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Olympic Mathlete posted:Metal that takes itself seriously is bad. Then you have bands that are very serious in taking the piss (I think): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61DUOLu6sjA
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NumbersMatching320 posted:sidewalls are extremely difficult without a cured repair (as would happen during retreading) because of all the flex that happens in the area due to the belts only extending so far. I spent the last year of my tire career testing the limits and if the corded section of a reinforced patch (such as a CT-12) extends much past the belted section of a radial tire it will almost invariably fail. Non-reinforced patches may do better but I don't trust them all that far due to the smaller bonding area. desire to know more intensifies.gif Would you be able to annote a picture of a tire and show the exact positions/limits/measurements of what you think is safe and what you think good repairers would be willing to do, as well as share more info on the different types of repairs? Hearing knowledge from someone with expert experience is always a treat.
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NumbersMatching320 posted:sidewalls are extremely difficult without a cured repair (as would happen during retreading) because of all the flex that happens in the area due to the belts only extending so far. I spent the last year of my tire career testing the limits and if the corded section of a reinforced patch (such as a CT-12) extends much past the belted section of a radial tire it will almost invariably fail. Non-reinforced patches may do better but I don't trust them all that far due to the smaller bonding area. I agree, reinforced patches are too stiff to use on the sidewall of a passenger tire. I always tell my customers to just follow the RMA guidelies for their customer's tires. In my own tire, I would be completely comfortable using a good patch plug combo in the sidewall. The one I sell, for example, is non-reinforced solid rubber with chemical-cure cushion gum on the patch and on the stem. 
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Nov 13, 2018 13:38
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Speaking of tyre repair, one from the late night youtube recommendations folder... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdB8IXXShVE
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Speaking of tyre repair, one from the late night youtube recommendations folder... Hell of a cliffhanger.
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Nov 13, 2018 15:13
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spog posted:Hell of a cliffhanger. ...on next week's episode: Vulcanization, how to turn yourself into Mr Spock for that fancy dress party.
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Nov 13, 2018 15:37
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I changed the oil in my snowblower today and was confident I could do it without a drip. There's a little donger offshoot from the sump (parallel to the ground, no overhang so normally it would drip on the case) with the drain plug that I could put a funnel over immediately, then have it drain into a pan. Super easy, what could go wrong? The plug falling into the funnel, blocking it, and stopping it up within seconds.  A spotless oil change I think is just impossible. Fuckin' Murphy, man.
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Nov 13, 2018 17:17
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Dropped mine a bit ago, it really didn't want to come out at first and was a complete dick in all honesty due to the main nuts not wanting to loosen from 30 years of road grime blasted at them. Once it was off though the straps were cleaned and repainted with nice rubber paint before I put it back in to drive the car to the workshop it lives at now. Dropping it again next week, should be a lot easier now! £225 to have a brand new fuel pump fitted. Turned out that the problem was a small crack in a perished hose in the pump assembly. All that work to replace 2cents of rubber hosing. Hey ho, always the way. Treated myself to some tutti-frutti screenwash as a treat.
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Suburban Dad posted:I changed the oil in my snowblower today and was confident I could do it without a drip. There's a little donger offshoot from the sump (parallel to the ground, no overhang so normally it would drip on the case) with the drain plug that I could put a funnel over immediately, then have it drain into a pan. Super easy, what could go wrong? The plug falling into the funnel, blocking it, and stopping it up within seconds. Let me whisper these words in your ear real quick; Fumoto oil drain valve. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHIoQb2WPL0 *edit: snowblower. hmm, they mayyyy have one Olympic Mathlete fucked around with this message at 17:52 on Nov 13, 2018 |
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Nov 13, 2018 17:47
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ExplodingSims posted:Yeah, car interiors actually have some semblance of design again. But man, mid-2000s cars are terrible. Just miles and miles of flat untextured plastic. I somehow managed to avoid having an interior like that. Went from a 2001 e39 530i to a 2001 Honda Accord EX (with the leather interior). But man it's pretty sad when I get in a 2009 Nissan or something and the interior is 200x worse than the interior of my Honda Accord that was designed in 1996. I judge new car interiors using my Honda's interior as a measuring stick. For example the Tesla Model 3 imo has a much worse interior than my (almost) 18 year old Honda, which is pathetic especially for $60k.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Let me whisper these words in your ear real quick; Fumoto oil drain valve.  . You'll most likely only be able to use that plug."D'oh!
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BraveUlysses posted:tesla 3 exterior looks so incredibly bad so no surprise there I don't hate the way the outside of the car looks honestly. I mean don't get me wrong it looks like a cheap model kit that was stuck together with plastic pins, but I wouldn't call it ugly. The interior on the other hand (outside of the touchscreen) is on par with a base Nissan Sentra. It is embarrassingly bad.
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Nov 13, 2018 19:27
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Olympic Mathlete posted:*edit: snowblower. hmm, they mayyyy have one Heh. On my car it has a plastic quarter turn plug so I don't think that would work there, either. I might just eventually buy an oil extractor but more so because then I wouldn't even have to jack up the cars at all for changes, which would be bitchin'.
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Nov 13, 2018 19:36
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So every single day for the past few months we get a robocall from some debt collection agency. The problem is by the time we pick up the call the automatic recorded message is more than half through so we only catch the back half of the name of the business and that it is from a debt collection agency. I have called the number back a few times and they only tell me "well your phone number is not in our system" well no poo poo, you think perhaps someone is just forwarding all calls via something like a Google Voice number? This poo poo is so irritating. If I knew who they were trying to call I would personally drag them to the doorstep of the collection agency and hand them over.
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Nov 13, 2018 21:02
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GVoice makes you verify the forwarded number so it's probably not that The current state of the phone system is utterly turbofucked. It's really amazing that robocalls have not been this bad before.
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The weirdest thing happened to me recently with phone calls. When I was looking for a truck there were two that looked way nicer than the price they were asking. I figured scam but maybe it was a lucky getting rid of grandpa's truck for probate quickly or something. If it was a scam I'd know right away. What did happen was that when I called it got rejected immediately, like didn't even ring. The first one maybe they sold it and were blocking calls, whatever. The second one same exact thing, different state and area code. Then shortly after I would get way more out of state calls I ignored and no message or anything. One day I got 7 calls right in a row, no voicemail. What would the scam be? Selling my number to telemarketers? It's so weird. It's pretty much stopped now but for like a month I got a ton of weird calls.
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Nov 13, 2018 21:24
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I average 7 spam calls a day. I pretty much don't answer unless you're a contact in my phone.
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Nov 13, 2018 21:26
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I’ve been getting debt collection calls to my cell (I don’t answer, but Hiya app tells me that they are scam or debt collection). I don’t currently have any debt in arrears, so they can just gently caress right off. It’s either a mistake, or they’re trying to collect on someone I know, which it is, of course, illegal to call me about. I just instantly hit the reject call button. Hiya has been really handy for this sort of crap. I believe I can even have it automatically reject calls. I’d prefer to forward it to a number that answers with screeching howler monkeys at 120 dB, but it doesn’t have that feature.
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Nov 13, 2018 21:28
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shy boy from chess club posted:What would the scam be? Selling my number to telemarketers? It's so weird. It's pretty much stopped now but for like a month I got a ton of weird calls. Yeah, that’s pretty much it. Edit: more like selling your number to scammers who will claim that they are from Microsoft, your PC is infected and they’re going to fix it, and such.
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Nov 13, 2018 21:29
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Ever have one of those days where you just want to stand up and walk away from everything?
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It's like nothing had really driven home that I've completely wasted the last seven (really more like twelve) years of my life, until this point yesterday. This encompasses how completely lost I feel right now.
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Goober Peas posted:I average 7 spam calls a day. I pretty much don't answer unless you're a contact in my phone. Same, but this is the main phone line of where I work, used for inbound sales/technical help. It is super irritating. I put in a request to block the number with our phone provider, that might work...
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Fermented Tinal posted:Ever have one of those days where you just want to stand up and walk away from everything? Only monday to friday
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Fermented Tinal posted:Ever have one of those days where you just want to stand up and walk away from everything? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiQo1kvX4lI
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Fermented Tinal posted:It's like nothing had really driven home that I've completely wasted the last seven (really more like twelve) years of my life, until this point yesterday. An uninstalled two post lift?
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Darchangel posted:An uninstalled two post lift? I spent the first half of yesterday uninstalling it and there's just something about having it sitting in pieces in the quonset hut instead of in-use in the shop that has me pretty depressed today.
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So, my former boss, at a gathering of former coworkers last week, mentioned that he’s wanting to thin the herd, and will likely be offering up his 2001 Sequoia for $4300. That’s a pretty good price for around here (Dallas,TX). White, lots of new suspension bits, new tires. As I recall the interior is tan - don’t remember leather or cloth, but it’s a Limited, so probably leather. 2WD I think. A wee bit bigger than I was looking for, but I *was* shopping Tahoes, so not much bigger, if at all. Reviews for the first gens are very good. 200k miles, but Toyota, so who cares. I know the guy maintains his rides ( he has a sweet Z32 twin-turbo). Would have to sell something else to make space and $$, either the Crown Vic or the Kia the Kia. What’s AI’s take? I know someone here has a Giant Redwood.
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Fermented Tinal posted:I spent the first half of yesterday uninstalling it and there's just something about having it sitting in pieces in the quonset hut instead of in-use in the shop that has me pretty depressed today. Oh, yeah, that makes sense. Is it going somewhere else? Being replaced?
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spog posted:Only monday to friday I'm working Sunday to Wednesday now so I only want to walk away from this planet 4 days a week now instead of 5.
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Nov 13, 2018 23:20
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Darchangel posted:Yeah, that’s pretty much it. Ooohhh yea I did get one that left a message the other day that said my Windows registration had expired, lol. I should have called back to see what they were going to say but I haven't been that bored recently.
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I've been invited to my program/school's advisory board meeting dinner tomorrow! I don't know what that's about, but for the past two weeks the head office manager has been reminding me like every other day to go. I've looked at the invite list, and I think I'm the only student from this year going - it's mostly board of nursing liaisons and administration staff. This meeting is held twice a year, and I've been instructed to wear either semiformal business attire, or my school scrubs my wardrobe is in transition, too I wonder why I've been invited. Can't have anything to do with any of the recent events, right? 
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Sounds like a good opportunity to network like a motherfucker
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That's a good angle to play it as, yeah! Otherwise I'm bracing for an overall awkward experience. I only have two moods: sarcasm and absolute terror.
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Aren't you the oldest in your programme?
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Nah, I'm 31, there are a few in their late 40s early 50s. And I'm top 10% grades but not the top. I'm pretty sure it's for the reason I'm thinking about based on how the office assistant approached me. I'm not even that far along but the legal changes kinda zapped everything into action I think. E: VVVVV Yes on both sentiments in your edit. Queen Combat fucked around with this message at 08:34 on Nov 14, 2018 |
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Maybe someone wants to hit on you and this is their move? E: are scrubs gendered? Cause the look equally unflattering and gender-neutral to me.
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Darchangel posted:I’ve been getting debt collection calls to my cell (I don’t answer, but Hiya app tells me that they are scam or debt collection). I don’t currently have any debt in arrears, so they can just gently caress right off. It’s either a mistake, or they’re trying to collect on someone I know, which it is, of course, illegal to call me about. Ever since I got my Austin number, I was getting up to 15 calls a day, from the same exchange I have (sometimes my own #). Always "no sir, we not are telemarketing, we are simply asking to see if you are still having joint chronic pain, we calling from the US government" (sure "Glen", I believe that with your thick accent and extremely loud call center-sounding background!). Initially I was going off on them and telling them to stop calling. When that didn't work, I picked up in a panicked voice and said "GRANDMA?! YOU'RE ALIVE?!??" "Hello sir are you still in chronic pain?" "I AM NOW, HOW DID YOU GET MY GRANDMA'S PHONE?! WHERE'S MY GRANDMA? GRANDMA, WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE AND WHY DO THEY HAVE YOUR PHONE NUMBER, I THOUGHT YOU WERE DEAD!!" <fake crying> Those calls stopped (for now). The other chronic spammer I got was the typical car warranty scam. Initially "I don't have a car" (technically true, my car isn't in my name). Then pretending to be a little kid. Then "WHY ARE YOU HARASSING MY 10 YEAR OLD? loving STOP SEXUALLY HARASSING HIM YOU CREEP, HE'S TOLD ME ABOUT HOW YOU WANT TO TOUCH HIM". Then finally answering in Spanish. It took answering in Spanish to get them to stop.  I kinda enjoy loving with the scammers. I'm not attached to this number at all (I can barely remember it); my old number is on Google Voice and forwards to it anyway, so it's not a big deal if I need to change it. shy boy from chess club posted:Ooohhh yea I did get one that left a message the other day that said my Windows registration had expired, lol. I should have called back to see what they were going to say but I haven't been that bored recently. I always ask why they lookin in my winders at me? "No, your PC WINDOWS OF REGISTRATION IS EXPIRED!". Mah wut? "Your computer! YOUR COMPUTER WINDOWS" I ain't got one of those things, I don't trust em! WHY YA LOOKIN IN MY WINDERS? ARE YOU WHACKIN IT TO MY CHICKENS? OR MY SON?
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I got bill collectors to stop for a solid month after I started hitting on the guy calling me with the most stereotypical flaming gay voice I could muster. The discomfort in the guys voice as he tried to go through his script as I tried to get him to tell me what he was wearing was absolutely palpable. They stopped again for a couple weeks again after I answered and acted like a pissed off redneck about to beat his wife for her talking to another man. Its been the same indian dude calling for that debt for the last 7 years. I sincerely hope my number comes up and he just sighs before dialing the number.
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