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My workbench looks like a diatom re-design factory. The XL is on the left, I think I have two more units stored away somewhere in various stages of disassembly. It is odd, that the motors are the same but the large XL unit on the left has a much smaller impeller. I never figured that out. I...

I thought you couldn't stir a DSB or you will be cursed and spend the rest of eternity in the fusion zone.

Doing some much needed maintenance. Once a year or so I stir up the gravel as good as I can all the way down to the reverse UG filter. This typhoon makes a mess and the pipefish are making nasty faces at me as I normally lose my bluestripe pipefish when I do this, but I am going slow and...

I am not sure about that, but it is the oldest tank in my house. But I am the oldest thing in my house. I will try to light those candles underwater. Maybe the nitrate will help them burn

I think I write somewhere between Tolstoy, Hemmingway and Dr, Seuss so the book is between "War and Peace", "old Man and the Sea", and "Horton Hears a Who". I hope to get a Pulitzer and an EMMY but will settle for a slice of Pizza Dance This book will make me rich beyond my wildest...

I forgot all about it. It just cycled

I can't either

I think I can keep a moorish Idol indefinately now but my tank is not big enough so I won't be getting another one. Oddly enough, Idols were one of the first fish available in the 70s. I don't keep worms in the fridge, I built a worm keeper. I wrote this article about them...

OK I got a theory. Not a very good theory, but a theory none the less. I had an epiphany, that's an idea. I was looking at my tank last night and something hit me. I mean, after my wife hit me. I read all the time of the problems, diseases, fish dying (or going off to college) water...

I also like DeWalt and most of my power tools are DeWalt. I used to do a lot of woodwork but not so much any more. If anyone wants this real cheap, let me know. I have a much smaller one and rarely use this one any more and I need the space. It's on the table like it shows. I love the thing...

Of course I am partial to the Majano Wand being I invented and patented the thing. Dance Last year we came out with a Mini that is about 6" long for hard to get places. But there is also the laser and filefish.

Sheer pins allow the manufacturer to build a much weaker machine because the pin will break before the machine. When I see sheer pins I cringe. Electric start is also silly as the machine should start on the first or second pull. But I think they all have electric start weather you want it...

OK so I picked up a new Ariens Snow blower made in Wisconsin. It looks like a nice machine but no where near as well built as my old one but I guess nothing would be. The first indication of a problem is they give you 2 sheer pins. If you don't know, a sheer pin is a bolt that is the weakest...

I called Ariens, they have a distributer walking distance from my house. No rush as I hope to not need it until next winter. I also wrote them a little while ago to see if they had any older ones laying around with an American engine because they just switched to foreign engines a couple of...

I checked into it. 3 years ago they used American engines, but no more. I called them. If I can find an older Ariens machine with an American engine, that would be perfect.

My snow blower finished college, moved out and got married. I need to wait 16 more years for this one to ripen enough to shovel snow.

I know why. Because there are very few people any more that are willing to buy American items any more which is the reason they are expensive and those companies go out of business because we can't compete overseas. Of course now all those jobs are now overseas so their economy is booming...

Harbor freight is just to cheap and to Chinese for me. But it looks like a nice machine. I like the industrial look to it. This time I want really big wheels that I will put chains on. Mine has wheels much to small and I end up pushing it a lot.

Oh No, my snow blower croaked and I can't fix it. AAAHHHHHH. The machine is about 38 years old and I used to use it commercially so it has an enormous amount of tough hours on it. I was using it yesterday on our foot of snow, on top of our other foot of snow and I heard this crack. The thing...

I eat fish almost every day but they are dead before I eat them. I talk to them about my old girlfriends and bore them to death. Then I eat them. But the fish in my tank live long and prosper and are very lucky because almost all of them are spawning. So my fish know life's pleasures while I am...