There are dozens of us who like this stuff, in the quiet down-low way. Big old mechanical stuff is awesome, but getting associated with foamers is sort of like leprosy.

Hate to burst your bubble, but I know several engineering/IT professionals who voted for the Cheeto That Walked Like a Man, couple of them were very active campaigning in Michigan for him.

The driveway gate at the mom and dad’s old house is narrow. Grandpa’s old van is big and doesn’t turn that sharp. Replacement doors are not cheap, and the phone call is going to be shamefully awkward.

My grandfather’s story:

Love your Wagoneer, the character is oozing off my screen.

Goes both ways. All that structural rust PATINA and booger welds EXPERT FABRICATION might give way from too many wayward toddlers.

I mountain bike and use a bell, using it at a distance is better etiquette IMO than hollering at walkers/runners as I come up behind them. It still doesn’t help with the earbuds-in walkers and runners, especially as you usually can’t pass safely let alone politely on a ~18"/.45m wide dirt trail if the other trail user…

This happened a few years ago near my parent’s place.

Not going to do much. HE shells aren’t going to do much in terms of fire, and might make the abattis more of a mess. If it did get set on fire, now your engineers need to extinguish it, wait to burn out (which could take even longer) or rely on bulldozers only to work on removing it. All of which still delays the…

There wouldn’t be much in the way of human remains left to find after a month or two, let alone three years.

Yes, but you have health insurance? Car insurance? Those are why. Driving a Tata Nano in the US would present an undue risk to the insurer let alone passengers and other pedestrians and road users, so you’re either going to pay through the nose to drive an unsafe car if they’ll even ensure it or you at all (that’s why…

We call it the Detroit Doughnut, and I’ll mention that it’s moving. As the city slowly comes back, some of the older suburbs (Wayne, Westland, Garden City, Redford, etc.) have been decaying, as older residents pass away and many others move to the exburbs (Brighton, Howell, etc.).

There’s always the sawzall & gas axe option.

He was informed about what the Venus probes really recorded and why we never went back, what actually happened to the USS Scorpion, and realized you can’t wall off space or the deep ocean.

Eh, we do some heavy fab and welding in our building so even dishes in the office cabinet start developing a fine gray coating overnight. Washed cup daily for me. Haven’t figured out how to wash lungs yet.

The answer somewhere involves lead, given that I’ve encountered it lurking in downtown Flint MI.

Same. My brothers and I have a couple old elaborate basswood kits we inherited from our late great uncle but I don't think any of us are building them anytime soon for that reason. Props (no pun intended) to the people with the experience and wallet girth to fly the big ones.

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While I only got my own place several weeks back due to financial considerations, I love driving, and broadly agree about the seeming arrested development of my generation. Yeah, the economy still sucks and money is tight, but at least can we stop the tired jokes about 'adulting'? Paying bills and cleaning up after…

That's what cold freshwater can do. There have been steel freighters that operated for nearly a century on the lakes whereas the same vessel on the coean might be lucky to see three decades tops.