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Heck with cooking when you can get a cooked chicken at Costco for $4.99. It was very god 😋.

Time to replace the stairs with an elevator. Your gonna need it eventually just to get stock down and builds up as you get older. Probably cost about the same as all that lumber did to build the protection devices for a Redneck elevator . If someone complains about you running a machine shop...

I put a Michigan on my bx years ago and it fit well. Nice ride when mowing. I just put one of the Vevor seats on my Chinese mini excavator to get more legroom and add a safety interlock operator presence switch. It's nice and has many different mounting holes. Comfortable but not as rugged and...

Finally dry enough to roll Had to fix the roller first. Last year the weld joint between the 1 inch shaft and drum rotted out so had to remove the outer cap and join the 18 gauge drum back to the 1 inch shaft with a mess of weld beads to fill in the missing metal. Luckily the cover hides the...

Don't they sell a 7 degree to 10 degree tapered bushing for repairing tie rods. I know a friend of mine used one years ago where he just ran a standard 10 degree tie rod reamer in the spindle and the bushing locked on place when the tie rod nut was torqued through the 7 deg inner taper to fix a...

I needed a new burner email account to verify who is the worst spam generator site after you setup an account, so I recently signed up for AOL 😁. I didn't even realize they're still around. They were my first online service after bulletin boards in the 80s. YOU GOT MAIL plays in my head every...

Time for a CNC lathe 🤔.

It's not just software updates. Quite a bit seems to be pandemic quality and cost cutting catching up. Supply chains offshore with engineers thousands of miles away doesn't help either. Sure, it's only 5 to 10 percent of production affected but not fun if you get unlucky. Takes 6 weeks to even...

https://autos.yahoo.com/safety-and-recalls/articles/ford-recall-problem-getting-too-123057133.html

All we can afford anymore is veggies. Beef prices are crazy 🤑. Today's lunch. Baked potatoes on the Kettle with fresh picked chives and last years veggies from the freezer. That rabbit running around our yard was making me hungry 🐇 and then was stolen from the sky 🦅.

I bought a 2018 Silverado and in a little over 2 years the frame was just about rusted through. It was after they removed the wash bath to save money and sealed the etching chemicals in under the wax undercoating causing it to rot from the inside out. One day chunks of undercoating and rusted...

My 2022 Ranger is very temperamental since new and the date range of my build has several TSB but they have to catch it acting up to do anything other then resetting the software. Randomly bangs down from 3rd or 4th after stopping feeling like you have been hit in the ass. The light duty 10...

Same with the Ford 10 speeds. TSB after TSB.

You should look at the basic processes, coating technology, and materials developed to make those components come to life. I worked on bringing many new products to life in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s that actually had costs reduced and performance increased due to previous engineering r & d...

They are working on developing miniature nuclear plants right now for this application. With no atmosphere, solar would be easy also . Power is the least of the problems. Hopefully I am around long enough to see it happen. Heck, there's already a Tesla in orbit that may be easy to tow out and...