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Nidhg00670000 posted:As someone living somewhere quite colder than Köpenhamn, I've got to ask: what the gently caress is wrong with you? I love love love those few weeks when it's actually warm here. We've been going between 25-30C, 50-55 humidity and UV at about 6 this whole week, and I'm happy as a pig in poo poo. I start overheating easily when the temperatures start to rise. I'll start sweating just sitting around doing nothing. If I actually do anything physical, my clothes will be soaked in seconds. On the other hand, I generally don't start wearing jackets until mid October or thereabouts, and they come off again around mid March. I'm perfectly fine with just hoodies for all but the worst winter days. the AC in my car is set to 22C, and is only that high to avoid the worst thermal shock when I step out. Ideally, I would have it at 20C or lower. I sleep with just a duvet cover all summer, and it's still too warm. I'm just not built for hot weather at all. KozmoNaut fucked around with this message at 23:48 on Jul 11, 2014 |
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Jul 11, 2014 23:45
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Fart Pipe posted:My girl just left a little while ago. Time to get lovely Goondolences my friend. Might I suggest getting a strong long island and have them drop a shot of fireball into it. This works better when all that's on special is LI's and you're looking to get into trouble.
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Jul 11, 2014 23:59
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jammyozzy posted:
As other people have said, it is just a socket that is on a ring with a spur coming off it. Here is the same thing as demonstrated by the lovely wiring I'm slowly sorting in my house. This is my kitchen...  The single socket is on the ring - you can see the 2 wires coming out of the wall to it. The double socket is spurred off via the visible single wire - so the single one has 3 sets of wires in it like yours.
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Jul 12, 2014 00:25
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Fuckity-gently caress-gently caress gently caress. Guess who is related to people who didn't change their timing belt in time on their interference engine?
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Jul 12, 2014 00:36
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Viggen posted:Fuckity-gently caress-gently caress gently caress. Guess who is related to people who didn't change their timing belt in time on their interference engine? The same person who's not going to lift a finger to help them fix it, right?
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Jul 12, 2014 02:09
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Agreed. Now that they're legal in the US, I expect a lot more Americans to learn about how tight everything is in that mess of hoses and 80s turbo technology. I don't give a poo poo I still want one 
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Jul 12, 2014 02:14
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). This poor car basically had the entire HKS catalogue, two(!) alarms (one half installed, the other fully installed but broken from cap plague) and miles and miles of aftermarket wiring. It must have been some kind of show car in its past life, because it was tuned for big injectors (which had been removed from the car along with the aftermarket fuel rail) and never ran again.
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Fart Pipe posted:My girl just left a little while ago. Time to get lovely Grab Corn Chips and get smashed.
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Jul 12, 2014 02:40
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kastein posted:Now you sound like the guys from Project Binky. When this was linked a few weeks back, I was very sad when I reached the last video and they weren't done yet. OTOH, something to look forward to! (In a month when the next update goes up)
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Jul 12, 2014 02:53
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Goober Peas posted:Grab Corn Chips and get smashed. Oh believe me we are working on that right now 
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Jul 12, 2014 02:57
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Gonna float around a lake on a pontoon tomorrow. Made a shitload of frozen boozey drinks for the day. Should be excellent.
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Jul 12, 2014 03:12
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Rhyno posted:The same person who's not going to lift a finger to help them fix it, right? Yeah, well, I'd love to but its not the fault of the directly related, and they'd be the one directly impacted. $800 for a high mileage replacement 2.4L is the best price I've been able to find. Guess I got to be a passenger and driver in one of its last voyages. 
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Jul 12, 2014 03:46
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I made a powershift sized Cup out of a 1.75 liter vodka bottle. Pop can for scale the glass is too inconsistent for a level lip. I was gonna use a rotary file to level it but it turns out i don't give a poo poo. Just scored. Heated. Run under cold water. Flap disk sanded.
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Jul 12, 2014 04:06
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I finally live in my own place again, and now it has internet. I'm almost regretting committing to so many things this weekend because I really just want to stay home and watch Netflix.
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Jul 12, 2014 04:22
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Bought an NB2 and tried to drive it home. Radiator was busted.   Pulled off as soon as I saw the temp gauge move, I'm hoping that the block/head isn't toast. Poured water into the radiator and the endtank didn't want to cooperate. Oh well, $700. (the differential is worth $1000  )
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Jul 12, 2014 06:08
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Powershift posted:I made a powershift sized Cup out of a 1.75 liter vodka bottle. Pop can for scale This is the best drinking glass. the size is loving perfect. also: I busted 45mph on a bicycle tonight. I'm proud of my fat rear end self.
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Jul 12, 2014 06:12
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Phone posted:Oh well, $700. (the differential is worth $1000 What year? Is it a torsen? I'm thinking of joining the cool kids and making an Exocet with my NA, when I buy another car to replace it's duty as a DD.
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Jul 12, 2014 06:31
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kastein posted:Ahh, the way I heard it put was that the entire house was one circuit for receptacles, not that there would be multiple circuits. I'm not sure how you save copper by wiring all the way around and then back to the breaker again, but I'm probably misunderstanding something. It saves copper because, based on the theory you don't pull full load from every socket at once, so rather than having separate radial wiring to each one (which must have the full current capacity), you instead have a "clockwise" and "anticlockwise" path to each socket, and therefore can spread the load between the two halves. A valid criticism of the design is that a break in the ring is effectively undetectable, but can lose this redundancy to multiple sockets, making it easy to overload the circuit. Are the savings in mass of copper used relatively minor? Yes, but if you're building and wiring more than a million houses following a very materials-hungry war, it adds up.
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Jul 12, 2014 08:48
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mafoose posted:What year? 2001 with a 3.909 torsen.
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Jul 12, 2014 14:35
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InitialDave posted:You usually have a lighting ring and sockets ring on each floor at a minimum, plus separate wiring for cookers and the like. Huh. Did people actually run separate cables all the way back to the breaker panel? Because how we do it here is we start from the panel, go to the closest box, then to the next, etc etc. For each room.
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Jul 12, 2014 15:25
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InitialDave posted:You usually have a lighting ring and sockets ring on each floor at a minimum, plus separate wiring for cookers and the like. North American home phone wiring used to be installed with this sort of ring layout, and there's an older, but still useful website that compares the topologies and their advantages (at least for low voltage setups) with diagrams and stuff.
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Jul 12, 2014 15:32
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kastein posted:Huh. Did people actually run separate cables all the way back to the breaker panel? Because how we do it here is we start from the panel, go to the closest box, then to the next, etc etc. For each room. Sounds kind of the same but we have to both start and finish at the panel and you can only spur one item off any point on the ring. In my house the socket to the right of my panel is first in the ring and the socket to the left of it is last (or vice versa) My old house has one ring for all the sockets in the house. Lights are on a separate ring (or 2). New houses might have more socket rings (like one per floor)
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Jul 12, 2014 15:46
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Goober Peas posted:Grab Corn Chips and get smashed. My great aunt who lives right next to me started feeding Corn Chips so she doesnt come around the shop anymore. Im totally batting zero these days
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Jul 12, 2014 17:19
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My house has "whatever the gently caress the old owner did". It sure as hell isn't up to any code that's for sure. In addition to the bathroom the disposal, the refrigerator, and the microwave were all powered through this:  With the breakaway tab between the hot terminals on the outlet carrying all of that load. Oh and the breaker box is stab-lok which have a tendency to not bother tripping in an over-current situation for about 40% of breakers. At least the outlets in the house are grounded!  oh.
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Jul 12, 2014 17:23
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Shifty Pony posted:My house has "whatever the gently caress the old owner did". It sure as hell isn't up to any code that's for sure. Remind me of a house I rented in college. Old place with the knob and tube (I think) wiring and two fuses for the whole apartment. So we couldn't do anything crazy like run the microwave while the TV was on or cook while cleaning. Best part was the grounded outlets (3-prong) with no grounding at all. I was amazed that place was still standing when I drove through town last year.
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Jul 12, 2014 18:46
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Fart Pipe posted:My great aunt who lives right next to me started feeding Corn Chips so she doesnt come around the shop anymore. Im totally batting zero these days I saw corn chips sunning on a rock by the driveway when I left, actually.
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Jul 12, 2014 19:07
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NitroSpazzz posted:Remind me of a house I rented in college. Old place with the knob and tube (I think) wiring and two fuses for the whole apartment. So we couldn't do anything crazy like run the microwave while the TV was on or cook while cleaning. Best part was the grounded outlets (3-prong) with no grounding at all. I was amazed that place was still standing when I drove through town last year. In one bathroom there is an outlet located between the toilet and the shower (opposite from the shower head side so it would be at risk of spraying. Did I mention no GFIC in the entire house?
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Jul 12, 2014 19:57
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kastein posted:I saw corn chips sunning on a rock by the driveway when I left, actually. What the gently caress am I missing, is "corn chips" code for something?
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Jul 12, 2014 20:31
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Jul 12, 2014 20:39
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To be fair real corn chips go pretty well with getting smashed too.
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Jul 12, 2014 20:41
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Found a '73 Nova in the local yard with an 8.5" 10-bolt that I want. Problem is, the bonehead that put the slapper bars on managed to trash 1 U-bolt nut per side so I can't get the loving thing out there. I'm heading back tomorrow with a hacksaw. And my wife's car...
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Jul 12, 2014 20:50
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Is it bad that I really want the 4wd Sonoma that a local town uses for a security truck? The guy who works security is talking about trying to get them to replace it and driving it is giving me flashbacks to when I owned this: All i'd really need to do is swap the steering column to a tilt column setup so I could fit in it more comfortably and it'd be perfect for an offroad toy.
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Jul 12, 2014 21:05
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Well, all of the sudden my mom has decided that we're going to sell the Lexus... before the registration renewal comes due. IN A WEEK. So now I get to squeeze under the car and go through the ordeal of replacing the O2 sensor -- again -- this time with the OE Denso instead of Bosch, in the hopes that it will get the CEL to go away, and the TCS lights that come on with it (because the ECU can't control engine throttle with 100% precision for traction control with a sensor out, so rather than settle for 80% or whatever, clearly the best choice is to disable it entirely), so we can turn off the scary yellow lights and hopefully get someone to buy this piece of poo poo. Then there's the TPMS light which has been on for years despite repeatedly verifying correct pressure. I had the shop check it when they changed the oil last week; their scanner detected a signal from the sensors, but could not read the data.  I've used that exact tool when I was at sears, on another SC430, and it read just fine. So the sensors are probably hosed after 10 years. Nothing for it, gently caress my life. E: And if we can't sell it by then we're drat well keeping it another year so she gets her $100 worth or whatever, despite having no driveway space (she's currently parking her Fiesta under a tree on the other corner of the house). And the radiator is starting to crust with coolant residue so THAT'S coming soon... fuckin A. Fender Anarchist fucked around with this message at 21:14 on Jul 12, 2014 |
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Jul 12, 2014 21:11
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:Found a '73 Nova in the local yard with an 8.5" 10-bolt that I want. Problem is, the bonehead that put the slapper bars on managed to trash 1 U-bolt nut per side so I can't get the loving thing out there. I'm heading back tomorrow with a hacksaw. And my wife's car... Buy a cordless angle grinder and bask in its greatness. I have literally never unbolted an axle ubolt. I only cut them. 15 minutes to pull a rearend using nothing but a sawzall, angle grinder, wire cutters for the brake line and sensor wires, maybe a box wrench to undo shock bolts and driveshaft bolts, or just sawzall the driveshaft and angle grind the shock piston rods...
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Jul 12, 2014 21:47
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Fucknag posted:Well, all of the sudden my mom has decided that we're going to sell the Lexus... before the registration renewal comes due. Can you not get refunds on unused registration fees in your state?
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Jul 12, 2014 21:52
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I somehow missed this entire thread, anything interesting I have to catch up on out of the last 15 pages?
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Jul 12, 2014 21:55
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Cakefool posted:I somehow missed this entire thread, anything interesting I have to catch up on out of the last 15 pages? STR came out.
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Jul 12, 2014 22:13
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IOwnCalculus posted:Can you not get refunds on unused registration fees in your state? I had never considered that. I'll look into it. Anyone know the answer to this in Florida?
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Jul 12, 2014 22:19
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meatpimp posted:STR came out. As what this time? Joy of joys, the DD is out on loan. At least I knew this was going to happen, so all fluids checked and flushed where appropriate. God help them if they gently caress with my presets.  Fucknag posted:I Form 83363. THERE IS NO PROVISION IN FLORIDA LAW FOR PRORATED REFUNDS. E.G. gently caress you. JFC. $225 initial fee? Here I thought Nevada was out to gently caress us since the "Luxury Tax" turned into a "General Tax" that cost more, and has more smog testing bullshit than most of California. West SAAB Story fucked around with this message at 01:37 on Jul 13, 2014 |
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Florida hasn't had emissions (or safety, for that matter) inspections in decades now. It's also filled with criminals and the Worst People Alive. Sorry, Fucknag.
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