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    What makes you like where you live?

    There is a Lowes Foods about 3 miles back from the Intracoastal on the New Bridge side of Oak.
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    Rotting Out a Tree Stump - What Has Worked For You?

    I knew a guy who made the most billy bad sparkler bombs ever. Almost every one he made went BOOOOOMMMMMM with very few duds. One day we were at my ex BIL's place and he made one that we shoved down into a stump. Stump was a couple of years old, and we made a hollow with a chainsaw - that took...
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    What makes you like where you live?

    Holden? Ocean Isle? Oak Island is my home away from home. I rarely get there since my beach house friend moved there full time after she retired, but pre-2020 I was there 10-15 times a year. I'd love to have a place off of 17 or 211, just far enough back to avoid the storm surge etc. I've...
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    Help me choose a garage door opener.

    It took me about 90 seconds to set my up/down limits. It took me a bit to figure it out because the instruction manual is hot useless garbage. It would have taken me a week to figure the darn thing out if I hadn't used all my old stuff. The instructions are terrible and about 30% complete
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    22 long rifle and 22 magnum

    Once in a blue moon, if you have a reason, won't hurt anything. Otherwise, all of the above. I have a specific reason to very rarely run a .22 short though one of my Ruger 10/22's - I've done it maybe 10 times over the life of the guns. No harm, no foul. Well, actually, a little foul, as...
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    Help me choose a garage door opener.

    Mine died a couple of weeks ago. 25 year old Craftsman chain. New Craftsman plug and play (supposedly the chain and old sensors will work, I would replace the sensors in any case but my old chain is on a nice solid 1 piece rail that I'd really prefer to keep) runs about $230, I'm going to try...
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    Favorite EDC Pocket Knife

    I tend to lose knives so my daily tends to run a little cheaper. I'm currently missing 2 as a matter of fact. One is a Gerber Air Ranger G-10 - which I really liked once I got the blade cleaned up. When I need something small and light, I have a 10 dollar miniature Gerber Paraframe. It's...
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    Societal addiction to phones

    I absolutely believe that people will ditch smartphones. When they get the chip in the brain perfected. Of course, I am also convinced (no being sarcastic for once) that The Terminator films are documentaries, not movies.....
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    Broken ribs

    It's going to hurt REAL bad for a while, 2 weeks to 2-3 months, and then it's going to hurt for another 6 weeks to 6 months. I cracked one last year, was functioning ok within 6 weeks. I broke one when I was about 22, it hurt bad for a month or so and bothered me maybe 2-3 months. I broke...
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    Anyone thinking of moving to El Paso, TX

    I traveled to El Paso quite a few times for work. Good food, both Mexican and BBQ, so it covered my 2 favorite cuisines perfectly. Also had the best chicken fried steak I've ever eaten and some nice steakhouse. I love chicken fried steak. Also loved Chico's Tacos, Fast food but man were...
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    Did the band l/act Kiss have hit? Article states they did

    No, but their peak years were what 1976-1978? They had 1 hit after the 70's, and that's about the only one I really ever hear on the radio (I listen to pretty much only 70's and 80's radio stations) My bad on not being more clear on what I meant. Everything after that little short run was...
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    Protection from rodents 🐿🐁🛡🗡

    My cat kills everything that moves. I'm going to rename him Ivan Drago.
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    Cheapest version Supertech

    Those later 4.0's were quite possibly the best engines ever made. I had a '96 that I put 240k on, traded it to my ex-SIL and she drove it into the dirt but in doing so got about 18 more months out of it. I'd bet a month's salary that she never changed the oil in it after she got it. Only...
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    What are you doing right now?

    I'm following a fascinating thread upstairs. One of my favorite guys on this forum has finally just about hit his limit.
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    Is Shearing and Oxidation happening at the same time?

    Ah c'mon - we put up with that one guy with the Taurus that kept on asking us if we wanted him to post pictures of his dipstick for MONTHS.
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    Is Shearing and Oxidation happening at the same time?

    My fellow human, you are in for a wild emotional ride if you don't look at all of this at the 30,000 foot view. There are dozens of motor oils that will serve you well. HPL may very well be the best oil on this planet. If that's what you choose to use, do so. I mean, I have a favorite butter...
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    Did the band l/act Kiss have hit? Article states they did

    They were pretty big. Far below Aerosmith, Zeppelin and Queen (and nowhere near The Stones or Floyd), I'd put them somewhere around Black Sabbath and Alice Cooper. Sabbath and Cooper put on 'shock shows' like KISS but IMO KISS put out crap music. Sabbath and Cooper were actually very talented...
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    How much is your vehicle tag in your state ?

    61 for tag and sticker
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    Increase in pad slaps

    When rotors were cheap (I'd say before 2010ish) I often replaced. One year I went to put brakes on one of the Taurus's and a rotor that had cost $20-22 a year or 2 before now cost $60-80 and I was all sorts of "nope" The rotors on my 2018 F150 are still super thick and I don't get any wobble...
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    How come ac lifespan is so short on cars?

    My 2018 F150 has never really blown cold. I stuck a gauge on it last year and it was a few PSI low, but I really didn't want to spend 50 bucks on a can of the Y1234 stuff, I was pricing batteries and got on of those 20% off coupons so I broke down and bought one. It struggled to keep up on the...
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