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https://www.harborfreight.com/24-inch-2-in-1-pickup-tool-94162.html?_br_psugg_q=grabber+tool I've had luck with a grabber tool like this retrieving things from fuel tanks. Definitely takes luck, holding your tongue the right way, closing one eye, and appropriate incantations.

Sounds like I get to update my business cards and can now call myself a fighter pilot. Cessna loaded with explosives - callsign Leroy Jenkins?

It's impossible to regret selling an airplane if instead of selling that airplane you simply increase the fleet. I'm fortunate that my partner(Dad) is a much an enabler as I am. The only airplane we've sold was a Pacer to "upgrade" to a 180. You could say there are 2 relative pains with the...

Typically the range is +/- 5% of nominal for the utility at the meter base - so at the mains you should have 114-126V. This can change throughout the day, or seasonally dependent as well. At the end of a run from that, could have as low as 110 around the house without a problem. Usually...

*Typically* the run from the transformer to meter panel is owned by the power company. That, and what you've got beyond all sounds pretty normal. Tagging on an extension for some lights and the occasional power tool is likely no problem. You could run into an issue if sump pump is running and...

What are you wanting to run on this circuit? Typically voltage drop isn't a major factor for house wiring - run the appropriate gauge romex for the breaker and you're fine. In this instance, difference between 14 and 12 is roughly 3 and 2 ohms/1kft, respectively. At steady state of 80% load...

We're almost complete on a panel upgrade for our R182, would guess similar use case on a Navion - light IFR XC bird that could be flown fairly hard IFR if needed. Previous panel was roughly the best 1990 had to offer, twin nav/com no GPS no AP. Ended up with enough on the need/want list that we...

Without knowing the load downstream, not really. Can't really tell conductor size from the picture either but as a semi educated guess looks like reconductoring from somewhere around #2 to #2/0, up to 336-556ish. Old small wire ampacity would be 180-280 or so, usually sized to carry 40-100 for...

Green arrows are de-energized, reds are most likely hot. The near phase that's out on the hot arm is tougher to see. You can certainly get induced current on a line, especially if it parallels another energized line for a long ways. Most distribution lines it tends not to be a problem, can get...

Out of an odd sense of obligation, I'll indicate I'm quite sure this is sarcasm as getting near power lines is a way to die, but not a particularly good way to die. Most VOM are good to 600 or so volts, good chance this line is 7200V to ground. It would be exciting for a few milliseconds, then...

They're shorted/grounded for safety during installation. When we reconductor a line it's pretty typical to put hot arms on(the fiberglass arms attached to the normal crossarm) and spread the phase wires out then using pulling ropes to run the tag line then new conductor down the center. The...

Depends on what plane and your capabilities. In a cub you might make it to Oklahoma and back in 3 months. We're big on good food, so nearest I've got is in 2020 we flew from WA to Maine for 2 weeks. Flew down the coast and ate lobster rolls everywhere we could - it was awesome. Had to scoot...

As with many things, it depends. Flying at home in the rural NW(not far from OP), FF can be tough due to terrain. I'm often scanning local CTAF as I fly XC, and if radio congestion isn't bad I'll make position/direction reports. There's a fair amount of non ADSB traffic so anything that might...

I flew into KRED a couple times this summer to visit a friend, I'll 2nd/3rd the nice small airport. Tie downs should be ample since they won't have 10+ fire aircraft in February. Only question would be if they(the tie down spots) are under 6 feet of snow. Weather is pretty severe there, I'd...

I can't post links yet since I'm new, but I'm guessing it's the 182 listed on Spokane craigslist at KSFF? 1999 182, IO 540, mid time engine, LR tanks, full garmin stack and a chute. Pretty well outfitted, nice looking airplane. $32k buys 1/8 equity. $115/mo plus $90/hr wet seems reasonable to...