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  1. Britain to ban sale of all diesel and petrol cars and vans from 2040 this was announced last week.
  2. This one was recommended by the Lance factory repair facility: CRC Power Lube I lube the gear rack (Schwintek) once a month. It does make a difference in how quieter the slide moves.
  3. justRich

    Memorial Day

    Late yesterday afternoon, while sitting on our deck, a gigantic C-5 Galaxy flew low directly overhead on a landing approach. The weather was clear, the sun low in the sky. It was not a direct approach landing. The pilot was making sweeping curve. At his altitude, the Puget Sound with Mt. Rainer in the background would be spectacular view. We used to see the C-5 pilots making touch-n-go practice runs weekly, sometimes daily. Their normal direct landing approach is somewhat east of us. For the last several years, we rarely see them anymore. They fly elsewhere. As I commented to my wife, yesterday's landing approach must have been pure joy for the pilot and crew. And I say to the pilots and crew, you can fly over my house anytime. Welcome home.
  4. Hi, 

    Would you mind activating the "Signature" feature on the forum?
    I like the  individuality that it brings.

    Thanks,
    Rich of Rich&Sylvia

     

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      Hi could you set the number of characters for the name seen on posts from three to two? I had to Use RV_ because it would not allow me to show as User RV anymore as I have for all my past 17 years of support of the forums.

      See here: http://www.rvnetwork.com/index.php?/topic/126803-hey/&do=findComment&comment=888530

  5. Ah! Then they've changed it. Formerly, it was two different services.
  6. Beware the difference between "forwarding" mail and a "temporary change of address" at the post office website. Forwarding did not work well on our first year of snowbirding. I switched to temporary-change-of-address for the last few years without problems. That said, the PO will forward ONE issue of a magazine subscription - but only one. I don't know what happens to subsequent issues. So, it's best to file a change of address with the magazine if you want to continue getting it. I have to make notes in my calendar as to what I've done, the proper contacts and when to make changes. That includes mail-hold, change-of-address, start and end dates, magazine contacts, etc. etc.
  7. Diagonal drilling had been around a long time. Now they can drill straight out horizontally from a vertical shaft, like spindles off a tinkertoy connector. I asked this question about horizontal drilling again at another meeting presentation (by a different oil peddler this time). His answer was the same. About 2008-2009 that the technique came into common use. (I wouldn't touch oil investment with a ten foot drill bit.) What I would like to see is a breakthrough in "energy storage" - some kind of battery 10x better than anything we have today. THAT would be an investment opportunity.
  8. Well, you're getting third hand information here. I understand it as improvements to previous horizontal drilling. I'm not expert and cannot convey in totality that which the speaker said. I'm just trying to understand it. Time moves on and so does technology. Hope that you got the gist of the post, not the specific details of accuracy.
  9. I went to an "alternative investment" presentation pitch last week on investing in developing oil wells. The presenter was a guy in his fiftys and had spent his life working in the oil industry from around the world to off shore to west Texas. I think this was maybe his first or second investor presention and he looked a little nervous/uncomfortable. But he was comfortable and happy to talk about the technology used in oil discovery - and so I asked a little about how they did it and when the technology was developed. The ability to drill horizontally started around 2008/2009 and is a very productive method method of discovery and capture of oil according to the speaker. Also, they can remain profitable with oil priced down to $35 to $39 per barrel. My take away, after sleeping on it, was that oil technology has progressed to a point that it is a disruptive technology unto itself. Fracking is yet another disruptive technology. Oil will remain abundant. And oil producers can see the many alternative energy technologies developing. The writing is on the wall for oil and producers know it. Needless to say, I'm not interested in any oil investments. However, solar and other energy technologies are, in my opinion, the future. The question, from an investors point of view, is which one(s)?
  10. The exchange went well. I spoke with customer service and they blamed the open windows on the alarm going off! I didn't argue. Ultimately, all three (including the original factory oem detector) produced false CO alarms. Even the AA battery standalone detector purchased at Walmart alarmed after a few days. I took the standalone detector out of the camper and into the house (where we do not leave windows open) and the detector was fine. No false alarms. We left the Phoenix area on April 8th. I kept the standalone CO detector mounted in the sleeping area. No false alarms during the trip north. I reattached power to the MTI Co/Lp detector two days ago (as of this posting) and have not had anymore false alarms. Final conclusion: Environmental pollen or dust causes the CO detectors to false alarm. (I lean toward the pollen activation because we were having intense spring pollen at the time.)
  11. CNN money recently looked at this: Democrats vs. Republicans: Who's better for stocks? Please don't let it get political, but it is of interest.
  12. That is precisely how I took it. . .with a smile. Spot on.
  13. Final conclusion: It's defective and I'm returning it for an exchange. The last two times it produced a false alarm even sooner than the previous times after resetting it. Meanwhile, I purchased a standalone battery operated CO detector and placed it right next to the camper's CO/LP detector. The standalone did not alarm when the Safe-T-Alert went off. Wish me luck on the exchange.
  14. Yes, that's the one. I got it in black. It false alarmed again last night - 68 degrees at about 11:30 pm. It detected "CO". I pulled the fuse. Today, bought a battery operated CO (no LP) detector at Walmart. I will temporary mount the new CO detector next to the "defective" detector so that I have two CO detectors running at the same time. We'll see what happens. . .
  15. One doesn't make anything unless one sells it. Otherwise, it's just another market high that precedes another market drop.
  16. Another night has passed and ambient temperature dipped to only 61 degrees and NO alarm. Thinking about smoke detectors. . .my experience is that when a smoke detector battery goes low, it will start to chirp at night. Maybe because the temperature drops at night? I haven't checked the camper battery voltage. Camper is new to us. Only had it three months. It's a 2014 model. Battery idiot light shows full. Camper jacks can lift and lower on battery power alone. I'm pretty sure battery voltage is good but will check with a multimeter later today. We have a few days of warm temperatures ahead and may not be able to test the temperature drop idea until the next cooling trend. The immediate area has no CO source. For interest, it can been seen here: Google satellite shot (Our house is vacant, used just for showers, laundry and some cooking. Adjoining house with all the cars is vacant and in foreclosure. Nursery shuts down at 5pm and is vacant. Nearest neighbor is quiet.) No stump grinders, generators or that short of thing capable of making CO.. Unfortunately, I was too quick to throw the old CO/LP detector away and should have kept it for testing purposes. Hopefully, I'll have a few nights of uninterrupted sleep. I will report any results or changes as they occur. Thank you for discussion input - it has spurred new thoughts and ideas.
  17. It was the CO red light that was lit. Please remember that windows were open, plenty of air. It is factory mounted at floor level. I took the pillow off the detector this morning when the ambient temperature reached 60 degrees in the camper. Made coffee and read emails. No alarm occurred. The detector has been on all day and not false'd even once. My guess is that it will probably go into alarm sometime tonight when the ambient temperature drops (below 60 degrees, hopefully). If it goes off, it will strengthen the correlation between alarm and temperature. I have a hypothesis that this is a temperature related problem. The detector was installed with ambient temperature at 88 degrees - upon installation it takes ten minutes for the detector to initialize itself and perhaps now has a mean operating temperature range based on what it "saw" when it was installed. However, I doubt that. The previous detector began alarming at about the same time that the pollen count went up. Observe, hypothesis, test. And I will be buying and installing a stand-alone CO detector as a back up.
  18. My Safe-T-Alert CO/LP detector started false alarming about the same time that the allergy season hit in southern Arizona. I ordered up a new co/lp detector (manufacture date: Dec 2015) and got it installed yesterday afternoon. At 1:11 am the alarm goes off (just like the previous detector). The weather is warm and the windows have been open all day and night. I'm on shore power and no propane or other combustion products are used. I reset the alarm, back to bed. . .2.5 hours later and it alarms again. I reset it. 3 hours later, alarms again. So I put a soft pillow over it and it works fine. There's no odor of propane, and all the windows open. I'm wondering if there might be a correlation between pollen detection and temperature. I question temperature because the detector alarms at night, when the temperature drops 20 degrees. There's a Mesquite tree right outside the window and several other Mesquite trees on the property - just now going to flower. Any thoughts?
  19. One economic indicator which is, at the moment, a wild card is the minimum wage. $15.00 an hour is what "they" are bucking for. (sorry ) I think it is a good idea. . .lots of money sloshing around out there with no where to go. Might as well put it in the pockets of those who really make a difference. Maybe get us back to a more normal inflation rate? Coincidentally, Costco had a "help wanted" sign "$11.50 / hour" on their free sample kiosks last month. I'm sure that those jobs are not 40 hours a week. But in my experience there are a lot of folks that want that kind of part time income. Lots of "moms" out there needing work between 9am and 3pm when kids are in school. Retirees wanting a little extra income, etc. It's getting better. . .not gang busters, but better.
  20. I've come to the conclusion that all the internet postings are simply to make money. To gather eyeballs. It's a fun argument played out on WSJ, Marketwatch, The Economist, etc. etc. Not to disregard fundamentals. . .P/E ratios, unemployment data, manufacturing data, etc. Those are important when coupled with other things. For me, it's having my ear to the ground: We've not seen "help wanted" signs in store windows for many years. Now we do. The number of RV's and trailer boats on the road? More now than two years ago. The number of household moving vans (ie; Mayflower, Graebel, United & others - its a good sign of a healthy economy when there's lots of them on the road) Ask people in the service industry - like the guy who picks you up airport in an airport shuttle - how's business - they have a finger on the economies pulse. Or if you know someone in the health care industry - especially births (although birth rates follow employment by about nine months ) Cardiac intensive care numbers go up when the economy is up or improving (more people on vacation). Postal service is now delivering for Amazon on Sundays. Wow! Does that tell us anything? Website guru's can be interesting and entertaining. But they have a motive.
  21. Arizona property taxes are at least half what they are in Washington State - which makes the state income tax look a little less unattractive. One way or the other, they have a way to get the money.
  22. Will a 1/4 point sink the stock market? My guess is "probably" for a short term. . .just long enough 'till people realize that they still have a job, the help wanted posters are still in windows, the TV commercials are still pimping new cars and drugs, and people are still eating out. Let'er rip!
  23. Somehow, the stock market seems like it is suffering from inflation. Can it be that too much money was pumped into the economy and it fled to the stock market? At our financial planner's round-table group discussion last Friday the question was raised "Where is all the money going to go?" Bonds? Treasuries? Where? Even though our planner argued for a bear market, he could not answer that question.
  24. That's a ten year average graph - it won't tell you when to "get in" - unless you have a lot of patience - and the market really sags over a long period of time. But it is a good indicator for those with patience and lack of emotional investing motivation, But, yes, there's a lot of air below.
  25. I like it. And keep your powder dry. The market is still over valued - but only a little compared to previous highs. See: S&P 500 PE ratio It's time for a correction and for those with reserve powder, wait until you can see the whites of their eyes!
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