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Hmm. Surprised they didn’t have 16 seer AC only units. We had a new 16 seer, 3 ton Bryant outdoor unit, coils, return and supply plenums, all installed this spring for a really good price. Maybe they stock different options in Texas. We need to do the other 3 ton unit soon, not sure if I’ll...

Actually, I think it is as simple as the difference between military and civilian conventions for 24 hour time format.

If you really regretted it, why didn’t you press the back button before you were 2 min in?

A few thoughts. I remember back in the 80’s, my parents started keeping the cars locked, not so much about theft, but to keep drunks from deciding it was a good place to sleep, and finding vomit in the car the next day. And if the sun was up, and anyone was home, the front and back doors were...

If that grinding wheel is not specifically rated for aluminum, please throw it away when you are done. Aluminum tends to load up on grinding wheels, and has a much higher coefficient or expansion than the wheel itself, that can lead to high stresses and grinding wheels flying apart. While...

I’ve gone swimming in a lake with a Ford key fob in my pocket for a couple hours. Now a couple years later, it still works fine.

There are some places where the soap scum made by traditional soap is harder than the tub or shower it precipitates on, making clean up a royal pain. In contrast, body wash seems to have a very trivial rate of soap scum deposition. And since I have minimal preference between the two from a use...

Not sure if this has changed, but I’ve often heard that the driveline is a better spec on the GMC.

It’s that sequential shifter. It will get you every time. :p

Holes in shim stock is where punches shine. Now unless you have a wide range of sizes in a diacra turret punch, I’ll admit having one the right size can be a problem.

Around DFW, there is an odd market for interesting cars over 25 years old, so you can mod them as you want, and not have to pass emissions regulations.

Even the pool of used manual transmissions is likely smaller than it should be. Thanks cash for clunkers.

And what’s sad, is that what you likely found is the common formula for approximating the dew point around common temperatures. If you need to figure out dew points in uncommon situations, the common approximation doesn’t work, and it gets even worse. At one point I even had HVAC engineers...

It often is, to the people around them. And if you have seen things like live PD, it appears it is often painful to them as well, they just can’t figure out the causal link.

Is this the first time you have ever dressed a girl up in your mind? :D

Just some? Personally, the least objectionable Ford fuel fittings are the steel quick connects with the spring locks, and if I had free choice, I still wouldn’t to put those on something I was building like this. And for the fuel filters, I still haven’t seen one that wasn’t the quick connect...

My gym uses fingerprint as part of the checkin. Apparently the seniors are the most likely to have issues with the fingerprint readers, simply because they have less prints left to scan.

Especially when the front wheel bearings are factory pressed into the rotors, and better yet, in a way that prevents the rotors from being turned in a conventional brake lathe. This wasn’t to me, but so far, I’ve been lucky, and had the parking brake as a small drum brake integrated into the...

Dads Omega D2 photo enlarger had a woven cloth insulated power cord. At one point, going to turn it off in the dark, feeling for the inline power switch, I found a whisker of wire that had broken, and managed to poke its way through the insulation. I was helping my brother do some wiring...

Hmm. As a teenager, I drove a 1700 lb car with no power steering, and no power brakes, and never felt like it was missing anything other than horsepower. Of course, you are talking about 40% more weight, parts that were not designed for this application, and actually will have horsepower. But...