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Moonpie
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Cool thats sort of the way I made my frig fit in my truck.
Duck
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Why not? It's 12 volts DC.
freedhardwoods
freedhardwoods
A beat up old Dodge is better than a fancy, brand new Chev or Ford any day.
And all this time, I thought you had a sensible head on your shoulders.........
Duck
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I miss my first pickup. 1979 Dodge with a 3 speed manual, no power anything, non-functional speedometer or gas gauge (no idea how I knew when it was low on gas but I never ran out). 225 slant-six. Geared like a farm tractor. That damn thing was indestructible, ... well until I over-dilluted the coolant with water in the summer & forgot about it til winter...
That damn thing was indestructible, ... well until I over-dilluted the coolant with water in the summer & forgot about it til winter...
Did that to my old 1970 Ford. Brings a tear to my eye just thinking about it.
Duck
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If I'd known it was full of ice I'd have been fine. I'd have just put a half dozen block heaters on it & thawed it out & drained it.
What happened was the engine warmed up & when the thermostat opened up it couldn't pull coolant through the frozen radiator & it overheated. But since the radiator was frozen, it didn't make steam. No temp gauge or idiot light. It started misfiring & by the time I got to work it was barely running. I opened the hood & it looked fine but felt hot as hell. One radiator hose was collapsed & the other was rock hard & cold. I opened the oil cap just to check to see if there would be white foam on the inside of the cap & steam shot out of the rocker cover. After work I towed it into the shop with a forklift & drained the oil & it was full of coolant. I rented a trailer & hauled it to the junk yard.
Fageol
Old acid hauler but not too caustic
Have you or anybody on this forum tried one of those deWalt or Bosch electric jackets? Motorcycle season is coming up and a heated jacket might work pretty good. The alternator of my old KZ probably won't sustain one. Anybody have an opinion on their capacity to sustain a 65 mph or thereabouts breeze?
Duck
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My dad made himself a heated windbreaker jacket. He's worn it on his Goldwing down in 30 degree temps & says he was warm.
All he did was feed 32 gauge solid copper wire all around inside the lining of the jacket & there's some kind of electronic thing that sends a pulsing 12 volt current through it.
Fageol
Old acid hauler but not too caustic
Your Dad sounds like a creative guy. I might give that a shot. I have a parka intended for use on the North Slope oilfields. Maybe I should electrify that. Thanks for the idea.
Duck
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If you do, power it up OUTSIDE while you're NOT wearing it, in case you don't use enough wire. I don't know how many feet of wire my dad used. If it's too much wire it won't warm up because there will be too much resistance. Not enough & it'll melt the wire & that won't be fun if you're wearing it at the time, or if it fills your house with toxic smoke from burning nylon.
Fageol
Old acid hauler but not too caustic
Brings back my old days (roughly 1970 -1980) when I was a firefighter in the Richmond CA ghetto. As the prostitute said to the leper, thanks for the tip.
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