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    Power Probe acting strange

    Clean the outside of it to remove any thing on the surface that conducts electricity. Store bought alcohol like 70, 71, or 90 % on a clean paper towel works well to remove anything like oils. But do not let it get on the clear screen if it is plastic. Some clear plastics fog up badly if alcohol...
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    Rampage supersonic missile used on Iran

    Yea, but why? I have 0 Evidence to back my suspicion. But I suspect there are other countries who are appeasing them to not escalate it beyond what they are doing.
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    Quirky features on your cars?

    On my 2016 Honda CR- V EX, I added: Weather Teck front mats, Wheel-Skin leather steering wheel wrap, Had a body shop rool back the upper lip of the back hatch and paint it and put on new gas struts from lift-support-depo that open up a lot more so I no longer accidentally hit my head on the...
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    Converted old air compressor tank to storage and got 20X more air storage for my garage.

    I could not manage to link the youtube video about the exploded air tank. Look for air tank failure on YouTube. If it is more than 10 years old treat it like it might exploded and locate it someplace where if it did explode no one would be hurt. Power it up with some means of turning on and...
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    What powers the ac compressor on an electric vehicle?

    Hybrid compressors for the a c system that run on very high voltage require special oil that has extremely low amounts of moisture in it. And in order to prevent moisture from being add it to this kind of a system if it is ever serviced it requires being serviced by equipment that is dedicated...
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    Put 5W-20 in 5W-30 Mower

    GSCJR, Your in Canada and Canadian ambient temperatures are nowhere near the same as they are in Texas.
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    Put 5W-20 in 5W-30 Mower

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    Put 5W-20 in 5W-30 Mower

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    Put 5W-20 in 5W-30 Mower

    Supreme possum, Being that you are in the great state of Texas and that it gets pretty hot there sometimes, If it were me I would swap it out in those kinds of conditions. Oil thins out as it gets hot. And the hotter it gets a more thin out. In hot Texas conditions, you should be running...
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    Polarized Lime

    When I was a kid we had an elevated dog coop with heavy square wire for the bottom of the coup. The spacing was such that the Biggle dog that we had could walk on the wire but his urine and most feces fell through. My father kept the area below that cage white with lime to keep it sanitary...
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    New mechanical tip

    I want one for a riding lawnmower.
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    Reading stuck 75k NGK Iridium plugs in 3.0 V6 Honda.

    If you call up NGK they will tell you where to look at on the sparkplug to identify whether it is a counterfeit or not.
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    What powers the ac compressor on an electric vehicle?

    3 or more phases, and an inverter to step UP the Voltage even higher that the output Voltage of the big drive battery. Using high Voltage enables the windings of the ac electric motor to be made of thinner wire resulting in less copper being used, and less weight.
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    Is there such a thing as an unreliable U.S. new car today?

    Someone posted recently that a low mileage Subaru had it's CVT transmission, fail early, with very low miles. They actually said that the reason it failed was because it had a bearing that failed. I'm sure it was covered under warranty but still it didn't last long initially.
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    Max current from fully charged battery to a dead one?

    I saw a battery explode once when someone jump started his own truck. I was across the street in the house I lived in and was sick that day so I was just on a couch watching through a glass door. Imagine about a gallon of acid exploding up in all directions with enough that you could actually...
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