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  1. slow-poke

    Car designs suck

    Completely agree and echos my experience exactly. I was involved with a startup three guys in a basement to a Best product in the world company and because our products had really high margins 10:1 choosing the best components vs. something cheaper was never a consideration we designed it the...
  2. slow-poke

    Benchtop Hobbing Machine - The BHM

    Absolutely brilliant! I'm impressed! Seems like everyone needs a repair gear, you could make a business out of it. I recall people getting quotes for a replacement gear in the $500-$800 when they need to make it from scratch because of the setup time.
  3. slow-poke

    Car designs suck

    I would bet it's not so much the engineers, but the accountants. "Do we really need these expensive 200,000 psi rod bolts, lets use 100,000 psi bolts like we used in the Vega we had an acceptable failure rate with those in the past"
  4. slow-poke

    Car designs suck

    Seconds, not even close. You should watch Ford vs, Ferarri, Ford ran their big blocks at 6000-8000 RPM for > 24 hours during Le Mans. They torture tested them on the dyno for days on end to determine the failure points and then fixed them. BTW the new corvette when tested at maximum speed and...
  5. slow-poke

    Car designs suck

    That's actually really impressive. That massive truck gets about the same MPG as my 2700lb Mustang. Same horsepower 570-575 I'm guessing the truck has 3x the torque? Diesel has about 10% more energy per gallon, and a Diesel engine is an inherently more efficient engine with twice the...
  6. slow-poke

    Car designs suck

    Not sure if or when the next ice age will occur but I'm glad I won't be around for it, sounds a bit beyond my shovelling capability...... from google AI...... During the last ice age, the Laurentide Ice Sheet in Canada reached a maximum thickness of approximately 4,000 meters (13,000 feet)...
  7. slow-poke

    Electrical help.

    23 Ohms is probably fine as long as it's not flashing to open. 23/20000=0.001, so that's close enough to zero. So if the microswitch and pot, pass the cable wiggle test, the problem is elsewhere. Can you post the other other troubleshooting videos?
  8. slow-poke

    Electrical help.

    B203 is a 20k pot. So with the pot disconnected from the circuit board: 1) It should measure close to 20k across the outside terminals 2) with the meter connected to the 2 & 3 terminals, the resistance should be close to 0 Ohms with the pot turned fully clockwise and 20k when turned fully CCW...
  9. slow-poke

    Shoulder check

    One thing I noticed upon moving to Ottawa is the strange way 90% of the drivers make a left turn at a light. I was taught if your first in line when the light turns red to green, that you pull into the intersection while also moving to the left so your positioned mostly in the turning lane that...
  10. slow-poke

    Car designs suck

    My thoughts exactly!
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