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kurt

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  1. I'm always impressed by a grasp of the fundamentals.
  2. That's pretty good.
  3. Tomorrows headline..... "British Columbia Home Inspector Disappears In a Flash of Light....No One Knows Why"
  4. Don't be pissed. The approximate percentage of the world population that even begins to understand what any of this is about is .00000086%. No one cares. We shouldn't. Nick is important to no one, essentially. Take heart in the Holidays and coming New Year and the fact you're in Louisiana where the temperature is at least bearable.
  5. The subject title on this made me laugh. [:-bonc01] Nick takes control of a non-entity....dissolved, not there, everyone went somewhere else....and we got a schmoe bragging about it. Is this a schmoedown? What would we do for comic relief if it wasn't for the schmoes? God Bless Nick and his schmoe.
  6. Particle or a wave. I thought it was supposed to be both.
  7. That's fine. I never liked light tubes anyway. God created electricity for us to evolve to LED lighting. It says so in the Bible.
  8. I want to see this conundrum expressed in a mathematical equation.
  9. It'd be easier, cheaper, and more light to put up a track with LED heads.
  10. That's true. Thank you, HGTV.
  11. True enough. Interestingly, I hardly ever see stuff this stupid. Chicago is big on hydronic heating; most people get it. It's not common to see stuff that idiotic around here.
  12. I was confused too. It's a bunch of different parts that someone cobbled into a down flow furnace with the AC coil on top. I was so goofy, I didn't know what I was looking at, and it's now clear that confusion was an appropriate response. They're going to put in a new furnace. Problem solved.
  13. That's pretty funny. Unclear on the concept...... One doesn't remove 300 lbs. of cast iron thermal mass and 50x the radiant surface area and replace it with 2 lbs. of fin tube.
  14. B&H is great, but I've gotten better deals at Amazon. What's wrong with Amazon?
  15. Would a misting humidifier cause a smoke alarm to activate? Seems like it would, right?
  16. kurt

    Ladder lube

    I'm disappointed in this crew. With a topic title like that, we should be able to come up with some really disgusting jokes.
  17. kurt

    Ladder lube

    Astroglide works pretty good.....
  18. The blower is "on top"; the doors are set up wrong. Air flow is absolutely downward. I checked it several times because I couldn't believe it. I see plenty of counterflow furnaces; this is an upflow furnace they converted to counterflow. I don't know why. Combustion on the bottom, blower in the middle, AC plenum on top of it all. It's the return air that gets conditioned. As far as pushing heat and cold air, it does that. It's just setup ass backwards. They took a standard furnace and converted it to counterflow. It's wrong, it works, I'm not even sure how to describe it intelligently.
  19. Standard furnace, combustion on bottom, heat exchanger up next, AC coil plenum, etc. But they set it up so it's counterflow....air flow is top to bottom, so in effect, it's the return air being conditioned. Also, the cabinet doors are backwards. I reinstalled then with the vented portion at the bottom to supply the combustion. I've never seen, heard, or imagined anyone ever doing this. Besides from the complete stupidity, what else can go wrong? It's so wrong I'm not even sure what that means or how to describe it..... Anyone ever seen this? Click to Enlarge 48.11 KB
  20. Here....this is the view from the top. Nasty. Click to Enlarge 67.8 KB
  21. Yes, they are.
  22. It's not technically a caisson; it's just a manhole about 6' deep. The building sewer runs through it. When there's back up, the primary check valve closes to prevent shit from backing into the house. If someone flushes, it goes into an overflow sump in the "caisson" with a pump to pressure inject it into the City side of the primary check valve. The rest of it is like you describe. I got a picture somewhere.....
  23. Botanically, it's a berry.
  24. I laughed when I saw the video because it looks exactly how I go at it. Mount at the hip, hands and feet going up, crab walk going down. I used to scamper around on them and now I get butterflies.....
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