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  1. GreyGhost

    building a ramp for a shipping container?

    Ime, those types of ramps will be slippery as $^#% if wet. I prefer wood, expanded metal or perforated aluminum.
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    Daily sports car?

    Busa swapped? It will be hard to keep up.
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    App

    Because "pure motorcycling is at his fingertips"?
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    fuel leak from small hole in petcock

    Take apart the chinese one you have on the bench to see if you can identify issues.
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    fuel leak from small hole in petcock

    Used OEM was probably taken out of service for failed gasket (or it failed in storage). I'd be inclined to take one of them apart and see what path the gas was taking and what the purpose of that hole is. The cheapest/easiest "fix" is jam some JB weld in that hole. That stops the drip. I'm not...
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    Enough of COVID...what are you doing to the house?

    In-laws have way too much furniture. They have kept all of that old family furniture as people have died. They now have dining room sets in the dining room at home, dining room at the cottage, basement at home and basement at the cottage. We got their cherry set as they didn't have room for a...
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    Speed camera update (Sept.11)

    Speeding needs to be in quotation marks. In many locations, they lower the speed limit without changing the road design in any way. That leaves the vehicles travelling the same speed on the same road but now they are "speeding". Not safety, just revenue generation promoted as safety.
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    Speed camera update (Sept.11)

    Ottawa has made over $41M with red light cameras. They were sold as improving safety. Surprise, surprise, not a single dollar of the generated revenue has gone to road safety. It goes to general revenue and the police Road safety fund gets allocated zero...
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    Any GTAM'ers own an electric vehicle?

    Kia and Hyundai seem to work hard to make ugly rear ends (not all of them but quite a few). I know it's for aero but bleh. They don't get magically more range than other brands that don't look so weird. This one looks like it was in a wreck and stretched back into shape by cleetus. I saw a BMW...
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    The "Official" Watch Thread and all Things Horological

    Wow. I havent seen do not vacuum before. I guess the crystal is pressed in?
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    Progressively wound valve springs. Which way up??

    The spring doesn't care which way is up but lower unsprung mass has no downsides. Thankfully, their oil reasoning and reduction in unsprung mass both align. I don't now if a mere mortal could feel the difference in unsprung mass in a fork. Valve springs at high rpm would be much easier to...
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    Speed camera update (Sept.11)

    To be fair, there are very few "accidents" now. There are a lot of crashes. Slowing down speeders reduces crashes but doesn't reduce accidents at all.
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    Speed camera update (Sept.11)

    Or at least 80M will be added to their slush fund annually instead of 40M. The more money collected, the safer we are. /s
  14. GreyGhost

    building a ramp for a shipping container?

    How much elevation are you trying to solve? Just the 6" for the floor? Are the ground and floor of the container parallel or do you have cross-slope to deal with too? Not enough room in container to spin bike around on side stand so you can ride out forward?
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    Progressively wound valve springs. Which way up??

    The logic is sound as less oscillating mass means higher rpm before you float. My doubts come in as maybe something like the stacked coils provide more stability for the keeper is an overriding concern that I don't know about. @bitzz probably has the tried and true answer. I'm not sure if he has...
  16. GreyGhost

    App

    It looks like it came with android 7.1.1 and can go up to 9. The latest version of android is 15. RE app needs android 12 or higher to run. You're SOL on that phone. FWIW, I bought my mom the $200 motorola G 5G from costco and she is happy with it. Not the best camera in the world but the phone...
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    One small step

    Good idea. Pull Apollo craft out of the Smithsonian and blast it into space with a "crew" of rich wankers.
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    A petite rant

    And if you bought more or had DRIP/DPP during the dip, you have more shares than you started with. That immediately increases dividend income more than it would have a few months ago (which is still phantom money if you are doing DRIP/DPP).
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    One small step

    Ha. Hilarious quote I found: "They called it a mission. We called it a tourist trip. Katy Perry and Gayle King want astronaut status after an 11-min ride to the edge of space. Raymond: “That’s like me calling myself an OB-GYN for watching my kids being born.”" Although astronaut is actually...
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    Dougie's latest plan

    That's a very reasonable position. Maybe the same team he had reviewing license plates that were invisible in the dark were also the team that couldn't determine that the huge multi-national spa they were partnering with had a market cap of under $1M?
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