Yeah, if someone told me that I was just like Niki Lauda I would smile for a week and thank that person.

ArmaKleen rings a bell, that’s got to be it. I wear gloves, but I’m a sissy, not some super macho machinist. I did tell them to wear gloves, but rules are rules, don’t wear gloves near machinery and all, never mind that a thin, nitrile glove won’t hold up if it gets snagged.

I don’t even remember. The machinists liked whatever was recommended so we’ve stuck with it. The fact that it didn’t stink and didn’t hurt when it got on your skin was such a fantastic feature that they didn’t care that it did require them to put a little more effort in by using the attached brush that squirts the…

Probably, but it volatilizes fast enough that you’ll just absorb it through your lungs.

I was having trouble getting a pic of both into one post... but thank you!

Mystery Men. Highly goofy, incredibly stupid, but still fun as hell. Ben Stiller as Mr. Furious, Janeane Garofalo as The Bowler, Paul Reubens as Spleen (super farting abilities)... if you haven’t seen this, find some time and take in the glorious Herkimer Battle Jitney and silliness of this movie.

I have a few, and there’s some great ones already posted... but one of the cars I remember seeing and one I’ve always wanted was an old Lincoln Continental like the one in Animal House. Black on black, suicide doors, loads of room.

I’ll say maybe that takes a back seat to the Herkimer Battle Jitney...

I started looking for a bike and thought... why not Goose’s bike? Apparently these are collectable so nope... but man that bike in particular, and Bubba Zanetti’s bike were nice.

Fuckin’ Rodriguez brothers...

Simple Green is a go to for most work. Purple Power, Krud Kutter, Oil Eater, there’s a bunch of them. They’ll typically use a caustic (basic, not acidic) chemical like sodium or potassium hydroxide or some kind of silicate.  You won’t want to use anything concentrated, but definitely wear gloves and eye protection…

We’re using Oil Eater for something at work, seems like a pretty decent product so far.  There are plenty of them out there too.  I’ve used Purple Power and a couple of others.  We have a parts washer that uses aqueous solutions, though they need to be heated to keep from foaming.  That would probably work great in a…

Or just use the aqueous parts washers.  If it’s a commercial location, contact your local Safety-Kleen rep. I pushed our machine shop to switch to aqueous parts washer.  They told me it wouldn’t work, but they’d try it.  Took all of about 3 days before they came to me and told me to get the old unit and solvent out of…

Check out the Safety-Kleen version. It uses a heated caustic (basic) chemical that is only harmful if you drink it or get it in your eyes. Like those spray degreasers (think Purple Power or KaBoom). For light use the solution can be replaced yearly, for heavier use they’ll come every 3 months. Cheaper than using…

I got our machine shop to switch from using a standard parts washer with perchloroethylene to a rental unit from Safety Kleen that uses a heated, caustic based solution. The guys were very skeptical of it until after the first week of use when they realised it did a better job and (surprise surprise) didn’t smell like…

Almost into old man age now and I’m definitely not yelling at clouds because of the new tech. Some aspects of it, yes. I don’t want bass or treble control buried in a sub menu, I want an easy to find knob or a button/menu on the steering wheel so I don’t have to take my eyes off the road. So I guess I’ll yell about…

Since I’m really looking forward to the ID-BUZZ, which should share pretty much everything important with this thing while looking way cooler... what’s real world range like when driving like a ‘normie’ versus driving it like a person having a bit of fun?

Don’t get your hopes too high... DT bankrupted 3 casinos... let that sink in and then imagine him getting suicide right. Tain’t in the cards, he’ll fuck that up too.

Ahhh... the ‘four year plan’... but I never imagined it to be of the ‘old man’ variety... no kink shaming I guess...

This one’s easy, anyone who has to drive one of those mobile ‘gentleman’s club’ things. I’ve seen them in Vegas and some other places... that’s got to be a hard gig.