B&S Engine starts but won't run

Just curious -- how are these "real world" measurements done and documented?

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Ed Huntress
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Not I, sir. We aren't victims, no sir.

I can't remember who to attribute this to, but it's my favorite sentiment on life:

Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather one should aim to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, glass of Scotch in the other, your body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO! Man, what a ride!"

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Larry Jaques

Right. Fuel, air, and a properly timed spark.

Reply to
Larry Jaques

I have plenty of spare keyboards for free, to anyone in the Central Florida area. Probably 100+ right now.

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Michael A. Terrell

Model? maybe someone has a spare? I have at least a half dozen, without the matching USB dongles.

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Michael A. Terrell

Boys weren't allowed to take typing when I was in school, until my senior year. I wasn't about to drop a shop class, to be in a hot classroom with a 70+ year old screeching woman teacher. You could hear her to both ends of that floor.

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Michael A. Terrell

He has no evidence he lost 15% due to ethanol. In 2004 the oxygenate that was probably used was MTBE (even when the pump said the gas *may* contain ethanol).

MTBE was a horrible gas additive that had nothing at all going for it except that it was hugely profitable to the oil refiners to dump it into the US gasoline supply. Today US oil refiners export the MTBE at about half the price of gasoline (to mostly 3rd world countries that use it to dilute their gasoline stocks).

MTBE has all the bad effects attributed to alcohol. It has huge negative impact on fuel economy. It is far more corrosive to fuel lines gaskets and carburetors than ethanol and causes skin and eye irritation to motorist while pumping their gas. And the best part is the oil distribution network got to blame all these bad effects on ethanol because ethanol and MTBE are interchangeable as oxygenates so the labels went up on the pumps saying this "fuel may contain ethanol" but in most places there was little or no supply of ethanol while the oil companies had an over supply of MTBE.

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jim

Mine was an old hag, too. Blonde, 30ish, (sexy, and beautiful as hell, but not to a 9th grader.) Right around my senior year, I looked back on her as a goddess. Oh, no screeching, either.

Back then, one couldn't buy Mavis Beacon software to teach yourself, either. It's $4 on eBay now/$7 via Amazon Prime, if anyone wants to learn new tricks and save themself a lot of headaches. I heartily recommend it.

Free typing software online:

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Larry Jaques

Shoulda been prepping with food 'n ammo instead, boy.

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Larry Jaques

Or air, enough compression, and a properly timed spritz of fuel (if it's a diesel).

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Tim Wescott

When I retired and bought my first computer ('94), I got a typing course on CD and worked on it religiously for a couple years. Since then I have reverted to the biblical method - "seek, and ye shall find".

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geraldrmiller

Scanguage to record. Same driving done day after day one tank hooch free, next tank with hooch, then back to hooch free (just as a base-- both hooch free within a percent or two - 5% less with hooch.

Reply to
clare

Not quite correct. You need fuel and air, comprssion and properly timed spark

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clare

I got into computers in the Teletype era, the early 70's. They don't delete mistakes and I decided I'd rather be slower entering the text and less embarrassed showing it to someone.

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The VT100 terminal was a marvelous advance. It accepted codes in instant messages that permitted messing up the recipient's screen in many creative ways, like making random letters break loose and slide down to pile up at the bottom of the screen, or a little Pac-Man-like sprite that would nibble a twisty path through your displayed program. They only disrupted screen memory, not the source.

--jsq^Hw

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Jim Wilkins

Mne is a Microsoft wireless 2000 Ten I have this sticky Logitcec wave cordless that i goiing to wash.

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clare

just switched to a logitec MX3200 I had on my pile. This one seems to fire on all the keys without a hammer and I can read all the keys so I should be good for a while. I washed the other logitec - can't make it any worse and I have had them work after a good wash-out. Someons spilled something on it at the insurance office..

When I went to high school we had academic, commercial, and tech. Commercials could not take tech electives, tech could not takr commercial. 5 year in any stream could take French or Latin, 4 year could not take latin - 4 year academics took French if I remember correctly. I took 4 year tech with double major in Auto. Cut a year off my apprenticeship.

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clare

Well, based on real research -- controlled for driving cycles, headwinds, barometric pressure, temperature, etc., you appear to be an outlier.

But you're not lying as far out there in lonnyland as Larry. d8-)

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Ed Huntress

I learned at home -- *long* before home computers. My aunt had a set of rubber caps to go over the keys, and a wall chart, and got me to type using the chart instead of the keycaps. I've been glad that I learned it ever since. (Of course, my handwriting is so terrible that I

*need* to type. :-) [ ... ]

Slower -- no lower case, took a *lot* of force on the keycaps, noisy, and the smell of hot oil. (ASR-33, FWIW)

*And* -- the ability to set the ASR-33 up to send an identification string when asked by the computer or another terminal on the line. But once you set it -- you were stuck with it until you got some repair parts. There was a plastic drum with a bunch of flags, which you broke off to set the characters to be sent. No way to replace the flags -- just the whole drum. You could *change* existing characters to *some* others -- by adding bits (breaking off remaining flags).

Hmmm ... I've used VT100s (and later DEC terminals -- I still have a VT-240 used for some things upstairs), but I didn't know about those codes. I could imagine a *program* doing that to the screen, however, as there was a lot of cursor-addressing stuff built in there, and the ability to replace characters at need. (Hmm ... also setting up an area of the screen to be sent while the rest stays put.)

Enjoy, DoN.

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DoN. Nichols

So you're a huntin' pecker, eh, Gerry? Oops, I meant hunt and pecker.

Reply to
Larry Jaques

That was one of my own main reasons for learing to type. I'm a lefty and the idiot teachers gave me so much shit about smearing my work that I ended up pressing harder and smearing it worse from the stress and hate I was defending myself from. 'Twas a beeyotch.

Computers were a heaven send. No more retyping entire pages because of a simple typo on a resume'.

Eek!

I still use the ^H for fun.

I vaguely remember those from the early BBS days. Probably emulator software rather than the real DEC hardware, tho. It has been a long while.

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Larry Jaques

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