Recent content by k1xv

I like the collection letter for $0.00 I would write them back and say you are not paying, so sue me. See if the court awards the plaintiff a judgement for $0.00. Then they can put a lien on your property, which you will be able to satisfy by paying 0. Maybe you can avoid the hassle...

Yes, I usually do a cool down before shutting the engine off in my BMW turbodiesel with two turbos. I live up a hill, and the last 3 miles features an elevation change of 1000 feet. The turbos are oil cooled, and I want to give them every opportunity to not fail. I use the motor oil in the...

In amateur radio, everyone, world wide, operates on Universal time, which is also known as Greenwich Mean Time. People and organizations may change their schedules to fit local seasons, but nobody changes clocks.

Originality is great, except on tires if you intend to drive the car. Leave those Firestone Wide Oval belted bias ply tires for garage queens, put on some Ultra High Performance Michelins or Continentals if you intend to drive it.

He had just flown back from the Ukraine, a long flight. I suspect the stress of the flight, dry thinner air, etc. was a contributing factor.

Instead of calling it a window seat, they should re-name it as an "against the wall seat". Put in a disclaimer, that not all against the wall seats have a window. And then identify which rows do not have windows.

This invariably happens when the airline installs seats with a pitch smaller than the aircraft was originally designed for. Some people want a window seat so they can look out the window. And some of the seats have no window. Would you want an aisle seat that was not on the aisle? Or a...

Hoppe's #9 has been around so long, I wonder if there was ever a predecessor product Hoppe's #8 ??

We just leave our used tires in the abandoned vacant lot. A fine home for mosquitoes, and if somebody can get use from some worn tires, they are free to take. :)

I am waiting for the Red Sox/Mets baseball game broadcast to begin. I am a big Sox fan.

We installed Mitsubishi heat pumps 3 years ago and the old Trane/Spacepak central air system has not been turned on since. And summer electricity usage is way, way down from when re ran the old system.

They give the contractors more deliveries than they can accomplish in a day. It is either pushed to the following day, and I have gotten deliveries as late as 9 pm, and sometimes dumped at the road at the end of my 500 foot driveway.

Once you buy a Z06. in the overall scheme of things, the cost of replacing the filter is a minuscule fraction of total maintenance costs, and I would only trust the gasket for one spin on.

At 79, living in our mortgage free rural home, alone now since my wife died 3 years ago. Have some mobility issues. Just took a Cancerguard test and nothing was detected. My only real fears are dementia, and having a stroke and nobody discovering me as I lie on the floor. No assisted...

Yes, that carries over into amateur radio. An antenna cannot receive or transmit at peak performance until you have worked at least 50 countries with it. It then hears weaker signals much better. :)