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The district board met Tuesday night to consider two key resolutions that could all but spell the end of the hospital. One included a "substantial termination of services and closure of the emergency department," which would effectively shutter the hospital. The other was declaring the fiscal emergency.
"We're out of money, and we can't pay our vendors on a regular basis," said hospital Chief Executive Officer Tom Harlan at the meeting. He said the realization of insolvency was "alarming and very depressing."
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The hospital has been dealing with operating losses of $4 million to $5 million a year, and the institution owes vendors about $6 million, according to David Cox, interim chief financial officer and also CFO for Marin General Hospital. In January alone, the hospital reported a loss of $356,200, while through the fiscal year, ending July 1, it has lost more than $1.2 million.
Inpatient volume has seen a sharp decline, dropping from roughly 12 patients per day to as low as seven a day. That may seem like a small change in patient headcounts, but it represents a more than 30 percent decline in volume, Mr. Harlan said.
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Disneyland Park has revamped its "Walk in Walt's Footsteps" tour with new attractions -- and a new price.
The new tour is called "Walk in Walt's Disneyland Footsteps" and it began on Sunday, according to park employees. The Disney Parks blog announced the change in August without providing details.
But booking agents I talked to both at the park and on the phone say that it includes Walt Disney's apartment in the park.
As many fans know, Disney kept an office above the fire station on Main Street USA. It is marked by a lamp in the window that shines constantly.
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I took the old tour back in March. The focus was on seeing the park as its creator would have experienced it, so most of the stops dated from the 1950s or early 1960s.
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Disneyland is offering other new tours.
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City Hall and fire station are getting paint jobs, and the building fronts are block by large screens. So for the moment "Walk in Walt's Disneyland Footsteps" may be the only way to see the light in his window.
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52-week trading range: $16.46 - $25 a share
Annual dividend: 0.188 cents a share for a yield of 0.92 per cent.
Analysts' rating: There were 12 buys, 13 holds and 2 sells, according to Bloomberg data. Target prices ranged from $20.50 to $37 a share.
Recent history: The stock of the Vancouver-based copper producer has gone sideways this year, but it has been a bumpy ride. Against a backdrop of fairly steady copper prices, shares of the miner are up 2.5 per cent this year. There was euphoria in January when First Quantum sold its troubled operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo to Kazakhstani miner Eurasian Natural Resources Corp. for $1.25-billion. Its stock has dipped on fears about a slowing Chinese economy, and risen on takeover speculation. Media reports earlier this year cited Rio Tinto PLC, Glencore International PLC and Anglo American PLC among potential suitors.
Outlook: First Quantum is back in the spotlight again, but this time as an acquisitor. On Wednesday, Inmet Mining Corp. said it rejected First Quantum's unsolicited cash-and-stock bid of $70 a share and earlier one at $62.50 a share. "Inmet is in play ... and anybody can bid on Inmet," said Bill Harris, a portfolio manager with Avenue Investment Management Inc. "It would have to be the guys like Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton in our world.... The wild card is state mining companies that can come in and pay a higher price."
Inmet has a "difficult [copper] project in Panama," and First Quantum's strong management team is probably one that can bring it to production on time and on budget, said Mr. Harris, who bought the miner's stock last summer and sold half of his position recently. "But First Quantum has now exposed itself [with its bid for Inmet]. Is First Quantum in play? That is out there at the moment in the stock market."
He would not buy First Quantum stock for takeover potential because he can't see why anyone would bid for the copper miner. Its strength is its people who want to keep running the company their way, he said. "It's a public company, and you can buy it.... But they can walk out the door and start a new company tomorrow."
While a big fan of First Quantum, Mr. Harris would not buy its shares at the current price. He would wait for a better opportunity that could come should copper prices take a tumble. "We would rather see First Quantum shares drop, and if we can buy it under $20 a share, that is the way we would be doing it," he said. "We think it is worth $30 [a share] over time."Report Typo/Error
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Few websites have changed the way we access knowledge as much as Wikipedia. Now, however, it looks like the online encyclopedia is hitting some snags, as the number of volunteers who write and edit its articles is getting smaller. While talking to the Associated Press during Wikipedia's annual Wikimania conference in Haifa, Israel, the site's founder Jimmy Wales acknowledged that his organization is "scrambling to simplify what he called 'convoluted' editing templates that may be discouraging people from writing and editing Wikipedia's entries."
Less than two years ago, Jimmy Wales still argued that the number of active editors on the site was stable. Today's statement, as far as I can see, is the first public acknowledgement by Wales and Wikipedia that the number of contributors is indeed declining.
Over the years, Wikipedia has often been criticized for having a very convoluted and technically complex way of editing articles that doesn't just involve learning the arcane markup language the site uses, but also navigating the politics of editing on the site. For beginners, this is a very high barrier of entry that some earlier projects were supposed to fix. These projects never really materialized, though.
Another reason that may play a role here may also be the fact that a large body of entries is now almost complete (or at least that the public has the impression that they are complete). Because of this, fewer users may feel the need to contribute to the project now than just a few years ago.
In an effort to get more volunteers to contribute to the project, Wikipedia also today announced that it is encouraging professors in India, Brazil and Europe to give their students assignments that involve the editing and writing of Wikipedia entries.
Google is the only reason Wikipedia is popular and seen as reliable. Does anyone know where to find that tool that gives you detailed stats on Wikipedia users? All you do is type their name in and press enter and you can see all kinds of stats on them, like reverts they've done, most edited pages, all the pages they've edited, when they joined and their last edit, maybe not that detailed but something like that. It also, if I remember right, showed some thing where like it showed which users they would conspire to block and investigate, I'm paraphrasing. But I could have sworn it showed like something like that, like interactions with administrators concerning users they were reporting as vandals. It was good because it showed who they were stalking.
Wikipedia is run, on the day to day level, by a collection of self aggrandizing people of limited knowledge, but great experience at wargaming and similar combative social networking, who do their best to drive off those with more skills and greater expertise, especially in important subject areas. My wife and I were driven away from our hobbyist editing by a small cadre of these administrator who hated the fact that well-educated lawyers dared to meddle in their playground, especially when extraordinarily badly informed decisions were challenged. One of those administrators, a "Gwen Gale," apparently devoted a great deal of effort to creating a cadre of "sockpuppets" to write articles promoting her own quite dreadful political fiction; when users exposed this, evidence of her misbehavior was expunged from public view the complaining editors were prevented from editing further, and her authority was, if anything, expanded. A major pastime among experienced Wikipedia editors seems to be settling scores with people they don't like, especially people they don't know but dislike vehemently. The territory resembles nothing so much as a second-rate high school run by failed cheerleaders under the direction of Afghan warlords.
Dammit Jimmy, it's not the f'scking templates, it's the m'fing deletionists. It's not like this hasn't been a serious problem for the last 5 years.
The only thing that will fix wikipedia is to forcibly retire editors after some term of service. That way crusty, power mad, social retards with unlimited time on their hands will get the hell out of the way and let WP start to grow again.
wikipedia used to be a thriving tree, growing and blossoming, now it's full of brain dead gardeners who've started pruning the tree to the point that it's now dying.
Fix the deletionist problem and you've fixed wikipedia...that's it.
As a person who has authored one of the main web sites on tetration, I decided several years ago to try and focus working in the public domain with Wikipedia and editing their tetration web page. At first things were OK, but an unending wave of people began editing the Wikipedia tetration page with their own unpublished research. This is in express violation of Wikipedia's rules, but it didn't stop people from editing the page with unsubstantiated information. After a while I gave up trying to police the page and I feel that the quality of the page to this day has been diminished with inappropriate edits.
I agree with the other people here, there are people who actively "patrols" some themes, when you try to add something it is removed without a good explanation.
Also several articles instead of expanding are actually shrinking because someone thinks the information there does not need any addition, fix, update, and so forth, because those articles are so "perfect" in the way they see it. I bet they keep thinking how to shrink even more the already bare bones articles.
Check several math themes, when you read them you hardly get an idea of what the topic is, the explanation is superficial and if you are new to the theme you hardly get the idea, you better google somewhere for the information, and yet, if someone try to expand the article, the editings probably will get undone by those who does not have any didactic and which only worry about deleting lines.
I am completely discouraged from adding to Wikipedia for the simple fact that they keep an iron grip on what content is 'allowed' and even when playing by their lengthy set of rules, they continue to delete additions without any explanation. I have better things to do with my time.
I gave up on trying to contribute content to Wikipedia or to edit content at least three or four years ago. The process was simply impossible if you were not one of the "in" people or if someone objected for whatever vague reason. Responses from editors ranged from arrogant and pedantic to incoherent. It was a big waste of time. I rarely refer to Wikipedia these days because I simply do not trust the information -- political bias and bad science dominate many articles, and I'd rather not have to spend even more time fact-checking what should be objective information.
Having attempted to correct factual errors on wikipedia, and then have my edits undone because these facts are not politically correct, makes me unwilling to waste time trying to do it in the future. This happened several times on facts that were not in dispute or really political, but were inconvenient to one of the political parties. In one case it was a fact of science, and citing multiple authoritative sources (text books, peer reviewed papers, etc) wasn't sufficient-- the edits were just reverted. The other case it was a question of law, and I cited and quoted the law in question, again from authoritative sources (I think it was carnegie mellon that has the US Code online.)
Wikipedia has become a leftist organ. It is generally right for topics that leftist don't get their panties in a wad over, but it is totally biased on political issues. One example (not one I tried to edit, mind you) is global warming. Far be it from anyone to try and introduce actual science to those pages!
They've taken a lot of steps recently to encourage new editors to stick around too, like adding the Love Button and adding the article rating widget, which was intended to get people over that line between consumption and contribution.
@marshallk Doesn't the rating widget almost seem like it could be a tool to _compensate_ for declining editorial oversight?
@marshallk true. But isn't there still a huge chasm between clicking a ratings button and learning the Wiki markup language?
@FredericL I actually don't think Wikipedia markup is terribly hard for a non-technical person to learn but I suppose if people even have to *look at* HTML they pee their pants. I wonder sometimes if most people are opposed to learning anything new. At which point they are unlikely to be interested in contributing to Wikipedia anyway.
@marshallk People are overloaded. They're already confused by Facebook, I know I was at first, so why would they want to learn symbols in they're free time that are unlike anything they learned in school or on the job? It may be the concept of markup that's throwing them off rather than a symbol set.
It's been a while since I tried to edit anything on Wikipedia but I don't recall the markup being that problematic. Still, they don't even teach html as a normal part of the school curriculum and people don't want to have to work at figuring out new things when the payoff is unclear.So that will continue to be a barrier. For me, the barrier was dealing with all the uptight editors who think they know things that they don't actually know! And then don't acknowledge you when you make a successful case to have your content included. Reminded me too much of my editing days at the Open Directory so I haven't edited certain things that I'd really like to. I've got a block about it.
But I'm glad to hear you're not being an arrogant tech guy. I didn't think you were!
@livefyresux it's a complex situation and I have conflicting feelings about it. I want the awesome power of the social web to be as accessible as possible, but it does require some expansion of a person's thinking and "messing around with stuff." That's doable for millions of people, but many more find it "very strange" as you put it. That makes me sad. I don't mean to blame them for that, but I'm also not sure what more can be done. How do you enable functionality to be invoked, beyond the simplest things like display of text and maybe a link, without the use of some symbols that require some learning and exploration? I feel like there's a widespread refusal to learn new symbols and it's depressing. I just don't know how much more intuitive the Wikipedia editing interface could be! I'll ponder what you're saying though.
@marshallk ps - Livefyre doesn't seem to be working too well. Couldn't log in using twitter or facebook. I hate these extra layers on sites.
Also, I'm trying to reply to my own comment rather than Marshall's. You can do that on other systems.
@marshallk "I suppose if people even have to *look at* HTML they pee their pants. I wonder sometimes if most people are opposed to learning anything new."
Damn, Marshall, that sounds pretty arrogant and derogatory. Maybe that's part of the problem at Wikipedia! I've worked with HTML quite a bit.
It's normal for me to mess around with that stuff but for any ordinary person, it seems very strange and there is no evident pathway to shifting out of that mindset given the way the tech/publishing community approach the presentation of that material.
Given that you've always seemed like a nice guy that spent a lot of time explaining simple things to everyday people, I'm kind of surprised at that comment.


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fluttershy's face is so lifeless its hilarious XD
that last panel, tho.
I wish Takahada101 would do the voice of discord, he played nappa who cosplayed as jafar from dbz. oh and any fan voice actress as fluttershy.
That.... was random... and ridiculous... and what's with the Jafar outfit?
I laughed hard at the end.
They're invading the changeling cave,aren't they?
Fluttershy is beautiful with her hair like that
when you're cute and demure as she is...YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH ANYTHING!!! MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
I absolutely adore Fluttershy`s new manestyle!
Also, just noticed Fluttershy is sitting with her fronthoofs crossed. Why`s that?
Also, just noticed Fluttershy is sitting with her fronthoofs crossed. Why`s that?
Fluttershy you need to step up your game, try invading an alternant dimension, by your self for once
And thus began the bloody reign of the tyrant known as FLuttershy.
And thus, did Fluttershy being studding the world with horrible dystopian "Niceness domes" where Griffons, Buffalo, Diamond Dogs, Dragons, and others had their free will taken away.
I get it.
You did a funny.
I recognise Discord's outfit and it amuses me greatly.
I get it.
You did a funny.
I recognise Discord's outfit and it amuses me greatly.
Well, to be fair, all it would take is one Flutter-pout and a "Won't you PLEASE let me have your kingdom?" with those big eyes for them to capitulate and give in without a fight. She's just too cute to resist.
I believe I remember something from another show... Some sort of goggles designed to make the wearer immune to the effects of pouting.
The effect was apparently called "the face."
Very much truth has been told. Bravo, good sir!
"We should enslave another kingdom."
Clearly Civ V is being played here.
advenures -_-
that escalated quickly...
whats with the last panel? is it discord's doing or just fluttershy? awesome comic nonetheless XD
also i feel like discord looks at the viewer hoping they recognize the outfit
also i feel like discord looks at the viewer hoping they recognize the outfit
I, for one, welcome our new Flutter overlord.
Fuhrershy? O_o
That scepter.
That's a great hairstyle.
LOL she gona conquer whit the ultimate might of cuteness ...and a bit of chaos. BEWARE LOL.
The combination of the two will be the leading causes of heart attacks around the nation.
Okay, that last panel caught me off guard.
Why can I not stop laughing? I CAN'T BREATH.
Look who is reformed now
"We should invade another kingdom." I always suspected she would be that kind of leader. AN AWESOME ONE!
This is so cute, and awesome¡0!
she is conrnetrole bey dicod
No, Fluttershy, you're doing it wrong. The Grand Vizier is supposed to suggest invasion, and you're supposed to be hesitant and not ask enough questions before you agree.
She's so cute as a Princess!
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#186420 Apr 3, 2013
North Korea is a LOW RENT district already, but if those idiots shot a cannon at themselves or some other stupid act of WAR, then the land will not be worth a plug nickel.
And the little dictator, 29 year old FOOL will lose his sand box all together to play tin-solder in.
Maybe the US and S. Korea will have to bring back Napalm to clean off the land in N. Korea.
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#186421 Apr 3, 2013
This wasn't about the denial of "your" choice, it was about your denial of the right's of others.
You attempt to grasp at this "marriage is a right" but only in the case of homosexual and heterosexual two person unrelated unions.
What of poly-marriage and incestuous marriage? Are they any less in love? Should they be denied their happiness?
Sorry if I don't buy into your holier than though "I am fighting for equal right's" nonsense when you are really only interested in your own personal gain.
Me personally, my position is get government out of the marriage business, remove the benefits which in and of themselves do not treat people equally, and let people Unite in relationships as they choose.
I'm sorry that you are so upset that my position is far more one of "EQUALITY" and "INCLUSION for ALL" than your position.
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#186423 Apr 3, 2013
Very well said, unfortunately itll be lost on people with hate and ignorance in their hearts and minds.
#186425 Apr 3, 2013
Last night I was accused of being a homophobe, then the very next post called me a queer.
One of my proudest Topix moments!
#186426 Apr 3, 2013
How do you make your new girlfriend scream twice?- Do her in the a** then wipe your d*** on the curtains!
#186427 Apr 3, 2013
April 03, 2013 Wednesday meeting, live.
The Council Sierra Madre, Ca. Chamber's are poorly lit, must be that Vampire's don't like too much light, didn't see any mirror's hanging on the wall either.
Looks like the writing is on the walls, dump the SMPD and hire the L.A. County Sheriffs Department, more cars and uniforms on the street at half the cost.
Sierra Madre owes $2.4 million dollars.
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#186430 Apr 3, 2013
You're in the right state.
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#186432 Apr 3, 2013
Those aren't "right's" they are "privileges."
There is a difference, and one should no interchange the terms in a whimsical manner just to suit their argument.
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#186433 Apr 3, 2013
People really are in denial of the China Factor.
#186434 Apr 3, 2013
Since Mike Touhey sold off the land and made his special deals then skipped town with his money.
We believe that citizens do not want this and they must be allowed to vote on whether they want our city land sold.
It's about our land and once it's built, the trees are never returned.
It's forever.
We don't need to commercialize our Civic Center.
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#186436 Apr 3, 2013
I'm not stoping anyone from getting married but others are trying to stop me. How am I denying anyone anything??
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#186437 Apr 3, 2013
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#186438 Apr 3, 2013
How is it a privilege to be able to visit your spouse in a hospital if they are unconscious? I think that is a right? That's just one example. Get a clue what you are talking about before you spout off.
#186439 Apr 3, 2013
Trenton, N.J.
Thirteen Rutgers University faculty members are demanding the resignation of university President Robert Barchi over his response to a video showing basketball coach Mike Rice hitting, shoving and berating his players with anti-gay slurs
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#186440 Apr 3, 2013
You should stew on my post a bit longer, it might take you some time to absorb it.
Then again you are so self-absorbed as it is, it may not matter.
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#186441 Apr 3, 2013
The government does not grant right's, by it's very nature the passage of a law granting something unto you is a privilege.
And I suggest you take your own advice, you too emotion to present a rational argument, you should take a step back before you "spout off."
BTW, I haven't "denied" you anything, I have TWICE voted NAY to a Constitutional Amendment to restrict or otherwise define marriage.
As you say, you should have a "clue before you spout off."
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BTW, your information is a bit dated:
-In 2010, the federal Department of Health and Human Services issued rules that require hospitals participating in Medicaid, the government health program for the poor, and Medicare, the health program for seniors, to allow patients to choose who can visit and how often.
A 2010 DHHS news release said all visitors chosen by a patient or their representative -- including same-sex domestic partners -- are to be given "full and equal" access to patients. The hospitals are required to have written policies on visitation rights.
Those rules went into effect in January 2011. Hospitals that don't conform could be terminated from participating in Medicare and Medicaid, according to the Human Rights Campaign, a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender interest group that advocated for the rules.- http://www.pressherald.com/news/truth-test-mi...
- http://www.hhs.gov/secretary/about/lgbthealth...
OK, say it with me- RED HERRING...
"Judge less, Love more"
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Born in Newark Ohio
#186443 Apr 3, 2013
It doesn't matter if you're gay, straight, jew or gentile, Catholic or Protestant, Hindu, Sikh or Muslim, Buddhist Taoist Atheist or agnostic. Rock n' roll, R&B, funk, dance, electronica, jazz, country or western. Black, white Hispanic or Asian. This marriage proposal might make you cry.
And anyone who even SNIFFLES watching this can't deny they don't understand SAME SEX MARRIAGE isn't any different than what they see here in this AWESOME proposal I love how he just kneels and waits for her answer, never says a word. Dude stole my script!!(It's the same fantasy ending I had in every one of my marriage proposal dreams and two realities.)
It ain't the equipment any of us (gay or straight) want to commit to. It's the person INSIDE the body.
Sort of sad if we think about it.
All these trolls thinking of their own mother's marriage as nothing more than a contact to be a bitch at a puppy farm.
Now watch what "marriage" means to most of us and enjoy!
#186444 Apr 3, 2013
Frankie likes it! Thanks for sharing.
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This car is a piece of crap! I had trouble right from the start. Now I am having more issues with the car vibrating and noisy engine on start up. I have been at the dealer so many times I have lost count. DO NOT EVER BUY A NISSAN!! PURE JUNK
2012 Nissan Versa: DO NOT BUY! I went over my 60K powertrain warranty by 580 miles and the transmission is blown. I drove this car for most of the miles and did not abuse it. The struts went bad around 40K and they would not cover it. I paid out of pocket only to find 20K later that they now recalled the car for faulty struts. After complaining to Nissan about the $4,000.00+ transmission repair cost they indicated labor would be taken care of. So, I have a car I owe 6K on, worth 5K and a repair of more than 3K. Never again will I buy a Nissan.
I bought my Nissan brand new in 2008. I will just list everything I have had to replace and you be the judge: *CV Axle (within the first year) *Multiple hubcaps (within the first two years)--Side Note: This is a well known problem for this car and the manufacturer refuses to replace them without the owner paying full price. *Right control arm *Three engine mounts *Tire pressure monitor *Both CV axles (yes they have been replaced more than once.) *Catalytic Converter *Radio *Now the car is taking an extended amount of time to start. It is important to note that my mom bought a Honda Accord the same year and has similar mileage, however, she has not needed to make one major repair. As soon as I paid this car off, I had to make several repairs and I have hardly been able to save the money that I would have been making on my payments. I can't speak for other Nissan models but this one is terrible. I will never buy a Nissan again.
I have a 2011 Nissan Versa with only 77k miles. Check engine light kept coming on but then go off. I also noticed the oil was reading low often even after oil change and topping it off. The next time the check engine light came on it was blinking and engine started to run rough. I had it towed to a reputable mechanic in town to get a diagnostic and found out the #3 cylinder had very little to no compression and the spark plug was full of oil. That's where my oil was going and why it was reading low. I now need a new engine! During my research I noticed similar issues not just with Versas but with other models so I contacted Nissan USA to find out what they're doing about this issue. Customer service issued me a case number and told me to take it to an authorized Nissan dealer for diagnosis and of course had to pay for again. That way Nissan consumer affairs will review my case. I did that and Nissan consumer affairs will not do anything to help repair my car. Says they are not able to financially assist at this time. What the heck does that mean? Nissan does not back their product nor do they care that their vehicle has already gone to crap at under 100,000 miles. I will definitely never ever recommend Nissan. If anyone has similar issues please reply to my email at email@example.com. I am not done or willing to accept Nissan's response and will be putting up a fight on this and could use all the help I can get.
I bought my 09 HB brand new within two months I had to get the rotors resurfaced. It was down hill from there. AC started making a noise, new battery, and of course the fabric on the doors came off. Rubber coming off the window on the rear door. Don't ever, ever, pay for a vehicle!!! Now, the brakes, rotors and tires are bad. Oh, I didn't say, I only have 28,000 miles on it!!!!
Dont buy NISSAN, DON'T BUY, DON'T BUY, DON'T BUY, DON'T BUY
I bought my 2010 new, and I notice difference. I've had problems soon after buying it. -plastic on the back/trunk area, broken after oil change. -got dealer to replace, but the broken pc still inside you could hear it -front lights keeps blown out -steering issues OMG -Left coil snapped at 4th year mark -Right coil snapped before 5th year mark -winter: engine too noise, vibration too much -armrest covers starts to come off for no reason -brakes changed and now squeeking like mad
I have been working on one of these for a friend, for a couple of years now. I have developed my own personal opinion of this car through my mechanical experience, and find it to be a highly over priced piece of crap. The subframe "floats" on rubber mounts that road salt destroys. All rubber bushings in this car cannot hold up to "salt belt" weather conditions. All of the factory service and factory parts are excessively over priced. From a mechanical design point of view, I'd love to slap around the designers! This car is HORRIBLE, CHEAPLY BUILT and a total piece of junk. Further.... I have NEVER seen a car where you can kick the front tire backwards, and the tire on the other side of the car move FORWARD AND BACK!!!!! The whole subframe, suspension, motor and transmission are bolts to rubber mounts that the body SITS on.
I have a 2009 Nissan Versa SL hatchback and this car SUCKS!!!!! The CVT transmission totally went out at 109,500 miles. It started making a loud whizzing sound, and over the course of the next few weeks it got progressively worse. I called the dealership in Apex NC and made an appointment, drove the car there, only to be told that I needed to pay them a $75.00 diagnostic fee. I had just lost my job and didn't have the money, so I left...and oh yea, I ended up almost getting killed on the way home and almost caused a massive car pile up when my car lurched from 70 to almost zero in like three seconds literally, then and wouldn't go above 20 MPH...all in rush hour traffic!!! Once I finally got it home and parked it that day, it never moved again. I tried backing it up after I parked it that day and it just revved like I was going to blow a head gasket...so it has been sitting in my driveway in exactly the place I parked it for over a year now!!! A mechanic friend of mine told me CVT transmissions are garbage and that you can't fix part of them, you have to replace the whole thing. Sure enough, I couldn't find anyone in my area who would repair it without charging me $4,000 for a new one, and most places won't even work on them!!! So...I had to resurrect my 2004 Toyota Matrix (best car EVERRR) with 220,000 miles (which by the way I have NEVER had to make any major repairs to and in fact, just put new rotors on her for the first time @ 210,000!!!). I hadn't driven my Toyota in over a year and she started right up and has been driving like a dream...which made me wonder...why the heck didn't I get another Matrix instead????? A few weeks ago, a friend of mine started doing some in-depth research, and found that Nissan extended the warranties on their CVT transmissions to 120,000 miles for certain years, and 2009 was one of them. I called a DIFFERENT dealership this time (this one in Raleigh) and was actually treated like a human being! The rep immediately asked me my VIN number, told me the repair was covered, sent a tow truck out to my house to pick up the car, and gave me a 2015 Nissan Altima rental car for almost two weeks while it was being repaired (Altimas actually drive very nicely but you still couldn't PAY me to own another Nissan)..and no, they didn't charge me a $75.00 diagnostic fee. And yes, I am in the process of rating them very positively now. End result: New CVT transmission at 109,500...when a Honda or Toyota would have just started coming to life. Years ago I had a Nissan Sentra station wagon, and the transmission went out at about the same time. I will NEVER buy another Nissan again. For those of you who are unfortunate Nissan Versa owners like myself....here's the warranty information link below wherein they extended the CVT transmission warranty on certain models/years - hope this helps. Oh yea, my brand new CVT transmission only comes with 12,000/12 month warranty. I'm totally nervous about this. My next car: DEFINITELY a Toyota or Honda. oh yea, the interior of this car is falling apart as well. The sunroof was leaking, streaming water into my car whenever it rained (that was at about 50,000 miles). Thank goodness for Youtube - my son googled a video that showed how to fix a leaky sunroof, or I would have paid a few hundred dollars to the dealership (you have to clean the hoses out that start at the top of the sunroof and snake down through the car door and come out behind the front wheels of the car). Somehow these hoses were totally clogged (even though I have never had to do this with my Matrix sunroof and I've had my Toyota since 2004!!!) I had to replace the car battery at around 45,000, as opposed to my Toyota Matrix, which had the same battery for the first seven frikkin years!!!! This is the worst car I have EVER purchased. http://www.nissanassist.com/ProgramDetails.php?menu=2
I've read alot of bad things about the Nissan Versa and I can only review based on my own experience and I have to tell you that I have my 2007 Hatchback since 2009 and I now have 85200 miles on it. Just now have I had a real breakdown. The throttle body needs replacing. Though its a $1000 job, it is not bad for being the first time. I have all the scheduled maint. done. Except for normal wear this car has been the most reliable I have ever had. The only thing I don't like is the fact that it does not have a keyhole for the trunk. So when that breaks if you don't fix it, you have to crawl through your back seat and open it from the inside. I even tow a small boat with it and no problems. It has been a great little car.
Bought my 2012 Versa new in December 2012. Just hit 68k on it and transmission (CVT belt) is shot. Car is rough, wind noise from day one could not be drown out by the weak audio system. Mileage is 39-40 if you baby it, realistically about 37 but with a 10 gallon tank if you drive a lot you spend a lot of time at the gas station. Lost heat shields off of the exhaust a few times and had to replace. All miles are highway and the majority were made on my drive to work. Just not happy with this car. This is the First Nissan I have ever bought, normally Chevy's or Fords and I regret the purchase. I understand this is Nissans lower line car but quality should still be a factor. Compared to my Chevy (210k)ths car is worthless, and my Ford van (160k) drives like a dream compared ot this car. Oh well, you live and learn but no more Nissans for me.
Stay away from it. Especially the one with 6 speed manual transmission. To many problems. The quality of it is horrible. It's not reliable car.
Like my 2014 nissan versa-just right for 2 people. BUT the transmission makes a loud, short screeching thunk when started after being parked for 2 days or more. Happens every time. Anybody have same problem?
I bought my 2008 Versa new in 2009 (leftover on the dealer lot). Had a few very minor problems at first (tire pressure warning light, gas door latch) that took too many trips to the dealer to get fixed, but otherwise things were okay until a few weeks ago. Catastrophic failure (oily antifeeze all over the engine compartment). Had it towed to the dealership because there was one month left on the drive train warranty and then waited two weeks before we even got a loaner car. Kept telling us they were waiting for the guys upstairs to approve the repair. Two days later I was told that a failure in the radiator had caused coolant to leak into the transmission, destroying it and the radiator and that because the problem originated in the radiator it wasn't covered under the drivetrain warranty. $4400 repair. I trade it in as is on a Kia instead. Nissan may have saved themselves a repair bill but they lost a customer for life.
bought new 2014. nothing but problems. started at 1500 miles acted like a vapor lock, Had just filled up.twice in the road it just quit. 1 more time it died at a stop light over 1 minute to restart. they got a bullettin that over 100 abient this would happen it had not been over 70abient. next laugh a super tech shows up drives it over a bumpy road=yeh right and gets it to code. lose wire from factory.and watch the service writers they got a game to, took one to the gm and had a talk.the biggest laugh just came they wanted me to drive it with a tech to pinpoint the problem or be able to say customer cannot duplicate. average failure ever 800 mils currently 4000 total
My Versa CVT 2011 shut off while driving in traffic. It was summer time, all electric equipements were running (radio, a/c) I was able to restart the car on neutral and turning the ignition again. I brought the car to Nissan dealer & they recommended me to have my injectors clean up (Not usually required under 20 000 Kilometer of use). Short after my visit to the dealer I experienced the same problem again. My dealer refused to pay back my injectors clean up fees even if they had a bad diagnostic. After complaining, they agreed to inspect the car. I got my car back only a week after. They have changed my fuel pump but figured out later that it wasn't the root cause. They said it was a loose connector that caused the car to shut down. I Wish I had never bought this car. This problem seems to occur only in hot temperature & when I fill up gas at S_ _ _ _.
I Have a 2007 Nissan Versa and Im telling you I have had all kinds of problems. I was on the highway when the car just cut off. Then have had to replace the exhaust system, now the car will not pass the emission test now I need to replace heater control circuit sensor circuit bank, the tire pressure light will not go off no matter how much air I put into the tires and God only know what else. I an truly disappointed with this car because I have done nothing except put money into it. No wonder they keep calling me about a extended warranty on this car.
I got the 2009 Versa in 2010. It was brand new. I don't use the hatch very often and the handle on the back is broken. I took it to a shop when I went up to visit my mom and they said the piece is over 300 alone. I know they are telling me the truth since it is my brother in law who owns the shop. he even ordered the electric piece to replace just in case. What a rip off 300 for a handle and then there is the cost of labor and paint. The seal on the doors comes off and the plastic on the door by the floor keeps coming off and you can't get it to stay on. the passenger side arm rest, the vinyl is coming off. I love Nissan this is my 3rd one, but disappointed.
Brakes go to the floor when holdingdown brakes
my car shut off on me while i was driving it an i believe my fuel pump is the problem because it will only run if i spray starting fluid in it but not with out. How do i change the fuel pump or where is the fuse for the fuel line located maybe just a fuse is my problem ?
My Versa now has 60K miles on it and still drives like a dream. I had a problem with the electric power steering when I purchased the car. Nissan replaced this and NO difficulties since. So far this has been the ONLY problem with my hatchback :) A Gr8 car by any measure. I've added many extras like Mag wheels, Big Michelins, front end Mask, and a Gr8 stereo. One of the best cars I've owned. I'm a very happy camper !!
I was able to drive my 2012 Nissan Versa to the Nissan dealer to be repaired after having some problems with the car starting and warning lights on the dash flashing. The car has now been at the Nissan dealership in Visalia, California for over 5 weeks. I have been driving a rental car provided and covered by the warranty. My name is David Gregory Carnes, I live at 1406 W. Princeton Ave., Visalia, CA 93277. My phone number is (559) 738-8222.
We have driven this car from Ohio to South Carolina at lest 5 times since new......and we plan another trip next month. I have been very happy with this little car and had only had problems with the back hatch, gas springs and hatch lock.....we use it a lot. Best mileage I got was 34MPG.....70MPH to 80MPH on Interstate 77.....I dont know what it is supposed to do but i am OK with that. I would buy another one!
I bought a 2009 Versa in 2009. Was mostly happy up until the last year. Wheel covers don't last, fell off. It only had @ 50,000 miles on it when the battery died in May 2013. I understand batteries at some point will need replaced but even the tech at auto parts said that was a bit early for that. Then in June (this year 2013) the AC goes out. Took it to my mechanic for diagnostic ($90) was told the evaperator was bad $750 to fix. I wrote to Nissan Customer NO-Service, gave them the particulars and was advised to take it to an authorized Nissan dealer for diagnosis then they would review my case for possible assistance. Another $107 for diagnostics. Oh yay, the dealer says the compressor is bad and will fix for $1,233. Who is right? Two different parts. I left a message with Nissan rep that has never called me back to this day so I went through the many phone prompts to get another human. I gave them the info from the dealer, "will forward your info to regional rep who will call you probably tomorrow." She called alright, "we're so sorry you're having this problem but due to your car being out of warranty there is nothing we can do at this time." Really?!?! We all already knew it was out of warranty when I said 2009. Why on earth would you recommend me taking it to the dealer, charge me more money, if its just a black and white warranty issue? Why on earth would you say you review these things case by case? Oh its clear you look at each case NOPE, NOPE, NOPE, NOPE. This young of a car (that I'm still paying off) SHOULD NOT be having these major issues already. My Toyota rusted out before mechanical issues ever started. I called Nissan yet again and yelled long and loud that they supposedly will refund my diagnostic charge (no check yet). Oh but I was wished a nice day. I told the lady, "well that won't happen, you try riding around in 90 degrees with no air." I will not put that kind of money in this young of a car. I was thinking about trading up in the Nissan line but will never buy Nissan. They could care less about thier customers once you're out the door. DO NOT BUY NISSAN-EVER!!!
I have bought the car in 2010 from Enterprise 2008 Versa. Overall was nice little car, But fuel economy could be better. City drive was like 12 gallons get only around 250 miles, and HW 300 miles. Right now it's better after I put seafoam in the tank and the red oil, forgot the name of it, improve to 300 to 350. But real issue I see in customer care in dealership. After I've got the car was the problem with the swings on the road from bumps or wind, and metal on metal slight bangs. And after 2 years I found out that it's sub-frame bushings problem. I took it to CurryNissan in Yorktown, NY. After explaining the problem, they mess with the car for an hour, and said that I need starts, tires, alignment, and someother crap for over $1000, the parts I never had problem with. And the reason I came for, they just don't want to talk about. Piss me off scam bags. Bushings Nissan should fix it for free, there is no way it will worn out, I would say faulty parts. So they drove me crazy, and gave me a bill for $130 at the end for doing nothin. On the top of it, the 'best' part, after I left, had to fill up the tank, SURPRISE.., gas tank door would not open. The lever would pull the latch, but door would not pop up, I'm suspecting they did something. So this is the CurryNissan. Another dealer in Mount Kisko, I went before there, they gave me dirty look. I tried to trade in there also, they drove my car, made mess in it, so I never go there again. I don't go to dealer for repair, just to get rip off for little to no work. But in regular shops told me that they would not be able to fix the sub-frame bushings and it is better to go to dealer. Another thing hub caps, if you change tires, and mechanics not careful, then they will damage fragile clips on hub caps, so eventually they will fall off while you driving. Overall I do satisfied with the car, but customer care is sucks.
I purchased a 2012 Nissan Versa, and it is being towed AGAIN to the dealership as I type this. It just came out of the shop for a TCM sensor needing to be replaced (couldn't drive over 20 mpg), and now just out of the blue the radiator is just pouring water!!! REALLY??? a 2012 vehicle and it is only April of 2013!!!! Give me a break!!! NEVER
Horrible, horrible, poorly made car. I had most of the problems described and some. Nissan also has the worst customer service as well. Report to the Government recall agency. I traded mine in for another make and will never buy Nissan again. I get emails from a post I put online a while ago from people who have the same problems. Everyone has to contact the Government recall agency, after they get enough complaints they should investigate. If you see anything positive written about this car, it's either one of the very few lucky folks who got one that actually works or a Nissan employee.
Bought new with "Lifetime" extended drive train warranty to use for our company. SL Hatchback with CVT and hands free. Runs ok. Once Ethonol came into Florida gas mileage dropped to 26 - 27 MPG. Damning rattles from dash and hatch back cover - cheap, cheap, cheap. Original tires lasted 53k miles - could have gotten another 7k but had puncture that required replacement. Have done 100% of Maintenace on 4k mile synthic oil change interval - yet engine oil always looks dirty?? Last time ran engine oil cleaner theu it. STILL LOOKS DIRTY?? Engine always had mechanical "knocking" sound ESEPECIALLY on COLD 40 - 50 degree mornings. Took back to dealership twice - told it sounds fine? No Vales to adjust. They "ALL" sound like that?? Had fuel pump/regulator fail - warranty repaired at 52k miles. But have had 4 other major failures: 1) 52k miles - Left Axel with inner and outter CVC joints replaced (39101 - EM40C) - repaired under warrantry. No boot torn - just worn out in 52k miles??? 2) 68k miles - Right side axel shaft with inner and outter CVC joints (39100 - EM40C) $624 of which I paid $100 Deductible under the Exteneded Warranty. No boot torn - just worn out in 68k miles??? 3 & 4) Upon picking up from dealer who replaced RT Ft Axel, I noticed a "Clunking" sound coming from Rt Ft. I assumed it was something left loose so I took it back to dealer to be charged $50 & told "EXCESSIVE PLAY BETWEEN FRONT STRUT COILS AND UPPER BEARINGS" And I must have BOTH Strut Bearings replaced to fix it. Strut Bearings cost $28 each. With Labor and necessary Alignment - $540 Estimated Cost. STRUT BEARINGS??? WTF - $540?? Has anyone ever heard of this BS before? Please advise.
I've had this car for about 6 months and am on pace to put 40,000 miles on it by the end of my first year with it. So far, it has held up very nicely and have had no mechanical problems whatsoever. Overall fuel economy is great and I am getting just slightly under 40mpg combined. The interior light flickers a little bit while it's on, but it is merely a mild inconvenience and as of this writing goes away after the first few seconds. Overall I am very happy with this purchase and it makes a fine little commuter car.
I own a Nissan Versa Hatchback, I am soooo not happy, besides the lack of power, gas mileage is lousy. One year later, I needed a knew engine, and this was not the first car to need it, it was the third in this dealership! So how many other cars are there like this? Then when I asked Nissan for a different vehicle because I didn't"TRUST" this one anymore they told well, this is your car and we fixed it for you, you bought it! You're kidding, even the DMV thought this was crazy! Years a being a Nissan customer to being treated like this, never buy NISSAN again!!


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Re: Removing Tank Sealers
Sat Dec 20, 2008 8:22 am
john HD
madison wisconsin usa
Anyone know what the felt adhesive compound might have been?
same color you describe and has been around for years.
Re: Removing Tank Sealers
Sat Dec 20, 2008 8:49 am
Central Illinois, USA
Gasgacinch (one of my favorite goobers) is bright yellow and stays rubbery, whereas this stuff is very dark red to black where aged inside the tank, and quite hard until I hit it with acetone.
That doesn't mean that there may not be a base chemical similarity, or that a decade of fuel stains may not have changed it as well.
But fresh Gasgacinch didn't do this well in P4gas! (Nor the very similar 3M Weatherstrip Adhesive.)
The felt adhesive would have to date back to the WW2 era, and probably less exotic of a material than we might imagine.
Re: Removing Tank Sealers
Sat Dec 20, 2008 9:17 am
john HD
madison wisconsin usa
i thought it was reddish brown, haven't looked in the can lately.
i must be thinking of permatex aircraft gasket sealer/maker.
Re: Removing Tank Sealers
Sat Dec 20, 2008 8:34 pm
Central Illinois, USA
As I posted, all of these similar goobers may well have the same base.
( I have some Permatex Aircraft goo left over from the '60's....
still in the same family
. It doesn't harden.)
It was my hope that someone may have knowledge of the Factory's preferred slop.
(And slop it they did, with a big brush or swab.)
Forgive me for looking backwards, but relying upon modern brands, even as noble as Gasgacinch, might blind us to the obvious when it comes down to compounds that our fathers took for granted.
Too much knowledge is being lost, and apparently the original felt adhesive is one of them.
Let us all keep an eye out for clues....
Re: Removing Tank Sealers
Sun Dec 21, 2008 9:03 am
Largo, Fl
Something else to note. It took me awhile to figure this problem out on my Truck. If you are running the clear plastic 'VW Type' fuel filters, like many of us do on our bikes, the paper element is evidently held in place with a white glue. Well,,,,the alcohol in the fuel EATS the glue, turning it into white paste, which will get between your float needle and the seat!
Re: Removing Tank Sealers
Sun Dec 21, 2008 10:12 am
Wisconsin, USA
Thanks for the tip Danny. My son put one on his 66CH after the screen on his petcock in the tank jumped off and he was having a little trouble. He picked it up at the NAPA store. I'll make sure he takes a look at it.
Re: Removing Tank Sealers
Mon Dec 22, 2008 11:11 am
Just a few comments about swelling polymers in solvent that may help us understand a little more about what's going on with these gas tank sealants/coatings (or any other polymeric coating for that matter). When a polymeric coating fails to dissolve in solvent there are generally only two reasons why this occurs; 1) the polymeric coating is crosslinked, and therefore will never dissolve, even in a good solvent, or 2) the solvent or solvent blend employed is not a good solvent for the polymeric coating.
I don't want to head off too deep into the land of polymer science here, but a few comments are in order to help us appreciate the difference between a cured/crosslinked polymer and an uncrosslinked polymer. Let's take a familiar example - Amazing Goop adhesive. This is a linear thermoplastic polyurethane solution that is delivered as a viscous solvent solution (toluene). Upon dry down a tough urethane elastomer/adhesive results. However, this resulting tough adhesive is not cured, and can be readily dissolved by re-exposing it to a "good" solvent (the one it was delivered from, or many others). As it dissolves it will swell and go back into solution resulting in the formation of a viscous solution.
Now let's consider a curable adhesive example - Gorilla Glue, which has no solvent and is 100% adhesive. This too is a polyurethane, but this is a curable, or crosslinkable, polyurethane, i.e., it has reactive sites that cause the polymer to crosslink (x-link) upon exposure to atmospheric moisture. Once cured, the resulting rigid adhesive can not be re-dissolved, i.e., it may swell with a "good" solvent, but will never dissolve, and the solvent used for swelling will show no increase in viscosity, because no polymer is dissolving. The take home lesson here is that another means of reducing a coating's susceptibility to solvent swelling is to x-link it.
Back to the issue at hand - vintage tank sealers and their removal. Tank coatings in general protect the tank by being impervious to motor fuels (non-polar solvents such as alkanes and toluene), and some of our trouble in recent times with tank sealers occur as the polar content of the motor fuel increases due to addition of ethers and alcohols. That said, tank coatings have historically been formulated primarily to be incompatible with non-polar solvents, but unfortunately, this was achieved by making the coatings themselves more polar. As our motor fuels trend to higher and higher polar content the old coatings are not always up to it, and become susceptible to swelling in the modern fuels.
The fact that Cotton's tank coating can not be dissolved may suggest that the factory used a reactive coating that x-linked upon application, in which case it will not dissolve but would be swellable with a good (polar) solvent. According to Cotton's earlier comments, the subject coating is swelling and becoming gelatinous, but not dissolving, as evidenced by no color (or solution viscosity?) in the solvent. This is classical behavior of a x-linked coating, where the polymer swells, but does not alter the solvent viscosity. However, it's also possible that acetone may not be the best solvent for this coating. Sometimes the polymeric coating can be a block copolymer, and the solvent you choose will swell one block and not the other. This would also result in swelling, but no dissolving the coating.
Perhaps the best thing you can do at this juncture if you are still curious about dissolving the subject coating is to take the chips you have removed, and try systematically working through a range of solvent polarity to see if you can identify a suitable solvent. For such experimentation you want a relatively polar and a non-polar solvent pair. For the polar solvent you cold use acetone or an even more polar solvent would be isopropyl alcohol (be sure you are not using rubbing alcohol which is 70% isopropyl alcohol 30% water). As the non-polar component you could try toluene or mineral spirits. If I was doing it I would start with acetone and toluene. Make up solutions containing 0, 25, 50, 75, and 100% toluene in acetone, put chips into each, and seal. Let them stand, or better yet agitate them continuously, for days, then inspect to see what they look like (color leaching?, any viscosity change?, etc) and what they feel like (minor softening of the chip, major softening of the chip, etc), and it should become readily apparent whether the polar or non-polar end of your experimentation is getting you anywhere. Continue experimenting over narrower ranges of solvent proportion if you see something promising. In the end, if you have no success dissolving the coating with any solvent blend you may have to declare it a crosslinked coating. Someone's earlier advice to use paint remover (for a prolonged period of time in the tank) was also good counsel, as this would stand a very good chance of swelling the coating.
One final note on tank coatings. POR 15 is a curable polyurethane that once well cured should be impervious to common fuels (and no I have nothing to do with POR 15, I don't care what you seal your tank with, but I do like things to make sense, and POR 15 swelling in motor fuel doesn't make sense to me). In the above instance where Cotton found it to be otherwise, I suspect that for whatever reason it did not cure adequately. Again, if you have any doubts about a coating's integrity in a given fuel, create a well cured sample of the coating (to obtain test chips) and expose it to the fuel of interest to see how it fairs. I realize this shouldn't be on us to figure out, but when things don't work the way we expect our only resource is more experimentation.
Re: Removing Tank Sealers
Mon Dec 22, 2008 7:33 pm
Central Illinois, USA
I seem to follow your description somehow, as an isocyanate urethane that I use pulls moisture (
or something
) out of the air to dry quickly, and up to 30 days to completely cure (cross-link), and then resist common carb cleaners and P4gas.
The "Pink Goo" reference dates back a season or three when a local's
red tank liner suddenly morphed into the blob.
That material also de-gelled when dried, to its own degree, and I then placed squares of it into baby jars of various solvents, from acetone to xylol, with
ethanol in between.
Some solvents took six months to digest what P4gas could do in week. The ethanol didn't touch it.
To generalize my conclusions at that time, it is either detergents and injection cleaner additives in USA pump fuels that digest our soft parts, perhaps augmented by the ethanol (or it is rectification residuals left in the ethanol to denature it, and avoid sin tax).
On to POR 15, my studies in summer-blend Shell Premium suggested that the "15' stood for "15 minutes"
I lost a couple of $Gs when it obviously never cross-linked.
Re: Removing Tank Sealers
Tue Dec 23, 2008 2:14 am
Thanks for posting this info..Very interesting read...I'm saving this article...
And until I personally experience a problem with Por15, I'm gonna stick with it..
It has been & is still working good in my Flathead Servi tank.
Although I did let it cure about a month, while being pre-occupied with other work on that trike..
Re: Removing Tank Sealers
Tue Dec 23, 2008 9:53 am
Thanks to all for your comments. I'm unfamiliar with the term "p4gas". Could someone please explain what this is and the composition if known?
Cotton - "isocyanate" is the functional group on the polyurethane prepolymer that causes it to cure when exposed to atmospheric moisture (even in the driest of ambient conditions there is enough moisture in air to cause this reaction to occur, but it certainly occurs faster in high humidity air). This is the universal cure mechanism for all one-part PU compositions (Gorilla Glue, AquaSeal, POR 15, etc). You sound like a good experimenter since you have previously conducted your own solubility studies, sweeping a range of solvent polarity to assess solubility. In the example you cite above, the anhydrous (dry, 200 proof) ethanol would be far more polar than acetone, thus too polar to touch the pink goo and the reason it didn't work. A small amount of ethanol (5%?) in toluene (toluol) or xylene (xylol) might possibly work.
One final comment about solvents and the solvating capability of solvent blends. Most people have the common misconception that when you blend two solvents you have the benefit of both individual solvent properties in the final blend, e.g., if acetone is good for dissolving some polar coating (functions like a paint stripper) and mineral spirits is good for dissolving some heavy oil residue, a blend of the 2 solvents will be good for both dissolving coatings and cleaning up heavy oil residue. Unfortunately, this is not true.
By blending 2 solvents, you have created a new solvent that has neither the property of solvent 1 nor solvent 2, but rather has properties intermittent the 2 starting solvents. For example consider acetone and mineral spirits (MS) as a solvent pair. Acetone is a relatively polar aggressive solvent that may swell/dissolve rubbers, paints, coatings, etc. In contrast mineral spirits (alkane mixture - akin chemically to isooctane but much higher boiling) is a very non-polar solvent that may swell some rubbers and dissolve oil and grease, but aside from these features is a weak solvent that is generally safe to use on almost any paint or coating without fear of swelling/damage. Now consider an 80/20 acetone/MS blend. Do you have the aggressive nature of the pure acetone in this blend? No, because you no longer have pure acetone and have lowered the solubility parameter and the polarity, thus decreasing the aggressive nature of the solvent by introducing MS. Now consider the opposite case, a 20/80 acetone/MS blend. Do you have the aggressive nature of acetone? Again, no, this blend is a new solvent that is even less aggressive than the previous blend and much more like mineral spirit than acetone, yet slightly more aggressive than pure mineral spirits.
The foregoing hopefully illustrates why one might employ solvent blends, rather than pure solvents, to solvate specific polymers or provide specific solvent properties. It can sometimes be quite a fine line between solvents that provide the desired action and those that don't, and blending affords you a means of probing the intermediate region between the pure solvents. Hope this is clarifying rather than confusing.
Re: Removing Tank Sealers
Tue Dec 23, 2008 2:04 pm
P4gas: I believe this term was originated by Cotten. seems appropriate for todays blended gas, IMO..
P = piss
4 = for
gas ...
Re: Removing Tank Sealers
Tue Dec 23, 2008 2:21 pm
Site Admin
Ohio USA
This terminology, Cotten's, for todays fuel, can't be better identified.
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With all the candy recipes posted lately, I got to craving these. :mob: ;)
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1 cup Karo syrup (I always use light, not sure if it matters)
1/2 c white sugar
1 cup peanut butter
1 tsp vanilla
4-5 cups of corn flakes (enough to use up the syrup mixture)
Combine Karo and sugar in a saucepan. Cook on medium-low until it starts bubbling (stirring frequently). Add the peanut butter and vanilla. Once that is combined well, remove from heat and add the corn flakes. Drop by spoonfulls onto wax paper and let cool.
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Combining vocal tract length normalization with hierarchial linear transformations. ICASSP 2012: 4493-4496
- 2010
- [c6]Mikko Kurimo, William Byrne, John Dines, Philip N. Garner, Matthew Gibson, Yong Guan, Teemu Hirsimäki, Reima Karhila, Simon King, Hui Liang, Keiichiro Oura, Lakshmi Saheer, Matt Shannon, Sayaki Shiota, Jilei Tian:
Personalising Speech-To-Speech Translation in the EMIME Project. ACL (System Demonstrations) 2010: 48-53
- [c5]Hui Liang, John Dines, Lakshmi Saheer:
A comparison of supervised and unsupervised cross-lingual speaker adaptation approaches for HMM-based speech synthesis. ICASSP 2010: 4598-4601
- [c4]Lakshmi Saheer, Philip N. Garner, John Dines, Hui Liang:
VTLN adaptation for statistical speech synthesis. ICASSP 2010: 4838-4841
- [c3]Mirjam Wester, John Dines, Matthew Gibson, Hui Liang, Yi-Jian Wu, Lakshmi Saheer, Simon King, Keiichiro Oura, Philip N. Garner, William Byrne, Yong Guan, Teemu Hirsimäki, Reima Karhila, Mikko Kurimo, Matt Shannon, Sayaka Shiota, Jilei Tian, Keiichi Tokuda, Junichi Yamagishi:
Speaker adaptation and the evaluation of speaker similarity in the EMIME speech-to-speech translation project. SSW 2010: 192-197
- [c2]Lakshmi Saheer, John Dines, Philip N. Garner, Hui Liang:
Implementation of VTLN for statistical speech synthesis. SSW 2010: 224-229
2000 – 2009
- 2009
- [c1]John Dines, Lakshmi Saheer, Hui Liang:
Speech recognition with speech synthesis models by marginalising over decision tree leaves. INTERSPEECH 2009: 1395-1398
Coauthor Index
William J. Byrne
aka: William Byrne
aka: William Byrne
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