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I'm going to toss out an idea that doesn't have any right to work. Based on not wanting to go small claims court, and that you're already prepared to eat the damages, I'm betting this is more about educating the mechanic in a monetary way to hopefully avoid, one way or another, for someone else...

I've been in the computer field for 30 years. Software is slower and less reliable than it's ever been, and in terms of reliability I mean less deterministic and less well understood by any given person. It's already typically being written by teams of people working in an intentionally sped...

mechanical engineering is not my thing, but my rough understanding of it is that angle iron makes kind of a lousy structural support, in that that is has weird buckling failure modes that aren't necessarily accurately modeled by anything. That was a terrible sentence. In other words, you have...

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This is from people who put tomatoes on hotdogs they give you. If they LIKE you.

To me that's compelling evidence that's you're a good guy....and earned that support system around you. Congrats on that award, and hope you have a great time in Greece!

I use tmobile for personal phones, and verizon for my work phone and a 5g home Internet. Around here I generally find the tmobile coverage to be better. That said, if I had fiber Internet I wouldn't drop it if you're getting 500+MB downloads out of it. I actually have 2 Internet providers...

This is going to sound like me being a jerk (again), but why would anyone go back to a restaurant where the food or service was bad? Running a restaurant is really, really hard. Most don't make it past a year. I don't think a comment card is going to fix anything.

I'm thinking if it sprays all over the windscreen and then the engine stops it's what I'd call catastrophic.

Every pilot should know that dancer outfits should only be line dried. I've done the repair old appliance thing a bit, and sometimes get a little more mileage out of them if they're old appliances. But I think most of the new stuff is so poorly made it's not worth the effort. Now I just try...

That makes sense, but a lot of it is subjective. The Xterra, or the Bronco I had years before that, weighed within 200 lbs of each other, at around 4400. With 6 ply at 35-40 psi they both rode great to me, with even tire wear. At 50 psi, they bounced down the road. But...friends would drive...

A much lighter vehicle, but I run light truck Cooper Discoverer AT3's on my Xterra. 265/75LT16. Great tread pattern for snow, not bad at all for dirt/mud, a bit noisy on the pavement but not terrible. I like them a lot. The thing I would recommend checking is what the load rating and tire...

I work with a a guy who's always looking for a pony, and sometimes needs to be reminded of same...

Agree with all of your post but 2 little things. I have 2 80 series, a gold cup and a delta. In both, the firing pin block isn't a disconnect. It's a pin with a groove that is set 90 degrees to the firing pin. Unless the block is held in, the firing pin is captured and can't move. I don't...

Maybe it's a regional thing, but I don't know of any LE agency around here that has 1911's as a duty gun, except for tactical teams. All that I know of are using some form of double action only. I think for a period of time NYSP carried SA/DA Berreta 92s, but that was a long time ago. And I...

Is it just me, or does the build part of this thread remind people of a Ted's building the bus thread? In a good way. That, or an episode of Scooby Doo. Either way, we're rootin' for you.

I bet there isn't a correlation between fuel system complexity and instances of running out of fuel. Just a guess. But working on the theory that you either know how it works, or you don't, and either develop good procedures, or don't...and somewhat biased because I read a lot of PA-28 crash...

I hope it doesn't hurt the public perception of drones. I kinda hope it reduces the public perception of CNN.

I'll bet a ham sandwich that your primary goal is to get it back together right, so it has a really good chance of giving you way more hours of safe service than last time, and so you'll be comfortable flying in that airplane again. And I'm even more certain you'll do that.

People who live in grass houses shouldn't stow thrones.