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Paul, I don't think you have anything to worry about riding in an airplane really, yes, they do put some unnatural g-forces on the body, but they are quite safe when one considers the risk of driving! Airline pilots are highly trained with hundreds of hours...automobile drivers get basically...

I would love to find some early GE zone-line thru-wall or window units with the spine-fin coils on them, especially of the heat-pump variety. I also wouldn't mind finding a GM-Frigidaire air conditioner either! The GE's used to be all over the place and were really popular not only in homes but...

not quite sure why a floor furnace would catch a house on fire if it is not turned up enough, that doesn't make any sense. If the unit is discharging 350degree heat though , then something is really wrong with it! Yes, that kind of heat output would catch a home on fire! I imagine they probably...

...sounds like greedy stockholders have the company by the balls.... You would think here in Richmond, where Circuit City is based that they would have their flagship stores....not so :( Right in front their corporate complex, at Gaskins and Broad Street, they recently renovated their store...

Take a look at Retro-Man's post about buying AC for his 17th century home. I find it quite interesting that all the "innovative" ideas we have about green and energy conservation are actually old ideas re-hashed or tweaked up a bit for modern times. People lived for thousands of years without...

I bought some home theater stuff off of E-bay. I have that nice stack of Crown and QSC amps that I bought from Tower records when they went out of business last year, so I coupled them to a Lexicon DC-2 preamp/surround sound DSP I recently purchased off of Ebay. The Crestron screen you see on...

What isn't mentioned however is how much energy is consumed converting the water to HHO. They reason why hydrogen powered automobiles have not caught on is because hydrogen is only a transport medium for energy, not an energy source. The process of using electricity to convert water to hydrogen...

That's great suds LOL!!! I am getting very tired of "Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas" because it seems like it's the favorite song by most of the mainstream radio stations to play incessantly. There are a few thousand different versions of this song that was sung, and the stations around...

There are two adjustments in an 8 track's tape head. There is the azimuth, or tilt angle of the head, and the height. The two will sometimes affect each other as you make adjustments. An out of adjustment azimuth will make the deck loose high frequency response. The adjustment is beside the head...

In many locations, those style tail lights are not legal. There are two reasons: First, there is not enough illuminated surface area...American tail lights must have a certain amount of square inches illuminated. I believe trucks are rated to have less than cars. The other issue is that they...

I'm with Tolivac here...He could have used those amps in the new home theater setup. Each amp is a 2 channel amp...that's 2 matched channels for LF, RF, LR, and RR. He would have just needeed two more amps for the center and the sub channels, and since Mac amps haven't changed considerably in...

Powerplants these days are actually in the 50% to 60% range actually. This is what makes an electric automobile actually more efficient than a fossil-fuel automobile (even despite transmission losses), which is in the 25% to 30% range. Heat is the primary energy released when burning a fossil...

McIntosh amps are very nice and superbly built, but I think they are a bit over priced for what they are. I do like the old McIntosh tube amps though, their simplicity really makes them sound good. I'm more of a Crown Audio person myself when it comes to solid state electronics though. Crown's...

I didn't know Sunbeam was out of business. I've been seeing mix-masters in Sears and other stores this Christmas. I thought Sunbeam got acquired by the big Hamilton-Beach-Proctor-Silex congolomerate. I couldn't tell where the Mixmaster were made, but H-B-P-S has been typically making their stuff...

typical big-box store mentality! I am glad to see another big-box store bite the dust really! I've heard so many stories like Selectomatic's and whirlcool's it's a wonder these places stay in business as long as they have! Looks like the buying public is starting to get the message that you get...

Here's a site that shows all sorts of emergency vehicle sirens. the one I have is the Federal Signal model 78. The one my neighbor installed on his truck is like the Elektror FLS1a. Lots of neat stuff on this page. I remember hanging out at the rescue squad my parents were at and seeing all...

I have an old Federal signals siren. It probably dates back to the early fifties or so, and runs off of 12 volts at 25 amperes (lots of power for that time!) It has that classic fifties fire engine sound to it! It's somewhere in my garage, if I find it, I'll take pictures of it. My neighbor who...

Telstar is a neat song. Simple song to learn to play too, and sounds great on my old Hammond! The sound effects in the song sound more like a mix between a truck stop, and an offset printing press to me! I guess the fact that I didn't grow up in the space age that I didn't recognize the more...

My gripe sort of runs in the opposite face of all this. While I think cleanliness is extremely important, throwing gallons of toxic chemicals at the problem is not necessarily the way to go either. God equipped our bodies with an amazing feature called an autoimmune system that fights invading...

The Martin Agency right here in Richmond has the contract for Geico. They are responsible for the cavemen, the Gecko, and of course, Chatty Kathy :) Those guys are great down there, and are responsible for lots of other pretty amusing TV ad's that are broadcasted out there Does the 30th...