Happy Valentines Day!

[lioness]

Originally posted by hal9000:
Now this hijacking has really got me pissed off!

hold up there buddy...
aren't you the one with your own 3+ threads at the moment???
tsk...tsk... can we never make you happy?

speaking if hold up, that reminds me of a really nasty joke... off to the jokes thread... :evil grin:

[Selma in Sandy Eggo]

Originally posted by hal9000:
Okay! Now this hijacking has really got me pissed off!

You know what they say - "Better off, than on."

[bignaf]

hehe, didn't hear that one.

[Serenity]

Who's to say the 'coons didn't find a home with red meat leftovers in the trash bin and then came over to urinate in your yard at the end of the night, on their way home ......

[piqaboo]

OT,
I think we needs us a beer-fest and barbecue. Lets see if that deters the coons, possums, or <eek> rats. It ought to amuse the elders-with-optics in the highrise!

[Selma in Sandy Eggo]

Possums are too stupid to impress. Coons are omnivores, not impressed by "marking", and sneaky to boot. Nothing deters rats, that I've ever found. Well, maybe a pair of rat terriers?

[OperaTenor]

Oh, I don't know. I think the beer-fest and barbeque experiment begs to be tried. For the sake of experimentation(and the side effect of the good time to be had by all involved), to heck with results!



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[Serenity]

How about projecting a holographic image for the amusement of "elders with optics"?

[Serenity]

Sticky fly paper might make a 'coon think about it twice.

[BigJon]

Timely threadjack! For the first time since we moved here in '96 we've seen a skunk on our property.

BigJon

[lioness]

that's very surprising for PA. do you live in a larger city?

[barfle]

We get a fair amount of wildlife in our backyard, as you might guess if you've seen the pictures.

All year, we get deer, so we're fairly careful of what we plant. So far, when I've been outside and they are nearby, they keep their distance. I've startled a few (mutually - I had no idea they were there when I opened the door) and they've run off.

We get red and gray foxes, raccoons, chipmunks, and squirrels up the yazoo. We had a squirrel in our attic, which we convinced to leave by putting a package of fox urine up there, then once the squirrel was gone, I stapled hardware cloth over the vents. Why the manufacturer of the vents thought a piece of plastic screen held in the vent with TWO staples would prevent anything from getting in the attic, I'll never know. Must have gone to a different school than I did.

We get tons of different kinds of birds. Cardinals, chicadees, at least three kinds of woodpeckers, a couple of different wrens, blue jays, robins, grackles, starlings, juncos, a hawk I couldn't identify, and one day I saw a bald eagle hanging in the sky.

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[lioness]

Originally posted by barfle:
Must have gone to a different school than I did.

now THAT was funny!!!
btw, it's the same school where Chevy oil sending units are manufactured out of plastic. makes no sense to me! :confused:


i really miss the birds of the east coast. the bluejay call i miss most of all. i have not seen one in CO, ever. chickadee's & titmice were always my favorites too.

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[OperaTenor]

[quote]Originally posted by lioness:
[b]
btw, it's the same school where Chevy oil sending units are manufactured out of plastic. makes no sense to me!

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[barfle]

And the plastic fuel injection unit in my GMC. Brittle plastic, $350 if I install it. Ouch!

[OperaTenor]

I can't imagine that making those types of parts out of aluminum would be that much more expensive. Plastic should never be used for parts that experience the broad thermal transients that occur around a car engine. Thermal transients cause it to embrittle rapidly and fail. We have a '94 Honda Accord with ~140,000 mi. ~2 months ago, the upper radiator end cap developed a crack ~6" long, in the vicinity of the fill spout. I researched it and found out it's a relatively common occurrence. The core, which is certainly a far more expensive bit to fabricate than the end caps, is made from aluminum. It would seem to me to only be pennies more to make the end caps out of it. too.

[lioness]

Originally posted by OperaTenor:
Plastic should never be used for parts that experience the broad thermal transients that occur around a car engine.

AMEN brother!!

half my radiator IS plastic, not just the end caps . i've had to repair it a few times due to cracks.

i think commerce makes up some of this reasoning also. if parts were made from aluminum, they'd last and wouldn't need replacement so often.
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imo, aluminum, when perfectly sanded, looks just as good, if not better, than chrome also!!

[treebeau]

There may indeed be a BIG difference, though. Plastic parts can be made quickly and cheaply with an injection molding machine. Scrap produced can usually be fed back into the process.

Aluminum would have to be milled, which would also cause scrap. The scrap would have to be shipped off for recycling. I understand that recyclimg aluminum is a costly process.

Regards,
Tim "second hand knowledge" B.

[OperaTenor]

I don't think it would need to be milled. In the case of my radiator, there are aftermarket all-aluminum radiators available. The end caps are stamped out of sheet aluminum, and they're mated to the cores the same way the plastic end caps are.

In the case of a fuel injection manifold, that would probably have to be milled partially, but the body of it could certainly be cast.

You're right about aluminum recycling, however. Not cheap.

[BigJon]

Originally posted by lioness:
that's very surprising for PA. do you live in a larger city?

Nope. Out in the country. Lots of other critters have been spotted here, even a bobcat that attacked my dog. (a relative, lioness?) but no skunks. I'm planning on getting a varmit gun Any Day Now.

BigJon