Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

Sunbeam Tiger a very pretty car, Ford 260 V8? The car itself classically nice, like an older Jag.
Seemed upmarket from MG crowd. But not crazy powered like the Cobra. Or the price tag.
Wouldn't you want to drive a Sunbeam?

I miss Eric and his viewpoint from England. Hope he is ok.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Mostly, when tree broke off, it was straight across like it had been cut with a saw. And the sections on the ground broke like that also. Tree has been dead a few yrs. there’s a top section still hung up on another tree. Part of the top went across the road. I didn’t cut it because it was too dangerous, lots of good sized limbs been falling from it. The smaller trees around it also elms, should probably cut them before they die.

 

[txdon]

If you want to enjoy USA websites. Learn to use our measurement system.

In USA Aviation uses ˚C,
In the USA grocery store uses liter. (As in a liter of coke-a-cola)
Tools are metric and standard.
Short Races are given in kilometers (10K race) but long races are given in miles (hotter than hell100 mile bike race or Marathon is 26.2 miles.)

Any other instances of mixed measurements in the USA that we use to confuse foreigners?

 

[Rich B1]

Good morning! 37 and light fog now. Supposed to get to 44 and be cloudy today.

Not sure what today will bring. May go look at and maybe buy a countertop that was taken out of a house. Would make a perfect countertop for the front of the homemade toy hauler.

Drew….merely 2 sets of tools? You forget Whitworth. Whitworth wrenches (several sets), Whitworth sockets, BA sockets, etc. the joys of owning British motorcycles. And taps/dies…..I have 3 sets just for the bikes, BSC/BSF/select Whitworth.

Wife used the new bathtub last night. She was happy. Sounds like she is getting ready to make brekkie.

Everyone stay safe out there!

 

[gstrom99]

Sunbeam Tiger a very pretty car, Ford 260 V8? The car itself classically nice, like an older Jag.
Seemed upmarket from MG crowd. But not crazy powered like the Cobra. Or the price tag.
Wouldn't you want to drive a Sunbeam?

I miss Eric and his viewpoint from England. Hope he is ok.

Yes, Tigers had the 260. When Chrysler bought the Rootes Group (Sunbeam), they found that they couldn't fit their V8 (273?) and didn't want to be selling Ford powered cars. They squashed the lineup.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 69˚ heading to the mid 70s very cloudy, cool front blowing in at 8pm and best chance of rain at midnight. Going to get some seat time today at the happy place.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 47F @ 6:00AM.
Windy at times with rain. High 54F. Winds SSE at 20 to 30 mph. Chance of rain 100%. Rainfall may reach one inch. Locally heavy rainfall possible.
The rain held off until about 8:00PM yesterday, but if was cool and overcast all day. So far we've picked up 0.3" of nice steady drizzle. Haven't seen any wind to speak of, and hope it stays that way.

SAE, metric, and Witworth wrench sets here, no Witworth taps or dies, but still have some nuts and bolts laying around, just in case. I really should get those boxes of Norton parts down and get rid of them. A bike on display is very unlikely to need any work or spare parts, and I could sure use the room. The "dial" caliper I use most often has a digital display, and will go back and forth between SAE and metric with the poke of a button. Very handy, but most of my work, and all of the drawings/CAD I do are SAE. I suppose the digital displays on the lathe and mill can show metric numbers, but I've never used them that way. I can change gears in the lathe to cut metric threads, and I think that's how it's set up now from the last threading job. Been a while since I had to do that, though.

Almost finished the installation of the new ignition unit on the red bike yesterday. Don't have a battery for it yet, so just used a battery charger to make sure that it would spark. Still need to check the timing at full advance, but I still have more seals to replace in the engine before I can do that.

Rolled the red bike off the lift and got the touring bike up there to do some maintenance, starting with an oil change. In cool weather like this, I let it drain overnight, so first thing this morning I'll put the new oil in. The filter only gets changed every other time, so I won't bother with it today. This is a 75,000 mile service, and that means new gear oil in the final drive and transmission and swing arm, too. I should pull the tranny and lube the splines, but I'll put that off until after the New Year as it takes more time than I want to spend right now.

From the sounds of the rain on the glass sliding door, those winds have picked up. Gonna be an inside day for sure.

Hope everyone enjoys their weekend!

 

[check]

Buppies, I started plowing in Toronto in 1980 with a landscaping contractor, then in 1985 I did the 401 and 400 highways. Working for the company I still work for. I don't remember the year that I switched to York Region but between tanking in summer and plowing in winter I paid my house off in 15 years. Now the only plowing I do is for me and a few neighbours. I got asked when I was in Markham yesterday if I would plow for them IF they got caught between a rock and a hard place. I told them NO!
My manager told me he looked at my birthdate on the computer and he figures at 76 that I have a few more years of my life I can sell (wages) to him, I told him there should be 23 more. It is called Freedom 99.

Wow, L4, the 401 and the 400 - my favourite highways! I wonder if our fellow TBNers know that the 401 is the busiest highway in North America.

 

[m7040]

28° looks like sn@# with the heavy frost.

Read that DC was getting overrun with 4 legged rats. We know they have lots of other kind.

I don’t get this throwing stuff at snow plow. Thankfully never had it happen the few times I rode in a snowplow. Course we were plowing at night.
Talk about self centered ungrateful people. Where do they think that snow has to go that’s getting plowed with an angled blade? Where they think they are going to go if their driveway is clear and the road isn’t.

Taking a swipe at rats in the Dc area is fine but calling my daughter who lives in the DC area a rat is not fair. But maybe you did not mean that

 

[ronjhall]

In USA Aviation uses ˚C,
In the USA grocery store uses liter. (As in a liter of coke-a-cola)
Tools are metric and standard.
Short Races are given in kilometers (10K race) but long races are given in miles (hotter than hell100 mile bike race or Marathon is 26.2 miles.)

Any other instances of mixed measurements in the USA that we use to confuse foreigners?

There is a APP for that. Too convert, not confuse.