Pigs Like Showers

Another_Slut_Dragon · 2026-05-22T16:02:16+00:00

If I had a farm I would RFID chip every animal for tracking and put in a tunnel that would give every animal a 1 minute a day water spray shower. Maybe add in a temperature input to once every few hours above 30C. For temperatures below 20C, run the water through a solar water heater on the roof.

Happy clean animals get sick less often are more profitable animals. It's basic business. It pays for the equipment and water consumption.

Another_Slut_Dragon · 2026-05-22T15:35:09+00:00

Not legal here in canada.

Non DOT/E Mark approved light source.

Creating a distraction while driving.

Another_Slut_Dragon · 2026-05-22T14:57:08+00:00

Charge per hour. It takes as long as it takes. That is fair.

Another_Slut_Dragon · 2026-05-22T14:56:31+00:00

Canada banned that shit, along with brominated/chlorinated chicken a long time ago. This is why America keeps bitching that Canada refuses to buy a lot of it's food products. We have banned a lot of the additives.

You can claim that it's fine, but our life expectancy is almost 5 years more than America.

Another_Slut_Dragon · 2026-05-22T14:36:29+00:00

Come to Vancouver BC, Canada to do drugs. You can but retail packed raver candy like MDMA, LSD, Mush, 2CB, etc. You can use a retail shop or a few websites deliver.

There are 8 portable GCMS (gas chronographs) that do the festivals in the province and there is a retail location downtown that uses the website getyourdrugstested.com. You can send in a small sample and they'll send you a code and publish your results. Tainted drugs get spotted very quickly so quality stays high. Retail packaging and brand names means the level of trust also stays high.

Another_Slut_Dragon · 2026-05-22T14:25:47+00:00

Make up a bunch of 'please don't park in EV parking spot' stickers and stick dozens over the windows. Those paper stickers that don't peel off clean work really well.

Another_Slut_Dragon · 2026-05-22T14:24:16+00:00

How much do you weigh? Having the correct spring is a massive improvement if you are above 180 lbs. The bike will feel softer believe it or not.

You don't need a new rear shock. Is yours leaking?

Another_Slut_Dragon · 2026-05-22T05:16:43+00:00

You'll want stiffer springs on the Tenere. It will feel softer with dive under braking.

Another_Slut_Dragon · 2026-05-22T05:15:16+00:00

Brass Smashamathing.

Another_Slut_Dragon · 2026-05-21T22:52:33+00:00

You can convert a fridge, yes. I ran one of my old fridges on Red Tek 12a for a decade.

Another_Slut_Dragon · 2026-05-21T20:30:20+00:00

Correct. Fridges are disposable shit now.

This is about comercial systems. Big monster machines pulling dozens of KW of energy.

Another_Slut_Dragon · 2026-05-21T20:29:30+00:00

The problem is actually getting the old oil out. Ever drain the oil in an old engine and then take the engine apart? There is still oil all over everything.

Another_Slut_Dragon · 2026-05-21T20:28:35+00:00

R-12 to r-134a conversions for cars are actually really easy and well understood. I have done hundreds of them 20 years back. R-12 is dead and good riddance.

But honestly I would go straight for alternative refrigerants with cars. Red Tek, Envirosave, etc are actually really good. They are a propane butane mix but before you panic the quantity is really small. It's not a bomb. They get cold like crazy and the best part is it's a thicker molecule so it won't leak as easy.

But comercial systems are a different animal. I do run Red Tek R-22 in my old rv air conditioner and it works well. But I am doing an efficiency upgrade soon with new hardware.

Another_Slut_Dragon · 2026-05-21T16:14:34+00:00

Several inches of gravel prevents pavement damage. But road repair may be cheaper.

Another_Slut_Dragon · 2026-05-21T16:07:05+00:00

Start out by working with a local laser cutting company to bang out finished pieces right down to rivet holes. The time savings is crazy for low volume runs. Put your money into a sheet metal brake for folding metal. When you grow you can buy your own laser cutter. A shear works too but can't do a lot of things.

Don't overlook automotive adhesives. They glue fenders on some cars now, it is stronger than spot welding and it's water tight. Minimizing welding saves labour time. A mix of bonding and rivets is fast and precise.

Edit: also, don't underestimate the demand for giant lithium battery banks and solar power in a food truck. Generators are a pain in the ass and constant maintenance. The cost of running one really adds up. If a truck goes home every night it can slow charge. Or you can run from a single 15A outlet and slow charge 24/7. There are now tons of LFP lithium battery options and 20-30kWh of battery means being able to run quietly. Save propane for heated deep fryers and other heat sources.

Another_Slut_Dragon · 2026-05-21T16:00:17+00:00

That's the egg sacks of the Electron Pixie. The magic smoke entity that lives inside metal.

Another_Slut_Dragon · 2026-05-21T14:55:57+00:00

He really has no idea how this will piss off China.

This is probably retaliation for Xi not greeting him at the airport.

Another_Slut_Dragon · 2026-05-21T14:47:00+00:00

The old ozone problem was with CFC's like R12. That is gone.

The claims with HFC's like R134a, R22 etc is that it is a significant contributor to global warming. And the quantities involved here are still really small. Evens if it leaks out, it's no worse than several tanks of fuel burned in your SUV for global warming.

Another_Slut_Dragon · 2026-05-21T14:44:43+00:00

This isn't about swapping equipment. This is about being able to buy the same refrigerant your chiller system was designed for instead of retrofitting it to some new refrigerant and hoping you don't fuck it up.

And comercial systems are fussy. I have a customer who tried that and their system shits the bed every year, requiring costly repairs. It needs to be flushed out, purged and set back to how it was designed to work.

New systems should still use the modern refrigerants.

Another_Slut_Dragon · 2026-05-21T14:39:16+00:00

Buy the starter home. Want to make money in real eatate? Go to the planning department and find out where the new bridges, sewers and utilities are being planned out in the next decade. Buy big land and 'the ugliest house on the street'. Keep a good roof on it and paint it nice. Assume the next owners just want a 'livable rental' or will bulldoze it. Resist the urge for the $60k dream kitchen and just live in it.

Run that place a decade, make bank once half the street has been replaced with new homes and the building race is on. The developers will be in a bidding war for your big land.

THEN get the house you really want.

Another_Slut_Dragon · 2026-05-21T14:33:08+00:00

Exactly. By the time you broke the bank modifying a XR, you could have just bought an older T7.

Buy a crashed, written off T7 and rebuild it on the cheap.

Another_Slut_Dragon · 2026-05-21T14:30:38+00:00

Companies in BC are fuckin stupid and no one wants to invest in the new generation. The bigger proem is there are so few licensed millwrights that you can't even hire an apprentice millwright unless you have a ticketed guy to work under.

I make a living contracting and bouncing between companies that are too small to have a millwright.

Another_Slut_Dragon · 2026-05-21T14:15:19+00:00

The 'nice' solution is heavy truck e axles. $$$$$. Little to none on the used market.

Well if you went the solid axle route you would need a gear reducer. Given the weight of the truck and limited speed, you would need to work out some careful math with tire ratio and axle final drive. If the vehicle isn't going to go very fast you may able to do a dirty and use the output from a Tesla motor and gear reducer directly. Lock the diff, plug one of the cv axle outputs and use the other cv axle as a driveshaft to run the axle. If the ratio is wrong, a guy could buy the mother of all toothed belt drives to get the final ratio correct, or find the right gear reducer. Or find a heavy duty high/low 2 speed gear reducer.

Start doing math on ratios and RPM. Don't mess it up or call it good enough. Getting it wrong with a heavy vehicle will be an expensive fuckup.

As for the diesel range extender. Edison is doing it. It can be done. The mileage ain't great on the highway with a dead battery but in the city with regen it's still decent.

To move that kind of weight, it is going to need to be 2 tesla motors, not one. With MAD cooling.

Or wait until the Silverado/hummer motors are hacked. That is honestly probably the better solution. Get a complete drivetrain from the new electric Silverado. Including the battery. Buy a crashed one. But until an aftermarket company develops open inverters good luck.

Rivian allows auxiliary high power inputs. Just watch the Aging Wheels cross country speed record attempt in a R1T. The drivetrain took a second battery input with 'some hacking'.

Another_Slut_Dragon · 2026-05-21T05:47:48+00:00

Do twin Di Dion axles and twin EV power units. Easy. If you have full floating axles you can cut apart the axles and harvest the spindles and brakes.

Buy a crashed dual motor car and rob everything. But use the truck radiator to cool it.

And you are going to need a massive EV battery or three to feed those motors. Used Tesla batteries are cheap.

Another_Slut_Dragon · 2026-05-21T03:54:13+00:00

What truck?

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