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Hey gang, just dropping in to say 'yo' and have a great day. I usually try to have something constructive to add .... not today!! Cheers.

Back to the reality of working. Still it was nice to get away for a while. It means I only have a three day work week this week. I can handle that. Also, there is a record show this weekend. All in all, life is good.

Morning guys. Not much happening here. LF off for tennis. I'm cleaning house and washing clothes. Going over to LF's house (about 20 miles away) later to help her test her house generator and then sort through her CDs. She picked up bacon wrapped scallops and salmon to grill on the Green Egg. We are both doing our protein thing. No music this week so far. Wasting my money on Spotify premium I guess. Nice bath pics Carl! Good story MKP! Cheers Ladies and Gents

Morning gang.... 2nd cup almost done..... Grandkids on the bus....and yes getting ready to roll out.... Crazy busy at the shop again..... So doing things "right"........I gave a cust a quote on brakes on there caravan a few months back, pads rotors and doing all my clean-up work and brake fluid using good parts not cheap crapp. Well he didn't get the work done....guess he didn't like my price...... He calls last week and told me the ABS light is on and wants me to check it out..... later in the day he pulls into my lot. I meet him in the lot and there is smoke billowing out of the left front wheel. I put my thermometer on it.....700+ degrees....omg.....it was roasting.... Later that day I check it out...the other shop that did the brake job twisted the brake hose on the L/F.... The ABS light was the L/F wheel speed sensor faiure..... I guess it didn't like the 700+ degree heat... I called him with the news and my price to fix all.....I cut him no slack. He sid fix it all... I wonder how much money he saved.....lol lol Have a good day all.... MKP :-)

That ABS light is just on to let me know they are there, right?!

Yep one of those Mitsubishi "wall hangers" and R-30 in the attic would make that cave a meat locker.

Boys and wife in bed alls quiet except dad, got the tubes glowing and the tunes flowing........................Good night all

With you there Mark............Yes, 5 bedrooms here also, and the YORK ( understood to be the Cadillac of HVAC) keeps on keepin' on since 1991 ... Did you mention that you did not use your AC earlier? but, with your home on the market, I would think that you would want that feature to be in top running shape at the time of the sale... ...........back to dinner and a lovely album inspired by our good friend over in RTM who is listening to this as well.... 'Beyond the Missouri Sky' With Charlie Haden and Pat Metheny nice mellow dinner selection for sure

So you have 6 kids you are braver than us, we gave up with 3 girls. I would think when the last one flies off you and the wife should plan a trip, or something ?

morning folks, not much happening here today humid and rainy out, did get the manual temp gauge partially set up on the old mercury this morning Grand marquis only had Idiot lights I HATE those things by the time one comes on the damage is likely done Off to find the tubing for the oil pressure gauge Joe

yo Chuckieeeee

Morning all. Rough day yesterday but soothed it all over by putting some time on the new TDK cans....pretty impressed with them so far. I think I'm gonna pick up a small headphone amp for them. Neighbor still trying to talk the wife into the HT setup......I've used it more to "audition" for him in the past two weeks than I've used it in the past 6 months. Other neighbor just got back from visiting family in Kentucky...brought me over a bottle of W.L. Weller 17year......it's quite tasty.....will be reserved for "Tunes Time" sipping. Oldest back at Georgia Southern today...sent her home with about 7 pounds of smoked pulled pork....her roommates all texted me a big "Thank-You"!! Makes me feel good. Second Oldest text me this morning that she made over $100 in tips last night.....not bad for Steak-n-Shake.... Happy to be providing the economy with hard working members of society....only four more left to release into the world....

Morning Gang Dentist today for both of us, me cleaning, her, God knows ill be digging out the credit card. 100+ today, here we go working our way up to 108 by Friday.

Color me dense. Is the cave your man cave aka garage or your whole house? Mancave is double car garage seperated from main house, Full R19 insulation on roof&walls, closed up it stays cool, could install a small wall hanger, "Could", 80 to 88 is just not to bad w/fan/drink.

I love those stories Mark.

No a/c in the cave, and house is not on the market as of yet, next year is the way plans are working out, when i get to the point of this house is all i have left in Calif, im buyin and leaving sold or not im looking/buyin in Nevada as soon as my last tie-in to this area is done.

Converted cabinet done, before and after, see a resemblance ? Exact same size Tv 65", it's on wheels so it rolls out easily to get to wiring.

The needles don't bother me, it's the drills and knives. I hate dentist, sorry Kevin

Morning yet again Gang Done with the Dental Maint, simple cleaning and they say we need to address a little "single" tooth problem there in a week or so. I hate perveyors of pain, anybody that comes at me w/needle is on my short list. On the lighter side, Fedx is out for delivery of my Upol coating, Bass bin/Hf single prepped to shoot. If im going to shoot them this week, likely be when the sun goes down, 100+ sunlight just loves to cook Black color. Finishing the pot of Cold Coffee, Dam sure Duggans enhanced. Cave cleaning, working on Max room for the MCMs.

you might look into these guys amps http://www.garage1217.com/garage1217_diy_tube_headphone_amplifiers_015.htm I have the Polaris and it is pretty darn good

Interesting. All a 185 does is open 10 degrees sooner. If there's a heat load on your motor, the motor will run at the same temperature once they're open no matter which one is installed. If it's cool outside, it will run cooler but the hotter the motor runs (within it's limits) the better gas mileage you'll get as a cooler motor runs slightly richer. Stop trying to make sense to me

2 drunks sitting around listening to music.

Dtel, that's looking nice. Man, if you and Carl teamed up on a project, what could we have?

It sounds like things are working out pretty well, glad to see this.

Sound wise they play in a higher ballpark than the price would suggest, Fun playing with all those adjustments as well The home page has the manual with the build information / instructions and all there various amps available some cheaper than the Polaris, I liked the idea of playing with a SS for a change of pace

you might look into these guys amps http://www.garage1217.com/garage1217_diy_tube_headphone_amplifiers_015.htm I have the Polaris and it is pretty darn good Those look SWEET....love the fact you can buy it DIY....may have to dive into one of those.....

My bad Joe, carry on

Not on my 1985 mercury Grand Marquis, they did not have that crap in 85, however on the 2001 wagon that the trans died on had one that was lit When I say idiot lights I am referring to oil pressure (they come on at 5psi) and water temp (no idea what they come on at) If I have a mechanical guage I can get an actual temp like this morning after adding the water temp guage I was able to watch the temp climb to 195 and then drop when the thermostat opened to 185 and hover around that........................I am not a fan of the 195 thermostat so I have a 185 to install when I flush the cleaner out of the cooling system

Color me dense. Is the cave your man cave aka garage or your whole house?

Our unit is working much better now. Will work best here in December...

This is one of the things we lucked out on 6 years ago buying this home. 5Bd room, two story and has a Carrier unit based on old school cooling, 75 maintained for summer, do not care what it costs.

Back home after a short flight from Phoenix. We had a pretty decent tail wind. We arrived 25 minutes ahead of schedule. Always nice to be home.

Good evening coffee people...... Sorry Mark, this worker bee has Columbus Day off, THEN Thanksgiving ... We broke a record with OUR heat and humidity today.........95 degrees and very juicy out there, nice 74 in the house per usual, we don't suffer inside for an instant.........got central, and we use it Goes on in May, and STAYS on until early Nov. as we still get some warm days during late fall... Don't care for the dust and pollen in the house either, especially in the spring... Well, that is what suits us, I know it is not for everybody, but why suffer when I can afford not to ? Duder, sound like you and family are having a great time Ok, back to cooking.........dinner time here in the east.. ..............g

Just your average night at Derrick's House.....

Or use a clothespin (or similar).

I think he is asking if it is worth $1,000, as in, he found one to buy? OP, when you put this much effort into a post, these are the types of response you should expect.

Most awesome sir Thanks, the room does look better than with the old Tv/cabinet it replaced, and the picture is so much better.

Chuck's driving this thing but I do like the idea.

There is no telling, but it would include a subwoofer that would be dangerous.

Ha!

So you have 6 kids you are braver than us, we gave up with 3 girls. I would think when the last one flies off you and the wife should plan a trip, or something ? Yes....4 girls...2 boys.....19, 18, 16, 13, 3 and 18months It'll be a good while before the last one leaves...

looks good to me, how about the center so close to the floor ??, did you angle it up ??

get em pulled , No more dentists ever go from to in just a couple settings hereditary issues and enough pain and you will be happy to be , I know I am

Interesting. All a 185 does is open 10 degrees sooner. If there's a heat load on your motor, the motor will run at the same temperature once they're open no matter which one is installed. If it's cool outside, it will run cooler but the hotter the motor runs (within it's limits) the better gas mileage you'll get as a cooler motor runs slightly richer. I had a problem with this once, when buying a thermostat I was told for that model truck they range from 190 to 205 degrees so I figured let it run a little cooler and got the lower. Bad idea, the automatic choke (or whatever you call it) flooded the engine with gas trying to warm it up, would never idle, found it was designed for the higher so I switched and it worked fine.

What seems like would be awesome is if you brought back the larger RS-62ii and had an upfiring module hidden in the top of it. These modules are already within 2" of the depth of those surrounds. You wouldn't even see anything.

Minermark, All I can say is "I love big horns and I can not lie"!

^Yep, I think it was Walt Disney that said "If you want it done right, do it yourself".

They are just guessing, it will say 20% chance of rain, clouds build up and rain covers most everywhere within 50 miles, they change it to 90% an hour later. I think they sit by a window and watch and make a guess.

An arm and half a leg. Dang Carl that is looking really good. And a contractor would probably not be as meticulous. I'm so anal I would paint behind the cabinets.

Tuesday Morn going well Got the Cave down to 68, it's all good. Just had to watch these hack weather people, oh yeah, the heat is on...dam. The cool down was friday, here is ONE hour later, same guy, same channel. These people are Cons.