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I remember that they sold aftermarket center brake lights, back when it was possible to get a ticket for having one...or at least so the urban legend goes. I still have a wheel bearing packing tool from them, works great. Basically two shallow cones, threaded on a hollow rod that had a zerk...

That's a pet peeve of mine re the LEDs. Last I knew, most white LED's were really blue or shorter LEDs with a phosphor to add other bits to the spectrum. Which means like any phosphor, they eventually burn out. So most white LEDs are almost as consumable as fluorescent, so they should be...

I have a set of combination wrenches that are stamped "Grants". Probably not the greatest in 1960 whatever, but they're better than most now. I'm not sure who I inherited them from, but I've never been in a Grants as far as I know. As far as ratchets goes, I really never liked the feel of...

Huh. My take away from this whole thing really isn't about the weather so much. It's along the lines of "if you're going to fly somewhere different, and mostly you fly around the same place, maybe a good idea to figure out what's different about it and see if it matters much." Which is good...

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Just my 2 cents, that apprehension may also be the little voice in the back of your head telling you to maybe slow down a little bit. I don't mean that in a derogatory way at all. You clearly have a driven mindset, technically oriented, and that's how people get things done. But you've also...

Re the light bulb, maybe the sign is run by the municipality, and they don't have the budget for a new bulb. I kinda kid, but I've seen similar in real life.

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:) So I'm going to pop in on the other side of water. I don't know if it applies to anywhere out west, but it does here. The only thing worse than no water is sometimes too much water. But that, I mean check the 100 yr flood maps to see if you're in an area that might be flooded or actually...

Flying over farmland in a cherokee? Sure! Flying over suburbs in something fast and complicated? Maybe I'd sign up for the second flight.

I transported a friend's cat to the vet, in a carrier, in a 78 Blazer back in the late 80's. For the entire trip it made a noise that I can only describe as a cross between an air-raid siren and the noise an infant might make if you stab it. You couldn't pay me to transport another cat again.

Were you climbing at WOT or reduced RPM? Asking because in a pa-28-150 with 2 people and full fuel, climbing is slow at WOT. I've flown one older PA-28 model with a specific engine/prop combination that was placarded to avoid continuous operation at some specific RPM range, can't remember the...

I don't think I've ever ignored anyone on here. I have un-followed more than a few threads, though. Once they get into some sort of cross between a bad version of Groundhog Day and a death spiral I lose interest. Individual people, though? To me the only annoying ones are the people pop on...

Northeast ...so it wasn't just the aircraft that were in better shape in the 70's.

Close to here the FedEx dropoff is actually a FedEx distribution site that also takes pickups. I know they all don't do that, and I don't know of any UPS facilities that do that around here. One difference in how they landed might partly be that UPS always used to be a union shop, maybe still...

I didn't comment on the fiber part because that's out of my area of current experience. But Eric is right, on the copper side, you should be good to a total length of 100m, or just over 300ft. That's a timing limit, not signal strength. On the fiber side, the technology that the Internet...

Extra long version of this: https://www.redi-exit.com/products/fire-escape-ladder

The last building I worked in was 13 stories high, had about 1500 people in it, and had a loading dock that could handle 2 trailers at once, and it didn't have 19 doors. Was there a sale on doors? :)

She can actually sing! I wouldn't have known, but I saw her when she popped on an episode of Letterman or two. I think the rest is just her schtick, like Don Rickles insulting everyone.

Fa (and now I have that song stuck in my head, plus an image of Julie Andrews and a bunch of orphans running through a field being chased by Germans.)