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I've been complaining for a while about my M1 MacBook Pro with 8gb RAM(plus the stupid touchbar). It still has a lot of life left in it, but 8gb was never enough, especially when running a program like Lightroom and trying to do anything else in the background. My wife's 2015 MBA is on its...

Putting this under the tool section since that seems the most fitting place. Basically, I'm looking to get a high end/high quality bench PSU and potentially a multimeter to pair with it. I'm mostly looking at older models of HP for these, although sometimes they show up with the Agilent or...

Or in other words a 2013 Mac Pro, AKA Mac Pro 6,1. These came out to much mixed reaction even back in 2013, and at the time I basically considered it a re-incarnation of the Cube. Among other things, people loved its small size and quiet operation, but lamented the lack of expandability(a...

In my day job, I do a lot of work with mass spectrometers(not as much as I use to, but still as much as I can), and with mass spectrometers come high vacuum systems. I'm in the midst of doing some major upgrades to one now, and am getting ready to convert its diffusion pump to a...

Checking this out of a project I'm trying to put together...for some full context this is a rail to mount a macro photography set up to a tripod. I'm trying to make the configuration flexible, but am trying to give a conceivable most extreme example. I apologize also for using mixed imperial and...

I realize this is probably an odd question, but I'm looking for some AA-sized Ni-Cd cells, preferably flat top without tabs(I have a battery spot welder to add my own as needed). For this specific application, I'm not comfortable using NiMH because the charging circuit is relatively simple and...

It seems as though this is becoming an increasingly difficult thing to find. I need antifreeze for my MG(thanks to me draining the radiator prior to removal then being stupid about where I left the drain pan....) This is a cast iron engine with a copper radiator. I really prefer to stick to...

For those of you who may be into photography, it's hard to ignore that Nikon and Canon have basically said that mirrorless is the way of the future. I follow Nikon a lot more closely than I do Canon, and they have officially/publicly announced that they will no longer be developing new DSLR...

June 3rd, I ordered a bunch of miscellaneous stuff from Amazon-basically all stuff I needed around the house or garage. There were some spark plugs, mower parts, camera memory cards, and a few other odds and ends, but still totaling close to $500. June 5th, I check and it shows out for...

I've had my fair share of timing lights in the last 7 years(since buying my MG in 2015 and then learning what a timing light was a few months later). My first was a standard HF one(not dial-back) that lasted a few months. I then splurged and bought an HF dial-back that worked until I...

A few weeks ago, my wife bought a new(stale inventory) 2022 Atlas. This one is the V6 model. It's a little ways off from an oil change, but it's needed an oil top-up(I did about 8oz of standard Mobil1 5W-30 since I didn't have anything else close). The manual tells me I need a VW 504 spec...

On a whim I looked on FB Marketplace yesterday and saw a listing from a local backyard small engine mechanic for a couple of mowers that he wanted gone and were priced that way. One-a 70s or 80s F-engined self propelled model(no blade brake) was already gone, but the other two showed promise...

Thought I'd post about this here, as the pieces are still on their way to me but I thought folks might like seeing it. Basically, I'm currently using an M1 MacBook Pro as more or less my main computer, but it has some serious shortcomings, not the least of which is too little RAM. In...

I have a hand-me-down Ryobi trimmer that I think I've reached a crossroads at. I don't have the exact model in front of me, but it has a 2013 build date on it and is one of the 26?cc 2-strokes. It came to me with a hedge trimmer attachment in addition to the straight shaft trimmer, and I have...

I THINK the alternator just died on my MKZ with no warning, but before I rush into a fairly involved job I wondered if someone would be willing to look over/confirm why I suspect it: 1. Car was driven a lot yesterday(350 miles or so), most in one continuous trip. After sitting for a few hours...

My MKZ has been bugging me for several months now to "service" the TPMS. I don't think the sensors have ever been changed-they certainly haven't in the time I've owned the car. Service use to pop up during especially cold weather and/or long trips in hot weather, but it's there for good now. It...

I grew up mowing with an 80s Lawnboy-a mower my parents unfortunately just got rid of(I wish I'd grabbed it...). I've been mowing with a Murray branded 20" with the no-oil-change B&S engine that my wife bought when she bought this house, and at 5 years old it's showing its age and I'm...

Has anyone looked at or paid attention to the Mac Studio? I think I may have found my next desktop, and a replacement for most purposes for my faithful Mac Pro. This is quite an impressive computer, to say the least. It basically has the footprint of the Mac Mini, but is about 3x as tall...

A few weeks ago, I bought a couple of Mac Minis just because they were cheap and local and I had some ideas for them. I'm ultimately looking for a quad core 2011 Mini(best version that will run Snow Leopard for some specific applications I have and don't have room for a Mac Pro now) but thought...

We're in a 70 year old house plumbed entirely with galvanized that I'm guessing is original. We're hoping to move within a year, although it's been "within a year" for the past year hoping that pricing will cool off(and also being picky to get as close as possible to what we want and not just...