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Bills65Dart said:
My cousin say he has seen a cut off relay that cuts out when the voltage drops under 13 volts. Like to use between a car and the camper caravan. You start the engine, the voltage goes up past 13 volts, and the power to the 12 volt battery in the camper caravan is charged, then you stop the engine, and the voltage at some point drops under 13 volts, and you use power of the camper caravan battery but nothing from the truck battery since it has disconnected. Has anyone heard about such a thing ? I find someone mentioning that Bosch are supposed to have it, but can not find the actual relay.

Bill
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It takes some planning,a second battery, relay,circuit breakers and a starter solenoid. battery is for starter only, charges while ignition is on. And a push button.
Will start every time.
 
Bills65Dart said:
If the bark is on, and your area is on the moist side the wood inside can start to rot before it dries. But, usually when you split it, it will dry. You will have a little reduced heating energy in such firewood, but it will still burn, and rotted stuff that has dried will burn too.

Can you buy firewood on the root here, I mean can you go to someone who has forest and ask if you can cut down some of his trees to clear up his forest, and pay a little fore it, and he get a job done too, and you get inexpensive firewood ?

Firewood is an amazing invention, it gives heat so many times. It warms you when you cut the tree down and chop it up. It warms you when loading it in the tractor trailer, or whatever you put it in, and it warms you when splitting it, and it warms you when stacking it, and it warms you carrying it inside, and then finaly it warms the entire house when you put it in the oven.

Bill
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Not sure what is actually legal trade around here. People buy and sell pretty much any way the other agrees on. I bought a trailer load of logs once. Really not sure if it saved much, but at least I didn’t have to drag it home. I haven’t bought any wood in several years. A couple large red oaks fell a few miles up the road and I cleaned them up First one had to be 4-5 years ago. And second maybe a year later. Still have some wood from the 2nd one. Then this spring neighbors had some trees taken down and I got all the wood. Of course anyone who has done it knows there is nothing free about free fire wood. I bought a new chain saw and a couple chains, a timber jack/cant hook and splitting mauls... Just now I was running the power splitter vertical on some big pieces and noticed the guide was out of place. A spacer broke and one of the 'gibs' is missing. I need to figure out if they are just mild steel. Can probably just make a block at work tomorrow.
 
zkx14 said:
Not sure what is actually legal trade around here. People buy and sell pretty much any way the other agrees on. I bought a trailer load of logs once. Really not sure if it saved much, but at least I didn’t have to drag it home. I haven’t bought any wood in several years. A couple large red oaks fell a few miles up the road and I cleaned them up First one had to be 4-5 years ago. And second maybe a year later. Still have some wood from the 2nd one. Then this spring neighbors had some trees taken down and I got all the wood. Of course anyone who has done it knows there is nothing free about free fire wood. I bought a new chain saw and a couple chains, a timber jack/cant hook and splitting mauls... Just now I was running the power splitter vertical on some big pieces and noticed the guide was out of place. A spacer broke and one of the 'gibs' is missing. I need to figure out if they are just mild steel. Can probably just make a block at work tomorrow.
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It's worth it to buy pre-cut!
 
Since the temps are mid 70's, I figured I'd grill a bunch of meat.. a sirloin, some sausage, some burgers and a few chicken breasts. Should keep me fed for a while.. Oh yea, and having a few cold beers!
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Ben Drinkin said:
Since the temps are mid 70's, I figured I'd grill a bunch of meat.. a sirloin, some sausage, some burgers and a few chicken breasts. Should keep me fed for a while.. Oh yea, and having a few cold beers!
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Do you often bbq food instead of using the stove ?

And where are all the people ? Maybe they are hiding from us. :D

Bill
 
Ben Drinkin said:
Since the temps are mid 70's, I figured I'd grill a bunch of meat.. a sirloin, some sausage, some burgers and a few chicken breasts. Should keep me fed for a while.. Oh yea, and having a few cold beers!
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BAF had a display at sema. Lots of fans. And one huge one running above display.
 
Yard work day here. Cleared the frost killed annuals out of the front flower beds and took down most of the sick pink dogwood tree in the front yard. I just left a 6” stump with 2 healthy 3’ shoots growing from the base. It either starts to get healthy next year or it is gone.

Then I went to take the SRT to the store and the battery was low. Got it started and went for an hour long highway drive to charge it back up before stopping at the store on the way home. Man that car is fun to drive!
 
Ddaddy said:
Yard work day here. Cleared the frost killed annuals out of the front flower beds and took down most of the sick pink dogwood tree in the front yard. I just left a 6” stump with 2 healthy 3’ shoots growing from the base. It either starts to get healthy next year or it is gone.

Then I went to take the SRT to the store and the battery was low. Got it started and went for an hour long highway drive to charge it back up before stopping at the store on the way home. Man that car is fun to drive!
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Dave, do you live in an area with snow and salty roads ? (in the winter)

Bill
 
Bills65Dart said:
Dave, do you live in an area with snow and salty roads ? (in the winter)

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Yep. We don’t get a lot of snow, but enough for them to salt regularly. We get the occasional Nor’esters that drop 12-24” but they generally only happen every few years. Most snowstorms are in the 2-4” range with some 3-6” ones during the season. Most of what we get is what I call “annoying storms” with 1-2” and some ice so that they salt a lot and it just makes everything a mess.
 
Ddaddy said:
Yep. We don’t get a lot of snow, but enough for them to salt regularly. We get the occasional Nor’esters that drop 12-24” but they generally only happen every few years. Most snowstorms are in the 2-4” range with some 3-6” ones during the season. Most of what we get is what I call “annoying storms” with 1-2” and some ice so that they salt a lot and it just makes everything a mess.
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Do you use any undercoating on your cars, like Rust Oleum 248656, or equivalent product ? And / or cavity wax ?

My experience with salt on roads is mostly irritation and anger, lol It makes a mess, and makes the cars rust.

Bill
 
Bills65Dart said:
Do you use any undercoating on your cars, like Rust Oleum 248656, or equivalent product ? And / or cavity wax ?

My experience with salt on roads is mostly irritation and anger, lol It makes a mess, and makes the cars rust.

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Nobody really uses undercoating much anymore as it caused more rust than it prevented. Back in the vintage car era, they used to do a lot of spraying of the undercarriage with oil as a seasonal protectant.

These days, the preferred spray for the undercarriage is “Fluid Film” lanolin spray. Works great!

https://www.lowes.com/pd/Fluid-Film-1-oz-Lanolin-Based-Petroleum-Oil/50335157?cm_mmc=shp-_-c-_-prd-_-tol-_-google-_-lia-_-217-_-tools-lubricants-_-50335157-_-0&store_code=622&cm_mmc=src-_-c-_-prd-_-tol-_-google-_-tools-_-MHLIA_TOL_Tools_High Priority-_--_-0-_-0&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIlvOEsuDg5QIVDvbjBx0jYwjOEAQYASABEgLkovD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
 
Bills65Dart said:
Dave, do you live in an area with snow and salty roads ? (in the winter)

Bill
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And just because I know you like snow, here are some photos of the last big snowstorm we had here about 4 years ago. Of course, it happened just 2 days before we moved into the new house so I had to clear it from both houses so we could load the moving truck and get the stuff into the new house.

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Ddaddy said:
Nobody really uses undercoating much anymore as it caused more rust than it prevented. Back in the vintage car era, they used to do a lot of spraying of the undercarriage with oil as a seasonal protectant.

These days, the preferred spray for the undercarriage is “Fluid Film” lanolin spray. Works great!

https://www.lowes.com/pd/Fluid-Film-1-oz-Lanolin-Based-Petroleum-Oil/50335157?cm_mmc=shp-_-c-_-prd-_-tol-_-google-_-lia-_-217-_-tools-lubricants-_-50335157-_-0&store_code=622&cm_mmc=src-_-c-_-prd-_-tol-_-google-_-tools-_-MHLIA_TOL_Tools_High Priority-_--_-0-_-0&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIlvOEsuDg5QIVDvbjBx0jYwjOEAQYASABEgLkovD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
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I have been all over the net now to look. I have been used to the Valvoline Tectyl, which had a cavity wax, and an undercoast that was paintable. Now they have only the undercoat, Tectyl 506. I have seen the Fluid Film you mention, which I assume would be excellent for cavities, bottom of the doors for example.

My 1965 Dodge Dart has had some kind of undercoating under the wheel wells, like Tectyl. But, could be any brand. It is not like it smells anymore, so it is difficult to say what it is. Right above the front wheels the sand and dust has worn through the undercoating, and it is a tiny layer of rust. Something like a thin dust of rust. The undercoading on the sides of that is perfectly fine still.
I don't know when this was done, if Dodge did it when the car was new, but it has obviously worked. For some reason my car is what I will call rustfree, this little dust has not rusted into the sheet metal.

I want to put something on it, Rust Oleum have a primer that is supposed to work well on rusted surfaces, and then there is another reddish primer called Corroless that I have used in the past with a very good result.
However, I need something on top of that. Primer alone is not going to hold up too well.

Bill
 
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Next to the hydro pole, there is a picnic table. By the time that winter was done with us, it was completely buried...
 
This was last year. A couple of storms like this...

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One big one like this...

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And this nightmare. That driveway isn’t wet, it has nearly a half inch of ice on it.

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Bills65Dart said:
I have been all over the net now to look. I have been used to the Valvoline Tectyl, which had a cavity wax, and an undercoast that was paintable. Now they have only the undercoat, Tectyl 506. I have seen the Fluid Film you mention, which I assume would be excellent for cavities, bottom of the doors for example.

My 1965 Dodge Dart has had some kind of undercoating under the wheel wells, like Tectyl. But, could be any brand. It is not like it smells anymore, so it is difficult to say what it is. Right above the front wheels the sand and dust has worn through the undercoating, and it is a tiny layer of rust. Something like a thin dust of rust. The undercoading on the sides of that is perfectly fine still.
I don't know when this was done, if Dodge did it when the car was new, but it has obviously worked. For some reason my car is what I will call rustfree, this little dust has not rusted into the sheet metal.

I want to put something on it, Rust Oleum have a primer that is supposed to work well on rusted surfaces, and then there is another reddish primer called Corroless that I have used in the past with a very good result.
However, I need something on top of that. Primer alone is not going to hold up too well.

Bill
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Just use the fluid film. It will be the best choice, just reapply every year.
 
Ddaddy said:
And just because I know you like snow, here are some photos of the last big snowstorm we had here about 4 years ago. Of course, it happened just 2 days before we moved into the new house so I had to clear it from both houses so we could load the moving truck and get the stuff into the new house.

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Thank you. Oh yes, I love snow. Makes it mosquito free too. :D And my wife, who is born here in northern California at the coast, and lived all her life here in Santa Rosa with no snow, she adores it. Her Christmas in Norway got rather special, a lot of snow for Christmas, and we could go out listening to the church bells ringing on Christmas even. She had never heard that before.

Bill
 
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