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You need a wet film protectant like Surface Shield, Fluid Film or Woolwax-- all are lanolin-based. Chevy frames (still! In 2025!) are just coated with some cheap wax that frankly sucks for rust prevention. $100 a year or so for a wet film application, properly done, and you won't need to worry...

I'm puzzled by the thermodynamics of how it's possible to cool air below freezing without icing up the evaporate and blocking all airflow.

The hispanic landscapers I see wearing hoodies in the summer while mowing and trimming are NOT lazy.

Landscapers here all wear hoodies in blistering summer heat. I once asked my brother in Louisiana, who has experience with manual labor in crazy high humidity. His response? I'll paraphrase: "Clothes that are saturated with sweat behave very differently from one that are dry. If you just...

Absolutely compromises have been made in favor of engine efficiency. But it's possible that a 20 grade oil is still perfectly sufficient. The 0w-30 is pretty close to a universal viscosity. Something like M1 ESP is in that grade is really darn close to a truly all-weather oil for those who...

That difference is too small to amount to anything you care about until the temperatures get a LOT colder. And even then the difference is small. @BISCUT is exactly right. I'd also personally run the 5w30.

I don't think you can fairly apply a 50-60 year company history as representing 50 years of making AR lowers.

HPL and VRP and much closer to each other in cleaning than either is to Amsoil. Amsoil is excellent at keeping engines clean. Cleaning an already dirty engine? I've not seen anything suggesting it's at all in the same league as VRP or HPL.

Sure, but they don't *need* them to sell because the brands are largely established. Well, at least Sig was. With the P320 fiasco continuing to unfold, who knows how much future Sig has.

Sundance Duster-- that was the car I drove. Like an overpowered go-kart, what a blast of a car. :sigh:

25 acp is a poor choice for any purpose other than owning a 25acp. Anything would be better for almost any purpose. Heck, I saw an Indianapolis homicide detective post once about how even 22LR is far better than 25acp and he had personally seen 25acp fail to penetration a human skull on...

I strongly suspect that prices wills stabilize to perhaps even fall with the tax being struck. More suppliers coming into a bigger market. THey were always a sort of niche product, but the barrier to entry is low. Anyone with a 3d printer can get into the business if they don't mind the onerous...

Awesome! never mind. ;) I'm not a fan of that ammo.

Renaissance Wax. It's the Franks Red Hot of finish protection.

Warranties in general can be worthless. They're only ever as good as 1) the company standing behind them and 2) how accessible that "stand behind" is. Even as a young man when Hyundai came into the USA with a 100k mile warranty I thought to myself "if they need a warranty to sell it, I don't...

Generally considered similar to slightly worse. I always used Aero receivers as my commodity receiver sets for builds. A tiny bit more expensive but always reliably machined correctly.

I remember driving a V6 manual trans variant of one of them thinking holy cow this thing really scoots. Of that era, the most memorable car to me was the Dodge Spirit R/T. My Dad's buddy had one-- it REALLY moved. 224hp in essentially one of the last k-cars. Then there were all the Shelby...

Common issue on the 4500s. And why I insisted on the NV5600 when I bought mine. https://torqueking.com/nv4500-5th-gear-failures-and-solutions/ This is the best article I know of concerning the failure and remedy.

Dang, check out the reply generated by Grok AI: Keep in mind, this is just from what it can see without having a BITOG account:

Man, a Shadow with the Mitsubishi 3.0 is a time machine for me. I'm delighted to read there's one still being cared for and in service. Loss of prime is always an air ingress issue. The problem is that it's difficult to distinguish between losing prime and never having achieved it at all...