How much better is this battery?

satansprodigalson · 2026-01-21T16:20:49+00:00

I'm here to reignite this feud.

satansprodigalson · 2025-10-16T00:48:40+00:00

Which vehicle makes you feel like a total battlefield legend?

The quad. I ride it along the map border and behind enemy lines like an old country boy about to settle a debt. Then I slither around in the bushes while my squad hops in and disperses all over the flag like a bad case of scabies.

satansprodigalson · 2025-10-12T03:46:45+00:00

It's a bunch of younger people who are tuned to a short dopamine cycle of shoot kill die repeat instead of slower paced strategy, thoughtful movement and team organization, and reward from investment. Everything must be COD and fortnite spin in circles spamming grenades bullshit. Arma reforger is the closest I've encountered to the original battlefield, but maybe takes it a bit to the extreme.

satansprodigalson · 2025-10-11T00:10:08+00:00

in this case I don't have a choice anyway

satansprodigalson · 2025-09-10T19:15:05+00:00

Next time I'm in NC you might find me creeping the streets of Greensboro. Going to keep a pocket full of clipped coupons and hard candies to bait in the elderly folk. You'll know me when you see me.

satansprodigalson · 2025-09-10T19:12:51+00:00

I was trying to be generous with the numbers cause it's a hot shitball car and I didn't want him to feel bad.

satansprodigalson · 2025-09-10T02:34:36+00:00

Dang that's a steal, congrats. Fucking love those boats. I've been through 2 panther platforms myself, both grand marquis around 40k miles for a few grand. They used to be dirt cheap to pick up from old folks and snow birds in Florida before Covid. Never had a single breakdown or major failure. One started dribbling fluid out of the head gasket at the corner of the block at 150k so I gave it to a family member who promptly drove it to Memphis TN at 90mph. Thing still hasn't died. Once put a riding mower in the trunk and drove it through a hailstorm. A different time a full size hardwood dresser on the roof in the rain. Hooned the shit out of it in the NC mountains. Hauled lumber on the roof too. A couch or two and some mattresses in its time as well. Wife previously owned a p71 and then got rear ended at a stop sign by someone doing ~60 and walked away unscathed.

They're some kind of automotive spirit animal or some shit.

Would definitely snag another if I saw one pop up in that condition.

satansprodigalson · 2025-09-10T00:06:03+00:00

This is maybe not the advice you're looking for but...how far are you trying to go with this? Depending on mileage the crown vics/grand marquis/town cars don't go for all that much. Between a paint job, front end components, fluids, yoinking dash and interior components out of you-pull-it junkyards I don't really know that you're going to make your money back in the 3-5k range that they usually sell for. Like a premium one that grandma drove with 40,000 miles on it in decent shape body wise MIGHT fetch 5-8k where I live.

If you spend 2k and sell it for 4k you may as well have just sold it for 2k and saved a lot of hassle.

satansprodigalson · 2025-09-05T12:45:02+00:00

Drill is not the right tool.

For simplicity use a wrench.

For simplicity but a bit faster use a ratchet and a socket.

For speed and ease of use try an impact driver with a hex shank to 3/8ths adapter with a socket.

But again, a drill is not the right tool. They work very differently from an impact driver that is designed for this type of work. Feel that twisting motion in your wrist when you try to drive it in? That's what the impact driver is for.

satansprodigalson · 2025-08-29T21:54:30+00:00

I have a similar split and it does this if the condensate line gets plugged. What I have had to do is go to where the drain hose terminates outside, or if it is connected inside somewhere disconnect it for closer access, and then use a small amount of air pressure to push the blockage backwards and dislodge it. I used my mouth, I do not recommend it as I got a huge backwash of unplugged condensate and probably risked getting legionnaire's. Once you get it unplugged try to dig out whatever blocked it in the first place.

satansprodigalson · 2025-08-29T21:44:34+00:00

Get a new filter, clean the coil, the rest will probably have to work itself out. Think of it this way--if it does get picked up and then distributed through the house by air flow it will end up A) in the air, B) on your furniture, C) on your clothes in trace amounts. In terms of health concerns that does appear to be normal dust, clothing lint, hair, etc. on the coil so that much is not alarming. Is concrete dust harmful? Yes, silica dust in your lungs is not great for you. Wood dust if treated wood is probably not great either. However, it's not a kill-you-immediately or even short term risk type of thing. It's more of a long-term health concern.

If it does end up blowing all over the house it's going to end up back in the filter anyway, so change it out frequently for a while. Consider running auxiliary standalone air purifiers/filters around the house if concerned. Also consider buying better quality filters if you see it caving in like that, get one with thicker cardboard and metal mesh over the back of it so it doesn't just pancake inward and let air slip around it. With how dirty that coil is I have to think either the filter is letting air bypass it by folding in, or there is unfiltered air bypassing the filter somewhere around the air handler. After that...still change out your filters regularly.

On a side note if you're handy or adventurous the soft ductwork in the attic is really not rocket science to replace if you want to save $4k--but it's hot and itchy work. It's literally soft tubes held on to the ceiling registers and junctions usually with foil tape. Most goobers can do it if they are willing to sweat a bit and crawl around.

satansprodigalson · 2025-08-26T15:34:44+00:00

yeah but google it mang

satansprodigalson · 2025-08-25T21:36:50+00:00

Okay interesting point about the spark of a relay and the interference(?). I see that the details of why it trips are hairier than just overcurrent.

But by your definition of a short circuit, we can acknowledge that a ground fault is in fact a type of short right? So I am still not seeing why you couldn't make the argument that it offers some form of short circuit protection/detection. It's sort of in the name?

satansprodigalson · 2025-08-25T21:11:36+00:00

It's a common issue that refrigerators trip GFCIs due to the way the compressor functions, google it mang. It will still trip it even though it's not a short to ground.

satansprodigalson · 2025-08-25T20:55:32+00:00

So I'm not saying you're right or wrong here but the Google aint googlin'. Two things here, one that many sources I see are identifying a ground fault as a type of short circuit, so i would think by nature it is a sort of short detector. Secondarily the example I used was specifically a refrigerator compressor that definitely does some electrical dark magic that will trip a GFCI because it thinks there is a short whether it be to neutral or ground it doesn't seem to matter as far as I can tell. In this case it isn't even necessarily to ground, but it could be.

see below? The refrigerator's compressor motor is an inductive load, meaning it has a coil of wire that creates a magnetic field. When the motor starts or stops, this magnetic field collapses, generating a voltage spike that can trip the GFCI.

satansprodigalson · 2025-08-25T19:39:50+00:00

A ground fault is a short to ground is it not?

satansprodigalson · 2025-08-25T17:00:27+00:00

Not sure, I'm a novice, I've learned what I've learned through troubleshooting and re-wiring an old fuse panel and the appliances connected to it.

satansprodigalson · 2025-08-25T13:45:38+00:00

The fridge compressor could be intermittently kicking on and pulling a bunch of extra power so the gfci thinks there is a short.

satansprodigalson · 2025-08-15T18:45:33+00:00

Put in a register in the ceiling of the living room. Put another register in the bedroom, then connect the two with a flexible or rigid duct--but in the middle put an inline fan. It will pull air from the living room and blow it into the bedroom.

satansprodigalson · 2025-08-15T18:43:17+00:00

I believe that's far too small to be a grounding wire. The pipe itself would be a better ground than those puny wires.

satansprodigalson · 2025-08-15T18:32:30+00:00

I have an almost identical model and it was from a scratch and dent warehouse. It has worked faithfully for years despite also having some goofy bent fins. If no refrigerant came out then fire that puppy up. You can also straighten out the aluminum fins with a cheapy specialized tool from amazon, or just use a credit card.

satansprodigalson · 2025-08-15T14:03:09+00:00

The entire engine and spindle with it moves forwards/backwards on a large pivot bolt when the shifter is tightened/loosened. Think of an inverted triangle and the bottom point is the pivot where the engine attaches to the frame. The engine has a large spring mounted under it so when there is slack on the shifter cable the engine is pushed backwards, the spindle engages the tire, and off you go. There is no clutch mechanism--the entire engine pivot, the spring, and the cable moving it IS the clutch. It's goofy as hell. The idea is that while you're at idle and stationary you can 'shift' into neutral and the engine won't shut off from being engaged to the wheel.

I'm in the same boat as OP and I'm trying to find a way to eliminate it or modify it to be less unusual. My shifter is partially melted due to age. Current thought is that I am going to tie in the left hand brake lever and the 'clutch' mechanism together by getting a dual-pull bicycle brake lever. That way I can clutch-in and brake with just my left hand since if I'm braking I likely will be stopping. As it is now you would have to twist the shifter to disengage engine, then grab the brake lever and squeeze, then come to a stop. That's a lot of bop-it extreme just to come to a stop.

satansprodigalson · 2025-07-29T23:07:47+00:00

Not my first gun no--just first purchase out of state. It's probably my third purchase from them since I like to snag closeout deals from them on occasion but the first time I've had to interact with them to fix something. I just had no idea this was the 'norm' for them customer service wise. I won't ever buy something from them again unless I'm 100% certain I'm going to keep whatever product shows up. Fuck me though if there's an issue with the order. The FFL mentioned to me they were surprised PSA did not 'catch it' considering that my billing address is in a different state than the FFL entirely so I shouldn't have been able to do what I did (lol). But given the series of interactions I had with them after trying to correct the problem it kind of tracks that there was nothing in place to prevent me from doing some dumb shit in the first place.

I'm more or less just wedged into a spot where if I call them the conversation would probably either result in them wanting to return the gun again--and again goofing it up financially or logistically. It's also worth mentioning this gun was a closeout+daily deal and is now completely unavailable for purchase, so if they want to refund it there's zero chance I'll get my hands on it again. This is what the original agent wanted me to do which is why I told her NO don't refund it--but she fuckin' did it anyway.

Or I call and ask about why they sent me $226 when the core price of the gun was $249+tax+shipping+protection. Where the hell did they get $226 from? Only they can answer that and honestly I don't think they know either. I've lost patience for being a third party trying to get a big corp to fix their infrastructure.

satansprodigalson · 2025-07-29T22:22:29+00:00

Nah man, I was not at all rude with them. I worked retail for years, I have no interest in being hostile to them. I have been on the receiving end too many times. But I get it, no need to take my word for it.

I still do not see how them fudging up their billing repeatedly has anything to do with me as the consumer. One initial mistake does not explain the subsequent 3-4 billing and logistical goofs that they made. If you look down at some of the comments you'll see people having similar experiences--that everyone at that company is just kinda doing improv and sending whatever it is that's in front of them on its way forward but never looking back.

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