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Worse Disposable society = disposable planet Any one know a near by one we can move to ?

It actually dosn't you know. A lot of native tribes live quite happily with each other In fact the Australian black fellas have been doing this for somewhere around 75,000 years . During which time they managed to work out a very complex set of laws observed by all of the Known 205 nations (...

You are welcome to your beliefs as is every other person on the planet on the proviso that you do not attempt to farce any one else to take up your beliefs against their will . Unfortunately commercial interests always win and commercial interests are always short term because when everything is...

It will be an MTD of some sort Victa never ever made a ride on mower Red ones are MTD Green ones are Murray or Noma Grey ones are Noma Blue ones are from the China plant that makes the new Murray's

There is one little catch to that Jimmy The planet has finite amounts of every mineral So with every "throw away" anything there should be an environmental tax to cover the cost of recovery of the non renewable resources and the disposal costs . I generate 1 cubic meter of landfill / year and...

Between little government & big government here is a happy medium When I was in short pants over 70% of the Australian population worked for the government , 5% worked in agriculture 5% worked in retail 10 % worked in the services industry and the remainder in manufacturing ( excluding the...

Actually there is at least 1 trustworthy source of news and it is called Ground News .https://ground.news They have no reporters as such, just fact checkers on stories taken from all of the major world news sources ( including Fox ) Their free service is fairly neutral bias but the paid for is...

I think you are a bit off course there PT Wages go up because of inflation Inflation is an artificial device to ensure the value of the assets of the wealthy do not diminish over time The other thing it does is reduces government debt over time . Wall St has bought the government so business...

Rape Defamation x 2 Witness intimidation Election fraud ( convicted but is appealing at the moment ) Fraud in NY convicted on all 4 counts but appealing the penalty at the moment Tax evasion convicted but again appealing the ruling of the 3 supreme court judges so seeking another full bench...

You are way over your head You can buy quality mowers that will run forever with just regular servicing and the companies stock parts for 40 year old mowers. They are called Walkers, Grasshoppers & John Deers ( excluding the 100 series ) But people just will not pay a fair price for a quality...

I said it was the cheap & nasty test. I do it with every mower that I service because I have a tilting trailer which tilts to about 30ish degrees So I test them as I unload them then make notes in the service record . As for my yard, I do have a honda I scored for free that will need an tranny...

Yep. Back when i wore short pants, the rich people painted the bottom of their paining fences with creasote ( coal tar oil to some ) . Us mear mortals painted the fence with used auto oil Both practices are banned now days by environmentalist who failed science at high school So some gets used...

I worked with professional photographers back when digital photography was in its infancy and we had 8 bit images, then 16 then 32 then 64 With every new camera that came out the pros, who had no understanding of digital at all would rush out & get the latest & greatest gear .I would cart around...

You have been spending way too much time on social media Name one single place in a mower engine where the scuffing force is so high it needs that added protection of zinc. Now if you are talking about a 2000hp monster truck engine with high lift cams and double valve springs that is a different...

The only upgrade to the LA wheels that I have found to work is the use of the full length Toro caster wheel rollers . everything else has failed myserably .

There are 3 kinds of national debt and all of them produce figures that make super rubber look like wet clay 1) money the government borrowed as a contract from persons, countries or governments overseas . This is real, has real interest and has to be paid back in a timely mannar 2) money raised...

never a truer word said Wall St runs most of the country . In the few places where congress runs things, well Wall St still runs the congress . It comes down to your idiot voting system, optional, voting , the electoral college system made all the worse with elections every 2 years so both...

Again this is Russian propaganda spread on social media to destabilize the USA have a think about it If you were a known terrorist how would you try to enter the USA 1) on a boat disguised as a crew member 2) on a small boat & try to evade the coast guard . way north of the border like say NY...

The reason why you are seeing higher prices is WALL ST profit gouging pure & simple Go to any market index site and check the oil prices , they are all so far down that OPC + is cutting production in 1/2 to try & bring the price back to the $ 75 -$ 100 mark. As it is reporting season right now...

They are rebuildable as the tranny makers all sell drop in replacement pump / motor units. They are not difficult to do if you methodical & anal about keeping everything clean All of the hydros are the same technology people just call them different names. Eatons exited the mower hydros a decade...

People think it is a conspiracy but in reality it is the consumers fault 100% If no one bought the $ 1000 ride ons then no one will make them If everyone bought the $ 10,000 ride ons then that is what the factories will make The problem is the buying public are too cheap for their own good...

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If treated nicely those trannys are good for about 1000 hours Driving at anything less than full engine speed drastically reduces their service life Cheap & nasty test is to park on a hill turn off the engine then lot off the parking brake A perfect tranny will just sit there . A totally...

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The big problem is he file format used in phones called RAW it links all of the pixels to each other in order to reduce the write time so you get a nice sharp picture When any web server sees a RAW file it sees it ab bing near 50 the actual pixel dimensions and rejects it a being too large Even...

Actually most wars have been started by dictators , or monarchs . Democracies rarely start a war because they are ( mostly ) responsible to the population & populations do not like being at war . so governments become hostage to a single person , Hitler & Putin , for example who change the...

And to be totally fair to president Trump he had the misfortune of being in office during covid and that contributed to massive government debts world wide so you could halve that 40%. I can appreciate why Trump got elected as it was a toss up between just another career politician who has had...

yes there are 4 diodes inside the rectifier so between each AC and the DC you should show a short circuit with the probes on way and an open circuit with the probes the other way round Between the AC & the case should be the reverse of between the AC & the DC + terminals and open circuit...

Unemployment is down Post covid inflation is down Oil price is down US oil production is up GDP is up so where is the problem , apart from a functionally broken political system ?

While those sorts of spending programmes look like a frivolous waste of money there is usually a strategic reason behind them often things like CIA off the books funding for example . The problem comes from those who do not pay tax If you get an extra $ 20 a week tax rebate then chances are you...

They also slip restrictive gaskets between the carb & the manifold Honda do that on all of their engines when carb jet size used to be done you could see from the IPL's that different engnes had different jets but now days looks like they only list a& sell the single largest jet I came across...

Well PT, I would challenge that assertion If you look at the total tax take per annum as a percentage of the countries GDP you will see it is about 1/2 of what it was when Regan was the president The military is about 3 time the size and the social security budget is way bigger as we all get...

when I finally graduated a freshly minted 4 year graduate metallurgist was paid $ 8,000/pa. a 3 year certificate accountant was paid $ 15,000/pa and a 2 year trained book keeper $ 11,000/.pa . Needless to say I kept on at it doing 4 more diplomas part time but after 8 year I was told to retain...

That is not actually true . The job of the directors ,is to ensure that the business is being run in a sound mannar and that the investors funds are not being misused, that is the actual law. However investment funds got a court ruling that directors had to increase the value of the shares and...

In Oz the rate is around $ 75,000 /pa which is $ 15,000 less than the average wage The the shops wonder why they can not get trades people .

That can quickly become counter productive Post WW II the Aust government decided we needed a better steel industry thus BHP took over every steel making facility and basically bled each factory dry plus gobbled up billions in government aid. Because they had a monopoly on steel they also bleed...

A battery is a chemical reaction All chemical reactions either generate or consume heat So all of them have an ideal temperature range making this worse is electrons have to travel through the paste material Traveling around the surface of the grains of Pb in the paste shows up as voltage...

Yes or it will not open the valves then allow them to close again. a lot of "quiet" cams are quite gentle so valves do not slam shut Bad cam followers usually cause excessive cam wear as will valve guides that shift in the head also low oil caused by being low or the slinger being defective

You can do the same on the generator because it is governed . However in Amal parlance . the replacement carb has to have an equivalent needle jet so it accelerates quickly under load or you end up burning out whatever is connected

Exactly as it sounds I put 100 in the bank & at the end of the year it is worth $ 99 Same as stock write downs With interbank loans, the reserve pays private banks to borrow money There are 3 kinds of government debt 1) direct loans from brokers either in the country or externally So...

Star for president If i was in the USA I would vote for you .

And I missed my favourite target MBA's who know every thing about money & nothing about either the company they are destroying or the industry the company is in. It is a case of suck the business dry, sell off what is left over then on to the next company to destroy. But you might get lucky &...

Nothing like the truth we made electric fork lift batteries that were good for 20+ years Yes after 5 or so years the storage capacity started to drop off but 20 year down the track they still had 20 hours of run time per charge Now on a fork lift, having a 3 ton battery is an advantage because...

The truth of it is the bulk of the people sit in the sensible centre Centre left, centre right there is 5/8 of SFA between them However parties get captured by the hard left or hard right all of which are morons . Now if you want to have some fun, start a "go-fund-me" page for a new party to...

Grab the governor arm and manually try to accelerate the engine . Listen carefully to it If it starts to miss like it is running out of fuel, then that is what is wrong If it sort of muffles and just stops them check the muffler for blockages . If it sounds like the engine is struggleing then...

Once again the US government sells the population down the toilet All Australian batteries come with a government mandated 12 month replacement warranty Most then will add a further 1 to 3 years of pro-rata warranty. Mower batteries should have thicker plates with 2 connections per plate to...

China is by far the smartest country on the planet . They are using the greed of the share holders in Western countries to destroy the economy of that country by off shoring production to China to make ever increasing profits and in most cases from a falling market share . So Wall St is...

They do things like go to thinner rings mid season or a lighter piston The bore & stroke will not change Also not uncommon to switch suppliers for parts mid season

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