#Motor Unit

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How a Garage Door Opener Works

Garage door openers have become an indispensable part of modern-day convenience, providing effortless access to our homes while enhancing security and safety. Despite their prevalence, many homeowners may not fully understand how these devices operate. In this comprehensive guide, we will delve into the inner workings of garage door openers, shedding light on the technology behind them and how they function to make our lives easier.

Understanding the Components:

At the heart of every garage door opener lies a motorized mechanism responsible for lifting and lowering the door. This mechanism typically consists of three main components: the motor unit, the drive system, and the control system. The motor unit houses the electric motor that powers the opener, while the drive system utilizes various mechanisms such as chains, belts, or screws to translate the motor’s rotational motion into linear movement, lifting or lowering the door. The control system comprises sensors, switches, and remote controls that allow users to operate the opener conveniently.

Operation Modes:

Garage door openers can operate in several modes, each designed to accommodate different user preferences and needs. The most common operation modes include manual, remote-controlled, and smart-controlled. In manual mode, users manually operate the door by pulling on a release cord or handle, disengaging the opener’s drive system. Remote-controlled mode allows users to operate the door from a distance using a handheld remote control, while smart-controlled mode enables remote operation via smartphone apps or voice commands, offering added convenience and connectivity.

Safety Features:

Safety is paramount when it comes to garage door openers, and modern models are equipped with various safety features to prevent accidents and injuries. One essential safety feature is the photoelectric sensor, which detects objects or obstructions in the door’s path and automatically stops or reverses its movement to prevent collisions. Additionally, automatic reversal systems engage when the door encounters resistance while closing, ensuring that it reverses direction to avoid crushing objects or individuals beneath it.

Read more at: How a Garage Door Opener Works

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Seven thousand more UAW members just walked off the job, expanding the strike to two more plants. Twenty-five thousand autoworkers are now on strike, and the walkout could continue to escalate if the Big Three don’t budge in negotiations.

[UAW president Shawn] Fain announced that Stellantis would be spared this time. The union had been expected to strike all three companies, but, said Region 1 director LaShawn English, three minutes before Fain was scheduled to go on Facebook Live, the UAW received frantic emails from company representatives.

[Note: Love that for the UAW. Also laughing so hard. Three minutes before the next round of strikes were annouced!!]

According to Fain, Stellantis made “significant progress” on cost-of-living allowances, the right not to cross a picket line, and the right to strike over product commitments and plant closures. “We are excited about this momentum at Stellantis and hope it continues,” Fain said...

“See You Next Week — Maybe?”

“These guys wanted to go out a long time ago,” said Cody Zaremba, a Local 602 member at the Lansing GM plant after the news broke that his plant would be joining the strike. “We’re ready. Everybody, truly, I believe, in the entire membership. They’re one with what’s going on.”

Five thousand workers at thirty-eight parts distribution centers across twenty-one states have been on strike since last Friday [September 22, 2023], along with thirteen thousand at three assembly plants in Michigan, Ohio, and Missouri who walked out on September 15. (See a map of all struck facilities here.) ...

The UAW is now calling on community supporters to organize small teams to canvass dealerships that sell and repair Big Three cars and trucks. On Tuesday, the union issued a canvassing tool kit with instructions, flyers, press releases, and talking points.

In negotiations with Ford and GM, autoworkers have clinched some important gains. Among them is an agreement by both companies to end at least one of the many tiers in current contracts, putting workers at certain parts plants back on the same wage scale as assembly workers. The top rate for Big Three assembly workers is currently around $32...

Ford was spared in last week’s escalation, because bargainers there had made further progress on gains for workers.

But today, the UAW once again called out workers at Ford and GM, putting some muscle behind its bold demands — a big wage boost, a shorter workweek, elimination of tiers, cost-of-living adjustments tied to inflation, protection from plant closures, conversion of temps to permanent employees, and the restoration of retiree health care and benefit-defined pensions to all workers.

-via Jacobin, September 29, 2023. Article continues below.

Keep Them Guessing

This year, for the first time in recent history, the union has played the three auto companies against each other with its strike strategy, departing from the union’s tradition of choosing one target company and patterning an agreement at the other two.

The stand-up strike strategy draws inspiration from an approach known as CHAOS (Create Havoc Around Our System), first deployed in 1993 by Alaska Airlines flight attendants, who announced they would be striking random flights. Although they struck only seven flights in a two-month period, Alaska had to send scabs on every plane, just in case. The unpredictability drew enormous media attention and drove management up the wall. Meanwhile the union was able to conserve its strength and minimize risk.

The companies miscalculated where the UAW was going to strike first, stockpiling engines and shipping them cross-country to the wrong facilities. Autoworkers relished the self-inflicted supply chain chaos on UAW Facebook groups and other social media platforms.

Nonstrikers’ morale on the factory floor has gotten a boost from rank and filers organizing to refuse voluntary overtime. With support both from Fain and the reform caucus Unite All Workers for Democracy (UAWD), workers have been encouraging each other to “Eight and Skate,” meaning to turn down extra work and decline to do management any favors.

Majority Public Support

A majority of Americans support the UAW strikers, and the Big Three have taken a PR hit since the strike began, according to a new survey conducted by the business intelligence firm Caliber.

“Eighty-seven percent of respondents told us they were aware of the strike,” Caliber CEO Shahar Silbershatz told the Intercept. “It’s clear the strike is not just causing commercial repercussions, but reputational repercussions as well.”

These reputational repercussions will only worsen...

"We Can Unmake It"

Fain didn't pull any punches in his speech... “That’s what’s different about working-class people. Whether we’re building cars or trucks or running parts distribution centers; whether we’re writing movies or performing TV shows... we do the heavy lifting. We do the real work. Not the CEOs, not the executives.

"And though we don’t know it, that’s what power is. We have the power. The world is of our making. The economy is of our making. This industry is of our making.

“And as we’ve shown, when we withhold our labor, we can unmake it.”

-via Jacobin, September 29, 2023

[classiccarsincyprus]

Wrangler Rubicon Jeep 4.0 L

[cyarskaren52]

the wga, culinary workers, the united auto workers union, and now sag-aftra. The unions just keep winning this year

unions work

GIF by choicesraccoon

[cyarsk5230]

the wga, culinary workers, the united auto workers union, and now sag-aftra. The unions just keep winning this year

unions work

[iww-gnv]

(CN) — When Jeremy Kimbrell landed a job 24 years ago at the Mercedes Benz plant in Vance, Alabama, he thought his life had taken a turn for the better.  Just 22-years-old at the time, his experience included working in a clothing warehouse and for a roofing company. The pay was low, the benefits were meager, and Kimbrell wasn’t exactly fond of the hot and dangerous work.  Through an acquaintance, Kimbrell heard the newly minted Mercedes plant was hiring temporary workers with the possibility to be retained as employees. The jobs offered pay of up to $20 per hour, health insurance, vacation and sick days and a retirement plan. The incentives fell short of what union workers were earning at the so-called “Big Three” automakers of General Motors, Stellantis and Ford. Still, it was “pretty good for Alabama,” Kimbrell recalled thinking at the time. But as the years passed and the economy evolved, Kimbrell and other Mercedes workers began to feel increasingly neglected. Pay raises became smaller and less frequent, while promotions slowed to a trickle. Management constantly increased production goals and whittled away at employee liberties.  Temporary workers became less likely to be offered full-time employment — and even when they were, their wages were capped at lower levels than more senior employees. Turnover increased.  “Around the time of the Great Recession is when the workers began to feel like we were being treated like a dime a dozen,” Kimbrell said in a phone interview Feb. 13. “That has led to where we are now, where people are finally fed up.” Since January, at least 30% of workers at both the Mercedes and Hyundai plants in Alabama — plus more than half of workers at the Volkswagen plant in Tennessee — have signed union authorization cards seeking recognition from their employers to unionize. That’s according to the United Auto Workers, a major union focused on the automobile industry with more than 400,000 current members.

[ultimatepad]

Kiklo Spaces facility, Petersfield, Hampshire, UK

Kiklo Spaces,Hampshire, England

[fisherrprince]

so does scala ad caelum have cars

[writercole]

I need delulu American F1 fans on WhatsApp. I feel awful bothering @dawn-petrichor-world and @reels-and-wheels in the middle of the night with my unhinged ideas.

Let me clear, I still do. But I feel a little bad about it.

Oh but I will be posting some delulu F1 rpf porn with feels smut here soon. I just have to finish this drink.

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

W Motors Lykan HyperSport Police, 2015. Carrozzeria Viotti was an Italian coachbuilding company active between 1921 and 1964. In 2012 the Chinese automobile manufacturer Zhejiang Jonway Automobile Co., Ltd. acquired the trademark of the Carrozzeria Viotti and relaunched the company founded a new headquarters in Rivoli, Turin. The new business is concerned with hybrid and electric vehicles, as well as the design and engineering of sport cars including the $3.4 million Lykan HyperSport. Of the 7 cars built one was used by the United Arab Emirates Police, making it one of the most expensive and impractical police cars to be put in to service.

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SRT Motorsports took advantage of the fast Indianapolis Motor Speedway to win the 2014 Brickyard Grand Prix in their N°93 Dodge SRT Viper GTS-R which contributed to the team’s Tudor United SportsCar Championship GTLM points lead.

[tomorrowusa]

The 46 day UAW strike against General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis is tentatively over with the union getting most of what it asked for.

In addition to being a victory for unionized workers, the settlement is a win for President Biden who became the first sitting president to join a union picket line.

From POLITICO...

Biden showed unprecedented support for the union during the strike: He took the essentially unheard-of step of joining workers at the picket line in September, after Fain called for his support. Biden’s alignment with the union means the relatively favorable deals now could be seen as a boon to his handling of economic issues for the working class.

In other union news, the SAG-AFTRA strike which began in mid-July continues.

SAG-AFTRA, Hollywood Studios to Resume Negotiations on Tuesday

[classiccarsincyprus]

Ford Mustang

[cyarskaren52]

the wga, culinary workers, the united auto workers union, and now sag-aftra. The unions just keep winning this year

unions work

GIF by choicesraccoon

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1967 Pontiac Firebird 400

Pontiac Motor Division (GM)

Magazine Ad, 1967.

Intro (Information Ahead, Don't Worry)

Believe it or not, I'm a Pontiac fanatic. My first two cars were Pontiacs (rip to my G6, and right now, I'm trying to revive my Formula🙏), and I still cry over any Pontiac I see on the streets or rotting away in random neighboring yards. I go to car shows often to see if I can spot the crown, the firebird. A lot of times, yes, but more than most times, it's always the Smokey and the Bandit classic (hey, I'm not complaining; the screaming chicken is a beaut).

I figured that, for my first car feature on this page, it'd be one of my favorites... from one of my favorite body decades.

Information

1967 was the first time we saw the Firebirds roll out, and thus, four generations ('67-'02) and four models (Firebird, Esprit, Formula, Trans Am) were born. A competitor to the Ford Mustang after the Chevrolet Corvair restyling f*cked up GM's wanting pony car victory, the Pontiac Firebird originally had a coke-bottle style (which later faded once Gen 2 was designed -- it's the '70s now, what can I say?) and the "Magnificent Five" (Firebird, Sprint, 326, HO, and 400) featured many different customizations. Interior colors featured Blue, Gold, Red, Black, and Parchment (not including seat colors, which are the same but differ seat choice), while the exterior had Starlight Black, Cameo Ivory, Montreux - Fathom - and Tyrol Blues, Signet Gold, Linden Green, Gulf - and Mariner Turquoises, Plum Mist, Burgundy, Silverglaze, Regimental Red, Champagne, and Montego Cream (not including top colors, which are the same but differ top choice).

Three of the "Magnificent Five" (326, HO, and 400) included a V8. The 400 had the highest horsepower, at 325hp / 4800rpm (Ram Air = 5200rpm) (400in3), and the max torque of 556nm / 3400rpm. Along with the Sprint and HO, it had the four-barrel carburetor. All were RWD and had hardtop or convertible options.

The car depicted above is a Firebird 400 convertible (if you brighten the photo, you can tell by the red oval-lined tires), which appears to be Regimental Red with a red Strato bucket seat interior.

Links 'n' References

"1967 Pontiac Firebird Selling Facts" - PDF

"1967 Pontiac Firebird 400 Build Information" - PDF

"Pontiac Firebird" (yes, I used Wikipedia. What about it?).

"Pontiac Firebird 400, 1967" - Carfolio

"1967 Pontiac Firebird 1st-gen. 400 Coupe" - Automobile Catalogue

"Vintage Pontiac Car Ads From the 1960s" - ClickAmericana (Photo source link).