Not slot car related but a favorite song of mine. All the best to all the nearly 800,000 slotters around the world who look in from time to time on Slot Car News.
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From the award-winning documentary, "Playing For Change: Peace Through Music", comes the first of many "songs around the world" being released independently. Featured is a cover of the Ben E. King classic by musicians around the world adding their part to the song as it travelled the globe. This and other songs such as "One Love" will be released as digital downloads soon; followed by the film soundtrack and DVD early next year.
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6 Tips For Jump Starting A Car
6 Tips For Jump Starting a Car
By Everette Jamison
When your car's battery dies or loses its ability to crank the engine, you may need someone to give it a jump start. Doing so can provide your battery with the current it needs to turn the engine over and start your car. But, jump starting a car can be dangerous because of the hydrogen gas and acid contained within the battery. If it explodes, it can cause serious injury. Unfortunately, many car owners approach jump starting haphazardly and take it for granted. Below, I'll give you 6 tips and precautions that you should use to protect you and your car.
Tip #1: Line 'Em Up
Align your cars in a way that places each car's battery as close to the other as possible. Then, place both cars in "Park" and turn them off. Also, make sure that the cars are not touching each other. The current can travel through the hull, potentially causing damage and injury.
Tip #2: Know Your Signs
Car batteries have a positive post and a negative post. How those posts are connected to the cables is important. Before connecting anything, familiarize yourself with which post is which.
Tip #3: Know Your Connections
Jumper cables are typically colored red and black. Those colors indicate which cable connects to which post. The red cable will be connected to the positive posts on the dead battery and the charged battery. The black cable will be connected to the negative post on the charged battery. The other end of the black cable will clamp down on the hull of the dead battery's car.
Tip #4: Clear The Cable Path
Do not allow the clamps at the end of the cables to touch each other. Also, make sure that the cables are free of any moving parts. They can easily become caught in the fan, ripping the clamps off the posts.
Tip #5: Good Battery First
Once the cables have been connected to the battery posts, start the engine of the car with the charged battery first. Let the engine idle for a few minutes so its charging system can take some of the load off the battery.
Tip #6: Disconnect, Then Drive
After starting the car with the dead battery, disconnect the jumper cables after the engine turns over. In order for the battery to keep its charge, you'll need to drive it continuously for approximately 30 minutes.
Jump starting a car isn't complicated. You need to memorize which posts are positive and negative, and which cables are connected to which posts. Then, take a few minutes to follow the tips above, ensuring your safety and preventing damage to both vehicles.
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By Everette Jamison
When your car's battery dies or loses its ability to crank the engine, you may need someone to give it a jump start. Doing so can provide your battery with the current it needs to turn the engine over and start your car. But, jump starting a car can be dangerous because of the hydrogen gas and acid contained within the battery. If it explodes, it can cause serious injury. Unfortunately, many car owners approach jump starting haphazardly and take it for granted. Below, I'll give you 6 tips and precautions that you should use to protect you and your car.
Tip #1: Line 'Em Up
Align your cars in a way that places each car's battery as close to the other as possible. Then, place both cars in "Park" and turn them off. Also, make sure that the cars are not touching each other. The current can travel through the hull, potentially causing damage and injury.
Tip #2: Know Your Signs
Car batteries have a positive post and a negative post. How those posts are connected to the cables is important. Before connecting anything, familiarize yourself with which post is which.
Tip #3: Know Your Connections
Jumper cables are typically colored red and black. Those colors indicate which cable connects to which post. The red cable will be connected to the positive posts on the dead battery and the charged battery. The black cable will be connected to the negative post on the charged battery. The other end of the black cable will clamp down on the hull of the dead battery's car.
Tip #4: Clear The Cable Path
Do not allow the clamps at the end of the cables to touch each other. Also, make sure that the cables are free of any moving parts. They can easily become caught in the fan, ripping the clamps off the posts.
Tip #5: Good Battery First
Once the cables have been connected to the battery posts, start the engine of the car with the charged battery first. Let the engine idle for a few minutes so its charging system can take some of the load off the battery.
Tip #6: Disconnect, Then Drive
After starting the car with the dead battery, disconnect the jumper cables after the engine turns over. In order for the battery to keep its charge, you'll need to drive it continuously for approximately 30 minutes.
Jump starting a car isn't complicated. You need to memorize which posts are positive and negative, and which cables are connected to which posts. Then, take a few minutes to follow the tips above, ensuring your safety and preventing damage to both vehicles.
When looking for quality used auto parts and affordable used engines consider, http://www.everdrive.com
Porta Pottie Art Ruins Secret Mission
Totally off subject, off color and on Christmas eve but a good clean, fresh Porta Pottie is hard to find on a long road trip or at some public event. The best time to get in one is first thing in the morning when they are clean and the blue juice in the hole is freshly poured. These bad boys are not only functional but aesthetically pleasing, because you want people starring at the art when youre in there doing business. The whole idea is not to draw attention to your self in public when using the Porta Pottie, in fact if you can get in and out of there without anyone noticing, then mission accomplished. These artfully done units defeat the whole "secret potty mission" thing and ruin it for the rest of us who are trying to keep a low profile.
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Amazing 3D Snow Art Cars
These snow art car prints where created simply by pushing faces and bodies into a fresh snow powder covered car. They are all concave snow prints which captured every facial expression and clothing texture to create an illusion of 3D sculptures.
photos by 2pie
These prints were made by simply pushing our faces into fresh powder on cars. They are all concave but create a super cool illusion of 3D sculptures. Enjoy.
photos by 2pie
These prints were made by simply pushing our faces into fresh powder on cars. They are all concave but create a super cool illusion of 3D sculptures. Enjoy.
Plastic Utencil Art Car at Burning Man
by trizydlux
Finally a good use for all the plastic utensils after a big birthday party. Don't trow them out, glue them to your car instead and then go to Burning Man.
V8 Powered Art Car For Soccers Hooligans?
by happylobster
This V8 art car has a from England has a soccer hooligan feel to it and I don't know why.
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