Just a random thought. Has anyone tried using a manual roto rooter for clearing blockages in the cooling rails? I’m planning to use one continuous shot of tubing so I think it’s more feasible for that but I was curious.
For the cooling rails I use a straight adjustable spray nozzle on the end of the garden hose. No blockage problems with the spraying action. Tubing comes out clean metal, or plastic pipes.
Bob
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https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=ryobi+pressure+washer+1600
I have one of these. I use it for blowing the dirt off the logs after I put them on my mill and for blowing the dirt and salt from the undercarriage on my wife’s car and a lot of other little jobs. I’m sure it would be good for blowing out those rails.
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I should buy a new pressure washer since mom’s got stolen last year. I might get one of the electric ones since we don’t have much water pressure. The troybilt one we had barely worked.
I used to have a couple of 4000 PSI pressure washers when I was in the building business. They would blow through deck boards if you weren’t paying attention. I gave them to my son’s. No use for that kind of pressure. This one you can carry around with one hand. Has about as much pressure as the ones at a coin car wash. Pretty useful for not a lot of money.
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That Ryobi would be perfect. Mom went all in on Ryobi tools so we already have the batteries for it.
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This is wonderful the sun is going to shine on us here in Central Washington State, blue skies at 09:00 the temperature is up to 35 °f . We have been under a inversion of clouds for many days now in the valley. Maybe I can get some of the frozen ice/snow off my gasifier projects. Dana and I went for a five mile walk yesterday and saw a couple of robins flying. They are our spring is coming birds.
Bob
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My grandfathers turbo petrol Ford Focus used about as much petrol cruiseing down the highway at 55 mph as that V8 just idleing 
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Nope. Sorry not true.
The Focus at 120 kph will use more fuel than a modern low friction V-8 at an idle.
Low friction means needle bearings on the valve train movements. Narrow lower tension piston rings. Variable drive oil pump. 0-20 oil weights.
Now to really reduce the V-8’s idle fuel use GM and Dodge Ram use cylinder deactivation systems now. Honda on their V-6’s.
Many now with Stop-Run systems. Idle past 30 seconds and it shuts down.
A toss up which is premature killing engines sooner . . . . the documented accelerated wear on deactivated cylinders; or the forced heat and pressure on the turbo boosted cylinders.
Kristijan this all just a divide and kill off of IC engines for personal usages. Period.
Grid electric vehicles makes for more Top-Down controlling.
Steve Unruh
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This is solid ice melt down snow that has my projects locked into place. North side of the house. Humm still waiting for the 50 degree f. days, the continuous 30 degree f. cloudy days are not melting the snow away. Come on Sun shining warm days. I have projects to work on. LOL
Bob
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Feeling melancholic listening to this sweet woman talk about her childhood. She sounds exactly like my two grandmothers who’ve passed on. They grew up probably an hour east of this lady. God Bless her.
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That brings back a lot of memories of growing up, especially after the 2nd world war which you younger guys won’t remember. One memory was of kneading Oleo to color it like real butter. The Dept of Agriculture in order to protect the dairy farmers would not allow oleomargerine to be sold with a yellow color, so it was sold in a celophane bag with a red dye dot which was broken and then kneaded until the whole bag was colored like butter. That was my job from time to time. This is what it was like. . .
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Hey Don , Did you ever get to ride a pick sack?
Some of my earliest memory was being in the cotton patch with my Moma as she and her sisters and Moma picked cotton . I was too young to look after my self so I would ride on the pick sack as she drug it along with her picking .
I can still remember the unique sound that the sack makes as it is pulled along.
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Dad had me pretty late in life but he was born in 1950, baby of three kids. I’m glad to have him around to show me some old Indian tricks, hes worked since he was 12 first job running a motor grater working on I85 for grandpa’s company. Both him and his brother were trained on heavy equipment since they were little. Ran a crew of grown men when he was 16 and he already had more experience than them.
Grandpa was a Staff Sergeant in the Army during WWII, 2nd Armored Division in the artillery and was a cook. Survived all of Patton’s campaigns since North Africa. Dad says he was the best cook he ever knew and only my maternal grandma Lida could have gotten close.
Grandma Lida on mom’s side was born right before the Great Depression so it’s all she ever knew. Her father was a WWI vet that did farming and ran a hardware store when he got his degree for business while in France as a doughboy.
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Yes Don. squeezing that plastic bag was one job in the kitchen I would volunteer to do. TomC
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In some other news I’m hoping my tax return is big so I can immediately send it to Poland for a rebak. Or if it’s even bigger, then buy from Red Dragon here in the US since they’re also remet rebaks. Bank I used to get the Sierra wants to offer me another loan but I’d rather not get further underwater.
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I feel like I got cheated Don. We had cows and I had to settle for butter instead of that yummy oleo.
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Read the history of margarine 
, and veg. oils, you’ll wish you never ate it, and will not eat it again. Once again we were lied to on healthy eating.
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AMEN To that statement Al.
Bob
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Yeah I’m pretty sure the homestyle farm fresh butter is why you’re still out here deadlifting engine blocks.
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