My coils are pretty expensive so I'm considering NGK or Hitachi instead of Denso as they are supposed to be quality Japanese brands also.
Just curious if anyone had any negative experiences with them? Or have they cheaped out in recent years and shifted manufacturing outside of their home country like other brands have?
I had a 1/4 inch diameter plantar wart on my foot for 3 years that I never treated. Hoping for it to go away on its own (which it never did). It didn't grow until I STARTED treating it with all the typical over the counter options (Salycilic Acid plantar wart pads, etc) and it eventually grew to 3/4 inches in diameter over a 8 month period despite keeping it covered every single day, debriding, reapplying SA, keeping it covered constantly with some type of bandage/tape. (Along with some small satellite warts that popped up on the bottom of my foot.)
I decided to try an experiment that I came up with using my own psuedo-science. AND IT WORKED.
Basically, I went and got an HPV vaccine (Gardisil-9). Yes, I know it isn't supposed to protect against the same strain of HPV that cause hand/foot warts. But I went home immediately after and got a razor blade and cut a bunch of "tic tac toe" marks onto the wart itself until it started bleeding, then covered it with some Equate liquid bandage (a sealant you apply onto a cut that dries to a nail-polish like hardness).
My idea was, the immune reaction from the vaccine might "send" antibodies to the open wound and help kill the wart, considering that the vaccine was designed for a similar strain of a virus.
I also started taking Solgar brand zinc picolinate 22mg supplements daily for the next two weeks (and am still finishing off the bottle taking it every now and then).
When I debrided the wart about 5 days after the vaccine, I re applied the liquid bandage, and noticed that the blood vessels didn't grow out like they would before within 24 hours. After two debridings over the next week and a half, there were no more visible blood vessels and my foot no longer felt like it had a little pebble stuck under the skin.
Two months later, the wart is completely gone and my footprint has healed back 100% and my foot is completely wart free.
The smaller satellite warts even disappeared on their own within about a week after getting the vaccine.
I'm not sure if this was just coincidental and I finally killed the wart using over the counter treatment options, or if the HPV vaccine/cutting method actually worked, but its worth a shot. I didn't have any side affects from the vaccine. Keep in mind, the HPV vaccine is 3 doses administered over about a year. But the very first dose (along with the post-shot cutting) seemed to help more than anything I tried previously.
I remember lurking on r/Reptime a few months back and some guy tested his Rolex bracelet (don't remember what factory) and it turned up positive for lead.
I was wearing my u1 black no date sub yesterday (particularly warm day) and when I took it off after wearing it all day, I noticed a blackish/grey dirty spot on my wrist where the bracelet sat (similar to how my fingers looked after loading lead pellets into my pellet gun when I was a kid). It washed off with soap though. I've never had that happen before on any of my other watches. It was my first time wearing it all day long and I wiped the bracelet down pretty well with a microfiber cloth and a tad of gun oil to shine it up when I first got it a couple weeks ago.
I know these are "supposed" to be made of 904 or 316 steel but was just curious if anyone has tested theirs.
I'm referring to the ST9 oyster bracelet specifically.
There is an abundance of home break-ins in my area currently and lishi tools are blowing up on tiktok and 16 year olds are literally picking locks within 10 seconds now (basically the kia boyz situation all over again) so I feel its time to harden security a bit.
Need some recommendations as I have no knowledge of anything beyond kwikset/schlage. Not looking for anything electronic/with a password.
I usually buy 5 quart jugs of Mobil1 0w-16 to do my oil changes and haven't been able to get it on the two normally priced websites to buy it from within the last two weeks (Walmart and Amazon) as its been sold out.
Walmart still has supertech but I'm not sure if I want to resort to that on such a new car.
All other weights of oil seem to be in stock, just 0w16 and 0w8 are affected. I don't buy OEM Toyota oil either, its too expensive for what it is in 0w16/0w8 weights.