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I have purchased mixing valve of fisher #2970-3 ( http://www.plumbingstore.com/images/fisher-shutoffvalve-2970.jpg ). the lower two openings are inlets, and the upper one is outlet on the image.
I would like to connect this valve to the 1/2 inches threaded male pipe. On the outlet there is a threaded nut and tapered metal cone, which seems to fit flared copper pipe but is not suitable for ordinary water piping.
I will be so happy if anybody instruct me how to connect this one.

That looks like a connection that a toilet water line connection has. It is probably made to connect to a toilet.

Just bought a Gary Fisher x-caliber and am having a hard time comming up with solutions to my flat tire situation . lots of thorns where i ride. not comming up with many products for 29er tubes. have liners and thorn resistant tubes but still getting flats. is ther a sealant that you can use with presta Valves ?

Most standard tire sealants work with presta and shrader. Try this:

http://shop.ztail.com/category/sport_and_outdoor/product/Slime_Tube_Sealant_8_Oz

Good luck!

It was bought new in ‘95. Shimano STX components. Extended handles. Presto Valves. Weinmann BCX Town & Country tires (26×1.90/C139/47-559). No clips. Saddle is a little worn. Re tuneups. No accidents.

Its really hard to set a price on a used bike regardless of its condition. No matter how expensive a bike was new, a few years down the road (in your case almost 15) many of the components that could have been state of the art then… aren’t now.

Mountain bike technology has changed since it was made and many buyers are looking for some of those changes even when they buy used. There’s an old adage that says its worth exactly what someone will give you for it regardless of what you might think its worth.

My suggestion would be to go online to some of the used bike websites like www.roadbikereview.com and check out some of the listings. You may even find another just like yours listing the asking price. Even if you don’t, listings for similarly equipped 90s model bikes can be a good starting point for your initial asking price. Be realistic when it comes to your selling price and be prepared to bargain with prospective buyers.

Contemplating alternate dimensions will melt your brain. There are theories which propose that every possibility - from the submolecular to the macroscale - leads to a new dimension. An idea that yields unimaginably huge numbers of realities sitting side by side, some just a molecule different, and others that are radically changed.

Turning Point takes a common change as its inspiration, where the Nazis do somewhat better in World War II and invade the United States. But after playing it, it’s not that nightmare dimension that I find myself dwelling on. I’m reassuring myself that somewhere out there in the multiverse there’s one where Turning Point isn’t complete rubbish.

For much of the five hours you’ll take to complete it, you’ll find that hard to believe. It manages to take one of the most explored popular genres - the Half-Life/Call of Duty-styled linear shooter - and makes a glorious mess of it at just about every stage.

Turn around…

Animation glitches? Technical errors? Performance problems? Perverse difficulty spikes? Haywire Al? Hey, take your pick. It even manages to find its own novel ways to be terrible. I can’t even choose my favorite. The fact it refuses to go to a higher resolution than 1024×768? Its collision frames often being so misshapen that when you’re forced to fight on Tower Bridge, you can’t shoot between many of the girders? Or how about if you step too close to a button, you can no longer press the thing, forcing you to step back and forth until you find the sweet spot? Such a surfeit of unriches And, above it all, there’s the nagging knowledge that if the team were given the months required to hammer out the problems and become all it could be, the resultant game would have climbed to the dizzying heights of mediocrity.

What heady heights it does manage to scale are neatly cribbed from its betters, making a half-hearted attempt at the linear-roller-coaster thrills of Half-Life 2, et al. The closest they get is the opening, where you’re disturbed from working on the New York Skyline by the Nazi attack on Manhattan. Planes fly past, blimps fill the sky, people fall to their deaths - and there’s a flicker of what the game wanted to be. It emerges occasionally later on - during the arrival at Tower Bridge (don’t ask) and the storming of the White House - but it fails due to a lack of the sense of control which Valve and Infinity Ward bring to the gaming table.

A linear game is supposed to concentrate on tricking the player into not realizing it, with subtle pointers making the player naturally do what the designer desired. Developers, Spark Unlimited has managed to fail completely at this, as I found skipping back to the objective screen being the only way to work out where I was meant to go next.

…every now and then

Bar its setting - which takes a Return to Castle Wolfenstein-esque science-fantasy approach to the Germans - Turning Point does manage a couple of more unusual features. For example, you’re able to climb obstacles and shimmy along pipes (Sam Fisher style). Also, if you get close to an opponent, you can grab hold of them, and either do an auto-kill or use them as a human shield. In certain (pre-planned) areas, the instant kill can trigger its own animation, like drowning the Hun in a toilet bowl or throwing them off a skyscraper. (An approach last seen in The Punisher). Even here though, it fails. The ability to climb some things when the game blocks passages with small piles of rubble just leaves it looking stupid. The grabbing, like much of the game, is somewhat twitchy - as far as I could work out, it’s impossible to get hold of an enemy when they’re kneeling.

If it wasn’t for the abominable Soldier of Fortune 3 this would have been the worst shooter from a mainstream publisher in recent times. As it is, this is just an astonishingly poor example of the genre. A perfect storm of cynical derivative design and slipshod implementation, the only sensible reaction to Turning Point should be to turn away.

Sandra Prior
http://www.articlesbase.com/computer-games-articles/turning-point-fall-of-liberty-695121.html