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Darchangel posted:Almost like stuff like that should be taught in primary education. It sort of was when I was in junior- and high school. I took “Recordkeeping” which taught me how to make a budget, balance a checkbook, and other financial record-keeping stuff. “Keyboarding” (typing class, but on computers, because they were still sorta new in the ‘80s, yes, I’m old), home-ec, and such. We also still had a voc-ed program. I took metal shop, but wood shop and the mechanics shop would have been useful, too. There's plenty of people older than me (or you) that don't know gently caress about this stuff either despite having been nominally taught it in school. I agree with you that we should definitely encourage some practical programs, and vocational programs are really good. I took some auto shop and mechanical drafting and stuff like that, it was pretty awesome despite me being a "traditionally sucessful" AP class student.
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I took a “shop class” in HS that covered a lot of stuff: mig and arc welding, soldering, basic electric circuits (outlets and switches), and then small engines. I rebuilt my dad’s compressor with a 5hp B&S. I still remember ripping the cord for the first pull and having it run across the room with the gas I had splashed in the carb.
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Rigged Death Trap posted:Or the simplest possible solution That's not how you maximise shareholder value, dummy.
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ThirstyBuck posted:I took a “shop class” in HS that covered a lot of stuff: mig and arc welding, soldering, basic electric circuits (outlets and switches), and then small engines. I rebuilt my dad’s compressor with a 5hp B&S. I still remember ripping the cord for the first pull and having it run across the room with the gas I had splashed in the carb. My school had a combination shop and technology class. You spent some time in the shop class which was just woodworking, and then time in the technology class which had you do something like make a video, or soda bottle rocket or something.
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May 8, 2020 19:23
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I took as many shop classes as possible, auto shop 1 thru 4, metal shop 1 thru 4 and a couple of wood shop classes in there too. Also took consumer math which was balancing checkbooks and budgets and that class did me more good than algebra or any other math class ever did
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May 8, 2020 20:02
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Applebees Appetizer posted:I took as many shop classes as possible, auto shop 1 thru 4, metal shop 1 thru 4 and a couple of wood shop classes in there too. Took one shop class and that was enough...saw the eye-injury video...it changed me.
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May 8, 2020 20:05
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I'm surprised I didn't lose a finger or get seriously disfigured (heh) in metal shop. We made bolt bombs and hosed around with acetylene gas and poo poo like that, metal shop was literally filled with Beavis and Butt Heads with minimal supervision.
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May 8, 2020 20:13
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This will fit right in here. The local paper had some article/obit of a semi-retired local High-School shop teacher who "died doing what he loved!" The article goes on to say that he burned to death working on some old rear end car in his home shop
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May 8, 2020 20:14
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Died doing what he loved...being burnt alive.
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LifeSunDeath posted:Died doing what he loved...being burnt alive. dont kink shame
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May 8, 2020 20:29
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I figured it was crushed by a falling car, I feel like it'd be fairly hard to start a fire in a garage that you couldn't escape?
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Colostomy Bag posted:You and I are probably around the same age with same thoughts. I built a hibachi from sheet steel in junior high. Was great. Got to use a sheet metal shear, big ol' brake, and a giant spot welder. Didn't get to take Power Systems, which would have included the B&S rebuild, sadly. n high school metal shop, I learned to weld, and the basics of a mill and lathe. Very enjoyable. We built trailers, and engine hoist (that the auto shop used!) and a headache rack for a pickup, among other things. We also may or may not have machine sear pins for an AR-15. KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:There's plenty of people older than me (or you) that don't know gently caress about this stuff either despite having been nominally taught it in school. And yeah, I took drafting as well. Pencil and paper, never got to CAD. I
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I was not interested in any of this stuff in middle school, or even high school. I could turn a wrench, had a bit of the knack for fixing things, but I never developed it. At least, not until I got my first BMW. Then, it was "make the fucker run or you don't go to work", and we all know that necessity is a wonderful motivator for learning. I should take a drafting course at my community college, yeah, that'd be a good idea. I need to just finish my drat AA so I can get to work on MechE but all these neat practical courses are distracting.
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Darchangel posted:I built a hibachi from sheet steel in junior high. Was great. Got to use a sheet metal shear, big ol' brake, and a giant spot welder. Didn't get to take Power Systems, which would have included the B&S rebuild, sadly. n high school metal shop, I learned to weld, and the basics of a mill and lathe. Very enjoyable. We built trailers, and engine hoist (that the auto shop used!) and a headache rack for a pickup, among other things. We also may or may not have machine sear pins for an AR-15. I did some paper drafting in technical theater and then also took a CAD course.
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 A friend has been driving on this for A While
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May 9, 2020 00:54
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I feel compelled to repost this video I took of the driveshaft out of my CR-V https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IprSNJADgE4
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May 9, 2020 00:57
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Wait until it breaks free with a loud thud and hits your shifter linkage so that hard that the shifter no longer points straight up in neutral.    
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someone should make a beefed up high-temp plastic bendy straw joint you can hose clamp over it
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I graduated in 2005 and took cooking, drafting 1 and 2 (both on paper, designed a house in drafting 2), and "home maintenance" which taught us how to pour concrete and involved building a scale model cutaway of a house, from concrete foundation up to asphalt shingles. Now I'm a computer toucher so I guess I shoulda taken more shop classes ...
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All you guys and your fancy driveshaft ujoint failures... In 2011 I had just finished building my first Comanche with a front difflock and wasn't used to having anything but open diffs so I still thought I could hammer down with wild abandon and not worry about exploding axleshafts and ujoints. My very first off-road trip in it, this happened. Not my pic (sadly, as far as I know no pics or videos exist of the incident) but exactly the same failure. The trail leader (in a TJ on 36s, as I recall, lockers front and rear) went up the hard line. I waited for him to get to the top and went for it too. His reaction was "wait that guy only has one locker and 33s... How the gently caress is he getting up this so easy... *Snap crackle pop* oh. No he isn't" Barely bounced off a couple boulders and all I heard was a pop and suddenly he was waving for me to stop instead of staring in amazement. I get out and... I only have 3 wheels. There are supposed to be 4, generally. Front right was dangling from the steering and brake lines and what was left of the upper balljoint as pictured. I'd torn the ears off the inner and outer axleshafts, and on the next revolution, the inner axleshaft ear ran into the outer and forced the steering knuckle downward, nearly instantly tearing the lower balljoint in half, partially dislocating the upper and bending its stud. I was able to get it jacked up, pull the busted inner shaft, and force the balljoints back together so I could limp my way back to camp and replace the axleshafts, ujoint, and balljoints that evening. I was on the trail again the next morning, where my fan clutch promptly failed, thermostat stuck closed, and the engine overheated so badly it exploded the upper radiator hose. Fixed all that and drove it home that evening. I miss the adventures. I'm boring now. Growing up sucks 
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Spotted in the wild while addressing the u-joint posted above The mechanic that we took that truck to crawled under it and declared the drive shaft a total loss. The yoke on the diff can be replaced, but he advised replacing the whole rear axle as being overall easier than taking the diff apart. We're gonna go part shopping online tonight, but lol. This thing feels like it's on rumble strips at all times over 35 and that thing's clearly been like that for weeks The friend who owns this truck had previously referred to it and my van as equally reliable and still doesn't understand why I corrected her. 
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Why? Sure, you're probably supposed to put a new pinion preload crush sleeve in and carefully crush it with a torque wrench, but I can tell you I've literally never done that after damaging a yoke, nor have any of my friends, and diffs do fine anyways. Swap a ten dollar junkyard yoke on it, crank the nut down to gudentight-plus-a-really-hard-yank, stick a junkyard driveshaft on it for 50 bucks. Assuming you can find one that hasn't been demolished by the yard forklifts anyways. Worst case you're out 10 bucks and can swap the rear out next.
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 This is why you don’t fork lift cars onto flat beds kids. And so the mystery of the rear suspension being really low has been solved. Dropped $560 on new rear controls arms. By the time I am done this thing will be all new apart from the body and frame.
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That's why I freak out every time I watch Samcrac go to the copart lot and they are moving cars around on forklifts. It might have been a nice car after whatever totaled it, but what did the forklift do to the underside?
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Must be a leftover from when crashed vehicles only sold to breakers for parts instead of YouTubers fixing them up and driving them?
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BigPaddy posted:
WTF, thats like $60 in parts an an hour of labor.
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Astonishing Wang posted:WTF, thats like $60 in parts an an hour of labor. As I have discovered pre 1965 full size Pontiacs are not well served in the after market so if you are lucky there is one manufacturer and they are making tubular racing piece so you either pay through the nose for 60 year old pieces of unknown history if you can find them or pay through the nose for tubular racing parts 
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Good lord, glad I stripped down my 1966 Bonneville wreck & kept all of the suspension bits. Thought that those rear stabilizer arms looked familiar.
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Not car related but holy hell repairing a Dyson vacuum. Apparently some engineer really loves torx given there were 20 of them. Yeah, ok, let me bust out the T-8 for about that last one. And the part that failed was held in with a tiny phillips.
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Colostomy Bag posted:Not car related but holy hell repairing a Dyson vacuum. Apparently some engineer really loves torx given there were 20 of them. Yeah, ok, let me bust out the T-8 for about that last one. Lol @ anyone who buys a dyson. Complete loving waste of money.
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i mean they're fine vacuum cleaners but they are kinda the definition of "overdesigned." also i think they determined that the Dyson Airblade Hand Dryer, which Forces Air Through An Opening The Size Of A Human Hair, actually aerosolizes everything on your hands and spreads it through the bathroom more effectively than any other dryer so
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May 14, 2020 19:23
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i got my wife one of their hair dryers and evidently that thing is bitchin
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They make good, overpriced appliances and a very dangerous and loud hand drier.
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LifeSunDeath posted:Lol @ anyone who buys a dyson. Complete loving waste of money. Oh I know, I know, don't get me started. One of those happy wife / happy life moments. Will say though the drat thing that is 90% plastic has held up probably 8 years of getting beat on before this repair. I was amazed the part I needed was around $28.
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Colostomy Bag posted:Oh I know, I know, don't get me started. One of those happy wife / happy life moments. Same here, I had one small part break during the warranty period and it’s otherwise held up pretty well. It also helps that I bought it when I worked for an appliance/electronics retailer and got employee discount.
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As with most things, don't buy at full price, wait for deals. I was very happy with the fact that when my v10's battery crapped out, all I had to do was walk into the local Dyson service center and I walked out with a repaired device in about 15 minutes at zero cost. No appointment, no emails, no pre-registration. Just walk in, fill out a form on a kiosk, and hand over the vacuum.
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Lol at you scrubs who don't have a miele
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Previa_fun posted:Lol at you scrubs who don't have a miele The prices really...  suck
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I bought a C3 with an electric powerhead on amazon for like $700 and some change, iirc (which wound up being mostly credit card points). It's expensive, but very nice to use.
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My floors are all hardwood so my roomba does the heavy lifting well. I just need stick vac to occasionally hit the areas that it can't easy and to chase down cobwebs.
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