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05-02-2021, 09:06 PM | #2577 |
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I was 12 when the album Sgt. Pepper was released in 1967. 64 was ages away back then. Happy to have gotten this far and it doesn't feel like I thought it would. It's better. Give a big CHEER to all of us 'old' guys and gals.
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05-02-2021, 09:07 PM | #2578 |
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The worst part of those spouts was that they were oily when you put them in the trunk between uses. I made a bracket to hold mine to the fender well under the hood of my oil-hungry VW Rabbit back in the day.....
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05-02-2021, 09:12 PM | #2579 |
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I still carry the guilt about what I used to do with the used oil. See 3798j's post above.
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05-02-2021, 09:26 PM | #2580 |
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This prompted me to go take a pic of something sitting on a shelf in my garage.
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I have a few, unopened cans of these:
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05-03-2021, 07:23 AM | #2582 |
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Why? The oil came from the ground in the first place! You just borrowed it for 3,000 miles, and then recycled it back to where it came from.....
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05-03-2021, 08:33 AM | #2583 |
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When I got my degree in environmental geology I learned how much damage waste oil can cause. "Just a few quarts" when multiplied by lots of people doing the same thing can wreak havoc on an aquifer. Luckily where I grew up our water came from reservoirs.
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I've never bought cheapest or the best but give me a break, almost everything falls apart in my house every president or so, but these well built fugly units will for what seems like forever
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05-03-2021, 09:38 AM | #2585 |
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This refrigerator reminded me of what I certainly do not miss, and that is the old refrigerators, which could not be pushed open, trapping many a child to their death. Thank goodness for the magnetic design (which this one is).
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05-03-2021, 02:22 PM | #2587 |
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Yeah my fridge is 16 years old and still going strong. There's another one in the basement which is about 30 years old still working
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05-03-2021, 02:26 PM | #2588 |
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We have been getting ~15 years out of our stuff, and upgrade on failure (rather than repair) to get the most energy/water efficient replacements.....
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When I wrenched at the dairy we would spread the drain oil from the truck fleet, car fleet, farm equipment fleet, and factory equipment fleet on the dirt roads out on the farm. Kept the dust down.
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05-03-2021, 09:29 PM | #2592 |
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As I get older: it takes me all night long to do what I used to do all night long.
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