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The by product of burning propane is water. Depending on venting, type metal of the heater they could have rusted. Burner could have larger burn holes. Adjustment of the air/ gas mixture or depending on the manufactures decision to use circuitry to program the running of the unit it could be circuitry. I worked on appliances/ heating in the 80s and the industry has changed with high efficiency, venting with pvc pipe and getting air from the outside with pvc. I use to work on everything for my parents 1960 Desoto car. I now own a 2016 SUV with 35 computers in it. I love to tear things apart and fix it my self. Though I'm fully familiar with the brake system of my car, I don't have the computer system to connect to it or the continued training and up dating of new systems. I wouldn't put my family in possible danger of my brakes not working. Nor would I buy a 600 dollar computer to work on the car a few times a year. Qualified HVAC techs and company's use specialized equipment to double check the burn mixture/ off gasing and pressures of a furnace. I enjoy talking and visiting with furnace techs and appliance repair people and trading service call stories. Gawking at their newest equipment. This is more of a safety issue which a good reputable HVAC tech would find. You could have a gas leak in the system. Part failure creating a higher gas to air mix and possible carbon monoxide issue which they have meters and alarms for. If it were mine I would either decide if its worth replacing because it a small replacement unit or call a service tech. Not worth having your shop full of propane or carbon monoxide. I bring up the carbon monoxide cause yearly inspections look for burn through/ rust and propane has moisture as a off burn which helps with rust. New designs of furnaces have sensors and electric controls that are tough to just look at with out diagnostic equipment. Could be the control board/ again found with equipment most home owners don't have. A sensor failure could happen also which a tech would find and fix. 'That's dependent on the age of your furnace.' RJF

Dear Jerry, I read these to my wife. Start of the year and you already have me in trouble again. You promised my wife would laugh her head off, she hasn't. Please send more jokes. Another day of laughs, brought to you by JERRY. Hay, I take offense to the Kansas joke, I live there! But your right I live in Central America. RJF, Overland Park, KS

Setup the camper, lay back for a nap, and its time for the wife to hop in the jeep for a quick trip to the store. I'm pretty sure the picture with the kitchen toilet and tub was my college apartment. Slept on the floor in front of the toilet. RJF

Came across this today on making a small dust vac table. With this container technique any size 'table' could be made. Could be a large unit or made table size with a large container. This can be down loaded into a pdf file by signing up. RJF https://www.instructables.com/Dust-Free-Sanding-Using-a-Storage-Container/

Jerry, You do an amazing job thinking these up; drawing and writing them every Saturday. RJF++

Jerry, Loved the coffee/ sex one. I'm the only one that gets coffee in the morning, my wife doesn't drink it. Your getting me in trouble, today is my wifes birthday and I showed her your jokes. RJF

In Kansas/MO Kansas City the police won't come out unless the value stolen is at least 50 dollars. Also its known people steal at the self check out, but its easier to raise prices and figure it in to the loss. Can't wait till this spreads to self car buying, just steal a new car in self check out, but nothing happens cause the rest are priced higher. RJF

Been using Open Office for years. Free program. It does covert Office from saved files and also saves to its own format or a selections of file like Microsoft Office in various versions and others. RJF https://www.openoffice.org/

See if this helps RJF https://en.freedownloadmanager.org/users-choice/Microsoft_Office_2007.html

Jerry, Are you including a pattern for the coffee table? One of these table will fit right by my bed. RJF

Read my wife the cheese joke and she moaned and said that was bad. Replied I wasn't allowed to play with Jerry any more. RJF

Watching the development of the COVID vaccine, has break through of a field of attack on various areas of medicine including cancer. KEEP THE ATTITUDE! RJF

Combination of type material and blade. Tearout happens with circular saws too. Its the tooth existing the wood and pushing the wood and tearing rather then cutting it. Can be the blade is dull. This plagues finish carpenters when using soft woods. Choosing hard wood, taping the cutts or layer as you do helps with soft woods, but its going to happen. RJF

Did factory line work. These machines come down lines with people doing the same mind numbing task hour after hour. Eventually things are missed and you get 'lemons'. Another machine would probably be fine, or troubleshoot and fix it, if that's what is fun. RJF

If there are few or none. A approach would be the specific shape, animal, like stacked vase patterns. Create to solid outer shapes and stacked layers as thick as you like.RJF

I know that's true! You will find yourself spinning around and walking North! RJF

Scrollsaw softer materials, one suggestion is Jello. RJF

You didn't mention what you use to look at and print the pattern. Check the type file which is name at the end of the file like .pdf or .png. or .svg. Your software should handle the file. Also it can be the pattern is larger then the printer which and mess with some printers. Just suggestions that may already be covered, but hopefully help. RJF

Hot air getting to both sides. Isn't that called a kiln? Just a thought. RJF

You have added more valid points to internet sales. I know there are many patterns sold that people cut then would like to sell. If someone doesn't design and cut their own and is looking to pick up a little money, the temptation is to look at the common price on the internet and sell it at that price. Then wonder why their first posting doesn't sell. Marketing, sales, website design, SEOs, what will sell, where to sell, all become a continual read in books, internet and advise forums. I will stand by my post on perceived pricing. The weather changed and its colder, heating oil price goes up. Its hot out, electricity goes up. Some is pure rarity, other times its pure greed. TX got ripped off on utilities cause they could. The pricing went over the top and people screamed. You have posted on pricing calculations, which will work for a 'business'. Many hobbyist may not want to figure profit and would like a little money back for the overloaded garage and house full of scroll work. There will be the hobbyist asking for a few dollars for hours of work right along with the professional figuring their hourly rate. The professional is selling along side the person using Etsy as a yard sale. The person making money is in direct competition with the hobbyist or yard sale. OR the person that has no idea how much they paid for the wood, or how much time they cut, sanded, finished and is selling to get some money in their pocket to help on the next project. No website has rules that says someone must make a profit from their sales. My examples of PERCEIVED PRICING and ADDED VALUE fit directly with your gas station examples. One place has 20 cents less. But the other place has a cute girl. Added value? Another place has reward cards, Bingo ADDED VALUE! Your writings on your own business doesn't deviate from my advise of COMPARISON PRICING IN THE AREA. I wrote driving business to your own shop or website will have a person comparing prices on your site. I also noted people will compare prices when they have those prices in front of themselves, thus the JAM example. You have been in business for years and have developed clients for your products. I've given industry proven sales tricks. Just a snapshot. Business is a complex field of specialist many college degrees. The sales/ marketing field is continually researched and even when tried and true techniques are used it doesn't guarantee a sales, it just IMPROVES THE ODDS OF SALES. I posted an answer based on psychology studies, buyer habits, statistics and a realm of business based sciences. All of your points are valid and add to this vast field of small businesses or individuals trying to compete to make a sale. This posting and past ones could be printed and probably make a very large book. RJF

I don't know why but a paragraph on added value was dropped. ADDED VALUE: Add another product to it. The shopper now doesn't have a direct comparison of apples to apples. Add a set of stickers, or key chain, or scrape wood novelty heart, or hand painted, or the puzzle has more pieces, or the puzzle has large pieces that can't be swallowed. The idea is to change the item or add an item. Stores use this for the holidays with gift box sets for Dad or Mom with different things. Always put your self out there as better quality, different, added value. Its a strategy walmart and target use daily. Even coupons adding a product or discounting is a added value. Ebay has this with free shipping, which is a ADDED VALUE. Its become so common that its almost expected. and the ADDED VALUE has been lost on free shipping. RJF Something that also got dropped: Add a project that just won't sell on its own and price the set. Make, print, scroll small cheap novelties. By having little extras, 1, 2, 3 you have changed the comparison of the same to 'Gee, I get these other things too for a little more'. I laugh at TV ads that use this idea and stretch it to the max. 'CALL NOW and we will send you A FREE BOOKLET, No their sending the sales literature on the product. AND IF YOU CALL RIGHT NOW WE WILL CONNECT YOU WITH A FREE PRIVATE ADVISOR. Ohhh, they will waste my time with a sales call for FREE. Think creatively and you will find other added FREE things to put in, Like that FREE BOX your sending it in. RJF

I'm posting a new topic in reply to 'Puzzle Pieces' question on pricing. The topic drifted to reply's on a departed member, Condolences. This is a post on the topic of pricing and competing with other business pricing. With sales now being done on the internet price comparison becomes faster and easier for any shopper. If your posted on Etsy with a puzzle and the EXACT same puzzle is posted for ten dollars less, who would pay ten dollars MORE for the exact same puzzle? How does some one Set a Price? When I started a business everything was brick and mortar and internet didn't exist. I dug through books, studies big business practice and went to seminars. For the top businesses, sales is a science and the psychology of people is accounted for from the store design, to the shelf arrangement to the movement of people. They have even taken this high tech to having cameras follow eye movements to see what they scan and what they stop on. There are even shopping carts that monitor the speed of movement, how long its stopped in one section of the store. Every psychology aspect, even color is studied and used. Lets go down the rabbit hole of business psychology and cover one aspect. PERCEIVED VALUE. i'm going to guess the price of apples to be selling at two dollars a pound. Might vary store to store by a few pennies. So everyone picks some delicious apples, takes them to the cashier and pays. Along with the apples are the rest of the groceries you have bought at a good value. But apples sold on the street in the Great Depression for a PENNY! Toss them back! Refuse to be ripped off like that! When we buy we are constantly being manipulated to recognize the price or 'value' of something from the perception that the product or service is a good value. We each judge the value of the product or service by comparing that product with a internal set of factors. Business do studies on culture, gender, education, vocation. Its why there are so many surveys and contests out there. The factors tend to change, but some 'old standbys' are used. Price Comparison; to the area. This has worked for the local stores, but also works for farmers markets. If food, drinks, 'other stuff' is around ten dollars, when people move from one booth to the next, they expect items to be around ten dollars. Price Comparison IN the AREA: This is a excellent one for internet stores. Lets shop for JAM and we find Strawberry with three brands. One going for a dollar, another for two dollars and the third going for three dollars. We pick the dollar one, GOOD DEAL! They were all made for 50 cents and which ever you buy the store sells, they make profit or even more profit if you buy the others. Now there is the strategy of selling garbage at the lower price and change the label every so often. This works for low income folks that can only afford the cheapest, though it can have people decide not to shop there. That's about quality of products and other posts have covered that. This Price in the Area: can be a valuable tool. Post similar puzzles at 20, 30, and 40 dollars. Each category is awful close to the others. Maybe a different wood, maybe a little larger, maybe a very popular car. The pricing is setup so any they buy you have made a profit. Since they are ON YOUR STORE or WEBSITE, they have the natural tendency to look at the products on the site and evaluate VALUE from what is there! There is a natural tendency to compare with the information on hand. CHOICE is a big factor here. IF YOUR PUZZLE AND ANOTHER PUZZLE from a competitor is on the front of ETSY Yours is higher priced and they are exact, the comparison is in front of them, they will usually choose the competitor. These are used all the time in all the stores, and we have all looked at products and compared their value on the same shelf. Decision time on exact competition. Drop the project, not worth it. Drive people to your specific store or website with novel projects so they compare prices ON YOUR SITE. OR ADDED VALUE: Yours is made out of a hardwood, or thicker, or more puzzle pieces, or the puzzle can be done by kids cause the puzzle pieces are too large to swallow, or the coating and stain is kid friendly. OR a item is added to the sale is close and its not worth looking so they buy. Offer the same item, but the item itself has added value, or a added value item is offered with it. Motivation; If someone is collecting puzzles and sees a puzzle booth, they are motivated to pay the going price or higher to get a new puzzle. OK I took six years of college courses and have book cases still full of books. Lets stop there before this becomes a book. RJF

Other then get a subscription, I have nothing to do with 'Morning Brew'. It summarizes the news. This section got a grin out of me. RJF GRAB BAG Key Performance Indicators Giphy Stat: The Simpsons will air its 700th episode Sunday evening. It would take another 12 years for the show to hit 1,000, but never say never—it’s been renewed through 2023, which means it’ll hit at least 757 episodes. Quote: “If the value increases, they could have an extremely valuable fart on their hands.” Film director Alex Ramírez-Mallis told the NY Post he thinks the buyer of his farts could see a significant return on their investment. For some context: He’s selling a year’s worth of fart audio clips recorded during quarantine as an NFT. You can also buy individual fart recordings for $85 a toot. Read: Tuna’s last stand. (Hakai Magazine)

Youtube on modifying a fan More filter information and I think a new version. RJF

Happy Birthday. RJF