Democrats involved as well as Republicans, would be my guess. Maybe pressure from the UK not to Release more about Prince Andrew?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J8k3d9C1pw

Maybe this is his Grandma https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J8k3d9C1pw

Cast Iron, geez. That’s a relic!

Winning looks so good

I went with genuine parts. There were some a quarter of the price but this is our last car till maybe we ndbup full electric

For reassembly they have nylock inserts so I usually just leave it bare metal so as not to mess with the anti slip of the nylon.

The original lasted 22 years, so I shouldn’t need to replace them now :)

Hmm, all MJ moves weren’t his. Its like all his moves are from just this movie.

😀 I have been there…with a drill and bolt extractor.

The hardest part was taking the old nuts off, but I sprayed them the day before with WD40, so it wasn’t too bad

We bought a house that had the kitchen drain pipes like that.

Previous owner poured tons of chicken fat and bacon grease down the sink. The 1 1/2 pipe was down to a 1/2 hole. The fat seemed to have trapped every fiber that came down the pipe so the texture looked like your picture.

I though, meh, easy fix I’ll replace the pipe. But then noticed the galvanized pipe went behind a block wall and was resting on an electrical cable. So I had to pull it all out.

Then noticed (while opening the wall) that it had no insulation in the cavity. So I tore it all down to the studs and started over.

Clogged pipe became a $5000 kitchen reno.

But in the end we had new wiring, new plumbing, double sink, new cupboards, new counter top, and the closed in kitchen wall was opened up to make a breakfast bar with a supporting beam across the ceiling.

Looking back $5000 is cheap, today that would be a $20-30k reno if pros came in.

I missed that, thanks for pointing it out.

I’ll have to get my dad to do this at his place. He’s on a well, water softener, and fancy septic tank, as well as sump and sewer being pumped up from basement level to ground level for removal.

The system looks impressive, but if he’s not around in an emergency I would not know what pipe or valve does what.

We got flooded a bunch of times when the power got knocked out, because the town allowed development onto old swamp land that became a flood plain when the lake level was high and heavy rains came.

My dad installed a water based pump, it had a turbo type spool. City water pressure coming in on one side spun the pump shaft to pump out the sump. You are dumping city water into the sump too, but at a small volume x high pressure vs pumping out at low pressure x high volume.

So all was fine, just had to hope the town didn’t lose water pressure at same time as power outage.

A lightning strike would have been ironic.

It doesn’t take much going wrong to “hallucinate” light, its not that you physically produce the light the eye starts to see. Its just a byproduct of the processes happening

It’s the difference between lead time and production period.

Let’s say GM rolls off 1 car out of the assembly line every hour, it doesn’t mean the work they do to build a car only takes an hour.

Maybe it takes a week? (I’m guessing) to get from frame to finished vehicle. It means the first six days are just filling the plant line, and 7th day they plop out a car an hour as they add one frame to the input at one an hour, but lead time is a full week to get car X from start to finish.

Yeah we have done those too. Paramount and Netflix cancelled. Canada has a free strwaming site from the CBC.

I’ve repurposed hardware with Linux to get performance back instead of CPU upgrade for Windows.

Repaired an older car instead of buying new (for many reasons).

Grocery store has brought in more Mexican and overseas products since many people stopped buying USA products.

Staycationing in our province.

So far its been easy.

I don’t know about their dentist but my dentist just uses a mirror :)

Excellent, thanks for asking :). 20°C here, so a beautiful day for dog walking

Ah, I see.

Well when they attack Canadian Sovereignty, it involves cutting out anything USA made or affiliated…as much as we can.

It actually hasn’t been that restrictive, as there are Canadian businesses that we’ve ignored. The USAs tariffing has actually strengthened our internal economy.

Looks like every other country is also dropping USA based items and projects, because who knows what the current admin will force onto small businesses, or sudden cut off of services.