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Ammunition Storage & Ufer
This is a picture of ammunition storage units around Hastings, NE. I can see these from Highway 6 from a distance when I go riding. <> This is related to housing. The military needed good grounding to...
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Sodastream conversion to 5 pound carbon dioxide praxair tanks
Anyone convert a sodastream to 5 pound carbon dioxide tanks? I already have the small 5 pound carbon dioxide tank (which is about 2 feet high or so, with the regulator adding another ten inches or so)...
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OT. Tesla Battery Fire
There has been another fire involving Tesla battery packs. Some people were supposed to shelter in place. <> Maybe Tesla can find a solution for this. As of late Tuesday morning, there were no power...
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Hydrogen for Homes
A project to use hydrogen for home heating and cooking is hitting some bugs. <> Project to power 300 Scottish homes with ‘green hydrogen’ hit by delays, leaving some to question whether it is...
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O.T. Better way to clean drinking glasses
I have been using a sponge to clean my drinking glasses. My sponge and hand can not reach the bottom of the glass. Is there something that works better? Thanks.
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OT. Automatic Emergency Braking
Congress said make it happen. Technology said maybe not. <>OR <> This month, Spotlight on America exposed a crucial flaw with a modern crash avoidance technology: AEBs often fail to work effectively...
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Two misc things, humming and youtube
Miscellaneous 1) Youtube. Listened tonight to an early august episode of The Big Broadcast, 40s, 50's, and a little 60's radio, at or its website, and one was a lost episode, the Ride Back, which the...
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OT strange cheair
Sorry, wrong group. A few years ago Agent 1.93's color scheme changed so that the title bar is rather dark blue and the newsgroup is black, and I have to lean forward to about 18" to see what it says...
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Good Roof Shingle Colors for Dark Brown House
We are looking for a good, not-ugly, light-color shingle for our chocolate brown house.😬
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Rat & mice poison
I'm so confused that I just need to be pointed in the right direction. A friend has mice in her house and she wants to get rid of them. She lives alone with no kids and no pet. She isn't going to set...
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sluggish remote control
Have any of you noticed that your remote control, for a tv or whatever, doesn't work at first, if you haven't used it for a day or two? I keep thinking the batteries have died, but after a couple...
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OT antique implement
I saw an odd looking antique implement at a local auction a jaw crusher that had me searching the web for a description : the good old days .. :-) John T.
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What are these straps? Or are they straps?
This house is not for sale now, iiuc, but it still has a listing on various real estate webpages: don't understand picture 17 of 24, or picture 22. Someone has taken the lid of of the toilet tank in...
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Electric Vehicle Future
This affects housing indirectly if the EVs create a super demand for copper. I worked with aluminum wire but it was direct burial in fields. I don't remember if AL wiring was tried for houses.
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OT Gas Prices are falling
Gas prices in my area (MS) have been $2.89 for the past two weeks, slow to go below that after steadily falling a nickel or a dime every week or less over the past couple of months. I see that Houston...
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