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D C posted:Ohhh man i bet that printer smelled amazing. Back when I still worked on computers, I got called in to fix the bakery computer at a Cinnabon. Probably a pound of cinnamon in those fans, my whole bench smelled delicious.
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Nidhg00670000 posted:About ten years ago my friend had an old lovely Opel that we'd fixed some rust on. For some reason he wanted some paint on the patches instead of just primer. Anyhow, he knew someone who knew someone who recommended this really old dude (with a genuine Karl Marx-beard, therefor everyone called him "The Beard") that had an old paint shop and had been in business for like 40 years, so he'd started to turn away customers he didn't know or who didn't get "recommended" to him from someone he knew so he could have more spare time and not have to deal with random idiots. I worked for Sherwin-Williams for a couple years back just out of high school, and used to deliver to some of these guys. Holy poo poo is all I have to say. Between them and crazy-rear end painters spraying varnish while smoking, I was amazed I didn't get blown up on deliveries.
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Apr 11, 2014 14:06
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tater_salad posted:I spotted the failure Fixed that. gently caress a bunch of Cali. Send all those delicious non-rustbelt old cars out my way instead. 
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Apr 17, 2014 19:15
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Bucephalus posted:I've had 5 deer collisions. 3 of them were the fuckers ramming me. My Sonoma's hosed up pillar is because of this, dumbass deer ran headlong into my driver's side right at the mirror. Broke his drat neck and my windshield.
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Apr 28, 2014 16:24
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kastein posted:Honestly if I had a tire shop I'd probably just get a 10 foot piece of steel pipe, tack weld a 16d framing nail to the end, and poke em from around the side of the car while wearing ear/eye protection. Ever speared something that was charging at you? Trust me, you don't want to be holding whatever you pop that with, as it's going to be going the opposite direction at a high rate of speed shortly.
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May 8, 2014 17:51
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:Holy poo poo. Arc flash, the poor bastard. Something in that unit arced, and the resulting explosion turned him into chunky salsa from the resulting heat and explosive pressure wave as the copper went nearly instantly from solid to gaseous state. It's one of the things they terrified us with in my electrical training courses, because it doesn't really have any warning signs, you just screw up and explode.
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May 13, 2014 15:04
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Geoj posted:Or you know, just learn how to modulate clutch and throttle to start from a dead stop without rolling backwards while also not driving like an rear end in a top hat? But it's a lot more fun to drop the clutch uphill if you've got the timing right. 
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Sep 10, 2014 18:06
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General_Failure posted:Doesn't help that it was hit by a wall on wheels with an overhang at head height. How drat huge was that thing? Yeah, jacked up bro truck with the bumper at face height would murder any kind of compact. From the way it's sitting on that Beetle, it looks like it jumped over the hood straight into the windscreen.
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Oct 10, 2014 00:16
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Godholio posted:In no way is that a bro truck. Do the new ones ride that high stock? Because there's an extra half a wheel of clearance on those wheelwells.
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Oct 10, 2014 08:01
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Horse Divorce posted:Yup. Trucks have been growing a lot over the past generations. That explains it, I'm used to my early 90's GMC/Chevy trucks, where the bumper's at a reasonable height for bumping into things.
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Oct 10, 2014 19:34
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This was the very first car I ever got in a wreck in. Mine was significantly more rusty. Picked it up for $400 out of a Walmart parking lot. God, I miss that terrible fucker. It was like driving a couch with a rocket strapped to it. 4200lbs curb weight with a 5 liter v-8. I got rear ended by a cop in it, didn't even scratch the bumper but put his cattle catcher into his radiator.
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Oct 11, 2014 20:52
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Splizwarf posted:
I raced a guy in a lovely 90's Mustang in mine. He was very, very surprised that a grocery getter with 4 guys in it could chirp the rear tires and get going like that.
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Oct 11, 2014 23:23
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Nah, that third spot up should be the fog lamp relay, though.  I'm probably going to wire the stock ones back up for now.
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Oct 11, 2014 23:30
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The Royal Nonesuch posted:Mine were OEM (have a switch on the dashboard for them) and as far as I can tell the stock location for the relay was screwed into the side of the engine bay just above the battery. So, if the screw popped out or the stupid little plastic casing broke, it would fall down behind the battery like that (mine had). Mine's actually bolted down there, probably because it was the flattest piece of sheet metal they could reach.
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Oct 15, 2014 11:58
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Ooo. Parts-rich combustion, ahoy!
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Oct 19, 2014 10:10
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wilfredmerriweathr posted:Easy test to determine if you are ready to drive through the winter in a state that regularly sees snow/ice on the road. Some of us just run all terrains all year.  I'm just putting new ones on tomorrow for the year, actually, because we can't run studded tires here until November, and the roads out where I work are terrible enough that the first solid freeze is going to make them very fun. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 06:47 on Oct 24, 2014 |
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Oct 24, 2014 06:39
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As in all projects, more clamps is better.
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Safety Dance posted:I'm entering a crappy robot competition later this week. I'd say the potential for mechanical failure is quite high. Hope you're running that from behind lexan, as when one of those bike chain links lets go at speed it's going to make an impressive amount of distance.
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Jan 25, 2015 21:16
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Chainsaw chain sounds amazingly redneck and the best idea.
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Jan 26, 2015 13:23
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Slavvy posted:Why does anyone in the US ever bother to get a job working on cars? Seriously. The whole system sounds unbelievably dysfunctional. Don't work on cars, don't drive a rig, and don't loving cook for a living. Three bits of advice my Dad gave me, too bad I only listened to the first two.
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Feb 2, 2015 06:11
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some texas redneck posted:Welcome to modern crash standards. I can't see a loving thing out of the back or rear side windows of my car thanks to the C pillars almost as big as my gut and the previous owner's tint, and the top of the doors are high enough that it's uncomfortable to rest my arm on top with the window down. I like the tint as it is, but driving at night in the rain with any traffic around makes changing lanes terrifying. Yup. Welcome to why most everything new is turning into a similar shaped blobby thing with huge pillars and no visibility. Oh, and as an added bonus, all that bulk is ablative to survive theoretical high-speed wrecks... at the price of being incredibly expensive to fix after a little bump.
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Cakefool posted:This was linked in the hilarious chemicals thread in PYF, I'm working through on my breaks and it's great. If you haven't seen this, go read it : Things I Won't Work With. It's intense.
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Huge_Midget posted:Yup. Substitute WI, IL, MI, IN, etc. for Minnesota. We're just as loving miserable as outsiders during the winter, but we just internalize it into anger and hatred and continue to revel in each-others misery. Only reason to bitch about the snow in Iowa is because the idiots coming in on I-35 and I-80 don't know how to drive in it and turn the main arteries across the state into bumper cars every time it really snows. :/
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nitrogen posted:Kind of hard to see, but I got to see this during the everlong flooding we are having here in Texas. The gently caress did he get a Jeep stuck in 7" of water? 
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homebrew posted:Can't say I have ever worked on a Jeep, but I have worked on many tractors in my time, which from what I've heard is much the same thing..... I think tractors rust less.
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Phanatic posted:Not failures as such, but a bunch of poo poo gets broken in awesome ways: Bringing this back to the front just for how loving pumped the guys playing the War Boys are.
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Godholio posted:What's a pug? Drift rocket. Ever seen one of them try to corner? It's an experience.
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