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PostPosted: Sat Sep 25, 2021 11:20 pm    Post subject: Re: Good Riddance to Lead Reply with quote

I was surprised to find the Railroads and Coal came up in this thread.
I come from Mattoon Il. which in the age of Steam Engines was a major hub for
the repair and maintenance of Steam Engines for the Illinois Central RR running
North and South, and the Big 4 RR (later bought by the New York Central RR) running East to West.
Steam was replaced by Diesel EMD after WW2, and all the maintenance shops closed because
The Diesels required much less maintenance, and The Maintenance Yards were consolidated to larger cities like Indianapolis & Chicago.
I grew up in Mattoon in the 60-70's, and one vivid memory was when the Sandblasted the OAKW Building.
They sandblasted all the coal soot off the building, and the stone was actually a very light, almost white, grey.
The whole town had been covered in this shit, and as people kept up their property the black soot was painted over.
Mattoon never really recovered from the Railroads leaving,
but some industry had been grown during, and after WW2 until the industrial decline of the 70's.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 26, 2021 6:52 am    Post subject: Re: Good Riddance to Lead Reply with quote

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The Diesels required much less maintenance



That reminds me of an old story from when railroads were converting from steam to diesel-electrics. They asked an old mechanic what the difference was between working on steam and diesel-electrics, and he said, "Well, with a steam engine it takes 5 minutes to figure out what's wrong with it and 5 days to fix it. With diesels it takes 5 days to figure out what's wrong and 5 minutes to fix it-either way I stay just as busy."
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 27, 2021 3:52 pm    Post subject: Re: Good Riddance to Lead Reply with quote

I still call premium gas "Ethyl" out of habit.
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PostPosted: Mon May 09, 2022 11:11 pm    Post subject: Re: Good Riddance to Lead Reply with quote

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With 170+k miles on the December 58 36 hp, having never been rebuilt, I put lead additive in.
Having lived in an 1860's project house with a newborn, getting the lead outta there was more important.


If you read the linked article, you would see that the level of lead in the average Americans blood dropped from 15ug/dL in 1975 to 0.86ug/dL today and the average IQ of preschoolers went up by 5 points, so the removal of lead from gasoline was every bit as important as sealing off lead paint in an old house. Lead from automotive fumes was essentially everywhere you might take a newborn in 1975 and in everything you might feed him.

Sadly if it weren't for the fact that lead fouled catalytic converters the industry might have been successful in keeping lead in gasoline. We are pretty much trained in this country to hate regulatory boards like EPA and CARB, but they have improved the quality of life for most all Americans.


Happy to have lead gone from the automotive field. It’s still in fuels world wide, including American.

IQ is adjusted and testing is changing every decade. So that’s not a great measurement.

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/lea...e-n1264970
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PostPosted: Tue May 10, 2022 2:04 am    Post subject: Re: Good Riddance to Lead Reply with quote

can't say I'm noticing a rise in IQ levels... Rolling Eyes

looks like they're focussing on the tyre dust problem too
https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1129809_tire-...as-they-go
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PostPosted: Tue May 10, 2022 6:51 am    Post subject: Re: Good Riddance to Lead Reply with quote

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A couple years back I was expressing my frustration to a friend who is a doctor about the fixation of the modern world on building a "no risk" society and the impossibility of ever reaching that goal with a normal lifestyle. In frustration I said "What are we supposed to do? Stay in bed?"

His reply was "The majority of people die in bed. That doesn't work!"


Life expectancy is way up from my parents generation and my lifestyle is a lot better than what they had. To think otherwise is just cloud yelling
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PostPosted: Tue May 10, 2022 7:33 am    Post subject: Re: Good Riddance to Lead Reply with quote

The only lead in my car these days is MY LEAD FOOT!!!

As long as I can smoke the tires and take my cars to the track I'm good.
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PostPosted: Tue May 10, 2022 7:57 am    Post subject: Re: Good Riddance to Lead Reply with quote

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Happy to have lead gone from the automotive field.

Automotive lead-acid batteries


finster wrote:
can't say I'm noticing a rise in IQ levels... Rolling Eyes

Just like in the film "Idiocracy" !!!! Dumbing down of the entire planet.
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PostPosted: Tue May 10, 2022 8:53 am    Post subject: Re: Good Riddance to Lead Reply with quote

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VWFIXER wrote:
Happy to have lead gone from the automotive field.

Automotive lead-acid batteries


finster wrote:
can't say I'm noticing a rise in IQ levels... Rolling Eyes

Just like in the film "Idiocracy" !!!! Dumbing down of the entire planet.


I thought I read people have been throwing the user batteries in the ocean to help with climate change or something.
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PostPosted: Tue May 10, 2022 12:18 pm    Post subject: Re: Good Riddance to Lead Reply with quote

vwinnovator wrote:
The only lead in my car these days is MY LEAD FOOT!!!



oh dear, is there no lead in yer pencil? Wink
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PostPosted: Tue May 10, 2022 12:25 pm    Post subject: Re: Good Riddance to Lead Reply with quote

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I thought I read people have been throwing the user batteries in the ocean to help with climate change or something.


turns out this was an algorithm 'brain fart' caused by a meme/twitter/fbook fad

Over the weekend, a quirk of Google’s search engine emerged.
reporter and author Violet Blue googled “why do people throw car batteries in the ocean.” The algorithm’s top response, which was formatted in a blurb at the top of the results, was strange.
“Throwing car batteries into the ocean is good for the environment, as they charge electric eels and power the Gulf stream,” it read.
It’s funny, weird, and rightfully spawned a weekend’s worth of memes. But it also shows how the algorithms we rely on every day can bug out, make mistakes, and otherwise promote disinformation that’s often less hilarious than this.

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PostPosted: Tue May 10, 2022 12:42 pm    Post subject: Re: Good Riddance to Lead Reply with quote

finster wrote:
VWFIXER wrote:

I thought I read people have been throwing the user batteries in the ocean to help with climate change or something.


turns out this was an algorithm 'brain fart' caused by a meme/twitter/fbook fad

Over the weekend, a quirk of Google’s search engine emerged.
reporter and author Violet Blue googled “why do people throw car batteries in the ocean.” The algorithm’s top response, which was formatted in a blurb at the top of the results, was strange.
“Throwing car batteries into the ocean is good for the environment, as they charge electric eels and power the Gulf stream,” it read.
It’s funny, weird, and rightfully spawned a weekend’s worth of memes. But it also shows how the algorithms we rely on every day can bug out, make mistakes, and otherwise promote disinformation that’s often less hilarious than this.


Sounds like eels are a symbiotic species then. Which is a good thing I guess. We do a lot of covert work on twit to save the earth from the ravages of lost 10mm sockets, so much so that Elon Husk had to buy it so he could remain the overlord status, ever since he was swapping spit with depps girlfriend it’s been hard on him. And the pre hairline photos keep dogging him. He was super pissed I reversed engineered his monkey brain research project a few years ago. He still thinks it was a leak. He has so many notifications every second, it’s tough to get a word in edgewise. So memes must be made! Meh, gotta keep the tools oiled and in the toolbox at arms length.
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PostPosted: Tue May 10, 2022 12:47 pm    Post subject: Re: Good Riddance to Lead Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Tue May 10, 2022 2:02 pm    Post subject: Re: Good Riddance to Lead Reply with quote

finster wrote:
VWFIXER wrote:

I thought I read people have been throwing the user batteries in the ocean to help with climate change or something.


turns out this was an algorithm 'brain fart' caused by a meme/twitter/fbook fad

Over the weekend, a quirk of Google’s search engine emerged.
reporter and author Violet Blue googled “why do people throw car batteries in the ocean.” The algorithm’s top response, which was formatted in a blurb at the top of the results, was strange.
“Throwing car batteries into the ocean is good for the environment, as they charge electric eels and power the Gulf stream,” it read.
It’s funny, weird, and rightfully spawned a weekend’s worth of memes. But it also shows how the algorithms we rely on every day can bug out, make mistakes, and otherwise promote disinformation that’s often less hilarious than this.


Well, I found out that the heat expands the days, so days are longer in summer.
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PostPosted: Tue May 10, 2022 3:59 pm    Post subject: Re: Good Riddance to Lead Reply with quote

I use plenty of lead - I never leave home without it. Laughing

Lead does not mix well w/ drinking water. But home intruders? They mix together so well.
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