20. The TFT display shines brighter. The full-color dash is the same as last year’s, save for the fact that it’s now more vivid than before. In direct sunlight, one can easily navigate the menu with the left toggle switch.

Bottle cages can also be used to fit a ‘tool keg or caddy’. This is essentially a water bottle with a wider circumference opening at the top to allow you to insert tools. Some, such as this one made by Fabric comes with an inner neoprene liner to prevent tools from rattling annoyingly on the plastic whilst riding. These are great if you are either not bothered about carrying a water bottle or if you have more than one set of bottle bosses.

In a truly tight race for second place, I almost had EGO pegged as the winner a few times. In my initial tests it posted greater runtime than the Echo, and often tied or beat the Echo’s speed in some of the individual trials throughout. As an all-around solid performer, the only place it really slipped was in the efficiency category.

One other problem for grip comfort of the trigger hand was the protruding lockout button of the Kobalt which digs into a user’s thumb in use. Even worse, the harsh corners on the switch dash of the Greenworks Digi Pro often push against both sides of a user’s hand.

While many such systems can indeed provide significant volume reduction while retaining a reasonably accurate rendition of your fully cranked tone, most do also introduce some artifacts, which are often felt as much as heard. These include added compression and a sort of "looseness" to the playing feel, and they are frequently heard, too, in a softer, spongier, less articulate sound from the amp. Also, the addition of any such system to an amp that doesn’t already have it requires and invasive procedure to which some players might object.

Typically for such trips Clark rents a car, but she said the place she used to go to recently went out of business. She’s worried a new place will cost more.

– Adding voltage output for battery: This is primarily a service related item, but can be useful for better determining actual battery life left.

This is not the power meter I’m looking for… I was surprised by the announcement today, and for a moment worried that I had made a mistake ordering an Easton PM, but then I read the press… the power meter is going to need to come down an additional $2-300 before being disposable is justifiable. I had assumed this was a DM power meter from the photos, and I guess the crankset is DM, but not how I thought the power meter would work. I know Quarq’s expertise is focused on spider-based PMs, so less surprising in hindsight.

If I find a good dealer I use them I find a bad I do not go back. It amazes me how often people find bad dealers and just keep going back?

SawStop employs a hard-stopping brake system that engages as the blade is dropped below the table surface.

A private-label manufacturing job required plenty of new fabricating capacity in 2016. The customer was looking for more manufacturing help, and NSA Industries was willing to oblige. To take on this new cabinet work, the fabricator wanted to invest in the latest automated equipment, such as a new solid-state laser cutting machine and a robotic welding cell. It looked at a Salvagnini P2 panel bender to handle a majority of the bending work.

First vehicles in should be these dump trucks. They spew tons of black smoke. More than 100 cars could.