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[Angelo Voltura]

They are wrapped in 315/75/16 Cooper STT Pros!

[Rembrant]

ArdWrknTrk wrote

RIGHT NOW I need something like antibiotics.
Since it would cost a minimum of $300 to see a doctor, and $Xxx to get the prescription filled, I'm going down to the fish store (aquarium supply) and get some there.
$20 v/s $120...

You live on the street long enough, you figure these things out.

As a Canadian, obviously I'm used to our "free" Healthcare. It has it's pros and cons. Just remember, like anything else, you get what you pay for.. As a young fella, I always thought it was the best thing in the world...but then again, I didn't need to use it either.

Antibiotics are getting tough to get too. You have to really prove that you're suffering. BTDT.

Hope you get it fixed up soon. That sh!t is no fun.

[Angelo Voltura]

Sure sucks for sure, I've been battling strep and pneumonia for a month.

[85lebaront2]

I read things like this and am very grateful that I retired from a major defense contractor. They pay almost all of my and my wife's annual premiums for our Medicare supplement. As far as "free" healthcare, I need to look no further than or VA system. Veterans have died waiting for appointments, there was even one who died in the waiting room. Worst part, it varies wildly from one VA center to another.

My daughter, who had managed at one point to "game the wellfare system", said to me one day "Medicare is free like Medicaid" I straightened her out on that, as I have been paying into it since LBJ started it and still have it taken out of my Social Security check.

[Ray Cecil]

All, setting aside the possible brushfire discussion about politics, Id like to give some advice....for teeth...

By far, the best thing you can do for your body, and your teeth.....1 meal a day 90% meat, 10% veg.

I know, everyone has an opinion and preference for diets. However, tooth rot, tooth embrittlement are STRONGLY linked to poor diet.

Ive experimented with going 100% carnivore. The FIRST thing I noticed was an improvement in the health of my teeth. They didnt get plaque, my breath didnt smell, the little aches I would occasionally get disappeared, and they felt glossy. The enamel started to rebuild.

Sources for Carnivore diets: Joe Rogan, Dr. Shawn Baker. And google. If you are dealing with health issues, nervous system disorders, try carnivore for 30 days. Fatty cuts of meat, eggs, liver, real grass fed butter occasionally.

[ArdWrknTrk]

I didn't mean to get political, I apologize if it seemed so.

I've just got something jammed in there and it's too inflamed for me to dig it out.
My teeth are incredibly good for someone who was never able to see a dentist as a kid.

I've had to have my wisdom teeth pulled because the roots were too big, but other than a cavity where I chipped a tooth opening a bottle of beer as a teenager they are solid.

[Ray Cecil]

Jim, I gotta pocket knife and some whiskey....just sayin.

[ArdWrknTrk]

Thanks Ray!  

That's where I'm at, and I'll be ok.

At least I have a whole assortment of dental picks, and some 'shine to sterilize them.

[Ray Cecil]

Just be careful Jim. Ive heard of people getting infections in their mouths and it kills them. Something about the blood path from the mouth to the heart. The infection has a high risk of entering your heart and causing heart failure. That is what a heart doc told me once.

[ArdWrknTrk]

Or it could travel up a nerve into your brain.
Or your immune system might kick into overdrive and cause sepsis.

Any way, I'm dead and it's not my problem anymore.  

[Ray Cecil]

ArdWrknTrk wrote

Any way, I'm dead and it's not my problem anymore.  

Thats one way to stay positive!

[Gary Lewis]

YES!  Please be careful!  I, too, have known people who had serious problems from tooth or gum infections.

[Dorsai]

Ray Cecil wrote

Just be careful Jim. Ive heard of people getting infections in their mouths and it kills them. Something about the blood path from the mouth to the heart. The infection has a high risk of entering your heart and causing heart failure. That is what a heart doc told me once.

This is 100% true, and no joke.  I had to have open heart surgery ~10 years ago, and they wouldn't open me up until after my dental health had been validated (fortunately, my dental health is generally good).  Also, had I needed a valve replacement, I would then have needed prophylactic antibiotics before any future dental surgery.  Fortunately I got to keep the valve.

[Rembrant]

Now that's Patina!



I believe as a society we have reached Peak Patina!...but I still like it sometimes. Fake patina is not really my thing, but I don't mind the look of it on some trucks. I thought this one was interesting...guy says it looked like that when he bought it in 1991...lol.

[salans7]

The paint on these trucks wasn't the best. It was even worse in the 90's. My dad worked for the body shop at the local Ford dealership around 1995-96 and he used to tell me about all of the trucks that were coming in for warranty repaints.

I remember the tops of my fenders on the F150 were experiencing paint failure. The clearcoat was 100% intact, yet the brown paint underneath was bleeding away. And that was on a 1980.

[FuzzFace2]

salans7 wrote

The paint on these trucks wasn't the best. It was even worse in the 90's. My dad worked for the body shop at the local Ford dealership around 1995-96 and he used to tell me about all of the trucks that were coming in for warranty repaints.

I remember the tops of my fenders on the F150 were experiencing paint failure. The clearcoat was 100% intact, yet the brown paint underneath was bleeding away. And that was on a 1980.

Vary few cars & trucks had clear coat on them back in the early 80's.
GM also had issues with paint pealing off in sheets just driving down the road.
I know as the hospital I worked at had 2 trucks and my 86 K5 all had pealing paint.
Dave ----

[salans7]

I think someone mentioned that to me years ago but I must have forgotten. I wasn't around back then. Haha.

The paint flying off in sheets for GM sounds much worse than Ford's bleeding issues.

[Rembrant]

FuzzFace2 wrote

Vary few cars & trucks had clear coat on them back in the early 80's.
GM also had issues with paint pealing off in sheets just driving down the road.

Yes, right. I believe GM started using base/clear sometime in the late 1980's, and Ford followed a few years later. I forget the exact timeline, but I know we're talking late 80's and into the early 1990's. I had a 1990 Toyota pickup years ago, and it was factory painted in a single stage. I believe my '84 F150 was painted with single stage enamel.

I talked to an old guy a while ago that spent 30 years working in one of the Ford plants in Canada, and he was in the paint shop all through the 1980's. He was rhyming off all of the paint thickness specs at the time and said that there was shockingly little paint put on those cars and trucks. He said it was no wonder that the sun burned right through it.

[FuzzFace2]

I left my dad's shop in 83 and only remember painting some foreign cars maybe high end cars (been a long time ago), no trucks in BC/CC.
I would also say late 80's to early 90's when the BC/CC really started to hit the market on cars not trucks.
Dave ----

[Gary Lewis]

Actually, I think several of the colors were clear-coated.  From our page on Documentation/Specifications/Exterior/Exterior Paint Codes here are the US paint codes.  Note the statement in the Notes at top that any paint indicated by a theta, which is an "o" with a slash through it, is a clear coat color.  So, for instance, Code 14, Light Charcoal Metallic, would have been cleared.