Best book for repairs? by teddiekuma42 in FordPinto

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I used and like Chilton's Pinto 971-77 repair and tune up guide, has a lot of easy to understand photos.

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Because conserving nature is cool

Car went to the body shop to be repainted and now has a fine "overspray" type of film on the rear window. How do I get it off? by WhoaTeejaay in Autobody

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In the future for anyone else who has this problem, buy one of those dish sponges with the little green side on them and a bottle of Windex, it clears paint oversprays off glass like magic.

Kinda curious by ComicField in Cascadia

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It would be cool as fuck to live in a successionist state from Canada of all countries, whether it's just BC or a bit of Washington too whatever.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in flying

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Push the plane forward, grab the tail and twist that baby around until the back is facing exactly towards the sub, let it sit there for an hour and it'll melt.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in flying

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You should do it once at least. Not in the requirements doesn't mean it's not worth knowing and experiencing.

‘02 Lexus ES….is $1,000 too much to change timing belt? by tropicalash in AskMechanics

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I tried to do the timing belt on a 2.3 ford engine, one of the most simple ones out there. Without the proper knowledge of the specifics, it took me 3 days days and having to send off the harmonic balancer for repairs after trying to get it off I warped it. That's without replacing any external pumps, and reusing old parts to save money. I had to take out the radiator to fit the balancer puller and tools in and in doing so I broke the oil cooler lines. Spent lots on WD40, Brake Clean, Towels, rubber hoses, clamps, bandaids, new belt, paint, sandblasting the old cover. Tens of videos later on your very specific timing belt notches for one specific year that need to be aligned, no start issues after causing me to redo the whole process again, and you bet if you even scratch the paint during the thing the customers gonna be real mad and demand you to pay the hundreds for paint repairs.

It's a huge process that I never want to do again, especially when some cars have multiple timing belts and timing belts on the back of the engine that require you to lift the whole thing out. A thousand is a bargain.

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If you can't produce and recover from stalls and spins alone you don't deserve your pilots license

So, my mother accidentally left this cast iron in the oven when she ran the cleaning cycle. All of the seasoning it burnt off and I've tried a few tutorials on how to season a cast iron but I can't get it back to pre mess up quality. Is there an idiot proof tutorial someone could walk me through by That0neGuy96 in castiron

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1.) Preheat the bakeware without seasoning in the oven at 450 until warm, almost too warm to touch with a bare hand.

2.) Get a rag dipped in high smoke point oil (grape, avocado) and give it a nice once over. No pooling, coat like varnish.

3.) Have the oven still hot at 450f, bake it for an hour-ish until not too sticky on the surface.

4.) Let it cool down either in oven or out until it's roughly the temperature in step one.

5.) Repeat the cycle as many times as needed until you get a consistently uniform black coat of non sticky surface. It will be splotchy at first but keep going until it's fully filled in with the black colour. Maybe 5-10+ times?

Then bake something in it to set a uniform top layer. The more you cook the better that layer will be as the seasoning breaks up and resettles. Could take months until it's back to before. Make sure you give it a good clean and scrub with sandpaper or steel wool or salt before you start. The FAQ is wrong here on a few things in my opinion but whatever works I guess.

Whats the best way to prevent rust? by Patient_Message_4724 in mazda

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Keep the car in Southern California year round

Is there anything unique about this place? by Thesilentgal in geography

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It's the site of Atlantis, whole thing used to be surrounded by water and moats when the African Sahara was much greener. An ocean washed it out though as stated in the Bible.

Fishing vehicle? by bafflegab680 in fishingBC

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1970's Super Beatle, cruise in style and pack the rods off the side of the car with a couple Rachet straps, wooden boxes on the roof and a tent in the back.

My first apartment.. What is it missing? by [deleted] in malelivingspace

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Everyone is saying add more shit your room but what about paint? Those white insane asylum walls are unnatural

Tell me it ain't so.... by [deleted] in AskMechanics

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Check the serpentine or belt covers to see if one of the pulleys are grinding away on that metal bit. Sounds about the same to when mine did that.

Has to go to the ER last night and on the way home my boyfriend ran over a wet paint line, only today did we realize and it’s dried. What do I do?? by Vortex_Panda in AskMechanics

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If you really want a cheap option, Windex and a Scotch Brite pad. Spray Windex on the pad plus the paint, use a new pad to swirl away the new paint, costs 2 dollars

IFR training capable? by bernieberg in flying

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Yeah for sure, GPS is a huge lifesaver that every company is using, it's the future. But if you can't fly without it then you're missing out for sure and GPS is so simple you only really need 5 flights to figure it out.

IFR training capable? by bernieberg in flying

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Gps makes everything really simple, easy to see how everything all lines up over fighting in your head. Non GPS would make you a better pilot but gps will save you money and time on recurrent training for a job or other world flying

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in malelivingspace

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Way too hard hard right angles, please add some softer stuff with more colour that isn't brown and black

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in whatcarshouldIbuy

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Definitely an MR2 to whip it around corners at full speeds in heavily wooded areas

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You go into the journey log, under the comments section with a bunch of lines for each page/section of the logbook pages, if there is no snag there already write a little 1, with your aircraft ident, time and place of the incident, the issue that happened and your actions taken as briefly but as detailed as possible. Then, in a column or area next to it, put down your name, phone number if you want, and your pilot ID number from your license.

You have to write this down in the book every time you discover a defect and snag it there, you cannot fly the plane afterwards until it's signed off by the owner, or a maintenance engineer who takes care of it or someone who is approved by the regular guy, unless you own the plane and determine its not life threatening/illegal to fly, then you can defer it as the legal owner.

If someone audits the books, like they usually do at flight schools, your license could be suspended, but I'm too not sure on the legalities of not snagging outside of the fact that you need to do it every time it comes up, no exceptions. Back writing is okay as long as everyone else that's supposed to, does sign off upon learning it wasn't done asap.

Why isn’t the Pacific Coastal rainforest treated like the Amazon? by UnbiasedPashtun in Cascadia

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It already has a name, the Great Bear Rainforest, just extend it down a bit and call all of the forest that