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@launderess: You said: "The real sad thing is in the USA, UK and EU many of the best older breeds of hog/pigs have gone extinct. So much breeding has gone on to produce a pig that meets supermarket quality, that porkers our grandparents, great grandparents and so forth knew are long gone. How...

@launderess: One thing I find confusing, among many, with today's green movement is the predominance of artificial bristle brushes. Depending on the use, horsehair and boar's hair brushes used to be the best materials available for applying paint. I think artists even used Sable brushes for...

@arilab: McDonalds didn't use lard in their fries. They used beef tallow - but they didn't actually fry their taters in beef tallow, the were sprayed with it in the processing plant.

@launderess: You said, "Because so much pork production is done on modern factory farms and slaughter houses and demand was weak, hardly anyone bothers to save the real stuff anymore for rendering." The rendering business is doing quite well. Modern pork has much less fat than, say, 40 years...

Bleaching of wheat flour is not accomplished by chlorination, but by bromination. Bromination is used to make flour nice and white, not to change the texture. Marilyn Monroe may well have lightened her hair with Clorox, but people like ADM, Pillsbury, General Mills, Cargill, Bunge, ConAgra, et...

That thing is really cool! When you say two-phase motor do you mean 240V? Any chance you could share a schematic of this? Usually, there is a starting capacitor for single phase motors (and 120V and 240V motors are considered single phase motors), but three-phase motors usually have a...

I'm not sure which is potentially more hazardous, a 60 year old Radarange, or a fluoroscopy machine from a Buster Brown shoe store... http://nottotallyrad.blogspot.com/2008/02/using-x-rays-to-sell-shoes.html

eBay has wised up. Yeah, auctions are fun and exciting with the potential of getting something good for cheap, but they lead to unrealistic expections and disputes that cost more to resolve than what you're collecting in listing fees. And when you also own PayPal, you want to cut down on the...

I'll take Win7 for it's cootie blocking ability over XP Service Pack xx any day. I'm not sure why desktop icons snap back to certain locations other than MS doesn't really want you working from your desktop - I think in their mind that's what the big windows icon at the lower left is for -...

@norgeway: I have also found that a workable but tender pie crust is an elusive thing. For so few ingredients there seem to be an insurmountable number of variables...yet all my aunts and grandmas could make do with whatever they had - go figure. And lots of times I use those ready-crust...

LG is the new name for Lucky Goldstar. That was the really junky TV and consumer electronics stuff at K-Mart. Maybe they will start taking quality "seriously" like Hyundai supposedly has done with their cars.

I don't have any dryer diagnostic advice, but: You should never use copper tubing or piping to distribute fuel gas.

@combo52: I have heard people blame bearing failures (suds crawling through seals and dissolving lubricants) and spider failures (corrosion) from using too much detergent. What is your thought on this?

Molds need a combination of favorable temperature, moisture and a food source to grow. Some molds are considered good - like the ones that give some cheeses their distinctive flavors. Or Japanese sake that uses a certain form of aspergillus mold. But other kinds of aspergillus are toxic. I...

I've never worked on the subject washer, but: Are you sure they gave you the correct part number(s)? Are the motor pulley and the drum pulley in the same plane? Belts tend not to try to want to escape pulleys at hand-rotating speeds unless things are out of alignment. Do you have enough...

Yep, those WP disassembly steps hide in plain sight... Next time it will go much faster!

I've been wrong before, and apparently this is another example. Just seems strange to me. FYI, to remove the cabinet, you take the two exposed screws out of the front of the control panel, tilt it back and that exposes a pair of spring clips. Pop those clips out with a screwdriver and then...

Sorry, you lost me. Are motel towels dingy because the motel owner was too cheap to buy good ones, or because of what the guests do to them? My guess is the latter, but feel free to disagree. We're not talking about the swanky "W" hotels, just your basic Travelodge type of place. Yeah, the...