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And depending on what they're for (not oil), they may actually have regulatory impacts. During graduate school, I used nothing but Japanese labeled contact solution (same product as the US) from an entire crate that my buddy's younger brother (used to work as a production chemist for a major...

For me, it's a once or twice annual thing I do to mainly clear any crud out of the injectors, cylinders, and valves. I'm not expecting too much out of it- I think of it along the lines of cleaning my coffee maker every six months whether I know if it needs it or not- doing it periodically keeps...

You preferred it back in the days when you wore an onion on your belt, because it was the style at the time? Modern cars can't work without electronics- we couldn't have the performance, economy or emissions we currently do without them. Nor would they be as easy to diagnose (yes, the codes...

We basically let our kids get snacks like fruit and vegetables on their own, and they can generally make their own breakfasts (cereal, toast, yogurt) whenever they want. Snacks, etc... are more along the lines of a pre-defined amount per week, and if they eat it all in the first 15 minutes, too...

I just ate some homemade pimento cheese and ritz crackers. Definitely a delicious snack!

I've had the "Impossible Whopper" and the Taco Cabana (a Texas counter-service Tex-Mex chain) Beyond Meat taco. The Impossible Whopper was pretty good- had I been presented with it as someone else's hamburger, I wouldn't have realized that it wasn't beef. It wasn't quite right for a Whopper...

I don't know that it really matters; a normal car, driven normally will last for a LONG time and a LOT of miles. If you're going to see any difference between synthetic and conventional, you're going to see it on the margins- really high RPMs, extreme miles on engine or OCI, extreme conditions...

That's what I was going to say too. Anyone should be able to handle a 2" barrel 38 Special revolver without much training or experience. They're stupid simple to operate, hit hard enough, and are small/not too heavy. And ammo's relatively cheap as well (as ammo goes these days). Something like...

$500 is basically the bottom of "real bike shop" bikes- Trek Marlins, Specialized Rockhoppers, various hybrids and comfort bikes, etc... Nothing wrong with those if you're not looking to do serious mountain biking. They may not be up to bombing it down a Colorado mountain, but they'll all do...

I kind of rotate by week- my inventory is Proraso green, Cella red, Pre de Provence, Santa Maria de Novella, Cremo sage & citrus, Barrister & Mann Reserve Spice, Stirling Soap Scots Pine Sheep, and an old tub of Queen Charlotte Celestial Woods (smells like lumber). Right now, I have Proraso...

Another consideration... How much B&S "small engine oil" do you think they really sell, versus how much of nearly ANY passenger car oil gets sold? I mean even a low mileage vehicle gets its oil changed once a year, using several quarts. A mower might get one a year, using less than a quart...

It didn't. Haven't you seen all the articles and news stories about climate change? Or about acid rain? Or particulate pollution? Smog? Those are due directly to fossil fuel use- gas, diesel, natural gas and coal. Or for non-fossil fuel issues, there's always the ozone hole/CFCs. The EPA is...

Even at that, they always seemed to run forever with the oils of the day, whatever you used in it. I think to some degree worrying too much about it is like counting the number of angels that fit on the head of a pin. Interesting, but ultimately not practical or useful. That B&S engine is...

I'm similar sized to you (6'1" and about 285), and my Trek Marlin 5 seems to be bulletproof so far, but I haven't really put any mountain miles on it (I live in Dallas). It does a fantastic job tooling around the neighborhood with my boys on their BMX bikes though- off road, on road, mud, curbs...

In my area Walmart carries the premixed SEF 2-cycle fuel in 40:1/50:1 universal mix. It's made by VP Racing in San Antonio as well. That might be a cheaper but still solid option as well. $5 per quart or $20/gallon.

In my area, the county has a place where you take all that stuff, and they sort it out. https://www.dallascounty.org/departments/consolidated-services/hhw/

Oh, sure! There doesn't appear to be a 30w though; just a 25w, so I think what I was saying still holds- in the absence of a multigrade winter certification, just about any oil that meets SAE J300 for 30 weight could be so labeled. ISTR reading on here years ago that there was speculation that...

AFAIK the SAE 30 monograde spec is just a high temperature spec, and that it's entirely possible that synthetic base stocks could produce a oil without VII that could be labeled "30 HD" yet actually be equivalent to 10w-30 or even 5w-30 due to the inherent properties of the base stock. Or the...

Probably a fair amount from Ford v Ferrari a couple of years back as well. Gulf as a widespread brand pretty much evaporated with its acquisition by Chevron in the 1980s, when all the former Gulf stations in my area (Houston) were rebranded as Chevron. Since then, according to the Wikipedia...

Sort of... the 5w-30 nomenclature essentially says that at a specific hot temp (100C / 212F) it has the viscosity of a 30 weight oil. So a 0w-30, 5w-30 and 10w-30 all have hot viscosities that are within the same "30 weight" band (between 9.3 and 12.5 centistokes). When they're cold, they all...