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Goodnight everyone

 

Thank you
It sucks but you gotta take em as they come.

That, my oddball friend, is a fresh new Valspar colour for Autumn 2023, it's called Damp.

 

Good Morning everyone

Day three of neck and shoulder pain and tightness with no apparent cause. This growing old shit is for the birds.

 

Good morning everyone, be safe out there today.

 

I've had this happen to me and someone tell me it's supposed to be good luck
Goodmorning crew

Good luck

 

Mrs Green said that too.

I guess it wasn't a flock of birds so there is that...

 

It could have been a disaster....

https://youtu.be/CUUKrHO3wZU

 

Mel Brooks, 97 and still working!

 

Good morning guys

Mower deck isn’t on the agenda today, it’s adventure day with Mike. We both need a goof off day.

Me too! I had to deal with Stocks problem about 2 years ago. No bueno

 

People underestimate how much damage water can do until they experience it first hand.

I was in the vacant downstairs of a 2 unit. I could hear water running and became curious what the upstairs unit was doing to keep running the water for so long.

I went to the basement and found a water heater safety valve to have failed, spewing water.
There was 3 inches of water in the basement - fortunately the only damage was a larger than average water bill.

The haunting thought - what if I hadn't stopped by that day, upstairs wouldn't have noticed until they got cold or the lights went out - hours later...
A 40,000 gallon water bill
2 furnaces
2 water heaters
2 electric panels

 

Glad your not underwater !!

Those aches and pains when you have no idea what you could have done are interesting.

Growing old is not for the weak!

 

It kinda sucks having a crawl space; I try my best not to go under there cause fun it aint but...you never really know whats going on unless you do.
Insurance is working with me (so they say), here's a depression overview...




Our couch was here, we had no idea



Currently in drying out mode



This too shall pass....

 

Alright guys, I need your opinion here:
There is currently a thread on ceramic coating in the 3rd gen forum. I am really tired of seeing people get snookered into thinking that this coating is actually worth anything.
So I wrote a short post debunking it.
Question is, should I post it? Should I care? Thoughts please.

Look, I will get hated on by all the gullible people out there, but so what...
Think for a moment - what product is out there, that air dries to a clear, that is a twentieth of the thickness of your paint and clear and gets to a hardness above what your standard clearcoat is on your paint. Oh, it would also have to dry to a rigid surface too, or else the relative softness of the paint beneath it would make it JUST THE SAME PROTECTION AS THE PAINT.
Again, I am not picking on anyone in this thread but somebody has to say something....
What all you guys are buying are a coating that lasts longer than a wax, but does not provide any kind of scratch protection at all. Seriously.
So I did a search. The first 20 PAGES of results look like this. The only people talking about ceramic coating for paint is, you guessed it, the people who SELL the ceramic coatings. Hmmmm, the first flag...

So, I dug deeper. I just googled "ceramic coating" and weeded out the fan boys and seller of the nonsense. Here is a real report on ceramic coatings.

It is 36 pages of scientific ceramic coating bliss, and it talks about how it binds, how its applied and how it definitely will last longer than the material underneath will last without ceramic coating. Success!
Um, no. Think of getting a veneer on your teeth.That is a ceramic coating. Think about the turbines in a jet engine. Those are ceramic coated. Now, they have to special bond the ceramics for your teeth. And it is around FIFTEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS PER TOOTH! It also lasts 20+ years. Same for jet engines. Same for pretty much anything, except your "ceramic coating" on your car. Which is not ceramic at all. Nor is it more scratch resistant, unless you are butt hurt you paid $1500 for a nice shiny water repellent coating that will last a few years. Then it is called the placebo effect. You don't believe me? Well, let's continue!

Let's take a look at what actually makes up a ceramic coating, shall we?
alumina, titania, zirconia, alumina-magnesia, hafnia, silicon carbide, silicon nitride, and boron carbide
You know, if I didn't know better I would think that, if I tried rubbing any of that shit on my paint job, it would scratch the hell out of it! All of that is hard stuff, especially the sand!

Still don't believe me? They put a very thin ceramic coating on teeth right? It is called a veneer. You know how they attach this veneer? They grind a thin layer of enamel off the tooth and glue the ceramic to the tooth. Yet they claim that you can get a bottle of clear and ceramic coat your car! Don't you think that, if this really existed, dentists would just buy it and ceramic coat your teeth! They would be fucking stupid not to do this!

So, let's now really talk about your paint's hardness. Moh is a hardness scale. Durometer is a hardness scale. However, a material has to have a minimum thickness of 6mm in order to use the scale. That's almost a quarter of an inch thick. Sorry, neither the paint of your "ceramic coating" are this thick. So, another scale is used by the ASTM. It's the Pencil Hardness scale. Please google it. I circled the paint most auto manufacturers use, as the two above it are used on OTR trucks, airplanes, etc. So, your paint and clearcoat is about a 4H. And, that is exactly the hardness of whatever stuff your are spreading on it.


Sorry to be a realist, but I was tired of reading about how damn hard their ceramic coating is. Snake oil.

 

Can I interest you in a throttle body spacer or a tornado intake insert? What's the saying, 'A fool and his money are soon parted'?

-J

 

Another evidence of things are not built as tough as it used to be.

 

My doctor told me "it's normal when you getting old" and I tend to not bother her with my pain issue

 

How long was it leaking? They tore up the floor?

 

Truth in that. I’d be hooked on opiates if I disclosed every chronic pain. (I think many of them stem back to Pop Warner through High School football. Conditioning being subpar to say the least.)

@hiPSI , I’d go ahead and post your critique but behind a spoiler titled, “Caution. Reading The Following May Result in Extreme Butt-Hurt”

 

If it seems too good to be true.....