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Hi Stu, I doubt that the O.P. will answer or even care. He started this thread more than two years ago. I suspect he's figured it out by now and moved on. ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! M.

My wife came into my office today for the first time in about a week and saw the black roadster on the screen (It's now my desktop background). "Oh, so nice! Is that going to be what your car looks like when it gets done?" I explained that it was not and showed her a picture of the P.H.. She looked at the screen and said, "I like that one a lot better." I said jokingly, "How about if, when I get the P.H. done, I build you one like that?" She broke into a big grin and said, "Really? Cool! Hurry up and finish your car." I was astounded. She bugged me for years to buy her a beemer. I resisted for decades but finally relented. Now that she's got one and has seen that photo she wants a '53 roadster. I can't win for losin'. ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike

Jeez! [:-boggled

What the hell is it?

Shouldn't be flue. It should be orange in a DV fireplace. My guess is that they got a bunch of fake embers in the burner tube.

Oh, That's not what I thought you were referring to. Do you have a picture of the side of the control valve where the pilot/on/off control knob and piezo igniter are located? Back off a few feet and take a few establishing shots from different angles before going in close. OT - OF!!! M.

Hi, The pointer that you say is marked with red marker sounds like the common pointer I see on more than half of the gas fireplaces I look at. I see a lot of those. In fact, I see more houses with gas fireplaces than I see with wood burning fireplaces or without fireplaces. If you were running propane on a natural gas fireplace the firebox and wall outside of the vent would probably be covered with lots of black soot - at least that's been my experience the few times I've found it. I'm not sure what would happen if you're running a fireplace set up for propane on NG. Were the ceramic logs set up properly or were they impinging the flame? It's usually easy to tell. They are like a jigsaw puzzle and usually only stack properly one way. Did it have a flame height adjustment on the control valve - I can't tell 'cuz your photo didn't display. Change the name of your photo to something simple like FireplacePhoto with no gaps or special symbols and try editing your comment and it might display. ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike

I usually just say, "I don't have time for this bullsh*t," and I hang up. OT - OF!!! M.

That thing will go just fine with a modern V-6 and a 5-speed stick. Why add weight to the nose with a bunch of gas-guzzling cylinders? 'Cuz I wanna be the first one to shorehorn a twin-turbo Toyota V12 into an American car. That's why! [:-dopey]

Maybe it has to do with the amount of air to be cooled in the home and the size of the evaporator coil matched to the unit. I wouldn't worry about it. We aren't required to determine whether HVAC or Plumbing engineers designed a system correctly - we're supposed to be looking at how it's installed and looking for physical deficiencies with the installed components. ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike

This is a rendering along the same lines done by Steve Stanford. I be keeping my Packard Hawk all original and doing my best to make her look like she looked the day she rolled off the showroom floor; but I've been thinking about building a daily driver in the future - maybe a '53 roadster like this on an Art Morrison chassis powered by a Toyota Century V12 engine with an 8 speed transmission. https://www.inspectorsjournal.com/forum ... edster.jpg

I can't wait to see the finished car. The guy who is building that does nice work. I've seen several photo blogs of other cars he's done. The car below is the canvas he's painting on.

Picture #1 - The Loewy Coupe Picture #2 - A couple of Raymond Loewy suggested roadster studies that the Studebaker B.O.D. never approved. They did build the car in the background - in clay. The clay model disappeared. I personally think the guy's CGI design at the top of the page beats them all. ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike

Yessir!

Hey all, I've been following a discussion over on the Studebaker Driver's Club forum started by a guy whose planning to build a Studebaker that Studebaker never built - a '53 Studebaker Roadster. The '53 Loewy coupe has long been acknowledged as one of the prettiest automobiles ever designed but, to my eyes, this guy's CGI rendering of his roadster-to-be is friggin' off the hook! What do you guys think?

Attitude adjustment? Moi? Why, whatever for? [:-eyebrow

Yeah, I'd be open to that. ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike

Originally posted by Marc Yeah, well, ours is under the oversight of the Director of the Department of Licensing who is under the oversight of the legislature. Don't disagree with that. Now you're trying to piss me off. By insulting me and my colleagues. Our board never attempted to sabotage any anti-collusion legislation. Hell, we wrote it and put it in our code of conduct and made violating it punishable by law. We worked our asses off to create the best program in the country. One that works - and it does. The level of wink-and-nod type stuff has dropped dramatically and most agents no longer openly try to manipulate inspectors anymore. We've come a long way, Baby. You are right. They didn't; that's why our coalition lobby forced the legislator who was sponsoring the legislation to require every single inspector in the state take the NHIE or they had to get out of the business. Some did have to go back to school and then had to suffer the indignity of riding around with other inspectors less experienced than they were to do their 40 hours. Unless it's the legislature's take that forcing regulation on a profession should not cripple that profession or exert undue financial hardship on the state's citizens, which is the written policy in Olympia. That's why the requirement here is for 120 hours. Any school that is going to have a 480 hour curriculum has to be a voluntary course. It would never make money by trying to retro-educate a small number of old farts - it has to have a new student source. The source is out there - it's the US military and the thousands upon thousands of returning veterans that are going to be discharged now that the wars are drawing down. They will have bank accounts flush with GI bill savings and they will be accustomed to sitting through a long training course that's strictly controlled. Still, if nobody is interested in getting behind such an effort - perhaps because they don't want to see dozens and then hundreds and then thousands of young folks entering the profession with knowledge near equal to their own, and with a whole lot more energy - it's a tough row to hoe. You don't have to worry about that. It won't spread like wildfire. I do think it would be possible though to farm the military job fairs and come up with enough separating troops who are interested in bypassing the plethora of 7 to 14 days schools, in order to get a jump on the business aspect of the business, and who'd then be interested in interning in order to garner more knowledge before jumping off on their own, to keep a school open but the fees have to be substantially higher than what folks are charging for their rinky-dink shake-n-bake courses now. I think it would be possible for a good course to turn out about 60 super inspectors a year. Don't know that I agree with that. In the four years I served with our state board I personally reviewed, and approved, no less than half a dozen curriculum. Most looked pretty good on paper but in execution they are something else altogether. One course is so bad that I wish there was a legal way I could withdraw my approval of it. Hopefully the current board will figure out how to eventually do that. ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike

When I see the writer start mentioning mold I toss the whole thing. No article about home inspections should even discuss that topic. She's got zero credibility once she mentions it as far as I'm concerned. Being a member of one of the home inspection clubs doesn't always mean you know what you're doing either. When we passed the licensing laws here and forced every practicing inspector to take the NHIE or get out of the business there were a bunch of them, some of them in business for well over a decade, who'd been members of one or another of the clubs like ASHI or NAHI or NACHI for years, who were unable to pass that very basic test on their first try. That certainly wasn't much of a testimonial to the ability of any of the clubs to ensure competency. Marc, I've been pushing the idea of a real school for 18 years and, frankly, nobody already in the business, except you maybe, seems interested. Everyone thinks it will never make money and if it can't make money it can't keep the doors open. My latest vision is 480 hours - a super course that would create inspectors with the ;,knowledge equivalent to what they'd learn in about 2 to 3 years of working at the profession before turning them loose to intern with an established company for a year before they can formally "graduate." Nobody is interested in getting involved. ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike

Hmm, That's the same link I posted in #14. Guess it wasn't good enough. [^] ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike

Not that I've ever been able to tell; except CertainTeed's instructions aren't as thorough. Every once in a while I'll write up a new house for bunch of errors, while assuming it's the J.H. product and then I'll hear from the client how the site foreman says that the inspector is all dinked up 'cuz it was CertainTeed siding - not J.H. Since their basic instructions are the same, I amend the report to call it CertainTeed instead of HardiPlank and I fire it right back at the guy again. ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike

Here's an article by Douglas Hansen about them: http://www.codecheck.com/cc/ccimages/PD ... eOfAge.pdf

About fifteen years ago I was trying to clean up the mess I'd made coming out of an attic when the elderly lady of the house handed me one of these: A vintage Royal brand hand vac. I was skeptical because it was so old but it worked wonderfully. I stood up, thanked her and tried to hand it back to her. She said, "Don't worry about it, Sonny. I'm headed for a nursing home when I move out of here. I'm not going to need it. You keep it." That thing served me well for nearly ten years and then one day I forgot it and left it behind. The next day I drove back to the house and called an agent I knew in an office nearby to come open the place up so I could get my vac. It was gone. I was pretty bumbed. The danged thing was so perfect for the task! On the way home I stopped by a thrift store and was surprised to find half a dozen used Dirt Devil vacuums - the descendent of that old Royal hand vac. I picked one up for $4 took it home, disassembled it to get rid of all of the nasty crap that was all over it, reassembled it with one of the spare belts I'd had from the Royal, dumped all the crud out of the bag, washed the bag and dried it and was back in business. Since then, I've lost two more. Each time, I just go by a second hand store and there's always one or two around. The little rubber belts are something like $3 for two belts and they last six or seven years. I had to sew up holes in two different bags because I kept putting the bag back on in the same position. I finally started altering bag positions so that the bag didn't rub in the same spot all the time. Pick one or two used ones up. You can't go wrong. 120-volts, powerful vacuum. Really good beater brush. You don't need bags. Just dump out the bag and shake it hard to dislodge all of the dust. Wash the bag every once in a while. ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike

How old is the unit? They only have an expected service life of about twenty years. If it's already that old or older it's due.