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Dying for work
Still watching you (the USA) swirl around the toilet bowl as you go down. Nice bill-boards you're putting up for yourselves... ========================= you are driving to work this morning in Las...
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Grounding a house via overhead suspension cable?
I'm renting a vacation house on the Outer Banks of NC. It's one of those stilt built houses. I was looking at the service entrance and noticed 3 wires going into the pipe. 2 are obviously power but...
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Genrator and Auto Transfer Switch
I have a functioning 10kw Generac propane generator with an automatic transfer switch. Circuits from the original panel were of course fed to the transfer panel. The outside generator feed goes into...
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Another Garage Door issue
Garage door problems are on the rise and mine is experiencing another one. This morning, the door went up and stopped about 3/4 open. I lowered it with the remote, then reversed to open again helping...
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OT: Heh! We'll frack YOU!
"The Federal Motor Carriers Safety Administration (FMCSA) recently impeded the ability of truckers to deliver water and sand to drilling [fracking] sites by reinterpreting a 50-year-old rule to limit...
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Do they make bottle jacks to use horizontally? (2024 Update)
I never gave a second thought to using bottle jacks in any position, until I tried to use one on it's side, in other words, jack something horizontally. The jack did not function. I grabbed another...
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On India's power outage
An overview story. But buried in the story is this: "But progress is being made. CenterPoint Energy, a regional utility company based in Texas, is in the final stages of constructing a network of...
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OT Olympic jokes
I see the Romanians have taken Gold, Silver and Bronze..............and copper and lead, and any other metal they can get their thieving hands on!! ----------------------------------- The Sailing...
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OT. Hacked
A couple articles about/by someone who had an online security lapse. From From Wired by the actual victim: The second one is pretty long but might interest some here.
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Zoning vs. "Art"
Aftere four years in the Hamptons: "In April, though, the Sag Harbor Village Zoning Board of Appeals denied Lehr and Vered the variances necessary to make their installation legal, ordering them to...
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Do you know what a telephone is for?
When I was growing up, a telephone was a device you used to dial a number and speak with a friend or business person. You'd stick your finger in the hole for each number you wanted to dial, and...
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Exhaust CFM from central A/C Unit
What is the deck siding. You néed a shroud to the vent so all exit air does not mix with intake. Sure it will slow it some. I think my unit has at least 1500 to 2000 cfm. My deck has no siding...
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Concrete cleaning
I put down cat litter on spilled motor oil, which is SOP. Mash it in and leave for a day or two. Sweep it up. It left gray haze, which I did not try to remove, so don't know if that would be...
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Homelite gas string trimmer
Steve, About 100 psi in a cold engine. Have you tried starting fluid? Dave M.
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No such thing as Rock Music
There are lots of rocks on my commune farm. I have carefully gone to each and every rock on the property and listened to each one. None of them have any music in them. Therefore calling music "Rock...
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