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  1. Nice setup! I recently abandoned attempts at having an adult living room, and went to rock stage instead. I can pretend to be an adult later. Yeah, those look like a chore. I've found the No-Mar XtraHand helps, and their YellowThing is useful also but not for what you need. Yes, there are home-made solutions, but I haven't found one that doesn't pop out or work as well. Pretty sure there are China knockoffs on Amazon and/or Ebay if you don't want to pay the brand name premium. But the YellowThing is on sale now for $25. You'll probably want two of the XtraHands, and at $40 each, that's a poke in the eye. Some say the knockoff breaks easily, though.
  2. Corn dogs paired with ethanol shots. Capture the emissions from metabolization to make non-fossil fuels for corn farmers to use in their tractors.
  3. It takes unthinkable amounts of corn to make a pound of beef. If we used that corn to feed humans instead, it would go a lot further. So, corn dogs, duh.
  4. I wonder if they can use it to reverse senility in sitting presidents?
  5. I love a happy ending. Sounds like your XX will get a happy ending with the "wax on, wax off". 😆
  6. It's about double the weight, takes more gas to drag that around.
  7. When I did my Mikuni on the XR4, I just installed it and set the idle. Never had to play with it at all beyond that. As far as first kick, yes - cycle throttle twice, choke to full, find the notch at TDC, kick it like you mean it, and it will light. If it's been sitting for months, maybe cycle the kick starter through a few times before whacking the throttle as above. Hot starts, leave the choke off and don't touch the throttle. If it lays on its side for a bit whilst you've taken a dirt nap, get it upright, pull the decomp, kick it through about 10 times with the throttle open, it may take a couple kicks with the decomp off to clear the fuel before it will light. Completely changed the XR4 from temperamental and finicky to reliable and simple. Improvement throughout the throttle range, particularly transitioning from idle and any time going to full throttle from anywhere else - that little squirt of gas is a miracle.
  8. FWIW, some of the silver powder coat stuff out there looks at least like polished stainless, if not quite the luster of real chrome. If you find that the pits are too deep and/or it just doesn't meet your standards after polishing furiously, maybe powder coat is an option. Not sure about the exhaust, but there are other answers for that as well.
  9. I have a new concern with air tools, considering that I am probably going to start bodywork and painting in my garage soon. Air tools use oil for lubrication, and that winds up atomized and floating about in the atmosphere, eventually landing on prepped surfaces. Sure, one can degrease, but it seems to me that is to a large extent just thinning it out and distributing it over the entire surface. I don't know how much of a concern this is, obviously others deal with it. I have a friend who is searching for his dream shop, which he insists will have a bodywork bay and a paint booth for me, so it may not be a long-term issue.
  10. Pretty sure that diaphragm is known to eventually go bad and cause fuel to pass... including flooding the carbs and causing oil dilution and possibly a hydro. I guess I'd pull the fuel line downstream of the vacuum valve and see if it's passing fuel while in a no-vacuum state to help isolate the culprit. Hopefully it's leaking somewhere before the valve, maybe around the seal at the tank and running down the line before dripping off. 1997 is a fairly long time ago even considering OEM Honda quality materials, who knows what could be dried out or hardened up. If it's the worst case, I'm sure you know the drill for that - check the crankcase for fuel and pull the plugs before firing it. Not sure if there's an easier way, but if so, someone here will have the info in short order.
  11. I'm in the market for a decent air DA sander and maybe an air file, if anybody is taking one or both out to the garbage anytime soon. I agree that battery is the way of the future, but as of this moment they tend to be bulky in comparison to traditional air tools. The air machines may be as heavy, but they're in a more compact package and don't seem as unwieldy to me. Maybe I'm not looking at the right brands of battery tools... change my mind.
  12. I think a dozen Oreos a day is more expensive than my statin drug. I take it due to high liver enzyme issues, it turns out that a statin completely normalizes my liver. A strict diet of mostly plants will do the same though, but I struggle with that more from practicality than anything else. But I do love a good burger or pizza.
  13. The Project Farm Youtube guy is always looking for ideas for comparison tests - this might be a good suggestion for him. I'd guess there are a ton of videos on the subject already though. I have one that I'm happy with, I think it might be Rough Country (almost certainly a rebranded China something). It was on some half-price sale, got it for $120. It's sure bright as fuck, but I have nothing to compare it to and don't know the real lumens/$$ quotient.
  14. Here's 3 minutes and 38 seconds that will add some perspective on the effect of lifestyle on health. A very small percentage of people are genetically predisposed to most diseases, the vast majority simply choose to smoke, drink, eat, and lazy ourselves into it. https://nutritionfacts.org/video/flashback-friday-eliminating-90-of-heart-disease-risk/
  15. Why anyone with a hereditary predisposition for any of the top killers in the US would choose to NOT reduce their risk factors as much as possible is beyond me. If I had a genetically related likelihood for any of those diseases, I would go out of my way to engineer every variable under my control to my advantage. Everyone makes their own choices. I get it that going without meat sucks for most people. I haven't managed it for any real stretch of time since I was in my 20's. BBQ, a cheeseburger, roasted chicken... almost irresistible to me. And that's fine, but the fact remains that those green things are good for you. You can acknowledge the facts and at the same time choose to dismiss the option of a healthier diet. I don't think anyone here is trying to dictate what people do, but rather spread awareness. P.S. - some of the best veggies aren't green - red cabbage, beets, carrots, red onions, tomatoes, sweet potatoes... lots of options to add fiber and an array of beneficial natural substances. But you have to want to do it - if you don't want to, that's perfectly fine by the world.
  16. Excellent point, I just assume that anyone interested in eating well exercises also... but in reality, that isn't always the case.
  17. I mentioned in another thread that I felt sorry for people who retired and lost their ability to do the things they hoped to do in retirement due to health issues. Heart disease, high cholesterol, diabetes, and even various cancers are mitigated on a plant-based diet. The top three killers in the US, plus one of the most dreaded, are mitigated - sometimes into statistically irrelevant ranges - on a plant-based diet. Take a moment and think of all the people you know who have died from these self-induced afflictions, and wonder what it would be like if they had simply eaten a better diet.
  18. 😆 Because we can all see the look on his face and hear his voice saying that.
  19. I did that with the door seals a couple years ago, and wasn't satisfied so I just bought new seals. IIRC, they were too firm with the recommended size of hose installed. If you had good results, yeah, I'd love to replicate them. Going down the hill to PHX is (ob)noxious, low RPM coasting downhill doesn't get the exhaust gasses propelled outside of the vacuum envelope of the gate area, and some enters the cabin. Opening a window while descending into Phoenix is generally regarded as poor form in the air conditioning conservation world.
  20. Expensive, but find a passable compact 12v pump and carry a LiFePo battery with? The only other feasable option I know of is a manual, and I don't know how good that option is. I carried a combo CO2/manual hand pump for tire "issues", and used it several times. After some of the rides I've had, I can't imagine going all day and then manually pumping up tires with a hand pump like that as a regular practice - we were usually pretty smoked after a day in the desert. If the foot pump is a quality one and you only need to get to 20-ish psi, it may work. How far is it to the trailhead for you? My normal spot was about 12 miles of street, nothing over 55mph. I'd ride there aired up, air down at the trailhead, ride all day, and just ride home on the aired-down tires (we weren't usually in any shape for on-road shenanigans after a long day). I was running *around* 14 front 12 rear, dependent on brand. Yeah, the back was a little squishy and I never pushed the front around, but it didn't feel dangerous. Then again, it wasn't heavy traffic or a lot of aggressive/dangerous drivers to deal with either.
  21. Hmmm. Gate gaskets for the Excursion are old, and unobtainable.
  22. Was working with a friend in his new shop yesterday, we were surprised that the welding he was doing was leaving little smoke in the enclosed space. I mentioned that we were probably filtering it out through our lungs. Those little plastic nanoparticles will be broken down in our digestive systems. It's a circle; the planet will be fine.
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