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  1. crankcall

    Hudson's Bay closing

    Unfortunate history on the HBC . However they had a great run and probably lasted forty yrs longer than they should’ve . I did shop there much , but I do feel for the nine thousand employees getting the boot . Sent from my iPhone using GTAMotorcycle.com
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    Eating out

    We are out every Friday with friends for dinner/ drinks and it’s gone from fifty/ seventy bucks a couple to ninety to a hundred. It will likely continue. My job means I’m in a restaurant daily , I won’t eat fast food because it will eventually kill you . If you have ever worked behind the scenes...
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    Has anyone else been sick more than normal this winter?

    Allergy season has come early . Two weeks of serious booger mode so far . Up to date on my flu shots and Covid vax and looking for my shingles and pneumonia shots . I got my yellow and dengea fever shots and the malaria anti venom four years ago and they are good for a decade . My witch doctor ...
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    Auston Matthews

    Shouldnt Mike Myers be making another movie soon ? oh sorry , wrong Austin.....
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    Enough of COVID...what are you doing to the house?

    it gets used once or twice a year , and a rubber cone fitting is whats been used so far but often it lets loose at a inopertune time. The proper fitting exists somewhere , its just so old they have been lost/stolen/loaned never to be returned . Its like working on heavy equipement , a metric...
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    Enough of COVID...what are you doing to the house?

    Awesome, thanks I’ll give these folks a call . @nobbie , changing the female part , set into a boat deck non starter . I own pipe dies and taps , but NPT not NPS . I also own a small lathe but my drive gears are for several threads , not this . Tooling up ( even for an idiot like me ) for two...
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    Enough of COVID...what are you doing to the house?

    Just a fluid conduit not under pressure . It’s a deck fill fitting on a vintage yacht ( old boat ) and the fittings were made in New Zealand in the seventies It’s NPS , no taper at all . I could crank something in and make it tight but I don’t want to bugger the threads in the deck , it’s a...
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    Enough of COVID...what are you doing to the house?

    able OK clever folks , I need a male pipe fitting 1 1/2" NPS , straight thread , to go into an existing female thread . The female end is not changeable. I can fit tapered NPT or whatever going forward from this connection , nobody I can find keeps any fittings in straight thread . 1 1/2 NPS...
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    Anyone else wearing a smart watch for fall detection?

    I will be found dead , nine days later like Gene Hackman, wearing my windup analog watch , and hopefully pants . Sent from my iPhone using GTAMotorcycle.com
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    Any Movement on Price

    Prices could be up as folks try not to take a bath . My biggest concern buying used is a clean title , so many knuckle heads financed toys when money was cheap . Sent from my iPhone using GTAMotorcycle.com
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    Boat Rentals

    Yes sorry twenty four express cruiser , limestone by Maderios, on a triaxle Excalibur trailer . Boat is listed on Boatdealer.ca . I’m not surprised it sold fast , I was a bit wonky since I already own more than one boat , but darn it was clean and not molested . And wife wants a travel trailer...
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    Boat Rentals

    We looked at a twenty eight ft Limestone , Volvo outdrive with cuddly cabin and a really nice aluminum trailer in Picton last week. Ask was Thirty two K which for that boat wasn’t bad . Sadly ( or not ) we took a couple days to think about it and an offer went in Monday . Sold in five days after...
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    Canada Post - Huge losses

    Working with municipal govt to be sure superboxes can be installed to meet local requirements and getting them built a solution. The door to door is dead technology. Even in rural settings , I’ve lived where we went to the general store , which could just be a superbox now. My son gets his mail...
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    Damn used 4k smart TVs getting very cheap.

    I remember tube sets my granparents had , and turning on the set ten minutes before Lawrence Welk show so the set could warm up. And the " imigrant" TV stand , one unit on top of the other , picture on one working and sound on the other . And mixing up channels on both under penalty of death ...
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    Damn used 4k smart TVs getting very cheap.

    I don’t think people are bailing on streaming though O have heard people are no longer keeping five or six services and pairing back to two or three . I’m sure some have exited completely, so one is always moving a new direction. I’m not sure unless it’s ridiculous value I’m ever buying a used...
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    Boat Rentals

    Amen to that , we spent twenty K rebuilding a four fifty four gas guzzler for a boat we paid sixteen grand for , that would sell today for twelve K Sent from my iPhone using GTAMotorcycle.com
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    COVID and the housing market

    You can see it right now , I’m looking for a travel trailer , asks for used is often the price of a new unit . Save the tax ! Well sure until you need to register it ( sure fake invoice) but hard to insure a thirty K unit you paid told the MTO was five K . Sent from my iPhone using...
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    Boat Rentals

    The money pit , I’ve been deep in it , and a motorcycle or car you can roll it out of the way , boats over a certain size need big equipment to shuffle them around . And you’re NEVER getting the money out . There are some very desirable gentlemen mahogany racers on the market now for the price...
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    COVID and the housing market

    I’m with you, I don’t want to watch anyone default , but I’m prepared to buy thier travel trailer at fifty cents on the dollar . Sent from my iPhone using GTAMotorcycle.com
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    Buying a vehicle (non motorcycle) as is from private vs dealer

    Buddy bought a twenty twenty three Maverick new from order, two years in , no issues and he loves it . He’s not a high mileage driver , and he keeps it very nice , but some guys could buy anything and have a problem. Sent from my iPhone using GTAMotorcycle.com
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