BigGRacing
Aka. Gary Russell
Found out that they have part of a turntable that came in with the steam engine as well, another story for you to link up to if you want on Facebook.
The new toilet I bought for the bathroom uses almost no water and flushes extremely well. New technology I guess. It reminds me of a vacuum cleaner sound when it flushes.I know this is way off topic but I could use some input. Has anyone converted a gravity flow toilet to a power assist toilet. YouTube make it like easy, but when I measured my tanks, the item they were demonstrating won't fit my commodes.
The ones I am referring to are insulated/isolated from the main frame/body. They came later in the production timeframe. They are easily identified by the gap inboard of the nose, which I believe is more heavily armored than the earlier ones without that gap and also another one on the lower sides of the cab which angles up from the nose and levels out about a foot from the bottom. This is one of the 2005 production 4300 series ACe's. Note there is no major joint line on the sidesRay, I'm pretty sure all SD70ACe's have safety cabs. Unless the term means something other than what it originally did.
Is the Flow Easy drain cleaner safe to use on septic tanks and the helpful bacteria that they use to keep things flowing?The new toilet I bought for the bathroom uses almost no water and flushes extremely well. New technology I guess. It reminds me of a vacuum cleaner sound when it flushes.
On another note, unrelated to the new bathroom, yesterday the whole plumbing system in the house stop working. I started looking around and found that the discharge hose from the washing machine was clogged with lint. Not only that but the main 4 inch waste water pipe was also clogged. I poured some Flow Easy drain cleaner (sulfuric acid) down the main wastewater pipe, and it finally cleared it up after around 5 hours. It usually takes Flow Easy 20 minutes to clear things up. Tough getting through all that lint I guess. I'm going to have to build something to fix this problem. I'm thinking about a filtered catch box that the washing machine's discharge house dumps into before entering the septic system. I'm already working on it. I bought about 16 new cotton towels a few months back and I'm thinking that's where all the lint is coming from.
Swal
The ones I am referring to are insulated/isolated from the main frame/body. They came later in the production timeframe. They are easily identified by the gap inboard of the nose, which I believe is more heavily armored than the earlier ones without that gap and also another one on the lower sides of the cab which angles up from the nose and levels out about a foot from the bottom. This is one of the 2005 production 4300 series ACe's. Note there is no major joint line on the sides
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And this next one is from the later 4400 series which distinctly shows the joints mentioned. BNSF no longer has any of the earlier model on it's roster. They could be still used in a mid consist position, but they would not use them where crews were. MRL frequently runs 4 and 5 unit helper sets over the 2 main passes, Bozeman and Mullan, which would allow the use of the 4300's in the center positions. This could happen during and for a while after the handover but as mentioned BNSF no longer has them, it's assumed they won't keep them long term.
Willie It's sulfuric acid. Whether that's good for the septic system I don't know. My friend Ray the plumber told me it will do the job.Is the Flow Easy drain cleaner safe to use on septic tanks and the helpful bacteria that they use to keep things flowing?
Vewy interwesting, I always thought it was a crash protection issue, apart from comfort but driving a massive tonnage train and crashing it into another one probably doesn't occupy the mind too much when you are. It's a bit of a mixed bag as to who has what and why. The 4 ACe's that MRL only relatively recently got from BHP Australia, joined the other 4300 series (4319-4319) and have a couple of differentiating spotting features. Double horns (forward and backward, one on each side) and horizontal louvres over the grilles on each side at the rear. They also came originally with a lowered radiator fan shroud to clear the loading facilities doorway. These were restored to original in the pre service entry. All seems very strange as to why they got them now. But MRL management are no strangers to peculiar decisions e.g. Why would you rebuild/recondition/repaint into the new logo, 2 SD45's (301 & 311) and then have them cut up on the premises shortly afterward and keep others not so done. A recent comment on FB from someone there at the time said you could eat your dinner off the engine block of one of them. Is running a company by a Board akin to doing it by a Committee?SD70MAC/ACe isolated cabs - Trains Magazine - Trains News Wire, Railroad News, Railroad Industry News, Web Cams, and Forms
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Depending on the Sulphuric acid content, not good, highly corrosive and highly poisonous too.Willie It's sulfuric acid. Whether that's good for the septic system I don't know. My friend Ray the plumber told me it will do the job.
Swal
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I'm Ray, but not a plumber (well, not a registered one) and I can tell you sulfuric acid will do an excellent job of cleaning every last speck of badness from your septic system. Including that which makes it work. It looks like there was the start of an instruction to ingest it as well. That would surely make sure there was never a blocked bowel to be concerned about either. And the ingestee would never bother anyone again. Cleaned out from top to bottom. Blow through their mouth to try to revive them and they may even whistle.Willie It's sulfuric acid. Whether that's good for the septic system I don't know. My friend Ray the plumber told me it will do the job.
Swal
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That was my thought.Is the Flow Easy drain cleaner safe to use on septic tanks and the helpful bacteria that they use to keep things flowing?
If your talking about low flow power assist, we have a few at work and are a pain. When they wear out you have to replace the whole insert. We have more plug ups due to not enough water to move the poo down the pipe.I know this is way off topic but I could use some input. Has anyone converted a gravity flow toilet to a power assist toilet. YouTube make it like easy, but when I measured my tanks, the item they were demonstrating won't fit my commodes.
I thought the ending sucked, you didn't even see anyone cross the finish line.....not the way to win in my opinion. Finish the lap if its in the second lap of the OT.Nothing like watching a race for 480 miles and then seeing half the entrants demolished in 5 seconds!
RidX works good. But, a quart of Yogurt also works and is a bunch cheaper.Good morning gang!
Happy Monday to one and all!
On septic issues, our neighborhood Plummer told me blockages you clear manually, not drain cleaner stuff. Keep the tank happy with Rid Ex. (Or other biological enzyme)
Worked on a Sylvan Firetruck kit while watching the NASCAR race yesterday. It was not lost on me that the Cottonelle car wiped up the competition!
Oh and it’s Presidents’ Day here. That means I go to work, SWMBO stays home. Dang gubmint worker!
BBL
Willie I guess I forgot about added Rid-Ex monthly. I had the guy come pump out the whole system. I asked him if it gets clogged again how much to clean it out. He said, $270.00. I don't think the Rid-Ex solves the lint problem. I should of took photos of just how much lint was blocking the washing machine discharge hose. That stuff clogs up your septic fields. I going to try and fix that problem today. I have an idea that may work.Swal - I'll stick with Rid-Ex bi-monthly applications.
Wow, and we are expecting another snow storm up here....lolWell, I got my onion plants planted yesterday,