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    Empire Cat. 43 Steam Engine

    Everything checks out. The safety valve is on the stack and is fully functional. The whistle is impressively loud!
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    Empire Cat. 43 Steam Engine

    That's the first thing I thought of when I saw it too. My parents had one for the longest time. The cord frayed a lot and eventually caught on fire. I looked at that one. It says it's for the B43 so I'm not sure if it would for or not. There are a lot of various widths for the prongs.
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    Empire Cat. 43 Steam Engine

    My son and I were in the next town over where my parents live so we popped into my dad's shop to say hi. He had an old steam engine that my son has wanted for years. Well yesterday his wish came true. At 83, my dad is getting up there in age and is looking to shut down his little shoe repair...
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    The Bible of home meat production

    That is a very well known book around these parts. The authors have published a bunch of it online too.
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    last peppers harvested and plants "winterized".

    I used to chat with a guy that lives in Texas that would overwinter some of his plants. He had an orange habanero plant that was something like 4 or 5 years old. His last harvest from it gave him ~4000 peppers. It can be done, just take precautions and watch out for pests. Once they get a...
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    last peppers harvested and plants "winterized".

    I've tried overwintering a few of my pepper plants back when I was growing regularly. Everything was fine until around December when the aphids would emerge and decimate any new foliage that appeared. I abandonded the idea and went back to starting new each year.
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    Long time smoker of anything edible

    Welcome to the community possum! Lots of good folks here.
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    Hydroponics Struggling

    Tried that too. Nothing worked as good as a dedicated pH adjuster over a longer period.
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    Not smoking related so posting here. First time making pot stickers

    I find most gyoza recipe's share a lot of common ingredients. If you want to up the umami, add some Dashi powder.
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    Hydroponics Struggling

    What are you using to measure EC and pH? I would also suggest using pH Down instead of citric acid to lower pH. Dedicated pH solutions are considerably more stable.
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    Hydroponics Struggling

    The confusion comes from me having never heard EC being referred to in numbers like 1200. I've only ever seen references like that when talking about PPM. Of course the PPM depends on which scale you're using - 500 or 700 so we'd have to know what conversion scale the OP is using to understand...
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    Not smoking related so posting here. First time making pot stickers

    I really like potstickers, but I've found that I don't have the patience to make proper ones that are nicely folded. I've since taken to simply spreading a dollop of the filling on the dough and frying it on both sides. Or spreading it on half and folding it mini-taco style before fying on both...
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    Kitchen Aid Pasta Maker

    I'd suggest ensuring that you're working with warm, relaxed dough to start with. Slightly rolled helps too.
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    Kitchen Aid Pasta Maker

    We bought a set of these shortly after we picked up our KA from costco around 15 years ago. Unfortunately we've moved three times since then and they've been stored away in a box ever since. Out of sight, out of mind I guess. We have one more move coming up, but this should be the last as we're...
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    Grinding spices

    I have a magic bullet from when they first came out in the early 2000's. That thing is a beast! It's a fair amount bigger than the magic bullets that came after it. It's great for marinade prep. The issue I'm having is the blender plate is starting to leak a tad. The base is still chugging along...
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