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I managed to get a response after texting that I was bummed at the lack of one..... Oh well.... and wished them well for the rest of their trip. They got a lot going on with closer family and other obligations, and are also surf bums at heart too. I justvhad a good surf myself in the warm...

HDR, if mine is any judge of longevity, you got 2 more years to go before it gets flakey, but I'd recommend having some sort of backup handy for when the brightness settings seem to go up and down on their own without heat or the battery being the obvious cause. Unfortunately my backup was...

Thanks all, Sorry about the PM rejection Queen. I've been on that end of the stick after typing something thoughtful and been like WTF!! Not at the recipient, but at ther forum software, that I was not notified before typing, that that member had PM's turned off. I've turned PM'S back on, but...

Thanks. Sorry I've got the PMs turned off, I was getting too many personal requests regarding the 12v stuff, and already spend too much time and effort typing on those same matters time and again, and don't like to ignore requests. Seems easier turn off the PMs rather than to insult by not...

Thread revival. My Nitecore HC50, purchased in December of 2013 is now in the still functional, but unreliable category. For no reason I can discern, it will decide to drop to no more than ~ 20 lumens. It will, after some unpredictable amount of time, return to full function and brightness...

I weigh 220 Lbs, 8 beers over the last 6 hours, is a mild buzz. Its too late at night to call and curse them out anyway, but not sure why I should even attempt to be considerate anymore though. It seems being considerate just gets one walked upon in this day and age, especially if you don't...

I am simmering. Without going into specifics, I don't want to relate details, An elder  cousin came into town with his young son, for an event with something in which I am fairly experienced. 35 years worth of experience ability and interest in a subject, and was asked to lend some assistance...

Epoxy is the ticket. Why it is not generally used is it is more expensive, and requires it be mixed thoroughly in a precise ratio with not much room for error. Polyester resins, usually called fiberglass resin( and erronioniously in my opinionn , only require an evil toxic catalyst, and if...

There are some legal considerations concerning brake lights. Technically putting LEDs into incandescent signal housings is illegal. If insurers and lawyers become involved at some point and it is revealed that such bulbs were installed............. Pulsing and strobing brake lights is...

Old housings like that can use LEDs and then one does not have to worry about the wiring being too thin. With simple parabolic reflectors behing the red lens, the LEDs should work OK. it is the newer signal housings with dimpled reflectors, that reflect the filamnet from each dimple visible...

I've never heard of this, and could only see it occurring IF the batteries were starved of electrolyte absorbed in the glass matting before being sealed. Like if a flooded battery's caps would not leak if mounted on its side, a portion of the plates would not be exposed to the electrolyte and...

6 gauge to a 1000 watt inverter powering a 600 watt load is undersized, even if the run was very short. Keep in mind that while one usually simply divides wattage by 12 to come up with amperage draw on a battery, one is really drawing 15 to 20% more than this due to inverter inefficiency, and...

Same case shape and size and weight and specs as the t-605.  With Trojan manufacturing batteries in an LA suburb, it kind of makes sense that interstate and costco saw a higher profit potential with Trojan's budget GC-2 for their stores in this region of the country.  Different color...

MSW inverters are known for causing clocks to not work properly. Same thing for a timer. Perhaps the MSW is screwing up the electric drip's timer causing it to restart. A possibility anyway As others said it sounds like you could also be suffering a lot of voltage drop on the cabling and...

12v AGM and 12v flooded are not to be put in the same category. Trojan and USbattery make a group size GC12 'Floor Scrubber' battery. It is a Smidge longer by about 1/2 inch a bit wider by about 1/4 to 3/8" and about an inch taller than a group 31, and about 20 pounds heavier and ~20 more AH...

 Well the engine was rebuilt in ~2004, about 42k miles ago, and presumably spotless then.  Last time I had valvecovers off was in 2006 and looking at pictures taken then,  appear nearly exactly the same.  I tried using Mobil1 in 2007, and as it stopped all cold startup valvetrain clatter, and as...

I've witnessed those guys go ballistic with the air impact wrenches, one time on my then friend's chevy diesel pickup for which he bought new aluminum rims. I helped break off all the studs trying to unscrew them while sitting on the ground pushing on the bottom of a large 4 way lug wrench...

Propane/ Absorption fridges, need to remain within a few degrees of level, fore and aft and side to side. If they are run for extended periods off level not only will they not cool, but obstructions will form in the plumbing cumulatively damaging them. Back when i was still using a cooler I...

Hopefully when you pull valve covers to do the gaskets there is no Sludge. I was pleased to see mine looking like this recently: Though the underside of the valvecover could have been better: Get a few Q tips and get all the old oil from the valve cover bolt receptacles in heads. Mine...

The visible rust on the upper control arm and engine support frame cross member would scare me more than any other iron oxide shown in the pics. A lot of stuff is due or soon to be due, but this does not have to be looked at as a full frame up restoration. I've replaced most of the parts on...