Recent content by DarkBlack

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    DPF

    Don’t wish that kinda stupidness on us. Future moron politician is going to emissions test your tractor , lawn mower, generator? Test the GPM’s of your toilets Check your faucets for aerators? Your showers for water restrictors? Your gas cans for vent caps?…etc….
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    Electricity Price Increases

    We’re still a first world country? How dare you browse your refrigerator, or wash using warm water . Consider yourself lucky if you’re still able to use Air conditioning. Got to luv how it’s called “public policy”, as if the public actually had any say in it We’re on a certain trajectory...
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    Tires look brand new, but are 11 years old. Keep or discard?

    That replace at 6 years “rule” from the manufacture date, is the entire tire industry helping their sales. As if the tire is perfectly fine in year 5, but a year later it’s no good. BS. I pay no attention to a 6 year “rule “. It’s all how the tire performs, looks ( no cracks or tread movement)...
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    Ground hornets!

    Only good yellow jacket is a dead yellow jacket
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    Howe's Diesel Defender

    I posted a link to a small study on this site last year. I think it was from the state of Texas. If I remember correctly, ATF actually scored worse than nothing at all on a wear test 🤷‍♂️ I wouldn’t add it, personally.
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    Howe's Diesel Defender

    He’s simply rubbing a roller bearing against a rotating surface. All the additives have the exact same test conditions, so the results should be valid on the basis of relative results, under the same conditions. I don’t see how that is “designed” for gear oil. He’s simply measuring the power...
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    Heat

    52f this morning High was 76. Nice late summer day 66f right now
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    F150 Recall

    Windshield wiper linkage……. Definitely, keep your cool
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    How could Artificial Intelligence become dangerous?

    Plumbers and electricians make a good living around here. There’s no reliance on illegal aliens
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    How could Artificial Intelligence become dangerous?

    My humble opinion is, that only software that can add and change it’s own lines of code, is truly AI, and not simply a sophisticated computer program. I think the majority of people, and companies (trying to boost visibility) are calling just about every computer program, artificial...
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    Your last generator Maintenance Run

    No way in h&ll I’d ever run a straight 10w oil in any of my engines, especially not an air cooled engine. I’m guessing you mean a straight 30w. That would make some sense
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    I got this $79 electric start 7.5 hp engine...

    In order for your 4 stroke engine to be level enough for overhead cutting and your gas tank and carburetor to be level enough, you’d have to mount it steeply angled. Then when you bring it back down to horizontal to dismount it, how do you keep it level enough not to worry about gasoline...
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    Florescent Lighting Bans?

    Lighting retrofitting is fun especially when there’s rebate programs. I remember doing a high bay 450 watt metal halide fixtures to 4 tube HO T8 fixtures with occupancy sensors. No slow warmup anymore on cold mornings, so that cut back on complaints about the lights switching on/off Then they...
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    Florescent Lighting Bans?

    I did tons of two tube 8’ T12 fixtures to 8’ twin T8 conversions, with a roughly 40% utility reimbursement program, then about 10 years later the same program to replace the T8’s with LED. 8’ LED’s are hard to find, and the utilities know it so offered a good 40% program on replacing replacement...
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