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BBQ needs to be fired up:

Good to hear from you and your wife is in my prayers. May she heal and you also seek comfort.

I worked with guys (Hughes Aircraft Company) that had worked on the A-12 (fighter version of the ST-71) and F-106. I didn’t hear one way or the other regarding how the F-111B worked or not. However, they had a certain affinity towards the F-14, but that’s probably because they had spent so much...

The missing link between the General Dynamics/Grumman F-111B and Grumman F-14 Tomcat. As previously discussed, the F-14 Tomcat was developed in the wake of the F-111B 'Sea-Vark' failure using largely the same concepts but packaged better. In between, there were other contenders from the US...

Most Dangerous Toy of All Times! Junior scientist Stefan Olsen operating the Wilson Cloud Chamber¹ of a Gilbert No. U-238 Atomic Energy Lab² (New York Toy Fair, March 1950). It was a toy lab set designed to allow children to create and watch nuclear and chemical reactions using radioactive...

I have used a pair of needle nosed vise grips and grabbed the spring, pulling it away from the pin. You MUST have a very good grip on the spring and eat your spinach.

My mom had a Maytag washing machine that washed the cloth diapers of 5 of us. It lasted 27 years.

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R-134a charge is best to be done using register temps and high and low side pressures. Your description is good. R-134a has a very narrow hysteresis or ‘sweet spot’. Too much or little and performance degrades quickly.

Didn’t GM build Corvairs there?

This is incredible: In 1944, a factory outside Detroit was doing something that seemed physically impossible—rolling a completed four-engine bomber off the assembly line every 63 minutes, 24 hours a day. The Willow Run plant stretched over 3.5 million square feet—so vast that supervisors used...

After WW2 Brazil found itself with a large stock of surplus M3 Stuart light tanks, which by the late 1960s and early 1970s were thoroughly outdated. Instead of purchasing costly foreign replacements, the Brazilian Army launched an ambitious modernization program that relied on domestic industry...

The B-52s aren’t just getting engines, they get radars too. I believe that they are getting a modified version of the APG-79 that is in the F/A-18 Super Hornets (-E, -F, EA-18G).

You didn’t provide a link or website for the source that you used.

You can go several ways. Rebuild it, replace it with an R-12 Sanden compressor or with an R-134a compressor. Lots of pluses and minuses for each.

Got her

We have a pest service that comes once a month. Several tin cat traps and poison boxes outside. The technician usually finds one or two mice or voles in the traps near the shop roll up doors. We haven’t had any rodents in the house for over a year or two. No rats and we have fields on all sides…

I was going to suggest just soldering wire to the studs and be done.✅

Got her.

I was watching a video about installing an upgrade for a Ford 7.3 Powerstroke (fuel check ball delete) and the guy used dental floss to tie around the fitting to use as a security rope in case he dropped it…