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  1. 3 hours ago, CharlieH said:

    Some stores have resorted to placing items in locked glass cabinets now.

    I stopped at an AM/PM in the SF area....All the beer & alcohol was behind locked glass cabinets + another store had a liquor (locked) room....

    I asked the clerk & he said cases were getting lifted - walking out the door....The police won't come out....

    No shielding or protection at the pay station though.....

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  2. 95% of the time we home cook....

    My wife cooks western and Thai food as well as some Mexican....

    Her small but mighty garden usually contributes something....

    I cook once in awhile....Today I made 2 cookie sheet sized pizzas....I also make our bread.....

    I have a gas wet smoker bbq that I thought I would use a lot....It just sits in our back breezeway waiting for me....

  3. 3 hours ago, 1FinickyOne said:

    Another thing I have noticed through the years... though some lady boys can be beautiful, the future is mostly sad. You don't often/ever? see a beautiful lady man. 

     

    One acquaintance every once in a while sends me photos of his ladyboy GF - I met her maybe 15 years ago.. now she looks like a truck driver. But one of the lovely quirks of life is that I think we see our partners as they were when we first met them. I see my wife that way. And it has been over 20 years... 

    If I could she'd be thinner....

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  4. 4 hours ago, DJ54 said:

    Can you post a picture what they look like and I’ll look for some. Local are hard to determine when ripe and seems spoilage. HAAS is my favorite when in S. California they were decent prices… one of the imported brands here seem to have roots instead of fruit.

    Similar to this more slender than round.....

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  5. 5 hours ago, Formaleins said:

    The bolt is inside a shroud, the biggest thing I can grip it with is a pair of 200mm pliers. Mole grips, pipe wrenches just do not have enough room to get the jaws in. I have used the helicoil system before and it works well, certainly worth considering once I get this bolt out. You are correct too about the stripping, the truck had been taken to B-Quick tp have the fluids replaced on the day I bought it - Bquick had used a windy gun to do up the bolts and when I tried to break it free it just stripped out. Apparently, they used the same windy gun on this drain bolt as they used on my wheel nuts! It took a two metre bar to loosen the damn lug nuts - unbelievable.

    I had very poor experiences there - like crushed parts from racking & axles that fell out after R&R for servicing CV  joints....0 for 2 vehicles....

  6. There should be some rubber expansion plugs that can be used....They are designed for stripped drain plugs, inspection plugs, & freeze plugs..... I've used them successfully in the past on the old crappy Ford crankcase plugs.....

    There is no pressure build up to worry about as the diff splash lubricates.....

    I'd go to ProAuto on Hang Dong Rd.... Speak to Tonn....

     

    There has to be suppliers here....In the states any Napa Auto or parts store carried them..... There's a few different designs.....One is a push in type where you push a screwdriver into the rubber to stretch/thin the diameter & it pops in & out using the same method....Others have turn bolts that sandwich the plug expanding it to seal..... That's what's shown....

    I'm sure there's some other ways others have devised.....

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