what is a good leveling tamper for $50? you are referring to ones with the lip and a 'spring' mechanism? Yeah there are cheaper ones especially on amazon etc but I find they are lightweight and trying to tamp hard enough is painful. a nice heavy 'conventional' tamper, per the post above, is enjoyable to use and only takes

- Chris Baca, on the Dialed Tamper #hks

Well, I pulled the check valve and opened it up. Looked pretty clean, but I cleaned up the little bit of scale in it put a little molykote on the o rings and reassembled it. I wanted to see if it was leaking, so I installed it backward and only to the inlet side, the. Turned the water on. Not

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He didn't get something different, base frame is black

A pretty reasonable summary article has been published at phys.org if you're like me and found the original article a bit of a slog with all the genetics terminology. {link} I think that this article better conveys what a potential breakthrough this research may be

No Josh. This last unit was headed to a collector

I've only picked up this hobby about 5 years ago so maybe I'm missing something but who's buying $175 conventional tampers when you can get really good leveling tampers for under $50. Is it like driving a manual car? It's more enjoyable if you're good at tamping straight?

Please let me know if you know more. What are the two knobs on the water level gauge on the right used for? {image}

Ok, I checked it out tonight... pulled the gauge, opened and inspected it. Super clean. And reassembled, setting the needle at 0 to start. The other gauge I had did not have a matching thread, so I skipped it for now... but I think this gauge is probably at least functioning correctly... so then I plumbed it back in and