Something that has not been talked about in the news yet but will be I am sure is the speed limit in the USA. Back in the early 70’s highway speeds were reduced to 55 mph on 70 and 75 mph freeways across the nation to save fuel consumption turning the gas embargo. A lot of unhappy people that like to travel at the speeds the highways were designed for. This is probably going to happen again in the near future.
They later raised up to 60 mph. because of the complaints of the people and the political party wanted to get voted back into office. Lol
Now with Highways at speeds of 80 mph. This will get really interesting.
But this is good new for us DOW people. Speed limits back to 60 mph. nice I can drive at that all day long. I forget the figures the government came up with back then but it was a lot of reduced barrels of oil daily we were saving with the reduced speed limits. Back then most cars were American made running on aspirated carburetors and big horsepower V-8 engines 10 to 12 mpg. Yikes!! have we Americans change since then.
EV’s and smaller engines vehicles with a lot better mpg. Made in America what’s that almost. Things are going to change again. For the better I hope.
Bob
Only interstate we have higher than 65mph is I485 bypass. It’s set to 70. I was nervous my entire time in TN because of their 80mph limit.
My wife has always had a group of layers and we try to have breeds that go broody. Some of our hens are quite old and we do not keep an extra light during the winter, rather we give the hens a season off. a couple of years ago we bought an incubator and once spring comes Kristine will fill the incubator with eggs (21) and what ever hatches goes under a broody hen, (they are all mutts, mixed breeds). We have no idea of the age of the flock, but just found the incubator more reliabe than the broody hens. Heck we have brought home chicks from tractor supply and stuck them under a hen, I don’t think they can count very well. The new roosters each year get canned for the pantry. Glad to hear you have the hens, if for no other reason humor.
kent
Yes we are 70 mph here in Washington State but Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, California, Oregon Nevada are at 80 or 80 plus. It going to very interesting if the speed limit is reduced in these states. Lots of speed ticket revenues for the states.
Bob
When dad gave me his club car golf cart to replace with a gas engine, he gave me the 6v batteries. Going to practice my battery restoring on them.
Top off with clean water and overvolt it for short times to desulfate. Since they’re deep cycle batteries, the plates are thicker than a car or truck battery so they should still have some life left. If not then I’m not out any money and I have some cores I can sell to O’Reillys for 10 bucks store credit a pop as incentive to recycle.
Since they’re 6 volts, I’ll use my grandpa’s old but worth it’s weight in gold simple battery charger; no brainbox that thinks it’s smarter than me. With 12v I’ve seen guys use arc welders that run between 18 and 24 volts so I think just double the regular voltage until I see bubbling, disconnect and let it rest, rinse repeat. Obviously will do this OUTDOORS to reduce any risk and wear some thick gloves.
Full plastic face shield too Cody.
And earplugs. Battery ka-booms can march you into the Ehhh? world.
S.U.
Already mostly deaf but you do have a point.
Luckily they are flooded cells so I will leave the caps completely off. Face shield too. I’ve had acid in my face and it was not fun. Aluminum Rim cleaner, 6% Hydrofluoric Acid. Windy day using a spray bottle and a big cloud of it landed on my face and immediately started burning. Very glad I have to wear glasses.
Measure the output before and after and let us know what you got. I know this is a little elementary for you power guru’s but I have found this book useful.
I just recently got a battery tester, basically a resistor with a cooling fan and a little computer that logs how many amphours the battery still has. I use a benchmark of 1 amp draw. I know right now none of the batteries have much in the way of storage, dad tried charging them all in 36 volts series and it moved the golf cart a whopping 2 feet. I’ll try charging them as a regular 6 volts, the old charger has that setting.
Found one on Amazon after I saw this video and just got one that looked just like the own shown.
Supposedly works from 0 to 200V, you can program it for a low voltage cutoff so you don’t accidentally drain the battery.
Here’s the battery charger, 6 amp output, 12 or 6-8 volt settings.
I actually ended up having to do that, I used my lunch pail inverter welder at a slow approached 50 amps for 3 minutes.
Ran the two best batteries through the welder, now I have one on the simple charger and another on my smarty-pants charger. The simple one has a changing amperage based on how charged up the battery already is. I think if I just leave those two on a float charge then they’ll start to get their amphours back.
This is how strenhgt shuld be measured, not with guns…
Tone is a tough fellow to lay, l tryed 
Earlier in this thread we were discussing alternate fuels for chainsaws. This is still a topic of great interest to me. My question is what if any oil will blend with propane and if so how would you determine quantity to run in a two stroke engine. Trial and Error?
I used to have an airsoft gun, bb gun, that used propane as a compressed air to shoot the bbs, you had to put an adapter valve on the green camp bottles but before you put that in they suggested you spray some silicone lubricant in the adapter between the tank and valve for the o rings in the bb guns magazine.
I don’t know how you’d add the 2 stroke oil to the propane but I’d err on the side of too much instead of too little.
No snow there! A different world
If the silicone actually blended with the propane then the rest would be simple. Drill and tap a small opening in the bottom of the bottle, inject the oil and pressurize the bottle if necessary. I have refilled those small bottles out of the larger tanks but don’t know if I would need to add pressure. They recommend chilling the bottles to get more volume of propane in but it the bottle were open you should be able to completely fill a small bottle. After that is would be fairly simple to run a hose to the saw and just carry a bottle on a sling over your shoulder.
It looked like the silicone oil either evaporated or slipped past the valve in the bottle. Not sure. That or it was carried with the gas into the magazine tank.
