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Don't pay a shop more than $300 for a brake job, and don't pay disposal fees for your old car battery—the shop gets $10 for it. Car maintenance webapp DriverSide explains and prices five common repairs .

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It has been illegal to talk on a cell phone while driving in New York for years now, but the state has just steeply upped the penalties associated. The $100 fine which is currently imposed has been joined by a 2-point penalty on the driver's record -- which should s

A mathematics professor from the University of Illinois at Chicago, recently published an editorial questioning our seeming obsession with how poorly U.S. kids perform on math tests. The question, he says, should not be why are we doing so poorly, but how much math education do people really need? "

At last month's Network Enabled Operations conference, the acting deputy CIO of the U.S. Army took exception to "very rigid" testing methodology that clears equipment for use by troops, saying that while it is important, it should be more flexible. For instance, he contends that commanders be permit

No more meter readers going from house to house with a clipboard. Instead, the Smart Grid will require a highly trained workforce that's able to work with smart meters, the Internet, wireless devices, GPSs, and mobile computers. Are you preparing your utility and your workforce to deal with the Smar

These two Automation World articles discuss the need for useful, meaningful training in industry. One describes how a company is meeting training needs by combining online courses with in-house training by their own experts and experts from their equipment and automation providers. Another examines

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Does any one know of a software that can convert a paper graph to electronic form so that the data can be exported to excel or some other data processing software. I have about 50 of them I would like to this efficiently. I am talking about grapgs like this. I am not very concerned with accuracy.

We have motor which has manufacturer's standard painting which is 2 coat. Now we need it painting with 3 coat. Can anybody suggest how can we do it?

Its posible to convert a conventional air conditioning system into Inverter system to improve power consumption????

How can be do it???

Good day to all of you,

Do you know any chemical(s) that will dissolve LEAD metal and permit to recover it by electrowinning?

Thank you in advance

Hubert Lefebvre

Hi all,

Need a taking your time to explain :

1. What is the difference generator use in application on parallel and single ? is there any spesific generator to use exclusively for parallel ?

2. How to test winding on generator, beside megger test.

Appreciate for your exp

How would you separate costs of food growing, food processing, food packaging, storage, delivery and sale for the purposes of value added taxation? Value added taxes like they do in the EU are getting some lift from folks who don't like income taxes and see a VA tax as a replacement. A simple

I recently purchased a machine tool which I cannot identify. The brand is Schleicher Maschinenbau and it is called a D 8192 Geretsried/BRD. It stands about 5 feet high and weighs about 500 pounds (more or less).

It has a massive steel base and the operating portion on top, has 9 drill chucks wh

The 1990's automotive style fuse in a commercial, in-line fuse holder opened the circuit, but not in the fashion in which it was supposed to.

Note that the fuse link is still intact. The fuse action came from the base of the fuse melting open, and in so doing, partially melting th

I am looking for the EMI device model number and the device's name use in medical office like accupuncture office , to detect the chemical in the feet of human when the foot submerge in the tub contains the warm water, and there is the filter submerge in this tub and connect to the EMI device , thi

The 2N3055 transistor is in the TO-3 package. This means that the two pins are the emitter and the gate and the collector is the body of the housing. Typically, an NPN transistor, used as a switch, is wired so that the positive electrical power is, let's say, run along the top of the circuit diagr

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Is it possible to stop ground frost from going deeper into the ground once it has already started? We have a footing on a farm building that has come up an inch. It's four feet deep. It is only late February and we have another month and a half of winter left at least. There is not a lot of snow