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The Hill Air Force Base Museum in Utah has a B-29 listed in their collection.

1. 2,405.28 pounds; 2. I would expect the force to decrease as the piston moves downward.

XB_Fan, Below are two typical rational functions that a student might be asked about in a differential calculus course. More specifically, they will be asked to identify all points of interest for each of the rational functions. Both of the functions can be quickly graphed on the x-y plane using...

XB_Fan, The following fives courses are helpful before starting Calculus: 1. Elementary Algebra (a.k.a. Algebra I); 2. Intermediate Algebra (a.k.a. Algebra II); 3. College Algebra; 4. Geometry; 5. Trigonometry. In my experience, College Algebra seems to be the course that is often skipped...

Autolite XST458 is an iridium plug that cross references to J19LM according to the folks at Autolite.

Ride_Red, Yes. I agree with you that what I wrote is incorrect and misleading with respect to the pressure change the tank would experience due to the tank volume expanding from 80% to 90%. In hindsight, I wish I had omitted that example from my post. The point I was hoping to make is that the...

The safety factor is there to prevent too much pressure from building up inside the tank as the liquid gas expands. For example, an increase due to expansion from 80% full to 90% full would roughly double the internal pressure of tank. This type of pressure increase will trigger the pressure...

Here is a quick example to help separate the impact of the safety margin from the impact of businesses that short fill 20 pound tanks. A typical 20 pound tank has a maximum capacity (ignoring the 80% safety factor) of roughly 5.7 gallons. To confirm this you can divide the water capacity (WC)...

RDY4WAR, An alternate approach is to look at the ratios of the BTU’s per gallon for the various fuel types in order to get an estimate of what the relative flow rates would be in order to maintain constant lambda. The BTU estimates I am using below were taken (or estimated) from the Sunoco...

Ahlman‘s in Morristown, MN may be able to help you. https://www.ahlmans.com/gunsmithing.html

It looks like quackgrass to me.

I agree with Wolf359 with respect to contacting Moen about possible warranty coverage. Moen sent us a free replacement cartridge and a handle repair kit when our Moen kitchen faucet was in need of repair. Moreover, the customer service representative I spoke with was knowledgeable and extremely...

CarLuver, Digikey.com has 20 Panasonic CR123A batteries for $40.59 plus shipping. Belker https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/panasonic-bsg/CR-123A/431596

Chrisgt86, The viscosity of MT-85 is similar to a 30 weight engine oil. As a result, it isn’t unexpected that a bottle of MT-85 would feel like standard motor oil when you were shaking it. See the attached link for more details about how the various viscosity ranges relate to each other...

P(rain day 1) * P(rain day 2) = (.20)*(.20) = .04 = 4%