Optimus Grime
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I’m chaperoning a field trip with about 250 middle schoolers to Busch Gardens and words can’t describe how much fun I’m having.
What did you do today non-detailing related?
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Klasse Act
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Is that a quiet vortex or is it a loud one?Finished installing all the goodies on the 'ole Stang after having heads rebuilt. Seems to run much better, but I've only put about 10 miles on it.
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Quiet one.
It's actually a Paxton (Novi 2000).
Has helical internal gears, so it's quieter than the loud straight cut gears.
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Klasse Act
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Sorry, when I see a supercharger on a Mustang.I automatically assume it is a vortech unless it's a GT350 or that era of the 60's
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No worries.Sorry, when I see a supercharger on a Mustang.I automatically assume it is a vortech unless it's a GT350 or that era of the 60's
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Vortech owns Paxton now, so you aren't too far off.
Also, if you place the product lines side-by-side, they have a lot of overlap.
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I broke out the pressure washer and garden hoses for the first time this year to see if the PW pump had survived winter in the unheated shed
I used Sta-Bil PW pump winterizer last fall and was really worried about it since I had never used it before
I didn't need to be worried, it worked as advertised, and the PW was none the worse for wear
I tore all the guts out of my gas grill and sprayed them and the rest of the grill down with Spray 9 and agitated with a parts cleaning brush and used the turbo nozzle on the PW and everything came pretty darn clean
They extended the deadline for swapping out studded tires until May 15th but I think we are over the hump so I am going to get on cleaning and sealing my summer sets and getting them changed out over the next few days
I will give the arches and everything a good once over while I am at it
I used Sta-Bil PW pump winterizer last fall and was really worried about it since I had never used it before
I didn't need to be worried, it worked as advertised, and the PW was none the worse for wear
I tore all the guts out of my gas grill and sprayed them and the rest of the grill down with Spray 9 and agitated with a parts cleaning brush and used the turbo nozzle on the PW and everything came pretty darn clean
They extended the deadline for swapping out studded tires until May 15th but I think we are over the hump so I am going to get on cleaning and sealing my summer sets and getting them changed out over the next few days
I will give the arches and everything a good once over while I am at it
Big Dave
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Nice weather today, although we had some fog this morning, but it turned into beautiful 24C/75f afternoon, so lawn mowing time. Filled the catcher to the brim, the clippings even kept the internal lines of the mower.
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DFB
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Helping my longest-term customer do a tip run this afternoon, who's now vision impaired, he started asking about my cars, in particular the "blue Falcon". Of course, the topic brough up comments about inline 6's, which led onto a car he used to own, a BMW E36 328i.
I remember that car very well because when I first started working for them, I would always take out my earphones to listen to the exhaust on start-up, a beautifully rich BMW inline 6 rasp, then as it drove off down the street. It always made me smile.
It also made me smile when my customer spoke about the car today, clearly it left an impression on him. That particular E36 328i was a sedan in Arctic Silver Metallic with the M-sport suspension, wheels and body enhancements. He proudly told me of doing 250 kph (155 mph) in that car and of how well it drove. He replaced that car with two first gen BMW X3's, followed by a string of Subaru's. What we universally agreed on was how BMW are not what they used to be.
Naturally, I had to see if a 142 kW 2.8-litre 328i could do 250 kph, just.......................
Compare that to a modern 4-cylinder 328i, faster but no thanks...............
I remember that car very well because when I first started working for them, I would always take out my earphones to listen to the exhaust on start-up, a beautifully rich BMW inline 6 rasp, then as it drove off down the street. It always made me smile.
It also made me smile when my customer spoke about the car today, clearly it left an impression on him. That particular E36 328i was a sedan in Arctic Silver Metallic with the M-sport suspension, wheels and body enhancements. He proudly told me of doing 250 kph (155 mph) in that car and of how well it drove. He replaced that car with two first gen BMW X3's, followed by a string of Subaru's. What we universally agreed on was how BMW are not what they used to be.
Naturally, I had to see if a 142 kW 2.8-litre 328i could do 250 kph, just.......................
Compare that to a modern 4-cylinder 328i, faster but no thanks...............
DFB
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My son and I cut down a huge dead birch and ripped some lumber from it
Then just a few minutes ago we saw this red fox
And a few minutes later it was joined by this cross fox
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Ok, as a chainsaw nut, I have to ask what model Stihl are you using to rip with?
DFB
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Autumn is now here......................
Grass has basically stopped, just tipping light regrowth now. The above is the last Ornamental Pear I have to deal with these days. I once had four properties with a combined 30 Pear trees to clean up every Autumn. Thankfully, they all dropped at different rates, so it spread out my workload across the season, with the last of them holding right up until the start of Winter. Would have carted billions of the things to the green waste every year......................
And no, I didn't set fire to them....................
I did two full loads that day, luckily the green waste tip was only a 3-minute drive from that particular property. Try doing that is a dual cab model.......................
Back to today, despite appearances, the below image is before I started cutting. The technique I use is to blow all of the leaves onto the lawn, in the process clearing a path around the perimeter to avoid the mower blowing leaves onto the pavement. I then get to it...............
After the initial cut.....................
From there, most would be happy, but I then go around with the blower again and re-cut the area to suck up any remaining leaves. With so many more leaves yet to fall, it's probably a waste of time, but I have high standards!
For leaf vacuuming, I would normally be using my Rover ProCut 560 or a 2-stroke Victa for this role, the Rover for its full width chute and massive catcher, the Victa 2-stroke for its sheer power. The Victa Commercial 21 with its partial chute did surprisingly well in this case, the engine barely raising a sweat.
I wish I bought this mower years ago!
Grass has basically stopped, just tipping light regrowth now. The above is the last Ornamental Pear I have to deal with these days. I once had four properties with a combined 30 Pear trees to clean up every Autumn. Thankfully, they all dropped at different rates, so it spread out my workload across the season, with the last of them holding right up until the start of Winter. Would have carted billions of the things to the green waste every year......................
And no, I didn't set fire to them....................
I did two full loads that day, luckily the green waste tip was only a 3-minute drive from that particular property. Try doing that is a dual cab model.......................
Back to today, despite appearances, the below image is before I started cutting. The technique I use is to blow all of the leaves onto the lawn, in the process clearing a path around the perimeter to avoid the mower blowing leaves onto the pavement. I then get to it...............
After the initial cut.....................
From there, most would be happy, but I then go around with the blower again and re-cut the area to suck up any remaining leaves. With so many more leaves yet to fall, it's probably a waste of time, but I have high standards!
For leaf vacuuming, I would normally be using my Rover ProCut 560 or a 2-stroke Victa for this role, the Rover for its full width chute and massive catcher, the Victa 2-stroke for its sheer power. The Victa Commercial 21 with its partial chute did surprisingly well in this case, the engine barely raising a sweat.
I wish I bought this mower years ago!
DFB
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Nice! 91.6cc of 2-stroke fury!
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cleaned the carpet in my wife's sewing room today
MisterSnoop
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My son and I cut down a huge dead birch and ripped some lumber from it
Are you keeping it live edge like that? If so, what's it being used for?
chilly
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I don't really know about leaving the live edge or not
The tree was mine but ripping lumber is my sons deal and I don't know if he already has plans for the wood or not
I just like running my chainsaws
chilly
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He slabbed these to 5/4 and will be ripping them to dimensional lumber for a project
We did another large birch last fall and he slabbed it 8/4 and he is leaving that live edge for a special project
Big Dave
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I pulled apart the power head of my Ryobi Stick Vac, for the last couple of months the brush has randomly stopped spinning, well now it's not so random, after about 5 minutes of use the red light comes on and the brush stops, but the vac keeps sucking.
With the covers off all the wiring looks good, I blew out all the dust, checked the belt, which looks almost new. Seems to work fine that way.
Put it back together, and the brush stops again after a few minutes. Might be time for a new one.
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With the covers off all the wiring looks good, I blew out all the dust, checked the belt, which looks almost new. Seems to work fine that way.
Put it back together, and the brush stops again after a few minutes. Might be time for a new one.
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