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[bruceha2000]

Right now they are saying something about radio frequency ablation

Maybe you'll be able to contact other hams without a radio!

 

[microchick]

Our youngest car is an 05 Econoline Van that I mainly drive. It's our 'farm truck'. We thought about trading it in for a pick up but it's enclosed. Lots easier hauling stuff in bad weather, plus, it's been long paid for and been very user friendly. It was a life saver when we retired and moved, pulling our trailer behind it loaded with furniture and everything else including 4 dogs at the time and two humans.

Mileage sux but hey, it's a van, go figure.

My car is an 85 Mercedes Benz. Love the old tank to pieces. Super comfortable to ride in, turbo diesel engine, not bad mileage and no computer. EMP happens it'll keep running.

DH's car is an 86 VW turbo diesel. Wish I could drive the little thing because it gets 50+mpg and is a stick shift. I've driven sticks before but for the life of me I cannot master this car's 5 speed transmission. It's a bit, shall we say, tempermental at times although DH has worked on it and it has improved. Our mechanic back in IL called it a 'box o'gears' to drive so I didn't feel all that inferior.

Funny, I can ride a motorcycle or dirtbike but put me behind the wheel of that VeeDub to do more than drive it in first gear or reverse and I'm cranking around for the right gear and inventing new swear words.

 

[microchick]

Maybe you'll be able to contact other hams without a radio!

Yeah, DH could stick an antenna in my ear and use me for DX'ing.....BTW DX'ing is HAM slang for Long Distance transmissions and contacts. I can just hear him saying, Yeah, put the antenna in her left ear and have her stand on her right foot and I can get Russia! Right ear and left foot! Spain, as clear as day!

 

[perchie.girl]

My car is an 85 Mercedes Benz. Love the old tank to pieces. Super comfortable to ride in, turbo diesel engine, not bad mileage and no computer. EMP happens it'll keep running.

Those Can be converted to run off french fry oil... Ran into a fellow at the restaurant in Jacumba who had two tanks set up he simply filtered the used french fry oil and put it in the second tank. There was a fuel line that ran paralell to his Diesel line to heat it up... He had to start with diesel and warm the car up but then he could switch to French fry oil.... He had to do the same switch to diesel for a bit before turning the car off.

Kind of a bit of work but genius all the same. He said it was a beach to get started again if he forgot...

deb

 

[getaclue]

I'll suggest the EZout to him. He may know about it already, but who knows.

 

[Beer can]

Funny, I can ride a motorcycle or dirtbike but put me behind the wheel of that VeeDub to do more than drive it in first gear or reverse and I'm cranking around for the right gear and inventing new swear words.

Knowing how to ride a motorcycle sure does help though when it comes to driving a standard, understanding the clutch. My first, well first on the road was a '83 Subaru gl wagon stick shift (first I bought was a '80 t-top camaro but I ended up having to put a tranny in it before I put it on the road so first bought but not first drove on road) I think it helped a lot knowing how to ride a dirt bike beforehand. That car made it easy though, had a 'hill holder' if you stopped on a hill and pushed in the clutch and brake you could let off the brake to give it gas and brakes would stay on till you started moving forward.

 

[Beer can]

Those Can be converted to run off french fry oil... Ran into a fellow at the restaurant in Jacumba who had two tanks set up he simply filtered the used french fry oil and put it in the second tank. There was a fuel line that ran paralell to his Diesel line to heat it up... He had to start with diesel and warm the car up but then he could switch to French fry oil.... He had to do the same switch to diesel for a bit before turning the car off.

Kind of a bit of work but genius all the same. He said it was a beach to get started again if he forgot...

deb

I've witnessed one of them leaving our little gas station few yrs ago. Big dodge diesel guy got on it leaving our little gas station smelled just like McDonald's .

 

[trumpeting_angel]

Okay I definitely need to do something because today my hand was numb/tingly the entire day. Sometimes worse than other times but still, didn’t go away the whole day even if it was less noticeable sometimes. Woke up like that.

Yes, see the doctor/PCP! Good chance it's a pinched nerve or the like, and some physical therapy might clear it right up. But you shouldn't have that chronically.

 

[microchick]

Yeah, greasers. Quite a bit of work getting the filtration system set up for the oil. People compete for the oil from restaurants and if you don't get it filtered right you can get water in your fuel system. Lots run two tanks. Regular diesel to start it up and get the motor warm then switch over to cooking oil. DH looked into it for our cars then decided that it was just easier to pull up to the Diesel tank at the MFA fuel stop and fill up!

 

[trumpeting_angel]

I love my GMC Sierra 4x4. 8 foot bed, hauls most of what I need. But I also need a trailer. Husband says I don't need one. One day I will just show up with one.

I did that with 4 chicks. DH was not amused. He said, "We agreed to get chickens next year!" He built a coop, complaining the whole way. I was going to buy a coop, but would have needed his van and help to get it home. No coop I looked at was good enough. Sigh. He loves the chickens, especially the Black Australorp whom he named "White Butt" when she was little and had lots of white. Now she is all black and we call her Blackbird. Lately he has been claiming she is a rooster. (This is all because she is his favorite.) (She shows no signs of being a roo.)