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Afternoon all! Overcast with occasional showers.

Started work on the Shipyard Brewing Co. It is pretty detailed but not terribly hard. I also tried a new glue, new to me anyway. It sets up pretty quick, so you can make some significant progress.

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My job, before retiring, was to plan, schedule, coordinate and on occasion manage unit turnarounds and shutdowns. Turnarounds were usually short outages to change over from one product to another. Minor repairs, any leaks are fixed and any changes to piping configurations needed. Shutdowns are used for major maintenance projects, Federal, State and Local regulations on inspections, and some capital projects, ie. expansion. New plants and refineries are very difficult to get through the permitting process and that process is expensive. Existing plants are buying up land around their facilities to create a green belt. If a plant had an upset and a release, people would run over to the nearby hospital complaining of some reaction or another. One plant actually released oxygen, and folks complained. So now the new plant most be away from residential areas. If they can get through the planning part, the expense of a new plant or refinery is astronomical. You read where the Federal Gov. was charged a couple hundred dollars for a hammer. The same thing happens to the big oil and chemical companies. Suddenly an 8" crescent wrench cost $35 instead of $6. So, getting a return on their investment is hard to get.
 
Texas Hobo said:
Suddenly an 8" crescent wrench cost $35 instead of $6. So, getting a return on their investment is hard to get.
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Last year I bought some PVC molding for my freight car display shelving. It was $3.99 1/1/2 X 8 '.
I decided to use the same type molding for my closet project. Now it's $9.99 for the exact same product.
I needed 3 pieces. $30.00 vs $12.00. I was talking to myself as I inserted my debit card.
George
 


I've just got my car back after having to go into the panel beaters to have a rather large ding taken out the offside rear door (drivers side to you gentlemen across the pond), after a bath (yes, I said BATH) tipped over and fell against it narrowly missing the window.

Now 6 months ago, when I bought the car it had to go in and have an issue with the gearbox sorted out (under warranty) and they disconnected the battery, problem was, it's a second hand car, and I don't have all the paperwork for it, and that includes the security code for the radio/cd/clock, so some weeks later after having to make an appointment with my local Ford dealer I took it in to get the security code.

Now Ford have a weird system, in that they have to remove the radio to get the serial number off the back, email Ford directly, giving the said number and they get an email back with the code. Most other manufacturers in the UK, you just need the Registration number, they look it up on their system and hey presto, you get the code.

So ok, did that, got the code written down safely tucked away, now, the panel beater has had to disconnect the battery, no problem, I've got the code safely tucked away, so safe, now I need it, I can't find the flipping thing.

So I'm going to have to book the car in again to get the code, I can't book it in till mid December when I'm on holiday, as the don't work on weekends, so if I find it before then, all well and good, if not, a 6 week wait and another £20 down the drain.
 


Smudge617 said:
I've just got my car back after having to go into the panel beaters to have a rather large ding taken out the offside rear door (drivers side to you gentlemen across the pond), after a bath (yes, I said BATH) tipped over and fell against it narrowly missing the window.

Now 6 months ago, when I bought the car it had to go in and have an issue with the gearbox sorted out (under warranty) and they disconnected the battery, problem was, it's a second hand car, and I don't have all the paperwork for it, and that includes the security code for the radio/cd/clock, so some weeks later after having to make an appointment with my local Ford dealer I took it in to get the security code.

Now Ford have a weird system, in that they have to remove the radio to get the serial number off the back, email Ford directly, giving the said number and they get an email back with the code. Most other manufacturers in the UK, you just need the Registration number, they look it up on their system and hey presto, you get the code.

So ok, did that, got the code written down safely tucked away, now, the panel beater has had to disconnect the battery, no problem, I've got the code safely tucked away, so safe, now I need it, I can't find the flipping thing.

So I'm going to have to book the car in again to get the code, I can't book it in till mid December when I'm on holiday, as the don't work on weekends, so if I find it before then, all well and good, if not, a 6 week wait and another £20 down the drain.
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When you get the code this time, write it on the inside front cover of the owner's manual, and put it in the glove box.
 
Smudge617 said:
I've just got my car back after having to go into the panel beaters to have a rather large ding taken out the offside rear door (drivers side to you gentlemen across the pond), after a bath (yes, I said BATH) tipped over and fell against it narrowly missing the window.

Now 6 months ago, when I bought the car it had to go in and have an issue with the gearbox sorted out (under warranty) and they disconnected the battery, problem was, it's a second hand car, and I don't have all the paperwork for it, and that includes the security code for the radio/cd/clock, so some weeks later after having to make an appointment with my local Ford dealer I took it in to get the security code.

Now Ford have a weird system, in that they have to remove the radio to get the serial number off the back, email Ford directly, giving the said number and they get an email back with the code. Most other manufacturers in the UK, you just need the Registration number, they look it up on their system and hey presto, you get the code.

So ok, did that, got the code written down safely tucked away, now, the panel beater has had to disconnect the battery, no problem, I've got the code safely tucked away, so safe, now I need it, I can't find the flipping thing.

So I'm going to have to book the car in again to get the code, I can't book it in till mid December when I'm on holiday, as the don't work on weekends, so if I find it before then, all well and good, if not, a 6 week wait and another £20 down the drain.
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What you might have done (too late now, I know, but maybe it'll help someone else) was search online Ford forums for a "code derivative tool," or library.

Rennsport had a thread about this problem on various models of Porsche (for the factory installed CD/radio), and it turned out someone had long ago devised a means by which the code could be derived from the VIN number. It was an issue for a lot of us because the cars would run the battery flat when garaged, and Porsches don't get out all that much compared to daily drivers like a Ford. So they just sit there...and when you go to start one up, it's deader'n a doornail. Then you have to re-enter the code once it's charged up--or jumped--again.

The obvious solution is to keep the car plugged into a trickle charger, which can probably be had at any Walmart for $20 or so. But...Porsche being all proprietary...the charger costs $892.04. Because it has to continually send and receive a secret code. For which there is probably a "code derivative tool" available........................

(Rinse. Repeat).
 
JeffH said:
Ethinicity... makes me laugh a bit at my wife, who always says she has Russian heritage, when, in fact, it is Prussian... Her family has roots from the Dresden area of Germany, but they were more Chechen than German.

There's something about her that is immune to the difference between Prussia and Russia.
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My wife's paternal ancestors were Pomeranian. One of her maternal lines comes from Prussia & the other side from Mecklenberg. Everywhere I look in family tree, I keep finding more & more Germanic roots.
 
chadbag said:
As a kid the white kids would taunt the Puerto Ricans and vice versa. Then they'd go play kickball, or dodgeball, or basketball together. It was never personal and the kids knew it and everyone got along personally.

My wife is (obviously) a woman. Yet she is the first person to say, when she sees a bad driver, it is either a woman or grandpa or grandma (who would check both boxes) driving.

Being, on my mom's side, Norwegian and Swedish extract, I am not offended by Viking jokes and characterizations with big horns and loud behavior or raping and pillaging behavior. I know it is not aimed at me.

People who are offended by everything have other problems and their outlet for them is to allow themselves to be offended so they can blame others.
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D&J RailRoad said:
I usually have to buy a replacement before my missing stuff reappeares.
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TOTALLY get it. As a consolation prize you also know you have two of them...
...provided you can find the first one.

Give it a month and you'll have three of them...provided you can find either one of the first two....

I HATE that Murphy guy. Just sayin'.
 
logandsawman said:
Good morning all,

Passed a deer obedient to the law this morning, the smart doe was walking on the shoulder facing traffic on the proper side of a busy road. I guess natural selection works!

Troy - Pizza King? I guess the name is about as silly as Pizza Ranch. I guess there are only so many names to use

Got a bunch of people out of storage, put this guy on the layout. A lot of the others need a paint touch-up

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more later, Dave LASM
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Where I live in South Jersey(Gloucester City) before I moved to WI, there was(still is) a pizza jpint called King Of Pizza, adjacent to the public high school.
 
logandsawman said:
I work at the County, 3rd largest county in MN by land size, we have several shops with lots of snow plowing and road maintenance. Today the Engineer brought up a discussion if we should keep our storage tanks more full than normal due to this diesel fuel fact.

For stove wood, I would strongly recommend buying it now and stack it where it can be kept out of the rain and with good ventilation if possible. Nothing worse than soggy wood when you go to warm up the house!

If anyone does the news feed on their computer, there is a story out there by CBS news about a nickel mine in Tamarack, MN. It is half owned by Elon Musk, called Talon. This mine is also in our county and this is an interesting development on what is needed to make electric cars work. (unfortunately, whole nickels do not come out of the mine :D)
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Dave- they have to be carved out of the ore(or not). 😂 🤣 Don't get up, I'll show myself out. :p
 


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