Be careful of the one you buy. I think I recently saw a recall on a lot of the major brands because of some part of it leaching some plastics or something into the air way.
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Supply chain issues affecting the hobby continues
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The HVAC supply houses were getting the chinese copper fittings, with USA brand names on them, this was over 10 years ago. They would regularly crack and dump the units 26 pounds of refrigerant into the atmosphere. I was working on commercial AC roof top units.
You are talking about the steel, and if I remember right, there were some buildings that had partial collapses using it.
Sounds like you bought them at O'reillys lol. I thought the same thing until I looked at a different store. Oreillys totaled me up to $60 something. L&M had them for $12 each (which is already double what they are worth).Anyone buy windshield wiper blads lately? Just bought a set to today, RainX wiper blades with a $10 off coupon, $ 71 dollars and some change.
More like ever again. Times have changed and will never go back to or be the way they were.
Shadetree Mechanic
Delaware Base Station 808
Does anyone remember Hillary on the board of directors for Walmart, while Bill was ushering in our "Service Economy"? Without tariffs in place, it won't come back until our wages are lower than China's. But that will never happen, because China has it's currency pegged to ours at a lower value. We need to get out of this one way free trade agreement.
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Bill Clinton's True Legacy: Outsourcer-in-Chief
Mitt Romney may have run a company that outsourced jobs but Clinton ran a country that did.
Shadetree Mechanic
Delaware Base Station 808
Too much money to be made by the people who pull the strings.
304 will definitely rust when exposed to the elements due to the high percent of carbon.
THAT'S EXACTLY WHERE I GOT THEM! I still haven't put them on, I think I'm gonna go get my money back.
Today I took the wiper blades and got my money back, then went to Walmart and bought some old school run of the mill wiper blades for $ 7.95 a piece. I Thought to myself, hell, these were about the only style wiper blades you could get when I was kid, they worked then don't see why they wouldn't work now.
Shadetree Mechanic
Delaware Base Station 808
I remember back in the olden days, you could buy wiper refills. Now you gotta get the whole blade. I can't get wipers now days to last over a year.
Shadetree Mechanic
Delaware Base Station 808
I found that cleaning the blade helps a ton!! The blades get coated with dirt and junk and stop being effective. I get a rag and spray some WD-40 and run it up and down the blade. You would be surprised how much junk is on there. Try it!!
But then you have to clean the WD40 off or you're smearing oil all over your windshield. I clean the wipers with RainX while I'm applying a new coat of RainX to the glass.
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At a local store they have a Purpose-Built Cooler for 7Up drinks. It was relatively new and worked fine for about 6 months then started freezing up. Probably the Defrost Control or Defrost Heater failed. They called in the problem and a month later the guys are coming out with a whole other machine. When asked why they didn't just repair the sitting one, they said they are 6 months behind in being able to get parts.
Shadetree Mechanic
Delaware Base Station 808
It was bad enough that American manufacturing went to China. Now our inflation is causing the American's disposable income to dry up and there is nobody left to buy China's crap the way we did. This is causing the Chinese economy to tank because they are shutting down their factories. We are in for a bumpy ride.
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