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https://www.cherokeeforum.com/f46/behold-project-troll-109926/ I remember seeing this a long, long time ago, and if you can find the NAXJA post, i'm sure there are more details. Would be a lot of work, and he had to use a Ranger frame for it. I don't think, as others have said above, that the unibody is conducive to big drops. But good luck with it if you and your dad go for it

This is nearly all fixed up. The main leak was just the flapper in the toilet, I went ahead and replaced everything including the tank to bowl gasket. The next leak is one that could have been avoided in hindsight. After shutting off the toilet, I checked my meter and I still had a leak, though not as severe, but still a pretty good one. I had all other appliances off, so I figured it would be under the house (no pipes in walls thankfully), and immediately set about finding it, but couldn't. After two days, I give up the search, call a plumber, and go ahead and fix the toilet that I was putting off fixing while trying to find the other leak. And that's when I discover that the shut off for the toilet doesn't fully close . The toilet had slowly been leaking out just a little bit of water the entire time, and if I had just fixed that one immediately instead of trying to chase down the other imaginary one I would have been done with this way earlier. I do still have debris in my line, I had to reclean out my pressure regulator and I know there's still more, but the plumber can deal with that. Thanks everyone for the help

Thankfully, I didn't have to. I went and cleaned out the new valve I just put in, and it wasn't as bad, so I did it about half a dozen more times and it cleared up BUT, it didn't fix the pressure problem. County came out today, ran some water up the lines, said I may have a leak, but they turned the pressure up a bit at the main, and I'm now sitting in mid 40's with multiple faucets going. Not great, but bearable. As for the supposed leak, I never found anything inside or under the house that appears to be leaking, but the underside of my house is a crawlspace that is currently a bit muddy from a cracked foundation letting the melting snow in, so I may have missed a pinhole leak somewhere. Nothing dripping, no hissing, no slow runs down any pipe. Through all of this, I was trying to rest and recover from a tooth extraction, but that wasn't in the cards, and today I had a follow up appointment where the dental hygienist jabbed my mouth a whole lot, so I didn't bother crawling under today. Temps are back above freezing, so at least I don't have to worry about that. I'll crawl back under tomorrow and see if I can find any sign of this leak, and if I can't, I'll call a plumber just to be safe.

Just so everyone's aware, you can run windows 10 unactivated, assuming you don't need the pro features, and are ok with your desktop background being reset at random, forever. A few years ago, I did pretty much the same as OP, but I just left mine unactivated, and works fine. Microsoft may change that one day, or they may lock me out of my account, but right now is smooth sailing. EDIT: I forgot about the Activate Windows watermark thats always in the bottom right hand corner of my screen, but I have a big screen and it doesn't really bother me.

just got done replacing it. The line coming in is packed with rocks and grit. After installing the new one, pressure is slightly improved, but not perfect, and I assume it's now repacked with junk. EDIT: I would have just cleaned out the old one, but I'm pretty sure it was older than me and was pretty heavily corroded. But now I understand why they gave me a 1000 gallon credit to flush... they didn't mean to flush the lines like I normally would after a boil order or leak fix, they mean to flush my actual main line. They didn't say that, or even imply my line was F***ed with rocks and gravel. I would be absolutely livid, but this was already just a $#!& week that I'm just too tired to be.

I thankfully have heat, but my pipes are uninsulated in the crawlspace, so I've been keeping an eye on my water for a few weeks now, leaving it running all the time to keep it flowing. It appears my neighbors were not doing the same thing, which I'm guessing is what caused the main to burst, it likely froze over. We are a dead end street. Funny enough it's against county ordinance for me to shut water off at my main (though I have done it out of necessity before), I have to shut it off at my house. Problem with that is I'm about 150 feet uphill from the main, and that's a lot of pipe to leave water sitting in with temps having been in single digits as of late. Yea, I've got a bunch of 5 gallon buckets filled up and some pails. Grew up with a poorly installed well, so I'm at least lucky enough to know how to be prepared here. I did get to teach my girlfriend how to melt snow and strain it to use for the toilet, she had a bit more of a privileged life growing up. I live in eastern Missouri, so of course after the 8 inches of snow and sub freezing temperatures we've had for the last 2 weeks, it'll be 60 degrees on Tuesday... I am in fact responsible for post main work, and as I said above, I'm not technically supposed to touch the main. The part that burst was the county one just before mine, so I'm not on the hook for that, thankfully. They are giving me a 1000 gallon credit (for flushing purposes), which is definitely not going to cover the cost of a new regulator valve. I bought a water pressure gauge, and I'm sitting at 30 psi with no valves open, that climbs to 45 psi over time with no valves open. With valves open, the pressure drops to 22-25 psi and holds steady for hours. I have walked my property (thankfully the marked the line locations) and I have no water leaking or bubbling up from the ground anywhere, including in my crawlspace. I did check the main to make sure they opened it all the way. So I'm thinking debris have clogged the regulator up, along for enough flow to maintain the 20ish psi, or to slowly build pressure up if I let it sit.

If you are going to have a square grill, don't round off every other corner on the front and sides of the vehicles. Keep it all square and flat. MPG's don't matter to the wealthy.

Question: Can I run my gas water heater even if my pressure is low, or should I keep it shut off in case the water stops completely? Context: I came home yesterday to find the water main in the street blew. They got it fixed up just before midnight last night. I have now spent the last 12 hours trying to figure out why I have low water pressure through the whole house, and I have narrowed it down to either a jammed up PRV (pressure regulating valve), caused by the massive amount of debris the busted up line pushed through, or the county water company screwed up something, but they won't be back in til monday (I did check to see that they opened the main valve back up, which they did). I have been keeping the water running to try and avoid freezing pipes, as the low pressure makes that more likely, and the water hasn't stopped and doesn't seem to sputter or drop out. Additional context: If I leave my faucets all closed, the pressure begins to rise slowly over time, before finally achieving what seems like proper pressure, but is lost within a few minutes of turning a faucet on. I have shut off water to the whole house, and purged air from the lines twice. I will be running out shortly to get an actual water pressure gauge.

I'm resurrecting this thread instead of starting a new one, as this is an interesting topic that, considering the events of the last few years,others will likely be able to add on to, but also because it features the awesome campmanche, and because this beauty I just found is too nice to put in the hammer thread... The Bug Out Bug

Beat me to it, save those corners for prototyping, much easier to manipulate and measure with them off the bed. Though I expect that with this much time passed, unless someone decides to build them from the ground up, we'll never get a perfect replacement.

I'm sorry to hear that. Hoping the best for her. Somehow my mom has dodged getting it even working in a long term care facility, and my sister who drives a school bus has avoided it also. My mom's health isn't great to begin with, since she's a lifelong smoker with other chronic health problems, but I'm hoping her luck holds out long enough for either the vaccines to get here or for the virus to peter out. Personal off topic rant time, I quit smoking when the virus landed here, something I had been building up to for awhile. Didn't see what I had to gain in trying to fight off a novel virus with half dead lungs. But somewhere, in the back of my head, I always hoped that when I quit smoking, I'd physically feel better, as I've felt a bit off for a few years now. It didn't change anything, at least not yet anyways, so now I guess my only option is to actually go to a doctor and see what's actually wrong with me. And that sucks, cause I really hate doctors and I really like my lazy, hedonistic lifestyle that they're going to yell at me for . I was really hoping I'd feel healthier without having to put any effort in.

I have always used breathe healthy masks, and I've had both the adjustable loops and the elastic headband. The loops are nice, but the plastic beads they use break after awhile, rendering it useless, so I stick to the elastic headband. It has the formable nose piece, so no fogging of the glasses unless you are staring at your shoes for an extended period of time. They are also hand washable. I use it for dust purposes, and it does a fine job, even with small particles. As for comfort, I wore it back in June in 90 degree weather at Mesker park zoo in Evansville the entire time I was there without taking it off, though I have a much higher tolerance to mask wearing since I wear one in a non air conditioned factory. Just remember, any facial hair at the seams of the mask render it useless for it's intended purpose of keeping particles out of your airways, though it will still serve the function of not spitting on other people when you talk or sneeze.

That looks absolutely terrifying.

Neat fact, Lowes and Home Depot do not carry classic car bodies... but they do have wood.

Based on the era they're from, I'm going to assume they come with Intel Core 2 Duos for their processor. If so they should still be capable of doing schoolwork, but they may not be able to do this online learning thing due to having slow internet connectivity, and limited ram (I hate modern browsers for needing so much of it). If you registered your copy of office 2013, you might be able to login to your microsoft account and see if they saved the product key that way, or if they will allow you to install without it.

No joke, I originally wrote save cost, but when talking about a $100,000 suv, saving cost didn't feel boneheadedly corporate enough

I can't find where I read it now, but the original mock up for the JT was allegedly built on a modified 1500 frame, along with a mockup for a midsize ram truck (that sadly has never come to be). But mock ups predate even pre production, and all road testing for JT was done with its extended JL frame. I expect they'll either use a modified 1500 frame or widen the JT's frame for this, just to maximize profit.

Do not buy the brand Wen. Return springs failed on multiple units in less than a year drilling no more than 1/8" holes in 3/4" zinc castings. Motor on a larger unit drilling a 1" hole through less than 1/4" zinc stalls more in a day than our former 35 yr old craftsman stalled in it's entire life. I do really like the hand crank height adjustment on the Wens, and their frame is solid and well built, but the important parts are lacking in durability. EDIT: Obviously my experience comes from factory life, so the above issues may not arise in less demanding use. Sadly, I have no experience with other ones, as we are stuck with the ones we have, so we just continue using them in their broken states. We have fixed up some of the old craftsman ones out of necessity, and the few we have left after cannibalizing the others continue to work on, so toss my vote on a good used one too.

That is an insane video. He's very fortunate. On a lighter, but still serious note, I want that guy to build all my bathrooms.

Sadly with his iphone, even if he gets a cheap battery, they are not easily replaced (it is doable, but not simple), and they don't have card slots.

Just pulled up comancheclub on my alcatel flip phone, and the pics and videos in the chinook resto thread loaded fine

That reminds me of the time a friend of mine lost a fish (somehow) in my TJ, was sitting there rotting under my rear seat. Smell was gone last night (or wasn't bad enough for me to smell it over the lingering bleach), but I'm still going to clean the traps out. If they are clear, the I'm going to crawl into the attic and make sure a squirrel hasn't got in there and died. Also discovered that a stray cat has been sneaking into and living in my crawl space, so I will need to crawl further in there.

Stove vent, yea. I hope it's not that cause I installed a new one a few years ago and kept using the original duct work up through the roof, and the damn thing has leaked off and on ever since. I'm beginning to realize this could very well be merged into the "things you've been putting off fixing thread" I can't check the p trap cause I don't have anything to catch the water that will fit under it here, but I do at work, so that'll get cleaned tomorrow.

Don't believe so. Smell is firmly in the kitchen, the wash room with the furnace/water heater is fine. Theres only the two feet of piping in the house to hook those 2 appliances up, so won't be hard to double check.

Ah that's a good idea.