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  1. Posted

    2 hours ago, Cheflife15 said:

    Long story short my fiance lent her brother her suv today and it was totalled. Any good tactics on getting a deal on a new suv? 

    We're currently trying to buy a home and plan a wedding. Thiis couldnt have happened at a worse time. Any tips are welcome. 

    I imagine she'll want another Honda suv or nissan suv.

    I'd look for a low mileage 18.   Those area usually 3 year lease turn-ins and CPO.   Honda, Toyota would be better than a Nissan.  Nissan's as a rule have really shitty gas mileage.

    As to no fault, about all that matters is in the deductible.  You may eventually get the other driver to pay for that, beyond there, it's all about whatever coverage is on your vehicle.  If there is medical related to the accident, your insurance will cover it, not the other guy.  If you are not at fault, any of the out of pocket expenses can be recovered from the at-fault driver.   If this was a snow-storm related accident, and not an obvious thing, chances of recovering it go down a lot.

    Always run a dash cam.   If you're at fault, eat the chip :)

     

     

     

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  2. Posted

    On 2/16/2021 at 12:37 PM, Malice4you said:

    Who could forget that amazing gift to all of us?

    Exactly JCPG, forever in our hearts.  

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    Here's the Text from August of 2012 in case anyone is curious as to the Origins of "Just throw it over the wall when you malf"

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    Posted Today, 08:14 PM

    Im saddened to report my most recent WWB failures. This ones a doozy. Actually it's a doozy X 3. Before i start i know there is no way anyone can approve of the way we've handled this, but it ended in good light no one got hurt and all firearms are now safe and back in working order.

     

    To start we purchased approximately 900 or so rounds of WWB from 1 day at Walmart Easton PA. We headed off to EFGA in Easton to start our pistol shoot.

     

    Pistol # 1 Smith & Wesson M&P 9mm fullsize. The last WWB was shot and another was cycled through the chamber. The shooter struck the primer and the round was still in the chamber. The slide seized. We could not rack the slide no matter what amount of force. We used the side of the range port to rack the slide using the sights. Nothing, not a budge. We used a small cleaning rod that was very solid as a dowel to remove the stuck round, but still nothing. Finally one of my very experienced friends came to the suggestion of throwing the pistol from the pistol range to the 22 range immediately adjacent to us.

     

    *****YES THAT'S RIGHT. THROW A PISTOL W/ A LIVE ROUND IN THE CHAMBER OVER TO THE NEXT 22 RANGE NEXT TO US.****

     

    I know, i know... I was thinking the same thing... CRAZY...I mean it's not my pistol, but still. Every second someone held that gun we felt it was going to blow up in our hands. The problem was the fact that the slide was closed shut. The rim of the round was wedged right on the thickest part of the extractor. The tension between the round pushing up on the extractor was too powerful for anyone to tap rack and cough no bang. We feared the worst. The round might still go off w/ the stuck casing leaving no recoil management and the gun would either point in the opposite direction or simply explode. Every action has a reaction and without a functioning slide that reaction was our greatest fear. Not to mention the striker was very much pushing up on the primer. So back to the throwing pistol deal.

     

    We first had a 2 man team scout the next range over. We signaled clear for one of us to lob the pistol over in a convenient bubble wrap bag over to the next range. This was in hopes that the impact would somehow loosen the tension between the extractor and the rim of the casing. There was a foot thick concrete barrier between our range and the next range over. If this thing were to go off we'd prefer it to be elsewhere. We repeated 2 or 3 times till succession.

     

     

    Woohoo! Day saved. Thanks to my genius friend w/ an amazing tact for solving life's greatest puzzles.

     

    WRONG...To make my friend happy because he felt his M&P had somehow malfunctioned and was not up to par i let him shoot my Brand new 1st day out Walther PPQ 9MM

     

    Pistol #2 Walther PPQ 9mm second edition..1st day of shooting it. Less than 50 rounds through the pipe. Same as M&P except i was crying cause it was mine and i managed to take down the slide for a closer evaluation. Genius Walther design BTW. The take down tabs allow us to remove the slide safely while the slide was seized. We proceeded to throw the slide w/ the live round at the next range. No luck. Decided to put the pistol back together to add extra heft and after 3 or 4 chucks that Gun is saved.

     

    Phew that was close. We should leave now right? LOL...WRONG!

     

     

    Pistol #3 Springfield XD not M, but 5 inch tactical length XD9. After nearly an hour of dealing w/ 2 pistols having similar issues we assumed it was secluded to only 1 of the boxes of WWB because both the M&P and PPQ were shot at the same port using the same box of WWB.

     

    The last shooter started laughing 3 ports over and said "I was such a douche that still kept shooting despite seeing this happen on 2 other pistols.". We knew what to do already. Time to chuck it. With the internal extractor the XD was actually the hardest to fix. We must've thrown that gun maybe 15 times to get that slide loose.

     

    I know what you are all thinking. WTF? 3 TIMES! Yes i know. I'm thinking that too. I'd honestly start a flame right now if someone else posted this, but seriously. This was a very serious situation. Each pistol had a live round w/ the striker still pressing on that primmer. At any given time we held this gun it was 1 stroke away from having a negligent discharge. We refused to drive knowing this isn't a safe transport. We asked multiple EFGA member for assistance, but none of them were qualified for this. I'm not justifying us throwing 3 guns around like this, but i just wanted everyone to be aware of the Winchester QA,QC. I know. Yes i agree. I too have shot thousands of WWB so have all of us, but if you are deciding to take a drive down to Easton PA and considering getting it from the same lot I'd advise you not to. Hopefully if this happens to you it wouldn't take you 3 pistols to realize it's time to call it quits. We ended the day shooting a 100 yard gong w/ my cousins DPMS recon. Love that rifle sweet heavy bull barrel and shoots accurately while hot. Oh the 5.56 was federal champion BTW =)

     

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  3. Posted

    11 hours ago, CAL. .30 M1 said:

    .....  sadly and with respect your talking out your rear......with statements like that....  lol  :)

     

     

    30yrs in Vernon and the stoves  IS the go to

     

    My woodstove and 5 plus cords..... will keep us alive....   

     

    During Sandy....  my stove...cooked...warmed...and overall..kept at least a few families cozy ..that had..no heat etc...

     

    We also had a gennie to pump water...etc.. but the stove  was constant

     

    I am in Fl now...  my kiddo is in vernon....  power was out 10hrs...  the STOVE kept her warm, made food and provided till power came back....

     

     

    If... she needed more..she could have spoooled up the generator....BUT the down and dirty stove was there...

    I'm not sure I'm reading his statement the same way.   "No need to justify" strikes me as "It's a given that the wood burner is justified and you don't have to justify it"

    Either way, since living here in Highland Lakes for the past 25 years, we've always had it.  In fact, before our 2012 addition it was our primary source of heat.   Light bulbs and an electric heater in the bedroom was the only other option.   6+ coords annually before, now about 3.

    Now we just use it to make the house hot and keep the propane bill down.

    Soon moving to FL though full time.  No more wood.

     

     

     

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    1 hour ago, SW9racer said:

    The storms in Florida happen in the summer when it’s 80.  I have a tri fuel inverter I run on grill propane tanks to power the fridge, computer, and a small room window ac unit. 

    I'll probably end up with one of those Honda EU2000 units to run the fridge.  Power is all buried there, outages, even during hurricanes, only happen when the regional shuts down to protect equipment.    Even during the mess of 2004 with those 3 canes that went right over central Florida, The Villages was only out of power a short time.

     

     

     

  5. Posted

    1 hour ago, Sniper said:

    Everyone needs to just look at what's going on in Texas, and plan ahead..

    Redundancy, Redundancy, Redundancy for water, power, cooking and heat needs to always be considered!

    A standby generator is all that.  I used to also have a 4k portable but gave it to my FIL.   At some point it's just extra.  Even if the standby failed, the fireplace insert can be run off a 12v battery and an inverter.  That was my first level before I had any generators.

    Of course, I'm moving to Florida where it's 32 in the morning on the coldest day of the year and 55 by noon.  Hardly life threatening.

  6. Posted

    Not surprised at all.  

    Heck, to do my part to alleviate the shortage, I parted with several thousands of rounds of center fire pistol ammo, several thousands of rounds of rimfire and a spam can of 7.62x54r.

    I should probably sell some more.   That said, I wish I had bought more when it was available.   I now only have maybe 10 years worth of ammo at normal usage.  I wish I had several lifetimes worth.

     

     

  7. Posted

    23 minutes ago, 45Doll said:

    Here's my contribution.

    DSL rides on a POTS line (Plain Old Telephone Service), and the available speed depends on (and is limited by) the distance between the customer site and the nearest POP. (Point-of Presence) The greater the distance, the slower the speed. Available speeds these days range from about 1MB to 30MB. So if you have a POTS line you'll have to check with your carrier for the available speed to your location. Notice that on a DSL connection it's a direct point-to-point, and your traffic is the only traffic.

    Internet over cable doesn't care what the distance is, and you pay for as much bandwidth as you want up to the limit your carrier offers you. However you are sharing all the wire between your house and the CATV headend. So speed is not usually guaranteed at all times.

    Proceed accordingly.

    The only thing I'll add to this is that they now have DSL modems that have multiple channels so they can double, triple, quadruple whatever your range limited speed is.   I was capped at 15mbits due to distance until they added a duplexing DSL modem.  It supports up to 4 channels, but I'm only paying for 2 and I get 30mbits now.   If I were closer, it'd be up to 60mbits for 2 channels or 120mbits for 4 channels.

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  9. Posted

    2 hours ago, Mr.Stu said:

    That provides some explanation for why the price is going up. I don't understand how it is described as low inflation when the price is reaching record levels. The price being similar to what it was before would be low inflation. This is the opposite.

    So a friend of my sister is tapped into a group of venture capital companies and she was discussing their current problem.

    She said that all together, there is around 3 trillion in "dry money" out there.  Some call it dry powder, but it's the same thing.  A vast reservoir of money waiting to be pumped into something.   Right now they are pumping it into capital markets and stocks like the FAANGs.  Of course this makes the problem even worse.

    All this extra money is FED liquidity and when more dollars chase the same thing...you get inflation, so we have inflation.

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    He did also mention something about loose cam timing but it's probably the throttle body.   Something in the valve train gets out of spec, but it's probably not that.  I don't recall exactly what it is.   I've never done much work on the variable cam timing engines, so I don't have a thorough grasp on how it all ties together.   Pretty much everything else should be throwing codes.

    If you wanted to bribe him with some primers(he's a gun guy too), he'd probably diagnose it for you :).

     

     

     

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    So I finally was able to talk to my buddy.

    He says it's 99% the throttle body.   Take it out and clean it.   Says it has water through it, so you have to flop it on one side then the other to clean.  Not sure what that means, I've never taken one out.

    There's also a "ring" that forms on those(or maybe it's a spacer ring???).  Again, not sure what he's talking about, but clean that. heh.

    Also commented that he's never liked the throttle response on those years. quote "The throttle response on the EJ253 is shit" heh.  This is a guy who also ran a 700HP Mustang for years, he knows what a proper throttle response should be :)

  12. Posted

    1 hour ago, 1LtCAP said:

    thanks for that! cleaned all the grounds, even though they were mostly off when i had the heads and intake off. didn't add any yet. couldn't get my friggin $5k scanner to tell me if it was in open or closed loop, but my 20 buck actron quick reader did show me to be in open loop.

     

     i used a propane tank with a looonnnngggg hose to the intake tube to fatten up the mixture...no change. yanked a vacuum hose to lean it out....no change.

    Ah, if it's in open loop, your MAF, O2s, all the rest are being ignored.    Bad 02s will keep it in open loop, specially if one is grounding out, shorting or missing as far as the ECM is concerned.

    Check all the connectors on the 02s underneath. You might have a crusty one.   Also, pop open the fuse box and lift the base of the fuse box up.   There's 6 clips that hold it in.  You might find a corroded wire under there.  It's a very common problem on these era Subarus.

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    Is it running open loop?  It'll run fine WOT in open loop and fall on it's face otherwise.  Is it running in an Econ mode?  Maybe it's stuck in that mode. 

     My neighbor is a Subaru Master technician, if I see him tomorrow, I'll run it past him.

  17. Posted

    10 minutes ago, Sniper said:

    I agree, that's the toughest part, knowing the timing when to pull the pin...  if we only had a crystal ball.

    But in the mean time, we should be riding this puppy for for all it's worth, and make some coin...

    My Vanguard Mega Cap growth ETF was up 2.58% on the day.   $5.20 a share up.   I wish I had 10k shares, but at $207.130 a share, I'm somewhat constrained :).  The S&P Value ETF was only up .38% which is a bit of a bummer, but it's a little less risky.

    Still, if I sold what I earned today, I could get at least 20 boxes of 9mm from Cheaper than Dirt ;).   That was just my Vanguard account of mad money.  My actual 401k though probably earned a ton but it won't calculate and update until tomorrow.  

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    ARs are great, no doubt. Now go back in time and buy 5k rounds. :)

    The only thing I would say is that at least with a .22LR you can get more trigger time in.  Yes, ammo is insanely priced right now, but at least you get more trigger pulls for your dollar.    As for home defense, any firearm is better than no firearm. 

    I know I don't want to take a .22LR round.  Not to mention, you get yourself a Ruger 10/22 you can accessorize it to your hearts content.

     

     

     

     

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  21. Posted

    1 minute ago, shiberm said:

    Before I start buying equipment and supplies I wanted to verify that all necessary components are widely available these days to someone in NJ. 

     

    You're not serious?

    The issue isn't NJ.  The issue is everywhere.   Yes, you can ship it to NJ.  No, it's not widely available, not now and likely not for a long time.

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  22. Posted

    42 minutes ago, Kevin125 said:

    The markets would do better if any states with lockdowns just ended them.

    Then maybe offer loans to fund re-entry into business for those who went out of business.

    Lefty mayors and governors are signaling that they plan to lift all the lockdowns.  

    It'll be the Biden miracle.

     

  24. Posted

    23 minutes ago, Potato said:

    Hi, I'm curious on this subject and have a few questions as well. I'm a recent new firearms owner as well and have been trying to keep up with the topics here which have been very informative. I've noticed the supply and demand is quite bad since I got into this the other month when I picked up my Sig P320 XF and have been trying to keep informed further since New Jersey has so many restrictions regarding firearms.

    I personally live in a residential building with a lobby rather than a house. Are there any regulations on taking receipt of the deliveries if ordering ammo online? Are there any markings on the package or any ID checks that would require being done on delivery? Or would a building receptionist be able to retain the delivery package for my pickup in such a case?

    I've ordered a lot of ammo online.

    It shows up in my door with an ORM-D or the new black and white diamond thing that means it's regulated.   Most of the retailers rebox it but any delivery guy is going to know what it is.     I see no reason why a building receptionist can't hold your package.

     

     

  25. Posted

    13 minutes ago, AlDente67 said:

    So my son has been offered a 2017 red Camaro as a gift.  The owner was a dear relative who died shortly after buying it, so it clocks in around 5,000 miles, mainly sitting in the garage as the Aunt has no use for it.

    Not sure of the specs yet, but I think he will be murdered on the insurance, even with good student discount, clean record, etc.   Not sure if this gift is a bad idea.  What would you do?

    It all goes toward maturity level.   I had a 12 second streetable car at 20, which was something in the 80s.

    It also goes to the car.  Is it a 6 popper with poverty caps or a ZL1?  It matters, a lot.   One will get you in trouble, the other will get you dead.

     

     

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