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Diesel Electric Fuel Savings They put together a little diesel electric semi.

Coolness factor?

I bought a demo Lenovo machine at Costco a few years ago. First thing i did was to reinstall windows, windows only, not the install from Lenovo, just the OS. I needed to have the number off of the Windows sticker, but it's worth not having all the bloatware, call back to company stuff on the...

I had to hunt for the hand sprayer, most of what i found was aerosol like 2 bit shows. I don't use the saw much anymore, but also found chain lasted longer if i replaced the drive sprocket when it got too worn. Used to harvest firewood it burned areas and trees killed by beetles etc, so it was...

Yamaha XE4 ELECTRIC Dirt Bike Looked like a lot of fun.

Took this trip Late April, May so your weather/heat will vary. I'm skipping some of the stuff we did in the beginning coming from Washington, over and down from Idaho. Utah - We stayed in Moab and Cedar city. Zion(Very busy), Kalob Canyon(Think something like Zion but very few people)...

Ditto

Ha ha, my wife wrote a story about her Nova, when she was taking Spanish, title was, "No, she goes".

That's how i heard it too, but was thinking more along the line of having all the train stations in the same time zone.

How did you find that out? I have a second Internet link so didn't notice the outage, but i am curious.

I didn't know that. Imagine if all the railroads had done that. 🙃 😄

Wow, did you see Idaho? BTW, we lost power about 20 minutes ago. One of many throughout the year.

The MK-V launched to the public in 2020 as fully-electric, driver-optional tractors, with the goal of helping farmers improve field safety, streamline farming operations, and reduce carbon emissions.

Tesla Model X Drives Through Water I wouldn't do that with any of my vehicles.

How much do you think?

Maybe the could have a braking system that applies brakes on each car depending on it's weight and speed.

Security takes a back seat, so to speak. Makes on wonder what happening to all those Ring doorbells videos and cameras in people's houses.

Some browsers let you delete everything about your previous visits, cookies, cache etc.

I'm curious about how high a wind normally takes the boats off the lakes? Just a lake, reminds me when i was pretty young, being born in Michigan, great lakes were familiar and first time i went and saw the ocean it didn't really dawn on me it was an actual ocean, until a bit of water splashed...

Thanks! I might just have to see about trying one out, see how it goes.

Remind me to not go to FB marketplace. Strange and wondrous stuff. :)

I'm guessing that term, 'running leaner' has to do with combustion and not how much gas is being used. So adding oil should make it run richer and possibly cooler. I've run 50:1 on my stihl since the 80's and it's still running well. I did tune the carb when i first acquired it though. WOT...

Nice looking plot. Wow 2 gardens! Heck i'd just make two small ones and have fresh all year long. Or maybe not. Couple days ago, slush/snow 32F, yesterday was nice 50s in the sun, last night 28F. Still too early and too wet. Kind of a strange short growing season here if you don't have...

I know im late to the thread but. Outstanding!

If my not so good eyes are seeing your pictures correctly, it looks like some of those tree rings are 1/2" apart? Pretty fast growing.

Lol, one of the words/phrases my Scottish vocab teacher taught us in 7th grade.

Lol. Not it! :ROFLMAO:

Eeek!

That light(s) makes for a cool effect! I used to have relatives that live in Ludington. Luddites from Ludington, never got old, at least for me. 🙃

Lol, i was just going to pop over and mention this too. 😄

I can understand that one would rather be outside on the trail, rather than working on fund gather, for sure. Would be great if a grant writer/ fund raiser would take over that for gathering the funds, while you guys could spend it and use it.

Rechargeable nanofluid electrodes for high energy density flow battery Gas up your battery. Maybe someday.

How a Georgia plant is helping solve a huge EV supply chain kink "Ascend Elements' new facility near Covington Municipal Airport takes spent lithium-ion batteries and scrap from EV battery-makers and grinds them to dust, salvaging minerals for reuse in new EV power sources."

My early rc car started with mechanical rheostat, then upgraded to mosfets made a difference on how long the car would run. Now frequency controlled speed controls controlled by extremely fast electronics is amazing, from what little i can understand about what's going on.

That's similar here, stove in living room, kitchen close by, then the bedrooms down the hall. I leave the doors open keeps moisture out of them.

Looks like the figures are reversed.

My sister forgot to charge her Tesla when she first got it, and popped out to go visit a friend. She ended up stopping in Prosser for a 20 minute charge, then on to her friends place. She says it's second nature now, pull into garage, plug in car, grab stuff out of the car and into the house...

Sure. BTW did you check out the info about Cloudflare Tunnel?

Free parking garages in Bellevue WA. Surprised the heck out of me.

The tracks where the coal is hauled have coal dust along them. I'd imagine if it wasn't resprayed, there would be more.

Thanks for tip on degreaser.

Nice action shot.

Never going to happen. I need you to be locked into buying my stuff and batteries cause i make more money that way.

Real men use T Inverter welders and xformer welders, some Chinese, some not. Inverter welders I'd hazard if you pay low dollar, you'll get shorter life span you pay more dollars, longer life span. I've seen xformer welders that have been around for decades, some that didn't last a year...

I just found this video about setting up a secure connection to your resources inside your network, like a VPN, but uses Cloudflare Tunnels. Does it without poking holes into your firewall and should work with CGNAT like Starlink. I haven't tried it out yet. Cloudflare Tunnel Easy Tutorial

Our power company is Puget Sound Energy. 1997 PSE dug from road 900' put in a transformer and fed two power meters all underground for around $2500 US. I ordered 400 AMP capacity for both locations and put in 200 AMP services in each. One meter was set 75' from xformer the other 100'...

I'm sure you felt that it needed to be said. I often hear people, myself included, trying to make a point, and they use offensive phrases, words etc, but if you dig a benetheeth the venier, you'll see you aren't doing anything but making yourself feel better.

Fooking Rookie 😂

That's how i've found myself using Lane Assist too. I like to use my whole lane, since i paid good money for it, and move either left or right to give somebody a little more room, just in case. Another thing i learned, is to put a bit of pressure on the steering wheel when going into an area...

I don't see why utility couldn't pay a person for power and pay the going rate, whatever that is at the moment. They do that now, look at Texas. They have a number of providers and a person buys power from them. They don't have to care how expensive it is for you to produce, if you price it...

Lowest demand during the day? I thought it was later at night, like when everybody is sleeping.

Hmm, not sure what to say. I talked to the UPS guy that was working on it and he said that's how they did it, upped the discharge capacity. I'd assume the battery capacity was the same so you'd be trading off discharge time for discharge capacity.

A lot of the larger UPS's are like that too. You want to upgrade to 100KVA? Setup a VPN for them to get on the UPS to perform some magic and voilà.

She likes it and so far so good on reliability. She also has driven from Kennewick and Seattle where her son lives, stops in Issaquah or Northbend at the Tesla charger to top off the tank, drives straight home on the return. She said it handled the snow well, when she came over Whitepass...

What was the deal about the battery?

My sis's model 3 can make from Tri-cities to my place on one charge, but there's a pass in between so she charges in Yakima. It's actually kind of normal to gas up in Yakima before going over the pass especially in the winter, so she says that's normal but it does take her 20 minutes. She...

A buddy of mine has a gold mine, looks like similar enough countryside that i did a double take at your picture. Was a great place to go camping with pretty good fishing in the creak down below.

I had suspicions about the CVT as well, but it sounds like at least the later model vehicles have pretty much figured it out. I have a 2014 they used a bushing for the shifting solenoid the last year for that. I had to replace it at 110K miles. The replacement uses a real baring. I've talked...

I vaguely recall when they did that. Watched it on the news on a color TV a huge 19" CRT!

I hit the paddle shifter going down hill too. Mine are on each side of the steering wheel, left side is down shift, right up shift. I think. :)

That's so you know how far they've gone around. At least that's what i was thinking. Yes the chocking tires seems like a good idea. :ROFLMAO:

I unlocked and got into an older car, same color as mine. Looked around and ruh roh, hey this ain't my car, mine was in the next row. I used a low tech method however. But that's nutz! How hard could it be to key your remote to only your car? I know from a networking perspective, MAC...

Loll, no apologies need, but you probably should just stop driving. They are going to keep adding all kinds of stupid stuff to cars that have absolutely nothing to do with driving and that's on top of the driving stuff that's getting added.

Residual income.

Well im glad i double checked. I put that in a bunch of years ago for the welder. I was thinking it was a NEMA 14-50, but nope.

Yes, we used to volunteer clearing/cleaning replanting riparian habitats. We did it because some friends of ours were part of an organization, Chehalis River something or rather that did the work. Pretty physical work. Lot's of people would raise their hands, but not many would show up.

Can make for a lot of entrails at times. ewwww!

Ditto, but good luck finding one without. On a brighter note, pretty soon it will all be subscription based so you'll only have to pay, monthly, to use the tech that's already sitting in your vehicle. <--(sorry, could not find the sarcasm font for that last bit.)

That's interesting. So ya i don't feel any shifting points on the crosstrek, just feels like a motor boat, going faster and faster.

I went and picked up my sister from Packwood yesterday and drove her and her Tesla back to our house. Something unusual i noticed. I turned into my drive from uphill side, kind of sharp turn and a drop off maybe 15ft on the downhill side, so anyway, as i turned in, the car slipped a little...

I believe the artificial shifting points were added to CVTs at first because people were freaked out they weren't feeling the shifting on the CVT. I never noticed any artificial shifting on my Crosstrek, but it did on another vehicle we tried out, not a Subaru. I wondered about that on a CVT...

Ya eek! Looks like you hit the brakes and it will come down.

2014 Crosstrek. Doesn't have anything, even the bluetooth is for sht. You do have to turn off a bunch of things to get squirrely in the snow. Regular cruise control, wish it had the adaptive. My SIL's has a 2016 Forrester. Her husband was surprised how primitive my 2014 was, he actually...

Which came from Humphrey Bogart as in he had a cigarette in his mouth all the time.

Yes, sometimes emotions get up there and must win at any price.

Wow very clean. What year was the newspaper?

Same and add cherry to the mix. The pine and fir are nice fast heat, pops the temp up in the house. Alder and maple are nice and last a bit better, same with the cherry. The best i've found was some oak a buddy had taken down. Once it finally dried enough, great heat and last well too...

That'sa potpourri of planes there.

No kidding, snow and RR.

Bogart, as in Humphrey Bogart

Gotta say, that one made me laugh when i saw the picture. I knew it was going to be ArlyA, 'what made this track' question. 😂

Maybe it's getting mixed up with the bridge.

Sorry to hear Willy.

Oh sure, i'm guessing you spouting some engine manufacturing test and studies, trumps the opinion of my buddy down the road, that heard from a friends sister's brother's uncle's boss, read on a tractor forum.....:unsure:;) I'd forgotten all about adding HEET when the temps got low.

I'm always having to remember which vehicle i'm in. Let's see wipers on the left stalk or is it the right one. Fortunately, the Subaru has a regular sized brake pedal so i don't hit it when "pushing" in the clutch. I did the "emergency" stop in a friends parent's Galaxie 500 station wagon...

No kidding, who needs an entertainment center in their car.

Ha ha, i couldn't read them at all and i guessed on that one and figured which one had to be the one.

Ok thanks. Better info than Mosses :ROFLMAO: I think she has something like that, but missing the NEMA 14-50 Adapter. I bet she left that plugged into their socket at home, she just had the NEMA 5-15 Adapter that i used to plug into our 20amp circuit outside next to the woodshed.

Don't know if it's common sense or common knowledge, but i find i know alot about stuff i don't know much about, and as i learn more about it, i know less about the subject.

I mentioned my sister has a tesla. I have 50 amp circuit for welder 4 prong outlet. What would i need to make it so she could charge her car on that circuit?

I'm assuming didn't have an issue when it pointed more north, but you are having more issues now that it's moved? Not counting being faster as an issue. :) Mine was always, "2 minutes obstructions" because of trees and a ridge that pokes up to the north of here. I assume that is why i get...

2000 Ford Ranger, but to be honest, it's the only pickup i've owned. Unless i count the 47 Willy's. The best would have to be the Ranger, but my favorite was the Willys.

Yea! Like Christmas all over again.

We shared a few washer/dryers, was on the ground floor. No cable TV though. I wonder if Internet is provided in any apartments now.

Maybe didn't know how to operate the plow. We don't get much snow here, but do get a fair bit of slush, that freezes at night. One evening came around the corner to a county "snowplow" diagonal with the front end in the ditch. They'd been trying to pull the truck back out, while it was still...

Sounds like you worked out a good solution.

I got to go to that one too. I thought the logging gear was pretty cool. Lasers cutting the trees down!

Oh, well maybe he said 64. I did mention something about aluminum engine blocks, maybe those were from some 62 something or rather. Oh wait, didn't you say you weren't going to post in this thread anymore? Glad to see you are back. 1962 Ford Mustang 1 Concept Car I'm thinking i still got...

Was just talking to an old guy, well maybe a few years older than me. :) Retired mechanic, gear head since he was a kid, his old man owned a junkyard. We got to talking about cars and such, sounds like he has a fortune in old ICE stuff from around the 50s-60s and some later stuff as well...

They shouldn't get stuck on the tracks. Just sayin.

I've seen some utube vids where people are doing just that, pulling battery packs from wreck vehicles and replacing cells in their own packs. I bet there are people here that could do that right now.

I wonder where the ground speed is coming from?

Hmmm, not a fan of the smell of laundry perfumes either. I tried cheap stinky fabric softener and squirted it around, seems to work like the dryer sheets being as that's basically what dryer sheets are. I'm going to check out that repellent you posted.

They have EVs? Or even a new car? Have admit, i haven't been in an apartment complex in a lota lota years. I wonder if they still share cloths washers and driers.

Ha ha ha ha ha, caught up. That's what i've been finding out too.

Mark might have an idea.

Well at least your post was about EVs. You get a "no thread creap" shiny star. ;)

Just curious if you know any of these apartment dwellers that are having problems charging their EV?

Bummer, sorry about you guys getting sick. Thanks for the posted pics nevertheless.

Interesting article.

One more time incase you missed it before. Gov not telling you to sell E15, they are letting stations sell E15 in non-winter months. So the gov is getting out of telling the station they can only sell E15 during the winter and have to switch back to E10, it's up to the station.

Ya there's a bunch of poorly designed CHEAP ebikes and scooters out there. There are people that make batter packs out of ebike/scooter batteries and they've seen some crazy bad designs.

That gal used to work for a TV station in Tri-Cities in Washington state.

Ha ha, ditto.

My go to for varmints was 22LR, but my 30-30 was what i took on round-ups when collecting calves or moving cattle up to or out of the high country. It was more of a brush gun, short with open sights. I actually didn't need it often but did use it mostly on dogs running the cattle. Felt bad...

That sounds familiar. My dad was a veterinarian and he was always telling horse owners they could dramatically reduce health issues by practicing better hygiene. Keep manure picked up, cleaning the utensils used to handle food and water, and keeping the containers clean. Good animal...

I didn't know that, what's the disease?

Pretty good document. (y) Not sure i could identify, but from the publication, id say Ash.

Nice weather!

I did that with one of our dogs. It was one of those "gum" cameras, looked like a packet of chewing gum. Fairly low def, but was pretty funny watching the antics they got into. It actually fell off and i thought gone for good, found it the next spring after mowing the field that was part of...

Actually look something like the dinosaur tracks i've seen in Utah, so going with dinosaur. :unsure::ROFLMAO:

A place to land? :D

My non scientific swag, showed worse mileage with E85, but better lugging and nice exceleration. Tried non-E one time when i was getting some for my smaller engines to try out, and didn't really notice any difference between the E10 and non-E.

Weird, my 40 year old Stihl runs fine on pump gas, E10. I've not tried the syn fuel yet but have used non-ethanol. Couldn't tell the difference in either, but maybe the syn gas might run better. Full disclosure on the Stihl, i modded the exhaust and tuned the carb when i first bought it, so...

Hmm, ok i'll go with eagle too. Interesting looking at those tracks.

My 47 willys jeep, except the button was on the dash. Man before that, it could have been a wheat truck i was driving as a kid, i can remember that, but im sure there were some afterwards. I remember rocking my foot over onto the accelerator while stepping on the starter

That 025 is what i own. I've been happy with it, pretty much starts on 3 or 4 pulls, when cold. What is it you are showing for it? Looks like a vent for the oil tank?

Here, there's the faux spring when it's nice for two weeks, then that means 6 more month of grey sky and rain. :D

March in Texas and the Blue Bonnets explode.

How can you tell it's a bit north of 60 cps?

Probably front wheel drive, and they have the tow strap, basically pulling straight back on the wheel, not the spoke.

Well it is kinda cool plane so has to get a cool delta wing. ;)

I see some on flightradar, but not all. I'm wondering if training flights are the ones that show. Kinda interesting though.

Dang i thought the date and time was in the picture. 3/1/2023

Not a lake story. A drowning from a boat being pulled below water. Some years ago before cell phones, i was canoeing down the Yakima River in Washington state. I happened to look up above me to see a man up on the rail tracks, standing over a body. I pulled to the side and got out, walked up...

My push blade has mounts for putting wheels on it, and once i got the wheels, that really helped. They mount right behind the plow. Now i just have to watch that i don't climb up over the plow when it's in float.

I can't imagine what that would be like, to have your life boat being pulled down along with the ship.

That's a long time to be out of power. It really makes you appreciate it when it comes back on though. :D 15 days is the longest for us. Same thing, ice storm then heavy wet snow took a lot of trees down on power lines. Just on our main road, there were multiple 100+ foot trees down in...

Thread drift warning! What are those things in a row on your roof?

Pan fried toast is better tasting anyway. We lose power all the time around here. You can hear pretty much everyone within earshot, has a generator. A about a week ago was the last outage. Not a problem here, generator and a lot of wood in the woodshed. Only only 10 hours though, not going...

Great, looks like the same peeps are trying to turn this one into the same.

Probably something about your WiFi, I believe, anything above 54Mb is mimo but im not sure about WiFi 6.

Isn't there a thread about electric vehicles somewhere on TBN?

Well, to be honest if you are running something that's under 25H.P. it probably should be battery anyway. Those smaller motors suck and burn too much gas and two strokes want to have mix gas etc. Speaking of dairies, back in the 90s i was doing some business with a dairy that made their own...

Ok, like i said, rural must look different depending where you live. If you tried to drive a golf cart on the main road, the only asphalt road for miles, you'd probably get run over by somebody reading their cell phone.

No, not really. They look more like a city park to me anyway.

I'm still wrapping my head around using a golf cart in a rural area. Rural must be different depending on where you live.

Speaking of device disconnects. I've seen where different devices don't handle dhcp well,and when the time to renew comes alongs, sometimes they just don't renew and just drop their ip address. Mostly cheap older chips, typically 100Mb connection speeds, but have run into some that did 1Gb as...

Only a guess, here, but in my opinion, you see more of those firewood choppers where they turn that type of wood into big chips that get get burned.

Looks like some heavy snow there.

I'd want them removed then seal up the area to make sure they can't get back in. I'd check around for other places too and seal those up too.

Looks like you're the winner on the last word.

I'd think it would depend on how large the rough opening was, there could be a bit of a gap between the door jamb and the framing put in for the doorway. One would want to fill that gap to reduce air flow and heat leaking to the outside. Hard to tell how it was hung, but i've seen some where...

I wonder what the average is when compared to a few years ago when the price for oil was so bad that they were paying people to take it and store it.

The Starlink monthly service for residential customers is changing as follows: $10 increase in areas with limited capacity. New price will be $120/month. $20 decrease in areas with excess capacity. New price will be $90/month. As a current customer in an area with limited capacity, your...

Like i said, you were too slow.

Not what i said. I said you didn't react before the computer, you are too slow.

Heck humans have been plowing into vehicles since they've been on the road. A friend of mine didn't survive running into a parked semi truck and trailer at 80MPH back in the 70's and another one plowed into parked cars, no driving assist tech in either vehicle.

I don't see it that way. Insurance companies will look at what's being paid out and make a decision based off of that. Purely profit driven and not emotional response.

You are too late, the puter already had you slowing down before you knew what was happening.

That's a low bar. I'm hoping the tech will greatly reduce the damage people do in their vehicles. Then of course there will be a bunch of us that will turn it all off cause we're better drivers than the tech.

Crack in the earth.

Nice!

Is that penciling out for you? I'm not asking for specific amounts of money to be posted. Thank you.

That's the only way i'd go if i decided to get back into beekeeping. I'm not too impressed with the genetics of the bees that are for sale. Plus if you get successful bees from your area, i'm thinking you'll be better off.

Back in the day, FIPS required at least 1024 because 256 could be done in close to real time. I think 2048 is now the minimum, but im sure that will change.

I have not insight to what happened in the OPS instance. My BIL and sister, had a house outside Enumclaw. They would get high winds that would whip the high tension power lines and sometimes they'd hit the lower voltage lines. That caused interesting issues in their home. Arcing that would...

How many "hits" can this take?

I believe slant pine was talking about making oil for the products that can be made from it, not to burn it.

I've seen in the past where repairing a cable, the "bad" portion was not removed because it looked fine, but in reality still bad and continued corroding. I'm predicting your preventative will have better results on a new cable.

That would look nice on the wall.

You just need to be quicker off the tractor. If he'd been quicker and bailed to the left, he'd been just fine, assuming he hadn't already disabled the non-existent seat killswitch and get run over by the tractor.

What?

Ok, i'm writing that down. Shop vac and suck it out. (y)

A New Way to Achieve Nuclear Fusion: Helion Interesting video.

If it fits, it ships.

That's kinda what i got out of it too. And i've heard to not shut engine off if overheating, but to take load off instead, keeps the coolant circulating.

Because you don't know any better, so why would you nix something that possibly saved your FIL or your other relative? I'm curious though, what happened so that you knew by single digit age, not to use gasoline, and did you know why?

I keep mine on a battery maintainer too. Was in the high 20's the other week, and it fired right up. Man that kohler starts so much better than the Robins did.

Someone using a chainsaw near a bonfire. I know better then to do a second dowsing of gasoline, also that fumes are heavy and i wouldn't use gas anyway. But i don't use diesel, which i don't have, nor oil. Nothing stopping you from trying to pass a law that mandates minimum education and...

Not talking about harm the plants. Since the 70s, there's been an increase of carbohydrates in the plants they've been keeping records on, due to increase in co2, the plants actually do fine, but the quality has declined because they bulk up on carbohydrates.

Never occurred to me to have a drain hose for a portable compressor. I just tip it back to access the valve and let it drain on the floor, but my shop has concrete floor so nothing to be damaged by water. Could you just push on a flexible line and let it drain somewhere else when you open the...

Our cattle dog was a rescue too, but probably a bit younger than yours when we got him. Plus he never exhibited fear to my wife and I, just other people. I don't know why though. I felt we were really lucky to get him acclimated to touch and people, though it took almost 3 years before he...

Holy cow! I think i'll hold on to my 20+ year old plastic "cans", plus they don't condense as much water out inside.

CO2 but ya, so you can't grow crops without hydrogen dioxide but you can have too much of it. BTW extra co2 make poorer quality crops.

Ha ha, i have being locked out story too. I dropped my girl friend off at her car, she gets in starts it up and drives off. I return to my still running car, 71 Torino, and can't open the door, it's locked. I think to myself, WTF? Only thing i could figure, was i noticed it was harder then...

I assume those types of starts have a spring you wind up, then it spins the saw for you?

Hmm, now i'm going have to check my subaru. My pickup is manual locks and window cranks, so that's a no brainer. I'd have assumed you just would use the inside door handle to open/unlock the car door.

Back in the day, my grandpa and dad built a wooden canopy to sit in the bed of his pickup. Crowds would gather around to marvel. :)

How long can we recycle oil vs how long can we recycle metal? I wonder, if was had some magical way to recycle all that plastic, how long would oil last? It all comes down to how much are you willing to pay, no free lunches.

doner state. Doesn't mean much in itself, just used for sorting. New York state generates a lot of money, i was surprised to see Washington state in 9th place. I'd have thought with all the fed money coming in for the military, but maybe offset with aerospace and high tech companies.

Duckduckgo. Wow hard to find data that isn't heavily politicized, red vs blue B.S. As of 2023

I'd probably run outside to see that too. (y) I think i mentioned, one of my co-workers came home one evening and their covered patio was blown up. Neighbor said one of the military jets doing an airshow at the airport had buzzed out to the prairie and turned the jet straight up, right over...

Cali's probably sending money to your state right now. But ya GM, corporate welfare.

Especially the cell phones. Why don't you pre fill a filter?

I think they got up to almost 400' when they went over I-5 , they seemed much closer when they flew over the ridge where we live. ;)

Been a few of these flying over.

That's my pick too. Especially like that color of green for their uniforms. 😁