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Also if you’re going through the trouble of running wire for receptacles in your garage and outside I would strongly recommend that you run #12 AWG wire and make those 20 amp receptacles. Same amount of work, just a slightly higher cost for wire but well worth it.

If you’re talking about a 15 or 20amp 120v receptacle, exterior receptacles require their own circuit, you can have more than one but they all have to be exterior receptacles.You can’t have additional interior receptacle on that circuit.So yes you need 2 separate circuits.

I installed a 80amp charger on the side of a guys house for a pick up truck about 2 years ago. That required a 100amp circuit.Once you go over 60 amps a disconnect is required next to the charger, since it was outside it had to be a weatherproof disconnect. That installation was not cheap. I’m...

In the US the electrical code requires an EV rated 50 Amp receptacle, it’s got a little green car on it. I’ve never seen one here but I’m sure they are coming. If a receptacle is rated at 50 amps it should be able to safely carry that load whether it’s stove or EV charger, the receptacle doesn’t...

Perfect, keep it simple I always say. I have a BMW Z4 that doesn’t make that clicking noise when the signals are on and I always forget to cancel them. The device that makes that sound is on a circuit board behind the instrument cluster and a huge pain to replace. I may have to use something...

Some have a coil inside that little box that is energized to cancel the turn signal when the bike has traveled a specific distance after activating them. I just watched an old Kawasaki guru repair one on YouTube, I’m semi retired so I have time to watch that kind of stuff.

My buddy’s 1980 Kawasaki Z1R had self canceling turn signals which was quite unique at the time. if my memory serves me correctly, it was a tiny little device about the shape and size of a matchbox directly below your turn signal switch on your handlebars. It had a pendulum in it that sensed...

Good to hear. They were huge from about ‘79-‘82. Sold out pretty much any venue in Toronto that they played. I saw them many times at The Knobby (Knob Hill Hotel) in Scarborough, a real classy place. Frankie Venom RIP was a great front man.

I remember seeing that cop car with the smashed windows that night, 45 years ago this coming June 2 I believe.

Yeah, I’m a 1980 Teenage Head Riot Survivor. I actually got into the show that night and saw the aftermath of the riot leaving at the main gates with a huge police presence. Those guys absolutely rocked the place!

My step kids use to scramble eggs with a metal fork in a Teflon pan. I made them watch “Dark Waters” and they were like “Yeah,so?” Now they have their own frying pan and I have one with a ceramic coating.We’ll see who dies of cancer first.

So I picked up a nice sandblasting cabinet to use on a restoration on a Yamaha RD400 that I’m about to emabark on, plus it was my birthday and I just wanted one. A couple of problems have reared their ugly heads and looking for advice from anyone with firsthand experience. First, my 20 gallon...

The torque wrench I actually use the most is a 1/4” drive 250 inch pounds (about 20 foot pounds). Everyone should have one of those. It’s the small fasteners that you have to be the most careful with.

The range on that is a little high for most applications on a motorcycle. Most oil drain plugs are about 20-25 ft-lbs. I think mine is 15-100 or 150 ft-lbs. and that does almost everything I need it to.I think they are more accurate when used in mid range rather than the upper and lower ends of...

I was at Shannonville on the Friday morning of a race weekend when Steve Dick unloaded a brand new Kawasaki S1 factory race bike from a cube truck.About 1:30 that afternoon he crashed it pretty bad in corner 6 just doing fast laps. I was in the pits when they unloaded the wrecked bike. I still...

Dave Meyer is the guy that built Lang’s bike, his younger brother went to my high school in Scarborough. I think Lang re-acquired that bike very recently.

Came across this in Muscle Shoals, Alabama last week after years of searching, the elusive Pappy Van Winkle Bourbon. You have to enter a lottery to get a bottle and can sell for up to $1000. It was pretty good but you can get other bourbons almost as good for a fraction of the price. The Mrs...

Sorry, I skipped over those previous posts.Coincidentally, my father is from Steyr, Austria. That’s where they made a large number of the K98 rifles as well as MP40 sub machine guns among other things during the war.As the Americans got close a lot of guns got dumped into the canal/river that...

Are you referring to Long Branch? I know that’s where the made the Lee Enfield Mark IV which is highly regarded among collectors. The building was still there up until a few years ago that I know of. I know the Inglis plant made Bren guns at their plant closer to the city near the CNE grounds...