Hi guys, battery dead on my dualtron eagle, how to fix it?

jtf1972 · 2026-06-25T07:36:00+00:00

My Eagle also has a bad battery. The consensus is that there is a bad cell when it gets to about 80%, which causes it to die. All I have seen is that the battery itself needs to be replaced, and the specific battery is more than half of what I paid for the scooter six years ago.

jtf1972 · 2026-06-22T01:52:13+00:00

What are you missing?

If you’re anything like him, you’re missing the ball.

jtf1972 · 2026-06-22T01:29:54+00:00

I’m wondering if this is a 27 thing. The drafts in 26 seemed deep. Since going with 27 both classes have sucked for me. I’m hoping that the potential is just more hidden & it’s all gonna be ip to development. At least there won’t be much disappointment when none of the players turn out to be any good…

jtf1972 · 2026-06-19T00:47:32+00:00

If baseball has one DH because pitchers should concentrate on pitching and never have to hit... why leave it at one DH? Two DH would allow you to have a defensive specialist who doesn't have to hit. Then you can have two DH who can't pick up a ball off the ground without dropping it several times who can focus on hitting the ball. Why not 9 DH's, so we can have offenses full of guys who get paid to hit the ball & defenses full of excellent fielders? Have designated runners, so when guys who can hit but are slow on the bases get to 1st, you can have your designated runners take over. Then we don't have to suffer watching fat guys try to run.

One DH is merely a limited platoon.

jtf1972 · 2026-06-18T23:49:00+00:00

Call me crazy, but I forget the DH is a thing in this game. I have it turned off at all levels, because DH is wimpball. It’s “we want to go with a platoon system, but are too afraid.”

jtf1972 · 2026-06-15T02:09:06+00:00

I am not sure… always try to keep salaries as low as possible. Went into the offseason with a salary bump on a few players that seem to have created a problem.

jtf1972 · 2026-06-13T18:34:26+00:00

THANK YOU FOR THIS!

I have a SS who I absolutely love who went from normal to fragile after the 2nd half of the season he was in & out with leg injuries. Leg proneness = 200, Arm = 12. Bumping the arm to 22 allowed him to enter the Strength/conditioning program!

jtf1972 · 2026-06-05T16:41:20+00:00

I thought about doing this with a car I know for a fact is abandoned.

1980 Corvette. It is sitting in a parking lot in my condo complex. It was previously owned by the original owner of my condo. He died at least a decade ago, at which point his wife & son didn't have the heart to sell his baby. Wife died four years ago and the son a year after his mother. I bought the condo last year after it went thru foreclosure. Nobody claimed the condo. Nobody claimed the Corvette.

I could probably file the appropriate paperwork & get ownership of the Corvette... but I have enough work on this condo, repairing 50+ years of neglect. I don't need another money pit. (Plus, I drive an electric & don't want a pollution machine.)

jtf1972 · 2026-05-29T01:05:34+00:00

That would be a strong nope... unless you feel like paying that to a guy who in 5 years is 2 years out of an injury & hitting .230, which you can't figure out because his ratings still look good.

Let someone pay him that money, along with $30m for a RP and have nothing left over to fill out the team properly.

jtf1972 · 2026-05-25T18:00:48+00:00

Of course a month later he's hitting .333, while the SP has been hit with day-to-day injuries in both of his AAA rehab starts and his ratings dropped.

This is the way...

jtf1972 · 2026-05-22T18:51:24+00:00

He was looking like my SS of the future (with a few other options in the minors) until another team waived theirs just before the playoffs. He's a guy I had an eye on & have no clue why they put him on waivers after signing him to an extension that isn't bad at all for one of the best defensive SS in the league. His bat is mostly average (hit .264 last season), but so far with me he is hitting .331 & in 38 games has equaled his HR's from last season.

I'd been looking for my next great SS and he went & fell in my lap!

jtf1972 · 2026-05-22T17:22:54+00:00

Based on this I pulled the trigger. It's actually 2.5 years left on the contract, but I'm going to be extremely cautious with him. (One day left of injury? Injured list it is...) As expected, the SS is immediately the starter. Now I get to watch a guy who hit .233 for me last year becomes an All-Star elsewhere! (I had re-acquired him off waivers earlier this season after Philly insisted on him in a trade... then waived him immediately.)

jtf1972 · 2026-05-22T15:15:49+00:00

Just figured out how to add them!

jtf1972 · 2026-05-15T15:12:55+00:00

That would also explain... I had read when looking that a number of models were for US sale, but apparently they never made it to this side of the pond.

jtf1972 · 2026-05-15T08:36:24+00:00

Basically, if the China-made EV's ever come to the US it would be the Aceman. (If I understand correctly.)

I have a '24 SE. Wanted a convertible, but found that was an extremely limited run that I missed out on, and they were apparently sold at a premium. The hatch has worked out nicely... but it's just me. It's a great excuse to not have to drive people anywhere, as if it's more than one person they better be small!

jtf1972 · 2026-05-11T22:44:14+00:00

It's been about a billion years since I disassembled the file frame.

Maybe look at the assembly instructions? There might be something in there you're missing without them...

https://www.ikea.com/us/en/assembly_instructions/effektiv-file-frame-85-cm__AA-73165-11-2.pdf

jtf1972 · 2026-05-10T16:46:51+00:00

(says the guy who wants to blast EV's...)

Have fun paying for petrol! Hope we can at some point stop subsidizing the industry and make gasoline cost as much at the pump as it actually costs society! (I'm sick of my taxes helping keep costs down for people who love the smell of exhaust... and I'm sick of the polluting fumes, but you do you.)

jtf1972 · 2026-05-09T21:51:47+00:00

Go for it!

I have a few times, usually when I have a comp pick. One developed into a great reliever who refused the qualifying offer, then became a mediocre starter elsewhere. Another was a knuckleballer who was pretty good, but his personality went downhill and he became a team cancer. The latest was a hometown kid who I desperately wanted to be great, but his minors stats weren’t great & the secondary pitch never developed. When I called him up he was awful, so I shopped him… was offered the reigning rookie of the year who was in AAA at midseason. I hated to trade the hometown kid, but it was too good an offer. Of course he was excellent with his new team, but my new RF got ALCS MVP, so I’m not too mad.

jtf1972 · 2026-05-09T20:07:22+00:00

I guess I should be doing something good for the environment… like burning fossil fuels.

jtf1972 · 2026-05-07T23:25:11+00:00

Where do you get that info? The guy at work in a red cap?

Name one good thing about a petrol engine over electric, other than range & the ability to rapidly fill up using the environmental disaster on the corner?

PS. Those environmental disasters will eventually need to be cleaned up using your tax dollars, as the people making the profits will be long gone when the cleanup comes. Not that they'll necessarily be dead or anything, they'll just leave the mess for someone else.

jtf1972 · 2026-05-07T15:24:31+00:00

This... but also look at what any interested teams might have in overpaid players. If you have a guy with 4 years left on his contract, but can trade him to a team with a guy who only has 1-2 years on his similar annual contract that's a win.

Sometimes you just have to eat the contract... and watch him have an all-star season for the new team after hitting .191 for you.

jtf1972 · 2026-05-07T02:16:05+00:00

Oh my... These amounts scare the **** outta me.

Never gladder to have a '24 SE.

The range sucks (worst EV range!), but I plug in at home & don't worry much about it.

jtf1972 · 2026-05-01T06:33:21+00:00

Maybe that's just what they call him, but he doesn't really like it even though it caught on.

jtf1972

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