Official Gramps' Memorial Eternal OT Thread

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RavinDave said:
Here's a picture I took on one occasion when I was there at the plant in Thomaston about 3 years ago.

The small vessel in the middle (it's about a 1/2 gallon size) with the yellow valves is one I sold them (valves and all), with a copper catalyst inside which I activated in my lab so it will react with O2 (removed trace O2 from their bioethylene).

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Your lab able to run off some crystal meth? Failing that, how about a run of shine? Asking for a friend.
 
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C-south said:
I haven’t had a sirloin steak in many years. If I did I may need ketchup or definitely some sort of steak sauce.
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The thing that I don't understand is that folks put ketchup on cow meat in hamburgers all the time. Why not on a steak? Having said that, I only use ketchup on french fries. Hamburders get lettuce, tomato, mustard, onions, and maybe pickles.
 
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NorthDallas40 said:
Yeah like I just posted below if I’m buying the meat I’ll splurge on prime. And then in order of preference it’s ribeye, filet, and NYS. But the Picanha on the infrared via rotisserie...
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I just bought a 1/2 side of local beef for the first time this month. For a family of 4 it’s really economical and I think the quality is better too. We got most of our sirloin ground and it makes the best burgers. I’ll be doing it again next year.
 
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OHvol40 said:
I just bought a 1/2 side of local beef for the first time this month. For a family of 4 it’s really economical and I think the quality is better too. We got most of our sirloin ground and it makes the best burgers. I’ll be doing it again next year.
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We've tried that a couple times. Very disappointed in the steaks. I think we should have aged them.
 
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clarksvol00 said:
In the process of getting an old family truck with a 3 on the tree restored. Never driven one. When we get it finished it's gonna be interesting.
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It isn't hard. I remember my first time. I popped the clutch out too fast, gave it no gas, and it hopped about 2 feet and died. After that, I fell in love with manuals, bought my first one in 1970, and have driven mostly sticks for 50 years.
 
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1972 Grad said:
It isn't hard. I remember my first time. I popped the clutch out too fast, gave it no gas, and it hopped about 2 feet and died. After that, I fell in love with manuals, bought my first one in 1970, and have driven mostly sticks for 50 years.
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I don't have a problem with the manual transmission, but the shifter on the steering column is gonna take some getting used to.
 
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AM64 said:
I've only found one nasty surprise since owning my Subaru. If you have over a few thousand miles on a set of tires and you have to replace one - you have to replace all four. Optionally, I suppose you could buy a new one and have it ground down to the same diameter as the worn tires. I hit something on the interstate when changing lanes and ruined one tire. It didn't blow but the warning light came on immediately and it went down faster than I could get across three lanes to the shoulder; the car never flinched - I swear you could drive it on three wheels. Z rated low profile tires are expensive - I like my Cooper replacements almost as well as the exorbitantly priced Bridgestones that came on the car. I've gotten two warning tickets. The last one was when I passed a couple of cars on a two lane highway in the middle of nowhere SC. They were going about the speed limit - sometimes just at and sometimes under when I saw a nice opening and went. The front car turned out to be a completely unmarked black Charger with the blue lights in the grill; I think in a WRX it wouldn't have been a warning.
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Yes...i have read that WRX drivers have 1 of if not THE highest insurance for cars because they are basically rally cars lol...they attract lots of young drivers wanting to streetrace sounding like weed eaters.


1972 Grad said:
I just went back and looked it up, and the 911 and the 2 BMW's no longer offer a manual. They did last time I looked, but not today, so we are both partially correct. The Germans dropped the manuals for the 2021 models.
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72 you know more about cars than I ever will brother. Reminds me of my pappaw...he knew nothing of all the computer controlled crap...but he was out street racing the night my mom was born and my granny never let him live it down lmao!! (He didn't know she was ready, no pagers cellphones etc back then) He could rebuild carburetors and old engines from the 50s 60s etc, back when he was in his 20s, him and his buddies got together on Friday nights and worked to make their rides faster to race on Saturday nights...back when you could fix just about anything with a decent set of tools from Sears...and you could also order new headers, carbs, and engines from Sears too lol...just a different time. Much like you, he knew every old make and model, what type of engine etc, cubic inches and HP...you name it. He had a sweet 32 Ford couple that he rebuilt to show quality that was supposed to be given to me...my puss cousin cried about it saying it should be his, and when I was told about it I simply told my Pappaw that I already had a truck, and Him, to go ahead and give whiny rich cousin the 32....never spoke of it again to anyone but my wife. Once. It was 6 months after he received it, when he sold it for $18k. That hurt my Pappaw. He always knew he was my favorite human on planet Earth though, and I was his . He had 3 daughters in a row and wanted a son so badly that the youngest daughter he named Johnnie...lol...then I was the 1st born grandson whose dad was stationed on the other side of the US. A match made in Heaven, and we were inseparable. He is the best man I have ever known, in many different ways. I miss him so much.

God rest his soul. MSGT Kenneth Webb
 
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We have a local radio station here that isn't part of clear channel or any of that crap. They play what they want to...classic rock, live as much as possible it seems. Plus they have weird stuff at weird hours like jazz at 3 am. They rock though.

Just played "Do Ya" by The Move, live. Killed it ...straight into " sultans of swing". I have been exposed to lots of badass music here that I like but wouldn't normally play...Hall n Oates, Doobey Bros (and just mike) as well as obscure stuff that my dad had the records like Dr. Hook, Kristofferson, Janice J, even heard Barbra Mandell the other day and I was a kid again riding in the car with my mom listening to the 8 track..just for a moment. I have pretty weird/ straight up weird taste in music though. They play old old Ozzy too, Rush, lots of Zep and Floyd. Just a really cool station IMO. It is 95.7 FM the Ride in Charlotte if yall dig some of the same stuff that I do. I abandoned secular music for about a decade and have only recently come back, and I really missed some good music for a decade lol.

Forgot to mention that they don't have a morning talk show...a ride home talk show...they don't even talk between each song. They will pop in and tell you who the last 2 or 3 artists and songs were.
 
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LouderVol said:
When we moved into the current house there were ton of pine trees in the back yard. Shortly after some pine beetles moved thru and killed most of them. As those dead trees fell, all away from the house,we spent a lot of weekends clearing them and any collateral.

Learned to love the smell of wood burning, the simple nature of chopping up trees, and dragging them to the fire. Dad on the chain saw, me splitting any good pieces up for the fire place, and mom and sisters dragging the small stuff to the fire. Sitting down at the end of the day, muscles tired, smoke soaked into your clothes, sitting around watching and listening to the fire crackle.

Enough fell where we were able to put in a small garden in an otherwise wooded yard.
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I had pretty much the same experiences clearing my Dads land with him..now that he is gone.. I count those simple days as priceless. You really get to know a man when you physically work with him, especially when teamwork is beneficial.
 
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