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Scrapping has been a way of life in Detroit for decades. This comment made by Kevin smacked me between the eyes with the realization that *I* was once one as well. Summer of '69 I worked on a City of Detroit survey crew. We went all over the city doing many mundane jobs like checking the...

Back around 1970, I owned a Corvair with a hole melted through one of the pistons. It was infeasible to rebuild the engine because the car was a rusted pile of junk, but I needed transportation. I found a suitable replacement Corvair engine for sale. The engine had become unnecessary to the...

Yes, this happened to me today. Made my donation and now everything has returned to normal.

I used to mail-order coffee beans... ...from Graffeo in San Rafael CA. The light blend. Imagine my surprise upon trying "Dunkin Donuts" bean coffee. To me, it is identical. Easier to get and probably cheaper than Graffeo.

I bought one of these for a friend sometime back He reported that it worked very well. Hope links to Amazon are OK. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HM93MHU?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_search_detailpage

Cars.com I had good luck with Cars.com a few months ago when I was looking for a Ford C-Max. Don't confuse it with Carmax.com however.

Electric water heater replacement is easy What makes it seem hard is that you need to deal with power wires individually rather than plugging something in like the dryer. I have replaced mine twice in the 37-odd years I have owned my house. Water has lots of calcium and I'm not always on top of...

+1 I bought the case of six (?), gave one away, and am still using the first one I opened.

The Range Extender has some very strict rules governing when it may run, in order to classify the car in some particular way in California. I learned this from a YouTube video by "Alex On Autos". I can't look it up right now as I am at work and YouTube is not to be used on the company computers.

Something else about the lifetime warranty I've witnessed this particular drama several times. Guy comes in with broken/bent/destroyed Craftsman vintage tool. Salesperson says, "sorry, those are no longer available." SOL

I got the same "confirmation" message today. Being a trusting soul, I did what it asked. Takes you to a web page which asks for the E-mail and password as others have stated. Submitted that, which resulted in another copy of the same E-mail confirmation message. Performed the cycle again, got...

"I think Ford hybrids are similar." I have a 2013 Ford C-Max hybrid, recently acquired. Driving home from the dealership, the first two times I pulled away from stoplights I kept waiting for it to shift. By the third light, I stopped noticing. Just the way it works. It is correct that both the...

Ten (!) years ago when I was shopping for new laundry machines, I discovered "Laundry Forum" and this site. The most enduring benefit from that other place is the stimulus to obtain Firefox browser and its ad-blocking addons. Once I selected my new machines, I had little interest in reading for...

Congrats! I have one, but it took me several days to work out the coffee dose. Once that happened I liked it a lot. (still do)

Moccamaster The model Moccamaster used as illustration in the PDF offered above is the same one that I purchased, KB-741 AO. I found them available online from a half-dozen sources in the USA, same prices everyplace. I ordered mine from Williams-Sonoma because of an exclusive color choice they...

Followup stupid question "My late husbear used to schkeeve at shroom stems." No idea what "schkeeve" is. Does it indicate approval or disapproval?

In the last couple of days, FireFox has begun showing things like this where Flash animations are involved.

I grew up in a Polish neighborhood in Detroit Everyone, and I mean everyone, knew how to pick wild mushrooms. Except my mother. My grandmother knew all that stuff, but my mother never got the knowledge transfer. By the time I was old enough to realize I might want to learn, my grandmother was...

In the mid-60s, my parents bought a Sunray gas range to replace our old Tappan. The Sunray had two ovens, one in the conventional location below the cooktop; and a second, smaller oven suspended above the cooktop a couple of feet. It was painted a dark brown, which I liked a lot. They kept it...

When I was a small child, a great aunt was fatally burned by a gas range flare-up or explosion. (I was little, and anyone who could clarify the issue has long since passed away.) However we had a gas stove at home and I had to overcome the fear and learn to cook there. I realized that the risk...