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    I need the best penetrating oil

    That's what I use, but none of the online reviews/comparisons seem to corroborate this experience. Still I see people swear by it. I might grab some once my kroil runs out or is close to running out. It's almost 50% cheaper than Kroil
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    Understanding grease, incl. compatibility, application, chemistry, and history (deciphering the zillion lubricants)

    I didn't find this article particularly helpful; it reads like they're trying to oversimplify everything, but don't know how. "A complex grease is made by taking a simple grease and adding a complexing agent" I found an amusingly unhelpful statement What?? As I said, this was only my gut...
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    Headlight Lens Restorer Report

    Try $2k for mercedes adaptive lights, plus they need to be coded to the vehicle ^ ^ Utterly retarded. I thought the glass had to do with accidents causing a mess.... Glass is so infinitely superior to this plastic garbage we have now. Glass goes forever. Sealed headlights don't get dirty...
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    Who actually needs an angle gauge?

    Use Energizer, not Duracell There's no "need" for a digital torque wrench, only convenience. Digital torque wrenches, like so many things digital, are not better/more accurate than their mechanical/analog counterparts. Waste of time. You can do those entirely by feel/eye: snug by a right...
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    Understanding grease, incl. compatibility, application, chemistry, and history (deciphering the zillion lubricants)

    Not by a long shot. My assumption is this forum is the place to go into the really nitty gritty, and I expect to go there, once I get a chance to breathe from the work that's consuming me right now.
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    Understanding grease, incl. compatibility, application, chemistry, and history (deciphering the zillion lubricants)

    I haven't abandoned this thread, I just haven't had time to sit and do look over the reading material and write down my new questions
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    Who actually needs an angle gauge?

    I'm talking about one of these: https://www.hazet.de/en/products/torque-tools/torque-tester/product/ean-4000896029266 You set this on top of your bolt, hold it with the magnet, and it lets you set the angle of the bolt exactly. Used on stretch bolts and whatnot. Here's the thing... unlike...
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    Coming soon... TOP TIER+ fuels

    I'm not sure what the top tier logo is supposed to be.... to me it always looked like an owl
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    Costco sold me bad gas

    BMW K1200S, AKA the best motorcycle ever :D
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    Costco sold me bad gas

    There aren't any! Well here's the thing, sometimes I'll only top off like 3 gallons or so, and bikes, unlike cars, aren't required by law to handle all flavors of gas (no VVT). I put midgrade in once, and immediately got knocking. It wouldn't surprise me at all if they screwed up their...
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    Costco sold me bad gas

    This was exactly my thinking as well
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    Costco sold me bad gas

    Texas; not a big city, but growing (like every town in Texas)
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    Costco sold me bad gas

    They do, right? Like I said, my suspicion is the tank they use is too big for the area (they have an impressively large gas station), but nobody here tanks premium gas. I know this, b/c I will sometimes do the "fuel pump walk" where I check each pump and do the mental arithmetic to figure out...
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    Costco sold me bad gas

    Drained the tank and refilled, bike is back to normal like nothing happened
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    Costco sold me bad gas

    That's why I bring up that the majority of cars here don't pump premium. Maybe the heat did it in, but I don't have a different explanation for the poor gas I got.
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    Costco sold me bad gas

    The gas in Costco's underground tank went bad b/c of the ethanol is what I'm saying.
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    Costco sold me bad gas

    This was on the motorcycle; I think I tanked 5 gallons. This was about a month ago, so I don't have any, nor am I seeking any recourse. Calling costco, they obviously denied any issue with their gas; frustrating because I was seeking diagnostics and not lawsuits. The bike was running and then...
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    Quiet air compressor....

    I have a Bambi air compressor from the 80s. It's a pancake style with what seems like a massive refrigerator style compressor on top. Unfortunately they are not cheap new, usually sold for medical applications, and extremely rare on the used market. The thing is dead quiet, and it's one of my...
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    Understanding grease, incl. compatibility, application, chemistry, and history (deciphering the zillion lubricants)

    I went through both sentence by sentence; this is genuinely the information I came here for. I was hoping for a part 3, 4, and 5. So now I have more questions. This part left me confused: What is meant here by "complex"? I took it to mean a cocktail of metallic thickeners, but re-reading...
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