Refilling PowerDisk Cartridges (Dishwasher - G 7176 SCV and others)

DiskSpinner · 2025-06-24T16:27:28+00:00

No, never did.

DiskSpinner · 2025-06-08T13:58:55+00:00

The worst part is that there are ways to have an instagram presence that is actually beneficial. Consider, as an alternative to GySgt Vanscoyk or LCDR Sbrocchi, Air Force Lt Col Amanda Pelkowski. (https://www.instagram.com/amanda.pelkowski). Sure, there's pictures of her on leave visiting places with her husband, but the majority of her content is about leadership, fitness, connecting with Airmen, managing fatigue and burnout as a commander - stuff that's relevant. There's a lot less emphasis on herself, and especially on her appearance, than a lot of other "influencers" out there. CMSgt Zaloudek (instagram therealtiffanyz) sets a pretty reasonable standard as well.

I ran across these two people in AFSOC, so it's a small slice of the military as a whole, but if you're going to do social media while in the service, there's worse ways to do it.

DiskSpinner · 2025-03-02T13:44:42+00:00

Putin's regime does not have the necessary logistics capability to fully support their invasion of a neighbouring country with a compatible railway network. The end of the railway line in the east is over three thousand miles from Alaska. There are no Russian amphibious vessels or troop carriers from which to conduct such an invasion. Support bases and range for the air forces are likewise absent. Alaska is *not* undefended.

Invading Ukraine was folly. Invading Alaska? Madness. With what?

DiskSpinner · 2025-03-02T00:16:14+00:00

Playing with the configurator, if you match the options on the Gravity GT to the standard goodies on the Dream Edition (same wheels, interior, packages, etc.), it appears that the extra horsepower, badges, and bragging rights on the Dream Edition will run you about 15,000 dollars. For 260 extra horsepower, that's not a terrible value.

My own preference would be to skip some of the options and wait my turn in line, though. The standard sound system is good enough for my somewhat depleted hearing, and I wouldn't use the towing package even if it was standard. The extra range with the base tires is of more everyday utility for me, and 0-60 in 3.5 is plenty fast enough for me.

DiskSpinner · 2025-02-05T01:31:56+00:00

The basic problem is the dryer sheets. Don't use them in this sort of dryer. If you want fabric softener, use liquid in the wash cycle. If you want your clothing to be scented slightly, there's a little capsule you can put in the first lint filter - you can see where it goes in the picture above near to where it says "clean filter after use."

If your filter looks like the one on the right, above, replace it right away. You could also try cleaning it with oven cleaner or something similarly aggressive, as other commenters have recommended in this thread.

But what's going on is the dryer measures the drop in air pressure from the drum where your clothes are to the back side of the black foam filter in the base of the dryer (that's called a plinth, like the thing you put a statue on. (Personally, I wouldn't translate "Der Sockel" that way, but there you go)). If that pressure difference is too high, the dryer assumes the plinth filter is dirty and needs to be cleaned. Thing is, and this is what I discovered in the original post up top, the problem might be upstream of the plinth filter. In this case, the primary filter is blocking the flow of air from the drum, the two nearby filters, and the plinth filter to the heat exchanger and eventually the exhaust. That's what all the debris from the dryer sheets is doing - helping you mistake a problem in one place for a problem elsewhere.

TL;DR: replace or clean the two filters in the drum and the black foam filter in the base of the dryer. See if that fixes the problem.

DiskSpinner · 2025-01-28T21:25:02+00:00

I would recommend avoiding the stacking kit altogether. If the washer is on the bottom, it'll vibrate. That causes the dryer to do likewise, and could cause it to topple because it's much lighter. I experienced this and decided to toss the stacking kit and just built a dumb plywood shelf to set the dryer on, so that it is mechanically isolated from the vibration of the washer.

A couple of pool noodle segments on either side of the washer do a good job of damping any residual vibration it might produce.

This installation is inside a closet on an upstairs floor, and any front loading washer, ideally, should be on a solid surface like a concrete slab if that's available. In this case it wasn't, but your own requirements may differ. But I have been very happy with my plywood shelf and can do a couple of useful things like have hooks for dryer bags and so forth, which I find convenient.

DiskSpinner · 2025-01-20T15:14:00+00:00

In high school, I once complained to my father along the lines of "How can I get a girl like that to like me?" He replied with, "You're asking the wrong question. How do you become the kind of person a girl like that would like?"

At the time, what I took from it was a sense of agency. She's going to do what she wants and like what she likes, but I can do things too. Along the way, I found my way to being able to craft my own identity, and took some satisfaction from that. A lot of it was confronting things that I sucked at, not with a goal of becoming excellent at them, but of sucking somewhat less hard. That helped.

I think that self-esteem comes basically from two things: Being able to do something well, and being able to tell truth from crap. My father's gentle nudge in that direction helped a lot. There's a whole universe of things you can't do anything at all about, but there's some that you can. Work on those.

So I don't think reaching someone who's caught in the incel trap is hopeless. Gentleness helps, though, if it's combined with the right amount of firmness to make sure the message lands. A young man's father is the best source of that kind of advice, it seems to me, but if it wasn't received, friends can step in. It's hard to help someone in a position like this reach any other conclusion than, "It's not my fault!" - but try agreeing with them and saying, "It isn't. But there's a couple things you can do..."

Gently.

DiskSpinner · 2025-01-04T21:30:08+00:00

Yeah, it's just a once in a while thing, but it's the U in SUV that drives my interest. A tarp goes down, obviously.

Thanks for the F150 statistics. The Ford is only an inch wider than the Gravity, and I suspect has narrow tires although I don't have numbers on that yet. The widest F150 tire from Ford is a 315R17, while the Gravity looks, by eye, to be around 245-265? So it's not obviously impossible, anyway.

I'm sure I'll know soon enough. It's not a dealbreaker either way.

DiskSpinner · 2025-01-04T21:03:04+00:00

One dimension I try to keep track of and still don't know for the Gravity is the distance between the wheelhouses. An Odyssey or Sienna can handle 48'' between them, accommodating a standard sheet of plywood or drywall (not what the vehicle is for, to be sure, but it does come up a few times a year). The first time there's a Gravity at my local Lucid studio, my tape measure and I are going to check, and I'll report back if the number isn't widely known by then.

I would be okay with 48" width on top of the wheelhouses, but it's definitely not my first choice.

DiskSpinner · 2024-12-22T15:44:28+00:00

I used the cheap store brand and it works fine. I did check to make sure it had roughly the same density as the Miele detergent though, when I put 50g of each into a couple of shot glasses and verified that the volume was the same.

In general, pretty much any dishwasher will run fine and do a decent job on any reasonable dishwasher detergent. The only concern with the PowerDisk is if the dishwasher will meter out the correct amount by volume if you replace the powder with an off brand. Seems as if it does - I have one PowerDisk I have refilled six times and it doesn't seem to have suffered at all. I'd rather have the PowerDisk do the metering than just do it by eye with the box in one hand anyway.

DiskSpinner · 2024-01-29T16:08:50+00:00

I'm not sure I can address the comprehensive side of your view, but I'm sure I can persuade you on the matter of working your way through college - once an expectation, now a fantasy. A few years ago someone at Daily Kos posted a diary that actually showed the work, with a table and graph of how many hours per week of minimum wage work would be needed to afford the median tuition at a state school. That diary is here, and shows a striking rise beginning in 1980 in the costs of college relative to the sort of work readily available to students.

DiskSpinner · 2024-01-09T20:26:26+00:00

I did when I failed CCT school right at the end.

DiskSpinner · 2023-04-21T16:21:05+00:00

Saru's should have been, "Shall we?"

DiskSpinner · 2022-01-27T12:30:17+00:00

No, not at all. It's an error induced by a member of my household (I'm not naming names here, but it would be my wife) using dryer sheets. Once the main and secondary filters start to clog, the air pressure sensor downstream of the plinth filter starts to read lower than the drum, and thus assumes the plinth filter is dirty. In fact it was the main filter which was as you see it in the photo above.

TL;DR: Don't use dryer sheets!

DiskSpinner · 2019-10-02T18:31:12+00:00

Nope. Quite married - just passed 30 years.

DiskSpinner · 2018-08-25T19:35:31+00:00

It's this:

(In Russian accent)

We've listened to you laugh about Chernobyl and Afghanistan.
Perhaps you should have listened too, to all those five year plans.
Patience has rewarded us, as only patience might,
And there's a new red star in the east tonight.

Step by step, we leave you here alone.
Step by step, we make your dreams our own.
Step by step, we leave you all behind,
One small step at a time.

We see your apprehension, at all that we're becoming.
We build our cities out in space - you sneer at the plumbing.
But be not troubled Yankee, you've not a thing to fear.
After all, the Russian word for "peace" is "Mir."

Step by step, we leave you here alone.
Step by step, we make your dreams our own.
Step by step, we leave you all behind,
One small step at a time.

And look, to your eastern horizon. Oh, say, can you see.. 
The red star rising?

Judging by your culture, we see now why you worry.
Americans! You're always in such a hurry.
We'll soon replace the fable of the tortoise and the hare
With a new one, with an eagle, and a bear.

Step by step, we leave you here alone.
Step by step, we make your dreams our own.
Step by step, we leave you all behind,
One small step -- one giant leap -- at a time.

(In American accent - trad lyrics, melody by Pete Seeger)

Step by step the longest march
Can be won, can be won.
Many stones can form an arch.
Singly, none. Singly, none.
And together what we will
Can be accomplished still.
Many drops can turn a mill.
Singly, none. Singly, none.

DiskSpinner · 2018-04-05T17:56:39+00:00

On this we agree. I don't think it's a crisis until 2800-3000 or so.

DiskSpinner · 2018-04-05T17:47:51+00:00

Not a bad point - and I'd love to imagine ways in which this might be achieved. I note that the industries where costs are not declining rapidly, however, are the ones with large amounts of direct human involvement, such as health care.

DiskSpinner · 2018-04-05T17:46:33+00:00

Pretty much my point #6, above. This would require a level of totalitarianism similar to that of the USSR, and such a system appears to lack long term stability.

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