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A manual Porsche 911 GT3 with the optional Weissach Package just set the fastest time ever for a manual production car around the famed Nürburgring in Germany. The manual 911 GT3 went around the 12.94-mile track in 6:56.294 minutes.

The 502-horsepower car set the record on a sunny day at the track, with the air temperature at 54 degrees and asphalt temperature of 80 degrees. Porsche attributed the biggest improvements in the car to the chassis, which was more stable over curbs and bumps. Porsche also said that gear ratios were shorter, sending more power to the rear axle. Porsche said the car likely would've gone a few seconds faster with the PDK dual-clutch transmission, but setting the manual transmission record was part of the point.

"With the six-speed manual gearbox, I definitely had more to do on the fast lap and thus also a bit more fun," Joerg Bergmeister, the driver, said in a statement.

The previous manual production car record at the Nürburgring was set by the Dodge Viper ACR in 2017 with a time of 7:01.3 minutes, according to Motor1.

 

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Kinda sad where we are now.

In the early to mid 80's my grandmother gave me a lot of older toys my uncle used in the 60's. One was this fire hazard that came with metal plates and after pouring some sort of liquid into it and heating it to high temps and you had some kind of figure. I can't recall if "monster" or "creature" or something else was in the title but talk about a fire waiting to happen.
 

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In the early to mid 80's my grandmother gave me a lot of older toys my uncle used in the 60's. One was this fire hazard that came with metal plates and after pouring some sort of liquid into it and heating it to high temps and you had some kind of figure. I can't recall if "monster" or "creature" or something else was in the title but talk about a fire waiting to happen.
I’d never seen that cap gun. Pretty cool. I do, though, well remember the cap rolls we’d use in our revolvers. Sometimes we’d like a whole roll (or partial) and drop a big rock on it. BAM!
 

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Let's say you have a light fixture that is operated with a wall switch. Can I change the fixture by merely turning off the switch or do I need to cut the power (from the breaker) to the room/switch so I won't die?
 

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Let's say you have a light fixture that is operated with a wall switch. Can I change the fixture by merely turning off the switch or do I need to cut the power (from the breaker) to the room/switch so I won't die?
Either turn off the breaker for that circuit, or be a man and do it with the power on.

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Let's say you have a light fixture that is operated with a wall switch. Can I change the fixture by merely turning off the switch or do I need to cut the power (from the breaker) to the room/switch so I won't die?
So long as the switch is off you can just change the fixture.

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