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Post by Handy on Feb 21, 2021 13:56:18 GMT -5
I lived in Pennsylvania and worked as an auto mechanic for several years. We had snow tires and two grades of tire chains at first. I put on a lot of snow tires and chains when the snow was deeper. The chains cross bars wore out after several uses on bare pavement so I replaced the cross bars. Chains also got tangled when stored so that was another thing that had to be done before they were installed. I haven't used my cross bar replacement pliers in 40 years.
Later snow tires had holes in the treads where you could install studs (2 different lengths of studs) so I installed studs in-house if the customer wanted them.
My personal car has 4 studded winter snow tires and is a sub-compact with front wheel drive. I do OK unless the snow is packed down and is deep enough to drag on the floor-pan of the car. If the snow packs down to a deeper depth, I have cable chains. I did own one 4 wheel drive car but I found it wasn't all that necessary for in-town driving. My road-street is rarely plowed but neighbors have 4X4's and after a couple of them go past my house, then I can get to a road that is plowed. The only thing that is a common problem is, some neighbors put their snow in the street, which makes it difficult to get through some spots.
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Post by Handy on Feb 25, 2021 16:16:46 GMT -5
Mr. Potato Head is no more. Mr. Potato Head first hit the toy scene in 1952, when it didn’t even come with a plastic potato. The individual supplied a real potato and inserted the various parts.
Mr. Potato Head will just be called "Potato Head" to comply with gender netueal language.
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Post by isthisit on Feb 25, 2021 18:29:25 GMT -5
Mr. Potato Head will just be called "Potato Head" to comply with gender netueal language. A hospital on the south coast of England recently banned the term “breastfeeding” in its maternity services. This is to be replaced with “chestfeeding” in order not to offend the trans population. FFS |
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Post by Handy on Feb 25, 2021 19:20:11 GMT -5
Isthisit
“chestfeeding” in order not to offend the trans population. FFS
Double FFS FFS!!
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Post by lwoetin on Feb 27, 2021 14:18:21 GMT -5
BBL can't be about a Brazilian Butt Lift. So off to slang dictionary. I ran into the slang for snack...Snack was black slang for a “small penis” in the 1970s. Haha. Do not offer a snack to anybody! Dessert may be less harmful.
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Post by jerri on Feb 27, 2021 19:02:08 GMT -5
I had snow for two days in TX so I made some snow ice cream just like my mom used to make.
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Post by Handy on Mar 1, 2021 11:46:27 GMT -5
Jerri, don't use yellow snow. I think you can guess why.
I watched the Apollo 11 moon landing as it happened. Last evening I watched some Apollo moon walks on Youtube. One of the more technical videos I watched was about the computer that made the landing on the Moon possible. It is long video, but to me it explained a lot of technical hurdles that had to be solved for a reasonably safe landing and assent.
Light Years Ahead | The 1969 Apollo Guidance Computer 1:21:21
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Post by worksforme2 on Mar 10, 2021 19:56:41 GMT -5
Two days ago my low tire pressure indicator light came on. Turns out it was a nail and it was in one of the worst areas for a nail, just where the sidewall begins. So I got it plugged and I ask if a tube would work if the plug didn't hold the pressure. Turns out one can't a tube in a radial tire, for several reasons. I didn't know that.
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Post by Handy on Mar 10, 2021 23:00:07 GMT -5
There is a lot of tire flexing where the tread meets the sidewall of a tire so what ever method you use to plug or patch the hole needs to be really firmly attached.. I worked in a tire store in the early 1970s and I used 3 types of repairs and occasionally a tube to fix punctures. 1. A plug, basically a rubber peg that had a head that was inserted into the hole or a thick rubberized string also inserted in to the hole. Walmart sell the rubberized string type. 2. A patch that is made for radial tires glued/cemented to the inside of the tire where the hole is. 3. A "Hot Patch" which is like a thick patch but instead of glue or cement to the tire, is heated electrically, until the rubber patch melts and becomes part of the tire. I haven't seen one of these "hot patch" devices in 40 years. I see something similar on Youtube used on earth mover and giant dump truck tires.
Tubeless tires actually have similar rubber as tubes had but it is thinner than a tube and built into the inside of the tire. Adding an actual tube to any tire increases the tire's rolling resistance a little bit. I experiment with bike tires and rolling resistance, puncture resistance and tread wear. For me, it is about riding farther and doing less work pedaling.
I have the #1 type thick rubberized string I use for small nail holes and it works well most of the time on the tread area. If it was my tire with the puncture near the sidewall, I would use #2, a radial tire patch (I also have those type of patches) and make certain the air pressure was near the max all of the time. Low tire pressure creates heat so keep the tire inflated to lower the flex=heat. A tire repair salesman stopped at the shop where I was working. His car must of had 50 of those plugs in one of his demonstrator tire. I was so impressed I bought a kit for use on my moon-lite jobs. At the time radial tires were only around for 5 or so years but we put tubes in radial tires mounted on spoked wheels on British (Jaguar-MG) cars and no one had any problems. I even put tubes in other radial tires back in the 1970/80's. Of course there are more safety concerns today so maybe under certain conditions maybe tubes pose a higher risk but that risk would also apply to biased ply tires and nit just radial ply tires.
One thing I don't like to do is use anything made in China when it comes to rubber parts. Chinese rubber does not last. I would never use a Chinese tube in any vehicle. Even bicycle tubes made in China don't seem to last long.
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Post by petrushka on Mar 11, 2021 2:48:30 GMT -5
And plastic, actually. A lot of Chinese plastic is complete rubbish.
We had plastic switches break on a brand new washing machine made in ... you guessed it.
Bosch stopped making washing machines in China and moved to Malaysia I think.
But there were other incidents, other manufacturers, other items.
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Post by gladifoundthisforum on Mar 11, 2021 4:11:03 GMT -5
And plastic, actually. A lot of Chinese plastic is complete rubbish. We had plastic switches break on a brand new washing machine made in ... you guessed it. Bosch stopped making washing machines in China and moved to Malaysia I think. But there were other incidents, other manufacturers, other items. Oh yeah... crap Chinese plastic. My parents-in-law had a cheap Chinese '4 gang' (electrical extension lead with four sockets). We cleared their house out a few weeks ago and picked this 4 gang up from where it had been sitting, being used and getting slightly warm for about 6 years....... the plastic case just crumbled leaving the metal pins and rails completely exposed. Had it been left on for much longer it could have burnt the house down  |
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Post by worksforme2 on Mar 11, 2021 7:32:49 GMT -5
I make a concerted effort not to buy anything made in China. I especially was glad of my American prejudice when China entered the construction market . One of their cheap products was drywall. Those who bought it came to regret it when they learned it gave off formaldehyde fumes and they ended up having to tear out the drywall and replace it. A great many Chinese products are cheaply made. And you can't know which are made with slave labor.
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Post by Handy on Mar 31, 2021 0:13:16 GMT -5
It starts out about light bulbs and touches on Apple Products. I did some investigating regarding Apple and the video is telling the same things that I found. I also have a friend that used to work for a major appliance company and some of their engineers took apart 8 or more year older machines to test some of the good components. If the part showed little wear, it was redesigned to wear out in 5+years.
This is why we can't have nice things
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Post by Handy on Mar 31, 2021 23:52:25 GMT -5
Why Don't We Have Metric Time? | Answers With Joe
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Post by worksforme2 on Apr 18, 2021 8:58:12 GMT -5
 I love the night sky, I can't get enough of meteor showers on those rare occasions when it isn't cloudy here. I'd really like to be able to look up and see the rings of Saturn.... |
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