Andy

What model did you get?

I have a Yamaha that I bought in '75 when I was 13, and it's a solid guitar. But a few years ago I bought a Taylor 214 that I love as much now as then. Easy playing and sounds great. I'm really into fingerstyle now. I know it's a low end Taylor with a composite back, but to me it sounds great and I can take it anywhere. Guitars are a very personal thing. I tried Martins and Larivees, but none of them seemed just right for me.

It is so sickening. She is so out of touch with everyday Canadians. Justin is no better. A kid with a trust fund and hundreds of thousands of dollars to play with from speaking engagements. What do either of them know about the real challenges of trying to raise a family in Ontario. Or retire on a pension with skyrocketing hydro bills, taxes etc. Don't worry tho, the Pan Am game executives walked away with millions in perks and bonuses. They'll be able to stay warm this winter. While our doctor's do with less. It's grotesque.

Google "The Atlantic Magazine and the Coddling of the American Mind." It was the very interesting September cover article. I can't copy and paste the link onto here.

I also had that problem once. I just couldn't figure it out. Then I noticed that one tire had a bulge that slowly got worse until it was ready to blow. I'd take the tires to a tire shop for inspection/balancing.

My current trailer had the same issue when I first had it. I had bought the boat and trailer used, but it had only been used a year or two when I bought it. I had to replace a tire the first year because one tire feathered that badly. I was going through a tire per year. I first put the boat and trailer on car jacks and I measured the distance of the tires/hubs/axle from the front and rear of the frame. It wasn't mounted squarely and I bumped one side ahead a bit. It didn't resolve the issue, so I put the whole works on the cars jacks again and I removed the axle and tires. I took the axle to a local welding/repair shop and we measured the distance between the hubs from the top, bottom, front and back of the hub. The front and back (the toe) were not the same, so we put the axle in a press and we bent it until the hubs were even front and back. It didn't take much. If I remember correctly, the top and bottom (the camber) were close so I left that alone. (The wear I had was a real feathering, not just increased wear that may occur if the camber is really out of whack.) It's been 3 or 4 years now and both tires are still quite good with lots of miles on them.

Possible reasons for my "toe" being out include a factory defect, or damage from pulling out of a bad ramp or hitting a hole too quickly or hard.

So I would start by making sure your axle is square on the frame. A simple measuring tape will do this. (remember that the frame may not be perfectly even in length on both sides, I'd rely on measuring from the front to the hub or tire the most.)

Then check the toe and camber. When I went to the welding shop, a tape measure was sufficient. I believe my camber was out about 1/4 inch.

I'm not a mechanic, but this worked for me. Good luck, Andy

It's funny you say that because I've been a solid Conservative for many years, and will go that way again. But I would vote for Mulcair long before I would ever consider Jr. The fact that Jr is even in the running as leader of our great nation is so disturbing to me.

There are a number of articles in the online version of the Atlantic magazine recently about microaggressions. The articles detail how many people are now taking offense to pretty much anything said, regardless of context. It's a good article. Questions like "What country are you from? are deemed offensive. That is what the "old stock" comment was to me, a microaggression, a big deal about nothing. And the professor quoted in the Star that took such offense to it, I don't give a darn what he thinks. In my opinion he's just looking for his 15 minutes of fame, like so many others out there.

Sorry, link didn't copy.

It was a while ago that I read about it, when it first started doing it. It was on some of the Ram forums out of the US of A. Every now and then my cruise control won't turn on either. Weird little stuff like that. This is a typical link on a Google search. Kinda worrisome. Just Google "2013 Ram radio problems". Lots of concerning material.

My 2012 will have to go in. I was having trouble with the radio too, mostly not turning on at all. But it has been working well for the last month or so. An internet search shows the radio to be a common problem.

To anyone east of the Stratford area, keep an eye on the skies. Some wicked storms just went through here. A non stop roar of thunder to the north and a bit of hail at here at home. Looks like all of Southern Ontario at risk of heavy storms.

I see that no one has replied so I will tell you what I think.

First of all, it's rather confusing. Some guys use lithium based greases, some say no. Others say Teflon or PTFE greases which is in grease like Superlube (available at hardware stores). Others talk about mixing different greases and oil and I've always thought that mixing was a bad idea.

I use Cal's drag grease on my drags. I buy some when I get Smoooth Drag drag washers out of the States.

It is expensive for what you get, but I use it only for the washers. A little goes a long way. Gears get Hot Sauce or Abu Garcia reel grease.

Some carbon washers will run fine dry, but I like using a little grease.

I have tried Superlube on some drags but I read that it will emulsify with water so I stopped using it. But I can't say it caused me any problems. (Although Mike's Reel Repair recommends it.)

The online guys talk about using a Teflon bike grease that you would get at a bike shop or a marine grade grease that has Teflon in it.

I sometimes think that it doesn't matter for the everyday freshwater angler. Our reels are not really put to the test too hard.

If I run out of Cal's for my drags, I may try a Teflon bike grease that shouldn't be too hard to find. But it may not be that much cheaper.

I bought a new 14.5 foot Smokercraft from Can Do Sports near Burgessville, just south of Woodstock, a number of years ago. I upgraded to a 16.5 foot StarCraft in 2008 that I bought used from a friend, so I haven't dealt with them lately, but I was very happy with the boat and level of service I received at the time. And it's not far from Waterloo. They may be worth a look.

I'm pretty sure that the police response to this issue would be that this is a civil issue and not their problem. "It will be at my convenience" seems a little weird, considering you were doing the favour, but whatever, the solution seems simple enough.

I'm sorry to hear that too, and I sure hope things work out for ya. I'm not a religious guy, but I do believe that we all have crosses to bear. It's just that some are just much heavier than others. I used to be a big plan ahead kind of guy. You know, save for retirement, life insurance, RRSPs, etc. I still take care of that stuff to some degree, but more and more I find myself trying to make the most of every day as it happens. Life is just to unpredictable to pretend that anything in the future can be set in stone.

Have a copied faxed, or scanned and emailed to you????

I'm not saying I am putting all my trust in Monsanto and like minded corporations with their tremendous influence and resources. By all means hold them accountable. Same goes for government. (Wynne getting re-elected still infuriates me.) But I'm do realize that everyone has an agenda, and a speaker at an organic growers conference also has an agenda. He goes on about glysophate being a descaler. So what? Toothpaste takes grease stains out of my clothes, but I still brush my teeth with it. Coke will dissolve the rust off of metal too, but I still like it with rum. (Never mind the major impact soft drinks have re; obesity rates.) Some guys put WD-40 on their fishing lures, which I really don't understand. The main active ingredient of Viagra was initially used for other purposes than what it is sold for now, but that doesn't seem to be a bone of contention. The list can go on and on. (see your doctor after 4 hrs.)

Roundup may have available since the 70's, but it wasn't until the mid 90's that it began being sprayed directly on field crops. It's primary use initially was use as a burndown, to clean up weeds before or after the crop was planted or harvested, usually for hard to kill perennials like quackgrass. And in the vast majority of cases, this involves one application per season, not multiple applications.

The media shares some blame in sensationalizing these issues. There was a news article about the horrors of a crop of wheat that wouldn't die because it was Roundup resistant. Roundup ready volunteer corn and wheat that appears in a subsequent years crop of soybeans, for example, is actually quite easy to control with other classes of herbicides that are routinely being used. And all weeds and plants are still allergic to iron in the form of a cultivator or plow.

As far as choice goes, I'll give you that one. Food labelling has come a long way, and probably has a long way to go. What makes me shake my head is that some people will lose their minds over what farmers are using in their fields in Canada, all which have gone through a regulatory process to be registered, and yet they will by fruit and vegetables from Asia, China, Central and South America, and many other places in the world where you have absolutely no idea what is being used to grow those foodstuffs. You remember that video of the fish being raised in the river in what was essentially human waste? Canadians are eating that every day without question.

US farmers have access to chemicals that aren't registered for use in Canada. Some of these chemicals may be good or bad, but we will likely never know because the cost of getting these chemicals approved for use here in Canada is too high, and our market is too small to bother with. So you have likely eaten grain products grown with chemicals that have never been approved for use in Canada.

Anyway, I have quite enjoyed this thread, but I'm bowing out.

All the best to you Dutch01. I enjoyed your posts, even though our opinions are quite different.

To end on a fishing note, I bought a bunch of new lures over the winter, spoons in particular, and I need to go fishing soon. They were the lures I started with and I seemed to have drifted away from them over the past few years.

My take away is that I would take most of what he says with a large grain of salt when he is either purposefully misleading you or grossly inaccurate when it come to a few basic facts.

Rats developed tumors after drinking water containing glysophate. Who ever promoted drinking glysophate? We don't drink water laced with gasoline or anti-freeze of household cleaners, do we? (Yet some of our rivers by big cities have so many hormones or hormone like substances in the waste water from birth control pills and various everyday household products that the that fish are changing sex.)

He implies that RR crops cause obesity, autism, various cancers and behavioural changes. Because he says so this must be true. After all, it's on the internet.

Many cancers take years to develop, yet he implies that cancer rates increase at virtually the same rate as the use of RR crops.

I thought obesity was caused by the vast amount of processed junk food consumed while sitting on the couch watching TV for hours on end.

Weren't vaccines supposed to cause autism? Isn't this why some misguided parents are putting other families at risk by not vaccinating their children because some kook celebrity says so?

I'm pretty sure that if your sitting on your couch tonight smoking a joint and eating a bag of Doritos that it's not the corn in the Doritos affecting your behaviour.

And farmers have been using insecticides and fungicides on seed for decades. And these same crops are routinely sprayed with various herbicides and pesticides. This is nothing new. And many chemicals that were commonplace are no longer available or used in the same way because they were proven carcinogenic or weeds became resistant. Will glysophate share this fate? Time will tell. I will agree that neonics seem to be a concern and need to be closely looked at.

Glysophate resistant weeds are not superweeds. They are simply weeds that are or have become resistant to glysophate. This is not unique to glysophate. This is why most farmers have a cropping program that makes use of crop rotation and the use of different classes of herbicides to employ various modes of action, thereby trying to avoid weed resistance to any certain family of herbicides.

It's interesting that in the 90's, corn was genetically modified to be resistant to corn borer. It's called bt corn and most of the corn grown is now bt corn. You could ban all Roundup Ready corn tomorrow and you would still be eating a GMO grain. And yet you hear virtually no one talk about that.

Oh yeah, I watched the video.

I didn't know that a bushel of corn now weighs 54 lbs. Actually, a standard bushel of corn still weighs 56 lbs. That's what corn should weigh for a farmer to get paid for grade 2 corn. If your bushel weight is less than 56 lbs, you will likely receive a discounted price. Bushel weight is impacted every year by many factors, factors like planting date, fertility levels, heat units received and plant maturity. Some years the corn weighs heavy, some years light.

Glysophate is a herbicide. Nionics are pesticides. The two are never mixed together in a tank mix. They have two very different purposes and methods of use.

The articles I've read suggest Glyphosate is a probable carcinogen. Compared to many of the herbicides that had been used in the past, it is extremely safe. The one article compares the cancer risk of using glyphosate to that of the occupational cancer risk of being a barber. Are we all going to stop getting haircuts too? That's the trouble with these arguments, people pick and choose their stats to suit their position.

I don't care if an responsible adult smokes a joint in his basement after work while watching TV, I really don't.

But I've have seen the effects of prolonged marijuana use by young people and you will never convince me that it is harmless.

The Dutch have recently classified marijuana with a THC content above a certain amount as a hard drug with the likes of cocaine and heroin. They have been tightening up their liberal (by our standards) policy on marijuana. Dutch studies have noted the increased risk of schizophrenia in adolescents who smoke marijuana regularly as well. Google will bring some of them up. I think The Nature of Things had an interesting show on it as well.

I fully agree with the federal governments reservations re; medical marijuana. Harper = Hitler is just a ridiculous and offensive statement. Just ask my father and mother who grew up in Holland during the war.

First time musky fishing about 6-7 years ago I caught 5 fish in 45 minutes, all on a bucktail, some on consecutive casts, the biggest 44 inches. I was flying high and I couldn't understand why people said they were so challenging to catch. Well I've never had another day like that since, with a number of trips with not a single fish. It's been humbling, but hopefully I've paid my dues and I can get more consistent results in the years to come.