LMR's marketing and advertising guy posted that. LMR does a lot of cool stuff that nobody hears about. If I lived in Texas, I'd be tryin' to work there!

 

A Mustang supplier? Can't imagine why.

 

Hahahaha... I'm obsessed, lol.

 

Sure enough! I'd still take it, tho.

Oh, Refurbees finally shipped my machine yesterday. (Ordered last weekend.) Today I see an i7 Optiplex 990 with twice the memory and a 512 GB SSD on Amazon for $25 more. 1-year warranty vs. 90 days, and Prime shipping, too. Oh, well.

 

Has anyone tried the home powder coating products. The new Eastwood catalog came today and I've back and forth on trying one of the kits for about a year now. I know a guy who works at an apartment complex that told me he would sell me a used, small, apartment sized, 3 burner range for cheap. Beat up but working. By cheap he means basically the price as scrap. He said it's the burners that go not the ovens and they will still do the needed 400*. From my online research home powder coating can save up to 95% of the paint lost with spraying. This is based on the number of spray coats needed to get the thick paint layer that powder coating gives. But, there are no thin coats of paint when powder coating. Also with powder coating the process is much faster and there are no problems with the winter cold. The garage is detached so no odor problems to worry about. The powder coating industry states coverage is 192 sq. feet per pound of powder. A hell of a lot less expensive than liquid paint. A pound of gloss black from Eastwood is $11. Candy's and metallic go for $20 to $30 a pound. Much less than PPG's let alone HOK's liquids.

Being suspicious I'm stuck on, "What's the catch?" From reading a lot is made out of the quality of the spray guns used. I can't find what I consider a reliable review of what a $100 gun will do compared to a $1,500 professional gun. The information is also adamant about a large learning curve unless the painter is doing the same or basically the same painting jobs over and over.

Just wondering if anyone has any opinions or experience about giving powder coating a try?

 

Well of course.

 

Son of a _____. I hate that. I've had that happen to me as well.... Weird they just shipped it. I got my Wife's laptop in 4 or 5 days.

I just made the very first i3 purchase I've made - for a workstation. It is the new 8th gen i3 that actually has 4 physical cores @ 3.6 ghz. The previous gen's had 2 hyper-threaded cores. It runs rather well. I decided to give it a shot on this machine, because it will rarely be used in a remote location... but I am really impressed. It's a Win 10 Pro, 8GB DDR4, and 250GB SSD setup.

 

The i3's have certainly come a long way. It would be interesting to see a chart cross-referencing the different CPU's vs the generations. I'll bet that today's i3 is as good as or better thatnpast-gen i7's.

I find my self *almost* hoping there's a good reason to send the HP 3200 back. Funny thing is, when I went to their "cancellation and returns" page and put in my email and order number just for the heck of it, it comes back with "nothing found."

 

Interesting.... I've used them a few times now, and not had those issues at all.

I have an i7 laptop at work that I know this i3 will run circles around. My i5 on this laptop will run circles around it too though, LOL.

I finally got around to changing the oil, t-case, and diff fluids on the truck today. Forgot what a PITA it is to get fluid into the front diff. While I was at it, I threw the aluminum cover on the rear diff that I pulled off a newer Crown Vic. It looks OK.... nothing spectacular. I must say... I was very pleased with how clean the diff fluids and transfer case fluid was.




I was one quart short of what I needed, so I went over and got another quart of gear oil. I bought the first four during the summer..... and since that, Valvoline has changed the bottle design, and I noticed they removed the "Limited Slip" designation off the front.

 

I learned years ago to fill our Ford's rear differential, that it is so much easier to pull the ABS sensor and fill thru there. No mess, like the side fill way. It took me less than 10 minutes to finish Red the other day that way. When I put in 2.5 qts, I pulled the plug, and then added the modifier. Simple, no mess.