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Was talking to my dad at home about car maintenance stuff, and remembered somethings to be thankful for -- that I never have to wrestle with the Z06's battery again. It sounds so nice when it's your polar moment at stake, but when you have to change the drat thing and the PO put in a battery without a strap... Took me a good 40min wrestling it out. You could maybe get in 4 fingers on each side front and back. I dumbly tried for 20 min just trying to brute force it that way, but kept snagging on something that I easily could have negotiated with a free hand. Finally I gave up and slowly snaked a rope under the battery and managed to tug it up and out. FFS. At least I did the next owner a solid by getting a battery with a handle.
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I'm going to go look at a Volvo C30 after work this afternoon, I've had enough of my e46 falling apart (shouldn't expect much else at 200k) and being treated like a BMW driver even though I rarely drive like one. Downside I'm already trying to mentally backpedal out of spending 5k on a car. Why am I so cheap? 
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Mother fucker. Some redneck trailer trash in a POS Dodge Ram truck hauling a bunch of loving rocks uncovered had one fly off and hit my car. No loving plate on the trailer to write down. I tried to get him to pull over and he wouldn't. Took a bunch of pictures on my phone but none of the are too clear. Luckily the debtis hit the plastic trim on my bumper and not the paint.
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Spent almost 12 hours doing some wiring in my garage yesterday and holy gently caress am I feeling it today. I was trying to stay ahead of the guy thats framing/insulating it so it was a marathon. My neck and back are broken from standing on a ladder working over my head all day. I almost miss doing leaf cleanuhahahahaha yea right, So glad Im done with that poo poo. I feel old today though.
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 drat the last couple months have flown by, just doesn't feel like it should be December yet. Looks like I'll be able to go home for Christmas this year since I've covered ALL the other holidays. Now to figure out how long I can stay up there and if I should drive to save money or just fly up and not have to worry as much about weather. Did pretty good for Black Friday this year. Bought some Christmas presents and a year refill for my cheap rear end pre-paid phone plan. No PC parts or car parts this year although the suspension for my future project did arrive yesterday.
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Dec 1, 2015 14:14
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Hahahahahaha. At a site testing their lovely cables and I am picking up the radio station down the street through their CAT5E.
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Dec 1, 2015 15:17
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IOwnCalculus posted:I had a Kerbal Space Program! And it was perfect! Perfect in every way! Kerbal will always be perfect. In every way.
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Dec 1, 2015 15:18
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Check out this beautiful freaking lock The landlord of the hackerspace I help run keeps putting lovely Master locks on the loading dock gate. They keep breaking, so I went out and bought an Abus. It's heavy! I love it. It's almost too nice to sit outside.
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Dec 1, 2015 15:30
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Abus and Medeco are amazing locks.
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Dec 1, 2015 15:32
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Safety Dance posted:Check out this beautiful freaking lock I've gotten into the habit of watching lockpick videos on youtube, and the modern abus locks are seriously good poo poo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaqoJNrId7g Most masterlocks are basically for show. I tried out the quick pick stuff on a masterlock i didn't have the combination for, and was able to open it in under 2 minutes. First time i've ever tried picking a lock and after watching a few youtube videos it might as well not even be there. WARNING: turn autoplay off, or the next thing you know, you'll know almost everything about lockpicks and be 4 hours late for something.
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Dec 1, 2015 15:36
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Geirskogul posted:Abus and Medeco are amazing locks. I wanted a Medeco, but it needed to be a four dial combination lock. Powershift posted:I've gotten into the habit of watching lockpick videos on youtube, and the modern abus locks are seriously good poo poo. I love this dude's goofy overproduced intro sequences.
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Safety Dance posted:I wanted a Medeco, but it needed to be a four dial combination lock. I think this is the lock you have. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKn7M3zzFdE Basically, it's machined tighter than the masterlock so you can't get a shim in. Still nearly useless.
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Dec 1, 2015 15:43
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Medeco is like wizard poo poo, they're so cool. If anyone has the chance to be a locksmith apprentice or work in a lock shop, do it; seriously awesome education for tinker-type people.
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Where is a good site to go look up the strength of square/rectangular tubes. I am wanting to build a cycle-kart and try to keep it as light as possible, aluminum is out the picture (I dont have the equipment to do so) and chrome-moly is possible. Though I know the NHRA says chrome-moly is only tig weldable, but I have heard that mig welding is possible. I am not building a hot rod or drag car, just a small cart with a 6.5 HF predator engine. Basically, its got to haul itself and my fat rear end around in it, with a small engine. I am guessing the whole project will end up around 600 lbs with rider, cart and every thing.
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Dec 1, 2015 15:59
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Powershift posted:I think this is the lock you have. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKn7M3zzFdE This one is YE labelled rather than ZB, but you're right. Still, "less likely to jam than the Master" is my only demand.
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BrokenKnucklez posted:Where is a good site to go look up the strength of square/rectangular tubes. I am wanting to build a cycle-kart and try to keep it as light as possible, aluminum is out the picture (I dont have the equipment to do so) and chrome-moly is possible. Though I know the NHRA says chrome-moly is only tig weldable, but I have heard that mig welding is possible. I am not building a hot rod or drag car, just a small cart with a 6.5 HF predator engine. You want to calculate the bending stress of a uniformly distributed load on each beam segment. Use this page to calculate each segment. Or get someone to design it in an FEA environment. Honestly that's probably your best bet, come to think.
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Dec 1, 2015 16:23
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I just got frontpaged on Jalopnik, Orlove promoted one of my insane stories (thankfully with a photograph that I took). I tried for awhile to do this with actual serious literal writing on Opposite Lock, but uh, this is fine too. It's fine. http://oppositelock.kinja.com/the-overhead-fluorescent-lights-flickered-to-life-sett-1744631178
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Adiabatic posted:You want to calculate the bending stress of a uniformly distributed load on each beam segment. Use this page to calculate each segment. Just throwing in absolute max of ball park figuring - I should be more than fine. There will be a few cross members, but according to this, I can get away with out it (but I wont). I mean, my math isn't the best, but I think I can get away with 12 gauge 2x4 rectangular tube and ill just use some angle iron for the cross members. The deflection is extremely low, less than 1/16th of an inch (if my math is right) and thats if I dropped it fully weighted from 3 foot in the air. I think that acceptable, as I figure my welds would break before the frame itself bends
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If you are building from square tubing I don't know of commercially available chrome molybdenum. As such plain old carbon steel would probably be your only option. Steel Tube Institute has section properties on their Web site. Depending on complexity of the frame you could either do hand calcs and over build it or FEA like Adiabatic said.
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Timmy Cruise posted:If you are building from square tubing I don't know of commercially available chrome molybdenum. As such plain old carbon steel would probably be your only option. I found round tube (rectangular is out), which I could use, but that screws with all the plans. The frame isn't overly complex, I think I will be fine with 2 frame rails and 2 end pieces and 2 cross members. I think I will try to find my weight savings in decorative part. Part of cycle karts are making it look like cars of the 1900-1910's so I can look for weight savings in the "decorative" part.
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gently caress you, Mazda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Usd1E-7y7cc
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"You sure we need shielded cable?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz6laoLC9LY
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Super Aggro Crag posted:"You sure we need shielded cable?"  Yes, you do.
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CommieGIR posted:
It was picking up the AM station down the street on every line. Easy money for us. At a different site now and the painter painted over all my loving jacks. I'm trying to explain to my girl that any white painter is either on meth, heroin, crack or a combo of the 3.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:I just got frontpaged on Jalopnik, Orlove promoted one of my insane stories (thankfully with a photograph that I took). nice job man!
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Super Aggro Crag posted:It was picking up the AM station down the street on every line. Easy money for us. If the run is longer than a couple feet, I always suggest shielded.
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THIS DECEMBER THREAD DIDN'T START IN DECEMBER 
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It's always great when nobody actually reads your email and I'm now getting a region wide email from a vice president asking if we can do something that we already said we'd do.
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1500quidporsche posted:It's always great when nobody actually reads your email and I'm now getting a region wide email from a vice president asking if we can do something that we already said we'd do. I'm getting kinda bored of sending emails asking clear, concise questions and getting no answers to them but a whole bunch of other irrelevant poo poo back in return. I then have to get blunt and look like a moody prick when all I want to know is the simplest of answers. Like tonight I get to sit about and get paid to do nothing because the person who requested my presence didn't take heed of my advice/line of questioning that basically said "...the place you're doing this thing at has people paid to do that all for you, I don't really need to exist in this..." But here I am, getting paid overtime to do nothing and whenever we need more money to do the essential poo poo it gets slapped down because there's been an overspend somewhere else. 
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1500quidporsche posted:It's always great when nobody actually reads your email and I'm now getting a region wide email from a vice president asking if we can do something that we already said we'd do. I am always thankful that I work for a 2 person company. I would lose my job in a corporate environment because i wouldn't be able to refrain from responding to that email with a copy of the original email.
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I've done exactly that in a corporate environment.
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Yeah, that's pretty standard.
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Christ this thing keeps growing, there's now the managers of six different departments cc'd in. I'm praying like hell I hear back from the city job I applied for.
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Modus Man posted:I am always thankful that I work for a 2 person company. I would lose my job in a corporate environment because i wouldn't be able to refrain from responding to that email with a copy of the original email. My wife runs a non profit with 3 employees that does program evaluation among other things. They always get this poo poo. My wife told the employees not to do it but to let her know so she could forward the original email with a short message. My favorite story is when the research director answered a bunch of questions for someone in an email that was shared with everyone in the project and a couple of the questions were asked again around 5 or 6 times by the original asker's boss with my wife forwarding the original answers every time without comment. Fun hearing my wife on conference calls do the same thing, "if you check the email dated whatever, I've answered that question and no, it isn't feasible".
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Seat Safety Switch posted:I just got frontpaged on Jalopnik, Orlove promoted one of my insane stories (thankfully with a photograph that I took). This is true to form, meaning a Good Read. You're talking serious literal writing on OppLock for like car reviews or op-eds?
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Cakefool posted:I've done exactly that in a corporate environment. Glad I'm not the only one who does that!
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Modus Man posted:I am always thankful that I work for a 2 person company. I would lose my job in a corporate environment because i wouldn't be able to refrain from responding to that email with a copy of the original email. That's allowed y'know. Depends how snarky you are with the words preceding the copied email though as to whether the other person thinks you're a dick or helpful. There's a fine line.
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Ah poo poo it's December.
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88h88 posted:That's allowed y'know. Depends how snarky you are with the words preceding the copied email though as to whether the other person thinks you're a dick or helpful. There's a fine line. My experience has been they'll think you're a dick 50% of the time regardless of the tone of your response. I've been told I'm not a team player because I've painstakingly and politely illustrated we couldn't do stuff we objectively could not do regardless of the amount of money involved. But then I sarcastically ask whether somebody we're working with is an ***elite*** or ***ELITE*** client so I know how far to escalate it and get a serious response back.
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