Trufuel WTF (not technology related)
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I've never had so-called old gas either. I figured it was one of those things everyone uses as a scapegoat when their various gas-powered implements don't start in spring because the air intake is blocked off by wasp nests.
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Unfortunately, the only way of dealing with the wasp nest problem is 'killing it with fire', and that tends to have the nasty side effect of blowing up your gas-powered implement.
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So it's basically printer ink?
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My research indicates printer ink is $2,700/gal, so it's not quite that bad. But then again, human blood is a mere $1,500/gal…
But that pales into nothing compared to scorpion venom: $39,000,000/gal.
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Yeah, but run the numbers of fuel-per-use-costs-as-percentage-of-machine costs, they're much more comperable.
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And people actually buy this stuff?
I saw a half-litre of bottled water offered for sale at a convenience store near me the other day. $5.95.
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custom Hi-Fi oxygen-free gas generator
Reviews like this just never get old.
The Platinum Starlight is the ‘fastest” sounding of the three cables reviewed, and offers outstanding definition and resolution. Subtle dynamic shadings are beautifully rendered as well as macro and micro dynamic changes. The pace and rhythm of this cable was exemplary and probably, in my opinion, second to none.
At first I was put off by the Enigma Tuning Circuits as I felt Synergistic Research should decide how their cable should sound. But as I played with the Silver and Grey Tuning bullets, I came to really enjoy employing this feature. The Silver bullet offered a lighter, quicker sound with the largest soundstage. The Grey bullet offered a richer, slightly warmer sound that did not roll off the high end, but seemed to reduce hardness if present. The Black bullet was definitely darker or warmer sounding at the expense of a slight amount of detail reproduction. Using these 3 tuning devices offered one the ability to get the most out of the cable.
And why buy a car when you can afford an 8 metre Ethernet patch cable instead?
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I'm quite amazed how no one apparently bothered to actually make a spectrogram of the sound output using those audiophile USB and Ethernet cables vs. the ones that come with your cheap-ass router.
Or maybe they did, found no differences, and said "fuck it, we'll just throw some technobabble and noise measurements and cash in that sweet marketing department $$$s".
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I've never had so-called old gas either.
I had this issue with my mower. As some people here will understand, I have a pretty small lawn. And aside from my mower, my other stuff (trimmer, blower) is corded electric. I go through less than a gallon of gas per year.
At one point, my mower just wouldn't start. Went to the gas station for fresh gas and then it worked. So I'm assuming the gas was just old.
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As some people here will understand, I have a pretty small lawn.
Optimizing the size of your lawn to keep down the maximum number of kids who can get on it seems like a strange thing to do.
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I'm quite amazed how no one apparently bothered to actually make a spectrogram of the sound output using those audiophile USB and Ethernet cables vs. the ones that come with your cheap-ass router.
I'm not.
Wine testers don't do a spectrogram before spouting-off gibberish about the flavor of the wine. Same shit here. Some people just don't get it.
I feel bad I have too many scruples to make my own $1000 USB cables and sucker these morons into buying some. Stupid ethics.
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this is actually a thing?
Yes. It's actually a thing that you can actually spend actual thousands of actual dollars on.
Flanders And Swann ~ Song Of Reproduction ~ (1957) – 02:36
— Nevile Foster
'Twas ever thus.
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normal 87 octane fuel
If 87 is "normal" maybe that's your (as in people having issues with "old fuel") problem? Here we have a choice of 91, 95 and 98. Afaict 95 is generally E10 so I avoid that, and I've read that the 98 is not worth the extra 10c/litre so I don't use that either.
I only buy fuel a few times per year for my garden power tools and never had problems with them, at least not fuel line related. I live on a big-by-modern-standards ~700m² block but can sometimes go months without starting anything. But they all always start.
Even the line trimmer I paid $30 second hand 4 years ago is going strong. I do have a 4 litre can sitting in my back shed with fuel bought at them same time I never got around to using and now I'm too scared to try though!
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Americans don't generally have access to proper fuel.
Might be where the crazy displacements come from.That and the small volume measurements make it really hard to compare - the only thing I know is that Americans get really drunk very easily when they visit the UK.
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I've read that the 98 is not worth the extra 10c/litre
Depends mostly on your engine management computer. Worth buying a few tanks of for research purposes. In my little car, I found I was averaging about 5% better range from a tank of 98 than a tank of 91 so it doesn't really pay for itself. Sometimes I'll throw a full tank of 98 in there just for the sake of feeling like I've done something nice for the motor; $2 is a pretty cheap placebo :-)
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No, we just use a different octane number system.
In the US, we use a system called AKI, which is mathematically the average of RON and MON.
The rest of you just use RON.
MON is a lower number. Therfore our numbers are lower.
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engine management computer
This thread is about small engines. Does your lawnmower have an EMC? :)
No, we just use a different [almost everything]
I should have known!
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Does your lawnmower have an EMC?
My car engine is only 660cc. Surely there must be lawnmowers bigger than that.
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My car engine is only 660cc.
That's not a car. It is an ATV. Do your passengers sit behind you and hold on to you for safety?
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Ok, not an ATV . It is a glorified golf cart.
I thought you Aussies all drove Utes?
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Touchę
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It is a glorified golf cart.
Like the ridiculous Smart car, there's no way your clubs will fit in there. And carts actually have sufficient leg room. They are probably about the most convenient vehicle to get in and out of...for obvious reasons. I can't imagine spending much time in something like @flabdablet's Mira.
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You would be lucky to fit 4 bags of organic, fair-trade, non-GMO, HFCS-free, crunchy granola in one of those things.
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Smart car
Sometimes the car you drive really does say something about you. In this case, it says:
I don't need good mileage. I don't need safety. I don't need acceleration. I don't need legroom. I don't need trunk space. Just give me a cool-sounding name and I'm all set.
I'm sure I left out something.
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If that was my shopping haul, I agree, but it's decidedly bad luck.
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there's no way your clubs will fit in there
Golf clubs? Pffffft. I once drove a full-height fridge, a Turkish rug, five dozen bottles of good red wine and a bedside chest of drawers from Melbourne to Orbost in that car.
The Mira is a very well-engineered little machine. I am six foot tall and have a very fat arse, so I frequently find myself given the choice of driving with my head jammed against the ceiling or laid back so far I can't reach the wheel in other people's cars. Not in my car. There's a good four inches of headroom there, and the seats are really kind to my back.
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the ridiculous Smart car
has what's quite possibly the world's most surprisingly awful turning circle. My Mira is way, way easier to park than the Smart I borrowed a few times while working in Berlin.
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Mira
*looks that up*
*sees it's the Cuore*
Also:
The Daihatsu Mira Gino is a kei car with distinctive retro styling made by the Japanese automaker Daihatsu.
Anyone else thinks that looks like a shit one of these?
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No, I think the BMW looks like a bloated version of one of these.
The Mini Story | Austin, Morris, BMC, and Cooper – 06:18
— ElectricFederalAlso the Cuore superseded the Mira; it's a bit more bubble-car than mine.
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I did the first mowing of the year yesterday. No $28/Gallon fuel, and everything fired up just fine. The trimmer took a bit to prime, but after I got fuel to the carb she fired up right away. That is not a thing that "engineered fuel" will help with. ;-)
Also, my son lost the keys to the mower. Expensive fuel won't help with that, but a lockpick set will. ;-)
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I am six foot tall and have a very fat arse, so I frequently find myself given the choice of driving with my head jammed against the ceiling or laid back so far I can't reach the wheel in other people's cars.
Yeah, ever tried a Toyota Celica? Every time I got into my workmate's I had to stuck my head out the sunroof! I'm 200cm (6ft6) tall but I'm not fat.
One of the company cars I used to drive was a Toyota Echo which was surprisingly tall. It went through so many clutches until they traded it in for an auto first gear could get up to about 50km/hr before the rev limiter kicked in, imsmr.
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How does anyone think this is a good product or a good business model? They are removing all of the economies of scale from fuel distribution and packaging ethanol-free fuel in quart bottles and shipping it by truck. And people actually buy this stuff?
Yes.
And I think overpaying for stuff is immoral. Gas, brand clothing, or microtransactions in video games. People always get angry when I argue this, but I don't care if it's not my money, you're greatly encouraging companies to spend lots of money on obnoxious commercials and social engineering tactics instead of engineering, factories and other things that actually help make better stuff.
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Also, my son lost the keys to the mower.
I assume you've grounded him and taken away his license?
If I recall your family status correctly this is "playpen for U!!" Right?
Filed under: if drink, don't mow. If you mow, don't drink.
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I assume you've grounded him and taken away his license?If I recall your family status correctly this is "playpen for U!!" Right?
Filed under: if drink, don't mow. If you mow, don't drink.
I don't follow?
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I don't follow?
Your son presumably lost the mower keys while on a weekend binge...
Right?
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our son presumably lost the mower keys while on a weekend binge...
He is 3.5 years old, so I certainly hope not. ;)
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And I think overpaying for stuff is immoral. Gas, brand clothing, or microtransactions in video games. People always get angry when I argue this, but I don't care if it's not my money, you're greatly encouraging companies to spend lots of money on obnoxious commercials and social engineering tactics instead of engineering, factories and other things that actually help make better stuff.
OTOH: there are fields where you get what you pay for, as the buyers are smart enough that obnoxious commercials and social engineering tactics will get shown up by a good, conservative spec and smart product engineering -- but those things can actually cost more than the obnoxious ads and social manipulation.
Or in other words, you have a choice between building something to a price, or building something to a spec. The consumer world, by and large, does the former uniformly, so all that's left to spend money on is obnoxious commercials and social manipulation, and that's not going to change if you buy $offbrand vs $namebrand -- it's reached the point where unmaintainable, not-particularly-reliable, unspecified consumer equipment is the norm.
On the other hand, professional equipment costs what it does because it's built and production tested to meet a guaranteed, conservative specification and also be serviceable and long-term reliable. However, gear built this way will last many years with only minor maintenance, and can be counted on to withstand the test of time.
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He is 3.5 years old, so I certainly hope not.
Which is more or less what I thought...
So why would you let him drive a MOWER??
Think of the children, man......
;)
Filed under: "And I thought I was a free-range parent"
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Still getting over this sinus infection. I am a little slow...
He was just playing on it, without it running. I am a pretty easy-going parent, but not even I would turn a toddler loose with 21HP powering 3 big ass blades. Geez man, he might run in to my fence and break it. ;)
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He was just playing on it, without it running.
my son lost the keys to the mower.
The state of the mower could change quite easily.
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Actually, no it couldn't have.
It was parked over the winter and had not been used yet, so there was no gas in it and no fuel around it at all. As a matter of habit, I run all power equipment out of fuel at the end of the year. Also, to keep the battery from going flat over the winter, I remove it from the mower and store it in the garage on a maintenance charger. Also, as it is an older mower, it is like a bank vault, you need the right combination (of choke and fuel, etc) or it won't start. She is a bit temperamental.
If he can sort all of that out, he needs to be the one mowing anyway.
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How do you quantify "overpaying"?
If a company is selling a product for >1000x what it costs to develop AND build, it's obviously overpriced.The exact point? Obviously I can't quantify that. But just because I can't set a line that divides "cold" and "hot", doesn't mean I can't say that a cup of coffee at -30º is too cold and one at 90ºC is too hot.
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How will people know that better stuff exists without some kind of marketing?
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How will people know that better stuff exists without some kind of marketing?
And how will better products come in to being without the profits from current products sold at "immoral" profit levels in order to fund their development?
Sure, some product may sell for a lot more than it cost to develop and produce, but what about the 30 false starts that led to that product? The 30 things they tried that did not pan out but led them to this. Businesses that exist on bare minimums do not exist for very long.
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gear built this way will last many years with only minor maintenance, and can be counted on to withstand the test of time
Hewlett Packard used to make nothing but gear like that. Then Carly Fiorina got her hands on the levers, and now the vast bulk of what they make is flimsy garbage. Now she's running for President.