Real women over trannies
Real women over trannies
the future is now old man
the future is now old man
Tractors without computer chips... let's go for any vehicle without computer chips. They add complexity and make repairs either impossible or very expensive.
Real people answering telephones. I hate automated phone systems.
Tractors without computer chips... let's go for any vehicle without computer chips. They add complexity and make repairs either impossible or very expensive.
Real people answering telephones. I hate automated phone systems.
Parking brake cables rather than electronic.(vehicles are an endless candidate for this)
Manual transmissions.
Mechanical controls on household appliances rather than microchips.
Metal Jerry cans with actual spouts rather than the gay plastic jugs with safety tips.
Parking brake cables rather than electronic.(vehicles are an endless candidate for this)
Manual transmissions.
Mechanical controls on household appliances rather than microchips.
Metal Jerry cans with actual spouts rather than the gay plastic jugs with safety tips.
Have you tried to pour gasoline into a car using a modern gas can? Fucking difficult. I miss the
Have you tried to pour gasoline into a car using a modern gas can? Fucking difficult. I miss the [classic metal pour spout with twist off cap.](https://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTIwMFgxNjAw/z/LPoAAOxygPtS2b8F/$_57.JPG?set_id=880000500F)
The irony is they're supposed to be "safety spouts" but every fucking time I end up spilling gas all over the fucking place with these idiotic things.
The irony is they're supposed to be "safety spouts" but every fucking time I end up spilling gas all over the fucking place with these idiotic things.
I use surplus nato cans.
I use surplus nato cans.
This is the way.
This is the way.
Fuck man, I had gotten literally just one gallon extra when gas prices were rising a while back, and tried to put it in the car. Fucking tip had to be pressed just right, but there was nothing to press it against correctly, kept slipping. Holding with hand gets gas on you. Then once you've got the damn thing carefully positioned to keep it pressed, it takes forever to empty. Spent ten minutes putting a fucking gallon of gas into the car. At least with one of those you won't be dipping into your reserve unless you absolutely need it.
Fuck man, I had gotten literally just one gallon extra when gas prices were rising a while back, and tried to put it in the car. Fucking tip had to be pressed just right, but there was nothing to press it against correctly, kept slipping. Holding with hand gets gas on you. Then once you've got the damn thing carefully positioned to keep it pressed, it takes forever to empty. Spent ten minutes putting a fucking gallon of gas into the car. At least with one of those you won't be dipping into your reserve unless you absolutely need it.
Just chop the end off it.
Just chop the end off it.
You can buy old-skool spouts on Amazon, I did.
You can buy old-skool spouts on Amazon, I did.
Fuck those stupid plastic safety cans.
Fuck those stupid plastic safety cans.
the safety shit always makes me spill it everywhere and on myself.
the safety shit always makes me spill it everywhere and on myself.
I specifically bought a car because it had a manual handbrake and transmission. Also, whole the story of the useless gas can is comical and horrible and steeped in politics and injuries, there is a strong market for “replacement pour spouts and air releases for older gas cans” on Amazon and other places. Fixes em.
I specifically bought a car because it had a manual handbrake and transmission. Also, whole the story of the useless gas can is comical and horrible and steeped in politics and injuries, there is a strong market for “replacement pour spouts and air releases for older gas cans” on Amazon and other places. Fixes em.
Just found out this evening that the wife's Vibe needs a new clutch. (Was hoping it was the master cylinder for the power clutch, but no.) $1800. But then again, that means it should be good for at least another 12 years (and we plan to keep it that long.) Clutches are wear parts, but they wear WAY more slowly than they used to. And yeah, I have my own supply of jerry cans and a proper spout for them.
Just found out this evening that the wife's Vibe needs a new clutch. (Was hoping it was the master cylinder for the power clutch, but no.) $1800.
But then again, that means it should be good for at least another 12 years (and we plan to keep it that long.)
Clutches are wear parts, but they wear WAY more slowly than they used to.
And yeah, I have my own supply of jerry cans and a proper spout for them.
Parking brake cables always used to rust and seize up on me. I drove automatics, and never used the parking brake because I didn't need it. When I did try out the parking brake, or someone else driving the car used it, it would stick in the on position. This happened to me numerous times over a period of decades in many different cars. I'm not sorry to see the end of parking brake cables, although I grant you, the electric parking brakes fuck up regularly.
By the way, a simple solution to the rusting parking brake cable problem would have been to use stainless steel in the cables. The car makers never did that. I used to replace my exhaust every couple of years. After Chrysler brought in stainless steel exhausts (they were the first, I believe, among US car makers), I haven't had to replace a single component on my exhaust over the life of five generations of my cars.
Parking brake cables always used to rust and seize up on me. I drove automatics, and never used the parking brake because I didn't need it. When I did try out the parking brake, or someone else driving the car used it, it would stick in the on position. This happened to me numerous times over a period of decades in many different cars. I'm not sorry to see the end of parking brake cables, although I grant you, the electric parking brakes fuck up regularly.
By the way, a simple solution to the rusting parking brake cable problem would have been to use stainless steel in the cables. The car makers never did that. I used to replace my exhaust every couple of years. After Chrysler brought in stainless steel exhausts (they were the first, I believe, among US car makers), I haven't had to replace a single component on my exhaust over the life of five generations of my cars.
I use the handbrake every time I park. Avoids the pawl in the parking brake from getting stress. Save that as a backup. You see people parking all the time where they put it in park, then release the brake, and the car rolls a little then bumps against the pawl.
I use the handbrake every time I park. Avoids the pawl in the parking brake from getting stress. Save that as a backup. You see people parking all the time where they put it in park, then release the brake, and the car rolls a little then bumps against the pawl.
I guess one thing about the electronic parking brake is the car will apply it automatically.
I guess one thing about the electronic parking brake is the car will apply it automatically.
Manual crank windows on cars.
Manual crank windows on cars.
SunBeam Radiant Control Toaster. 1948 design. Perfect toast, effortlessly, every time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OfxlSG6q5Y
SunBeam Radiant Control Toaster. 1948 design. Perfect toast, effortlessly, every time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OfxlSG6q5Y
It's the Technology Connections video, isn't it?
It's the Technology Connections video, isn't it?
yep
yep
I knew that shit without clicking. I had seen the same vid a while back
I knew that shit without clicking. I had seen the same vid a while back
absolutely. hand crank last so long.
absolutely. hand crank last so long.
The internet. It was decentralized and was not full of jews in the 90s.
The internet. It was decentralized and was not full of jews in the 90s.
I like knobs, buttons, and switches that positively switch on and off rather than some sort of electronic decal that you push and sometimes it works and sometimes you need to push it again and again.
I like knobs, buttons, and switches that positively switch on and off rather than some sort of electronic decal that you push and sometimes it works and sometimes you need to push it again and again.
Most vintage firearms are built better than alot of the more modern ones. (Obviously not all)
Most vintage firearms are built better than alot of the more modern ones.
(Obviously not all)
YES! Most notably the S&W New Century 1st model, aka, "the triple lock". Only 15,376 were made between 1908 and 1915. It is without a doubt the finest revolver ever built. Nothing matches it before or since.
YES! Most notably the S&W New Century 1st model, aka, "the triple lock". Only 15,376 were made between 1908 and 1915. It is without a doubt the finest revolver ever built. Nothing matches it before or since.
>> Nothing matches it before or since.
Wrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcQmReWckNk
The Manurhin is chambered for the minor 9mm/.35 caliber round. A good pistol but no match for the handgun that could withstand .44 magnum loads. Until a Manurhin is chambered in .44 magnum or .45 Casull the triple lock remains the premier handgun of the world.
The Manurhin is chambered for the minor 9mm/.35 caliber round. A good pistol but no match for the handgun that could withstand .44 magnum loads. Until a Manurhin is chambered in .44 magnum or .45 Casull the triple lock remains the premier handgun of the world.
I've always been fond of the Colt Python myself.
I've always been fond of the Colt Python myself.
Buttons over touchscreen, such as in automobiles. Also cars 10+ yrs older are better than todays diversity designs.
Even further, anything designed by faggots today is worse, this applies to computers in every way. One ex., houses today are made of osb, not solid pieces of wood. They think they are using clever engineering, but it will fail the test of time. Everything modern is garbage and is made cheap.
The phenomenon today is there is a time crunch, I bet in the 50s-70s you could take your time to make something, now it is go go go. This makes for shitty mass produced garbage, no one can spend time and tinker a little.
Buttons over touchscreen, such as in automobiles. Also cars 10+ yrs older are better than todays diversity designs.
Even further, anything designed by faggots today is worse, this applies to computers in every way. One ex., houses today are made of osb, not solid pieces of wood. They think they are using clever engineering, but it will fail the test of time. Everything modern is garbage and is made cheap.
The phenomenon today is there is a time crunch, I bet in the 50s-70s you could take your time to make something, now it is go go go. This makes for shitty mass produced garbage, no one can spend time and tinker a little.
The temperature knob on gas ovens. The digital push button temperature setting buttons crap out in five years whereas the knobs go on setting temperatures for decades.
The temperature knob on gas ovens. The digital push button temperature setting buttons crap out in five years whereas the knobs go on setting temperatures for decades.
I have an old knob control electric oven with a digital timer built in. The buttons to set the timer are a wreck, but the oven itself is rock solid. Keeps the temp within +-15 degrees of the setting (I double check with an oven thermometer.) Everything in it I can work on, except the clock, which I don't care about. I've already replaced one of the elements for maybe $40, and it keeps on rolling.
I have an old knob control electric oven with a digital timer built in. The buttons to set the timer are a wreck, but the oven itself is rock solid. Keeps the temp within +-15 degrees of the setting (I double check with an oven thermometer.) Everything in it I can work on, except the clock, which I don't care about. I've already replaced one of the elements for maybe $40, and it keeps on rolling.
Carburetor vs. fuel injection
Carburetor vs. fuel injection
I think what you meant to say was: "Carburetor vs. electronic fuel injection"
All Diesel (compression-ignition) engines use fuel injection, and many spark-ignition (Otto or Wankel) engines use fuel injection of one kind or another. The first patent for a fuel injection system was issued to George Bailey Brayton in 1872, so it's not exacly new technology. The first fuel injected engines for passenger car use became available in late 1930s and early 1940s.
Early mechanical injection systems (except for air-blast injection) typically used injection valves with needle-like nozzles in combination with one or multiple relatively sophisticated helix-controlled injection pumps that both metered fuel and created injection pressure. They were well-suited for intermittent multi-point injection systems as well as all sorts of conventional direct injection and chamber injection systems.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daimler-Benz_DB_601 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_801 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Merlin
I would daresay that any one of these designs would survive an EMP and keep turning out enormous horsepower with no trouble at all.
Haywood, raise your head, man.
I think what you meant to say was: "Carburetor vs. *electronic* fuel injection"
All Diesel (compression-ignition) engines use fuel injection, and many spark-ignition (Otto or Wankel) engines use fuel injection of one kind or another. The first patent for a fuel injection system was issued to George Bailey Brayton in 1872, so it's not exacly new technology. The first fuel injected engines for passenger car use became available in late 1930s and early 1940s.
Early mechanical injection systems (except for air-blast injection) typically used injection valves with needle-like nozzles in combination with one or multiple relatively sophisticated helix-controlled injection pumps that both metered fuel and created injection pressure. They were well-suited for intermittent multi-point injection systems as well as all sorts of conventional direct injection and chamber injection systems.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daimler-Benz_DB_601
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_801
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Merlin
I would daresay that any one of these designs would survive an EMP and keep turning out enormous horsepower with no trouble at all.
Haywood, raise your head, man.
Yes
Yes
Do you even know what a carburetor is? It's a nice thought but there's no comparison.
Do you even know what a carburetor is?
It's a nice thought but there's no comparison.
Which survives an EMP though
Which survives an EMP though
You got me.
Hangs head in shame...
You got me.
Hangs head in shame...
Both, potentially. There is a common misconception of what an EMP blast is capable of. They are measured in the amount of free electrons per sq/meter. Think how much energy it takes to fry something, and then imagine there has to be that amount of energy per squared space of said thing, and that energy has to exists in all space around it at the same density. enough electrons in the air to fry small components, and to my understanding, you're likely dead. The equipment that gets fried is anything plugged into an outlet or directly connected to a large object of conducting material. The massive amount of surface area available, and conducting properties allow for all that energy to blast anything connected too it. Phones, two way radios, pacemakers will continue to work.
I'm not very adept at car mechanics, so I don't know how well insulated those systems are, but they could potentially survive an EMP. If it's a lot of conductive metal attached too the system, than it might be fucked.
Or I am wrong and just talking out of my ass.
Both, potentially. There is a common misconception of what an EMP blast is capable of. They are measured in the amount of free electrons per sq/meter. Think how much energy it takes to fry something, and then imagine there has to be that amount of energy per squared space of said thing, and that energy has to exists in all space around it at the same density. enough electrons in the air to fry small components, and to my understanding, you're likely dead. The equipment that gets fried is anything plugged into an outlet or directly connected to a large object of conducting material. The massive amount of surface area available, and conducting properties allow for all that energy to blast anything connected too it. Phones, two way radios, pacemakers will continue to work.
I'm not very adept at car mechanics, so I don't know how well insulated those systems are, but they could potentially survive an EMP. If it's a lot of conductive metal attached too the system, than it might be fucked.
Or I am wrong and just talking out of my ass.
Does the gasoline refinement equipment survive as well?
Does the gasoline refinement equipment survive as well?
my 6.5 diesel is fuel injected, and uses a mechanical rotating pump to time and feed the infectors. - there are zero electronics involved in the fuel system, and it has 314k miles on the clock. would survive.
my 6.5 diesel is fuel injected, and uses a mechanical rotating pump to time and feed the infectors. - there are zero electronics involved in the fuel system, and it has 314k miles on the clock. would survive.
What fucking kind of wanna-be male are you? You don't know how to keep a carb functional? Takes as close to no effort as you can get... either Use the thing once a month or drain the float bowl. Or maybe you're inept and can't be bothered to learn how to Tune a carb (should some meathead before you have fucked it all up)? Which is it?
There is no Functional improvement with fuel injection ~ it doesn't do anything Better, just Different... like saying the toaster is better than a skillet for making a piece of toast. Both get the job done, but I will Forever take the toast off the skillet as tasting better.
Thinking about the ~500k miles I've covered on motorcycles with carbs (usually a bank of 4 that need to work together, way more complex than a car carb), I've never been put down anywhere because of the carbs.
What fucking kind of wanna-be male are you? You don't know how to keep a carb functional? Takes as close to no effort as you can get... either Use the thing once a month or drain the float bowl. Or maybe you're inept and can't be bothered to learn how to Tune a carb (should some meathead before you have fucked it all up)? Which is it?
There is no Functional improvement with fuel injection ~ it doesn't do anything Better, just Different... like saying the toaster is better than a skillet for making a piece of toast. Both get the job done, but I will Forever take the toast off the skillet as tasting better.
Thinking about the ~500k miles I've covered on motorcycles with carbs (usually a bank of 4 that need to work together, way more complex than a car carb), I've never been put down anywhere because of the carbs.
There is no point in having a conversation with someone that speaks from their ass...
There is no point in having a conversation with someone that speaks from their ass...
Dishwashing detergent. Removing the phosphates made it useless.
Order some Cascade Fryer Boil Out. It's literally the exact same Cascade they were selling before the phosphate ban, but they get around it because fryer boil-out isn't dishwashing detergent. Your old dishwasher will start getting dishes clean again. I hardly even rinse dishes before I put them in anymore since I've switched back to real Cascade (with a different label.)
Also, it works great if you have a home fryer. I use about a tablespoon in my little fryer, and it gets all the gunk out after about 30 min of running.
Dishwashing detergent. Removing the phosphates made it useless.
Order some Cascade Fryer Boil Out. It's literally the exact same Cascade they were selling before the phosphate ban, but they get around it because fryer boil-out isn't dishwashing detergent. Your old dishwasher will start getting dishes clean again. I hardly even rinse dishes before I put them in anymore since I've switched back to real Cascade (with a different label.)
Also, it works great if you have a home fryer. I use about a tablespoon in my little fryer, and it gets all the gunk out after about 30 min of running.
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