That’s your rebuttal? You’re trash.

Wow, what you wrote is just incredibly ignorant. You don’t need the sun shining 100% of the time, or the wind blowing 100% of the time. Those two technologies compliment each other by producing power at different times of the day.

Congratulations on your bigoted comment. You must be proud of your humor.

I raise you two more doors!

Damn! That’s some divine intervention!

Oh, this brings up memories. At the end of a 4000 mile motorcycle trip around the central US in 1998 I got caught in a 60+MPH wind burst with a rain/hail downpour between Indianapolis and Champaign -Urbana. I was at full lean the tires could handle in the wet and was sliding sidways across the highway due to the side…

Solar guy here. These claims are definitely bogus if for no other reason than on a heavily overcast day they might not get more than a few miles of charging... if that. If you average out over a number of days, then I can start to believe their claims. However, there will be individual days with next to no power being…

I recognize that skid pattern. Not quite as dreamy of a scene though.

It’s primarily a stiffness problem. If the stiffness was higher, than the natural frequency would be higher, and it would be harder to excite the oscillations. A way to cheat on that is to create more hard “nodes” in the system to force shorter wavelengths. Shorter wavelengths need more energy to get excited, which…

As in a single load? I think I’d leave multiple loads as I ran like hell to get off that bridge!

Makes me wonder if having more weight on the bridge could have helped dampen the oscillations. The mass of each car would have forced a minor node in the wavelength of the harmonic. With enough nodes the harmonic might have been disrupted.

“Sad fact”. That’s a sad fact.

When moving a car that isn’t running, grab the wheel/tire to move it. You can transfer far more force if you are lifting up on part of the wheel than if you are trying to push the car. On my old Willys CJ5 with big tire lugs I could spin the rear tires by lifting on them hard. On my Porsche 928, I grab part of the…

Luckily for me, the previous owner did.

Yes, I would, and i’m not particularly bothered which brand it is since I only buy specific cars that are well-regarded for reliability. However, regardless of which brand it is, they WILL have problems. Clock springs for airbags wear out and break, suspension components wear out (ball joints, bushings, shocks...),…

Excellent article, and well worth the read. However, I think it’s time you invest in some fabrication equipment so that you can make your own pretty new metal parts instead of resurrecting rusted units. A couple hammers, a block of heavy metal, a nice vice, blowtorch, and a sheetmetal brake, and you’re in business!…

Pulling the dash on these cars isn’t bad. The earlier interior takes about 30 minutes to yank the dash (if you’ve done it before). This later interior is a little more complex, but by no means a difficult project.

This is a solid NP! It looks like the disassembly was neat and organized, and removing these engines is the perfect way to reseal them and replace the consumables like the cam chain tensioners, TB, engine mounts, etc. The engines are very easy to work on too and spares are readily available from many sources both new…

Yeah, that surprised me too. I wonder if the Irwins are weaker than the others tested, or if that was just a fluke. Using a large wrench makes it hard to control for eccentric loading, but I don’t know if that was the issue.

Oh man, that’s a bummer! I’ve restored a bunch of Honda CBs, and they often have stripped threads in the blocks. It’s amazing how little torque is really necessary, but most people have trouble believing it.