Recent content by Cobleskill

The worst are the heater a/c control doors/flaps. Underneath the dash and about impossible to get to. You have to stand on your head. Even figuring out how to operate a strange vehicles heat controls while driving is a challenge. The old 2 slides and a blower switch worked fine for me and...

I took out the dash for my bud's fairly new Chevy pickup. Thing went dead. Found a place that refurbishes for a third of the price of a refurbished one. About two weeks total turnaround. He was happy. Easier job than I thought. I dread problems with stupid things like push to start or...

Same here.

The few times i have used ether to set a bead gets my heart rate up quite a bit.

You can make a nice explosion with a plastic 1 gallon jug. Get you acetylene torch burning perfect. Snuff it out and fill up gallon jug with some water in the bottom for weight. Get people way back from fire. Toss it in. My son did garbage bags full till he got smarter. Had the cops at his...

It has to be contained to be a major boom. If it settled in a hollow, then got ignited it might make a mild boom. Gasoline will do that. I guess a massive leak, like at a plant would go boom. Would not want to test the theory. I never knew, unlike propane, natural gas is lighter that air...

Polyurethane paint gives off hydrogen cyanide and some other nasty stuff.

Could be. I know lead paint still is around. One would think it would be banned by now.

I never have had a bad sore throat from welding and I have done a lot of it. I know covid is on the uptick.

I think it is a Japanese fish net float. How it got there?

Not many around here. Cool trees.

Speed Queens are still supposed to still be a durable make. Not cheap though. Used one might be a good option.

I got 31s cables from that source. Really nice. Highly flexible and the tractor starts like it never did before. It used to have to six volts in series. Two twelves much cheaper. Works great.

Yes. Oahu. You are right. It's been a few years and I couldn't remember. It is quite striking in person. The place is worth a stop if you are there. Good baked goods also. It probably has grown since we were there.