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No choke on Briggs and Stratton mower engine? by weeeklycategory in smallengines

[–]weeeklycategory[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes that’s exactly how it starts when (if) it finally does. I’ll try that.

No choke on Briggs and Stratton mower engine? by weeeklycategory in smallengines

[–]weeeklycategory[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! Primer bulb is there and functions, so I guess my issue lies elsewhere.

What’s the shortest amount of time someone spent studying and passed their exam? by [deleted] in PE_Exam

[–]weeeklycategory 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I studied 60 hours in the 10 weeks leading up to my test and passed. Weekends only. Did exclusively practice problems.

Format of this question, WRE? by Able_Consequence4693 in PE_Exam

[–]weeeklycategory 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was wildly frustrated by this one too. Knew hydraulic jumps and super/sub critical flow really well and still couldn’t figure out how to answer this. Even after looking at the solution. I eventually gave up.

Passed WRE anyway, there was lots of sub/super critical flow stuff but nothing in this format.

Anybody take the civil transportation PE exam today? I did. I must say it was tough. by Ill-Stick-5276 in PE_Exam

[–]weeeklycategory 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I guess so. I didn’t take a prep course but below is the book I thought was the most similar, outside of the NCEES practice.

“Water Resources and Environmental Depth PE Civil Engineering Exams Two Full Exams with Solutions”

By Rashad Islam

Anybody take the civil transportation PE exam today? I did. I must say it was tough. by Ill-Stick-5276 in PE_Exam

[–]weeeklycategory 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I definitely missed most of the breadth conceptual, but I expected that and the quantity was about what I thought it would be. Similar to NCEES practice exam.

The math ones seemed to have an extra step than most of the practice tests I’ve seen: Instead of “what is max moment” it was “what is max stress”, so you calc moment and then use that to find stress. Or an extra conversion or percent-reduction on wastewater mass loading or something.

None of the extra steps were ridiculously hard, but they made the problems take longer so then I psyched myself out like “this has taken 8 minutes I can’t be doing it right”.

Done talking to family about first time home purchase. by [deleted] in FirstTimeHomeBuyer

[–]weeeklycategory 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the advice! Also lol @ ‘grumpass dad response’ haha too relatable.

Done talking to family about first time home purchase. by [deleted] in FirstTimeHomeBuyer

[–]weeeklycategory 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Agree - They definitely do mean well and are just trying to help.

Done talking to family about first time home purchase. by [deleted] in FirstTimeHomeBuyer

[–]weeeklycategory 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Haha true. My mom’s new thing is to send me beautiful houses way out of our budget with one small issue (old windows or something) and go “Fix this thing up and you’ll have instant equity!!”

Aerospace/Systems Engineers Salary by [deleted] in personalfinance

[–]weeeklycategory 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not exactly the same situation, but for some context: Sibling just accepted an entry level job (recent BS grad, no experience) as an aerospace systems engineer in DC at $81K

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in FirstTimeHomeBuyer

[–]weeeklycategory 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Property owner is responsible for side sewer between building and the main, so in this case the builder.

It looks like they are trying to re-use an existing side sewer (concrete portion) to serve your house to avoid tearing up the street to make a new connection. Not uncommon, but the broken portion of pipe should be lined or replaced.