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Yes i noticed that. I decided several seasons ago that it was obvious that anyone with any type of technical skill, such as the ability to reload, the ability to refine gasoline, etc., does not survive in a zombie apocalypse ...

Anybody catch the "extended season" episode last night? Supposedly a "socially distanced" segment filmed as part of 6 new episodes to tide over between seasons 10 and 11.

If it's like the last several times, none of the companies will do major expansions, unless it was something already in the works. The cyclical nature of these boom and bust periods makes building more or bigger factories and/or buying up a bunch more equipment a risky venture. Typically, they just work through the shortages, then their existing plants slow down once things stabilize again ...

"Ever" is a long time. We've been through these before, each time lots of folks talk about how components may never be available again. They always are. We're only a few short months into the current shortage, give it a year or two and stuff will gradually be available as before. In three years you'll see bargain prices once again, but there will still be many who won't take advantage of that and will suffer accordingly ...

There's a reason for that ...

Very true. Most of your semi-autos today are all clones made of cheap plastics and take little skill to produce. Revolvers are still made the way God intended guns to be, by fine craftsmen out of steel and wood ...

The Corvair, along with Ford's Falcon and Chrysler's Dart and Valiant, were early efforts at building small, economical cars to compete with imports that were selling increasingly better in the late 50's and early 60's. By the time the Pinto and the Vega came along, this trend was over 10 years old. Neither of these cars were even as good as the ones the domestic manufacturers built a decade before them, let alone the crop of imports available by the 70's. Both the Vega and the Pinto were complete pieces of crap, with no redeeming features and among the worst cars made in their day. That's saying a lot, considering how poorly made most of the cars produced by the domestic manufacturers were during that era ...

The Vega was Chevy's attempt to make a worse piece of junk than Ford's Pinto. They wound up tied ...

I kinda feel that way most of the time ... And apparently, Ted Cruz agrees too https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ted-cruz-airport-power-crisis-texas

Or just nature's way of cleaning up the gene pool a bit ...

FIFY

Some of the newer theormostats don't have this option anymore, as many of the current heat pumps pretty much do this switching automatically. Like everything else, adding some microprocessor capacity to the current generation of heat pumps allow the unit itself to choose how heat is generated, based on many factors to deliver the most efficient output. In older units, "emergency heat" was an owner option, in severely cold weather you could choose this and shut the compressor off entirely, as opposed to it trying to run even when the strip heaters were doing all the heating. These "smart units" perform this task on their own, thus no real need for switching it manually ...

It is if you stick with C&R guns ...

Become a C& R collector, never use TICS or NICS again ...

That's what a heat pump does, but it has to get the thermal energy from somewhere. On "regular" cycle, it tries to pump heat from outside to inside the house, but not outside air. On "auxiliary" or "emergency" heat it supplants the heat gathered from outside with heat generated from electric strip heaters. As others pointed out, if it's a fairly modern system it will do this as efficiently as possible, with older systems you were better off just switching to the "emergency" setting when the temps were much below freezing. Regardless, when it's this cold outside, you're going to burn a lot more electricity with a heat pump. They are extremely efficient when temps are in the "normal" range of about 20-100 degrees, which is most of the time in Tennessee. Unfortunately, their efficiency goes out the window when it's zero outside ...

Have you contacted TICS directly? Or TBI? I would start there.

No matter how long the pandemic shortages last, I'll have Charmin ...

I'm good ...

Fortunately, I'm wearing my trusty tinfoil fedora today ...

If you want to get technical about it, these appear to be the TS carbine version of the Carcano, where Oswald used a 91/38 short rifle. Very similar, but the Oswald rifle had a slightly longer barrel than the carbines ...

All of them, apparently ...