Fun Stuff

This is a time lapse video of my 12 year old son and I cutting down 3 large trees on my families property in North Dakota. The job took about 3 days and I captured about 9 hours of video footage which is played back at 3000% speed with some short normal speed updates.

Enjoyable to watch for kids because of the use of large equipment. My son did all the equipment operating so that was a ton of fun for him. Fun vacation for me too!

In this video I try to cover just the basic knowledge, skills and tools needed to pick simple locks.

This should help people of any age such as Ray from “Game Room Collectibles” who recently spent a half hour trying to pick some simple locks in last week’s “RAY Files” video with almost no luck.
If you don’t know Ray, he is an amazing pinball technician who posted 57 famous YouTube tech tip videos titled “Ray’s Pinball Tech Tips”. By watching my Lock Picking 101 video Ray as well as anybody else should be able to pick simple locks very fast with just a few hours practice.

MIT Guild to lock picking (pdf)

Amazon Store Links:

• 15 Piece Premium  Lock Tool Set with Transparent Pad Lock
• SouthOrd Visible Cutaway Practice Locks
• Visual Guide to Lock Picking (Third Edition)

My distributor in my 1994 Jeep Grand Cherokee 318 v8 5.2L decided to blend. The magnet for the hall effect cam sensor fell out of its plastic bracket inside the distributor and ground up the insides of the distributor which through ODB1 code 54. In this video I show how to replace the distributor and set it so the timing is correct. The computer does most of the timing work on this vehicle but it is critical to get the distributor housing and rotor set correctly when the engine is at top dead center (TDC) of cylinder number 1 on the compression stroke.

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