Man Ditches Old Friend for Internet Experience
Light.Perhaps the one thing that spoke the loudest was when the plastic driver’s door handle broke. A Toyota dealer wanted $350 to replace it. I found a body shop that did the job for $175. It was only a lousy piece of plastic!
I had owned Toyotas my entire adult life. I did have a Ford and a Dodge (company cars) and a Chevy and Ford take-home unmarked police cars. But actually owning a car—it had always been a Toyota, starting with a 1968 Corona, until last week.
But there's more.
I have a general rule on cars—10 years or 200,000 miles. I broke the rule with my 2000 Camry, it was under 170,000 miles but well over 10 years. It had been a good friend. A worthwhile friend.
When I was a sportswriter, it drove me tens of thousands of miles on the East Coast, taking me to baseball games in the spring and summer, football games in the fall and college basketball games in the winter.
Besides writing, I worked up to 60 hours a week in law enforcement. I used the Camry to conduct surveillances. The most popular model of car in the country at the time (Camry) did not stick out like my government-issued white Chevrolet with special license plates.
Outdoor Power Equipment Goes Gas-Free: Makes Way To Wind Energy
What does the new gas-free motor technology mean for portable outdoor power equipment?
Well a couple of things. One, the Outdoor Power Equipment (OPE) market for portable or handheld moving products is around $15B . Second, zero emissions, less noise with no loss of power to trim or blow – all of that inside of a market ready for a makeover.
Lincoln Jore, President and Founder, Core Outdoor Power, has been quoted in the past saying the OPE market has missed the mark on developing alternative energy products that meet performance expectations. He believes the company is onto something with their new gas-free product line and he might be right.
The hybrid power cell in the CORE motor technology makes it capable of storing and delivering large amounts of power in a very small package. Combining these technologies together creates an environmentally clean line of products capable of consuming a large portion of that $15B outdoor power equipment market, which has historically been dominated by two-cycle gas engines.
This unit incorporates an X13 ECM model variable speed blower motor with choices of five airflow options and provides noiseless operation, adequate comfort
An overheated blower motor above a suspended ceiling filled portions of the DGF School in Glyndon with smoke, forcing an evacuation Thursday.
These heat pumps incorporate an ECM blower motor with a maximum of 12 airflow sections to provide increased comfort, noiseless operation and savings on and more »
Art Carr built the 3000-rpm stall converter, a 10-inch blower-motor/nitrous-oxide unit. For additional reinforcement, the third member houses a Moroso
