ArdWrknTrk

Bullnose tank has a 'collar' for the vent tube. Cut it out of the way and let the brick fill hose enter the tank. I have no problems this way for WELL over a decade.

It isn't as matte and it doesn't have the UV phosphors. That stuff is EXPENSIVE, as you can see from the tiny Hi-Po bottles.

Jim has a well hidden secret we’ll discover someday. He is awake all night… and all day! I suspect Jim has some stallion blood, he’s never totally sleeping, just mildly drowsy, ready to wake up and react. Sometimes, you awake and lie perfectly still while you scan the room (or surroundings, if you're in the truck) I'll also never sit with my back to the door. It's all survival strategy.

The Sylvania Evo (Ego?) bulbs are pretty good as far as no polarized and ability to dim. I have some of them too.

Last year, I changed all the instruments gauges for NOS units. Well, almost all of them, since the only one I was unable to find NOS was the tach. So, I had to paint its washed out pale needle to match the «new» original color. I had on hand a Rustoleum Marking orange spray paint. I tested it on another old unit (with a thin paint brush) and it matched perfectly. That's marking paint. It isn't meant to fluoresce

Diodes are -of course, by definition - polarized. Some bulbs have a rectifier bridge built in....

I'm not being critical of nuclear energy. Just that compact reactors (submarines, aircraft carriers, etc..) are a very different animal than what is seen as acceptable risk for the general public. The military gets away with (deems normal) missiles, machine guns, depleted uranium AP, and ordinance that you could never get away with, off base. Fusion, if it EVER happens, is pretty much the Grail..... and would solve the nuclear "waste" issue in decades rather than a half million years.

Not all of them are polarity sensitive, and many of them DO dim💡 We like hi-po parts for both the needle paint and the LEDs... Vendor ratings and reviews in the marketplace section.... They also have all the shop manuals available on CD, if you want a physical copy

Then he's come to the right place!

Welcome Kyle! We seem to have a spate of new members from Texas, just as we had a rich from the Carolinas a few months ago. One Texan is dropping a 460 in his '70's Bronco.

Stop making sense! 🤷‍♂️

Discourse offers iOS and Android apps. Of course, not a group specific app , we always have:nabble_smiley_thinking:the dreaded Tap-a-talk

Link??? I watch a few channels out of the area I spoke of, and all the actual operators and tower tech's seem incredibly happy with resilience and lifetime. The North Sea is a brutal environment. I used to know some platform workers and divers. Even if the windmills were falling over, at least they can never cause an environmental disaster. 🤷‍♂️

SMR are a real non starter. The Russians have a barge full of reactors somewhere up in Siberia. We had the NV Savannah way back in the '60's , but even though it was used as a powerplant, it was compromised.., as a demonstrator by having to handle cargo, (just as CONNEX boxes were taking hold) and hosting a nuclear crew as well as an 'ambassador' type cheerleading crew.... Nuclear doesn't scale down. Or rather, it looses any reason for being when its stupid small, like a handful of megawatts.

Those GM modules in an HEI suck up enough power that the coil is never going to saturate. Get one for a Tornado and you can set it up to have ignition retard while cranking..... 💡

Nukes would be fine, if they could get built on time and budget.... Westinghouse got bought by Toshiba, and then promptly went under. GE only seems to care about milking $$$ from wind turbines.. My buddy Bill lived literally a mile from the third commercial PWR in the United States. Yankee Rowe came after Dresden and Shippingport. They've erased all traces of the containment sphere and the turbine halls. I wanted to visit, but security is ridiculous. They still have DU on site because, unlike the French, we refuse to have breeder reactors . I'm somewhat close to Indian Point which was on the Hudson River in Buchanan. They shut that down 20 years early because knee jerk idiots form NYC don't like clean, reliable power....

How much does your starter draw on a cold morning?...

Alternator in & out of the battery is one thing. (But again, 1G & 2G alternators don't really put out much at lower rpm) I'm talking about the battery dumping into the cab harness (protected by 2 fuselinks at the splice) Ammeters aren't telling me the actual state of charge, like a voltmeter does. And, I really don't care if I'm having a charge or discharge situation, except long term.. Like there's too much load for an alternator to keep up. With the 130A 3G (that can put out 160) I never have to worry.

How many amps can your battery deliver? Because that's what counts. 🔥💡

You might be surprised how much electricity is powered by renewables. Almost all of Canada is hydro. China installed more solar last year than the US has in total. Australia has an almost perfect climate for solar. Much of northern Europe is offshore wind (GB, Denmark, Netherlands & the Scandi countries) Iceland is 100% geothermal... Coal & gas power make sense because fixed plants have had over a century to optimize, like well over 60% compared to maybe 30% for ICE. So, even with transmission losses and conversion in an electric motor you are still miles ahead of petroleum. And a ICE will ALWAYS burn fuel. An electric is agnostic. Nuclear, solar, wind, hydro, gas or coal... it doesn't care where the electrons come from. So the changing face of the grid only makes improvements in efficiency.

I think it comes with a ceramic ballast resistor, like a Mopar.

I'm going to suggest that you fuse that shunt at 75A. Because if you have a short in the cab it's going to vaporize like an exposed incandescent filament....

I'm up all night, every night.... Towing cars fits well with my cptsd

You're overworking that poop emoji...

The fan & choke are NEVER going through the shunt. The clutch driven fan will always be sufficient (if you have a proper shroud) Gary already mentioned it, so I'm not going to point out the stupidity of electric fans in a remotely stock configuration..