico, also known as the local church parking lot, which is empty all week except Sunday, and the odd other night and religious holiday.
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  1791. Just a small soldering iron, after all it really is only around 30W, while for wire that thick you probably will want to use a gas torch instead, simply for the massive power input that solders it in seconds.
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  1792. Because somebody figured out that if he was mayor he would no longer have to work again.....
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  1793. No alignment tool a broom stick works well, or that punch, and a roll of masking tape in an even layer, to build it up. Another tip is, if you are going into the clutch housing for any reason, like a main seal, or gearbox input shaft, is to replace that throw out bearing, unless it is brand new. Any wear on it cheaper to toss it and put a new one, as you already have done the labour. Should also have taken flywheel off and replaced rear main seal on that engine, they are known to leak as they age, and that one looks like it has never been off from the factory.
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  1794. Did a non quick learn with an AMT, which involved thrashing it on a nice hilly section of quiet roads, till it finally shifted smoothly.
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  1795. Try it with Avgas, 130 octane leaded, or 100 low lead. It does spectacular things to exhaust valves and cats, as it is still burning when it hits them. Plus melted pistons as well.
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  1796. Virtual cards are great for those. Change credit card to a virtual one, and simply cancel the virtual card as needed. No way to charge it if it no longer exists, and most banks will give you them for free by me as part of your account.
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  1797.  @no_peace  You get them that are either integrated into the rear view mirror, or clip over it, or are built into the vehicle, and almost invisible from outside. Some are also invisible from inside to a great extent, commonly used in courier vans and such to cover both front, interior and rear of the vehicle, with audio recording of at least the interior, and often they also stream the video out as well, along with local storage of at least 2 days.
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  1798. Yes, watching WWIIHistoryhunter, and he is picking out intact bottles from rubbish pits after 80 years, still looking as good as when it went in there, and even some with a lid still on, and contents inside.
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  1799. Much easier to just take off after the drag, and dump the hook over the ocean......
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  1800.  @cengeb  Not had them die from much other than bearings going noisy, and regulators that had zero length brushes. Had the odd diode pack fail, but that was 1980's era Bosch, which was only rated for 30A, and where the non OE used 20A diodes and a prayer. bought a different brand of non OE diode, and soldered them in, and away it went again.
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  1801. Spark plug, which is why carrying a spark plug is considered to be possession of burglary tools, unless you can prove you are a bona fide mechanic and thus have the right to carry them in sets.
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  1802.  @nikkismith8750  Not really, but you do get digitisers that will actually work at those bands directly, or with minimum downsampling. Enough bandwidth to get the data, and also the clocks are common these days for cellular towers, as they also use the accurate timing so as to coordinate all transmissions across an area.
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  1803.  @MacoveiVlad  Repairs is replacing broken bits with the same. modification might be a new microphone type or connector, for an updated comms system, such that either the original specs no longer apply, or it no longer is usable fully with the original spec system. For a helmet might be an improved noise cancelling microphone that is louder, so there is a need to change gain, or a new lining that is improved somehow, such that they can check which ones of the stock have been upgraded, as it likely is they are not all modified at once, but in batches as they come in for service, or as they come off a particular base. you can have a mod state 2 applied after a 3, because the mod states apply to a different part, done at different times. The numbers are unique to a particular part, for a particular change.
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  1804. Went to the dealership this week, they have changed things up a lot, hand sanitiser, wiping the vehicle down inside before they take it, wipes available all over, and then they wipe it down afterwards when you are collecting it.
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  1805. Tryouts for the English Rugby team there, those who arrive at the bottom uninjured are in.
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  1806. Will bet you find in discovery that there are links between the board and the existing cemeteries, with likely there being some astroturfing by the encumbent ones. As well this is very much environmentally friendly, no embalming fluid there poisoning the soil. Unlike the old "traditional" method, so that literally nothing can be built there for 200 years, as the ground is so toxic, that disposing of any dirt or refuse off the area will require it to be sent to a hazardous waste dump. Most US cemeteries are basically going to be EPA superfund sites in a few years, from all the toxic runoff, and they also will pollute the local ground water around them. Sort of a Love Canal again......
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  1807. They run on the other side of the switch, which did not have that bad a case of the green crusties on it.
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  1808. Plus the studios will absolutely use poor viewing to screw them over, citing the poor numbers to make their profits bigger, and cutting all other takes. Remember they set the profit goals, and if it is not reached they simply take all the profits, and the writers and actors get told sorry no money.
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  1809. Spritz of that lube on those splines would not go amiss, while the rest of that engine has already gotten a nice oil film from leaks.
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  1810. Yup, got a box of those clips, and they have come in use for replacing many broken ones.
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  1811. Minister has never travelled lower than Business class, never ever travelled economy, or ever had to wait in a line at the airport. Doubt he has travelled in a taxi much at all.
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  1812.  @Tim.Stotelmeyer  Or ran her info, and took a photo of the car computer, giving all the police info as well to go with the picture. The FBI likely saw this image, and thus had a good idea of the victim, but contacted her to get a more solid case, as confirmation of non consent makes the case much harder to disprove as "consented, or did not say no", changing to "did not in any way consent, or know of the violation".
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  1813.  @belialofeden They all paid their local reps off long ago.
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  1814. $465 current price though, not sub $400, but sub $500.
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  1815.  @charlesmorris1786  Well, basically only a day or three of the profits they are making out of it these days....
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  1816. Induction cooker you lift the pot 3cm off the top it turns off immediately, and in general it stops at 2cm away. Smaller pots the common induction cookers shut off to half power, when they sense the pot is not using the outer element, and thus only provide power when the pot is close to the top. They are all pacemaker safe now, the only time you need to worry is if you go into a large industrial smelter next to the furnace, the home induction cookers are perfectly safe.
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  1817. Yes, pharmaceutical grade water is infinitely easier, not so much care particulate wise, more about sterility and just having low dissolved ions in it, and the water used would easily be produced by the first few stages of the semiconductor industry. Big step up from most city water though, even if the plants all use it as feedstock. Funny enough most bottled water has more dissolved ions than the feed water used to produce it, regular city water, just sent through particle filters, carbon filters and then resin beds to trap ions, and finally UV sterilised, and filtered for particulates again. Then they add in salts, to give it flavour, and bottle it.
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  1818.  @spacechannelfiver  Still have a dot matrix printer in a cupboard, though would have to dig out either a USB to parallel adaptor, or the similar serial version, to get it to work. Have the odd spare ribbon or ten for it as well. Only one you still buy new off the shelf is OKI, who sells quite a few every year, and they support parallel, serial or USB out of the box, and also speak around 15 different printer emulations, in addition to the native OKI version. Most commonly emulating an IBM Proprinter II though, seeing as that or Epson FX80 covers almost all dot matrix print operations, and only differ in the graphics characters they will print to give you pretty borders.
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  1819. Few minor chips in the gear teeth, so just how much fluff was on the magnet in the housing then.
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  1820. Yes easiest first fix is put insulation inside the boxes, does not need much, just a light fill of spun polyester sound proofing, and some tar roof shingles stapled to the back of the box to damp it. then you can do the car.
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  1821. Drop in a half pint of ATF instead, it will clean better, and is still a good lubricant, and does not damage the seals.
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  1822.  @sg13511  Depends on your definition of illegal. If it goes to a politician as campaign funds it then magically is not.
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  1823. Fun thing is, you can have a car that requires that, yet it will not have ABS, traction control, airbags or even seat belts, because it is one of those old pre 1950's supercars or race cars, that were designed to be road legal for racing, but before those regulations even existed.
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  1824. Will add that using Virtualbox is one of the non free softwares, it is free for non commercial use, but, being Oracle, the demonstration here can be classed as being commercial use, though Christopher using it for educational purposes might be enough to get out of having to pay Oracle an annual fee to use it, though IANAL, and Oracle is well known to be very litigatious.
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  1825. Refund full purchase price plus financing charges, so that the RV owner got it for zero cost. That would ensure they never do it again, as they would literally be better off giving the RV for free instead, less legal costs.
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  1826. Florida time.......
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  1827. Yes especially the wiper arms, good to apply a thin film of light grease to the shaft, the spring pivots as well as the hinge. that keeps them going a lot longer, and also makes the arm wipe better. A quick tip if it is dull is to take tyre shine, clear, and wipe the entire arm with it, makes it look a lot better. Also works on that shroud, doing the whole shroud out of the car, top and bottom, makes it black again and removes the sun fade from it.
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  1828.  @WrenchingWithKenny  Did mine this last week after washing, and it made a big difference doing it to all the plastic, including headlights.
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  1829. Block coming back as cans of Red Bull.....
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  1830. Has been solved decades ago, your right ends at the Karman line, roughly 100km up, after that covered by various space treaties.
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  1831. I would say the steps are to keep the power input constant during starting, as the power needs of the motor change because of the need for increased slip during the initial power application, and the steps are there to reduce the CPU need for a smooth sweep, as the original designs used lower speed processors, so offloading most of the power control into discrete power steps was needed, so as to not cause excess slip in the motor and thus poor accelleration, and too fast a ramp would result in a motor stalling. thus the constant steps, so that a driver could keep a constant pull away and not run the risk of a stall, which would mean a stop and a slower ramp up again, and a possibility of the motor generating an overcurrent or tacho feedback error. remember this was originally running likely on aZ80 or similar processor, with large parts being done by other processors as well, and the designers had both limited memory and limited performance. 400Hz was running the GTO devices at the high end of the range, as they, for power devices at the time, needed 2 or more same size power switches for each of the 6 legs of the drive, and GTO devices need you to have a very beefy current source and sink, as you need to turn it on fast, so high current at a relatively low voltage of around 5V on the gate, and turn off you need a current about what the device is conducting, and around -10V, to pull the gate off hard and fast enough to switch off. At least this was better than earlier thyristors, where turn off was done using LCR circuits, and a second equally rated thyristor to pull the anode negative for long enough that the first one would be able to turn off, and then the second one, due to the high power resistor providing it with power, would stay on till the first fired again to turn it off. High static current, high power loss, the GTO made this power use so much lower, at the expense of needing 4 isolated relatively high power supplies, 3 for the upper bridge, and the lower one having a common cathode connection. Instead of 500W of power dissipation now down to under 100W at idle. Add this up per axle and the power use becomes considerable, plus higher frequency, and the ability to do regenerative braking with much less processing power, and you can see why they, and now the IGBT, won out.
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  1832.  @dieseldragon6756 Well, it had been developed to a great extent then for gas distribution, so this was merely another use for the existing manufacturers of gas lines, and the designers had come up with empirical rules for just how par a pulse of pressure could go, and then sized the pipe appropriately.
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  1833.  @RainmanRaysRepairs  Edited on phone.........
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  1834.  @philipweber8013  It does after eating there.
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  1835. Difference between wearing and not wearing one is if you want an open coffin viewing, or if you are happy that your coffin will be closed because the hamburger helper in there is all that is left of your head. Had a bike messenger who worked with me, who was in a good number of accidents. Always wore a helmet, and leathers, and heavy jeans with boots and gloves, and while the helmet and leathers had a fair share of battle scars, and the bikes quite often got new tanks, fairings, handlebars and indicators, you can be sure that out of the carnage Blessing would come out essentially unscathed, just adding a few more marks to his apparel. Bike accidents (including him doing somersaults over cars) did not kill him, TB eventually did.
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  1836. Timesert kit then, as they can be threadlocked into the hole, and also have threads that deform to lock them in. Helicoils you can use loctite to add extra grip, just have to clean insert and hole thoroughly, and use 603 oil resistant lock on it. Insert, then wash again to remove excess, or you will never get the bolt out again.
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  1837.  @johnh8268  Must have been the birds shouting for food..... Got translated as swearing.......
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  1838. No manufacturer will put a full size spare in the back, if there is anything there it is a skinny temporary use one, or a pump and a can of fix a flat. Lighter, so that they can meet that EPA mandated mass and then also save an extra 0.001MPG on fuel use, or in this case an extra mile of range on test track cycle. My car has a full size spare, and my sister got a full size spare for her car as well, as it came with a well for one, just had in it a styrene dummy inner with the jack, spanner and pump, but no spare, cut to reduce mass and cost of manufacture. spare fitted perfectly, and even the dummy fitted in the rear of the tyre. Came in handy when she found one of the myriad potholes that make driving akin to dodgem cars. So thankful my wheels are actually 70 profile, not the more common 50 or less profile, which are basically painted on rubber, and which cause the rim to crack or buckle, and the tyre itself to be destroyed.
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  1839. Ugh popcorn finish, the grottiest worst ceiling finish.
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  1840.  @WrenchingWithKenny  Internal combustion, external combustion, not too much difference if controlled.
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  1841.  @Module_79L  In a lot of places actually an oversize vehicle, and plenty of roads that it will be unable to drive down.
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  1842.  @Module_79L  Lots of old city streets are worse, especially those from medieval times where the street was generally only wide enough for a horse to pass another one.
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  1843. Also had that, a cheque that had already been processed by the bank was intercepted somewhere, and then "washed", in that the only thing left on the cheque was the MCR ink, and the signature. Then the entire cheque was reprinted, complete with background, and then taken and cashed at a branch. The forgery was pretty good, until you looked under a microscope, and saw that the pale yellow background was not a Pantone colour printed with a screen, but an inkjet printer print, with the yellow dots and the odd cyan and magenta dots to shift the colour to match, and then the rest of the information was printed again. Biggest thing was that they printed the wrong cheque printing company, as we used custom order cheques in a self carboning book, printed not by the main print company for that bank, but by a local company that also did the custom cheques for this bank. Also we had, as part of the record of the book, the folio copy, with the original details there on the carbon copy, and, coincidentally, a spoiled cheque on the same page of 4, which had been crossed out, and written cancelled, by the book keeper as well. Original was for a large amount, the washed one was slightly smaller amount, and offered around 9 months after the original had been processed, and the bank accepted it, as it looked, to first glance, as if it was genuine, and was printed on the genuine paper, and had a matching signature. Police case opened, but of course nothing ever came of it, and the company got the money back as well, with giving the bank the police case number. Now of course there are no banks in South Africa that will issue cheques, and no banks that will process them either, simply because cheque fraud got to the point that one in three cheques were fraudulent, and the volume had been dropping for many years, as people went to EFT, and other direct payment methods. Pretty much the entire planet no longer uses cheques, though the USA is the hold out, still accepting them, and also still, 2 decades plus after chip and PIN was introduced, still using magstripe data, and manual impression, as a way to accept credit and debit card transactions, despite this method being so easy to intercept, and misuse, for fraud for card present transactions, and card not present transaction fraud. Too big to fail I guess means they just pass the cost to he customers, and hope they do not switch banks to one that actually cares. Of course here in SA that means you will rarely find a merchant that accepts American Express or Diners club, simply because they are both so small in the market, and also are the most expensive merchant fee wise, with the only places that take them being 4 and 5 star hotels, where they can bury that charge in the mark up, plus also charge a nice big fee for drawing cash from these cards as well, so people can actually go outside the hotel. Every other bank charges 1% to 3%, AE and Diners only 5% or more. Good luck unless your bank is affiliated to Visa or Mastercard, which are the de facto standard for cards here, accepted everywhere, even by street hawkers as well, as there are a good number of mobile card solutions.
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  1844. Alternate strut is common in most garages, being normally the handle of some well used broom. VW Golf owners all at some point or the other have had one in the rear, to hold up the tail as those gas lifters wear out.
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  1845. Just as good is to put in a quart of diesel engine oil, the extra detergent will move a lot of the sludge out, and drive it for a day or two to let it move all the gunk down. Then you can drain, and run regular oil again.
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  1846. Just replace the fart spray with methyl mercaptan spray, 0.01%. Will never ever leave that room furnishing, and will smell essentially forever. for fun mix with some of the dye used in money tampers, which sticks to skin really well.
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  1847. Do not forget Bovril, slightly different taste, same nice Umami flavour.
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  1848. Mine does not have a cat bed, he sleeps on my bed, and allows me to share it as well. Otherwise he sleeps on a chair, covered with a dog themed blanket. Currently wants treats of course.
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  1849. They need it if you are driving in anything where there is wet weather, so they can have no water ingress. The new coils came pre greased, while the old ones look like they did not.
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  1850.  @ENGRingSuccess  But facebook knows, and they have a whole department who respond to those subpoenas when sent to them.
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  1851. You all have seen the videos of Russian winter, where the oil in the engine is so cold it looks like jelly when trying to drain it. I see Kenny also has the same channel lock pliers I have, affectionately called "One size fits most", as there are cases where it simply will not fit the space. Bought originally to adjust a 65mm AF nut on a industrial clutch, though later I got a 65mm socket and adapter to make this job easier. Pliers are used a lot more than that socket now, good for plumbing, able to undo all common toilet fittings easily.
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  1852.  @LMacNeill  Almost guaranteed to have a spark if the indicators were on in a turn, or the brakes were on because you were in an automatic vehicle, and were slowing down or stopped, or at night. All 3 conditions where you can get rear ended, and not helped by the electrical wiring being routed over the tank, so as to save on wire length to the fuel sender, and to keep the loom shorter to the rear lights. guaranteed a spark or three when the loom got damaged in an accident by the frame buckling, and the loom was lose to that easily torn off fuel filler pipe. fuses in a car take a while to blow, normally a second or so, they protect the wiring, so have a blowing time such that the fuse fails before the wire insulation melts, but a damaged wire can still spark for a second or so before then.
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  1853.  @equallawandorder5393  Compared to our cometition, who make worse fake trhings. Ours is a quality fake, using only the best second rate materials and paying our workers a whole renbinmi more a week.
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  1854.  @wilneal8015  Generic store brand single cup size.....
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  1855. Your 2 ton AC unit likely is already a heat pump, lacking likely only the connection to the reversing valve, and the programming of the thermostat to enable it. After all AC manufacturers will rather make more of a general purpose unit, and accept that 5% of the customers will never use it. Only one stock unit, and if you want the cooling only unit you simply use a setup key and disable the reversing valve output.
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  1856. I would say that every bathroom wall remodel added a half ton, and the floors a ton of extra mass in the tiles and cement, so for a full tile upgrade you probably have 10 tons of extra load spread out on the unit. Yes will add up over 100 units, and if the original design was a little optimistic on floor and wall loading, and the builder was a little shy with putting in the expensive rebar and cement in the construction, along with early shuttering removal which left the concrete weaker, you will get there eventually.
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  1857. Electrolysis works best on the salt once it is dewatered and melted, simply because otherwise most of the energy goes to dissociate the water instead. Better to separate the trace elements out using supersaturated salt solutions, so the other material drops out of solution, and you remove the supersaturated sodium chloride solution and replace again with fresh, evaporating the water away all the time. That way you eventually get the other material concentrated into the deposit, where it is easier to collect and refine further, as instead of being present in trace quantities, it now is in volumes that make it easy to process and sort out.
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  1858. Too young to fly....
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  1859. Plenty enough, you do not think the militasry pays $500 for a hammer. Though here by me the state is paying $500 for a broom you can buy for $1, and $30 each for garbage bags, you buy for 50c per pack of 100. Gotta pay for those party kickbacks somehow.
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  1860. Grease pump I took a cloth, wrapped it on the end, and used a cable tie to hold it. Then can slip it off when needed, and the cloth keeps the grease in. Plastic baggie over the outside as final cover, thick heavy one, and it stays relatively clean.
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  1861. Cue the next thing now being Hershey stops selling all products into California, and marking all products as being not for sale in California.
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  1862. Know of one where the developer built 1m over the property line. 15 years later on he still cannot transfer them, because the property line in dispute belongs to the metro, and he built 1m over into a nature reserve. they are waiting for the supreme court case, because he appealed the lower court order that he demolishes the encroachment, and in the interim no registrations can be done on the entire development, even though only 5 units are affected.
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  1863.  @hmw-ms3tx  Had to get some machinery moved a few years ago, and the hardest part was the first 50m, because it needed to be somewhat dismantled, and then moved down 2 floors to the truck. Luckily it fitted the lift with an inch to spare. The tank before it went out, after it had a 20 minute session with a massive plasma cutter, turning it into plates, as the original method it used to get there had involved removing windows, and a mobile crane. Took longer to connect and disconnect the plasma cutter to power and air than it took to do the job, turning the tank into pieces that would fit through the doors, and also be easy to carry. Scrap value of the stainless steel tank was a lot less than the cost of just removing the window, and also the access for the crane was going to be a lot harder, as the interim period had seen building work occur there, so you would need a much bigger, long reach crane. Borrowed the plasma cutter and FIL to operate it from his work, he took a lunch that day, and actually left the shop.
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  1864. Best drunk when you are drunk, letting the good beer( if there is any such thing) kill your ability to remember taste.
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  1865. You can include all car manufacturers in an episode, all have had some major recalls for some reason or the other, but it is how they handle them that differs.
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  1866. Probably insured them against all risks, and put in a claim as they were damaged in a series of small fires...
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  1867.  @BrayleArroyo  Yes, especially if you can put that on, and easily get a bearing off that is deep in a housing, or your torch is going to damage some other part.
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  1868.  @arlo4051  Because you can travel to the shore by boat, without needing to cross any border, from international waters.
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  1869. That aluminised fabric is also used to make bags, which hold stuff sensitive to thermal damage, and they work well to keep the contents at a reasonably stable temperature. I use the old bags, which are very big, as camping blankets, as they are easily big enough to cover you, and after 5 minutes you are very warm inside from the reflected body heat. Normally a ground sheet, one on top of that, a blanket or thin foam mattress, then you, a blanket, and another on top is a perfect way to stay warm even on the coldest night. They take up little space when folded up as well.
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  1870.  @rossmanngroup  I got a nice collection of the snake oil cable for free, and am using it, because the PTFE coated silvered copper does make for great test leads, and as a bonus they will not easily melt if you have a power supply capable of putting 30A through the 18 gauge copper wire for a few seconds.
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  1871. I would guess the major reason for lack of proper guidance is because the computers and controls are in the second stage, and the first stage is mostly just sensors and actuators, to save mass in not having 2 guidance blocks. Simplest solution would be to put only a small low mass battery and controller there, to just turn the booster around and fire the main motors till empty, or at least be able to receive a deorbit burn instruction the next pass, and then scrub enough energy to land in the Pacific in 2 orbits. Would need to have the extra fuel and oxygen, plus also the ability to relight the core engine at least twice, first time to drop down a lot, and the second to finish, after drag has been calculated from the timed burn, then probably 2 orbits later get an updated firing time and duration on the remaining fuel. But this needs extra fuel to be carried, and the motors might not be able to restart. Otherwise just a big drag parachute to make it come down very fast and calculate the drag to make probability such that it will land in the ocean. They are just hoping that 70% water is good enough, and the 1% that it lands in China itself is fine for them, as the chance of hitting the launch area is very small.
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  1872. No real actively dividing cells, very good cellular repair mechanisms, and also very massive redundancy, so a few cells failing is not a big deal, the storage simply has slightly less detail on any particular event, and the repair mechanisms and cells can cope with that. You can lose hearing, as the ears do contain actively replicating cells, along with the cornea, hair and the mouth, as those surfaces are exposed to the outside world. The rest though is only slowly churning over with time.
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  1873. If you are on a short runway, at altitude, with a load very close to maximum take off load, and it is a hot day, you want every last bit of power the engines can deliver, so that extra 5% per engine that you lose to the air bleed, which does imbalance flow in the compressor and combustion chamber slightly, reducing thrust by a noticeable amount. In normal conditions, where you have a lot of runway, and reach V2 part of the way down, needing an extra 500m of runway is not a worry, though your decision might also be influenced by the rejected takeoff distance you need to have as margin. Been there, in a plane where we needed all that 8km of runway to take off, and a good bit of ground effect as well to gain velocity before climbing up. Know of one where they flew in ground effect pretty much the whole flight, due to a miscalculation in load. No way they were doing a go around in an active war zone either, they just came back with the odd bits of tree and a new collection of holes.
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  1874.  @radishpineapple74  5% might be not much, but it can mean you cannot take off at your mass, not due to the runway being too short to take off, but that you cannot have a rejected take off without overrun. running the engines up to full power increases the chance that a marginal part can fail just before V1, and you then will destroy the plane in the emergency stop, or at a minimum destroy your tyres and braking system. most of the time you never take off at full power, but at a lower setting, reducing wear and stress on the engines. If you are at the point you need full power then you are cutting it way too close for long engine life.
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  1875. So the auction house literally paid you to take the machine away.......
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  1876. That floor panel is easy to get as pattern, and simple enough to cut out the bad section, cut matching from the new one, and simply spot weld in place.
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  1877. Spam bots at it again......
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  1878. My second last car when i went to the dealership I took a cardboard box with, to lay down and look under with a torch, all round. Yes minor accident damage on it, but repaired well, and for the price well worth the deal. Had it for 10 years, then sold it, and got my current one, also knowing the history on it.
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  1879.  @jpikl1284  Still will hold out, as the larger diameter thread into the parent metal resists the pull, plus it is spread out over a larger area of the very hard wire.12.9 grade yes it will still rip out, but at a much higher load, and you can always use a much longer insert or multiple inserts, as I have done on deep holes.
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  1880.  @nicholasvinen  Saved $1.29, and also got a $5k replacement engine sale, just outside of warranty period, as a bonus as well. So made an extra $5001.29 per vehicle in profits.
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  1881.  @scottmanley  Yes, though the film was from Kodak, who had developed the method of producing it, for another also top secret mission, that also involved aircraft recovering the film. Later on everybody got to use this film process, as it become a huge commercial success.
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  1882. Very common that, the hose shrinks with time, and pulls loose. Solution is to buy a length of hose and make new ends for it, and use a little heat to soften the new hose first, so it goes on easy. No need for sealer at all if the hose is hot and pliable to go over nicely.
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  1883. They do not call it the EcoBoom for nothing. Bearings likely trashed by now, and the lifters are busy making flake paint off the cams.
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  1884.  @tissuepaper9962  You are a little low on the prices, the machinery costs billions of dollars, the running costs for the 3 month maintenance intervals are just millions of dollars. Yet out of that the fab can make a profit, selling parts for the price of 100 units per US cent. Big volume, or very expensive parts, same thing, they all take up to a year to go through, and no way to make it go through faster.
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  1885.  @SchoolReports  Yes because they are also over driven. Run the LED dies at half the current, and cool them slightly better, and they will last a much longer time. Done both so they can cut cost, as they need fewer chips for the same light output, and also to make sure you come back soon for a new one. Funny thing is that, at least till the end of the year, incandescent lamps are still on sale, and due to tax they cost more than LED.
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  1886.  @wyndhamcoffman8961  Often for short intervals they simply close the barn doors, so they absorb all the heat and light, so that the lamps stay hot.
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  1887.  @johnp139  Yes but still better than being homeless.
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  1888.  @LDuncanKelly  Driving 60mph at night buzzed everything is a blur, and even a bright reflective sign saying there is a mountain and to turn will be ignored. Military needs to appeal, using that he admitted speeding, driving while impaired, and also driving with poor vision, and recklessly.
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  1889.  @Jirodyne  Military does not close off airfields to land, they rely on ATC for that, and uncontrolled airfields normally are posted that this is an airfield. Snowmobile guy admitted that he knew this was an airfield, having seen the signs, yet still drove like it was a highway at noon speed. His claim that he had never seen a plane land there is bogus, it is entirely possible to drive to an airfield ( one 10km from me) at any time, and not see anything take off or landing, because it is a small low frequency airfield, and you are there infrequently. Up in a mountain an airfield will get mostly casevac traffic, and only then if some idiot plants himself while drunk on a snowmobile. Plus he likely did not take the path that circumnavigates the landing area, because that involves slowing down and making 4 turns, which in his drunk state would be hard, but instead went straight across, and hit the big highly visible helicopter there. Even if it had lights on, engines running, and strobe lights on, it is still likely he would have hit it, because of the impaired responses and poor vision.
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  1890.  @wombatperson  Radiation damage mostly to the AR coatings, and to the optical glues used to make compound lenses. Simple lens with no AR coating will survive a lot of radiation, a lot more than needed to totally wipe out the semiconductors and destroy the heavy metal phosphor coating on the target. Exactly the same as what you get with those lenses when exposed to plain sunlight, and the high UV level, without a UV block filter in front of them, typically integrated into the front ND filter that is coated to be both UV block and IR blocking as well, at least for modern CMOS sensors, which are really sensitive to IR as well.
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  1891. Winston Smith is alive and well, working at the ministry of Truth/Amazon.
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  1892. Problem is the many who just do a wash, flush and a rattlecan overhaul, and short of tearing it apart you have no way to see before you put it in. Then you are good at doing it the second time.....
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  1893. More down to they simjply go and cut wires with the engine running that lead to the ignition switch. When it stops running that is the wire they use, and grab power and ground off the OBD port, as that at least they can figure out the 2 correct wires. Then tape up the connections sort of, and put the covers back, and done in 10 minutes. Remember the person installing is no auto electrician, just has possibly a sheet of paper that comes with the device, with a picture of the OBD port connections for power and ground, and then 2 wires used to operate the disabling. Then takes the sheet to the office, with the vehicle VIN and the serial number of the kill unit on it, and this is entered into the loan sheet. Plenty of opportunities for a mistyped number there, or the papers to be mixed, between the half dozen vehicles being done that hour. If you buy from one of those places it is well worth being able to figure out how that works, and to simply disconnect it from being able to disable, and fix the wiring back to correct again, as those devices also have a rather high failure rate, as they are sold based on cost. Power still needs to be applied, as they often also act as tracking on the vehicle, so need power to operate. Supposed to be removed when the loan is finished, but often are not, and you might land up with somebody having an old one getting the wrong serial entered into a lender that activates it.
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  1894. Moving 12ft is easy, likely all he has to do is extend the foundation out on one side, and then the house movers, jack up the house off the foundation, disconnect service points for water, power, gas and sewage, and then they simply slide it over the 12 feet, and reconnect the services. then after the move demolish the foundation now exposed, and it is done. You do not even have to empty the house out, except those spots where you need to remove floor boards to get to the joists., and then replace the boards after it is complete. Likely this house is built on the one parcel, and the adjacent parcel setback allows use up to the edge, especially as the 2 plots have the same owner. After he is done he can actually subdivide the old plot, keeping a buffer zone, and sell the remainder, getting some of the cost back, though now he could also apply for a rezone, to drop it back to being agricultural land, and simply mow every year and sell the grass as silage, which will allow him to forever keep the low agricultural rates, and still barely make enough money to cover the rates, or sell the land use right to a local farmer for the annual rates amount.
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  1895.  @MrTheHillfolk  Not even good enough to use as dog food either, and too toxic to use as pig food either.
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  1896. Funny I have some rolls of that door snot, in both the beige and bitumen, it has come in handy when working on car doors, getting to replace the old stuff.
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  1897.  @HumbleMechanic  You can at least look at getting used parts to rebuild, like the SRS stuff, off of one that perhaps got totalled in another way but did not have SRS activation.
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  1898. Still have a pack or three of Phillips 22W tornado CFL lamps, which do actually last around 8 years in use, on all night. bought them around 2000, a whole case, and they will probably last me a long time still, as they are the last lamps they used good capacitors in, and also used full size TO220 transistors in on the board, so do not cook themselves to death like the new ones. Still have black PCB material at EOL, but at least the transistors do not run that hot that they unsolder themselves, like the modern ones do. The main capacitor also sits in the socket, so runs cooler, though of course it still get well toasted. Pretty much every one goes EOL with the filaments wearing out, not from electronics failing. Which seems to be the main issue with LED, in that you either have the driver die, or the dies themselves get the black spot of death on them. Ah well, if I run out of tornados I still have a number of magnetic ballast conversion units, which plug into a standard B22 socket, and take a PL lamp in the top, those pretty much will run till the plastic falls apart. PL7, PL9, PL10, PL11 and PL13 all work there, the magic of constant current, and glow starter construction in the lamp.
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  1899.  @WrenchingWithKenny  Will show you any corroded terminals as a warmer spot.
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  1900. With it being a manual box while you have the clutch out, and if it is at all worn slap in a new clutch plate, or at least a new release bearing and pilot bush, as you have it out already, and putting in a new one is zero extra labour cost, and so much better for reliability.
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  1901. For commercial aircraft the biggest problem is not just jamming, but also incidental radiation from other devices, like the emissions of all your cheap unshielded IOT things in the house and area, that have no shielding, and no certification at all, that have random harmonics on the GPS frequencies. This gives you random dropouts, which means your GPS will have degraded accuracy at times, and also makes it harder to acquire new satellites, as the poor signal, despite appearing strong, is not going to decode well. Very common, and you can see it with a GPS that does plain GPS, like a stand alone one, not a phone, which uses assisted GPS, and which gets most of the location info by using local wireless signals, and local cellular tower locations. Turn on from cold, and you will see areas where getting that initial lock is hard, and your initial location is very poor, varying over a huge volume. I see it by me in some commercial parks, where the initial location can have me up to 50m below sea level, which is king of hard to do without being a submarine, as I live at the coast, and this area is actually only 5m above high tide mark, as the river that flows there has some rather salt tolerant fish, and the odd crocodile as well.
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  1902. Would also add in that even better is to add in as well a carbon monoxide detector, along with the smoke detector. If you have gas supply piped in a gas detector low down is also a good idea, as the combination of a gas detector, and a carbon monoxide detector, will tell you of a potential gas leak, or a blocked flue, before you have enough gas to catch fire, and save you from dying of carbon monoxide poisoning as well.
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  1903. Biggest user of the lock belts are mines, who do not care if they have to change it every week, so long as it will run again in 10 minutes.
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  1904. Also likely to have subtle errors introduced into it, like originally introduced into printed maps as a kind of secret way to prove copying. Might have distorted scales, distorted locations and even things totally wrong in location. That also appears on Google earth as well, for certain locations around the planet, they often either do not show, or are totally wrong deliberately.
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  1905. Just a question, will it still close properly like that? Nice to meet your fellow techs there, Moe looks like he has seen it all, and done it all as well.
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  1906. Yes, I was thinking the same, Kurtis will be getting an order next month for another 50 of the same parts, asking for them to be delivered in 2 weeks.
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  1907. Sadly they will get absolutely no consequence, the city and the citizens will be the ones paying the cost for this. Needs to be that the officers have something to lose, so they can also think first instead of acting on prejudice. Best thing to ask in the court when the officer says he knows the brother, is to ask the officer if he meant that he is an ex boyfriend of the brother, or is he a person who bought drugs off the brother, or if he arrested the brother, or if there is any other reason that he would associate the actions of the one brother with the other. Sow doubt in the testimony and integrity of the officer in court.
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  1908. Simplest way is to look at the actual ticket section, which probably is classed as "parking at an expired meter", which is separate from "exceeding the 2 hour limit", though the first case likely also has the chalk mark, as the second round saw the expired meter, and the issue of the ticket, while the chalk mark had been placed there already.
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  1909. Try your local shebeen, or failing that your local cop shop........
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  1910.  @maximummax7  Yes there are certainly plenty of people selling, and you probably will find it easily on Fakebook as well.
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  1911. That differential fluid change for one, and then a 10 minute road test with you showing how this performs.
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  1912. Ship hit the small pier, and demolished the concrete support pillar that held up half the section of bridge. Doubt there was enough margin in the build to have the 2 span sections survive having the support removed, and they had torsional motion, and box structures are not at all rigid to torsion, so failed.
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  1913.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  Will start with the tyres, then work on the pieces as they come down to tooth level.
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  1914. One possible explanation might be experience of the driver. Small car, likely first new car, relatively young inexperienced driver, and driving slightly riskier than an older more careful risk adverse driver, plus driving at excessive speed for conditions, simply due to lack of experience in stopping distances, turning and braking efficiency in the driver.
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  1915. Even before the floods the sewage was running in the streets, this was not only from the floods, but from long term neglect, and ignoring the problems. The floods were just another thing that came, because they have been so busy and ignoring the basic maintenance of things like storm water drains and such, that the floods showed were both blocked, neglected and broken. After all heavy rain is not exactly unknown in Durban, and is generally an expected thing to occur.
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  1916. But as this likely was a rental, no anti sway hitch, and likely driver did not do the simple thing and apply trailer braking, either because did not thin, or it was not working.
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  1917.  @ORRadtech  Leaking, and then the thread corroded out, and the sensor fell out. Thus no thread really in the hole.
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  1918.  @YoungWolffe  Still cannot stand the taste of pineapple, after 3 months of every meal tasting of it, including the coffee and tea.
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  1919. Reason for the colour split is probably that the ADC is using the blanking interval as a way to reference black level and peak white level during the conversion, so that the input signal can be offset and gain trimmed to make full use of the limited number of bits of the ADC, probably only an 8 bit flash converter ( which still needs a resistor ladder and 256 comparators on the flash converter chip to drive the logic, that provides a binary value equal to the peak value of the ADC input) that is fed a sampled voltage of the black level as bottom reference, and then fed a buffered voltage equal to peak white for that frame. 8 bit flash as the design probably was late 1990's, and faster flash converters with higher resolutions were very expensive, but CMOS flash converters with 8 bits ( CA3308 for example) were almost same price wise, and could sample at 15MHz with 8 bit resolution, just needed a fair bit of work to make maximum use of the limited input voltage range. Likely 3 ADC's all fed after the colour matrixing decodes the signals into luminance and the 2 chroma difference signals, and then the digital values are used to generate the 3 bitmaps of the frame, for sequential read out and conversion back to analogue video for the CRT. If you select RGB input they use the 3 converters direct per colour, so no distortion, but analogue video would need the matrix to get the signals apart, and red is typically the one that suffers the most, as it is always the poor cousin to the dominant green signal. Having only 253 values available you wanted to use the range fully, so had to use the blanking interval sampling, as in a VCR, to set the gains, thus the Macrovision interference, and the same for head switching tearing, as that also corrupts the reference levels in the blanking interval. The red would probably be due to the maths required having underflows or overflows, and ignoring the carry or borrow in the output to the DAC driving the CRT after the frame buffer. As the data is only there for a frame no real worry, but a really interesting technique used there, which I think was pioneered by Tektronix in a series of digital oscilloscopes, that had a colour screen, using a very similar system.
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  1920.  @WrenchingWithKenny  Pleasure Meg, glad to see you are going well, and your husband is a great teacher as well, with his great ability to explain things, and willing to learn new stuff.
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  1921. @midnitesquirldog1 Octane booster on the cheap is 10% plain pure methanol, it ups the octane, but does horrid things otherwise. Try to buy aviation spirit, it is 100 octane minimum, but also does funky thing to your engine. We did get a little Passola bike up to over 120kph before the engine seized solid.
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  1922. I used a microwave as a disk spindle erase4r, doing 50 at a time. You get a nice 3d effect when it does that.
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  1923. Know one business that got one, because he wanted to make an ingredient himself, as buying it ready made was expensive. So started making his own freeze dried papaya and Hoodia. Then an industrial blender to make it into a fine powder. That oil filtration is easier to do by simply going and getting a used oil container, and buying new oil. A 5l of refrigeration oil is cheap, and will do around 10 oil changes, and will definitely be cheaper and easier than the charcoal filter they sell, as you will still need to top up the oil anyway, as the filter will hold some back.
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  1924. Yes people go for the manufacturer interval, which is designed to get the engine out of warranty before something fails, and thus you either buy a new engine, overhaul it, put in a used one, or trade in the scrap for a new one. All 4 result in profit for the manufacturer, and the long oil change intervals also are profitable, because you go to the dealership, and they can sell you new pads and rotors, because the long interval means you were through the pad and damaged the rotors, or the suspension is shot and needs bushes. But the manufacturer only has to pay for 6 oil changes in warranty as part of a plan, but gets to upsell 6 times, and no 7, with the big sticker shock, is not covered, and you have to fix it, as you still owe money on the loan, and it needs to run for another 2 years before you have paid it off. So loan more money from the dealer, now you are there for another 3 years as customer.
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  1925. Still got the Gedore socket set I bought when I was 18, and it still has all the sockets and drivers, though I did add in both a wobble extension, and a regular swivel as well. Got a toolbox with the rest of the sockets i got over the years. Most used though is a cheap Chinese special, on sale because it did not come with a 13mm socket, so my father bought it, and simply added a 13mm Gedore socket in he picked up on a flea market. Tough set, been abused a lot, and aside from scratches nothing else damage wise, just keep the ratchets lubricated, and clean then every so often.
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  1926.  @Bryan-Hensley  The issue is not heat, but voltage drop, which limits the output of the alternator. Thicker wires allow higher charge current to the battery at the same alternator terminal voltage, and as well you want to look at upgrading the battery negative wiring, and the engine to chassis grounding wire as well. Looking to do that at some point, going from 2 gauge GM wire to 00 gauge. Just will have to solder the lug on, as I do not have the crimp tooling for it. Jumper cables of that 00 gauge wire are great, no need to have the donor engine running to start the flat battery at all, and they are 5m long as well.
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  1927. Yes here by me you can do cardless transactions at an ATM, no card needed, but you also explicity need to enter a confirmation sent to your phone, and it will ask you if you are completed, and after 10 seconds log you out anyway.
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  1928. Tasnat, the company that runs buses where the majority run near empty, and where the schedule and timing can be described as "hopefully some time soon", along with it seems every bus they have has either major damage, or the engine covers are wide open while they drive.
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  1929.  @superfunnymonkey123  AAA internal chemistry is alkaline, but cleaning the powder up with a vacuum cleaner, and then using a cloth damped with white vinegar to dab clean the carpet and area, followed by a rinse with fresh water on another cloth, making the area damp, and allowing to dry, will remove all the residue. The internal chemistry of the alkaline cell is only corrosive when in contact with metal and plastic for long periods in an enclosed space, as it otherwise dries out fast. Just clean up, wash the bag inside to clean it, and leave to dry.
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  1930. Note LOX is the same, with the added benefit of it also catching things on fire as well. Done the freeze stuff, though the snake I did was dropped, fumble fingers in the gloves, and it shattered when it hit the ground. Also remember the liquid nitrogen will slowly condense oxygen out of the air with time, so the end of the dewar time, if it has not been opened, will contain a very high contaminant of liquid oxygen, so be careful in using it, as it will actually enhance combustion, and will catch things on fire with only a spark. The laboratory method to get liquid oxygen, as it normally is not provided because of the hazard, is to take a cylinder of medical grade (or welding grade if nothing else is to hand) high pressure oxygen, and slowly bleed it, through a regulator, to a length of small diameter, 6mm to 10mm copper, stainless steel or mild steel pipe, and place a coil of the pipe in the liquid nitrogen, so that at the open end of the pipe you get liquid oxygen that condensed from the gas appearing. The 2C difference in boiling point at standard pressure means you lose some of the oxygen still, but the majority will condense out as liquid for your experiment. Oh and high pressure oxygen or LOX makes many things burn, like shoe polish, graphite seal packings, any oil residue, most plastics, and clothing. Reason the LOX tanks were all in a separate blockhouse, each one with it's own heavy steel blast door, and with nothing else at all stored in there other than the LOX tank, the filling station and the hoses for this. On a 40C day though this was the coolest place to be, always under 10C, and your breath would come out as mist, and especially when the tanks were full and venting, and the floor had a thick mist all over from the vented liquid.
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  1931. Broke a vice getting one out, and then went and grabbed the arc welder to shrink the outer race, and the grinder to cut the inner race. MB B class. Was glad to see that one go to the sales floor, nice car, but expensive to keep in good order.
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  1932. By me yes, being 2 blocks off from the main road cam make the difference between arriving, or being a news article on page 12 of the newspaper a week later. Kasi driving no things like stop signs, slow down or street light, blow hooter and bull through. Plus do not drive a Toyota or VW, and especially a Quantum van. But even there done plenty of driving there, work colleagues live there, and if they miss the last taxi or train I took them home. Even if I was driving in Groutville at night, with no lights, and using the moon.
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  1933.  @CaptainSpadaro  Enables them to meet EPA "simulated driving condition" testing for fuel economy, by simply not having the cylinders fire when power demand is very low, which is a good part of the test regime. No fuel injected, no spark firing, no fuel used.
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  1934.  @garywheeley5108  They likely carried at least 3 spare tubes for each position, and the same for light bulbs. However the bulbs and covers are almost always mounted with sturdy anti vibration mounts, so they do not really shatter as seen in the movies, they survive quite well, seeing as normally they have very sturdy heavy duty filaments, with a lot of supports. Submarine designers know there will be always water and vibration, so they make sure that things like lamps and the radios, along with all sensitive equipment and panels, are mounted on anti vibration mounts, which also serve a dual purpose to keep them from buckling as the hull is compressed at depth. Even the walkways and decks have the same anti vibration mounts, both to keep from transmitting noise to the hull, and to keep them from buckling. Damage from depth charges that breaks a bulb normally was pretty much followed by the hull breaching. Also the light fixtures all had at least 2 lamps in there, some having 4, 2 being filtered with a red glass, used in the conning tower so the captain could have night adapted eyes to use the periscope, or to run at night on the surface to charge batteries and change air. Submarines in that time were not well lit, which is why they had a lot of battery powered torches, to see to do maintenance and repairs. Those batteries were very carefully husbanded, though I would say a few enterprising submariners also managed to "acquire" lead acid mining lamps to use, as those are easy to charge off the ship batteries.
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  1935. Grabbing stored ground heat though will probably be cheaper power wise though, and as a bonus will work down to really cold temperatures, so while the up front cost is higher might be worth it if you plan to live there long term, as power costs will never decrease.
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  1936. Dealer did a drive by, saw there were probably 4 wheels on it, and said it was good. Previous owner probably did little more than fill fuel, fill oil when the red light came on, fill water when the gauge was on the top peg and nothing else. Then sold it when it stopped moving, or they were driving hard and got passed by a snail.
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  1937. My first car was a well used VW beetle, and my second was a Toyota Corolla.
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  1938. Major lowering of the labour cost, and ensuring all the critical precision jobs are always done right every time. Yes the initial costs are very high, but they probably have already earned back that cost in lower warranty costs, and in much lower on the line fixes as well. Plus removing all the on line cosmetic damage, that makes the machine immediately a "second grade" unit, and a much lower selling price from the factory, basically selling it at cost, and making no profit at all from it.
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  1939.  @GCAT01Living  A factory scratch and dent is cheaper, though normally these go into sales for commercial use, who want a lower price, and do not worry about a tiny bit of cosmetic damage, because they will run the machine into the ground in 3 years anyway, then toss it out and replace it.
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  1940. Half the time the police stop and park by the no parking, yet tow cars from there, so long as they are not police vehicles. Me I used to park in the loading zone, no way they could stop me, commercial vehicle, and I was normally there for a delivery. Normally cash to pay for other vehicle parking tickets, though I would also check just in case they had one for my vehicle, or my friends as well. People take the tickets off the windscreen, even though the city, as in a story on Reddit, where they say putting on a windscreen is a valid way to serve, so he told them the cheque was placed on the windscreen of a city garbage truck, as that was a valid way to pay them as well.
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  1941. Experience, and likely the mine has been sending him jobs since he was a young apprentice as well.
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  1942. Canister normally gets dirty because it sits on the ground. Split sort of self cleans because it is above the ground, and thus does not get so much dirt on it. Think this self clean cycle is a manufacturer quirk, most mini splits do not, as they only have a single fan speed, and thus can only run the fan at a single speed, or modulate it to drop speed down, you would need to have an outdoor unit inverter board, and thus a digital comms between the two, to get them to do fan speed control and direction. Only reason I can see for it is in freezing conditions, where the coil is swapped to cooling, and then the fan runs to pull the defrosting ice off it, and they left this as a default behaviour. Do not see it in temperate climate units, they do not have to act as heat pumps much below 0C, so can get away with simply turning the fan off outside, and running as cooling, with indoor fan off as well, till the outdoor temperature sensor starts to rise above 0C, indicating defrost is complete.
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  1943.  @claudiuspulcher2440  With some of the people i know having worked with seals in a certain unnamed country, in an unnamed capacity, they definitely could accomplish that. Especially if they had done this to a few of their colleagues as well, and did not seem to learn from the process.
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  1944.  @Thezuule1  Nope, till you reach terminal velocity you will experience zero G, exactly like in LEO or in the vomit comet. Of course the stop at the end is going to mean you have to dissipate all that kinetic energy rather rapidly.
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  1945. Umpires have a big problem, in that every spectator thinks they are all better umpires, and that the umpire on field is either blind, deaf, or being paid off by the other team. Might be true in some cases, but generally not. At least this is baseball, if you are a football referee, in a lot of countries you will have a police escort to and from the airport, and a set of them who escort you on and off the field, and to your hotel, and stand outside the door. Some people take the game all too seriously, and there is a lot of big money riding in bets on the outcomes as well.
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  1946. As well they were helped by the messages having a very much fixed format, and that you could always be sure the message started the message with a very fixed forma, and almost always ended with a salutation as well.
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  1947. The accountant who said to delete the drain plug is the one you want to tie up, and pour 2 gallons of the ATF into, using the pump, via his drain hole. Your choice which drain hole you use, though you will need tape to use the front one.
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  1948. Considering the price per case, those must have been 150lb cases of wings, which for sure are going to be a crap load of wings. Either she had a contact who could sell them to a lot of chains, or they were being loaded into containers and shipped frozen all over the place, because that is a good few tons of chicken there, roughly 800 tons by my estimate, though that depends if the price they are quoting is the retail or the wholesale price of the chicken.
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  1949. Those bolts are called shoulder bolts, which are commonly used to make a slide or a bearing inner pivot. Around $2 each retail. Looks like they are 8mm by 50mm, a common enough size for them, and often used in machinery where you have sliding parts that need a precision guide, like in plastic moulding.
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  1950. You still get the spare parts, but the modern ones are hard to get apart. Best to go to a good rebuilder, and let them fix it, and test it to say the unit is working well.
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  1951. Thing is by me the metro estimated more than half the water they receive is lost to either illegal connections or leaks. For my place I do look carefully at water use, and make sure to hunt down and fix any of them immediately I find them. Saves a lot of money even short term, in that you also become aware of just how easy it is to ignore a small drip from a tap, but it all adds up.
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  1952.  @TwoBitDaVinci  All of them. I am currently without water, because the pipes feeding got destroyed in a storm, along with the pumps. But still better off than the people to the south, who have not had water for over 50 days and counting, from the previous tropical storm. At least I still have a house, there have been quite a few who lost everything.
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  1953.  @clivedavis6859  Hard oil to fill as well, you look at the dipstick, wipe it clean, and put it back in the hot oil, and the stuff is black ink. The cold oil you are filling with will not flow easily, you almost are putting it in with a scraper.
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  1954. Nope, most enters via shipping container, just like every other country. Customs only searches 1 in 100, or less, and often the search is just look at the manifest and the mass, to see they agree.
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  1955. Bet he is still going to drive though, but next time the rozzers nick him he will be doing that 18 months in addition to whatever he gets. Even if he gets a parking fine now he will be done over.
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  1956. Likely will be in an institution, due to diminished capacity, so it will be quiet.
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  1957. Should look into using solid rivets there, they look so much nicer than pop rivets, and you can get aircraft grade ones cheap, and either buy, or make the tooling on your lathe.
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  1958. Pawel can also ask the parking garage for the footage of the vehicles entering and exiting at around that time, because almost all have very good camera coverage of entrances and exits, and they would likely release the footage for the court case, once asked by a lawyer.
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  1959.  @jusb1066  Was common to add the peels to differentials to stop the while for a time, as they made the oil inside a lot thicker and more of a gap filler, stopping gear to gear contact till they disintegrated.
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  1960. Property management companies where the power bills are all under one sheet, not broken down to a building or floor, so that tenants are billed for it, instead all get averaged for it. Till somebody actually complains about the light pollution to the company social media nothing will be done.
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  1961. One day soon Kurtis will be working on the big lathe, with one of those birds sitting on his shoulder, wanting to comment on the work.....
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  1962. Here by me if you drive higher end vehicles your insurance will demand a tracking system, and generally the drop in rate covers the system. However for those at the top of the list they now demand 2 separate tracking systems, or even 3, on the grounds at least one might escape detection long enough to trace the vehicle. Of course the thieves or hijackers simply strip the interior while moving, find them and toss them out the window, so the tracking company gets the unit back.
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  1963.  @justadudeffs  Also not in the USA either, so there is that as well.
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  1964.  @Spellitlikeitsounds  Mark made them outside MS, IIRC, and was then taken over by MS because of those tools, which are still some of the best around for Windows. Just note that, for some reason, the more Eastern antivirus companies flag them as malware for some reason, even if they are the originals downloaded from MS, or even the old versions downloaded from Sysinternals before they even were bought out. Very odd that.....
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  1965. Who says he stayed on the road, which probably accounted for the 4 flat wheels. Drive through to get some coffee, because that hangover must have been monumental, so coffee and whatever would be just fine.
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  1966. Throwing away what is a finite resource, because you do not like it, or even if it is broken, is never good. Imagine if you had to keep all the garbage you ever made in your house forever, and you would want to minimise the amount you produce. Most first world households would be out on the street in under a month, with the house full.
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  1967.  @jeffostroff  But for the day it was perfectly acceptable steel, only after WWI did they start to appreciate the role that adding manganese does to improve steel, and how sulphur makes it cold brittle. That steel passed the tests which were in place when it was made. The issue showed up in the first Liberty ships being made, where they were made fast, cheap and light, so used thinner steel, and showed up as cold cracking in places with sharp corners, which is why you get rounded corners now on all hulls, so as to not have stress risers. The cracking also showed up in the coldest weather, which probably was the reason some of the ships sank so fast when attacked by U boats, in that the brittle steel simply tore from the stress, instead of yielding and deforming like it would do if it was only 10C warmer. Only after the war when the victors looked at the processing Krupp did to their steel, which did not suffer from this (war secret) did the standards change.
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  1968.  @timtnr.6177  Yes, and ironically they only used the wrought iron rivets in the bow section, because for the rest of the ship they had an automatic rivet machine, which would use steel rivets that it loaded and heated up automatically. But for the front of the bow there was no room to place the automatic machine, so they had to use the wrought iron rivets and gangs of riveters to do it by hand.
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  1969. The Kia dashboard to clean it you need cheap alcohol based hand sanitiser, and a lot of shop rags, to wipe off that film of degraded urethane on the plastic parts. works for me, and gets most of it off after a few goes, making the cloths become very goopy when applied, and the second time it will be cleaner, and then clean. Gel based ones work best, they hold on to the surface better. you will use a lot, i used around 50ml to clean a small piece, and am slowly working my way through to the rest. Then hit with dashboard protector to keep it semi clean and coming back.
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  1970. You can do what a lot of maufacturers do and send a sheet with every OEM part that tells you this is a compatible replacement part for these old part numbers, and any changes they need to do when installing them. Or do the GM one and make the new part have the exact same part number as the faulty one, and simply start introducing them into the spares chain to dealerships, so that nobody, unless looking at manufacture date on the outer plastic bag label from the OEM (often lost along the way) to see if it was made after, and by the plants that were making the upgraded part. If you got the old one, tough, put in yet another known to fail ignition switch, and pay for it to be replaced a time or three again, till you got by accident the upgraded part less likely to burn up.
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  1971. No4 what do you expect driving with painted on rubber on a rim. with potholes so common best is to get higher profile rims, and actual sidewall to handle the impacts, you will not blow out so many tyres because you went for the "but i got such thin rubber" look, and as a bonus smoother ride, and a shed load cheaper as well.
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  1972. 1990 you can bet every single fighter squadron all over the world had at least 3 well played VHS copies of Top Gun that would be watched by all the pilots every week, with freeze frame being used step by step every action section to get pointers for training. Ray Bans were the thing for each of them as well, to the point the stores only issued them to the pilots, you wanted them you had to buy them retail, not free from stores.
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  1973. Yes, I like the companies that send the electronic copy, plus they also have a no quibbles return on things as well. I asked one day, and the record goes back over 20 years, from the first purchase on the card. As to that 6Ah battery, you probably will find the 5Ah version is no longer supplied, so they give the most close replacement item they have, that will work there.
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  1974. That the valves do not release says the stops are not adjusted correctly, you need to back those stops out a little so they contact the valve cores and release them. Very common for these to come from the factory not adjusted correctly, and for you needing to set them up correctly before use. Just like the blocked drain, consider this a kit that came fully assembled, but which you need to strip and set up yourself before you use it. I do this with all new stuff I get as tools, you need to set them up to work first.
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  1975. Probably never submitted the paperwork through, or sent it to another state, who will not bother to send through to FL.
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  1976. So instead they built schools there.......
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  1977. On the plus side, at least the broken coils does mean they possibly changed the plugs, or at least had them out.....
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  1978.  @TimfromAlabama  Even on regular truck it helps when you go off road, to prevent kick back on the steering wheel. You do not notice in normal use, as the rate of turn you apply is well below the limit for the shock, but it keeps sudden sharp inputs damped down. On road reduces steering shimmy as well ,and keeps you upright when you do a sharp turn of the wheel, keeping the rate of turn below what will topple the vehicle.
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  1979.  @Pitt-ny8cj  Yup wrong bridge, not exactly great with US geography, seeing as I am half way around the planet.....
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  1980.  @BedsitBob  they send letters, here is is a series of SMS messages, and the occasional phonecall, which is never answered.
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  1981. It's dead already Jim.....
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  1982. Very likely a solid propellant, like the one used in the SRB of the space shuttle, though burning with a much lower chamber pressure, so making a lot of excess carbon soot. Basically rubber with some powdered metal in it, and blended with some oxidiser chemical, then cast into a slug.
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  1983. I used to work with a man, who had a postal address of his full name, unnumbered house, unnumbered street, Amaoti. He got his mail delivered there, because the postman, along with everybody in the neighborhood, all knew him well. Of course now postal delivery is more hit and miss, because the postal service delivers, whatever they did not take.
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  1984. Bet he still did not learn anything though, blaming everybody but himself.
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  1985.  @dino6627  Yup, got a whole lot of 25W ones, but without heatsink they are only rated for 7W.
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  1986. Basically they got caught, but the fine is a lot cheaper than actually fixing in the first place.
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  1987. And changes with time. Noddy used to be appropriate for schools, but got banned, same for many of the old books around, even Tom Sawyer is banned by some schools.
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  1988.  @ayubious  Just look for old scanners, they are cheap.
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  1989. @ Built stronger than a flight recorder memory capsule, and going to survive re entry thermal stress much higher than earth re entry, it might still have intact seals when recovered as well, so if it is found in shallow water under 1km deep it will likely have survived.
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  1990.  @WrenchingWithKenny  Depends where they are made, and you also will find your filters are made by a few factories around the world, just the paint used and the metal thickness varies according to the order.
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  1991. How do you make hydrogen commercially, but by chemical decomposition of methane or other natural gas. What is overall efficiency of that process compared to taking same energy of fuel, and turning direct to electric power in a large efficient power plant.
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  1992. No, gets in via the rotating part of the switch collecting water.
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  1993. Just replace with the stock ones, it makes a massive difference in handling. Solves around half of your body roll just having new shocks and rubbers all round.
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  1994. Not even Chinesium, just they make the plates as thin as possible, and then put the minimum of paste on them, to cut the cost of the lead. Then seal the top so you cannot even add water to make up for losses.
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  1995.  @BigOleBallSack  And in Europe they do a lot more short flights, so statistically spend more time in the danger phase of take off and landing, especially with flights sometimes being under 30 minutes. plus more congested airspace generally overall.
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  1996.  @lawrencedoliveiro9104  To run a run of them, using existing masks, the quote came to $10 per transistor, with a lead time of 18 months, and a minimum order quantity of 100k units. I needed 2, so went through the pain of putting in the paperwork, to have a common part substituted for this obsolete superceded transistor. The 100k 18 month lead time though is pretty much industry standard, unless it is for something like a sea of gates ASIC, where you only pay for the final metal mask, and run off a existing batch of nearly fully made wafers, where you will get 10k units, 100 wafers, one carrier full, run with your mask, processed and packaged for you. Make sure you got it right, because they only will do a basic wafer test to see if it responds to signals, and is not shorted too badly. Then it can be as low as 6 weeks, though you will pay.
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  1997.  @exi  No need, it has to flex to absorb impact damage, which welding would inhibit. Just have to make sure the paint film seals the joint fully.
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  1998. By me so common that the ticket issuing authority has the forms online for you to dispute the ticket. Had this occur, filled in the form, went to the police station to attest, and both posted and emailed it. Never heard anything further about it.
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  1999. Just the driver, the taxi bosses are fine thank you, with all the untaxed money they have hidden away. Time to have SARS start really looking at them, and taking all those Ferraris and luxury houses away for undeclared income. Plus also look at all the phone calls and messages they have sent, link them to taxi violence, and then charge with terrorism, but then again the minister of hats could never investigate his fellow members.
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  2000. Name match and birthday match to a wanted felon. That is why. Does not take many to get a birthday match, around 25 people, and if he has a common name and surname it is also easy. Look at Steve Lehto, he knows of a felon who has the same name and birthday as him, who lived in the same state, and who is 10 years or so older than him. He has told this story before as example.
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  2001. Note he also got likely the added charge of resisting arrest, if the cop was getting lip back.
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  2002. Funny, just got the 10mS dosage today, lying in a running CT scanner for a half hour, with the lead clothed radiologist busy using needles on me.
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  2003.  @davidh9638  Prison labour, and also what the prison operator got paid by the taxpayers for that time.
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  2004. My bet is they sold him the jeep, then ran out the warranty on him when he complained. Very common then for some crap dealerships, who gave used car salepeople the bad reputation, that shoe salemen, like Al Bundy, looked up to. The sleazy car sales had a basis in reality for sure.
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  2005. Yes, but many will still be visible, so just have to have a tick list, and if any of the visible ones are missing, time to replace the frame.
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  2006.  @stevelehto  Telegram bot reported, yet another one.....
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  2007. That is why Hong Kong airport owns the land on the approach ways, so that they can rent it out with conditions as to height of the buildings. Come in to land and you are flying below the tops of the buildings on approach, and have to make a hard turn just before you touch down. Known to be a really hairy landing for all that fly into there.
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  2008. Yes but for Hyundai the knocking means the whole thing is toast, not really designed to be repaired cheap. You would need to do sleeves in the head, but that likely is more than the engine is worth.
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  2009. Half the time those will be removed by the first mechanic that services the vehicle, because they are the cause for half the "poor start" complaints. Cheaply made, poorly installed and thus prone to failure.
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  2010. Well, the contactors are common to a few EV models, but likely here it just has a defective design or assembly, or using it incorrectly.
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  2011. I guess the FL police departments use the Police Academy videos as part of their training curriculum, just saying the situations depicted are all true police actions, and should be studied carefully.
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  2012.  @Dave-ty2qp  Yes, but amazing the damage an aluminium crush washer can do when it goes through, dropped in the inlet by a pigeon that was attempting to build a nest, and that washer was hidden behind the first few stages after cleaning out the resat. Took the pair a weekend, scavenging a nest of bits of locking wire, the odd twigs and grass stalks, and then laying the 2 eggs in it. They were not happy being evicted.
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  2013.  @darksu6947  Yes they do, but in most cases it is limited in resolution to around 2-5m, though the one office I worked in had it at 1cm resolution, for some reason. However for a municipality to use those images, in any way related to city or town functions, they are required to buy a licence to do so, which gives them very limited rights. Now, if the defence went to Google, and asked if anybody in the city management, either at home or at work (so all map lookups with geolocation in the IP allocation of the town, or any Google account that does get used in the district even if via a VPN), had looked at the area in question within a certain distance of the house, at any resolution, in the weeks prior to this, then they could allow Google to join in to a copyright violation against them, and they would have the entire Alphabet legal team assisting in the case, and the ensuing massive copyright claim against the town. The google maps are limited in resolution, unless the city or township has paid to use them, then they get the latest maps, and previous ones, at full resolution when acquired. Same for street view, you can get rights to use it for commercial use, which is defined as either being used to generate money, or work that is going to result in the payment of any consideration.
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  2014. That clutch probably is used so the pressure is applied to the rim, so the most friction plate area is directly acted on by it, allowing the moving mass to be lighter, and thus more responsive.
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  2015. @russbell6418 Surely there will be a few lawyers, who this shining paragon of virtue has severely annoyed over the years, who will do this for her Pro Bono, in addition to the SLAPP suit.
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  2016.  @Luigi_Vaz  I started with buying a set of install CD's for Redhat, and using them to run on an old Slot 1 Pentium machine that had been tossed out as too slow to run Windows 98, and barely able to run Win 95. It positively flew on that machine, and I was converted.
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  2017.  @GeorgieB1965  The big ones, the small ones do care, but they generally do not export to the world, so I do not get their products. Sadly the smaller ones tend to not grow due to them having quality, and thus a very high price, while the big ones simply cut the amount of the expensive ingredients, relying on brand recognition to stay selling.
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  2018. Yes, fuel consumption was constant, along with top speed. Exactly the same range irrespective of loaded, unloaded, with a caravan on the back, or not. Top speed the same going up hill and down hill, with or without the caravan, though with the caravan stopping was somewhat longer. Could not go past the fuel station, without stopping to fill that tank though.
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  2019.  @rayjames6096  Not in all markets though, they had smaller tanks outside the USA.
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  2020.  @rayjames6096  BIL had one he bought well used here in South Africa, and it had a smaller tank, probably to fit into load regulations for the pick up market for it's size. 3 speed auto, he really wanted to find the overdrive for it, but was never able to afford them when they did pop up.
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  2021. Probably WinCE, which is a very much locked down version, with anything not needed removed totally. Others run Linux, or even the game developers own proprietary code.
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  2022.  @jerrykinnin7941  Problem with dumpsite methane is the contaminants. Major one is silane, SiH4, analogous to methane chemically, and a by product of all the silicone that got dumped there as either furniture polish, silicone sealer, silicone parts like seals, and other such things. This when burnt in an engine does not, like methane, produce carbon dioxide and water, but instead results in the formation of silicon dioxide and water, or with methane silicon carbide. Both are deposited as thin films on the cooler metal parts of the engine, and both are commercially used as very effective abrasives. Thus your engines running on dump site gas tend to have both a much shorter oil life, because of the silane and other contaminants like carbon monoxide and other things like CFC and HFC slowly leaching out from PTFE parts, and also suffer enhanced wear from the abrasive dust that gets deposited into the oil and on all the metal sliding parts. They cannot easily be filtered out by the oil filter, and clog up the filters, and wear the engines out prematurely. Where a natural gas engine might do 20k hours between overhauls, the dump gas one might be lucky to reach 5k hours before blow by is so severe it burns more oil than fuel.
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  2023. Postal locks are bought on the spec of being cheap, and thus are sloppy and simple to pick as well. So easy for somebody to go to the post office late at night, stand there, appear to post a letter, and then pick the lock, or even just have a key, as those locks are all keyed alike, so one key fits almost all, and you can just buy them as well online. Then empty out the letters and bag them, and do the fraud for the next week, then repeat. As well the post office actually does not have a literacy requirement to be a postie, not part of the hiring, so plenty are well past the point of functional illiteracy, and well into "match most shapes" literacy, and those they cannot they simply dump. Protected from being fired by the union as well, so they get a job where all they do in move bags in the office. Another is internal theft, which is why my local post service has the motto of "We Deliver, Whatever we do not take", because it takes them 6 weeks to deliver a letter in the same postal code, even a letter sent via bulk mail, delivered to the sort centre, and going to a PO Box in the same sort centre, literally a floor above. Plus harder and harder to find post boxes, they are going fast, and as well so are the post offices, the one office now serves the area that used to be covered by 8, all closed down, and all in one single building now. The staff complain about being paid late, the deductions going off, but not being paid over, so some are losing medical and pension, and even tax not being paid over, so they get dinged tax time as well.
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  2024. Government has no insurance, they simply pass the cost onto the taxpayers, who have no recourse.
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  2025.  @peterpeter5666  The original ones are not too bad, just suffer the usual Leyland leaks and slop all over.
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  2026.  @KenSiefert  I have gotten delivery drivers fired for that. Running red lights with crossing traffic, and for the other stopping for a little liquid libation, and to lose 10cc, with the car that was supposed to be collected the next day.
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  2027. Ryobi here would just take it, send it in to the service section and let them have the head scratching moments figuring out how that was done. Seen them come in with pistons mashed to powder, conrods visiting outside, but in half never.
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  2028. No need with the bubble blowing after a minute of running, with a cold block.
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  2029.  @robert5  Aftermarket immobiliser, properly installed, which means the wiring harness afterwards looks like original, just has the wiring added to it. Needs a little care to get it looking right, and it slows the thieves down a lot. Also a simple trick is to have the lighter circuit instead be a short across the points, and simply press the lighter in when parking. Hard to see, and very effective as well, unless you have somebody attempt to light up and press the lighter in.
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  2030.  @JesseOsby  I used recycled polycarbonate isotherm insulation, as I had a roll left over, though there are actual form fitting insulating covers available for this.
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  2031. I know a rigging company owner who will move palm trees, and his yard is full of those which were in the way of a development, so had to move temporary. So moved them to his garden, root ball and all, and planted them, then in a few years will move them to a new location, if the property owner is willing to pay again. He got a lot of free palms that way. The developers decided to instead plant a smaller palm in the place, so he got the big old one legally.
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  2032.  @skylinefever  No, that I think was Toyota using models they traditionally did not offer in the US market, done under a different brand name.
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  2033. My mother got her drivers the same way, was taken for a short drive, and got it. Helped that at the time my father was a part time police inspector, and he sort of suggested that an officer go to the house, and test her.
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  2034.  @TheBry_Guy  🤣
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  2035. Well, out in use any that are not tight tend to vanish. Plus not much water there, all of which lead to rusty nuts. Those that do not want to move with the impact will, in some way or the other, yield to the socket, strong bar and the 6m length of cheater pipe. Otherwise there is the plasma cutter there to do the removal. Come off nicely or come off in pieces, but will come off.
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  2036. Here i am watching on a machine that might reach 2% of the performance, but which also cost less than 1% of the price though. Trailing edge still does work remarkably well.
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  2037. Happy birthday Dave!
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  2038. And the upgrade was a drive that autoparked, so you did not need to do so, though of course the park command still did work on them. Still have one with very aggressive autopark, it will park the heads after 0.5 seconds of inactivity. Too bad that it took 0.6 seconds between track reads if you were doing something slightly more compute intensive, like if you ran doublespace, which slowed the drive performance down to a crawl barely better than a floppy drive. This system also had a half height 360k drive, with the same aggressive autopark, plus a head load solenoid as well. Only thing that would not result in hundreds of load cycles was format and checkdisk.
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  2039. They are the outliers, made on a production line which was at optimum, and with the line newly set up and aligned, so the batteries were at the best point the plant could make. Then the plant machinery wore, the seals got less good, and the continuing cost cutting meant the plant went for lower quality seals, lower quality fill and other components, to get that all important price point down another cent per thousand cells made. Brand name is actually not important any more, as your battery could wear one of a hundred names, just the outer sleeve applied, and the blister, is different between them, but the actual cell is identically poorly made. All manufactured at the lowest cost, by the cheapest quote that thinks they can make the volume, and still make a little profit per cell overall. The major price increase comes from the middleman who distributes them in the USA and the company who sells them, the manufacturer of the cells gets only a fraction of the retail price. Have you not noticed no manufacturer any more gives a warranty to repair or replace equipment damaged by leaking batteries, only a warranty that is limited, to a set of similar batteries, when the old ones leak before expiry date.
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  2040.  @Igotitrightagain  By the same logic most deaths occur to living people......
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  2041. They probably do not want to, even though they probably did the alterations.
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  2042. Lowest capacity one I had was a whole 5 MB, which used 2 12inch platters coated with red ferrite as storage, and where it had a transparent top, so you could see the heads moving. Had a mains powered motor to drive the platters via a belt, and took perhaps an hour to transfer all the data off, when backing up to floppy disks. 20 disks or so, each with 100k on them.
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  2043. Plus have good jumper leads. Mine are 5m long, and are made from 0 gauge copper wire. One set in the car, another in the garage. Long and low resistance, even if the dead battery is stone dead, and barely lights the interior light, those will start the vehicle.
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  2044. Zinc is used because it is easy to deposit onto surface of steel and steel alloys, and it is a reactive metal that forms an oxide coating as well. You do get aluminium coated steel, but it is a much more expensive coating, as you have to apply it in an inert atmosphere. Zinc you can apply to clean bare steel in an open bath, either by immersing the cleaned and acid etched steel into a bath of molten zinc, or by using electrochemistry to apply it in an electrochemical cell from a zinc anode, using a zinc chloride in water solution. Aluminium you can do neither, the melting point is too high to have it out in the atmosphere, as it will catch fire, and in water it is too reactive. Thus you have to apply as a coating via sputtering in a relatively high vacuum, running a cleaned steel sheet from a roll to another in the vacuum. Chrome and it's alloys with steel work, but rely on the formation of a chromium oxide layer to passivate the surface. Thus stainless steels, but they are all slowly going to corrode as the thin surface layer wears, and are not really suited for salt water use, or near the ocean, as the saltchemically reacts with the coating to dissolve it with time. Any chloride will do it, so even road salt will slowly erode it away.
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  2045. Just takes a clean with a bit of grit in the cloth to change the barrel as well. Also if you fire a lot, the wear on that barrel will be considerable.
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  2046. Starlink is the first to do that, even if it costs more than sucky DSL, it is killing in the rural market, which with cable and telco is a very high maintenance market, yet low return, and they are mandated, like other utilities like electric, to cover to keep their charter intact. Got to maintain that cable to the house, even if not used for anything other than calling 911, or face loosing the federal money. Then need to get mobile data prices down to the same as cable as well.
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  2047.  @jeffostroff  Inspected from the office more likely, after the envelope changed hands.
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  2048.  @wgowshipping  Yes and most new ICE cars are shipped with a part tank of fuel, simply to cover the driving needed to get from the plant to the ship, and off the ship afterwards, into the receiving warehouse at the ports. So each will have roughly a half tank of fuel in them. EV's will, if new, only have a part charge as well, basically the initial test charge at the plant, then the discharge where the battery pack was tested for initial QC and to allow the BMS to get a capacity map for each cell block. Then whatever was used to drive on the ship, and the losses from self discharge or the battery needing to maintain temperature. Yes likely they are going to require disconnecting the 12V battery pack once parked, so will make shipping take 15 minutes more per vehicle both ends, as they will have the additional step after loading and tie down, and the same before undoing the straps. But will also result in some strange faults as most modern vehicles really do not like the battery disconnected, and many luxury vehicles, especially those with electric handbrake, have a second auxiliary battery as well that you need to disconnect, which often needs dismantling parts of the interior to reach it.
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  2049. Either batteries went flat, or they were removed, or simply were disconnected because they "went off too often" by somebody. Or simply were never checked, and painted over time and again.
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  2050. Alfa had that, though they also did a bigger difference and had inboard calipers, so that a vehicle with standard 15in rims off the factory could have 19in disk rotors, and thus much better stopping power. Handbrake worked the same front pads as well, so the handbrake mechanism provided a lot of holding force, if adjusted properly. the big rotors really helped in driving sporty, you could scrub off speed faster than you could put it on, and those massive rotors did not fade much at all, unless you really were abusing them. Unfortunately they could not make an automatic adjuster there, so you would need the 2 special Alfa tools to adjust the handbrake to work, or you would find that it barely held after a while. My father did not want to pay for those tools, so instead got some steel rod, and an old 10mm socket, and a 5mm hex bit, and spent a few minutes with a gas torch brazing the hex bit on the one rod, and the socket outside to the other one. That then allowed him to spend 5 minutes a week, when checking the fluids and general condition, to undo the lock nut, and wind up the slack in the cables for the hand brake, to keep it consistent. He wanted it to grip by 3, and fully on at 5. Leave for a month and you might be almost vertical and still have the car able to roll. He really loved that car, despite it seeming being built entirely from compressed rust.
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  2051.  @CCB249  Arthur Anderson was doing the audits.......
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  2052.  @DarkKnightBruce  Arthur Anderson consulting, a big player in the audit world, with a fair amount of scandal as well.
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  2053. Almost never had the PB&J, but enjoyed peanut butter and syrup, though I also have used a wide variety of other spreads to complement the peanut butter. Quite like it with a more tart counterpoint, so enjoy it with peanut butter and Marmite, goes well if you also add a slice of cheese there. Recently just the 100% rye bread, pure peanut butter and added butter, very tasty.
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  2054.  @kenbrown2808  That is because, according to the state, you actually own the plate, while the regular one is state property. Thus they allow you to move the plate from one vehicle you own, to another vehicle you also own, and as you own the plates this is allowed. Fines will still accrue to the owner of the vehicle as the plates do identify them still.
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  2055. A lot of smaller authors sell from their website now, simply because they then get the lion's share of the money. Publishers tend to pay the authors a pittance in most cases, often less than a cent per book sold, and the remaindering also cuts into the author share as well.
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  2056. Good luck with the fight, better approach GMC and claim the loom under warranty, due to the dealership deliberately damaging it pre delivery. Cut the dealership out of the loop first, and get another dealership to install it as well, as they will bill the first one for the labour costs.
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  2057. Simplest method to stop this is to only use virtual cards for the transactions, which pretty much every bank offers today. Every online transaction I use a virtual card for that merchant, and only transfer the amount they are taking into it. Only ones that do not have that are those I have long term relations with, where they have proven they do not do this. Note this does not include Metro payments, those are not automatic, but only on invoice, as they mess up that online direct debit all too often. Never give real bank details, only a virtual card, which has all the attributes of a regular debit or credit card, except you can set a hard limit on it, stop it immediately it is used, and change the verification codes right from the banking app if need be.
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  2058. Boat, a hole in the water you pour money into.......
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  2059.  @gregkramer5588  Well, a lot of the EU petrol comes from refineries in Portugal, and also there are large sugar beet plantings used to make ethanol, plus sugar imports used to do the same. I doubt Ireland actually has a oil refinery of it's own, like many smaller countries also lack, so would import a lot of fuel from the closest one, which is Portugal. Incidentally that refinery also ships a lot to the world, as VLCC tankers are very cheap to rent when travelling down Africa back to the oil supply countries, so you get low price shipping if you are bringing in, what to them, is just ballast in a tank.
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  2060. Those horrorlytics in there do dry out with age, as they are often cheap no name brand units of questionable quality. However film capacitors of the same capacitance and similar voltage rating can often be put in the same place with no issue. Cables are just snake oil, at under 10m I just use regular 1.5mm mains cable, and you cannot tell the difference between that and the $5k cables ( I got some, after the test I recycled them into test leads, because they have PTFE sleeving so are somewhat smoke proof) in most cases. With the sound source being a PC audio chain, and the speakers and amp being low cost used, they are absolutely not needed. Did have a house where the expensive cables were used, till they vanished into the floor, and were cut in the hidden side and joined with wire nuts to 2.5mm house wire to the other end. Twisted to get them to lay together, then joined back to the other end the same way under the floor. HIFI " Guru" could not tell the difference between them.
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  2061. Yup, I tend to do the same, though I will not use the torque wrench, just the calibrated arm when at a tyre place. Take off with the air tools, but you will put them back on with hand tools.
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  2062. Kenmore is just a brand, but almost all of the appliances sold under that brand name are made by LG. The rest are made by contract manufacturers in China and India, where labour is cheap, and quality is dodgy.
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  2063. Thin film of grease on those mating surfaces after cleaning will keep them from rusting together.
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  2064.  @iFixJunk  It was a lot better than walking in the snow in winter, and the mud in the summer. You only had to push for half the journey...... Or hope that somebody with a Lada would tow you.
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  2065. Simple even with the show requirement to simply swap all the old parts back, get it to pass, then swap them out again. One bus company would put in a new set of kingpins to pass the test, then afterwards immediately put the old worn ones back, so they could put the new ones in the next bus to be tested. Then they found the cheaper alternative, an envelope left on the driver seat when the inspector came to check......
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  2066.  @bigunone  Yes, not all of the shaft is bent, you might have a good half metre in there, and if you have only one, even the bend will not be noticed, once it has had the ends made true with each other. Must be the most rugged machine feet around though, likely to survive any calamity that occurs there.
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  2067. You want an oil that is stinky out the bottle get some genuine WAP high pressure pump oil. it stinks worse than burnt gear oil even new, and only gets a stronger smell with age and degradation, especially if it gets water in it.
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  2068.  @sevenofzach  really depends on the horse, but they are eminently trainable, as they are pretty smart, and also respond well to training, though really depends on the individual as well.
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  2069. Yes done that a few times as well, and it is a pain cleaning the oil up off the floor. Good thing there was a lot of newspaper around, and a few large garbage bags as well.
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  2070. They write the laws, and the loopholes they use.
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  2071.  @Gnomezonbacon  Well, insurance company would delay the payout till after the police investigation, so at least 6 months of waiting for any payout, and her needing to either pay to get the vehicle repainted immediately, or store at her cost for that time. Then when it comes back they will both limit her insurance, and up the premiums, especially because the agents there will hate her as well for her bad attitude, so will handle her claim exactly to the book, and stretching out all timelines to the last minute as well, plus demanding every piece of paperwork be exactly correct, and with absolutely no errors, or it will be refused. Then a call for her tags being expired, and the vehicle towed off as well.
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  2072.  @mbryson2899  Just like the one minibus taxi by me, pulled over, and they found the brake pads had been relined using cardboard and wood glue, plus paint. There was a enteprising guy refurbishing brake linings that way, and he was a lot cheaper than going to a reputable shop for some reason. Taxi pulled over because it ran off the road and killed a few passengers, plus a few pedestrians as well. Reason why the average number of fatalities per accident is around 10 for those on the news.
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  2073.  @CatMom-uw9jl  No, unless certified by the NTSB or other accredited body none are, unless they were specifically offered as a limo by a vehicle manufacturer, and almost no manufacturer does offer them except Mercedes, though the conversion is done properly by the same company that makes armoured vehicles for them, so it had every part upgraded and rated for the use. There is a Chtysler PT Cruiser funeral van by me, odd when the typical one is based on the Toyota Hilux long wheel based, because often the funeral involves a long part being on a dirt road to a small village. In town a lot started off as BMW or Mercedes sedans. So the deceased can travel in one, at least once.
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  2074. Making an engine that uses elemental fluorine is going to be hard, seeing as you will have to make a pump that can handle the volume, and last long enough, as you will be having a race between running out of fuel, versus running out of engine. These will be rockets with engine rich exhaust even running perfectly, let alone when they get upset. Plus remember bulk fluorine liquid will burn things you think are non flammable, sand, asbestos, water, steel, aluminium, unfortunate people downwind...... now think of the thermal shock in the first combustion chamber, and that whatever you use for injection of the lithium will be dissolving in the hot liquid, and whatever you are using to bring in the fluorine will be doing the same. You probably will also not want to use pure lithium, rather a lithium sodium alloy, as those do have a lower melting point at least, and with Gallium you can get it low enough to use ordinary steel alloys as the tank.
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  2075.  @michiganengineer8621  And remember there are flourine compounds that are even more reactive as well, FOOF comes to mind, and that wonderful book Ignition!
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  2076. Note he says people are protecting what they believe is theirs, but which really is regarded as not yet expropriated.
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  2077. Lucky for me that was never a part of my schooling, being half the planet away from the USA, and not having to worry about the blast, along with all the angst of this. Of course we had other propaganda thrown at us as children, and a whole lot of deliberate misinformation as well, coming from those who thought that sex was dirty, and that people should have children without it, and that many things were not allowed, and were hidden from view.
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  2078. You can see on the big mirrors the dome at the bottom, there to provide coverage of the blind spot next to the vehicle, and often trucks will have an added mirror on the front of the engine cover that provides added visibility in those areas in front as well. The white car was in view of at least the mirrors, truck driver did not look before turning, only a few seconds earlier when merging into the freeway. By me almost all HGV are cab over engine, and the mirrors are in front of the cab, so they cover all blind spots well with the big convex main mirror, and the inset convex bubble mirror at the bottom, if there is not a split section that is convex and aimed down.
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  2079. Check engine light lit will be telling you the AC system is detecting high pressure even after fan activation request, so it has disabled the compressor due to too long a time with high pressure. VW saving you money, by attempting to protect you from blowing the condenser up.
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  2080.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  Yes, my biggest one is called "Gentle Persuasion", even made a label that is on the handle to remind of that. Could not find the right handle, so a pick handle worked for it, with epoxy to help the wedges hold. It spends more time being the anvil than the hammer though.
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  2081.  @Knowbody42  Guaranteed the higher power one also has CCA windings as well, designed to fail shortly after warranty period is over
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  2082. If you read the manual it also says in fine print to have a 6 monthly check as well.
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  2083.  @CaptainM792  During the lockdown the management forgot to have any security guarding the stuff, and it all went in massive amounts to scrap. Literally entire stations have gone, down to the sleepers and the buildings, leaving only foundations. a lot of the lines have to use diesel electric locos now, as the overheads are in large sections gone completely, often including the signals, along with the steel gantries as well.
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  2084. Grey sealer is a non hardening type, if it is the original. You really need to use a non hardening sealer when putting them back, especially as those bolts will otherwise corrode themselves into the block. Loctite makes a white thread sealer that works really well there, and Yamaha has in the boating side a really good sealer as well, that also does not harden either. Loctite 565, 567 or 577 is the go to stuff to use there, after cleaning the old gunk off the bolts and washing the holes out. Used one depends if you want it to seal only, hold and seal or hold pressure and seal. All 3 are easy to remove, and all 3 tend to stay pliable in the hole and thread as well
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  2085. I started with RH 4, on a machine that, while capable of just about running Win98, absolutely was perfect with RH4, and worked well, even able to play video in full screen,only 640 x 480 VGA though, because that was the best the screen and display card could handle in 16m colour mode. Had that for a while, even upgraded it to RH5 as well, after ordering the collection of disks online, as dial up was not exactly able to do the download reliably. Stopped some time after that and moved to Debian, then ubuntu and now with mint, and like having most old hardware just work, and as stuff that no longer works with Win10 is still common and often free, you get a lot of it.
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  2086.  @--Taz-- Exactly like my one as well.
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  2087. @@DKShoneys-dc2dp South Africa, and these have been common at all fuel stations since the 1990's, even if they were attached to a cable that provided them with a dial up connection. Right at the pump, and also in the kiosk, as pretty much every fuel stop by me has an associated convenience store, where you can buy stuff while your vehicle is getting fuel put in, the windscreen washed and tyres checked, along with checking the oil and topping up washer water as well. Before that you had a fuel card, and then would have to get out, and go to the kiosk, where they would run your credit card, debit card or fuel card, using a impressioning machine and carbon chits, so you got one, and the garage got 2. Sign, and after a week your card would be debited, or you could write out a cheque. Had an account at the local garage, and there they also had fleet vehicles coming in, using a tag that you had on you, that had the account details electronically in it, and you signed the slip.
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  2088. Heat from operation makes the hole grow, because the aluminium head expands more than the steel plug does. Thus the hole grew larger, and allowed the bong between the head and plug to release. A good reason not to leave the plugs in till the 100 000 mile exchange interval, but to at least pull them out for a check every 30 000 miles, and yes the anti seize on the threads and the cone works, it keeps the 2 from corroding by excluding air.
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  2089. Leather does not go to the dump,, most is still processed by boiling, to make it into collagen and gelatine. The rest is taken and ground up, and used as poultry and other animal feed additive, along with the hair.
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  2090. Next do the AFCI as well.
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  2091. Yes common faults there. Oil cooler you can do without removing that manifold, but easier if it is off, but doable, and there is an entire kit to do it which is cheap. Likely will need a new valve cover gasket as well, use the blue one there, it will last longer. 2013 at least it is not the later generation known for cracking pistons. Not a bad car, yes it is a Daewoo Matiz, rebranded as Chevy Spark. Quite reliable vehicles in general, you just have to maintain them properly. Will bet when you pull the coil pack (pre 2012 had a coil pack outside there, and 4 wires, so the coils do not run as hot) the plugs will be swimming in oil, and the old valve cover gasket will be as hard as rock.
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  2092. Then ask for more, because he still needs to fix the Ferrari, though the money will still vanish.
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  2093. Not by me, cheque books are long gone, along with any bank accepting them. Show up with one and all of them will point you at the head office to go and get it handled there, which will mean you will need to get an electronic transfer, because at one point nearly half the cheques were in some way fraudulent.
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  2094. Or like the neighbour, where his BMW leaks pretty much every fluid, except possibly air from the tyres, as he does not go flat overnight. Also he is cheap, fills it up on kerosene, as it is a few cents per litre cheaper.
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  2095. Or the bulbs plain burnt out, only 2000 hours rating on them, and that would only take 3 months of being on to kill them, helped along by vibration as well. during the day you might not even notice the light is on at all, and at night if you are parking in a garage with lights then you would not notice either, as the BCM will keep them on for a minute or so after you leave the car, so you would not associate the battery drain with the light being on all the time, as it also lights on unlock as well.
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  2096. Too slow on the cooling, plus not hot enough in the melt and not enough stirring, so it was not mixed properly in the batch, and some areas cooled off and preferentially excluded part of the alloy.
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  2097. Shop dog sighted........ Along with wife unit, out making sure ray needs to bring in some Deutschmark to pay for all of it, and he needs wasser for the lights.
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  2098. Take floor mat off the go pedal.......
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  2099. Time to buy a pack of 10 brushes, that way the first one will last forever, because there are spare ones....
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  2100. If you are doing one, and the others look like Bubba has been putting the nuts on with the 12 foot pipe, and Cletus hanging off the end, change them all, with new nuts. Saves you a lot of hassle in the long run, and even in the short run as well. The new studs and new nuts, put to the right torque, will outlast the vehicle, at least till they go to the Kwik Tire place again, where Bubba's cousin works.
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  2101. Camry owners know that........
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  2102. Already was a popular item in Italy when seat belt laws came in there, and sold well.
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  2103. They still will make a profit.......
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  2104. Prosecutor should have their law license stripped, and fired, with no pension, no payout and barred from ever holding public office. All those monies should instead be paid over to the other party as compensation, with the other assets of the prosecutor taken as well, putting them in the same situation as bankruptcy, but without the legal protections of bankruptcy.
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  2105. So when driving, you stop at a garage, and ask them to fill the oil and check the petrol. I see quite a few vehicles that smoke like that, some even worse, that they make an effective smoke screen if you drive behind them.
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  2106. Phillips tornado is IMHO one of the best CFL units ever made. They all last well over 10k hours, even when running 24/7 in an open fixture. As night time lights I like them, they outlast pretty much all LED lamps, unless you go and buy street lighting units, which can actually last for over 10 years.
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  2107.  @mernokimuvek  I only repaired very early CFL units, where the lamp was a separate unit that you plugged into the ballast. Normally the failure was the input bridge rectifier, capacitor and fusible resistor, from mains voltage spikes. When the unit cost $30 each, you fix them, but now you pay $2 each, and they are near impossible to open. However I do strip them for the ewaste box, low grade boards get money in bulk.
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  2108.  @mernokimuvek  I have lit them in a microwave as well, along with old MV and HPS lamps.
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  2109. Even more so for bomber pilots, who were even more likely to get killed. A tree in Austria, along with a snow bank, was my father's lucky break, though he did not appreciate it at the time, but he did survive. A little either way and he would have just been another statistic, another dead body in a war. Same for mom as well.
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  2110. Probably ran out of both, and what is coming in is not enough either.
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  2111. They make them al year round, so as to have enough stock for that single month of sales.
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  2112. Well, also include in the mercury vapour side the self ballasted lamp, especially the interesting changes required to make them run on 115VAC as well. I do have a small collection of carbon filament lamps as well.
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  2113. Probably should tell them to stop parking at the side of the road for hours with the engine idling, so the AC or heat can work in the vehicle, and they can charge their personal phone up. Because you can bet the one thing they are not doing is looking out the vehicle, just inside either reading the newspaper, on the phone on whatsapp or fakebook, or actually sleeping.
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  2114. Yes, HP as well, scrapped an otherwise working scanner because the printer ran out of one colour of ink. So I have a choice of a HP scanner, or a Canon scanner, both of them rescues from the junk pile, because HP and Canon decided that making drivers, to have a USB scanner work under Win 7/8/10/11 you had to have a scanner later in version than these. Otherwise working units but there initially were no drivers available for them. Funny enough the exact same scanners will still work perfectly well on a Mac, or under Linux, with absolutely zero issues.
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  2115. Not really, aside from a redesigned gasket with some sealer between the surfaces, but they will all do this with time. Essex engines are pretty reliable though, not going to give issues other than those head gaskets, simply from the conservative design. The only way to fix them would be a cast steel head, which ISTR was an aftermarket thing, that made them really bullet proof. They did a good bit of work on them over the decades, as this started out with a single barrel carb, and had fuel injection added later. Just they did find a lot of use as power plants for other applications, little more pep that a 4 banger, but not too much change in length, so lots were used in agricultural and specialist equipment. Not a bad V6 engine though, friend had one in his Ford, and the engine was not an issue, but the diff, sure was, little underspec for the 3.0l power plant. Sure was heavy on fuel though if you were ever hard with the right foot, but enough torque you could drive all day in 4th gear in town, and never change gear.
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  2116. Hand planer is great for door fitting especially really old doors going into an old frame where none are square and you need to splice on a filler that has to fill the uneven space. You can easily hog off to get close then go fine to finish. Lots of chips and dust though.
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  2117. Probably a rental as well, just his name is George of the Jungle, and he did not watch out for that tree......
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  2118. Also in all vacuum cleaners as well, to handle the noise generated by the brushes in the motor. they also will go with a bang if the machine is older, and has been exposed to moisture, say from being in a cupboard used to hang outdoor clothes, or in an unheated garage or shed so the plastic can crack as it ages, and let moisture into the paper dielectric, or for the modern ones metallised polyester film.
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  2119. He will not come home with a blue eye brake checking a big rig that runs over him, and the driver hopefully has a dashcam that shows the car driver deliberately trying to cause the accident. You could use the video to get the plate, and find his insurer, and ask if they still want to insure this high risk client. Guaranteed they will drop him, citing risky and erratic driving, and thus his next insurer will load the rates.
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  2120. Whoever supplies your welding stuff must have you as the biggest user in the district.
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  2121. Blend motor actuator is jammed on it. BCM is trying to get it to a known position, but it is not responding correctly. Needs to be stripped and cleaned, or replaced, but a bit hard to get to.
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  2122. And still is less than the profit they made from it. So of course they will not stop doing it, as this is just merely considered an expense, and taken off the tax sheet to reduce the minimal amount of tax they do pay, enjoying at the same time all the benefits from taking money and moving it around.
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  2123. Would add a touch extra wheel bearing grease there, behind the pilot bearing, to keep it nice and quiet, as the factory fill is generally not enough. Tiny amount, around 3 match heads worth, applied to the rollers. Not too much as it will ruin the clutch if it comes out.
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  2124. Exactly, I started down this with a machine that had been obsoleted because it was not capable of running Win98SE properly, so it was replaced with a new one. I took the old machine, and ordered (yes you could order Linux on a disk for free, just paying for the actual disks and postage) Red Hat 4.0, and installed it on the machine. Booted, ran nice and fast, and was able to do more than I needed, even including having working VGA colour and sound, along with networking, right out of the box, which the original machine had struggled with working before. A good recycling of a Slot 1 150MHz Pentuim, with a whole 16M of memory eventually as the older machines were upgraded and the RAM was robbed from them.
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  2125. Plus it also will disable certain functions, and limit your speed as well, because it senses a door open.
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  2126. The new ones rust out in under 5 years though.
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  2127.  @IanM-id8or  not only that the firmware was designed so that it would only activate a year after the update as well, so you had no direct connection to the update and the bricking the printer.
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  2128. So basically cheaper labour, lower cost materials and not as much oversight, so a grinder bondo and paint will cover a lot of sins. Plus of course well connected manufacturing hubs that can do the cookie cutter parts fast, and then send them down good transport links to be assembled, and you do not have to transport things all that far.
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  2129. Makes no difference, you pump the new fluid in, and it dilutes the old first, while you are busy cleaning the brake lines and caliper at the far point. Might save 200ml of fluid, but also a risk of letting an air bubble into the system that might not flush out easily, right in the master cylinder.
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  2130. That Dave telegram bot is really active today, that little sweat shop worker in that dingy corner is clicking and posting the same reply on every single post, with the only change being to copy the screen name down to personalise it, or it is a script doing the same for no money.
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  2131.  @kenyattaclay7666  Yellow paint stripes work though, MT put them on each wheel, so you could see if they moved, and if you had a flat they would fix it, and paint a new set.
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  2132. So long as the algorithm seed is secure, so that your method can be known, but the initial input is not, like SHA256 does, and you keep it safe, that works well. No way to tell provided the site is used as part of the input, and then a secret seed as well, then it makes unique and random keys, that will always be the same per site, just near impossible to decode, even knowing that part of the input was the site URL, salted hashes are very secure, so long as the salt is secret.
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  2133. Will say that any driveability issues, you get the vehicle with a cup of fuel in the tank, but a fuel pump almost always will show up with a near full tank, so you have to drain it out somehow. Yes that fuel rail was bad, and your fix was a great job. A tip if you need to bend that hose, but have no mandrel spring that will fit inside, is to simply take lots of copper wire, and feed it into the pipe, to past the bend area, and heat it up with the hot air, then use a tube bender to quickly make the bend. Leave to cool, and pull the copper wires out one by one, till they are loose. The wires keep the pipe from kinking, and then it will hold the shape. Otherwise do like the AC manufacturers do, and wind a steel wire tightly around the outside, making a wire diameter gap between turns, and use that to keep the pipe from kinking. Again remove when shaped and cool. Another cause for crank no start, but will start eventually, can be the fuel pump relay, very common to have it go faulty and intermittent, as it has both power and a keep alive signal fed to it from the ECU on older vehicles.
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  2134. I know of a large industrial plant where water built up in a compressor air tank. Nobody noticed till it got high enough to start to get in the outlet piping. Large air demand at the far end of the plant, so a slug of water was entrained in the pipe, and went along this mostly straight pipe to the far side. Near the end of the run there was another part of the plant, so this large diameter air pipe had to make a detour around this even larger piece of plant. Turns out the slug of water did not want to make the turn, and snapped the elbow off with the impact on the elbow. The plant was closed for a while while they were doing repairs, and also making sure that there was more than one person responsible for checking the automatic drain valves had not malfunctioned, plus adding water level alarms in the compressed air tanks.
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  2135. Bonus advantage of stainless steel is that it is so easy to recycle as well, unlike carbon fibre which pretty much will end up as landfill or will be burnt.
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  2136. One of those old rods is going to have to be recycled as the pole to hold the postbox at home some day.
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  2137. @ The list of suspects would be the sum total of tickets that he had ever issued, and that likely was a very large number as well.
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  2138.  @RainmanRaysRepairs  Time to pin this comment as well Ray.
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  2139. Amish use cards if it relates to business, along with phones and electricity, so long as it relates to business, and it does not enter the actual home, but is left outside in a building. Same for pretty much any others, they use cards but business only. Interest is against some religions, but they call it by another name instead, which is the same basic thing, but now it passes.
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  2140.  @TheRealQuickSilver  The waste here does degrade over time, turning into other useful radioactive products along the way to becoming reasonably inert lead, so you just have to wait for it to cool to separate them out for re use in another reactor or for another use.
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  2141. Same here, got rid of landline when I got cheaper data over mobile than DSL.
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  2142. Best ones I ever found were supplied by Tektronix/Xeros for use in their printers service kits, which have a strong plastic handle, and a heat bonded on non woven tip, which is solvent proof, and which is perfect to clean delicate surfaces, and leaves no residue at all. But they only give 6 per kit, which would work oout rather expensive to use as a source.
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  2143. 286/12 with a whole 1M of RAM, in 4 256k SIP modules plugged into the board....... And a small monochrome monitor as well.
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  2144.  @kampar82  Well, the joke was that you could pass anything while driving it, except a fuel station.......
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  2145.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  Other one will be visiting next month, guaranteed.
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  2146. Oxygen fire was a part of training, in that many things you think do not burn, will burn in pure oxygen, including PTFE, Halon, and aluminium parts, along with steel and stainless steel parts. Your oxygen system itself is cleaned to make sure easily combustible things like oil, skin residue and such are all removed during service, and all parts are washed in pure alcohol to clean them as final step during install, and are sealed away as well as much as possible. With the mask unit being replaced just 10 flights before, it is possible there was either a bit of debris in a pipe, or a plug was not correctly installed (hard to get to the connectors under the unit, without stripping large sections of panelling off to get a visual check, so easy for tramp material to be in the connector, and causing an intermittent contact) and thus the valve likelyr was stuck partly open by some tape residue from a cover, or had a tiny bit of grit in it from exposure from the service store to the aircraft on the hard stand, with uncovered ports. Flow through the sticky valve, and the intermittent contact allowing flow, so that eventually the concentration in the box was enough, and the tiny bit of tramp metal caused a spark, and in an enriched atmosphere that was sustained, causing the plug to burn, and in turn burning through the rubber hoses that were keeping the oxygen inside the pipe. Then hot oxygen rich gas was flooded into the side cavity, where it soon found likely accumulated oils and such from hydraulic systems, along with all sorts of easily burnt paper and fabric parts, and this then spread to the wiring loom and started all those cascade failures as systems, depending on the locations of the power and control wiring on the surfaces of looms, melted and shorted out, tripping breakers and leading to the ACARS messages, before the ACARS system itself was cut off. CVR and FDR likely survived so long because, as long wires in the loom, they were laid first in the looms on the assembly board, and then the long excess sections out of the loom got coiled up on the panel pin board, till the loom was complete, checked and laced, only then being laid out on another panel, to be carried on to a bulkhead connector leading to the cabin cabling loom.
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  2147.  @djsmeguk  I think this was only a one week option from the factory, for the shop floor use, and after that they got removed for the next demo model.
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  2148.  @TheLuceon  Could be the trail was marked to go around the airfield itself, but our hero decided the 4 turns to avoid the airfield were too much, so he left the marked trail and went straight across, and hit the only obstacle for 1000 feet in all directions. Sort of like the truck driver who destroyed the only living tree in the Sahara desert. See Tree of Ténéré, also destroyed by a drunk driver.
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  2149. Here the speed cameras got disguised to look like electrical boxes, because the ones that looked like speed cameras got shot full of holes. Of course this does not stop them getting shot after the person gets the happy snap in the mail and finds the location, and goes to give it a few speed holes.
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  2150.  @ahoytheremate1954  Same here, sounds like a great idea, except for the tiny issue of the 8570 mile travel, or the 27 hour flight if I wanted a service. Drive back and it is due for service not even half way back......
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  2151. Normally cats, dogs and monkeys where I am. Of course if it is outside you get the graffiti artistes who want to immortalise their love for some flame of the second as well.
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  2152. There is a song about that.......
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  2153. Yes, but most of them have probably had at least 2 engine rebuilds by now, simply because the original parts wore out. Taxi use is hard on a vehicle, so the companies that do it will spend a bit of money on maintenance, plus also regular checking of the vehicle itself. Not just drive it till it says service, and then think about going in "soon", but daily checks of oil, fluids and tyres, because that is what keeps you earning money. You would notice quickly the glitter oil, and immediately do action on it, not just drive till it stops.
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  2154. GM is going to go the way of the dodo soon. not because of EV's, but because they just make junk, and those competitors, who they use for manufacturing under the GM brand, are going to decide that they do not want to get all the work and worries, and none of the profit, and start doing direct sales. Then they will also stop supplying GM, and they will vanish as a footnote. Same with Ford, they are deciding to go with compensation size trucks, and that market will be eaten soon, and with the next round of fuel increases, simply evaporate. There will be huge lots filled with brand new Ford trucks parked next ro the rusting brand new Hummers, and GM cars, waiting to go to the crusher to come back as a Chinese made vehicle.
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  2155. Got bushings, made from genuine rust and tears, lubricated with carbon and blowby oil.......
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  2156. Problem is it was shipped out a century before, and the cranes at the time were mostly steam powered. Now most are for intermodal, so can only lift the theoretical 60 tons of a full container, though there are plenty of times that they found heavier ones, up to 132 tons inside. The problem is getting the old iron apart easily, as likely after a century most of the fasteners are now rusted together, and in any case much of the final assembly was done with hot rivets joining big sections together. Thus they had to move it as a unit, using the existing rail network, as otherwise it would have been parted out, and then likely 5 abnormal loads travelling in convoy, then onto a ship, probably a RORO that can take the trucks. Expensive, because you now have to pay for both ways for the trucks and drivers. As a single unit it is able to be taken as breakbulk cargo, which pretty much any ship is capable of, even a container carrier like they used, running only part loaded. Biggest problem was cranes, the Durban docks will have no problem with 300 ton loads, but those berths likely were all booked, so they needed to rent the floating crane. Same for the other side, you have pretty much any big harbour having a heavy crane available, especially if they also handle large loads, which is Durban, though a lot of the loads are limited by the city infrastructure rather than the harbour, you have width and height restrictions, but not mass ones, bringing stuff in there.
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  2157. Heard the word dip and noped out.....
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  2158. Likely was filled on the ground at an angle, so got almost no fluid into it. Also probably had a leaking seal, and this got the fluid low, and then heat did the rest.
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  2159.  @charlie15627  Well, living in one of those countries that got a lot of those less than stellar munitions used against us I concur, but also the Russian army is itself also having to use them as well, having nothing more modern in great supply. Yes less than accurate, but great for area denial and also providing cover fire. as you do not know exactly where they will land other than a general area.
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  2160.  @BlankBrain  Yup, got that one up outside the door. Just means that the injured party has to go to court to get any money, and insurance covers our legal fees, and we play who has the better lawyer 7 years down the line for the preliminary hearing.
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  2161.  @BBDoesTheThing  You will want a high mountain on the equator for this, so the only place is Kilimanjaro, which is almost exactly on the equator, and high enough to make a difference. 5.8km above sea level near the peak will give a very large loft, reducing the energy needed by a good amount, and there is 5km less atmosphere to burn through. Also close to the coast so you can have a semi safe abort area, though this is one of the more congested shipping areas, but the lanes are defined. Only issue is the politics of the region can best be described as "complex", at a minimum.
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  2162. At least the exhaust will never rust......
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  2163. Meth and MJ, gives the munchies and a DGAF attitude.
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  2164. Hard to find the scammer, they run this with around 2 dozen phone numbers, and dozens of fake accounts, and a few dozen bank accounts. The money goes in, and immediately goes out as cash.
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  2165.  @Jibs-HappyDesigns-990  You can get a XP or Win7 virtual machine with the enterprise versions I think, that will still allow you to run 8 and 16 bit code in a sandbox. There I guess, and still supported, because there are plenty of big companies which are stuck with using old code, and IE4.0, and a rewrite to support new machines is out of the question due to either cost, or them having lost the original source documentation, or there being no more people around who wrote it originally.
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  2166. Out of sight out of mind, and they say that it is somebody else's problem to deal with it.
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  2167. 99% sure that every single one of the shop built fixtures in the shop have, as part of building them, a piece of either recovered, or left over, shaft steel from a hydraulic cylinder.
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  2168. Likely will serve at least half of those concurrently, so likely will be 18 years, plus the 10 years for the assault charge at the end, and no parole till completion of sentence.
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  2169. Needs 4 tyres, very likely the spare in the trunk is smooth as well, with only one being good, and likely the spare.
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  2170. I know a company that makes those sticks, and the production process is a whole big box of the sticks, a paint brush with the glue, and a big bucket of assorted carborundum grit that the lightly painted sticks are dipped in to coat them, then left to dry, then brushed off with a wire brush. The foot scrubbers are made similarly, using a thicker layer of glue and 2 coats, to get a decent coat. Different grits for different types, from ultra coarse to a very fine nail buffer.
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  2171. Actually he can also be charged with tax evasion as well, as the cars the state uses do not pay any road taxes, or toll fees, or any fuel levies, so his use of the vehicle after hours means that he in effect was not paying those levies, so he was not paying the tax as well. Plus the theft of government fuel as well, which is also a rampant thing. One vehicle by me filled up the fuel tank 15 times in one afternoon, yet the odometer reading showed that the vehicle only drove 5km in that afternoon, and it was supposedly still in the government garage, not actually booked out. But 15 100l fill ups, on a vehicle with a 40l tank. Of course that went nowhere, corruption of such a small amount, while nothing is done to those who steal billions.
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  2172.  @gags730  My father was doing that post war, importing 46 jeeps bought as war surplus to Central Africa, and assembling the crate units there in his garage. Due to the QC being less than stellar, he had a big order of spare parts as he started, sent at the half way mark, to repair those that were faulty. So at the end he had the 46 he ordered and paid tax on, and the spares that were left over from the faulty units ( engine not working, order complete engine as spare, and fix that one later on, same for transmission and other parts) enabled him to make no 47 for use around the shop, as it could not be registered and sold.
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  2173. You have to remember the one who bought it was used to ignoring all those lights in the centre display, yet another red warning and chime was just ignored, and it eventually, like the engine, went away.
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  2174.  @WrenchingWithKenny  Yes exactly the same, finding power on return wire in a single phase system means either high resistance joint, or a broken wire. But in the USA with split phase high power circuits will have 2 hot wires, because to run high power loads you need 220VAC power to supply the needed energy, and not 110VAC, though many of these appliances, like driers, need the common as well because they have 110VAC controls as well as the 220VAC active elements. So a 4 wire cable with hot, hot, neutral/common and a protective ground wire. 3 phase power is not common in the USA residential side, but there again you get some really odd configurations, because the suppliers have to give the 110VAC supply as well, and want to use the same transformer to give it.
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  2175. Cover nuts are not original, but they likely got lost, and replaced with shouldered nuts off a sleeve anchor, as those are that yellow faux chrome plating colour.
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  2176. Will work, but sometimes hard to get over the terminals, and will also trap acid under the sleeving to corrode the cable as well with time.
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  2177.  @vipermageex5861  Mostly because the video now means the officer now has to add it to the electronic case file, and this extra 30 seconds is time (and hard thinking) away from either dozing in the vehicle, or sitting in a chair at the PD telling tall tales.
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  2178.  @DaveBigDawg  Going to guess their insurance will now be rather more expensive for the next couple of decades.
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  2179. Yes lots of places to leak, and customer should be glad the belt did not dive between pulley and cover, and cut the oil seal to pieces, because then they would be fixing them all, or risk running out of oil after 30 miles.
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  2180. @marten6578 You get aftermarket faces that remove the fancy bezel, and have a DIN standard hole you use. Some even can interface with the original connectors to give the same functionality as well.
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  2181.  @paoloposo  Cooktop is each plate has one of the phases to feed it, induction or otherwise, with a 4 plate having the 2 smallest plates sharing normally red phase. Your stove can be connected to either single phase 230V or 3 phase 400V, just have to remove 2 jumper links for 3 phase connection in the electrical box. They do not really make consumer grade induction cookers that are 3 phase, the 800V bus capacitor, plus the 1200V rated IGBT modules you need to use are a lot more expensive, compared to 400V and 800V rated parts respectively. Only going to be used for power above 6kW per coil unit, for industrial or large commercial applications. Even restaurants with multiple induction cookers only use a single phase per unit, though they can have plenty of them on at a time, each with a separate pot on top.
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  2182.  @jimAndCheryl  No but lane splitting is legal here, and the most common bikers are delivery bikes. Standing joke the biggst biker gang is the Checkers 60 sixty bikers, because they are all over, and drive like they own the road. Did see one recently being beaten up with his own helmet, because he rear ended a BMW, and the driver was a tad upset. Just drove around them on the pavement, like the other cars did, while the woman up the road waiting for her delivery was looking on. just another friday afternoon in South Africa, did tell the neighbourhood watch car a little further on he might want to go watch the fun, but not worth making the call to Metro police, who would already know the biker has no insurance, and probably no license either, and also illegal immigrant as well, because you need zero paperwork to become a driver for these delivery services.
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  2183.  @MyNameIsChristBringsASword  Yes, but that was pretty much in every advert then somewhere. Plus the tobacco industry would pay for about half the advertising sold in cinema, using all those artistic wide open spaces film of the treat outdoors, where you smoked to get the city feel back.
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  2184. Well Apollo showed that with the lightning strike that dropped the CM offline, while the instrument ring on the third stage was supremely unconcerned. Switch SCE to Aux, to reset the power supply that tripped out from the transient. Hot enough from LOX kerosene to ionise air, just this is a whole magnitude worse, as you now have metal ions in the exhaust as well, not just carbon ions.
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  2185. Going in from the bottom fill half way, going on the side or from top put in empty. Works for me.
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  2186. Worked with a guy whose entire job was to put tyres onto aircraft wheels. Nitrogen used because it is water free, so there is no water vapour to condense and freeze up in flight, unbalancing the wheel. Easiest to use bottled nitrogen instead, which we filled on site from a cryogenic tank and filling plant. The biggest worry he had was the first time to inflate those tyres, you had a special cage to do that, in a concrete hut, so that a faulty tyre or wheel exploding would not kill you. Aircraft tyres are also much heavier in construction than your typical car or truck tyre, 16 or more plies of fabric in there, and you have limits as to how many plies you can have show before you replace them. However a single poor landing can easily take all those brand new tyres, that you literally just put on the plane before take off, and turn all of them into scrap, as you have scrubbed more than 6 of the 16 plies off there. Commercial aircraft also tend to have more than one wheel per axle, so that even in a blow out you at least have a wheel there that will take the full load, even if the tyre needs replacement afterwards. Most memorable was seeing ( and hearing 3 seconds later in the holding pattern) 2 pilots land their C130's in a high cross wind, and scrub all the tyres to replacement point in a few big grey puffs of smoke. They had no runway choice, it was that or fly back. Plane I was in had much better cross wind capability, we did not even feel the touch down.
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  2187. That deorbit for the ISS will probably be using a Heavy, likely the outer 2 doing a RTL, and the centre stage being stripped down and expended over the Atlantic, or kept on long enough to have it also hit that south Pacific spot as well 45 minutes after launch. Keep throttle down during boost, so that it is still firing at the outer unit MECO, and it should have more than enough to get the dragon in the right orbit, and still have enough fuel to brake and do a reentry over the Pacific with good accuracy.
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  2188. He.......... Kind of obvious there...
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  2189. Have you tried to let her use the cement mixer first, to put the plaster on first.
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  2190. I see a lot of extended warranties that rely on the first year being covered by the statutory manufacturers warranty, only coming in after that first year. They rely on that the faults that are latent will show up in the first year, and any others that show up on the second half are often excluded from the coverage, including any repairs covered by the first set of the warranty.
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  2191. 2:53 triple whammy. Driving without due care, at fault for the accident, and driving an unroadworthy vehicle, bald tyres, and defective braking system, along with illegal modification to the vehicle brakes. So towed, fined, and has to be repaired before release from impound yard, plus the insurance refusing the claim. all from this video.....
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  2192. Kia really should be warrantying this van, it is the outlier, showing, because of the use, exactly what is likely ot occur as they age. think those were called MPV's, Multi purpose vehicles.
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  2193. First rule of DNS is not to use the ISP provided DNS in the most cases, because they generally are high latency, and running on a server that is both old, slow and massively loaded as well. Best is one like Cloudflare, who has multiple DNS servers, all probably very local to you at a data centre, and they are both very fast, and also a cluster of servers behind a load balancer, so very responsive, latency is only a few short hops from your location, to a local node, then a area node, then possibly another hop to the CDN network at a local edge data centre.
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  2194. Always is that if it has driveability issues it comes in on fumes. If it has a bad fuel pump or level sender it comes in with an absolutely full tank.
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  2195.  @WrenchingWithKenny  Especially id the complaint is the fuel sender reads wrong when low.....
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  2196. Because those do not earn money for the city from the auctions, so the things that bring in money are the only ones enforced.
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  2197. Yes many parts are Vin linked, except some are also linked to date of assembly, because different supplier batches came in, and thus you find 3 different parts are listed, mostly mounting the same, but for things like brakes different disk assemblies and pads can be installed, and are not interchangeable.
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  2198.  @DaddyyCrab  Friend has a B class, and literally even spark plugs you need a VIN for it. We both have a photo of the VIN in case it is needed, and one of us will have a phone at the parts store.
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  2199. Normally also stamped on the firewall, and also inside the door on the options label ,and often on one in the engine compartment as well. Also check the engine number matches the paperwork, and does not look like it has been ground off and restamped. Should have a nice clean machined face from the CNC cutter, and the letters and numbers perfectly in line in it.
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  2200. Normally a wheel speed sensor that is failing and giving a low signal, so the traction control gets a consistent speed difference for the one wheel, but the others all agree. Can be the sensor, the wiring or even the ABS controller that is faulty. But most likely broken wire or dirty connector at the front, as they tend to fail from being flexed at every turn and bump.
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  2201. Yes, and the 2708 is, like all early EPROM chips, in need of a substrate bias of -21V, and also is programmed with 25V on the program pin. Can be left on for program and verify, but really not a good idea to have it present on power off, as you will find some random locations get written to logic 0, often only a bit or two along the line. They get really unhappy, and refuse to work, with that substrate bias missing, but generally, other than not listening to the address and control lines, do not often blow up.
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  2202.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  Yes, but you know that building out of spare parts is going to make it double the price, though with your making parts for less than half the cost of a replacement it might actually work out cheaper.
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  2203.  @pneumatic00  No, just wants it to work well, unlike the other one, which still has issues, this one, as there is the other one to do the heavy lift, is going to be done up better than new, and thus be as reliable as any new part, but for a quarter the price, and also done to exactly the needs of the shop.
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  2204. Probably wanted a taxi service.
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  2205. So around $5k overall, a big saving, and a lot better in having it running Monday, as opposed to running according to calendar Christmas time.....
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  2206. You can also take it that that school is also anti evolution, and also teaches that the world was created 6000 years ago, and that any other explanation is incorrect, and the words of a book, translated from Latin to English in one version, is the only true explanation, and that any other version, in any other language, is both incorrect, and should be banned.
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  2207.  @stochasticsignal1951  Really easy, as the whale can detect pressure over it's entire body, and also can detect the volume of it's lungs as well, so the information of depth, pressure, temperature and salinity is all part of it's sensory inputs.
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  2208. Ship is cheaper by an order or two of magnitude, as they could use a ship otherwise deadheading from Durban to Europe, so the actual cost is very low, they really only paid for the ship berthing fees and the crew time, much less than a charter. Thus they landed up at another port, and then had to do a charter, though that one was a short hop skip across the channel, so is cheap.
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  2209. Most good consumer protection laws will cover that, in that you had the issue while under warranty, had multiple visits to attempt to fix it, and now it is out of warranty oops expensive. Depends on where you are as to what they cover, but often just trying to run you out of warranty is not an excuse.
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  2210. Even just a canvas cloth ( old pair of jeans material) will work well there, and as a bonus just keep it oiled, with a blend of engine oil and a little wax, and it provides a bed lube and rust protection at the same time.
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  2211.  @Bryan-Hensley  Not the current handling ability, but the voltage drop. Remember the alternator regulator is sensing at the output pin in general, and the ECU is sensing at the battery, so the ECU can wind the alternator to 100% and the alternator regulator will still limit power output to keep terminal voltage below 15V, with possibly a half volt drop on the wires. Remember as well to replace the battery negative lead as well, that needs to be a heavier gauge wire as well to reduce resistance. Plus the jumper from block to chassis as well.
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  2212. I took oil to a recycler, but remember that if the oil is mixed in the drum, old oil with gear oil or water, that entire drum is going to be used as burning oil, or added to bunker oil as a reducer, or used to make roads. Old oil take to the recycler in containers, and let them keep it that way. I took 2 drums of gear oil there, and they liked it, clear, though it was 20 years old oil, but it is still recyclable, and they pay for old oil that is clear much better than for mixed oil. The dealership next door abandoned premises, and in there was a 44gallon drum of mixed oil. I called for my usual 5 gallon pick up of used oil from machines, and asked them to take the drum. The amount they paid for the 44 gallon drum full, which went drum and all, was a tenth of the price they paid for my old oil, but they wanted the drum as well, useful things for a recycler to keep around.
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  2213.  @t_c5266  You are only a single paycheck away from losing your home, and your job can fire you at any time. So say your home is burnt down, your insurance is not going to pay out for 3 months, your car was burnt same time, and you lose your job due to no show. Now you are homeless, and what do you do.
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  2214. No 8 report to Uber and provide footage. Driver gets dinged badly for that.
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  2215. The screw on the insert is there to locate it, the cutting forces are mostly carried by the big bearing face on the base of the insert into the tool, which is why you see every time Curtis is changing an insert or moving it to another cutting face he is scrupulous about making sure there are no chips or dirt on the faces that will come into contact, so that there is full even loading. If there is a small chip there it can easily shatter the cutting tool or damage the bearing face, making the tool useless till it is either reground flat or replaced. 30 seconds of care versus $500 for a new bar, or an hour with a carbide flat mill in the small mill to reface the pocket.
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  2216. Air over hydraulic suspension, so you added air when loading it, to get it back to level again. Basically pumped up the shock absorbers to give a stiffer ride when loaded. If you did not dump it you would find the rear was prone to bouncing around and stepping out in corners.
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  2217. Only the outer 2 steam turbines could reverse, and you had to stop them, and brake the shaft, then move the steam valves to the alternate position on the main shaft cam, so that the order of operation would be changed. Then you used a small steam donkey engine to run the engine to the point it is on the inlet stroke and slowly open the steam input. Then the steam runs it in reverse, and you increase flow and pressure to the desired speed. Central steam turbine would not be used, as it did not have the ability, due to being a steam turbine, and thus having blades that only faced one direction, to be reversed, so it would be bypassed, and the steam from the side engines would go direct to the condenser, dumping massive amounts of heat into it. Running in reverse is very inefficient, you lose a lot of the steam energy that way, as both the propellers and the bearing blocks that transfer thrust to the hull are optimised for forward motion.
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  2218. Same by me where a bus full of school kids drove into a dam.
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  2219. Also remember that not all RIFA capacitors are used for mains filtering, they are common in SMPS units as part of the actual circuit, as they will survive the spikes and surges that are part of normal operation. Often also used because they had to put in 3 for the mains, so instead of specifying a different one internally for other uses they went and simply used the same capacitor, so you might find them all over a monitor doing work in the LOPT stages, and in deflection across the yoke as a filter, and all through the board as coupling capacitor and such, because ordering one value in bulk is cheaper. i have a box of blue ones, that are not smoke generators, despite being probably 40 years old, used with the moulded in stranded wire leads as add on to LED lights, because the modern ones do not come with ant filtering, as that costs the manufacturer $1 more in parts and a bigger case, and adding the external capacitor and MOV does help keep them alive longer.
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  2220. Just as common. Commercial vehicles that transfer passengers for hire need a 6 month test, so one failed the test, but passed 30 minutes later, in a town 4 hours away.
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  2221. They fixed the disclosed vunerabilities, but you can absolutely guarantee that there are also unkonwn ones that are still there, and not disclosed yet, and that the fixes they did also have introduced further bugs that can be exploited. Remember that the Space shuttle had what is the most expensive code ever written, each line cost collectively over a million dollars to develop and verify, and yet, at the end of the shuttle program, they were still finding bugs in the code that either caused an edge condition, or which were subtle ones that caused slight errors. Even modern code has had bugs found in what is supposedly known working code, stuff that is the backbone of the entire modern connected world, and often the only solution is to say to people to throw this stuff out and buy new, because it is impossible to fix all of it, or the original manufacturer of the hardware no longer wants to support it at all, or is totally unable to do it, due to no longer having the expertise.
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  2222. Well, this is normally inside an outer shield, which does have the warnings on it. Having a warning inside is akin to putting a warning that an oven is hot, inside the oven, on the actual element.
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  2223. A large number probably, and they might do it for many times before they either wreck the vehicle in a single vehicle accident, or have an accident that causes death, and are breathalysed at the scene.
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  2224.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  Would have thought that Cat used Vesconite hilube there, it generally works well with being used in dirty conditions, and will be fine with even water as lubricant. Will wear the shaft a little as the dirt embeds, but if they had greased it as recommended it will last a long time.
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  2225. Rebooting also fixes printing errors, as many print drivers are rather notorious for having slow memory leaks, along with the OS itself as well. Win95 also had that notorious 32 bit counter that would blue screen if your uptime rolled over. Only 2 computers have really good up time, being the twin Voyager spacecraft, where they have never been rebooted, mostly because nobody has a long enough screwdriver to reach the switch, and because the hardware has a lot of fault tolerance built in to it, Reboot the one and it will not come back, as the primary radio receiver is failed, along with the secondary, but between the 2 it can still communicate, though you just have to spread your message out over the band it likely is listening to, to get it heard by the failed receiver that still operates, but on a non compensated frequency.
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  2226. Tape also has an issue that the old tape formulations, dating back to the late 1950's, will be still in great condition, but tapes made in the early 1979's will almost all be unable to be read due to oxide flaking off. Change due to them no longer using sperm whale oil as a tape lubricant, the old tapes are still able to be unwound, the later ones need baking to hopefully get them to unstick one last time for the single destructive read.
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  2227.  @salerio61  Yes, but the local master stations will also use a Cesium or Rubidium clock, which is slaved with the GPS to provide an accurate local time and frequency, which will be shared by the local cells. But the local stations all will ultimately have a clock derived from a GPS receiver somewhere local, which is at a precisely mapped point, used as a reference marker for all timing in the area. Depends on cell density just how big an area is covered by each one, at least large enough that the coverage to the other GPS equipped stations is under the error budget, so that you can hand data traffic over to cells with different master clocks and not loose too many packets in the handshake.
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  2228. Oscillofun is this brought to life with current technology. Also you can get the slow motion display simply by varying the readout rate for your raster display, obviating the need for the slow motion camera, plus the modern versions can sort of do flood filling, by drawing multiple lines in an area, to fill it in, and letting the eye integrate the lines into a solid block.
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  2229. 1.6l, no oil cooler, one less thing to worry about.
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  2230. Looks better than the factory ones.... Homie enjoyed his ears, that piggie did not come home from market for sure.....
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  2231. Yes, and the last 2 the disaster really came down to cost cutting, in that it had been thought that adding sensors to detect flooding, and that the doors were actually closed, was too expensive. Though there has yet to be a major disaster with car fires in a ferry, there have been a few with car carriers.
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  2232. Colour change is because of the PCV system, the cam side has hot oil washing it, the dark side the coke was cooler, and deposited all over as varnish.
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  2233. Resigned to keep the pension, and soon will, after the little bit of "punishment" working at a police force somewhere, or acting as a security guard somewhere.
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  2234.  @speedkar99  True, but the alternator is also generally going to deliver full output at roughly normal driving RPM, and at lower or higher RPM will limit power, high side regulator cuts power, and at low side the magnetic field cannot put enough power out. Idling will provide a certain amount of power, but with heavy loads on, like lights, heating and such, idling will actually discharge the battery down further, till the resistive loads drop in power to closer match the alternator output. Modern cars though control alternator output via the ECU, so the regulator is merely there as power amplifier, with the ECU determining power demand, and backing off power as engine RPM rises, though idle will still cause discharge, but the ECU will also then command loads off when the voltage drops too far. Done so the manufacturer can use a smaller, lighter battery, and thus only has really enough capacity to start the engine, it will idle at higher RPM to charge the battery automatically, which them is a big fuel waste, in that you use fuel to charge a battery only, and thus are throwing 70% of the energy in the fuel away as heat.
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  2235. Not really, still a lot of surface area, and a small number of rocks, so plenty of much higher risk factors are going to overshadow them.
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  2236.  @fmccloud  Yes, and as they are mostly made from stainless steel and steel alloys they will also only slowly dissolve in the NaK fuel. Just have to make sure the ones you start with do not have any brass parts in the fuel system as those will rapidly dissolve in the fuel. As a bonus they are also very similar to the existing injection nozzles in aircraft, so retrofitting will be a lot easier, just have to add in the tank and the high pressure pump to get it to the nozzle, plus make all the piping out of the usual aircraft grade line of stainless steel and PTFE for the flex parts.
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  2237. Had one who said the textbook is expensive, and not worth it. Then also had an undergrad who also funny enough had a copy of the book, and who used the professor's code on the uni copiers to make a lot of copies of it, double sided, and placed in a bag, so you could punch it and put it in a file. Being semi used to book binding I simply took this pile, made sure they were all in order, and put 2 sheets of card front and back, then used PVA glue to bind it instead, with a linen backing to make the spine supple. Worked well, and it held up to the use it got, even if the copy was somewhat poor, seeing as those copiers had already clocked up well over the 100 million copy mark, or a Xerox would say, just run in.
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  2238. Ever since you put fuel in it...................
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  2239. Helicopters do not in fact fly, they beat the air into submission. then get repulsed by the ground. fun fact is that almost every helicopter can do a barrel roll, as it is the one maneuver where there is positive G all the way round, so you do not run the risk of having that rotor droop down and chew the tail apart, which is bad in that the shaft to power the rotor (or the long v belts on some of the smaller ones) runs down it. Some have a very sturdy steel angle at that point, on the assumption that making the main rotor a little bit shorter at the tip, and still allowing you to choose the crash site somewhat, is a lot better than having a self drilling coffin. Was fun one day to be sitting in the door, looking up at the ocean, and down at the sky.
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  2240. With banking world wide, the USA still believes in cheques, despite so many of them being fraudulent, but the banks do not care, as it still makes them money.
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  2241. Half the price, as he said in part one, and as well the new one you wait 3 to 4 months for it. Here it was popped out in around 3 days.....
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  2242.  @philspear73  Designed for the higher end, but what was made probably never met that standard, except for the first batch or two for the OEM to verify. Then made cheaper and cheaper as long as there were not many returns.
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  2243. Wonder if they will also go after all the brodozers who modify the trucks to roll coal.
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  2244. Funny about the USA, no regulation on HOA's, but elsewhere on the planet government has made rules, and they are prescribed rules, and anything other than them has to be a registered rule with an appropriate authority, which is the deeds office.
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  2245.  @johnnyshell2839  My non US model Chevy came as standard with aluminium thermostat cover. Looks like only the USA models got the fantastic plastic parts, though the vehicle has a distressingly large number of plastic parts on it still. Including the infamous valve cover that leaks. But the Daewoo gasket that you buy to fix it does the job well, and it went in with the right application of Indian Head in the corners.
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  2246.  @Torsee  Accounting was sure it would last longer than the warranty period, so shipped it. Bonus is then guaranteed dealership work right out of warranty, and thus a steady flow of the same poor part moving from inventory as well.
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  2247. Mechanic, not parts swapper.
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  2248. Nothing going to straighten that, you need to heat up to just short of melting, leave for a good long time to relieve the stress, and then temper it again, hoping that the 5mm margin is enough for whatever shape it finally finds.
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  2249.  @carabela125  Not the machinist, just the guy who ordered shafts, made in India, shipped to the USA , and then shipped half way back, and they came in somewhat warped. Tool maker I know looked at them, decided they were useless, so sleeved and redid the old ones instead. that at least held up the 3 months the replacement shafts took to arrive. He also was a guy who ordered a 100kg brass casting, and at the end it was a 5kg thin wall complex bushing, took him a week to make. Customer was very happy, as the original manufacturer was long out of business.
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  2250. That is what those testers do, they place a short but heavy load on the battery, and then calculate, based on the voltage drop during the brief load, and the recovery time afterwards, both the state of charge, and also the CCA of the battery, plus internal resistance.
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  2251. Along with the officers who let them walk for money.
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  2252. Scandisk also used the same layout and colours, taken from Norton Utilities with some slight changes. Norton had borrowed the idea from somewhere else
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  2253.  @JamesTK  Here in South Africa you pay a once off cost of R1900 (roughly $200 AUD) and you then get the letters permanently assigned to you, and nothing extra in the vehicle license fee at all.
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  2254. Will say as well I got a lot of tools as "good used", mostly from either auctions or car boot sales. But you have to be aware of what prices are, and not get caught up in the hype. Plus job lots of assorted are often better, plenty of times I bought an entire lot really cheap, just for the one or two items I wanted in it. Then put them right back up for the next week, no reserve. Sometimes got my money back and more, even after the auction fees.
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  2255. Those helicopters did a lot of work there. the standing joke after that was what was Greek for abandon ship, mefirst.......
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  2256. Tweakers will still steal it, because if it is worth even $5 they will take it as being enough for a single hit.
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  2257.  @jasongill6979  True, but flashing yellow means treat like a yield sign, so look out for cross traffic, not just go like it is green and you have right of way.
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  2258. For the manufacturer great, it gets you out of warranty period, and then the vehicle is scrap, so you buy a new one.
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  2259. Could be worse, could be Dyson, which ironically has the vacuum being the only product they make that does not suck.
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  2260.  @Making_Karens_Cranky  I did some studying next to a massive concrete cube, called the Z facility. Officially it did not exist, and was not shown on any official maps. but had a municipal bus route running through it, and the bus driver was one of a very few civilians with a top secret security classification. 2 drivers, so the one could have weekends and holidays. totally gone now, though pretty sure the entire contents got loaded in plain white containers, and trucked down to a port, where they got loaded on a "Panamanian" registered ship, where the entire crew was young,, fit, and sported crew cuts, and spoke no English, and never left the ship.
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  2261. @ Bus driver was under Official Secrets act, and passengers needed a security clearance to get past the first gate. It was run to allow the people in the facility to get transport to and from work at the facility, getting a bus service to add an extra route was cheaper than having to buy multiple buses and employ a fleet of people to run them. Not really a core part of making HEU and developing things that go boom big style. I wanted to go, but my clearance was the wrong type, not for that facility, even though I was able, under supervision, to read some of the reports about it, by somebody who was actually cleared for it. Most boring 50kg of archived drivel ever, it did not contain the info I was looking for at all, just endless meetings with nothing actually said, typical middle management making themselves appear useful.
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  2262. Yes, and every case can so easily be contested in court as well. Simply have exact time of accident, and your lawyer issues a subpoena for call metadata (the carrier will give that, showing active data use or voice use, with no problem) and this then will lead to an additional charge of giving a false statement. Plus being found 100% liable for all damages as well.
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  2263. You might make 20 years before you are too broken to work any more, never anything more. They probably hire at least once a week, as the old ones get too sick to work. foundry you are an old worker at 30, grey at 35, and gone by 40, either on disability (paid for by government) or just kicked out one day.
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  2264. Brake use depends heavily on drive style. Drive like you have a carton of eggs balancing on a small pole and not falling over they last forever. But drive in traffic hard, and the wear is going to be severe. Heavy front of the vehicle and it will wear anyway. Did mine this last weekend, of course it is "as per sample", so go get the less common rotor diameter, and matching pads, and then take old off, clean caliper, support, hub and backing plate, and apply a thin film of rubber grease on the touch parts, and the hub and bolts, so that they have a little film to keep the rust from making them one. Pads I got are Ferodo, so guaranteed to last 100 000km, though the rotor will be destroyed by the time they wear out. Did put the little screw back in place, but only hand tight on the torx driver, not even a socket handle on it, as it will not fall out with the wheel in place. Reason for replacing was I felt a slight shudder when slowing down from high speed, and then looked, and saw that, while there is half the pad still left, the rotors have worn a nice set of ridges, and thus the shudder. So off to the spares place, and get what they have, not ATE, which I wanted for pads and rotors, but off brand rotors and Ferodo pads, so I know that in 50 000km I will replace the rotors and the pads again, with the pads again showing no real wear. Old pads were OEM from GM/Isuzu, no idea which local supplier they use, but likely the OEM, looking at the construction, was Ferodo, as they, Girlock and ATE have the local market OEM part supply pretty much sewn up. Filters I use GUD or Fram, as they now are the same company, and I never had issues with the filters from them, but the others I have had issues with leaking and such.
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  2265. I have a 17mm spanner that is ground down to half thickness, because it was needed to hold some half nuts that were used to set float on a machine. Needed as the half nuts are on the bottom, and the top is a dome nut. Float needed was 0.25mm with a tolerance of 0.05mm, so the Belleville washer stack was compressed to the right force.
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  2266.  @WrenchingWithKenny  Been to Walmart tires or Jiffy lube......... Impact to remove, and impact to install.
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  2267.  @trumpetbob15  Plus likely also improperly disposed of assets of the estate as well, which can mean they now are liable for the value of that asset, and as a collectible car the value is likely what the last few examples in similar condition went for at auction, which could work out very expensive for them if they were say cars that are only left in single units, and they are in demand.
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  2268. City bills you get discouraged from paying them at the city office, rather they prefer electronic transfer ( takes me a minute to do) or pay at a supermarket. Even though the supermarket takes a cut they still prefer that to having to staff an office and pay the workers, and worse handle the cash.
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  2269. Yup ,and you always run it through at least 5 states first, to hide the title changes and make them a little harder to trace.
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  2270. I heard, and saw the wobble and puff of smoke from the wheels, the planes ahead on the circuit landing. That was a pretty severe crosswind, but well within the capability of the 707 I was sitting in.
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  2271. $9 million, just a rounding error on the profit they made out of sales of the phones.
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  2272. Mines break those all the time as Kurtis said, they are the frangible link to prevent breaking a much more expensive bit of kit. Nothing is unbreakable on a mine or quarry, you just have to figure out in the design that the cheap parts should fail first.
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  2273. The limiting item will be the final fuel pickup tank, whichever one is used for this, typically the centre tank. You will want to keep this one full as much as possible, but as the dive is generally something that is done with reduced power, after the high power climb to gain energy by both increasing velocity and altitude, and the zero G segments are accomplished by reducing thrust, allowing the aircraft to coast up and complete the rise and then fall to the recovery altitude, you do not need much fuel input, so the full tank will tend to have fuel flow mostly non vapour entrained to the fuel pickup screens, and then into the low pressure lift pump. Past there the system is pressurised, so the vapour will be condensed back down. Hydraulic systems pretty much the ame, there generally are pressurised bladders used to maintain pressure anyway, and to supply peak demands that are beyond the pump capacity, so this will do the hydraulics, and, while they may get a bit of air entrained in the fluid, it will be bled out in normal operation on the flight back, and will certainly do so on the ground when pressure bleeds off and the bladder expands to fill the pressure reservoir full volume. Toilets are going to have one way valves in there anyway, plus the seat itself has a valve that is only opened when you flush, though I would not flush in the zero G segments, as you will end up with a full coating of blue fluid, just like in heavy turbulence. Pilots will have the seatbelts on, and will also be able to find that pen that some body lost last flight, as it floats past.
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  2274. If you want bad try the vending machine tea. Does not in any way resemble tea. The coffee though is OK, as I generally take an espresso, and then a cappuccino, and add the one to the other, to get a nice strong full cup.
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  2275. For a cheap vehicle look at the vehicles not intended for the USA market, but which are nearly identical, but sold into say the Mexican or South American market, or into Africa. Those are generally bare bones, because of the price point they need to have, and in general you do not have the massive engine sizes the NA market seems to demand.
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  2276. Most common power meters are poor at the lower end, simply because there you are using only 1 or 2 bits of the ADC range, and most common ADC chips on MCU's are pretty poor performers at the lower end and also pretty poor with long term drift. you have to choose full scale current range to get low power readings, and as most have to contend with the full rated current draw of the power socket ( 15-20A around the world ion most cases) you suffer at the low end. To get a decimal point you will have to step up a lot from the cheap consumer grade devices, and those meters are not going to be $10, and will also not be very tolerant of overloads either. You will be paying Agilent, Yokogawa or one of the other top tier instrument makers quite a lot of money for the extra point, and the confidence it actually is a valid reading. The common meters are poor performers with loads that are SMPS input as they tend to be slightly under or over in the power calculations due to the harmonics and the high peak currents.
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  2277. You pay to read them?
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  2278. @ Simple, no space above ground to put them, the ground is pretty well all built up, which is why the underground was started in the first place. Now no place to add in extra ventilation either.
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  2279. One day soon George will be riding on homie's back.......
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  2280. Had that with a vent line that got clogged. While it took me a half hour to fill the tank, I also found one fuel pump that would severely under read while doing so, so a full tank from empty was a quarter of the price. I eventually did call the fuel company technical line (garage staff is useless, as they are not in charge of forecourt, only dispensing fuel and the shop) and reported it, and how to show it, and after around another month that pump was replaced with a complete new one.
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  2281.  @williecosgrove  Well, it was a few months, as I did not regularly fill up there, unless driving home from that particular direction.
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  2282. I could still seal well enough not to set a code, till the o ring had worn from the bypassing fluid to the point the TCM noticed the excess fluid flow, from the pressure being wrong for that set of input and output ratios, and the clutches not getting the right pressure fed to them.
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  2283. Oil filter kong since clogged and running on bypass which is why you got side scratches as the grit went out with the flow
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  2284. The Generac units that run on LPG or natural gas also do tend to have a high oil consumption, especially as they age. Plenty of room in that cage to put in both an external oil filter and tank, so that the unit has a much larger oil volume, and the oil can be cooled down better, as hot oil breaks down fast, and the oil volume in them is small, and thus the short life.
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  2285. I think they needed that prime spot in the rear for the refueller, so had to move everything they could out of the tail section.
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  2286.  @ConfusedNyan  Yes the APU could have been an afterthought in development, as the prototypes always would have been at a test airfield with a GSU available for them, and only when they were to be used as a tanker did they need to consider use at remote airfields, or in emergency conditions where a GSU would not be available, so one was grafted in, using as few penetrations in the pressure hull as possible, thus it was in it's own fire resistant box inside, with the inside volume being used for cooling, using the inlet air flow.
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  2287.  @markevans2294  Yes but in both cases the FADEC was operating, just with no input control, so it stayed at the last operate level under full control of the FADEC, and the fuel pumps controlled by the FADEC were still operational. Damaged engine you can still shut down by turning off all DC buses, and all AC buses, and before that use the fuel system valves to starve the engine of fuel, but that is something the pilots are never taught, as that is mostly done at depot service, to isolate an engine for removal with full fuel tanks.
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  2288. Mines tend to flog the shit out of equipment, CAT stays there, along with Komatsu, because the stuff lasts, even though the operators are determined to find new and inventive ways to break it. Cat also has a crap ton of spare parts available most of the time, and good after sales support, which is very important as an hour of downtime can be 6 figures of loss per machine.
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  2289.  @toriless  Very hard to kill a fig tree, they are tenacious, and even Roundup will not always work on them. Took 2 bottles applied direct to the root system growing in concrete, plus removing all the visible wood, to kill one. There is a bougainvillea growing quite comfortably near me, living at the top of a street light fixture, growing in the little gap between the steel pole and the lamp base. It is healthy, even flowering with nice purple leaves when I went past today. Street light still works as well. one tough plant that, also resistant to insecticides as well, plus a bear to trim down. I use a chainsaw, both a regular one and a long pole saw, to avoid getting all destroyed from the thorns when going in for the deeper branches. Garden service people were not exactly happy putting it on the truck though, those thorns go pretty well through most types of glove with no problem.
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  2290. Reaction bar would have drilled and tapped the far end to M10 by 50mm deep, so that they can attach a slide hammer to remove it with a head that has grabbed fast, or to store it on a peg using a lifting eye. Strange to see Kurtis doing a rod end weld in a single pass, and not have half the job being going round and round with the welder and grinder.
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  2291. Easiest thing to do is set up a toll plaza and charge per entry and exit.
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  2292. More to the point the supplier does a very good job in cutting, you have almost no slope on them at all, and very little of the material is wasted in getting to a nice normal surface either.
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  2293. Well the mining of old dumps for gold, and the profitable extraction of copper, silver and sulphuric acid from the dumps, was also a SA thing, and the end result was also that large chunks of land, all now more or less in the middle of the gold reefs, was available, plus the residue from the recovery was pumped back into the pits, both filling in the old adits, and making the ground less prone to sinkholes forming, and also keeping the local water tables free of pollution. I remember all those mine dumps being there, but now almost all are gone, replaced by housing tracts. The actual god recovery was also, because of new methods over the old mercury extraction and flotation used, actually higher than the current virgin ore being mined, despite it being already processed, and the dumps were also easier to handle, seeing as the ore was already crushed and easy to handle. Of course, you also had a good amount of both mercury and other stuff recovered, as the mine dumps were used as a catch all dumping ground by the mines.
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  2294. Same for making sports vehicles with automatic gearboxes only.
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  2295. But suspect connectors and wiring first, most of the time it is that, except for crank angle sensors, that live a hot and unhappy life.
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  2296. No15 still file the police report, you will need the number for the insurance claim.
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  2297. Bolting the stable door, they should be looking at the scrap yards who buy the stolen stuff, and take them to the cleaners, though also the board members responsible for the stopping security should be told to pay back the salaries and benefits they got, for not doing any sort of effective job. Not that you see any copper or brass along the main lines, even those in stations, and even those right next to the security companies that rent the properties from Transnet. 100 plus guards 24/7/365, and they did not see the stuff being stolen literally outside the door Marshall?
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  2298.  @renakunisaki  I did do that, buying 25W golf ball lamps by the gross, and needing to replace them at least once a month as they burnt out. However the downlighters used good lamps, and as they were always slightly underrun the life was good. When the shop had the ceiling ripped out I found a few of the original stock Osram lamps in there, still working perfectly, though the reflector of them had basically become transparent, and quite a few had simply flaked completely off. 105 downlights, swapped out after a month from 50W to 20W, because the difference in energy use was considerable, and also you needed half the amount of AC unit to keep it cool. Even so there was a second AC unit installed, as the main one could not keep up with trying to cool the whole area.
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  2299. Only time that trim override would not work is that aircraft where the jackscrew simply was not greased, and the nut wore out and jammed. Trim wheels and cables are indicating the jackscrew is turning , by having the cables run around a drum on the bottom of the motor. Direct, reliable and only needs regular maintenance to last the life of the aircraft.
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  2300. Hotel Cali vibes for sure......
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  2301.  @I_Do_Cars  I have the non USA 1.6 5 speed manual one. Nice car, just service is not buying GM parts, but Daewoo, because it is really a Daewoo with GM badges. But a nice car, now 12 years old, and with a nice clean engine as well. Some time soon I will have to replace the clutch, but that is readily available by ordering for a Daewoo Lacetti. Nice comfortable car, no speed demon, but loves the open road, and keeping around the speed limit is around the most economical fuel use point. Just needs regular oil changes to have a long life, and yes I had to replace cam belt recently, because of a bolt that went down and damaged the outside of the belt. No idea where that came from, must have been left when the engine was overhauled at 130 000km because the exhaust place tried to do an EGR and cat delete, and failed. I got that right after a little work, finding what they broke, and fooling the EGR valve into thinking it was passing exhaust gas.
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  2302. I had 3 cans of spray paint as standard in working on helicopters. First one was water displacement fluid, used on every part. Second was contact cleaner, used on connections. Third was matt black, used, with a piece of paper as mask, to touch up instrument panels. For corrosion control we used Tectyl, but the cans were not easy to get, but the 205l drums were all over, and if it would fit in the drum it would get dipped, then hung up over a galvanised steel pan, next to the drum, to drip dry. Larger in the pan and use a brush to cover it. I put entire instrument panels in that drum, then wiped them down to a clean surface, so that every pore was filled with anti corrosion compound, then would wire it up, put the gauges in, and put it back in service. Would not corrode then.
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  2303. Yup used to drive a Bedford bus with that, about a 60 degree slop in the steering, before the wheels decided to get into the action. Eventually it had a new steering box, pitman arm and linkages installed, as all were so worn the only thing holding them together was the cotter pins and dried grease.
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  2304.  @SolarityTechnology  I got the same, automated ticket with the vehicle in the frame being a BMW, but the plate itself is registered to a VW van, and even before, as the plate is a vanity plate, it has variously been on a Mercedes, Mini, a Toyota and another VW, never a BMW. But the automated system filled in correctly the model particulars and colour from the database.
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  2305.  @rossmanngroup  Thank you, though I did it years ago, because the ads got F'ing annoying. So nice and quiet without the ads. Funny thing is if you use a VPN and appear to come from the EU the ads are a lot less intrusive, though coming from not the US works well.
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  2306.  @tommorides8086  Well, sealed for the warranty life, but if you actually want to keep the vehicle past the warranty, you should change all the fluids. Only the plain mechanical boxes do not really need a fluid change, because that oil fill is good for at least 30 years in there, as it is running with little stress on it.
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  2307. Probably only in good order because it was running all the time, and the coal dust was acting like a lubricant as well. Would be a good idea when putting back together to chuck a tube of Mo Di into each one, which will make them run smooth as butter, though the oil will look like black glitter forever after. did that with one diff in my cars, and it was silent forever after, and ran over 100 000km like that, with not a hint of noise. Toyota's are known for whining diffs, and that shut it up after 2 minutes.
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  2308. Funny about that just today play in a wheel. Looked at it, and was told new bearings recently. So easiest thing, undo the CV nut, pretty tight, then loosen it off, and knock CV loose. the tighten nut again, using long breaker bar ( but no pipe) and standing on it. Got near another turn on it, those bearings must not have seated fully initially. Put back and away it goes. Needs a list of other things, like sway arm bushes, shocks, saddles, valve cover gasket and a camshaft sensor. Those can all be done soon now, now it is running properly, and not a danger. Really needs new brakes, but they are still usable, and owner is going to go back to smaller rims, cheaper to replace the tyres when they wear.
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  2309.  @Conservator.  Taken more than a few apart.......
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  2310. If you have that simply use Jet A1, as it is designed not to freeze till around -50C, as it has to stay liquid in aircraft fuel tanks at altitude. The diesel does not have the wax removed from it, so that is the component that solidifies out in the fuel and makes it gel.
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  2311. Well you see a bribe is to a lower official, to the chief of police it is a legit scheme if he is involved in getting a cut of the money.
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  2312.  @LesReeves  Also got that tin as well, though I did buy it. Even used generously on things like heater elements in machinery, it is still more than half full.
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  2313. You are wrong with the internal pressure switch in the condenser, it is normally run on the low pressure side, and is set to provide protection in the case of low refrigerant, switching off the compressor when the suction side pressure drops too low, from a loss of refrigerant. Then you do have a thermal cutout inside the compressor, that does break the full current, though better units also include an external overtemperature switch, turning off the compressor when it exceeds 120C case temperature, with the internal one operating around 140C. Better ones also include another switch in the high pressure side, turning off the compressor, typically with a non resettable trip, when pressure is too high, normally caused by the fan not running to move air over the fins, or the fins are clogged solid, and the high pressure side rises up in pressure to a very high pressure from the hot gas being in there.
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  2314. All those plastic parts though are soon available as cheaper pattern parts, simply because of that. Even the dealers buy them as well, especially for older vehicles.
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  2315. Have not stopped the theft syndicates at airports either. Best way to not lose your luggage is to put, and declare, a cheap knife in it, then it will be sealed and put on the plane by armed guards, and not go through any of the airport staff.
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  2316. Cancelled that, as all I got on it were spam calls.
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  2317. They will already have written it off as a demo unit, it likely sold more than 1000 units just from the review from Dave alone already, as people who trust him for his honesty got to hear about it. Dream machine for me, though I would not even use 1% of the full capability of it.
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  2318. As there are a few lawyers who had assets seized, they will be pushing the case. Hopefully the judge actually does sanction the person who signed the request, and properly punishes them. Banks as well no longer want to offer safety deposit boxes, so they now no longer do offer it, thus the market for private companies offering this service. By the same logic the FBI used, you can then seize every vehicle, aircraft, bus, bicycle and scooter in a city, because some of them might have been used in a crime at some point. Same for every house, under the same logic.
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  2319. And if they do not move there is another tool set to repair the threads as well, which does not need the heads to come off.
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  2320. Definitely on the phone.
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  2321.  @AileTheAlien  Had them for around 30 years now, and still use them in places, and also have a lifetime supply of good quality spare lamps CFL and LED is the thing where name brand counts, and sad to say not one US manufacturer is on my list of good any more, especially GE and Sylvania, who are no longer worth the premium, as they are all made by the lowest cost supplier for them. CFL I still have lamps made in Europe, and bought lamps last week that are good, made in Poland.
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  2322.  @patrickurquidez4693  I would say the attorney complied with the requests, and the accident, and the incorrect responses to the queries, was done deliberately on the part of the attorney, so that they could not be found to have acted unethically. Merely made a mistake in procedure, which did have unfortunate consequences for their client, but none of that was against the law. Thus at the end they come out with perhaps a small censure for failing to keep good record keeping, and sending excessive information on discovery, but that is not anything that will get them problems.
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  2323. If only they were 2 standard deviations from competent, more like they are at least 10 standard deviations away, and would find it hard to do things without pictorial instructions and a coach. This includes things like breathe.
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  2324.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  When she lets you think that......
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  2325.  @wurfyy  With bears normally gallbladder and the bile is used.
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  2326. Seen that, but you also see the pool deck has settled around 3 inches as well. I also saw a building where the tenant decided to cut out a support beam, as the forklift would not fit under it to access the back, and the floor above was also using a forklift on that same slab. Another they cut the column support pad away from half of the column, as it was in the way.
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  2327. South Africa, where you can get the license without actually doing the test, or get somebody else to do it for you.
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  2328. Remember as default formatting a drive as ext2/3/4 (or ReiserFS, with the warning that there is no way to undelete on this file system) the owner of the newly formatted filesystem there is root, so you need to change ownership of the folder as root to be user 1000 (the default login user, normally you) before you can use it. Formatting as FAT or NTFS does not do this, as these are non native Unix Linux file systems, they are mounted normally using FUSEFS, and many older distros could not read them, unless you added in a module to allow this, which was eventually included as part of the kernel by default. Also beware of compatability between different versions of EXT filesystem, older ones cannot read newer ones correctly, so you would need to use a compatible version, or format on the old system first, as the new one will read and write it correctly.
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  2329. For the niche applications resistive heating in the outdoor unit, which can serve double duty in doing a defrost cycle while operating, would probably be a good thing, turn off outdoor fan and reduce heating draw, while ramping up the heaters till the outdoor coil is above freezing, then slowly start the fan while reducing heat. That at least will still ensure energy extraction from the air, and thus extra heat, and you could also have a vent panel that also flips, to allow the compressor cooling air to be directed to the coil, and not dumped to ambient, providing a useful amount of heat as well. Summer you dump that heat, keeping it away from the coil, but in winter you want that heat to go to the coil. Another way to grab that extra 5 degrees of differential, or an extra few percent on efficiency, as most compressors run hot, and have little to no cooling air flow over them, unless they are in a square block tower, where they get cooled by the hot condenser air, or warm up the outlet air.
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  2330.  @kathrynlitchfield7140  No real place to do that other than in the already dredged channel, as otherwise they need to dig out a massive amount of silt, which will take a year or more to do, and then find a close by place to dump that silt. Even before they start a 6 month environmental assessment, and a year waiting for paperwork. Existing channel already has dredging permits on file, just dig, and miss the gas pipeline buried somewhere there.
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  2331. VW I kept the plastic housings around as spare parts, along with the o rings as well, because they are a known failure. Plus a spare set of plug leads. That, plus valve cover gaskets and water pumps, are a very common failure on most vehicles. My Cruze next service will also involve that valve cover replacement, easy as the plugs will come out for checking, and time to look at the brakes, half way worn. 3 different size pads in use on the model, and you need to see which one you have to get new.
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  2332. People saying RADAR, you cannot see closer than a minimum distance with any RADAR system, simply because your transmit pulse is a defined length, and that, plus a guard time and the time it takes the TR switch to enable the receive path to receive the return signal, is going to be much more than 10 miles for most AC sets. Plus as well ground clutter will make detecting a single person on the ground near impossible, they are simply another bit of noise in a solid block of noise. Yes airports have a secondary RADAR that shows the location of all aircraft, all vehicles and most objects on the field, but that also needs somebody to look at it, figure out which of the hundreds of returns is not an aircraft, a vehicle, a building, a light pole, an airport employee there legitimately, and then alert a security team to go and investigate. Often this display is solely in the ATC tower, used to guide aircraft on the ground, so the ATC is more concerned with aircraft on the ground, vehicles, and that there is no obstacles on the flight path. A person may not be visible on there, especially if there is a lot of clutter from things like approach lights, grass and probably drainage ditches, all of which obscure areas. Those aircrew vests also have metallised sections in them, so that they do show up on the ground RADAR as a signal, otherwise the person might not be visible.
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  2333.  @Sapiens_Imperialis  Did they give you chips or a card? Card or chips with RFID so they can track exactly how you spend, and get detailed info of which machines, and which display screens, get your attention, so as to decrease the time to strip you of money.
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  2334. Electric power failed when the keel broke, as that then disconnected the steam supply from the small steam plants that powered the electrical system, and also from the assorted bilge pumps that were doing their utmost to pump water out, and prolong the sinking. By that time the electrical crew had likely run out of rewireable fuses, and had simply started replacing them with the neutral links, as those also fit the fuse holders, but have a solid bar, in order to provide power to whatever parts of the electrical system were left. They probably saw the front part stop drawing power deck by deck, as the cables were snapped in the trunks as the ship flexed, and thus were the first to know, aside from the stoker gang who were still running the boilers, that the ship was tearing itself in half. Those cables will still be there, as copper chloride deposits in the iron oxide, for millions of years, long after the wreck has been eaten away by the iron loving bacteria, and it is buried by slow accumulation of calcium carbonate silt from plankton. In a few million years, when that sea floor is uplifted as limestone, there might still be recognisable objects found, mostly glass and ceramic items, and the odd bits of the engine castings that did not get totally eaten before they got covered, and of course all the lead that was used to sheath the cables in the wiring trunks, which might still have the remains of the copper in them as well.
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  2335. All the bearing parts are sitting on the magnet in that box, as it is all steel so stuck there leaving clean fluid.
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  2336.  @SuzuranMajere  So likely then that code is still in active use as control on missile systems. Wonder what happened to the Minuteman guidance computer Jim Williams had as a hall decoration, likely the LVDC software is the direct ancestor of that system, and the hardware likely is just an updated copy as well, just with a faster computer core that enabled it to handle the analogue computer functions in house.
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  2337. Often on closing those rules are not given at all, or the rules are "not available" unless you pay a fee, or they will only be given once you have bought. All not really legal, and often the fact it is in a HOA is not really disclosed.
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  2338. That sandblast skid looks like a good idea. Would also suggest putting some form of frame up as well, and then a beam out of it, so that you can use a set of cable hangers and a cable tool hanger to hold the feed cables and the tool up out of the dirt, so that you have less of a strain when sanding, with the feed bundle out of the way, and the tool balanced to make it easier to hold. Just have to have a set of canvas sides, old truck trailer material, to keep the compressor and the spray unit out of the sun, and allow them to look nice for longer.
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  2339.  @sakabula1285  Christmas 2050 perhaps, or might be 2080.
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  2340. Bet idle time is massive though, as they do spend a crap ton of hours with engine idling, and no motion, to keep AC and accessories running. Lot of police vehicles here spend 18-22 hours a day idling, with the officer inside.
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  2341.  @1noryb  If it is an incorporated area then there should have been a check for landlocking, at least when the lot was registered for sale, because you can only sell a lot if the subdivision has been done and registered, and most will not allow registration of a landlocked parcel, it will need an easement for access, at a minimum for utilities.
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  2342.  @tigerwulff  Yes he could have a ticket, or the vehicle could be declared unroadworthy, in that it no longer complies with the original manufacturer specifications. turns out in most areas doing such extreme modifications can make the vehicle unsafe to drive in anything other than a straight line, and worsen the cornering ability as well. Plus there are also regulations about wheels protruding beyond the side as well, he could find himself being sued if he ever scrapes against a pedestrian or another vehicle, and losing the case and the vehicle as well.
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  2343.  @DavesGarage  Yes, it is great. As an aside TTL is really rugged, you will probably only find one or two failed gates, though more than likely your issue is open circuits, either cracked solder joints on the pins, or bad IC sockets that go intermittently open. I have had an entire computer have a power supply issue, with the unregulated 14V being applied for a few hours to the 5V logic, 2 cascaded failures of the overvoltage crowbar not working any more, and something in the 5V regulator going bad. Of the 500 or so TTL IC's on the various boards, only one actually failed, a PM5403 quad open collector NAND gate. Easy to see once the board was pulled, the lid had unsoldered itself. The computer itself was still fully functional, just had a single detected fault, in that the self test light went out immediately. Guess what that IC controlled. All functional otherwise, even the 2708 PROMS were fine, along with the custom Intersil DAC in the 40 pin purple ceramic, and the Mostek MK4007 RAM chips.
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  2344.  @jimwheeler6094  Aircraft engines, at least the ones I was involved in, generally have a 10 hour run at varying power levels, up to full afterburner for 10 minutes, as part of testing after overhaul. Incidentally you really can only use full afterburner for 20 minutes, because by that point you have run out of all fuel in the tanks. 10 minutes in the test stand was close to 1200 gallons of fuel, and that test stand had it's own fuel delivery pipeline off the bulk tank farm to supply it. The in hanger fuel points took 10 minutes to fill up the plane from empty. the same ground test is also done to all other engines, they get a good few hours of ground run before they even get put back in the aircraft, and a SOAP sample is taken before the oil is changed after that, so that any wear is detected before flying it. Then test flights after install, and more SOAP sampling.
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  2345.  @steveboverie9432  Who does the injection also is the thing, I learnt from a hard as nails registered nurse just how to administer injections, because she would swab the area, then get ready with the needle, and tap the area a few times with the swab, to get your skin and nerves used to sudden taps, and then slip the needle in instead. You would not notice it. She almost always was the one doing the pediatric work as well, because she would not cause any sudden pain to the infants and children, so they would not cry, and thus not stress the rest of the children in the line out either. Plus she always had a big bottle of sweets, that she gave to them afterwards, as reward. But i did see her inflict needed pain on some, giving them a teaching reminder.
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  2346. Yes, but the cheap AC ones typically do not provide that option, you need to move to the industrial ranges to get those, along with interlocks and time delay units that either clip on or screw on top. you also run into issues with the lower power coils not having enough ability to drive add on blocks, the only thing you can do on those is to have interlocks to keep them from physically closing if the other is closed.
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  2347. Racing drivers tend to drive till it breaks, then fix and carry on, and see where it will break again.
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  2348. Blowing gas, so even a new thermostat will not fix the problem, gas in the coolant, and no antifreeze, means it is blowing it out fast, which is a blown head. About the only thing you can do is a can of stop leak, and see if it slows down, but that engine needs a new head gasket on it, and possibly a skim, though it can have cracked already and need either a new head, or stitching together. VW was famous for making a 5 part head if you overheated, cracking between each cylinder.
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  2349. Ray better just be thankful elephants do not fly.....
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  2350.  @amcconnell6730  For those probably a half dozen of them, and they send out only the broken ones, and simply do the worn ones in house with new bushes, till they send it out to Kurtis for "just a line bore" like last week.
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  2351. I would say the air input only accounts for a tiny bit at the beginning, the plunger does keep it well separate from the chamber. Most of the thrust here is from the reaction making steam, just like the Heinkel rocket plane did with the same fuel combinations.
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  2352.  @TJAnttola  Not really, used oil is eminently recyclable, and cheap, plus the filter as well. I never got oil past 10 000km, and that was on a stock low compression VW, because black oil is not the best lubricant, and DIY is very easy.
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  2353.  @lawrencedoliveiro9104  Mostly due to them using ENG vans, with the high bandwidth video and audio being sent via a satellite link, so it has to go up to a Geosynchronous satellite, then back down to a ground station, then either via a terrestrial linkage, or more commonly, back up to the satellite and then down to the broadcaster studio. 4 trips to geo orbit right there, and thus the delay, so yes you will have delay. Better will be if the reporter on scene actually does not have an ENG truck, but instead uses something like 2 cellular phones, one providing the video link and the audio, using a cheap bluetooth microphone paired to it, and the other phone in the pocket, receiving the studio talkback channel to a bluetooth or wired earpiece. Much lower latency, as all likely will be done via ground based cabling or links, but drawback is that it needs there to be a dependable local cellular network available, and for it not to be overloaded, and also not shaped for that call. you get cellular data plans that are guaranteed lower latency and higher priority, but not all carriers worldwide support the ability, and often you do not have a working cellular network, so the satellite link is the only option, as the whole lot, including the antenna, can be fitted into a pair of carryable suitcases, and deployed reasonably fast, though this then gives rise to the other acronym of ENG gear, being Easily Nicked Gear. Eye watering high prices for the equipment, and also for the connection per second, plus high monthly retainer costs, so they are not common. When operational Starlink should make this lag a lot less, as it aims to only be a short hop up, then a few dozen bounces till it reaches a ground station.
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  2354. VW loves putting them in the plastic manifold, or in the pipes themselves, so yes low coolant it will not show. Generally they also put a low coolant warning in the water bottle though, but I do not know if they did it with this badge job Chrysler.
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  2355. This is the kind of truck where the value of the vehicle depends on the amount of gas in it, and the amount of rubber on the wheels. Otherwise a quarter per pound.
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  2356. Will also bet that they might only change the 3 easy ones, and only do the back hard ones much later on when it comes with a misfire. Easy way to be paid twice for the same job. The $40 price includes the labour to fit them.
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  2357. Yes, ship out in a container, and sell offshore, using fake or modified paperwork of an existing vehicle, because so long as you pay the duty on the incoming side they will not care, and thus give you the ability to "legit" enter the VIN into the country, and make a massive profit selling the vehicle there. Once sold if it ever has warranty claim and comes back as stolen buyer is the one out of pocket, seller still has the money. Just have to do a few transfers to wipe the info off the title, and run odometer up a little, or sell into a market where manufacturer has little representation. Your $100k stolen vehicle might cost you $30k to get it there, and pay the "legitimising" fees, but that $70k is pure profit then, and all offshore as well.
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  2358.  @dinobuddy  Is he being represented by the world's most famous copyright lawyers, Prenda law?
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  2359. Plus same at the rear as well, extra rings are always useful, even if you only use them to hold down a tarpaulin over the load.
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  2360. AGC was more important a milestone in that it was the first computer, along with the Saturn launch vehicle computer, that had a computer in charge of equipment, without any human intervention, where the computer itself was the only control system. Important in that the humans only served to give input, the computer itself having full control and capable of ignoring human input entirely if needed.
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  2361. Because the city is giving the value of the bare lot only, not the value of lot plus house. Worst is that the owners will still be paying a mortgage on a house that no longer exists, and also they now will be converted into paying an unsecured personal loan on the balance of the bond.
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  2362. Love how in the outtakes the jacket changes colour, compared to the CAT yellow, in just about every shot.
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  2363. Cybertruck is ug leeeeee. Looks like a Toyota TUV, which got the nickname of Totally useless Vehicle pretty fast, being designed as a low cost vehicle, based on the tried and trusted Toyota Stallion pick up, but with flat panels. Not much cheaper, and not popular either.
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  2364. The problem is that you have really not used all the energy in the fuel, you can reprocess it, get another few dozen cycles out of it, and in the end land up with a few hundred tons of really radioactive, but short lived, stuff. Then drill or dig a deep hole in stable rock, and leave it there for 200 years, to decay to less harmful isotopes. Drill down 4km in a subduction zone and it will be easily disposed of in the mantle, and come up again in 50 million years as ore.
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  2365. Main memory is all the address space (1024k on the original 8080 processor, 16M on the 80286, and more with each generation after). Low memory is all the space under 640k, as the memory from 640k to 1024k was reserved for add on card ROM images, memory mapped so the PC bios could use them, and the section just under the 1024k mark was reserved for the PC bios, as the processor reset and interrupt routines all expected ROM in there. Very slow cheap ROM, almost always with one or more wait states on the memory bus so they could respond, with later on fast RAM being used to shadow the ROM, increasing speed. Then you also had to allow for this shadowing to have holes, as cards could have fast memory mapped regions as well, yet another set of things that could bite you, especially with the first network cards that had a 2k RAM to transfer data. With the 80286 you has more than 1024k of memory, so all above 1024k was upper memory, and you could access this from programs via one of 2 methods, either have a call direct to there, but losing the original 8080 address features, or use the then brand new memory mapping unit in the 286 processor to bring in a chunk of this memory to appear to be in the area under 1024k, called paging. Swapping between processor modes on the 286 and higher was done by calling a special register that changed from Real Mode ( 8080 compatible code and register wise) to Enhanced mode, allowing the full processor capabilities to be used. This does change some instructions in how they are executed, so to change back you have to reset the processor only, using a instruction sent to the keyboard controller, that also controlled address line A20 to force it low to disable the upper memory areas, and also reset the CPU, so it would restart, see that it had done a mode switch from the BIOS code, and restore all the registers, and carry on in real mode. There was a logic bug in that you could set A20 high, and have an extra 64k of memory still usable from the 8080 Real Mode, and not cause the program counter to overflow, giving a 64k block of high memory that you can use in Real mode directly, making programs run much faster without the slow switching to and from real mode ( you need to save all registers, do a very slow machine wise IO instruction and then halt while waiting for the keyboard controller to read the instruction, decode it, flip the appropriate bits on it's outputs, and then reset the processor, followed by the processor reading from slow ROM, seeing if a magic byte value is present, and then if so restoring all the registers back before finally doing a pop from the stack to get back to what it was doing before the context switch) and saving on the valuable 640k of main memory. You eventually had so much of the MSDOS kernel and drivers that you could load either in upper memory or high memory that there were a few programs that needed the LOADFIX program, as they would crash, never expecting to actually be loaded with so low a real address, under 128k IIRC, and all loadfix did was fill the low memory from the original entry point to IIRC 150k, and then call the original program, so it ran from there, and free the memory again when the program exited.
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  2366. Knew one of them in the 1990's, who, when asked how old he was, would reply maliciously "60", because if he admitted his age, he would be on pension, and he did not want to sit at home all the time. He worked harder than men a quarter of his age. Every weekend, when we came down to the sea, we would bring back a few 2l bottles of sea water, which had to have, at the bottom of the bottle, at least 5cm of beach sand, as otherwise it could just be salt water. We had plenty of stories from him about his life, and how it was in the Great War.
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  2367. Should buy a few identical RORO ships, and paint them identically, and convert them identically as well, even down to painting openings in that are not present, so those with one look like the others. then you make it hard to track them at all.
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  2368. More than likely they figured out keeping that fee is free money.
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  2369. The priority crime is what the mayor says is a crime, the rest is all either ignored or not investigated. Looks like election year will be fun for the mayor....
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  2370. Yes likely the deaths due to steering failure was chalked up to DUI or operator error instead. I would suspect there will be a few cases now of the relatives of people who were killed by one will be instigating suits, seeing as the recall could also have been a major contributing factor, but, because the steering wheel was assumed to have failed as a result of the accident, not as a cause, it was discounted.
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  2371. Just need to be able to put the X on the paper to work for SWIFT....... The seeing eye dog can travel in the cab.
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  2372. Rebuilt better than a new one though, and witrh George and his buddies you will be guaranteed to not have any sort of nasties near the shop, they will take care of them for you. Just going to have to tell Homie that his food is going to be shared, whether he likes it or not, those birds will be getting some.
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  2373.  @duaneb193  But even ones under 10 years can be falling apart wrecks, with how poorly they are made.
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  2374. At least this did not involve removing the engine to get to it. Oh yes you can see where the wires go to, but to get there you drop the engine out, and then remove a few minor parts, inlet, exhaust, couple of shields, then you can change it, only 2 bolts and a almost welded together connector, plus a bolt for the battery connection. Mercedes with the A class, where remove engine is standard, for things like changing oil filter and plugs. Undo 4 bolts and place engine in service position using MB special tool, or a jack and block of wood.
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  2375. THz computer will be achievable if you get the compute elements down to being a collection of atoms, and the bus wiring to be single carbon or metal nanotubes, a single atom in diameter.
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  2376. Still need to clean the underside of the deck, which 99% of people never do. Will bet these will also be yard sale items in 3 years because people forgot to charge them, and the BMS turned off, and they do not know how to fix that and charge it up again.
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  2377.  @j.dragon651  Thing is the phone companies already know the calling party, because they are billing them. Simple matter to require the caller ID to be the originating party number only, and only connecting calls that are from valid carriers who do not spoof numbers, and this would stop. The telco companies ignore the caller ID being spoofed because it makes them money in routing the call, using equipment already paid for thousands of times, both by customers and by government subsidies.
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  2378. Buy cheap ones, they last longer.
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  2379. There is a history of them down the road from me at the Natal mounted rifles, standing there as gate gargoyles and yard decor.
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  2380. You can narrow it down to a range, but which gun is hard, as many will be made with the same tooling, and the broach that put the rifling in was used to make them, so all are near identical.
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  2381. Friend solved it on a Golf, got a VW remanufactured engine and put it in. All new seals, 2 year warranty and cheaper than stripping the engine down and replacing every seal, new bearings, doing the head and new rings. The one he got was a leftover engine from the production line for that model, basically never used.
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  2382. He will pop up in 2 days or so, in the bays around the far side of the dam. Normal pattern for the dam is for the body to surface there, or in the far corner by the cliff. Divers looking are not going to find him easily, that water is regularly used by scuba instructors to train people in black water diving, as it is so turbid that even 5m down noon sun is almost invisible there. You dive by feel, and need a ultra strong torch to even see your diving gauges right in front of your face.
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  2383.  @mattbrown5511  Lucas electrical, they invented the intermittent wiper, and also the flashing indicator. All you can say is that you are thankful they did not also include Magneti Marelli ignition in the mix as well.
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  2384. Yes, learned to drive on the most common here, manual, and they still make up over 70% of the market. Also changed a few clutches, and also smoked a few as well.
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  2385.  @MrEdwardhartmann  Or if he complains that when he drank a can of red bull he could not fly, or buying a muscle car did not result in women dropping into his arms.
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  2386.  @mattyb7736  Pretty sure that Kurtis is quite capable of doing that behind the wheel, though you might go through a few balls as he runs them over.
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  2387. But he could sell it there easily, and the registration would be accepted. There is little international checking, only really on exotic cars, where the number of stolen ones is disproportionately high, because the stolen ones land up in a container within hours, being shipped out of country to areas with laxer laws. Vin clashes, and especially engine number clashes, are very common if you up the poolof vehicles to all around the planet, as the vehicle manufacturers only make sure that a VIN of a vehicle they produce for a market area, like NA, EU, Africa, ANZAC, South America, are going to be unique for that market. Engine numbers you are guaranteed they will have clashes, as that is often only a 5 digit serial number, and Isuzu makes more than that number per model in a year.
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  2388. If you have a nuclear plant, you can use the waste heat to boil water, to desalinate it, though you will only boil off enough to double the salinity, for technical reasons, but this will still use the waste heat and produce all the fresh water the reactor needs, plus a lot more for export along with power. Not enough energy in the low temperature steam, you want steam at 300C plus to gain useful work, and will condense it down when it is at around 150C, which will still allow you to boil sea water, though as above, with less efficiency. Not enough useful energy in that steam, which will be very wet, to actually do useful work, and you will be needing to use heat exchangers on the incoming salt water to both condense the reactor turbine steam, and the evaporated steam, so as to actually gain efficiency, by using the first heat exchanger to boil the water, and the second one to warm the incoming water a little, with a third one to cool the outgoing water and add some of the energy to incoming water, so you lessen the energy to get it to boiling, though the biggest heat need is to evaporate that sea water to a wet steam. Basically making your inlet water be at 90C, close to boiling, so you get maximum energy transfer, and you get 95C primary water out, which uses another heat exchanger to cool down to around 50C, for the run through the boilers again. Complex, lots of pumps but will give large amounts of reasonably low salt water, not going to be distilled, but definitely equal to river water in salts in it.
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  2389. You will still get a tweaker go under and cut all sorts of things looking for the cat.......
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  2390. With the red light runners by me I stop for green lights, and when it goes green at some I wait for the other side to decide it probably is actually red, because often you find a good number just fly through the red.
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  2391.  @doughudgens9275  No, they are depending on the company that originally said they could do it cheaper. Changing suppliers is hard, so they will stay with that company, despite changes in ownership, name and location, just so long as they supply to the original or amended spec (and those change sheet lists can be a ton or more of paper), and the price really does not factor into it any more. Not like there are many companies in the field, all of them are probably at the end owned by one of the large Defence Conglomerates by now, what with a half century of mergers, acquisitions and buyouts that have been done.
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  2392. Or remove the reflective layer entirely, and put on a matt vinyl instead.
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  2393. Same US government that removed dams because they were "unnatural" and left the rivers to run to the sea, now realise that what you need to have drinking water is both to actually have dams, and also to cut down on wasting water. Probably time to get rid of all those sterile acres of HOA lawns, put in drought resistant ground cover, and bill people for the water they use, plus also recycle the grey water as well, so that it can be used to do more than go into a sewer and out to sea. That 100 years of drilling down, and using all the ground water, that take a few centuries to replenish, looks like it is now fast approaching the end.
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  2394. My one battery charger was made by GE around 1950, but still is working, after a few repairs and updates to put charge control in it, to not cook batteries. 3A average charge current. Also go another smaller GE with 1A charge rate, that is fine to keep a battery charged all the time. Modified a welder to make a DC fast charge, up to 50A for 30s, which is enough to bring a battery up to something useful. Issue with the alternator is that the regulator is the wrong type, you have a few different ones that are used, from a plain dumb one that simply acts like an old 1980's alternator, to the more modern ones where the ECU is the thing that provides charge regulation, and varies a PWM signal to control voltage from the alternator, and battery charge. Yes been bitten by this as well, solution was to go to the dealership, and order the exactly right alternator, based on VIN of the vehicle, direct from Korea via the agents. They will give the right part, and i would say your daughter has a failed brush pack on the alternator, worn away. New brushes $1 by me, though for the one I needed a different brush, so bought the cheapest VAG clone, and ripped the brushes out of that.
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  2395. Bolts are easy, plus the different lengths for steel versus alloy rims are hard to do in a stud form, either they stick out far, or are too short depending on the wheel type. Not much difference from each other, just that bolts at least have the wearing part easier to change, plus broken ones are, because the tension is now off them, are easy to remove, provided you have not left them on for ages to rust fast. Studs on the other hand are a PITA to change, especially when you have no clearance behind to remove them, and have to take a hub apart to do so. Smaller heads as well on them, so smaller diameter possible on the wheel boss, while still having enough strength and fatigue life to last.
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  2396. Yes likely they had a light trailer which was hitting the rear, and, not knowing that you can get trailer drop plates in different heights, to allow you to compensate, they went with the expensive option instead.
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  2397.  @ProjectFarm  Just remember your cold pour test might take a while, like pouring cold tar.
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  2398.  @KayJay01  What would the Finns do without Swedish ball bearings, and they all grumble about the Danes, because they are the descendants of the Vikings, but almost all the power comes via Denmark, and almost all the hydro power from Norway.
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  2399. I just use 2 part epoxy to bond the LED chips to the heatsink, and this does work well for low power units. Sand the heatsink surface with some 200 grit waterpaper and the LED back, after soldering on the leads. Then wash both sides with alcohol to degrease then a small blob of well mixed eopxy, press firmly and use something to apply pressure for the 5 minutes the epoxy takes to gel. Then leave for 24 hours to cure.
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  2400. Big nut ( M12) placed there with a fender washer will enable that home made press to get the bushing all the way in without needing it to be hammered and dented.
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  2401.  @cll1639  Knew one guy who drained the transmission and filled the engine oil.... Toyota gearbox so all it did was whine a little more with new oil in it, and the engine oil replaced.
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  2402. Yes, LTS works better, no radical breaking of things every day, though some things just stay broken..... Just waiting for Mint to give the upgrade so I can do this.
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  2403. Well, likely he had his personal car with insurance, probably same model and colour as the govt issue one. That way he does not hit any flags on the Uber systems, and just has to provide a pic every so often of the clean own car. So now he has what appears to be valid insurance and vehicle, just the driving is done in the govt vehicle, and pretty much every rider does not look at the plates, only make and colour, so easy enough. For deliveries even easier, he gets the food and such, and drives out to deliver, so nobody cares about the vehicle at all.
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  2404. Still going ot have stretch and wear if you neglect the oil changes though.
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  2405. You will come across some 2 wire sensors that are polarity sensitive, notably some sensors that use active electronics inside the sensor, so best to make sure you always follow the wiring diagram for pin number to wire colour, just in case you run into one of those rare sensors. I have seen this in industrial sensors, where you get a lot of 2 wire sensors that are very much polarity sensitive, despite being 2 wire, and those are making their way into automotive as well, as they solve a lot of problems in cable routing, as the small signals are conditioned right in the sensor, making it possible to use a much cheaper wire in the loom, instead of a shielded one, saving time in the loom assembly and cost to make.
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  2406.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  Hey you are hiding your past as a mine mechanic well, you probably left because your work was too good, and done too fast as well. Can't have the slackers shown up, so off to fix their muck ups you went, and making mint out of it as well.
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  2407. Will say the only time I ever had a filter stick was with an engine that had been overhauled, spotlessly clean block and dry seal, it stuck there nicely, took a bit of work to peel it off from the block. A thin oil film on the seal or block does help, I tend to put one both sides of the seal as a matter of course.
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  2408.  @Nicholas-f5  With what assets, father they need to put in an extradition order to Pakistan and wait a year or three, but still they will get nothing out of them. Son all they will get is $1 per day if he is working in the prison doing labour. Best would be the judge to have made the sentence sequential, so he serves a minimum of 30 years before being eligible for parole. Then $1000 over that as compensation for the 20 victims.
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  2409. Yes nice concept, but would you like to have a car that you throw away after 2 years?
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  2410. Linear accelerator will be lighter, and much less material to use to build, plus no high delta V means it does not need much power. Probably a hundredth the mass needed, though velocity will be lower, but a lot more accurate in aiming, so reducing the amount of mass needed for attitude control of the payloads.
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  2411. Mostly Human, more than anything else.
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  2412. Data recorders have internal power backup, simply because they are required to keep running through power dips like this. Generator breakers tripped one after the other, one tripped first, then the load was too much for the remaining one and that tripped likely a half second later.
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  2413. Another tip is to small the oil, you can tell if it has stop leak and seal fix in it, and if they added stop smoke, just from the smell, and the sticky feel when you separate 2 fingers that are in the oil. Those mask bad seals and worn rings for a short time, till you change the oil, or they stop working, hiding the problem. Also do the sale for the ATF or gearbox oil, you can smell burnt ATF, or see the distinct smell of burnt gear oil, and the additives added to make noise go away for a while. See that look at another vehicle, or offer lower price, because you will either be rebuilding an engine, or replacing it with a new one, along with transmission, in short order. Price will have to reflect that cost. Also check brake fluid, and inside the reservoir, clean fluid, in a dirty sludgy stained bottle, says it was just changed recently, and probably just the fluid in the bottle, the dirt is still in the lines and cylinders. in the underside check look for rusted out brake and fuel lines as well, along with other rust damage, and any suspicious freshly coated areas, as that often is a case of paper and filler over rust, and hiding the rust damage without repairing it properly. Seen way too many with cardboard rubberised to the pan to cover the holes.
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  2414. Yes but the bearing is only a tiny bit cheaper than the whole assembly, and once you take into account the 15 minutes of time to press it out and the new one in, it is cheaper to replace the whole thing. Yes doing it yourself the labour cost is lower, but Ray has to make a profit on the job, and the 30 minutes to swap versus spending 30 minutes on another billable job, is making replace the whole thing look a lot cheaper. I have done a repack on noisy ones, but once noisy the bearings are already toasted, but more grease from new will help with longer life. Bearing packer that gets the extra bit past the seals works well, especially on ZZ bearings where that is just a dust seal, and not so well on RR ones, where you might pop the seal getting more in. Have done gearbox bearings, where the new ones came in as RR, and I removed the inner seal, so the gearbox oil could lubricate the bearing as well, much better life over the original. Those with an outer seal both got removed, so the seal got lubrication.
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  2415. Yet strangely the US government does not learn from history, with exactly the same thing today, which has led to the rise of crime syndicates, exactly like Al Capone did in prohibition times. Forever doomed to repeat the same mistakes.
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  2416. Hey, at least this exhaust is not leaking with broken bolts.....
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  2417. Either needs to add spacers, or mount those speakers under the box top, which means stripping the top cover (likely held on anyway with either pins and hot melt, or screws) and screwing them in from behind with a foam gasket. Probably double the volume that way, and get rid of the buzz.
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  2418.  ss  Mine go 5 years or 30 000 km, about half the recommended change interval of 7 years or 60 000km, so I do not have to worry too much. However as it is VW, and the second most common vehicle here, spares are both plentiful and quite cheap, and thus you have no real benefit of running till it is near failure. The tensioner actually costs more than the belt, and is also a change part. I am so thankful I do not drive GM, where they use the water pump as tensioner, and they are invariably rusted solid, or the bolts snap off in the block. With Ford and the CVH engine I had belt and water pump replacement down to a hour extra during service, mostly from making sure those bolts were nice and clean, and well lubricated. We did do a half hour change one afternoon, in a garage, after the pump had a bearing fail. 10 minutes to cool, 10 minutes till out, which was coincidentally the time it took the new pump to arrive from the other spares branch. They asked where the car was, and were surprised that the car, that pulled in 20 minutes ago, was the one needing the pump. Gasket compound on that new one was well cured, we still had 400km left to do that evening, and left with it still wet.
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  2419.  ss  It does both, acting as the idler, and also being able to swivel during installation to set the belt tension, then tightened down to hold it. That means large sections of the pump are exposed to the coolant, and there is a crevice that creates a nice corrosion cell in there as well, with 2 dissimilar metals to enhance it galvanically.
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  2420.  @Pandafaust11  Double insulated can have exposed metal, but then your insulation must be classed as robust, and there must be at least 2 layers of insulation between metal parts and the live conductors.
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  2421. And both made from the same piece of left over plate as well, complementing each other to use minimal material, so the next tool can come out of there as well.
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  2422. At least that one is easy to change, though i doubt Ray will have the time or inclination to put new brushes in it. Used to do that years ago, but now it is faster and easier to just put a new one in. Especially on cars where you cannot even see the starter, and have to make a pile of parts on the floor next to it to reach it.
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  2423. So the original Deux Cheval, Citroen 2CV is, under those definitions, an off road vehicle.
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  2424. Mass on the wheel is whay provides the pressure that allows friction to work. With park brake on the rear there is very little mass pushing down, so the wheels can easily slip on the ground, as there is little force resisting any motion. Front you have a rather heavy engine providing all the is force to keep the friction high.
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  2425. Well, in a large amount of cases the ticket will not be paid by the driver, seeing as those drones to have a very high probability of not returning to base, because they sort of became one with the vehicle, and the last word from the driver was some variant of blyet.
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  2426. Most common method is to get a totalled vehicle, and take the VIN stickers off, complete with the panel area, and weld them into the stolen vehicle in the right locations, grind engine number off and restamp it, then take it and reregister it as "rebuilt", which gets you to a clear title. Yes they often will also swap the ECU and TCM, along with cluster module, and immobiliser (of course does not apply if it is a Hyundai or Kia in NA as that was a $10 cost saving measure to leave it out), but often these are damaged, so leave the originals in place. Friend just bought a new to him from a dealer, and during the process I went along, plugged in the OBD reader, and verified the stored VIN in the ECU matched the one on the vehicle as well.
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  2427. Well by me in South Africa the common phone box was a copy of that K6, but made in aluminium or coreten steel, with windows installed using common truck and caraval glass sizes and rubbers. Then there were a few oval fibreglass units, mostly indoors,, and then the last were steel with tempered glass (later polycarbonate, as that was a lot more vandal proof) panels. There is still one near me, vandalised of course, and non working. Yes I did use them a lot, with a few variants of phone instruments in them, from the grey coin operated ones, to the later electronic coin operated ones, and then the last generation ones that used coin or phone card, though the last versions tended to be card only, and nobody sells the cards any more, only using them to receive calls.
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  2428.  @baileealligood7862  $50 will likely be all that they have left, as after all the IRS will take a good chunk, along with all the agencies, plus the admin. You still lose, but look on it as being a tax refund, as it is after all just a tip back of your money.
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  2429. But has electronic ignition, which is a lot better than the old points ever could be, plus a long life without drifting timing, or needing to set a dwell angle as well.
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  2430.  @allhailinternalcombustion  kind of like the ford CVH ignition modules,no longer supplied as OEM by Ford, and where the aftermarket ones were not exactly the most reliable. I kept a working spare one, by buying 2 at a time, and running the one for a week, and then swapping with the other, and keeping the used one, along with a small 35mm film canister filled with thermal grease and a 7mm spanner, in the vehicle at all times. 2 minutes and it would be changed out, and I would go buy another 2 modules again to replace it.
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  2431.  @DavidMilesMusic  Look at the gold price, the reference standard for the value of fiat currency.
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  2432.  @supersaiyaman11589  But that would affect top managers bonus, so insurance is paying it, not the bottom line. TRhat it will now slowly be there in future is well hidden under "operational expenses" for the forseeable future, as it is not likely they will change insurer now, all others will not want that kind of risk.
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  2433.  @ALXiswayytoreall  My guess it was 2 buckets of KFC.........
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  2434. It will disperse very fast, just from radiation pressure and the tenuous atmosphere drag, so within a week you will be hard pressed to detect even single particles even following the launch trajectory exactly. Wonder more where the bigger parts are going to come down, hopefully not over populated areas, because the launch direction has very little water till you get over the pole and into the Pacific, so any mid stage "rapid unscheduled disassembly" is going to drop large chunks of metal all over the Russian Steppes, though to be fair the old USSR has dropped kilotons there already, and not all of it has been aluminium and steel with a smattering of titanium alloy.
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  2435. For the scammers I click to open the scammer in a new tab, then copy the URL to Steve ( or whichever channel they are scamming on), and on the scammer page click about, click the flag, and report them for impersonation. then you paste the channel being impersonated, and submit, and you get an automated response from YT ( great that) saying it has been reported. You can check the status around 3 days later, and normally the scammer is gone, slowing them down a little. Saves sending to Steve and overloading him, plus with a world wide audience the scammers get less time to scam, as most are in the far East working a 8 to 6 job scamming, with them hoping 1 in 100 will fall for it and send money via either Western Union, or other non refundable methods, "to pay postage", and never get anything.
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  2436.  @Celica-DGM  Was not my cat, but the neighbour above. I just so happened to be at the ground floor when Tiddles completed his jump, and rushed out to find him, lying there. Picked him up gently, and carefully took him up to his owner, who rushed him to the vet. Next day Tiddles was wearing a pair of plaster casts, had a shaved jaw with stitches in there and was very unhappy.
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  2437. Interesting on a mini, I have seen it on a number of larger vessels where you see them crab driving down the road, each wheel leaving a separate track in the wet.
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  2438.  @rodshoaf  No, only paid 9 months of the year, they are required to use those spare 3 months to do little things like prepare lesson plans for the year, teach summer classes, do mandated training classes, do school activities. All of them they have to pay for themselves, and often the school district will only partly pay back the money, after around 5 to 6 moths of struggle, and also they get expected to do all marking and such at home, unpaid, and also are expected to do extracurricular activities as well, unpaid, and supply also all the equipment as well. Would you like to have a job where your bosses expect you to provide 60 pens a month, plus all your own paper for the documentation you have to give, plus also print them yourself, on your own computer. They will not give you a computer or printer, or will give you a non functional one that dates from when IBM was actually a big player in the home market, and they expect this 20 year old computer is perfect to use, even if it is broken.
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  2439.  @tedthesailor172  There are some worse navies, like the one in my country, 49 ships in active service, 2 admirals, but almost nothing that is classed as a fighting ship is actually fully operational. 3 submarines that are in dock, and the corvettes are all in dire need of retrofit and repair.
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  2440. Lack of maintenance kills them, but the fault is an originally poor design, and also defects in manufacture as well, as they run with poor oil flow, and also with known defects in manufacture, plus extended oil change intervals, and too thin an oil, to improve economy.
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  2441. Time to clean the workshop fans, those blades work a lot better when not full of black oily crud.
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  2442. They only paid for the one phaser, not both. You think they would pay for a new bolt?
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  2443. The ones with direct feeds are being taken out, as they can provide intel, so get removed.
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  2444. Well, the Kraft stuff at least is not a cheesy joke, though it has all the ingredients to make it one, just not apparently the cheesy part.
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  2445.  @DavesGarage  I had ISDN at work, with a 16 bit ISA card in the gateway PC, and then the ISDN TA that was connected to the phone wires and the computer. Interesting to see that it would power on when connected to the phone line, but only would work for data when you powered it locally as well, though the phone port on it would work perfectly just off the 250VDC line powering. Rock solid 64k connection though.
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  2446. By me the fine for not having a TV license (yes you need to pay to watch the dreck that is public TV here) is more than the fine and sentence typically handed out for murder. The old adage is that if the TV inspector comes out, kill him, because you will have a lower cost and time. funny thing is that there are no more TV inspectors, simply because all of them resigned, and the broadcaster has an 80% rate of people not paying. They also send notices to dead people, with vaguely threatening letters saying they can be hauled before a court and blacklisted. Still waiting for this year's one for my mother.
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  2447. Mine I did use a waterproof additive in the grout, plus used it on the walls before tiling, and in the tile adhesive. Lip by the shower door, and sealed with silicone as well, plus the weep holes in the premade unit. Of course no problem with mould and peeling wallpaper, as the entire building is concrete and brick, plus the bathroom is tiled. The original tiles were a bear to get off, as they were put in properly, back bagwashed with cement slurry, and then laid into a freshly plastered wall, followed by the rest of the room being plastered to the same thickness. In general you just use a jackhammer to chip away the old tile glaze all over, paint with 2 coats of bonding liquid then place the new tiles over the top, because the old tiles only come off with the plaster and a bit of the brick surface. Old buildings, old building codes, the newer ones you just use a scraper and peel them off, if they did not already fall off.
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  2448. Easy, the test was probably not taken by the person whose name is there, and the test was done without them being present, with cash changing hands. Or the test was simply done by the RTI inspector, and the driving test was just filled out and passed, quick and simple.
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  2449.  @robertclymer6948  Melts it, but not easy to get good attachment if the object is large, as it removes a lot of heat. Easier in those cases to simply use braze and do it that way, as that works well on cast steel parts.
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  2450. Perhaps if it was $15 million per error, multiplied by the number of times that data was used since they received notice of the error, and that was to be both a fine and a cash payment to the person whose information was incorrect. that will possibly motivate proper checking.
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  2451. Same here, OHSA came and switched on a decibel meter when the test cell was running a rebuilt engine. Broke their meter...... at 100m away. No wonder I have a nice set of dips around 1kHz.
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  2452. My father, amongst his other things, was also an automotive engineer, and he swore blue streaks at automotive engineers for designs they did in the 1980's, with parts absolutely designed to fail. most of his automotive design was with heavy mining equipment, where a design point was to make things as easy to service and as robust as possible, because somebody will be doing this service a half mile underground, in a rock strewn section of tunnel. He did spend the last 30 years of his career though as civil engineer, designing and installing infrastructure to both mines and towns, like conveyors, factories and water and sewage treatment plants, then went into transport logistics for a large brewery, as that required a lot less travel, and paid better. Still needed that automotive engineer, as this included as well procurement and design of fleets, from the trucks and trailers, to the actual buildings they used. I still see trailers he designed in the 1980's, still in use, and still going strong, despite being designed to be at least 5 tons lighter than the competition ones, but with the same load capacity.
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  2453. Should be in total under 0.5V, if more check for good connections and corrosion. Remember this includes both battery to alternator, and starter, plus the fusible links that are typically used, plus the ground cable from engine to frame, and the ground cable from frame to battery. most often engine ground, and battery to frame, is the one neglected, and often one is poor contact. Remove the chassis connection, clean the terminal lug, the bodywork there, and apply a thin film of grease ( white grease, dielectric grease, Vaseline, wheel bearing grease, or even gear oil or engine oil at last resort), and put the connection back, and make sure the nut is clean on the contact face as well. There are often TSB's about this, famous on GM products as they age, and covering multiple models and years. Same for the fusible links and multifuse units, undo, clean the contacts, retension for the plug in ones, and clean and reconnect both with a thin film of grease on all mating surfaces.
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  2454. Easy to do, take some of the money and buy a totalled vehicle of the same, make, model and colour, and then cut out the VIN plate from it, and weld into the hot one. Grind off engine number and punch in the one from the wreck. Then take wreck and part out for scrap, cutting into pieces, and sell off good parts. Now take the clone and run it through 5 different states over a 4 month period, to muddy the title change history well, and sell to a dealership as trade in on one off the lot. Good tip is to use burner phones and fake ID when doing the transactions, but use real addresses for the registrations, in large cities.
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  2455. M6y one is a feral, but took only one night to use a litter box. Mostly because first night he was locked up in a bathroom, only room with no problem to clean, and I was not going to drop off a hissing kitten new years eve, those go straight to the back and an injection. So went and got wet and dry cat food, and water in a bowl, and the next day got a used cat litter box, which was used straight off the bat. Still runs from people, except plays through the window, because that is safe. Goes out at night, but always runs back at noise. My not so little feral boi, who likes to sleep with me, and be with me.
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  2456.  @darkarima  City will have to blanket refund all tickets from that period, which will cost them millions, and then on top of that the settlement amount, which will be a bonus. All people who were ticketed for either illegal parking or expired meters will be able to claim, as the city will never be able to prove the 3 towing entities did not do it, as they kept no actual records other than a running total of the number the private ones billed for. That the numbers were probably inflated as well will only bolster the claims as well.
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  2457.  @paoloviti6156  You did not change them, merely removed, cleaned and put back, because they were hard to get, and a lot of them were actually serviceable, in that you could take them apart to remove carbon build up.
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  2458. True, but after a few tickets they will suspend the trust from renewing the tags, on the grounds that there are outstanding fines. The trust will have to show up in court to contest these plates, as the onus is on them to show who is the driver, and failing to do so will result in a suspension of renewal. You pay, but get nothing other than a receipt of payment, which is not a valid renewal, until the outstanding balances have been settled. At least that is here by me.
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  2459. So common by me that there is actually a form you fill out on the toll and traffic police website that you fill in, and take to the police or commissioner of oaths, and have them attest to it, and send it in.
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  2460. 400 hohrs of a new to the crane motor. Bought because it was cheap and " running well". Well it was running if you were using a diesel and petrol blend with a few cans of startyabastid spray
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  2461.  @JonathanBirdsey  Yes a wet envirnment, so corrosion is a big issue. However as this box is likely to spend most of the time in a cool, dty and controlled environment the corrosion will be greatly slowed down, and it can easily last a century or two with care, certainly more than the mask inside, which is also going to suffer the same slow degradation. In the future it is possible the 3D data is going to outlast the fragile mask itself.
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  2462.  @CanalTremocos  That is why I went to LED, even though the BCM will turn them off in software after 10 minutes anyway. Pretty much every vehicle the lights are controlled by the BCM, unless it is the very base model, and it does not have a BCM at all, which means no electric mirrors, no electric windows or climate control other than fan and heater.
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  2463.  @CanalTremocos  I used LED retrofits, that are a direct plug in to replace the old one, Festoon or wedge base you get a LED to fit. Used orange ones to replace side markers as well, got tired of replacing the odd one that failed. Helps that years ago on fleabay I got a pack of 100 for $5, $50 shipping. Shipping went up after auction, so I paid just left a poor review about sniping the shipping to higher after the auction, because it was marked as $5 before.
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  2464. Would have cleaned that throttle body while it was out, at least to get the black gunk off it to make it respond smoother to throttle commands.
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  2465. Same here, though around 1999, with RH 5.2 as well, ordering the CD's from a small one person band, sent via post. Yes could download it, but hard on a 1400 modem, and likely to break. Ran well on a PC declared obsolete, because it ran Win98 too slowly, and which was replaced with a new 200MHz Pentium. So I got the old slot 1 100MHz unit, and installed RH on it. Worked out of the box, including the "welcome to Linux" speech saying the sound card, which had been iffy under Windows, working perfectly, and the CDROM drive working as well.
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  2466. Yes Chernobyl was first and foremost a nuclear weapons production line, just made power as a by product. 3 mile was nothing really, but blown all in out by media and vested interests in coal, which incidentally emits more radiation uncontrolled than nuclear ever has. Fukushima was also an old design even when new, but built because it was considered export safe, and also the operations and management was very much done by having a pass the request up style, and then meet and discuss this for weeks, and not lose face, style of operation. You can make the reactors safer with modern designs, and also smaller modular ones are more reliable, especially if it is self contained, and needs little maintenance other than at a specialised facility, where you have the skilled people who will open it. Treat it like a boiler, which needs special operations to run, and it works well like that.
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  2467. Travelling with $1001.55, money he was going to use to buy a plane ticket back, and pay for his hotel when at his destination. Plus a tip for the cab at the airport, because he was going to Vegas to play a game of craps on the strip.
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  2468. Somebody was having a bad Monday after the weekend, and the supervisor was out with them as well for the party.
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  2469. They also do not want to find out just how many are fake, with a thin coat of gold cast over a tungsten block, to get the same density, so that the only way is to cut through the bar.
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  2470. I used to sit often out there, just inside the shark nets, and watch the big sharks swimming inside the nets. They do nothing to the sharks aside from killing every other thing that swim into them.
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  2471. Old plugs likely were changed by agents, using OEM spec parts, thus the red dot, to indicate they came from the manufacturer part stores.
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  2472. Same by me, they had to refund 2 years of speeding tickets. Plus for the last 5 years they have not issued any either, because they have not renewed the authorisation, and the officers are no longer authorised, and the machines have not been certified either.
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  2473. Tankers are fun to drive, if you are the type who likes a nodding dog ornament....
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  2474. That is why you have the 1in drive sockets, and the 9 foot cheater rod as well.
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  2475.  @thelonelywolf88  The one i know of has claimed countless vehicles, and has killed a few people already.
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  2476. Was not enough, as the engine still turned over. Too much and that starter would have stalled up, though that cylinder 2 will be low compression for a while till all the fuel dilution is washed out of the ring lands, and it will have slightly more wear on the bore from poor lubrication.
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  2477. Saw this on Wham Bamm, that he bought a Tesla off of a rental company, and it came with a clean Carfax. Of course it is clean, the rental place makes the customer pay for damages, and thus not a claim against their insurance for it. Sunroof blows off on the freeway, and customer says there was no notification from the car that the sunroof had blown off......
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  2478. If it does not fail first then the dozer fame is the weaker point, and that is a lot harder to fix.
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  2479. Probably he USA and UK, along with France, where the sale is allowed, and where sales have gone through the roof.
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  2480. Funny enough the reason I have had my personal information leaked is, almost in every case, a government database with all the info needed to do full identity theft, and with either no security, or security by obscurity, with the info being accessible by simply running through the request ID in the URL, with again zero verification as to being a valid user. the others are mobile operators, and of course the same applies there, with multiple cases of fraud coming out from that data being out there. Some of these companies seem to regard security as being "we got a lock from Masterlock on the door, it is secure", while not even building the walls of the data centre up around the door frame and roof.
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  2481. Can always add them later on though, as the metal is heavy enough to handle a set of hinges there, and with removeable pins they can be taken off when not needed, or have varying length ones. Back of unit perfect place to store them as well, just add in a pair of pins and holes in the flaps to match. Just need 3, 2 narrow ones and a single wider one.
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  2482. Chickanic has a whole series on what goes wrong, generally not the spark plug, but the carburetor float bowl being gummed up, and the internal galleries being full of varnish.
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  2483. For those I prefer uninsulated crimp connectors, and then slide over adhesive lined shrink sleeving over them. That then will make a water tight connection, and overall you just place a larger non adhesive lined sleeve, that protects the final join. Uninsulated connectors are smaller, and you also get crimp connectors that are crimped over the 2 bare wires, like the OEM does for in harness splices, which are a lot smaller and less obtrusive as well.
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  2484. Yes replace is often better.
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  2485. By me there is a lot of theft of street lights, in that the thieves cut the light down with either a battery grinder, or a hacksaw, and then proceed to steal 10m of wire and the lamp itself. So they destroy a $2000 pole and a $500 fixture, all to get $2 of copper wire, and $1 of aluminium casting. Works for them, they get $3 for a few hours work at night per pole, and do not care about the repair cost.
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  2486. So no more sitting welding up layers of metal on a worn shaft, just prep it and spray a new wear layer on it instead. Saves time and gives a good finish as well.
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  2487. You learn, eventually. Possibly to drive slower, put the snow tyres on, and to add a load of weight to the rear to help with traction. Incidentally that type of reinforced sign is now no longer legal, after a few incidents of them not breaking away, and people being killed by the sign pole penetrating the vehicle. So now they get protected by moving them further back, making them overhead, and putting barrier rails to slow down vehicles who hit that spot. Did not help with the one I saw, where the idiot driver was speeding, hit the plastic barriers, smashed 100m of them, and then proceeded to punch the steel barrier rail right through the vehicle, including the driver. He had come past us about 15 minutes before, basically low flying, and decided to overtake the line of cars in a construction zone, where it was reduced to a single lane.
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  2488. You need to try again with the cheapest fake capacitors you can get from Aliexpress, especially the bigger can types. Note they do tend to explode rather violently, so do it with appropriate blast shielding, and keep Electroboom away from the variac........ If you really want flames try using some tantalum bead capacitors, those will go up like matches, and are often used as model rocket ignitors.
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  2489. Because it was to make assembly faster, who cares about service after warranty expires.....
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  2490. Probably one of the humourless ones there was driving past one, and the sign made him laugh, which made the stick up his ass hurt.
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  2491. One company does have a service additive at a specified mileage..... They stick in a can of stop leak, because they know the head will probably leak just around the end of the warranty period, so the stop leak is added so that they all fail outside warranty. Very famous for engines developing a head leak around the 130k mile mark, and where there are a lot of aftermarket head bolt kits that are there to reduce that. Of course also well known to make extra crankcase ventilation as well.
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  2492.  @bejay69  Yes, both of them parts designed to be sacrificial, and to break free when over stressed.
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  2493. Disconnect is always needed for EV charger, as the breaker is only for cable protection, you need the disconnect out by the EVSE side, to allow it to be locked out for maintenance. For use with a building power supply easiest method is to simply install consumer side prepayment meters, where your main meter still is read by the utility, and the sub meter is handled by a company who will simply supply you with credits on the meter, so that you pay, the meter unlocks, and you get use of power, and the money is deposited to the main account. Common on houses with a main meter, and a few tenants with separate service, where each has their own meter, and they pay what they use. As to chargers, a car has a very low duty cycle, in that you typically use it for 3 or 4 hours a typical day, and thus the rest of the time is free for charging, which is actually better battery life wise. A motor that runs all the time is not a car, it is a heavy duty truck, which has entirely different pricing and use, and note not a small truck, but something that has over 10 tyres, and you have a fifth wheel trailer on the back all the time, driving 8 hours a day. That engine is rated for use as a generator, not like a car engine.
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  2494. Only roughly 10 years after the recall was initiated in the rest of the world. Wonder how many people have been killed by this in this case.
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  2495. Probably did a subpoena on the payment platform, and got all those payments in. Now they also have a nice track of the buyers as well, as they likely used their real names and address there, and also likely have a lot of buying on them as well.
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  2496. The thing is these block lists almost invariably do not actually work to protect people against fraud and phishing, because they will always have a few dozen sites that are registered and not on the block list. Will also not protect the children at all, because those pesky gambling sites will still be available, either via a VPN, or via the gambling sites simply having hundreds of new names that are either proxies, or just different sites.
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  2497. Tiny print says welder and grinder not supplied, but needed as well, as they are hand tools.
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  2498. Small hole so that when Joe average opens the cap at full pressure the steam blow off is limited by the small tube, so the burns are less from the vapour. Yes likely just the cap, the rubber on the back likely has gone hard, and pulled away from the centre slightly, allowing coolant to get past. but as you are going to need to pull the radiator along with the cap to change the condenser, probably best to get a quality replacement first, and change it anyway. AC condenser likely just a tiny hole from a stone impact, which gradually eroded away with time to cause a leak, as those tubes are as thin as they can make them while holding pressure, and a tiny nick at the edge will cause a fatigue crack to form.
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  2499. Tractor also you have to remember you pay for the basic tractor, anything else is an add on, from the tyres you put on it, to the software you pay annual fees for that enable things on the tractor that are already there, like a GPS, the ability to keep speed, and to drive the extra equipment you need to add to it to make it more than a glorified dumpster mover. Buy JD and you have to stay JD, because they deliberately make the new model incompatible with the old model, just so you now have to sell all the old stuff you paid top dollar for, because it does not work with your new tractor. Not that it is different function wise, just that it will no longer fit, or the tractor software does not recognise it. Same plug, same power connections, but because it is the wrong version, it will not work.
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  2500. DPF easiest fix is 100 miles on highway at speed, to get it to do a self clean every month. Short trips and low speed kills them.
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  2501. And still, Titanic, according to accounting, was a loss.....
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  2502. Will probably be getting more than that, will be broke, and with a debt to pay off that bankruptcy will not discharge. Plus court mandated drunk testing if they ever drive a vehicle again.
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  2503. Easy enough to happen. Rental is late, call centre calls them, no reply, and leaves message that car needs to be returned, or it will be classed as stolen. Bills the card on file each day for rental, so driver sees this, so does not call them back, because hey still paying for it. Then end of trip, drops off at the local office, drops keys in the lock box, and flies off. Meanwhile police charge has been entered into the PD computer as "suspected stolen", and they see it as stolen, tow and let court figure out. Meanwhile the local office comes in, sees the car in return, keys in lockbox, fills up the tank and bills card on file, but does nothing further to look at file, and puts back into rental inventory. Then rented out again, and a few cycles before the car goes and parks where a PD car with ANPR, and with this listed as suspected stolen, is going to flag it. Then towed, and owner notified, same call centre again, getting email from PD about recovery of this reported vehicle, but not actually verifying that the vehicle was not stolen, and simply entered in file for vehicle. Then local office, far away from corporate, does not check. and this CF ensues.
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  2504. Wrap the parts in cloth and soak with it, then wrap the cloth in shrink film to keep the moisture in the cloth. The large industrial rolls used to do pallet wrap with is cheap, and a roll of that is essentially going to last years in this application.
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  2505. I remember one day walking in town, and seeing 2 boy racers at a light, next to a truck tractor, belonging to the railways. Nothing special about the truck, just the tractor, Mercedes Benz, with the then standard Atlantis Diesel engine and Eaton box. Boy racers were in the then new VW Golf GTI Mk1, and a new 330i BMW. They were revving engine, waiting for the green. On the green the truck driver floored it and left rubber, screaming that ADE engine up to 2200RPM red line, spinning all 8 rear tyres, and leaving the GTI and BMW in the dust. He was at the next light, and stopping, before they were even half way down the street. Both boy racers simply slunked around the corner, quietly and slowly, thrashed by what looked like any old truck. Yes they likely would have beaten the truck if the next light was 1km away, but at 300m they got eaten badly. Also Steve, in his Mk1 GTI, put money on a fighter pilot he could beat him in a quarter mile (500m) drag race. So one night while we were on night ops, they lined up, pilot on the runway, Steve on the taxi way next to it. On the flag off they both go, GTI easily being in front for the first 200m, jet on full afterburner and 20 tons mass, with extra fuel in 3 drop tanks, far behind. 300m and the jet is catching up fast, 400m and the jet passes the GTI, then flat taps at just under 200kph (Steve had a ticket or two showing he could get to there), with the jet putting a lot of forward stick to hold it onto the runway. 500m and the pilot pulled back hard, just left the undercarriage down for an extra minute while limiting speed, so as to allow it to cool down before selecting wheels up. Steve lost his money.
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  2506. As well you got an audience across the planet who watch you as well.
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  2507. He still loves his biggest toy........
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  2508. Also got a nice stroke years ago of lightning hitting an oil storage tank. Did not go well for the tank, it burned for a few days.
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  2509. Bet the actual fault is the linkages have worn slightly, so the acceptable range of motions the module expects have drifted slightly from the factory values, and the relearn is simply to get the new centre position, and adjust the allowable values to have that be the new centre, as it probably drifted 1mm or so due to the settling in with use. Only way to check is to use manual mode, and thus have the shifter actually be moved during the drive, so you can verify it is still reading all positions correctly in actual use.
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  2510.  @AT-wl9yq  Linkages internal to module, which is the entire shifter unit, and yes I know there are no cables. It however is like the accelerator pedal, in that there are 2 position sensors, and they will need to have the zero position, neutral, need to be set, as the internal parts wear.
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  2511. 88 sheets is a roll in the USA, that is robbery. Here by me the legal requirement to retail toilet paper is that a single ply roll must have 500 full sheets, and a double ply, or more ply roll, must have 350 sheets. No wonder the US had a TP shortage if your average roll is one third of the standard the rest of the planet (as they all base theirs on the EU ISO specs for the most part) mandates. Even for commercial grades, where there is the same specificed sheet count, and for continuous rolls there is a minimum length per roll. The Chinese paper with that US spec does not sell, even at half the price, though admittedly that is also so poor it will fall apart looking at it. But then, I bought TP December,, the annual bulk buy, which cost me the equivalent of $20 for 48 rolls. Never needed to panic buy during the pandemic, I had plenty as I had gotten 3 packs on special, the months before the world went TP crazy.
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  2512.  @MonkeyJedi99  Some do some do not, but here the plate is not the carrier if proof of registration, it is just a proof vehicle has a registered number, the actual dated proof is inside the windscreen. Those with the added lights also include lighting for the plate, but those that do not you typically find can only carry a single bike or perhaps 2, so the vehicle lights are visible. Plates here have to be retro reflective anyway, and also now can only be a plastic plate with a reflective backing, though some areas still use an older aluminium plate, with raised numbers and letters, and a black paint on them.
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  2513. Tip for the garage dig a small trench around the outside, about a spade deep, and a spade wide. Then order for yourself 5 20kg/50lb bags of borax, which is very cheap. Then pour into the trench, a nice even layer about fingertip deep, and close it up. Will keep any of them from moving in, and also kill kill any ants as well. Same for the house. Also works to kill fleas and roaches. Will, after doing it, have you finding them all over for a few days, kicking on their backs. Cheap, relatively non toxic, though not pet safe, but works well.
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  2514. Where was that escape made. Interested to knkw if it is usa made or was made up the road from me by Samcor.
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  2515.  @WrenchingWithKenny  Your scan tool should be able to tell you country of origin from the VIN off the vehicle, at least my one does.
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  2516. Sam, 100 % the other driver fault, you were doing a protected left turn, and they did a right on red when there was traffic in the intersection, making them fully responsible for the accident, because they failed to ensure the intersection was clear before doing the right on red.
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  2517.  @michael931  Yes very likely the first reservation was cancelled, and the points "refunded" to another account, and then the second one was made instead. Second one counts towards the branch totals, and thus branch bonus pay, while the "refunded" points can also be redeemed for the gain of some person at the branch as well. There is a gain by somebody in this whole transaction.
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  2518.  @MrTruckerf  Probably were sending to the wrong box as well.
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  2519.  @notstonks20  Possibly, old unit that is the ship of Thesus, where every part has now been changed, but the new parts still use the old thread patterns. At least those threads will be easy to replace, as the insert kits probably are cheap, as they have been sitting on a shelf since the 1970's. I have a few sets like that, came in the metal case instead of the plastic ones the metric use, and bought for around a tenth the price as well. Just going to be a bear getting new inserts for them, the only supplier only keeps a few around at a time, so included them with other orders, to get better pricing, slowly. Some of the kits had a date on them that was older than me.
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  2520. Hopefully with the step up to 6 from 5 they also remember to also check the safety destruct systems, so as to update the parameters to the new performance, so as to not have it decide that the new performance is actually a failure and self destruct.
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  2521. Well by me there are thousands of civil servants on suspension with full pay and benefits, while there is no actual going forward with the cases. When it eventually comes to light, often due to questions being asked by the opposition party, the people involved simply resign, get the golden handshake, and apply for another position, and get it, the case being dropped totally.
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  2522. So they can look at all his USPS labels off the USPS website, and then go after all the recipients for receiving stolen property as well. Likely easy to track them, seeing as he likely had a set of accounts to ship the stuff out with, all of them with long term tracking storage of the recipient and the amount as well.
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  2523.  @jeffostroff  If it says Boeing I am not going........
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  2524.  @sittingindetroit9204  True, but it will be a really hard thing to disprove that it was not in some way connected.
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  2525. Would have had better luck if she had been closer to the used price though, high price, then reducing because they need to sell, seems too much like a bargain, and covers up the red flags.
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  2526.  @sittingindetroit9204  True, but now he can question them in court as to who was allowed to view these documents, and what they did with them as well. Any other buyers, protected by confidentiality, who get harassed into selling now can also claim breach of trust from the sheriff and court, and the courts will very likely hang the sheriff out to dry, as likely some of the other buyers are also well off, and also well versed in law.
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  2527. Yes airbags are what they are called, Supplementary Safety System, they are not the primary safety system, which is the seat belt. If you drive without a seat belt, and are in a collision, the airbags are not going to stop you from being flung out of the vehicle, or keep you from being injured. Reduces injury in conjunction with the seat belt, but not if you are not wearing the belt.
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  2528. My mother had one, at least till it got written off in an accident, where it was hit head on by another who was cutting a corner. Car written off, and a few injuries to my mother and her sister as well, but they were saved by the Fiat crumpling up in the impact. Mom did not drive for around 2 years afterwards, till she got a Renault 5 as replacement. That car ran a year on a tank of fuel, as it was driven 12km a week, and shopping we would walk to the supermarket 3 minutes away. Tool longer to drive and park instead of walk.
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  2529. At least twice, billed you for it, then changed all wheel sensors, and the EPS system entirely.
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  2530. Just takes a minute or three longer.
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  2531. Think the 3 screws are going to be unused, those blocks certainly do get a lot of use in the shop.
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  2532. Guess version 2 should include into the mass calculations the addition of a small set of doppler radar sensors, and use them during the landing, probably doing a disable of the data from them below 50m, because of dust. The 3 radars will be giving a X drift, a Y drift and an altitude above terrain, along with closing rate. That will allow them to remove residual error from the IMU units, which likely led to the rolling over, as the tiny errors accumulated during the journey, and rounding errors led to the ground drift likely being excessive, and thus it landed with a significant drift, which caused it to tumble.
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  2533.  @rubiconnn  Only up till about the last 10 years, as manufacturers are designing the vehicle to start to fall apart just about the time the warranty period is over, so that you are then on the treadmill of buying ever more spare parts to keep it running. They want minimal failures during the time they have to pay, and for the vehicle to disintegrate a few months after that, in the hopes you will buy a new one from them. Of course with the increasing use of insane balloon payments at the end of the HP period, most people are stuck with that, as the balance due is going to be way more than the vehicle is worth, so they have to trade it in at the manufacturer's dealers and buy another on the same terms, while the dealership is able to get what they can out of the trade in as a sale, as they now have a guaranteed income from you for the next 5/6/7/8 years for service, as you need that to keep the loan from becoming full outstanding balance due.
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  2534.  @wasd____  Often faster and easier, rather than try to replicate section for section in new code, just figure out what the sections do, and have all new code to do the same. New sausage, rather than grind up the old one and put in a new skin.
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  2535.  @shag139  Yes it is mined from deposits laid down millennia ago, no way to tell that a small patch had anything other than pure talc in it, unless you tested every spoonful of it, instead of the standard test one sample per few hundred cubic yards of mined mineral going through the crusher, and mostly that was to determine size ratios.
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  2536.  @JonathanWinterflood  Absolutely, and while it is branded Azkoyen, I have no doubt it was a Nutrimatic Drink Dispenser machine in either an early form, or a well hidden prototype, or one which got accidentally left here in the restore from the backup. A clue is the machine clock, which is a running a few years fast, around 70 years.
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  2537. Take it the safety dog was looking around by the lathe for that big bell to chew on......
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  2538. I had some come in that were washed, leaving only the MICR ink, the signature and nothing else. Then they printed everything, including the background, and submitted it to the bank for cash. Bank paid it out, and we got this cheque, but the book keeper saw that this cheque had been issued, paid for a larger amount, but had not yet been returned to us for reconciliation, yet had been cashed a second time. When we got it it was a good fake at first, but the give aways was that the background, looking under a magnifier, had inkjet dots to get the background colour right, and also had some slight smudges around the MICR info, where the old offset printed Pantone background was still visible, plus they had used as template the wrong cheque printing company, as the bank had 2 suppliers who made the cheque books for them. Still had the same book it had been issued from, and also an error that had been made, which left a sample cheque that had been cancelled in the book, in the same sequence number. Bank ate the cost, seeing as they were the ones who had cashed the same cheque twice, when the sequence number should have been repeated in around 5 years based on use. Never heard anything about the police case I opened, which is pretty much standard.
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  2539.  @mdeamicis  Event, street sweeping, basically anything they can think of, then also likely there were a few done as extras to bolster the numbers to get extra money. If your job just has you giving in a number with no evidence of actual work, it is very easy to cheat, just like golfers who, till they are scrutinised by the PGA during tournaments, often have a much lower score.
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  2540. Do think one of those laser welders will be showing up on channel soon, it sort of got lost in the post kind of way, so Kurtis had to take it in as a stray.....
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  2541.  @kathorsees  They are improved, though sadly because the manufacturers now had to cost cut the hypotoroidal inflosion units now have a shorter life, and thus you need to have regular service calls to replace the failed unit, which when it fails also causes extra damage to the Framulator, and this will also often need replacing as well.
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  2542. Been on for a while, because Ray needs to do the important things first.
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  2543. Those fuses are stamped out of a sheet, and the metal used is aluminium, which has a low melting point, or a tin zinc alloy with a similar low melting point. Then they get inserted in the plastic housing. The melted metal is from oxide forming between the legs of the fuse and the edge of the brass contact in the housing. The cure is to remove all the fuses, and then clean down there with a thin needle file, to make a new clean surface, followed by a thin coat of dielectric grease to keep it from tarnish, then the same on the fuse blades as well. Needle file set, and the single sided flat file, one wipe down per side, and then a thin coat of the grease on a piece of thin card cut to fit, and same on the fuse. Then put in, and check the contacts are what is gripping, and not the plastic, and retension the contacts as needed to get a good grip on the fuse blade.
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  2544. City fathers having heart attacks at seeing anything other than wrinkles excepted.
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  2545.  @ParkerUAS  Actually designed for a much older aircraft, Aeromacchi Impala, which used that much current in the starter generator. Also has a big warning in the start instructions about not doing more than 2 consecutive start attempts without ground power as well, because that generator could, when the engine was running, also provide a peak of 8kA to charge the battery, and you then ran a risk that your battery would overheat rather spectacularly. Batteries all were modified to add a thermal warning switch to them, with a prominent light in the cockpit attached.
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  2546. Fuse would be a good thing, 60A will do for this, as that power output is not exactly a full time rating, which is probably what actually killed the previous amplifier, high power constantly, and nicely swaddled in carpet and foam, cooking it to death.
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  2547. Possibly had good oil from the factory, which was the first and last time.
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  2548. @@Martys-4x4 By me you tap your card or pay cash, and they never get the card at all.
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  2549. Easier to just shove engines on, and drop them and the pumps when empty. They only have to be carried for 3 minutes then, otherwise you still have to carry probably 2 tons of plumbing and valving to orbit. Soviets ISTR did make drop off tanks, but gave up and slapped on simpler cheaper solid cores instead, easier to design and control. Extra tanks add weight that you have to take to MECO. Easier to dump parts after empty, and only take 100kg of attachments and stiffener ring you already mostly need instead.
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  2550. Just saying that that tuning harmonic can be greatly reduced by simply taking a flat bar and bolting to the top of the fork, which will also make it easy to make a drive dog as well, just weld a small piece on to engage with the lathe jaw. Looks like the holes are already tapped for probably M16, so will be easy to attach, and keep with the mandrel on a shelf. Incidentally to damp the harmonics grab old belting, and bolt to the fork ends, to damp them, and on the shaft itself a piece wound round it, held with either a heavy wire or a large hose clamp, will help damp the vibration as well.
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  2551. I used it a lot with bigger gearboxes, and it works well.
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  2552. Yes, apparently been around since 1965, so not exactly a new thing, just a good way to use what is likely a tennis court that has less than a single match a week, and getting a better return on the maintenance costs.
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  2553. I guess most of the time the parts are going to a repair shop, who will do the big rattlecan overhaul just before it drives off back to the mine.
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  2554.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  Does it say Cat on it, and is a mine wondering why the dozer will not start.......
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  2555. you can see that from the sump, still has the profile to clear a steering rack in it.
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  2556. Last time i wrote one I realised the account fees for that cheque were more than the amount, as I wrote only one a year or less. Closed the account that month.
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  2557.  @mgaus  Remember this hits the actual people, not the immortal company. The people who made the decisions pay for it, not the company. Just like there are sections of the OHS acts that lay the fines specifically on a person, not the company, and also that a lot of certifications are linked to a person, and move with them. So like a person who causes a wrongful death in a company, even when they can claim they were acting under orders, will be the one to pay as well, with the company also getting the fine, and the managers above that person also getting fined personally. Put the penalty on those who did it, and the ones who enabled it, as otherwise it is merely considered a cost of business, and thus taken as a small risk to the company profit. Fining the company merely means they fire workers, or do not give them an increase, but still pay shareholders.
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  2558.  @mgaus  Yes a company can die, but as a personhood they singularily are immune from jail time, you can only dissolve them or fine them.
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  2559.  @truth-Hurts375  To the AWB and the countrie tannies it was extreme porn, no amount of stars or stripes could cover that there were women in there, wearing less than head to toe cover.
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  2560. Pay fast and hope nobody opens the can or worms further. Likely if you looked properly there would be even more shady stuff, and this would spread all the way to the entire top as well. Just remember ford did something similar with the Pinto, putting around $44 IIRC as being too expensive, then cheating on the test they were forced to do, by bringing in a vehicle off a Canadian production line, where the Canadian government had forced them to make it safer years before, rather than the US assembly plants that made the majority of vehicles.
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  2561. Designed when a calculator was actually a person who you gave the problem to, and they did all the long hand maths to get a result to the specified accuracy. Normally 2, so that a discrepancy would result in them both checking and doing it again. Also when all the accounting was done in a large room, with lots of desks with scribes, each one using a perfect copperplate script to enter information in ledgers, and where each one was audited either weekly or monthly, to make sure that all the data was correctly entered. Black ink in wells, with the auditor using a separate green ink well to do their additions, or corrections. Still have some original title deeds from the 1890's, where the original is in copperplate, and later revisions are in different handwriting, with later ones typed.
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  2562. LED tape simplest, because it is separate lines, is to make a set of 3 DC current sources, or a simple adjustable power resistor per line, to provide a easy to adjust source for each LED colour.
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  2563. More like no idea about the group that took the wrecker truck, hog tied the driver, and left him naked on the freeway, zip tied to a post, and the truck was never found, though there was a wreck that was found burnt out in the desert a year later, just nothing identifiable on it. Absolutely no idea at all, terrible thing to have happen to such an upstanding member of the community, especially the superglue applied to his butt cheeks, and his hands, attaching them to the cheeks as well. That and the syrup, and that nest of fire ants next to the post as well.
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  2564. My father bought a few, and had great results with them. All a bit above the base model rentals, and generally all the issues were minor, like a battery that failed soon, or a rattle from loose change that was in the dashboard. Mechanically they kept on going fine, just regular servicing done. The Daewoo made it past 25 years before it finally was sold to a dealership, but is likely still running fine, just needing a lot of work now for a 25 year vehicle, if you wanted to keep it running in near new condition. But the engine was still in great shape.
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  2565. Don't worry, by now most of it is no longer the same element, more lead than anything else.
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  2566.  @sprockkets  Only ever had one unit that actually came with a heater for the compressor, and that was because it was run really hard, with inlet suction at 0C, for a split AC. It killed compressors, and eventually just charged it to around 5C at suction, and it ran a lot better. After all discharge temperature was around 70C on the high side, dropping to 40C when the hot liquid left it, so it was definitely running flat out. Put a large liquid line drier on it to give more liquid volume and a little more restriction as well, fixed cap tubes and not wanting to do the manufacturers designing for them. Left the heater off then, it was a lot happier, just pulling a nice puddle of water from the air instead of the ice block.
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  2567.  @leeroth5604  Part of the cost cutting, saving 20c on the contactor makes a big profit over 100k units.
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  2568. I would hope not only that, but racketeering charges, because they really should have known, in a town that would not exist without the military, that 99% of the people there are either in the military, or are directly associated with it.
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  2569. After the check yes you would have it jacked up to verify gear operation, then a check flight with a simulated load (lots of bags of sand in the isle to get to roughly half the passenger mass) to verify the gear operates with flight load.
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  2570. Thermal camera on wheel rotor you first need to hit it with a quick spray of paint, no real issue as to colour, as the shiny metal reflects back the temerature of the environment, not the metal temperature. Biggest use is to run through the fuse box, with all loads on, like lights, AC, fan on high, hazards on, brakes on, defroster on. That then will show up all the hot fuses, and if any have poor contact they will be a lot hotter, so simply remove them, clean the legs with 320 grit water paper, and check the socket, and put back, and it will run cooler again.
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  2571. There was a household where they found out their meter was also connected to, and powering, the local traffic signals outside the house.
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  2572.  @markrobinson3868  Like he said, likely the sensors or the wires right by them, and they are cheap enough to buy and put in.
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  2573.  @christopherwitter9496  Yes it makes a big difference in fuel consumption, as the engine management will then run rich, so as not to have any chance of cylinder temperatures going too high and causing knock, and will also run on a very conservative advance map for the same reason, so your power will drop. IIRC your VR6 engine has 2 knock sensors, and they are not interchangeable, but aftermarket ones are cheap and easy to install.
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  2574.  @christopherwitter9496  One on the side near the front I think. Well hidden, but just look online for the sensors and you get them and the locations. Generally they do not fail, but the wiring or the connections for them do. You need to use some form of diagnostic though to check they are the fault, before replacing them.
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  2575.  @Richardincancale  Still could be compressed down, as after all for objects represented as far away you only need to have low resolution, so could use exponential notation and get all 11 dimensions, plus an object descriptor, into probably 512 bits, which is more than the IPV6 address space. So every object in the universe could have an assigned IPV6 address, with objects further away (and thus older) being compressed down into a single few addresses to save memory.
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  2576. When you hog of 5mm at a time the big piece becoming very close to finished dimensions does not take long. The final passes take as much time as the rough ones.
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  2577. Way too many in the harbour as well of people driving off the edges of piers. Harbour solved it by painting a double yellow line, then fined them for crossing the yellow line, plus the cost of recovering the vehicle. You still had the idiots who drove into the harbour cranes, or parked on the rail lines they travel on. Crane operator cannot see the wheels, so just drives the car out of the way. The sign on the crane tells that if the horn is sounding the crane will be moving, and to be aware of the motion. Just like the woman who drove past the flashing signs and the boom saying train coming, and got dragged 300m down the line, by the train doing 5kph. Railways simply kept that case going till she ran out of money, and refused to pay a cent, and had a counterclaim for damage to the track, engine and the lost time. Most expensive is the lost time, penalties for late shipments can easily be 8 figure amounts.
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  2578.  @d1g1ta1flux7  All of them are also designed to not produce flame ( unless you have Tataka defective ones) just hot nitrogen gas, so they do not actually get hot enough to light fires. The light bulbs are better for starting fires, unless they are all LED.
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  2579. So common by me that there is a form for it, where you enter the details, get it stamped by a commissioner of oaths, and email it to them with the fine number, and the fines get scrapped, and you never get fines from that area again.
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  2580. He would change his mind if he was the one going to travel on the first few launches though.
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  2581. Never ascribe the leak of the key to malice. It will be kept in a text file on a server somewhere, with access set to global read write, and with it indexable. Or it will be published in some document as part of a larger series, with copies being delivered to all departments, including the local council stray dog and cat section, just in case, who will promptly throw it in the bin where it will be read by somebody as it flies out the open dump truck.
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  2582. No, just gets the spilled drink of the day off the board, so you can see where all the little holes that used to be vias and the dull matted blocks that were components have left the now clean board. Then you either say BER and toss in the pile to take to the recycler later, or take a board with different failures and rob parts to fix this one.
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  2583. +Michael O'Donohue He is in a single party state so has no problem. If you are in a dual party state they might object. Talk into the silence on hold, that is often recorded as part of the call to get the call tree info. Tell the agent who answers you will record the call along with them, if they drop the call call again and ask for the supervisor as first thing. Otherwise get them to call you back ( phone battery low, poor signal or any excuse) then you can record the incoming.
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  2584. That sand blaster just paid for itself, in not needing to either spend hours cleaning, or send out to have it done. Rest of the crane it will definitely save hours of time as well, though Curtis will be getting a nice tan for sure, seeing he is playing in the sandpit at the beach.
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  2585. Friend years ago went through 5 reman motors over a 2 month period.
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  2586. Las Vegas was the hotel that nuked a line across the pool area.
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  2587. Replacing the car might be more than double the value, because now the dealership has to find a vehicle with same trim, same model and same mileage, and offer the owner enough money to convince them to sell this very rare vehicle. might be cheaper for the dealership to pay to have the vehicle rebuilt with factory parts, repainted to factory specs, and brought back to the owner.
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  2588. There is a Koi show by me this weekend, though i doubt Louis could handle the 26 hour flight to get there...... Never mind who will have to bear the disgruntled Mr Clinton as well.
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  2589. Pity they do not deliver for a sane price to me......
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  2590. Kurtis is the mobile guy, moved out of the workshop into the yard, because the door is big enough, but with that in the workshop he would not fit any more.
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  2591. Yes, either tape drive, or for a printer, using a modified IBM golfball typewriter that would provide output.
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  2592. Taxi owners are averse to card payment, because then they cannot evade declaring income and paying tax on the money.
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  2593. Yes oil went low, probably because it was burning oil, and they ignored the red light on the dash till the engine stopped. then hazard lights on, checked oil, saw it was not low, but empty, then put in new oil, and tried to start it again, but now after being on the side of the road for a night battery was dead. So they had it towed.
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  2594. @axileus9327 Which it was, they extracted minerals from the land, and processed them to make a saleable product. Also made a waste product that was left in heaps or filled in somewhere. As it is non renewable in that spot, that is the definition of a mine.
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  2595. @axileus9327 To the case it makes little difference that it was in situ resource use, the factor they likely were going for was the classification and processing of the material. Plus likely that at least some of it was transported to different sites at some point, simply because there would be one site with better sand at some point unused, and another site needing it. Likely dug out, started on one site with grading sand and washing, that then was partly used elsewhere. You have a site with more sand, you will mine it out a bit more than needed, and fill in the hole afterwards with rubble and waste gangue. Sand and gravel to next sites, and instead of deadheading back bring loads of fill or raw rock back to be processed. Saves a lot of time and money normally.
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  2596. @axileus9327 But they cannot now mine that section any more, as mining is typically a non renewable resource (there is not exactly a renewable source of building sand, and the natural method is very slow to create more) and destructive to the area. The mined material also now has been processed, and then used up, so they cannot easily reuse it either.
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  2597. The built in tracking of Onstar covers that, it is always connected, just will not respond to assistance requests until activated by paying.
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  2598. They will get lubricated, no issue there.
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  2599. My standard for a library was to start at A, and work my way through to Z. Which is why I read Donaldson before Heinlein, and then Tolkien. I did really enjoy Harry Harrison.....
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  2600. Plenty of bigger vacuum pumps though, you just have to look at the GAST catalogue to see them, and the smaller ones will pump that volume down to a reasonably low pressure in around 30 minutes. Bigger ones, which require a few horsepower on the drive motor, are common in industry, and will do that volume in under 10 minutes. Inlet diameters are in the inch size, and they are available in oiled and oil less versions. If you want cheaper then there are plenty of Chinese suppliers who will give you a clone that is a lot cheaper, and which will equal the performance in most respects.
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  2601. Double up on the steel thickness there, either with some steel L sections welded to the existing edges inside, to both add mass and thickness to the edge, or with a plate welded across the bottom. however the L sections would need another across under that shock mount to handle the load there, the thin plate will crack eventually. The red paint will peel though, unless that old surface had some light sanding with 800 grit paper to make a mechanical bond with the paint, and then a coat of plastic compatible primer added, sanded with 1200 grit paper wet, then wiped clean before the 2 component spray in a can was used.
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  2602. Golf course near me also has the tree line, plus the high fence, but also has warning signs about golf balls. The other one has a road running through it, they simply use design to make sure balls do not go near the road, mostly direction and distance, but also have the signs. They figure the odd windscreen is insurable cost.
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  2603. No license, no insurance, but he still drives, because till they chuck him in jail he will still drive. just does not give a care, and if he has an accident the other party insurance will be the one paying out, and he will not, because he has no insurance to claim from.
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  2604. Probably only the USA and Canada, after all if they used the entire population each one would get 1c.
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  2605. Thing is that they spoof numbers, never using their actual phone number. Easiest would be for the VOIP providers to prove their customer is entitled to use the number they provide for sending as caller ID, as that is separate to the actual path number used. Will stop this pretty much overnight, as the scam callers will not want to give an actual valid number that can be traced back to them. Just this will be a simple step, and stop this almost entirely, but the VOIP companies are very loath to do this, as this would deprive them of a large chunk of their income overnight, as after all they are the ones who bill the calling company for the minutes of talk and the area rate. They regard spam callers as a valid income source.
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  2606. That city looks like a very old Heinlein story about rolling roads. the estate might want to look into their copyright infringement as well.
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  2607. Resigned, so now no longer protected by qualified immunity, so can be served with a SLAPP order, and pretty much guaranteed to lose it.
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  2608. Use non locking thread sealer, as it will keep the thread clean and tight, but will break loose with ease when you want to get it out. There is a white Yamaha marine one I use, which keeps the thread clean, even in salt water applications where it is submerged often. The aviation industry has a yellow one, which is ultra expensive, but which works really well. Used to use it by the bucket.
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  2609. Shim could have come with aftermarket hub as an "in case" item, but the other sensor either has better range, or is made by the same manufacturer,. so does not need the shim at all.
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  2610. Another statute that is a thinly disguised law, that attempts to make it an offense to be walking, while being not a KKK member.
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  2611. Funny thing is people are fungible as well, yet you can bet that most of the fair officials would be very unhappy to be told that they are fungible, and can be replaced as well, and that they can be done so with the same amount of problem.
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  2612.  @plcwboy  I would say the organisers are permanent people, so get paid, though you can bet the ones who made this decision are very much now suffering from a lot of worry, in that they now are facing an unknown amount of backlash from this incident, and likely will at a minimum face sanction in the local farming communities around as well. Most farmers understand well the distinction between livestock and pets, even if they might be very often the sickly livestock that became a pet, and do not go to the slaughterhouse. Most will have had that at some point, and they will be very unhappy with the fair organisers.
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  2613. Well, the one charge they will be giving is defeating a safety system, which is the same as putting in a seatbelt defeat clip, which is classed as driving without a seatbelt. Plus distracted driving, and failure to drive with due care and attention. If he had any alcohol or drugs in his system (German police will wake up a magistrate 24/7/365 to get that warrant) then all those charges are now compounded by the DUI. Fritz is going to be using Uber for a long time now.
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  2614. Looks like a nice tablet there, and also that it went back together, and still works. A win for repairability there, you can actually take it apart and replace the parts most likely to fail.
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  2615.  @TheNasaDude  Wrapped so that if a single strand snaps you will be able to stop pulling, and the broken strap will not damage the load when it whips around. If it all goes that cover will do little to prevent damage. Cover is removable to allow inspection of the underlying cable, and also prevents wear on the actual tensile cables when dragged on the ground
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  2616. Plenty of those B series still on the road by me, though automatic variants are vanishingly rare, and most are not in as good a condition as the one Ray is working on.
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  2617.  @WrenchingWithKenny  By me I see vehicles all the time with bald tyres, and other obvious defects. Not even only old cars, plenty of newish luxury models where the driver only puts fuel in, because they have learnt that from running out a few times. They do not even know what fuel to use, because the garages are all, by legislation, full service. You can bet as well that that vehicle very likely is still running on the original factory oil as well, and they will run it till either the lease is up, or it breaks down on them. Then tow and complain about how unreliable the vehicle is. When you see a soccer mom, drinking her famous Seattle iced frappe with one hand, other on the phone doing her social media, with sparks coming from the 4 bald tyres, and her doing all this at 100plus in a residential area, with 3 children in the car, none wearing seat belts , or even in child seats, you know to stay out of the way, and hope you are not involved in her accident, which will invariable not be her fault, even if she drove into a brick wall.
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  2618. Doing the same here, just spray painting the ruling party name around them.
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  2619. Kurtis is not telling about his stealth drift car. This is white, has the plate CEE on it, and is what he uses when coming back from a delivery empty, and the dirt road is nice and flat, so he can get good slip on it. You can get those utes nice and sliding on a smooth dirt road, with no problems.
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  2620.  @logitech4873  The screen is Vin locked, along with the ECU and powertrain and battery modules, so you need the Tesla specific software, and an Internet connection, to service the vehicles other than changing fluid and brakes. Fluids as well, aside from brake fluid, are only available from Tesla as well, ordered by the VIN of the vehicle, and only sold to registered repair shops.
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  2621. You can guess he probably had been sampling rather too much of his product.....
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  2622.  @Ryo8761  And doctors would have to apply the treatment as well, and charged for it, either with a house call, or in the doctor's rooms.
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  2623. I had an avionics computer come in with an odd issue, power on self test completed within a hundreth of a second, not the regular 2 seconds. Tested, and, while it was running fine, and all the internal checks showed it was functional, and it was completing it's tasks correctly, it was just behaving "odd". Opened the case (84 M4x12 capscrews, I had bought a cordless screwdriver long before, and worn out the original gearbox, it was on the upgraded Black and Decker powder metal gears for later models) and went through the power supply, measuring voltages. -21V ok, -19V ok, -15V ok, -12V ok, 12V ok, 15V ok. then the last rail, 5V, meter did a range adjust, which it should not have to do on the 10V range, on that Racal Dana meter. 5V rail was showing 16V, the unregulated input bus voltage. Power off, and start with the power supply, replacing every part in that 5V rail, including the resistors on the board, and also the over voltage crowbar circuit, that should have blown the 10A fuse on the transformer rectifier board next door to it. All new parts, from zener diodes, power transistors, resistors, capacitors, driver transistors, the failed SCR, and the diodes that fed power to the system self test for power system, on the next board. then power on, still have that self test execute too fast. Pull out all cards, and replace with spares, then test again, perfect, so a card fault. Then start replacing card by card, till I get to a card that, amongst other things, contains the system memory, IC's that are even rarer than KIM1 rom, a MK3007 serial memory pair. Also has the self test circuitry in it, and looking at the card I can see one of the surface mounted devices looks darker. Put a spare card in there, the rest of the original cards back, and power on, self test executes perfectly. Run diagnostics, check all the analogue side inputs and outputs, and put all 84 capscrews back in, and box it and send it back out. Kind of needed, I had 11 behind me in a rack awaiting repairs, held up by needing million dollar power supplies. Never got to them before leaving, and anyway the lot went into a destruction session 2 years later on, as the airframes were demilled for the new owners. Looked at the card, and the only part, of the hundreds of exotic, unobtanium, and covered by some secret acts, parts in there (the stored program, in Intel Hex, on punched tape, that did all the calculation and a lot of logic decodes, using a board of 1k EPROMS) that did fail from having however many hours of 16V applied, was a single quad open collector (ironically rated for 30V on that open collector) gate, where only 2 of the gates were used, along with a resistor, to combine all the logic to drive the 12V relay, that drove that self test light.
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  2624. He will be working at a small town within a weel, no background check, unless somebody there is watching the news and saw this come up.
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  2625. Probably had been repaired on the line, but had not been correctly calibrated again after repair. The software in the cell will compensate for slow wear in the unit, but a repair, putting in new parts, needs a calibration routine done to ensure that all the welds are in the correct locations, at the correct clamping force, and at the correct current. New parts probably removed slop, that had allowed it before to weld correctly, but the new parts resulted in welds that, because of no slop, were now made in air.
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  2626. I put one in a good number of years ago, because otherwise your car will be stolen. Now it went into a repair shop after it got into an accident, and my friend, who's car it was, forgot to tell them about how to disarm this. After 2 weeks he collected, and found they had been pushing the vehicle up a 2 flight ramp every day, because they had called an automotive electrician out, and he could not figure out the immobiliser. He got in, and started it, and they could not figure out how, because we had discarded the reed switch commonly used, as thieves simply went around with a strong magnet off a broken speaker to try to find them, and instead had a hard to press switch hidden under the carpet in the tunnel. Immobilier itself I used the full 2m of loom it came with, and matched the original tape used on the loom, and cut and pliced, soldered connections all round, into the main loom near fuse box, and simply taped this extra wire into the loom with matching black tape, all the way to the passenger side kick panel, where the control box vanished into a hole in the frame, and was held up there with some foam wrap, and looked like a factory installed loom and module. By me you cannot insure a car unless it comes with a security system, unlike the USA, and even a 1980 Toyota Corolla had to have a minimum spec system. You do not have the easy to steal Hyundai and Kia issue at all, simply because the insurance companies will not finance such a vehicle, so all come with a decent immobiliser. Though if it is over a certain price, or is one of the top 10 all time stolen ones, which includes the Toyota pick up, all variants, any 1 ton pick up, all larger Toyota sedans, and the biggest seller, VW, you are required to put in at least one tracking device, and often you will get companies putting in at least 3 of them.
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  2627. Around me they had pay and display, but of course those machines were regularly vandalised, broken into and simply stolen, so if you park by one that is out of order, you just photograph the broken machine, and if you get a ticket you go to the metro police and contest it, and 9 out of 10 times with the ticket and the photo of the broken machine they simply cancel the ticket. now the only thing they do is put fines for expired license disk, parking in a loading zone, or double parking, and the officers also take photos of the vehicle and the ticket on the windscreen as well, so they can use it if they are in court. Exceeding time is no longer enforced, along with speeding, which is a whole other tale of incompetence.
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  2628.  @yosefmacgruber1920  Keeping up the appearances of being well off is more important in their minds.... They buy new cars because the new model has one extra feature (that they never use) than the current one, or just because it is the new model. Buy clothes and wear once, then throw away, and live a life of consumerism over all else.
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  2629. When even Uber does not collect from that airport.......
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  2630. @Today_Im_Living Yes a lot of cast iron is actually cast steel, simply because recycled steel is a lot easier to find than ductile cast iron, so the same patterns and moulds that used to use cast iron are made with cast steel instead.
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  2631. My sister knows a chaplain off a deep sea salvage tug, who would spend up to 9 months per year out at sea, never leaving the ship at all when they were working.
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  2632. That is why your typical X ray facility and dental office has a room that is lined floors, walls, roof and doors with lead sheet, to attenuate this. Also the windows into it are made with lead glass, which does the same, and the doors are lead lined inside. thing is, the actual clothing they use on you is not lead, but depleted Uranium in a large amount of cases, as it is a better absorber, and thus a lighter mass for the same protection. Coated wire woven into a cloth, 2 layers, so few gaps, and more flexible as well. Does need special handling for recycling though, which is why you typically hand in the old when you buy the new.
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  2633. There is still the 5% of cases going to court......
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  2634. Lower energy to not slingshot it out, just if you were going to do it lunar disposal would work just as well. Plant it on the lunar surface, and leave it there is a spot. No need for great accuracy either, within 100km is fine.
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  2635.  @my3dviews  Yes, but store it on the far side........
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  2636. Finland, Switzerland and Sweden also has the same fines based on income. There have been higher fines levied, and the person appealed, but had to pay. Funny enough in Sweden my father was pulled over by a traffic cop for speeding. Now the traffic cop spoke no English, and my father's German was very rusty ( last spoken in 1945), so the officer got an English speaker on the radio. They explained that he had been speeding in the rental car, and asked him where he was going, because that road ran to the Arctic circle. On finding he was going the wrong way, they spoke to the officer, and he was instructed to lead my father to his hotel. So, right in front of a "No U Turn" sign, they did a U turn, and then started off south, and the cop had lights and siren on, and after a while they were doing around 160kph, on the road marked 80kph, where my father had been doing 90kph. Slowed down only a little going into Stockholm, and when at the hotel the cop instructed, via the hotel porter, that my father should stay in the city, and not drive on the freeway, where he can get lost. No fine at all, and he was leaving the next day, so simply left the car at the hotel, who was also an agency for the rental company. He was also told the next day, slightly hung over, that he was a big spender in the casino, due to the Swedish liquor laws that forbade the selling of alcohol after a certain time, except in hotels where there were foreigners in the bar. So in the bar, people kept buying him drinks, and he was in the casino playing roulette. Few small chips, and he was on a winning small streak, chips not getting much more, just different colours. Around 2AM he figured he needed some sleep, and went to bed, tipping all those chips to all the hotel employees he saw. Next day found that he had been playing at the end with $50k and $100k chips, and had given a few of the staff nearly $200k as a tip.
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  2637.  @AlanTheBeast100  OCR will recognise it, but it will take 2 weeks to be processed as the issuing bank will wait to confirm the deposit is valid.
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  2638. You can do it, I have used epoxy to repair threads, and you can get one or three removal cycles out of it, though best is to wipe the bolt down with silicone oil before putting it in, or use some spray on anti weld splatter spray, and wipe most of it off.
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  2639. That warning to remember the OBD interface, the reason Dhiren got a free one in his MB after the agents forgot it during a service. Probably a contributory drain that led to the secondary battery going dead.
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  2640. Plus there are legal requirements, written into both building and fire codes, that breaker boxes must be accessible at all times, in case of emergency, so power can be disconnected.Might only have a button you press hard, that disconnects the entire panel and you need tools and keys to turn it back on, but the law states the panel has to be both signposted, and accessible at all times. Even in your home that applies, and you find out the expensive way when you come to sell, and find that that fancy kitchen cupboard you installed has to be ripped out, because you built the breaker box in, and it is no longer able to be serviced.
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  2641. Durham, had any vehicles in that have met the can opener bridge? Or just you doing a drive through of the bridge itself. Yes the bottom spring is there to keep the element pressed up to the base, but in the middle is the bypass valve, and up top the rubber is the non return valve on the inlet. Using a different filter than the original is fine, provided it is the correct seal diameter and correct thread. You also do not want to downgrade, so longer or fatter is usable, and if you do not have a spec for valves having them is better for cold starts after overnight, where the filter without will drain back down, and thus oil pressure takes a few turns longer of the engine to build up. There are a lot of filters that are otherwise identical in all respects, just the difference being if they have inlet and outlet valves, and there are cross reference charts saying the lowest version is obsolete, and the others that are a fit and suitable replacement. On my VW I used different filters than OE, as the OE does not come with anything other than the bypass, so I used ones that fit, but have both inlet and outlet valves. Z88, the most common filter by me, to Z147 or Z157, both fitting, just one fatter and shorter than the other, but same area of filter material in them. Older cars you find filters are obsolete, but the modern spin on filter that replaces it is worlds better performance wise, or is supplied by the dealership as a replacement, improving filter ability, or improving cold start performance.
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  2642. Only place doing this is vehicle licence, who work Saturday and Sunday now. Got my renewal this Saturday, after applying in February. Just get the eye test done at any optometrist, and bring that form and the money, plus a black pen, along with ID and old license.
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  2643. You will see a massive amount of GPS jamming going on, and also people placing masks over the cameras, so that the vehicle will have no safety systems available, and thus able to speed, plus also a massive amount of accidents caused by autonomous vehicles becoming lost, or driving off the road as the GPS says the road went that way, and the car trusting the GPS over the cameras.
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  2644. ATF also works better, WD40 is good for wet distributors though.
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  2645. Depends when it was dropped off. After hours towing company is liable, but if dealership accepted it from tow during hours, and signed for it in some form or the other, it does then fall on them. They however are negligent, as the insurance companies all have the not small print that the insured party must ensure that all due care and appropriate control measures are taken with regards to the policy, so at a minimum the polict will include the stock on hand, which is likely insured, must be locked up securely at night, and that they must have adequate protection in place, not an open lot with no fence or gate, and no cameras on it.
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  2646. Amazon still uses USPS to deliver outside of the larger metro areas, because USPS still has a mandate federally to deliver mail there, and even if it is not profitable to send a post van 200 miles to deliver 10 letters, 50 parcels, and collect 5 return letters, they still have to do it. But large high density areas Amazon can use contractors for cheaper than USPS rates, no union dues, no overhead of having full time staff, no requirements to fund pensions for the next 50 years out of current revenue. So that is why you see USPS not delivering parcels, and the fleets of Amazon branded trucks, each driven by an "independent contractor", who does not get the luxury of being able to decide work hours, work route, work time at all, but must follow a rigid set of targets delivered by the app on the phone, otherwise getting penalised for it. Funny enough the set hours, set route and set tasks to complete in order apply only to employees, but they are still not employees, and can be dropped at a whim. By me post is difficult, delivery is perhaps once every week, and finding a post office is getting to be hard, as all that are in rented premises are closed, due to non payment of rent, utilities and such, and the deductions for tax, pension, medical and such have been taken off, but not paid over, for a few years now. Also staff are being paid late, and those being retrenched are also only being paid a part of the amount each month, and that often being late as well. No overtime, no raises, longer hours, no resources, invoices printed on lottery paper, as that is the only paper around, and bring your own pen and staples, plus paper, if you need something certified. Letters are improving though, only 2 months to the same post office, and parcels are now under a year to be delivered. However they still keep to their motto of "We Deliver, Whatever We do not take" as well.
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  2647.  @MitzaMaxwell  Mine came with Vista approved stickers on. But DDR2 is getting scarce, so an upgrade is in the future. Also want to move from the core 2 Duo as well, only 4 cores....... and 2 are virtual, using spare processor cycles.
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  2648. I have taken those 2 belt pulleys and machined out the middle, so I could use a varispeed belt on it. Fitted perfectly, and did not slip at all.
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  2649. So, if you are in an area that is prone to flooding and storm damage, get out of there. If you are in an area with high elevation, and does not get storm surges and flooding, get yourself stocked up, put storm shutters on, and strap down things that will blow away, and help those who are going to get washed out. It would be good to keep water, spare fuel, a generator and fuel, and probably also a month's worth of dry food there, along with a few spare mattresses and bedding, plus some old clothing, because you are going to be a shining beacon of salvation to the area. Let the neighbours move cars to high ground, and lett them stay with you as well. Above all don't be a Karen. Be kind, be polite, and keep a pack of candles handy, along with waterproof matches. Plus a few packs of tea candles, because that, plus a bit of stiff wire, can be used to heat a can of beans in emergency.
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  2650. Time to take that door and put an automatic closer on it. They are cheap, and even a mechanic can install them, just have to use a few drywall screws, and sheet metal screws, into the door and frame respectively.
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  2651. There is already one, police issue clearance certs with a new VIN for the vehicle, for those that are recovered but the VIN is missing or defaced, so they get a new one that is a special sequence.
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  2652. Seeing as CEE has the only metal spray unit in Aus at the moment I can see it becoming a very profitable part of the shop, and you will get a lot of work for it, to the point you will not even bother sitting there stacking beads any more, as setting it up and spray welding will still be a massive time saver over the old method. Even with the cost of consumables that unit will pay for itself in around 2 years I will guess, just from saving 3 hours ber reface job that comes in, and once the local mines see that they can have a good long lasting rebuild, for a fraction of the price, you will be sitting with a weekly list of them to run through.
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  2653. Or when they take those state DNA databases, and decide to get money by selling to insurance companies. So now your insurer tells you that, because of your DNA, they are not going to give you life cover, because there is a 51% chance you will die early, or they will not cover your pension, because your genes say you will live longer than the statistical age, and they do not want to have to pay out more money than what you put in in the first place, hurting their profit. Or employers not hiring, because you have a chance of developing some diseases, or will need some medication in the future, so they do not hire, because that will cause healthcare costs to go up.
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  2654. Fresh military pilots get given a plane probably 30 times the cost of the commercial jet after only a few hundred hours as well. After training they get a trainer that probably only cost a tenth the price of the commercial jet, and use that to get the extra hours.
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  2655.  @krissteel4074  Slow train yes you survive, but the car is a mangled wreck 500m down the line. Over 50kph on the train side the car is shredded into confetti for 4km down the line, as the train is stopping with full emergency braking. Almost nobody survives that except the train driver, protected by the armoured glass front and the 10cm steel armour plate the front is made from. The iron ore train here has a stopping distance, under normal conditions of 60km, and the guard in the rear engine knows if he is told to jump to just jump, because the front driver will already have baled out. Emergency stop, detrimental to both the rail and the tyres of the train, is 30km. Train drivers get counseling after each incident, and can actually be placed on full pension after these, irrespective of age. Foot Plate union looks after the members.
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  2656. Shoot, here that would just be a normal thing.
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  2657.  @richardroland4365  Yes, and if you show up in court often the officer is not there, so the DPP will simply either drop the case, or reduce the ticket amount to half. You can also appeal before, most of the time the issuing department will do a reduction, depending on how many are there that day to pay. Got to have a lot of chats with them, as i was the nominated person that paid tickets, though my name and identity was not associated with the vehicles. Always ran mine and my friends and family when i had to go there, just in case one of them had a ticket on the way. No speeding tickets though have been issued by me for the last 15 years, as the municipality supply chain rules meant the sole accredited certification issuer could no longer be used, so all the training lapsed, all the equipment calibration lapsed, and the metro was forced to pay back 5 years worth of camera fines. now everybody travels at whatever speed they are comfortable with, except on 10 roads that fall under the provincial authority, who still trap the crap out on those roads.
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  2658. That packaging also is mode from the worst recycling newsprint, too poor to be even used to make more than egg cartons.
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  2659. Well the castor oil bean does grow wild here, along with the banana, but I know which one I would rather eat.
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  2660. But they can at least make the Wife Unit comfortable in the office, as Ray probably needs the AC in there to be serviced......
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  2661.  @privateinformation2960  Reply it came with the house, and the only reason is is still there is you have to return the house in same condition, and thus it has to be there, as otherwise it would have been scrap metal years ago.
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  2662. A20 handling was done by sending a magic byte to the keyboard controller, which is another Intel CPU, a 8048 single chip computer. You wrote to it, and read from it, using IO space, so you would write the A20 flip code to it, and the 8048 would get the IO write on the bus, decode it and then set the A20 output accordingly, and then reset the CPU. The output of the 8048 was logic ANDed with the CPU line, so that you could have A20 be either always low, or follow the CPU state. IO operations always occurred at bus speed, so were a lot slower than the CPU clock, so you would have dozens of wait states while the IO write occurred, and then a halt was executed, while the keyboard controller executed the instruction and flipped it's output pins in sequence. Then reset brought the CPU out of halt. Keyboard controller only has 2k of ROM and 256 bytes of RAM, and at the most ran at 12MHz. The 80386 had a separate pin going back into the CPU that fed back the state of A20, so the CPU cache logic could see the status of the line, and thus not corrupt memory by attempting to write out cached data with the A20 line disabled, and even later on the A20 handler was integrated into the CPU as well, when the keyboard interface was brought into the chipset. You still get some pins on the South Bridge that are multipurpose, in that they can have what they do assigned, and the logic of the 8048 programming is still there in most part, even to the point that some chipsets still have the cassette interface available as part of the silicon, though to use the pins would mean sacrificing the use they have now, but the code is still there, just masked off by the "magic registers" that the BIOS writes to to set up the chipset on power up, and which are in general write only registers, or which return status data back on read.
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  2663. Considering that alcohol is almost a pure calorie, yes you also gain a lot of weight. IIRC 2 beers is basically equal to a full meal calorie wise, and you normally eat a meal with it as well.
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  2664. Do not forget the Chinese also bill the family for the bullet, and also the firing squad, and the coffin as well.
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  2665. True on the F150, but the worst is the bog standard vehicle, but has the aftermarket knobbly all terrain wheels on it, with the tyres that make that noise. Yet the most off road they do is onto the pavement to park in a shopping mall, right by the door, because they do not want to walk from the parking. Yes that fuel line is single use only, because the install makes it conform, and there is not enough wall thickness to allow it to be reused. It likely will soon enough be made with proper fittings and a flexible hose by the aftermarket, to use the correct hydraulic fittings that are meant to be reused, instead of the use once style, but the use once one for Kia is a lot cheaper to assemble, low cost steel seamless tube rated for the pressure, and then cold formed to make the flare ends. Can also probably find an alternative that has the flare ends crimped on the pipe, giving a thick wall flare, that is reusable, but those also cost more to make as opposed to reusing the brake line flaring tool, which will still seal under lower pressure, but not at the 2000PSI the GDI engine has to operate at.
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  2666. First job of the bins, hold the swarf from making the bins...... But not overkill, more like designed to survive anything, short of an accident involving a D6 rolling through the shop.
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  2667.  @LWT80  Yes but the one that was discovered because the mine isotope ratios started to change drastically, and at first they thought somebody was stealing the ore, then looked, and saw the remains of the natural reactors in the ground composition. Stopped 2 billion years ago, when the amount of U235 had decayed so that the concentration could not go critical, who knows how long it has operated though, and the core of the planet gets most of it's heat, and all the helium we use, as a result of being one massive nuclear fission reactor.
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  2668.  @panzerveps  Well, been a long time since i read this article.....
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  2669. 27C and 75% humidity by me, and not even summer yet. Think that Vlad would melt even in AC....
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  2670.  @RainmanRaysRepairs  Want to see those removed injectors tested, and see just how they have a difference from before and after. If they will reman those units to 30% over for you, and give the standard warranty, will be a great thing for both of you.
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  2671.  @RainmanRaysRepairs  LOL, better than a narrow minded "name the party" person. And yes very likely those corn dogs do suck, mostly because they are both mass made, and also probably have sat in a warmer for 2 days already. Should come visit by me, you can find out that fuel station convenience stores can actually have good food, because here the biggest differentiation for fuel stations is the store, due to fuel price, and full service, being regulated. Only thing they compete on is location and service. Best coffee I ever had, being made to the same standard, was at a fuel station, getting there for the first brew of the day, in clean cups, and a totally clean brew machine. They also do pretty good fast food as well.
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  2672. Not to mention probably less than adequate tread depth, which, combined with likely a thin film of oil on the road, means you will spin out very easily.
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  2673.  @richwilliams7927  BMW says "hold my beer!"
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  2674. If it gives issues you will need a maxillofacial surgeon, who will grind the bone till it comes out. Took mine 20 years from the first pair out till they gave issues, and it was only the one that first was a problem, the lower buried in the jaw was fine still till later on
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  2675. Had a similar thing happen, hit unmarked roadworks in the rain, and totalled the tyre. Got the claim form, and submitted with location of the roadworks, and the bill for new tyre and alignment. 3 months later got 80% back in settlement. Those rims are not totalled, there are plenty of places that will take them, straighten them and reweld them up, and then X-ray them for any damage. Probably worth doing as a set of spare rims, though would not do track racing on them afterwards, just use as general driving rims. But yes, painted tyres and massive rims are expensive to maintain, both from the cost of the rubber and from the damage they can have happen to them with potholes.
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  2676. To be fair, actually starting a Hyundai and driving it can be considered unusual operation. With all the known recalls for engines failing in normal use, and them needing to recall entire batches due to this, and replacing engines wholesale, because of manufacturing defects. But the ECU does store things like average RPM, time per RPM band, and other such information. However the typical ECU will absolutely not allow the engine to exceed red line easily, you really have to make a money shift to get it above there, as the ECU will start to retard timing, stop firing coils and generally try it's best to stop the engine providing power as you reach that line.
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  2677. Friend got one of those dongles for his car. Plugged it into the blue one, which is a Proton Savvy AMT, a whole 0.9l NA engine and AMT gearbox. That could not exceed any speed limit, and also would not brake hard either. plus also was driven possibly a day a week. Got great scores that way. For the fish toss in a cabbage heart, they will absolutely love you for that, and eat it up in a few hours. Lived in a rental where there was a pool that was unused, tossed in a few cheap Koi, and a pair of goldfish, plus some mollies. Now they are monster fish, and the owner still enjoys them, now they have bred a few times, making long finned koi, plus he also has a few resident kingfishers, a heron and a fish eagle coming every so often to visit and get a snack. He feeds the fish dog pellets, and the odd whole cabbage as well.
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  2678.  @estebita_lato  Try South Africa, same boat......
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  2679. Knew when the rear door does not open from inside it was child lock.......
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  2680.  @tommussington8330  By me the harbour will connect up to the ship for power, they keep a few transformers in stock on trailers, and all of them have a standard 11kV input, as that is what the cranes run off, so easy to add on to the existing cabling. Then they can supply the ship, small will get 400VAC up to 1000A, after that they use higher voltage according to the ship specs. No plug and socket, a cable pulled up by a crane, and then clamped to the ship, and fed into a power panel on the deck, where there are terminals to accept the lugs on the cable. Then close the cover, and energise from harbour side, and then from ship side, and pay the bill before the harbour disconnects you, as the transformers have input side meters on them. You pay for both power used, and for peak kVA, so the ship engineers really are careful in sequencing loading as they switch over, both ways, as the ship side power plant is not as capable as the country grid. Harbour also has some really big portable diesel gensets, in case a ship docks away from a power connection, or for temporary power in say a non powered area.
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  2681.  @maiqtheliar789  Which is why Capone was wanted, he did not declare the moonshine income, and the IRS went after him for their share.
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  2682. Problem is the owner originally was the council, and the cladding was installed with a government paid grant. Original installers probably only installed the stuff that they were told would be correct, according to the government supplied specification, and did so.
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  2683. you might not want to do hard boiled eggs to the military spec either. Start with a 200l Regethermic cooking pot, clean and dry, and turned to upright position. Pour in 50l of cold water, and also a 5kg bag of salt. Then turn pot on to high. Start loading eggs, from the boxes of 60 dozen that you got, till the pot is full, typically 3 boxes of eggs to get there. When full, wait till the pot is boiling vigorously, and start a 20 minute timer. After 20 minutes, turn off the pot, and start to unload the pot, turning as needed to reach the eggs lower down, and place the now boiled eggs back on the trays, and back into the cardboard boxes. When finished and packed, allow to cool to room temperature, and place in the walk in fridge till needed. If you are lucky you got those from the top of the pot, having only been boiled for up to an hour, and possibly still edible. Unlucky you got those from the bottom, which generally were black once peeled, and almost totally inedible. Those eggs also would bounce, even when tossed out the windows of the bus we had, and we also discovered that they would indeed go through a windscreen as well. then they wondered why there were so few of us that would eat breakfast or dinner there, though every day we got a packed lunch, as we were going 80km away to a training facility, that officially half of which did not exist, despite the massive concrete structure being visible outside the windows on one side, with the equally massive wall and bank between us as well.
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  2684. Well, because likely last time brakes were serviced was when it was still under warranty, and he stuck black tape over that yellow ABS warning light that has been on for the last few years. Still thinks it is fine "because the truck still stops"when he puts pedal to the floor, even if it does only have a single working set of pads on it, as evidenced by the pulling to the left.
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  2685. Probably crane is at end of limits, likely original use of the shop had the crane only in use in part, and a dividing wall to the other side. Now the shop is larger the crane is still limited, so the forklift and mobile crane get a lot of use in place of it.
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  2686. Thing is that all the other parties now know that they do exist, and that they do relate to the cases. So now there is legal evidence of this, the first case of "we have no recollection of this" is proven to be less than correct, and all of them will be asking for everything in those documents, including simply asking for all texts sent and received, along with all messages on all channels, and not producing them will look bad, claiming them to be gone is worse, and basically all they have is a shovel, and way too much inclination to dig.
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  2687. Funny thing is here, not in the Netherlands, there is a very strong tradition of smoking the happy plant, and it is almost legal, or at least there is a lot of turning a blind eye to having it for medicinal purposes, and a very strong movement to have it declared as not illegal. Seeing as it is very common to find it growing wild, there is a lot of it around, and it does form a significant part of some rural areas for income in an otherwise poor place by growing it. Was getting a delivery last week, and the driver and loaders, from upcountry, were sniffing the air and commenting they like this city, as they could smell the happy plant, from people just walking past randomly smoking it.
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  2688.  @MewtwoStruckBack  Hard to prove, but a year is easy for training, initial work and such, so much more likely to get sympathy from a judge.
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  2689.  @jfbeam  Probably never showed on the cursory ones most pull.
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  2690.  @ryandoyle4344  Which is why he is using his proxies, his mother and relatives accounts, so as to circumvent the order. Wonder if the parole officer is aware of this, and that these are being used explicitly to spread malware with the legitimate tools, along with likely downloading the purchasers computer data without consent. wonder how the banks would feel about that as well, misuse of computer resources being a crime.
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  2691.  @LifeOfSins  Website and X are no longer around, and github account is closed as well. web just has a text rant about a police investigation....... looks like he might be somewhat unhappy with the attention he is getting.
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  2692. Going to guess the fair next year will either not be held, or will in no way have the 4H auction at all, and will very likely have a whole new set of directors and staff as well. At a minimum they are on for a false police report, and likely also for stock theft as well, in that they had no reason to handle the goat at all, plus likely will be paying as well for the therapy needed for this 9 year old, till she is "sufficiently healed", which can be a cost they will have to pay till she is dead, at a minimum, and will be unable to actually contest either, as the therapy is considered confidential. Figure on a 6 figure payout, with probably the entire board also resigning, and the one who issued the report taking a plea bargain and a fine, along with civil restitution as well.
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  2693. Often the store will disable the mass verification, because often things do not match in the database (pack of single cup instant soup with a product mass of the entire box), so disable the checking rather than fix the hundreds of database errors.
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  2694. I take it you grab a cart, remove old one, and bring it in as a sample and core at the same time. guaranteed that nobody will be able to steal your car in that time unless they came with a tow truck.
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  2695. Try using old heavy conveyor belting, and punch out the coupling of that. Will work, you just make them like the flexible ones, with 6 holes in a hexagon, and join up 3 per side. The fabric in the belt will stop it from tearing like the soft rubber couplings. Old belt should be easy to get from any local plant that handles bulk stuff, like coal or iron ore, or from any mill.
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  2696. I can definitely see the future of the picture of her, and her entire family, being placed at every place drink is sold in that state, with the wording that they are under no circumstance to be sold any alcohol at all, not even cough syrup, or tiramisu, because they could be accidentally overserved.
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  2697. Peter is just another AI bot.........
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  2698.  @knurlgnar24  No, basically you pay for all services for the first 3 years up front, and they cover all warranty work if needed.
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  2699. @Charles Hines Yes, modern cars are more connection issues than anything else, and for modern consider any vehicle built after 1991 as being that. A 1966 VW bug will give you lots of hassles as well, because they can be incredibly orney mechanical wise, and there are plenty of "non documented" things that are not given in the workshop manuals, that make your life easier, plus they also have a host of well known electrical issues, pretty all due to connectors getting old and corroded, as well.
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  2700. Just reboot then, which will restore all the code back to the disk state, not whatever odd state it had gotten into.
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  2701. You want to go down the precision rabbit hole look at Robin Renzetti, he works down to almost wavelengths of red light, and at the level of precision he can get everything is a spring.
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  2702.  @HumbleMechanic  Just how far do you have to lift up the front of a Golf to get the mounting holes for the starter to engage..... Till the wheels leave the ground is about it. But at least that starter is easy, only 4 bolts on the actual engine (one for a bracket, 3 for the starter/engine mount), and it comes out easy enough. Unlike certain others, where you land up taking half the engine and underside off to get to the last bolt, or have to take inlets or exhausts off to reach. While you are in there gets expensive, because you know half of those bolts and studs are going to be less than willing to come easily. Why yes I do have a lot of anti seize for when they go back, I will probably be the next one to remove them anyway, or at least will make life easier for the next one.
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  2703. Yes, and as the vacuum cleaner is a bog standard Karcher unit the vacuum pump assembly is also a very cheap item, and easy to replace. Just a non standard bucket with the added mesh inside and the media removal port. But the rest looks like off the shelf, so the wheels, which are always the first thing to go on these, are a very cheap and easy fix. Pop off the broken one, and press on the new ones. Plus also get a spare filter, as that one will get dirty with carbon build up, and they are washable, but having a spare one around means no downtime while it sits in a bucket of engine degreaser overnight, and then is left to dry for a day. Ray should get a set of them to keep, because, in a garage use, they wear fast. But buying another identical Karcher will also have as a bonus the tools it comes with, which includes the crevice tool, which is ideal to remove the media in the inlet, after a little work with a plastic welder to make it a little shorter and skinnier, and it plus right on the hose end. Plus also can be used to clean engines, and cars, unlike blowing air and sending stuff flying, it pulls it all into the bag.
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  2704.  @WrenchingWithKenny  Plus limit speed of operation so the emission systems can still stay in closed loop, even if the driver is mashing the pedal to the floor, it will still limit rate of change to keep the emissions low. Plus of course no need to have extra alignment steps on the production line, it can all be done electronically during assembly with no human input.
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  2705.  @AT-wl9yq  Yes, but pretty much every other throttle operation will be damped down slightly, limiting the rate of change, so there is no snatch in the drivetrain, or at least limiting the rate of change to a safe level.
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  2706. Some of those bigger packs of disks contain, as a top or bottom protective disk, a pressed unmetallised CD or DVD that is a sacrificial protection for the actual blank disk pack below them. You can see the embossed detail on them as they have no covering lacquer layer or meatal flash.
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  2707. My friend owned one, and it was repaired a lot. But also did the miles to get things to break. Water pumps, cam belts, regular rear bearing changes because the half shaft was slightly bent, and we never seemed to be able to find a used one.
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  2708. Just saw South Main doing almost the same tank today.......
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  2709. Little does she realise that that half kilo of face plaster that she has trowelled onto her face likely is made from clay contaminated with dioxin, and the inks she happily injected into her body is also a known carcinogen. Same for the lipstick, made with petroleum wax and dye, of which she eats at least a half kilogram a year on average.
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  2710. Very nice looking glasses, but as I do not really game much they would be perfect to use to watch YT with (and a certain channel that has this strong thing about books and wheelchairs) as well as sit with a keyboard and work, making it possible to do so with only a chair and the appropriate technology to have a "real" office anywhere.
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  2711. No27 people actually returning carts to the correct place!
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  2712. That was probably 1/8 NPT originally, there for either EGT sensor, or for a pressure gauge to measure turbo inlet pressure. so you have to go larger, which would by me probably be going to M10, though to fill the hole for the weld just a M10 bolt put in the existing hole, ground off flush, and then welded, would have worked well.
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  2713. Nope they lied, you bought a specific VIN, and them failing to hold it is fraud, in that they have deliberately taken your property as ordered.
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  2714. Turkeys walking around, looking for the bigger turkey, that is driving the big black turkey....
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  2715.  @perwestermark8920  Plus also updates tend to fragment the disk, and even a SSD will suffer from that, as doing a block read can take place at the full SATA bus speed of 6G/s, and be complete almost instantly, with the requested file blocks all being correctly there in order, and then no need to do time consuming DMA block operations to make it fit into contiguous mamory, simply blast the block direct. If the file is fragmented you need to do multiple reads, part of a block every time, but still needing to move the entire block into a cache, and then DMA to move it, and then read next block fragment, and DMA again to move the bit you need. You cannot do multiple block reads easily and have them be monotonic, so instead lots of small reads line up to grab what could have been a single read. Not a fault of the SSD, which moves data around on itself with no real care about LBA per block, but the reads and writes must take place over the single channel. Thus slower reads, as multiple commands are needed, and also you sit with much more context switching per CPU, as each core has to swap out what is in L1 cache to L2 to check the process, and then send a command to the glacial slow main memory to execute, and do this hundreds of times, instead of tens of times, as each read cycle needs 2 context swaps, and slow memory and IO reads consume thousands of clock ticks for nothing.
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  2716. We lost the family farm to that as well, taken by the government to form a fictional country, that was not recognised by almost the entire planet, but which was recognised by the government as a separate territory, even if the border was just a sign on the road, and a change from some potholes, to more hole than tar.
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  2717. A solution to a problem that used things they knew worked. Would probably still be in use today if it had not been too expensive, as you can see from the USA still having a few sections of 100VDC systems still in use in SF, where it once was built out with the tram lines as a power source, and was sold to buildings along the routes as a convenient power source to drive things like elevators and pumps, along with winches and lighting as well.
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  2718.  @macgyveratlarge2133  That is why I said 10k, because here that equates to a week of driving between 2 major centres at the regulated speed and regulated hours. you probably want to check the truck at least once a week, because your driver pretty sure is not going to do that. He gets in starts and moves.
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  2719.  @macgyveratlarge2133  You are in the USA, I am not. There are large differences between countries and operators. Some hire people off the street to drive, others actually test them even though they have a CDL, some are owner operators. You see a vast difference though, from a small single truck operator who has a shiny well maintained 50 year old Deutz, to a fleet of poorly maintained Actros's, some maintain so that rarely break down, others do it on the "when it stops" basis.
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  2720. Pliers used on the fan are correct, they are designed for use with water fixtures, and the fan is part of the water fixture.....
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  2721. Never assume it was a time error, they likely do this as a non hidden matter in order to inflate rental amounts.
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  2722. Tire shine also does a nice temporary fix, and then you can buff it up a bit with a cloth to strip off some of that dull top finish.
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  2723.  @I_am_Phil_Lee  Just have to accelerate to close to Mach 1 and apply speed brakes and pull back slightly so the hook allows the loop to slide forward, and the rising airframe misses the loop.
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  2724.  @I_am_Phil_Lee  Trust me they can definitely do that.
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  2725. Complain to FOMOCO head office, that they refused to honour the deal that you had with Ford themselves. That will result in the dealership getting a slap across the hand, and possibly your financing getting a consideration settlement from Ford themselves. Plus now the dealership is not likely to get any sales as a result of your word of mouth, and likely will not get any sort of non warranty service either.
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  2726.  @IntegerOfDoom  Hard to find a great one, you just need to look at the right places. Hint Wallyworld is not the place to look, neither is expensive boutique shops. Mostly found out of the beaten path, at a small shop, where they are appreciated and helpful.
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  2727. Hans made a filesystem with no delete available, and the same for his wife as well. At least you can say he was consistent.
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  2728.  @DylVan-k8y  But if you are a person who has no formal home, are at a place where smash and grab is a daily thing, and are found with spark plugs on you this will get you arrested.
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  2729. Nice little mini controller there, looks like it is well suited for small form factor, and with built in touch screen display as well. Yes Harvard is really hard to do memory management and multitasking in, as you really have few ways to store state correctly, and also that hard divide between memory and data makes for some interesting kluges to transfer the data over to use. Still, miss the little chairs at the end, but I guess not all liked them. But like the light shows, and that anybody can use the code as well.
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  2730.  @HumbleMechanic  Still have the coffee-o-matic, but it has only disposable cups, and no snacks to be seen. Was not going to chance the open canisters of sugar and tea they still have around, but as I do not take sugar no great loss. Water was boiling hot though, so the cups were sterile. Was still drinking the one cup 20 minutes later, it was too hot.
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  2731. BIL just bought a new to him car, and another place the VIN is recorded is in the ECU and immobiliser, along with the instrument cluster. Checked those and they matched as well.
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  2732. I never withdraw money at the ATM, it is a lot more convenient and cheaper to use a retailer and withdraw money there at the till, where the fee for cash with purchase often is free.
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  2733.  @johnp139  Not necessary, you find a big line who are there for cash only.
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  2734.  @vk2ig  Yes, but small country, and really motivated to make it work, as the alternatives were extermination, so they made it work. Plus they had a large amount of help from the Diaspora, who gave them a lot of quiet information that helped with issues in both manufacture and in design, as they had experience in this, and were able to quietly give advice with no trace of it having come from them.
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  2735.  @forestmcneir3325  Yes but they already knew how to build engines, and thus knew how to make the steel alloys and aluminium parts needed, plus the instrumentation they already had in great part. Simple enough design, designed in great part for ease of assembly and to loose tolerances, so that many separate manufacturers could put the parts out, thus easier to copy as well, simply because small errors in a large amount of the unit are not a concern. When you get to high temperature exotic alloys for turbine engines this becomes harder, because knowing the composition is not useful unless you also know how you make it, because those are grown in a specific way, and the alloy you start with when molten is not the same one you end up with when finished. the Germans wanted these alloys to develop fighters in WWII, but could not make them in large volume, so went with steels instead they could make, which limited both operating envelope, fuel economy and engine life considerably. Thus the engine power was only half that desired, fuel use was doubled, and engine life was 25 hours. All because steel softens around 850C, so no parts could operate above that. modern materials run at 1200C for thousands of hours with only minimal issues and regular inspection.
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  2736. Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle did the same, using a massive ramscoop rocket that was using the hydrogen atmosphere of one of the outer gas giants as power source, coolant and reaction mass, with it pulsing and venting a plume to move the gas giant into a suitable orbit so as to draw out the earth moon couple to a wider orbit, along with doing other things like move Mars closer in, and also cleaning up the outer planets somewhat by tossing the one out to make the orbital mechanics easier. Big self repairing machinery that was designed to last essentially forever, and also to communicate with authorised personell.
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  2737.  @tactileslut  Here by me they attach a barcode with a lookup for the clearance price, and yes often enough I have had to have a supervisor do an override on the price because the scanner got the non reduced barcode first, then scanned the reduced price second as a different item. Another store simply has a sticker, different colour each day, that they attach to indicate 50% off the marked price, and the tellers simply press the override button before scanning the item. Before they needed a supervisor swipe, but decided that this was killing supervisor efficiency, as they literally ended up running at a single checkout speed across the entire store. Cameras all over though, 2 per teller, one looking right at the till, and the other at the money drawer, to see the buttons being pressed and the cash bills entering.
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  2738.  @WhereWhatHuh  Yes, but not tampering with the vehicle, and the same as any ANPR camera recording your plate, which is deemed legal in many states. A good idea as that is not touching, and so long as the plate is visible in frame along with the tyre it will stand up.
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  2739.  @suedenim9208  Yes, but sometimes judges have to be asked, and will not volunteer that damages can be claimed.
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  2740. funny enough was looking at getting some new shoes, but having wide feet it is hard. Best was green Cross, before they were sold off to the VC crowd and the local factory closed, they made a great sandal that lasted decades. Now have some shopping to do, and there are 4 stockists near me as well to try out.
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  2741. Very slippery slope that, soon it will be filtering everything, including the school itself, because it might have a bit of something that somebody somewhere finds offensive, so it gets filtered out. Better to actually be a parent, and teach your children, and be a little more involved with what they are doing, rather than simply put them in the corner and ignored. Used to occur before the widespread use of Internet when they got copies of those scandalous magazines, You, Scope, and those scandalous books that the library should ban, like Lady Chatterlies lover, Shakespeare, 1984, the entire encyclopedia, the Bible and Quran along with the Torah, because all of those have either had images, text, or thoughts, that somebody considered to be impure at some time. Ban them all, including all children's books, because some might be offensive. Then all adult books as well, because some are not suitable for children.
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  2742. Condenser looks like it is just old, fins rotted off from road salt and grime that eats the thin aluminium away.
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  2743. Thing is the military used to be absolute on the supply of manuals, full source code for software, firmware and all engineering drawings for anything they procured, so that they could control repair by having it done either in house, or by using any contractor with the skills. Seems that no longer applies.
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  2744. Yes, but this was not lent out, it was sent for a contractually agreed upon service, put there by the manufacturer, in that they have a service schedule in the book, and the dealerships stamp this book. Not lent out, rather the dealership was doing a contracted operation for the owner, and also assuming liability for damage to the vehicle on premises or while under their direct control. Even though they have a waiver in the paperwork this case is going to hinge on the dealership not excising correct control over the vehicle in premises, and either by negligence, or by deliberate action, causing the incident.
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  2745.  @TheExplosiveGuy  Synthetic sapphire is glass clear, as it is pure monocrystalline aluminium oxide, which is what a sapphire and ruby is, just the red and other colours comes from impurities. The actual laser rods themselves are totally clear, though when they failed they usually turned to a fine powder from the energy release.
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  2746.  @watershed44  By me they are the same basic platform, local assembly, though the beetle came in as a full import only.
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  2747. Would have required stick welding to get it there, but with the deep groove Kurtis did the penetration of the welds is pretty much all the way through the material anyway, so no need to go from the back. Last one was only part penetration, less than half way through the plates.
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  2748. Garbage in garbage out. If the grounds are poor, or the sensor in the shifter is failing or corroded, then the ECU does not know gearshift position, or has unreliable info, so definitely will throw a wobbly. you would definitely need to have this done via a tool, and reading the inputs from the gearbox and engine.
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  2749. Vacuum cleaner I took one of the nozzles and cut it down, then used epoxy to attach a piece of thick walled PVC hose to it, so you have a flexible and bendable nozzle to reach into tight places. Diameter inside a little bigger than the width of the nozzle, and it was around 30cm 1 foot long, so it reached into tight places. Was great for removing all sorts of gunk, and was a good nozzle. Washed it, and the hose, with engine degreaser after using to remove blobs of grease and such, so the hose would not be sticky, though you can buy the hose in 30 foot bulk packs, so if it needs replacing easy to fut a new length off the roll and toss the old one away.
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  2750. By me the police had to refund nearly 5 years worth of tickets, after losing the court case, and the ticketing process being declared invalid. thus for the last 10 years the entire city, aside from 6 roads that do not fall under their remit, has not had a single speeding ticket issued. those 6 roads fall under the provincial remit, but there they rarely put up speed cameras, because they do not have enough officers to both man them, and also do all the other work they are legally required to do.
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  2751. Dreamliners with relatively small lithium battery packs, and there there were a few uncontained failures there that nearly resulted in airframe failures. So now the battery pack is now heavier because they had to add a fireproof container with venting, and any mass saving over the old nickel cadmium battery is lost.
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  2752. I see the "plant based butter" in the shops, packed with the butter, and almost the same price. But margarine, same ingredients breakdown and composition, is around a third cheaper.
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  2753. Most are likely driving either uninsured or underinsured.......
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  2754. Rags are cheaper than washing and drying them, as there is a lot of old clothing that gets cut up to make rags from the garment trade, who want to move stuff that only is used 4 or 5 times before being discarded, because "fashion" demands it.
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  2755.  @derekhobbs1102  Normally those go for either incineration or into a hazardous waste dump. The oil filters would have been crushed for the steel content, and the oil collected for disposal. Rags simply baled up and either burnt with other waste, or buried in the dump as a bale.
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  2756. Well done on upgrading away from blow up rims to something you can get locally, with brakes that actually work. Would drain the diff and refill while you are waiting, at lest keep the sludge and water from causing further damage. Fill with cheap gear oil, and run it for 30 minutes when you are ready, then drain and refill with the right oil. Engine wise first thing I would do, before removal, is put a new filter on there, as a clogged filter can cause many issues, depending on what moves to where in it, and it either being full of water so the float blocks the outlet and prevents the pump from getting fuel, to it being clogged with dirt from the tank, and the bacterial sludge building up to clog the lift pump. Would suggest while engine is out to dump the fuel tank contents totally, and clean inside the tank, as the inside is very likely to be nice and full of biofilm and sludge. But yes with the engine with all seals leaking, best to pull it out (at least you have the right tools there to do so, plus a crane as well to make life easier) and replace every thing that says seal on it. Would also recommend replacing transmission fluid while it is out, as that will make it almost behave like new, and clean out the hydraulic oil tank, because you can bet it has a thick coal dust sludge in there as well. Diff getting water in is easy, the breathers are upside down, or are missing or cracked, or somebody was overusing a power washer. And yes new bolts for the shackles and suspension are a good idea.
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  2757. Had that flight once with a military aircraft, we needed all 12km of runway to take off, and were in ground effect for around 30km before airspeed was high enough, and enough fuel had been burned off, to actually start to climb out of it. Altitude, 41C outdoor air temp, and full load. I remember seeing the entire 30km with the tree tops seemingly just within reaching distence. Landing was totally different, you could not tell, till the pilot announced reverse thrust, that the plane was on the ground, unlike the other 2 ahead, where we did see, then hear, them land with a slight crosswind.
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  2758. Standard comment of doctors burying their mistakes. Also the biggest expense for any doctor and hospital is malpractise insurance. There will still be bills sent for payment from the hospital and the surgeon and anesthesia provider, who charges separately as well.
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  2759. Well, I have separate scanners and printers, but I did not buy the scanners, but picked them up off the ewaste pile. As to the refill cartridges, yes, and the refill in general has more ink/toner than the original one, simply because the refill actually fills the cartridge to the correct level, unlike OEM, where they fill to just pass a IEC page print test. Proved it regularly, where an original cartridge would barely get past 1000 pages printed before showing empty, while the same refilled cartridge (send in and get the same one back a week later, with new toner, new drum if needed and new wiper) would typically give the empty display at around 1500 pages of the same print mix. Refill is also typically a third of the retail cost of the original, and around half the cost of wholesale as well. when looking at new or new to me printers I always look up the cartridge number and the refill cost, and simply do not choose those which are not refillable (more the DRM chip is not yet cracked, or not changeable, over any other reason) in the decision. Does mean I have stripped a good number of inkjets, because the cartridges are way too expensive for the amount of use, and if I need colour prints I go to the local shop and get it printed there for 10c per page. Last time it was a canvas print, on A2 canvas, so it was going to be them anyway. Yes I have a colour printer, but it is going to be turned to scrap, because turning on a Tektronix/Xerox Phasor 360 costs $600 in wax, and I got this printer for free as well.
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  2760. Oil return holes in the pistons also need some love...... Plus you are lucky you are not dealing with pinned rings, where you need to get them right on the locating pins as well.
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  2761.  @SwapBlogRU  Yes, the vehicle that comes from the factory with what can be described as built in wear, because the tolerances on parts are so loose.
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  2762. Never really had PC LOAD LETTER, more PC LOAD A4, seeing as the default paper size on non US localised printers is set to A4 paper, and only on paper trays that are unassigned, so only really the stack of paper trays under the printer on HP, just after you place the printer on them, and before you either use the computer, or navigate the arcane menu structure on the front panel, to tell them you are either putting A4, A5, DL Envelope, A4 transparency, or A4 letterhead into the appropriate paper tray.
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  2763.  @spacechannelfiver  Most of my line printers at that time were dot matrix, never got to having such a good printer like daisy wheel or golfball.
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  2764.  @spacechannelfiver  Oh yes those as well, with the same multipurpose inputs as well, because half the things that need a thermal printer were not even written this century, yet have to work on modern hardware, because the original printers are long out of production, but the replacements are bug for bug compatible.
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  2765. Anybody that hits that from the rear will simply have their vehicle crumple up, while you will need to send the rear bumper in for a rechrome, if the damage will not buff out from the chrome.
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  2766.  @kenjohnson5124  I live in Africa, and ATF is a pretty common thing, often found as hydraulic jack fluid.
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  2767. Well, definitely going to be banned from driving for at least 10 years.
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  2768. Bypass filter with only 2 lines, oil from pump, and oil return to block. Needs to have a third line to return the bypassed and filtered oil to the sump, because all that does is have 2 filters in parallel, so in reality you can put 2 of the finer filters in, and still get full flow, as the drop across them will be a lot lower due to the lower flow. Plus really needs as well a differential pressure switch or gauge, to light up and show you time to replace the filter, before you get low oil flow and pressure in the engine. Does need calibration, using a graph of flow across the filter versus blockage, or using minimum oil pressure at idle versus turn off pressure of the oil light, so that when drop gets within 5PSI of turning the oil light on you get a light to change filters.
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  2769.  @kevinbarry71  I see a use for them on those engines where oil filter is a PITA to get to, and having it move is a good idea.
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  2770. They give it, because they get money from this.
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  2771. Stove top coffee, brings back memories of the coffee on the farm, where that pot never left the wood stove top except to be filled, and to pour, so it gently boiled all day long. Coffee that you got served in a cup, along with a knife and a fork in the afternoon.
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  2772. $11k worth of tickets is easy if you travel through the town regularly, like say a salesperson, or a truck driver, and get sent a postal ticket every time for some reason or the other, either for speeding, changing lane incorrectly, or any of a myriad of other reasons. Hard to fight when the ticket might show up a month later, for a camera offense, and you have no real way to either disprove or correct your action. 2 dozen $500 tickets for going 20 over the limit, all taken just past the line where you are required to obey the limit, or where the sign is obscured by foliage, and thus you cannot see it, showing up 2 months later will be a good chunk of that. sign that says, well out of town, on the same road that you can do 55 on legally, but the section leading to town, same width, same fencing, same everything else, just has had a limit of 25 imposed on it, with a single sign, that all who live in the town know of, and where the camera is. One ticket going in, one going out.
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  2773. Funny enough when you go to the optometrist there are a few who have a CT scanner in the office, which is tabletop size, and which is able, after around 20 minutes of imaging through your pupil and the front of your eye, build up a remarkably well detailed image of the structure inside your eye. Includes the retina, all the blood vessels, the cornea and the lenses themselves, along with the pupil, and also the different layers inside the vitreous humour as well. Amongst it's abilities it can also be used to make a contactless measuring for a custom contact lens, as well as determine your optical script to a very high accuracy, as it knows all of the optical paths involved, and can calculate the required correction as well, even if it involves the lenses themselves not actually having simple curvatures on them.
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  2774.  @ExplainingComputers  I have no idea if you pay, just that Oracle is rather infamous for suing their customer base, to the point it is classed as an income stream. Just to point out that not all software comes free to use, some have very onerous licensing.
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  2775. Doctors work really long hours. My GP came to see me in hospital, at 9PM, when his day at practise starts at 7AM with the first slot. I asked him if he still remembers what his wife and children look like, though the daughter is smart, and is also applying to go to the same medical school he went to as well.
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  2776. If you need $200k for a second freezer, and those ultra cool ultra low temperature freezers can easily exceed that price, even for the "small volume, low cost" unit, used, and approach multi million dollars, for the ones you can walk into, with the appropriate antarctic grade clothing. Where is the money to come from, if your entire research budget, which had to cover all costs, including staff and operations, for a year, was $100k total.
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  2777. Was doing this last week. turns out the trailer module in the vehicle was also faulty, only 2 of the 4 outputs worked, so that got replaced as a unit. New LED lights at rear, soldered to the loom and mounted, and then at the front replaced the plug and 5m of wire to get rid of the last intermittent wiring, soldered again and taped up, and placed securely in the wiring channel again. Used a lot thicker wire as well, not for the current (LED units take under 1A total) but for the better fatigue life of the higher strand count wire. More ties added to hold the cable against flexing, and a loop so the trailer turning would not stress it either.
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  2778. Guaranteed diagnosis cost is at least 100 times the price of that relay though. Other fault codes likely just from the failing relay going intermittent, and of course the transponder error is always going to show up randomly, key in a different orientation, ring obscuring it or such.
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  2779. Box wine vintage is how many weeks old it is. A good vintage is at least 8 weeks old, and anything past 50 weeks is considered to be poor. As it is called here it is a happy box, and the bladder inside is your pillow when you are fininshed, and sre going to sleep where you fell down.
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  2780. Because they are cheap, and also easier to design into the engine. No need for a large area of the casting to be machined for the mounting, and the galleys to be drilled for it, just a small flat area for the 3 ports, a pair of bolt holes, and you get an income stream from the plastic parts failing.
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  2781.  @BATTLECR42Y  You can apply it to all US people, deporting them out of the country, even if they have 5 generations of US birth, sending them back out of the country, though no other country will want them.
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  2782. Friend has a Proton Savvy, which is a single clutch automatic. Shifts on it can best be described as glacial, as it will actuate the clutch, wait for a time, then change the gearbox to the appropriate gear, and slowly release the clutch to engage. Drive it and you are never going to get any fast changes, though it is otherwise a peppy vehicle for the mass and engine size.
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  2783. Extraction good luck, I had the one done, 20 years after the first dentist had wanted to yank that tooth out, and went to a surgeon, after my dentist looked, saw it was not going to come easy, curved roots and impacted, and made the appointment. Hospital, went, got the second opinion, and the Monday after went in for the 20 minutes of work with a grinder on the bone. All in all 2 hours there, and walked out drooling, and feeling no pain. Got my lift back home, and only felt pain the next afternoon when I woke up. Paid cash, and even so it was under $200 for the work, with my dentist giving the exam on the house, normally $40, as I went back after a month to get the check up. Last time I went to hospital great service, just got what I called the $300 bottles of water, plus the co pays for the CT and MRI.
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  2784. File it in the round filing cabinet, and then place a 2 month block on your number from that specific entity, before removing it again, so they can call you again. Or put on a list of good numbers for them to use.
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  2785.  @TobaccoRowe1960  Depends on the sealant they used, you get some that are going to survive chlorinated water, but those are also expensive, so yes they probably used a cheap one. Pools yes every part corrodes, even the plastic piping, and the fibreglass, due to constant exposure to chlorine and sun.
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  2786.  @GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket  That means a lawyer, and your money is still not available till the case, the appeals and the supremes are finished.
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  2787. Lot of the times with drum brakes I will be taking the shoes and drum to the reliner, so that I can get a skim and a new set of linings bonded and shaped to the drum. Some vehicles, like VW Golf and Toyota Corolla, not worth relining, as the new drums and linings are so cheap, because they are so common.
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  2788. Bet there is a broken ground strap from engine to chassis, or the ground cable of the battery is dirty or corroded, or the positive side.
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  2789.  @sparksmcgee6641  No, they do not want them to die on company time, as that means they now have to pay out a settlement from the insurance to the family, and this affects the profit for that store and region. Let the police or security company arrest the thief, and thus any death is no longer directly on them.
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  2790. How about a drunk driver who parked on the roof of a house, not the first house off the edge of that hill, but the second one. 2 floor house as well, so the easiest way to get the vehicle off the remains of the roof was to push it over the edge, and down the 6m drop to the ground below, where a wrecker was able to drag it out the driveway, on the roof, to the waiting lowbed. First house undamaged, aside from missing a fence, some windows broken by the flying debris, and a nasty gouge in the retaining wall top, but the second house required both a new roof, a new drive, and a lot of interior repairs as well. Driver uninjured, was both too drunk, and too high, to notice. Also uninsured, not his vehicle, borrowed relatives car for the night.
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  2791.  @jamesodell3064  Yes but much better for your claims history to have the other insurance paying for all of it, plus the excess as well.
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  2792. Enough members get together they can recall the board, and get change.
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  2793. So that is why canned whipped cream is so popular..................
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  2794. 400m and you get a refuel warning in low range, because it has a range below 80km then. BTW try the handling over speed bumps, with the air suspension it does not even notice them. Yes the reliability is suspect, BIL had one, and it had it's own demarcated bay at the dealership, and yes it has hundreds of niggly faults and issues, but the engine and trans is reasonably capable. Not that any of that applied to the baby Freelander, they all had multiple engine and transmission replacements under warranty.
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  2795. Manufacturers want all the data because they can sell it for a profit. They know who the owner is, have the address details, and then know where they work, where thy shop, where the kids go to school, what stations the listen to, when they listen. This is to them very valuable information, which they can make a profit on even after selling the vehicle, and so long as the vehicle is running this is a profit centre. Plus they can update the vehicle remotely, reducing performance "for safety", to persuade you to trade it in to them for a new one again.
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  2796.  @richardcheeseman6330  Not in the USA though.
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  2797. Already is used to make the flash memories, they rely on it to both charge and discharge the buried gate structures. Larger structures needed higher voltages, which in turn would damage the insulating silicon dioxide used in the gate. Thus you had to get to small resolutions to get the flash devices we all use, which run on under 1V internally, but interface to the 5V world outside.
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  2798. Yes standard in aviation, where you sample every 100 hours or so, and test to see long term changes. But there as well oil is often changed on run time basis, especially as the oil system covers the entire aircraft, and you need 300l or so of it to change it out. But with 300l, and it moving through a few filters at a good rate, plus cooling off and not being cooked, it does last well. Small aircraft you are changing piston engine oil every 50 hours anyway, because it will be well toasted, and those engines are not cheap to repair, plus not exactly easy to pull over if it fails. You put that oil in and it looks like treacle cold, but hot it runs like water.
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  2799.  @M167A1  Probably more that the technology is like Theranos, and is not actually effective.
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  2800. Standard Rossman rant speed.
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  2801. just ut her in with some of those who have been through her court and found guilty...
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  2802. Would suggest to put the missing ground back, as it can cause some slight issues, as otherwise it has to make chassis ground and engine ground via the ECU wiring.
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  2803.  @Dubanx  Yes but most do pull a good chunk of data to use as evidence, and as routine run a search routine looking for credit card data, which is a standard form of record, for sale on the dark web, as a nice source of income while waiting for the main payout. They often sell the bulk record along with the number of cards, as that often is worth more, as it allows easier ways to get higher limits on the cards, as they can claa in to a call centre, imitate the person, having all the details needed to pass authentication, and thus get a limit increase, or a new card sent to them to use by a mule, to get things that you need a valid card for.
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  2804. Best landing was when the undercarriage was not showing locked, only marred by the 50 ton Pathfinder with foam cannon pacing us. Worst was hearing the other plane land, from the holding pattern. He definitely needed all new tyres that day.
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  2805. Well, xheaper alternatives are to use standard magnetic locks, and use 2 to make a flat surface, using a thick plate to mount them. You need a 12V supply at around 5A to dive them, but it will not slip. Otherwise 4 cheap magnetic stands for dial indicators looks like it will do the same function, again all you need is the aluminium plate to mount them all to, and then attach the vice to the top as well. No T slots, but still cheaper.
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  2806. SR71 you fly in a space suit, which will easily handle the temperature till you slow down, then keep you fed with oxygen till you get low enough that you can first have the larger drogue chute slow you down, then finally the seat parts company, leaving you in the suit alone, with a big parachute (your seat cushion in almost all cases) and a survival pack to land with.
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  2807. Common enough, many small towns do that, especially if they have town limits that extend a fair way away from the town.
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  2808. The one manufacturer who decided to go with no head gaskets, and simply make the cylinder and valves as a unit was Deutz, whose engines are still in use world wide. Drawbacks are machining them is hard, and you have to compromise on weight, unless you use a cast in sleeve, or use a very high silicon alloy. But the issue is the machining needs specialised tools, though it does mean you can fix a failed cylinder as a single unit. Was common on aero engines as well, with the high compression that came from them needing to have maximum power. Biggest drawback is that you now have to have space for the hold down bolts per cylinder, making the engine longer, and you really benefit with over square cylinder designs to make machining easier. And yes works best with air cooling, as the casting is so much easier to make, though with modern 3D machining you can likely make lost styrene moulds, that are light and accurate enough to get water cooling into them, with reliable performance. Would be perfect to make a small ultra high compression turbo diesel with, you can get high boost and only have ring blow by to worry about.
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  2809.  @forgetfulme1719  Just that they have been out before, because factory does not number them at all.
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  2810. Pretty sure that is a standard, though very large, water valve, intended for use on large water reticulation systems. About the only thing they have done is place a cover over the actuator, so that it will at least hold a vacuum, though I really doubt that cover is light, as it has to handle 400 tons of force on it, and it will flex somewhat.
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  2811. Probably, as most vehicles at idle really are not designed for full electrical load. That is fine with engine at 1500RPM to 3000RPM, where you draw most load while driving at night with heat on, defrost on, and both rear demister and seat heaters on full. Idle for 10 minutes and the battery will drop dangerously low, and the BCM will start to disable the high power users, to protect the cold battery, until you have the RPM pass 1500 again.
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  2812. Saw one today, same crank no start. But also water damage, so they are going to have to clean all modules, connectors and hope they get all the water out of them, otherwise the vehicle, like a few thousand, straight off the Toyota assembly line, are destined for the crusher from flood damage. They were flooded, in many cases to roof height, no way to fix other than replace entire electrical loom and ECU, and replace all fluids as well, along with complete interior.
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  2813. Prenda law enters the fray........
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  2814. There are 2 people who I allow to drive my car. Me obviously, and my best friend, because we also do use each other's car, with permission. My neighbour also uses me to drive her car, because she is still recovering from a fall, so I do drive her around in either my car or her car.
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  2815. Nice thing about them is, even in a very light polluted cityscape, they are very visible as well, just after sunset (or just before sunrise) if you are looking up to the sky.
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  2816. Probably will be melted down for the copper content, and cast into bars and sold for recycling. Copper content likely makes them worth more as scrap metal than currency. Edit, worked out the scrap value is around $44 per kilogram, or roughly $10 per pound, so they are still slightly better off as coins, but a lot easier to dispose of as scrap copper.
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  2817. Final words echo what I thought of one place, in that I spent an eternity there in one afternoon. The fact that the instructions to get there included "turn off the tarred road onto the dirt", as well as instructions to "avoid hitting the farm dam in the middle of the road, after around 15km of travelling on this dead straight dirt road", said dam also bearing the scars of a good number of vehicles, from both sides, that had not obeyed the injunction to hit it, thus leading to the specific inclusion into the instructions. Another thing against it was that the nearest shop was a 50km drive, to a small shop, but the nearest bar was only 20km.....
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  2818. Been done already.....
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  2819. Donig the module and plug is a diagnosis, as this means you verify if the ECM is failed if this does not fix it, and in any case a new ECM would also suggest replacing the cam sensor anyway.
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  2820. One of the originals is 5km from me, in a vault in the country metrology lab. I have seen it, inside the safe in a safe in a safe it lives in. My masspieces have been calibrated with a massmeter only 2 steps adjacent to that standard.
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  2821.  @weeardguy  Here by me all are 230VAC driven, there were a few older 12V autotransformer ones around, but all went to LED with the Automotor removal recently.
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  2822. By me Toyota sells the CV and axle as separate parts, plus the boot is available on it's own.
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  2823. No the ECU always reads those and gets info on mixture. They just go to a default timimg pattern and ignore the sensors at wide open, as then it no longer will be driving and trying to do closed loop mixture control. Likely a lazy sensor, killed by either being filled with leaded fuel a few times, or by work done on the engine inlet or exhaust, and they used silicone sealer, which got burnt in the engine, and which does the same. Had a similar thing on my car, though the performance was not affected much, but fuel economy definitely was, by around 20%.
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  2824.  @--Taz--  Or the cat servant........
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  2825.  @UncleKennysPlace  So they are probably made from charcoal briquette then, as that is generally made from a mix of clay as binder and carbon. Probably the crummy cheap and nasty type that is more clay than carbon, that turns into around the same mass of white ash when it burns.
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  2826. Standard braking on older caravans, because of the mass. Electric brakes never really took off by me, the only thing that has powered trailer brakes other than trucks are pickups with fifth wheels, where there the converter installs an air compressor and tank in the pickup, and the trailer has a pneumatic set of brake actuators, and a proportional valve tied into the regular hydraulic brake system, with an in cab parking brake for the trailer added on. Works really well, and is very effective, and the regular truck trailer mechanics can fix them with no problem, standard drums and S cam units, just a lot smaller than the truck version, and based off a Toyota drum and hub, so parts are not an issue anywhere in Africa for it.
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  2827. 8 hours because you could never be sure there were no worms in the beans, so cook till everything is well mushed, and you cannot tell the worm bits from the bean bits. Just like the military, where you had camo crispies, no snap crackle or pop, and where some would be actively swimming.
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  2828. Still plenty of those running around by me, in various stages of body ventilation. All the way from being near showroom condition, to those held together with body putty, to those that are rust in close formation, but still the engine and drivetrain are going, even if the whine of the diff is loud enough to let you hear it coming a few blocks away, and the stop at the fuel pump is to fill up the oil, and check the fuel, because the gauge stopped working in 1999, and ever since then the standard has been to have a 5l oil in the cab, and another 5l with diesel or petrol for the tank.
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  2829. Your split using has multiple capillary tubes feeding the indoor unit coil, with a directional valve to provide a restriction in the flow depending on direction, so that you get better efficiency in the different cycles. There is another restriction in the outdoor unit, so the line leading in is a cool liquid at low pressure, instead of a warm liquid at high pressure, reducing the volume of refrigerant needed. This restrictor is also varied according to flow, acting as the expansion device in heat mode, and pressure reduction in cooling mode. The coil outside is a lot larger in area, so the unit is optimised for cooling the indoors, but in heat mode the larger coil allows longer run time before defrost, though the heating capacity is lower than cooling, but as you typically are not removing latent heat of condensation it all evens out, the airflow is too fast to allow much to condense. Typically the units meant for heat pump operation and the regular non heat units use the same control boards, and simply have a few bits set in the microcontroller to tell operation mode, though often the board is the same, just with a different terminal block, or non used terminals. Outdoor unit is simpler, only with a single control line to turn fan and compressor on together, and with no sensor wires to give outdoor coil temperature. Heat pumps you will have with the inverter a control board, first thing to fail, and you will find it is NOT covered with the typical 5/10 year warranty, on the compressor alone, on inverter units. The non inverter heat pumps are almost as efficient, and with a control board that is inside the indoor unit, and only a relay outside to control the compressor, with the fan speeds controlled by 2 or 3 wires, and then a control for the reversing valve (power the valve to make the unit heat, default to cool otherwise), and then only a inlet air temperature sensor and perhaps a coil temperature sensor half way along the coil, where the refrigerant is changing phase from liquid to gas. Indoor unit has the same sensors, inlet air temperature, and coil temperature. These determine operating mode, the indoor ones in cooling will stop the unit cooling down when the coil starts to freeze up, from either too low airflow or too humid, and the outside ones will dial back the cooling if the refrigerant is getting too hot. In heat mode the same, though the freeze sensing is more important. In the climate I live in heat pumps, though pretty much the standard, almost never get used to heat, so the valves often will seize up in place, and then the units will have strange faults, as the tiny volume of refrigerant in the non used valve heats up and moves the spool in it slightly, causing the compressor to leak refrigerant from outlet to inlet. Inverter units tend to be damaged from power surges, and the outdoor unit circuit boards are also prone to failing, as they are exposed to the hostile environment, and run either cooked or frozen. Not covered apart from the regular unit warranty, and you almost never will change a compressor under warranty, as the manufacturers will either insist on the board changed with the compressor, or will scrap the unit, as the outdoor unit coils will likely be almost totally destroyed before that 5/10 year period is up. Inverter board failure will probably burn out the compressor on one coil as it fails, and you will have a fight for the warranty.
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  2830. seeing it, and my language is set to English......
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  2831. Probably are issuing them still, seeing that they likely have large stores of them left over, and nothing more modern to replace them, because they cannot get the materials used to make the boots now.
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  2832.  @LadyViolet1  USA is not exactly friendly for public transit, and who can afford to pay every day for Uber or a cab, if they are already working on minimum wage. Rather fix the problem, tell them with the payment plan you will not suspend, so long as they are at least attempting to make the payments. What you say is that if you are getting a traffic ticket, the police will come and toss you into jail till it is paid up, then will also take everything you own for the jail costs, and will keep you in there till you either die, or have, at 1c per day, paid off that $30 fine. If you die they will sue all your family for the remaining cost, and the cost of the funeral as well.
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  2833. Clean lightly lubricated threads are the correct way, that is the factory method, with new bolts that come in to the line with a light coat of lubricant on them already, ready to use. Dry is not good, and dirty is worse, so clean them, and lube, for those I prefer a copper based lube, as it will at least not cause any corrosion, and allow you to loosen it again later.
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  2834.  @karenneill9109  Yes but the bible punchers discourage the sheeple from reading any parts, other than the carefully curated and edited parts that they want them to read. So vast swathes are either glossed over, ignored or removed from the rhetoric, because they want people to first of all pay tithes, donate time and money, work for free, and then believe anything told to them, even if it contradicts something they said last month, because you have to believe the current only.
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  2835. Just shows all wheel drive does not mean much when you are in an all wheel skid.
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  2836. Still see a few of the Niva's here in South Africa, they were quite popular as an alternative 4x4 that was cheap. Advantager one owner said was that he could drive through bushes instead of around like the guys with the Toyotas, Nissans, Landies and Isuzu's, simply because at the cost, around 10% of any of the others brand new, who cared about a few pinstripes extra on the vehicle. Plus the toolkit fitted, along with the full size spare and the starting handle, in the engine bay as well, along with extra oil, baling wire, a hammer and a carpet, so your knees did not get sore fixing it.
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  2837. Would say the blame is more on the ISP's that have long been known to overstate the bandwidth of connections, and deliver slow speed to all customers at peak load. they all say you have X bandwidth when you subscribe, but also that at peak hours you are lucky if you get 1% of that, as they oversubscribe customers with regards to upstream bandwidth. Netflix has, due to them having agreements with edge providers like Cloudflare, and also having dedicated hardware at lots of locations close to customers, the ability to deliver all the bandwidth needed, and be able to serve all the customers the data, but the ISP's have, in general, not actually done anything to improve their own networks to deliver, despite having received lots of Federal monies to do so over the decades, they simply took it, used it as shareholder bonus payouts, and have invested the bare minimum to keep the network running at some level. You can sue Netflix, but in reality the one who is responsible is the ISP that provided that last mile of connectivity, they are the ones that had the problems trying to serve 100k 4k data streams, over a network that struggles with serving 10k 360p standard definition TV signals in the first place, as the fight likely was not sent by Netflix as separate streams to all the subscribers on a network segment, but as a multicast stream that any of the decoders and computers could receive, if it were not for the network itself having old hardware, long since paid for, and long obsolete as well, by a few generations as well, even in the slow churn that is telecoms, where 10 year hardware life is the norm.
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  2838.  @davidgoodnow269  Just how many people actually do that, leaving stuff plugged in that they do not use, like fridges that are empty, TV sets in spare rooms, and most people will not even turn off the lights in a room during daytime either, even though the blinds are open and there is plenty of natural light. I do turn off appliances not in use, and unplug things, because mains surges are very common, and I really do not want to replace all appliances every year from them.
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  2839.  @gierrah  $30 drop could also be that, when they collected the old appliances, they also read the meter as well, and did an actual estimation off the bill. Most electric meters are read a few times a year, by me quarterly, and the bills in the interim are all estimated consumption, and if the reading does not fall within 10% of the estimate it will be tossed out, and wait for the next billing cycle read to see if there is still this difference. Had a unit be empty for 6 months and the new tenant moved in (landlord has to have the bill in their name, not the tenant, so prepaid is common in rental properties here, either separate company or municipal, for both water and electricity), and after a month the meter got read, and they came to investigate the reading, as it was too low after 2 readings. Explained to the reader that this was because it stood empty for 2 months, with no electric use, as it was turned off at the consumer unit. He saw the seals on the metro meter were intact, and took the reading as accurate, and the billing was adjusted on the next month. $30 drop could easily be that they went on holiday for a week, and turned most appliances off, along with not cooking with electric cooker, or using AC or heater, which would make that sort of difference to the bill, especially if it was read a month before, and this drop was a good fraction of average use.
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  2840. By me the joints and boot are available as a part, the complete axle is very much an agents only part, and very much more expensive, so pretty much all the time just the boot or the CV is changed. Big difference in labour rates in the USA is why a new axle is the preferred option, as the cleaning costs you at least an hour more in labour.
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  2841. Museum is in some house, with some person now very happy with the money
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  2842. I think this did spread across a lot of the networks connected to it as well, because they all used the same equipment, and tended to use the same versions of software, in order to make them interoperate correctly. I do remember that hitting by me in South Africa, but it was not exactly an inconvenience, as the network drop was during the evening, and by the beginning of business the next day it was updated, and as well a lot of the exchanges used older firmware, so that while international links were out, along with a lot of the trunk lines, the older areas were still running correctly, and could connect calls still. The ones who did not notice it at all were those using manual exchanges, of which there were still a fair number, dealing with small customer volume large area sections, where the standard was a party line, or only 500 phone lines in a single town or two, so you had an operator still there.
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  2843. Still likely the cells inside are defective, the packs do provide power, just have either dead cells or thy are low capacity. If NimH very likely to be dendrited cells in there, which can be possibly rejuvenated, but which are unlikely to last long term. If lithium then one cell pair is dead, and needs the pack replaced, or the internal cells replaced with ones that are higher capacity.
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  2844.  @tomclark6271  Would also need to have an added brake application somewhere between rotate and wheels up, so that the spinning tyres do not wear through the wheel well, though the current method of just having a replaceable snubber pad of some sort does work, adding the extra brake cycle would involve a lot of extra systems certifications.
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  2845.  @WobblesandBean  Probably because he did not know about how they function, which is common among drivers who do not drive heavy rigs for a living. Look up Sanele May, and the video of the carnage this unlicensed driver did on his first 20 hour day.
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  2846.  @USMC6976  Illegal to discriminate based on age, ask IBM just how many lawsuits they have had, and are having, over that.
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  2847. Send check certified delivery, signature on receipt. They will sign for the first one for sure, because they do not know what it is, and it can be a IRS refund.
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  2848. If the inspector does not have a thermal camera they are not doing it right now. Those show up all sorts of things, like leaking pipes in walls, termites in the walls, and even things like insulation that is missing in places. Also a wall moisture meter, and a stud finder, are good things for home inspection. the wall moisture meter tells you just how bad the hidden leak is, and the thermal camera shows the boundaries. also works to show poorly installed windows and doors as well, from the heat leaks.
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  2849.  @vueport99  They actually work better if you use less detergent. I generally use a third of the "manufacturer recommended" dose, and find that the residue left is a lot less. My first washing machine was an old original Hoover twin tub, which is still sold (though now it is 99% plastic parts instead of steel), which was replaced after a few years of good service with another used machine, an AEG Lavamat. 30 years after the AEG was made, it finally was not economical to repair, though the parts were still available, but more expensive than the LG top loader that replaced it. A lot lighter as well, and that LG did around 15 years of service, before it also needed a new main gearbox, also available, but again almost the price (trade price) of a new machine. So it went out, and the new one is also locally made by me, from Defy. Hoover was probably older than me when I got it on auction, but having fixed many of them over the years, my mother loved them, and me and my father repaired them always, getting the spare parts from the Hoover authorised agent, as the pattern parts were not much cheaper, and much lower quality. We also had a Hoover upright vacuum, which all we could tell, as the records were destroyed in WWII by a bomb, was that it was made around 1938 in Wales, at the Hoover factory. Used till the main casting finally cracked, which was no longer available as spare part, while all the other parts, including even the labels, were still available as genuine parts.
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  2850. Too dangerous, plus all those dangerous criminal surfers and authorised film crews on the beaches........
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  2851. Freeze dried whole milk is sold under the KLIM name, and is a very common thing by me, available in most shops.
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  2852. Will say I have the 1.6l version, and yes those valve covers do fail, might have to get the whole thing from Isuzu (took over the GM brand when they pulled out) as well, though normally I have good results in just cleaning both sides and using gasket maker on the new seal, and making sure to not exceed the recommended torque on the bolts.
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  2853. How about subjecting them to the same things they do to customers, and force binding arbitration on them, using a government appointed arbitrator, and the penalties to be determined by the arbitrator as well. I am sure you can find a few customers who are unhappy to be arbitrators, and the penalty can be 150% of gross profit for the period in question.
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  2854. USA should get rid of that right turn on red law entirely, it causes much more accidents than the problem it was there to solve, as even where there is a right turn lane with a yield sign there are way too many accidents where the right turner simply drives through without looking. Then once they have fined the crap out to educate drivers to actually stop and look, they can introduce needing to use indicators in roundabouts. UK has a famous roundabout, that is so complex you can spend days going in circles, trying to exit. Also has mini roundabouts inside the main one as well.
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  2855.  @davebell4917  Yup still have the double ended can and the little sucker on a stick, though the last set of seats I used it for was not automotive, but a gearbox in a machine, to get a good mesh between a gear and the housing, as that was the way to adjust preload.
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  2856. Simply put in place that caller ID sent must match the calling entity number, or that the company must provide a valid document to prove the ID string is their property to control. Would be simple to enforce, as after all the call is coming from somewhere, and thus there must be a legitimate sender telco that originates it. Have that validation in place and this would stop, as the telco in the USA would get complaints about a sending telco, and can then refuse to connect them.
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  2857. If you replace that lot why sell it?
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  2858.  @nolongeramused8135  Well then if it is needed for ability then look at the cost of fixing versus the cost you will get, and the price for it as is.
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  2859. Done mine, though having basically a Golf 1 makes it easier, just have to undo starter to get the new one in. Just have to do the transmission one to finish it, but they were not worn, just 18 year old rubber. Cheap as well, and work well enough being "second source", and funny enough the agents also use them as well.
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  2860. So killed by not changing the plugs in the regular interval, otherwise a well maintained engine.
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  2861. 30 odd starts with no run will take any battery out to below start level, especially if the car has been sitting for a while, and the battery already was low from not running. Newish clean battery, though checking electrolyte level would also help, and topping up, but a nice equalising charge will work wonders on it. At least GM on my car did a lot of work on battery maintenance, it does a top up after starting, and then drops down to an equalising charge, and every few cycles does a desulphating charge, though I do have to watch electrolyte level and top up. Sealed for life battery just means it fails outside warranty, because the cells are all dry.
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  2862. Well, he will be getting attention, just not exactly the attention he wants, or the attention he thinks he deserves. But attention nonetheless.
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  2863.  @Andurian  So you are practising preemptive warfare on your bunkmates..... Still would not like living there, think of how you do your laundry, not like you can send it out to be done, plus I doubt there is much of a laundry on board. Though I guess there must be a washing machine of some sort, as there are overalls that will need regular cleaning, and I did not see any really greasy uniforms, plus I guess you are limited in the volume you can bring aboard.
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  2864. As above he wants to buy the neighbouring lots, bulldoze down and build a set of condos to flip them. But not enough land, so the bright lights to make the neighbours move out and sell cheap. Wonder if anybody has reported him to the IRS for tax fraud anon yet, as those sort of investigations can go back decades, and they will want payment now, argue later on.
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  2865. US currency is legal tender, having to use a card is still processing in US currency, electronically, so the point about not accepting cash really is moot. In any case most parks require ID on entry in any case, so a card payment serves as both legal tender, and as ID as well. Card and contactless payment is becoming so common that even panhandlers by me have a good number who accept electronic payment over phone now, simply because the people who interact with the often do not have cash on them, and pay by card for almost everything.
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  2866. Kitty saying F the noise, feed me Seymour......
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  2867.  @jeromethiel4323  Halogen lighting would have been via a relay, easier to drive, and no need to dim them either.
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  2868.  @quinton1661  10 second data erasure though.
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  2869. Better be careful there, you might wake up one morning to find Cat has dropped off a full superlink full of these cylinders for you to rebuild, and expects them to all be done and ready by the following day, for the truck to take them back.
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  2870. Could they not charge the police under anti SLAPP statutes, in that they deliberately were abusing legal procedure in order to harass the person.
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  2871.  @psychmr2365  Not too difficult to have the border patrol suddenly become blind and deaf if the benjamins are thick enough. That though looks like insurance fraud, or the owner is really inept, in that his minder, there to tie the shoes, make sure he wipes after the toilet, and lets the owner do the finance work that gets that vehicle, was on holiday.
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  2872. Tomato junoir, soon to be known by the nickname "Paste".
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  2873.  @jamescavanagh9276  Wish they were available by me, it would make car work so much easier to do, though I can still use a compressor and spray gun to do it, the convenience of the single use can though is great.
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  2874. Going to bet 6 bent inlet valves, and probably also 16 lifters will get changed, as they probably will show, like the ones from the oil fill, severe wear on the rollers. Friend had it occur twice, both times the day before the service, which was also to change said belt.
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  2875. Could be worse, you could drop a nut in there, and not know if it went into the hole, or dropped on the floor......
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  2876. Industrial PTFE sheet with a back etched layer is common as slip surfaces in machinery, where the brown back surface is there from the ion etching to allow adhesives to bond to the surface to allow you to stick them down to a backing surface. Otherwise you have to drill and use mechanical fasteners to hold down the sheet, or use a thick sheet of PTFE and clamp it down. The front surface is slippery, the back not so. However it has reduced heat resistance, but is commonly used as a backing to apply pressure to heat sealing, like in a bag manufacturing line, where you have a hot bar forming one seal in a bag, then it is filled with things like sweets and then hot sealed top and bottom using another hot bar and cutter to separate the packs.
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  2877. You need to see the convoluted tales politicians tell when asked to testify under oath.
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  2878. By me not an issue, prices of fuel are regulated, so all stations compete instead on conveniences, not the fuel price.Thus chains have agreements with large retail chains to accept loyalty cards in the forecourt, and have shops as well on the forecourt. All full service as well, no self serve at all.
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  2879. Easiest to just say the DA was going from the docket, and did not look closely at any evidence, and relied on the police doing shoddy investigation work. Plate came back to a non local male, car was similar model, police investigation closed. No actual looking at evidence, actual comparing photo off video and DMV details, and no actual care in the investigation. He has a very strong case to both have a civil claim against the dept for wrongful arrest, and also to request as a minimal compensation expunging of all records of the case, so that any background check, and his annual renewal, will come back as if this has never occurred. Plus costs, and an admonishment to the local PD and DA that they need to investigate cases properly before bringing them to trial.
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  2880. By me I just do CV joints only, the axles almost never get changed. But i guess with the US labour rates the axle is cheaper with the 2 CV joints, as opposed to the labour to remove the axle and transfer it, or the suppliers think mechanics are dumb.
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  2881.  @firstlast---  Yes but just the CV alone last one I paid $15, and it took 30 seconds to pull off the old one, once it was off the hub alone. Then 3 minutes of work to put the boot on the shaft and part fill it with the grease, and then clip the new one on after filling it with the remainder of the grease. 2 clips included, another minute to place and crimp in place, and put it back. Just doing the boot alone all you need is the boot, which comes with clips, and to wash the CV with some solvent to clean it. Boot is $5 or less for most vehicles. But then labour rate here is under $25 per hour.
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  2882. Really cheap one is around $10, which will read codes, read monitor readiness, and show live data. Monochrome LCD, and sold by a good number of places, and a good enough unit that you can leave in the car all the time. But yes a really good set of procedures, which are applicable to all vehicles, even worth doing if all you are doing is renting it for a week from one of the rental companies, to at least make sure you are getting a vehicle that is functional, and where you will not be dinged for damage when returning it, that was there, but not noticed, or noted on the sheet, when you signed for it.
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  2883. Helicopters tend to avoid negative G for noise abatement purposes. Heck of a noise as the rotors hit the tail if you pull negative G past a point. Some helicopter designs include in the tail a heavy steel cutter bar, designed so that you get a very audible warning, as it chews the tips off the main rotor blades, that what you are doing is not a good idea. Yes you will need all new rotor blades, very expensive, and a good pit of panel work to fix the hole cut in the tail rotor, but still cheaper than losing the airframe. Do remember having a flight with some really stressed out pilots, who had spent 3 hours turning in circles to calibrate the magnetic compasses after a replacement, and I took the flight back instead of driving on the tractor. Sitting in the cabin, door open, legs out and holding to the strap, with the sky below my feet, and the ocean visible through the rotor blades, as they were doing barrel rolls in this 16 ton helicopter. Yes it could lift cargo, 16 tons max at sea level, and if you could fit it inside, it would carry it.
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  2884. Dodge engineers, how can we mess with the mechanic? We will make all the studs M8, but put 2 different head sizes on, so there is a good chance they will never come undone.
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  2885. There was a car dealership ( actually at least I know of) who did that, selling the stuff on consignment, then not paying out the money.
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  2886. Portable induction is great for going out, as living in a country with 230V power, it will work anywhere, and is a lot faster than any other cooker, though the gas cooker is also going to go with as well, because electricity is a very hit or miss affair.
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  2887. Well, at least you can say it was "Head and Shoulders" the worst lubricant around. Now try some good old fashioned coal tar shampoo, the stuff that does not have any fragrance aside from what can be best described as pure crude oil with a touch of smoke thrown in. At least that will fix the compression again as it carbons up the rings.
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  2888. Wrist pins almost always survive, they are both the toughest part of the engine, and the part with the closest tolerances.
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  2889.  @george8873  Going to be expensive though in powder, so you would almost always use a filler material in there, just to save cost, unless the hole is really small. That powder is really expensive.
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  2890. Reponut on YT had a lot of content about these, part of his job was to collect the vehicles.
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  2891. Eric, you need to look in the mirror to tell him that........
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  2892.  @wolfgangpreier9160  The original 747 inertial measuring unit had 2 gyro assemblies for each axis, and would run if one of each failed. However that was not considered reliable, so there are 2 IMU assemblies, both located by the CG of the aircraft by the wing root. These then form the stable platform on which the acellarometers are mounted, and then the navigation computers, 2 again, each using the data from the 2 IMU sent to them, with each having it's own acellarometers and angle sensors. They then are correlated and displayed, and each checks the other. A very good system, just that you need to have the aircraft powered up on the ground, at a precise location, normally nose wheel parked on a paint dot, and the other wheel bogies on a set of painted lines, which were entered into the system as a known waypoint. Then sit there for a half hour while the computer sits and calculates drift for you, compensating for the drift of the earth rotating, the orbit of the earth around the sun, and the drift of the sun orbiting around the galaxy. Also the drift of the platforms as well, as they get slewed to have that as the initial level, and keep it for the powered up portion of flight. No vibration, no loading of the aircraft in any way, which makes it hard to keep it accurate. GPS is an augmentation, but as a single system cannot be said to be redundant, and fault that takes out the antenna will stop it working, and there are not many locations for the antennas either, as the GPS receiver calculates the position of the antenna, so it has to be mounted on top of the aircraft, in a spot above the wing root and the CG. Also power levels are low, the individual satellites only have a 500W power budget or so for the transmitter, which has to cover a good chunk of the planet, and thus the received power is very low, well below the noise, and only recovered by using complex mathematics to reconstruct it. Spoofing has a receiver that gets the area signals, and then keeps a rough lock on them, but retransmits up to the target location a signal that is stronger, but which slowly is shifted in time, so as to fool the receiver into thinking the stronger signal is the real one, and the position it is giving is valid.
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  2893. US probably is input power, EU is output power, so the efficiency of around 70% shows up. Common is an 800W output, with around 1kVA input power.
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  2894.  @RoseAnvil  He looks gorgeous!
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  2895. Yes, worried that somebody would get an injunction telling them to stop immediately, and they would not be able to steal the lot. On the Misc stuff, they could have had the original declaration of independance for the USA there, but merely have written it down as Misc papers, in the same line as a pack of used tissues.
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  2896. Just added them in the fog light position on mine, using LED units, and wired up to a relay. Much more visible now, driving a car the colour of the road.
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  2897. The ones who signed this are the bigger crooks.
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  2898. nice flowers and also tasty as a salad additive, plus great for flavour in cooking.
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  2899. Probably threw a rod, because the owner did not bother to change oil, or ran it till the timing belt let go, bending all the valves, and making the pistons and head into scrap metal.
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  2900. Fast start is basically hibernation, memory in it's entirety is stored in the disk in the hibernation file, so that on power up it is simply written back into memory again, so programs carry on running exactly as before, with state preserved. Faster boot time, but your memory leaks are preserved as well, along with any corrupted data. Restart forces a reload of all programs and they all have to take turns initialising their data and program space before operating. Generally this is only going to occur after updates have changed OS files that are in use, so a restart is flagged to occur on the next shut down, or will occur automatically.
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  2901. Here the biggest is "We Buy Cars", and the other half "We Sell Cars", who take the vehicles, offer you a price, and then they get a third party inspection to give a defect list for them. Then the buyer is aware, and can pay the agent to fix them to pass, and have the vehicle. They do not finance, except for another arm that does finance, though they will accept any of the car finance companies, as that is cash after the obligatory 7 day cooling off period in law.
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  2902. Same by me, though I also read online reviews that said of the ease of damage to the ECU, so also built a trailer relay, and added in a simple current sense relay to tell if current is being drawn by the trailer. At least tells if the lights are not working.
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  2903. Which is why so many of those model panels have been recalled over the years, as they get dangerous as they age. Not helped by the 110V mains, as that means you have to have high current flow for power use. Australia and NZ use the same thickness and dimension in the contacts on their plugs, but there you have a max current of 10A on most sockets, which is 2.3kW, while the USA runs 15A to get 1.5kW only, and if you need more you have to use a different plug, while Aus has a larger one, still fitting the 10A plug, that allows 15A, so allowing 3kW of power draw. The panels there generally do not catch fire.
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  2904. Well, these are still stairways up the compartment, and you simply have to climb up them in the compartment, till you will either reach a higher level where there are no watertight doors, or the deck, so then can traverse the length. In case of flooding the natural response is to get out of the water by going up, and there are plenty of stairwells to allow that.
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  2905. Willing to pay out the $160 mill because the lawyers told them this likely will be at least 10 times that cost, plus will bring it to public attention on national news, killing the stock price and the company.
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  2906. Funny enough the first time I went to a casino, I actually went there illegally. As the casino, to skirt around the rules of no gambling, drinking or scantily clad women who might make people think the kerk is wrong, was in a fiction called a homeland. Created as a fiction to allow some rights, (and yes the family farm was expropriated to make up part of one), and as military we were not allowed to leave the country, though there was no border post, and the sign was right by the entrance to the casino you were entering another country, albiet one not recognised by any others. We went on a whim, and scraped up enough to pay the parking, and around $5 each to go inside. Inside, play the slots, buy the overpriced drinks a bit, but unable to draw money to go to the "shows" we left after around 2 hours, when I realised I was walking out with $5, and had bought drinks for all, so basically the dasino had been free. Next time the same a few years later, different casino, different homeland, and right by the sea, and again I went there with the money I was going to waste, and left cards at home. Made that a rule to do any casino from then, leave cards at home, and take enough cash with to pay all the bills, and when the cash is gone you are also gone. Now legal, and 5 minutes down the road, and have not been there for the last decade, and that was only to go to the cinema there, as that is about the only surviving cinema around, the rest are long gone, and way overpriced for what you get.
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  2907. Nice for both the Monday video, and also to see a machine that does not get as much airtime as well.
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  2908. The cops use Google because the cell carriers, who know the IMIE of all mobile phones in an area from the communication with tower, do charge for this information, and only turn over the bulk data as a block, making it hard for the police to do any work on the block of data. so use the Google data instead, as you get Google to do the work for you for free.
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  2909.  @scottmanley  OK thanks then, I was thinking it was Kodak film.
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  2910. I got some from the Post office, telling i have a parcel to collect, and that there is a fee due. Not even going to bother, because the post office is bankrupt, and them having the money to pay a SMS gateway to actually send the messages, when they cannot even pay the staff, and have not even paid over the income tax, medical and pension deductions for the last few years, because they simply do not have the money. Also been paying staff late, sometimes months later, and not paying bills either. Retrenched staff not being paid either, so there is no way they actually will send a SMS asking you to pay for a parcel, because nobody will use them to deliver any more.
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  2911. The car records onboard, but does not make it available unless you plug in a USB drive in the car in the socket inside the glove box. It only keeps info till the space is needed to record again, generally a month or so, depending on how much activity there is. If the owner wants an external copy they need to plug in a high capacity USB drive, and then can copy the info over. Very heavy handed approach, as they can easily get hold of the owner, as the registration will have a phone number, and the owners almost always have the app active on the phone as well. Plus the DMV will have an address and such for the current owner as well. Are they also going to look for other vehicles with dashcams in them, either a dedicated one, or a GPS with dashcam, or an over mirror one, and impound them, break into them, and then look at the footage to see if it is evidence. most municipal buses and school buses also have cameras on board, are they going to impound them as well, along with seizing the camera equipment of any business around a crime scene, and then keeping them to auction off under Civil Asset forfeiture, as the vehicle, camera, business, is suspected of a crime, and is being held till they prove they are innocent. These vehicles that are taken, are they impounded correctly, and checked that the battery does not go flat, because a Tesla battery that goes into failsafe mode, due to low charge, will need replacement, and if it sits for 3 months it will be stone dead, needing a new low voltage battery at a minimum, and you might need a replacement high voltage battery pack, and fuses as well, as the car will disable itself for safety, especially if it has been stored in a hot area, and has been running AC to cool down the battery packs, or cold where it has to heat them. Are the police going to pay for a rental during this time, are they going to pay the insurance, loans and such, and are they going to compensate the owner for costs incurred? Likely not, meaning owners will be incentivised to lay civil suit, as generally a person buying them can afford legal representation as well.
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  2912. Money split into $5k blocks is not unusual, after all you go to the bank and get money in bundles, and coins in packs.
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  2913. Looking at the video you can see the yellow footings and kerbs are all nice and freshly painted, so perhaps there was some handyman who simply did a quick bit of filler and yellow over the original, which then makes them look better. You can see pillar 16 already has had the fix spall off the corner. The white waste water pipe is the one that likely was providing the water, probably from all the small leaks in the plumbing that allowed steady water flows from toilets, as this often is not seen by the inhabitants, especially if they do not have water meters for each unit, but instead a single bulk meter that then is used to do all water, and also probably a lot of residents had a dishwasher, busy doing the dishes for the evening, along with washing machines that are running late at night.
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  2914. Probably the mouse nest in the cabin air filter, or a nice collection of leaves.
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  2915.  @123lodge8  Yes, but really they should have been a little more active and read those sorts of notices.
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  2916. 100A service is a massive power capability, here by me the standard is 60A, and generally the only time you are going to trip it is if you have 8 individual AC units running flat out in summer, which is not that common in a residential setting. Business, running out of a converted house, will get there, but the easy solution is to go first to 80A service (just a change of breaker and meter, as the wiring is rated for 100A anyway, set by the supplier regulations and the supply side fuse), till you have to install the new cable and go for a 3 phase 60A supply, which will run a small industrial unit perfectly fine. Very rare not to be able to get 3 phase power, you really have to be rural, and far out, as the standard is a 3 wire 11kV or higher distribution cable, as the losses are lower, though many farms went with a single phase, as they have to buy the cable, so plenty went for the cheap option of 11kV SWER supply, as you only need a single cable, and a giant buried ground mat at the transformer, saving a lot on the cable cost. Does mean you also get single phase AC motors up to 22kW, biggest you can run off a 60A supply, as power source for pumps in rural areas, and a lot of farms have a good deal of 11kV wiring, contactors and transformers, owned by the farm, or leased from the electric authority, with a single meter at the connection point to measure power. But in cities, or close to them, standard is 3 phase power, and houses are fed from a single phase, which is plenty enough for 95% of all houses, unless you have the multi million dollar houses, where you need a 3 phase supply, because your electric bill is sitting north of $20k per month.
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  2917. Well, then they will look on you as the one in control, as you instructed him to speed. Then tack on on top of the fine obstruction of justice penalties as well, which will likely cost you a lot more than the fine.
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  2918. That is why my one has 2 fresh water fish tanks, so he has a choice of how he wants to drink.
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  2919. Good news with getting the second lot is you only have to clean the lathe and mill once now.........
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  2920. Bearing was definitely done in by the shock installer. Those are cheap parts to replace with the strut, but of course most places will rather keep the extra $5 as profit instead, and recycle the old ones back so long as they are not in a million pieces when removed. Million pieces internally, but so long as the bits stay together until the vehicle leaves no problem. Just did mine beginning of the year, and while they were not as bad, steering was definitely better, plus I actually had working shocks. Did nothing for roll in cornering, but I nearly lost fillings the first time I went over a speed bump at what I was used to, and the suspension moved the vehicle up sharply, then down again as sharp.
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  2921. Plus a bit more of the rest of your crew, they look like they enjoy working with you, and are comfortable with you and the camera around.
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  2922. Just remember how those camps, often in remote areas, were closed down. They simply removed all the guards, and did not send any food or supplies there, leaving them in the middle of the steppe, with no transport, food, protection, or even an idea of where they actually were, and long distances from any running transport at all.
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  2923. Who says that was not the house.....
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  2924. Balloons go where the wind takes them, but they are still bound to follow FAA (or local equivalent) rulebook. Thus over populated areas they must stay above 300 feet, and must also have a air band radio to communicate with the local ATC, plus they are also required to have a radar reflector in the canopy as well, to show up on the local ATC, and also to be visible to commercial aircraft. Not required to have a transponder, but again they are not permitted to be in ATC controlled air corridors either, so most of the time the flights take place far from any airport, or on an airport that had been shut down for the event by NOTAM. The people complaining will likely lose, as in general a balloon has only a rough control of altitude and direction, as they hunt for wind to move them in the desired path, and often this is not easily possible except by either gonig high or low, and landing is not a precise thing. Either this will be settled before court, or there will be a finding against the complainant, unless they can prove deliberate and regular transgression over property, under 300 feet, and only if the balloon was not in the process of landing or taking off.
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  2925.  @andrewvenor8035  They would have hit them in Cali, and also a few dozen ANPR cameras as well, which also take a picture of the vehicle as well, in high definition. At state and county borders you definitely will find ANPR cameras, there to alert local law enforcement of wanted vehicles.
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  2926. Glow plugs, or the wiring to them, are the more likely failure, instead of the control module. Module also showing some dead says it probably is alive. Easiest test is to use the scan tool, and command glow plugs on, while measuring the increased battery current demand, and comparing to the full draw for the 10 seconds the module will allow.
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  2927. Just never use the ice in the ice buckets in your drinks. Who knows when last that ice maker was ever cleaned, along with the bucket. you are just placing a well preserved colony of bacteria and other pathogens into your drink. Open the ice maker and look under the lid, it is likely that it is black with slime mould inside there, growing on the impurities in the water and the skin from all those picking out ice.
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  2928. Automatic enforcement cameras here by me in South Africa have led to people refusing to pay in the large majority, with the taxi drivers absolutely refusing to pay, to the point government had to scrap the system that was tolling a public road paid for by the motorists multiple times over the years by fuel levies, but where there is a link between the tenders to make it a toll road, and certain people at Lootfully house. However, due to the only ones paying being business vehicles, and rental companies, where they have a contract to force payment, while there is legal precedent that this private company cannot enforce fines by linking them to vehicle registration renewal, unlike the actual traffic police, where not paying this means your renewal will have the fines amount added on as an extra line, forcing you to pay, or face the small possibility that a traffic officer will see the lapsed registration and call for a tow.
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  2929.  @absalomdraconis  That is normal though, by me we found a long disconnected shut off valve, mostly because it eroded through and turned the pavement into a swamp.
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  2930. Still plenty of 1980's era Toyotas running around me, mostly a collection of rust in formation, but the drivetrain is near indestructible, provided you do change the oil somewhat regularly. The old adage is "Everything keeps falling off, To Yo Ta" applies to them. Quite a few Hiace taxis running around, probably been around the clock a few times, but running 18 hours a day.
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  2931.  @redbaron6805  You think that they will approve anything after the standard warranty, They will say you were 1 mile over on an oil change, or did not use an approved oil, or an approved stealership to do it, or drove it wrong. Deny all after the standard warranty because at least 3/4 of the customers will give up and pay the full price for the engine instead.
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  2932.  @coyotesguitar76  Plus another $50 for a sump washer, another $100 for labour and with that mystery $37.41 for "consumables" added on.
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  2933.  @redbaron6805  Different country, where that act does not apply. Note that only now are the manufacturers actually starting to do the Tataka recall, and only for those vehicles that are under 10 years old, even though that recall in the USA applied to anything over 2001 or so.
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  2934. Funny enough I do have some light bulbs that date exactly from that cartel era, and thus, because of the life time limit, I run them with reduced power, using both a NTC thermistor, and a dimmer, to reduce the power on surge into the lamp.
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  2935.  @surelyijest  Thing is efficiency is hard to measure, you need precise calibrated equipment, which is expensive, while life measurement simply needs a 24 hour timer, set to give 4 15 minute shut offs a day, and a simple visual count of the number of lit lamps. Does take longer, but also is a lot more accurate, as you do not have to calibrate to get the relationship, which is not linear. The 5H45m on and 15 min off emulates a daily cycle, allowing the bulb to cool down so it has start cycles on it added in, as otherwise an always on lamp does last well over 1000 hours in use, as the only stress is slow filament evaporation.
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  2936. Railway lawyers are on retainer, this was their own way to get hours up, and justify the extra staff in the offices, plus an easy way to have a paid holiday for a few every court appearance day.
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  2937. Bond to the ring is a big failure point, you need to have rough surfaces to have a good bond, not a smooth surface. Needed that ring to have a rough surface to give it a large surface area to bond the metal to the composite. Then probably chemically etched to give a clean metal layer for bonding, right before the final solvent cleaning, and then application of the epoxy bonding it to the ring. Plus inner lip should have been a lot thicker, probably at least a quarter the thickness, with a transition to the inner diameter to keep the step stress down.
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  2938. The warranty void shirt is available from. Dave Jones on Eevblog at his store.made in tbe usa
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  2939. There is also a shim you add in with the button cell, that drops around 0.3V, so that a mercury cell voltage can be gotten from the alkaline button cell.
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  2940. So basically the take away is not to get a NC license..... By me thankfully no speed trapping, mostly because no actual trained officers any more, and no equipment, except for the one set of roads with a different traffic authority covering it. But then last time i saw a police car pull over a vehicle it was a brand new cop on a bike, still not jaded, because most of them will ignore little things like speeding, red lights and such. But park at an expired meter...... Or park skew, and you get a fine.
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  2941.  @AC-yj8cx  Yes as far as military helicopters go they are small. Plenty of bigger ones, that can lift more, but the Blackhawk is small to make it able to survive. Takes a special kind of stupid to claim that his driving impaired, on a narrow track, at night, at very high speed inappropriate for the conditions, and knowingly driving with a vision impairment, on a vehicle known for poor lighting. Then claiming the accident was the part of the other stationary party. Would he have received that payout if he had, under the same conditions, hit a moose, deer, bear, tree, fallen branch, or large rock? I highly suspect not, he would at most have been found 100% to blame, and possibly have had his insurance pay out part of the claim, if they did not entirely refuse the claim because of the driving while knowingly impaired action. I worked on helicopters both sides of size from the Blackhawk (and met some of those designers of the original optics it uses) and there is no way they can be called small and invisible, unless they are at least 10 000 feet up in the sky.
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  2942.  @jmobbinfoo4838  You forgot the extra medication he took, that, clearly on the label, says not to use with alcohol, as it will impair both the effectiveness of the medication, but will also impair your ability to drive or use heavy machinery. They did not say the medication, but there are a lot that have that, especially medication for things like running nose or cough, which are about the most common. Even pain medication has that. Then drove on a small trail at high speed, with reflexes about that of a sloth on Prozac.
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  2943.  @mpmansell  Special ops pilots only do that when needed, in practise they use a painted point on the ground in open space, and a few observers with video cameras to get all angles. Landing on the field at late afternoon they would not have been anywhere near trees, because of the whole long walk thing if it goes pear shaped, and would aim for geometric centre of the field, aligned on the long axis. Then, likely because it is going to be night, and the possibility of a non predicted storm or high wind, they both applied rotor brake, and also used a big hammer and a few stakes to tie the aircraft down in case of wind. Common thing to do in unprepared areas with no hanger. Special ops pilots are a particular breed of crazy, but they also have a really strong case of BOPAH syndrome, because of that.
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  2944. Hopes and dreams, plus lots of taxpayer money.....
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  2945.  @dsmccolgan  Yup, perfect guard dog.
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  2946.  @sebimoe  Mostly because the stripped down linux you get is heavily locked down, so that the typical user cannot do anything. The updater runs in the background, and does updates silently whenever it has an internet connection, and a chromebook is basically a remote terminal anyway, in that all the storage and heavy work is done on Google servers, and they are incredibly limited with no internet connection. Almost no real native apps, all the stuff is done with a chrome browser, and adding on anything is limited to admin users only.
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  2947. I found with plastic carbide inserts work really well, just have to use them as brand new for plastic, and then later on you can use them for anything else. Works well with PTFE, which needs that really sharp edge to get any sort of stability in the part. Same for drilling it, brand new cobalt steel bits are perfect, later on you still get good results on steel, though I found that 316 stainless I just budget one drill bit per hole hand held, especially using HSS ones. Work hardening on stainless can be a real PITA, especially if you are doing repairs and cannot detemper the part.
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  2948. You unpick all the stitches, to get the leather parts separate, then get a new plastic inlay, and carefully sew it back into the existing holes, then sew the rest of the bag back together. If you are careful you can just undo the stitches around the plastic and use a curved needle and pliers to hand stitch it without stripping the bag, but using a leather sewing machine, set to follow the same pitch, will be a lot faster.
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  2949. No doubt they have problems, but the dog park was seen as an easy one to fix, rather than the more expensive ones, or those that involve spending money they could not earmark for pork belly projects to benefit the city councillors.
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  2950. Will just have a lot of broken and stolen cameras after a month, with half of them turning up as used to spy on people and to take holiday video.
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  2951. Old battery has plenty of the active material flaked off and in the sump, and it has built up to the point it is starting to draw current internal to one of more of the cells. That makes it drop dead when hot, as it was drawing more current than the alternator could supply in charging and thus when you stopped one cell was finally flat, so it delivered nothing to help start the vehicle, and was high resistance as well as there is no more active material on the plates. Cool down and charge, and it seems fine, as the motion of removal moves the stuff in the bottom to not make contact.
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  2952. Just kept the undergrowth cleared, and no big flammable torches of trees near the house, plus fire resistant finishes on all the exposed surfaces and roof underside.
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  2953. So now the police can go into any store, and do civil asset forfeiture of the cash awaiting transfer to the bank, because the money will be in bundles, rubber banded together. Obviously this money was all drug money, and is guilty of being a criminal.
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  2954. Solved that, put a canopy on. Got it for free, just had to fix a broken side, a broken window and respray it. Bolted on with new rubbers, and it improved things a lot economy wise, getting rid of all the turbulence at the back of the cab.
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  2955. Will those police arrest you because you went out to your mail box to see if there was mail? After all, you typically do not carry ID in your own yard, and might not even have any keys on you either, because the door is unlocked, and you are in comfortable clothing. Yes time to add the calling neighbour to the suit, because no matter what the outcome, those officers are not paying for it, the entire city is paying for it. Strip their immunity, and sue them personally, and also review all other arrests, fines and such they have, to see if there is a particular bias in their methods.
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  2956. Time to learn how to melt ABS plastic with sugar, and then cast it into a thin wall steel pipe with a ceramic nozzle on the end. That way you will not have the burn out issues.
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  2957.  @kayleeLunaCounty  In the USA houses are moved all the time. Easier to move a house with wooden beams and just pile foundations over a concrete or brick house, but even those are a common thing to move in the USA. You even have entire cities that were lifted up a few feet to fix sewage issues.
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  2958.  @Garth2011  Most houses are basically a square. If it was built as a home without a cellar, with beams and piles as foundations, just build new ones offset from the old, and jack up and lift to them. If built on a concrete slab just extend the slab, and jack up to insert slides, and pull to the new position on the slab, and cut the old one on the edge.
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  2959. Actually helicopter blades do not use duck tape, you have a 3M made clear heavy urethane based tape, that is applied to the leading edge of the blades, to keep damage from rain and dust down. Available in a few widths, and sold as plain "Blade tape" to the helicopter users. You apply it to a clean blade, then leave to cure for an hour or three, then fly it. You can be back the next day applying it again, if you fly through a rain storm, which trashes the outer section, so it is normally applied in 1m sections, so that you only have to clean and replace the outside 2m or so of tape, generally around 5 times, before doing all of the tape. Leave it on for a long time, around a year, and it crazes and starts to flake off, and yellows. Takes care to apply correctly, so it does not have edges lift and peel it off. The cotton duck tape was mostly used for packaging, to seal up hermetic bags that had been opened, before the contents went back to the stores to be properly packed again in sealed plastic pouches, with a dessicant pack inside it to handle moisture, as it could be sitting on the shelf for decades before being used again.
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  2960. About the only thing left for the original owner is to claim back from the local council the 10 years of property taxes he paid on the lot, as they have now been found to have been billing him incorrectly. That is about the only thing he can possibly get pack, as he was paying on a property he was unable to occupy. Either sue the new seller, or the council, and let the council sue the seller.
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  2961. Starter has a failing overrun clutch, easy to replace, but with the pain of getting it apart a new one is faster and cheaper, as you will also want to do brushes and bushes while you are in there, and a new solenoid as well.
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  2962. Yes, they were mining sand and gravel for the concrete, instead of bringing it in separately. If they had done that, and simply left the spoil in piles, they would be clear.
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  2963.  @miniskunk  The difference is that dumping it means it is in the same state as when dug up. Sand mining or crushing to gravel means you have used equipment to classify the ore, and have done extra processing on it. That is what mining is, you classify or process ore, and get a useful product out, and a gangue that is not useful directly to you.
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  2964. Simulation is possible, look at history, and how the complexity of the universe has expanded as the tools to examine it got better, showing ever evolving layers under the illusion. Just remember that even thought is a simulation, your brain generates this apparent smooth flowing reality out of hundreds of separate very noisy and very jittery inputs, integrating them into an apparent illusion of a smooth seemless reality. Even with the Dave PDP simulation the base is not really running on the hardware, there is still another layer of virtualisation between the x86 opcodes that are the program, and the actual microcode that takes those instructions, breaks them down into smaller steps, and assigns them to various hardware to do the instruction, then integrates the results back into a result that the next opcode can understand as output of the last one. That microcode is the actual code, all above it is simulation.
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  2965. Probably supplied by the same company, just had a little more care taken in processing to keep thickness variation, always there with thin foils, to a minimum, and to have a single pass pressing, so both sides are shiny, unlike the regular foil in which 2 foils are done at a time, with a thin oil coat between to prevent sticking, so as to cut time and cost. the foil from the roller is rolled onto a wide long roll, then goes to a slitter, where it gets cut to a width, then the length of foil required per pack is rolled onto the disposable mandrel in the box.
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  2966. No, the easement is allowing the road owner free access, and you cannot obstruct this right and their free access to the easement.
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  2967.  @phillyphakename1255  Glues have been around for as long as the humasn race has used tools, probably first used when the first neolithic hunter wanted to hold his knapped spear head in the shaft he cut, and found that pine sap was the perfect thing to hold it there while he created the first composite materials, in using grass and sinews to bind the joint, and more resin to make the composite act unlike it's component parts.
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  2968. On the roof. When you need a minivan to take your homies out, but all you got is a sedan.....
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  2969.  @shimoncohen95  Guy bought a brand new Carrera 4S, and had it totalled, with under 1000km on the clock, in less than a week. Bent like a banana, after being hit on the driver door, and sent 50m down the cross street. He walked away uninjured, and that door was still capable of closing and latching. But written off, more for the chassis being bent badly around the core, and the 14 airbags having gone off to protect him. Would guess he immediately went back and got another one the next day, or at least ordered one. The Fiat Uno that hit him was crushed all the way back to the firewall, engine and gearbox did the impact absorption and folded under the vehicle.
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  2970. Funny enough we call the one neighbour's car the Valdez as well, though that one is called the Laurel Valdez, as he generally fills it up with kerosene, not the diesel the manufacturer designed the vehicle for. Thus it leaks a little, oil, water, kerosene, and possibly brake fluid and transmission fluid as well, though hard to see against the big pool of oil and kerosene it deposits where it parks, leaving a visible pool on the floor. Laurel as that is a trade brand of one of the suppliers of illuminating kerosene, which is a little cheaper than diesel. Of course he has to let the car warm up, at a minimum of 15 minutes, and it apparently also has to idle when he washes it, to prevent the water getting into the engine. Only good thing is it will probably never rust, though the alternator is having a hard life, swimming in fluids is not exactly good for it, as proved by it needing to be jump started recently, a few times, and a dragging starter as well, for the same reason. As to doing it twice, that was me Monday, changing the timing belt on my car. Did it so well i did it twice, because after the first 20 minute struggle with the tensioner, no way to set it other than brute force, we were one tooth out, so, with the experience from the first time, it was done again, and this time the marks all aligned after the belt was on, and still so after 4 times around the combustion cycle to get the marks we put on the belt again to line up. Belt changed at only half of it's life, because a mystery screw, that must have been rattling up top for the last 30 000km, finally made it's way into the cambelt housing, and landed up carving a horrid notch in the belt when it landed up at the bottom. Plus replaced original serpentine belt and the very noisy idler it had on there, as they came off, so new was cheaper to put back on.
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  2971. Saw a property that has a pipeline easement on it, for a fuel pipeline that runs through the area, and it is also shared with a water pipeline as well. No issues, just that you will know if either one bursts, either your house lands up in the creek, or it blows up. Next door has a bigger issue, they built a garage over the pipe, and when the company comes through to replace it he will have to demolish it, as the pipeline easement states no permanent structures, only poured slabs or carports allowed, plus brick or tar paving, which they will replace.
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  2972. Going to guess the other 2 ground leads are for headlight that side and the side marker and indicator, so it is likely there is a headlight code as well.
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  2973. Old original one gets water in it, and as the safety start is on the bottom, that fails before the display starts to give false readings. Bottom is the safety switch, and the reverse light, top is the trans position switch. Most common would be start failure, but another clue is the reverse lamps either glowing dimly, or being burnt out from being on all the time.
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  2974. Mahindra makes a few pickup up trucks, which are not in the US market, because they do not pass US standards, though they do have a good number with Euro NCAP ratings. In the USA they would be considered underpowered, with only a 2.2l engine in it, based sort of on Toyota and Nissan engines. Opel in the USA is sold under the Chevrolet name, which is basically all the smaller Chevy cars on the road, as pretty much all of them are manufactured by Daewoo, who based a lot of their designs on the German Opel models. Seat and Skoda are all part of the VAG group, but are pretty much all now using parts made by VW, though your VW will also say on trim and such the branding VW/Seat/Skoda on a lot of the trim, as they reuse the parts in different model types over time.
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  2975.  @WrenchingWithKenny  Had that with a weeping rear main seal. New clutch and release bearing as the old ones were more than half worn. Extra $50 in parts only, as I put in a new cable as well, old one was stretched. But being VW those are cheap parts as aftermarket.
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  2976. Going to guess the biggest improvement was the new catalytic converter, where you had the obstructions removed from the passages. My car I went for a branch, because the stock casting cracked, and no real improvement on power, but at least no exhaust noise increase either. But then, 1.4l golf is not exactly a power house anyway, but a nice reliable driver.
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  2977. I live where a heat pump is almost useless, in that there are only 3 or 4 days a year where it would actually be useful to have, though the AC is useful most of the year round. however adding in the reversing valves and the extra wire is almost zero cost to the manufacturers, though for cold climes I would say better to optimise the unit for heating rather than cooling, which the most common ones do not do, so the cooling takes slightly less power than heating. Best thing though for any heat pump is correct installation, not right against a wall, free space around it, and more than the minimum the manufacturer says. Seen way too many stuck right up next to a wall, with no clearance other than the feet, so the coils barely flow any air at all, and plenty stuck right on the ground, with plants growing all around them. No air flow, no heat pumping either way, and lots of money being wasted in power, plus poor performance.
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  2978.  @suedenim9208  Yes, but the nozzles are now all the same diameter in the most case, simply because the forecourt companies do not want to stock 2 different nozzle types. Thus you can easily have a diesel car get petrol put in, and vice versa, and a lot of times the 2 diesel types are on the same pump, so you can put in 50 or 500 PPM diesel, or unleaded fuel, just choose the nozzle carefully.
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  2979.  @motleydude73  10 and 15k intervals is the manufacturer saying that the engine will make it out of warranty with that change interval, with only a tiny amount breaking within that time and distance. Keeping the car shorter, keep to the interval, want to keep it till it falls apart change more often, and you will see the difference.
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  2980.  @motleydude73  They also say that things like plugs, and non motor oil, is a lifetime thing. Yet plenty of automatic transmissions and CVT fail just outside warranty. The manufacturers have tested, and found, that lifetime, and also the minimum level of service required to reach it without failure. Yes there are outliers, like the car that is driven long distance, dry climate, all the time, which reaches a million miles, but the same one next off the line, nominally identical, is driven short distances, wet climate, and the engine and trans die about the same time as the body does, with the same service intervals.
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  2981.  @motleydude73  Renault Citroen Peugoet and Nissan had it down to a fine art, making a car that would basically fall apart after 7 years in the typical EU driving cycle. They never sold them in the US market for some reason, but garnered a bad reputation in the rest of the world for that.
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  2982.  @motleydude73  They did get a lot of blow back from that.
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  2983.  @motleydude73  Agree with that, sister had a 1990's Nissan, and that thing just ran, till it got stolen. However was not built in the EU, but in South Africa, where they build them a lot tougher to survive local conditions. The old saying is that with a locally built Toyota everything keeps falling off, but the engine and drivetrain keeps on rolling along. There are thousands of Toyota Quantum minibus taxis that have rolled over the million mark, a few times, along with old E20's and Super 16's as well. The competition does not make it that far.
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  2984. Well, just how much did every single hydraulic component rubber replacement cost, because the diesel would have made them all swell and become sticky.
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  2985. Wonder when the first suit comes in for deliberate distraction of drivers causing an accident.
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  2986. If you live where there is no snow the 0W16 oil will work fine, as the engine oil with 0W8 is really for cold climates, and for fuel economy, as the engine is not really much changed for the last decade, where it was fine to use 10W30 oil, but the lighter oil relates to a slightly better fuel economy in testing.
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  2987. Thieves will simply write down a VIN from some random car they pass to bring with. Scrap yards will simply write it in, and carry on as usual. Cheque will only mean they will go to the "we cash cheques" place, with some other fake ID, and cash them for a cut, nothing more. Same for jail time, some will look on this as a step up from being homeless, one year free meals and board. No easy way to stop this other than the jail time, because at least then they will be not stealing the converters for a period, and you can have a special section of jail for them, where as punishment they are either stripping scrap metals for separate streams, for cents per hour, to pay back for the thefts, or doing some other manual labour.
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  2988. Yes, but requires added software support for it, and then becomes very bound to the particular machine type, as there are so many ways to do a bank switch, minimum being bank size, and location you swap out. The bare Z80 being limited to 64K, along with the IO space limits, was the issue till enhanced Z80 processors came out that were supersets of this. Still, IIRC being made by Sharp and Casio, and most common in cash registers as the majority of the processing power in the machine, though there they also integrate a whole raft of peripheral devices as well, along with assorted display driver solutions and printer drivers on the same chip.
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  2989. Time to go to Horror Fraught and buy a cheap plasma cutter. Save you a ton on saw blades making vehicles firt in the trailer, and all you need is a long air hose, and an equally long power cable to match.
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  2990. Less worried about the mercury over the amounts of dioxin in there as well. But also have a policy not to eat fish caught locally by me, especially harbour fish, seeing as the refinery kind of lost a few million gallons of TEL into the ground over the years, only finding that the tank for TEL had a massive crack in it, when they finally were scrapping it. Right next to the water, and where the tide could nicely mix it into the silt. So now your harbour fish are able to be refined for both mercury and lead......
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  2991.  @exploatores  Yes the cheap LED lights are all emitting lots of RF hash, to the point that most AM bands are not usable easily any more.
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  2992. Shift linkage kit by me is a $10 thing, all the plastic bits and bobs to make that linkage as new again, and all the clips that you have on it as well, just takes a half hour to install all of it, longest being inside getting the new parts onto the knob. Beware the pressure washer, too close and RIP AC condenser and radiator core.
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  2993. By me trailer bearings are very easy to do, you go to the parts store, and ask them for a golf 1 rear wheel bearing set, 2 bearings inner and outer, a lip seal, a nut, either nyloc, castellated or plain with the matching pressed steel locking collar, and a split pin, plus a new cap. Plus a bag of grease to fill them up, and you spend 15 minutes per side removing the old hub, knocking the bearings and seal out, then filling the new bearings and putting them in, along with the seal, and placing back in position. Light duty only, unbraked trailers for the most part, unless you get one with an actual brake, in which case you will be buying a set of VW golf 1 linings and drum as well, as that also is a standard thing. comes from the biggest and oldest manufacturer being Venter trailers, who started building them about the time VW introduced the golf into the country, and they used the stub axles from them, as it is a cheap and common part, so easy to get, and they used the whole thing for braked, and a simple inner socket for unbraked, to make a trailer suitable for up to 1000kg, and which was very easy to get certified, as they used parts with a certification already, making it easy. The cups never fit, so often the old ones go right back on, unless you are going to shrink them slightly to make them fit, or use brute force like there.
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  2994. They do already, nice and high so you do not get too dirty and lose your pants sliding under them. Plus 2 converters to strip out as well.
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  2995.  @WrenchingWithKenny  In a pinch you can also use a piece of a broken tape measure, cut and ground to be smooth at the end, to walk the seal in, or some of the plastic banding you get holding pallet loads on.
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  2996. Owner is the first one liable, and will be served the summons. They then will have to bring in experts to prove that it was the software developer and manufacturer, but the entire onus falls on them.
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  2997. At least the sway bar links are metal, not the current plastic ones..... CV boot will be very SHINY when Ray breaks out the 2 cans of Brake Kleen. So the Ray price is likely to be under $1k, and it will be perfect afterwards.
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  2998.  @Stego27  Yes, though most commercial ones will have power factor correction, so the initial current will be a large single cycle pulse to charge all the PFC capacitors, then the lights will turn on in under a half second. Incandescent lights have a much worse surge, I built a soft starter for a light box, that used 40 40W golf ball lamps, because the switch on surge was large enough to trip the breaker it was on. Soft starter made the surge low enough that it would not trip, and they came to full brightness over 2 seconds. easy to compensate with exposure time anyway, as you had a latitude of 5 seconds for the photographic plate exposure, and more variability due to temperature. Original artwork was done with Letraset and large format photo negatives, and then later on a Apple Mac and a Imagewriter dot matrix printer onto transparency, followed by a Laserwriter when they came out, doing laser tranparencies.
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  2999. Isuzu, back in business as a brand now by me, seeing as GM decided to shrink back to being a US only company, and sold off everything they had just about worldwide. Who knows, you might see Holden come back as being a US brand again, Though GM seems to be in the game of shooting themselves in the foot time and again. And yes I currently drive a GM product, even if all of my spares come marked Daewoo corp Korea. Did get a scan tool though, you need it with modern cars, so got a used Ancel one, a step up from the generic OBD reader, and the bluetooth OBD dongle as well. OK not covering all models in market, have met a few already that it does not cover, and with no real ability to borrow a Maybach or a Bentley either, unable to test that it works on those, but it does speak GM, Kia, Hyundai, Honda and VW, along with Mercedes, so has come in useful there. too bad it does not speak Proton other than via OBD, but that at least allowed us to repair the AMT pump, as it identifies as a Renault Clio II, though it does not speak French well, being from Malaysia.
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  3000. Just went to the next one and returned it for a new one then.
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  3001. Sold to unscrupulous scrap dealers for barely more than the steel value, while the scrap operator strips out the valuable core, and sells that on at a massive profit. They need to clamp down on those scrap dealers who will buy them from anybody without any need for ID or proof of ownership, and not fine them but prosecute them as organised criminals, and strip them of all money gained from this. A fair exchange would be a 5 year all expenses stay in the greybar hotel, with a fetching orange overall, then on exit they have no house or money, plus are prohibited from dealing in scrap metal.
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  3002. Security theater, they choose a random person, and the machine is flashing lights, but does not actually work, the thing is more there to make people act different. Remember the one airline that does not have any TSA, or any of the security theater, is El Al, they learnt long ago that it is useless, so instead have actual trained staff, not Barney Fife's cousin, to both screen passengers and inspect luggage. they know that they are a target, and want to make sure it never occurs again. Been pretty good at it so far, nothing since the 1970's, and those almost all had a bad ending .
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  3003. Plus likely will take back phones hidden in the luggage, with Russian SIM cards with lots of airtime, and they will work within Korea as well, unfettered as the Russian cell sites are covering a good part of the country. Kim will never be able to find all of these phones, making ia network that will spread and crack the control he has over the country.
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  3004. First one her name is Methany.....
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  3005.  @oxwah  They make it off the finance charges, which can actually be more than the interest charge, plus mandatory "insurance" which literally covers nothing, just another way to get money off you every month.
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  3006.  @contradictorycrow4327  They will insist on it, even if you know that you can get separate insurance.
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  3007.  @duloth5518  Still would be in violation, as the owner of the land has to be aware of the easement, and the need for access.
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  3008. Thing is those remote disable devices are often very poorly installed, often done by the cheapest unlicensed people, who are barely capable to plug a light bulb into a socket. They often just get the module, go to the vehicle, and use a screwdriver, pliers and perhasps even electrical tape, though plenty have been known to use painters tape, or even packing tape, or sellotape, to insulate wires. They find the wiring to the ignition switch, then cut one of them, see if it has power, and the vehicle does not start, and use that then to connect the 3 wires for the module, then take the ground wire and run it to any nearby bolt haphazardly, then tape the lot up and hide the module under the dash, where it can get it's cellular connection most of the time. Installed poorly the modules draw a lot of power, and drain the car battery in under a week. Often the poor installation, and cheap modules, results in them having a rather high failure rate, and also there is no real verification done on the install, the "installer" gets a fixed fee per vehicle, very low, so it is a drive by install as fast as possible, and as many as possible, so it often is that the device is not actually registered to the vehicle correctly, wrong paperwork, or a pack of 6 modules, 6 vehicles, and he dropped the box along the way and mixed up the tags. thus you can get them being installed so they cut not only starter, but also ECU, or the wrong one is triggered, and the wrong lender gets cut off. You can get better ones, and have them installed correctly, often drawing power from the OBD socket, replacing the socket with a new one, and hiding the original up in the loom, but those cost more, and predatory loan places will not spend money on better, unless it is for themselves. Also supposed to be removed when the loan is paid off, but the loan places often charge for this, or repo the vehicle, sell it at auction and buy it back, easiest because they keep the keys, remove battery, seats and wheels, and have it go there on a lowbed, getting a fraction of the real value. Then put this all back, put in yet another unit, leaving the original one in (and more wires cut again, because the methead installer will not see his own work) and sell it again, so now 2 units to accidentally be disabled.
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  3009. Butcher bird is singing the song of all the birds he has invited to dinner before, and found them delicious. He even ate crow, and pronounced it to be delectable, almost as good as the lunch from Kurtis.
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  3010. Engine rev range is there to use. Yes high revs in drive with brakes on will heat up the trans fluid fast, but most modern ones will very rapidly tell you trans overheat, and limit engine RPM. Driving in my car there are times it will be sitting close to the limiter for a few seconds, then I will change gear, because torque peak is high up, and power peak is somewhere around there, so use them when you need to. Long term not great to run there, most engines are designed to run around half the rev range, but are fine with the occasional spirited drive cycle, here called a free State tune up, because it causes peak pressures in the cylinders, and does a bit of work to clear out carbon build up inside, and on the exhaust side. GDI it does nothing for the inlet side, that you still have to clean.
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  3011. Just remember this is a small machine, you cannot take your normal half inch cuts with it......
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  3012. Or there was dirt on the contacts, or a little bit of corrosion, that made it intermittently go open circuit.
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  3013. Was doing that this weekend, not to replace the struts, but to replace the top mount, as the one was noisy, so both spent a few minutes out of the car, and the compressors were used for the 30 second swap action required. New ones mean the springs are now at the right height, as the old ones had collapsed about 30mm on each side. no more noises now, along with the cleaning of the carburettor and adjusting mixture as well. This weekend the water pump and thermostat are going for a change, standard VW Golf service part, easier to do the lot than the parts, 4 bolts as opposed to 15.
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  3014.  @dw7444  Would have told them the car got written off in a crash because i was trying to change the station on Sirius, and that this had been listed in the police report. Will bet they will delete any records of you ever having a subscription within seconds.
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  3015. Favourite things are the Safety officer, the banana measure, and the "precision lathe", where Curtis cannot take off a banana at a time per pass....... Plus the big lathe as well, where the entire tree goes at a single pass, and the boring setup.
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  3016. Reminds me, next oil change will have to replace the copper washer, seeing as it is getting a little old. Last oil change I did anneal it though, using a MAPP torch, and it sort of softened up.
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  3017. Sure there is a FPGA implementation of that GI chipset. Incidentally the decision to use the DIP28 package over the DIP24 was the die size, it was just too big to fit the standard GI DIP24 paddle in the leadframe, so they used the DIP28 leadframe instead, as that is slightly larger, allowing the die to fit comfortably, saving having to need to use a larger paddle and redesign the leadframe, an expensive proposition, as that meant them needing to make new punching dies for the leadframe, and keeping large volumes of 2 different leadframes in stock. Big up front cost for a chip they were not figuring was going to sell in massive quantities initially.
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  3018.  @calvinwalker4654  Yes had a very fast response from the police this week. Under 24 hours from reporting the case to it being closed.
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  3019. @ Hey, still a response. Still waiting for the first response from my armed robbery 20 years ago.
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  3020. You know hand gestures vary between people, for instance a lot of Australians will indicate with the middle finger, as opposed to the index finger, and also in some cultures a thumbs up is considered a obscene gesture.
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  3021. Archimedes, the one who figured out how to prove a goldsmith was cheating the king, by adulterating the gold used to make a crown, with cheaper silver and copper. Did not end well for the cheater.
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  3022. 15V for the first 5 minutes or so from start, to both put the charge lost from the start, and to prevent the battery getting sulphated. Should settle down to 14V0 after around 2 minutes, then while driving should sit somewhere between 13V0 and 13V8, depending on outside temperature, to keep the battery fully charged.
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  3023. When it is their houses being looted......
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  3024. Especially extended warranty on things like household goods and electronics. Here there is a statutory one year warranty on all new goods, and thus the warranty company knows that, in year one, where most factory defects will show up, they will use the factory claim process, and not actually have to cover anything. Then for say the common 2 year extended warranty they know there will be little claims, all of them invariably from the owner doing something wrong, or from the manufacturer doing a recall, and thus again no payout, or only part payout. Basically the extended warranty is almost useless, because it either will not cover all parts, or will not cover labour, or will have hoops that are near impossible to jump through to get it right. Knew a salesperson at one of these places, and half of his commission came from the selling of these, for the above reasons, they were a massive profit for the selling dealers. Cars the same, sold used with a limited warranty, and if there is a balance of factory that will do for a lot, so the extended warranty is there as a way to make profit, because the dealership gets the sales commission up front, after the new owner has paid 3 months of premiums, and then the owner is paying off this warranty at whatever interest rate for the full period. So whatever was down on paper as the amount of the extended warranty the buyer now pays at least double that over the life of the loan, and every month as well pays a "facilitation fee" of some sort, again a profit, for the extended warranty, plus a charge for taking the payments. If you have to loan to buy, but not the highest you can afford, and buy cheaper, and for as short a period as you can, and with as big a deposit as you can. That makes it easier to finish the loan, and have the car serviced, and keep it for as long as possible. Having a car loan for 7 years, on a vehicle already 5 years old, in say the rust belt, where the chances of the entire bottom rusting out before that 7 years are up, is very high.
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  3025. Well, Fiat is known for great mechanical design, impeccable precision in the components, and assembly by whoever was walking past the factory that morning who could not run fast. Also repair does always involve a lot of talking, shouting, and expletives in Italian, along with a lot of hand waving, and the obligatory garlic bread, a few bottles of Vino, and an afternoon siesta as well. Best thing is the brakes are good, as Italian roads are rather well known for the designers being, unlike their Roman ancestors, completely against anything like straight lines.
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  3026. Not going to have ABS unless you bring the entire Tesla wiring loom and controller blocks into the vehicle, along with wheel speed sensors, and some massive amount of programming to make the ECU and body modules behave with the totally different chassis and performance. ABS is not an add on block, though your controller for the hydraulic side definitely can be, but the rest of the sensors and controls must already be integrated in the system.
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  3027.  @edherdman9973  Well, 2 years of aircraft parked showed up in a lot of failures of systems, when they wanted to restart the airline in operation. Many are still parked, awaiting parts that are now backlogged due to the manufacturers and repair facilities also having to so a lot of catch up, so the idea of parking half the fleet as spares is going to fail in around a year, simply as annual service items, like filters, expire, and need replacing. You can go a long way in making hanger queens, but you do need a steady supply of service parts to operate the aircraft, and filters are the one thing they do need, and on a regular basis, same with tyres, where they wear out in irregular schedules, and only need a single poor landing, to convert them from serviceable to garden ornaments. Yes you can run a lot of the parts well beyond the advertised life, but failure is not a matter of coast to the side of the road and call for a tow, and in Russia the airports, in general, are far and few, spread out wide, so a failure in flight will be fatal, and little chance of surviving.
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  3028.  @st-ex8506  Yes I know, hanger queens are notorious for this, at one time we did not even bother putting the robbed equipment back into the aircraft, simply leaving it, in the transport cases, stored in the shelf next to it, because it was very likely the part would be robbed again, before it was likely to have the airframe back in service. When you have 5 air data units sitting next to the aircraft, which has space for 2, you know it is a hanger queen. Especially when the main hydraulic block, which is 2m tall, comes out as a complete unit, frame, wiring looms, hydraulic lines and all, to service another airframe, that had a faulty one, while their one went off for the 6 month time service, due to the lead on parts. It flew a year later, but not likely with the block in, just with 3 bypass rods installed, as the airframes were doing a swansong, and they needed all flying, in some sort of condition. It just had to take off, and fly straight past, which you can just about do with manual strength, the power assist is there for autopilot and heavy lift, which these were well capable of. Will bet most of them had a long list of defects, that were signed off for this.
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  3029. Here by me water loss insurance, so when the line broke, after the meter, but before the shut off, I put in the claim, citing the fault report number. They might pay the extra $10 I paid that month, in 2 years.
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  3030. Dead battery, overdue on oil change, and this is known to need new engine, which will be denied as overdue oil change intervals. Likely also only did them long over the book miles all the time as well. So now you scrap it, or sell for a very low value, as the new buyer has to pay the full price for the new crate engine that will be needed, plus of course a battery.
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  3031. not yet, but they definitely have reserved a spot for him.
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  3032.  @JaxxTech  True, would have been better to have the 2 power supplies in parallel ( preferably 3, because the rating is not a continuous one, but a peak, with operate being around 60% of this) and then 6 boost converters with 12V input for the LED. Bonus being that you can run all off 12V, including the cooling fan and pumps.
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  3033. Yes, the TSA and ilk have only increased theft of baggage, and theft from baggage. That the airport is so porous that the stuff goes out it is easy to get stuff in the same way.
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  3034. When he is in prison the prison should only supply him with meals that are supplied by those Doordash drivers. He will have to pay for them as well. Might only be a week before he sort of finishes his prison sentence.
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  3035. Same by me, and the second and subsequent wives also can claim inheritance as well, plus their share of the household value.
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  3036. Would suggest the citizens there each put in daily requests for permits for events for the next year. Said event is that, in 30 days, said citizen will be walking past, or driving past, the following list of public buildings, and needs a permit. That this is the route they take to either shop, or to and from work, not really under scrutiny, but that going past these buildings is defined in the regulation as an event, they need to have permission for the next year to do so, so are entering 365 requests for permit for this. After all, as the regulation is so vague, they might be arrested for being there if their presence would temporarily obstruct the entry or exit from the building, possibly by them obeying traffic regulations, or by them being physically present at said entrance or exit. Thus the need for a permit for said presence.
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  3037. Just lazt cops, take the footage to the IPD with the refusal, and they will change their minds about this.
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  3038.  @LakeNipissing  Twisting of the box structure as the one side collapsed, then the forces were able to collapse the rigid side bracing, as they are not really able to support the structure off plane. To have the structure survive would have meant cross bracing along the bridge, making the structure so much higher sop as to accomodate the cross bracing and still allow overheight vehicles to cross the bridge.
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  3039. Like the one government vehicle by me, that filled up over 70 times in a single day, with each fill up being more than double the tank capacity at a minimum, and with the mileage between fills being almost nothing.
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  3040. They do not need to stick at all, they merely hold the plane so it does not drag on the ground, and at lower speeds provide steering, but at higher speeds the existing control surfaces have a much greater control. Plus you do not have the cornering forces, so no need for massive amounts of grip, rather low friction just enough to allow low speed manoeuvring.
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  3041.  @cdreid9999  There is a record on all those, they have a conviction, and thus a record. You do not need that a person was a suspect in an investigation, but was never charged for it. That is simply part of doing an investigation, like if the police were looking for a serial killer, and asked the mobile phone carriers all the phones that were in that area that time. You were there, with your phone, in the area, and thus are a suspect, till they removed you from the list by using deduction that you were in a different place, but your phone record is still there. Would you like to have that on your record? That you were not arrested, but potentially, if you were in the place at the time, they might have questioned you, would you like that as well on your record?
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  3042. 99% of the trucks are driven by soccer moms to go do shopping and kid runs, and the only off road they do is driving over pavements to park, and going over speed bumps. The reason that they are moaning is because they are unhappy that this person has a $100k vehicle, while they are driving a $500 well used POS.
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  3043. Exactly, tap the hole to next size, put in bolt. Take bolt half way in depth of hole and use a punch to put a few divots in the thread, so it will never come loose again. Put in with some high temp sealer, which will carbonise and fill the gaps, and cut off flush. Stainless steel if you want to have it gall in there forever as well.
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  3044. Going to guess Homie does bring in the odd real bit of fur every so often, when he runs out of plastic, so goes into the stream and finds them for himself. Nice job, better than the factory did for sure, and the welding is top notch as well, you can not see where any of them are when done.
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  3045. With the modern misfuel they put DEF into the fuel system, which will destroy it totally. If you find it, and have not turned the ignition on, then all you need is a drain of the tank, and a new fuel pump, filters and a flush of the fuel lines. If you started it you need to replace injectors, fuel rails and fuel lines, along with high pressure fuel pump as well, because they will be destroyed.
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  3046. Normally for a trailer once a year is a good thing, gets the grease moving if you have not used it, and allows a check to see linings are still attached and correctly adjusted, plus you also get to check the tyre for good air pressure and condition.
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  3047. A lot of paint testing is done in a test booth, where samples, along with a bare control sheet, are subjected otbake and freeze cycles in a salt spray, with UV light exposure, to see which methods work best. Then you can also do what some do, and leave test strips on the Skeleton Coast for a year, where they get savaged by exposure to full sun during the day, and salt mist and freezing temperatures at night, along with the wind bringing is salt and sand to hit them. A coast where thick steel ship hulls and massive castings, of ships that have run aground in storms, are reduced to near nothing after a decade or two.
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  3048. Yes you have to sell it to the junk yard then specifically tell your local registration authority that it was scrapped. By me that is a specific form you fill in, and the most common reason used is either stolen, rust or damaged beyond repair. If you have insurance they will fill in the form on your behalf and process it through the authority, otherwise you just fill in the form and hand it in.
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  3049. Yellow plant is important, my friend spent plenty of years doing yellow plant, though most of his yellow plant came in olive drab and dark brown camouflage colours, and most of it had really nasty hydraulic fluid as drive and operation, and leaks were common.
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  3050. Yes, cheap machines to give the feel of every person being a winner, in the hope that you will step up to the bigger value machines and the games, where the casino can really clean you out. That is why the parking is paid for up front, you probably will not have enough on leaving to pay otherwise.
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  3051. About the only place this will work is in India, mostly because there is a shortage of power, and no shortage of people. Unfortunately the cost of making it is a lot more than they are able to pay, let alone are willing to pay.
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  3052. Should be enough people in the HOA to get onto the board, and change the rules about it. Would say the suit will also bring to light any connections between lot owners and the current board.
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  3053. My pet was free, just have to pay running costs. Should take these leasers that started it and put them in a box, and lease them oxygen. Cash in advance, per day, no paying in arrears or paying in advance. Cash on hand only, and no card, and no contact, and they go in with only a pair of tighty whities on, after having a full enema.
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  3054. Most of the variation is probably batch differences, as they mostly are all differentiated by the wrap, the internals are made by a few large companies who contract manufacture them, branding at customer order, though there is a difference in capacity depending on customer order as to how much inert filler is blended into the paste they use.
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  3055. Robin Renzetti is fond of saying that in machining everything is a spring.....
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  3056. Undercoating needed to be redone each year with liquid film, but was only ever done once.
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  3057. Yes, stop you to ask for ID, then charge you for obstruction and arrest you, especially if you do not fit the demographic of rich, money spending and not yet broke.
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  3058.  @davidg3944  Exactly...........😀
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  3059. Quicker and easier to use the banks that offer the service, and cheaper than the bribe as well. Plus only 2 hours, one the appointment to apply, and the other the collection. Was great to use my Durban bank branch to get it done, and they were running on time as well. 3 officials doing the job, very friendly, very nice to interact with as well, and great service. Plus the collection was fast, SMS and email to collect with a date and time frame as well.
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  3060. Dockside allows you to use non floating cranes, so the moving can be a lot faster not having to ballast a barge to compensate for the mass taking up. now just lots of dump trucks, and a ground crew on the dock cutting up the debris as it comes off.
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  3061. Also used to use a shipper, part of the national railways. They would collect at 4PM, and by 5PM there would be an email, about how the goods had been lost, in the trip between truck and warehouse. No problem, they would pay out immediately the insured value, plus refund you the entire waybill (even if only one of the boxes going to multiple destinations on that waybill went missing), plus give a free waybill. So next day pick the order again, and send it again. Generally 2 out of 3 would be stolen, but since we were declaring retail value, not the actual cost, and the waybill was essentially free, the method worked, because the rest of the system, delivering to anywhere close to a rail siding, cheaper than any other courier, with a delivery time max of 2 weeks (but typically 7 days for outlying tiny areas, which no other courier would do for anything close to the price), it was actually a case that often you would get the monthly statement with a cheque attached, as we were in credit with them. No wonder they went bankrupt after around a year, but by then other couriers were around, not as efficient, but also similar in price, and less likely to lose the goods.
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  3062. By me a renewal means you have to go in, and have an eye test, either at the office, or, most popular, at an optometrist, and bring the purple form in instead. That is because they want a current photo of you, and an eye test. So long as you pass the eye test you get a renewal.
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  3063. Probably self insure to a lower threshold, likely around $2 million, but have taken out cover for any amount larger, because paying that out will mean the board does not get a bonus that year. You can bet though that the board is in for a grilling as to why they now have a massive fine from the SEC for failing to do due diligence, and also another set of fines for the fraudulent letter they wrote.
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  3064.  @ThereIsNoOtherHandleLikeMine  Differs from country to country. By me the vehicle is the insured item, not the driver, so you will need to either take cover when renting a vehicle, or accept the standard limited liability insurance the rental place has. The excess payable differs if it is the nominated driver, another driver over 25, or one who has had a license under 3 years, or not the regular driver. My last vehicle I bought I got coverage over the phone, just by calling and adding it on, giving the registration number, make and model, and then had coverage, though had to take it to an inspection center within 7 days, for them to verify all particulars, and enter it into the insurance. Registered around 3 months later on, but it was mine, as I was waiting for the finance company before to replace the title, and remove themselves off it. Then went in with the paperwork, COR and the money, and all the forms, and got a new title in my name.
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  3065. I solved that one years ago, I cancelled the landline...... The phone other than spam calls was almost unused. The robocalls are easy for the phone companies to filter out, as any that come from an account that has every phone number presented being different is a robocall, and the phone provider will know who the originator is, for billing purposes, so easy to find them. Simplest would be to block VOIP exit from all other than the vetted ones, and simply block those that abuse this. Yes the call is over IP, but to work you have to know who the originator is, and easiest is to block connections for VOIP coming from any public VPN service, and this will remove around 90% of the calls, and the rest you just maintain blocklists of providers who do a poor job of verifying the customers they have.
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  3066. Yes, the strict procedures are " are you over 18", and then accept any answer as a yes.
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  3067. Large lights coming on after a while is because they are high pressure sodium lights, and those typically, unless you use expensive fast relight ballasts, or use expensive dual arc tube lamps, will take 3 to 5 minutes to cool down before the most common ballast ignitors will be able to relight them. Mast light likely a 1000W lamp, and the side ones are 400W lamps, which do take faster to relight than the big one. Shipping uses them because they are above all cheap, have a lot of light output, and are very rugged, with them being quite happy running on 50Hz and 60Hz mains with no problem, and also surviving all sorts of mains voltage surges and spikes with no problem, unlike LED lights, which will fail rapidly. Plus will still operate even when exposed, and wet, unlike the delicate electronics. 15000 hour life, which can easily be exceeded with good quality lamps, and they are easy to change out, unscrew the E40 lamp from the socket, screw in the new one, and close the cover. A big advantage on a ship, where you have to do this after climbing a ladder to get to the lamp, only needing to carry a lamp, and a pair of pliers to release the clips, or a screwdriver to undo screws, as opposed to a LED where you need to winch the entire fixture up there to replace a faulty one. Plus they just cycle when old, on for 5 minutes, then off, till eventually they are just a dull blue red from age, or the arc tube shatters inside the glass envelope.
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  3068.  @CaptainSpadaro  They simply do not inject fuel into those deactivated cylinders, and also no spark. Thus when it is the time for that cylinder to fire it simply acts like a lossy spring for that stroke, compressing then expanding the air in the cylinder, so that it does not add power to the crank. Then the mass of the moving parts evens out that lack of power, and overall it acts like a smaller 4 cylinder engine. Some variants also use oil pressure to operate valves that keep the inlet and exhaust valves closed for that entire time, but that proved to be unreliable, instead the VVT simply makes the opening and closing angles for the valves very small, so low power overall, during that low power demand time.
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  3069.  @keithmoore5306  You use simple O ring and packing glands that are lubricated, so that the pressure the lubricated gland applies to the shaft is higher than the water pressure. Yes a much higher loss through the gland, but the alternative is to allow a small amount of water out to provide a boundary film, and use a scavenging pump in the bilge to pump it out at higher than ambient pressure. Alternatives are to use, for the rudder and vanes, hydraulic pressure, using high pressure hydraulic fluid pumped out through pass through fittings, that then drive an actuator that drives the rudder. That then just means your hydraulic cylinders need a simple boot on each end, so that you keep constant volume, filled with an inert fluid like hydraulic oil, so the actual shaft is protected from sea water. That fluid runs at a much higher pressure in the cylinder than the sea water at any depth it is rated for and they use a simple static pressure measurement to adjust the pump to keep the pressure high enough to operate, but not to blow the seals. Otherwise for hydraulics you simply make the working fluid water, derived from the internal fresh water supply, and use corrosion resistant material, but in all cases you need to compensate for the ambient pressure.
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  3070.  @keithmoore5306  Yes the pressure varies, but the rudder operates on differential pressure, not absolute, though the modern ones use an electric motor outside the pressure hull, which solves most of the problems, though it does lead to needing to have the motor and reduction gearbox be filled with hydraulic oil, to keep it from imploding or getting water inside.
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  3071.  @keithmoore5306  Prop shaft and periscope easy, the periscope has a top seal that is compressed down when it is down, sealing it tight against the gland, so it will not leak. Propshaft as I said they pressurise it with water to allow a lubricating film around it, and accept the extra friction of the seal packings, which are cooled as well by the water, and the RPM is kept low as well, because this reduces noise from the propellors. high torque so the extra loss is not too much compared to the power being transmitted through.
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  3072.  @keithmoore5306  Yes I would not like to be in there, very cramped, and with the ocean pressure making that thick steel compress visibly as you descend.
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  3073.  @keithmoore5306  Especially since that sort of info is still classed by the military as restricted, even on submarines that were last made a century ago, the derivatives are still in use now, and thus any info is definitely not out for public view. you would have to go to one of the exhibits and look carefully, and possibly ask the volunteers at the museums, but there they also might be limited as to info.
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  3074.  @halucinator1  15 years and counting by me, they built over the boundary line by 1m, into a nature reserve. Unable to transfer, unable to sell, unable to bond, till the court case is complete, and they then get to pay for the costs as well, along with likely having to remove the offending wall, and cut the structures back to comply with the zoning as well, plus pay for the land use, and then pay the back rates.
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  3075.  @halucinator1  A whole development. Not a single house.
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  3076. Had our bike messenger use his mobile phone as a skid pad one day, taking a fall. Panasonic phone, only parts that were not replaced were 6 screws that hold it together. Even had to get a new SIM card for it, as old one was damaged. Saved him a lot of damage, seeing as he skidded along the road on his backside, with the phone in the back pocket.
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  3077. I would say that was as result of piston coming right down the block, and the skirt, just before the crank cleaned it off in sections, wiped the nozzle out of the mounting.
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  3078. Most carry a bag of cane sugar, as that is a concentrated way to make sure it will fail to cure fully. Add the sugar and blend, and it turns into a crumbly mix, which is a lot easier to break down and remove.
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  3079.  @gordonshumway7239  Both, first selling them storage at a profit, then eventually they stop paying, and they first open the unit, "inventory" it, which means taking the valuables out, then lock it up and let it go at auction. Then rinse and repeat. Basically it is good if you need to keep stuff for 6 months while moving, to get it later on at cheap rates, but long term not good.
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  3080. So l ong as you also make sure to use the right tubing cutter, and also to lubricate the O ring seals insode the fittings as well before inserting the tube. Makes a big difference to them, especially at the larger sizes, and at the small end where those seals have very little leeway in them.
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  3081. by me that Escalade would have a new VIN plate riveted in, the stamped ones cut out and replaced, with the donor being one that arrived at a scrap yard on the back of 2 lowbed tow trucks.
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  3082. Just remember there was stuff more than metal in there that was easier to ignite than the stainless steel. there was a lot of PTFE used for insulation, which was likely also generating a lot of gas as it burnt up in there as well, and which was involved in the beginning as the wire insulation that was lit. PTFE will burn nicely in pure oxygen, as proved by the Apollo one fire, which was mostly burning PTFE and which also resulted in a corrosive mix of by products and acids as well. Wonder if the next time will involve a piece of PTFE in addition to the steel wool, though this will need to be done outdoors or in a very good fume hood, because of the nasty flouride acid that will be generated.
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  3083. So, just how much does that coupling cost, and no matter the price the labour is the biggest part.
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  3084. My jumper cables are also 0 gauge, but also are rated to handle 8000A continuous current. Also are 5m long, which is very convenient as well. The clamps will absolutely melt off before the cable.
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  3085. I see you found a good use for the old slings, where they can be used safely.
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  3086. Yes, strong tea is the only way. The rest is like a canoe, very close to water. However due to time and other constraints I use bag tea a lot, convenient and I also drink it with or without milk, but definitely no sugar. As well the tea type is important, I prefer a stronger tea and also like earl Grey as a variant, plus locally grown Rooibos tea.
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  3087. Going to pull a Zuma and claim she is very very ill, with a bad case of allergy to orange overalls, and grey walls with bars.
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  3088. Almost all phones will have photos be stored in a gallery, where the images are shown as small thumbnails, making it easy to scroll through them fast. All sources, from sent, taken with camera, received, will be in there, arranged normally in date order.
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  3089. A lot better done than the Datsun Go, with the dropped suspension, the stretched rums that need 4 spacers added, and the straight pipe exhaust i saw. Loud, but totally incapable of going over a speed bump, or exceeding any speed limit.
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  3090. Yup, was the one playing with the floor, the rest all wore a nice large gap, which was not great for the plug leads.
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  3091. Legit balloons yes, but party ones the only radar reflector is the actual aluminised mylar of the envelope and the trailers, which most aircraft radar will show as either a dense cloud or as a flock of birds, if it shows up at all, as the scattering will not give a definite echo. The balloon looks a lot like a chaff flare just after release, before it has spread out, to a radar set.
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  3092.  @Rob2  Easy enough to incorporate as part of the tracking package, just use foil strips a half wavelength long at the RADAR frequency, stuck to the box, or make the box itself from metallised paper which they are made from. Reflector, thermal insulation all in one material.
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  3093.  @Rob2  No you cannot, as the X shape forms a corner reflector, but the quarter wave strips resonate with the incident pulse and emit much more strongly a return signal than a random flat surface. Just like with the first US made balloon surveillance cameras they floated across the USSR, where the one aluminium stiffener rod in the structure was resonant at the USSR radar frequency, making the otherwise nearly radar invisible balloon show up clearly on the USSR early warning radar sets. The units otherwise were almost entirely made from either polymer or were coated with absorbent foam material.
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  3094. By me the standard is that there are no speeding fines, except on certain roads, where the traffic authorities can issue fines. They forgot to renew the licence for the speeding cameras, and the equipment calibration, and the officer calibration, lapsed, and, since it had been a year or three before this came up in court, they also had to refund all the fines they had issued in the interim. Company that owns the software and the company that does the certification want the back payment first.
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  3095. Pulley diameter not really going to do much, slightly lower RPM on the compressor, so slightly lower flow, so slightly lower cooling efficiency in traffic at idle. Belt tensioner will easily take up the extra throw with no problem. AFAIK the variable displacement system is a bolt on, that simply bleeds back from the hot high pressure back to the input, so as to allow modulation of the flow from the compressor to allow control, so it will, with no power applied, default to full flow of the system, so putting it in and not connecting will do nothing. The lower RPM will also help, so full flow will be at higher RPM slightly, probably just off idle, and the system will then simply act as a regular unit. Variable displacement works with electronic expansion valve, allowing control of evaporator pressure so as to allow simpler orifice plate expansion, and strict control over high side pressure using a pressure transducer in the high side, so you need less power to run AC at full power when off idle, improving fuel economy.
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  3096.  @unitedstatian  Paying the rent for the last few months he was de facto a tenant. They now owe him for all the damages, and also at a minimum a refund of all rental paid to them as well. As punishment I would suggest they also have all their household contents taken and thrown in a compactor, and let them have the same issues with all their possessions being destroyed.
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  3097. Afterthought, the copyright exists immediately the book is created, no need to register it, just have proof of it being created ( the old thing of dates on the page of lab notebooks and such, which is there to have a way to control exactly who did something first, as the journal, with no missing pages, only dated and signed crossing outs, is still considered the valid method when disputing patents.
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  3098. Black one is hiding to the right behind the red cushion.
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  3099.  @Wolfpack310  My 1.4l NA is now no longer a teenager, and yes did get a rebuild head wise, to get rid of the usual smoke issues. Also replaced every seal while it was out, and also replaced clutch at the same time. 270 000km on it.
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  3100.  @Wolfpack310  AGY, basically the vanilla VW Golf engine, in over 30 million vehicles made in South Africa.
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  3101.  @Wolfpack310  Yes, the old iron block, still a common item, that you can actually buy from VW as a brand new crate engine, or get a factory recon from them as well.
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  3102. Funny thing is Walmart and such all buy from the same 2 manufacturers, so the battery you get is the same from all, just the sticker is different, and the more expensive one the warranty is better. By me I have seen that, rows of blank batteries on the shelf out back, and a few rolls of stickers they put on them, for different brands and different warranty periods. Pay for the 2 year one you get the same as the budget, just a 2 year warranty. Lucky for me no freezing weather, though this weekend there is winter expected to arrive, with cold being 12C
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  3103.  @bobbg9041  Not in the USA but by me there are only a few companies that recycle batteries. They take them, split out the acid for cleaning and reuse, and the same for the lead and the plastic of the case. The paste from the cells also gets reground. Then they make new cases from a blend of old reground PVC case and new, which are black. White cases are all new plastic. The lead is melted down, mixed with new, and cast into the plates and terminals, and then pasted and placed into new separators, then assembled into cells. Acid is filled, a mix of old filtered acid and new, which by me is a product from recycling mine dump waste. Some batteries are imported, but a lot of car manufacturers buy locally made, and they also specify the quality they want, so yes they are different, even if supplied by the same manufacturer, and they are sold aftermarket as well, though at a much higher price than what the OEM price is to a vehicle manufacturer.
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  3104. Just a tip, get a rivnut kit, and the insert tooling, it will save you a lot of headaches on those panels to bolt things in there. You can also look for some self locking plates at McMaster Carr and get a few of them in, and use them for things that will need a bolt that has to be undone regularly. Buy a few tubes of copper safe silicone as well, to use to fill connector holes that are unused, and to seal where the rear light assemblies go into the frame, so as to keep water out of them. The copper safe silicone is also sold as acetoxy free no odour silicone, it does not release acetic acid on cure, so is fine for electrical work as it will not rot the copper. And a correction, current does flow in the surface of a conductor, but you will only start to see that at very high frequencies in AC use, in the most part it flows all the way in the conductor. Stranded wire is used more for being able to form it easily in the field, as solid core wire is rigid, and will hold bends well, and for very high current you need hydraulic tools to bend it. Stranded flexes, and thus the copper inside does not work harden as much, though it will do so eventually, especially at a soldered joint, where it behaves as a solid wire then. Get some tie wrap bases and 3M VHB adhesive strips, and use it to hold the wire loom to the electrical chassis, no flexing with vibration then. A roll of VHB tape will also come in handy when you want to hold panels together without rubbing.
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  3105. Well, going to boy a new torque wrench today, because I need it. But still will have to do the turn 90 degrees twice on the head. Old ones did come loose, but got a pack of new ones anyway.
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  3106. Depends, is the repairs going to cost less than a year of new car payments. If so, and they will hold it out for another 5 years, do it.
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  3107.  @brandonstclair6530  Well would doing that be less than new car payments for a year? If so, you got another 5 years on the Lexus, which are in general regarded as reasonably good vehicles.
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  3108.  @nickwallette6201  Those who read the release notes on Win95, and only saw the word Pentium, and bought the cheapest one.....
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  3109.  @KristopherNoronha  It did, IIRC, say runs best on a Pentium,, and also early releases needed the extra features the 486 came with.
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  3110. Stress relieved means that, after forming, but before machining the flange on the front to make it flat, and do the drilling and tapping to allow the face to mount, they were taken, placed in an inert atmosphere oven, and heated up to something between 600 to 800F, or 315 to 420C, and left there for a few hours to allow the brass to relieve all the stress from forming, so it is soft, and will not split under impact, just deform. Then final machined, and provided with that protective layer of lacquer to keep it good during storage. That way when you go to drill the holes for the conduits you only have soft metal, and there will be no splitting or hard spots in the brass. In a submarine you really want watertight joint boxes, as this keeps the connections from corroding, and the soft brass allows a good seal as it deforms when the conduit is tightened, making a metal to metal hermetic seal. You can have it under sea water for 10 years, and open it up to a shiny inside still.
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  3111. Depends, refurb or new? Refurb that is about right, new is closer to $3 million each.
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  3112.  @mikko7296  Patrons often get early access, a perk of paying for the channel content, along with those with other methods to fund Petter's excellent productions.
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  3113. Funny thing is that the appy will become qualified, then make as much money as the old guy, and in turn will train more. Old guys learn more, become specialised at repair or specific jobs, that also pay a lot better.
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  3114.  @bunnyluver2176  No, but got permanent residence though, and thus a way to stay there.
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  3115. Good collection of bolts now that you have. The new owners will have plenty of good use for those parts you sent away. hopefully the copper cable went off to BigstackD, who will make a video about stripping it all and turning into bars.
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  3116. More than likely the car was damaged on the lot, and they simply used the details of the similar make and model vehicle to fill in the claim form, as otherwise it comes out of the bonus of the lot supervisor. would bet if you looked into claims in that lot for the last year you would find a similar pattern of fraud, and lots of people that simply paid up because they had no proof they did not do the damage, or they lived too far away to have the contesting be an option.
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  3117. No but Eric will be supplying the new used parts to fix the stuff that was not up to Ray spec.......
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  3118. Almost sure that hose assembly could have come with the clamps as well, but they saw the opportunity to sell you 3 extra parts at a good profit. Plus over 5 gallons you put in, must have been a cupful in the heater core still, and another sitting at the bottom of the coolant jackets.
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  3119. US electric grid, simultaneously the weirdest one and also the oldest big grid. Where else will you have 4 different methods to get a single phase supply from a 3 phase distribution, including having your neutral conductor be a live conductor at the same time. Same wire 120VAC, 208VAC, 240VAC and also 277VAC, just change the reference wire side. Rest of the world it is 230VAC or 400VAC, depending if there is a neutral available to connect to.
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  3120. Lift it further off the ground, which will help ,and put a roof over it, to keep the stuff from falling into it. Then wash every month to clean it out. Living near a harbour, and right by the sea, I would wash out black soot every year, and the salt corroded the fins off from the inside. If a window wall unit made 3 years without needing repair that was a good unit, and new ones I would first spray the coils from the inside with primer and silver paint, then a second coat on the base, to get them to at least do 6 years.
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  3121. Only issue is that you will eventually end up with a recovery machine full of air, and then need to freeze the tank to almost all liquid, then discharge the gas out. Even residential units I often would recover the gas, made a manifold and used old fridge freezer compressors to do the scavenge, which meant I could get 90% of the charge out before changing the compressor. Did put a big drier in the suction and discharge lines, to handle the moisture and stuff that could be in there from the compressor failing, and those would eventually land up with the scrap units. Supplier hated that I had good enough records to be able to claim compressors under the 5 year warranty, though often I would have had to replace a condenser coil at 3 years, because those turned into confetti and rust, especially on the window wall units. I was about the only customer who bought coils, other than those machines that failed within the 1 year full warranty. Capacitors were pretty much an annual replacement item, you might get 2 years out of them, even the OEM ones, and new compressors always got a new capacitor, and for some of the larger units also a hard start kit as well, especially those that were oversize for the load, and thus ran short cycles. Bought 3 sets of gauges, original cheap one, then one that did R134A as well as R22, then the last one because I needed R410A capability. Note as well that those hose sets do eventually wear out, and they start to leak through the rubber, and get stiff and brittle. Vacuum pump better to spring for the dual stage units, they get better vacuum, and are almost good enough to make neon signs with, or at least use as a roughing pump for them. Change the oil regularly, all too often see pumps with either chocolate milkshake in the inspection port, or solid black sludge there. Refrigerant mineral oil is good enough, and cheap as well, and a 5l ( around 1.3 US gallons) bottle of it lasted around 20 oil changes.
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  3122. Congratulations on the 100k, and while I think your work is great, I am not going to try for anything, give it to somebody else, like a school.
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  3123. Lots of areas have water issues, often for days at a time, and no real fixes done.
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  3124. Congrats on getting close to the million mark. I drive a 2012 Chevrolet Cruze, which is basically a Daewoo, seeing as all my spares come with Daewoo part numbers on them, and only the odd ones with GM part numbers.
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  3125. Stuck into the hole!
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  3126. Nissan electronic module has a small RC oscillator in the chip, and a driver that divides it down from a higher frequency, so the resistor and capacitor values can be reasonable close tolerance parts, then use the shunt resistor (the loop of wire on the board near the relay contact) to detect lamp current when on, and if it is below a threshold it will switch to a higher flash rate to indicate a blown bulb. Current typically is set so the trip point is 2 21W lamps triggers it, but if you have the 2 21W lamps plus the 5w lamp it is high enough that it will not run at fast rate. Some also have an added threshold, so if you have 4 21W lamps ( hazard operation) on there it will flash at a lower rate, with a much reduced duty cycle, so that a vehicle on the side of the road will have the hazard lights run for a much longer time before the battery is flat. Generally with this you also need to install a trailer relay unit if you want to tow with the vehicle, which removes the trailer lamp load off the circuit, and thus the trailer unit also often will include, if it is the OEM version, another lamp fail circuit that will tell you if trailer lamps are faulty as well. Modern vehicles have body control modules at the rear, where they drive each individual lamp separately, and also monitor them all the time to check they are not faulty. Thus the indicator and brake lights will also fail safe, in that if a brake light fails, the indicator will come on at constant brightness on the side that has failed, in concert with the other side, though generally almost all vehicles that have body modules for the rear lighting use LED lighting for all lights, except the reverse light, which is still an incandescent lamp, as it will almost never fail, other than from accident damage. Still have lamp failure detection in them for the LED units, though that often requires using a dealer diagnostic tool to get the information, as that only sets a failure indication when all LED units in the signal fail.
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  3127. $133k, less the fees. Yes he would have to cash them in, preferably at a few machines he had not hit, in another state as well.
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  3128.  @2lefThumbs  But still no indicators.....
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  3129. Wonder if you could run VLC on it, which would sort out most of the capture and recording issues.
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  3130. Thing is that the gift cards generally are only valid if used at a particular chain, or if a general card they are used at a retailer, and there you have cameras showing who used them. So you just have to make the mules reluctant to cash the cards, and you will slow this down. But if you can transfer the money out it is trivial to collect large amounts into a single account, and then get it out as cash using any number of methods.
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  3131. Just rtemember to clean the surfaces with some solvent first, so the film of oils that made them delaminate in the first place is gone. Then a light sanding with rough sandpaper to get a fresh keying surface and away you go.
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  3132. Most postmen here have a can of insecticide or deodorant on them, a very effective dog training aid. Insect spray because of biting insects, and spray deodorant because it is hot, and the whole biting insect thing as well as smell.
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  3133. Very likely will, at least every decision they have made in the past and post this will be reviewed, and there is a good chance of sanctions being placed on the arbitrator for failure to execute the process correctly.
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  3134. Hard to think of the people who voted them in when you are way too busy trying to get ahead in politics and getting a kickback for everything.
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  3135.  @KameraShy  Likely the driver, who got all the charges put onto his account.
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  3136. Did it twice on Monday as well, one tooth out on the timing belt. Would prefer not to bend another 8 valves on the engine. That can be a little expensive.
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  3137. I think they forgot the second unit off there. Instead of 500Watts that they were bragging about, they forgot to use the second word in the actual unit, it is a 500 watt second battery, or, more prosaically in the more normal SI nomenaclature that people are more familiar with, it has 500 joules of stored energy in it. Not 500 watt hours, which would actually make it a really compact and high capacity power source, with 1.8 MJ of stored energy, far more than your similar size lithium pouch cell pack of the same volume, but instead it will store roughly the same energy in the "easy to replace charge collection plates" ( bet nobody saw that small print and thought why the charge collection plates wear out, but not the sea water) as a single standard duty ( hardest thing to find these days, even the cheapest Chinese one is marketed as heavy duty) IEC standard ( yes there is a standard for a zinc carbon cell, basically to get the ability to market it with a size in the IEC nomenclature, you have to meet the dimensions, and capacity has to be greater than the minimum in the spec) zinc carbon internally depolarised AAA cell. I think the AAA cell is a lot cheaper as well, and easier to recycle, as it only has zinc, carbon, a drop of tar, some wood pulp soaked in manganese dioxide and ammonia, and a bit of plastic as sleeve and top cap.
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  3138.  @lordgarion514  True but almost all surgery is preceded by a few scans of some sort, they would have likely found this on them.
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  3139. My aunt worked at Cadburys, with a similar policy. She still loved chocolate, just would not eat any Cadbury product ever again, though when she visited half her suitcase was comprised of reject chocolates she got from the factory. Who cares a box of chocolates has a dented corner, or a bar wrapping is not aligned properly.
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  3140. The 9 who voted against still want to be legally allowed to have slaves, because they make good workers, and you can grow them on the farm, jus like chickens.
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  3141. Seller should have made sure the sale had been recorded, and if the other party keeps delaying file the scrapping forms instead.
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  3142. MD80 was always known for the deep stall, and how to get out of them should have been part of pilot training as the first thing to do. this one unfortunately showed that sometimes even a small error can have catastrophic effects when the pilot was convinced that the aircraft being stalled was due to something other than attitude and power settings.
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  3143. I only ever bought one vacuum cleaner, and that was a small cylinder Aim branded one. The rest i got for free, generally Columbus, and they last, just need to buy spare parts to fix them occasionally, and new bags every so often. you want good buy Columbus, or Kärcher, or WAP, which all are commercial machines, and they are the ones you see in the rental market, and those machines go through hell in there, but survive. The commercial machines Ridgid sells are not made by them, but are made for them, and they need a good product, so keep the quality up. The others sell badge jobs, made by some cheap OEM, who gets the mantra with every order of "MAKE IT 10c cheaper or we will change supplier", so they rapidly go from barely acceptable, to total junk, in a few months. Of course they will make hoops for warranty, because a warranty claim costs them not only the cost of a unit (doubt the OEM got more than $20 for the unit in the first place though), but also shipping for $30 to send it. Lost the whole $50 profit they made on it. Rather make the customer give up and buy another, so they get another sale, remember the brand names are often held by the same large holding company, so a sale is a sale, and the brand is indifferent, they often have the exact same call centre handling returns, and only the phone number used flashes on screen how to respond with a brand, the rest is the same Byzantine system.
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  3144. Public works should go to the auction and buy it, though likely it will be bought and converted into housing by a developer, who will want to make a profit, and not suck from the public teat. Please Wait Department could not do anything in a rush, even a building on fire takes them 10 meeting to agree on that it is burning.
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  3145. Rotary nozzle does do well on brake dust on wheels, really gets it off. However have noticed that since changing my brake pads the brake dust is a lot less, and it washes off a lot easier as well, just takes a normal hose to get it off, or drive through a puddle and it also goes. Must be genuine asbestos pads there......
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  3146. Just do not buy Koo cans......
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  3147.  @mvpfocus  The cash is likely his working money, there to pay off the lower ranks, while the higher ones pay him offshore or out of country. Now would be a good time to have the IRS audit him as well, to "please explain" where that money came from.
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  3148.  @mvpfocus  If he was that good an Uber driver to have that money, he would have a fleet of vehicles and drivers, all doing taxi service.
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  3149. Story about the old aunt who the relatives surprised with a new mattress, to replace her old lumpy one. Turns out the old saying "mattress money" was a true thing, and they had thrown away the old mattress, with her life savings in it.
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  3150. By modern standards Titanic is tiny, compared to almost every container ship and passenger liner. Even small container ships, destined to run into small ports with a few hundred containers on board, are still bigger, and also generate more power for the electrical system, and the engines deliver an order of magnitude more power, for a much lower fuel use overall.
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  3151. Do not forget as well the other companies that make up Airbus Industrie are also almost a list of every European manufacturing group, and include pretty much every company that made aircraft, or war machinery as well. French Snecma, Aerosptiale and Dassault amongst others, and from the UK even Westland. If it flew it likely is part of the Borg cube now.
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  3152. He will give a sick note....
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  3153. And of course it comes with exactly enough fuel in it to get you to the gate, but not the pump.
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  3154. Class B insulation at best on that motor, and it is powered with a non grounded plug lead. Crackle finish needs to be left to outgas for a week, then wiped down with WD40, to give it a satin finish, and to also allow the oil to penetrate through the paint powder to the metal surface, to prevent corrosion.
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  3155. Probably all dolphin meat.....
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  3156. Ford still using that pain of a 7mm hex key, decades later on.
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  3157. How about fuel pump, just unclip the baffle, and put the pump in place of existing one.......
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  3158. They also had abort locations all round the world, just in case. Not only Europe, but also Africa and Australia. That Nomex felting was also, ISTR, not made by any US company either, there was only one supplier for it.
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  3159. Because often the original theft report was only filed locally, and never actually entered in any computerised database, seen as too old to enter, so never actually entered, or was mistyped when entering, or was never shared correctly. Each state has old databases, all in different formats, that never really got integrated correctly, or where old records were purged when it grew too large.
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  3160. 2005 trial for one party, but the other party is still delaying the trial, always claiming he wants his day in court, but in the interim doing everything possible to avoid it.
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  3161. Need to make that compressor a little larger, and introduce it to the friends of Mr Tomato, and see if you can make instant tomato soup with it.
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  3162. The light item is also interesting in that, by law, by me all vehicles have to have some sort of retroreflective parts at the rear, normally integrated into the light cluster, to indicate there is a vehicle there. Trucks and trailers, plus commercial vehicles, have a lot more regulation regarding this, in they need to have side, front and rear contour marking on them as well, so that, irrespective of the angle of the vehicle, it is visible at night from a distance, even if it has no lights lit, or is making a turn. There are specifications as well for the tapes used, as to width, minimum length of gaps, and that each section is to bear an official type approval stamp, so the tape comes with a embossed marker every 10cm on it.
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  3163. Funny enough the local wild banana here is actually purple, and has a lot of large seeds in it. There are a few growing in the park near me.
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  3164.  @logicalfundy  Should rename it New Horizons/Voyager 3, and leave a message in the spacecraft memory banks about that. Cold flash memory should last centuries without degradation.
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  3165. So basically they are wanting to have a warrantless search for anything, so that they can use it. Wonder if the data was kept, or if all copies were deleted after the person was ruled out, or if it was kept just in case for some vague reason.
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  3166.  @johnbergstrom2931  Normally reserved for failing to learn from the first lesson. White collar crime though fine, only done if the victims were other citizens.
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  3167. Turn signals, what are those, especially if you drive a BMW, Audi or Cherytata. Or if one is on it could mean it was like that when they got the vehicle, they have the hazards on and the bulb has burnt out on the one side, or they were intending to turn at some point in the future.
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  3168.  @poppedweasel  No, more from having grandparents who were on both sides, and friends who are similar in having known people who lost entire families in that war. Parents were in concentration camps both, one in Germany, and the other in Siberia.
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  3169. Friend has been buying newish GM vehicles, and then dumping them when they start to cost money. Paying 20% of the new price for a 3 year old vehicle, and then use non GM parts as spares, or cheapish GM parts till it needs expensive repairs, then it gets tossed. Working out for him, he generally gets a reasonable vehicle for 5 years at a time.
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  3170.  @peterloftus6259  That law does not apply by me, the local version is toothless as well.
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  3171. Good reason to have the shots for all your pets, so next year my cat will once again be unhappy at going to the vet for the annual service, where the vet will shove a thermometer where the sun rarely shines, feel the rest, and then stick with a needle twice, as parvo virus is also bad.
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  3172.  @onenote6619  As well the codes to decrypt are held in ROM on the receivers, and are not easily changed, so you can simply spend a few days with a large supercomputer array to get all of them out, and defeat the system. The codes cannot be long, as the GPS receiver is very limited in processor power, and thus all that is needed is a hash collision. You could repurpose bitcoin mining asics to do this.
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  3173.  @SeanLavery  Yes hardware faults, and no way to fix at all short of redesigning the chips themselves, which is why you have different step levels, each one fixing some of the hardware bugs, and sometimes with the only fix being "do not use this function", and the microcode being updated to disable it entirely. most relate to how speculation works, as the processor will use spare clock cycles at the fastest speed to guess the result of any branch, flag check or arithmetic function, based on past results, and start to execute the next instructions, so that if the result is right, it already has done the work. Thus you can detect wrong results from the time it takes to do this, as a wrong result means the whole cache now has to roll back the core to the now proved correct result, and dump all the execution that took place, and this time is easy to monitor from context switches, so you can know fairly confidently the result of any branch or flag. The same for RAM, cells adjacent bleed charge to each other, and you can use this to reliably flip a particular bit by thrashing the bits around it to flip it, allowing you to change your program priority and owner, so allowing it to read memory it should be segfaulted out of. Or use the hammering to flip your memory bit, to reflect the values of the adjacent cell, to get that info out.
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  3174. Do remember the one time flying with some pilots on a SA330, and looking up in a turn at the ocean above me, and the sky below, while having my feet dangling out the open door, and my arm one with the seat frame. Bank angle there does not have a stick shaker, more a very sudden removal of rotor tips by the cutter under the tail rotor drive shaft cover.
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  3175. Blame firing the old experienced engineers, because they are too expensive salary wise. Then hire brand new cheap engineers, and toss them just before release, because the bean counters think that the job is done, and they are now surplus. So no history of what breaks, and what is a bad idea, and you get this.
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  3176. Yes if they were going to improve anything the OEM would have them on, to game the EPA mandated testing, and to improve the ranking of the vehicle on that EPA mandated test track for performance and economy. After all any improvement in there saves the manufacturer a shed load of money in taxes for poor emissions, so they will do things that have even a 0,01% improvement to gain a digit change..
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  3177. Should do what farmers do, and simply place a massive gravel pit there instead of the grass, to slow down the errant vehicles before the fence. Another, because he had a few come close to the house, simply brought every rock from the fields home, and laid them out in a bed there, so that nothing would make it through to the house.
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  3178.  @tripsix263  Yes but then you get the fine for obstruction a right of way. The gravel and boulder field just slows the car down without injuring the occupants, though the car might be totalled by it.
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  3179. rental van all you need to do is name the rental company as the other party. they will simply put the entire cost on the card the other driver has on file, and as well will make him pay for the damage to their van as well. No need for any sort of waiting for legal, you just sue the rental company direct, they pay up, especially if it falls in small claims territory, and they in turn will go after the van renter for the costs, not caring if the renter was the driver, that is up to the renter to sort out, but pay up first, before you get taken to the cleaners.
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  3180. Gluing the gasket in place is an official manufacturer approved thing, especially on gaskets where they can easily get to move during assembly.
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  3181. Kitchenaide microwave could simply have 2 magnetrons and transformers in it, so that you have a choice of power inputs to the large cavity.
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  3182. US made drive shaft, and of course it was balanced despite being a banana, need to keep up that quota for parts going out, and let the customer do the QC.
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  3183. I check my own oil every so often. Took a month for it to drop from full to just below full, so, knowing oil change was due, I left it till the oil change a week later. It is quick to drain the oil, and change the filter, took me 15 minutes, mostly because things were still hot.
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  3184. But the word Hershey and chocolate are an oxymoron, as that does not in any way resemble chocolate, and the proportion of actual cocoa in it drops every year, due to fillers being cheaper.
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  3185. Should have blown his mind finding out Toyota made them in the USA, using union labour, and they had less issues overall.
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  3186. Just got the test and passed. My father had prostrate cancer, but that was not the cancer that killed him, but an aggressive lung cancer likely cause by his wartime experiences. Sadly, like him, I am also insensitive to opiates, and probably am also allergic to them, just like he was.
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  3187. Funny thing is convertibles often have very robust windscreens, along with many having a roll bar at the rear as well, with some having active roll cages as well, so they are actually less likely to crush down in a roll over. Bad thing is that SUV's are so prone to rollover, and Ford kind of is the poster child for this with the Bronco and defective tyres that were run at the limits for pressure and adhesion.
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  3188. At 90% plus copper, with the rest being nickel, they probably would have gotten more for the coins as scrap copper, though they would have had to have a pretty decent furnace to melt them down to cast into bars, and likely would have had to add in zinc (from pennies) and aluminium to make a brass alloy, so as to hide the silvery lustre, which is not possible with pure copper. 6 tons of brass would make them around $25k, with no real risk of being caught, as the metal has been diluted down away from coin metal. The other items stolen would be fenced off fast, frozen shrimp to a few delis, and to a few restaurants, easy when they buy a box or thirty for a quarter of the price. Same for booze and cigarettes, sell off at a discount, and a lot of the smaller sellers will take a big buy, and simply sell them to cash customers, taking the money as tax free and off the books.
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  3189.  @lawrencebraun7616  According to Wiki 90% copper and the rest nickel, to give it a stampable material and corrosion resistance.
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  3190.  @davedeal9152  Seconds from a perfect landing, except not on the runway.
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  3191. Both, plus they are normally aligned to page boundaries, to make loading simpler and offsets easier, so there will be a lot of null packing at both ends to fill the spaces.
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  3192. Nigeria, India, Vietnam and Russia are all hotbeds as well. Plus North Korea, though they tend to go more for high value scams.
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  3193. By me the state and metro work 24/7, so it is not unusual to see a vehicle like a garbage truck driving on the road at midnight, or on Christmas day, or any other day, as there are 3 crews who use it in rotation.
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  3194.  @PeterSedesse  He might have told him, another bullet point in a 500 point talk, where the client was likely either almost comatose at that time, or in line 800 of a 1000 point 500k word long email, that was sent to him, opened, and had the first 5 lines read.
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  3195.  @dundonrl  Funny enough that Chevy LUV, badged as NP200 by me, just went out of production after 22 years of making the exact same vehicle. Now Suzuki is leading in sales, as they have 3 small pickups that fit that market, and they sell well. The Courier was discontinued a while ago, taken over by the Ranger.
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  3196.  @ronmorrell9809  Yes, but tell me of the 300 million US citizens just how many do that on a regular basis, that they need a 3 ton tuck to do it. most I will bet do not, and still they need the 3 ton pavement poser, to drive a half mile to get to the gym.
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  3197. Could also be a false flag thing, to make it seem the ships were targeted, while the actual perpetrators are the Russian secret service, doing this to sow disinformation. Will bet there is a claim going into the non Russian insurers as well, and that pretty much all the ships were not insured by a Russian based insurer as well, in an attempt to gain foreign currency for the claim, while having the ship sail to a Russian port for repairs. But a lot of the incidents could easily also be due to a complete lack of maintenance, with the hole being from hitting a rock, and the dead fish being from the release of polluted ballast water as well.
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  3198.  @machintelligence  Does not smell like diesel though when burnt, very distinct smell when it burns, more like kerosene burning. After all JetA1 is basically dewaxed paraffin oil, which is sold as kerosene for lamps, and is very different in composition to diesel, which is a wider mix of components from the base crude oil. Jets will burn diesel, and vice versa, but will have a very smoky exhaust and poorer performance, while the truck will have a big performance boost, and very little unburnt carbon in the exhaust.
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  3199. Millions have been made as a Tuk Tuk, which is basically the 3 wheel bike with a van body. Yes not the most stable, but actually a pretty reliable form of transport.
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  3200. Hey, at least this one can come out, and the manual does not start with the words "first put the engine in the service position" as a preamble to everything, other than changing the oil only.
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  3201. Time to have a few owners file a claim with the NTSB about Stellantis now deliberately distracting drivers with the ads, and see if the NTSB issues a recall for the vehicles for safety reasons, in that the ad is a deliberate distraction, and could easily lead to accidents in the driver attempting to stop the loud annoying unstoppable accident.
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  3202. That thermostat has been done before, from the hose clamp that replaced the crimp on the inlet, or you need to remove it to change plugs. Shades of small MB engines, where pretty much every operation on the engine, including things like changing the oil, calls for you to "assume the service position", and drop 2 engine mounts to rotate it 30cm down on the front side. That pipe is sold along with thermostat most likely because that thin wall aluminium pipe is very likely to leak if the owner has been less than scrupulous on coolant changes, and there has been any sort of corrosion from leaks or water damming on the top of the valley there.
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  3203. Finish also runs very regular bulk specials on the packs, and as well the pack size is variable, so that you can get a pack with 21, 30, 36, 48 all on the same shelf, all of them almost identical in size, but with only the one pack size discounted, so you often pick up the bigger, more expensive per unit, accidentally.
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  3204. That will buff out.... Knew he should have turned left at Albuquerque, so he would get to Mexico to get that cheap repair done, now looking for the sign that says USA This way... Then make sure to take that left again.
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  3205. Wait, you mean trailers actually need maintenance, other than a look over that it is mostly there, before you hitch it up and move off with it......
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  3206. It will sink, it was designed to float down in a 93 bar Venusian atmosphere, where water will float 30km up, just before it boils away. But will probably survive hitting the ocean though, seeing as 70% of the impact path is over water.
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  3207. Will add that a sneaky way car shysters by me hide a rebuild title from casual view, is to move the car registration districts a few times. As the title paper only shows the last 5 registration authorities they often will buy it off auction, then register it at another adjacent province, then move every month to a new one, in the interim actually fixing it to the point it will run. The moves are just on paper, the vehicle gets a roadworthy test, then, in the validity period of this bought one, vehicle not needed (6 months validity) for test, it gets "moved to 5 different registration authorities, each one giving a pro rata reduction in fee for the previous one, as the vehicle is "sold" to different dealers for a low price, or on consignment, or as a swap. After 5 moves, the original registration, easy to search for and get accident info, along with auction info, rolls off, and they then finally fix the vehicle, or at least get it running well enough, and then get another current roadworthy that it might actually pass (sort of, if Stevie Wonder was doing it, and had Beethoven there to hear the noises) before selling it to some schmuck.
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  3208. VW, changed fuel pump because the level sender went out, and they are integrated. No need to drop tank, just undo 3 screws in the rear and remove cover, and there it is.
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  3209. A lot of that intermediate film is gone forever, as it was often recycled for the silver content after the final edit was done, so the studio could save archive space and recoup a little of the film cost back. Also some was cut up into souvenirs, a bit of the actual film used on the shot as a memento for the cast and crew.
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  3210. Here the crew would pour the boiling hot paint all over his car, then claim that he tried to run them over.
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  3211.  @toolbaggers  Not allowed to shoot them.....
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  3212.  @beastmastreakaninjadar6941  Was referring to the LED traffic signal with the diecast and the resistor, where the power saving from LED is going to be a good chunk of money, along with slightly improved reliability as well. As I live where the chances of freezing weather are so close to zero it is not considered, most of the traffic signals instead are now all glass filled plastic mouldings, also a lot cheaper to install, plus no real scrap value.
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  3213. Would make the back taller, and so it reached just above her head, and out on a 5 point harness. Leg wise some large clip in cuffs with a lining would go down well, to prevent injury from riding into a bush. Extra batteries under the seat, rear suspension and a nice bright paint job chosen by Cambry.
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  3214. Just a point, coal is not dinosaur bones, it is long dead ferns and trees that lived millennia ago, when plants had developed this new structural material, called lignin, and it was so new that no bacteria or fungi could break it down and digest it. So, like bogs and peat marshes all over the world, the mass grew up and got covered with sand, till it was eventually buried deep down, compressed and cooked into coal.
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  3215. More because a kilometer of lead might stop the more energetic ones, while for neutrino's a light year of lead might barely get noticed.
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  3216. Similar thing about a man owed money by the railways, who attached a locomotive on the main line, with the intent to cut it up for scrap metal up to the value of the judgement, and leave the remainder on the line. 300 ton locomotive going for $100 a ton as scrap, and carrying on down the row of cars till the value was found. Another is the Road Accident Fund, where the sheriff goes there daily to get a payment, because they have at least one writ a day served on them.
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  3217.  @chiedzawith2ds  Only because they could borrow money cheap, but now the interest payments are becoming equal to the GDP, and when you have to borrow money to pay government salaries you are only kicking the can down the road a little. Yes you can ask for a house, but the chances of ever getting to the top of that list are about the same as winning the lottery, those houses are built, then sold off to connected people, and then rented out, the money all being cash, with zero tax paid. Same for the transport industry, the owners and controllers of taxi groups live in massive mansions, yet on paper they earn nothing, and pay little tax. The corrupt take the money to build houses and such, start the work, get part way, then the money is gone, and so is the builder, starting up another few dozen companies, paying bribes to government officials to get tenders, and then simply doing part work, then closing down again and rinse and repeat. So many government workers in high positions sitting at home on full pay, because of pending cases, and if the case eventually makes it to court they simply resign, and the case simply gets dropped, and they apply to another state institution, where they do the same again. 5 years to even get a court date is not unusual, and the case might be heard in 10 years.
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  3218. South main Baptist Church, South Durham.............. Kenny has got to take a car on test under the Can Opener Bridge though.
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  3219.  @xanderzaccone5431  He just needs to use it once, to get the bearing aligned.....
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  3220. House always wins, though you can bet the security video will all "blank out" at that moment.
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  3221. Had the cloned plates before, just took an hour, downloaded and filled out the form on the relevant authority website, printed it, took it to the local cop shop to get it certified and stamped, and scanned it, emailed it, and posted it. Never heard back either, but as next year registration was not flagged, it was cleared. There are enough cloned plates that they have a department that deals with them. Oh yes, this was for etolls, which are overwhelmingly unpaid, as the argument is that the taxpayer already paid multiple times for these 2 main arteries, and paid for the upgrades and maintenance, so why should they pay a private company again to travel on these public roads, that the company never built, never maintained or upgraded, but did put the toll gantries up on. now the suggestion is to repurpose them for ANPR and ASOD purposes, which is rather ironic, in that the average speed there is half the posted limit at almost all times.
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  3222.  @1dariansdad  True but you can bet that the phone never leaves their side.
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  3223.  @ninemoonplanet  Well i have had to install lights, because the street lights are not working, and the council shows little regard to actually fixing them.
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  3224. You mean somebody threw a military spec boiled egg at a windscreen.
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  3225. Owner could claim he did not have the time to claim the trespass because he walked, grabbed and ran, so the owner was still in the process of telling him that this was trespass.
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  3226. Automatic bleed is also a good thing when doing a brake fluid change, as you get all the old fluid out of the ABS module as well, and bring in fresh fluid. You probably could change the fluid again after doing this, to make sure as much of the old i out, but simply emptying the reservoir and filling with new fluid will get most out, as it all gets returned there, so a change there, followed by the second round, will get good results. Also you will need to do 2 full fluid changes, with the ABS bleed, if going from any under DOT5 fluid to DOT 5, or vice versa, to make sure you get the incompatible fluids completely changed out.
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  3227. Last one you can absolutely bet the driver had to make that fakebook post right there and then.
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  3228. Here by me the law got changed, so that an auction has a reserve, determined by at least 3 local estate agents, and the reserve price is set at 80% of that average value, and thus the sale is deemed fail. Now, this case can easily be seen to be non legal, as they will need to prove that the owner was served paperwork, was told of the auction, and that the auction was legally announced as to time, place and what was on offer, and the auction had good standing. Case here can be made against the auctioneer, for short selling deliberately, and let him prove it, as his entire reputation is what allows him to be one, and being suspected of doing fraudulent sales is a sure fire way to get his registration pulled, and for the entire auction community, both buyers and sellers, to consider touching him to be a very bad reputational risk.
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  3229. Probably lost by the squirrel that was thinking of taking up residence there while it was parked.
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  3230. 5cm of copper in them in total, the vacuum and fill port, the rest is steel to steel brazes, and the steel is as thin as they can get, and protected only with a spray on lacquer coat, that is burned off by the joins, and then the steel tube rusts through there, or inside the foam fill.
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  3231. Will add that a lot of appliances these days draw power all the time. they have soft power switches. You want a switch when you have actually sensible mains voltages, you know, where you do not need power cables thicker than your thumb to power a toaster, or have an electric iron that has useful power, or have an electric kettle that will actually boil water before the heat death of the universe. Switch allows you to disconnect even in operation, and not draw massive arcs from the contacts in the plug separating. Wimpy 115VAC and massive current not too much of an arc, 230VAC and the same current much better arc, and of course the rest of the planet sleeved even blade pins. Even the Australian socket outlet is sleeved, and it is very much based on the US socket, and just angled to make it different. Even there in addition to the sleeving the plug base is larger. US plugs just are stuck with being from the 1800's, made by a guy who wanted to make them cheap and simple, and made them fast, so of course flat strip was the thing, easy to cut.
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  3232. You mean the crack that went all the way through, and watching that the builder built an entire warehouse using only one roll of brickforce for it.
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  3233. 6 hours because they figure out that you have to drill out the original factory fasteners, because they rusted into the block. That one there is not original, too shiny, and the bolts came with a protective coating on them, so came out easy, unlike roobasu bolts did.
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  3234. By me similar thing, except those mine dumps were actually mined again for the left over metals, and the fine powder was pumped down the old mine shafts to fill them up, gaining a bonus of removing the dump, and reducing the sinkhole risk, plus also getting a byproduct of gold, platinum, silver, copper, lead and other metals, plus a lot of sulphuric acid recovered for industrial use, and massive amounts of mercury, that was the old method of gold extraction, recovered. Then the land was covered up, and sold as residential property and new suburbs were created.
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  3235. Probably only 10% of your share, the rest they are kicking down the can to your great grandchildren.
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  3236. Time to bring back Glass Steagal act, and give it some teeth as well.
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  3237. Motherboard on those is a 1990's early 2000 generic Intel PC mainboard, which is both unobtanium, and also suffers badly from capacitor plague. there are industrial SBC units that will fit, but yes the correct option is a new machine.
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  3238.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  Just takes a single bump to make that massive block of metal go from near perfect, better than factory, to scrap it and start again. Guess the operator figures CEE rates are a lot more than his in house rates to paint, and likely he is already busy removing all the hydraulic lines and fittings to clean the glitter and chunks out of them. Operator can reflect on his idiotic ignoring of the noise by painting all the yellow back on the steel in that time.
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  3239. Waxoyl yes, but almost as good is plain old linseed oil and kerosene mixed. Works almost as well, but a whole lot cheaper and you can apply it liberally all over, and with a plain spray washing gun get it in all the cavities in the vehicle. Drawback is it will drip for weeks afterwards, so either park outside on the dirt, or put a big used cardboard drip catcher under the car. I love Waxoyl and Tectyl for rust prevention.
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  3240.  @jamisojo  That the door plug blew out, because nobody actually put the bolts that hold it in place, in the right positions, and that there have been a few new aircraft where they found loose hardware in the rudder controls, and loose hardware in other places.
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  3241. US breakers are specified slightly differently to EU and rest of the planet. There that rip current, say 10A, is a current it will trip at within a certain time, and normal operation you derate to around 70% for continuous loads. Short peaks for start up are allowed, but long term, over say an hour, will trip them at the face plate current. Unlike the DIN and others, which are rated to not trip at the rated current. Incidentally a hot breaker will trip at a lower overload, at least till it cools down, and a breaker in a board with adjacent hot running breakers will also trip closer to the minimum of the curve. conversely a breaker outside, in very cold weather, might not trip at all other than on the short circuit current, which is why you often will find the feed to a house is provided by a series connection of a fuse and a breaker, as the fuse, normally at the supplier tap off, will be guaranteed to always fail after a period of moderate overload, while the breaker is possible to have fail shorted.
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  3242. Shops track the shoplifters till the total they steal gets past there, then file the charges for the repeated thefts, and include charges of being a habitual criminal in it as well. Might take a few months, but they will have the video to back them up for it.
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  3243. The heat exchangers are also very common in heat pump water heaters, though there the unit is around a thirs more expensive than a regular split unit of the same size and a regular water heater cylinder. Probably smaller volumes than the common split unit in volume contributes, but more likely just because they are marketed more to the wealthier segment than anyother group, as those are prepared to pay more for the greenwashing.
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  3244. Ask yourself if the average driver could do this, seeing as most of them barely know the vehicle needs fuel to operate, and they never look under the hood for any reason.
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  3245. Last one at a minimum that bus driver will lose his driving permit allowing him to carry fare paying passengers, which means that he cannot even get a job as Uber driver, only for Uber eats, which pays a lot less. All the passengers on the buses will however be claiming for damages and injury, especially those who were on the impact sides as they likely all got injured by broken glass.
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  3246.  @sparcsau  Those screws are not galvanised, plain steel wood screws with a countersunk head and cut slot. Just about a century or two too modern compared to the box, and the clasp also is a little too modern, I can buy those off the shelf. Think Adam should aim at 1800's era styles, which, while still machine made, at least will weather to closer match.
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  3247. I had a similar case, lawyer showed a document purported to be signed by the owner, and I asked the lawyer who had "witnessed" the document if he was willing to stand up to a judge and verify that the person had signed the document. He said yes, so I told him that in that case I would go there with at least 100 hand written notes, all signed by the owner, and all with his distinctive writing and signature, and with a managing agent with likely hundreds more filed, as he was not only a slumlord, but also a prolific complainer, and I had at least a decade of written notes from him. Was he still willing to offer that document in court for the eviction proceedings, and the forced sale, and he was funny enough not willing. Case went through, no defence, default judgement, because the judge asked if they were the owners, no, do they have any documented proof of tenancy, no, so shut up and sit down, and a default judgement plus eviction. Went for the 10 years of no payment of levies, full plus all fees, and the balance went to the lawyer. I then told all those with claims dating back for damage to send in all bills to the lawyers, and made an even bigger dent in that amount. Remainder was eaten by the monthly tracing agent for the owner, and I guess it went all within a year. New owner went up, and told them that they had 2 choices, but that they would be leaving at 6PM. the choices were either leave via the door, or leave via the windows, and he had 6 armed police with him to "reinforce" the option. They used the door.
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  3248. Here is the real power cube, fits in your hand, and incredible power supply ability for a few minutes, plus a breakdown of how it works. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs1paqSlpeg You can easily fit the parts into the rear shell of that TV set without any problem, as there is a lot of space dedicated to making the speakers sound better inside there.
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  3249. Only change I would have made is to mill a groove on the edges, so you can use toe clamps to hold them down, if you just are past the table limit. One higher than the other, so you can see the sides are matched on each job, getting that tiny bit of extra tolerance as the sides that matter were machined together.
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  3250.  @additudeobx  No, just means better chance of getting them on camera and having enough pixels to stand up in court, especially with a van likely to have a unique pattern of dents on it.
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  3251. Single density disks were originally a different media, but later on all they were was just the same improved magnetics, but missing the little notch that told the drive the density. In the early days of double density you needed to increase write current for the double density media, as it was harder to magnetise, but advances in the coatings made it possible to have reliable data storage with low write current, thus there was no difference between them. The FDD you had simply treated all disks as double density, and had the higher write current on all the time, ignoring the media density selection notch.
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  3252.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  Yes but you want bigger ones, they can do things the small guy cannot do. I remember sitting in the door, looking down past my boots at the sky, and up at the ocean, as the pilots took the 15 ton helicopter through a barrel roll.
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  3253. Plus every single previous case is going to hurt the state a lot, having to return all the money and interest, plus costs. Perhaps they will go as well after the buyers who did the $1 sale for fraud as well, for buying at an artificially low cost which must mean there is some collusion or kickback involved, and thus no tax was paid on the money.
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  3254. We already have one........
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  3255. Simplest solution is to have all those who say the water is safe to drink get it as their only source of water for all uses for a month, and see if they still agree.
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  3256.  @loganholmberg2295  You can go to the sale now, on until 31 March 2021. Bought my first book of the year.
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  3257. Mine has his gorilla I gave when he was a little kitten, and still will play with it. His little Tigger from McD is still invited to share food.
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  3258. Done that, as I both find it difficult to buy Evaporust here, and because vinegar is cheap, plus I had a bottle of it, and some carbon vanes from an old pump as anode. Worked well, even freeing up the rusted fast screw threads, though it could not help the pitting at all, and some small parts were simply too far gone.
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  3259. Uber by me has been forced to accept the drivers are actually employees, because they get told when to work, and have to follow direction from the app. Not a happy company getting that, especially as the drivers also have a right to strike, and have done so on a few occasions. Also getting into court for drivers assaulting passengers. The drivers also have to pay for insurance through Uber, though I can bet they get shafted over for that as well, one of the reasons they strike, because the drivers know what they get per trip, and what Uber charges. As to LG, every single LG refrigerator arrives not in cardboard, but in a plastic shrink wrap now, with polystyrene corners, and only cardboard is a sheet on the base. Yes that comes off before delivery, unless the customer collects at the warehouse. Only thing LG supplies in cardboard are AC units, because those are thick wall cardboard, and those units are normally stacked up 10 high. Fridges are 4 high stacks only.
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  3260.  @mchammer1836  No police force has insurance, the state and county are self insured. Thus the ones paying this are the taxpayers. I would hope the next election the opposition points out that this case is now going to result in each taxpayer having to pay in an extra few hundred dollars for this, and if they are still going to vote for the same group who likely will do this again, making them pay more.
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  3261. Those offcuts from making the beam straight could also have a use as some veneer to finish the sides of the fireplace uprights, giving it a look that says it was made 150 years ago. Would need an insert that is similar age though to match in there.
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  3262. Yup, and likely the car guy was glued to the phone instead of the road as well.
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  3263. You need the big lathe, so you can work on the smaller lathe, and the smaller lathe still to handle the stuff the big lathe cannot grip. Then the tiny lathe, that only goes up to a half metre in length, and which cannot do more than a quarter metre diameter object. For Kurtis, lathe sizes are from 2 bananas, up to the whole plantation size.
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  3264. By me all those machine have not worked for 15 years, so you do not get tickets, unless you park in a loading zone, or in an intersection, though there is one intersection with 2 parking bays demarcated inside the intersection.
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  3265. Charles, just had a 21 year old VAG coil finally pop, off my old VW Polo. $30 for the pattern part, 3 minutes talking nicely to it with a 10mm spanner, and away it went again.
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  3266. Next to replace the entire brake system. Luck that is all still available, from the pedal to the drums.
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  3267. 8in drives hit up Curious Marc, he has a collection of working ones, and probably will be happy to get you one that is working, tested and aligned, and you can look out for old ones, and disks, to get tested, and also to have another drive, that will interface with a genuine IBM XT controller card, and a small adaptor card, to allow you to use the PC platform to cross compile software on, using the tools and code you are familiar with.
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  3268. Yup, had to change the pump, not because it was faulty, but because the fuel level sender wore out, and was erratic below a half tank.
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  3269. Very common also for tracking systems that are able to do that. Normally it will only activate the shut down when the vehicle is not moving, and the engine is idling.
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  3270. Thousands of WWII wrecks litter the mid Atlantic, a lot are very deep, and are not known where they are at all, so are still there as capsules of the time. Also a lot in the Pacific theater as well, along with hundreds along the African coast, lost through the ages, from the earliest trade routes down the East cost, to the later on round the Cape voyagers who were lost.
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  3271. Landscape truck hitch not connected correctly, and they never bothered to put the safety chains on. So while towing it came loose, and when it hit the median likely a can of gas, very likely loose in the back of the trailer, because they had just filled the plastic can, or had filled the grass cutting equipment, came flying forward, and ruptured on impact with either garden tools, or the front of the vehicle. liquid poured out the side, and was lit by the sparks of the side metal scraping on the concrete barrier. You can see from the smoke and the darkish flame, this was 2 stroke fuel mix, the oil only partly burning as it was dripping out of the bottom and sides of the trailer. If it was like any landscaper, the fuel was in a plastic 25 liter container, probably with no lid, as that had long ago been lost, and the fuel had made the plastic yellow and brittle with time.
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  3272. Film because you have to remember context for every image. With only a limited amount of storage you have to remember the scene, in order to see the best time to get the single frame. Not like digital where you just have a stream and no context at all.
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  3273.  @Dave-in-MD  Reply yes, any cheaper it has no return, no warranty at all.
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  3274. Some professors who published the textbooks also told, on the first day, that there was a dozen copies in the library, and also suggested that some students could check them out, and also that you could come to his office and get a copier code, provided you made a few copies of each page, so all could get a copy. Was not his code, but the actual main admin code, so it could never be blocked. Electronic ones you can find now, plus some lecturers also tell you to get a copy from the Indian publisher direct, saving around 95% of the cost of the book, and getting the identical copy directly. Note that often the only difference between editions is that the page numbering moves slightly, and the self study section at the end of each chapter is the only thing different, same questions, same answers, just the order is different. The old joke of the psychology professor who used the exact same book for decades, exactly the same material, exactly the same questions, just that the answers were different.
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  3275. Likely using a bail bond, so they only need to present 10% up front money, with the bondsman providing surety for the remainder. so now have to have an ID to present to the bondsman and the sheriff to get the paperwork right, as to who is responsible for paying on skip. Likely they made the 2 fake ID's at the same time, so they both had either the same info, or the same errors in the manufacture. Funny thing is by me ID can be any one of either an old ID book, hand written and stamped, or the computerised later version, or the latest card type, or a passport, or a drivers license card. However the drivers license card cannot be used as proof when renewing your drivers, even though it is a photo ID.
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  3276. Now this guy has a ban, enforceable by the police, preventing him, under penalty of trespass, from entering on the property of any Walmart, likely nationwide. Very likely all the other large stores will also ban him, citing the threat of a lawsuit, so will reserve their right of entry on him. Going to make it really hard for him in future, especially if all delivery options also will flag his name as well.
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  3277.  @TheBooban  I live in a country where 2 out of 3 people are unemployed............
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  3278. Yes, which is why pretty much every toll plaza is going contactless, or using tags. Do not travel on a toll road much use a tap and go, travel a lot get a tag, and load credits on it once a month to cover the fee. USA is the only country where you hand over your card and it is out of sight, but every other country accepts tap as payment, regardless of amount. USA also still has embossed cards, because there probably still are merchants who use the zip zap imprinter and carbon copy paper as well. Here that is long gone, no place has that, as the card terminal can easily store 1000 transactions if offline, and the bank will have a current hot card list uploaded to the terminal every day, and for offline transactions over a limit you will have to call for authorisation anyway.
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  3279.  @adjwindu70  Lots of people do not even have a card any more, using a phone with NFC instead. even if the battery is flat the NFC embedded card will still work to process a payment, provided it is the only card there.
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  3280. He had one, but got rid of it, as the number of parts, and the need to tweak a lot of dimensions, meant the standard Kurtis and vernier worked out cheaper.
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  3281. Outer layer would be destroyed by the sun, but the aluminium under will be mostly fine, except where the plastic of the threads has been destroyed, so the blankets will have sagged and deformed, with likely some of the structure visible now. Paint exposed will be basically only the oxide pigments, and the mineral powders and fillers, nothing organic left, except where sheltered. Glass exposed could likely be a lovely blue from photon and electron bombardment, though most of it would be brown for the same reason. Thin film of dust on everything, as it rains down from the sky, as a result of micrometeorite bombardment nearby causing dust to fly up, and also from static charge causing particles to levitate in the vacuum from charge generation due to impact from solar wind protons and electrons.
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  3282. Going to guess they bored out the thread, then went and made a stud that they pressed in there, after freezing the stud, and making it an interference fit. Might want to take the end and cut a fine pitch thread into it, to hold a nut that will allow the thrust washer to be held tight against the bearing, and then take the sleeve, cut it down a little in diameter, and make a fine pitch thread on it, and then put a sleeve and end that allows the handwheel to operate there.
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  3283. Mint is related to catnip, so she finds it acceptable, plus coming from the human she considers a littermate doubly so.
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  3284. Would take me about 3 days to rewire that tractor crane, nothing too complex about the electrical system, and easy to work on as well, just with heavy steel panels. did the same to another tractor that had an electrical fire, and had all charred looms. As to putting a turbo on, you will kill that engine in a month, unless you turn the boost down to practically zero, they really will last forever if not stressed, but the turbo versions blow up and grenade themselves. running on Jet A1 I would guess the exhaust is now a nice white inside, not the normal sooty black, and it runs a lot better than when it was on agridiesel.
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  3285.  @swit6000  Plus made to pay for 20 years of identity insurance, as they deliberately tossed all the documentation out that can be used for identity theft.
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  3286. Just take the oil scraper rings out, it will run away soon enough. Plus fill the crankcase to nearly the bottom of the pistons with a mix of diesel, ATF and old brake fluid mixed with the oil.
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  3287. Driving instructor, with lots of hand waving, in typical italian style "See, this is why we drive carefully in the rain, and also, remember that the Beyershe Mist Wagen always has an idiot behind the wheel, so be careful around them", followed by him getting on the phone, and telling the school they need both a tow truck, and another car to pick them up and take to the hospital, because his hand is injured from all the waving. Plus spilled his coffee.
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  3288. So basically a tracker unit built into an easily removeable unit, that will be the first thing the car thief rips off and leaves when he takes the vehicle. As a bonus all the owner gets is the ability to change the plate colour without actually having to get a screwdriver out to do so. Tracking systems are generally hidden, and often actually cheaper per month, with much better recovery rates as well. $240 per year idiot tax in reality, or for the total idiots $300, and likely to rise every year, plus of course when the battery expires (bet that is a hard timer, not actually the life of the battery, which is probably closer to 10 years anyway) you now will either have to buy a battery from them for $200, or buy a new one, and toss the old one away.
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  3289. No, just had to use the service department a few times. There is a massive dumpster out back with all the ones in it that were either scrapped as not repairable, or were stripped for parts to fix others. Most common is running without oil, or using the wrong fuel or oil in them, or just being generally abused.
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  3290. TB is currently resistant, so you have a cocktail of 6 drugs you take twice a day, for 6 months, because otherwise you will die. Even so half the patients stop taking it after a month, because "they feel well", so now when they rebound they need 12 drugs, and often then die.
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  3291.  @PebblesChan  There were 5A regulators available from National Semiconductor, in a TO3 package, with a pretty high per unit price, that needed a fair chunk of aluminium to get that 5A out of them, even with the minimum input output difference of 3V, thus the 8V supply rail, that was 8V fully loaded, to 10V unloaded. 15 to 30W to dump on a card was hard, you had to either have a heatsink, running the full length of the card, with fins that took up another card space, or have it take up half the card space and still get a card in next to it. Or have a cooling fan directly cooling just that frame section. S100 bus simply did it the easy way, need 5A, put 5 1A regulators on the top of the card, each with a heatsink to handle 6W, and have 5 Vcc bus rails to the assorted chips, so each rail was only loaded to just under 1A. Easy with TTL and NMOS, as power use really did not change much with clock rate. Cray did it even simpler, as ECL has a current use that is almost constant, irrespective of clock, so all they did was to have a single ferroresonant power supply that used massive copper busbars to deliver the -5V2 to the cards, with absolutely no regulators at all, just a ferroresonant converter that made a constant AC voltage, and then simply tossed in a massive set of rectifier diodes, and truly massive capacitors to smooth out that supply. Then used liquid cooling, to keep the chips on the card frames from melting themselves off the boards. No regulators, and a variac with autotune to fine tune the voltage.
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  3292.  @PebblesChan  Those TO3 were later on also released in TO247 package, which had three pins.
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  3293. Likely the water board was applying all the water lost to system leaks, before the meter, but the difference between the bulk water supplier and the meter, which is the responsibility of the supplier to fix. Plenty of cases of this being applied to a bill incorrectly. Should be brought up next election by the opponents for the Councillors involved, the opposition saying they would never do like the incumbent, and bill for services that were never used, and take property owners to court for mistakes the council made.
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  3294. How about using clear casting silicone instead, and, after suspending the drop in it and before it has finished curing, use a syringe with a long needle to inject in some columns of coloured silicone to act like shock wavefront indicators. That way you can let the silicone cure for 24 hours, then pop it safely, and still get the strings of colour to show the passage of the shock waves, like the rocket trails in nuclear blasts do, just in a very much more confined volume.
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  3295. Not lazy, just not having enough staff to do it at all. Ever wonder why you never see stocking staff, because they all are acting as cashiers, or have 3 hours early morning, and 3 hours late evening to stock the store, so that the store manager can keep them both under the full time hours, and also underpay them, plus give them 12 hours of stocking to do in each 3 hour interval, plus all the other tasks as well.
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  3296. Which is why my sister loved it, as it was fast enough on a 286/16 PC to keep up with her typing speed. Otherwise with other word processing she would regularly out type the keyboard buffer and lose characters. Only with a 100MHz Pentium and Win98 did Word finally get fast enough that she could not out type the buffer and she finally, after a decade or more of WP, changed to Word, as the company did not want to pay the cost of Corel's upgrade.
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  3297. Remember the compiler simply translates into a series of machine code instructions, and then can go through the code and see which paths can never be taken, and optimise them out, shrinking the code. Hard to make it see that a few instructions in the source can be replaced by a single set of machine code instructions, and come in at half the size, simply because the original developers never had that edge case in mind, and never wrote it in as a path that could be taken.
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  3298. One day Homie will be coming in with George riding on his back...... You do not normally think of M10 capscrews being the fusible link in a product, but here they definitely are. Going to guess they are also a use once item as well.
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  3299. You will also find with those road transports there might be 8 trucks moving in convoy, but only one will have the actual device inside, the others will have either a dummy or simply have a large concrete block loaded, so that they measure the same mass on a weighbridge.. Same number of escorts per vehicle as well, so your chances of an accident are much lower, as the escorts are well known, and legally enabled, to simply run off the road any vehicle that is remotely threatening to the convoy. Also are permitted to shoot at them and kill the driver. When you see one pull over to the slow lane, lest you find yourself spending a few weeks in a military hospital
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  3300.  @Curmudgeon2  Gets a little difficult when the top of it is level with a 5 floor building though, and you have no roads that do not have either bridges or wires strung over. So they have to carefully remove it, then lower it down onto an abnormal carrier, just to get the length.
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  3301.  @Curmudgeon2  80-100 year old Queen palms in the park outside, and when a leaf falls it makes a big noise. The coconut palms there probably are approaching 200 years old now.
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  3302. Yup had that a few times already by me, renting out units that do not exist, with the listing having images taken from other listings, with an address from another.
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  3303. Take 2 pins of the right diameter, and wind carbon fibre string between then to make a core. Then use more string to wrap around the long length of string, so as to make the long lengths pull together. You will need to leave the long wrap loose, so the wrap can pull them tight together, probably also first making a circle around the bores, so there is an even layer, then wrap the string lengthwise and then pull together in a wrap. Then you can use the mat to make the outside, using that vacuum form to make a wood replica, that has larger dimensions for the split area, and also wind more string around that area as well. No reason the composite should not be as strong as steel, just needs to be aligned correctly, not with a woven mat, as that is merely good as a panel, you need strength only in one direction, for both compression and tension. Thus the long string for tension, and the tight wrap for the compression side. After all the long length of the rod did not fail, but the attach points did, so you need to beef those up, and using carbon fibre string is the best for that, to allow you to control the direction of force.
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  3304. How about the VW Up engine, even if it is technically not a VW engine.
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  3305.  @skylinefever  Toyota Aygo or Datsun GO, and also the Citroen and Peugoet versions. Yes not likely to have been sold in the USA, as they are small vehicles with small engines. You can park 2 of them in the parking space you need for the Mini Clubman.
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  3306.  @Randoir11  Insurance will nope out of it, claiming this was a criminal fraud the dealership did, and it is not covered by insurance.
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  3307. Operator to grease every morning...... Yes, they grease every day, just not today, and not yesterday, but they will always grease it tomorrow. Or it will break, and suddenly it is full of brand new grease
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  3308.  @nss5353  By me being a guard in one of those companies is always every day wondering if you will be held up and robbed, and more importantly surviving. They all know that the odds are pretty good that they will be in an armed robbery, as it is very common, because that is a large amount of untraceable cash, and there are lots of people who want it. Now to the point each armoured van has at least 2 separate escorts, in bullet and mine resistant vehicles, that tail them, and not only cvash, but also deliveries of high value goods, like jewellery, phones and computers as well have the same treatment.
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  3309.  @barbraabsalom4531  Transmission is different, because all steel gears and sliding surfaces, but an engine now has very little steel in it, all aluminium. I have stuck magnets into the pan of old oil, and got nothing sticking to them, but gearboxes you get wear particles. Magnet in a trans works, at least getting half the debris out, though the clutch wear is not touched much. And yes manufacturers only worry about warranty, so build it good enough to last that long, and a little more so the ones with bad tolerancing and flaws will all get out before failing.
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  3310. Had that warm up this weekend when fishing, using a 150W ceramic metal halide lamp as a light. Took 5 minutes to run up to full power, and the hot lamp made a severe dent in the local flying insect population, as after 4 hours there waere very few flying insects left, the rest being crisped somewhat when they hit the front glass cover, and landded in the water.
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  3311. Tip now is not to buy any vehicle that was in Florida, without looking for signs of water intrusion, and also checking that they have not been totalled due to salt water damage. Going ot be hundreds of totalled vehicles getting a wash, fix up the visible salt damage, and then sold off with "clean" titles for the next year.
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  3312. Just remember that is per side, so you might take 4 days to do it with a single tech on the job.
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  3313. Looks like they just did a pad slap a few times too many, not caring the rotor was worn so deep, and then just drove it till it no longer stopped any more.
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  3314. Yes, return means you have to dissipate the exact same amount of energy as what was used to get you up there in the first place, and with no way to store it, it has to go as heat.
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  3315. They did change the rotors, they got some quality pre owned ones from the wreckers yard, and the shop owner got the new rotors......
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  3316. Simple fix is to say that they have to pay them for the time, at full time rate, if they want to have that be valid.
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  3317.  @skiboskeeskiblets  By me there are no guarantees about insect damage. You can tent it, and it is pest free, but that week one can fly in and start up the damage again. However I did see a house, 100 years old, where there were absolutely no bugs in the wood. Owner would, till he died, having gotten it from his father and grandfather, go into the attic every year and paint all the exposed wood with a mix of creosote, linseed oil and paraffin, so the wood all got a coat. Pest control came to inspect after last family member died (original copperplate hand written deed, complete with original OHMS wax seal with ribbon, and later on stamp duties and addendums on the rear as it was passed down) and said this place was impossible, not a single bug, not a single fly, not a single gecko lived in that roof, doors or frames. Frames just got the linseed oil and paraffin every year, smelled for a week, and were slightly tacky till it polymerised. hose is in what is termed the borer belt, where you can be sure pretty every house has some, treated wood or not, unless you have very old house with green arsenic chromate treated timbers in the roof.
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  3318. Oil change is also cost driven, one less oil change before the vehicle is out of warranty is a big saving, especially on vehicles under either a motorplan or warranty.
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  3319. @@gretchenk.2516 Definitely time to also report them for incorrect filing as well, let them enjoy the fun of being audited, and having to prove all the things they claimed back for the last 11 years.
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  3320.  @streetcop157  If your lawyer can show a pattern they might be interested, as this would hint that there are larger sums involved.
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  3321. Biggest irony here is that elections have just concluded, and those mineworkers all voted to support the parties, who were directly involved with owning the mine and who all have controlling interests in the companies, and all those leaders are still in power, tainted with corruption claims multiple times, yet still have those people voting for them time and again. That is the irony of it all, the monument will never be built, because it is an admission by the powers that be that they ignored the people who put them there.
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  3322. Small correction the oil pumps and cooling water systems will all be run off the 440VAC bus, as they are low power loads, under 20kVA per motor, so easily run off a 440VAC power link, which is a lot cheaper motor wise, as you use standard insulation on the motor, and standard insulation on the wires, which is a lot cheaper than 6600VAC insulation and control gear. Same for hydraulic oil pumps, all running off the low voltage bus. Bow thruster high voltage because they need the power delivery, and the long cables for them also make high voltage advantageous, despite the need for much more robust and thicker insulation, and much more expensive control gear. The high voltage on a motor means a much larger motor frame, as now you have so much more volume in the windings being occupied by insulation, instead of copper or aluminium wire. As well with high voltage insulation cooling is harder, you need to either have air channels down the windings for cooling, and run the windings at a much lower current so they generate less heat, or have much lower power density in the motor, making it much bigger for the power. Expensive below roughly 50kVA, and the 6600VAC control gear is a lot more expensive over your common low cost 440VAC control gear, that is cheap, and common world wide in industry.
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  3323. Put him in the hell office, where he has to be on time all the time, can not do anything else, and just gets a desk, and nothing else to do. No phone, no internet, just a room with 4 walls, and no view, plus exact to the minute breaks. Should take 3 months max before he resigns to stay sane.
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  3324. Ever since you filled the air my cat had gotten pregnant.
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  3325.  @joseph7179  Every week a podcast, in both video, audio and in text form, with both the show notes and actual podcast available as well. Video and Audio at TWIT, and the show notes at Steve's site of GRC, where he also has this freeware, along with his other software.
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  3326. Only if you live in a place with the perfect parking, so the panels get full sunlight from sunrise to sunset, and it moves to follow the sun as well. More like the range will not drop during the day, better to take the canopy you will probably have it under and make the roof of that solar panels and grid tied, with a slow charger there for it.
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  3327. That Fumoto valve is also good used, well worth selling off.
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  3328. The band should make a nice new video, negatively endorsing the entire cereal line.
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  3329.  @Natediggetydog  The thing is this is not consented, and also no cost to him, so it gives added joy to him, knowing that he has this, very private thing, and she does not know about it.
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  3330. Here by me same for fishing, you lose your car. Solution adopted by many fishers is simply to get somebody to bring them there and leave them, and go home, see you in the morning. For the undersize fish the solution is to take a big cooler box with ice, and a hand mincer, and all the undersize ones go through it, and into a plastic bag, and into the cooler box. Hard to see without DNA testing if the fish was out of season, in season, or undersize, plus all the gutted ones go in on ice as well.
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  3331. Found with coins,could be a coin sizer, because coins then would often be shaved to get silver to melt into more, so a sizer to ensure the coin was not too saved, and thus worth less than the face.
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  3332. A sub 10 minute Ray video, this is a worry!
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  3333.  @suomiapina89  Well the Finns did suprise the Soviets, and took a big chunk out of their war capability, and since then have figured that they just have to be better trained and equipped to survive. Not going to start anything, but are going to finnish it.
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  3334. Yes my father did that, told the city he would stay in the office till the cheque was in his hands, even if it meant sleeping overnight in the office, and using the dustbins as a toilet, because there was plenty of paper on the desks to wipe with. He left same day with that council cheque, and deposited it back in his account before close of banking hours, with immediate clearance, as it was a council cheque, which the bank could verify, as they were at that time the council cheque account holder.
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  3335.  @Igotitrightagain  How about any accident he had, where the other party cannot claim anything, because no license, no insurance, and no way to be made whole again ever.
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  3336.  @LRRPFco52  You want an example google Sanele May, who was given a HGV to drive, when he could barely start it, then was expected to drive 6 hours to deliver a load, and collect one coming back, and be back next morning. He wanted to keep the toll fee on the one, so used the bypass, and because he did not know how to descend a hill, used brakes till they faded completely, and then took an off ramp, and wiped out a few dozen people in the ensuing accident.
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  3337.  @rhetorical1488  My mother got her drivers back in 1956, and all it was was a practical test, did you know how to get into and out of the car, start it, use the gears and brakes, and drive along a road and obey signs and the road markings. Then you passed. no parking, just that most driveways in Central Africa at that time had a unguarded concrete slab over a 6 foot deep ditch, and you had to drive over it to get out. 6 foot deep and 8 foot wide, because that just about handled the daily rainfall in the wet season. On roads that more often than not were gravel or dirt. She never took a written test ever again, and it was accepted when she moved countries as well. Only thing when renewing was an eye test, and that she could pass. Only ever wrote one car off as well, and that was likely the other driver cutting a corner, and hitting her.
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  3338. Often the only difference is price, the eggs come from the same producer, and are just packaged in a different pack, and perhaps washed and colour graded, or even have a brown dye applied to make them look "better" and even in colour. Best is the farm eggs, and there you also get those with every egg having a double or even triple yolk, and the farm chicken eggs definitely have a much better taste.
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  3339. Good enough video capture is what works, and if it is "good enough" and does not detract from your enjoyment then it is the right thing to have.
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  3340. Did get passed by a vehicle speeding in the fog. We did catch up to the vehicle around an hour later, when he ploughed into the back of a truck at around 200kph. Truck driver did not even know this till he was pulled over at the bottom of the long mountain pass by a motorist who witnessed this. Another BMW was speeding past us, we got to him 10 minutes later, where he went through 50m of plastic barrier, then impaled the vehicle front to rear with Armco rail in some roadworks, with a posted speed of 60. In the front, through the engine, through the driver, and out the back of the vehicle, with the road showered with little bits of yellow plastic.
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  3341. Going to be quite a few retrials there soon.
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  3342. Seems like a rehash of RA Heinlein's The Roads Must Roll, which he wrote in 1940. Same idea, same thing of a linear town based on long strips of road carrying all transport, and with photovoltaic cells in the top cover providing power for everything. Also has the mention of video calling, cellular phones, the split between elite and those who work, and also the rise of a servant class to provide all service to the elites who live in the lap of luxury.
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  3343.  @iamdmc  Under 60C, so not exactly a problem, especially if you are using a propylene glycol blend with corrosion inhibitors in it, suitable for aluminium heads and cast iron blocks. Both the aluminium and the stainless steel form a thin oxide coat to protect, so the antifreeze will last a long time, provided the system itself is air tight and thus there is no oxygen to cause reactions. Should easily last 5 years in there, if it is the correct type, though you can also flush it out and use the Dexcool pink or orange antifreeze that Tesla uses in their vehicles, which is going to last 7 years as well.
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  3344. Wrong part of the banana, you use the peels instead of the inner part.
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  3345. Funny enough local air force base by me still has prefab buildings, built over a century ago as temporary buildings, but which have outlasted all the more modern buildings in most cases. -29.95874996060455, 30.94913507143545 is the location, and the prefabs have either green or white roofs, though it does seem one has burnt down recently.
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  3346.  @jamie59685  Told, I would guess they would be given a practical demonstration, using the clipboard they were holding, put there with great force, sideways, and applied till it went in and stayed in.
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  3347.  @pauliewalnuts2527  No cable in my country, just a few dozen fibre providers, and a few mobile operators, plus a monopoly on fixed line phone, and a regulatory authority that really dislikes Musk, even if he went to school here.
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  3348. So just driving into the airport with a car can get it siezed, if it is over $20k in value, and you are driving whilst annoying a cop.
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  3349. Yes, because in flight it scurries in and out of the air inlet, under control from the air data computer, that has a few mechanical cams in it that are driven by airspeed, altitude, attitude and engine power settings. they can be very bust moving in and out as you simulate various conditions, moving around like little mice there on the inlet
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  3350. One of the things you rent rather than buy, plus take out insurance for it as well for the rental period, preferably with your insurer, not the RV rental place insurer.
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  3351. I was looking for the rear seat belts for that.......
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  3352. Do you have any Cheddar, or perhaps a lovely Brie.....
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  3353. License plates stolen or cloned, make and model, so you are looking for a generic Chevy, one of a million made, not sure of registration, colour or anything. Person driving may have kidnapped somebody, or was transporting drugs.
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  3354. Still cheaper than automatic, and VW golf transmissions often enough, on the MK1 versions, will do 2 million miles with no problems at all. Those hardly ever fail, unlike all the auto boxes that die and need a rebuild or replacement. Just a cheap clutch every so often, and a known failure of the firewall cracking around the clutch pedal, which has aftermarket cables, pedals and brace kits to fix it as well. $5 for the kit of parts to make the linkages work like new as well, and away you go for the next few years.
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  3355. Fake plates are easy, plenty of them around, simply because they are so easy to make. Got a few toll bills from that, and the toll people know the number of fake plates is so high that they actually have a separate form you fill in to say this is a fake plate, not a misread or you dispute the camera. Fill in, get it signed by a commissioner of oaths, scan with the ticket, proof of ownership of vehicle, and email, and the ticket vanishes, which is actually faster than the other methods, including actually paying for the tolls if you do not have the transponder.
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  3356.  @Mike-01234  Just takes one election to bring in a bad actor, who will run the HOA into the ground, and destroy the community. mostly because the USA has almost no laws governing them, and fragmented laws in some states only. they need to have a set of common laws covering what they can and cannot do, and a minimum set of laws about what they must do, transparency and making public all records being foremost among them. So many cases of HOA's where the monies just go missing, and no records available until the owners actually get a court order to force the showing. Best thing for many HOA's is to dissolve it completely, and if there is nothing common, like sewage works, roads and such that actually improves home values, as you now only pay the city, not an added tax that you have no control of which is HOA dues. But HOA is popular for a developer, because they build slow, get to keep the dues during construction as profit, and then the city or town gets a new suburb to tax without actually needing to spend any money to build roads, electric, water, gas, communications and sewage infrastructure, or to maintain it, but gets the tax revenue as if they had. These kind of HOA's should not exist past the building phase, let the city/town take them over, because they get the infrastructure already built, and the HOA is actually now an impediment as it adds a higher cost of ownership to the property, which strongly affects pricing. It is showing that non HOA properties next to, or in a HOA, typically have a much higher selling price because they are not deed encumbered by a HOA. some times you need a HOA or COA, because of common property, but most cases of separate houses on public roads you really do not need it at all.
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  3357. The flush is needed because the bean counters wanted the least number of oil changes that would get 99.5% of engines out of warranty without them grenading, as the cost of doing those changes could be a negative factor in TCO during warranty. By me now the warranty is still enforced, even if you do not go the stealership route, so long as the service station is registered with the RMI, and stamps the book, the warranty has to be honoured. Losing stealerships the gravy of doing oil changes, charging the customer for oil, plugs, filter, fuel filter, air filter, pollen filter and a 100 point inspection (then claiming all that extra back from warranty from the OEM), while in reality only doing oil and possibly filter change, then pocketing the extra. Oil change because it is the only thing easy to check, unless you have no dipstick, in which case they might only reset the service light, and clean the car, as you cannot check without removing covers and draining the oil.
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  3358. Quickest fix for those not wanting the GMO mosquitos is to get their names, and ask them if they will also agree to not getting treatment for any mosquito borne diseases.
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  3359. When you call the police on their lines, the calls are always recorded, for use against you in court. There are a few series, hosted by William Shatner, about that. No difference in them calling you on the same phone systems, and you recording the call either, because in most PD departments all calls may be recorded for quality and audit purposes, and for use in court. No difference if the recipient records, so long as the PD version also matches, so there has been no quick editing on either side to tamper with the recording. Sending this down to be thrown out is the important thing, as it shows that public officials, in acting in their official roles, cannot be sheltered from their actions and words, and that they have to be held accountable for them. Either video, or audio, to have a permanent record that they have done an action, and that it was either right or wrong, but a record should be held in all cases.
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  3360. Buy the cheaper models, which do come with the charger, USB cable, headphones and micro SD slot. What are the Brazilians going to do when the phone does not come with a SIM in the box, or with a year of free calls and data, because without the SIM or a servicce it is not usable as a phone for the greater part, and it does not come with free wireless either. All things you have to pay for separately. And yes I have a good number of chargers, have been keeping them and giving away as the old ones wear out. You have more waste from the packaging than the chargers, as they also can be used with other phones if you do not buy into the Apple fanboi way, as they are not locked down to a phone, and you do not get compatible units, that otherwise are equal in all respects to the Apple brand, but because you do not pay the Apple tax, making them the richest corporation in the world, they stop working after upgrades, despite being made with the same parts as the originals.
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  3361. That is because he was so dumb he was held back for a few years. In kindegarden he was the biggest child simply because he was 10 at the time, having failed remedial clay squishing so many times.
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  3362. Not true, spread spectrum clocks also jitter the clock to make noise more broad band, to cheat emissions tests that sweep across a band, so the average noise becomes lower, and the clock can jitter by 5% easily. Critical timing functions use separate crystals, though all timing on a CPU and computer is designed with tolerance in mind, as nothing outside the CPU cores is too critical timing wise, so long as edges of data and clocks line up with the correct relation to each other. The most critical timing is not in PC's, but in cellular use, where your timings even compensate for the distance from the base station to the mobile device, as the shorter the dead time between switching between each mobile handset you have, the more data you can transmit to the particular handset per frame, and thus you get distance compensation, as well as dynamic power control, so that the receive side sees a near constant signal from all handsets at the base station , so it does not have to degrade data rate, and the transmit power to each handset in the antenna field varies wildly, so they get a near constant level as well, The other handsets are muting the receivers while waiting, so they do not get desensitised by high signal levels, and the base station will dynamically allocate the handset position per cycle, to not have high power signals during the potential window time. That needs an accurate clock, and no base station runs off a regular crystal, they have normally heated ovens that keep the crystal temperature stable, and this is in turn fed from a Rubidium or Cesium atomic clock, that in turn is synchronised with a GPS receiver per base station, to get a clock accurate to within a clock cycle across the entire network, and giving free time to each mobile, as they also need an accurate clock, though the base station will compensate for the drift in the phone clock as well, in the telemetry channel each phone receives.
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  3363. Going to drive a lot to do so, and also conversely mean a lot of the airlines will be poaching staff from other countries as well. There will be unintended results for sure from this.
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  3364. The graphite works, used old vanes from an oil less pump, as they are graphite in some models. Tried it using acetic acid to free up a very rusted 25mm micrometer, got it eventually after about 6 hours to the point I could start to move the barrel and eventually dismantle it and clean it. Full of pitting and marks from the rust, and the rachet at the top rusted away completely, but was able to assemble it again into working condition. Now it lives in an oil bath in the box, so it will not corrode again
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  3365.  @phlodel  If he paid a deposit then they will give it back. If he paid up front, they would have no way to sell the vehicle, as they are acting as delivery only, and if the dealership sold it they would be looking at a very nasty legal case, which would result in them having to not only pay the original customer his money back, but also pay for a brand new vehicle in that trim spec as well for them, as the original vehicle would no longer be able to be titled as new. My BIL had that, paid full price for a vehicle, delivery around a year out, with his custom trim spec and interior. Year or so later it arrived, but, due to currency fluctuations, it now was triple the price, but he still paid nothing more for it. Insured with the regular insurer he used, and not a week later it was written off in a T bone, with another vehicle driving into the driver door, at high speed, and going wrong way up a one way street.. Few bruises and cuts from glass, and all airbags deployed, and he was fine. Next day insurance was not happy, as the insurance was for replacement value, and that was now 4 times what he had paid originally. Unfortunately he wanted a replacement same time, so the CEO of the local dealer network lost his brand new company car, also on the same shipment, as it was the closest trim spec to the totalled one. Back down to driving the lower spec one. Scrapyard that got it was unhappy, though the owner took it as part of the contract with insurance, and spent another year ordering all the parts to repair it from all over the world, and then sending in all the electronic modules to get reflashed and working again. He got a nearly new luxury car at the end, for half price, so drove it all the time.
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  3366. Spam is processed, canned and then, in the can, it is cooked in bulk. Cooked in the can so that all of the bacteria is killed, and it is sterile. There is heat treatment before canning, which is pretty much cooking it in bulk, before it is canned, but the final stage of cooking is done after sealing into the same. Likely that batch was short time in the big steam cooker, either the temperature did not reach the peak it needed, or the time cut off early, and the morning crew did not notice it, until somebody at QA finally read the log for the stem oven, and noted that it was short a few hours of cooking.. Spam was invented, mostly because there was no real way to refrigerate meat, so in Brazil there was a company who developed a method to can meat, cook it in the can, as there was a lot of cattle. Then ship this the 4 months or so it took to reach Europe, and capitalise on the canned meat not needing to either be eaten immediately, it did not involve massive amounts of salt or smoking, and the meat was recognisable as meat, and did not have to be soaked to remove the salt, or have a strong smoke flavour, so it was usable as is. Plus no need to ship cattle across the ocean, needing 4 months of food and water (plus 10 crew just to shovel off the deck into the ocean) taking up half the cargo hold.
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  3367. Yes but they all have common adaptors for interconnect, so you can remove parts as separate pieces for the final orbits, and each section can go down with it's own Progress or Dragon providing thrust and some control.
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  3368.  @keepernod2888  They might not all have a docking adaptor, but for sure they do all have a way to connect them in space, that also allows them to come apart. Both will have the plans, if not spare flight ready hardware, that they can use to cobble up a way to attach them to a booster stage.
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  3369. Him changing his primary residence is a tax dodge, as he is not taxed on the same of his primary residence. He can do that, but he will slip up one day and either change address before selling, or have 2 primary addresses registered, and will be done over for the sales tax and property taxes from the IRS.
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  3370. Bananas don't last long enough in my house to get overripe. Do use the more ripe ones chopped up into chunks with some Greek yoghurt and a dash of vanilla to make a nice dessert though. For extra flavour add some whipping cream to the yoghurt and mix it up well.
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  3371. The one bought in 1944 with a war bond, that has been paid off 100 times already. @JeffHenry-cq3is 
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  3372. Remember that is the frangible part, the rest is a lot stronger, so that this thick steel fractures like it was made out of spun sugar.
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  3373. fish want the frogs to get in the water, as those jelly encased eggs will be a lovely treat. Tadpoles they will not touch, they taste bad, but as soon as a front leg starts to grow they become edible, and will vanish that same day as the leg starts to grow.
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  3374.  @kenbrown2808  When it is a speed camera they do not bother to verify make and model matches before the fine is sent. Pull over they will simply verify owner matches ID. Gotten enough tickets in the post where the vehicle shown only has matching plates, and it was wrong make, model and colour. Enough so that the ticket also has a section where you get a link to download an affidavit that you send, where you disclaim the ticket.
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  3375. Flivver, probably from a model T that was on it's tenth or more owner, and where it was a collection of kluges in close formation.
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  3376. Time for a Tesla that is factory ready for her to drive, complete with hand controls and a wheelchair lift as well.
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  3377. Bearing races the inners and outers, so long as they are the same lot number, are interchangeable, and even if slightly worn will work. The reason you do not want to mix them is that they can be different size, as the factory makes the inners and outers, and measures them into different size ranges, and makes up the complete sets from them. so any from the same lot are interchangeable, and will wear the same in use as well. But a different lot will possibly be a different diameter, and thus you will get a small section that takes all the loading, wearing out fast there, and then after a while running with excess clearance. However for many applications mix and match is fine, I have done it often enough for non critical bearings, where the more worn side got replaced with a less worn used one, and it went on running for a good number of years again.
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  3378.  @Genesh12  Google Mpisani......
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  3379. And here i am looking at my new to me system, with a total CPU power dissipation of 65W, on an i3 9100, an upgrade from the old core 2 duo I had. But for the price it is perfect. Under 4100 to massively upgrade RAM, a new SSD, and move the old system over to it.
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  3380. You want crazy things change a fan on a DKW air cooled engine, which is powered by a pulley between engine and gearbox. Or try Deutz engines, where the power is determined by the number of cylinders, and where you have to remove the single piece head and bore to do the valves. But as a bonus they only come in one size, you want a more powerful engine, it just becomes longer. Had to remove one with a seized piston using a cutting torch, because the crank bolts are on the top, and it would not turn over, even with a 48V jump on the 12V starter. One new pot, valves, piston and conrod later, it was running again. Even wrist pin, because it also had to be burned away to release the pot. Hundreds of them still running around me, mostly in older fire engines and agricultural equipment, they are really hard to kill, other than with neglect.
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  3381. I would say it came with the shop, as likely there have been many before. common part to break on a big mine.
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  3382. Not likely to get self checkout by me, as the stores have figured out that shrinkage will be astronomical, and having people will still save money. They do have plenty of people working registers, as the cost of the extra people is more than offset by not having the shoppers abandoning the cart and leaving in frustration. Funny enough I was buying bulk sugar, basically a big shrink of 20 500g packs, with the outer having it's own UPC, and only when reconciling the bill at work with the book keeper did we see that I was charged for 3 500g packs, not the 3 500gx20 packs. Bit late to rectify, and it was checked both by the cashier and by the loss prevention at the door as well. Ah well, free sugar for the month for everybody at work. Self checkout you can bet that sort of "mistake" will be rife.
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  3383. Third party manufacturer does those, and has all the right tooling and jigs to assemble it easily. The manufacturer simply puts a complete tested unit into the line, so this is why there is no separate external switch, so as to save 10 seconds on the line to plug in the extra wire, it is now all internal to the one part.
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  3384. They rely on most people not figuring fighting is worth the time and effort, so will write 1000 tickets figuring at least 300 will not be paid, 300 will pay and contest, and the other 400 will simply pay it up. As the revenue of the 1000 tickets was covered by the first 100, they made a profit. The 300 contested they will cut by 50%, so still making 50% profit, and the 300 who do not pay well they will simply put it as a title mark, so when the car is stolen, scrapped or sold before the DMV processes the paperwork the fines have to be paid. So insurance or next owner has to pay, or the yard scrapping it.
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  3385. Lawyer can sue Amazon for the damages, and get a list of all those false plates, and send out officers to arrest those who bought them, and link them for the crimes.
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  3386. Those lights yes they give issues, did a few Ford ones by getting the green wire holders, and soldering them to the stamped steel traces on the backing, never an issue after that.
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  3387. Had a dealership across the road that accepted cars on consignment. Owner decided to skip with around a year's worth of sales money, on a dealership that dealt mainly with luxury vehicles. Left the salespeople and mangers, and his other partners, to hold that baby. They want him back. Another also did consignment sales, and then one day, once the lot (converted bank building right next door to me, we shared a driveway) was mostly empty they just vanished, leaving the building open. I secured it with chains and locks, and eventually there was police there to look for them, as it turned out they sold the same vehicles on the lot, and had multiple loans on them with different banks. All went with them, to be sold elsewhere out of country, and only the one Jeep was left, because the engine and transmission was in the rear, and there were no wheels on it. I got the phone system reposessed, as the phone tech was by me, and I gave him this brand new system, worth around $40k, back to the company. Locked so the building would not be stripped, and eventually it was sold to new owners, who used it as a shop and warehouse. nice convenient parking for them as well, and, being an old bank, they have good strong vaults as storage.
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  3388. Yes i use solder sleeves. Good enough for aircraft use good enough in a car. Just also use an extra glue sleeve over them as well and have had no issues with watwr ingrwss either. Also used in marine wiring where you find horrid work done.
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  3389. Just gets caught in the strainer, and will mostly come out in the first oil change. Best to change that oil now, and see just how much comes out with it. go to the dollar store and get a platsic sieve, and use it to catch it out of the draining oil, and you will see what is in there. Cool engine, not hot as those cheap dollar store sieves will melt.
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  3390.  @HumbleMechanic  I found it, and another one, plus 2 10mm spanners. Now, to find that 13mm spanner, I know I had at least 5 of the darn things, but all I can find are 12mm sockets, and only some bolts fit.
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  3391.  @brianhiggins2399  They import it, along with the fuel base as well, generally from one of the massive refineries in Portugal.
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  3392. Air line and fittings are wrong, you need to use larger diameter ball stop, with full flow bore, and then a 12mm PU tube to feed the water, and then use push fit connectors, a little more work, but will give the water flow rate you need. You might need to get larger diameter air line coil, perhaps a truck one which might be 10mm, to use, and use a pair of brass push in adaptors to fit the 12mm push on fittings. Done water cooling on machines before, and 10mm and 12mm piping, and full diameter valving, with the push on connectors, was the easiest way to get full flow out. Anything smaller had issues with flow, especially the air line connectors and the air line ball valves, as the small diameter restriction of the ball really kills your flow rate.
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  3393. Yes, they are launched typically where they will not go, with the common prevailing winds, into flight paths, and also ascend very rapidly, so only are a danger during the 5 minutes or so it takes them to ascend past 40k feet, and again for the 5 minutes or so they take to go from 40k feet to impact on the way down, after the balloon has burst at around 120k feet. Also launched in conjunction with local ATC, so no flights will be in the projected flight path.
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  3394. Would add a mechanical thermostat to the radiator, and put in a thermal switch there, that allows the fan controller to only get power when radiator temperature is above 150F, which will allow them to run on for a while when the engine is turned off, allowing the engine to cool down and not heat soak. Under $10 on the river store, and with a 25A rating from Senasys, which will handle the load of controlling the temperature sensor, though probably not the fan load itself. Look for "Snap Disc Thermostat Switch - Circuit On at 120°F and Off at 105°F" and you will get them. Flange mount you put so the base is on the radiator header tank for good temperature sensing. A good extra is to add a small lamp in the cockpit, to show they are on, possibly even using an existing bulb that is otherwise unused in the speedo, that can act for this.
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  3395. Plus any long standing the oil will empty from the galleries, and at start up the top will be dry, and even filters with inlet and outlet anti drain valves will not help, though they at least do minimise the volume of drained oil to that in the galleries alone, as the filter stays full.
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  3396.  @Triantalex  If you made anything other than ethernet cards you had to pay a royalty fee, which made the cards much more expensive per unit, and this meant that the cheaper ethernet card, with no royalties or fee, was going to be put in, as the manufacturer of the PC would be saving a few dollars per machine, which on the razor thin margins they had, was the driver to supply them with it. If your office network is being built, you used the cards the machines came with, and bought the rest of the infrastructure to fit, unlike the competition where the cards cost a lot more, but also the hardware to join them as well, and you had a payment to make for upgrades as well.
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  3397.  @chrislauterbach8856  You cannot collect in most cases, as there is nothing there, so pennies is about the only thing you can get.
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  3398. Card machines under R500 they will happily do offline transactions, either tap or dip, or magstripe, all of them though will also request PIN entry, and simply store and forward later on. Over R500 sorry, online only. Pretty much all banks do this, they all know how a small glitch can drop the machine off line for a little while for one retailer or the other. Do not think though that many retailers actually know any more how to do telephone confirmation, which will pretty much always work so long as you can dial the call centre, and I really doubt if any stores, other than those small ones that have been around for 50 years, still actually have the Zip Zap card impression machines, and the slips that go with them either. Think those died out around 2000, though I have no doubt there are still some sitting on a shelf in some shops, with nobody there knowing how to actually use them.
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  3399. Enough hair coming off you could knit a pretty big jersey with it.....
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  3400. Every Toyota by me is very much both capable of driving at 85MPH, and very often they will be driven a little past that for long periods anyway. Only manufacturer that will disclaim drivetrain warranty is MB, where the speed limiter from the factory is 118MPH, and they will warrant you driving at that all day every day. Only if you approach the dealer, and ask for it to be upped or removed, software programmable with dealer tool, will they make you sign a waiver that they will waiver most of the drivetrain warranty as a result, and have you sign it, and explain it to you. Then will do it without hassle, and charge you. Then you can drive at any speed the vehicle can reach, and so long as you have T rated tyres on, which most come with as standard off the floor, or better, no problem. Toyota supplies their vehicles with S rated tyres mostly, the warning is there for those who go to aftermarket, where you can still get A rated tyres cheap. S rating will do 85MPH and still be warranted fit for purpose.
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  3401. There had to be a good one made on the line, with all the tolerances just right.
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  3402. IANAL but this also applies to many things, if taken to the absurd, you would have to call out an electrician to plug in your phone charger, and to turn on and off the lights, and to change a blown bulb. Also would need a chauffeur to drive your vehicle, and a lift attendant to take you up in a building.
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  3403. For the insurance agent yes.
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  3404. Do not forget ignition modules that randomly fail......
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  3405. Yes, Forzda has alignment rigs at the assembly plant, where the strut towers and front chassis are aligned into position before the welding robots take over to weld that frame into position, and after the base is done and aligned on the jig the rest of the body is welded into place. After that it then is lifted off onto a different carrier to go through the paint process and then to the line. Unless accident damaged that should hold the lifetime of the vehicle, if it needs adjusting you need a chassis jig and pull it into position.
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  3406. Judge probably figured the sentence will keep him from doing anything stupid, and also he is likely to die soon enough, putting him inside will simply make that sooner.
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  3407. Quick fix is to make any case that is more than 3 months with no work done is automatically decided that the victim is paid, as if they were at full rank, with the money coming out of that office budget, and from the bonus pool.
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  3408. Look on the bright side, you do not have to pay all the money, and the wait, for a tow service to fetch you. Just had to get the WU to enable you to use your very own personal tow service
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  3409. For the car full of converters this is the only place CAF is warranted, as the converters are likely to be stolen, and the driver would need to prove he got them legally.
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  3410. No problem found, but a good basis to start with for any issues in the future. Plus a good belt for future use. Could laso be engine or trans mounts that are marginal, or a suspension rubber that is worn, or even a bit of debris picked up in the tyres.
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  3411. I can guess a lot of the odd writing came from recycled cloth bags that once contained staples, brought as relief supplies to the war ravaged country. You used to get things like flour, rice and other non perishables in either canvas or hessian bags, which were often repurposed as clothing, as there was no cheap readily available cloth. Only in the last 50 years or so did plastic packaging make the cloth obsolete, but you still get some industries that pack stuff in hessian bags, as the plastic ones react with the product, or are going to contaminate it. Thing in mind is bran for horses, which still comes in a hessian bag, as the horses can eat it as well without harm. They were great bags when empty, just wash them a few times with softener to get them a little less hairy.
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  3412. Plus likely that of those banned at least a few are in public office, associated with a law firm in some way, and thus leading to the city itself, or the federal government, coming into the case as well.
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  3413. By me written into the one city constitution that no building can be taller than the Union buildings, within sight of them. Thus there are a few that are exactly 1 foot shorter, with a skeletal structure tower on top of them to hold an anti collision light.
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  3414. To be fair, all beer has, at some point, been urinated out. There is a definitely finite amount of water on the planet, and, as nobody as yet is making beer from cometary ice water, all water on the planet has, at some time or the other in the past, definitely been part of a stream of urine. Even if you were to take glacier water you will find the same, just that it was more likely to last have been urinated out, in a 21 second stream, quite some time ago, by some long extinct creature.
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  3415. How about a turbo driven sandwich toaster, so you can heat the sandwich to a nice melted cheesy blend, in the shortest time possible.
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  3416. Fun is the parts of it were made world wide, even down to the fabric that was used to cover the skin, that the tiles were attached to. Made by a company near me.
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  3417.  @outlawbillionairez9780  Yes I see, and nothing happened to fix it either.
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  3418. Courts hate admitting they were wrong, which is why they will fight against every case of this, because to admit brings into consideration that they might have made other mistakes as well.
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  3419. Pretty much the most popular vehicle here in South Africa is a VW of some form, mostly the Golf, which had been produced in some form or the other for 40 years, and which is pretty much entirely available as aftermarket and performance parts.
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  3420. Well, using the condenser to get rid of the water from the evaporator sounds nice, but it has a drawback in that you now have a nice wet, hot film on the coils, which is going to provide both a perfect growth medium for bacteria, and also will corrode the coils to nothing in 2 years. Evaporator is already going to be a slime paradise, but those pipes and pumps will be clogging up, because of all the dissolved nutrients in the water. Split units at least you only have to clean half the unit with biocide, but window wall and portable units you have to strip it down, and clean every part with biocide, at least every 6 months, otherwise you get the perfect Legionnaire growth factory, with the product being air delivered right to you. Plus you will find, around the time the warranty expires, that it just does not cool as good any more, because those nice blue coils, which still might actually look nice and blue on the outside, have now, on the evaporator side, been covered with a nice black mould layer, and on the condenser side have turned to white aluminium oxide sludge, also with black mould and slime holding it in place. Then on cleaning, you find that you have an outer layer of fins, and nothing inner left, all now just white powder and copper pipes, lying at the base of the case. Yes they can give a 10 year warranty on that Matsushita compressor, because they will absolutely last that long, but that warranty does not in any way cover the coils, the batteries, or the inverter itself, which you will also need to replace inverter and compressor as a unit, as the failure of one kills the other. Each one, to the average service centre, without the totally overkill diagnostic equipment at the production plant, will say the other is faulty, so both are replaced together. Note inverter is not warranty cover, and is nearly the price of the unit alone.
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  3421. By me those tickets get placed on the record system, and when you go to do a renewal you pay, the payment is collected, but the paperwork comes out with the actual slip having a blank where it would have your proof of registration, and you will also get a sheet of all the tickets, complete with the total, that you have to pay them first. Of course some just ignore them, there is a minibus taxi, who has over 100k of outstanding fines, that still drives around. No policeman will pull a taxi over unless they have at least 15 armed people there with assault rifles. The delivery is now said to be fine by email and SMS, seeing as post is well known to no longer actually function, so now they email and SMS you the fine, and you can contest it that way, with the email and SMS linking you to the fine, complete with picture. Either you pay, or you contest it (another issue, as those now are to no longer be judicial tickets, rather the traffic police have their own kangaroo court, where it is pay first, then appeal against the entity giving the fine, not an impartial justice), and then the burden of proof is on you. However I have nothing current, went today to do a renewal, and was in and out in under 5 minutes, no issues.
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  3422. By me the police stations have armed response from private security companies, and yet still thet regularly have burglaries and often are held up and robbed of all firearms. Most of the illegal firearms, aside from the millions of AK47's still around, come from the police, defense forces and other government institutions, and are often weapons being held by the police in an investigation, that went "missing" from them.
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  3423. More bad oil over bad gas, the oil likely was old, got gummy from lots of short running and not boiling the water out, and thus stuck the valves in place, and thus bend pushrods.
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  3424. You also have VHS tape used for backing up computers, with a card that interfaced the video to the computer, and software that handled the conversion of files to video. Danmere backer was the one I used for a few years.
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  3425. Close to the water, and above the spring tide mark, plus a little more for spray off the waves.. They build the wind towers to the minimum height, as after all extra steel costs money.
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  3426. Yes, that coil itself is also prone to failure, along with the ignition module in the distributor as well, and is expensive even non OE. Have repaired a few when they were non stock, and the insulation had crumbled off the wires, till the non OE parts came in.
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  3427.  @brandonstclair6530  Had that too, just put the old one back in, as I kept the old working ones, just in case the new one was bad after a while. Also put old ones in use as noise suppressors, to remove alternator whine from radios. Right on the battery output terminal,, and on the field winding as well.
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  3428. Good job on that cylinder, not only did you save them $17k for the new one, they also saved $1 million in lost production as well, provided that cylinder survives the rechrome it is about to get. Well done to the safety officer, he is now well due for his celebration, just wonder if you are seeing the little bits of blue in the poo.
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  3429. Bonus is the extra oil now has gotten any sludge in there, and cleaned the top of the crank case and windage tray. Now extra cleaned.
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  3430.  @Eidolon1andOnly  Yes, filled with people whose handicap is that the lift does not leave the basement, and that they are all called Karen.
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  3431. Likely a lifetime ban on ownership of any company or close corporation, as they have been likely to be proven guilty of using a CC or company to commit deliberate fraud, and the prohibition is there instead of joining Berni Maddof in Club Fed, till it is cardboard box and numbered lot time.
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  3432. Likely some minor things, like guilty of WWB, or being homeless and with no job. Or he scared a housewife when asking for food, and she called the popo who took him in for something like vagrancy.
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  3433. Falcon Heavy launching another Falcon 9 up, partly fuelled, with a second launch with another tank to fill it up. Your first one just needs a single vacuum Merlin engine on it, and then you will be able to get to a graveyard orbit up past GEO easily, or even put it into a lunar orbit. Going to be stressful on the station though, as the walls are not exactly thick, so only a low thrust long duration burn will do, thus only the one engine on the otherwise massive rocket, with most of the thrust going into making the fuel move.
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  3434. My father always used to say to read the destructions first.
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  3435. I got rid of the last electric kettle this year, still never used in box. Have a stove top one instead, but the most common source is the gas boiler and the microwave. Aso got rid of a lot of those other small appliances as well, now down to an unused toaster, and a sandwich maker, and a stick blender. Toaster and sandwich maker are going real soon. Soon, get rid of more pots and plates, along with cutlery. Do I need a 12 setting set of cutlery, when I live with me and a cat, and umpteen sets of plates.
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  3436.  @sujimtangerines  Hard to find a casino that does not encourage you to yse a card, even if they will lend you a house card for almost nothing, with the lending of the card being accompanied by a name entry in a computer, and a camera getting your face and video of you (with audio) accepting the card as well. Naturally till you return the card they record all data of what you played as well. Roped off tables where you play with chips there are more cameras than in a prison, and you will need a card anyway to get there as well.
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  3437. You pay cash at a lot of government offices, because they can be assured that you are paying the debt, and will not be able to either cancel the transaction, or otherwise contest it, or use stolen cards or accounts.
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  3438. Funny thing about most large retailers is that they actually do not own the stock they sell, it is all sold on behalf of the supplier, the store does not own it, just is displaying it, and pays the supplier around 3 months later on for the items sold, less any that are either damaged or lost to shrinkage. The big box stores make money in having the money for the 2 months in the bank, and off the 5 to 10% markup they charge over the incoming price. All discounts and reductions are actually off of the manufacturer cut, not the store. Only a small portion of things, like cigarettes and liquor, are actually paid for outright by the store, due to taxes that are paid, which is why they are so carefully controlled. Also lottery scratch tickets, as the store must buy them outright, and is only guaranteed that they get to keep the money for the non winning ones, and a percentage of the payout up to a floor limit.
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  3439. They have a high error rate, unless they have been there before, and know the correct house to deliver to. Have gotten a delivery in the garden, because the neighbour gate is within 30m, and the house I was at got regular deliveries, so I was used to a random driver delivering. So common that when my friend goes shopping, almost all the pickers for the delivery service greet her by name in the store...
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  3440. No 7, with the Toyota driving the wrong way, just bought themselves a nice state trooper vehicle, complete with all the customising involved to get it to state trooper ready. Too bad they will never be able to drive it themselves.
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  3441. Just remember that there are multiple formulations for hot melt glue, and that often it is hard to tell them apart as they look the same, are the same mass and even have very similar softening temperature ranges. This also does very from batch to batch, especially on the cheaper ones where the repacker who assembles the retail packs will often just buy a glue on price and, provided it meets the diameter and length required for the pack, and melts within the required range, it can vary quite a lot as the suppliers have excess of one or the other more specialist product that they want to sell for a low price, or have a batch that did not meet the more stringent tests for the speciality professional market. I know from working with local glue suppliers that they have over 100 different glue sticks available, almost all of them having diameters that fit the most popular glue dispensing systems, and with some being almost indistinguishable from each other in melting point, but having vastly different uses and chemical make up. For sticking things like cardboard and paper though pretty much any one will do, but some of there are designed for good adhesion to glass and others are for mirrors, where you do not want any attack of the silver backing long term.
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  3442. Sleeves are to protect the weld from damage, as the welded section at the front undergoes the most abuse, so having the sleeve there to absorb impacts before the bar means it does not get damage that will make it crack in normal use. Of course if you use the bar to try to pull the whole dozer out of a ditch, or it is trying to hold the entire load when the front one is falling partly in a cutting all bets are off, and Kurtis gets another chunk of money given to him to use a rattlecan to stick the bits back together. JK on the rattlecan, I would love to just do painting in that shop, though would have to get trained how to drive the precision forklift like Kurtis first.
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  3443.  @speedkar99  Yes a nominal 12V battery can be charged at up to 14.4V, but should float at 13.8V for most of the time, If you have large loads you put in a 100A, 200A or more alternator, and thicker wiring to the battery, so the alternator can provide those loads with minimal voltage drop. Regular vehicle you have a 60A or 80A alternator instead, as they will provide enough power, and the efficiency is acceptable. Larger current ones have to be bigger, as you need the room for all the thicker copper windings, the bigger cooling fan, the larger rotor and the bigger high power rectifier block in there.
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  3444. Yugo would be basically Lancia and Dacia, and Daewoo is basically Opel and GM.
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  3445. Yes magstripe is so easy to copy, and so insecure, especially with the USA with the insane swipe and sign thing, where shops pretty much never check the signature at all. Let alone swipe at fuel stations, where there is no check at all, just swipe and fill up. No wonder the fuel stations have so much fraud.
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  3446. Remember as well the British Tiger Moth and Gypsy moth, which served a similar role as pilot trainer for the British forces. My father learnt to fly on one, and also had his first air crash, in training, in one, having the engine fail during take off. He did joke that it was so slow, that one day he saw one land backwards in a strong wind.
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  3447. By me you must be in front of a judge within a certain time of being arrested, either to be remanded for further investigation, because there is a strong case against you, or you are going to be set bail. Of course if you have no money for bail, you will sit in awaiting trial, often for years, till your case eventually rolls around, and often the sentence is either time served, or charges are dropped. Court appointed attorney are almost always those who are finishing law school, where they have a year of being public defender before they get their articles, so essentially for a year you are worked like a slave, and barely get any pay for it, handed hundreds of cases a week, and paid minimum state wage for the privilege. Plenty of cases where prisoners sat decades in jail, because the files were lost, till finally somebody noticed this person had not been to court for a decade or three, and the file was missing, and the crime was something that had a maximum sentence of 6 months. Then discharged, and if you want to sue good luck, bookings for supreme court are at least 2 decades filled out already, and appellate another decade past that as well.
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  3448. Google just needs to do a reverse Great Firewall, and block any and all services from the Russian federation. This should include DNS, which would mean that Russian Federation would effectively disappear from the Internet, just like China does from inside to the rest of the planet. See just how much of the banking, services and such will crumble nearly immediately with that. Yes no adsense revenue ot Russian bloggers, but there is so much more that is done with paid google services, and this includes almost all ecommerce as well, plus a vast amount of the backbone as well either goes through Google data centers, or is hosted in one.
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  3449. Noise cancelling on with loud noise works, just Ray does not need to shout.....
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  3450. Not really, those have been around since the continent split, they just are statistically likely, but are impossible to predict as to size and location.
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  3451. Funny thinfgg is I went and took nearly 50kg of steel fasteners to the scrapyard, because they had not been used for years, and I was tired of them filling space. Now going to do the same again soon, getting rid of all the odd nuts and bolts, because they have been used perhaps one per bottle in 10 years, but i never found the right one while looking.
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  3452.  @smashed_penguin  Only because you paid for the cells that Duracell actually does QC on, the consumer line is identical (down to the tooling marks on the actual cells in most cases, and the lot numbers hidden under the label) to the no name cells you buy all over, just look for ones with the same expiry date, and you find out they came from the same machine line. The one I want to find is the OEM who did the cells for Proctor and Gamble, as used in Airoma machines, a plain white sleeve cell, but I never had one ever leak, even though I used to buy the intro packs, as they gave 2 refills, and the dispenser, for the same price as a single refill. I had lots of those 2 cell packs around, that were really high capacity, low internal resistance, and which lasted at least 10 years in use, not even leaking when empty. Not even an expiry date, just a lot number on the cell itself under the sleeve.
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  3453.  @jonshouse1  Had that issue when trying OpenSuse, supposedly worked on this machine, but endless odd issues, so I went to Debian instead, thank you Linux Format magazine, that gave you every month a full set of various installers and distros, plus a lot of software just for the subscription. Was sad when they stopped running, though by then I had also moved to getting the digital copy only, as it arrived about 6 weeks before the physical one. Was doable to download over dial up connection.
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  3454. My bet is they sent the court summons to the registered address for the vehicle, and Enterprise simply filed it and did nothing. Thus the failure to appear, and the suspension. Very good case for them to be paying for all the costs associated with the case, and also being forced to pay costs as well, especially if there are others who got similar fines as well. You can also bet that, if they had 380 odd vehicles in the one state alone, that they also likely have a similar number in all other states, and that there is a good chance that they also have not insured them either, or wrongly insured them, only registering them in states that do not require insurance. Very common by me, to the point that if you see one particular set of registration plates from a particular set of areas you can be, almost 90% sure, that it is a rental, because that area is the one with the lowest fee, so all the rental companies have a nominal address in the area, to allow them to register vehicles there, even though they might not actually have an outlet there at all to rent from, just a PO box.
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  3455. Would open the filter and see just how much is stuck in it. Ran with low oil, and no oil changes at all.
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  3456. Here barbeque is a chip flavour.......
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  3457. that and ANPR in the parking lots, they track customers to get those who are regulars, so as to get better recognition of buying patterns, ad pushing to buy more, but a bigger one is so they can cut staff hours when they see few vehicles coming in.
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  3458.  @itsme6026  Taken a few of the 1990's era ones, that were obsolete, apart, and all have multiple crypto processors in them. From keyboard to display, the banks are paranoid. At least here by me, the USA might be more concerned with price over security though.
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  3459. Thankfully by me medicine has both a regulated price, and also has single exit pricing, so you will know exactly how much you will pay, and no discounting is allowed.
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  3460. Coolant changed to something less flammable, to the great delight of the ground crews, who could now use neat in the after work drinking, and also because they now had free de icing fluid for the cars.
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  3461. Most comfortable seats are the wing roots, as all the forces there are at the CG, and 2 rows forward you have the risk of rotating assemblies doing a pass through the cabin.
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  3462. Found in the spam folder, just means they have a complaints email that routes all incoming email straight to junk mail folder, without anybody reading them ever. Then only after having a big story being plastered over the news, then they actually looked into that folder, and then "found" them, but left the rest of them unread.
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  3463.  @chrislee7817  Plasma cutter and welder says he does not.....
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  3464.  @markterribile6948  Vin plate is the only part of a car you cannot buy legally......
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  3465. Or it was going out, and somebody noticed it was expired, so simply swapped with another that was still valid, and never bothered to fix it. Likely the other vehicle is still driving with the first one's plate on it as well.
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  3466.  @spelunkerd  Automotive the reverse biased diode will blow the fuse, and no voltage drop at high current either. Only used on the ECU power feed, and also serves as an avalanche clamp diode as well, to protect against high voltage spikes as well. Normally a unidirectional 65V 10 W transorb device, which is rugged enough to blow the fuse with little chance of failure, at least once or twice.
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  3467. Would not say dealerships are dishonest, but, working in the city in the area called Motortown, with a dealership across the road, and one to the left, those 2 were found doing shady stuff. Across the road did a lot of high end vehicles, sale on consignment, and one day the staff came in and no owner, skipped the country, with all the money for around a year of sales. One to the left the same, just did it for around 9 months before doing the same. I chained the doors up, because they left them open, and it was a massive security issue for us as we shared a driveway. But I bought a car from the dealership in the next block, and it served me well, got 15 years out of it before selling it off and getting another, that is 10 years younger.
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  3468. Lottery ticket is serialised, so the lottery company just has to invalidate the ticket, and roll the money back into the pool, which will solve all the issues. The ticket holders will not be able to claim, because of the invalid ticket, and the card holder might claim the value from the thieves for the ticket, though being homeless they by definition have no real assets to use for this purpose, and prison would be a step up for them.
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  3469. Yes, just that crumple zone also has tiny complications, in that it is not empty space, but a lot of liquid that will combine, with a lot of gusto.
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  3470. Quick fix is to fine the payment processors for doing the debits, and require them to refund the money as well. will stop that overnight, as the payment processors will immediately stop doing business with these companies.
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  3471. Is already there, most auto electricians will remove them if they even suspect it is causing any problems.
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  3472. If you skip OEM and go for aftermarket that bill would be a lot lower though. Especially in countries where VW is the most popular vehicle around, and you can get just about the entire vehicle in spare parts, without ever stepping into the dealership once, though you better still have the front badge, as that, along with the VIN plate, is OEM only.
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  3473. The fancy kettle also uses the exact same element as the cheap one, just they use a nice blob of cast aluminium alloy to bond it to the stainless steel plate, and then also put a ring of blue LED's right next to this 150C block of aluminium, to light up the water, so you know it is on. Bets are will the LED dies fail, or the element, but they never last beyond 2 years anyway, with moderate use of once a day for a half kettle of water. Same as the cheap one, made in the same factory, with the same electrical parts. Of course, if you want a no wait solution you can go buy a Zip Hydroboil (does need 230VAC to run it, and you have to have it plumbed in with both water supply and a steam vent pipe, along with the power connection rated for 15A draw) and have up to 19l of boiling hot water right there when you need it, and never fill it up again. Uses a 2.2kW heater element to boil the water, and keeps it just at a slight boil, in an insulated copper tank, and then has a small auxillary tank that has the float and fill valve, that keeps the level in the big tank constant, but also does not fill it fast as used, so it will not ever be below 95C. Thermostat uses the steam, venting into the small tank, to trip off power when the small tank lid hits 60C, so the main tank is always just short of boiling. A few sizes depending on use, from an office with 4 people, to a hotel that does morning coffee and tea to 200 people that all want boiling water over that hour of breakfast. All the parts that fail, tap, element, float, valve, safety switch and thermostat, are spare parts, and easy to change out as well. Just the price is a little more than the $15 kettle at Wallyworld (expensive, the cheap ones here are $10, with a 1 year guarantee, and actually do often outlive it), so be prepared to shell out $847 for the most common 10l model.
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  3474. File a change for a big Florida based company, like SpaceX or Tesla, and see if the police will not act on it then. Or file on the businesses the governors own.
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  3475. The fate of 10 is still to be broken. When that occurs is still a question though, it might be one flight, or it might be a dozen, but it will be driven till it fails to get data.
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  3476. Time to take the city fathers, and strip them of all assets and put them out to live outside. Let then then enjoy their own laws. Bet they also go to church every sunday and feel that this is the full good they do, look pious and sin free, while being complete aholes.
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  3477. Many vehicle dealerships also do a full video walk around on all vehicles coming in for service, to show that, at reception, what was working, what was not, and also things that are worn, like wiper blades, tyres, suspension and such. Yes adds another person who does only that video, but seems to be worth it to the dealerships, reducing the amount of claims, as you sign it in with a video, and all damage and such noted down, with a signed sheet that they also record you on video signing.
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  3478.  @aaakkk112  you mean the cleaner I used, which needed a 44 gallon drum of it every time the solvent was changes was bad? But that was about the only stuff that got things clean, nothing else would work in that fast a time, with vapour and ultrasonic agitation doing the job. 30 seconds to clean, and when it was time to change the fluid, too dirty for our demands, I called and got all the GSU dirty stuff in for a few quick batches, and really made the fluid dirty, then it was dumped into an empty drum, the tank washed with clean fluid, and then it was filled again with the drum, the little bit, around 10 gallons, being there to top up as liquid evaporated and went with the cleaned parts.
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  3479. My first set of PC speakers were old cheap wide range speakers in a plastic case, ex cheap "hifi" speakers, and a used car amplifier, powered by the internal 12V rail of the PC. Used them for years. Then went to a little higher range using Kenwood component amplifier and speakers, full size boxes. big, and later went to some smaller Boston Acoustic PC speakers, gotten as they had a failed power brick and broken wires. Now use a used ( as in free) Sony powered speaker, just replaced the blown output chip in it, and some free Boston VRS Pro satellite speakers. Does the job if I want more than the cheap speakers in the TV set used as monitor.
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  3480. Normally same or similar model, just to make it less obvious when they go past ANPR cameras. Does not need to be stolen either, people take the plates to avoid paying the fee, and simply drive till the stolen plates expire, and run tolls as well, because original owner gets the bill ̇
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  3481. Lots of small towns there is a quota, but if you are a local you will never get a ticket, because you can go to court to fight it, and they only target passing trade as they will pay up instead, so the PD is the major source of the town income. Which is why you have a sign saying XX town limits, 3m past that is a speed limit sign, and 305m past that is a cop car with a camera catching traffic both ways, despite you being 12km from the first house of the town, and in rolling farmland.
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  3482. They get money from processing the cards, and any that do not get redeemed are profit for the processors as well, because they wait a year and a day, then the voucher is now invalid, and the money does not come back to the original purchaser.
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  3483. HP got into trouble for putting the bricking into a security update, and also setting up a software counter that activated a year later on to brick the printer.
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  3484. Lovely display, and very nice, though yes the DRM, with the ability to delete any purchase you made, along with the ability to update any book to reflect a new version, makes this the Telescreen from Orwell in real life, just without the camera in it.
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  3485. Data in the VBI was generally a SMPTE timecode for the source video, used to display a time counter and frame number for the use of the editor. The other info was close captions, and then you could also have alternate data streams that contained things like title . This came from the original video tape, either Umatic, Betacam or Betacam SP, and was simply transferred to the video stream either by the TV stations or by the duplicator. TV stations would often strip out the SMPTE codes to instead add station control codes, transmit flags ( is this for certain areas only on a national broadcast, or to add local adverts during breaks) and the local transmitter text data, but line 21 would generally be left alone. The Macrovision blocks were generally not going to interfere with the timecode, but the only thing was that the video clamping would be confused by the ramp and would thus result in the decoder not getting a good signal out. Professional VCR units had the ability to turn the video AGC on and off so that you could then record the Macrovision info onto a tape without interference, and also turning it off on playback meant your video was not going to suffer from data corruption during the edit stages as well, though you only put the macrovision on at final dub stage, so that it would have less effect, as it still did cause degradation of the video by not giving as good a vertical lock. Professional VCR units would record macrovision effortlessly, and Panasonic made a lot of semi professional ( Prosumer) VCR units with this available, mostly used for home video editing where you also had generation loss and not having multiple AGC actions lessened the video degradation somewhat. You would have only the camera AGC enabled to handle the initial shooting light variations, then use the edit deck to do your effects, cuts and non linear editing ( you needed an edit deck, and also at least 2 VCR units slaved to it to do the non linear editing before HDD recorders and digital video) and record to the master tape. The edit deck could also do the audio dubbing in linear stereo in a second pass, though HiFi stereo required you to have the audio dub already set up to record. You could get really good results out of that, as good as the best professional edits, as good as VHS could deliver both video and audio wise. just needed a good source video. As to the Teletext and such, pretty much European TV sets, or at least anything that used the Phillips chipset for TV jungle processing had text built in for either free ( for the later chipsets where everything was in one chip and a front microcontroller with an I2C bus connecting them) or with only a small second text processor and a few control bit changes. Siemens also had a set of chips that did this as well, so any of the European TV manufacturers ( Grundig, Phillips, B&O, Normende) and almost all of the old satellite TV decoders as well did both close captioning and text even on the basic sets. The USA had their own chipsets, and most of the European chipsets did out of the box PAL,NTSC in assorted flavours, and SECAM with either no added changes or with only minor changes, but the US ones only did NTSC.
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  3486. Ceiling fan actually that LED will fail within 3 years, out of warranty, and not be a part you can buy off the shelf to replace. So instead of a fan that will last for 10 years, you now will have to replace it 3 times over the old fan, plus you also will need to shell out a lot more to buy them as well, instead of a $2 light bulb.
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  3487. Charge all customers with a $30 fee, with a million rentals a day, and you get a pretty good executive bonus out at the end of the year, even if you have 1 in 10 complain, and you only refund 1 in 100, you still are making massive profit out of this fraud. $160 million fine on it, you only lost a week's worth of the money. Only if forced to refund all charges for a 5 year period will this hurt them.
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  3488.  @gidondejong1802  It is Oracle, totally legal according to the weasels they have as lawyers. Ethical, honest, in the best interest of anybody but Oracle never. Remember this is the company that delights in suing it's own customers, from the smallest to the biggest.
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  3489. Big teams of rabid lawyers.......
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  3490. Imagine you have a colony of ants, just how much money do you have to pay, and do you have to pay every 50 odd days as the ants die and new ones are born.
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  3491.  @clayniemann2608  You also find that plaster and paint can hide a multitude of sins.
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  3492. Because the schools outsource IT, and they get the cheapest service possible. Then the teachers complain because they cannot get the porn so the filters are turned off. Blame the parent for not actually parenting, and not actually checking the things their children do online, as you also find a lot of online bullying of children, by other children.
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  3493. Never take the camera time stamps as accurate, as most do have a large amount of clock drift, unless they have a network connection and also have has had the NTP time correction turned on, which normally is going to be done once, and then can drift a little, or even a lot if there has been a power interruption.
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  3494. Problem now is that the GE label is slapped on any piece of no name junk they can find, because GE sold off the appliance division a long time ago, and the current trademark holders are living off of consumer brand recognition, like many of the older brand names. Duracell is one that is just any old battery with a label stuck to it, they have different quality points depending on the end user, the big box ones are the cheapest junk, but some of the top tier buyers, who have actual ties with the brand holder, get the ones with actual QC in the manufacture, and those still are good.
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  3495. There are still worse ones...... Where the job first requires you to drain coolant, then remove injectors and inlet manifold, then you can see the starter. Then you get some vehicles where removing the starter first required a cutting torch, because you needed to cut a hole in the panel, because the manufacturer welded the engine bay together, so you either made the hole, or stripped out the entire engine and transmission. Cut the hole in the light weight quarter inch steel, and use a welder to make that into a bolt on panel, was the approved method. 16 ton vehicle, of which 10 tons was just the body itself, welded from steel plate up to an inch thick. Standard accident repair kit was a can of yellow paint and a brush, because not many had really managed to ever dent one. Not that what they hit survived, but those that went to the scrap yard were truly broken.
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  3496. Pretty much all countries have some form of protection, either from the Reserve bank, or from some sort of banking body that oversees them, and all of this is paid by the banks and government. Otherwise nobody will trust banks at all.
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  3497. Enough RAM and you can do it, will be fast. Although you do get distros that run entirely in RAM, Puppy linux will run fully in RAM, including an office suite and a fair amount of other tools, sitting there in a squashed file system. 512M is all you need, so it will run on pretty much any PC that was capable of booting XP.
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  3498. 18:30 wants to get hit so he can go to ER and get opiods.
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  3499. Change that tensioner, they do get wobbly as the bearings wear. Exact same part has been used all the way from Golf 1, even if the rest of the tensioner is different.
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  3500. By me leaving a home vacant will result in first of all the fixtures, piping and wire being stolen, then after that slowly but surely the entire house. Just needs to be vacant for a week to occur, so that is why you have an actual business of house sitting, where people pay to have the property lived in, at least half the week, so that it does not get broken in to, or you come and find illegal tenants living there, who will take months to evict legally.
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  3501. Saw one the other day. Looks very nice, though at first glances I was wondering which variant of the MB sportster it was, till I got close enough to see the model name. That massive centre stop light......
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  3502. I would also expect the worms to pick up meteoric iron from your roof, washed down the gutter with the rain, and then into the ground right by the storm water outlet.
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  3503.  @robertwilson2007  Much better than never renting, because there are a number of sites where you can look up VIN history and get a report. Plus if you use Uber, Turo, Bolt or any other ride share, or even a matered taxi, there is the same risk the vehicle there is also stolen, and much higher for the gig economy, as there they do use stolen cars and fake plates, because the car running on the road is how they make money. By me the minibus taxi industry has a very high theft and hijacking rate, because if you have 8 taxis with the same registration and rank number, but never have them in the rank at the same time, you can make a lot more money. Spread them around a few routes and the rank bosses will not be any the wiser, just thinking you have a few drivers for the same white Toyota Quantum.
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  3504. Small amounts no, but putting on spacers that put the rims outside the wheel arch and show a lot of tyre will lead to high forces on bearings that in general are designed for the load to be mostly symmetrical around the bearing. Higher wear, and higher loading of the bearing during driving, and of course potholes will cause extra wear. Use small amounts to correct for different rims not going to be any major problem.
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  3505. Looks like a lot of the cases here the Tesla driver is driving on what would be classed as unroadworthy tyres, as you can see many with the aquaplaning and rubber in accidents there is either minimal tread depth, or the tyres are worn below the minimum depth, so the car barely has any roadholding in even damp weather, let alone hitting a small puddle at speed. Just because it is an EV does not mean nothing wears, especially in a vehicle as heavy as a Tesla, which is well known to wear out tyres, and the ones rated for use with it are expensive.
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  3506. MV lighting is still common here, though they are rapidly being replaced with LED over time, but they are still used in a lot of fixtures, and are spot replaced with MV when they fail.
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  3507.  @BrainAbsoluteZero  Yes, but since most brands are both cheap, and likely available at home Despot, simple to first go see the lock model, then go and buy the exact same lock, come back and drill it out, then replace the broken parts. Now you have legit key, and do the same for the other doors, no need to drill as they are legally required to open from inside, so now have a near full set of keys. Then sell furniture off quick, leave minimal around and use the ID you likely got there to make the fakes, and flip the place, as you have "legit" ID, and keys. Most houses the locks are both cheap and common, so easy to replace, as not many will go and order specially a decent Abus or Schlage lockset, that is rated to be secure, they buy the lock by price and appearance, price first. Been to many houses where the lock is cheap, as in $2, because it was the cheap option at the hardware store. Great for indoor lock, but i wanted a little bit better for my house, so spent the money to put better locks on, and a decent set of physical security as well.
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  3508. From the cost point the heat pump and non heat pump units use the same compressors, and the added cost is often only the extra wire to the outdoor unit to operate it, and the extra relay on the board, along with the reversing valve and the half meter of extra copper pipe. Cost difference is around $20 total between the heat pump and non heat pump versions of the identical otherwise model, and the only time the non heat pump unit is really the best, is in a tropical climate, where you want cooling all year round, and even there you might want heat 2 days every 5 years anyway, for the odd cold snap. Only other use is in server rooms, where you have a large near constant heat input, and never a need to actively heat the place under any circumstance.
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  3509. House is the same, house siezed by the government, they had to pay money to have security there, pay to maintain it, including painting and repairs, and also pay to keep up the koi ponds as well. Owner was saved quite a bit in that, in that they did the repairs and painting that he was going to do.
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  3510. As to the optical range question, it is more the proteins that are light sensitive, which were originally found by natural selection, are sensitive to light in the red to blue spectrum. Majority of the light output of the sun is in the IR spectrum, but the proteins that are sensitive to it never were selected for, instead simpler more stable ones, that were sensitive to the spectrum we use, gained the upper hand. There are not any structures other than the pits in vipers, that are sensitive to long wave IR light, and making an eye out of those would result in one that is both much larger, much less sensitive due to lower photon energy, and also much lower resolution. Basically eyes would be the size of your head, and you would still barely be able to see if somebody was holding up 2 or 3 fingers at 10 feet away. In terms of optical ability you would have 1/20 vision, barely able to make out the top line of the eye chart, and legally blind.
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  3511.  @nicoleparreira1024  Likely stored at a yard at the lake, and he stepped the mast for storage, and unstepped when taking out, forgetting it made it a high vehicle. Those masts are not cheap, and they are not cheap to install either, as all the old hardware will mostly need replacing, and then you need to fill the mast with foam as well, after all the runner tubes are in place. too much and you will split it again.
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  3512.  @typrus6377  so I guess there are 6 openings there for competent operators then.
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  3513. Also on forklifts, which you will find the electric versions in big box stores, and which are otherwise nearly silent in operation.
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  3514. Hoover used to be good, before they were sold off the first time. You could get spares for a 40 year old unit with no problem, but after they were sold off and the product went to a badge job, they went to crap. Simplest thing is, seeing you bought it from wallyworld, is to take it back and get a refund, and let wallyworld take it up with Hoover instead. Buying and returning all the units in store as defective, will definitely get wallyworld to tell Hoover to fix their stuff.
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  3515. Can of spray silicone oil works wonders to find rubber bushes with problems, though if you are replacing them hit the new parts with rubber grease first to get them in, and warm them up in boiling water as well to soften the bushes. As well the grease on the threads means that when you need to replace it again it will not be a solid ball of rust.
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  3516. Mark sue the driver in court, starting in small claims for the excess.
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  3517. Plus interior noise will be a lot lower as well, a good benefit from putting in the thermal layer, along with a few sheets of panel damping at the front by the foot well, to replace the old one that fell apart.
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  3518. While I am in there, involved chiselling open a ceiling at 10PM, so as to get the buried junction box open, so that I could make a new cable change direction. Luckily I did have 100m of cable for the conduit already, and got that floor free of the old rubber insulated cable. Another involved removing nearly 20kg of old cable, inside the machine bowels, and replacing it with 100m plus of new, because I could not be bothered trying to trace where that spaghetti went, so took the original diagram and made the unit match it again. Whole load of mystery relays came out, including some tucked up in the wiring area itself, behind the steel cover, which in turn was covered with a whole host of pneumatic valving. Only used 4 packs of cable ties there.......
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  3519. Most common place I see those is on the dumpsite, where there are a few machines with them, used both to compact the layers, but also with a dozer blade to move big piles, as they do grip well. Most of the time the wheels are caked with mud and plastic bags, the scrapers help, but often they just get turned into big balls of plastic as it winds around them.
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  3520. EPS flexible coupling in the top of the motor is faulty. There are some bushings there that are known to fail, so look up the Hyundai parts list for the EPS, and you will find them there, as a known issue, plus the top bushes also wear. Had exactly the same on a Kia, and they use the same EPS motor and drive, so the universal was not to blame, but you need to look a little further up the shaft to the EPS unit. You need to pull the steering wheel, strip the column to get to them, but otherwise not too difficult, and all you need to do is an EPS relearn afterwards (lock to lock to get it to figure things out) to finish the job.
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  3521.  @TechnologyConnections  Many 4 head machines used the second set of heads for perfect still, having them aligned for the correct tracking path, and switching in the head drum between them. HiFi machines could have up to 8 heads if you wanted both HiFi and perfect still frame in them.
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  3522. According to the song it always rains in Sunny California.
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  3523.  @Nick-b7b9s  Not always, they also are common in Vietnam, Cambodia and South Africa, along with even Australia as well. Had them call me, and I recognised the accents, so the local one got a few swear words in before he hung up the call.
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  3524.  @RussellBooth1977  That free engine replacement left 7000 miles ago. Unless she can pull out a Jiffy Lube service ticket that says it was changed then, and they did not put a sticker in the window for some reason.
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  3525. The correcting ribbon also had the advantage in that the correction would be applied within a few seconds, so the film applied to the paper did not have enough time to cure, and bond to the paper itself. The correction film is also special, pressure sensitive adhesive, nominally non tacky to the touch, but with high pressure it would bond with the film, and, crucially, not let go of the carrier film either, so it would pull the character off the paper before breaking bond with the film or letter.
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  3526. Yes time for Chloe to get a lawyer, and sue the renter for all the damages, plus the cost of the loss of vehicle. The renter can claim somebody stole the truck, but as they were the negligent party in claiming they left it with keys in it, and a quick subpoena for the location of the renters phone location logs will very likely show both active calls and data use, plus also that the location of the phone corresponded with the freeway route at that time as well. Then they can also face the added charges of lying under oath, making a false police report, and insurance fraud as well. Pay the damages plus all legal costs, just needs a phone number, a semi decent lawyer and a subpoena to the phone provider for the metadata for that time period. All the data will be handed over immediately, and will show that the renter was driving, or at least their phone was in the vehicle, and was actively being used, and any calls made or received (the likely cause of the lane departure) can easily be traced back to them as well. Do not think family and friends will want to lie when the result is a 6 month prison sentence.
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  3527.  @m1sba7  South Africa, the owner of the vehicle is deemed to be the responsible party, and they will have to provide details of the driver, though with the minibus taxi industry they simply ignore these as well, and just pay the bribes to keep on running.
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  3528. Well, simplest is to not assign her any trips, or institute every driver getting an alcometer test before and after every shift, on the clock, so it is legal, along with a pee test on all of them. Not discriminating, you do it to all drivers, and they will soon see her leaving of her own free will.
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  3529.  @Procrastinator1948  By me the most common form of trailer hitch is firmly attached to the vehicle, not something you can remove without a few minutes and some tools. All the same 50mm ball hitch as well, a standard that all trailer manufacturers have. Otherwise it is a plain pin and loop, and not allowed on public roads, unless attached to a tractor and doing under 20kph. Anything else and it is a fifth wheel, and very few light commercials have a fifth wheel, aside from those with large trailers, that move around things like styrofoam, foam and mattress units.
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  3530.  @ghostwalker100  Dead office chair seat, off the cheap flat padded ones, will work well on the crate to keep the bum comfy. You can also use the backrest for the same, and just use some scrap sheet plate in the milk crate to provide a large area for the screws to grip. Can even use a beer crate there with the moulded in bottle dividers, just either put on loose, so you can store the seat and back inside when not in use, or use some screw in eyes to use cable ties or wire to hold it fast. Those broken chairs come in handy for that, I have kept a few broken seat and backs just for this, saves the knees and head lying on the floor under something.
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  3531. Also works on sites that have a web based FTP section, but where you are looking for the page, knowing it is there "somewhere on this site" as well.
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  3532.  @rge24491  Friend had that, he bought a property that was an estate that took 10 years to wind up, and his water bill was constant. Finally had to find the meter to shut it off, because a pipe broke, and after some digging, and chopping down a 5m tall sisal plant, the type that has a million sharp reasons to stay away from it, the meter and valve was found. Next month the meter was read, first time in a decade or more, and he got a credit on the bill, because apparently they had been estimating usage for 10 years, with the house vacant, other than a monthly mowing of the garden, and a guard who came around once a week, so all the water use was a tiny amount from when it was being lived in.
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  3533. Had a couple of tickets for that, and the standard is to take a photo of the out of order meter, and drive down to the metro police office. Then you give them the ticket, show them the photo, and generally they would immediately cancel the ticket. They figured if you were willing to go down there, you would contest the ticket, so cancel it as that makes more money. Of course now it is impossible to find a meter that works, they are all vandalised, all that money inside, and the stainless steel case, makes then a target for scrap metal thieves. Even the ones outside the city hall, and the metro police offices have all been destroyed. Go to the metro police and you park illegally, because they all also park illegally, and if they do fine you, just grab a few photos of them illegally parked next to you, and go back in.
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  3534. They got as title deed "remainder of lot xxx of the area known as", so this actually includes all the unallocated properties. Might not have been the last one sold, but the last one surveyed.
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  3535. I almost had that the other day, but, being paranoid about things, i always check battery cables twice before connecting to jump a vehicle. Does not help that I only had the one can of battery terminal spray, red, on the terminals, because I ran out of the green with only a half can of the red left, after also using it on all of the chassis ground lead connections in the engine compartment on other vehicles. So now all are red, though positive is also hidden under a cover, like many vehicles now are, to add to the confusion. But with a double check, no issue, and the heavy leads I made are plenty capable of starting the other car, even with a totally dead battery. Yes the cable tie on tape is needed, especially in a hot engine bay, though another trick I have often used is to use PVC weld on the tape, not the coloured one the USA has, but the plain one made with polystyrene in acetone, which dissolves the PVC in the tape to make a solid join that will not come apart with time or heat.
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  3536.  @1982field  Yes and BMW will gladly, if asked, change that limiter to 200 if you ask, or to well into the redline of the engine, so there is no longer any rev limiter at any gear. Though you also will sign a legal waiver, that in doing so you also agree they are in no way responsible for any consequences, and that you also voluntarily waive any and all drivetrain and other warranty, along with motorplan, on the vehicle. They will still service it, but you now are liable for all costs aside from oil, filters and spark plugs for the original motorplan duration. No top up or extensions at all. That $10k sunroof packs in, sorry here is your bill, that $10k driver's seat has an issue, and needs replacing, same again. MB limits to 190kph out of the factory outside of Germany, in Germany they do 210kph, as that is a figure they consider good for the unlimited sections of the Autobahn, and it is scary just how fast, and how little fuss they make, getting to that yellow glowing limit triangle in the dashboard.
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  3537. You could assign much more blame on yje ship owners though, for failing to both provide lifeboats actually rated for the cold regions, and also for the lack of maintenance of them, very likely a few years of them using the lowest cost bidder for service, and thus for them being pencil whipped at service time, possibly with only one being done, and the rest sort of being done, and of course the same one each time being selected for checking. Also the failure to check the watertight doors properly, and a design flaw where the plumbing going through those doors did not have isolating valves, which would have prevented the water from spreading via the plumbing, a known flaw, and one which has sunk a good number of ships as well. A set of valves at each door, gate valves or knife valves, will have stopped the water ingress greatly, even with leaking doors, to the point the bilge and fire pumps could have kept the ship afloat long enough to make port. The valves would have been mechanically linked to the doors, so that they close with the doors, though you can always close them manually, but they will not open with the doors, needing a manual reset. A safety feature that ensures they get checked with each test, and simple to add remote flags to show status as well in engineering.
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  3538. Ordering a replica Batmobile then........
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  3539.  @LeifNelandDk  Why bother, the number who query will be low, and there will be enough people who just pay, rather than bother to contest, to make it worthwhile. By me they are trying to make it that the courts do not have to contest tickets, but the agency who issued them is the appeal agency. That one is on appeal before even starting, as the people are saying that they have no right to appeal. as you have to first pay, then pay again to get a hearing, where they will affirm the ticket again and make you pay again. Part of it was that simply emailing you a ticket was classed as serving you.
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  3540. They do not really, they oscillate within a small band of apparent visibility all through the year, so your star would have to be really big, or the satellite very large, for the obstruction to be there for more than a few minutes.
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  3541. 300 will be fine today, but on a cold day, or after a few months, the CCA will no longer be able to turn the starter over, and the voltage will drop so the ECU cannot operate either.
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  3542. Shocked a CEE shop built tool did not use a section of hydraulic cylinder as an integral part.... ;) But a great build, and probably even better than the original. With the aluminium versions probably best improvement while still keeping them would be to drill out all those threads and put in timeserts instead, or make up some stainless steel inserts to provide a better thread. With the rain, good on you for not getting flooded out, and look on the bright side, no need to water the garden till next summer, it is well watered now. Just have to spend a few minutes and make a nice set of new sharp blades for the lawn mower, because it will be running a lot more now.
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  3543. Wonder if you can collect enough from a dozen close wells to power a generator, and run your farm partly off that gas field. Would use the gas, not flare it off, or simply dump it. Gas carburettor is cheap to buy, and simple to fit.
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  3544.  @-danR  High pressure gas comes into the check valve, then there is a orifice plate to provide some flow restraint, and then the burst disk. In the space between the 2 units you can add a simple leak detector. For the oxidiser just use a high pressure electric feed through and a plain low carbon steel thin wire that will be corroded open if there is any leakage, and similar for the fuel, as it is also corrosive. Cheap, and can be integrated into the flange and orifice plate as well with ease, along with a pressure test port. You could also add in pressure transducers and a low pressure fill with gas, but pressure sensors that will survive that fuel and oxidiser are not cheap, nor are they low mass, as you need a diaphragm and transfer fluid to keep from melting the silicon strain gauges, which are ironically the cheapest part of the sensor.
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  3545. Had a landing where we were accompanied by a fire engine with a running foam cannon, just waiting if the crash would occur. But luckily just a failed undercarriage switch, which the pilot, co-pilot and flight engineer, plus me as the mobile data link and safety harness, connecting the flight engineer to the aircraft, as we both were leaning out the side door and looking under the wing, were saying, as the gear did absolutely look like it was coming down correctly, and locking in position. However, absolutely the second smoothest landing I ever had, you could barely tell when we had all 3 wheels on the ground until the engines spooled down. No brakes, but a really long runway, and we had a lot of it in front of us. Best was a 707 pilot demonstrating his cross wind landing capacity, while we had seen, and heard, the 2 planes in front of us land on the same single 16 km long runway.
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  3546.  @rossmanngroup  Send it on the back of your check, that by processing the check, they have accepted the T&C you have on some obscure website, posted in a blurry JPEG, that is this, plus they agree to arbitration at your house, with the arbitrator being your dog, and the dog will be final arbiter. After all, they do the same to you.
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  3547.  @brianmiller-iz6vf  French ones.......
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  3548. They would want to keep their accreditation, as they would be having every client of theirs audited every year. Plus every single deduction would need immaculate proof. They might get away with it once, but would find moving countries to be easier.
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  3549. That winch has never been that clean, even when it was being assembled by Franna in the factory.
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  3550. Here by me all car washes the customer handles the keys themselves, never the car wash. They wash, guide you to a bay and then you keep the keys during the process. The nearest one to me charges just a shade over $2 for a wash, during the hours of 9 till 3 Monday to Thursday, their typical low time, for a standard sedan or hatchback, but outside those hours the price is $5, and the price for SUV's and light pickups is $5 in low time, and $8 in peak time. They normally are full pretty much all the time, I used to take the work van through it in the low time for a wash, as it was the easiest one to get through, and I could make the trip work out easily for an empty van.
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  3551. Third class still were a lot better off than previous liners. Electric light, actual decent beds, fresh air as well as reasonably good food as well, plus they had showers and toilets as well, not bad either, unlike older ships with bucket toilets that were dumped over the side at night.
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  3552. Well, the typical value of a car carrier puts the cargo being in general lower than the value of the rig itself, though here the replacement value of the cars is around the replacement value of the rig itself. Stolen and total loss the insurance pays out book, but if the thief is caught the charge is always going to be the replacement value of the goods. Guy was not the smartest pencil in the pack, and for sure will be back in prison for a decade or two now, so will not be going home till he is on pension, or close to it.
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  3553. Yes a little between the contact surfaces helps a lot, then tighten, clean with more of the brake cleaner to get excess out, then the terminal spray, which then will do the job of protecting the exposed metal from acid. It only works on clean surfaces, applying dirty is why it does not work well, and a nice easy way to see that the terminals have not been disturbed since you last touched them. You can use 2 half coats of different colours to show your shop work from others, just let the first one dry before the second.
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  3554. By me they have, in the drunk van, a judge along, who is there voluntarily, to work a shift to process the orders, and then the phlebotomist, from the state laboratory, will do the blood draw, seal it, get you to sign for it and put it and the paperwork in the chiller to process at the end of the trip. Only comes out Easter and Christmas/New Year, as they then generally have the highest number of deaths and DUI arrests.
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  3555.  @michaeltellurian825  No, but as they do offer similar products, they likely will take a trademark infringement for similar offerings, in an attempt to sell by deception that this insurance is offered by the big river.
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  3556. Just the wrong colour, it should be all flat black inside the cockpit panels, which was a very useful thing at reducing glare from the exposed surfaces. outside is the most common variant, though there are a lot of variants that are either blue underneath, with brown and drab olive camouflage on top, or just plain brown.
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  3557.  @777CaptMark  Yes, a simple easy document, which covers pretty much all this case, and also if the vehicle is stolen or has an accident in the interim time. Dealership should have this as part of the purchase documents, just fill it in with a zero day clause in the case financing is done before leaving, or if it was paid for in cash fully. Surprised there is not anything like this already, unless the dealership messed up, or they did not want to pay any costs for the extra insurance, say for vehicles sold on consignment. Would have covered the one time i saw a sports car which had an incident getting on the transporter, where the one ramp was pulled loose by a little too much pedal application, leaving the vehicle balancing in the air, with one side on the ramp, and the other side floating in air, and hard on the edge of the trailer bed. Engine off, brakes on hard, as the driver did not want to change anything and drop it 1m to the ground, till they had gotten a high lift jack there, and chocks, to hold the dangling parts, and then use another to lift the front, and get it fully on the transporter. Did not want to guess who drew the short straw to phone the owner, as those were all sold on consignment.
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  3558. Yes, any fixed camera can do this, and your most common camera is a red light unit, which these days does not need a flash to take the video image in the most case. The flash is merely a way to get a better image to identify the driver, as the bright flash with short duration reduced motion blur, but to just be able to extract plate data, make and model plus colour with video is easy these days, and all it needs at night are working street lights. Fixed speed cameras the same, the flash is there to have a definite correlation between your tyre being on the sensor cable to trigger the measurement, but even as ANPR cameras they are quite able to measure speed, especially the new laser ones, which constantly focxus on a section of road and measure the velocity of the vehicle in it, triggering with breaking the limit, and the IR camera part records an image with the laser spot on your vehicle, while the colour camera does the colour and driver details, plus both can be used to get plate data. Even cheap home security cameras now are available with 4k resolution, and 5k and better are dropping in price, so you can literally do that CSI zoom and enhance on the still frames from the video, or even zoom in a section of the playback video if needed.
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  3559. All of it.......
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  3560.  @DarkPesco  Yes but the student labour cost can easily be approximated by the cost of the full degree per student, and this then is the deemed cost. The university will always have a value for student labour of this, as part of the insurance they take out.
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  3561. Want to see the ISS get boosted to a much higher orbit, so it can have a life extension, and also to use a few FH launches to bring up a few of the modules that were built as near flight ready backups, to make it a much larger station, and thus more useful. Also want that Hubble service mission to go forward, to keep that spacecraft fast becoming the oldest telescope in orbit operational for a few decades more. After all cheaper to repair a vehicle, rather than throw it away and buy a new one.
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  3562. Nice to see actual spanners, not just the adjustable nut rounders.......😀 But those cylinders are definitely at the right place for repair, and as a bonus all lathe work, no welding of eyes on. Brakes look like you can get them off the shelf, though with the age the only issue will be the thick layer of dust on the new old stock spares. Funny how the label of the reliner was still so shiny when the drum finally came off, and just how manky the rest are. Will bet the others are as bad, so when you order spares get 4 kits, as the others will probably need it as well, but they should be common enough. Might as well order 4 actuator units as well, even if the one is "new.....ish", so you start off with good brakes. With the work you do you want to be able to stop fast, and even braking is important to keep the jobs aligned. Just watch out with your avian supervisors, leave them some shiny things around, like wrappers of aluminised foil, so they will take that, and not fly off with assorted nuts and washers as nest decoration. They might even start to bring you money, to swap for the snacks, and I would say they would love it if you brought them a nice very ripe papaya from the supermarket, nice and yellow, and full of tasty seeds. The local ones by me love them, I have a problem getting any off the trees.
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  3563.  @michaelmclachlan1650  They all still like shiny, as I found from the African and European starlings by me, who will eat it, even if they are in general mostly omnivores, with tending to be heavy on the meat side. Eminently trainable birds, I still see two who I evicted from a nest spot, who still remember me, and will alarm call whenever they see me alone. They were determined, so I had to remove the nest and the site entirely, as they decided to rebuild, despite having put generic hotfoot down there. The mud pile was done nearly overnight.
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  3564. My one microwave does popcorn nicely. Press button and it runs for 2 minutes. then press again, and listen for the popping to slow down, and open door. Only has the single button, set to make boiling water perfectly for a single cup.
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  3565. They moved in knowing there are those towers there, and that, due to this being a rural area, and cell operators not being willing to spend a million on towers, that possibly could earn revenue of $ 10k per year. Same problem by me of people moving into a suburb right next to an airport, and complaining that the airport makes a noise. Airport has been operating for a century, and the name of the suburb reflects this, plus it is on the roads approaching that the airport is there, yet the whiners still whine.
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  3566. Great job, and i am guessing the combined mass is 3kg for all that brass.
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  3567. Ford always had issues with ignition switches on certain models, though they at least did not do what GM did, and make an updated one with the same part number. Ford at least made a dash 1, dash2, dash3 and so on version of the switches, as they fixed each new failure mode.
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  3568. Can see somebody making a retrofit board for this, using an off the shelf microcontroller, that either duplicates all the functions that come from TAAS, not connecting to the cloud at all, or giving away some firmware upgrade to an existing WRT router firmware that emulates the cloud, with it no longer needing to connect.
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  3569. You can make it round at that point, but as you cut the stress released from the other pieces means they now move to the point of least stress, so the rod starts to look like a series of waves on the ocean. Last bit cut is round, the rest not so much if the internal stresses are too high from some reason. Even if cut more or less straight this shaft will have a very short life in use, along with the bearings. Now worth, along with the shavings, $90 as scrap steel, half heavy, half sub.
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  3570. Take the front half of one and grab the suspension and steering rack and steeering column, and mount in in the one half, then use the gearbox and differential with only a fixed gear, and an electric motor from some source ( golf cart, treadmill or even the starter motor for short drives) and a suitable adaptor plate and a small battery pack. Then you steer from the rear seat and move it around. Starter motor and the flywheel will be easiest, just have to chop the block off behind the first main bearing to get space for the batteries. Colour of course will have to be red. It goes fastest.
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  3571. He already changed his, but needed more power than a standard alternator could provide. A second alternator is a lot cheaper, and provided redundancy for him, over getting the aftermarket high output alternator. Plus the second one is, along with the first, a part he can get at any parts store off the shelf, and thus not something that will leave him stranded for a week or so waiting for a rebuild of the custom one.
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  3572. Knocking is the bearings coming off at the bottom of the travel, and having a small gap between bearing face and the outer ring, and then coming back into contact later on as the inner section rotates, so it takes load again. Hard to fix, short of having the stud shafts with the nut section slightly eccentric, so that you can adjust them after installing, to give a larger preload onto the outer race so the bearing and race does not separate. Preload per bearing will have to be about the load applied by the vehicle mass, so around 2500N. Long term those bearing outer races will fatigue and crack, they are not designed for this, you have to use proper cam follower bearings to get good life, as they are thick walled to have fatigue life much higher than a regular bearing, and not to deform under point loading on the outer race.
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  3573. I use ethanol based fuel, but this comes from Fischer Troph process, converting pretty much any carbon feedstock to syngas, which is then turned into various liquid fuels and chemical feedstocks, all of which are in general better that using oil to make them. Yes a lot of ethanol is produced, more as a intermediate and as part of the process. Another source is the old spent wort from beer making, which has a plant by me making all sorts of chemical feedstocks off of this fermentation as well, and one of the byproducts is actually used to make a popular spread.
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  3574. Sometimes they put the wrong regulator in, putting in the PWM control one in place of the simple voltage controlled one, which makes the alternator not charge, as it cannot respond to the PWM signal, and also cannot pass current through the slip rings to the rotor as it switches on and off too fast..
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  3575. Would take that big one and drill 2 more M16 holes to hold the spare pins, or make a rack that holds the pin spanners and the extra pins in one place, because you will otherwise find one of them has gone walkabout on you.
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  3576. 24 7 access, to them means you can drive and look at the doors 24 hours a day 7 days a week. they would prefer that oyu pay for membership, but never actually use the facilities more than once, and find that the cancellation is so byzantine that you will continue to pay for it for life rather than attempt the process a second time. Oh and blackberry is a beautiful void, deserves more screen time.
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  3577. Yes them likely copying and pasting in a signature needs to be looked up as an actual fraud case, an attempt to do interstate fraud at least, as the document surely went across state lines at some point to a central server.
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  3578. Every person who ever got a ticket for illegal parking in the last couple of years is a potential defendant in the suit, which means they are now potentially liable for all those fines being refunded, as part of the settlement. So long as you either still own the vehicle, or have the receipts, or still live in the same house, you are a claimant in that case now. Going to bet this will cost the police chief their job next election, along with the mayor, as those people will definitely not be voting them in again, and will probably have all their friends do the same as well.
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  3579. Done water pumps in under an hour, one even at the garage after driving into the town at sunset.
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  3580. Just a little too much scrap chrome in that batch. But should be perfect to make a few pry bars out of it, or a nice extension bar, provided it is welded on to attach.
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  3581. Big thing to influence reliability is frequent oil changes. Those tiny channels and tight tolerance fits will be rapidly destroyed by leaving the oil in too long, and it turns from a lubricating and cooling medium into a corrosive grinding paste.
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  3582. Impact requires a very accurate hit, but for disabling an aircraft just merely blowing up near is good enough, and you ensure with a large shrapnel field expanding out in a cone that you will very likely impact the aircraft, taking important parts out in the process. If you blow up as you are closing, so the cone expanding will cover the aircraft, you are a lot more effective, and those IR sensors are passive, looking for a large temperature change against the background of sky, which means there is an airframe close by, and thus on target.
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  3583. Actually that you cannot own anything at all, because they want to take it, use it, and do it under CAF, or sell it for money.
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  3584. Some pumps are easy, some of them are not. VW I did 2 in a row, a week apart, because the first one leaked. Not really a problem aside from the 2 hours extra labour, but the inconvenience of going to buy the alternate aftermarket one, and then return the leaker for credit. Just had to clean off the sealer I used on the gaskets with acetone, because they will not warranty a pump with silicone sealer on it. Me I used Indian Head, so had to wash it off the housing. Cannot get OEM any more, even VW will sell you aftermarket on these, though if they install it the warranty covers labour as well.
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  3585. The spring is there to keep the element pressed firmly to the housing, in the middle the by pass valve is that thing going into the filter core. Spring just is a convenient place to put it, stamped out of a single piece of mild steel, with the spring function being very weak, just enough to handle the expansion of the case from Antartic temperatures to engine operating temperature.
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  3586. Yes, brings back memories. I picked up an old luggable with a ST251 in it, that had a different firmware in it, that would autopark the heads after a quarter second of inactivity, so running things on the 80186 processor that needed disk IO but which were also compute intensive would result in a few hundred strokes of the drive mechanism across the disk, as the auto park activated after each lull in access. Same with the otherwise standard Shugart 5 1/4in drive, which would home itself after each track read if the next read did not occur within the quarter second, and also spun down the floppy disk after a half second of inactivity, making it really slow. As it was fully expanded with a full 1M of memory, it was capable of running MSDOS6.22, a big step up from the MSDOS 4.0 it came with on auction, though the screen itself, a EL backlit TN LCD, was very poor by then, the EL backlight was on it's last legs, and very dim, while the TN display had both slow response, and an incredibly narrow viewing angle. To see it you needed to be in a dark room, normal office lighting would simply wash out the display totally. Still have the ceramic 80186 processor though.
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  3587. Recommended video probably from your title being similar to stuff watched at the time by viewers, and there is enough common in what you talked about to the auto translate bot for it to get matches to words in there. Your voice does fit the auto captioning well, and has very few errors in the transcription, so your ranking there would be higher as there is more confidence in the transcript internally to YT. Raises your ranking in the big blob of the search algorithm. There is probably somebody who knows roughly what the search algorithm is, but they tell nobody, as then it is easier to game it. Telling the reps would be the last thing, but probably they would be better off telling them something plausible so that they do not have the deer in headlights look too often. Just enough to the real thing that it looks like it is working, but not enough right to actually game it.
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  3588. Run without oil changes till the oil turned to black goo. Then when the knock started owner went to Jiffy lube and changed the oil, and probably right after complained the engine was now knocking, and it was the fault of Jiffy lube, and got the engine changed by them, if the booking in did not note down severe knock on arrival, and the oil was soup, and no record of any oil changed for the last 5 years.
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  3589.  @paulstubbs7678  Had to recover a failing Seagate drive on one, it took a few hours in the freezer to get it cold enough to allow me to get all the data off. New drive, due to the BIOS, had to have that 2G jumper put in, as Netware 3.11 was not happy past 2G of drive space, though the data was all only around 1G. Did find a good use for that extra space, made a second partition, and formatted it, and made it only visible to the administrator. Now it was used to take snapshots of the database running on it, so I could do a quick copy during lunch, and then again in the evening, and have a snapshot that was generally only a half day old. Was useful, plus also month end I could carry on and do a pre and post month end backup as well, just in case something borked. only 100M anyway, so I could fit a few snapshots onto the 1G partition, and at leisure write them to backup without slowing the system down much. That screensaver did roll over once or twice as well. 3 NIC's, to segment the network, seeing as it was still mostly 10M NIC's, and a lot were 8/16 bit ISA cards as well. At least a big step up from Arcnet......
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  3590.  @ewanmcdonagh2827  You got the one good one in that batch.....
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  3591.  @Number6_  Mine were about a decade old when I got them, SCSI drives out of a server. Only noticed the one had failed one day, one used as a scratch drive, and the other as XP swap, that the swap one had died overnight, and XP had decided to make a fileystem swap partition to replace it. Left it there, and eventually a year later the other one also died, so the pair got removed, leavbing the card behind to still service the scanner and Zip drive i had for use.
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  3592. There are tighter bends, not going to affect belt life at all much, it is time and contamination rather that flexing that kills them.
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  3593. But the give the criminal's family the option, because the alternative is they apply the penalty when they get those magic words "we got enough organ matches", so take all the parts they need. Where do you think they get all the blood needed in country, and all those organ donations as well.
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  3594.  @maxsdad538  They returned the ashes 6 hours after the supposed time for the one foreign woman, last seen the day before at 6PM, and scheduled for 6AM the next morning.
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  3595. Easy, if it is advertised and promoted without health claims backed up it is bad for you. If it is boring stuff that your great great grandparents made then it is good for you ( within reason) and probably totally unavailable now. Bread is good, but not the stuff you buy on a shelf. You have to make it from scratch from wholewheat flour and not use anything other than yeast.
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  3596. Uber definitely, the service is getting worse, the drivers are aggressive, and the number of assaults by the drivers is very high. Sod it, I will use a minibus taxi instead, because there you kind of accept the driver is sleep deprived, high and drunk as a matter of course. Or get a meter taxi instead, because those still are semi good, and at least reliable to a point.
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  3597. @ It is not, against the TOS of the platform, but there is very little they can do if a party deals direct with the owner outside of the system. Just the owner cannot claim any damages against other party either, as this was a private rental.
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  3598.  @jblyon2  Yes the USA charges a ridiculous fee to use your money. Cheque costs a lot of money to handle for the bank, yet is low cost, while the electronic transaction, which is ironically what the cheque becomes the second it hits the bank, is so hard to cost that it is literally free. By me no more cheques now for a few years, and nobody actually missed them, except the fraudsters who were writing the majority of them.
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  3599. Lot of politicians and judges will also appear on that list, seeing as they likely are lawyers, and at some point will have been through the companies blocked. Will they also ban the staff, like paralegals, secretaries, runners, drivers, and the companies that do cleaning, maintenance and such for them as well, along with the companies that provide services for them, like phone, internet, power and water?
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  3600. Insusrer, deny all claims at first, then only grudgingly accept on appeal. SOP in the insurance world, where the assorted management bonus is based on the number of claims that they deny, so of course the standard is to deny all claims.
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  3601.  @nottelling9472  BP has Fuelmaster, you pull up, insert nozzle into tank, and it fills fuel, no other interaction needed, all automatic. No card, no enter mileage, nothing, all automatic and complete with video as well if needed.
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  3602.  @GoldOxide8463  That is the thing, those that get away with it are never caught. She messed up, because she had it running too long, should have had the fake run for 3 months, then be a no show and terminated, then leave for 3 months, and rinse and repeat. Big enough company, or government, and you find hundreds of ghost employees, who look real on paper, and often the tax is applied to whoever was the unwitting SS used. Yes the failure is using a bank account that can be traced, you need to have fake ID to open bank accounts as that person, and get the money using methods that give cash out, like using an ATM, with disguise, as they all have good cameras now, or drawing at a cash payout point like a store. Of course do not use your store loyalty card there either, and remember the 100 cameras, that record every step, from the moment you enter the parking lot, and even the street.
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  3603. Normally the last thing on the budget. you will find that most is never serviced, and often is stolen, especially in a public hospital where there is little to no controls in place.
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  3604.  @billmellater  The non break away light fixture poles that freeways use as a median divider. Non break away as they are tall, and can do severe damage if they fall over, so are protected by being very heavy, and also being mounted on large concrete pedestals.
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  3605. Question is do you charge more for making it look like it just came from the factory, and you have to downgrade your normal finish on it.
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  3606. Just like airlines, overbook so all seats are filled on the most popular flights....
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  3607. Still likely they made much more than this already, and figure this was just a cost of business, and will simply do it again, slowly ramping up to the same again.
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  3608. 800F is also hot enough to have appreciable quantities of lead vapour in the air, pretty very well above even the most relaxed OHSA guidelines.
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  3609. remember as well that that 1 to 805 ratio also includes that there are at least 5 officer ranks between the top ratings and the admiral, likely totalling around 100 plus officers, so the ratio is actually lower. It is very likely there are commands where the number of officers actually exceeds the number of regular ratings, so that there is at least 2 people in management position (officers) for every rating in the command, including those whose duties are things like guards, cooks and ratings undergoing training.
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  3610. Yes the 2 door VW is getting rarer by the year, those long doors tend to sag with time, and kill the hinges as well.
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  3611.  @castleanthrax1833  Yes those old doctors had it down to under a minute to amputate a limb.
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  3612.  @pv2639  We will hope you tell your doctor that next time you need any surgery or such.
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  3613. Going to bet they were unhappy with the rust on the firewall near the HVAC air inlet, and also under the cowl, as that is also a common place to have rust.
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  3614. Here that stainless steel would be gone the first night, ripped out, or cut off and taken as scrap metal. At nearly $1 per kilo stainless steel will vanish fast, though of course the ever popular thing is to steal every bit of brass or copper that can be found.Unless you bury it in thick concrete it will be taken, even if it is a 10cm length sticking out the wall, or a shut off valve. I just have given up, and am using PEX pipe every place outdoors, as that at least is cheaper than copper to replace, because it will be chopped off for the tiny bit of metal in the crimps, or the brass fixtures. Go to the police and they will not even open a case any more, because it makes their statistics look bad, having 200 cases a week minimum.
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  3615. But a multimeter is cheap, or even free at Horror Fraught, and well worth keeping in the vehicle, the free Harbour Freight one is good enough to use here, and accurate enough. Blow it up, get another.
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  3616. Got a nice phone where I dropped it, and got a green line on the OLED display, but otherwise still works. Screen protectors broken lots of them.
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  3617. One thing with every video ever posted by Thunderfoot is that you will always learn at least one new thing that you never knew before, or he will show you that something you thought was dogma is actually wrong, and give you an explanation that is consistent as well.
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  3618. Failing coils, so the ECU increases on time on the injectors to compensate, thinking from the misfire that it is running lean, as the oxygen sensors when hot are giving implausible readings from all the carbon. Then long on times heats the injectors, causing the marginal ones to break down and start to be intermittent. Higher resistance is in secondary side of the coils, primary side of the coils will be in the low ohm range, typically under 5 ohm, as the ECU is the one setting coil current and timing, and anything over around 5 ohm on the primary will never be firing well. Will bet as well if you take one of the fake coils, and slice it open with a grinder, that the wire inside is the horrid CCA wire, silver in colour, and this will always fail with time.
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  3619. Red glow is electron bombardment of the metal ball creating a plasma, as it strips off a few atoms off the surface.
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  3620. Because the drivers still will ignore them.
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  3621.  @johnhpalmer6098  Yes, electric windows do help, just got to fix my one with the dicy switch. Plus the Kia where it also needs a new switch, but currently worldwide out of stock, so made a plan involving taking that unit apart a few times, and doing some soldering. Who uses rear windows anyway.
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  3622. Power cord easiest fix is to simply go up, and put a length of cabstrut rail from the roof down, and then put some cable hangers in the rail, and attach the new cable to that, and use this instead. That way power comes from top down instead, and you can have one less thing to worry about on the floor side. That way you have a few loops of cable on the top that will flex, and no fiddly power spring to worry about any more. Just going to need a good chunk of 16mm 4 core orange trailing cable, unless you look online for a surplus 80A 4 pole gantry power rail for an overhead crane.
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  3623.  @charlie15627  The Russian missiles are not as well characterised as bombs, where the designs are held to tight tolerances, so the casting is machined to a very precise profile, the fill mass is carefully controlled, and then the balance point is adjusted to put all of them at the exact same balance, so all will fly the same. My grandfather was the one who made the patterns for the bombs in the war, and cast them, then they got filled and shipped to the UK and allies. the same bombs are still in use, as the newer weapons systems were also calibrated to use them, so they kept making them to the same spec. The mass produced rocket is not as well controlled, and as well as the propellant fill ages it varies a lot in burn time and pressure, so they have very little consistency. After all they were designed to close in point and shoot application, not for precision long distance work. I doubt that they even can get the same batch and lot numbers per load, all likely being different ages, different manufacturer, and different storage locations, all brought there fast to be used. Also probably more than half of them are duds, with the famous QC that the USSR was known to have for military stuff that was produced, where production quotas were the only metric looked at.
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  3624. Gee, also have that same breaker bar with the exact same twist ze top off on it. So far the only parts of the drivetrain we have not had apart on the vehicle is the actual manual gearbox. But up to around a dozen and a half recoil inserts now, fixing previous damage to various aluminium parts.
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  3625. Not bad, but for me a big ticket item. Would be good for Lenovo to also sponsor you a few dozen lower spec, can even be refurbished units from a lease upgrade, laptops to send to your school library program as well. A laptop or three for the students to use, along with a solar panel and battery bank for charging them, and a light or two at night, would improve things for the libraries as well.
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  3626. There is a paper trail, but it leads to the wrong conclusions and people who got the money.
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  3627. Simply host in a Ukranian data centre, because they know how to handle lawyers that try to serve them, and are pretty good at software decoding as well. After all JD was "upgraded" to usable by them.
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  3628. No, sign at entrances say city is indemnified against any actions that occur in the park, even if they are as a direct result of action, or negligence, by city officials, or employees, or contractors. You would have to prove it was deliberately done by the city, or it's representatives, while acting in official capacity for the city. Do not think doing this particular act was officially condoned by the city in any case ever.
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  3629.  traybern  Spoiler, she looks like a young version..........
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  3630. Got to be the hardest way to get a Martin Baker tie pin ever, hope the guy actually gets his. As well there will be a lot of rework of all the ejection seats that came out of whichever facility serviced them, to ensure that all actually pass correctly. That is the one job the armourer does that he fervently hopes will never ever be used, but also the job that has the greatest care taken with, because there is no way to go around when it is needed.
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  3631. Would have added in a time delay relay as well, so that 10 seconds after she put it in reverse it would die. A second delay relay of around 10 minutes, so that it would die just as she put it in reverse and got out of the parking, then it would start, and a recycling relay so that it would run for 20 seconds, then cut out for 2 minutes.
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  3632.  @Ruhrpottpatriot  Why bother, was easier to just get it from the railways ready to use. We were more interested in other organic chemistry, especially the longer branched chains, though there are a lot of short molecules of interest as well.
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  3633. Gives them the bill, plus pictures of what came in, and what went out.
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  3634. Most casinos simply flood the entire floor aroundd the high stakes games with a lot of IR light, and a scattering of UV as well, to drive camera sensors into saturation, to keep from having a live stream out to an accomplice doing card counting or other trickery. Cheap slots not a worry, those make a profit slow and sure, and being automated one arm bandits they have the inner workings well screened.
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  3635.  @stephensmith1118  Yes, but at least it is not one of the thousands of Ford trucks recalled because they catch fire, and the electrical system failing means you cannot unlock or open the doors as well, so you burn to death in it.
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  3636.  @mattyb7736  Thin enough wire and it is a fuse anyway.....
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  3637. So long as he paid taxes on that income the IRS did not care.
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  3638.  @radolfkalis4041  Yup, can be anywhere, though because they often fool you with having other scammers on the phone they do tend to be local, so as to have a local accent.
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  3639. Thing is Fedex hired the contractor, then sets limits on how long they have to get from A to B, ignoring little things like traffic, tolls, weather, legal working hours for truckers. Thus you get them saying that facility B is 55 miles from facility A, and the driver must make it from arriving at A to pick up, to delivering at B after loading a 20 ton load of assorted pallets, in one hour, or face penalties of $xx per minute. Never mind B is at the other side of a city, there is no direct route, other than 80 miles of country road or residential streets with a 40MPH limit or less, there is a toll bridge between them, and this has to occur from 4PM to 5PM, in rush hour traffic. Also the loaders took 30 minutes to decide to come out to the truck, and 20 more to load it.
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  3640.  @jeromethiel4323  They probably baited it with having a few cars already there, so as to make it look like it was a parking area already.
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  3641.  @WrenchingWithKenny  Exactly that, and you sharing is great, and learning from it is worth it. Yesterday I figured out how to fix the error on my car. Today helped friend fix his car, repairing a pump that was otherwise going to cost more than the car, using the brushes from a Bosch alternator.
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  3642. Same with every ATM as well, though with the US penchant to make it cheap, and use them till they are well past end of supplier support, and then still use till they break, most probably do not have a camera.
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  3643. Lawyers on retainer, the loss of the case reflects badly on CEO renumeration, as the money comes out of his pocket instead of being a bonus to him.
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  3644.  @wa1gon  Friday afternoon, so bet all the others were either just rubber stamping it, or did not bother to check at all.
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  3645.  @pauldunn4426  100 feet, or it will land in the only patch of gravel for 3 miles.
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  3646. Good number of places do not take cash, because the 3 armed robberies in a month for cash made it a lot safer to not have any cash on hand. USA, where the customer is billed for using their money....
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  3647. That old oil looks like they put some snake oil additive in it in an attempt to stop it knocking. about the only thing that would work is if they replaced the oil with grease......
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  3648. Petter, making tragedy something interesting to listen to, and also making sure he conveys all the lead up, along with as good a replay of the incident as well, along with all the factors that went into making the swiss cheese line up.
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  3649. So I guess the next app upgrade will interact with the vehicle touch screen, and show the notifications on there. Or a vehicle with touch controls will find the driver guilty of distracted driving for changing climate control options, because they cannot be done from thesteering wheel.
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  3650.  @ben_doom1958  Been in a helicopter doing that, memorable when you are sitting looking out the door, and above you is the ocean, and beneath your feet is the sky. You would not think 16 tons of helicopter can actually do that. As for transport aircraft being underpowered, they are suprisingly robust, as I also later on had the dubious experience of hearing the 2 ahead of me in the circuit landing, hearing it through the sound proofed walls of the third one in the circuit. They scrubbed all those tyres to replace in a single landing, and left a pretty impressive cloud of burnt rubber as they jackhammered the crabbing aircraft down on the runway. Of course the pilot flying the one I was in had much better cross wind capacity, and came in with a hot mic, reading off altitude till he went silent at 3, and after 5 seconds, when he commented for full reverse thrust, that for all those who were waiting, we had landed 400 feet back from there. No noise, no bump, no smoke. Interesting flight, got to watch air to air refuelling, the success, the fails, and the come back with a very clean plane, after doing too fast a disconnect, and getting washed with 500l of Jet A, promptly flaming him out. Bank off, aim level and get to practise that flame out restart procedure, that before had only been done in the static simulator, and come back to do it properly again. Passed that phase perfectly, did not get the package of the torn drogue sent to him as award. Same week also had to jump start helicopters, all that training as apprentice sure came in handy there, as I had to learn the entire airframe electric system, and read all the documentation as well, and a lot of it did stick. As to the toss bombing that is CCRP, different from the US standard of CCIP, and yes the bomb will go a lot further.Did hear of one pilot who did that, and he was a little hot in the pull up, and missed the target by a little. Also missed the bombing range entirely as well, and the farmer got a new tractor out of it as well, because the practise round landed near him in the field.
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  3651.  @apolakigamingandmore6376  Flying inverted is easy, you just have a limited time to do so, as you are very rapidly scrubbing altitude and velocity, though a lot of fighter aircraft are designed to be able to fly inverted no problem, though, due to the internal inverted flight fuel tank, held in the final fuel tank, only holds around 30 seconds of fuel in it for this, before you have to fly in a normal orientation again. Also a lot of the hydraulic systems are going to run into issues, as they lose the fluid in the pressure reservoirs, as the pumps are no longer able to scavenge fluid from the sumps.
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  3652.  @gags730  Central Africa, where the cost of shipping was high, so when he sold the municipality a new set of US built Cat dozers, their first job was to dig a big pit, and push the old fleet of British made, Rolls Royce Merlin derived engine powered dozers into the pit, and cover it. New ones were both more powerful, much more reliable, and had half the fuel consumption of the ones they replaced. Reason to push them was because the old fleet only had one working left, and it was not capable of pushing another, so it was the only one that drove in under it's own power. Shipping stuff out took space on a train, that would otherwise be used to carry copper anode blocks from the mines, so the cost of freight out was high, but incoming was cheap, as the cars had to come back anyway, so filling them was almost zero cost other than the fuel.
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  3653. The whole must be reviewed by a human, look at the 2008 financial crisis, where there were people who "reviewed" close to 5000 cases a day, and all of them were sent through to collections, and the houses were foreclosed on. Note that often enough the people foreclosed on had never actually loaned money on the house, and more often than not the bank could not prove in court that they actually had the original signed paperwork, or that they actually even owned the loan, or that it ever existed in the first place. But "too big to fail" foreclosed on millions of people.
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  3654. Flipped the like count from 999 to 1K, a first for me........
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  3655.  @DKNguyen3.1415  In some areas the plates belong to the vehicle, in some the plates belong to the owner. By me plates belong to the vehicle, you have to actually go to the registration office and request to keep them, or turn them into a personalised plate, which then does belong to you, but at the current price of $117 the number is not really something I care about, though there are plenty of vain people who want them.
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  3656. My father would have been 102 this year, but did not make 90.
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  3657.  @TrekkerMoto  Mercury switches are long gone from SRS modules, they all use MEMS sensors these days, which are both very reliable, very fast and also position insensitive, so will not give a false output if upside down. The controllers are also permanently powered direct from the battery, so will delay for a few seconds on power being connected for self test, and if upside down will just set a fault code, for the sensors being in incorrect orientation. Central module and then possibly others in crumple zones to provide info on rates of crumple, so the main module can determine impact force and direction, and thus which airbag outputs are going to be fired. Also seat occupancy detectors, so that only the driver and passengers actually in the vehicle are protected, and the others are not fired unless needed.
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  3658.  @ReapersKid07  True, but that is exposed, and once the steel that is acting as sacrificial anode is gone, it will also slowly corrode away.
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  3659. Incidentally with a 4 cylinder VW engine it is kind of common to have cracks form between cylinders in the head, especially if it had overheated, and you slapped in water before allowing the engine to cool down completely. You find it when cleaning the head prior to machining, and do a crack test on the unit. Easiest fix is a new head, or else you end up stitching it, which may work.
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  3660. The popular Kerosene stove used here, almost the most popular cooking method, as it works when the electricity does not, and gas has a high initial cost for use, does not need a starter fuel to use, just pump it up and get it high enough in pressure to spray a fine mist, then light, and it will stabilise down to an even heat in seconds. Same for the lamps, though there have been a few models recalled because they had soft solder on the "brass" parts, which melted in use, and you had the whole unit pop apart and spray hot boiling kerosene, here paraffin, all over, with a nice ignition source for the hot gas as well right next to it. Saw racks of them that had been seized by the regulatory body, ready after the case to be taken and crushed, then sold for scrap metal.
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  3661. Using a new to me Dell PC, and using a 32in LCD TV set as monitor, because the big screen makes it easy to use, not having to focus close in, but able to sit 1m away and still see the whole screen. Plus can put on a movie and move to the lounge chair to watch it, and yes I also have a wireless mouse there to operate the controls.
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  3662. Yes, and owned by a pretty big holding company as well, so not likely to be around by monday when the trademark infringement notice arrives.
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  3663. No way you got that pulley to the right torque just holding it by hand. Normally requires 2 large screwdrivers in the fan assembly to wedge it, to get to the right torque without damaging the blades. Sworn over way too many of those Bosch units to get them apart, and that came apart too easy. Normally you need a stout vise, some stout pry bars and some wooden broom sticks as softish wedges to get the pulley nut to even budge.
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  3664. Funny though My 2001 VW I only ever changed bearings all round once, rears because the drums wore oversize, so a new set of bearings with the new drums was a kit, and front one hub at a time, as front hub assemblies are not that much more than the bearings alone, and save you that 2 hour cursing session getting the bearing block out. But done that, they were out of stock at the time, so time to use the big hammer, the big steel drift and the piece of pipe support instead, plus a lot of lube and a bit of heat to break the rust free. New went in with a layer of grease, so changing would be easier next time.
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  3665. My friend lived in a flat where I could change lights for him easily, just lift my arm above my head a little, and touch there. Worse was my sister, where changing lamps involved coming in with first 5 strong people to move the concert piano out of the way, then place plastic sheet onto the carpet, then wooden duck boards, then build up scaffolding to the inside of the atrium, where the lamps were. Thus those only got changed out when every last one was dead, and they were made to last a long time by being run off a dimmer switch, set to half brightness. Also coincident with the scaffolding going up the atrium windows would be cleaned on the inside, the outside cleaning being done by the rain, because no window washer was wanting to climb up the roof to there to wash them.
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  3666. Company can get 24 hour use off the vehicle, and not pay a driver. Just have a half dozen "support" staff for 1000 vehicles, to get them going again, or tow into the yard for more detailed fixes. 6 people to pay instead of 3000, as the 1000 cars need to run only an 8 hour shift per driver.
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  3667. Bent frame bet there was a kerb involved.......
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  3668. Only thing missing from the hyperbole was for there to be some home made butter to join the mathematical sections to the jam sections, acting as an interface for maths.
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  3669. Those were probably the most rugged probes ever built, and that they actually made it down, survived as long as they did, and sent data back was incredible, showing that, with the right groups of designers, and a lot of ingenuity, that nearly anything is possible.
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  3670. Do not forget the fly by wire means that the pilot is merely giving a suggested input to the computer, that then has the job of keeping it stable in an inherently unstable, and thus nimble, fighter aircraft. That is a development that went from the military to civilian aircraft.
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  3671.  @chrisruggiero9043  Yes as Amazon is the one supplying the trailer, they will know exactly who was the supplier of the rig that was moving it, and will also have logs of the trailer from the on board tracking unit as well. Time to take them to court, if the amount is under small claims file there, otherwise regular civil court. As they are the owner of the trailer, they cannot disclaim liability.
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  3672. Funny here paying a bill at the store you pay nothing extra, the payee gives the store a commission fee, not the customer. Many banks now also will not charge any fee drawing cash at a till either, because the shop covers the cost of handling the cash, not the bank. Some banks you can even deposit cash at the till as well, they literally act like a bank branch, with zero fee to the customer. Quite a few of the more online banks now offer this, as they have almost no branches, you interact with them, from opening account, to doing all transactions, either via phone, or online via app or phone call, and use merchant shops to handle the money side. Card will be couriered to you as well, along with any documents you might need to sign.
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  3673. Had those in the military, still looking for a pair that good.
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  3674. My GM does not use the reverse light as courtesy light, it instead uses the number plate lights, and I installed the DRL lights, though used 3W LED lamps in them instead, so I have the light front and back when locking it, and they turn off after 20 seconds, plenty of time to either approach or leave the vehicle, and the front ones operate on door open as well.
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  3675. Sot surprising, they both did the same distance, and they are likely off the line right next to each other, so were made as identical as can be, so failed at the same time. If the assemblies were different right to left they can be drastically different life wise, but identical they tend to stay close matched all the way through, from machining the balls and races, to assembly and install.
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  3676. MB with the regular vehicles comes, by default, with a hard speed limiter, set at 100MPH/160kph. Plenty fast enough for 99% of all the users, but, for free, they will change it up for you at any dealership, free, you just sign the waiver of the drivetrain warranty, and your insurance company gets notified of the performance modification (in all insurance contracts for this anyway). It is not deleted, just set to 300kph, as very few models can actually go to that speed anyway, and for those that can they simply set to 400kph. Even in Germany it is that way, so you will see them cruising on the Autobahn unrestricted sections at 160, with the bright yellow "Limit" warning on the dash. And yes it will get there very fast, especially as you cannot really feel acceleration inside that sound proof vehicle. Plant the go pedal at almost any speed and it will drop 2 gears and run to redline, before smoothly changing up.
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  3677. Just proves only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun. They are waiting for afternoon so it is cooler, and lucky for them afternoon lasts for over a week. But it gets really cold at night though, hope they took a blanket and heater that will keep themselves warm till morning.
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  3678. Easy enough, just use some sort of website that asks for a SSN, and enter random numbers till you get a valid one, or look up how they are validated for number transposition, and make up one that way that looks like a teenager. Then a fake name, and get a fake drivers, and use that for the file. As all the company has on file are poor scans, any errors are hidden, and will be hard to prove.
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  3679.  @donixion4368  Like I said, easy to get a valid one, possibly an ex employee that left, that she still had all the info in the files for, and simply "re hired" using the same info, or somebody where she got the SSN from another store, using herself being alone in the managers office for a few minutes, and knowing the layout of the files there to grab old employee data.
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  3680. Last one that Mercedes was definitely stolen as well.
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  3681. Fix the brakes, $500 spent minimum, or carry on hiring it out, making $500 per trip.........
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  3682.  @MarkStockman-b4j  Most truck drivers the pre trip is checking the wheels that side are still there, and not totally flat, and did it start and engage gear.
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  3683. Make by Schabir Shaik though.....
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  3684. Fuse did it's job and kept the starter from catching fire, as the blow time for the fuse is normally longer than the starting time, so it does not heat up enough to melt. But if there is an issue, starter solenoid that sticks, ECU that was not programmed to time out starting correctly to avoid blowing the fuse, then it will disconnect the starter safely, so it is hot, but not on fire. Bet she kept on pressing the button, for around a minute, before the starter and fuse got hot enough.
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  3685. Had new shocks, but really not much you can do to that suspension other than remove it and put in air bag suspension and a compressor and levelling pump, which will make it ultra smooth, and increase travel as well, plus give ride height adjustment, so you can go from creeper at highway to nearly a half metre of travel for off road.
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  3686. Why bother, no lights on, and the engine will relearn within 5 drive cycles, and most modern radios are coded to the BCM and ECU via CAN these days, so do not need a code entered.
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  3687. The indexing should be aligned with the dowel pins, which Kurtis did not use, instead relying on his ability to do the alignment by eye before tightening the capscrews down that hold it. Easy enough once installed to undo and use a large flat surface (chuck front) to check and set, then bolt them down hard so they do not move. As to different measuring tools, depends on tolerance. If a mm is close enough then a steel rule will do, if you want within 0.05mm the digital vernier is good enough, and if you need to have the tolerance within 0.001mm then the caliper, along with the right calibration blocks, is the tool to use. Also the caliper is used if he needs to have a difference in diameter of a specific amount, like for the shrink fit, so that the final difference is such that it will not shatter the outer while relaxing to equilibrium temperature, yet is not so loose that it will either move, twist in use, or fall out under light loading. A small band, thus the need to have an accurate and repeatable measurement.
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  3688. You know they got small Korean person who does those, fits no problem at all.
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  3689. Vodka powered.
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  3690.  @dmitripogosian5084  My bets are that will have been pencil whipped, and whoever signed off on it is currently dropping large concrete blocks, complete with 6 foot spikes of jagged obsidian on them. Along with pretty much the entire top management, because they very likely knew about it as well, and will find out they cannot feign ignorance either.
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  3691. Not enough varnish to say long running with no oil changes, and likely it just was burning oil, and eventually burnt all of it. When he was pulling the top apart the cams and such did not look like they were running in crude, just regular "change at 20k instead of 15" sadness and cooked on deposits Just they did not bother with filling it when it got low, especially with the extra boost pumping oil vapour into the engine, and it all got burned, followed by the bearings being burned to the crank.
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  3692. Price, looks good on the showroom floor, has a lot of fancy features. Plus does not fall to pieces as you leave the showroom, and also a low instalment with long 7 year low interest rate car loans. So they were cheaper per month.
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  3693. Name the social media platform, and you get the same.
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  3694.  @reginaschellhaas1395  Yes, but often you find the grant money and what is done with it are two totally different things.
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  3695. Video area background can be the worst things you have replaced, and also the odd stuck bolt that came out. Also hang a curtain to the side, it will help with echo, and if you want put up a large cork board behind, so it is easy to attach decals and tags to it using pins. RV time to get a set of pads poured, and park it on there, and use some axle stands to hold it up, so the tyres do not flat spot. Then you can easily fix brakes and such.
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  3696. Less visible though, easy for ISP to see the use or darknet, even if they cannot see what is going on, the traffic to TOR is very easy to spot, being different from normal web traffic going to a CDN, and thus, like any other VPN, easy to track by metadata. Insta and the others goes to a CDN that is assumed to be safe, so appears as if they are just looking at cat pictures. hiding in plain sight is easier than staying in the shadows.
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  3697.  @rossmanngroup  Would suggest as well some UV sterilisers, along with a diatomaceous earth filter for some of the water, so that you will get basically floating fish in invisible water. Will bet Mr Clinton will still insist on scratching your chair, especially while you are sitting in it, instead of any other scratching post.
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  3698. Digital ones work, just will not easily show up those with cracked internal plates, which need to be loaded for 5 seconds before they will drop voltage down. Still room for the old cooking toaster ones, but the digital one is faster and gives hard figures, while the old one needs skill to use and interpret the readings.
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  3699. Even winter humidity does not drop below 48%, and summer goes up to over 100% easily. Not even the height of summer, I do not have to sleep with the fan on high yet.
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  3700.  @Denozo88  Guaranteed a foreign card will work in the USA as the USA still defaults to magstripe for almost all transactions, and sign or PIN entry. But your US card will not work outside the USA, where banks have a lot more security, and because most US customers do not actually know the PIN of the card they are using at all. Might be blocked for fraud almost immediately unless the tourist told their bank they were going to travel to the USA, because most non US banks are very suspicious of magstripe transactions, because they have a very high fraud rate compared to chip or contactless transactions. But again you can do a lot of transactions now with a phone that has NFC in it, which allows you to store the card info in the secure enclave on the phone, and the OS does the security on it as well.
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  3701.  @Denozo88  US still has dial up phone lines, and your national park will have that as fallback, and then even slow DSL will do card transactions fine.
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  3702.  @MattMcIrvin  More LED technology could not produce bright light without multiple emitters, so you had the corn cob style using hundreds of small chips run correctly. They last quite well, though with drawbacks of poor shape and of course the whole fitting was exposed live conductors. As technology improved you could get the same light output with fewer parts, and thus the lamp got smaller, to the point now where you have a 60W equivalent with only 5 massively overdriven LED units, with a life that is under 1000 hours. Ironic in that we replaced a technology, that had easy to manufacture parts, with a new one which requires a dozen billion dollar manufacturing plants to make it, but which has exactly the same cartel forcing you to buy the product over and over, while they have the knowledge how to make it last essentially forever.
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  3703. HF reacts with everything, but in a lot of cases the metal flouride is a stable layer passivating the surface. Thus you can store HF in nickel tanks, and use pure nickel plant to handle it, because NiF is at least similar in size to Ni metal, and bonds well. Just like Aluminium oxide is a passivation layer for insanely reactive Aluminium. Just do not have any sort of cavitation that will scour this layer away, and pour your liquid in slowly and carefully.
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  3704. Molyslip is amazing stuff, put it in a gearbox that is whining, manual transmissions only, or non limited slip differentials, and it will shut it up almost totally. Used it in industrial gearboxes as additive, and it makes them run cooler and quieter, plus slows wear on heavily loaded gearboxes. Generally I buy it in tubes, as a little will go a long way, and yes it is going to stick to every surface, and stay there pretty much forever.
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  3705. Hopefully Kraft lawyers can get this thrown out as a frivolous suit, and then get them to pay own side fees. Kraft lawyers another day at the job, other side lots of money and zero return.
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  3706. Do not forget that old landline phone indoor cable is a valuable asset as well. Used for jumper wires, and for connections as well, and you can get it in up to 500 pair bundles, with a good assortment of 10 colours and with stripes as well. Old copper network cable is also useful, makes for great links, and the flexible one for wiring up front panels. Generally available at every building demolition if you look for it in a dumpster, and you only need a few meters of it (or for the USA yards, close enough for the work you will use it for) to last a long time. Bonus as well it comes pre tinned in the most case as well for the phone cables, which is a great help soldering them, though the PVC insulation does tend to pull back when soldering.
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  3707. For a long time as well, ignored by the driver. I hear that noise all the time in parking lots, people just do not care till it stops moving.
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  3708. Comes from teacher pay and advancement being only done on pass mark, and nothing else. So the teachers are going to do whatever it is to get to that mark, ignoring everything else. Just like taking any office, and making the only way to advance be by writing up orders, where you then, because you can also cancel orders, get hundreds of orders written, processed and then cancelled, or returned as unwanted, because the salespeople are not dinged for returns, only for writing orders, so they will write everybody an order every month even if they are not wanting anything, or even a customer any more.
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  3709. Anybody notice the bump stop O ring only was installed later, it was left in the tray, even though the speech about checking all parts have been put back in place......... The old quill can still be repaired, just take it apart and cut a different taper onto it, or cut a thread and then machine a steel rod to receive it, and put the taper on the rod, so you get a new section. You could even them machine a thread onto the new rod to match the chuck. Old chuck is easy, still good chuck, so machine out the hole slightly ,and then put in a morse taper adaptor, and use it as a lathe drill chuck.
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  3710. More like just was in rain and such, and the top of the switch is not sealed well enough, so the pool that is in the top is pulled in when the trans cools down, and then it sits and makes the green crusties in there. Probably is a TSB where you add in a plastic washer cap on top, to sort of solve that.
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  3711.  @robotraider  Can't, half the wigs in that house by the river would be bankrupted by it.
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  3712.  @graysonwagner1855  Probably because the control room of the security company called the PD officers who patrol that road, and told them the 2 would be doing an escort run. Military the most fun vehicles are those with the extra plates front and rear "state authorised to exceed speed limits", along with the military registration. Clocked through a speed trap, and the officer just waved at me. might have been the plates, or that he had a mouthful of tacks, and a cable in the one hand, along with a hammer in the other. don't know what speed I was doing, the needle was stuck firmly on 0, other side of the pin.
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  3713. Still cannot eat them, the memories of a 3 month period when every meal either tasted of pineapple, or smelled of it. Even pineapple flavoured coffee and milk.
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  3714. Brake lights, the thing so often not functional on many vehicles, where you might only have the centre high brake light working, more because it has 5 3W filament lamps in it, that are not run as hot as the others. The LED versions also fail, or the brake switch had broken and stuck on long before, burning all the lamps, incandescent and otherwise, out from overheating. I see on average around 1 in 10 vehicles with one or more lights not working, and this includes both brand new, as in still with paper plates, all the way to vehicles that are mostly describable as rust and body filler moving in close formation.
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  3715.  @jimwall2291  Assumes they can reprint another store receipt. Looks like what they were doing was relying on there being both lax security, and also no actual reconciliation, just the stores receiving saleable goods back and putting back on the shelf. Would guess the only reason this finally got noticed was a store POS flagging that they had received back more than the store had ordered, but sold none, but did not actually have any overstock. ordered 5, still had 5, but the POS transactions said they should have had 15, but there had been zero sales.
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  3716. Look up Keeloq attacks, which is pretty much what all the systems use world wide now. However the old jam the ignorant people who press the button and do not confirm attack is still the most prevalent attack, as all of these are people who are clueless as to the surrounds when leaving or entering areas. I get out, lock then confirm it is locked always, even after turning off the annoying chirp, which serves no purpose anyway.
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  3717. Best to get the majority of the paint off first, so the sand blaster does not make the metal too thin.
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  3718. Funny thing the big box retailer by me actually can do returns without receipt, provided you have the store card, and a rough idea of when you bought it. I asked one slow day, and they can go back to the first purchase I did with the card, 20 years ago, complete with details of the store, price paid and description, along with payment method and the last 4 digits of the card.
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  3719. Best not to buy the ble oval, as the oval circles the problem.
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  3720. Welcome to the STASI then......
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  3721. Funny enough common here in cabinet making, mostly because you can easily fill the hole with filler and hide the screw, but still dig it out later if needed. Only problem is if you have a mix of screws, all the same dimension, but there are a few of the other type mixed in there. Last time I had that, was late on a weekend, needed to put those last 3 non Phillips screws in, and they were all Robertson. I used a hammer to put them in, like a nail, because they were not critical, and were going into chipboard anyway. Next time I went to the hardware got the set of Roberson drivers, because the remaining screws are all that.
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  3722. Gm and bad grounds, who would have thought that would ever occur.......
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  3723. But keeping them clean does help a lot. Not time to do my one again, it has been a year, will do it with the oil and filter change. Was at a shop and found a few oil filters that are the correct Z156, bought the entire stock, because they had been on the shelf for 15 years, older than my vehicle, and were still at the price from 15 years before. Got 2 left of the 3.
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  3724. Will suggest to get some 2m long copper plated steel grounding rods, and put them in at each corner of each container, then use some galvanised steel strap to bond them to the container wall. This will ground the containers, so you do not get a massive electrical charge difference when there is either a dry day, or a storm goes past. Will save your electrical stuff near it from being damaged by flash over. Not going to help much with a direct lightning strike, but the building itself is close by, and will provide the majority of protection with the vast part of the containers and igloo being in the lightning shade. Will also reduce step potential if there is a strike to the building or container as well. You could use 16mm copper wire, but the strap is a lot cheaper, easier to attach to the steel using the standard Kurtis metal additive methods, and a lot easier to paint.
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  3725.  @calculator1841  Small claims, they serve Uhaul, as the owner of record on the vehicle, and then the onus is on Uhaul to provide details of the renter. I am betting they are as organised as the other vehicle rental companies, so will both fail to provide the details before the date, and also fail to show as well. Thus the default judgement, and this then will provide "incentive" to provide the renter details, or institute the claim against them anyway, or bill the card, which is the likely result as least trouble for the office.
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  3726. Lada Niva. 4wd and basically can go where any goat can. Most modern 4wd cannot do it.
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  3727. Note as well that you have to send it certified mail, but they do not actually collect them from the post office at all, and then when it is returned undelivered they tell you you are past the return window, and are out of warranty.
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  3728.  @randomguy3281  Then you do not want thew ones I was making as a child, using the plasma cut blades we had to use on the lawnmower, and welded together by me with the arc welder. Found I needed to have a rather stout pry bar to remove them from the pine tree used as target, and they would even penetrate the turpentine hardwood tree as well, a wood that defied chainsaws and termites.
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  3729. Would add the helicoil and clones are really good, but the timesert is the best for handling pressure and liquid. Would say that for the tension tests you really need to not use cheap bolts, but go instead for capscrews with a rolled thread, as I have found the 8.8 capscrews are stronger than the helicoil inserts, and will actually pull them out before the bolt fails. If you go to a M10 thread, go and buy from Ford CVH engine head bolts, as those are incredibly tough, as they are designed to have the shank stretch, but not the threads. New ones should easily be capable of doing the insert to destruction, as the recommended method to repair damaged threads on the block is to tap down to the base of the hole in the block, and run in a few inserts, or a very long one, to provide a large grip area, which will never let go, the bolt itself will snap first, though the torque to do that is to go to 90Nm, then a full turn and a half, instead of 2 90 degree turns in sequence. I have used those bolts a lot in machinery, to have a really good high strength connection, though normally regular high tensile nuts are not up to the task, always have threaded the steel to take the bolt instead.
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  3730. Probably just the special of the day, or a colour of a particular law firm they use to differentiate different types of print.
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  3731. Orange peel is kind of common with low VOC paint finishes, seems to be a big thing with it, probably due to the longer drying times on the line, and the need to bake it as well. I see it on pretty much every new vehicle to a varying degree irrespective of manufacturer. As to the scratches, that is very likely a delivery issue, with it being driven without a full wrap of plastic from the production line, and then car carrier trucks and things like dust, road stones and srap marks from transport and moving it around.
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  3732. Always the shop made tool, the shop bought tool is invariably only used for common things, and I would say most machinists still use the tools and jigs they made as apprentices, and have gone on to make many more. Remember many a shop made tool starts off as a broken shop bought tool, that failed to do the job, and was modified and upgraded to do the job properly or differently.
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  3733. I have seen live streams that are over 90 hours, so should be possible. Also the bots are a pain.
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  3734. You stopped on a pedestrian walkway, because a stone from a poorly maintained walkway got into my shoe, and you got arrested because you stopped to remove this stone from your shoe....... looks like the buskers will now not be doing stationary acts, but will be walking a beat instead, just like the touts who cannot ask you to take a card, but can simply hold them out for you to take instead.
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  3735.  @rasz  Yes, because the low pass filtering needed for the sampling is so much better behaved, with a nice gentle roll off from 30kHz or so, instead of having to use convolution and have a filter that has very sharp phase shifts with frequency, meaning the reconstituted audio does sound different. 44.1kHz needs a good filter, and a single order filter will not do, it has to have multiple stages and a wild phase shift. 96kHz a simple RC works. 24 bit is better than 16 just for the dynamic range, and that you can get better correction from the master as well without having large audible quantisation noise in the recording after gain adjustment.
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  3736.  @JayAdams-ml5jf  I have no direct knowledge, but this kind of shady work is pretty much a common thing with this kind of business. they change name so regularly that the process servers simply update the name when serving, because the person named is the same, address is the same just business is different. But hard to get the tangled web unwound in a lot of cases.
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  3737. Salt water is about the same osmosity as your blood, so drinking it does not gain any nett water in the body, so you will dehydrate from simply sweating and urinating.
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  3738. With the tone tracer it works best if you connect both leads to the loom, for that 2 wire sensor connect both green and blue. As it is a twisted pair the break is very easy to find, as the break will cause a very sharp drop in volume level of the tone. For others use the suspect wire and any other wire from the same sensor, as those will be next to each other in the loom. Single wire sensors connect the one lead to ground, as that will result in a better signal into the wire, making the break easier to find when you trace along the loom. Note that large looms you might find the signal nearly vanish when the wire is buried deep, you need to scan all the way around the loom to find the best signal closest to the wire. The probes were originally used for phone lines, but are useful with any large and complex wiring looms in industry as well.
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  3739. $30 million is about 2 seconds of Amazon nett profit. Gross profit about 0.5 seconds, so the fine is not exactly going to be any sort of slap on the wrist for them. They get more money providing that data out to brokers in a month than this fine.
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  3740. Left the vehicle running, with the dog inside.
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  3741.  @Bryan-Hensley  Yes I know it is the voltage drop from the current, but you want more copper in there to reduce that voltage drop. That 10AWG is rated by NEMA for 30A for 300ft is because they consider 10% voltage drop within limits, at that distance and current, in a residential 115VAC situation, subject to typical loading and diversity factor. Would not recommend it for a heavy sewage pump running at continuous operation, at that length and current though, pump will have a short merry life.
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  3742. Software update is just like putting a bandaid over a sliced artery. Does nothing much, because they are only masking the symptoms, and not fixing the underlying problem, hoping the vehicle will be out of warranty before it grenades. See just how well that worked out for Hyundai and Kia with the Theta II engines, seems vehicle manufacturers never look and learn from others, and even internally they never learn from their own mistakes as well, repeating them time and again.
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  3743. But the cables need extra steps to adjust on the line, while the electric comes with the entire rotor assembly, already aligned and adjusted. This saves 3 minutes on the line, and a extra work station and crew.
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  3744.  @mr2miach  Thing is car body kits are not run under much strain, as they flex a lot, so the attachment points have to penetrate the material so it is held in place mechanically, as the glue join will flex, and eventually pull the fibres off at the surface. Here the issue is the join has to be orders of magnitude stronger, and any penetrations for bolts would have resulted in massive stress concentrations on the fibre area around them, making them fail quickly. Car body kit you will see crazing of the paint surface before the fibres themselves are compromised, so you are running it under low strain, but here it is run close to the full pressure rating, with little margin for any error, and cycling will slowly degrade the bonding to the point of failure.
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  3745.  @mr2miach  No, car body is designed to flex, with bolts to contain it, this submarine was just a poor design with no way to safely indicate it was about to fail. The testing they put in to tell it was under strain was always going to respond too slowly to prevent the implosion, as the warning came with only a few minutes of time left, when the hull stopped creaking, as all the spare tension in it was left, and the delamination was going to occur as soon as a single fibre brook loose next from the matrix, releasing all the pent up energy in the matrix nearly immediately.
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  3746.  @johnwarr7552  A street paver would work there with how bad some of those castings were......
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  3747. Yes it's a VW, it does break down. However fixing is cheaper and faster than with GM, and in general they only break down when stressed from towing all the GM vehicles to the shop. Reminds me, should really replace that knock sensor, the connector itself fell apart, so really should replace it instead of the wire holding the pieces together.
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  3748. First one that does that on camera with people near will find out just how stupid it was, with the charges of attempted murder against them, and the city making it stick as well.
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  3749.  @tristanvoltaire2058  No, current Suzuki small vans, which are a big seller, and which are reasonably safe. 3 stars for the smaller cars, and 4 for some of them, with the vans also getting a 3 star rating.
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  3750. Well, I see that right on red in the USA does cause a lot of accidents, so it really needs to be repealed, as it leads to way too many people running red lights without actually correctly stopping and observing it is safe to turn, or to turning into oncoming traffic.
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  3751.  @orbwithinanorb  Look up the number of illegal connections, that are known about, and then compare that that most of those illegal connections the household will have a fridge and microwave oven, along with a TV set. 87% plus do not pay for TV, so you can make the assumption about the number of microwaves from that, as a Tv is a luxury while microwave is not.
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  3752. Till the Ukrainian navy finds it......
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  3753. Hp is not what it was though, having been made sweeter to appeal to US taste, and thus losing the rest of the world who wanted the original more bitter one. The reason for adding the salt was that trench warfare was generally hot and muggy, so you would sweat a lot there, so the added salt was needed, even above the original salt in the corned meat, as you otherwise would lose too much salt in sweat, and thus have poor condition troops at the front line. Even in winter thy bundled up warm, so sweating was always a thing. Modern day hot industrial plants they will always have water available, and some plants go so far as to have water chillers every section for hydration, and an important thing to add is salt as well, either in the form of salted snacks or as extra salt packs in there as well. Doing temp work in one I was drinking 8l of water a day minimum, and took along lots of salt packets from fast food places as well, because you lose a lot of sweat working in places where it was 40C plus. lots of fans as well, and many of the stations they had literally welded the fans to a length of chain, which in turn was welded to the steel building structure as well, because if they had used bolts everybody had tools to undo those, and move them to other places. I did find some that were not welded down though, at one point we had 6 just to move the air there, and it helped a lot. Not little fans either, they were the clones of the Big Ass fans, basically around 30kg of steel so as not to blow over.
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  3754. I would guess they buy the stuff, and then return it at another store, after making a copy of the receipt, because thermal paper does fade, so many people store copies to carry the warranty. Thus the copy is used to do the return, or they could have been more classy and simply gone online and bought the exact same printer and paper, and printed them their own copies of the receipt. Printer easy, and the paper as well, as the stores often do not actually control this, and leave rolls by each register, where you can simply toss one into the trolley of stuff, and security will in the most cases not even notice it if they check, assuming it dropped there accidentally from the POS desk. Then you have a roll of the right paper, the right printer and away you go. By me the last few Post Office receipts are all printed on lottery paper, as they do not have the plain paper, but plenty of the lottery rolls from a previous operator, and they fit the standard thermal printer.
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  3755. Easy, just treat it like a tractor ( which is the actual company product, the sports and supercars was just the founder being cheesed off that Enzio Ferrari would not sell him a car, telling him to carry on driving the tractors his company made) and leave it in second gear all the time, and not bother with the loud pedal at all.
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  3756. Of course they cannot wash hands of safety liabilities, so if they have to recall for a safety issue even those not under warranty are part of the recall, and have to be repaired to make them safe.
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  3757. Would think that the TN politicians all need to have their citizenship revoked......
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  3758. Start off with a clean slate means that you never have big issues, and they get regular small work as well, which is a win for both parties, and the bank also has a control over maintenance of the investment they have made.
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  3759. They hired Stevie Wonder......
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  3760. Yes She is definitely unhappy that she is the young toy of the older guy, and wants a change....
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  3761.  @mikelarry2602  Disease caught from another person, like flu or the other virus that you find so common these days. The other party knew they had this, and did not take precautions to prevent spread, so that is an action they did, and thus a reason to expect to be actionable in law, in that they were aware, knew there were reasonable precautions they could take to prevent transmission, but that they deliberately did not take them, and deliberately infected another person with a life threatening disease. Could even be classed as assault with a deadly weapon if you look at it, in that this does materially affect the wronged party in life length, and massively increases the chances of them dying early from debilitating side effects of the infection. That they might only see the effect decades later, or not, is not going to be an issue, the average life expectancy is demonstrably lower now, and the treatment is very invasive and debilitating as well, along with not being more than palliative.
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  3762.  @SJF15  Well, at least only one flight, back to the UK, and after that not for the next decade or two.
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  3763. If you have ever seen an aircraft in for a major overhaul you would be suprised as well. When you see a bay with a tail number on the board, and the only thing in there is a few racks with parts on it, and in the middle is a wiring loom, laid out on hangers on the floor. That it all will be back together in 2 months is amazing.
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  3764.  @mourka01  Nobody had yet chucked a corporation in jail, so you need a fine that is around 50% of the annual gross income to hurt them, per case. Just need to do it once, and the others will immediately stop doing it, because then the shareholders suddenly do not get that lovely quarterly dividend statement, but a demand to pay up or else.
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  3765.  @red5standingby419  $120 million plus in federal credits, that the Nation will want to claim from the feds, at a minimum, will mean that the LLC will be definitely subject to federal investigation, because the US government will want to get those credits back, and they have endless pockets, plus will be able to pierce those LLC and Inc companies, at a minimum via the IRS filings, and it is likely that the execs will be extradited (Italy will honour US extradition requests, as will almost all of the EU) to stand trial personally, and all assets in the USA and EU will be examined as to reparations. Strongly would suggest they settle, and pay up for the rights, and the profit share, because the alternative is to have all the board of the LLC and Inc get measured for non Armani jumpsuits. Yes Armani does do tailored jumpsuits, and even bullet resistant ones.
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  3766. There are a few police departments by me who use BMW interceptors, factory modified to be faster than pretty much any of the standard production models.
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  3767. Honda makes the exhaust out of stainless steel, so it lasts 10 years plus, because that prevents any claims in 5 year warranty period, even in salt rust areas.
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  3768.  @derpderp3383  Nobody is going to wipe a totalled vehicle on auction, it will come with all the stuff that it had in it when it arrived. If it still had blood and body parts in it, it might get power washed, that is all. Auctioned off as is. People have found hidden drugs in auctioned off cars from the local PD's and Feds quite often.
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  3769. Will not work on glass though, there you need a special carbide bit that gradually grinds the desired diameter hole. Cheap way is to use tile drill bits with a teardrop shape, with plenty of lubrication, and when the tip just penetrates through flip the glass over and finish from the other side.
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  3770. Yes, the old Franna steel is way too good quality for Nissan. For that you need finest quality Russian steel, hot rolled, so the scale goes all the way into the sheets, and no pickle at all between stages. Then assembled by the finest Romanian gypsies..... Or made in Rosslyn from the finest ArcelorMittal steel, imported partly from India, and partly from the old ISKOR plants they bought. 🤣
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  3771.  @MarkVrem  Or the town that has gerrymandered borders, where half the town is in the USA, and the other half, not contiguous either, is Canadian.
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  3772. The likely way he gained access was because the shipping companies often recycle logins for the ERP systems, as they pay a per login fee, so if they have 100 seasonal workers, they will all get given the same login and password, as it will still have a separate terminal ID to use with it, but no extra charge. They will also never change the password, as then they have to train all the seasonal workers again, and manglement will have a hard time remembering to turn over the keyboard, to see the new post it note there with the username and password on it. Thus he just logged in remotely, as if he was a worker, and trawled through the packages looking for the ones he needed, and marked them as undelivered, while in fact they got delivered. Then the "customer" got a refund, and the shipping company got left with a missing parcel, which they could not trace. Only way was found that likely somebody went and looked at the logs for drivers, saw the log there said delivered with signature, but the ERP system said not delivered, and they started to look through all the missing items, and comparing with the old delivery device logs, and saw the large number of mismatches. Then started looking, and saw a terminal ID, and finally were able to track it down to a residential IP, enough evidence to get a search warrant for the address and all computers, which probably still were logged in, and also which had history of all the transactions screens as well. Will bet that this scam was a lot more than the $3.6 million, but this was what was provable through logs in the ERP, and on the computer.
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  3773. Symptoms pointing to a known issue, little need to diagnose. So a good diagnosis. No air in shop, get a canister vacuum cleaner, as many of them have an option to blow air as well as vacuum, so you can blow things, or vacuum the area. Good for engine use, as you can also clean the engine bay and the top, without sending debris all over the place.
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  3774. The tubes shrinking from T12 to T8, and then to T5, was a result of increasing phosphor efficiency. The T12 phosphor was essentially the same phosphor since they were initially developed in the 1920's, and was very limited in operating temperature and allowed light emission. Thus you needed a certain area of phosphor to get a defined light output. Later improved phosphors allowed both higher light output, and higher operation temperature, and also the smaller diameter tubes allowed a reduction of volume of gas fill, and also a drop in the amount of mercury in them, so the mercury went from almost 100mg for a T12 lamp, to 5mg for T8, and down to under 2mg for a T5 tube. CFL units are at around 0.2mg of mercury per lamp typically, ironically making recovery of the mercury near impossible, as it is so little. The biggest killer of them in enclosed and any fixture is that most of the power dissipation is in the filament ends, where you have to heat up the emitter material, so generating all the heat right by the electronics, and also in a nice insulating plastic enclosure. green PCB at manufacture ends up at EOL as being charred black, along with pretty much the entire inside of the lamp. Drawback of LED units is that they are also full of large amounts of toxic metals, Gallium, not so bad but still a heavy metal, and Arsenic, part and parcel of the Gallium Arsenide used to make the light emitting diode chips used in there, plus of course the phosphors are pretty much the same ones used in the flourescent lamps, and those are also a witches brew of heavy metal oxides, enclosing the GaAs chip. Flourescent linear lamps are easy to recycle, mostly glass, a bit of nickel wire, some strontium and tungsten, and a little fill of aluminium and copper from the ends, plus the water soluble phosphor inside, because it is deposited using a water based slurry. Crush up the tubes and wash them, and the wash water has almost all the phosphor and mercury, because it tends to bind with the phosphor (which is why you see so many T5 lamps that are pink, because the tiny amount of mercury in them has been adsorbed onto the phosphor coat strongly), and then you simply use eddy current sorting to pull the metal parts out, and melt them down again, and the glass goes into a furnace to make new ones. CFL units harder to recycle, you have to separate the electronics and the tube, and then mostly just recover the copper and dump the rest, and the same for LED lamps, if recycled only the copper is stripped, all the rest is just more waste to be dumped or buried somewhere. There was a brief period where CFL units had replaceable glass, as the idea was to reuse the electronic unit ballast and have a simple east to replace light emitter, but the integrated CFL quickly killed that as they were cheaper to make. Still have a few of those units around, and they will outlast the LED units very likely, as I also have a good supply of the PL flourescent lamps they use.
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  3775.  @calculator1841  Even with cash you are the same risk.
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  3776. Better have a valid passport entry stamp then, and you will get the money tax free, you just have to declare it on arrival back in your country for tax purposes, as it now no longer is the problem for the casino, they merely hold your details for 10 years, if the other country tax office wishes to enquire about this.
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  3777. That first set of shuttle tests did have one thing that made the pilots happy, they had Martin Baker as company, so they had at least some way to handle things going pear shaped. Removed later as it made things complex, then the last safety device was to hope you got low enough, in one piece, to use a carbon fibre rail to get out past the wing and use a parachute.
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  3778.  @jasontrauger8515  You already have eaten it, it is called margarine. Fischer Tropsch process takes coal, and generates a whole host of organic chemicals from it.
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  3779.  @Sashazur  To get to that inner you have at least 3 layers of external covers, a plastic sterilisable shroud, then an inner steel support for the shroud, then a steel mount that holds the core unit. All have warnings on them, and the shield would likely have had one as well, which they probably peeled off, thinking it is a serial number, so no serial number no way to identify it. We are not talking of the brightest thinkers here.
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  3780. Farm owner was also sued, and settled out of court. But you can bet now that no farmer will now allow snowmobile trails on their property in that area at all in future, and will all post no trespass, no snowmobiles, no skiing and no hunting signs on the borders as well. So now the local police will be there arresting lots of tourists who ignore the signs, and fining them. Will also bet this lawyer will find all the snowmobile clubs will give him a very frosty reception as well.
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  3781. Definitely smoking some paraquat soaked weed, or got the batches sprayed with Agent orange by the DEA.
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  3782.  @michaelblacktree  Yes people are stupid, thinking trucks are both slow and can turn and stop on a dime. Normally you can call them the late departed.
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  3783. Yes, not like the people who set the exams actually make new questions up, they simply shuffle the 2 dozen or so papers they made long ago, and change the order, or for multiple choice the answer order. You get all the past papers as a study guide, complete with an answer sheet as well in most cases.
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  3784. The remaining pieces can still have use, as a set of shelves under the bench, to hold things like power bricks, and outlets for stuff always plugged in, plus a cheap set of drawers fitted to the one side (on castors so you can easily move it side to side) helps as well with storage of all those things you need. With the IPA a good thing is to get small HDPE bottles, and put small volumes in it, so it is easier to use, and less likely to spill. Works with flux as well, buying in bulk and refilling the pen, though I simply went and got empty dropper bottles, and filled them with flux, and the same for IPA, using nail polish bottles that hold 10ml each. Easy to use, and much better control of where you apply it. Little brush makes for easy cleaning, and you just rinse out the bottle when it is dirty, or move it to being the first wash bottle, and have a clean final wash one.
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  3785. Note how the timing gears are not exactly round, but somewhat oblate, so the belt, in addition to swimming in lovely oil, also goes up and down as the cam rotates.....
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  3786. Not filters but those smoke and mirror magnets sold to improve fuel economy.
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  3787. The standard kilogram is suprisingly small, because of the dense metal it is made from. There is one 5km from me, in a very secure vault. I have seen it in the display case, in the safe mounted on the floor, in the large walk in safe that protects it, in the concrete building that houses it.
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  3788. Actually did have that kind of landing, with a gear unsafe warning.
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  3789. Easiest thing for the floor is to simply rent a buffer, and clean it using the rotary brush attachment, water and detergent in the mix tank, followed by a rinse, then simply use a commercial liquid polish to seal it, probably 3 coats applied with a flat mop. Will seal the concrete from spills and stains, and will at least keep the dust down, plus easy to patch as all you do is strip with polish stripper, wash, let dry and then apply another coat. Do every year as a maintenance task, and it will still allow you to have bare concrete look, but a little more resistant. Downside is if you want to do epoxy afterwards you will have to diamond grind off a millimetre more of the surface to get to bare substrate, so add an hour or two to the epoxy job.
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  3790. For good behaviour he will be out in 10 years, or will appeal, and get 15 years, so out in 5. But 10 DUI he really should never drive again. Yes even in my country, where DUI is pretty much a factor in every accident, including almost every pedestrian death, where the body is found to be a good amount over the limit.
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  3791. Probably only metering the small transformer, the big ones will have metering inside the cabinets, or in a substation feeding them, read vis a SCADA system. The load draw for the ride is very likely profiled well, so they know exactly the power needed for each cycle of the ride, and thus the metering is there more for monitoring the transformers for faults, as they know that each cycle takes X amount of power in Y number of stages.
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  3792. Carbon deposits are from both too long between oil changes, and from not allowing the turbo to spin down before shutting the engine off. Long oil change intervals allow the oil to form sludge, which, combined with the turbo spin down with no oil generating enough heat to degrade the oil, blowing the breakdown products into the piping. The return line is larger, so the restriction will be less noticed, but the supply pipe is small diameter to regulate the oil flow into the turbo, so it will clog first. Solution is to change the oil at the "harsh service" intervals, as noted in the owners manual, as the only way to get the oil to survive the regular service interval is to drive the vehicle like the "old granny driving for a Sunday country drive, and enjoying the view at minimum speed limit" all the time. If you are driving to enjoy the acceleration change oil more regularly, it is a lot cheaper than the 2 turbos.
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  3793. Bust policing a beach......
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  3794.  @paulhaynes8045  The phone has GPS yes, but also the towers, because they have a fixed nearby location, also will send the ephemeris data for all the locally visible satellites to the phone on request, so the phone GPS can lock really fast, and it also uses the time difference between local towers to gat a very fast and somewhat accurate location if indoors, so that it can at least give a position to within 30m almost immediately, even if there is no sight of the sky for GPS signals. The GPS signal is used outside in your car, to track better, but rough location is done using the signal strength and timing of local towers. Did once turn on a phone GPS with no coverage from the network, and it took around 20 minutes to finally position me, within a 100m sphere, while another phone, with service and data, took under a minute to position, using data and the 2 visible towers to get a rough area to gain coarse position fast. GPS in your phone needs data, stand alone GPS can do without it, though your accuracy improves with time on, as it refines errors out long term, though you also get the map used providing some sort of sanity check, as there is an assumption if you are moving you are on a road, allowing it to remove parallel paths easily.
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  3795.  @abarratt8869  Yes the phone does not use GPS time info, it just in most cases uses the time, date and UTC offset sent as part of the phone network operator control data stream to set time and date on the phone, along with the time zone, and that is then visible to apps and the user. The cell data control uses the time it gets from the GPS and reference cells to time stamp the packets of data sent to and from the phone, so as to allow message blocks to be sent out of sequence, if that helps with the instantaneous power and bandwidth management, and then each side will reconstitute the streams of data back into a single seemingly monotonic stream.
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  3796. That is a common switch to fail, and it looks like it fits quite a few models as well.
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  3797. Takes too long, quicker to saw it off and strip it later at leisure, sell the stainless steel for scrap and keep the cores to be crushed down and have the coating removed by acid soaking. you dissolve the PGM from the core, then filter it and react it back to a metal, which then is sold as a fine powder.
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  3798.  @rustymustard7798  Yes but you have both tools and knowledge. The thieves have a stolen sawsall and a habit that makes them twitchy and unable to think much past the $30 they will get for one.
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  3799. Years ago company had a check, already processed, get processed again for another, smaller amount. Do not know how the fraudsters got the check, seeing as the company normally got them back, verified against the book and computer, and then they get shredded. We did not get that one back, as it had only been done a month ago. When it arrived for the second transaction, it had been washed, stripping all the info and background, leaving only the MICR ink, and the signature. The rest had been reprinted, using an inkjet printer, including the background and the printing, and the check had been changed from account payee only to cash, and cashed at another bank. I could see it was reprinted, inkjet dots visible and the dithering, and the spots of cyan and magenta used to change the yellow slightly, plus the fraudsters used the wrong check printer (this bank uses 2, and only one in my city does these for them) in the side margin. Luckily the book of business checks also had a check made out in error, and this cancelled one was sent with to prove that this was fraud, only a few numbers off, and also an example of how they should look. Bank ate the cost, but of course the police never investigated, a part of the reason checks were stopped as legal tender a few years ago, as the banks reported over 60% of them, including ones printed by the government and Internal revenue, were either fraudulently altered, or were fake, or were refused due to insufficient funds.
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  3800. Yes, let the first owner do the hit on value, and get a vehicle with balance of warranty and service plan if applicable.
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  3801. Do not even need a NTP server, you just connect a GPS patch antenna and receiver inside it, and it will automatically get location and accurate time after a few minutes, then can calculate exact sunrise and sunset times by itself. Turn on, and after 5 to 15 minutes GPS is locked, and you get current time either in local time zone, or in UTC, and it knows exact sunrise and sunset times no matter where you are.
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  3802.  @WrenchingWithKenny  You see it all over, the PCV side always has the deposits, which is noticeable on the V engines as the one side always is cleaner, while the PCV side always has deposits.
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  3803. Would not have helped, 50 years ago design, where the biggest ship was a quarter the length of the one that hit, and the protection was adequate then to stop them, but having a ship easily 10 times the mass of the standard, for the time, hit was not considered.
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  3804.  @Cruor34  Fleeing driver will lose, as he would have been shown to be exceeding the speed limit, and thus the turning driver would have had time to clear the intersection before the other party, who if they were travelling at legal speed, would have arrived there. Plus the whole fleeing the scene screams either they were under the influence, or had something incriminating in the vehicle as well.
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  3805. Still covered, only ceases to apply when he is three score and ten years old.......
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  3806. My cat disagrees, having eaten a good number of them, and comparing it to chicken. Plus has brought me the bodies as well, to show he is also a good provider of food to the home.
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  3807. Also different types of PDF creator gives different file size outputs. Firefox PDF is massive, often bigger than the original, as it is a PDF of the page as it would be sent to the printer, but the PDF output from Debian is a lot smaller, just a file with the fonts and text, as the original document had.
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  3808. No 7 both to blame, trailer driver for changing over an intersection, and car driver for failing to check the intersection was clear before taking the right on red, as an accident doing that is going to be blamed on them for jumping the red light. No8 that van driver has ABS, so he was likely on the phone, and slammed on the anchors while steering to the right, and probably the ABS failed to work because he long ago did not fix that orange warning saying ABS fault, because "it still stops" was his thought.
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  3809. Landmark likely runs in the 8M cache area, and is running a tight loop to do the timing, using a counter increment while waiting for the regular clock interrupt, so will run fast. Norton probably is running and not always getting a cache hit, probably more due to actual code running on segments where it has to continually flush part of the cache. would wonder if using the Loadfix on MSDOS 6.22, to shift the actual load location slightly, would make a change in the speed results.
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  3810. You can also see the mass by looking just how much the floating crane lowers in the water. The mass displaces water, and the load lines are a good indication of the lifted mass. But that is likely only around 800 tons, simply because the crane operators want a safety margin in case the divers cut off a little extra. the 1000 ton lifts will be roadbed lifting, which is only going to occur after the entire frame is gone, and they can get down to lay cutting charges on the remains to blast it into liftable sections.
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  3811. If it went to trial the waypoint could be placed within 150m of a border, and still fall within the error of the GPS, as the non military use of GPS is only guaranteed to be accurate within 150m of the true location, provided the GPS unit is stationary for at least 10 minutes, as a moving GPS can easily be up to 300m/1000 feet, out of true position, and still be classed as being within specification, while still showing a valid position. Also if it had just been turned on from sleep, keeping a rough memory of position, so it does not have to sit and run through all the codes to get an accurate position from multiple satellites, it can still give a rough position, and an accurate clock and date, with only getting info from 6 satellites, but more and more visible ones provide better ability to triangulate an accurate position. In a forest with trees blocking view of the sky it can be hard to get reliable position, and waypoints can easily be out of the correct position, but close enough to see the right position.
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  3812. Calcium based road salts to prevent ice forming above a specified temperature, which when it hits steel makes for a great cathodic rust cell all over the underside, and with all the pinholes in the coating from road debris this makes the underside rust like crazy. I live in a place which is the second rust capital of the planet, and here it is only salt spray, and vehicles do not rot out as bad as in the cold states of the USA. more because the local manufacturers long ago went and put in proper protection on the underside metal, and then put a decent paint coat on every part as well, so that there is very little bare unprotected steel around.
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  3813. FBI comms van, acting as both a local cellular tower to improve bandwidth, and also acting to allow all the local agencies to communicate with their government issue phones, so they can share info, and talk using the PTT function that you can get with the right phone firmware on the phone. Also likely acting as an IMSI catcher for the area, so the ship crew can communicate with shore as well, allowing the assorted crews to get long battery life, as the phones do not have to communicate over a mile or three of water. The drone interdiction is very simple, the idiots flying them get too close, and can get into the crane cables, or hit cables or crews. They simply will be using a scanner to cover the ISM bands the drones communicate on, and when they get a signal approaching they simply look and try to read the federally mandated ID on the drone, and the federally mandated ADSB transponder on the drone, and if they come back there will be a few agents visiting the registered owner for a not so friendly chat. The NTSB drones are registered, so can fly no problem. Generator on trailer there because the on van generator, built into the side, has only around 5 hours of fuel capacity, so the external generator, massively overkill currently, has around a week of fuel in it's tanks, and can supply enough power, in addition to the van use, to run a mobile HQ that has lighting, computers, AC and such in it, in a few extra vans that are not here.
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  3814. Leans more than the Harley though in corners.
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  3815.  @Br3ttM  Getting them hit in the pocket though is effective, as they then either need to steal another vehicle, or be even more stupid and try to get it back. Going to say the police auction in a few months will be full of cars that are either sold as scrap or salvage, but you will need to get plates before they drive off the lot, or lowbed it off.
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  3816. Tell those in Florida after a hurricane moves through, and knocks out all power for a month, or in the East coast now that they have a nice big storm moving through, doing the same. Then try to buy food or fuel with no banks online to do the transfers. Pretty sure they will only trust the Uncle Sam IOU's, not your word.
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  3817. Basically you have remade the old German V2 rocket fuel, which used 70% peroxide for oxidiser, permanganate for catalyst, which decomposed to steam to drive the turbopump that pumped LOX and alcohol for the rocket. The Heinkel rocket plane though used the peroxide and permanganate alone to power the aircraft.
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  3818.  @goodcitizen64  I can still get them, though often enough by the time you look at the cost it was easier to buy a new one. Especially modern ones, where they practically glue them together, and use a sealer on all surfaces, so you need to either cook them to release the sealer, or have special tools to get enough torque on the fasteners.
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  3819. The aircraft manufacture likely is all going to replace military losses, not civilian parts, so sooner or later there will be aircraft unable to fly (best case scenario) due to major malfunctions of engines on the ground, or due to them worn out to the point they cannot run. But likely there will be a few major incidents before that, and the dwindling number of airworthy aircraft will mean the number of usable ones drops rapidly, and this will show up in increased delay and cancelled flights. Rail will become the only long distance thing left, and even that will still need spare parts, though the old Soviet style trains do tend to use all Russian parts, and they probably still can make those. But even there many parts came from Ukraine, and those are all the precision parts that will wear out.
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  3820.  @TylerDurden-pk5km  Yes you can, if you are the military, and are willing to spend a million replicating a $10k part, or are willing to have them brought in at a similar price by sanctions busters. Civilian aircraft will not be able to afford that, paying close to the value of the aircraft to replace a small critical part. doable for the military, able to get that sort of money, but for a private civilian airline it will not be financially viable to do.
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  3821. My mother was not, but she was able to tell the correct amount to within a few cents, and would berate the store manager if the shelf prices were wrong. She never finished school due to the war, but her maths was spot on.
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  3822. No need for nitrous in a high altitude vehicle, as most roads are in general below 4km up, where you can still breathe the air, and a vehicle can easily be adapted with only a slight change in jetting for a carburettor model, or for EFI no adjustment needed at all, the engine management will do so automatically. Even on the Tibetan plateau you can drive a vehicle perfectly normally, just a slight loss of power compared to sea level only, and most of the time you would not even notice it.
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  3823. CEO banned from banking, next job will be as a Hedge fund CEO, as after all this is finance, not banking.
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  3824. No, steel alloys are better controlled these days, so the designers run them at higher loading, while the older designs went much more conservatively, as they designed for the worst case strength, and most of the steel they used was far better. New parts design to survive only if the best steel is used, and thus cut mass in the engine, and thus meet those EPA specs.
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  3825. Jaws look like cut sections of extruded aluminium, no casting, just make a die and a foundry will make you 600kg of them as an order. As to the clamps for the stone, use the PTFE and machine them out of it, or at least make the pivot point out of some, less jitter in the operation. For the holes, adjustable reamer, so long as you can get through hole you can get the clearance to exactly what you need, very useful if you have a shaft you had to cut undersize, and new bushings that come in over thickness that you need to get the right clearance after pressing them in. For a better look than PTFE use Vesconite Hilube, with a pattern in it that looks like grey marble. Also works well with water as lubricant, or nothing at all.
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  3826. Failed sensors likely because the inner wiring had already been damaged, as it is held down in an epoxy coat, so the failure was probably internal delamination and snapping of the cables.
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  3827. Here by me you get an accident with a single vehicle, and then there are 80 lawyers putting in claims for injury to the passengers. The vehicle is a Toyota Aygo, which can seat 7, if they are both small, and sit closer than sardines in a can.
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  3828. Russia can simply lease aircraft from the rest of the BRICS, who will then simply pay for the maintenance, with the aircraft doing a lot more flight hours than normal. Spares wise yes they will suffer, but there are still plenty of countries and organisations that will, for a nice big fat fee, arrange for new parts to travel via some intermediaries there. Sanctions yes, but you will find Airbus and Boeing will plead innocance as to these intermediaries buyin from them, often as added orders for existing airlines, and the excess parts eventually landing up in the russian side. Bigger problem for the Russian planes is that a lot of the avionics and advanced technology came from Ukraine, there is a lot of high tech manufacturing there, and now they are definitely not going to supply the parts the Russians need, which often are small critical parts where getting alternate vendors is near impossible.
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  3829. Well, now he will be paying in one form or the other.
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  3830.  @DasYorgo4000  Yes but the 40 year old venerable VW Golf engine in original form, with the cast water pump, has as only failure the bearings rusting out because the seal leaks. But the non OEM part is cheap, though I have had them last under a week. So changed it twice in a month, and took the old one, after removing the evidence of gasket maker from it, for a refund the next working day. was still dripping coolant from the weep hole.....
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  3831.  @tatkkyo9911  Reading the flash out is kind of destructive, in that you have to remove the chips from the main board. They do not want to damage the chips, so damage the board. Getting the phone back all he will get is a rather small bag of parts, which will not go back together easy, or reliably. Destruction order is for the copies of the data that they have made, not the actual phone, which, unless they used a less than legitimate tool that is able to software unlock the phone and read the flash out, is going to be guaranteed to be stripped down to parts by now.
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  3832. Had the same with an Opel Corsa. Ignition switch and the lock cylinder were very cheap, plus very easy to install after watching a video or three. Just had the hardest part being the removal of the security module, and to swap the chip to the new key. Now to code in a spare module, so the second key can work, and also get a new remote module programmed in so there is now a spare key, and to also delete all other remotes for safety.
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  3833.  @WrenchingWithKenny  Could also be a plastic fin broken off, which causes cavitation and poor flow at speed.
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  3834. Generally I do not use plastic bags, prefer to get the free cardboard boxes the shops have, which they otherwise throw in a recycling bin. When the big box I have is full I get it recycled and get some money back as well, plus do not pay the plastic bag levy as well. Here plastic is not recycled much, pretty much all goes to landfill or is the national flower.
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  3835. On the translator side there have been a few by me that had absolutely no clue, and were just faking it till they made it, and had been doing so for a few years till some of the deaf community got enough complaints together that this person was a fake.
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  3836.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  Standard is to slap 2 gaskets on the head, or bring out the big bottle of Indian Head, and make the gasket part of the head and block.
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  3837. ​ @bushratbeachbum  You buy it as Permatex Indian Head shellac gasket sealer. Sets hard and is fuel, water and steam resistant, and is used to make sure gaskets seal down well. Good for all sealing up to 170C in most applications.
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  3838. Police will tow a car out of a ditch free, if they are towing it to their impound as part of an investigation into a crime. you will not get it back though..... My FIL started driving at 12, operating a wrecker, and towing cars. Called out by the police many times as well, and he worked for a boss who also was a racing car owner, so also got to drive around the course as well. And yes, not in the USA either.
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  3839.  @DKNguyen3.1415  Not really, if she had been good the scholarship was very probable, especially in a court, where the opposing party already has a conviction for this.
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  3840.  @redchief94  They hire you if you have a heartbeat ( and it does not need to be regular), can speak and have a phone and internet connection. Then give you a login that likely is shared with 200 others, and let you loose with minimal training. High churn and those passwords and logins are never changed, even after multiple breaches, simply because it will take too long to train the staff on the new passwords.
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  3841. Still got the dislike button, but like this video anyway.
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  3842. The people who live next might not even know, but buying it can be hard, as unless you have a separate loan for it, and wait till your land is freehold, amalgamating the 2 properties gets expensive, as you have to get a new home loan to cover both properties, and pay off your original one.
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  3843. Sadly the LED lamps are now built to last just as long as the ones made by the Phoebus cartel, and they are designed so that they will fail after around 1000 hours in use. done by using components right on the edge, and also by driving them as hard as possible. The same parts can be made to last nearly forever, just by derating them, so that is why you now have the Dubai lamp, designed by the outset to at least last 100k hours in use, and to be more efficient at the same time. But only sold in Dubai, as they were mandated by the king, and the manufacturer, Phillips, does not want to sell them anywhere else, as it will kill the market for them worldwide.
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  3844. Quorra can also tell the police about the false statement the other driver gave, and they could investigate him for filing a false police report, which will result in a fine. Then can also sue the other driver for the time he lost, at whatever his hourly rate works out to, plus legal fees. That will possibly educate the other driver a little, on why he should not be a canoe.
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  3845. My guess is she was bumped because the airline overbooked the flight, and they looked for the cheapest passenger ticket wise, as all they needed to do was either refund the ticket, less associated costs, or simply cancel a non refundable ticket, especially if the passenger looks young and inexperienced. Will bet that plane took off full, no spare seats at all, even the jump seat.
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  3846. Been using low cost phones always, they are good for my use, and are suprisingly durable as well. Only time I upgrade is a year or so after EOL, when I look for something equally low cost, which, when I got the last phone, was more mid range than the one I bought, but now, with volume production, and increasing integration, it is now classed as low end.
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  3847. Yes had an industrial one. Used 44 gallons of tricholethane, and would clean things in seconds. We used it to clean PCB's, and that was a fine balancing act between stripping off flux residue, 2 seconds, and stripping off the conformal coating, ranged from 5 seconds to never, depending on the exact conformal coat used, of which there were 3. Leave a board in for 10 minutes and the resin bonding the actual fibreglass weave together left, which was useful for some boards, where we were robbing parts off them, and did not care for the actual board itself, though it did a number on component markings, so they were all labelled again afterwards to identify.. Hot solvent was also great to remove potting compound from the high voltage assemblies, it took around 1 minute cycle to soften the surface, and then you could pick out the soft resin without damage. When finished pot the assembly again to keep it from arcing over. Friend would bring stuff over for cleaning, though I told him when to bring dirty things, like carburettors, valve assemblies and such, when it was getting time to replace the fluid due to it being too dirty. Then all those went through in an hour, and then dump the hot dirty fluid into a drum for disposal, and fill with clean new fluid. Carburettor, put in black with dirt, and it comes out looking like it just came out of the casting mould.
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  3848. Why do you need so many rockets? Simple, making big rocket engines is hard, and making big rocket engines that are reliable is harder, and making big rocket engines that are reliable, and restartable, is an order of magnitude harder. So you make a smaller engine that is reasonably reliable, that you can be sure will restart, and where the smaller size ensures that you do not get too much instability in response. Plus you get the ability to have a wide thrust range, because big rocket engines only have 2 thrust settings, off - no thrust, or on, with a small range of adjustment in pressure available. Small engines you can get wider thrust changes without it stopping, though even there you will only have a 10-20% range of control of thrust, but if you have a few you can just use more of them. That bit of rocket science came from the 1960's, when NASA destroyed a good number of engines and test stands making big ones that did not blow up after 30 seconds. The USSR had an engine that worked, so simply went with the put many approach, as they saw the difficulty of making a big one, and wanted to get something that worked first. That the rest was built from substandard parts was the problem.
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  3849. Simplest defense is to get the video from the McD, as they have cameras that start recording all the way from the time you drive onto the premises.
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  3850. Venter is pronounced Fenter.......
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  3851. Only English electric I ever saw in person was a Canberra, which was busy being overhauled by Atlas Aviation (as it was known then) while I was in training. Watched as they were installing new landing gear shafting, which needed a large dewar of liquid nitrogen for the shaft, and an oven to heat the leg strut, which was positioned using a hydraulic jig to align it, in the few seconds time that was available before the two became a single part. Massive strut and shaft, you can tell it was designed to be put down hard. That airframe is now in a museum.
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  3852.  @ostlandr  Yes they made really good really reliable products, except they also have joined the race to the bottom with the rest, now providing the same cheap junk as the others, from the same Chinese factories, just a different label on the front.
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  3853. Plus 7 extra chances you will mess up. Indexer you get only one chance to mess up, then all will be wrong, but evenly spaced.
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  3854. That GPS mentioned also relied heavily on having an accurate local map, and also on you having close by, at least within 2km or so, a very well marked survey point whose position is, by dint of the old mapping having placed it correctly a century or so ago, and it being verified as well numerous times since then, so the exact coordinates are known down to the metre. Then a local GPS receiver is placed precisely over the pin, and the survey receiver is also placed an exact known distance and angle away from it, and allowed to measure till the 2 can agree as to local error. Then you use the mobile unit, and it, using a radio link, communicates with the survey repeater, allowing you to calculate any slight drift and transient error as you move around, as it affects both equally, so that after the survey, and you return to the survey point, and again place the mobile unit onto the exact same point. Thus any long term errors are found out, and if the positions do not agree you do them again, to get in the end a very precise map of where the points are relative to the survey point. Yes you can achieve an accuracy of 0.5cm over say a construction site, which is an order of magnitude better than your old surveys could generally give, due to reading inaccuracy, and over say a field you can get a map that is as good. But all depends on that actual known point, and it not moving at all, and not being shadowed at all during the survey by things like people walking by, or trucks or cranes in the area. Otherwise regular GPS is only accurate to within 100m on the horizontal plane, and 50m in the vertical, the perceived accuracy comes from the actual map inside, when the processor makes a best guess as to where you are, trying to get you to match the known roadways and tracks entered on there, otherwise it will, if unknown, default to placing you "near" the road, or placing you on "service road", when the actual position does not agree within the 100m distance for locating a road. Fun comes with outdated maps, or new deviations on a road that have not yet been placed in a map, where you might be shown to be in a field for a while, with a rather confused direction algorithm attempting to route you.
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  3855.  @XOmangoXO  Different country different laws. No left on red here either, though after 10PM (and at any time with minibus taxi operators) most rules are ignored anyway.
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  3856. South Africa it can be a pain, only the one 30 year old printer, single supplier, and it has a small backlog of around a million cards. Might take 6 months to be printed when it works, but again, seeing as a vast majority either are using a false one, or paid to pass the test, it is a minor blip in a country with the highest accident and road death rate in the world.
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  3857.  @sandilentshangase621  the blue lights will be the target for old fridges and sofas thrown out from windows in Hillbrow, same for pretty much all inner city areas.
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  3858.  @larryreno8293  Also smaller volumes of oil in modern engines means the oil does not have much margin in it. Yes you do need to have a perfect engine to do the long interval, but most are not perfect, and do not run in a dry dust and contaminant free climate either.
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  3859. I see a lot of people without masks, going out to public places without a care. Not worth telling them to put on a mask, I just avoid them with a wide berth, because you cannot fix stupid. Banning alcohol and such will not fix stupid, they just will binge drink when out on those days, and will do the same at home as well.
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  3860. While the fix was under $20 to implement, and they already did this on a CAD models, but not the US made ones.
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  3861. Blaster is also very good at cleaning EGR tubes, as it simply has to have the suction attached at one end, probably using some duct tape, and then blast from the other side, so you do not waste the media, and get it Noisse and Shiny as Ray wants. To blank off parts that do not need it best to use duck tape, and it will hold up well to the media, unlike painters tape. For the media valve simply get a large diameter water valve, exactly like the air line one, and put it a little further down, and use it to turn off the walnut flow. Large diameter valve, also called full bore, so that it does not clog, and probably best to use a ball type over any other as those at least do not clog up easily, while others like butterfly will, and the only one that will work with mud and muck is a pinch type, which closes off the hose by compressing it.
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  3862. A well known issue withbatteries, the terminal voltage drops with temperature rise. Thus the simpler charge systems interpret this as being a flat battery, or one with a large load on it, and try to keep terminal voltage constant. This then charges the battery even more leading to heat being generated in the battery, and a loss of electrolyte from both chemical reactions and boiling off. Most modern aircraft will have both thermal control of the charge voltage, and as well a thermal switch on the battery that indicates a hot battery. Being such an old design this was likely not on the Tupelov, and instead they had the old fashioned starter generator on the engine, where it is quite capable of charging the battery at a very high current if needs be, equal to the starting current draw of the engine. One cell would have shorted out, either from flaked off material bridging out the bottom of the cell, or a separator failing. This then self discharged the cell, and the terminal voltage of this one cell dropped. Then the engine voltage regulator simply tried to keep battery voltage constant, overcharging the other cells, and the battery got hot enough that the cell separators melted, and shorted out the battery totally. Not an easy thing to recover from, as the generator can be disconnected in flight and the battery can temporarily can provide the full load, but the battery will discharge very fast. You cannot really disconnect the battery from the DC bus though, at least not in flight, there are isolating breakers and fuses inside the avionics bays, but you would need to open panels outside to get to them. They were very lucky though, old design, mostly mechanical linkages and hydraulics, and no electrical systems on the engines needed to run them once started, and the important EGT gauges are self powered by the engine exhaust heat. More modern engine no electrical power no engines, all is controlled by electric motors and valves.
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  3863. Only for the US market, where even the US muscle cars only come in auto these days.
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  3864.  @tomwilson2112  Yes it would be similar to driving on a road, and then ignoring the road closed signs (sign at entrance saying airfield, probably marked on the trail maps as well, and with a sign either side), and then complaining that you drove into a massive construction truck (so called yellow plant) parked there at night. Then claiming it was the fault of the construction company for having the vehicle there.
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  3865. Helicoils work well putting direct into aluminium castings, as this gives a bigger grip area to the casting, but the bolt you use can be one size smaller, for the same holding force, as the insert spreads the load out over the casting evenly. Plus for things removed frequently they mean no hole wear, and if it does eventually wear out, you just pull out the insert and put in another. Even works on plastic as well for stripped threads, giving a better thread to use, though there you do not want the threadlocker as that will weaken the plastic, though you can put a drop of acrylic glue in place of it as you go in with the insert, to weld it to the walls better. Then leave for 12 hours to set up, before putting the bolt in, as it might otherwise stick bolt to insert. There are more insert types for steel as well, including solid ones that go in the same way as a helicoil, but which are machined out of a solid piece of steel. Getting the full set is kind of expensive though, I have simply gotten the inserts and taps, using the next size down inserter tool instead to put them in, and then snap off the tang. Plus bought old US standard sets that had not been moving since the 1970's, when metrication occurred, because they were on sale for the 1970's prices still. Those came with actual metal cases, so of course I also got extra inserts and taps as I needed them. Means I can actually repair a 1/4UNC thread, instead of make it M6.
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  3866. Dumpster dived some good pallets, and also got half the fasteners needed to work with then as well, as damaged packaging in the same dumpster.
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  3867. It is called a dog, you take it for a few walks to pick up the pieces. Still will not get all of them, though the few roof companies I have used all use them. I do it so rarely I just take all those mandrels from rivets and put in a pocket, so at the end they can all go into the drum of scrap steel for recycling. Unfortunately you get plenty of things like drywall screws and fencing companies that do not pick up, so I do have a collection of the stuff they dropped.
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  3868. Basically the sheriff assn is saying they need this to be allowed, so they can keep on self funding by being basically highway robbers.
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  3869. Hand sanitiser, especially the gel type, is the thing to clean that off. It gets the blue and grime off, but in general does not harm paint finishes. Just use one that is plain ethanol and a thickener, not a blend of ethanol and other solvents.
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  3870. My cat will also tell me it is food time, just now grumpy I am not giving more treats. however, despite being well fed, a cat will still catch things, my one having brought in many birds, geckos and roaches, almost invariably either dead, or close to it.
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  3871.  @maxsdad538  Thankfully I live almost half way around the planet from there. Plus last time there was snow by me was 100k years ago.
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  3872.  @JRP3  Just paint the wall black, and have a baffle to allow air to flow over the wall before entering the coil. Issue is that the mirror will need to be a tracking one, to follow the sun, and will possibly only be effective for a few hours a day, especially at high latitudes, where you might only have 6 hours of light a day that is useful. Might need to use a masonry wall as well, to store the energy for the long evening peak, but in the morning will have a wait while the wall defrosts and warms up as well.
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  3873.  @kellismith4329  All I have seen are brushed motors, running in fuel for cooling. Most common problem is the brushes simply wearing out, and then making poor contact with the commutator. hitting the tank makes the brush move a little, and get contact, then run with lower speed as it intermittently loses contact. You can open them and put new brushes in, especially if you are up the creek with no paddle, but a new pump is a better bet, because those are pretty hard to get apart.
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  3874. US engines are typically much higher power output, so the oil is run harder. Note this is a 3.3 l engine, when the corresponding model in the EU area would be a 2.0l engine, in the same block. so the US engine has higher power output compared to the EU block ,and also has much more severe operating conditions, because of long distances traveled every day, and because of this and lots of short drives, because in the USA you drive to the local stores, while the rest of the world you either walk 3 minutes, or have a once a week shop habit. Remember in the USA you often have people commuting 4 hours a day, often in stop start traffic, as there is little to no public transit, and thus a vehicle has a cold start, then run foot flat for 2 hours, then from that to off and cool, down, and repeat. Much more aggressive drive style as well, almost binary in pedal position, either foot flat, or hard on the brake, because there is no defensive driving taught, or any sort of care for fuel economy, because USA fuel is cheap. Leads to fuel dilution, high engine loads, and also because of higher internal stress early failures By me that same Sedona comes with a 2.0l 4 cylinder engine, as there are not many V6 and V8 engines, and also most vehicles have lower power ratings compared to the US model. Yes much lower power, but they then again also last a lot longer as well.
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  3875. Could be in the title deed, saying something like section 4 of lot 88, known as 12 Whatever Road, and the other being section 5 of lot 88, known as 10 Whatever Road. Thus the lot numbers and house numbers do not match properly, one is always wrong.
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  3876. Probably only a 12 month warranty, and even if it was sitting in a shop it would only be 6 months old before selling at most. Batteries at retailers they really want to make sure stock rotates, because the OEM only covers the 12 months from production, the retailer covers the 12 months from sale, so they always want fresh stock.
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  3877. Nothing wrong with a Neon while it is new. As they age though they become money pits.
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  3878. Saw a bus that was so crooked it drove in 2 lanes.
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  3879. My grandparents are buried in Tehran, in the Polish cemetery.
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  3880. Likely the wide gaps and failing coil was the thing that killed the PCM, by subjecting it to high primary side voltages, above what it would get in a properly running engine. Says the owner did not maintain the vehicle properly, and sorry that you, and not the owner, were the one to pay for his short sightedness. Just remember that for the next one, where you get that, and say up front that this neglect can have damaged the PCM as well.
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  3881. Very carefully, probably by having a counterweight that changes position to compensate for the mass loss on the one side, likely using some form of stored energy in the arm to move it inward to a balancing position.
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  3882. No, was telling the truth, and making absolutely no guesses at all. Thus no way to even twist the ticket into something against the expert. They got a ticket, and were told to collect at counter, but do not definitely know who paid for it, and thus will make no surmise as to this fact at all.
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  3883.  @lasskinn474  They buy the bad debt, expecting to collect on it, but then in turn, once collected on, they sell it in turn down again, making more money off the payers. After all, till the person fully pays it off, it still exists on the book as debt, and can be sold on, even after the person has fully paid it off. So you can literally have 15 judgements against you, all for the same original debt, and all want to be paid the same amount plus fees.
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  3884. Drill a hole in the rear wall that us less than a quarter wavelength diameter, and then use some polythene wrap held down by a few lengths of Halbach array magnet ( fridge door seal) as a splash guard that is invisible to IR for the thermal camera. For the other visible light camera simply stick a small square of regular glass to the outside with silicone, also for splash protection for the camera. The rear steel is typically so thin you can do the holes with a regular 20mm conduit saw, and then use a bit of 120 grit sandpaper on a small sanding block to deburr the holes, and then if you want a quick application of appliance white spray paint to cover the bare steel edges.
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  3885.  @arthurreis1906  Probably will have to use avocado oil for it, non GMO, and light enough to use, though it will go rancid eventually. Do not use linseed oil, it polymerises to form a varnish. The perfect oil though is Castor oil, especially as it will give off that odour when heated up. Too bad the entire plant is incredibly toxic, though I do guess Jamie could harvest it wild by him, and press his own oil from it. Here it is a noxious weed, and even the goats will not touch it.
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  3886. hot dogs, everything except for the last moo, squeal or cluck. May even contain meat.
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  3887. What do you expect when they base security company performance on the kickback paid, not the job performed.
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  3888.  @rockrabbit253  Staff found her, so where was the so called security, they only came when called.
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  3889. Sounds like time for the local fire marshal and building inspectors to visit, find the building uninhabitable, and condemn it.
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  3890. @StringerNews1 Yes true, the tanker that comes to fill up is owned by the refinery, or a contractor that does deliveries, so all the stations on the route get exactly the same fuel, as there is generally only 3 internal tanks in the trailer, with each having the possibility to hold a different fuel, but all have a gate valve at the bottom of the tank, that leads to a common manifold and a meter, so that when filling the customer (the fuel station) is billed for the volume of fuel. Might be filled all with one grade of fuel, or a different one in each tank, but the area filling stations all get the same fuel delivered to them. By me that would be either 95 unleaded fuel, or regular diesel, or low sulphur diesel. Some tankers have 5 tanks, so also will have a small tank that is used for illuminating paraffin, which is often illegally blended with diesel as it is cheaper, as a lot of filling stations also sell it as a heating and cooking fuel, alongside LPG.
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  3891. @StringerNews1 Pipelines it is easy, you have an inline density meter, that is measuring the density of the fluid. You change at the sending end, and the receiver simply waits till the density starts to change, and switches tanks. A few thousand litres of different fuel in a 100kl tank is barely going to be noticed at all. Refineries are owned by a oil company, but sell to all in the area irrespective of brand, and the base fuel they supply is the same. No fuel station puts in additives any more, just sells the same base stock in different grades only. They will sell it retail, as that way is a lot more profit, for what is basically a blend of paint thinner, turps substitute and some extra solvent, with a dye to colour it, in a fancy bottle.
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  3892.  @davealexander1201  The great thing of regulated price by me, all stations within an area have the same pricing, and compete only on service.
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  3893.  @ilyfrankh  Quite a lot of transit bus systems are no longer operated by a public entity, but are operated under a private company for them. A tiny bit of paperwork that ringfences the liability of the local government, as in general public transit almost never runs at a profit.
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  3894. No, but surely in that sue of lawyers there are some who fall in a protected class due to religion, colour, sex or origin, who will use this as part of the reason they were excluded. Going to be hard to get counsel for the MSG side if all who are contacted are part of the other side by association from where they work, or have worked in the past, or associate with. Pretty much the entire law firms in NYC are out, and outside ones will not be able to get the nuances of NYC law as well.
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  3895. PT a big box in the rear with all the parts in it. Then your worktop is clear, and it is fine if it stays or goes, all parts with it either for the new engine or the compactor.
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  3896. They use a Unicode number in a box, so really easy to simply search for all those numbers for Alphabet, and simply delete them completely, and use the IP to block sign ups from that particular ISP for a week or so.
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  3897. Even worse is being just 10 bytes short, and you have to decide that most error codes will be cryptic numbers, needing a look up table for the operator to read out what exactly the error is.
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  3898. Those tiles, just like MH370 parts, will start to wash up on beaches all over the Indian ocean soon enough, along with any light floating parts. Probably time to start making the beachcombers and cleaners on the tropical islands aware of the need to look out for floating stuff that is hard, so they can collect them instead of dumping them.
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  3899. At 60Hz it will come into play when you go into the kiloamp region, which for the typical house is hard, but for large industrial smelters it is going to come into play, though there often the ability to cool down the wire is more done with lots of water flowing in the wire.
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  3900.  @Vargsohn  Funny enough on his way to leave presents at a factory he actually did live near. He had a very good reason not to have too much in the line of incidental damage. Funny thing that, if he had not been in Liverpool and Glasgow in 1939......
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  3901. So what is new for Range Rover then? BIL had his own parking spot in the service bay, and as I dropped it off there so often the security and most of the sales people thought I actually worked at the dealership. I used to skip the check in line, drive through the side entrance, past the security then take it to it's parking, and leave the key with the service office, along with the fault list for the week. In the months they had it that recall was out for "immediate attention", and they had the new pipes, but they were never installed. Guess how we found that out, I was driving the kids, and the hose popped, so I had to do a roadside fix to get it going, using a multitool, and cooldrink to fill the water up. Yup popped head gasket on a rear cylinder, but it was "within specs", so it had rough idle when cold forever after. The low water sensor is disabled on start, as it would otherwise falsely trigger with normal coolant flow.
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  3902.  @pcplayssomething  This was when they were still made in the UK though. Glad to see QC has still the same standards, though the design with all that metal is safe.
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  3903. If those with corruption are removed we will have no candidates available.
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  3904.  @MochoStudiosYT  Yes there is a strong movement saying those native Africans not of your exact same area are not wanted, despite them speaking the same language, looking the same, and coming here to escape from torture and genocide. Even if they were born in the same area as those people, they are not wanted because they are somehow different. All it takes is to be born 2km away.
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  3905. Got some recycled EV batteries in a cheap solar lamp, that died after a few months, so had to replace them, along with the protection, with new used cells from old laptop battery packs.
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  3906. Bulk buys, meant to stop price matching. You have to find the exact same SKU elsewhere, for a lower price, to get the price match. Well, if the shop has a unique SKU just for them, then no other retailer, even if they have the exact same brand, package and product, can have the same SKU and UPC on it, so no way for them to have to worry about price matching and losing money on the sale. A sneaky way to be able to have big blurb about "price match any other, and give it cheaper" while knowing they will never actually be called out on the item to honour the match.
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  3907.  @rogerszmodis  They will start doing it when you buy a larger volume, especially if the competitor is in a place with lower tax rates.
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  3908. Billing errors my father signed up for direct debit of his municipal bill. After around 3 months they mistyped the amount, and instead of taking around $36.00, they took $3600.00, slapping his cheque account into the red. He saw it the next day, as the bank called him (the good old days, when banks actually knew their customers, plus at that time he had been a customer of the bank for well over a half century) about this. So he went down to the municipal offices, armed with the statement, and the bank fee schedule, and his bill, and went up to the head of billing to get this fixed. They wanted to give a credit to the account (over 100 months, basically a decade) but he told them that he was going to sit in the head of billing's office, all night if needs be, till they had both rectified the mistake, paid him for the overdraft fees and interest charges (thus the rate schedule), plus issued him a letter to the bank about the error, and cancelled the direct debit. He got all 3, though the kicker was that, due to having banked with Barclays PLC, in various guises and countries, for more than that half century, and being a pensioner, they actually had waived all charges on his accounts for a good number of years, as he was already a pensioner. Then for the next year he wrote them a cheque, dated for the last day he could pay, and put it in the post, with their reply prepaid envelope. Sadly you can no longer do this. No more cheques, no more reliable post office, no more post boxes on every corner, and I pay mine electronically, a day or so after it pops in my email inbox, as otherwise waiting for the paper invoice means you only get it after the cut off date for the previous month.
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  3909. You could always map them out with a custom keyboard layout though, changing the action to do nothing, or just act like a shift key instead.
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  3910.  @pedrosmith221  Same with POS keyboards, where the F1 and F3 keys were removed, because you used F2 to complete a transaction, and pressing F1 would bring up a help screen and bork the transaction, and F3 would cancel it. So F2 sitting there all lonely with holes either side.
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  3911. Old pads, just keep them around for that customer with no pads, to put in there if they are not able to pay for new, so they have some pad instead of metal.
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  3912. Add another link or two to the timing chain to get the extra length, and find longer bolts to use there. Probably best to take all that gasket pile, and glue them together with epoxy, after making sure they are oil free, and roughing up the fibre surfaces, so as to get a good seal on the outsides. Compress on the block, and clean up the inside bore afterwards. Change timing to be more retarded, and add the turbo. Then, once it runs, put it in an actual body and see if you can break it.
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  3913. Know of 2 dealerships that did this. One was dealing in luxury cars, and skipped with a few million in customer monies, leaving his salespeople and partners to hold the baby. The other was doing regular vehicles, but did the same, skipping 6 months after opening, leaving all the remains and bills behind. First one skipped the country, and the rest took around 4 years to make the customers whole, and the second the same. Both have cases against them, though the first one some of the customers are still looking for the skipped owner, dead or alive. Second one similar, though they want him alive, though that status is likely to change shortly after delivery.
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  3914. The odd values are because resistance measuring sends a small constant current through, and measures the voltage drop. Power being on means the amplifier itself is providing a voltage, much more capable than the current source in the meter, and what you measure is the voltage there, averaged by the meter internally to make a stable reading, as it otherwise will vary slightly as the probes contact varies.
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  3915. Likely they tried to get a comment, but none of the spokespeople would reply on camera, or even reply at all.
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  3916. Seen a Toypta 4Y engine being overhauled at the roadside. New rings, bearings and gaskets, but same pistons, valves ground in a bit in situ, and then assembled, and the original oil put back into it. no oil filter change, no new plugs, just a ring and bearing job, likely because the smoke was getting too bad. Did get a few buckets of water for the cooling system though.
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  3917. Are they going to ban lawn darts the game?
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  3918.  Mr Horse  A lot of the fluids are in tanks, so the location of the pick up is relevant, and you tend to find that the pick up is at the bottom, so the fluid has to sort of either fill the container, or you will be sucking in the vapour above it.
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  3919. I had an older inkjet that was used to only print mono text, but you needed all 7 cartridges to have ink in them, to have it print a mono text page. I was not going to buy a full set of cartridges, but had already gotten a black ink refill set, so simply filled up each colour as they went to low, using black ink instead of the colour, and never had any issues while the printer was in use.
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  3920. No cash handling, less staff needed, and less training needed, so lower wages paid, and less skilled staff around.
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  3921. Getting to winter by me, dropped below 18C last night.......
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  3922.  @thisismagacountry1318  I signed the authorisation form for the insurance once. The only time they would actually send that form in was if you actually crashed in the aircraft and died. Otherwise not worth the paperwork, just any new base you got to fill in the form once for filing. The insurance was 50c, once off, merely paperwork, as the state actually guaranteed the payout. Only once I was worried about the form, when I was leaning out the door, holding the belt of the FE and acting as both audio relay and safety harness for him. Best landing though in that aircraft type, slightly marred by the 20 ton fire engine keeping pace with us next to the runway, with a foam cannon armed and ready. But we did have to land, wheels down or not, seeing as the fuel was down to zero.
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  3923. Time to give George his own bowl as well, probably would like some cat food pellets in it, as that is definitely what the starlings here by me go for over dog pellets.
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  3924.  @francisschweitzer8431  Yes but those you normally assemble using both a big bath of liquid nitrogen and an even bigger oven, so that you get the 0.1mm clearance for just hand assembly, before the temperatures equalise, and they become one unit.
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  3925. You can see the last battery change on passenger side they lost a bolt.......
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  3926.  @jthonn  Yers, but those also were kind of notorious for leaking into the oil, so you check the oil, and the level is well past full, and the engine inside is really clean.
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  3927. No5 report to the local PD, complete with video, citing you are concerned this elderly gent is going to cause a death soon from his poor driving, and that you recommend that he should be checked as to if he should drive. Report to both PD and the DMV. No3 you put in a complaint to the local PD of vandalism, and provide the video. Hopefully somebody sees the video, and knows who it is, and they get publicly shamed for it.
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  3928. That is why they have malpractise insurance, you just file with the insurer for the hospital bills.....
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  3929. Yes I turned the screen thingy off and back on, but it is still not working.
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  3930. Bitcoin is just anonymous, but, due to it's design, it is absolutely, and totally designed to be traceable in full, all the way from the first generation of the coin, to every transaction it has ever been associated with, and this is going to be fixed in forever in the bitcoin blockchain, and totally unable to be removed, changed or obscured, and this is the only way that trust in the coin is going to be carried forward.. Plus no need to look at any location, just look in any wallet, which carries as part of the wallet a record of every single transaction ever done up to the last time the wallet was updated.
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  3931. Sometimes a used pump is better than the one you have, and there is no stock of the pump available. Good used will sell, just sell with the bold print there is no warranty of any kind on it, and you are lot liable for any damage incurred as a result of using it. There are a lot of pumps that are either no longer made, or the replacement is so poor that it is better to use it instead.
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  3932. Not in the book, so not possible to occur in the mind of the captain.
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  3933. Wonder if you can send the odd oil sample for analysis, to at least tell what you got in the oil.
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  3934. Going to guess 33.8kg now with all that swarf now sitting in the assorted beds and bins, and sorry about that nice mill of yours being destroyed.
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  3935. Then they would simply say the day rate is the amount of time you will do instead. The fine is the alternative, pay the fine or do the time.
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  3936. Yes, I have installed a few of them, because it was easier to do so, but yes I prefer the LED lamp. However the LED drop in flourescent tube retrofit is a great item, well worth it to get. Incidentally I also have some very early implementations of the CFFL lamp, a base you put in, that then takes a PL lamp in the top, so you can replace the lamp when it fails. They were perfect in 24/7/365 application for over a decade, only needing new lamps every 5 years or so, mostly because they also were good quality EU made lamps, and also because they were run base down, so there was no real heat into the magnetic ballast. At the other extreme I also have a number of lamps that date from that Phoebus cartel, NOS, with the same spindly single wire filament, both in carbon filament, and tungsten or tantalum filament. Clear and frosted ones, in general dating from before 1939. They are really nice as mood lighting, though with power ratings in candlepower, 16 and 32, or 40 and 60W rough equivalent, they are not exactly stellar in light output, but definitely give that incandescent colour. Did try running a few on higher voltage, they work up to 340VAC, when brought up slowly over a few seconds, which is something no CFL or LED will do, they all will pretty much blow up at around 270VAC input, either with a bang, or just a small pop. At 340VAC they are insanely bright though, likely with a lifetime measurable in minutes, like your regular photoflood lamps had.
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  3937. With aluminium I did use drain cleaner ( sodium hydroxide) to get a thick oxide film, and to strip off worn colour coats. Then just a wash in weak organic acid ( I used ascorbic acid as I could get it in a pure form) to grow a new thick oxide layer. Never did a dye on it, but I suppose I could use Azo dye with it as well during the acid wash stage.
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  3938. Incidentally I used to travel by bus, as it was cheaper than driving, and paying for parking. One time I decided to not catch a particular bus, and wait for the next one (probably a whole minute extra), mostly because I heard his music coming 2km away. The heady days when the bus fare was equivalent to 3c USA on the municipal bus line, and 4c on the private one. Municipal one I got funny looks when boarding, mostly because I was travelling on what had been, till a year or two before, a bus that was segregated, and the bus driver was unsure if I actually wanted to travel on the Umlazi bus, instead of the other, much more expensive (8c) one. Common route for 15km, and I was getting off at 14km mark.
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  3939. New symbol still not going to help with literally thousands of these sources out there, unknown location, and with others from the old soviet union scattered all over, with no records of them existing, other than the manufacture, and where they first went, and even those records are incomplete.
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  3940. Ford put it inside to save 5 seconds in the assembly line, one less plug to put it, by integrating it all into the single transmission control plug.
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  3941. Drive it south of the border, and it will live another decade as a work truck, as is.
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  3942. Kayvan, police did not look, they simply closed it and did not bother.
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  3943. The actual flex part is actually a flexible printed circuit board, which is very cheap, and which is generally quite robust in use. They normally get small cracks in the copper foil that forms the tracks on them, often in the middle of the flex, and, unless you clean off all the scmoo that is there to act as a lubricant, and also as a damper for vibration of the flex boards, so they do not vibrate and rub against each other, you will not see the break. You have to clean it off, then hold up against a strong light, and hope that the traces on both sides of the board broke in the same place, as there is a base plastic film, and each side has an etched set of wide copper traces, often overlapping, so the board is opaque, and then each is covered with another polyamide film, and laminated in a high pressure high temperature press to cure the laminates, then punched out of the film, or cut out with a CNC cutter. The ends will be fixed using insulation displacement connections, pressed through the film, and are arranged so they make good contact, then the ends are often sealed in with a little epoxy applied there, or a plastic clip on cheaper models, or even soldered on some. Ends break as well, especially where the flex and rigid parts are, another place to check, but with the ones epoxied in nothing you can do to fix. Break in the middle you can often scrape the outside insulation away, and solder some thin copper film to bridge the gap, then coat with clear nail varnish as a temporary fix, as it will be stiffer, and break again near there. Yes replace is best, as often the breaks are such that the horn only works in particular angles of the wheel, and same for radio, while the airbag has the red bag lit all the time, as it periodically checks the airbag for continuity, and detects the open wiring. Very rare do you get shorted wires, though if the outer insulation wears off on high use vehicles (think a taxi that does a thousand turns an hour, in a dense city centre, and which has worn out a few steering racks already) you can get that, though pretty much all of the designs separate the horn wiring from being on adjacent locations to the SRS wires, which are normally duplicated on 2 or more parallel windings, and also are spaced on the film, so there are no wires, adjacent on others, that will ever be able to touch them and accidentally provide a trigger voltage. At least 2 layers of insulation have to fail, before they make copper to copper contact.
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  3944. Had a Cow orker who knew how to use print screen and paste into Paint, after only being shown this a few hundred times. Then she would print the image from Paint, and then scan to email to her, then forward. Then moaned continually how she wanted colour, because when I emailed her a screen print, it was in colour. And also only the wanted window, and I could do it while she was on the phone moaning about how long it took, and why was I not teaching her how to do it, after the 100th iteration.
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  3945.  @mooseflunky4569  Machine don't run, mine don't run, ore or coal does not move to the train, and the mine foreman starts to grow into a demon. Remember that the mine can easily get a 8 figure fine, built into the contract, for missing a shipping window, and can also result in a power station or smelter having to shut down as well.
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  3946. Not an advocate of censorship but wants to control books to only those she approves of. Bet she has a bible she reads from to the children, but kind of omits the rape, incest, murder and wholesale slaughter sections of.
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  3947. She can sue the city for theft, as she bought what was the lot and all associated, but the city then went and stole it.
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  3948.  @craigstubbs1991  Also if you look carefully the second blue one he opened does not have a bypass valve, just a weak spot in the plastic moulding that will break to allow bypass.
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  3949. Father knew somebody in the court for sure. Paperwork was "sent" but the delivery method was to use the round filing bin as postal method.
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  3950. Had most of them flying, though here by me there is regular frontal activity, which makes it very bumpy landing in the afternoon, or when a front comes over the airport is basically closed for a few hours. Inland summer comes with daily thunderstorms, so your afternoon and evening flight schedules are going to be mere suggestions as to possible departure and arrival times.
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  3951. Probably waiting on a few parts, but Ray has said his videos do not come out in sequence, but more when finished the job, and edits finished. That is why he said you might see Troy there, even though he has gone to better pastures.
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  3952. Boxer engine, made very popular by the millions of original VW beetles that were made over the decades, in assorted variants, all with the same style of flat 4 engine. Yes they all leak at some point or the other.
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  3953. So long as he still has a single share he still has stock. So he is out what $1 at the end.
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  3954.  @kenbrown2808  Best to put a slow sign down 2 miles either side, then put in rumble strips and speed humps, and make it a 4 way stop instead.
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  3955. Did it the wrong way, there was a case a few years ago of a person who used a valid bank routing code and account for all of his bills. The bank routing code he used was for the local taxman, and the only way he was actually discovered was totally by accident. An investigator for the tax office was looking for another deposit on the main account, and just so saw this deduction occur right below the one he wanted to see. He was puzzled, as the tax office does not normally have that particular transaction come off, as they normally are excepted as another government department, so, after he was done, he went and enquired with the other department, as to why. Turns out the person paid for a lot of things using this method, including, but not limited to, being his cars, house and all direct debits off for all sorts of things. He had to, after the trial, both pay it all back, lost all his assets, and spent time in jail as well.
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  3956.  @brentfarvors192  They have an address for all of them, and a refund to a named credit or debit card on them, for sure they will be going after all with a collective total over $1000 for fraud for sure, and, as the main party has admitted to the fraud for all of them. $1000 as that gets them into federal crime level, the smaller ones if just under let the local district courts have them, and very likely most will plead guilty to get a fine, and pay back the money, so as to stay out of jail.
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  3957. Friend looking at a X trail, and it has a chirp when cold. Not timing chain, but likely changing all the idlers and probably alternator bearings and Ac compressor clutch......
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  3958.  @KrustyKlown  more than a decade later and that debt has definitely prescribed. First thing that people should do is ask for the original paperwork that was signed saying they took out the loan. 99% of the time that no longer exists, or the original institution no longer exists, or they marked the debt as prescribed nearly a decade ago.
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  3959. Levi is an ass, in heavy rain you drive slower, just because you can always hit a puddle of water and aquaplane. He might also want to think about this in future, because the next time he might not be so lucky to have flat grass to hit.
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  3960. I regard those leads as a service part, buy them with the plugs, and change every 30 000 km.
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  3961.  @BillyWillicker  I worked on avionics where the cover screws, and any threaded parts going into the aluminium main castings, were all equipped with helicoils from the factory. 100 M4 inserts per unit, just for the 2 covers. Electric screwdriver was the first tool I bought, though I did make my own driver, using a long hex wrench with the angle cut off, and brazed into a brass hex spacer that was 1/4in across flats, and fitted the screwdriver. Long, as I knew i would have wear, so a quick grind of the worn end made it new again. Did have to replace the gearbox in the driver, the new Black and Decker gearset was powdered metal, instead of the plastic of the original, and lasted a long time, inserted with lots of light grease to help, unlike the original.
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  3962.  @billmalec  Better than bifocals is multifocals.
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  3963. The rovers on the moon actually used silver zinc rechargeable cells, but there was no way to charge them on the moon, so they were essentially single use cells. Just like your disposable vape uses a rechargeable lithium cell, and you use it once.
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  3964. Semi has the same rights on the road, and can be in any lane, just like a regular vehicle. Also allowed to overtake, and return to the right lane after doing so, to allow traffic to pass. Car driver is just showing he has an issue with other vehicles being in front of him, and definitely compensating for something, either lack of hair, lack of ability or some other thing.
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  3965.  @IsleNaK  Yes but most highways and freeways allow them in all lanes, except for steep grades and in certain conditions, where they must keep to the slow lane. Certain roads have length and weight restrictions as well, more because they do not fit.
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  3966. Thing is the huge factory might not be good for the town long term. Short term lots of people there to build it, and a sudden sharp rise in prices for houses, and lots of demand for things, but after 2 years the factory is built, the road to the factory is wider, and the factory has it's own housing on site for the workers, who are not local. Now the town has higher rates bills, the roads are now going to have to have the loans paid for for the next 20 years, and people in the town are actually poorer off. Factory profits do not come locally, they all go out to a head office, and there is nothing other than a little rates income from the factory, while the township has the infrastructure to maintain, with little return from it.
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  3967.  @n_u001  That can is make from pressed steel, with a thin electroplating of tin both sides of the sheet before it is pressed. They are quite good Faraday cages as is, as putting the lid on makes a very good RF seal, and the steel is a reasonably good RF attenuator.
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  3968. Robocalls come from that funny US thing where you pay to receive calls and texts, while the rest of the planet charges the originator for this entirely. Scammers pay a very low cost for calls then, only billed as a local call, while recipient pays the high rate the scammers set, just below what the telco will regard as not allowed, to make the most money on the call.
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  3969. I will say the best coffee I ever had was from a chain of restaurants by me, the one with the big W logo, at 6AM one morning, when they had just opened up, and that machine was absolutely sparkling clean in every part, and this was the first prepacked coffee puck that went into the filter for the day. So good I had another 2 cups as refill, along with my bacon and egg brekkie.
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  3970. Or that government vehicles were also targeted a lot, and thus the government wants to get reimbursed for all their lost cats first.
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  3971. Not necessarily that the parachute will fail to operate, it could, because of the Russian space program wanting simplicity and robustness, have a very simple pressure capsule that was only armed by a pin being pulled during separation, that now is waiting for the pressure to approach a part atmosphere, which would be the opening pressure in the upper Venusian atmosphere, and thus acting as a backup for the electronic trigger, or it also acts to power up the lander, as it would assume it was doing reentry, and thus connect the internal batteries to the electronics. 50 years and the batteries might have still some residual charge, enough to have it give a final few seconds of swansong, as the radio transmitter operates for a few moments before they deplete completely.
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  3972. That bushing looks like it was made from polyurethane. Cheap urethane will disintegrate with time alone. Had one that went, and, rather than replace it with the same junky urethane, I decided instead to make a new one out of some scrap rubber belting. 3 small strips, held together with 3 small nails used as rivets, and it was a "never bother with you again" fix. Did later have to replace the motor, it decided to burn out, running around 6 hours a day, after another year of abuse. But I had a spare motor, only lightly used, from having to replace the previous pump because of that exact coupling failing. So put it in, same coupling half, with the same rubber coupler, and it ran till the machine was sold off. Coupler used to keep the pump from having axial thrust, because a vane pump has bugger all tolerance of end float, and will eat up an end of the rotor and the end plate. Less than a thou of clearance is the difference between work and does not grind into mush, and not pump at all, with the oil film providing the seal. Yes those pumps did not live a merry life.
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  3973. If you were using Win95 when it came out, you could browse to your neighbours computers without any problem.
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  3974. With the handle there should be a little round clip that prevents it wearing out the edge of the door panel, acting as a sacrificial washer. But yes probably not a worry now given the age of the vehicle, and yes the spray foam, likely somebody trying to fix a rattle in the speaker wires, easier to fix with some fabric tape wrapped around them, and a few strips of weatherstrip to damped the wire movement, plus a strip to keep the plastic against the door metal when tight, would have worked better.
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  3975. Cheaper than the cybertruck is to buy an actual bullet proof vehicle, which will come in cheaper, and also comes with run flat wheels, and bullet proof glass.
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  3976. Had hard boiled eggs that were done so long the entire egg was green. We also found out that those eggs would bounce. We joked there were 101 things to do with them, 102 if the result was edible. The joys of bulk food, where they would only start the timer for 20 minutes after all the eggs were loaded into the 44 gallon cooking pot, and it had started to boil. end of 20 mins they would turn off the heat and start to unload. OK if you got the top ones, but not so good for those in the lower layers.
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  3977. USA has almost no HOA and COA rules, with almost no common laws about a rule set, oversight and and form of control to prevent abuse.
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  3978. There is an extradition treaty between the USA and Pakistan, and as he is wanted for 20 culpible homicide charges, they likely will send him eventually, especially if he does a crime there and is caught. Pakistan saves money, and he lands up in a NY court, with the added charges of fleeing the country, so will likely also get that 5 years per charge, consecutively, plus likely another 20 for fleeing, and as this will be in a federal court he will also get a free trip to a small island.
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  3979.  @daviddonahoe1303  Yes and the Swedish case was because he appealed, citing he made less money that year. Basically in the end the judge told him tough luck, perhaps the fact you now have to pay this fine, on top of your legal costs, might make you think twice against speeding in the first place.
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  3980. They definitely are not taking " due care and attention", which for the enterprising lawyer can get a list of the victims, and approach them to make a nice class action claim against the lot owner.
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  3981. Military with drums of fuel always left around 30l at the bottom, because of the chance of water contamination. So those drums always came back to depot, where they got properly emptied, and then refilled. Friend was doing that run one week, and found out he could not fill the truck at the depot, refused as the bill was unpaid. So took down a drum with the crane, and emptied all that ullage from other drums till it was full, and lifted it back up till it was back in position, above the fuel cap. Then hose into it, and siphon onto the tar till it was running jet fuel, then filled the tank. Hose was the depot watering hose, not fuel rated. But that truck ran very well on the jet fuel, lots more power and pep, before you rowed the box at any incline, now it did not need any gear changes at all, and easily kept to the speed limit.
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  3982. Eduardo's mother needs to also probably add a bollard or three at that spot, seeing as it has been damaged before, so either add bollards to demarcate the area off limits, as a way to keep the drivers, likely needing to make a exit from a poor angle, or instead move the drain spout from there, and raise the roof there slightly, or at least remove the existing sheathing, and make it open to the sheet height.
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  3983. Freezer on the bottom you have a smaller freezer compartment, as it has lost volume to the space for the compressor. As well the insulation there is thinner, to minimise the lost volume, plus it has a lot of hot piping running through thin sections of the insulated wall near the inside, along with 200W of heat from the compressor itself when running. Chest freezers have the luxury of having thicker walls, so there is more insulation, while a fridge freezer upright combination has thinner insulation, and the door also has to have a heater in the inner wall, so that the seal does not freeze onto the case. Larger length of seal area, thus more heat input to keep it not frozen. Seals also lose heat to convection, long vertical strips of airflow allowing heat inside the box, while the chest freezer has almost no convection along the seal in most cases. As well the limiting factor in modern fridge freezer lifetime is not the compressor, those will easily, even for the cheapest ones you find in modern fridges, with cost cutting applied everywhere in manufacture, last 10 years running all the time, provided there are no leaks in the gas system. Sadly that is the killer, the foamed in insulation is done with isocyanate 2 part foam, and as a side effect of the cure they do release acid slightly. This will eventually cause the evaporator pipes, and the condenser pipes, to corrode through from the outside. Most pronounced at the regions of the piping where they are cold enough to condense water from the air in the evaporator, thus at the cold side where the pipe enters, and for the condenser at the hot side, right by the door, where the hot gas is used to keep the seal from freezing in place, and which cools down from heat transfer to the inner side fast when the compressor stops. This then corrodes the steel pipe, used instead of more durable copper, as it is a lot cheaper, and when a small pinhole eventually does corrode through the pipes you are unable to repair it, as the pipes are all buried in the foam, and removal is going to require destruction of either the inner plastic moulding, or the exterior steel skin to expose them, and then you cannot replace the foam easily after replacing the pipes. Look at your modern fridge with a thermal camera and you see where the pipes run, and how haphazardly they are installed before the foam is injected. With refrigerator freezers the fans in the more expensive models also run all the time to circulate the air, and generally fail fast, as they are run in a very harsh environment, with water droplets running through them in the fridge side, and ice in the freezer side. Defrost in the fridge and freezer is done with a heater element by the coils, so that frost is heated up and melted back to liquid, and this then travels down a heated tube to the top of the compressor, where it collects in a pan, and the heat of the compressor evaporates it. Cheap units the heater runs when the compressor does not, but is low power, around 10W to 30W, so does not put much heat in the cavity. When you buy commercial units your efficiency takes a dive though, as convenience in getting stuff in and out, along with having either glass doors with heaters so they do not mist up, or no doors at all, is the driver. However those you can repair, as they are expected to last 20 years or more in service, unlike a domestic unit.
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  3984. Shorter line to the engine from the valve will help a lot with speed, as there will be less loss in dead space. As well use a different valve, you want a smaller one, that can operate at a higher frequency, and have it very close to the cylinder as well, which will help a lot with gas losses that are otherwise vented out.
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  3985. VW 2l, so every piece of plastic in that engine is already toast, and needs replacing. Oil leaks, so you are in for a lot of seals as well, plus likely water pump as well ,which means head is warped, and valvetrain is worn. Yes drop in a less well used block, complete, preferably one that came as a front chop complete. Will still need a lot of plastic parts, but will give you the missing parts, the missing bolts and the connectors that broke as well.
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  3986. 1.6l is the one I have. Rebuilt and working well, just have to remember that the higher power versions are less reliable, simply because of the higher power output, and the junky plastic parts. The lack of maintenance is also an issue. they do need regular oil changes, and the later versions are prone to crack pistons.
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  3987. Vietnam and Mozambique they still remove thousands of deadly mines every year, most of them still lethal and causing massive death.
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  3988.  @Birb_of_Judge  BMW? All bolts come with a coating from the factory, to make assembly torque more precise, but it also protects the threads as well.
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  3989. Another thing about that old steam turbine is the ends of the shaft, where the thrust bearings are. Multiple bearing faces, with pressurised oil feeding them, because no ball bearing of the time could withstand the thrust and rotational speed, so they simply used lots of bearing surfaces, and put them in parallel, so the oil film could still provide protection.
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  3990. Especially the roughing cuts, where 5mm of that aluminium slab vanished at each pass. Most smaller lathes struggle with 1mm.
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  3991. Will add that even buying from the river store you can get fakes as they get put in the same bins as genuine, because they have the same part number.
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  3992. Under the legal limit means you can definitely get a case against the other party, Because they tested positive they were driving while impaired, which means that they bear all responsibility and costs as well, though from the looks of the truck the amount you can get at auction depends on the amount of fuel in the tank.
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  3993. Just place a garnish order on his in prison earnings, and he will be working to pay that back during his time, and afterwards it will continue, as that survives bankruptcy.
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  3994. No, has a serious girlfriend, who does love him, despite him soaking her......
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  3995.  @WrenchingWithKenny Lead free, and free as well. Lots of fishermen here are sustenance fishermen, so spark plugs are going to be used as they are free. However, if the police find you in possession of a spark plug, especially a broken one, and with no fishing gear to go with it, you are going to be arrested for suspected breaking and entering, as this is also the favourite method used to break windows of cars to steal from them. Possession of burglary tools.
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  3996. I have set timing by ear, then checked later on with a timing light, and it was pretty close, so it never got adjusted, as it was close enough to correct, and within the timing error. New distributor, or rather new to me, because the original distributor got stolen in the street. Toyota engine, and that is a very expensive distributor, and was also only available as parts, and half out of stock. New was close to $400, used one, from a rolled vehicle, was only $25, and came complete with the plug leads, clamp, vacuum lines and the bolt.
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  3997. To be fair, the blue box was not something they invented, they just made them in a retail version, instead of building your own using a somewhat modified touch tone phone circuit.
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  3998.  @peterl2017  If same owner and both original would do both.
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  3999. With this new set up I forsee you also doing brake drum regrinds for yellow plant.
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  4000. Both sides unhappy probably a fair judgement. However to punish the company put all the directors at that time into prison for 6 months.
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  4001.  @kapa1611  Once he sells a few trucks the bus will be a natural evolution, as it is just a car with the AI and a lot bigger battery pack on it. The Tesla motor units are strong and powerful enough to, with minor changes to the reduction gearing, move a 10 ton bus around easily, as it basically is going to be 3 cars worth of battery pack. Plus supercharge at every terminus, with an automatic connector and AI to align the vehicle in a defined spot, and another AI with vision to attach, and in the 5-10 minutes you are at a stop you can get a decent charge on the unit. Buses rarely do more than 400km in an inner city route a day, and if you are doing a loop around to a suburban hub you can simply spend 15 minutes there to get a charge boost to cover going 800km a day. Battery life will be shorter, but still long enough, and the old ones can easily get recycled or converted to static use.
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  4002.  @mvpfocus  Funny thing is that pretty much the big difference between detergents from the same large manufacturer is the scent pack they add, and how much brightener (blue dye) they add, with very little else changing, as the bulk ingredients used actually cost very little per pack, so making a massive volume of the base makes sense, and then you blend with the scent and extra brightener small amounts per line as needed.
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  4003. I buy dry detergent powder, and use a quarter of the "recommended dose" in each wash. For most washing all you need actually is just the water and agitation, the detergent is there merely to allow non water soluble stains to come out, and to hold them in suspension. Too much just leaves a deposit of detergent in the machine and clothes. You can buy in Japan Sharp made washing machines, that do not need any detergent, as they use water and ultrasonic systems to clean the clothes and get stains out, with no soaps involved. But not really sold outside Japan, where the market is there for a machine that is small, and needs nothing other than water and power to do laundry. For really stained clothing I do a long cycle, and the pre wash cleaner I add is Coca Cola, a full 2l bottle, as that does remove stains very well, from the high acid content and the sugar keeping the removed stains in suspension. Removes oil stains quite well.
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  4004. Thanks for reminding me I actually do have a Twitter account.......
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  4005. Dave wrote the original, and the code has been updated so it currently is well more capable than any CPU available, as the original would fall over, as Dave has said before, with only 16 cores. might struggle with 16k cores now, and with them all being almost a pixel wide.
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  4006. Some of the happy snacks, prescribed by the vet for fireworks, and Ninja would have allowed all to be done purring. Normally reactive dogs given those, and fireworks the one looks up and wags tail, the other barely moves.
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  4007. Problem is flight needs a great deal of power, as you basically are flying in what would have been classed 150 years ago as a pretty good vacuum.
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  4008.  @chestnut01111  I have seen the VW engines in a Linde, they get abused a lot in a forklift, but still keep on going.
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  4009. Must be using Chinese cameras, which only see pale.
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  4010. Likely surrendered because the owner died, and he has both separation anxiety and is mourning the loss of his comfortable space.
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  4011. Have been in a barrel roll, in a helicopter, and can agree that it is a low G manoeuvre, as I was sitting there, looking out the open door, with my legs outside, and looking down below my feet at the sky, and up overhead to the ocean. Very frustrated pair of pilots and the flight engineer, who had just spent the last 3 hours baking in the cockpit, with engines running, but zero collective, doing a compass swing and alignment, after replacement of the gyro compass magnetic pick up in the tail. I had been the human intercom between the poor guy being cooked in the tail, and the flight engineer, relaying from the pilots the readings on the 3 axis data displays for magnetic azimuth. At least we did not have to stop, like the last day, because one of the 2 gyro assemblies had dropped out, with a barberpole on the display, just near the end. Also the 707 had really good cross wing landing performance, I had a front row seat to that, with a perfect near textbook landing, while the 2 C130's that went before scrubbed all tyres to nothing on the landing, and did a really hard landing, which was audible inside the cabin of the 707. you could not feel anything, till the reverse thrust was applied full, and the pilot announced, that for all those interested, on open mic, that we had landed 10 seconds before. too bad my instructor was on one of those 2 planes, and had thought us 12 last ones were flying on a C47, we got put on the tanker instead. C47 was there to deliver AOG parts, and had spent the night as well.
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  4012. Bet they added another bottle of stop leak at every water fill as well.
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  4013. I would think that using a BD writer now would allow a very fast burn time now, as the laser is a lot higher power, and even a defocussed laser beam will work to activate the chemical reaction. You could probably also make a writer that has 2 laser assemblies in it, one top and one bottom, and use then during recording the disk as well, either sequentially or, with a little faster processor and an optimised laser path in the top section for light intensity in the beam, you could do the 2 sides at once.
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  4014. That powder is not a waste though, it contains a lot of rare earth oxides, so it is easy to simply use it to make more lights, and to recycle it again and again, as you can always get the rare earth materials out again to be used. Can come back as the next LED bulb you buy, which also should be recycled as well, as, while it probably does not contain mercury, it does contain other very toxic material as well, in quite large amounts.
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  4015. South African, You can easily trace that person, if the address is correct, and they have some photos of the scammer. Then the person can easily be found, and either sent to the USA for the case, or, for the right amount of money, the scammer will be taken and asked (not nicely) to give back the money.
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  4016.  @mikeslater6246  no to get Interpol to work with DHA you need to bribe them, after all they barely work in normal circumstances, and you definitely need to lubricate them for this difficult task. Might require them to look up a few records, and that is hard.
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  4017. Probably related to either ground issues or to water in connectors.
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  4018. Going to guess the careless renter is going to have a much higher rate next time, plus the deposit is forfeited as well, and next one is much higher as well.
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  4019. Yes a ward councillor not living in the lap of luxury like most of them do. Only seen at election time, then vanish again for the next few years.
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  4020. Keep the receipt and box for the warranty claim. If it dies before the warranty ends simply return as defective, get a refund ( gift card is fine, and actually preferred) and go buy a new one with it, as that gives you the same warranty again. I got 7 years out of a cheap kettle that way, even though the actual units only lasted between 9 to 11 months before they went bang. first one was repaired, and died again before the 3 month repair warranty expired, and they simply gave a gift voucher, which gave a new unit, and a valid 1 year warranty on it, which, with a copy, went into the box, along with the loaner kettle. Kettle no 8 lasted 1 year 1 week before it died. Those 7 replacements cost me only $1, as the price went up in year 5, and the original store had closed up the branch. Just had a TV fixed under warranty, as it had a failed backlight, just 4 weeks short of the 3 year warranty expiring. The year after I got it, they had changed to a 1 year warranty, for some reason.
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  4021. Literally the same vehicle, just different badges on them for different markets, and of course a different side for the driver. That one could have been built in Australia for export, or was built in Korea by GM/Daewoo. Depends on the VIN as to where it was built.
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  4022.  @WrenchingWithKenny  Best luck for that, if I was in the USA you would be my mechanic, but being your own mechanic does mean I do most of my own servicing, plus I know a good shop for those that need special work. Of course I did see a nice '07 Cadillac in there, and I did do some free help with the owner on it, because you very rarely see a '07 Cadillac with mostly all original parts, mostly because the 1907 was more than half wood. Also a lot of MG cars, and those are nice, even though I cannot fit in them easily, but they are fast, even when you drive slow, because of that low and open body.
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  4023.  @ThomasLee123  Switching regulator is again using AC, converting DC to AC, transforming it, then converting back to DC again. Either you use a small transformer or use an inductor, to store energy in a magnetic field, and use the rate of change of that field to provide power transfer. But in all cases you are using a transformer and AC to do the conversion, unless you are using a linear regulator which acts like a variable resistor to turn the unwanted energy into heat, to provide the required voltage, and the heat generated is proportional to the current flowing multiplied by the voltage dropped.
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  4024. State mandated, but the casino has some room to play with them on the fly, just has to be the state mandated amount on audit. Random number generators are almost all PRNG in software, though the seed for the generator is very long, and the machines are left on 24/7 in the most case, so the chance of getting the sequence are very low, though there have been a few cases where they were cracked, but again, long on time, and clocks that are going to drift, with the PRNG not being synchronised with NTP, which the machine uses for logging, so that the drift is not easy to determine. Also the random number generators use the random things like yey presses and screen touches as part of the salt for the PRNG, and generally, because draw is so small, have a very large pool to draw from.
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  4025.  @DavesGarage  As the odds are statistical, the casino can fiddle slightly with them between audits to get the figures right on the mark, as there can be bursts of good and bad that skew, so the odds are always varying in line with keeping that exact chance correct. After a big win they drop the chances for a while, till the odds are again in the correct ratio again.
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  4026. Most common is they slap 2 or 3 bodies in the same coffin, and also put 2 coffins in the same hole. Common for those who had nobody at the funeral, and they also have a few paupers that the state is paying for burial. Put the does in the closed casket with the others, and take the money.
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  4027. Those vehicles are almost always rentals, and yes the camera has, in order to get good imagery, a very good GPS on it, and this data, along with the camera footage, is recorded to a few large hard drives in the car, and also telemetry is sent live to a control centre where the progress of the mapping is controlled from, so that they also get real time updates of traffic along the route.
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  4028.  @MrMontanaNights  By me the ones I see doing it are almost always an Avis rental vehicle. The camera is flown in, strapped to the roof of the vehicle, and the cables fed through the rear window, and into a nice set of computers on the back seat. They do not map often enough to warrant a vehicle fleet, and the distances are large, so renting makes sense.
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  4029.  @ohnosmoarlulcatz  True, but Liebowitz did this deliberately and with malice, knowing full well that most of the cases he was bringing to court were both false, lacking evidence and also that the evidence was both incorrect and flimsy, relying on bullying the victims into paying up rather than go to court.
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  4030. Third chanber, filled with some open cell foam, would remove the residual water from the gas generator, and allow better performance. Also a reduction gearbox on the output shaft would allow the turbine to run at higher speed, so giving a lot better match to the generator torque demand, as the turbine will be running at around 10k RPM, but the generator will do around 2k. With a reduction box likely your power output will be high enough to run a car alternator, and light a 55W headlamp bulb.
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  4031. I had 2 wisdom teeth taken out by a dentist who lifted me, about Kenny size, out of the chair, by the tooth, each time, despite the nurse holding me to the chair by the forehead. Had hands like hams, but still managed to get both of them into my mouth at the same time.
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  4032. Not the office but the house, and for good measure raze it to the ground as well.
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  4033. Incidentally almost no plating plant can ever move, as they will have to rehabilitate the old plant, and about the only way to do that is by digging it out down to around 5m, and sending all that soil and building to a toxic landfill, and then bringing in new fill material there. Still going to have contaminated dirt under there, but it will be far enough down that, providing nobody in a large radius has a well, it will not be harmful. Not only the chrome itself is harmful, also the under plates are either toxic or harmful, as to plate chrome you first need to polish the steel or whatever to a mirror finish first, then plate it with a layer of copper as a bonding layer, then follow that with another polish step, then a nickel plating step to get a smooth hard surface that will accept the chrome, then finally apply the chrome plate on top, and finish with a final buff to polish it.Even for plastic the plating is the same, just you first start with putting a thin film of some conductive material on the plastic, generally a graphite spray, or vacuum depositing a thin copper film on it, or India ink applied to the surface in a thin layer, to make it somewhat conductive. Then apply the copper underlay, and plate up from there. Multiple steps, needing both harsh acids and detergents to strip the films and clean the parts, then lots of pure water for washing.
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  4034. Thing is that MCD actually owns Taylor, so theservice is basically another franchise fee they extract. MCD Corporate is in business selling franchises, not burgers.
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  4035. Drone shots it looks just like a child's toy with those wheels :)
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  4036. Just how traceable is that 5kg tensioning masspiece. Has it been verified against any of the standard kilograms, which are obsolete, but which are very small due to their density. I have some masspieces that are traceable to it with only a few steps. Verified against a balance, that was in turn verified by a replica masspiece, which in turn was referenced against one of the prototype kilogram units that were sent all over the world. 1g, to the milligram though you can measure the mass change that occurs due to corrosion from the atmosphere, and the tiny mass lost due to handling.
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  4037.  @stephenroot1012  You can do it the same way desalination plants do it, by only boiling the sea water to about double the salt concentration, then using countercurrent heat exchangers to recover a lot of that heat energy and put it into the feed water, so it goes in at near boiling point at high pressure, and thus your boiler stays clean for longer. Yes you get wet steam out, but if you do not need to superheat it, and can use as is, then it will work with lower quality fuel sources as well, as you do not have to heat the steam to as high a temperature to dry it, and gain some efficiency off the wet steam in the turbine.
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  4038. Many of those companies also use a POX for mail, so that they can simply toss out the notices that are there about the signature being needed, or toss those that arrive in there, so they can deny getting the cancellation request. The only way to get a signature would be to pay a server to serve them in small claims court, for a few months of membership fees, with the returned mail as proof that it was sent and ignored. Having to either have a lawyer local to you, or the gym manager, spend all his days in a court trying to say that he was not informed, will likely result in a few default judgements against them, and the gym forever having the equipment taken and auctioned off as well. Funny how in other lesser countries this type of cancellation is considered a predatory practise, and is illegal
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  4039. Trust me, there are worse airlines than this one. Just look at all those others that are banned from flight into the EU or USA.
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  4040. Probably, otherwise they are sitting on stock, that they could potentially make a good profit on, especially if they also finance it, and get that interest in as operational cash, along with the initial sum, only taking the risk long term on the purchase price. Good money if sales and repayments are good, and they can roll the purchase price out with a low interest loan to them from a bank as cover, and charge a higher rate otherwise. Dealerships hate stock sitting, especially if they have paid for it already, which is why you see so many with a full lot of vehicles all there "on consignment" in that the dealership is not actually the owner till they are sold, and only then briefly for a day to do the transfer. Can bite though, there have been a good number who did the on consignment thing, sold the lot and vanished with the money. Was one near me, the owner did the runner, leaving the salespeople holding the baby. They survived and kept running, under a new name, but also have put out feelers for him and family, with a reward for dead or alive.
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  4041.  @olejniczak12  But that does not show in the only metric the suits care about, the results of this quarter of earnings, where their bonus payments come from. That long term it will tank the brand who cares, they will all have sucked it dry, and vanished off to the next victim. to them long term thinking is the next quarter earnings, nothing else.
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  4042. Remember that 78% of the earth is covered with water, so the destruction of a 50m impactor will be spread to all the surrounding shores, with a massive Tsunami wave, and similar with the sub 100m one, causing greater damage than if it hit land.
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  4043. If you ever had couriers handle stuff that label is not much use, they are very likely to drop it, break it and lose it, and I have seen them take a block of steel like that and drive a forklift tine thorugh it. Even the cylinder and rod they can break them, unless you go really overkill and put them in a crate made from heavy planks, which delivery to Australia would snarl up in customs for a month, for fumigation, because it is "biological material", and has to be pathogen free.
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  4044.  @KevinD-wn7pd  Banks world wide are, just the USA is stuck firmly in the stone age of banking. After all the USA is about the only country still using paper checks, and also magstripe swipe and signature, literally the least secure method around. Not in the USA, and my bank does not even trust a browser session, until I authenticate with the phone.
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  4045. Trans fluid change is not often done, but by me I drive manual, so the only time that fluid ever was topped up was with CV joint changes, where some spilled out. The one with a slight whine I put in 2 tubes of Molyslip, and it shut up for 5 years.
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  4046. Little bit of white is fine, short trip and engine did not get hot to boil off the water. But if it is like a glob of hand cream inside, not a thin film, yes water leaking into the oil.
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  4047. To be fair most would ignore both the reminder and the oil change anyways, driving it till it stops, then moaning that the fix is so expensive, because spending a few bucks every few months to keep up on maintenance was too much trouble.
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  4048. Or just contaminated gun, because the shop does not pay for 3 rinses in the gun before you change paint. Dump out the little bit of left over, wipe with a not solid yet rag, then a rinse with a tablespoon or two of solvent, then the next one goes in. Yes might be bubbles because the clearcoat ran out, but also probably old flakes of other paint that peeled off finally. Also a rant about body shops, modern paints can go on and be gloss straight off, why does every paint shop put it on to a matt finish, then buff the hell out of it. First time I ever used a spray gun with epoxy based paints I only had a slight matt finish on the first coat of primer, and the second coat was dull, because i used a fast thinner on it. Then the main coat i used a retarding thinner for all 2 coats, so that I would not have that. Yes did have a little bit of fisheye to fix, because I was learning just how bad silicone can contaminate, but that was doable with sanding down, and a redo a week later on after it had cured. Then we did a friend's car, where we got both coats done using only 1l of paint, and 2l of retard thinner, we just made it to the end before running completely out of paint. Had a few dust spots, but no booth either, just Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning, under cover as best as possible.
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  4049. Fuel going up, VAT going up, taxes going up and bracket creep going up. Only ones getting an increase are the parlimentarians, as the cannot be expected to survive on only four million rand a year, plus benefits.
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  4050. Mowing down the freeway so there is no grass growing there. He is so good at it you almost never see grass growing on the freeway.
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  4051. Yes looks like 3D printing is finally becoming easy to do, with low cost and easy setup becoming common. The high speed definitely will help with the making of low volume runs, so you could probably just use a half dozen of them to run the initial batches of parts instead of getting a custom part made, as the printer and filament definitely are much more useful than the cost of a single custom injection mould itself.
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  4052.  @Galiant2010  Yes 2.5 hours became 29 minutes....
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  4053.  @Galiant2010  Thing is that YT copyright system is broken, anybody can claim they own the copyright on anything, and the video will be taken down during the resolution process. the resolution process is the one who got the notice asking the one who made the claim that it was fair use, or that they do not actually own the copyright, and the universal response is "sue me". plenty of examples of copyright being claimed for literal silence of a few seconds, or somebody claiming copyright of other people's copyright free work. News org runs a news segment containing NASA footage, then sends a copyright claim to all who used the same NASA footage, even if it was directly from NASA. Others claim the captions are theirs, because they have a video that, because it was created by the same open source video editor, they claim the fonts used are theirs, and even the words like "the", "and" are copyrighted by them.
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  4054. So you are the direct cause of the Renault Cactus, a car with built in dimples in the doors. The next model year had the nearly identical vehicle, without those dimples in the door, as I suspect they were not exactly a good seller.
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  4055. for the one who says the license plate has no value, there is both the replacement cost, which is not nothing, plus also that this could be used to commit crime, or used to commit fraud, in that it is used to defeat paying tolls, or to hide a stolen car from easy detection, by swapping the plates.
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  4056. He did.
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  4057.  @Sapiens_Imperialis  Modern chips all have RFID, so they can see if you try to remove them from the casino, as they put readers close to the entrances and exits, and if you leave with a good number of chips, or worse come in with chips, they will know about it. Also each machine they can track exactly how you spend.
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  4058.  @Sapiens_Imperialis  They worry about people counterfeiting the chips, or using them at another casino, which means they either lose money, or run low on chips. So those do get tracked, and you will be asked by security if you remove them, or if you come in with RFID chips that have the casino coding, as they will only accept chips into the machines if they are in the allocated range for the casino. Bringing in 100 clones of a $500 chip and you can easily get $50 k out of them at the cashier if they are not attentive.
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  4059. For clothing how about that free drying that a clothes line provides. Pretty much zero running costs, and you definitely have the room to put the lines up, plus an added benefit that your clothes come off the line almost wrinkle free, less of the ironing chore, and for many fabrics no ironing at all, plus longer clothing life. Clothes lines last for decades, with almost zero maintenance costs other than the occasional line replacement, and by me the sun shines all year round as well, so zero operating costs as well. BTW clothes also dry on the line at night, even without the sun, so hang in the evening, and fetch next mid morning all dry, unless it rains.
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  4060.  @TwoBitDaVinci  Well, 10 year old black shirts, not the best quality, just cheap ones for work use, are still surviving, they wear out from use before fading much. As well simple to fix, dry inside out, that way no chance of bleaching. Dust is not a problem either, just a shake out gets it off, plus sets the fabric, and you fold it before putting in the laundry basket, so that it is almost ready to put away, and thus no creases. Less wear with a line than a drier, as the drier turns your clothing into a thick layer of felt in the filter while it is running. Just have to buy clothes pegs, preferably bamboo ones, as they do last longer. plus sheets and such are so much nicer after a sun dry, and you can also have rugs washed by hand as well, then hang to dry. Sold the drier years ago, seeing as it was last used last century...... and only then if the cloth nappies could not be dried in time because of rain.
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  4061.  @WrenchingWithKenny  Well all the Lucas had to go somewhere, it was washed off the sides, and is in the filter. That lucas was great for an engine designed in the 1960's and 1970's, where it would make the seals swell, and gum up the rings for a while, stopping smoke and slowing down oil consumption (the old pull into the service station and tell the attendant check the fuel and fill the oil) for at least as long as it took you to sell it.
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  4062. Hobby shop or Amazon in the US, rest of the planet Ebay or Aliexpress. I generally grab those from scrapped computer cases, as they are used for the plastic parts, and also from scrapped plastic stuff.
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  4063.  @blainelytle341  Hey leave off with the SA side kick jokes, we don't want him back, he is Canadian as far as we care. If the USA were to deport him it is highly likely he will want to go north instead of south.
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  4064.  @Taklsdjw093  Probably already, as soon as the Richard was mentioned the first time.
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  4065. Windscreen cracked in the driver view not an automatic fail?
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  4066. You either love it or hate it, just like Marmite.
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  4067. Got a KIC microwave that I got used, which was originally made in 1980. Still works, though it has had a few parts replaced over the years. 3 lamps, 2 used magnetrons, and the timer wore out, so now it has a single push button, that gives you 2 minutes of full power. You can do a cuppa, or warm up a plate of food nicely with that. Popcorn you just press 3 times as needed, and listen to the noise to open the door and stop it.
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  4068. So basically a very overhyped and overpriced emulation of what happens if I accidentally touch a stainless steel fork to my silver amalgam fillings.
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  4069. Also the problem comes with financing, where there is a title holder who is a financial institution on the papers, who has to give clearance before they can transfer title. Some now charge you for this, as an extra fee once you have paid off the vehicle, so they can make an extra few month's payment as a bonus at the end, otherwise you will not get the title, despite having paid it off, so you are unable to sell the vehicle or trade it in without first paying them. Now the vehicle registration to the new owner sits in limbo till this is done, thus the need to have temporary papers for a long time, often with them expiring first, before the finance is settled, and the title is cleared to actually have the vehicle taken by the new buyer legally. Also if there is a loan to buy the vehicle, and the seller did not clear the outstanding, but got the money and did a runner, somebody is going to have to settle, and the hot potato is who exactly is going to be the one, because buyer got a contract, seller is gone, and first financial institute wants money. Only place is from Carvana or the new loan provider, who has to eat this loss, as the new owner bought with the assumption of clear title. Neither wants to pay, so the state is stepping in to tell them to fix this up.
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  4070. you drive into the casino parking, and never leave the casino till flat broke, that is what the casino wants. Every minute you are not gambling is costing them money.
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  4071.  @thatShadowKat  Mot realising that that 1% do not spend much, and they get most of the draw from the low players. A casino with only 1% in is basically empty and echoing, and looks like a ghost town.
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  4072. Still got a timing light, and actually used it recently, to check that a coil pack was weak and misfiring, by comparing the 2 halves output of the coil pack.
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  4073.  @josephfahner6778  Most likely caused by some idiot that never misses their exit, even if it means reversing back 200m, or turning around on the interstate to drive back there. Look at all the truck dashcam footage, there are more truck dashcams than car ones for a reason.
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  4074. If sent over a phone line them Facsimile, with half tones using a screen to select which one of a few size of dots are used to emulate gray on the far end. For printing you would use a screen to get a blend of dots and joined lines, emulating colours the same way by varying the amount of pigment per unit area, with white being the background paper stock
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  4075. Yes, I do not mind my dentist, he has a great chairside manner, and he works to minimise pain at all steps. Simplest thing he does is put a small amount of the injectable lidocaine onto the gum first at the site, and wait a minute, looking at the rest of your mouth at the same time, then going in, putting a small amount in the now numb area, and then another minute of waiting, then finally the full dose. You feel nothing at all, which helps as I am insensitive to the local, so the regular dose normally means I do feel pain, but it is manageable for the duration. Fun thing about the 'caines is that they sublimate, or at least that is what they say in the police evidence room, when the amount they show on trial is half the amount registered at the bust.
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  4076.  @OkieOtaku  Well, I normally do this for things like chicken and rabbit when they are being done over a nice set of coals, though you can save a lot of time with judicious precooking in a pot with water and spices, to keep the meat moist and get heat all the way through, along with flavour, and finally just do the outside to get the nice flavour from the Maillard reactions.
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  4077.  @jasoncdebussy  Henny Penny pressure cooker will do that sucker in 15 minutes right through, though you will have a lot of oil in the meat. That is what KFC uses to do the chicken, and those take 12 minutes per cycle when you are running flat out.
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  4078. Banks really do not want your personal accounts, they want business accounts and loan accounts, which make them money. Loans they loan you money, but now you pay them, plus now they also have a loan that they can then use as collateral, and sell on, making the money back. Your interest is then all profit, which is why you see the first part is paying off interest alone, then the capital, so best to pay a little more each month and bring that capital amount down, as you either finish a few years early, or have very reduced payments near the end.
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  4079. Hopie beat Stretch Armstrong, though it took him a good few hours to do so. George deserves at least a bowl of water there, and another with Froot loops, or a bowl of roasted peanuts when filming, to keep him happy.
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  4080. Documentation is great, because you will not remember what you did a year ago, but having it all written down is a big help when you get the same or similar problem again.
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  4081. Starts and drives, just not telling you needed a 24V jump start, and drive was that it kind of moved with the engine running. Hopefully you took all the body modules, and the window motors and door handles, as those are a very common failure item. Rear quarter panel glass is also a fast seller.
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  4082. A good number of Uber passengers are clueless, they will get into any vehicle that stops in front of them, provided it is one of those group of vehicles commonly used as an Uber, and confirm where they are going to as well. So easy for the fake to get fares, and drive them to the location, likely close by, and a common location. I drive a vehicle that is not a common Uber vehicle vehicle (ie not a Toyota Avanza, Hyundai i10, Suzuki Swift, Toyota Aygo, VW Up, Renault Kwid or VW Polo) and still have people attempt to enter the vehicle, if I stop outside popular Uber pick up points. they literally have no clue as to the identity of the vehicle, or the driver, and very often the people get in the wrong uber, or land up at the wrong destination. Yes people are that clueless, i can well believe they will hand over the phone as well, because a lot of uber drivers rely on spots with free WiFi, so as to avoid the depletion of their data, as that is almost always a prepaid service, and they buy small top up amounts during the day as needed to a great degree, simply because the amount that uber pays is going mostly to the car payments, fuel, insurance and servicing, and a small amount is going to the driver to pay for him as well.
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  4083. Yes again the upper clotted cream saying the poor need to be killed off, while safe in their own government built shelters.
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  4084. That was dynamic tracking in play, it would drive the tape slowly forward to get the lowest tracking error when you selected pause.
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  4085. There is an emergency shut off, and they can always turn off the fuel supply. Problem with the fuel injection system though, which is likely controlled by a electronic controller, simply because this allows the fuel source to be changed and fuel ratio to be very precise, is another issue. Single point of failure there, and will not be easy to restart either, unless the engines are also shut down as well. Unlike the electrical system no redundancy there.
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  4086.  @BRUXXUS  0.2mg, you get more mercury in a fillet of mystery fish from the golden arches, and you are eating that as an organic form. The CFL dose is mostly bound up in the filament and the phosphor by the time it fails, with very little getting out the tube unless broken.
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  4087. Cloudflare using the same offices as Oracle had, who were the original ones to use them for that. however you would have had to pay Oracle to use them, so they only became popular once the patent had expired.
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  4088. Can be considered as a public place, as pedestrians can be on the ice legitimately. Otherwise can be arrested and the charge come up under OHSA laws, as those cover operating power machinery while impaired, which can actually have worse penalties for the person.
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  4089. Pretty much every dealership that has EV sales has a charge point or three for them, and yes there is always security there, because cars do get broken into and stolen. However every EV also comes with a charge cable, and if you buy one you likely will have a garage, to put your million plus rand vehicle in, and a standard socket outlet there to plug it in. Overnight charge will work for most use, street side charge really is for you wanting to go long distance, more than the range, where you plug in for 30 minutes to 45 minutes to get to around 70% charge, go have a break, and then carry on for the next 400km of driving. People who buy an EV normally also only do 100km or less a day, mostly in city traffic, where you recover a lot of the energy in braking back to the battery. No idling engine, and AC will only slowly use charge as well.
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  4090. Easy enough to make a TOSLINK bi directional with no need for 2 cables. Just use a beam splitter mirror ( cheap ones common in CD/DVD pick up units) in each side to split the beam into a transmit and receive side, isolating them from each other. No other changes other than a more complex socket side. Coax cable for SPDIF generally included a small isolation transformer on the transmit side, to provide electrical isolation so that you would not have common mode voltages on the transmitted data. Very important if your system is double insulated, and the inside electronics are floating at some potential around half mains voltage because of the power supply Class Y noise filter capacitors. Thus your SPDIF output needs to have the electrical withstand and creepage distances for a double isolated enclosure, as the output side could be a grounded cable to equipment. It also needed RF filtering between the 2 sides, along with a high voltage discharge resistor to bleed off static charge. It needs to withstand 2kV applied, making it more expensive than the plastic optical fibre, which is inherently ( provided your socket is not gold plated ironically) a metal free construction. A lot of equipment also had both SPDIF outputs along with TOSLINK, both being provided by a single chip driver. Receivers either had a switch to select them, or used an electronic switch on the receiver to do so.
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  4091. I see plenty of vehicles arrive by me, exported from Japan as scrapped vehicles, and they all go through the country on a car transport, and roll across the border, only to come back a week later registered in those countries, and driving on the roads here. Done to avoid paying the high taxes and duties, with the only thing that every 6 months you need to have the paperwork renewed to keep driving in country. These vehicles are not insured here, not able to be claimed from in an accident, as the driver often will simply give an address outside the country, and no way to actually serve them cheaply. Also the paperwork is easy to do, as they just drive up on a Friday, pass through the open border, and get the new paperwork, plus fill up with fuel that is a lot cheaper, despite being delivered from the same tanker, as the tax is so much lower. One place has 2 garages 100m apart, one does mostly servicing, little fuel sales, except to those who have fuel cards, because they do not work across the border. Both get filled with the same tanker, just the one across the border sells only fuel, and does roaring trade, except it is all cash and debit card, no fuel card sales, because the fuel price is literally half price, compared to the regulated price across the border. Often the paperwork is simply sent via courier, vehicle not needed, so the vehicle never actually leaves the country ever, till it falls apart. Bribes are cheaper than travel for sure. As to totalled vehicles, yes totalled means different things, in the USA labour is expensive, skilled repair techs even more so, and skilled panel beaters (not panel changers, a easy thing to swap out a panel, and prep it for the painter to do their job) are rare, but elsewhere you get people who think nothing of heating up a bent and mangled panel or chassis, and pulling it back into shape, and then repairing ant damage with new sheet metal perfectly matched to the original. So a car that in the USA had $30k of damage, but was worth perhaps $50k, will be taken, that $30k of repair is done for $10k perhaps, and the vehicle is sold on again with a new title. Often done with stolen cars as well, they go across borders, get new keys, a nice new valet, possibly new paint, a service, and then are sold as used vehicles, with no history at all. Only time you get problems is if you attempt to take it legally over the border back into the country it was stolen from, where you will find it is impounded, and the new unsuspecting owner now is carless. But the dealer made a profit, and so did the thieves and middlemen.
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  4092. Yes, faster charge to restore battery when idling and at low RPM, and the ECM will taper off charge faster as well. At anything over 4000RPM the ECM will in any case not command high power, as the alternator then is running in a overspeed, and inductance in the windings severely limits output power, and increases losses in the cores due to eddy currents.
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  4093.  @briant7265  Yes this is them selling stuff, but abrogating responability for it. There could be a class action suit against them, in that what they are forcing on the buyers is both unethical and deliberate, in that they are knowingly selling faulty merchandise.
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  4094.  @KREllis-vr1ix  To them and the lawyers that gave advice, it is only collusion when it comes to a court case, where that is the charge. Till then it is business as usual.
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  4095. Nice to see first and foremost Kurtis is good at rigging for safe handling.
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  4096. Fuel pump relay........ Bet the reason it was parked was because the owner died, and it was sitting in an estate for a few years till it went up on auction. But still thousands of them running by me, and often not in as good a condition as this one, but still running and driving every day. Very much in demand as street racing cars.
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  4097. $2 million..... Depending on which part.
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  4098. Apple I only thing I have is that exact same CCTV monitor.....
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  4099. Well politicians only know how to manipulate emotions, as that is the only thing they can do, being they manipulated people into voting for then as the sole reason they are in office. Not any ability to actually do anything, just can get people to vote for them.
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  4100. Still get analogue TV reception here in South Africa, because the change over was supposed to also be in 2008, and is still a "coming soon" thing, though a few of the less populous areas, where there are almost no viewers of the analogue signal anyway, and all who watch use satellite TV signal instead, as the analogue is either poor or non existent. Might be complete by 2030.
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  4101. The worse one is with vehicles and a balloon payment, which is always going to have you under water as the balance due is almost always going to be well more than current market value of the vehicle, so you now are in a debt bind with needing to either trade in at the dealer on another, again with a bigger balloon, or pay the balloon, more than the vehicle will sell for, and own it.
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  4102.  @tedhardulak7698  Here the joke is that NDC stands for Never Done Correctly, heard that from council workers. Took 6 job cards for them to fix a single water leak, and that only was done when escalated to the ward Councillor, who actually is one who lives in ward, and has an office here, unlike others, who are only seen election time.
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  4103.  @kirkellis4329  My father signed up for electronic payment, and after month 3 they entered the number wrongly, inflating his bill by 100 times. He went down to that department, and told them to cancel the direct debit, and also that he would be sleeping there in the office till they had both given him the error back, as they were going to credit his bill, which would have meant he would not pay for the next decade or more, and also he wanted from them the overdraft fee and interest his bank was going to charge, given by the charge rate brochure he took with him. He got both, within 4 hours. Then simply went and paid once a month, on the day before due, at the supermarket, so that not only did they get it after the close of accounting, but also had to not charge any arrears, as the supermarket receipt date was the valid one, even if it took 7 days for the cheque to clear. Me I simply do an EFT when it is in, for the exact amount on the bill.
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  4104.  @jimwiggins8678  You could possibly say that was fraud, in that you were neither paying the debt, or were acknowledging that you had the debt, but they were however attempting to keep the debt from prescription, and that this could be seen to be a predatory practice from them.
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  4105. Only time I actually use the 1/4 and 3/8 taps and dies for a purpose, instead of just using them because they were closer to hand than the M6 or M10 taps, or I had a wallowed out hole, and the metric threads were going to be weak for M6, and I did not want to use the insert on that hole.
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  4106. Watching on a repurposed Fujitsu Core 2, with the upgrades consisting of 8G of RAM instead of the original 1G, and a SSD for the system, but still using a 2T drive for home. LTS Linux Mint, so no worries for the next 3 years or so. Did upgrade the original CDR drive to a DVDRW drive, and added another SSD for use as swap and temp space, though they generally sit at under 3G total used on the older 120G SSD I put in. Was fun putting 3 drives into the space most commonly occupied by 2, but they all fitted. Originally came with Win7, but that drive is parked away in a drawer. Nice thing about the upgrade was that pretty much everything worked out of the box one I transferred home across, even got the tabs open when closed back no problems.
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  4107. Cable companies cannot make any profit just being dumb conduits, they need the extra money from subscription services and pay per view, as the basic monthly cost does not cover the lines. Of course they also took government money to build out, so all the infrastructure was paid for by taxpayers, yet the profits go to the companies, and are never paid back. They desperately want to get money from internet traffic, but, as they are classed as dumb carriers, and want to also not be responsible for any piracy, they cannot do that, as any filtering they do, or charging for carrying traffic, will loose them that, and they will drown in court costs, as the big pocket in the thousands of cases they will be named in, as enablers, will destroy them. The town making a cash grab and failing is good, though the monopoly of cable and telcos needs to die, which is slowly happening, as Starlink is eating into the rural market, and this is both the highest maintenance, and the lowest ROI, yet they are mandated by law to cover it. Then next will be the suburbs that are not close in, and where people want choice and speed, then finally urban areas.
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  4108. Remember every survivor of an ejection does get a tie pin from Martin Baker, as testament to surviving the event. Fun thing is the speed at which it does eject you does compress your spine, so you will only ever eject once, as the second time might kill you. Your legs get pulled in with straps, but your hands are not pulled in, instead you have both hands on either the top ejection pull ring, or the one between your legs. You do though want to pull your legs in before, as there is a rather good chance if you do forget that those straps that pull your legs in to the seat are there, and that they pull your feet in by being attached to the airframe, and pull in while the seat is busy making you 10cm shorter. You have a greater than 50% chance that unprepared your ankles and shins will be broken. Yes have chatted to pilots that survived landing separate to the plane, and met the one who landed missing large parts of the airframe behind his seat, but still had a working engine (sans afterburner, seeing as the missile hit that), and no parachute or brakes. Him ejecting would have been fatal, he is a little past the design envelope for that particular seat design, and ejecting would mean his head was the canopy breaker. Fighter pilots are in general short and stocky, because the cockpits are designed for short and stocky people. Very uncomfortable for bigger or taller people like me to fit in there.
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  4109.  @minutemanhomestead7214  A wooden ship leaks always, though now they will need to unstep the masts and replace them, very expensive, as you now need 4 150 year old trees, that are absolutely straight and unblemished to make them from.
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  4110. Steve talking about countries which do not exist. I have 3 sisters, all born in different countries. however all 3 were born in the same room, in the same hospital. Just the country was different in each case.
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  4111. He survived because the wing roots are right behind him, and thus on impact the nose penetrated the building, and then the wings ripped off at around row 13, meaning the crushed front absorbed most of the impact, and the little section around 11A was protected from both the impact, and the fire, because the front carried on further, along with the rear dropping into a lower floor as the mid section collapsed the building. Looks like the rear again snapped off by the rear bulkhead, so all those passengers forward were in the fire, and none at the back section stayed with the tail. Lucky man, unlike the rest of the passengers and crew, and the people in the medical facility. But at least easy to get to the CVR and FDR, hopefully they did not lose power with the engines cutting out and the aircraft transitioning to the emergency bare backbone supply from the RAT, which only provides limited flight control hydraulics power, and a limited electrical power supply to the emergency power bus to power a single display, a single flight computer, and a limited set of cockpit instrumentation plus the radios. but the power of the RAT is limited, as you only have this plus the 2 aircraft main batteries to run things, so cabin wise all you get is floor level emergency lighting and the exits partly lit, nothing else at all, aside from the PA system. cockpit the same, just a single display per pilot, and a standby artificial horizon, plus the standby magnetic compass, with limited flight augmentation from the computers other than limiting input excursions to the flight surfaces. Not even hydraulic power to raise landing gear, just the emergency drop handle that will dump them down to mechanically lock.
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  4112. Used to use Winamp, and loved it, using basically as stock. But now there are much better alternatives, and thus I no lnoger use it, though most of that also comes from not using windows much any more, except for things that do not work well.
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  4113. By me they run at 1500RPM, which is a lot quieter, and slightly more fuel efficient.
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  4114.  @DavesGarage  Yes most common is 4 pole, as that fits in the speed range available direct from a diesel engine, while a 2 pole one works better for small petrol engines, as they run faster.
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  4115. Funny thing is those are not common by me, the electronic ones, which use a 48V relay, and a resistor to drop the excess voltage, and a diode as rectifier, are common. They use a 12V zener diode to get power for the 555 timer used as control, and, because of ROHS saying no Cadmium containing things, they instead use a photodiode as light sensor. 555 timer drives a transistor or small triac, that shorts out the relay coil, to turn the lamp off. Then you get the more complex ones that the street lights use, where the entire electronics is contained within a IC package, made from clear epoxy, that has the photodiode, amplifier and signal conditioning inside on the small silicon chip, and then this controls a thyristor that operates a 20A relay on the board. Note they also have to withstand all faults, so have a large MOV device across the mains input, 480VAC rated withstand, so that they will still survive and operate even if the nominal 230VAC mains has a fault and goes to 400VAC instead. Residential ones use a 275VAC MOV as protection, the last time there was a phase loss by me that got very unhappy, and blew the cap off the photocell, practically getting it into orbit. Not really going to protect, just clamping voltage to protect the wiring, and trip a breaker as it fails short. Incidentally the street lights, for the most part, come with the photocell socket integrated in, as it is cheaper to make all of them the same, and supply instead a special shorting photocell, which has inside it only a 16A fuse and a 480VAC MOV across the output, so that there is still fuse protection when used in group applications, and the MOV clamps lightning strikes on the line down to a level the ballast and starter, or the LED driver for new ones, will probably survive, and, if not, disconnect the fixture. Most common by me are GE, Siemens and Royce Thompson as photocontrols, with Osram and Phillips (branded as Beka) also having a share, depending really on who won the contract for supply for a particular year. You mostly see Osram or Phillips lamps though, as the most expensive part is the maintenance, and cheap junk lamps fail fast.
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  4116. Got one as well, and it is simple to maintain, as it has all parts visible to replace, not all thin wall steel hidden under corrosive foam, and runs on R132A, as it was originally designed for R12, just was made after that was phased out. Just like my AC, R22 unit, still going strong. Yes I have all the tools to fix both as well.
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  4117. Funny thing is the local China shop has, as a total outlier in the tool section, a box of box and open end 45mm spanners, which have absolutely no use in any vehicle, as there is no fastener that size in use in a vehicle. They are sold for other use, singly. Not illegal to have car repair tools in the car, or to have them close at hand either. However if the police pull you over walking with a new or used spark plug, you will get arrested. Only ones who will not are mechanics, or subsistence fishermen.
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  4118. Going to cook that motor though, it needs airflow around in operation, along with a pressure cut off to stop it running all the time. They are only rated for 1000 hours of running, so you really want to run them as little as possible, and have a fluid pressure reservoir there to handle the load most of the time.
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  4119. Would say they will not put those samples in nitrogen, entirely too reactive, most likely the samples will be stored half in a high purity vacuum, and then the half that is to be examined will come up to atmospheric pressure in an argon atmosphere, as that at least can easily be gotten as an isotopically pure gas, and is a common enough trace gas in atmosphere, but not reactive easily, unless you have elemental fluorine in the sample.
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  4120. Probably all for motor control for the main drive motor, as that probably drew 20A from the 12V battery. So 8 2N3055 or 2N3773 there, so you could have both speed control and reverse. Smaller motors driven by a TIP3055 probably on the back of that aluminium panel or the other side of the heatsink tunnel. Lights would be simply a relay, driven by one of the spare channels on the RC remote that can be used to give multiple digital outputs.
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  4121.  @paulbennett4548  But not at the same time, SOA limited and also limited by Hfe droop, so that you could expect 5A and 10V across the transistors, unless you wanted to drive them with 5A base current, then you could saturate them at 15A, with 1V across them. 90W if you can keep the case at 25C, but in reality only 30W with a heatsink about the size of a dinner plate.
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  4122. Last one the driver that stopped in the middle will likely be charged with negligent driving, and will also be paying for the damage as well.
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  4123. Dealer is claiming to only use "genuine ATOYOT parts", but likely is going to use generic parts, and bulk oil, but charge for them with a 100% mark up from the manufacturer recommended service price for over the counter sales.
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  4124.  @makingcookingfixing  6V suggests 3 cells are dead, if sealed they are cooked dry, or shorted out from deposits shed from the plates.
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  4125.  @DavesGarage  It would ignore control inputs that put the engine power in the unstable zones, so would tend to overreact a little, so they would not be unstable and cause issues. IIRC those engines were unstable between 10% and 30% throttle, so the AGC would never allow operation in that regime, just move though it before the instability arose.
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  4126. Traditional Nigerian marriage, father stood in for son. Yes all for money, because he wants to trade in the wife for a newer model, and does not want to pay. Should simply have done in the normal way and married the second wife, likely would have worked out cheaper.
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  4127. Yes buying older semi luxury vehicles you have to remember the spares are still priced at semi luxury prices, not cheap at all. Funny thing is that Audi and VW are essentially the same car in a lot of models, but the spares can differ by up to 50% in price, depending if you ask for the unit using the VW part number, or the Audi part number, both of which appear on the box. Same part, same warranty, but price depends on end use vehicle. I used to buy VW wiper blades for my Ford, simply because the VW part number was actually cheaper than buying them from the regular spares outlet, and the VW part was a very good quality Bosch wiper blade, much better than the retail version, bat was sold by VW for use on a Golf. But buy the same blade for the equivalent Audi, and the price was nearly double.
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  4128. Plenty of those that occur, with the recipient bank often not accepting responsibility for the know your customer mistake. The banks will often push you to install the app for the bank, as that way is a lot more secure, though you also have to be aware of the app store letting a imposter app through. So now you will first have to log in, then authorise on the app securely, and then they will either send an OTP to confirm, or require you to use biometrics to authenticate, or for business use they give you a separate code generator to use as second factor. With me I also have a nice free offering of a virtual card, which gives a valid credit card number, complete with an expiry adjustable to a range of dates, and the CVV number is customisable, so that if you want to pay a dodgy site ( I paid the government this way, dodgy site for sure) they get exactly one chance to do a transaction, and the amount is entered into the virtual card, plus a few cents more, to allow it to go through. Then you simply change the CVV and it will never work again, or you just close the virtual card and get a new one.
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  4129. There are however many digital computers that are very much single purpose, not being easy to change the programming to use for other purposes. The exception to that was the minuteman missile, where the old computers were given to universities to be used as minicomputers, as they ad enough complexity and programming ability to act as a general purpose computer. I did work on digital computers, which were designed to replace analogue computers, and they were solely able to do that, replacing a old flight control system, navigation system and weapons system with new ones that were nearly a tenth the size, using all TTL logic inside, and able to equal the old one with much better stability, longer life, and much better accuracy, along with the upgrades also adding in a moving map display and HUD, plus much better aiming, and actually being able to hit the target most of the time, pilot training being the drawback for the misses.
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  4130.  @jcnikoley  Inlet manifolds now also often also incorporate coolant flow through them to the head, so they do not mix the different components, till the plastic fails.
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  4131. now you need to do a series on thread repair using inserts, and also roll taps for aluminium and soft materials, that do not cut threads, but make them by plastic deformation of the substrate. Much better than cutting, as it leaves the thread stronger than the parent metal, plus can be used in thin sheet with a much better thread being left.
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  4132. So the city should also be towing all vehicles at every garage, because, because it is being serviced, it is, by definition, inoperable. Also should be impounding all vehicles at scrapyards, for the same reason. So, somebody should slash the tyres of the mayor and city officials, and call to have them towed for being inoperable as well.
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  4133. They also put in a telegram phone number in some odd country, and this is the route. I almost always click and report on them as being either misrepresentation or spam.
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  4134. Yes got a lot better fuel economy fixing the O2 sensor issues, after the exhaust place butchered the first upstream one, leaving me with having to make the only aftermarket one fit and not throw codes for high current.
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  4135. Manganese dioxide is very easy to obtain, simply cut open old cheap AA, C or D cell zinc carbon or alkaline cells from the cheap junk shop, and the black paste in there is mostly manganese dioxide, carbon and clay filler. But good enough for use here, you can even use a D cell with the carbon rod removed, and a hole drilled through the zinc case bottom, as the reaction chamber.
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  4136. Firestone tyres........ must want to go rollong.....
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  4137. Also, adverts on Fakebook? Adblock means no such thing exists, and on mobile the duckduckgo browser does the same.
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  4138. I see a good lot of meat smugglers coming up, selling meat to the Cali residents who do not want to pay for the legal stuff. Police will be inspecting every car entering, looking for a cooler of contraband in the back, and there will be shootouts between police and meat runners Mad Max style.....
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  4139. Decent gauge on the inside of the vehicle also helps, because you know no shop gauge set is ever going to be accurate after a couple of hundred drops onto the concrete. Calibrated gauge and stem is in the door, just for that use, and it has been very useful to prove that more than half of the gauges at the garages are at best only mildly wrong. Worst one actually inflated to close to 5 bar, when the rating called for 1.8 all round. Felt it when leaving, stopped at the next one down the road to check, and rectify. We were wondering why the space saver spare was not getting to the required 6 bar pressure.....
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  4140. Even if it is only 60% efficient, they should get it, as having 60% of them surviving is still a lot better than the current 100% of the susceptible dying. The extra prevention will be of benefit, even if it is mostly psychological, in showing that at least there is some protection above "hope you survive" for them. It at least is a good enough stop gap approach, and even if a better vaccine comes out there is no real problem with giving it as a second dose later on. One million doses for the health care workers at front line, administrators can come later on, as they do not in the most cases interact with patients, except in rare cases, will go a long way to making them feel appreciated.
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  4141. Wonder where Stoddy gets his elective surgery done, that hairline and eyes seems to have moved up to near the back of his head......
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  4142. Well, that is why I found a MB wireless scan pod still attached to the vehicle, in the OBD port. Well, original fault is that battery goes flat, fault was failed battery monitor board in boot, because the seals are leaking, and filled the spare wheel and battery up with water. New used module at least CAN buses work, and still have to fix the other issues of secondary battery faults, and occasional full shut down from that. But customer not willing to spend money, and I do not do this for a living. Still got to find that leak and fix it.
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  4143. Tip for next time, make a tool to put the clips in, and also remember that for the springs a set of vice grips that are tight on them is a great help. Clip tool is a simple piece of pipe with a recess machined in it to hold the clip, and a slot to allow you to see, and a plate on the other end so you can push and turn, seeing when it is in the locking groove. Great in using the clamp, will do that next time I do a car.
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  4144. NGLI 0 grease will work, it is pumpable and pretty runny. I used it in 3mm ( 1.16in dia) piping as machinery lubricant, and it was very easy to pump through long pipes, here with splash lube it will work as it will liquify under the shear. Using a NGLI2 or higher grease will just spin a coat on the sump sides and do no lubrication though, a NGLI 1 grease might still work when hot. NGLI 0 grease looks and flows like really old oil even when new, and is runny like honey.
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  4145. Time to set up a box for old unwanted clothes and toys, so that you can help all that come around to your door.
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  4146. Remember there are crimes today that never existed 2 decades ago. Cyberterrorist, black hat hacker, amongst many others, so just because something is legal now, does not mean it will stay that way.
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  4147. Just like the smaller Ibis as well, which have adapted to city life quite well though.
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  4148. Solved that on a trailer axle that was really old, and hard to get parts for, including new rims. Went and bought a new trailer axle, which means now you have a choice of rims, in all styles, and the bearing kits are both cheap, easily available, and marked as VW Golf, the second most popular vehicle around, thus the use of them in trailers for decades.
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  4149.  @vasek987  Yes, and fail just after the engine is out of warranty, so conveniently.
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  4150. Got the same pair, but not in as good a condition. They have been well used doing fencing and other work, but aside from the handles being very tatty dipped orange plastic they are otherwise still usable.
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  4151. Just remember that the big name tool suppliers no longer actually make the tools, they just have a contract with a supplier to make them with the brand on. Push pin and body pin kits are worth it, even if you buy the kit for one particular part, still cheaper than OEM prices, and the rest will find a use. Jack stands got a few, from the ones I made as apprentice, to the ones my father made up one day for his own use, and even a pair I got on auction, made by some sheet metal worker, and well made. Will add that a jack is not a long term lift, just to get the stands under the vehicle, though we all are guilty of doing just a quick thing with it. Even used the car scissor jack a few times, and it got lubricated the next day, because it was dry. Good thing as well, a chain block, even if you do not use it to lift things, they can be quite useful with an I beam as a puller for really suck things. Do not forget to always have spare ratchet straps as well.
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  4152.  @scottchapell31  Yes but they also buy in and have them branded with the name as well.
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  4153. Plenty of them, especially if the colour is correct, so they do not have to spray the vehicle. Buy the stolen parts and put them on, then charge as if they bought OEM and painted, and you make a killing.
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  4154. Unless you undercoat regular all cars will rust out. Plus wash the underside at least weekly in the slush and snow season. Yes pull it properly into alignment it will do well, and they likely got used parts for that entire side as well.
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  4155. 2 days or more, so home for a shave as well.
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  4156. All dental X rays use a gun, mostly because it concentrates the energy into the beam, so leading to needing to use lower dosage, and thus prolonging tube life considerably. Also the digital imaging can operate with much lower doses as well, and have a better response at this low dose.
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  4157.  @toolman1990  I think though the insurance will sue both the inn, and personally the people who actually engaged the contractors. Inn might try to declare bankruptcy, but likely will lose as the insurer will claim this predates the filing, and thus is a claim to be settled first, and then the ones who did the work will lose as well, plus shareholders of the inn will find themselves personally liable to pay. Remember shares of a company also mean that you can be forced to pay in as well, not just collect a dividend, you can be also held liable for loss as well. Not a thing that you often get told when buying shares.
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  4158.  @sawomirkuczek3214  Slip rings have a very bad problem with shed material, so pretty much all slip ring or commutator designs have to be open frame, so that the conductive dust can be blown out by the cooling fan. Make it sealed and you now have to add in a air path that has a particulate filter in it, which also has to handle high temperatures as well, which adds cost and mass. Inductive exciter is simple, a set of magnetic doughnuts that have a coil wound in the middle, separated by a small distance, so the one can rotate and the other be fixed, and you apply AC to the one, and get AC out the other, same frequency irrespective of the rotor turning or not. big issue is that for generators they apply high voltage AC, as the rotor is wound with lot of turns of thin wire, and a bridge rectifier to make the AC DC ,possibly with a capacitor on there to smooth it, allowing lower rotor loss, and thicker lamination's to be used. Here you need to vary the DC current over a wide range, so need to have fewer turns, and much higher current for the same field strength, so you need low inductance in the rotor coil, and thus the fewer turns, and the higher current means a big beefy bridge rectifier, with it's associated heat dissipation. My guess the thing that Mahle did was put 3 phase rotary transformer in, run it at a higher frequency, so they can use low cost powdered and sintered ferrite parts, and probably have a 3 phase H bridge running at around 40 kHz to excite the system, and secondary side put in an active bridge rectifier to handle the 50A or so of current flow. Overall cheaper than putting in 50A rated carbon brushes, which will be massive blocks of copper graphite, probably 50mm by 30mm, running on the rotor, and probably still dissipating more power in brush and contact loss than the electronic system as well. Making use of current components the biggest thing will be cooling, to keep the semiconductors cool ,as they are the most sensitive item, so the oil bath will help, simply using aluminium core PCB for the active switches, and then a board on top, fully conformal coated, that is attached using IDC connections, with a top layer being the connections to the ferrite transformer. All running in a thin oil, 0W10 is a common modern one, and you get even thinner oils as well, which pour and act like water. That then can be cooled easily, and the rest of the motor can run in it as well for rotor cooling, with a thermal transfer loop to provide cooling via a water and glycol external cooler, so you can get cabin heat out of the rejected heat as well.
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  4159.  @perhapsbutmaybe  Well, tell that to the small towns that put a speed camera exactly one foot in from the regulatory distance from the town boundary, where the road is still the exact same road, and there is still nothing for the next 10 miles, but they changed the limit form 55 to 25, because that is guaranteed to earn them income. They know that, needing to go to the town court to contest, that most will simply pay up, because fighting a $100 speed ticket will cost them at least a 2 day stayover, because you can bet the county court will put them at the end of the day, and will roll them over to the next day, or week, to contest the ticket. Officer will not even be in court, because why sit a day in court, and not be out getting the budget for the month in. Then the police chief will, near end of day, ask for a stay because of "police emergency" AKA out clubbing passing seals/motorists, and get it, then next day will call the officer in early in afternoon to fight it, and have him there to say all about safety and such. Ask how many locals get a ticket and you find out those all got reduced or dropped because they are the ones voting the chief in power.
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  4160. Yes likely harness has a flat spot in insulation, which rubbed through under the sleeve, and the data lines were shorted together. Moving it away got it to rotate the wires away. Probably best fix would be to unplug the TCM connector, pull out the loom, and check for frayed wires where it was next to the hose, and sleeve them and tape up again, so you can be sure. Any of the CAN wires separate them in that area to see if they were crushed, and any bare copper, or thin insulation, there was your problem. No broken CAN wires though, that would set that CAN was in a degraded mode and you would have a slew of other errors about bus speed being dropped down.
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  4161.  @stevevernon1978  Probably no time, or they did not think to include this ability in the uplink channel command set, so they could command the first stage to do an early MECO and force separation that way.
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  4162. As more satellites were added in different orbits, accuracy improved. With low numbers of satellites, and also with long paths through the air to provide diffraction of the signal, you got poor accuracy. More orbits meant more visible at any time, and thus a more precise position. You need, IIRC, at least 4 to get a coarse position in 3 axes, and with every added satellite visible at the same time your error reduces. At 6 you get 100m, and with more the error reduces further, with most receivers able to handle up to 12 simultaneous decodes at a time, and with more sophisticated receivers using ADC units that can sample at the actual chirp bit rate, timing each individual bit as it comes in, and thus being able to correct for smaller drift with each cycle. Some of the software defined units have no real limit on the number of satellites they can view simultaneously, just depends on the amount of memory and processor speed, as you can always add more of both, and make the rake receiver scale with visible satellite numbers. Some of those have impressive cold start capability, being able to start from cold within a few minutes, and with warm start capability of seconds, provided the data they have is not too stale. Big issue is with noise, you find that often GPS signals in urban areas are poor, lots of RF noise desensitising the receiver, and also urban canyons making for lots of multipath distortion, and limiting visible sky to use. Sometimes I need to restart the old Garmin I have a few times, as it is unable to start, but often during RF quiet times it will be up and running in 2 minutes, from a warm start.
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  4163. Not closed because they cannot get staff, but that they did not want to actually pay a decent wage for the staff. Big difference there.
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  4164. The nickname of Sleepy Hollow does not give a clue?
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  4165. You go into overdraft, irrespective of whether you have overdraft facility or not, the bank will give it to you, charge you the fees, and start to charge interest as well. Takes a lot of work to get them to actually make you whole again, as they will fight tooth and nail for that free money. Had it happen to me, and my father had it as well, and we both made a big stink at the branch till they waived those fees and interest charges.
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  4166.  @DrDeuteron  They use Plutonium 238, which is relatively safe, and yes the decay products are mostly alpha and beta emitters, at least the early products, though somewhere there are neutrinos produced, but not much. Mostly heat, so good for energy, but yes by the time you get to further down your battery is long gone.
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  4167. I did one day go to the scrapyard with around 50kg of old assorted nuts, bolts and screws, all old stuff. Little transparent thing is the flower holder from the New Beetle, which was part of the dashboard. I found an old ford distributor for my old ford, and gave it to the distributor rebuilders, as a core, because those CVH engine parts are getting a little long in the tooth now, and this one was a still reasonable one, complete and ready to go.
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  4168.  @iancooper8777  Yes they dump most of the electron energy by using a high bandgap semiconductor to capture those electrons. Think large area Silicon carbide LED's used as electron capture devices, dumping the rest as heat. You stack the thin film detectors on either side of the source, to capture the most energy, and pump the assembly down to a pretty good vacuum as well.
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  4169.  @ericlotze7724  Not much about VFD's other than they all die eventually. The SOS construction because you have to grow a film on an insulator for electrodes, and sapphire in pure form is transparent, and making the whole clock in the display area is possible, as the electronics can all be coated with silicon nitride to provide isolation afterwards, except for some bumps at the edge of the device that are built up with aluminium to make the top layer connections. You probably will want to use an electrochromic display instead of LCD though, as that saves a lot of power, though you will still need to have a capacitor to store the energy needed to refresh the display, which likely will only update once a minute. But same construction physically as LCD, just needs a very low current high voltage (around12V) power source to do the update. Going to be fun to do the crystal drive though, with nanowatts of power available, and typical watch crystals being in the microwatt range for drive. Battery array likely to be a lot bigger and thicker than the display. your wristwatch is going to be Rolex Oyster size, and only rated to 10m depth.
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  4170. box of assorted grease fittings is cheap, gives you a selection of threads, diameters and also ones with an angle to allow greasing. cheap, and well worth buying as the box is about the cost of 10 fittings, and if one is popular you just buy a pack of 50 of them.
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  4171. USA missing a socket that is not flimsy. Rest of the planet uses some form of RCD on all socket outlets, USA only in the kitchen and bedroom, perhaps. Here RCD on all socket outlets, and when you do any sort of upgrade from whatever was there when installed to the original spec, gransfathered into the regulations as can comply to the spec as built originally, the only change is that all outlets have to be protected with a RCD, and all light fittings must have a ground connection. You can keep the knob and tube wire if it is still good, keep the rewireable ceramic fuses if you can find the fuse wire, keep the 5A socket outlet with no switch on th baseboard, and even keep the gutta percha wire in the steel conduit, just if you replace a socket outlet to get a 16A plug to fit you probably will be rewiring the whole house to get the RCD not to trip from the leakage in the old stuff. Yes I lived in a house with an extension, powered off the original overhead bare wire to the fuse box in the kitchen, with the meter there, but the new section had a breaker, and a RCD and individual breakers in a modern panel.
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  4172.  @ProjectFarm  Beware of the spambot with a phone number pretending to be you, using your channel logo.
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  4173. But they are glued to a wall outlet, so that becomes the most valuable chair in all classes.
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  4174.  @Headcase650  Never underestimate the children to come to school with 1% battery life, because they ran it all night unplugged.
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  4175.  @catinthehat5140  Lower noise, lower cost to install, and with it being cheap to replace why not. Also lower loss, as you do not have to waste power moving a half kilo of metal around every engine revolution, moving a lighter belt instead.
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  4176. Just remember as well, that the 2 DUI also say that he is habitual in driving drunk, in that to get the second he was pulled over for no headlight, which implies that he both did not notice, but also that before it was not working he had been driving a few times when drunk as well.
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  4177. By me LPG is common, and a growing thing, seeing as it works when the power does not, and also the cost is both regulated, and also on par with electricity. I have a gas lamp, which also doubles as room heater in cold weather, and yes I have used it to make coffee at times, especially when camping, when I would wake up, turn on the light, and put the pot on top to make the morning brew, drinking before getting out into the cold.
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  4178. Instead of copper make 4 out of aluminium bronze, half copper and half aluminium, and toss in some magnesium to make it lighter and harder. Should give you 4 1kg pistons, and they should be a lot harder.
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  4179. Nobody wants that job anyway, he is the hatchet man being sent in to cut out the rot, and see if anything can be salvaged.
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  4180.  @casualbird7671  They are running on the failed receiver, that has lost the ability to track frequency and doppler shift, and are running on the backup thrusters, originally used for orbital insertion when launched. But still working after decades of use. I would say that the big Dish just ramped power up to full power, meaning they shortened the life of the Klystron tubes a bit by eroding the filaments and anodes, but not by too much. They do have at least a full set of hot spares there, and another set or two of tubes in storage to replace them, and then send out the tubes to be rebuilt. There are a few companies that still rebuild both CRT tubes and large transmitter tubes, because there are some applications where replacing them is either very expensive, or very difficult.
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  4181. Can see the next mod to the lathe will be a stand to allow the gun to keep a constant distance from the part, sort of like a wood working lathe with the hand and tool rest.
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  4182. Knock sensor value is showing off scale high, which is because the ECM has no way to tell the sensor is open circuit, as the sensor develops a voltage, and the ECM reads it, but also applies a bias to the sensor as well, and this is the ECM saying it cannot read the voltage, because of the bias. 65535 is the highest value a 16 bit unsigned integer can be, yes maths, but the computer thinks in binary, and this is the maximum 16 bits can be.
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  4183. Or just go to your local garbage dump or scrapyard, and they can give you the weight as it is there. Many municipal dumpsites can actually issue you with a certificate as well, as often the police there use this to determine if a vehicle is overweight if they do not have their own weighbridge.
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  4184. Most of the drivers here will be "blind" to somebody catching a ride on the back of an open trailer, as the company typically will have, in cab, a camera with both exterior and interior views, plus a live video feed as well, and local recording. So the hikers find the trucker at the truck stop with the right truck trailer type, and ask out of camera view, then climb on the trailer from behind, out of camera view, and the driver gets in and drives. Stop area at destination he stops for "relief at the roadside" and goes in view of the camera, while they climb off the back. Then off to the delivery address, where you typically have armed guards check the truck before entry.
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  4185. Or say you enter for a ticket raffle from a church, or your spouse buys them for you, or your sibling. Your neighbour buys 6, and takes you and your partner, plus the neighbour next door? Are they going to ban sales to any people with a degree or three of separation from the lawyers, which is likely to severely limit the number of tickets sold.
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  4186. Also you do not get the standard engine noise, just the RAT running, saying both engines lost power just after take off, or went right back to flight idle, either from fuel failure that caused blocked filters, or from a failed throttle control.
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  4187. Not now when bookings are done online, and all the airline gets is a ticket number and a name, possibly with a dietery choice. You need to know when booking to request the other things, like a disabled person to be accompanied, or that they are in a wheelchair, or have a prosthetic leg, or that they will be an unaccompanied minor, otherwise all they see is a name and boarding pass number.
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  4188. For the assembly workers, warning them that this assembly is static sensitive, so needs special handling, and a ground strap. While you probably will get away with it in a humid climate, if you are in the factory making tens of thousands, and have a 1% failure rate, you will lose that contract fast, especially as ESD does not always show up immediately, but can take a few hours to months to show up as random failure. Warranty claims over around 0.1% to major phone manufacturers is a red flag that something is badly wrong, and they will get those units to analyse down to the silicon chips in the packages.
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  4189. That adaptor plate you made will probably be black anodised, and used as it is on the helicopter. 8 M5 bolts to hold the camera, not going to be a very heavy unit then, probably under 50kg. Yes those vibration mounts are nice, till they get a little old, when you start to find snapped wire rope ends in the mounting area, which start off as single, but rapidly grow to failure of whole wire rope rings. Not too expensive though to replace, except when you have to buy the exact same part, that MM Carr sells, but with the OEM aircraft manufacturer putting it in their box.
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  4190.  @heuhen  They also had a launch where the astronaut commented he had hoped to be a little higher at MECO.
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  4191. Launch sells it with 2 years free updates at the moment, which is very nice. Most of the time updates are really to cover newer models, the old ones are still going to work even after the 2 years are up.
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  4192. No, the machine pays out 4 out of every 5c that gets put in, averaged over a long enough number of plays. The casino will set this high for the low cost machines, as they get the punters/marks into the casino, where they win a little of theor own money back on the slots, and then think they are lucky, and go on to the higher denomination machines, where the house win is higher, and proceed to lose it all. The only game there that has better odds is Blackjack, where the house, depending on the version played, actually only has a 48 or 49% chance of winning, and there are few enough players that the house can handle the small loss, as they will over time win it all.After all, the house has an entire bank to play with, and the player only has a finite amount of money. Thus the free drinks and such, to get you to lose the edge and make poor plays.
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  4193. Battery reset is common, because stop start needs the battery to run things, so it needs to know how long the battery will be able to hold up the DC bus and still be able to start the vehicle. Normally along with things like adblue reset and TPMS in a menu other than diagnostic, and often the vehicle will not do stop start with a low battery, because it cannot be sure the engine will restart, especially with a failing battery that drops below 11.6V in use. Also needed to reset the alternator charge as well, as the alternator will drop peak voltage as the battery ages.
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  4194. The owner can get some money back, by asking for the taxes he paid on land that was found to be another's back. That way at least she will be told to pay up for the taxes, and all the interest on it.
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  4195. Had that car cow thing, come around a corner to a herd of cattle in the road. Not interested in moving either till they got a little "persuasion", when they suddenly decided that moving off the road and onto the mountainside was a good idea. Less stressful than a few months later on, come around the corner, and there by the river is a hippo. In the middle of the road, and this one is known to be a little ornery, as she had a calf, and "moved one guy out of the way. He survived thanks to wearing a wetsuit that held all the bits together, and his buddies, who took the half hour drive in under 15 minutes, and blew through the security gate at 150 plus on the way to the hospital. Gate guard merely slammed the alarm button and called hospital to expect a visitor. Around 3 years of operations and he sort of resembles his old photos, and could sort of walk. When we met said hippo, we reversed back sharpish, and waited 15 minutes for somebody to come the other way, proving the road was clear. They had wondered why the lights had disappeared, but saw no grey mountain with those big white teeth.
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  4196.  @russlehman2070  The crocodiles give way to the hippo, otherwise they get turned into chum for the fishes. Brave or starving croc that goes anywhere near a hippo.
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  4197. 15 minutes a day it will be out in a week with almost no effort.
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  4198. Well, once BMW bought LR they did finally make a LR that did not leak fluids while in warranty, something JLR could never do.
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  4199.  @paulferreira8342  Yes, but those BMW designed 3.0l engines were a lot better than the old V8 engines that were there, and did not lead oil, plus had much better fuel economy. No drive on a beach in low, and get a warning about "fill up fuel, range below 80km" with a full tank.
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  4200. And the spambot and impersonator bots are active again.
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  4201.  @weedmanwestvancouverbc9266  The one the pilots care more about is that fire warning light.
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  4202. Plus remember that Ford knew of the issue, so when it came time to deliver a vehicle to be tested "fresh off the production line, and not modified in any way", they sent one from Canada, where they had been forced to install the plastic protection, and not from the local US Ford plant a few miles away.
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  4203. And there is one opening down the road from me as well. From what I remember of the other clones the food was poor, the drinks overpriced and the view was nothing to write home about. However do remember going to Runway and watching the show, and having a classmate get knocked out by one of the dancers, who did not use her arm or fist to do so.
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  4204. Here by me, not in the USA, it is illegal to pass that fee on to the customer, and the DMV accepts both card and cash, no difference in price. however, the number of places that accept American Express and Diners, both with a rather steep rate charge, is vanishingly small, as you can only use them at a few select 5 star hotels, and a few 5 star game lodges, the rest you need to go to a specific green branded bank ATM and withdraw cash. Pretty much all places though will take VISA and Mastercard, which are 100% of the market, and they will give a merchant account to almost anybody who has any form of business, formal or informal. Person selling sweets by the street side, terminal, same for the big box store as well, as 90% of transactions are card based. mostly based on the fact that cash handling is expensive, and the thing that cash in transit robberies, where the truck is blown up to get at the boxes inside, is a common thing. Drive that truck, or be a guard on it, and the being involved in a cash in transit robbery is not a matter of if, but when.
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  4205. Fire hydrant outside between 2 pavement trees. Dogs use the trees and not the hydrant, watering the tree and the plants in the bed all the time, and none of them use the hydrant, because hydrant is set further back from the street where they walk, and the tree is very visible as an object.
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  4206. Inner side of those pass through actually needs to be soldered, or you really need to have used ring terminals there, as that thin piece of garbage plate is actually the highest resistance of the entire setup. Those little bits of metal will rob you of around 10% of the power output, and will run really hot. Power wise at least they used real copper cable, not the more common and cheap CCA wire. Easier for the power wires to get bootlace ferrules, but as you rarely do audio expensive for the tooling, unless you use it for battery terminal crimps as well, which also benefit from the same crimping. Alternative is some copper AC line, which you cut a small length to fit, and solder on using something with a little more power, like a propane or MAPP gas torch. Been doing that for a long time, that heavy cable sucks the heat away, especially if you use 0 gauge wire, like I did to make decent jumper cables. 5m of PTFE insulated cable per side means the majority of loss is the clamps on each side. Alternative source for the sleeves is to buy inverter welder plugs, and use the thin copper sleeve they come with. Battery side would have replaced that connector with a new one, one that actually has copper in decent thickness, unlike the cheap one made with a thin copper alloy, that probably has 0.5V drop at full power across it. Amplifier itself needs to have a proper mounting, not hidden under the seat and not allowed to cool by be buried under carpet, which will make it run really toasty. Mounting behind seat, with the correct hardware ( no drywall, proper rivnuts through the steel) to hold it both vertical and able to have airflow, and with the carpet under it cut away to provide metal to metal contact to get some of the heat out, and it will last a long time. Old one was cooked to death there under the seat and carpet.
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  4207. Vin is not only on the front windscreen, but also stamped on at least a dozen of the major chassis parts, like the firewall, the chassis rails, and on the floor as well for a truck, though you also get a lot of vehicles where the gearbox, engine number are also recorded, and for Toyota since around 2005 every one does have identidot sprayed on all the panels, both under and after painting, and also sprayed on almost all of the interior panels and dashboard, along with the engine, gearbox and drivetrain, so that you only need to find one to tell that the part is associated with a stolen vehicle.
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  4208. That Galanz fridge will fail in around 5 years, because they use cheap steel pipe for the evaporator and condenser lines, which are taped to the walls inside and outside, before the urethane foam insulation is blown into position to hold it there. This pipe is going to rust through, because of water condensing on the insulation, and wicking into the gap between the pipe and insulation, and then rusting the pipes through. Normally the pipe rusts through near the entry points in the foam, but you cannot replace the pipe without removing the insulation, and it bonds strongly to the plastic and steel. The pipe used is cheap unplated steel pipe, with only a thin coating of varnish on it, because the adding of a zinc plate, to keep it from corroding, would mean they need to have an extra assembly step to sand off the coating at the ends, where they braze it to the fittings for the compressor and drier. Takes an extra 5 minutes on the line, so will not be done, just put the cut ends in place, add the acid based flux, and use an induction heater to heat it up and then apply the braze to it. also you can see they do not remove the flux residue, just a quick spray of paint to attempt to keep it from corroding. Funny thing is the compressor will last easily 20 years, even though it is made with CCA wire, and is filled with mineral oil over any other, as mineral oil will move properly through the system with the R600A refrigerant. Thermostat works on the coil itself, fed through a piece of plastic tube, to be held against the suction line before the compressor. Thus it will only turn off when the cooling is such that the suction to the compressor is coming back at the evaporator temperature, around -10C, and thus saying there is no more heat load there.
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  4209. Ford and fire seems to be a common thing.
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  4210. Really depends on the area what the markings are though. By me the base colour is yellow, and the ones with a blue top are simply to indicate that the supply line to them is HDPE pipe, and not the original asbestos fibre cement pipe. The HDPE was installed by hydrofracturing the old pipe in situ, then pulling the HDPE through the new cavity, so it is slightly smaller diameter.
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  4211. Should have left the removal of the broken tap in, though that probably would need a sound track to keep it PG... Just saying I do have a collection of broken tap extractors, and put the broken taps in the scrap steel can, and eventually had a new full set of taps as I broke all 3 in different sets. Ok so a mix of hand and machine taps in that M8 set, but still a full set now, plus the odd few extra ones, but not a full set any more. For some reason the first one is always the one to break.
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  4212. Who needs damping with all that suspension rubber....
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  4213. Or you got up to use the small room, and autoplay is on, so your device played the video, but who is to say it was actually watched.
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  4214. You break the cover, Eric has one for you, complete with good used water pump.......
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  4215.  @Insertnamesz  They were all definitely learned from death, injury or lots of blood. The original nuclear designers in the USA were very much aiming for the submarine to be the safest place around, and also to handle almost any emergency as well.
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  4216. @2WheeledShenanigan-gs7cl they do it because they had to register the vehicle to the dealership registration on arrival, so that they can legally drive it on the road with dealer plates, or have it go for a test drive. So if there is no transfer to the new owner all fines will land on their registration, and they will be unable to do anything like remove vehicles, or add on new stock, till those fines are marked off as paid. Very strong incentive to fill out that paperwork and do the transfer to the buyer as fast as possible, as the banks and other finance houses want the paperwork fast as well to make sure their interest in the vehicle financially is secured in case they need to repo.
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  4217. George is showing off to the ladies, bringing them the shiny stuff so they can see he will be a good father, and the food to show he will provide. Need to leave him some Homie pellets out to grab.
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  4218.  @iveharzing  The water is not always cold where they operate, in the Gulf it can easily be above 40C at the surface, and a good way underneath as well, which will make thermal management somewhat harder to keep the crew and operational areas at an optimal temperature. So you have to handle both a very large heat input load, though of course so long as the reactor is operating low grade thermal waste heat is essentially free for colder environments. But yes in general heating is easier to do, as the massive area of the hull is a near infinite heatsink. Condensation though will be an ever present problem, thus you have dehumidifiers, so all that human generated moisture can be pulled out of the air.
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  4219. Common though, there was a case by me, where somebody was found a year or so later on, dead after falling inside the hospital.
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  4220. My car has a cover, because it is not in good shape. Previous owners, and copious amounts of hand lotion, do not work well with the urethane foam they are covered with.
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  4221. Rental needs a credit card, and that info is immediately in a computer system by the rental agency, which is going to be shared with all who want the info, so long as they pay money for it.
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  4222. Yes, did rebuild a motor recently, because a replacement motor was quoted as either double the value of the vehicle, or order online from a dodgy Aliexpress seller, and wait 4 months. Brushes worn to almost nothing, so replaced with new. Of course you cannot go in to get them from the parts store, but a cheap knock off Bosch alternator regulator ($8) became the donor of some nice new ones. Now the $1k vehicle is running well again. Hydraulic pump for an AMT gearbox, which was the biggest issue in the otherwise very reliable Proton.
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  4223. Yes the basic unit is simple and basic, but then you start to add on all the other things that are there to increase the control range and also reduce the amount of wasted fuel that is there in droplets too big to fully burn at high RPM, and thus continue to burn in the exhaust. Things like the jets and air tubes, that provide better atomisation, and thus increased efficiency, along with things like variable jets that come into play at different flow ranges. Next should be a nice transparent model of a SU carburettor, to show how the diaphragm and the variable needle act to provide a fuel flow proportional to the demand, and how it changes with RPM.
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  4224. From the looks of the bore they had removed a hose for some reason, and it dropped into the dirt. Did not clean it all out, and a few pebbles sneaked into the hose, to do this kind of damage.
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  4225. Best you can do with that is fill the oil, and start it, put a brick on the loud pedal, and leave it till it does a rod toss. Might get better range than a T72 does in Ukraine.... Valuable parts on it, that adjustable hand mangler, the mirrors still work, and the 4 doors are worth money, plus the rear panel glass, provided you strip the sticker, as spares. Sound system worth a whole $20, some install required, and then the rest can be placed on the scrap trailer, and you will get a few dollars as mixed scrap.
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  4226.  @davidwebb4904  Just have to look at the number of shipments going to other countries, in excess to the regular orders, and you will trace it easy enough. But not going to be done, unless the US 3 letter agencies are going to intercept them, and replace them with counterfeit parts instead, or put faulty ones instead.
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  4227. Your fridges have done so for at least the last decade, as R600 is a lot cheaper than R134A, plus allows them to claim ozone friendly, unless you discount the foam insulation blowing agents. Plus allows them to use cheap steel tubing all over as the coils.
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  4228.  @DrewLSsix  Funny enough where I am much cheaper buying VW parts than buying GM spares. Even though GM parts are mostly Daewoo, they are very much more expensive, as they are sold as if they are US made. VW hub assembly is under $40 here from a reliable second source, and includes every part. Good thing about GM is that here you just buy the equivalent Daewoo part, either genuine or pattern, and avoid what is left of the GM network, but always a week or two wait for parts is common.
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  4229. Just remember that if you get a Chery SUV in with a 3.0 diesel to look, and see the engine, drivetrain and exhaust is exactly the same, as they are built on the same assembly line, with the metal being made by Tata steel, and all the electronics coming from Chery in China. Remarkable that you need to have at least a dozen firmware updates, in warranty, to fix issues, and they also change how it drives.
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  4230.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  Thanks, another channel subscribed to.....
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  4231. Graphite can actually increase wear though, especially in bearings, as there is a good chance it contains hard crystals of either calcite, silica or other hard minerals from where it was formed underground from coal deposits. Fine though on slide applications like soft bearings, as the particles embed themselves, and the graphite smears to lubricate and make a film. Only real use is as a conductive lubricant, as it will not allow any static charge to build up in use.
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  4232.  @BigBoyEDEM  Can be anybody anywhere. Use some shared accounts that allow them to do things like card transactions, and get a cut of the payment, likely using stolen card accounts as well that have their own scammers running them. Easy with venmo and WU money transfer ( WU is a sure sign they are in Ghana, as it is a very popular way to send money to family there) as there is little way to identify the recipients easily. Yes whenever you see the scam commenters take the time to report the channel on the channel, you now actually get an email from YT telling you that (about the only time YT actually sends an email these days, for anything other than comment replies) you have flagged the channel. Who knows, they might block the channel, and stop this particular identity, but I see they have a lot of channels, some over 2 years old and sitting waiting, to use for this scheme, as they simply open hundreds of them a week to scam with. Probably sitting with 20 old phones in front of them, all with another scam channel on each, running this scam, and a book with the hundreds of channels they have ready to go, scratching the ones killed off, then opening new ones again to replace them in quiet times.
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  4233. Will add that the most common jamming device is a simple remote control, which is held down and pressed all while the person is walking away from the vehicle, by a person closer to the vehicle, so that the car does not get a valid lock signal. Not illegal to possess, even if you do not have a car, though you will be very suspicious if the police question you, and find this in your possession along with items thought to have been stolen, like lots of loose change.
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  4234. Door is in serious need for some lubrication though, and that trans definitely needs new output shaft seals as well.
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  4235. They sell it, and put the cash in the general fiscus, though some agencies will also put in a claim to get some transferred to them, to use for "enforcement and 3 letter agency" use as well, often by acting as the equivalent of a broker and paying the original agency the current equivalent price.
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  4236.  @HumbleMechanic  Grease the parts of the pin that go in the bushings as well before putting in, along with a bit inside the bushing. That way the lubricant is actually where it is needed, and not just on the surface, unlike the factory that put them in bone dry before the paint shop, and afterwards showed them a drop of lubricant is passing, leading to them wearing. Sagging door I have in the past used the car jack to gently bend up to be a better fit, was just sagging because cabrio and heavy doors but not worn pins. Soft body panels have moved with age, moving the hinges along with them.
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  4237. The Chelsea tractor will bankrupt you though, as the spares are not cheap, and the electronics they used made even jaguar look reliable. The BMW made ones were a lot better though, at least those had electronics that were more reliable, and an engine that had heard of the word fuel economy and reliability.
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  4238. Now you got to get Cambry into that passenger seat, and also make her a hand throttle and brake for it as well. The ultimate all terrain wheelchair.
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  4239. Thrust alone, jet engines are really good at doing that, though the slow throttle response does make manoeuvring a tricky thing, and reverse is in general almost impossible, along with tight turns. That is why you have ground tractors.
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  4240. I still have some Mostek MK4007 memories, interesting serial shift register memories
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  4241.  @charlescurran1289  Never let them get there, that 104k is based on driving it 300 miles a day, 7 days a week, till it is out of warranty. Then the belt can break, but it is really only good for 5 years, or 90 000km, 60 000 miles. Anything more is basically dicing with making a valve and piston salad.
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  4242. Nice looking phone, and seems to be a pretty durable one as well. Wondering just how it will look inside, and if there will be another inside skin added to the Jerry Rig store collection as well.
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  4243. Orange flashing one way and red flashing the other way. Orange flashing is a "yield" sign, and red flashing is a stop sign, so orange traffic must slow down and yield to cross traffic, and red must stop completely and wait for the way to be clear.
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  4244. You also live in South Africa then?
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  4245.  @mph5896  Cheaper by me though, not paying USA rates.
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  4246.  @mph5896  Last one I did was close to $2k, but that was both head, new seals all round, new water pump and new clutch. Head not blown, but it has to come off to get to all the valve guides, seals and do the valves properly, so all done then. Clutch was because rear main leak, so a new clutch was only the cost of a clutch plate and pressure plate, plus new release bearing anyway. Water pump and timing belt same, they are coming off, why go back on. This was at a shop.
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  4247.  @kevinmitchell766  Christmas is the perfect time to swim by me in the Southern Hemisphere, and yes we feel cold when it is below 20C. But 32C and higher, with 100% RH, are typical. I lived in a town where the winter high was typically 40C, people came for a weekend, and were dropping from heatstroke at 10AM, while us that lived locally were still in jerseys. It had barely passed 30C.
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  4248. Used oil, there are companies who will both pay you for it, and also collect it as well. OK granted the price is low, but I have used them already often enough to get rid of old oil, and even for oil that was otherwise surplus. Deliver there you get paid more, was worth it to get rid of the 5 gallons I had after 2 years. The 44 gallon drum that was left by the next door tenants I called, and that was a nice good bonus for them to come and take it, drum and all.
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  4249. Problem is that the condition depends heavily on how it was maintained. You can have the most reliable vehicle, but the owner never changed oil, just got in and drove, so the engine is now 10 miles from dropping a rod. And with modern vehicles you do need a cheap code reader, as that will tell you exactly what is causing that yellow light to come on, might not be right, but a good start.
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  4250. Got a 2kVA generator, and just recently converted it to dual fuel, as LPG is easier to store than petrol. Have run my stuff, and the neighbours stuff as well off it with no problem, mostly just fridges and freezers, plus computer, and put a socket outside, that rapidly got filled up with phone chargers and laptop chargers from all the WFH people. Longest outage was 4 days, aside from the regular 2 hours of load shedding.
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  4251. All semiconductors emit light, just that, like incandescent lamps, all of it is in the far IR wavelengths. This can be seen when you look at the junctions of power transistors, mostly because they are big enough to see with the human eye, and apply current, where you will get IR radiation out, which can be seen by silicon camera sensors, if the IR block filter has been removed.
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  4252. Also, most of the matter of the universe is a proton or electron per cubic kilometre, anything else is a statistical edge case in the distribution.
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  4253. the breview of the ticket is done by the same manner the loans scandals were done, one person at a computer, and a block of wood on the enter key to keep on generating the yes response, while the person was watching "other media" on the phone, either Fakebook or the hub.
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  4254. You would need to have drunk a full case of the complainants product before you were so plastered that you would not be able to tell the 2 apart.
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  4255. As well there are guaranteed to be documents that, because they either contain embarrassing information, they have been destroyed, and the archive index they have that points to them has also been altered, pointing at another archive, so that there can be no questions asked about who ordered it, as it will be simply thought to be a mistake.
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  4256. Just need to add a fire extinguisher ( dry powder, and if possible a CO2 next to it as well) each side of the garage door, and another by the other entrances. That will at least give you some time if there is a fire, and your insurance rates will require it as well.
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  4257.  @BobOBob  I even got amalgam syringes from mine, they come in handy for doing thermal paste and epoxy.
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  4258. My guess it was there from the assembly on a jig by the loom maker, where it was cut as the sharp ends of the sleeve were put on. Passed the initial testing, and worked on the line, and worked till the vehicle was driven in water, which leaked and was held in by the loom there, and then the wire, combined with the voltage on the sensor, caused it to slowly corrode away. Best trip for doing those kind of joins is to use adhesive lined heat shrink over the solder join, and shrink it down to bond the hot melt adhesive to the wire, making sure to lightly sand the insulation at the area to get clean fresh non damaged plastic insulation, making for the most waterproof join possible to the sleeve and insulation. Liquid electric tape is also good, cover with that, then 3M insulation tape over, tightly wrapped, then again liquid electrical tape over that. Works well on boats to keep stuff in good shape.
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  4259. Hypothetical you will be able to match one of the cat converters to the one vehicle, and thus the witness marks will match. However the police will simply take the converters on the suspicion they are stolen property, and the value exceeds civil forfeiture levels.
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  4260. not available legally, but the informal market is booming, even if you are paying R500 for a quart, people will pay that. R1000 for a bottle of whiskey as well. Last time my neighbour cleared me out, you can't not help a old lady over 90 who has a glass of red every day for lunch, and has been doing so since she was a 5 year old child in the Old Country. Grumpy Italian women are not something you want to be near.
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  4261.  @albertusmario1999  If it is built from Lucky HIPS 2 years is about the lifetime of the plastic parts. Had a LG washer for around 10 years, and the spares to fix it from LG were more than the cost of replacing it, excluding labour. The plastic parts started to crack after 3 years, but I was able to weld them together, till finally it needed a new gearbox. That as spare part was $10 more than the original price of the machine, and so it went to scrap, replaced by another make. TV sets and white goods are under a lot less stress, but cars are an entirely different thing. LG might be able to make one, but I would stay away from gen 1 and 2 of them. Quite happy with my GM branded Daewoo though.
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  4262. Bet it was broken when that thermostat was changed out, and they broke the sensor, and left it full of coolant with a broken plug.
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  4263. Front diff magnets will still grab all the swarf, as the crown will throw the oil past it in operation, though dropping them to the bottom, or replacing with old microwave magnetron magnets, which are bigger, will also work. Plus of course a new set of plugs for each one, top and bottom. Will guess the track bar links will come out as liquid, burn the bolt head off, and then gouge down the bolt, to make it go away along with the bush inner. Plus of course you do need to get a nice block of sandstone there, so George and Georgina can sharpen the beaks nicely, and probably a rock salt lick, which they will use to do the same. Would also make a nice place, out of the weather, to feed them, so they will associate it with food, and not come into the shed to grab stuff thinking it is food.
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  4264. Must have been fired, he knows how to open the door.......
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  4265. Refund is probably held up by the Fed Reserve, as to process it would be breaking sanctions, so not processing it is safest. The refund probably was held up as they needed to prove both sides were agreeing, and now the sanctions are in place that is now in limbo for that.
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  4266. No, judge will say he responded to the facts known to them at the time.
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  4267. Activa 001 looks like a Chevy Spark, which is also known as a a Daewoo Matiz. The Matiz was not a great seller, but the same vehicle, just with all the Daewoo badges replaced by Chevrolet, was a pretty good seller, as it is both economical, low cost and relatively cheap to maintain. BMW going to bet check engine light is a dead cat or oxygen sensor, caused by it being a little long in the tooth, and having an oil addiction, or a inlet flap or cam fault.
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  4268. Wonder how they will do against the Mouse, who now owns the movie monsters Inc. Also if they will try against the Mary Shelley classic about a monster as well.
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  4269. You do need to insulate those pipes, and also look into adding an extra layer of insulation on the tank itself, as most of the energy loss comes from the pipes conducting heat away. A well insulated tank will easily hold water hot for 5 days, as I saw when the power was out recently for 4 days, and the breaker for the timer had tripped due to the overvoltage spike causing the MOV surge arrestor to kill itself to protect the timer. Only noticed the water was getting cold after 3 days of power being back, and went and replaced the MOV and turned the breaker back on. As the tank is rated for a 2kWh static loss per day, off the shelf, i had added an extra 2 layers of insulation to the tank, and had also added another thick insulation layer to the piping for the tank, both the hot and cold water, plus the safety overpressure line, as that copper also will conduct heat. Made a big ball of insulation there with the tank in the middle, getting rid of the 2 big heat loss areas, the pipes and the element cover. Electric bill is now a lot lower just from that, as cooking for a long time has been done with gas. Tank is also on a timer, only coming on for a half hour a day to make up losses, and it really only needs 15 minutes to make up for water use, but because of rotational load shedding times, it is set for either side of the time boundary, so is on from 01H45 to 02H15, despite there being no TOU reduced tariff by me.
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  4270. Wonder how they would react to old vehicles, which did not actually come from the factory with things like seat belts or mirrors. If they tow that it would be a fun case, as their claim of lacking these would be null and void, as they were not actually factory fit. ISTR pre 1956 seat belts were only an option, not standard, and even then it was a lap belt.
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  4271. I worked on similar machinery, and, once you get to understand how it all comes together, you are able to find it easy to service, check and keep running in good condition. Plus no need to have to find obsolete electronic spares for many applications, as you use off the shelf spares in most cases.
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  4272. Those switches are a common failure, the recess at the top allows water in, corroding the safety switch, which is on the bottom of the switch. You note the new switch is a different design, including both no more recess, and a seal that is improved to keep the switch dry inside. If you look at the wiring diagram there is actually a option for the switch, used in the manual version, where the vehicle will not start unless the clutch pedal is fully pressed. That switch too is known to give problems, but being protected is less likely to suffer from water ingress and the corrosion from that, more than not simply falling apart as the plastic goes brittle.
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  4273. Had the exact opposite problem, first CD recorder was HP external, driven via parallel port interface. Had to write it at only 1x speed, otherwise you made an expensive at the time coaster. Later on stripped the case from it, found it was a plain jane HP SCSI drive inside, so moved it into the PC case, and got a longer SCSI cable for connecting it, though still with the passive terminator. That way got it to run at it's full 2x speed without buffer underruns. Then had a Benq? brand IDE one, which would go all the way to 16x speed, and which had underrun buffer protection as well, so any speed would work. In general used Verbatim media, found an old box of the ones burned in 1998 or so, and they all were still readable, at least before they had a 30 second bulk erase in the microwave oven.
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  4274. By me the DMV equivalent will send you all the stuff via email, because the post is too slow, or has too much issues with missing things. However they still post out fines, because they know that it will take at least 30 days to arrive, and they give you a 30 days from posting discount, to pay only half.
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  4275. My father ran a garage, and in the 1950's, it was accepted that a 3000 mile service interval was maximum, and a rebuild every 15000 miles an absolute need, as the old oils and engines would get severe sludge. He did love Galion equipment though, as an overhaul was very simple, the spare parts came in a single cardboard lined envelope, and were a big collection of various size copper seals, and a few neoprene gaskets, as the head used them for sealing, and they rarely failed. Pack of copper rings, and valve stem seals, and some valve grinding compound, oil, filters, and possibly braze up the exhaust manifold because of cracks, and see you again in 2 years, running 24/7 underground in a mine. They dewatered an old digging, that had been abandoned with low price of copper, and found an electric hauler that had been left down there in the 1930's. Pulled to the hoist and brought up, and washed down, then left in the sun to dry for a week. Battery pack taken to the battery shop, where they drained the old acid out, washed the cells, then filled them up and charged for a week slowly to reform, and that battery came back. Loco drained all fluids, washed out with petrol, and refilled, then repacked all bearings, put the pack in it, and sent it back down under. No electronic controls, just resistor speed controls, and DC traction motors that were fine in the high lime water.
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  4276.  @destructionator17  Them calling the bank will have put a hold on that amount of money in your account, which expires in a few days (depends on the bank, typically 2 business days of the hold, though it can be up to a week with some banks), giving time to deposit the check and have it be processed by the ACB with the transaction being finalised and the money being paid into the recipient account. Been standard with checks and credit cards since at least the 1980's, with you calling and getting authorisation for all those transactions above the floor limit, unless you wanted to take the risk of the check or credit card bouncing, and you eating the loss, along with a RD fee as well. I did a lot of calls to the bank authorisation centre with those, and not many at that time were refused. these days you have online authorisation, though by me checks are no longer acceptable for at least the last few years, though before that your card terminal could be used to do the online authorisation of them, simply by entering the routing info on the MCR ink, and the amount, then stapling the slip with authorisation code to the check and putting it in the drawer for deposit the next business day. But when the government and banks cracked down they reckoned that at least half of the checks that banks received for payment were actually fraudulent, and the banks, along with the Reserve Bank, no longer were willing to eat that cost.
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  4277. No train this week, and yes a lot of the noise is gone now, just leaving the spindle bearings and the gears to make noise, along with the motor. DE bearing on the motor suffers with a varispeed drive, it gets a lot of radial loading, and wears at the one side, probably a good idea to look on the nameplate and order a set of DE and NDE bearings for later on, though, depending on the particular varispeed you have, changing is either 5 minutes or 5 hours of blue language. I had the latter, genuine 1970's era obsolete Lenze, so it went to scrap, replaced with a inverter drive, and changing the broken varispeed with a dual drive pulley, with the centre rib machined out, to fit the original varispeed belt, as the other end is "special", so fix the easy way. As a bonus the drive was able to go to even more reduction, with the inverter and the original AEG Ruhrstof flameproof motor in there, which was the thing that killed the original varispeed, as it sat at max reduction for decades. Thank you to Fenner for that fastening method, any size to any shaft with minimal fuss.
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  4278. In the UK darts is a common pub sport, where you get to use nice lethally sharp darts, with a good aim, to hit what you are aiming at consistently.
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  4279. Ridgid did have a lifetime warranty on those kits, and yes you broke it, you only hit it in half the width of the stub diameter, then apply lube, lots of it, and then gently rock back and forth to remove. Also Stevie Wonder wants you to practice more, and actually hit both halves with the weld puddle at the same time.....
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  4280. Would make a nice table, or a footstool. Did that with a roll of 0 gauge cable, seeing as I have a lifetime supply of it in the one roll.
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  4281. Kraft Mac n cheese is in no way a healthy food, and the only thing going for it is that it is, first and foremost, cheap, full of salt, and sort of filling, and cheap. Plus the cooking instructions also say, there in the instructions, that times may vary.
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  4282. Standard German design engineering. The big issue was they had a design for everything, and the US infantry got taught that if they saw field phone wiring how to tell US from German. US you took the wire, stripped off the insulation, and did a linesman splice on the bare wires, then let them fall back on the ground. The German fix was to use cast splice boxes, so the GI's were trained to take those splice boxes and break them, and cut the cable off to use to fix Allied cables. The German engineers also put in things like roller bearings for engines, and for gearboxes, while the US method was to put in sleeve bearings, and accept that they would only last 200 hours before overhaul, and for most engines it was not likely to last that long anyway, but you could fix in the field easily. Big difference in cost, and for sleeve bearing you are a lot less critical for dimensions, where roller bearings you need an entire factory just to make each part. Sleeve bearing all you need is a fire to melt the babbit material and pour into the cast, then a knife to shape it.
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  4283. Yes, no way to legally own an AK47 in this country, and likely the 9mm guns used were all stolen or bought from the police, so all the guns are both illegal, ex military and police, and not stolen from legitimate gun owners.
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  4284. Trailer grease recommended amount is half grease half air in the middle, too much and it will pop seals when hot.
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  4285.  @juliahello6673  Or just wait the 15 seconds for the light to change in heavy traffic, where you cannot see people approaching in the cross lanes. Running a red light is illegal by me, though mostly ignored by the minibus taxi drivers, because those 200 10 seconds in a day do add up to another round trip. Plus they will stop in the middle of an intersection, and in the middle of the freeway, to drop off or pick up passengers.
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  4286.  @GrayRaceCat  I have no doubts, seen it occur, so made sure all that pipework and metal was bonded together, so as to avoid that. Luckily most large diameter suction line has a wire reinforcement that you can purpose for this.
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  4287. Here by me your chances of getting a ticket are pretty low, but the thing that tells you you are about to get hit up for "cooldrink money" are the cop comes alone. 2 or more you are getting a ticket is likely, unless they all are there to get the money. then again, last time i was pulled over in a road block was years ago, and yes new years and easter are the times the drunks are out in droves, though the bar is very low, seeing as the most dangerous time to drive is Friday night to Monday afternoon, drunk drivers, drunk pedestrians and vehicles that have the only working light being the one light in the instrument panel. Cars, vans, trucks and semi trailers no difference, you rarely see a vehicle with all lights working, unless it still has paper plate on in the rear window.
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  4288. Nice machine, I foresee you doing a lot of chrome shaft work on it to put keyways in, so likely there will be a custom holding jig coming soon to hold them for the 5 minute job, and then making smoking hot chrome curls. Karen should take those turnings and make some earrings out of them, or get some clear casting resin and some small silicone moulds, and start a small Etsy shop selling them. A coaster size mould with a thin layer at the bottom, then a collection of degreased shavings , and a top coat, should be a pretty good seller.
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  4289. Most get put in a container and exported as scrap steel, so the metals come back as new converters from China.
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  4290. They likely overbooked, and this was the one time that all passengers showed up, so kicked the cheap tickets off first, to make room for those paying the high full fare that you pay for close to departure bookings. I travelled standby before, so paid for a business class ticket after they announced coach was full, then got bumped up to first class because business class was full as well. Standby ticket, not normally an issue at that time of the month, but for some reason the plane was full up. Only had to pay the difference between coach and business class though, upgrade (where the only difference was the meal came on real cutlery, and the drinks in real glass) was free.
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  4291. Must have run out of bribe money to pay the police there to get amnesia...... Or they got caught with a pack of Enterprise.....
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  4292. Got the same problem at the moment, and while we fixed the door motor, worn out brushes, the switch is out of stock at agents and local yards, so will have to order online and hope they have it in stock.
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  4293. Time to tell the customer to put a bowl with Finale liquid down where he parks, and let the rodents enjoy the artery hardening goodness it provides.
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  4294. Not needed with him needing to bleed thev fuel system, the engine had oil pressure all the time from the starter, though very likely the oil is now down to half, filling up all the dry oil galleries. Just have to change the oil after 10 hours, or one month, to get all the crusties from the head work out.
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  4295. South Africa, where it is the most common thing that kills you if you have any other disease. If you are HIV positive it is more than likely you will also get TB, and thus your ARV pack for the month will include as well a cocktail of 4 to 6 TB drugs as well, because the most common strains are already multi drug resistant, and thus need a combination of all the cheap TB drugs to control it. the drugs are free in the public health service, and they are, as generics due to being so old, available from multiple suppliers as well, and cost less than a dollar for an entire month's supply. Biggest issue is that 6 month treatment cycle, where the patient often feels better after 3 months, then stops taking the medication, because it has some side effects that are not great, and thus a year later on comes back with MDR, and then does not respond well to the common drugs, and thus will either be permanently disabled, or dead within a year.
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  4296. Wonder just how many times they will blame that rogue employee for this...... however, when i clicked like it was on 666, much like the dealership had rogue employees, more like this was classed as profitable business.
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  4297.  @gw2079  By me a public hospital will cost you roughly $5, no matter what, up to and including MRI, medication and the long wait.
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  4298. Not lead acid, nickel Cadmium pack.
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  4299.  @northwales1000  Original is a refillable Nickel Cadmium battery, easy to service as well, and as it is refillable it is simple to rebuild exactly as original.
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  4300. Kreosan did it with a massive party size bottle of coke. got some serious altitude with it as well.
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  4301. At least we did not have a Glory hole........
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  4302. Australia, where every animal wants to kill you. Africa, where the most deadly animals live, including the biggest killers, flies and mosquitos. And of course at least 3 deadly snake types living in the suburbs by me. 2 Mambas and a cobra, or as they are called the 20 minute snakes.
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  4303. Those get used a lot in forklifts, where they have a really hard life, lots of idle, and then full power, running 12 hours a day.
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  4304. New cam follower bearings, Ina or FAG made ones?
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  4305. DMV equivalent by me would have a few officers patrol the car lot, technically a public road, and they would fine you for expired registration, and for expired license as well. Which is why when my friend wanted to renew, a few weeks expired, I simply drove him there instead, avoiding all that hassle. Still took us 5 hours in line though, better than the other 2 offices, where the line starts at 6AM, and is at least 8 hours by 7AM.
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  4306. Ionisation detectors are best when installed in bedrooms, and the optical are best everywhere else. the faster response is a big benefit, and the only contra indication is for those who smoke, where both types will go off with false alarms regularly. The 10 year life is because of contamination, there is a slight airflow, and this with time results in a thin film of debris being deposited on all parts of the sensor and the board, which does eventually result in false alarms. Not the electronics degrading, or the source becoming too weak, but that you need to strip down the sensor to it's component parts, and thoroughly clean them of all contaminants, then dry, and reassemble. Just the labour cost alone will be more than the cost of a new sensor, though the ones that are used in commercial applications are much longer life, simply because they are designed for the cleaning to be done, and thus are a lot more expensive to manufacture. Incidentally the amount of radioactive material in one of the ionisation detectors is very low, about equal to a few kilograms of coal, and, unlike the coal dust, it is well confined, not emitted into the atmosphere.
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  4307. That or drum lining return springs, which retract the drum linings from trucks. Cursed those many a time, trying to get them either off, or back on again.
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  4308.  @horrificpleasantry9474  Better than "Tiddles pooched the jump"
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  4309. Time for people to start laying charges against those politicians for unexplained wealth, and let them all lose their assets, as you can always find undocumented income.
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  4310. Remember the original town gas was formed by taking coking coal, and then burning it while introducing live steam into the sealed chamber, so the red hot coal would as well act as a catalyst forming on the one side carbon monoxide, and also hydrogen, giving you extra boost for the gas stream. The CO was toxic, and the H2 was very much explosive, so it only took a small leak in an enclosed space to get the H2 level past the lower explosive limit of 4%, and thus have the explosion when there was either a spark or a hot surface. The CO was just as deadly, odourless, colourless and would leave the person dead in minutes, with no signs of distress, other than the bright red blood, even hours after death. As well small doses would lead to sleepiness, and thus you would not leave the leak area till it was too late, plus the gas does not trigger any sort of body response, like CO2 does.
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  4311. Dig down, put a pipe in before the meter and use that to fill the pool. Or put in the pipe, and connect to the house, so the meter does still run, but very slowly.
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  4312. Repairable though, those bearings are parts you can get.
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  4313. Hey, at least they did not put the starter motor there under it all as well........
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  4314. That is why the crew are on board, to keep main power running, and as the reefers are removed to disconnect them, so they can be powered up again on shore. Only place in the USA where you will find 400VAC 3 phase power as the standard.
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  4315. No the tanks still get checked with a rod, with it having at the tip end a wiped on layer of carbide solution, that reacts to indicate the height of any water in the tank, and then a grease layer that is washed off by the fuel. Then the water is drained out, and the tank dipped again, to verify. there was a few cases of a tanker driver colluding with the attendants to deliver a load of half water, and the balance being sold off very cheap to a competitor garage, and then the attendant fudging the water reading, till he had drained all the water out of the tank.
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  4316. No, winter here in South Africa, and it is cold. 53F currently, which is very cold for the Indian Ocean, though inland it is 16F or lower, and not warm at all.
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  4317. disconnect the battery and try again...... Good reason Ray is in the habit of leaving the driver window open if key is in the vehicle, though with modern vehicles that can roll up windows with locking you probably want to leave door open as well, even with the annoying chime that gives.
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  4318. Also if you have internet connected appliances, they are all likely being used as bots in a botnet, using power all the time, and all your bandwidth, plus also cooking the processor on the mainboard as well, not really meant to be running at full power all the time. Plus you could have the FBI come knocking on your door as your internet service was used to conduct illegal actions, like serving up NSFW activities, or distributing movies, or sending spam. Manufacturers either have an update you apply, through a convoluted way, that may, or may not, involve pentagrams at midnight on Fri13, and a freshly killed chicken, or totally ignore the problem, saying it could not be them, their products are totally secure (at least till they are forced to issue the recall or buy back on them) and anybody that says otherwise is slandering them.
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  4319. Whole new axle, by me that would be just the outer CV joint, or even just a new boot, after a clean and repack on it. OK on some cars a new CV complete is cheap enough, on my VW it was actually cheaper to buy a CV and boot, over the boot itself, just from the variances in pricing, and a promotional discount on that month. So bought 2, and steering rack boots, as those were also cracked on one side.
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  4320. Well, not being American, and also not liking turkey, can we replace the bird with something else. For me that would be Ostrich, which is a much larger bird, but which does taste a lot better than turkey, and which is quite common these days world wide as an exotic fat free meat.
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  4321. You can have a headlight with CAN bus in it, great for LED assemblies that can dim when needed, and not be bright when detecting approaching lights. But that also needs ot go to a BCM direct, and not be connected to the rest of the CAN bus, because it is easier to not have a firewall in the millions of spare processor cycles that the body module has when running. Then publish the spec for the commands when the vehicle is out of warranty for the first one, so anybody can make a compatible headlight, and no need for a serial number, or make the tool to add that new serial number free, or very low cost, so the manufacturers of all the scan tools can add this to the vehicle database they use. After all many scan tools allow key programming, which arguably is a much higher security risk over a headlight swap, as having an aftermarket light is, so long as it is DOT compliant (not to go into the crappy US headlights, using a spec from pre war, and not even sure which war they decided on, so all are great at glare, and poor at light), not going to be a safety risk.
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  4322. Closest ones are M8x1.0 for the chair I am sitting on, along with M8x 1.25 for the same chair. The table itself though has 1/8 BSW threads on the handles, and also has 3/8 BSW bolts holding it together.
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  4323. Willing to bet that the ticket was a camera, but that if she had been pulled over and breathalysed she would also have blown well over the limit. The cops probably did not have a breathalyser there, and also they were going to simply do the speeding ticket, and lock her up for the differential over the limit posted. Also can bet that she had not updated address for the DMV a few times, and figured out that this was an easy way not to get tickets, and also gave old ones when pulled over as well, so they could not serve her. Number indicates at least one a month, so she is likely one who skips red lights, drives at high speed, and catches all the speed cameras and red light ones, along with all the officers who pull her over as well. either needs to be slapped in jail, or be banned from driving, and told to take a bus or train. However by me almost no speed cameras, other than main roads.
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  4324. Mine is an annual change, because I often do not get more than half way to the next change. But I simply change every year, and again when it goes over any 10 000km mark. Oil is cheap, and so are filters, plus I can do it myself as well in under an hour, checking all the parts as well, like suspension and brakes. Old oil is in a drum, and gets recycled as well.
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  4325. Well, at least the US trains are not delayed due to "leaves on the track", causing multiple trains to be delayed.
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  4326. Well, easier to do it the old fashioned way and get the keys, saves the cost of making a new one.
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  4327. Then you definitely cannot eat any fast food, as there you have allowed levels of contaminants, and the same for all packaged foodstuffs as well. Burgers are allowed 2.3 rat droppings per pound, and up to 2 insect parts IIRC.
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  4328.  @CodyJMinor0620  True, but also standard practice at the time. Natural to try to avoid a collision if possible, and the lack of lookout seeing the ice was more due to the cold calm water, with no moon leaving no way to see the ice at all till close by. No radar to see, and it is hard to see a dark shape against a dark sky especially if there is also a cold layer of air by the water surface, providing a refraction layer, that prevents the light from being shown to you till it is only a short distance away. Just like a mirage of the sky on a hot day in the desert, the cold layer over the ocean showed the clear ocean a distance away till you got close enough.
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  4329. 12MHz 286 processor, with a whole 1M of RAM, and MSDOS 5, later I bought the 6 upgrade, and the 6.22 upgrade.
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  4330. Falling into a singularity you would, provided it is big enough that you are not turned to particle soup before actually reaching the event horizon, not notice anything, though you will at some point be able to see the CMB as visible light, telling you that you likely are about to pass the event horizon. Of course this also says that you will long have lost the ability to communicate this information to an outside observer, as they likely will be millennia dead, at that point outside of the steep gravity well.
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  4331. FCA got bailed out a few times already, so nothing will occur. VW did not pay the congrescritters a big enough campaign contribution.
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  4332. Organised theft will simply clone the authorising machine, and then simply unlock the stuff before selling it, so this will not stop them. I see the only things with anti theft on them by me being expensive instant coffee, and baby formula. The razor blades are behind the counter with the cigarettes, right at the front of the shop, so you buy them there. Disposable razors though, which use the exact same blades in them, made on the same machine, however are in the shop in a pack of 10 or 20, and are just on the shelf. You can guess which ones I buy, as that pack of 20 will last at least 5 times as long as the single pack of 4, non disposable, razor blades, but cost only a quarter of the price. Often the exact same blade cartridge as well, just solvent welded onto a cheaper plastic handle.
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  4333. Spray those exhaust bolts before you try to undo. Might get them a little looser. Also plastic plugs on the steering helps, or at a minimum some plastic packaging and a zip tie to keep the fluid inside, and not get it full of dirt. Still have to change it, but at least your shirt will not have streaks of fluid across it when you go near those lines. Might have been easier to break loose tie rod ends, and undo the bolts to the frame, and left it tied up there as well, less mess, and no steering wheel alignment after, or filling fluids and bleeding.
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  4334.  @alli3219  Speed is automated and a cash cow. Enforcement of the others needs actual officer hours on the road, which is not going to result in the same return. They rather will drop a low limit on a wide safe road to make it a revenue generator instead.
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  4335. Very likely because it was not drained, just filled up again, so it was basically new oil in any case, so just put it back, and next change is in 2000 miles, or the engine is due for a belt change or water pump as well.
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  4336.  @calm4477  No, but you would replace them anyway, as part of the head gasket kit you got from Bentley, which would have all the gaskets, seals, along with all nuts and bolts, plus the 200 odd tab washers you would have to install again. At least they did not use locking wire on this engine.
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  4337.  @calm4477  Yup, fifth owner could not afford to maintain it, did it on the cheap, used the cheapest oil, and ran it long past oil change intervals as well. The lawn mower plug I can understand, they needed a plug for another engine, this car was in the shop with a guaranteed never run again engine, so took the plug, probably to diagnose a misfire to either plug or lead. Then took faulty plug, and returned it to the supplier as faulty, and needed a plug to put there, so grabbed that old knackered out lawnmower plug they had in the tool box in the car, and shoved it into the hole. Then took new plug as credit, and used it when they needed to service their own vehicle, with the oil coming from the work in a few "empty" containers.
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  4338. Tamper proof torx drivers are pretty much the standard one in the cheap 30 piece hex bit sets anyway, so they are not really hard to overcome. Only time you do not get the tamper proof is in the socket drive ones, where you pay extra for them.
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  4339. Oil changes are needed, and the factory interval is calculated to get them out of warranty with less than 0.1% of the engines failing, and needing warranty replacement. But the services are often part of a maintenance plan, so they want to spend bare minimum on them, as they cut profit.Change every 3k and they need 11 services maximum, before warranty or free service expires, and every 12k only 3 max, a big profit away from the dealer. But also that warranty is time based, so all the parts will fail after 5 years or so, again profit, in that they want to use the cheapest part that will do 5 years. A thing to note is that eg BMW offered a motorplan that you could have up to 20 years of full coverage, only thing you paid for was fuel, tyres, alignment and top up oil, plus accident damage. Covered the entire vehicle, all parts, no hassles. Now only 5 years, and you can only extend to 7. You wonder why, it was costing them more on older vehicles than they made off selling them. Know one person who did his extension to 20 years, paid up front, and 3 months after this sunroof packed it in, and needed to be replaced in entirety, along with the interior lining and airbags. Cost of parts was more than the entire extension of plan by a long shot. He paid a $10 bill for "sundries", which was cloths, and the car wash.
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  4340.  @timothysteadham331  Lawyers are likely to be getting most of the money, as fee.
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  4341.  @breveth  They likely have done this before, or at least similar things, so RICO does still apply.
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  4342. Each transmitter is unique serial number wise, thus the garage door still remembers the count for your one. That is why there are limits for rolling code units as to the number of transmitters, typically 30 different remotes, though you get the expanded system ( which also allows individual remote removal as well) which does 1000 as standard, and also has provision for data logging and backup of the system.
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  4343. Will bet, since the editorial was published, there will be thousands of other sites showing the editorial, outside the state, and all showing the editorial and the case record. hope the citizens all file a complaint against the city and the judge as well.
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  4344. Still is, GPS still relies on getting the base info correct, and map companies often get that wrong, and often deliberately so. Have found some of those hidden traps myself.
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  4345.  @zaphod2505  Yes depends if the owner look up on the Google map and corrected it, and it got verified by at least another 2 users in 6 months, but often they import data or extrapolate from street view car data. That is why they went for Street view, as a way to get more granular mapping, so that they could geolocate users and serve local ads to them, increasing the chance of an ad being clicked on.
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  4346. Usable parts are the inlet manifold, the crank pulley, the coil packs and timing covers, the rest is good to be sorted into 2 piles, steel, aluminium, and melted down. Wiring harness can be used for spare parts as well, like if your friend Bubba removes a coil pack using Blue the crowbar, and does not undo the bolts or connections.
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  4347. Probably floor mat on the go pedal.......
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  4348. Not really needed with a well shielded gun, as it only has a very narrow collimated beam out the end, and almost nothing at the sides. The dentist has to wear the clothing and leave behind the shield, because he is getting exposed to all 3000 shots he does each year, while you only get the one per year. Way different total dose there, you get more from a kilo of bananas.
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  4349. Wonder how long that would stay in action if the mayors car, or the Councillors private vehicles were towed, and scrapped.
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  4350. One exhaust place makes their own silencers, and uses the left over pieces of stainless steel plate and a guillotine to make the welding rods, chopping the sheet into the square filler rods to TIG weld the exhaust into place. Copper coated mild steel for the regular stuff, but stainless for the branches and all stainless systems, and for joining to the OEM exhaust systems on a lot of newer vehicles.
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  4351. Tip if you want to not drill into the tool boxes is VHB tape, it will pretty much hold better than the paint, and also gives a small amount of compliance in the joints. Will also stick to the wood nicely, just make sure both surfaces are clean, dry and oil and wax free.
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  4352.  @HumbleMechanic  For you they are cheap, but for the rest of the world they are an expensive item, so I would want to keep it as good as possible, in line that in future i might want to repurpose it. Adjustable feet a good idea, and I would also apply the same surface protection to the underside, as that will at least keep the warping down if you live like I do in a climate where you have considerable humidity swings between seasons. Would also add a row of socket outlets underneath, along with a desk hole and cover each end, so that you can have things like cordless tool chargers and such neatly arranged, but with the power cords out of sight and clutter. A length of slotted conduit as well under the sockets to hold the cord excess, and then a box and switch above, so that you can turn the whole lot off with a single switch at night, reducing the fire risk from dodgy wall warts. If going the whole hog would also add a length of LED strip under the front, along with a switched power supply, so that you have easy lighting when down on the floor plugging things in, or fetching stuff from the shelves.
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  4353.  @TwoBitDaVinci  Very simple because almost all water meters do have on the metering register a small cylindrically polarised magnet, which is readable outside the case of the meter. There are standards for the number of revolutions per unit, and also standards for location of the reed switch or hall sensor to actually read the rotating magnetic field as well. Done so that you can have standardised remote meter reading for a metro, irrespective of who actually made the meter, it has to conform to the spec for placing the sensor head, and for strapping the head to the meter. Flat spot on the side of the measuring head is there for that exact purpose, you aligned the reader with it.
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  4354. Istr the original was a city contracted demo that got the wrong address and did the demo. Then found out oops and vanished to do the right one. Time for a good lawyer is what she needs plus the media to ask the mayor why they demolished the wrong house and are both not fixing the mistake they made but are now adding insult to injury by fining her for the mistake they made.
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  4355.  @Tker1970  Same here, though she stopped smoking when I was around 12, so we had to steal dad's ones instead.
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  4356. How does the oil look, that efficiency code could also be from running past oil change interval, as you say it has had a hard life, and likely oil is also overdue for change as well.
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  4357. Seen that with the windows open instead.
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  4358. If that comes into effect then no Hogs will be allowed, as they all seem to come with loud fart pipes from the factory, unlike the competition, who seem to actually want the products they make to be as quiet as possible.
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  4359. Incidentally that pilot will have to call out, as the interruption to sleep will mean he cannot operate an aircraft, as he had not had the required restful period before the flight to be considered well rested and alert. Now the airline will be asking the FBI to pay the costs for the standby pilot to fly the flight, the missed pilot pay, and also all the rest of his duty period as he was unable to complete the roster assigned to him.
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  4360. Sadly all too common. Here by me there are 400 officers in the one area with criminal records, ranging from the trivial of corruption to multiple counts of murderer for hire. They are still in uniform, and still on payroll, and still out in active duty.
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  4361. Yes, looks like that shop "refaced" it with an angle grinder and a flap disk, from all those marks. Did not want to spend the actual time, and new crank bolts, to take it out and actually reface it properly.
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  4362.  @roberteltze4850  Because of those arrested they get done over again and again, because they fit the criteria, poor, not educated, not lily white, and guilty of walking while breathing the wrong way. So round up the usual suspects, get a few arrests in to get a good arrest rate on every crime, and then they never say that the DA tossed the cases because there was no evidence, they still got a 95% arrest rate for crimes.
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  4363. Yes a wash with bicarb is a first thing for that area, then a rinse with a hose. Then the WD40 to sort of leave a film, but for long term you want a shield of some heavy plastic to divert acid fumes, and lubricate the inner of the boots with silicone spray, so as to keep moisture out of them.
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  4364. If you are at any sort of respectable hotel they will allow charging overnight, and thus you only drive there with a full charge.
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  4365. With that I got some silicone thick wall sleeving, and capped the one end, and made a small slit in the silicone to make a non return valve. That way I could bleed each one in turn, with the slit under the fluid in the bottle, and pump till the fluid ran clear at that wheel. Basically did a brake flush every time i changed the pads then, getting all the old fluid out.
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  4366.  @bartphlegar8212  Board will argue hard against that, so they get no liability, you need to specify the board is personally liable.
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  4367. No 12 a gaggle of Karens......
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  4368. Yes they can seize the money order or cashiers check, under the claim the money, or instrument, is being used potentially fraudulently. Then cash it, give all to the feds, who give 50% back, and you are SOL. Cops do not raid banks, because bankers have lawyers on retainer, who will fight to the end of time over $20. But a bank robbery, there is always a difference between the amount the police claim to have recovered, and what the bank lost.
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  4369.  @Ka_Gg  If the new buyer has an offer accepted prior to this when discovery takes place, that then is proof, or even just phone calls to the builder or realtor about this prior to the date.
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  4370. Get a single customer who is a strict, or not so strict, Muslim, and you have religious harassment as a charge. But even if he is released he will likely be banned from every single car wash in the county, simply because the owners do not want him chasing customers away.
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  4371. Not really, more like a motor bike with a full canopy, and more stability, but for short hops perfect, and the ability to carry a passenger in with you is great. Treat it as the weekend bike, used for relaxation, more than anything else.
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  4372.  Ben  And not a swear word in it, but will give the children the horrors for weeks.
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  4373.  @HJZ75driver  Not available in my country, the best you can hope for is Quick Start from Wynns. Also just ether, plus a nice big dose of mercaptan, and bitrex, with propane as propellant, as otherwise the street kids would huff it. They still do, just do not eat before, only after the can is finished and the high is done.
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  4374. By me in South Africa the council never used SOX lighting, they moved from incandescent to mercury vapour, adding in the ballasts to the existing fixtures, then replacing them with new integrated fixtures. Residential went from 150W incandescent to 90W mercury vapour, while main road went from 500W to 400W mercury. Later on there were "upgrades" to 400W HPS lights, with relamps getting a blend of HPS and MH lamps. Now they are slowly using up the stocks of lamps and fixtures, using them for spot replcements, after doing some replacement actions to replace whole streets with LED, 77W and 130W for main roads, and 35W for smaller streets. The only user of SOX was the railways, with them using it in the yards as light, only later on going to HPS lamps. they even used it in stations on trackside, passenger areas being done with flourescent fittings. Only place I saw SLI lamps ( the rarest low pressure sodium lamp) was in underpasses with a rail overhead, used to provide light 24/7 in there, though those eventually were replaced with MV and then now LED fixtures.I do remember travelling as it got dusk, and you saw the rail yard light up from the high masts in a neon glow that changed to monochromatic orange as the lamps warmed up. Only reason SOX lamps fail is the filaments wearing out, or the glass seals get eroded away by the sodium metal dissolving the soft glass that is used, as quartz glass is resistant to the sodium, but the seals have to be a borosilicate glass, and this does get attacked, which is why these lamps are always run with the base elevated, to keep the liquid metal away, and slow down the erosion. the lamp runs really hot, the metal has to melt and give off vapour to operate, so early lamps had a Dewar flask to keep them hot after warming up, while later ones used an Indium metal coat to reflect the heat back onto the inner arc tube, no second outer glass Dewar needed.
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  4375. He is in New York, so to get one all he has to do is walk outside, grab a cab, and ask the driver for the nearest store. They will be "discreetly" open
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  4376. That is woven polyamide, same as the plastic, with a polyamide thread used to sew them together, in a loose stitch so the packing could keep the layers apart.
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  4377.  @philipdw6954  No, that is part of the CAN bus wiring which is not used here. The ECU will detect wheel spin or skid, and command the brake module to brake a particular axle and at a particular force, so as to stop spin or skid, while at the same time reducing regen on the skidding wheel so it will regain grip, or reducing power on take off to prevent spinning the wheel. You need the rest of the control system to do this, the booster currently is operating (and crying for help on the 2 CAN bus connections it has, about loss of other visible modules) in a degraded direct action mode, merely boosting the linear pedal travel. Hopefully also those bolts for the brake pedal and the booster connection also will get a thin coating of grease on them, so they run smoothly, and do not sit bare metal to bare metal forever.
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  4378.  @philipdw6954  Nothing preventing it, you still buy new vehicles outside the USA that do not have ABS in them, some also do not even have air bags or any sort of safety, other than passive things like seat belts. There are quite a few manufacturers that offer vehicles with a 0 star rating on test.
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  4379.  @Foobar_The_Fat_Penguin  Costs money, and hospital IT is notorious for being scrooges with money, saying it all works, so no need to spend any money on it, and using it to refurbish the admin offices and the front lobby. Go into any hospital and look at the back areas, you will find corridors with no lights, leaking roofs, and water leaks all over, because the administrators do not see this, nor the patients, only the staff. Only time they will spend is after the collapse, then look for somebody to blame. Either some worker with no purchase authority and only able to send the requests up, or some person who left 15 years ago.
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  4380. Police cant find the driver, simply put a small claims court case in for damages. He does not show after the summons, you get the win, and simply place a lien on either the car or get a garnishment order off his pay. Truck you get a repo order, and have it taken and sold to defray costs.
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  4381.  @AT-wl9yq  You measure angles before taking apart, and again after, to make sure the parts you are putting together are in the same relative alignment again. Same angles before to after, then camber and castor are going to be very close to the same again.
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  4382.  @AT-wl9yq  I know, but that at least gets you close enough to drive to the alignment shop and not do any sort of extra wear on the tyres.
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  4383. Automatic gates are easy, just look for used pneumatic gate valves, 4 inch size, and a couple of flanges for them. then a few solenoid valves with the air supply in the shop to control them, with either manual actuators at each machine, or an electric solenoid to control the valve, powered with the machine power. Suitably steampunk appearance as well, with large diaphragm heads on them, and the gate that slides up and down, just need 2 pneumatic lines to each one to control them, and if you only can get proportional ones you can still use them, though then you need to either remove the pneumatic amplifier or run a third air line to provide the power air.
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  4384. Congrats on the move, now you can go and do a video of the Durham can opener bridge....
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  4385.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  And probably found them both about 2 hours after you had finished, and were putting the new ones away as well. That is how I ended up with 4 12 inch adjustable nut rounders, and a new 12 inch Stillson wrench.
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  4386. Well jerky is not exactly the best, tastes like nothing good. You need the Dutch to teach you how to do it correctly.
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  4387.  @zapazap  Well seeing that he was the only other party to them a very easy assumption in civil court. He has to prove he did not distribute them, which is a very hard thing to do, given he was so insistent to get them in the first case and not delete them.
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  4388. Or if you need to remove and replace the timing belt, plus clean the surfaces, because the pump is used as the tensioner on the belt, and you have to tension it, then put the last bolts in. German Engineering at it's finest.
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  4389.  @AT-wl9yq  Opel was the manufacturer that used the pump to tension the belt, so a belt change was a pump change, as the pump was stuck down with sealant, and would not let go easily from the block. They also used a 2 part head as well, and very tight tolerances with that as well.
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  4390. Good job that, most spray painters I see need to apply 20 layers of paint, so there is something to polish off to get a final coat that is not horrid. a few thin coats correctly applied is beyond them, as they are under the impression that paint cannot give a good finish without a lot of polish to get rid of the powder coat and the dull overspray. Done cars before, where the finish out of the gun was almost perfect, and nothing really other than a wax polish a month later was needed. Of course, did this in summer with a retarding thinner, so the paint would not be fully cured half way to the metal, so that you got a liquid finish on the car, so a lot of light coats instead of buttering it on thick and dry like spray painters, who regard the polish job as "somebody else's problem", and who want to be done with all coats in one hour. But even on new cars you see poor painting, with orange peel very evident, and then covered with a few clear coats to reduce it. Needs a lot of aftermarket polishing with abrasive polish and then good paste wax to get that nice.
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  4391.  @VVilde36  Only takes half a beer to make your reflexes slow down drastically, and to make the response times increase. That is why the BAC limit for those with a PDP is much lower than a regular motorist.
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  4392. Minimum cost is the replacement of all the water, and more so for now needing to replace all the pool chemicals, especially if the dye has stained the pool walls, which now means they have to replace the wall. Gets into felony charge level very fast, especially if it was a large commercial pool that has say 200kl of water in it. More so if say you are in an area with a water shortage, and they needed to bring in the new water by tanker, and take the old water out by tanker, because they cannot discharge this now hazardous waste into the local sewer systems.
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  4393. Yes cat scratches and bites will be very likely to be infected. Had to get antibiotics with 2 of the last scratches i got, but lucky for me my neighbour is a MD, so gave a script to get some at the local pharmacy. Sabre unfortunately needs to be with his own space for a few weeks, preferably with a foster with no other cats, or separate areas for each, so he can relax a little, or spend a month with you as foster cat. Definitely one scared cat there.
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  4394. Insurer will never put the title in their name, simply because they then will have to deal with the thousands of parking tickets, fines and renewals that will them come due. Rather leave it in the original owner name, and flagged as stolen, and let the owners deal with those headaches. After all, a stolen car can still accrue toll fees, tickets and such, and the insurer is not getting paid to fix those, which reflects badly on them because their own vehicles will get title holds on them for the unpaid monies. If it is found original owner gets first option to pay for the recovery cost, and if not then the vehicle lands up either being sold on auction as non runner for scrap value, with the VIN numbers stamped over with a clearance number issued by police, or gets crushed and sold for scrap metal value. Incidentally Toyota has been marking all vehicles manufactured at the Prospecton plant, irrespective of destination market, with Identidot markings since 2013, along with all other manufacturers, and all importers as well, in an attempt to make all used parts identifiable, as the dots are sprayed on all metal parts, and also on a lot of the plastic parts as well. Each one has a serial number associated with the VIN, and only a single one showing up on a vehicle with a reported stolen VIN gets the vehicle classed as stolen property entirely. They show up under UV light, and are hard to get all of them off every part. As well Toyota marks a lot of the parts with the VIN, including around 40 of the major parts getting a VIN sticker, laser etched, that is applied before the paint is applied, from the sheet of around 80 that starts off at the front of the line, and which stays with the assembly jig all the way down, and which gets applied every few stations. Engine line also has another sheet, applied to most parts as well, so that when they are merged on the line the sheets are matching. 3M VHB adhesive on the tags, which does not let go easily, and which once cured is resistant to most solvents as well.
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  4395. Those 8 sided fittings are the reason you swap to the water pump pliers............
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  4396. Next add on for the new weld positioner, a nice folded asbestos blanket, so that when Kurtis is using it as a chair his ass is not going numb.
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  4397.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  Yes but is it "good enough for 'stralia?" use, and have you had it open to finish off the internals to a better shape, as often you will find that you can improve it a lot simply by going in and cleaning up the left over grinding swarf in there, and replacing the junk lubricant with something better, getting rid of the grinding paste that likely is in there.
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  4398. $8k for a new engine, thankful a new engine for a VW golf from VW is under $2k by me. Biggest cost was the "while we are here" things though, like a new clutch, new carburettor and such.
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  4399. Nice phone that, good looks, all the features, and only thing against it is the lack of extra storage, but with up to 1T of on phone storage, not really a worry to most, even the base 256G is more than pretty much every other common phone on the market anyway. Rest of the specs would put most modern laptops to shame as well, and the phone side will work pretty much anywhere on the planet where you have mobile coverage. I would even take the damaged one........😃
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  4400. Way to get the message across to the kids that daddy's money is not going to help them always, and especially if the car is taken from them, and they now have to go by bus.
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  4401. All the known most likely failures, or at least those that there is a good probability of surviving. There are none for the loss of a wing, the fuselage being riddled with shrapnel and the pilots being injured, but they still did a very good job with what they had and working with what was still usable. Not so the hotdogs that thought they were still flying a fighter.
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  4402. Funny enough I picked up a brass name plate from a motor, made by Bell Asbestos and Engineering (Africa), this week, company now known as Bestobell.
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  4403.  @kameljoe21  Easy to do the GPS surveying, just that is does take a lot of time and skilled people to integrate it into a full map. Two things cities are short of, time and money, so they do it piecemeal, hoping to at least come out somewhat near the real boundaries.
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  4404. Remember you are allowed 2.5 rat droppings in a CrappyD burger. thus do they add them to get to that level if they accidentally do not have any. Also, prop 19 in CA means that everything, including water, sugar, air and sunlight are known to cause cancer.
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  4405. Well, the chances of that 250 hour pilot having that is lower, if the captain has not been staying long time on trips because of a shortage. Also training for the new FO will be a lot fresher as well.
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  4406. Does not help if the DMV reissues the same numbers again, because they are running out of slots, so will issue them again, after a few weeks to a few years. Last time I registered a new vehicle they gave an option if I wanted to choose the number off the pool they had for the day, or just take the next number. Took next number.
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  4407. Sadly about average for my area, there are plenty of bigger ones, where even big rigs need a tow after hitting them.
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  4408.  @gingasamuri  I live in South Africa, where many major roads are more pothole than tar.
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  4409. 10 year olds by me are often the head of a household, because either both parents work full time, and thus leave at 3AM to commute there, and arrive back at 9PM, leaving the 10 year old to feed the other children, get them ready to school, walk them to school, and go to school as well, and same in the afternoon to collect them, feed them and care for them as well. Of course a lot of families where there is just the mother doing the 3AM get up, or living in at the work as a maid, or where both parents are dead, leaving the child as de facto fully responsible for the home.
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  4410. Just me being glad there are nice new slings, complete with a certificate, in the shop now, instead of the old tatty ones? I would have had that scratch filled in with Pratley quickset putty before doing anything, at least where that rest is running, so as not to damage the cam followers in the rest, those are expensive little bearings to buy, and doing all three at once will be a $300 extra on the job. Yes those threads should have at least had a coating of non drying sealant on them, that is a very common thing, and should have been there from the factory at least, along with a second seal to protect the thread area.
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  4411. Probably will come back, wires in the door fractured from age and constant flexing.
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  4412. Just will make it go underground, and smuggle the stuff over the porous borders to other countries. Will just mean more theft, as they get less money, so will steal more to get the same money in. Just needs to have the police actually check, but first you have to get rid of the corrupt cops first, as they will take a bribe way too easily.
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  4413. Lotus Elise, also known with the engine change as the Tesla Roadster, at least the first version. Think this one is hard to get in try the older Lotus Esprit, the vehicle that you could drive over a coin on the road, and tell from the seat of your pants both the year, the denomination and if it was heads or tails. That car did not like speed bumps, or driveways, but it could get some air.....
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  4414. Guaranteed there are ARR copies out there, because they would have sent review copies out, and those are always guaranteed to be leaked out in some way or the other.
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  4415. Dead blower resistor also indicates a failing fan, drawing excessive current for the airflow, so another 2 parts to replace.
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  4416. Had an 82 RWD as my second car, learned how to do bodywork on it, and rebuilt the engine as well, but that transmission and driveline ran well. Molyslip in the diff and in the gearbox solved the whine. Ran around the clock as well, probably not for the first time either. Reliable cars, just they were known to rust, and I fixed all the common rust spots as well. Probably still running around if it has not been stolen or totalled now, as I see them around still, with the mix of panel types and paint covering the rust.
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  4417. Probably only checked when serviced, and then never after. Likely the drivers only do fuel, and rely on the service reminder to take it in as well. Plus the obligatory check engine light on, which the drivers think means there is an engine there.....
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  4418. Easiest to use a resistor and power supply to light them all very dimly, so you can get the count easier.
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  4419.  @wyominghome4857  Have known some people like that, both sides.
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  4420. Dacia is rebranded world wide as Renault, a more familiar name, though in reality there are also Peugeot and Citroen, along with Nissan, VW and Toyota branded vehicles coming off those assembly lines, just what it is is only determined by the small number of different parts and the badges applied. There probably have been a few Toyota branded VW Up produced there, a mix up on the line some place and the wrong fenders and front met the shell, but the right one at the rear.
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  4421.  @terrydaktyllus1320  The splitters are common on CCTV, powering a camera that is non POE, or to allow you to put in single POE cameras without needing to spend a lot of money in upgrading a switch, often a more expensive managed one still with a lot of service life on it, to POE. Seen them a lot with one or two IP cameras running POE, and the server has a 48 port manages switch that is not POE capable, but the replacement is likely to quadruple the cost of the install.
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  4422. Then you get hit with not providing a habitable place for them to stay (squat) in, and get the local municipality against you as well. Best is to get the pro guys that some use, 5 large men, who walk in, and tell them they will be staying there as they have a legal lease, and that they are going to party that night, and the illegals will be both the ones to provide the drink, and they will also be the entertainment, and that all 5 are going to be doing the pile driving, no lube needed at the beginning.
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  4423. My bet is the jig they use has moved slightly, so the alignment of the parts is slightly off. Would not use the paper gasket, rather go for a metal one, or at least use some exhaust putty on the paper to make it somewhat more resiliant. As the OEM Ford ones did not leak they would be the type to use.
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  4424. Tip I will add as well is to have 2 SD cards, so that every three month you swap them, and that way your cards last a lot longer, and you also have the ability to remove and keep the card if you need to keep some footage. Plus, when swapping them format the new card in the dashcam when you put them in, so that the card does not have any errors that stop it running
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  4425.  @JonFrumTheFirst  That varies from state to state though, some do and some don't. By me, not in the USA, all that is needed would be the inspection when bought, which amounts to do the lights work, does the horn work, does the windscreen not have cracks in the visible area, does the suspension not have excessive play (joke on a Hummer), does the engine and transmission not have visible oil leaks, and do the brakes pass a minimum level, do all the doors work, and the seatbelts (if fitted, plenty of pre seatbelt law vehicles still on the road here), plus a road test to see it does not have too many rattles. After that nothing, till you sell it again. So you see many vehicles best described as rust moving in close formation, and vehicles that resemble the Exxon Valdez
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  4426.  @solandri69  Imagine looking for a common Chinese name, with a city possibly having a half million people with the same name in one district.
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  4427.  @daltongarrett7117  They are all the scammers imitating Steve Lehto, who are attempting to get people to contact them on Telegram so as to either directly spam them, or to get them to send them money.
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  4428. four legs good, two legs bad. All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.
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  4429. Standard on Honda to remind you so you do not lock the keys in the car.
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  4430. Do it piecemeal, first with the injector cleaner, which might help, then the extra pump, then the new turbo, and finally the high pressure pump and injectors. Basically from lowest cost to highest cost.
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  4431.  @Sniperboy5551  Had no sense of humour, and was a tad light in the sack as well.
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  4432. Turns out making the belt for the oil pump both out of rubber, and also making it swim in oil, and also putting that oil pump down in the middle of the engine, so you have to strip the engine down, out of the vehicle, can be an issue. Timing belt also runs in oil, and also they make it that changing that set of belts is really difficult, and to change that oil pump belt and tensioner you have to strip the entire engine down. You can bet that Ford will tell the techs to put the old timing belt back, along with the old timing belt tensioner, and to use RTV sealer on all the parts, as they will supply only a belt, tensioner, and give them 2 hours labour cost back. You can strip that engine in under 2 hours, out of the vehicle, see Eric of IDoCars channel, but putting it back is not as easy, takes a good few hours, and the parts you need to replace is a lot more than a belt and pump. Now you know why that engine is also nicknamed the EcoBoom engine, and they are in demand as replacement engines in good condition, at least as a usable core to rebuild where the oil pump belt failure has not destroyed the engine. Because running it with a broken belt, and the oil light on, will destroy that engine in under a minute. Belt sheds teeth, starts running the pump slower, oil pressure drops, and it destroys valve gear before the shed teeth clog the oil suction line, and the pump destroys itself, sheds glitter of doom into the engine, and the oil light does eventually come on. Ford should have issued a new engine, because that old one is only scrap, rebuild cost exceeds value of the vehicle. Belt used because it is a few dollars cheaper than a chain and sprockets, and also gave a 0.001 MPG improvement in fuel use, and 0.1dB lower engine noise in test, but they also saw the belts would not fail till the engine was out of warranty.
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  4433. Just goes to prove the SUV is the most unsafe vehicle around, because it is so easy to make them roll over, in even minor accidents.
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  4434. Don't need a particular card here by me, they all accept 2 leopards, or 4 buffaloes, and there is no offense at all.
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  4435. Only in the USA is the roll sold in 8. Here by me in either 6 or 12, and the mystery meat is sold in a variety of ways. Either as a pack of 7, because 7 comes to a half kilogram, or for others as 12, 10 or 11, because that is a kilogram. Thin, thick or the South African favourite, boerewors, coarse ground meat, fat and spices in a thick casing. To be classed as boerewors you have to meet standards, otherwise it is just sold as sausage. 70% meat, and 20% fat at a minimum, and yes pretty much any animal can be used, though traditionally a lot of the meat is pork.
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  4436.  @alexatkin  Race to the bottom price wise, meaning they cut corners on every part inside. If a part is 0.001c cheaper, but will only last 1000 hours, it will be used instead of the part that lasts 10 000 hours. Same applied to every part, including the light emitting part, where the current is so high you get appreciable lumen degradation within 100 hours, but the initial spec is still met, and lifetime is slashed. LED the same, you get all sorts of claims for 100k hours, but the actual LED units will never be run at the rating, instead run at 5 times the 100k hour current, and run so hot that they are just short of melting themselves free of the board. If you are lucky they will do 2000 hours of running, as the manufacturers know almost nobody actually writes the install date on a lamp, and keeps the invoice (printed on thermal paper that fades to invisible in 6 months as well) to claim for the failures, plus the QC on them is essentially zero in the plant, just a check the unit is assembled externally before putting in the box.
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  4437.  @playgroundchooser  Well, where I live cold weather performance is never an issue, unless they are in a freezer it would be highly unlikely they would get anywhere near freezing. Hot weather cooking them to death is more of an issue, have had a few melt the cheap plastic they were made from.
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  4438.  @playgroundchooser  Not a worry in a fitting made of ceramic and cast iron outside. worst damage would be cleaning the soot off the fitting, and getting the remains out. Of course being built of brick and concrete fire is a lot less of a worry than in the USA, where the houses are made of kindling and fire accelerant, just waiting for the spark. Been in 2 structure fires, and smoke was the biggest worry, not the structure.
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  4439.  @jamesodell3064  Does not really help as that aluminium wire is also stolen, used either to do illegal connections, or stripped and sold as scrap metal as well.
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  4440.  @jamesodell3064  They still chop the poles down, again if you have nothing, and get $2 for a little work, and have an addiction to feed, you will do it rather than a fixed job, which demands you to be on time, and work hard all day long.
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  4441. They will simply change location or name, and after 6 months will be doing the same again. Unless the next case brings with it some harsh prison time for the actual owners and managers they will just regard this as a cost of cheating, and will carry on.
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  4442. Same here in South Africa, though only Audi, VW and Seat used to have a few models sold here, though pretty much all the VW Golf models here have the plastic mouldings internally stamped with Seat, as they use the older EU models as basis for the locally made models, reusing the trim parts a lot. Common parts are very much a thing, though you often can save a lot buying from the VW spares department by using the VW part number instead of the Audi part number, despite being the same part, in the same bin, the end use vehicle determines the price. Or go to one of the many aftermarket places that can basically sell you the entire vehicle, less only the VIN plate.
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  4443. Remember that the police forces do not really want intelligent cops, they tend to be on the lower end of smart, so they do not just get the training and then vanish to jobs with better pay.
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  4444.  @nipperdawg1865  Can neither confirm nor deny.......😀
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  4445.  @new2000car  Part of the maintenance schedule, and the bottle is branded from the manufacturer. Added as part of the fluid change, drain and fill with the proper coolant, and add the bottle of "coolant conditioner" into the system before topping up, then run for 15 minutes and final level check.
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  4446. All those come because there is no wheel pulses, as all of them need to count pulses to do things like self park, and to see the vehicle is stopped for park brake to activate. EPS likely was a weak battery, not driving because of the issue, so battery voltage dropped too low for the EPS to allow full power.
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  4447. Funny enough the city was in my area last week, with a few crews busy doing a survey of lot edges, street centres and such, in order to upate the local maps to better accuracy, and to detect any shifting of ground, as the original survey are all at least a century old, and many of the waypoints used have either been buried under tons of tar and concrete, or have simply vanished.
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  4448.  @stevek8829  Luckily electric meters normally come with a calibration certificate, and strangely enough they actually have no need for recalibration, provided the anti tamper seals are intact.
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  4449. If she gave them bins, or the people bought a bin for it, then it belongs to the people itself. But if it is in the municipality supplied bins then they have a possible right to it.
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  4450. Question is if Homie kind of blinked when the v e t shoved that thermometer where the sun rarely shines, and if he had a hurt expression on his face during that time. I know my cat does, complete with the extra wide eyes. But then, he does not like the v e t , seeing as the first time he was there they shoved that up his starfish, then shoved needles into his shoulders, then the next thing he knew he woke up and he was missing 2 berry important bits. Currently complaining 21C is cold, and sleeping under the blankets in our bed.
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  4451. Well, the heater core is the first item in, then the AC system, then the dashboard goes in, with the last thing put in being the windscreen.
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  4452.  @hookedupboer  The looters are willing to kill, so why not the people who actually are the owners?
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  4453. Taz leaves because he killed the furry beast......
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  4454. Pilot training is normally like college debt. You go get the training with a loan, or you do it the most common way, and sign with Uncle Sam for 3 years of training, with you having a pay back period of 3 years before you can leave. However the airlines do tend to look for the best, and hire them, paying the money they owe to Uncle Sam, which is cheap compared to doing it themselves. Plus zero risk, and they sign a contract with the airline for a similar number of years, but with a higher pay, and the airline does all the training for the particular plane at their cost, so long as you finish the contract period. This case however is like you getting a job at the wall of malls, as a shelf packer, and after 6 months you decide to leave, with the wall of malls then telling you that, because you are now a skilled shelf packer (but still on minimum wage pay), your leaving means you now owe them more than the pay you got in the 6 months, due to them "training" you on packing shelves, or pushing a broom, or driving a mop and bucket.
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  4455. The brake guy I would have asked him if, when he went to the dentist, he wanted the debris and gunk ground out to fit the filling, and if he wanted the hair his barber cut off his head.
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  4456. By me October to April, basically whenever it is warm. But most buildings here are brick or block, and I do know pretty much all the ground has termites in it at some point. Cat loves termite swarms, eats himself silly, along with all the dogs as well.
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  4457. By me there are now laws about latent and patent defects, and they now have a little more than rubber teeth. Now has to be disclosed on the sale agreement and disclosed.
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  4458. Yes, have seen my local copy of the standard kilogram, it is only 10km away from me in it's armoured vault. Also have masspieces that are only 3 steps away from it, having been verified by a massmeter that was verified and calibrated with one of the sub masters compared to the local standard kilogram. 1g masspiece that is 1g with 4 zeros after it, any more and air pressure and bouyancy has an effect on it, which is why all those tiny measurements take place in hard vacuum. The smaller masspices you cannot use in atmosphere, unless you measure your local air pressure and humidity, and compensate for the amount it bouys up the tiny masspiece, and, measuring that 100mg masspiece, simply moving your hand into view of the massmeter the IR radiation from your hand will make a change in the measurement. Nice when the company coming in to do the verification uses your own masspices, simply because they have a fresher certificate, and they look at the long term drift and can see no trends, except for the one where it jumped up by 0.5g, which was because, a week before they went in, I took them stripped the paint off, and then gave them a new coat of primer and black, leaving a week in heat to flash off solvent. Yes also had the cotton gloves and wipe cloths, to make sure they stayed dust free and clean. The sub 200g ones had a separate box with the tweezers as well to handle them.
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  4459. got to drop it down to look like 1960's TV so as to not upset the old biddies in the audience, who might be upset the picture is so clear.
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  4460. Simple thing is to have a legal definition of the offensive items, and not have it be based on a personal bias by a person.
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  4461.  @hypothebai4634  Supposed to have a redundant set of diesel power plant to provide power, but likely there was a few of those sets that were out of order, and awaiting being under way to be repaired, or at least beaten back to life. Could be that there was only a single power plant operating, and then a backup unit not running, in place of 2 sharing the load, and a steering command drew too much power off that single plant, so it tripped out, leading to the blackout. Main engine will carry on for a while, as it runs all mechanically, until the fuel feed pumps stop filling the header tank with the inshore diesel fuel. Black smoke yes captain put all astern to slow down, and dropped anchors, once power came back on from standby genset, as likely the emergency generator was started by the engine watch, taking a minute or two to come on line, and then they started the reversing, likely with a corresponding massive steering input, which would be useless without any headway to give the rudder authority. Going to be a massive collection of blame there, starting from the port authority, the captain, and exactly who is going to pay what, with insurers doing their best to not be the one on the hook.
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  4462. Or even point out to them that if a person steals their vehicle, and runs over and kills a group of children at a school, the driver is not the one being accused of murder, but the owner is, even if they did not give permission to the thief to steal the vehicle. That is what is being claimed here.
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  4463. The original layout was so the lots could later be split with a panhandle, but instead later on they were split with eg 12, 12A, 12B, 12C for the lot divided into 4 smaller ones, so the unused numbers were allocated further down when the road was extended. By me there is a road with 2 names, and a join in the middle. however house numbers go up from the one end, so the one road goes from 1 to 31, and then it becomes the other road, with 32 to 68, because it goes around some curves along the way, and thus there are different size lots. 68 actually would be a dead end, except the third road continues, with it's own number system, so next to 68 is 17. Postman gets confused. Then next door to me there is a road, marked on the maps as 134 Street name, and the houses on it are 134A, 134C and 134D, with the one nearest the road being 156, because they actually do have a street front onto the street, and this is the back entrance, and the only vehicle entrance.
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  4464. As he said, old terminals have it on already, so no need to put more on.
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  4465.  @henrybucki7813  Clean inside, not outside with the spray there already.
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  4466. Best to have done the inspection before buying, instead of buying, then telling Ray to do the check, and getting a 10 page report back of all the things that are wrong, and also the bill for each part of the fixes, which might actually come to more than the vehicle is worth.
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  4467. Same engine mount used on the Chrysler Neon, and it is a pretty expensive bracket to replace when it fails. Ended up getting it remoulded with new rubber, for considerably less than the cost the agents wanted for it. Mount was almost half the value of the vehicle.
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  4468.  @jaydunbar7538  state regulation by central government, giving a basic set of rules that they cannot do any more restrictive rules, and where the laws say what are the avenues available, like with commercial law, are a good start. Basic conduct, basic reporting, standards for elections and transparency are needed, not a totally unregulated thing as it is in the USA at the moment, with each state having different sets of rules. Basic set, that states could add to ,but a basic rule set that applies to all are a start.
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  4469. Walls pressure cleaner with industrial detergent, and then rinse, then you spray top with white, and bottom with the gray. Floor hit with the detergent as well, it will help a lot with dingy. Holes cover with a plate from outside, before you paint, and use rivets to hold the patch in place, then paint it inside to make it less noticed, though bondo over the dip helps as well. Roof try to get new tiles, the old faded ones absorb a lot of light, and while there get some insulation in as well, even 2in of extra batting helps with the heat a lot.
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  4470.  @myobmyob2215  No checks are done other than run them through a speed point like a card transaction, very rarely did I ever find a merchant ask for ID with cheques, or even with cards, so long as the card worked, and PIN entry was correct, there was zero other check done.
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  4471.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  Time to get together, and let him have a drive away from your scrap bin, though I will guess most of the scrap is steel, so not really his forte, but there likely is enough of his favourite brass, copper and aluminium there to make him happy. Yes a pretty fair drive, or a flight, but you could post him a big chunk of stuff anyeay.
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  4472. YT f. up again.......
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  4473. German bearing company, but now made world wide.
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  4474. No, just too heavy.
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  4475.  @HariSeldon913  You can absolutely use the USA made stuff there, it is nothing like the original since the US giants bought out the UK manufacturer, and "price optimised" both the cost and the flavour, to what they think the US market wanted. So now I do not use them at all, the new blend is absolutely vile tasting, compared to the original one.
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  4476.  @HariSeldon913  No not really, it was never exactly something i watched.
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  4477.  @mark006868  No, not much difference, the scars are still present today. Just there are none still kept intact as examples, only a massive monument to this in Pretoria.
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  4478.  @50PullUps  Even the volatile memory, things like the clock and such, like stored state in RAM, will stay for a long time, kept there by the phone battery, and also by the small coin cell soldered to the main board that is used on phones with a removeable battery. Lithium cells will last a long time on a charge, 2 years is not a long time, they will do 5 years from a full charge, and not be under cut off voltage, keeping things like the standby processor, which is looking for things like power button press, USB connections, battery state and such, with no problems. The processor spends 99.9% of the time in a very low power state, only turning on briefly to update clock time once a minute on roll over of seconds, and in the interim having low power consumption, basically the low power 32kHz clock crystal that provides the clock, and almost nothing else, while waiting for the hardware interrupts to occur for change of state. Then start the low power on chip oscillator, execute the code, and drop back to deep sleep mode again. The high power mode draws under 1mA for a fraction of a second once a minute, which will be less than the self discharge of the lithium pack.
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  4479.  @tissuepaper9962  No such thing her for the last decade, the cameras are not working, except for some that still have been paying for the certification, but locally speeding is the norm, and no trapping at all.
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  4480.  @michaeltelson9798  Believe me there are cameras, that provide a clear image both of your plate front and rear, and of the driver as well. The toll companies use them ,I have gotten a few of those where the plate is valid, just that the vehicle and driver was not. So much so that the toll companies actually have a farm you download and fill it, then go to a commissioner of oaths to attest that it was not your vehicle. My neighbour got 15 of them even though he had sold the vehicle, and had spent the last 3 years in Cairo, and was able to prove it.
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  4481.  @abdul-kabiralegbe5660  12V8 with high engine compartment temperature is correct with a fully charged lead acid battery, as the terminal voltage, which with a fully charged battery is 13V8 at 25C, is going to drop as the temperature rises. Older alternators that charged at a fixed voltage, 14V4, or 13V8, irrespective of temperature, thus would overcharge the battery, causing it to lose electrolyte due to it being split into hydrogen and oxygen. Some sealed batteries, and some more expensive refillable ones, have a palladium catalyst in the vents to recombine this to water, slowing down the loss, but you always had to add pure water to the battery to give it a long life. Thus checking the battery water, and filling up at each service. Sealed batteries are the exact same now, just there is often a cover over the screw off caps, and they say sealed for life, as they know there is enough water there to get you out of warranty before a cell boils dry, and you buy a new battery. Pull off the label, see the caps, and check the water, and you get many years more service out of them, and check the water monthly as well, even if it means you have to remove the hold down and the terminals to get to the caps. Done that to all mine, and got to see that they would last 5 years just filling up every 6 months or so, all cells taking around 100ml of water to fill up again. Otherwise would have had the battery fail around 25 months after buying, just outside the 24 month warranty. OEM battery had caps, but was never checked, despite it being part of the OEM service routine.
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  4482. Depends, are any of the hoses still original, and have you always run antifreeze in it. If the hoses are all new, and the vehicle has been run with antifreeze to manufacturer spec for change, you probably are fine, though you will find the oil cooler is no longer available as genuine VW part, though there are aftermarket ones that are made by the same OEM's who did them for VW, which are as good as original.
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  4483. 3.1k when I hugged you Ray..... But at least it started, and is running now, nearly 3 months later on.
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  4484. Can bet you the lawyers on both sides made out like bandits though.
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  4485. No8 charged with both failure to obey a statutory sign, and also for failure to comply with a traffic official. Second one comes with a much larger fine, and also a visit before a judge to be sentenced. No 5 yes, driving fast, on a winding road, will result in you stepping out with loss of traction in sharp corners. There is a reason most of those winding roads have a much reduced speed limit, often because the camber of the road is incorrect, due to it being the same as when it was constructed as a flat road a century ago, and most vehicles were incapable of doing more than 40kph, so marking down to 40kph was kept in modern times.
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  4486. Looked like a sheep shearing there with all that fur. He came out great though.
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  4487.  @WastedTalent-  Yes the cart is owned by the store, and it is negligence on part of the store to have them roll about. By me you take a cart out, there is a person or ten who will return it for you, though I will often just roll it back to the bay, and walk back to the car. Extra 50 steps either way is not a thing that could be classed as a killer to avoid.
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  4488. Too bad the Never Done Correctly will never do this, even for the routes that are short enough that the bus could run the entire day on a charge.
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  4489. Peroxide not too common because of contamination issues. LOX if you get a tiny bit of steel fluff not too much of a problem, instant rusted away. Peroxide you get catalysed reaction, that makes nice hot steam and hot oxygen, which then causes reactions with other parts, and lots of extra pressure in there. Small volumes and exotic materials are cheap enough, but when you have to make entire tanks out of exotic stainless steel alloys, and not use any sort of grinding or machining operation, that might have small ferrous particles in it, it gets real expensive real fast.
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  4490.  @bobbg9041  Toyota does not want it, ford has competing products so will kill it, and GM will make it worse......
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  4491. By me he would have gotten a free scrap tyre around his neck, a free litre of fuel, and somebody giving him a light.
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  4492.  @carlzwanzig5372  Not really, here the registration is not tied to the plate, but affixed inside the vehicle windscreen, so the plate merely has a registration number on it. So you just go get a third plate made to match the existing front and rear plates. Some even come with a set of trailer lights so the plate has illumination at night, and the stop and turn lights are not obscured.
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  4493. You can see the paint job was done with zero prep, cables, hoses all painted black, and zero prep so it will rust nicely under the SHINY paint. you can also see the cable adjustment is exactly at maximum, no more adjust left, and the self adjusters in the actuator yet again are not working well.
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  4494. New shop truck, and also Eric's transport when he flies to the sun for a weekend.
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  4495.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  Worms don't come easy to me........
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  4496.  @TheRealScooterGuy  Yes and often there are computer records that in no way are correct, and checking against the paper archive copy shows it. But too difficult to get that paper archive out, so the computer record stays. And often the records are simply destroyed, because the people involved have too many to do, so simply shred a big chunk to finish the task early. Or simply copy and paste info from one to the other, after all just interchangeable cogs in a machine, mere dust grains.
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  4497. Roger you can also report the driver for attempted insurance fraud, which would result in both his insurer dropping him, plus the bank immediately putting a repo order out on the car as well, as driving without insurance means he broke the conditions for the car loan. Or send the expired insurance along with the claim to the bank, and they will do all that work for him.
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  4498.  @WrenchingWithKenny  Well, turned off the engine light, so car is back to being happy again.
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  4499. Yes, plenty of places where the vehicle can be inspected, not actually needing the vehicle present. One was failed at one station, yet passed at another 30 minutes later, 400km away. While a Hiace taxi can definitely exceed the speed limit, even with 56 people loaded in it, it definitely is not going to do close to Mach 1 on the roads here, as it is all too likely to achieve orbit, after meeting one of the potholes.
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  4500. Yes working fusion is always 40 years away, and has been that way for the last 60 odd years as well. fission, the unwanted step child, is however the safest power source on the planet, given the megawatt hours per fatality or debilitating injury standard. More people die every year, stepping from their house to the outside, than those killed by fission power plant accidents.
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  4501. Where do you think the electricity you use comes from? Good chance it comes at least partly from either coal or gas being burnt, with a small part coming from solar, wind, hydro or nuclear plants, but the vast majority of electric power comes from burning fossil fuels in some fashion.
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  4502. Garage fire detection is best accomplished by using a temperature sensor, the best being the dual type, which triggers on both exceeding the maximum temperature in the space, or by using the rate of change of temperature. These work well, and generally will be incorporated into your alarm panel as a dedicated fire detector zone, which sets off a different alarm sound for fire, and also which is always active.
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  4503. 5 digit 4 digit really depends on the bank. The only thing they enforce is not having the same digit more than twice, and incrementing or decrementing numbers. Reduces the field of numbers a lot, but also the ATM network also only will allow 3 or 4 attempts before the card is deactivated, so you will need to go to the branch with the card, and a form of ID they know, to get a new one issued.
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  4504. Saw 2 car dealerships that did that. First was a long established one, dealt mostly high end vehicles, and owner decided to retire, with around 3 months worth of sales that he sneaked out of country, and vanished along with the money. So the partners, who he left holding the baby with a very dirty nappy, had to make the sellers and buyers (plus the banks who gave the financing on both sides, who both lost out) whole. they still want to "talk to him", dead or alive, though they prefer alive, to get the money back. Other one was similar, opened up, were doing consignment sales for around 6 months, then one day vanished, along with almost all the stock, and leaving behind a set of angry buyers who had gotten financing paid over, and sellers who found the vehicle was missing, and the shop had sold some of them multiple times before taking the vehicles cross border to sell illegally there. Only one left was a Jeep, mostly because the engine and gearbox was in the rear in boxes. Eventually building went on auction, and was sold as well, because they also took that money.
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  4505. Bendy spanners will get used again, for some of those difficult fasteners.
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  4506. None of those will sound the same in another room, simply because every other speaker is absorbing and reradiating the audio out as well. Plus they absolutely will try to upsell you on the cabling, because the profit margin on those cables is likely more than they make on the speakers, where the distributor made all of the profit, and does retail price control on them to what the market will bear, for basically polished MDF, and pretty looking cheap drivers. Noise because the ones installing them make $5 per hour, and use the cheapest cabling possible, that might even have at least 3 strands of copper look alike per core, and possibly even 2 as part of the aluminised plastic that is the shield on the cores.
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  4507.  @regulator18E  Well, we had a president who said HIV is not real, and a minister of health that said that you can cure it with garlic, beetroot and Madumbies. However you can cure a headache with willow bark, and also handle high blood pressure with flowers, foxglove.
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  4508. Will say those engines are no slouch, and are a worldwide platform engine, though by me they were only later equipped with SCR, and a delete is still easy to do on them.
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  4509.  @johnladuke6475  Probably there, but they instead fitted TEMU airbag emulators instead, because those are cheap.
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  4510. Amazed the drive shaft damper is still actually there and mostly intact.
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  4511. Also remember the most common part of any additive is that 90% is actually straight engine oil.
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  4512. Yes old engines the only thing holding the seals together is the varnish and gunk, remove it and every seal will start to leak.
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  4513.  @safetyinstructor  Hell no, pretty much the other side of the planet.
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  4514. Would add some sound dampening panels for cars onto the aluminium plates, in areas they will not interfere with the components, so that your airflow is quieter. As well a thin neoprene rubber foam shim either side of the power supply will isolate the noise as well, plus another layer on the bottom of the drive mounts ( just needs to be held there by the 2 plates, no glue required) will get the spinning platter noise down as well. Otherwise a very nice build, and very good work there as well. Looks like a very nice table till you put the monitor on it, then it looks like a very nice table still, and where is the PC?
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  4515. I just use a virtual card, it normally has a zero balance, and literally takes 30 seconds to add money to before I complete the online transaction, and choose a CVV and response code for it to complete. You will not be able to use it again with those same codes, as I change them immediately after the transaction is completed, and it cannot go into credit.
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  4516. Start stop uses the ECU to control the relay, the ignition switch merely provides a on off signal to the ECU to power it on. Depending on where the module is wired it can easily disable the entire vehicle immediately, or only starting with the key, but of course will likely also cause odd no operate conditions.
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  4517.  @Ynalaw  Yes, but that then is you interfering with the property, the laser is not, as you are merely "shining light" onto the property, and if he is legally allowed so are you. Though if not laser then a call to rent a 20kW Xenon short arc searchlight, aimed at the fixture till it catches fire, will also work, as after all they did not have a max light amplitude, and those lights are often rented out, though with a caveat not to aim them at property within 100m as they might burn it from the intensity of the light beam. Does need to have it's own 50kVA generator with it, and a good amount of cooling water as well to keep it running.
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  4518. Will bet the info came from the call centre the cruise line uses. They after all have her name, SSN, all banking details (they ran the card to book it), a copy of her passport, plus her address. So they copied all this, and then had an accomplice or thirty five go down to assorted branches of Chase, plus other banks, and applied to them for extra cards, to be delivered to her address, and if the bank did not have an account for her, they then opened accounts under her name. Then somebody was waiting at her house to collect the mail deliveries of the cards, and because the USA still allows swipe and sign, plus will deliver a card in the post, they would have, had she not arranged with the post office to hold the mail, and also have the mail be previewed, she would have found out 2 months down the line she now owed Chase close to $600k in debt.
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  4519. Only reason for self checkout is to save staff costs. If the stores could do a 100% automated shop, which has been done, with some very fun statistics about the errors that can happen with that, then they would do so, and get rid of that pesky labour thing. Of course overlooks that if all stores are automated all the staff no longer shop there, which in a lot of stores actually is a measurable part of the sales volumes, especially for those who do so for family there, with staff discount if available. Plenty of stories about stopping staff sales resulted in a marked decrease in sales. As well automated checkout can and does often make errors, either for or against, and you would never find the store reviewing and refunding the customer later on, even if the customer did not see this in the bill.
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  4520. Dinosaurs are still around, just you only see the ones with feathers being the survivors.
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  4521. Door switch is both unobtanium, and expensive....... So now the rear window behind driver does not work, till the new switch arrives. Switch, and the little dual relay it drives, was burnt out, and well cooked. Previous repairs as well by the unknown butcher, which lasted at least a month after purchase. Now window works, and also importantly wiring in vehicle is not altered at all, though that switch is a right real PITA to get apart and back together, when the plastics are brittle.
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  4522. 99.999998%, as the remaining 0.000002% is cometary ice that hits the atmosphere, or is water made by the recombination of protons from the solar wind with oxygen in the upper atmosphere. Even that oxygen might once have been combined with another 2 protons previously, and have been part of a 21 second stream.
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  4523. Bet there will be an aftermarket adaptor soon, which will come with a cord that makes it easier to reach.
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  4524. Apollo was the same, and before that Mercury also had troubles.
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  4525. No need for heat by me, as it is early morning, and it is already 28C outdoors...... The issue with short cycling is the sudden heavy heat load in the motor windings, and also the torque shock on the motor mounts. Typically a compressor fails because the windings have the connecting leads fatigue off, or the motor windings develop a shorted turn or open, or the internal mounts break. almost never from bearings failing, unless it is a scroll, which will eventually have wear make it pump less efficiently, or for a vane unit the vane wearing and losing efficiency. Most common is the windings, or the case rusting through because of condensed water on the inlet side rusting the case through. Oil wise the worst for it is a leak that allows moisture in, or high temperature that degrades the oil.
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  4526. Low cost carrier around here, MANGO, is all brilliant orange. Another reason is that cooler skin is less likely to cause density changes in the air flowing right above the surface, meaning less turbulence in the airflow and thus less drag. Tiny, but does add up in flight to a fuel use that is slightly higher than it could be. Same for a clean aircraft, it does use less fuel, and the same for finishing off the rivet lines with a filler during repair and maintenance.
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  4527. Well the fraud will lead to the poisoned chalice defense. As he lied about the reason for the annulment, the whole is now considered moot, and the judgement will be vacated. However he now has the problem of the perjury, the uttering of a false sworn statement, identity theft, theft under false pretenses and grand larceny, as the monetary value likely is over the threshold of plain larceny. He is getting a nice hotel room in Club Fed for sure.
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  4528. The cover on the new lights is also an anti tamper seal, so you do not get one that got used and returned because it was defective in some way, or was incorrect for the previous buyer. Lamps buy brand name, I prefer Osram or Bosch, as they are both OEM lamps, and are good quality, and widely available. Cheap ones you get what you pay for, some last a week ,some last a month, but buying your common lamps in a pack is worth it. Also, for headlights, change both as a pair, especially if they were original, as one failing means the other will go very soon, and often the modern vehicle the labour is high, as you have to remove a front bumper skin, fencer inners and a grille, so changing the other is cheap insurance.
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  4529. No baffles because of the moulded in dimples, which, along with the odd shape of the tank, provides a lot of damping of motion for the fuel in the tank in normal driving, though you might find a bit of sloshing when the tank is nearly full or nearly empty, but when empty it will slosh most after the low level is on.
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  4530. Well of course, truck brakes are not meant to be applied for 20km down a hill, that is why you have an exhaust brake, jakes brakes, and a retarder, plus the sign at the top saying heavy vehicles must stop and engage low gear, so the engine can do all the braking against compression. Flew over the top at 100, and around 1km down the brakes get too hot, expand past that the drum actuator S cams will go to, and then no brakes. Cannot change gears down, because the gearbox in neutral cannot get the input shaft up to a high enough speed to engage the lower gear, and now it is a runaway. Saves 1 minute off the time to accident in total. Also due to roadworks arrestor beds are closed off, so back to how it was in 1970's, except there are 50 times as many trucks, and no more traffic police doing spot roadworthy checks there on the top of the hill, like they used to. They would check, and at a minimum you would get a fine for a blown bulb, unless you had spare bulbs and tools, and changed it there, when you would just get a warning.
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  4531. Tough little things, as you will know if you ever got one while fishing. Thought it was the biggest catfish ever, and after a half hour of fighting out popped this little turtle about side plate size. Was fun getting the hook out of there, those jaws bit hard, and both front and back end are dangerous. Long nose pliers and a bit of work, and away he went, even more angry. Was walking on the road one day, and this turtle was crossing. So, picked him up by the rear third of the shell, because head will not reach that far back, and game ranger comes up and asks what I am doing. Replied he wants to cross, so he will get a free trip 5m off the road for this time, as I do not want him run over. Got to be careful of the back end as well, it can spray stinky poo pretty far as well, and the smell lingers a long time.
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  4532. Thing is that there are also peephole cameras, which look just like every other peephole, at least from the outside, and they work in the same manner. But both sides are wrong, she could have gone for that, gotten the same result and nobody the wiser, and the HOA could have gotten off the high horse with a carrot saddle, and come to some compromise. Will bet though that if say one of the HOA board had been a victim of a hit and run where her camera saw it, they would be there with a request for the video immediately, and the lawyers would also be after it as well.
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  4533. Hopefully you did not drink the water there......
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  4534. Will add that salt water pools are common. No more corrosion in the pump than for a normal fresh water pool at all, and the pumps last just as long, with salt corrosion almost never being the cause of failure, as the typical failure is motor seals and bearings failing, and capacitors in the motor going low value, plus windings going open circuit, because they are all almost invariably made from CCA wire, which vibrates itself to pieces.
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  4535. No builders association that the builder is a member of, that also has cover that is there in case a member never completes, or the work is substandard. Builders all are one job away from it being faulty.
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  4536. But you can still dial 112 for emergency assistance, it does not totally disable the phone. Any phone, even one with no active SIM, can do that so long as it has power and there is any network signal around to use. This is equivalent to disabling that as well on the phone by doing a firmware erase on it.
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  4537. 8 hours later on..... all 3 out of stock. Drive a Chevroltet Cruze, and yes, have a cheap and limited dashcam in it, really want to get an upgrade that works with better than posh potato quality. Then Wham Baam will get submissions......
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  4538. South Africa, where we used to have a semi functional rail network. the price for a month ticket was cheap, equal to $5 for a month of travel, where the alternative is a private minibus taxi, which works out at $4 for the one way, each day. Still 2 lines semi running by me, with a morning and evening service for commuters, but they are slow, oft delayed by failures, and overcrowded, because they are cheap. As to lines on the coast, there are a few independent private railways around, where they run trains that run along the coast, and there is good enough support from tourists, when they are allowed back, to hopefully keep them running. Rail does show you though just how apart places are, which is not appreciated by flying, or even driving, as the first you arrive fast, and the second you are concentrating too much on the road. I used to catch a train regularly, and the price was very low, 5c US, which was a single stop ticket. Just had to keep in mind the train schedules for which trains were express, and which were all local, as not all stopped that stop.
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  4539. Possibly a lubricant leak into the methane causing the colour change, from contaminated methane, burning slower hydrocarbon chains. That would account for the flame as well, venting from an overpressure relief on the hydraulic system, and the faster landing was to get down as fast as possible, before the hydraulic systems totally failed.
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  4540. Well, what parts of a GM vehicle do not cause fires, because the ignition switches do, and were not recalled, the wiring caused fires, but was only fixed for those under warranty, and there are a whole host of other recalls that had, as a part of the recall, vehicle may exhibit malfunctions and catch on fire.
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  4541. If a bank has a morgtage on the property they will also have the option on the auction to set a reserve price, which they will set at a fair market value. If the auction does not reach this the sale falls through, and the bank then becomes the owner. Here HOA's are regulated to some extent, and they are not allowed to foreclose for fines, only allowed to refuse to give clearance on a sale till the amount is settled. If they want to foreclose they will have to go through a court first, and prove the case, with both parties present. No default judgements allowed, and the court must be local to the unit as well, after a spate of them foreclosing in small courts far away, where the opposing party was unable to attend due to distance and legal costs.
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  4542. US cars exported to the rest of the world use amber turn and red brake lights, even if the same car is available in the USA. Just the USA being different than literally the rest of the planet. Time for the USA to come out of the 19th century, where an extra light bulb on a car actually was very expensive on a 6V system. As well the bulb failure warning has been standard on BMW and Mercedes since the 1980's, even if most drivers do not actually notice the warning.
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  4543.  @lynchkid003  Not a lawyer, and also not in the USA, but by me the laws are clear on that, and there have been a good number of cases of people impersonating police, and getting a good number of years in jail. Also had police as neighbours, and this coming up as a question.
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  4544. No that is Subaru, as part of doing the service.
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  4545. Yes, avionics we were taught that high stress areas and a split pin, replace when removed, as it is a very cheap item, but the failure of that joint is not. so i keep that big box of assorted split pins in the shop, and when I come to one snip and toss, grab a new one. As to the install pretty much the standard has been it must not move. so tap the head into the hole, bend over the top of the nut, and back down to the head , and cut off flush with head for that side. Other end tap down, flush with the nut. Only other was for pins that are there for pivots, where it was tap head hard in hole, and bend tang back around to be cut off next to head, as the split pin could not fret then and wear, and it was, along with a washer, the only thing holding that pin in position. Locking wire done plenty, had the holes to prove it, but was lucky I did not do engines, where you have a single locking wire that goes around the engine every segment, that holds all those fasteners with a single wire, and it has to be correct every time. That one lock could take a day to do, and inspect, per engine ring section, just for the locking wire alone. 20 odd case sections to bolt together, and most of the fasteners there are all single use only, so there was a massive box of bolts and nuts that were free to use for anything else. Sheet metal shop used to make sculptures out of them, in lovely colours, as the titanium bolts hot to different temperatures as they heated up. Same for rivets, still have the odd bottles of assorted left over rivets that I use for joining sheet metal, as they are perfect for this, and better than pop rivets.
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  4546. One party that could be involved in this law is FOMOCO, as they are a major vehicle manufacturer, and have stated they are leaving the sedan market entirely, only making pickups and trucks now. So they will have an axe to grind against the HOA for effectively discriminating against one of the largest US vehicle companies.
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  4547. Shock and horror, by me an entire traffic testing office was arrested and charged for fraud and corruption, for issuing false drivers, false CDL and also issuing false inspection reports with no vehicle present. Though most drivers the pre trip inspection consists of walking to it, getting in, and seeing if it starts. The shock and horror was that this actually was reported, as bribery is rife there, go do a test without a bribe, and you will be failed, but pay the bribe and you will pass no problem, even if you cannot start the vehicle.
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  4548.  @michaireneuszjakubowski5289  Thing is that as a single aircraft it had a very limited lifetime, your airframe needs periodic inspection, and this is actually more expensive than building the aircraft new again. Hopefully they will build at least 2 new ones, as the cargo capability will be used for sure, and having two or more makes the cost so much lower to maintain, as your costs to manufacture is not linear with number, and building 2 or more, with the knowledge from the years of running the first one, will not be as expensive, as the new ones will have all the fixes that went into the first one, and thus will be much improved. Yes it needs to be rebuilt, another casualty of this senseless posturing.
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  4549. Yes, and not like the equipment can be sold for anything, Axia systems are pretty much only used by broadcasters, and nobody will buy them when stolen, so they are useless. First time they are turned on and connected they call in to check for updates, so can easily be traced that way.
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  4550. Would get more velocity on the goose if you went to 2in pipe and valves for the air tank, less dynamic pressure loss, and also if you went for a full bore 2in valve to handle the pressure. Much better and faster opening if you used an air operated butterfly valve to open it, and a separate 8 bar tank just to slam that big valve open fast.
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  4551. So now every podunk sheriff will pull over every non local and fine them $50 for this, citing this obscuration, and will balance the books that way. Till they get the guy who stuck it down with VHB tape so as to not have any obscuration from the screws, so instead will be charged with not using the mandated screws to hold it in place.
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  4552. Blower motor a drop of that oil from transfer case on the bushings will shut it up for the rest of the life of the truck. Issue normally is to get to that motor ends to apply the oil. Solved in on the noisy engine fan with a undercoating gum and lots of oil, very low air pressure and a pipe to lead the output under the fan motor shroud, and a bit of mess of oil.
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  4553. Deck was built because somebody had a wheelchair, and needed a ramp. Thus the enclosed deck, to keep a space that you could keep outdoor wheelchair and indoor one, and transfer between them. Nice house, and should keep you happy and busy for a while getting it all done up to your needs.
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  4554. True, but to get bulk cargo up it will work, simply because electric power is cheaper than fossil fuel, especially if you can have peak power use from renewable resources, and the motor set used to launch can make a pretty effective energy store as well, for recovering energy.
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  4555. Just going to get a tame judge who will act as a Robotic Turk, and sign every document in front of him, with a rubber stamp for the times he is not there to use.
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  4556. Do not think you want to try the oil for piston engine aircraft. That looks like thick syrup when cold, and only gets worse when frozen. You almost have to use a spatula when cold, but after the engine is warm it runs like water. Jet engine lubricant is more of a hydraulic fluid, it has to work well over an extreme range of temperatures, as it will be used both in freezing places, like actuating the cylinders that are on the wings, and the same fluid will also be in the engine cooling down parts that are at 1000 C on the one side, but have to stay cool, so the fluid has to absorb that heat safely. Works because the flow rates there are kept high, so the oil can be moved to a heat exchanger to dump the heat fast. The fluid is also regularly sampled, so that wear particles can be examined, so the condition of the whole system is kept good, plus the filtering is very good to keep particulates down to a very low level. Just do not get it on your skin, the additive packs in jet fluid are very toxic in a lot of cases, and it is incredibly hard to remove from skin without very aggressive scrubbing and lots of harsh soap, and clothing soaked in it is almost impossible to clean without boiling for hours in industrial detergent solution.
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  4557. Wonder if mister egg popper knows the FCC allowable radiation of his microwave is around ten times that maximum output power of his fondleslab?
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  4558. Train is mandated to sound horn at all unguarded and guarded level crossings, unless there is a silence order at a particular stretch. Thus they sound the horn on all approaches to level crossings, at the sign on the tracks, which identifies there is a crossing ahead. That the police officers stopped on a level crossing, in violation of all road rules, definitely points out to them being less than competent at that time.
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  4559.  @--Taz--  My one has his stuffed gorilla, a toy from the golden arches. He has killed it a good few times. Plus also fed it as well.
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  4560. Here the signs are stolen for scrap metal, because there are scrap yards who will pay for the metal, irrespective of origin. Report it to the police, even if they are right there in the van, off to do shopping on the clock, and they will simply ignore it.
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  4561. 102 cans did it though.
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  4562. Yes, and the charges of hit and run as well, along with the evading arrest, will be enough to get the 3 strikes needed to get put away for a while. Either she pleads to DUI, and the others follow, or she was in her right mind, and deliberately did all that. Plus likely a drug screen will not be showing zero use as well. Either way she is going to spend Christmas and new year looking at 4 walls and bars, at least for this year and next year. Going to be a slam dunk for the father to get full custody of the children, and not be having to pay maintenance.
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  4563.  @theoneandonlysoslappy  No, the only way is to integrate the key store with the main SOC, which is what most manufacturers do. However, the phone storage is too large physically to fit into the same chip, so it is spread out over a few large flash memories. To protect them the manufacturer encrypts the data stored there. So now they have to take a number, run it through the decrypt software, which is open source, as there is nothing secret in it, and then check to see if they get something out that looks like a filesystem with valid data. The current best methods, which the 3 letter agencies use, is to take those chips off the board, put on a test jig to read the data, and clone it into another chip, then put the original back. That cloned chip image is then used in a very large compute farm, because you are going to be running thousands of guesses a second on it, and they attempt to get a valid filesystem to come out. Basically if it is a good passphrase, which, by the magic of the one way hash function it is, they have to use all 2 to 128 hash values, statistically, to break it. They use a rainbow table, generated by running dictionaries through the hash, to guess the most common passwords, using the leaked passwords that you can see on haveibeenpowned, and those are the most common, so are fast as they already are in the table. 175 million, likely they went through that list, then started on the empty space between. Use that nice big 3 letter agency datacentre in Utah, and they might, with a decent enough passphrase, be able to break it before quantum computers become big enough to do it. If no quantum computer then the sun will go nova first.
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  4564.  @carolday3381  Cloud is easier, they just get a FISA warrant off the lapdog judges they have, and serve it on the company, who will give them all the info right there and then. With this one though I suspect they already have all the info, from using those kind of warrants, but need the stuff on the phone so that they do not have to say they got it using either warrantless search, or via using the 3 letter agencies to spy on a US citizen. Need the pretext, so the agency stuff is never mentioned.
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  4565.  @firefly4f4  Yes once they have decrypted the phone contents they can look up the plaintext stored passphrase in the encrypted blob, which is used by the phone when you change passwords.
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  4566. To the divers day or night is not noticed, go 10 feet down and it is night anyway.
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  4567.  @HumbleMechanic  Just be thankful that you can get those plastic parts as aftermarket as well, as there is a large volume of VW spares around, and thus the OEM parts in general are cheaper. Unlike certain 2 letter US brands where they think that they should charge you as if all parts were made in the USA in dollars, but buy them in Won at a very low price, and make a massive mark up on them instead. If you need 2 front struts and an engine mount, and they cost more than the car, while for VW and even BMW even from the agents they are affordable.
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  4568.  @kevinerbs2778  True but you can sentence the fraudster to 32 years in prison, no parole, and then add on another 2 years for the imprisonment, and this to run sequentially. Then also seize all assets, and declare all debts to be in the true name, and award those assets to the innocent victim.
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  4569. Will tell you of a water pump deciding it was tired, and seizing. 12km out of a small town ( easy to remember, because at that point there was the "Welcome to Ermelo/Ermelo verwelkom jou" sign, and normally 310m past that was a speed camera, in the now 60kph zone), and we went from 120ish to 40 in about a car length. Coast and pull over, then turn over the engine with the crank pulley, no binding. Start up, running, but rough water pump. Note Ford CVH engine, water pump runs off cam belt, and this is an interference engine. So drive the 12km to town, pull in at the garage, across the road from the Ford dealer. Go there, spares closed 4PM, but they say try the spares place next to the garage. Now, 5 to 6, and go into spares place, and ask him for a water pump. He says no stock, but there should be one at his other branch. Quick call, and 5 past 6 in walks the other shop cashier/manager/stocker, with a new non OE pump. At the same time my friend walks in, with the old pump. Spares guy asks where is the car, and we point to the red one outside, with the open bonnet. He asked how, because we pulled in 20 minutes ago. we had done a few water pumps on those engines, because it just so was the one engine in a custom piece of equipment, and yes they did rather fail a lot, so he had gotten really good at changing them, plus on his car he had cut the cover, so he did not have to remove the crankcase pulley like the manual said. Paid, and 20 minutes later we had fitted the pump, filled up with fuel and water, and were off, also having gotten the dinner for the road in the cafe there. Another time drove down with the exhaust in the car, because at night we found a log, which popped it off the front connection, and bent it slightly, and tore the hangers all off. So a very loud trip down, with exhaust ending just behind the firewall. Next day exhaust place fitted it back, after making it more or less straight.
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  4570. Hard, as the DM senders get to know exactly what alphabets to use that bypasses these filters, and then add spaces to the numbers, or again non latin charaters, to obfuscate to the very literal machine, but the human recognises it as a platform and a number. If YT cannot stop this spam, having full control of both the source of the message, and the location of sender, plus a history of posts, with the best AI they can develop, very hard to fix.
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  4571.  @brokenujoints3811  By me the standard is to dilute it with kerosene, as that does not have the road tax on it. You can smell those running it, and it is so common a lot of trucking companies issue their drivers with test kits to check for the yellow tracer when filling up. Most dealerships also will check as well for warranty work, any trace and you will lose the engine warranty.
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  4572. Because they are both grandfathered in, and have not bought any new rolling stock for decades. They will rebuild an engine, even if the only thing they keep from the old one is the serial number they stamp onto the new frame.
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  4573. Would also have asked the arbitrator for recompense, in that now the bank owes him his house back, not an equivalent value, but the exact same house, complete as it was when he was forced to sell. As to the arbitration clause, it would be nice to have a bit of extra protection there, in that an arbitrator found to be acting unfairly would be forced to cover both the damage caused by this, and also that the company would be fined as well, along with all the cases handled by that company in the last year under arbitration being evaluated again by a court appointed arbitrator.
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  4574. Dukes was more aimed at teenagers and the fathers, with the clothing to sort of skirt around TV censorship then, and also poking fun at the "old establishment" with the bumbling sheriff. But definitely aimed at having eye candy, both the car and the cast, because they could not show too much, but wanted to have the male audience watch looking for that slight bit of risque skin.
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  4575. They are simple to prove, as they would have both his fuel receipts, and be able to claim all that money back (including the tax on the fuel that he would otherwise have had to pay), along with all the mileage, service and depreciation at the IRS rates for that period. Then in addition the payment also includes his full salary and benefits, plus the tax paid on his behalf, plus the benefits. Likely he also lost his entire government pension as well, which likely is part of that payment, leaving him with the shortfall he now has, along likely with a tax bill for the undeclared income. By me this is all too common, with things like a vehicle using 5000l of fuel in a single day, for a sedan vehicle that was billed to it, while the vehicle was sitting parked at the government garage after being involved in an accident, and being totally undriveable. But according to the fuel tag the vehicle had filled up at multiple garages, multiple times in a 24 hour period, about 15 minutes apart, all with the tag built into the vehicle.
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  4576. VW U We don't believe in anything but quantity....... Saved 300g per vehicle, and is guaranteed to make a generation of mechanics rich as they age. But there are no new designs where large parts of the engine, drivetrain and body are not plastic parts. Cheaper to make those moulds with a hundred individual sections that have hydraulics to move them in the machine per cycle, than to stamp out steel panels where you need a half dozen different dies and presses to get them to that shape, and still need to do extra processing on them as well. The plastic dies also last longer in use, many tens of thousands of parts between needing to overhaul them, as opposed to the metal press dies where they run a few thousand parts before they need to fully rebuild the die. Also can handle thinner walls in the plastic than what you can do with molten aluminium alloy, and no need to have complex sand castings for each part, made from up to a hundred patterns, burn out fillers and cores.
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  4577. Think it was told here before, something to the effect that Cairo was forever being delayed, and MS wanted an interim release that was functional, would run 96 code mostly, and would also allow NT code to run as well at the same time.
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  4578. Yup had the same. New car for a sales rep, and he drove it to 60 000km, with the factory oil and filters still in it. He was fired, not for that, but that he got a speeding ticket. ticket was for a day he was supposed to be in an area, and had sales calls marked as done, yet he was 6 hours drive away. Then they looked at the toll and fuel records, and saw he was driving Thursday there, and going back Tuesday morning, yet still had calls and sales for the Friday and Monday at the places he had on his list. Small sales, so they looked and saw he was phoning them. that area went to another rep who was phoning, and she got nearly triple the sales volume he had at any time.
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  4579. Handprint is the artist saying "I was the one who did this picture, remember me for this", and drawing pictures of the prey is there to remind the spirit beings that the animals are revered, because they provide food, and thus deserve to be remembered for this.
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  4580. Would not drop the tank on a lot of vehicles, as the tank straps are tensioned, so to replace the tank you will need to get new bolts, as they are designed to snap on installation. Instead of dropping the tank you open the fuel pump hole and suck all the fuel out, and then simply use a hose to fill the tank with water through the fuel filler, and then siphon it out via the hole. Dry the inside using a long stick and a lot of cloths, and rinse a few times. Then you can dry it using a air line. When blowing the fuel line remember there is often a "lifetime" fuel filter in the line as well, somewhere either under the body, or behind the tank, that you will need to change as well.
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  4581.  @aladdin8623  Amazon Glacial storage perhaps. Cheap, and fastish to shove into it, but, like it says, slow to get out, so useful for long term storage. Normal recovery strategy is you buy a hard drive of appropriate size, and they deliver to you using the Amazon delivery methods.
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  4582.  @rotemtomhagbi1937  More just trying to start it....
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  4583.  @masterbond9  Yes, but a lot of countries follow the IEC rulebook ,so the installations are similar, while the USA has a whole host of different rules depending on which state you are in.
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  4584. Well, Ray is fine with the starter job, tyre shop is fine for paying for door, and Ray will likely be getting the car in again to remove the blend door symphony orchestra after all that. He should toss in a cabin air filter for free, and a little pine tree, plus keep the old door hanging on the wall of the shop.
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  4585. Oreillys needs to sponsor Ray with a case of brake clean a week, as a case a month will not last.......
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  4586. Still got 2 Win98 COA stickers, never used, and still shrink wrapped OEM versions.
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  4587.  @RaveDaver  Did an EGR bypass, using a small calibrated hole (started out with a 1.5mm drill, and went up in size, till the EGR system was happy) and put a mesh filter on the outside of the hole to keep it clean. No EGR issues, and much less carbon build up.
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  4588.  @oldcynic6964  Problem with EGR is it needs to go to all cylinders evenly, as it is reducing amount of oxygen in the cylinder to allow complete combustion at low throttle with less fuel injected, keeping exhaust temperature down. PCV should have as standard a catch can that removes the oil mist, and is big enough to not fill up between services, probably with a valve that allows the catch oil to be returned to the sump when the engine is off. But adds cost to the engine, while having a PCV that needs cleaning is a money spinner.
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  4589.  @dannylim3318  Plus often worn seals will hold a vacuum, as the good side is pulled in to the system, and with only 1 bar it can sustain this a long time. But put 20 bar plus on it the other way, and the worn seal will slowly leak out. My bet is that somebody either removed the AC refrigerant to do something like a radiator or power steering, but did not refill it, and as you do not use AC in winter owner did not see an issue till 6 months later in summer, and then brought it in late in summer to fix.
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  4590.  @CuttingEdgeEngineering  Did you also keep the lift? Looks like it might be useful to go with the racking you will need for tools soon.
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  4591. Know of one development that, 20 years later, still cannot get any bonds registered, because the builder built 1 metre over the property line. Problem he has is that the land he built on is not the neighbouring land, but a nature reserve, so now he has both the municipality, the local wildlife department, and the national government all sitting on the other side of that case, and he will either have to demolish 5 of the units, or rebuild them smaller, in order to move that fence the 1m back. Still in court, and always getting dragged out to a later date every time, but meanwhile all the units are rented out instead, because that is the only way to get money out of them, as they cannot be transferred.
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  4592. Funny thing is that the local owned by Walmart chain has a entry card, and they have a record of every purchase, with date, price, type of payment, and store location, ever since I have had that card. Asked one day what do I buy, while they were looking up a warranty claim, and she told me I buy a lot of sugar, tea and coffee, which was correct, as I used to do all the company shopping. Asked the furtherest back, and I was told the day I got the card, and what I bought., at the time 15 years before.
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  4593. Factory version is easier to tell, it looks worse.....
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  4594. Then you get open standards, like OGV and OPUS.... All in all, a video with a MP4 extension can be almost anything, and can actually be audio only, and still meet the sec. Audio can range all over as well.
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  4595.  @Getpojke  Really any carnivore's liver is bad to eat, and basically too much liver in general.
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  4596.  @GoldOxide8463  Because they are the ones who direct all operations, and thus can be considered the employer, in that they designate when and where the people work, and exactly how and what they do. If the contractors were free to decide routes, free to decide running times, and free to refuse work for safety or other reasons, the contractor would be the employer, but here the contractor is merely an employment agency in the law, and a middle manager.
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  4597.  @suedenim9208  Just like here where Uber has been declared to be an employer, so also has to do all those things employers do, like pesky paying tax, paying the employees a living wage and such.....
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  4598. Pretty much that is there in that, still shrink wrapped and sealed, manual that likely came with that brand new trailer.
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  4599. Lots of controls, and also large distances internally, and keeping them clean. Normally the control is done using light fed via optical fibres, so as to keep insulation distances high, and keeping tracking to a minimum.
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  4600. Well, winter cold will definitely reduce that, solvent will be too cold to boil off.
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  4601. SNECMA makes engines which are very loud, and also produce a lot of power. Other manufacturers are Mikoyan and the Chinese government, who both started copying western designs, but are now very capable designers themselves.
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  4602.  @Gangsta1168  Yes, but the revenue service probably is not as corrupt as by me, and can easily see that his declared income does not match lifestyle, join the dots, and send an assessment that you are required to pay now, query later. Based on cars he has control over, not only those registered in his name, but also company cars that are not basic transport. Houses that company owns, that he pays a dollar a year to live in, and all those sort of perks.
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  4603. Do not forget that the cotton used to make those pads was originally developed as a field dressing for WWII, and included in the battlefield medical kits for the US military. After the war it was repurposed, and even the modern military still uses those same supplies for battlefield dressings, albeit with a form that allows it to be bandaged in place, and with different shape. A lot of the more practised combat troops carry with them both the sanitary pads, the tampons and lots of condoms, as those are very useful in a lot of cases as well, along with many also taking along adult diapers as well, as they also allow for less irritation in the field.
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  4604. Lot of gardening services are just hack and slash experts. They mow it to the bare soil, and remove every plant, no matter what it is.
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  4605.  @yosefmacgruber1920  Most enclosed balconies to get out of rain, the original designs were, till the later erection of buildings, actually sea facing, and thus got the weather. Wind on the hot summer days, but all gone now to get that extra small room. Plumbing moved because the originals were baths and toilets, location now fixed, and later on people wanted showers and such, so the plumbing had to be lower to drain. Easy enough in a duct to tap into the standpipe, but getting the fall to it in the floor is harder.
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  4606.  @yosefmacgruber1920  Want to not need to step into the shower, so the drain has to be lower than the floor, and the floor has to slope to the drain as well.
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  4607. You would need lower voltages if you had damp hands, which lowers the skin resistance down from around 100k to around 5k, depending on the amount of salt on your skin.
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  4608. HP had a few years of offering the whole printer cheaper than the refill set, so I would just buy the entire printer, pull the cartridge set out, and ewaste the box right there at the store.
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  4609.  @jimamizzi1  You will always have some ferrous sludge, but only with a cast iron block. Aluminium head, aluminium block, and the only steel being the crankshaft, rods and rods I would expect the iron debris to be almost invisible.
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  4610. Postal carriers world wide are now about to go on strike, having heard of the sheer number of big balls they will have to deliver.
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  4611.  @GoonyMclinux  They only found out when they went away for 2 months, and had turned off all electrical equipment in the house, and came back to the bill being the same as usual, with 2 readings being taken.
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  4612. some of those 2 wire sensors are polarity sensitive though, as there are a good number that have integrated electronics in them, and they will not work with reversed polarity. So best to keep the polarity correct, as you can run into the rare sensor that uses the body as ground, yet is still 2 wire.
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  4613. however a lot of those cameras are also being targeted, as they are being used for surveillance, so the drone operators do tend to remove them as well, because they have video feeds that can be monitored.
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  4614. Gender affirming care equates to them providing saline bags, silicone butt implants, cheek fillers and such, and for men moving tendon attach points, and implanting inflatable bags in a certain place, and also putting falsies in after one dangly bit is removed, plus also keeping the tip. This in addition to the usual botox, skin stretching, and nose and ear jobs. also putting in hair plugs, so the comb over can go away, often using hair from elsewhere as a source of the plugs, typically armpit and elsewhere.
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  4615. Nearly 3m long rod, I could see a nice side job there of making CEE quality post poles, all you need is to drill and tap the top for M12 by 50 deep, supply a nice M12x40 stainless steel bolt to hold down the post box. Once buried in the ground nothing will damage it. Postage though bit of a bear, either buyer collect or buyer arrange courier. Pretty much guaranteed no postal service could break it, though they definitely could lose it.
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  4616.  @donk5058  Look on it as area denial, you do the classic "one pass haul ass" and send them in, they get out of there before you get a heat seeker up your exhaust. Keeps the other side down in cover while your infantry grunts can move with nothing coming back at them. If you have the rocket characteristics at least well controlled and defined you will be able to enter then into a firing solution, and hope to at least hit close to the target. But that requires you to have well controlled manufacture, and well controlled storage, and spend a few hundred hours with an airframe or three doing run after run at the same altitude, attitude and airspeed, to get the data. Then do it for all the different airspeeds to get a minimum and maximum envelope, and have some smart people sit and use this to get a set of equations you can enter into the firmware of the firing computer, and use it to get the firing solution. Once you have those equations as to distance for the projectile your firing computer is doing CCRP, every cycle it calculates how far the projectile will go if released now, and distance to target, updated from air data and INS/GNS, plus ground speed from the nav platform. Then as soon as the distance it will go is greater than distance to target, it will fire. Biggest error is that you typically also have to allow time for the system to fire them, so high rates of change of attitude mean a large error in distance to go, which can mean that, if the pilot sends the release command while pulling up,. they can be too close, and they will shoot way off target, or if he does a sharp correction the same. Plus you can also fly into your own weapon as well, seen those photos of the bomb that released, but also clobbered the airframe as well.
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  4617. FIL has similar for when his wife died, around $150k in bills not covered. Too bad the hospital had to eat that cost, no way to collect off a pensioner with no assets, other than his pension fund, and they cannot touch that. When they call about the money sorry no can pay.... So lucky I stay not in the USA, where here hospitals are sometimes for profit, but also have legal caps on what they can charge as well. Paid off my bill for 3 days last year, total I had to pay was around $2k, the rest was covered. Did take 4 months to get all the billing finally sorted out though.
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  4618. I will say though they are very strong and safe vehicles. Where i used to live one got t boned by a Fiat Uno, which was skipping a red light, and hit the Porsche (less than a week old as well, under 200km on the clock) on the driver door, and punted it 80m down the other road. Uno was basically crushed back to the firewall, and the cabin itself was compressed and buckled as well. Porsche though, all 14 airbags deployed, car was bent front and rear and looked like a banana, but the driver just had powder burns, and a bruise from the side impact airbags, and was otherwise fine. But the thing was that, despite being hit on the driver's door, and having a massive dent in the door, the cabin was still intact, only slightly warped, and that door both was still openable, albeit with bent metal impeding you, but also still would close and latch properly again. Uno driver had to be cut out of the vehicle. Both written off. Uno driver left in ambulance with police escort, and Porsche driver left with a friend who picked them up. both left on lowbeds, one because there was no way it would tow, and the other because all wheel drive, and towing companies not wanting to get the bill for the extra damages from incorrect tow.
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  4619. SAE tooling for that banjo bolt because they are still an imperial thread, and you will never be able to change that, as it is a 1/4 inch pipe fitting. Just remember your caliper bolts, brake fitting threads and all hydraulic fittings are a metric equivalent fitting, because the old stuff was changed to nearest size. 2.5 and 4mm hex keys, very common in industrial machinery, though I will tell you that, if they do get seized fast, the easiest way to get them out is to have a few of those ultra cheap 30 piece 1/4in hex driver sets, and look for the Torx bit that will just not fit in, and tap it into the damaged hex head, so you can turn it out. Will get it out, and if you do not have a replacement capscrew, you can put it back in again with it, and wriggle it with a pair of pliers to get the bit out, making it into a Torx head. Done that very often, because you might need that machine to run right there and then, and driving to get a new one, adding an extra hour of breakdown time, is often not an option. Make a note to keep that size as spare parts, for the next visit. I go through a lot of those size, M4 and M5, as they are a common thread, and you find often the stainless steel will gall fast to the aluminium parts if you do not use a thread sealer on them, especially if they get hot. I also have the thread repair kits for those sizes in various lengths, and the extractors for the broken screws, though you really burn through cobalt drill bits doing that, especially for the 8.8 high strength variant, and the left hand thread version drill bits are stupid expensive, even in plain HSS. Ridgid do make a really nice extractor set, but sadly the lifetime warranty does not apply by me, so I have had to buy some replacement sets along the way, because I always break the smaller sizes.
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  4620.  @alphaomega8373  Done that with modern tyres though, especially those used for low speed and rough terrain, where a tube is preferred over replacing nearly new tyres regularly. Yes tubes are harder to get for passenger car sizes, but common in commercial and trailer use.
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  4621.  @kd7cwg  Selling privately you probably could have transferred the remainder of warranty as part of the deal, and thus gotten the same amount of money.
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  4622. Till the banks personally become liable, out of their own bonus money, for the losses, they will not care, because that costs money in having actual people doing the job, and needing trained skilled people as well, not minimum wage. If the customers lose, or the loss is borne by the merchants, they will not care.
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  4623. Most of them though seem to drive past me, on their way to another life in Africa.
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