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Wow, I ignore the new chat thread just once and an interesting thing happens. If Fjelltorsk is actually coming to the US I still want to go junkyarding with him.
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While we're tearing each other down and admitting our lives are hosed up, Phone, stop blaming EEs for something that Franklin got wrong centuries ago and we've been stuck with ever since, electrons being negative is essentially that nasty legacy code you can't gently caress with because you break everything. Also I had a rough couple years from 2012-2014 but have mostly pulled out of it. 2008: got my first job, wasn't really what I wanted to do with my life but it paid the bills and was fun. 2009: got a GF, she was cool but it didn't work out and I was pretty torn up over it. Present-me thinks past-me was a fool. 2010-2011: bought a house and started fixing it up, got a new job that was supposed to be my dream job, ended up being a nightmare. 2012-2013: quit nightmare job and tried to run my own jeep wiring business, failed miserably, I am incapable of selling water to a man on fire. 2013: got my actual dream job, began rapidly paying off all overdue bills. First paycheck landed right after I got to work with not enough gas in my tank to drive home and $1.57 left to my name. Only made it that long because I did some side jobs welding stuff for AI goons. Thanks, Fart Pipe, I literally could not have made it to work for the last 3 days except for you basically forcing me to take $100 more than I quoted. I owe you one. 2014: Winter: met a girl, thought she was the one for the first time in five years, she turned out to be loving nuts and quite possibly bullshitting me about literally everything we talked about. Fall: got notice from the RMV that my license was being suspended for the large number of inspection tickets I received in the previous few years (yes, this is a thing. gently caress Massachusetts) and ended up moving into my parents spare bedroom and being dropped off at work like a goddamn highschool kid. Fixed all their cars and house in exchange. Everyone involved feels they got the good end of the deal, so that ended well. 2015: holy gently caress, life owns. It's been nothing but up since I got my license back in late 2014. House is in the best shape it's been in since I got it, met an amazing girl at an old friend's wedding and things have gone better than I ever thought possible. It's likely I'll have a heated house to live in this winter for the first time since 2010-2011, too. And I've gotten $20k in raises in two years.
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Oct 7, 2015 20:07
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nm posted:Yes, I like the independence and freedom, but I'd also like the thousand plus dollars I pay for it to buy useless poo poo (or save). This is why I bought a project house. That thousand bucks goes toward property taxes, water bill (covered by rent normally), and materials to repair the place. In return I live on my own terms. If I want to throw a shovel through the bedroom window one day, I can. And have. Mostly because I needed to throw a thousand pounds of horsehair plaster out next and the drat window kept sliding down on me.
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Oct 7, 2015 22:41
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scuz posted:Project houses are awesome, but it's tough to get one if you don't have a lot of capital. The only home loan we could even afford was an FHA, and those guys are picky about what you can and can't spend their money on. I paid 38k for a bombed out rotted shithole. Most of my friends spent more than that on their down payment.
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Oct 7, 2015 22:46
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NitroSpazzz posted:I got stuck there too, think I swiped up or down to get the thing so I could join a group. Wasn't intuitive at all and I only found it because I was swiping around at random. This kind of bullshit is endemic in modern mobile development and I loving hate it. That and mystical runes that mean something only if you already know what they mean, similar to the stupid little icons on your clothes tags that tell autists how to wash their clothes. gently caress, just put a box around it so I know it's a button and write something on it or at least give me a tutorial, don't assume I'll just wander around tapping and swiping random things until I understand how it works. Get off my lawn, drat kids and their mobile phone apps.
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Oct 8, 2015 16:41
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Sigma X posted:Did they DO any UI testing outside of their own team? I have said this so many god drat times. About so many apps. "did they do any QA at all?" "did they even test this? or do anything except make sure it compiled and then release it?" I haven't tried vidku yet but I break the gently caress out of every piece of software I use so when you see a flood of bug reports, I'm sorry.
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Oct 8, 2015 17:02
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I swore off ATI video cards in 2006 and will never, ever, ever go back. Why? the drivers. I don't know how, but hydravision (which I had to install to make my dual monitor setup work at the time - and it only made things worse, it resulted in app crashes and completely hosed up video resolution/refresh rate settings every time I opened any video game, requiring me to learn how to open display properties and set it back to something sane entirely blind, using keyboard shortcuts) completely cratered my TCP/IP stack when I uninstalled it. Had to reinstall windows. At that point I bought an nvidia card, reinstalled windows, and never went back. gently caress ATI. Maybe in another few years I'll give them a second chance, but only if they take the entire development team responsible for that monstrosity out in a public square, line them up, and shoot them.
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Oct 9, 2015 16:00
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I don't know what the problem is, Intel integrated graphics look great. First frame looks good... oh here comes the second, it looks good too...
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Oct 9, 2015 18:34
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BrokenKnucklez posted:gently caress PREVIOUS OWNERS, gently caress PREVIOUS OWNERS, gently caress PREVIOUS OWNERS. You should be using greenboard or cementboard in a shower stall anyways. 
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Oct 9, 2015 19:34
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Goober Peas posted:So I have a (not really close) friend who wears his bluetooth earpiece non-stop. And its not like its a discrete one. And he takes a gazillion selfies and posts them all over the place. And he always turns his head to the bluetooth side for said selfies. Tell him his douchebag catch-and-release tag looks great.
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Oct 13, 2015 20:08
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Protip from my automotive repairs of the weekend, BTW: it helps to buy brake pads for the proper end of the vehicle.  Further, it helps to discover this before tearing the car apart.
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Oct 13, 2015 23:47
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88h88 posted:Depends on how large a large is and how fatty fat fat you are. My graduating from a medium to a large has coincided with my belt size going up and this is despite a pretty decent amount of exercise. The two things mayyyyyyyyy be related.  at people with lovely metabolisms, I'm 29 and can still eat like a pig. Been within 10lbs of the same weight since I was 15-16.
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Oct 14, 2015 17:23
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piss boner posted:90% of my work day I am behind a desk, its hard to keep up my metabolism when I'm on my rear end for 8 hours. Same here, I just do dumb poo poo like carry 1000lbs of concrete mix into my house in the evenings.
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Oct 14, 2015 17:47
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while we are at it we should probably make killing people illegal. I don't know how that loophole hasn't been closed yet.
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Oct 14, 2015 21:36
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deaths in 2015 so far, in thousands: heart disease 468.5 cancer 452.9 tobacco 274.8 obesity 241.1 suicide 31 drunk driving 26.5 auto accidents 19 (in the first half of the year alone) murder by gun 9 murder by other weapons 4 police shootings 1 (jan-oct) (this probably includes some of the "murder by gun" stat, and vise versa, since not all police shootings are ruled justifiable) mass shooting 0.043 mass shooting using weapons banned by the 94 AWB: I haven't run the numbers yet, but typically about 1%, so let's call it ten percent to be charitable to those arguing against me and say 0.005 kilodeaths. VW TDIs (per year, estimated) 20 (only this low because TDIs are rare in the US, probably more like hundreds in europe) So you know what? gently caress off with your gun control rhetoric. It's a drop in the god damned bucket compared to any other cause of death, intentional, accidental, natural, or otherwise. You are more likely to win the god damned lottery than you are to get shot in the united states. You are more likely to die in a commercial airliner crash (average 1255 deaths per year over the last 16 years) than you are to be shot in a mass shooting in the united states, by two orders of magnitude. The only reason this is even a loving debate is because some people are afraid of guns and want to ban them by any means, and people are bad at statistics and risk calculations, which is also the only reason some people won't fly and lots of people buy lottery tickets. You stand a higher risk of death driving home from work (sober) at 8PM on a Friday than you do from any sort of gun related crime. gently caress, this poo poo pisses me off because people are so goddamn bad at math and think banning inanimate objects solves a problem when the crime committed with them is already illegal. Banning "assault weapons" or "high capacity magazines" or "scary black guns that make me afraid" (what the bans amount to) is every bit as effective in saving lives as banning the following list of vehicles: Lamborghinis over 400hp (if equipped with black paint and chrome wheels, unless a manual transmission is also included) Ferraris over 350hp (if painted black) Porsches with more than one turbo or a water cooling system (unless they have more than two doors) Subaru WRXes (if equipped with SMG, rollcage, and WRB paint) Ford F350s (King Ranch edition w/ backup camera only, but only if it has a vanity license plate) Yet a depressing number of you guys are alright with the idea of banning someone else's expensive toys, but would be up in arms in a second if there was any kind of a high performance vehicle ban. Paul Walker's blood is on your hands, bloodthirsty car nuts  And this will be my last post on the subject because guess what? It will change precisely zero loving opinions, math, logic, or reason aside, this is a ridiculous emotional argument. Zero, zilch, nada. So I'm done justifying a goddamn thing, gently caress you, you can take them from my cold dead hands, and half the country (crossing party lines - a surprising number of democrats own guns - including my liberal/socialist leaning girlfriend, who voted for Obama and is probably voting for Sanders this time around) agrees with me. If you want to ban guns be honest about your goddamn reasons ("they scare me!  ") instead of trotting it out every time some wackjob kills a bunch of people.PS: I'm not a republican or a democrat, my political beliefs are closer to "string em all up from the highest tree we can find" than anything else. I don't really like the NRA, either. I don't even own any guns (yet) I just think it's a loving stupid argument, a waste of political capital, and quite frankly the math agrees with me. We could save more lives by cutting even 1% of the F35 program (that'd net 13 billion dollars, FYI - enough to give over a million homeless people a $1k/mo 2 bedroom apartment to themselves) and using it to fund help for the homeless, work programs, etc, or by legalizing almost all drugs and ripping the revenue stream out from under the drug cartels and gangs operating in our cities, then using the tax revenue from letting people sell said drugs to fund proper rehab/addiction management programs. But that's crazy talk apparently because gently caress those dirty addicts and bums they don't deserve poo poo. Wasting political capital on gun control when half the drat country disagrees is statistically the same as trying to balance the federal budget by cutting 5% of NASA and the food stamp program. Death stats wise, you're dicking around with extreme couponing to save pennies when the credit cards are maxed out and pissing off the whole line behind you at the grocery store, find something more effective to do that doesn't involve making GBS threads on the constitution. The numbers are so goddamn low compared to the number of deaths by any cause per year and the number of people living in this country that they're below the statistical variance of natural causes deaths year over year. I'm not wasting my time on self defense / conspiritard / reagan destroyed mental health / foreign invasion reasoning, because I don't want a headache from slogging through that bullshit trying to find statistics.
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Oct 14, 2015 22:33
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:No, only scared of loving lunatics with them. In a sane and rational country - and the USA sure as gently caress isn't either - this wouldn't be up for debate. You would do like Australia did in 1996. You want your guns? Then try being a sane and rational society like Canada or a Scandinavian country, where guns are just as prevalent but shooting aren't. Now this, I can agree with. I dunno why the hell we have so many wackjobs but it's bad. I guess we could start by forcing Indiana, Texas, and Florida to secede or something.
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Oct 14, 2015 22:53
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MrChips posted:Kastein you're a smart guy, I expect more than this sort of disingenuous argument from you. I'm not wasting my time on this debate, just stirring poo poo up and eating popcorn while I read the responses. Like someone else said, TFR is that way and D&D is the other way. I'm here to yap about stupid cars, not political nonsense. Also, the part you quoted is distressingly similar to the AWB, though I was mostly joking. I'm glad I hit a nerve. Wish I wasn't stuck at work atm so I could be wrenching on my crummy military surplus truck / yard ornament, it hasn't moved under its own power in something like two years now. 
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Oct 14, 2015 22:58
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A rust free clean-titled chassis in the rustbelt is always the hardest part to find. gently caress it, if you like the price buy it and swap the rest over from rotten junkyard/craigslist partscar donors.
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Oct 14, 2015 23:09
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Tusen Takk posted:it's still weird that he told me to kiss his arse when I asked him if he was lying Go back to "making" LED interior lights for your tupperware car. And yeah, if everyone jumped my rear end and claimed I was a fraud I'd just walk the gently caress away too, that's pretty disrespectful. Some people don't like posting pics of themselves. Hell, I hate basically every picture I've ever taken of myself so I don't bother anymore, and don't really like anyone else taking pictures of me either, so the good ones that get taken are mostly flukes and you lot are lucky my ugly mug has ever been posted here. I don't 100% know if he's legit or not, but he's cooler to talk to than a lot of other people on the internet and is coming stateside at some point IIRC, so one way or another I'll know for sure then. Your loss, guys, good job driving off a cool dude.
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Oct 16, 2015 15:12
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Cage posted:You're somehow more fun when you post about guns. My apologies for being mildly cranky because half this thread e-jumped an internet friend of mine.
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Oct 16, 2015 15:36
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He has one, we still talk to him on IRC, he never left, we already had this discussion some time ago and decided his story checked out well enough and he's cool enough to not care. Far as I can tell he stopped bothering here because everyone went straight to tar and feathers and full-on spanish inquisition 30 seconds after someone tineyed a few pictures he posted. Pretty understandable, I think.
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Oct 16, 2015 15:45
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meatpimp posted:So have you seen timestamped pictures of his monstrous, picturesque house? Tesla? Expensive VW truck? WRX? $10,000 bicycle that his father bought him? Seen any news reports of a random vandal that assaulted a homeowner in a notoriously crime-free country? Seen a web site or other reference to his tremendously booming startup company? Have you posted anything about actual cars that you actually work on or drive anytime in the last 6 months? How about that small time car dealer thing you and your son were doing, any proof of that? HUH? I'm not claiming to have seen any of that. I'm saying he's a cool dude to talk to and you and everyone else gave him the fifth degree right off, and that I'm not passing judgement on whether any of that is real till I meet the guy, which may be sometime in the near future. We'll see. I don't think he owes anyone a goddamn thing, unless he wants to. He gave us a reasonably solid explanation on IRC because we didn't jump the gun and act like thundering assholes as soon as the sources for the pictures were posted. That's why I've not jumped in on the bandwagon assholery in this thread. Nothing more. kastein fucked around with this message at 16:17 on Oct 16, 2015 |
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Oct 16, 2015 16:13
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Tommychu posted:I got shafted this morning, but breakdowns like that are great for keeping things interesting. The Spicer Life really. I'm sure I can get at least half round this situation without busting a cap though you neapco what you sow.
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Oct 16, 2015 19:10
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Tommychu posted:When I checked it there wasn't any reason to Meritor replacement, it had enough life left to Rockwell into next year. Get your ugly Moog and your puns out of here.
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Some retard didn't wear his respirator while doing demolition and is now coming down with a sinus infection. God damnit  meatpimp posted:Well, I didn't want kastein to cry any more about me not wrenching anything... $1800 Please for the love of god tell me you just used that as an excuse to post the buick, because I sincerely hope you didn't spend 1800 bucks on a turd with a slipping trans over a half-assed throwaway burn I had entirely forgotten I even posted till I saw this BrokenKnucklez posted:HF makes an excellent one. I think only Kastein has killed one. I haven't managed to kill my 3/4 HF breaker bar nor did I manage to break the long handled 1/2 they had a few years ago, and I tried real hard on a friend's while attempting to remove a rusted on pinion nut. A++ would buy again
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Oct 18, 2015 01:51
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Not I. My 3/4 has survived a four foot pipe placed a foot out on the handle with an angry 200lb man jacking about with the other end. It broke loose a pinion nut that a 1000ft-lb impact wrench just made noise on.
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Oct 18, 2015 02:50
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iwentdoodie posted:Why the gently caress would a battery keep fouling the negative terminal? Could just keeping the bike outside do it? I wouldn't be surprised if the plastic around the terminal is split and acid is leaking up around it. Try daubing dielectric grease on it, but don't be surprised if it doesn't help.
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Oct 21, 2015 16:43
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I am going to sic IG-88 on all of you if you keep this poo poo up. get off my lawn and/or moisture farm!
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Oct 22, 2015 03:00
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Hmmm. Yep still 210lbs and 6'5", at 29, eating whatever I want whenever I want. I don't even remember what the inside of a gym looks like. Anyone want to tell me my metabolism is going to crash and I'll get fat? I got told that at 20, 22, 25, 26, 27, and 28 too. I did cut out hard alcohol cold turkey after a really bad new years day a few years back, and have mostly stopped drinking beer/cider as well, 3-4 beers is a wild night for me these days. I recommend you guys go junkyarding more, avoid using your impact wrenches, and speedwalk/run everywhere even if you don't need to. It may not do much for you, but it can't hurt.
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Oct 23, 2015 17:22
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Since you're rustfree, they're holding strong with sloppy steering and on their fourth transmission.
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Oct 23, 2015 18:24
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oh poo poo secret santa?! How did I miss that? e: checked facebook again, signing up 
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Oct 23, 2015 18:28
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scuz posted:Ugh me neither. There'll be a thread in AI, right? BTW, here's my "don't be me" story for today. That monthly minimum CC payment you mentioned? That's less than my monthly auto insurance payment. None of my cars are worth over $1k. I mean, I do have 3 registered vehicles, but... ow. My crimes? Inspection sticker tickets. 
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Oct 23, 2015 18:56
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The Locator posted:No guarantee it will happen to you, but I used to be able to eat whatever and never gain weigh, so you aren't unique. Yeah, here's hoping I'm more like Ether Frenzy. I'm not saying it won't happen, just that all predictions so far have been wrong  The second I don't fit in the same size jeans I've been wearing since halfway through high school is when I know I have to actually watch what I eat.
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Oct 23, 2015 19:33
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scuz posted:VAN CHAT. That 7.5/460 is a gas guzzler but will go forever. Sigma X posted:gently caress me running, what a way to start a Monday. Any of you guys just have one of those coworkers who is almost totally clueless at how to do their job, but gets pissed off when they are treated like they're clueless, even if you're helpfully instructing them on how to NOT be clueless? Adiabatic posted:Heh welcome to engineers straight out of school. "I'm an engineer now I know everything" Dealing with his dumbassery is really making me enjoy work a lot less.
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Never sat in anything with an engine that big before. I'll take some pics and throw em up here (they took down the CL listing [weird!]), but it's an utter monster of a van. In its previous life, it was used as a detox van in Cedar Rapids, IA, so while all of the regular maintenance may have been taken care of (no service history), thems was some haaaard miles.
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Holy gently caress holy gently caress holy gently caress  An unnamed aigoon who can out himself if he wants to sent me an awesome box of scrap military style connectors from old equipment. LOOK AT ALL THESE TREASURES  JUST LOOK AT THEM I can only begin to imagine what I am going to build with all of these.
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Oct 27, 2015 02:34
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mafoose posted:That's so awesome!!! Sure, once I catalogue what the hell I have here and figure out which ones plug into which. It seems like there's a LOT of W12-10 plugs and sockets and a few other ones that show up in volume, plus tons of weird one offs. I don't even want to think about what this pile would cost new. It's probably into five figures.
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Oct 27, 2015 14:36
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The gently caress is "salt life" about anyways? I still haven't figure out what it even refers to.
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Oct 27, 2015 23:18
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Alright, looks like the exhaust leak on the Roadmaster is the slip fit junction at the cat inlet from the Y pipe. It's very loose and I can feel exhaust escaping at idle. What saith AI, blast booger welds all over it and make future me hate myself for this when it needs a new Y pipe or cat, or muffler butter the gently caress out of it and slap a new U bolt on? I am leaning towards the latter.
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leica posted:The later first, then if that doesn't work booger weld the gently caress out of it. That's assuming you can weld over/through muffler butter. New U-bolt is on the way, muffler butter at the ready... it only has to not leak for a day to pass inspection, the leak is minor and not really a hazard but they'll fail it for that to try and squeeze a cheap easy repair bill out of it. stevobob posted:This is my go-to mostly yes Thus, this is my "paralyzed by indecision" face you are seeing right now.
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Hockey interests me because I'm an amateur skater, but that's about it. Ball games... snore. As soon as the nachos are gone I'm uncertain why anyone stays around.
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