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mikechell

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About mikechell

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  • Birthday 07/29/1959

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    Deltona, Florida

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  1. Guess I'm the odd man out here. An old man who loves the science fiction-y stuff on new cars. Getting close to the complete self driving cars I read about in sci-fi novels of my youth. I'd love to get an extra hour's sleep on my daily 4:00am drive to work. I drove a few of the lane following vehicles during my travels and they're great. Not so good if you're heavy on the accelerator pedal ... but fantastic if you're in no hurry, which I rarely am. A little irritating when you get behind something REALLY slow because it'll follow at the required distance, but otherwise, almost self driving on long highways. I like the fobs, too. Wife's car is proximity fob, and set to shut the car off if the fob is more than 30 feet from the car. She, literally, cannot be carjacked. If she gets out and someone else drives off, they'll get 30 feet, and the car will shut off. I'm ready for it. Give me a car I can sleep in while it takes me to work, or to a distant fishing hole. Give me an implanted interface, so I can access the internet without typing on this keyboard. Hell, give me a cyborg body that will let me live forever and see all the other fantastic things the future may still bring.
  2. Funny Gene! I got the same offer. I refused, even though it brought tears to my eyes. Fortunately, Bounty, the quicker picker upper dried those tears before they could run down my face!
  3. There are too many people in the world. No matter how much people donate to such causes, there will always be the poor, hungry and "down-trodden". We don't even try. We take stuff to a local Humane Society thrift shop so they might make a few dollars off that. Our will leaves our house and belongings to another animal rescue service. Much better to help the animals people abandon than to help those actual people.
  4. Just looked at your facebook page. Your work is fantastic!
  5. I quit several years back. (I don't remember when, 13? 14 years?) I have never felt any improvement in my health due to quitting. But then, I didn't quit for health. I quit when a pack went over $4.00. Just couldn't justify the cost of a carton of cigarettes when they provided little comfort or relief from stress. Found out quickly that the few minutes alone I would've spent smoking ... well ... it was actually the time alone that was the big benefit.
  6. Superbowl? Some kind of chili cooking final? Oh, it's a sporting event, right? I haven't watched a "pro" sporting event since the baseball strike in the 90's.
  7. Sweet! You need to make a second hood with the hole cut for the blower.
  8. I've been on several bungee slingshots (the "professional" ones where I'm strapped in a chair/cage). Kissimmee Oldtown Near Disney has a 300 foot swing. I've been on that four times. Honestly, what they're doing looks like fun!
  9. I've looked, and so far, very little of what I've found is for this engine. Mostly, I'm finding stuff for the models that have the fuel tank behind and the handle on the opposite side. Mine has the fuel tank in the front with the handle mounted to it. First time I saw that one, it was going for $15,000.00, so he's dropped the price.
  10. Check the water temps with a fly rod. If you catch sunfish species, it doesn't stay cold enough for trout. If you catch trout, it stays cold enough. Easy Peasy!
  11. So, I was given an outboard engine. Which turns out to be a circa 1930/1935 Evinrude Elto. Very few pictures of this particular engine exist online, at least in my searches. I started with the easy parts, the lower end. Water pump. and gear case. Found out why the engine wouldn't turn over. The cylinder is rusted, bad. The piston couldn't be moved, so I had to chisel it out in pieces. The fuel tank with built in carburetor and reed valve assembly came apart relatively easily. But, I haven't been able to get the main jet fuel tube out. I'm going to see if I can rigid hone the cylinder and get a piston that will fit. If I can, I might be able to make a runner out of it. Otherwise, I'll just polish it up as a piece of antique art.
  12. I'm wishing you all a survivable New Year. Hopefully, the United States of America will still exist come 2025. I'm truly not sure it will.
  13. Feels like it's freezing here. Down in the 50s in the morning. Only getting up into the 70s during the day.
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