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Jsdirt Senior Enthusiast

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Been a long time since I've seen a Canadian $100. Haven't been up there since 9/11 happened - I've never had a passport.

 

About the only electronics repairs I've done are a couple stepper motors, 2 super-caps in my Davis weather station, and a relay, jumper, and capacitor in my Amtrol Boilermate indirect hot water heater. That one saved me $200 for a new unit! There was a relay inside that switched depending on whether 24v or 120v was fed to it. Figures on 120 it was energized - thing started buzzing like crazy one day out of the blue, and kept kicking the display off - circulator wouldn't run, and the water went cold. Was about to buy a board for $200 when I read in the comments section of some board this huge post by an electronics guy - if I could buy him a keg of beer I would have! Followed his instructions and it worked great!

 

Yesterday I replaced the 3 month old KYB shock in that '88 Trooper I freshened up for a neighbor. Thanks to the company cheaping out and not including a dust shield, the chrome got chipped, and it wiped out the seal. Nice job KYB! What a friggin joke! JERKS ... :nonod:

 

Went out back and cut a dust shield off an old shock, and fabricated it to the new replacement KYB. Should have a chance in hell of passing 3k miles this time. I had to grind down the rubber bushing before I could get the nut to thread on - that dust shield and the washer I put under it took up alot of real estate. Spray bombed the shield black so it won't rust out in 3 weeks ...

 

She ain't pretty, but will do the job nicely.

 

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My second project for the day was for a feral cat that was dumped off in our neighborhood recently. She came to me the other day starving. Gave her some food & water. Poor little guy was overjoyed. Last night it hit 12° - I saw her on the security cameras at 4am shaking her paws as she walked across the driveway - must've been getting frostbite out there. So today, I took a plastic 55 gallon drum, cut a hole in the front, taped a trash bag over it, laid down a heated ice-dam preventer strip and put the drum on top of it. Then I took a fleece blanket the wife had stuffed upstairs, and sprinkled it with catnip, and threw a bowl of food in there too.

 

Just went out there in the snow a few minutes ago and saw paw prints. Pulled out my flashlight and saw a little nose poking out the bottom. Glad the little guy has a place to go now. :)

 

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MikeNH Senior Enthusiast

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The new Canadian $100s (and most of the lower bills I think) are plastic now.

Coby7 Senior Enthusiast

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Not all plastic, they have a plastic hologram insert like the Australian currency to help stop counterfeiting. It worked in Australia so why not apply it here. Which they would bring back the pink $1000 bill though.

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Not all plastic, they have a plastic hologram insert like the Australian currency to help stop counterfeiting. It worked in Australia so why not apply it here. Which they would bring back the pink $1000 bill though.

 

 

 

I thought they were made out of some kind of polymer? I know they're basically impossible to rip now. At least the $5s are. I didn't want to try with something worth more on my last visit. :lol:

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They are all made of the same material now! $5 blue ,$10 purple, $20 greenish, $50 orangy and $100 brown.

 

Didn't have a $10 bill on me to show but it would have Sir John A MacDonald on it in purple but you get the picture.

 

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StinkyCheese Senior Enthusiast

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Pretty sure the nosey neighbor called code enforcement on me so they staked a notice in my yard about the carpet and carpet pad I had along the side of my driveway. Pulled it out of the room Friday been too busy, sick, or lazy to do anything with it. Can't cut it up and put it in the trash cans as we have the county supplied ones that get picked up by the arm and dumped. Can is already full so I was thinking about cutting it up and putting it in little by little. Guess now I'll have to go to the dump and get a couple nails/screws in my tires. Wanted to weigh my truck anyway. Wonder how long it'll take me to get around to actually going to the dump.

 

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Jsdirt Senior Enthusiast

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That sucks - those code enforcements are encroaching communism. Some places I hear you can't even change the color of your house without going to the board for "approval". How did anything like this get a foothold in AMERICA??? It's crazy. :nonod:

 

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I don't have a HOA so I'm good there. Also I really shouldn't have been lazy and have it sitting out in plain view like that. Only annoyed that they cite me yet the guy around the corner has been running a repair shop out of his garage for years. Rental houses go months without mowing the grass. I'm surprised the neighbor hasn't called in noise complaints about my across the street neighbor. Or my dad and I when we both had 2500 6Ls with glass packs.

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Most places in MA are like that too. Too many people with too much time on their hands, I guess.

 

The neighborhood I'm in now is about as rural as you can get in this part of the state - it's like taking a trip back in time 40 years. Everyone looks out for one another. We barter goods and services, and borrow equipment, tools, etc., help haul deer in, etc.. I really am blessed to have found this place. Not very many places in MA like this left.

 

As for the rest of the state, everyone has to have their nose in everyone else's business. Pisses me off! :mad:

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I don't have a HOA so I'm good there. Also I really shouldn't have been lazy and have it sitting out in plain view like that. Only annoyed that they cite me yet the guy around the corner has been running a repair shop out of his garage for years. Rental houses go months without mowing the grass. I'm surprised the neighbor hasn't called in noise complaints about my across the street neighbor. Or my dad and I when we both had 2500 6Ls with glass packs.

Is there something you can call the neighbor in on? Fair play for people not minding their own business. It's one thing if you put your trash can out on the sidewalk, preventing others from using the sidewalk, it's another if a neighbor puts their basketball stand out on the sidewalk and leaves it there day after day.

Chris Senior Enthusiast

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Selling the SS....need to make room in the garage...

 

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Would love to, especially the GTRS W1.

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