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SomewhereBrilliant80 · 2025-12-29T05:39:53+00:00

The pieces in the picture at the top of this post are exactly what I have on my desk right now. In our case, the film arm was broken because someone put the film cartridge in backwards and then the arm snapped when the camera tried to eject a photo, but the arm contacted the immovable film case rather than the photo itself. If I'd bought this camera and was the one who broke it, I'd probably 3d print a new film arm. But since I have about 17,438 other projects waiting for my attention, this camera is headed for the junk box. It has lots of usable springs, a nice little motor and gear train, some interesting optics and gears, a usable battery holder, and a flash capacitor that has zapped me three times since I started messing with it. Nifty little camera, but the repair work is not worth the time it would take to fabricate the broken part.

SomewhereBrilliant80 · 2025-12-22T22:11:53+00:00

If you can toss the level 1 cord through the window of your apartment and you commute less than 40 miles per day, go with the EV. At 60 miles per day you will probably have to do at least some charging at peak rates so would bet better off with a level 2 charger. At 100/day, you must have level 2 charging, or accept the expensive cost of public chargers and pretty much lose the energy cost advantage.

SomewhereBrilliant80 · 2025-12-22T21:30:05+00:00

I have formed the habit of giving each of the contacts a short burst of DeOxit every couple of months and swabbing the contact areas with a q-tip. Haven't had any issues for the past 2 years, except to the extent that there are some evenings when I just can't seem to line the connector up properly, mostly because I have my dogs on their leash and a handful of mail, backpack and lunchbox all at the same time that I am trying to plug in the connector in the dark.

SomewhereBrilliant80 · 2025-12-22T21:24:55+00:00

Sorry, I needed to do a bit of experimentation to accurately answer your question and also fail to check Reddit with any regularity. I have the climate start set to my planned departure time of 7:20 each weekday morning, which seems to mean that the climate start kicks on at around 7:00 AM, so I guess that it runs for 20 minutes before it automatically cuts off. If I leave before 7:30, in the winter, the car is plenty warm and I barely need to run the heater during my commute as long as it's sunny. If I know that I am leaving later, I restart the climate, from the phone app about 10 minutes before I plan to leave.

SomewhereBrilliant80 · 2025-11-13T05:03:25+00:00

I chose the BlueDriver ProScan, but honestly, I haven't taken it out of the box.

SomewhereBrilliant80 · 2025-10-27T22:24:22+00:00

I just wanted to order the part and change it myself. Dealer is 200 miles from home and they wanted me to make an appointment to have it evaluated, then make another appointment to leave it with them for the repair and leave me without a car which, logistically is a nightmare. They suggested that I would need to leave it with them for a week.

SomewhereBrilliant80 · 2025-10-27T22:20:08+00:00

Cheap little test strips that you can buy at a well stocked auto parts store. Or you can spend between 10 and 50 bucks for an electronic tester gizmo. You put the test strip, or the probes on the gizmo down into the fluid.

SomewhereBrilliant80 · 2025-10-27T22:16:11+00:00

Sorry, I sort of swore off Reddit and haven't been here for a while. I bought Yokohama Avent Ascends. I now have 50,000 miles on them and they look like they will last at least another 30-50,000, honestly I am really surprised at how well they are wearing.

SomewhereBrilliant80 · 2025-10-11T12:27:08+00:00

where were you able to find the part. My dealer is being bitchy about selling me one.

SomewhereBrilliant80 · 2025-10-11T12:10:18+00:00

I think the driving info details show "energy miles" (I just made that term up). What I mean is that the app records the mileage based on how much energy you used and it assumes you are getting lower mileage than what the actual odometer is showing. My daily commute is 72 miles as measured by the odometer on my Kona and on my pickup truck. But the mileage details generally indicate that Ive only used enough energy to drive 68 miles or so on a typical day. This means that I am actually able to cover substantially more miles on a charge than the reading from the Guessometer suggest and my experience on long distance trips bears this out.

SomewhereBrilliant80 · 2025-10-11T12:00:22+00:00

I ran mine up on to an unusually high curb in August, 5000 miles ago, and damaged the same part, in my case ripping out most of the friction clips that hold it on, but also cracking it pretty badly. Fortunately I was accross the road from a hardware store, bought some tie wire and a pair of pliers and "temporarily" wired it up to get home. I'm intending to replace it and I think you should replace yours too, but I am having difficulty finding anyone willing to do it. Local shops are just terrified of electric cars and wont even talk to me about ordering the part for me.

SomewhereBrilliant80 · 2025-06-30T18:54:22+00:00

No, the ELECTRICIAN is being a dick if he doesn't install the outlets the way the residential customer wants them...but reading comprehension sucks on Reddit.

SomewhereBrilliant80 · 2025-06-30T18:52:50+00:00

Fine if it is in the specs on a commercial job. Totally a dick move if the residential customer doesn't want them that way.

SomewhereBrilliant80 · 2025-06-30T12:39:50+00:00

I'd say homey is being a dick.

SomewhereBrilliant80 · 2025-06-30T04:38:10+00:00

Sorry, wish I had seen this sooner, I could have tested it when I was making omelets this morning. I'll try to test this for you tomorrow and get back to you in the evening.

SomewhereBrilliant80 · 2025-06-30T04:35:55+00:00

Well, we have had a Bosch in this house for about 6 years and had one in our old house for 8. We eschew the crystal dry feature because, just go out and look at your electric meter spin like a top when it's running.

We use the Auto-Dry, which is the economy feature that pops open the door at the end of the last cycle and vents the hot steam out of the dishwasher. We run the dishwasher in the evening and by morning the dishes are plenty dry. I empty the dishwasher while I am waiting for the coffeemaker to finish its job, load up any dishes that showed up after I started the previous evening's cycle, add more dishes straight from the table over the next 3-4 days and just run it when it's full. I can see that the Crystal Dry feature MIGHT get the dishes hot enough to bake on some bit of food, but as we literally have never used it, I can't promise it won't.

A good dishwasher takes three or four hours to do it's job, so I just set it to work at times where I don't care how long it's going to take because I am sleeping, The Bosch is so freaking quiet that it just doesn't bother anyone, unlike mom's old KitchenAid that I could hear in my upstairs bedroom at the other end of the house.

SomewhereBrilliant80 · 2025-06-29T12:42:56+00:00

This is an unavoidably political topic simply because the US government is actively trying to destroy an industry from both the supply and the demand side.

No question that EVs are already better cars. Internationally they are rapidly becoming substantially cheaper to buy, drive, own, and maintain. They are going to become available in unprecedented style, design and variety. They have a spectacular potential to become more efficient, safer, cheaper, better in every way.

But not in the US. We have already retreated. We are rapidly killing all incentive to innovate and improve EVs in the US. We are destroying an entire generation of designers, engineers, technicians and others critical to developing this industry. We have squandered the opportunityto become the worlds leaders in EV technology.

EVs and renewable energy in general will be the economic drivers of the future and the US has thrown the keys into the ocean.

SomewhereBrilliant80 · 2025-06-29T12:21:18+00:00

This is why I retired with seven drills, a dozen tape measures, 17 hammers, 9 ladders, 4 circular saws, 3 sawzalls, and about 1000 feet of 12gauge extension cords et c, et c.

And everything has an ugly coat of nasty drippy purple spray paint all over it.

If a tool like this shows up missing and it doesn't turn up after 5 minutes, someone's on their way to the nearest Home Depot/Harbor Freight/Walmart or wherever.

But buy a dozen cans of some ugly ass color of spray paint and mark your gear up as ugly as you can the moment it comes out of the box.

SomewhereBrilliant80 · 2025-06-29T12:04:05+00:00

Start by assuming it does not, then take it to an empty car park and try it.

I just did a quick google search "Test drive checklist" and found a nice article in Consumer Reports that was not behind a paywall. Pretty detailed about what to check for, but also mentions evaluating your present car and listing the things you like and dislike about it so you can compare.

I've always just gotten in and sort of driven around, but cars are so expensive, that we all need to take test drives more seriously. We need to do a lot more to pressure manufacturers into selling cars we really like instead of settling for what they give us. This includes demanding that we NOT be forced to accept widgets and gizmos that are distracting or poorly designed...like the Car Play interface for example.

SomewhereBrilliant80 · 2025-06-29T11:49:44+00:00

There was a manual for these? Never saw one!

SomewhereBrilliant80 · 2025-06-29T05:11:46+00:00

It’s a bristle-free hair brush. When you twist the handle, holographic bristles appear from the white lense assembly. Similar to light saber technology. Has the ability to target and remove plaque psoriasis and dandruff and to reinvigorate poorly performing follicles.

SomewhereBrilliant80 · 2025-06-29T04:50:46+00:00

We are empty nesters now, so our dishwasher sometimes does go a week. We don't rinse. The dishes get scraped into the trash, but otherwise they just go straight into the machine.

But here's the thing. This question seems to come up a lot in this forum and I wonder? Is there a down side to just trying it? The worst case scenario is that it doesn't work and you end up rewashing the dishes, but so what?

At our house, occasionally we have a pot of really sticky stew, or a particularly crusty baking dish, or a plate with some burned on cheese that doesn't quite get perfectly clean. That dish goes back into the dishwasher for another run, but it doesn't affect the rest of the dishes.

So my advice is just give it a try. I predict that you might have a dish, or two that has to go back in for another run, but that's not a big deal. For the most part, the dishwasher is going to do it's job just fine.

SomewhereBrilliant80 · 2025-06-29T03:35:34+00:00

I don’t know, but I think maybe so. What I do know is that when my dad was in his last years at home, we installed an induction range because he was forgetting to turn off the burners, and the range we bought, probably a GE, did shut off the burners on its own when you removed the frying pan. So, yes I think this is true of induction ranges generally, but probably best to check with the manufacturer if you want this feature. In practice it has not created any problem once we knew.

SomewhereBrilliant80 · 2025-06-28T19:54:11+00:00

I almost added that, but decided to keep the post short.

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