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Personally, if your BP is borderline enough that it stresses you out, you probably owe it to yourself to either up your exercise to get it under control, or get on medication. Once you know it isn’t putting your health at risk, you have no reason to get worked up about it when measured in the...

I’m sure the story has an explosive (rear) ending.

Nuclear still suffers much in US public perception from a Cold War Russian psyops campaign to make the pubic worried about it and limit our industrial growth. I think there is even a published book about it somewhere.

Having driven through Mexia, I’m not confident that your luck would be much better on a weekday.

Two comments on alternator clutches. If you are the factory, and you want to cut the HP draw of the alternator, it is probably easier, more reliable and in line with other manufacturer initiatives to just have the ECU cut the field current at WOT/high RPM The other part is something that the...

The ROPS on dad’s JD 790 clears the framing/barn door track by about 1.5 inches. And it isn’t something you can see/confirm as you go through either. I just wonder how many years until the dirt floor builds up enough, or one of the poles sinks enough that it no longer clears. Might be a less...

And it helps if you remember when you don’t have any counterweight mounted on the 3 pt. Not that long ago I was helping plant a 20 foot electrical service pole on what we had thought was a trivial cross slope, using a 30 HP JD. Between using the downhill chain hook, (due to space, path, layout...

So do you even have an expansion valve, or is it one of the orifice tube type systems? A lot of vehicles went to a combination orifice tube and two stage strainer. Reverse flow might just blow them out of their holder and into the tube that is normally upstream, while dislodging any brass...

My primary anxiety about both of those photos, is that other humans have to respect the Lock Out/Tag Out processes. And it takes me a while for anyone to earn that much trust with me.

I’ve seen stories suggesting manufacturing defect in the cables that were added when the platform was expanded from 500 tons to 900 tons. But the second cable that snapped was from the original set, and it seems that one of the stories was also trying to claim manufacturing defect? But I’ve...

At least one road in Texas has an 85 MPH speed limit. With the 3.73 rear axle in my F150, the governor will only allow it to go 5 over. But I’ll be driving on some highway with a 75 limit next weekend, and I guarantee there will be packs of traffic going faster than the truck will.

Consider that anti seize specifications may not just be about temperature. They may also be about galvanic corrosion potential.

Through the power of the internet this thread lead me to taking a deeper dive into the history of the R-2800.

I think I was using a Chapman stance before I even knew that there was a name for it.

I don’t think I have ever seen a 12V panel that wasn’t 18-22V open circuit. Not saying they aren’t out there, but the efficiency/current capability falls off if they don’t have a fair bit of headroom between rated and open circuit.

Meh, we print so little that about twice a year, we would find that the nozzles had dried out, often on nearly full cartridges, but it was worse when we did it to the canon that had the print head separate from the cartridges. We tried switching to color laser, and are on our second in about 14...

Way back in the day, on road trips with Dad, there was a place near Portland OR that did a smoked oyster pizza. Occasionally we would do it at home when Mom was away. Strangely, I don’t think I’ve had one in 30 years.

At least the instructions don’t start with jacking up the car, and removing the wheel and wheel well.

As is true in a lot of fields, you can easily make a small fortune, if you start with a large fortune.

The LEDs themselves don’t generate noise. It is all about the power supply driving them, though that is usually embedded in the consumer product that we buy as a led light. So who made it and the target market likely affects the chances of a particular LED product being a RF noise source.