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    Heh... my father-in-law offered me $10k to elope.  I told him he wasn't getting off that cheap. 

    I don't know if the hood was open or closed.  Opening the hood isn't necessary to crawl under a car and remove the oil drain plug.  If the hood was open, the idea of pulling plug wires apparently didn't occur to him.  Don't know how accessible they are anyway.  As stated, the remote start locks the doors. 

    Nah, he said he dropped the key fob in water a while back.  He knew it was malfunctioning and did nothing about it.  The fact that an unintended start didn't occur to him isn't the OEM's fault.            Kinda yes and kinda no.  Cars were a lot easier to work on back then, but you sure had to work on them a lot more often. 

Got a car equipped with remote start? This happened to a coworker the other day....   The key fob for his car had been kinda flakey for a while. Sometimes it unlocked the doors, sometimes not. Annoying, but not a big deal. The car was due for an oil change. So while laying on the concrete underneath it, having drained the oil and removed the filter... the car started itself.   :eek:   So he's laying underneath a his car that's now happily idling with no oil. As you can imagine, relative panic ensues. The keys were sitting on his work bench, and (of course) the car doors were locked and the windows were rolled up.   :panic:   Frantic attempts to shut off the engine and unlock the doors with the key fob didn't work. So he grabbed the nearest handy object and began trying to break the driver's window. It finally broke after a few whacks and he cut his hand while reaching through the broken window to get the key in the ignition and cycle it so he could turn the car off.   The car ran for maybe 60 seconds with no oil. Hopefully there's no permanent damage, though time will tell.   Lessons learned? There's a reason why every shop manual lists step 1 as "disconnect the battery".   Good thing he wasn't doing something major like changing a timing belt with his hands in there when it decided to crank. That likely would have done a lot more than give him a few minor cuts.    

It is. Two (or more) types of metal are forge welded together, flattened, and folded many, many times to create the layers. The layers become so thin you can't see them, and the two metals are basically the same color anyway. The layers are there, they're just not visible until the metal is etched. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XBAST6i4gdc

Indeed. That was some serious relief. You'll probably feel it more tomorrow. I'd guess the good meds they applied during surgery are still working. Be prepared for some phantom pains in the vicinity of the mesh. I had them for a while after surgery. My doc's explanation was that the body knows there's something new in there but doesn't know what it is, so the nerves default to pain until they adjust. Mine varied from a dull ache to brief sharp pains. Nothing terrible, but enough to make me wonder if something was wrong.

    You can polish damascus steel just like (most) any other steel.  You can see the pattern in damascus steel because the steel has been etched with an acid.  Before it's etched, it looks like any other steel.  The acid turns the different constituents of the damascus steel black at different rates, so when the acid is applied for a set amount of time, some parts turn dark black and some not so much.      When he's sharpening the knife, he's literally polishing away the etched surface.  The layer on the outside with the visible pattern is typically very thin.   If you were to use a damascus knife a lot, you can literally wear away the pattern on the outside.  But all you have to do is etch it again and it'll come right back. 

    That's my understanding as well.... they were marginally faster than a bolt gun, noticeably heavier, and not terribly accurate.  Hence, not real popular. 

I had that surgery about 6 years ago.  Mental fog for the first 24 hrs while purging the anesthesia from my system, then it just hurt.  The painkillers they gave me made me itchy and miserable, once I switch to ibuprofen I started feeling better.    The staples were probably the worst part.  Mine got irritated and very sensitive after about a week.  I told the doc during my first post-op visit that if he didn't take them out, I was going to.  He removed about half of them and replaced them with the stickiest tape I've ever seen.  The rest came out the next week and I was much more comfortable.    The best part was the doc's interns.  He had several students that sat thru the various exams and surgery.  One girl (who looked to be maybe 19, and was fairly cute :dirty:  ) was terribly embarrassed when the doc was checking out the incision and staples.  It was hard not to just bust up laughing at the look on her face.    I had very little bruising and  was sore for several weeks and had to take it easy for a couple months, but was fine after that.  One thing I learned.... it's really hard to wipe your arse when you can't bend one of your hip joints.  :D

It's probably defective by now, everyone knows how Glocks don't age well.  For $25, I'll take it off your hands and make sure it's golden years pass quietly.  ;)

I found that if you get the neighbor kids to tear a huge hole in your screened porch, the carpenter bees come in and can't figure out how to get out. Then you just vacuum up the bodies every week or so. :/

Welcome!

As others have said, you can safely go up to the max pressure listed on the tire.  The OEM tire pressure recommendation is technically only applicable to the OEM tires.  They've done testing and analysis to determine that's the best pressure for their version of the best ride/traction/noise.  It has zip to do with mileage or wear rate since the OEM's don't provide any sort of treadwear warranty.    Many newer "eco" or low rolling resistance (LRR) tires are designed to run at a much higher pressure.  You can do the "chalk test" to get a better idea of how much of the tire is actually touching the road.  When I did auto-x many years ago, it was common to put a big chalk mark from the edge of the tread half way down the side wall.  You'd make a run, look to see how much of the chalk rubbed off, and adjust air pressure accordingly. 

Somebody here did something similar for a camper/hunting shack a while back.    I understand the salesman's hesitation with 12V.  Plugging a bank of batteries into your house creates the potential for a massive over-current situation.  If something shorts out, the wire will melt in a blink and could easily start a fire you can't put out.   As long as you understand the risks and mitigate them with appropriate fuses (as you've mentioned), it should be fine.  But I doubt you'll find a pro willing to accept that risk so I suspect DIY'ing it will be your only option. 

    Great, now I'm hungry.  :drool:   I need to get my smoker out again.

I think checking the grounds is a good idea, that's what it sounds like to me.

An SLR camera with a macro lens and tripod would work best.  An auto-focus camera will struggle with the highly polished surface. You'll have to mess around with lighting to get the reflection in the edge you're looking for.  A light box would help with that.     If focus is the problem, one trick is to use a dummy focus target.  Hold something fairly large next to the edge, hold the button half way down so the camera will focus on the object and the edge is also in focus, then remove the object and take the picture.  If that doesn't result in good focus, you can get the camera to focus on a nearby object and then move the camera so it's focused where you want it.  It can be difficult to tell if the edge is exactly in focus so expect some trial and error.    You can also try using a gorilla pod and the 2 second self timer feature in the camera. 

Thanks for the info.  Wish I could've made it. 

My folks have it. Not worth the expense, IMO. Slick as ice when wet and stain as bad or worse than wood.

It's a good thing the regulations are clear, concise, and easy to understand.... Best of my knowledge, tagged vehicles are legal on main roads in WMA's. Other trails require a permit and/or hunting license.

Can you pay at the range or do you have to go to the PD?

I'd like to but my wife has already made other plans for me.  I'd like to get up to Norris sometime and sight in a couple rifles. Wish there was a closer place to shoot them. 

    But $70,000/yr probably doesn't cover the the salary and benefits for 1 extra person to do that all that signing, much less the additional court costs for all those who contest the tickets.

An odd bird for sure, but he was an incredible musician.  Not only his own music, but he wrote hit songs for a number of others.

I can see the badges CZ, running firefox.  Can't see them mobile using my iphone.     And yes, portion sizes are tough to wrap your head around.  I struggle with that myself. It takes a while for your stomach to shrink down to where a meal of correct portions actually fills you up.  When you're a stress eater (like me) and life is stressful, it gets quite difficult at times.  The best thing I know of is to simply get all the bad stuff out of the house, car, office, ...   If you don't have it, you can't eat it.  Not so easy when you've got kids who require cookies and such in their lunches.