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    Avant/branch manager rotation troubleshooting

    Thinking back on n automotive vid chasing a draining battery the current probe could also serve for finding parasitic loads that stay on when you turn the key off and mysteriously drain your battery. Sometimes in a modern car it's a case of a failing module. $$$ at a mechanic
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    Gas tank vent/jetting

    Tested the old duckbill back to back with one aftermarket, same geometry, probably different rubbers and clearly old vs new. Old (warm, bit of recent flexing) 3/4 psi FWD bleed down to 1/4 psi, new 1/4 psi FWD bleed down to 1/8 psi!! much better, just now to see if it survives gas/oil...
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    Artemis II

    Math is not the strong suit of disbelievers. You can flummox them into simpleton gibberish with a lot less than rocket science. Math is advanced quantitative reasoning - again not a strong suit. If you really want to cause a trigger try to eek out some Hawking vs Einstein fine points and...
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    Do you ever have the occasional customer service experience like this?

    Some customers are just crappy and will even stiff you when you've done a whole bunch of add ons after the original quoted work Trick is trying spot them before and pre-fire them. No reasoning with them. If you did a second round of add ons they'd still probably grumble.
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    Avant/branch manager rotation troubleshooting

    For fun if you've got a good multimeter a) capable of 30 or 40A current readings b) with peak detection, take a blown fuse and hotrod it into a pair of current leads to plug into your meter. Then sub it for the fuse and just read what load or spikes are occurring. Such a probe could pay back...
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    Artemis II

    Got some time to watch the shuttle vid. Excellent! IRIG-B, spooling up high speed film, HD takes me back. Film is a PITA! And you find out if you effed up a week later. Digital has far surpassed in performance now. Exposure and grainyness was the major problem. If you watch carefully you...
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    Avant/branch manager rotation troubleshooting

    An electrical load is an electrical load, wherever you make/break the cct. Running/not running changes from battery terminal voltage to charge voltage so that can make about 10% difference in current load. Best to figure out why the fuse popped. Melted wires and switches are bad news and...
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    Odd Plug Carbon

    Hypothesis Tank was bone empty when I dragged the unit out of winter storage. Seemed to rev more freely than it's consistent rich side sluggishness for all the years I've had it. I don't drain tanks for storage. Possible first year's occurrence of ethanol gas storage issue. YT vid said pure...
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    Avant/branch manager rotation troubleshooting

    Is it new or used? Used, machine or attachment, internal wire fatigue breaks right at a connector can cause intermittent operation. Had such a wire on a car door power window motor. Manipulations during debug always seemed ok continuity but on reinstall the wire hung just right to trigger the...
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    Odd Plug Carbon

    Ran the same machine again on the same fuel mix doing the same task - this time I didn't try to restart it. Exact same plug condition same spot on the porcelain except the black region was a relatively thin layer, smooth shiny black. I think it didn't orange peel because it wasn't exposed to a...
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    Artemis II

    So You Think You've Got a Kick-Butt SubWoofer? Can it pulse the air back and forth several feet?
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    Odd Plug Carbon

    I was picking away at small dead scruff all velcroed together today with a small 2t polesaw keeping the revs down to avoid kicks and entanglement. Turned the saw off for fuel and it wouldn't restart. Figured hot, maybe winter gas vapour lock, maybe grit in carb no fuel, it wouldn't fire...
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    Husky 564xp fuel injected

    What was the Canadian price for the 500i? I heard an American price and it was really high. Almost double a regular saw.
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    Husky 564xp fuel injected

    I found some repair vids for the 500i that give insight into the innards. Apparently fuel pump is $$ and so is the injector (and the computer). Maybe the Husky is built similarly. Food for thought. How has the 500i treated you?
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    Eminectin benzoate rates

    Pesticides for homeowners are banned including lawn weed control but certain ones are apparently available to licensed professionals. A pro gassed me one day with overspray and evaporation spraying a nearby cedar hedge for mosquitoes but he did put up a tiny sign on the lawn indistinguishable...
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    Eminectin benzoate rates

    Toronto. I once kept the newspaper page of the 30 square block EAB ground zero map, which ironically, I later took out about 5 ashes on a monoculture crescent right inside that zone that were OG trees from the development in 1967 as a local informed me. Now all of southwest Ontario is...
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    Spiral grain

    Pruned city conifers sometimes have hidden dowel pins embedded layers below the surface that can affect hinge or snap cut behaviour. Spiral grain is the curse of firewood splitting. Had a whole spar's worth that I ended up chainsawing because it was unsplittable. Can't remember the species.
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    Eminectin benzoate rates

    There was a boom bust cycle in our area where only treeazin (? the neem oil one) was allowed (pesticide ban) and mafia like pricing quadrupled at the peak before basically every last tree died or was allowed to die. That's quadruple the profitable price. Treatment market is basically zero now...
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    Gas tank vent/jetting

    What makes this more interesting is that I saw a jetting change caused by difference of 2 or 3 psi vacuum vs guessing 1 psi and as your saw heats up (the gas tank too) it changes to net pressure. So you can imagine that carb jetting is not as precise as we might think. That's neglecting hot...
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    Gas tank vent/jetting

    I checked about 4 Stihl FSM's and all just said your tank vent "shouldn't build up vacuum" but none stated a performance spec or threshold of how much vacuum is too much. On a cooler day I read 2 psi to open a tank vent valve and inside the warm house I read 1 psi. The pliability of that valve...

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