Like another war poster said, "You can't beat the Axis if you get VD."
(You haven't lived until you've done it with a giant looming floating head gal.)
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Between 485 & 705 SQ/FT Bob Heine's Auto Emporium
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Like another war poster said, "You can't beat the Axis if you get VD."
(You haven't lived until you've done it with a giant looming floating head gal.)
Well my son has gone back to school my stress level went down and I am now in Hospice at home.
I did have him cut some wood by hand, after a bunch of time he got it so that helped a bit.
I really feel sorry for him. He asked me to write up a list of things he should improve on. Top of the list if he has a task to do that he doesn't like he does a crappy job.
The check got here so far up to 13 17gallon containers of wiring **** collected.
Making my last trip to my happy place Jake's in Hull on Thursday gonna be a rough trip, but want to say good bye and drop a donation at Wellspring a counseling center in Hull.
Meeting my lawyer tomorrow to setup a fund that sends my wife flowers for a few years after I am gone
It is very weird watching yourself die I see a little more deterioration every day I am so whacked on fentynal and morphine nothing really hurts.
My biggest wonder is will I get to ******** harvest and see the F1 season to the finish.
I did have him cut some wood by hand, after a bunch of time he got it so that helped a bit.
I really feel sorry for him. He asked me to write up a list of things he should improve on. Top of the list if he has a task to do that he doesn't like he does a crappy job.
The check got here so far up to 13 17gallon containers of wiring **** collected.
Making my last trip to my happy place Jake's in Hull on Thursday gonna be a rough trip, but want to say good bye and drop a donation at Wellspring a counseling center in Hull.
Meeting my lawyer tomorrow to setup a fund that sends my wife flowers for a few years after I am gone
It is very weird watching yourself die I see a little more deterioration every day I am so whacked on fentynal and morphine nothing really hurts.
My biggest wonder is will I get to ******** harvest and see the F1 season to the finish.
I assume he's got some kind of Milwaukee cordless tool with an attachment.
But more seriously, I'm guessing, hold the potato steady on a cutting board with the pincers of the artificial arm/hand, peel parallel to board with a potato peeler using the biological hand.
I wedged it between my knees while sitting with peels hitting plate on floor. Very inefficient but got accomplished.
Walked to bottom of garden all my plants are ten feet plus and starting to flower.
My trainee will trim the path to the bottom it was rather a challenge before he starts welding class. And place a few chairs along the path about ten or 15 feet before I need to sit not winded I have no core as it appears.
But much less stress since my son went back to school.
gman007
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Absolutely amazing color and beauty!So here are three of my babies Skipper on the left Admiral on the right and Rocky in the back
My ornamental plants lean heavily into water plants the colors and fragrances are matched by few.
madison069
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I've seen a cheese grate used to peel a potato. Using their stub to hold the grate down while they used the wide slicer side of the square grater to peel the potato.
gman007
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Using a mini vertical “lathe”
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y'sguy
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why may I ask is it important to even WANT to peel potatoes? They are just fine, washed and cooked with the skins on, fried, baked, grilled, mashed, or in potato salad.
jon72vega
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THAT.
scooterbum46
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I still have and use this for peeling taters. It's on the second blade. Nancy disavows any knowledge of how to use, so it gets used by me when we have a large dinner and she wants me to peel them.
Some like their mashed potatoes pure and smooth. I can go either way! Real mashed potatoes just taste so good anyway.
Michael, I'm having a little "Survivor's Guilt" when I read your posts. So many times and ways things could have gone wrong yet here I am. My paternal side led me to believe 60 was a ripe old age. My father and his brother both died at 55, their father died at 53 and their grandfather at 50. A little short of my 82nd trip around the sun (not counting womb-hiking) seems greedy.
@Squankum, that's almost as bad as Coyote-Ugly.Like another war poster said, "You can't beat the Axis if you get VD."
(You haven't lived until you've done it with a giant looming floating head gal.)
Michael, the flower thing is great. For our first Christmas as a married couple, I couldn't afford to pay attention, let alone give her a nice gift. I bought her a $5 bouquet of flowers for Christmas and another bouquet on the 25th of every month for the rest of the year. A weird kind of layaway plan.
Michael, I peel potatoes and cucumbers the same way. We have a wooden cutting board that fits in the sink above the garbage disposer. I peel one flat on the potato (or cucumber) with a plain old vegetable peeler, flip it over and make another flat. Subsequent cuts make more flat sides so I can peel an angle cut on either side. Repeat and rinse.
My clam opening method is more impressive, especially when it involves the quahogs. Set the clam knife in the slit, balance the clam on the knife edge, holding the knife with my fingers and the clam with my thumb. Lift the clam/knife above a sturdy cutting block and bring them down so the knife forces the clam shell open. Not having a clam handy, I'm demonstrating the technique with an English muffin.
My one handed oyster opening technique is less impressive, with me holding the oyster down with my stump and doing my best to stab the stump with the pointy end of the oyster knife.
@Squankum, I do have a Milwaukee belt file and some Scotch-Brite belts that would work...
My bionic arm's electronics can't get wet so I'm going to wait for an AI solution.
@Xti04, that's a perfect description of my belt sander setup. But I'm pretty sure those belts don't like wet potato skins. I could do it for less using my battery, electric or pneumatic belt files.Drill clamped in a vise. Potato jammed on a drill bit. Zip tie holding trigger down. And Bob with his Trusty potato peeler!
Michael, peeling potatoes while sitting is a good idea. Especially when the osteoarthritis and osteoporosis in my right knee tells me standing is a bad idea.
Michael, if we didn't live two blocks from the police station and city hall, I might consider some game hens. And if we didn't live so close to the sun I might consider a pond for some water plants.So here are three of my babies Skipper on the left Admiral on the right and Rocky in the back
My ornamental plants lean heavily into water plants the colors and fragrances are matched by few.
@Squankum, what a great idea. If there was one more use for a lathe in the kitchen, I might be able to get away with ordering one.
Cody, if it didn't create such a mess, I might give that a try. c
@gman007, I like that solution but Liane has an aversion to electrical appliances for any kind of prep work. My last act in this life would be setting a Kitchenaid stand mixer on the kitchen counter. My choice would be one of those with the full complement of attachments.Using a mini vertical “lathe”
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Alan, it often depends on the potato. I leave the peel on red potatoes but peel the ones that have deeply embedded dirt that doesn't wash off.
Jon, I often put frozen crinkle cut fries in the oven (or microwave) so I avoid the whole prep process. Sometimes I cut my own fries with the mandoline. When it's time for a baked potato I coat the un-peeled spud with oil and kosher salt and bake them for 45 minutes. Lazy days they go in the microwave and I press "Potato".
Gerry, you're a braver man than me and your Nancy is very trusting. I believe Liane's scalpel would have made it's first incision before I finished the sentence: "Dazey [aka Daisy] is a potato peeler, not a flesh and blood stripper."I still have and use this for peeling taters. It's on the second blade. Nancy disavows any knowledge of how to use, so it gets used by me when we have a large dinner and she wants me to peel them.
@Squankum, sometimes I use a pouch of instant mashed potatoes. They've come a long way from the days when the box tasted a little better than the instant mashed potatoes.
I finally finished the PT Cruiser repairs but it was a fight right to the end. Once I had the valve cover gasket/seals replaced and a new radiator and power steering fluid cooler installed, I thought I was done. Nope, the battery gave up the ghost (even though I had a trickle charger connected) so the intake plumbing and cold air filter had to be taken out again. On my test drive (to the lymphedema treatment center) the transmission was hunting so I suspect more than a few drops of fluid were lost during the radiator replacement. I'll add some fluid first thing in the morning because our driveway was touching the sun this afternoon.
Get one that can cut threads and it'll also spiralize your veggies
kaymccampbell
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I find mixing in half a stick of butter, a quarter cup of milk, and a bit of McCormick garlic and onion shake, make pouched potatoes pretty good. And the leftovers, with an egg or two, make great latkes.
kaymccampbell
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Your power steering cooler is on top? Or in front of the radiator? My PT had it on the lower subframe. When it died I put a different one on top of the engine. I forget what I ziptied it to.
bugnut
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Hi Bob, good to see you. Getting the PT done, another check in the box, excellent. Top off the fluids and hope for the best. Take care.
I only eat metric potatoes.
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@zanyad, that sounds like a lot of work. First step would be to measure the thickest and thinnest parts of the potato with a caliper. Second step would be to dial in the thinnest part and make a couple of threads. Repeat second step for each change in diameter.
What am I talking about? I have no clue how to cut threads with a lathe. My thread chasers and SAE & Metric tap and die sets are the height of my machining technology.
Kay, you had me at the half stick of butter. We only have 2% ultra pasteurized milk in the house but we do have the super size Kirkland garlic powder to go with the McCormick onion powder. Next time I'll get the plain pouch potato and doctor it up. I stocked up on Aldi's Chef's Cupboard brand, priced around $1.09 per 4 oz package. They have Buttery, Roasted Garlic and Four Cheese flavors. Next time I visit the Walmart Neighborhood store I'll get their Great Value stuff.
My leftover mashed potatoes usually get turned into clam fritters.
Kay, because the lower subframe houses the turbo intercooler, the power steering cooler is in the middle of the A/C condenser.
I replaced the A/C condenser, evaporator and compressor 18 years ago but recently I've noticed a bunch of parts are no longer available. When I checked the price of a radiator and the power steering cooler, I decided to snap them up. At &75 and $35 I decided they were within my comfort zone. This 23-year-old car is about to pass 53,000 miles so I want to keep it running for SWMBO. She won't drive the 'new' Corvette (it turns 40 in December) and is deathly afraid of the Cadillac.
Joel, I dug a little deeper and discovered one of my repairs failed. Two plastic vacuum lines broke so I patched them back together with shrink tubing. I used plain old shrink tubing on the small (1/8") line but decided to use fancy glue lined ones for the larger (5/16") line. It appears the engine compartment heat was enough to melt the glue, allowing the shrink tubing to shink significantly more at the same time. The larger line was no longer intact, resulting in the transmission searching as well as the engine speed changing for no reason. I've ordered some vacuum hose and clamps to make a better fix
@Squankum, does that mean you buy five kilos instead of ten pounds? Or is that French fries rather than Freedom fries?
kaymccampbell
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@Bob Heine , and I thought my NA PT was shoehorned in there. Your turbo PT is just packed shitfubbling full of squiffly effing goodness.
Mr. Bob, my apologies of not writing on this thread lately. I really didn't have anything to write about as far as car mechanics go. I do now... My beloved 2019 Durango needs front brake pads... Hugely. The squealers started to speak up and talk at about July 4th week or so. I tried to buy a set of front brake pads, today. (Ok yesterday ...) Well there was a question if it had something called BR6 or BR8 brake pads. Hmm no idea. I'll drive home to get a VIN. Then the person could make a phone call to someone... The counter person's response was that I own a magical Chrysler product. My response was.... "wonderful". In other words, I cannot buy brake pads for my vehicle from the local parts store. Dealer only, with a BR"Y" number.
And now that I just purchased two brake pad boxes, and no way to tell if either one of them will fit my application, I'm sitting on two boxes of pads, $100 apiece, or $200 for both, I really don't know if either pads will fit.
And now that I just purchased two brake pad boxes, and no way to tell if either one of them will fit my application, I'm sitting on two boxes of pads, $100 apiece, or $200 for both, I really don't know if either pads will fit.
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Kay, you aren't kidding. The intake and intercooler plumbing added to that engine compartment fills it to overflowing. My desire to squeeze a little bit more out of that engine resulted in the stuffed engine compartment becoming overstuffed. Stock compared to mine shows the difference up top:
I upgrade the aluminum intake with a 2005 composite intake. Supposed to be good for 15 horsepower but ugly compared to the one I polished.
Rick, I feel your pain. My Cadillac's front and rear pads set me back $460. When they need to be replaced, the front rotors alone will be $714 a pair.
I ordered the wrong pads for my PT Cruiser. I thought my Touring Turbo model would take Turbo pads but nooo -- those pads are for the GT Turbo model and upgraded brake package for Touring and Limited models. Rather than return them, I ordered the larger rotors and calipers. Not sure what the upgrade cost if it was a factory installed option but it set me back a bit over $300.
Rick, it has always been a hassle. When we ordered our '68 GTO, in order to keep it within our budget, manual drum brakes were free but front disks were not. When the shoes needed replacing I upgraded to sintered iron lininngs. They worked great if you remembered to drag them lightly for the first block or two when they were cold. Otherwise you had to really stand on the pedal for that first stop.
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Rick, the original equipment brakes on the Cadillac are Brembo disks on all four corners. Six piston calipers up front and four piston calipers in the rear. A set of four replacement calipers costs a penny less than $1,800 (https://zzperformance.com/products/...26jn7g-r-DNBvs2fvgQHFJ9RiI9S6WaoaAq-AEALw_wcB).
The front rotors are two-piece and replacements are a penny less than $750 (https://zzperformance.com/products/front-brembo-2-piece-cts-v-and-zl1-rotors?currency=USD&country=US&variant=12623711043695&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Google Shopping&stkn=9cd2382ca760&srsltid=AfmBOoqvsJhg_nV2RWtvy0v3GumUN7XvpcnbBYr1BK4fgq_fhjEPEeOrCJs).
The shocks on the Cadillac are fancy as well. They are electronically controlled Magnetic Ride Control (MagnaRide) and replacements run around $600 a set.
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My buddy's shocks are $2600 a shock plus tuning he sells customized versions of Penske shocks think the Cadillac endurance team runs them.
Holy smokes... And to think I could turn my own rotors. I had two brake lathes, so I could turn (both) rotors or drums. One of my lathes had an attachment to "true up" brake shoes to a certain radius. I've not used that feature, but had that available to me. It had a spindle sandpaper type of contraption on it. Using Dad's words, it didn't cost me a dime to turn my own rotors and drums. I didn't get my brake lathes from my Dad, but he sure had the biggest grin on his face when he saw me using mine. When I bought the first lathe, and that one only did drums, I asked Dad if I could take a couple of drums out of his scrap iron pile to practice on. He says... Sure. That way I could practice and not worry about holding size (less than maximum diameter) or in the case of my second lathe, less than minimum thickness on a rotor. But wow... The prices on... even brake pads are astronomical nowadays.
kaymccampbell
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And this is why I drive cheap sboxes.
That's pretty awesome. Much different than my square body Chevy pickups. The only "Really sporty car" I've ever owned was my 1976 Trans-am. My main focus was on Chevy pickups so I could handle a very large trailer so I could haul very large machine tools home. Ha. Don't get me wrong, the Trans am was a blast to own, but I only replaced brake parts and some things to keep it going. I didn't do any upgrades on it. Much of my money was spent on keeping my Chevy pickups going, so I could haul more machine tools home. Those 14-1/2 diameter size tires were not cheap for my triple axle trailer.
Peeking at RockAuto.com, it appears the clue is the diameter of the brake rotor, 330mm or 350mm. Do they have UPS or the US Postal Service where you live? They have a zillion options for brake pads showing there.
Actually, yes. I have ordered many parts from Rock Auto over the years, but always had Cheryl do the ordering. I'm kind of a cash-only person so that limits my success on ordering things online. I'll get better with this in the future, I promise.
Edit: if you think I should look into this from Rock Auto, I'll certainly do that.
Edit: if you think I should look into this from Rock Auto, I'll certainly do that.
These are disc brakes, so a core is not needed for return, like drum brakes used to be. Although, when I fixed the rear brakes on the Dodge Neon, there was no concern for a core on those brake shoes... That was always a concern with something that had a core charge, from Rock Auto and how to return something.
Miss the Pontiacs
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Good to see you being productive but wouldn’t expect anything else.
Substituting English muffins for oysters in a recipe is an interesting thought.
Good to hear you have finished surgery on the PT Cruiser hopefully it serves you faithfully. My wife has been casually mentioning our 2003 Montana is likely past its best before date. It has served us well and has fairly low mileage but I think it has a few more miles in it after all it is a Pontiac
So I placated my wife that once her RRIF kicks in she can buy anything she wants. I may regret that statement 
but time will tell.
I had MagnaRide on my Denali and it was going to cost me $1k CDN per corner before labour. :yikes I eventually went with the delete kit with Bilstein shocks (if I remember correctly) from Rock Auto, so far so good.
Hope you have a great summer or what is left of it anyway. Tomorrow I’m going to burn up some of that fuel in the SeaDoo before we have to yank them out of the water for the year.
Substituting English muffins for oysters in a recipe is an interesting thought.
Good to hear you have finished surgery on the PT Cruiser hopefully it serves you faithfully. My wife has been casually mentioning our 2003 Montana is likely past its best before date. It has served us well and has fairly low mileage but I think it has a few more miles in it after all it is a Pontiac
So I placated my wife that once her RRIF kicks in she can buy anything she wants. I may regret that statement but time will tell. I had MagnaRide on my Denali and it was going to cost me $1k CDN per corner before labour. :yikes I eventually went with the delete kit with Bilstein shocks (if I remember correctly) from Rock Auto, so far so good.
Hope you have a great summer or what is left of it anyway. Tomorrow I’m going to burn up some of that fuel in the SeaDoo before we have to yank them out of the water for the year.
I should specify that my Chevy pickups were of that vintage. I didn't get my driver's license until I was the ripe old age of 16 years old. That would've been the year, 1981. But really, those front brakes on the Durango lasted forever as compared to my Chevy pickups. It seems like I'd have to replace pads about every year on those trucks. I'm sure either set of pads will work just fine in my Durango.
Sounds like you've already bought both brake pads so you can just move forward on the job. Or, if you are thrifty and energetic, you could mailorder brake pads that you fancy, and for less, from RA, and return the other pads at the store.
I've been a mailorder fiend since forever. Had a funny little furrin car and am persnickety about parts quality. And I'd rather deal with somebody who knows my type of car and is enthusiastic about them, than, in those days, some counter guy who resented their very existence.
Yeah, better learn to do the internet shopping.
Core charges can be a bummer. I did buy reman calipers for our Durango more than ten years ago, and the shipping cost on those heavy things meant that my core refund got 80% eaten up by the postage. Boo! Yeah, I remember the days when brake shoes might get returned as cores -- and customers were buying remans! I didn't know about drums, though.
I'm still persnickety about quality, and RockAuto is actually kind enough to categorize parts by their quality range, from "you must be broke/you might be a shady used car lot/you should be ashamed of yourself you tightwad" to good to very good/heavy duty.
All that being said, I mostly buy from Amazon. I'm getting free shipping there and returns can be easy. But the filtering at Amazon stinks (make, year, model, engine, show me brake pads for, etc) whereas the RockAuto filtering is outstanding and really shows you the whole world of parts available in the aftermarket for your car. Even Mopar, Motocraft parts can show up at RA or Amazon.
So I look up part numbers at Rock Auto sometimes then start searching at Amazon and compare prices. For bigger jobs I might make an order with each, depending on each part's price.