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Stainless Works makes a muffler similar to the Dynomax super turbo in 304 stainless steel. /https://stainlessworks.net/turbo-chambered-muffler-stainless-steel/ I'm considering it for a project of mine, but I haven't heard what it sounds like yet.

This really depends on what a person is doing with the machine and how long one intends to keep it. I'm on a machine with 4gb of Ram right now, and I find it woefully inadequate. I run XFCE as a desktop environment to save ram, but I really multitask. I've typically got multiple browsers open...

1000-1500 hrs with metal component failure is pretty concerning. I wonder why that would occur. I thought ATF was essentially hydraulic fluid with a few friction additives for the transmission clutches. I would have figured that a torque converter would be just as rough on the fluid as a...

Some laptops, I think the vast majority built in the last few years are not RAM upgradeable. They actually solder the ram chips onto the motherboard. That's the case with the one I'm typing on right now which was a (near) top of the line Dell when I bought it. I didn't put as much RAM in it as I...

Those look like good options. Thanks for pointing them out to me. Do you know any more details about the pump and motor failures with the ATF? Were they really early or did they see some tell tale signs from the failures that indicated what went wrong?

I've been looking at a compact track loader, the Takeuchi TL12V, that specifies 10w-30 diesel engine oil for the hydraulic fluid. I'd want to use it at temps as low as a little below -30 F. That seems a bit too cold for 10w-30 in my mind, and I was considering an ATF, like Citgo Transgard...