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To cheer up the thread (maybe): Feline foot warmer works very, very well. It even purrs/vibrates!  Shut up about the socks, it's laundry day.  Adiabatic posted:That's loving disgusting and predatory and I hate this dumb world. It is and it isn't; a lot of older people that are filing bankruptcy are doing so either because of medical debt, or because of lost income over medical issues. The latter applies to my mother - she had to shutter her business because she flat out couldn't walk anymore. Two hip replacements and 9 months of recovery later, she's doing far better than she has in years. Of course, she's in no financial shape to buy a car; she can barely cover the maintenance on the car she has now (03 Toyota Avalon with 140k; it's starting to need a bit more attention, mostly related to dry rotted vacuum lines, various leaks, could use motor mounts, and some interior trim clips are broken). She's working on getting her Etsy store back up and running though. She has no plans to replace the car anytime soon - in fact, this is the first car she's owned for more than 3 years, she bought it new in 2002 - but the option is there if sometime catastrophic happens to the car. CommieGIR posted:This past year was the first time I've hit 5 figures and held it there....ever. I cannot describe the liberating feeling that savings has actually given me despite what I've thought in the past. That's my goal as well. My reported income was about $17k (though I'm having to repay $300 in insurance subsidies). Actual income was probably in the low 20s. If I didn't have a car payment and a very expensive appetite for fiber internet + high end cable TV (those two alone are about $450/month), I could easily be living alone. Once my contract is up, I may cut it down to just internet. My credit score took a big jump when a bunch of old crap aged off, then took a huge nosedive when I got two credit cards (one secured, one unsecured) and maxed them out, but they'll be paid off by the end of this month. That should send my credit score back up. BrokenKnucklez posted:But with the abundance of cheap credit, I don't think it will ever go away. If the interest rates ever climb about 8% or 9% these 300,000 homes are going to crash in value. My parents were paying 9% on their house... with perfect credit when they bought it, and a MASSIVE downpayment (over 50% of the value of the house - the mortgage payment was the same as my rent on my last 1 bedroom apartment [$650]). They kept refusing to refinance... then GMAC went tits up, the mortgage got sold off to a very well known scummy lender (mom used to work in finance, and was very familiar with them). They decided to borrow against stepdad's 401k and pay it off. I think it would have been smarter to just refinance, both of them had fantastic credit at the time, especially since they knew stepdad's income was about to be cut in half. Now he's stuck making massive repayments into his 401k every month. CommieGIR posted:I get this a lot too, there is some weird emphasis that being able to fix things and being handy is 'bad' in some way. One of my coworkers has a car nearly identical to mine - also a 2006 Saturn Ion 3, differences being hers is a sedan and has leather seats (I didn't even know leather was an option). She was bitching about a headlight burning out, I told her "I'll run by AutoZone and snag a bulb for you, it takes about 2 minutes to change". She said I'm not a mechanic and only mechanics can touch her car. I even offered to show her HOW to do it and let her do the work. "No, I'll break something". Okay, go pay a shop $50 to change your headlight bulb you dumb twat, it takes literally less than 2 minutes to do on this car.  She also refuses to even learn how to open the hood - "my dad checks the oil for me!".  (it's also so weird seeing 3 Ions in the parking lot at work.. boss has an 04 Ion 1 sedan, I have an 06 Ion 3 coupe, coworkwer has an 06 Ion 3 sedan) keykey posted:The best Chinese thing I've ever bought was this: http://www.amazon.com/HIGH-POWER-RA...asin=B007M7RP6Q Goddamn, at that price, I'm tempted to buy one just to see what I can pick up with it. You could probably also boil water if you got a cup close enough to the antennas.  CommieGIR posted:When can I have OS/2 back and OpenVMS! I still have my beta copy of OS/2 4.0 on a CD somewhere.. and an OS/2 2.11 original box set. On 3.5" floppy disks. Darchangel posted:Which is another, what?, 50 miles from me. I'm in the mid-cities, so Denton is not terribly convenient, I'm afraid. Thanks, though. I'm in Denton at least every other month - have a lot of friends up there. And my regular mechanic is also in Denton - he generally only does imports, but anytime mom's car needs something I don't feel comfortable tackling myself, he gets to fix it, and always gives us a discount. Then again, I've known him 17 or 18 years now. He'll do work on the Saturd when he's not swamped, but so far I've only needed his help on it once (belt tensioner can't be budged with anything but a 3/8" adjustable tensioner tool - which seems to be solely $100+ tools, the rental ones have a fixed 3/8" head). I'm still going to get some ramps here ASAP. Hopefully AutoZone still has the Rhinoramps on sale. The low T stuff... yeah, after seeing what it's done to him, it scares the poo poo out of me. Russ Martin (on 97.1) seems to be a fan of it, but I don't think Russ is bipolar. Russ is also quite a bit younger, much more level headed (especially for a "shock jock"... which he really isn't, but he still makes me laugh), and in better health overall. Procreation isn't an issue - mom won't touch him at this point (even if she would, she had the baby making parts removed in her mid-late 30s), and I'm pretty sure he won't touch her. She's revealed several times to me over the past 25 years that she hasn't had any action in.. well.. over 25 years.  He's enough of a prude that he thinks porn is a sin, and also thinks anytime she talks to anybody with a penis, she must be cheating on him (gently caress, I'd be cheating if I was in a relationship and hadn't gotten laid in a few months, much less decades.. that's gotta be cobweb city by now). She's been talking to an old friend from high school that lives in my home town (about 650 miles away), and he's also blind - and he swears up and down she's driving out there to get laid and coming back the same day. Riiiiight.When my grandpa died (at 84 or 85), when we were getting his house ready to sell, we found plenty of viagra. I have a step-grandmother 2 years older than my mother (my mother is the youngest from his first marriage), I have an uncle with less than 5 years on me, and an aunt that's only a little older than him. Knowing what I know today, I'd high five him if he was still around, though I know he was a chick magnet partly because of money (owned several new car dealerships - Chevy/Geo, Oldsmobile, Saturn, Nissan, Cadillac are the ones I remember off the top of my head, and those were just the ones in my hometown - he also owned an Avis franchise, owned a few dealers out of town, etc). Also had more charisma than anybody I've ever known. I'm the first to admit I have some ED issues, but both my doctor and what I've read both agree that it's related to my Paula Deen/Wilford Brimley disease. And the ED stuff doesn't pop up (...) often. InitialDave posted:Not to sound This. There's a lot of things that I'd much rather pay someone else to do, but basic home stuff - wiring, plumbing repairs (as long as it's not sewer), swapping out a stove/range/oven/dishwasher, repairing a washer or dryer, that kind of stuff - I see no point in paying someone $150 just to show up, then add labor on top of that, then add marked up parts on top of THAT. I paid around $150 for a new timer for our clothes washer - if we'd paid someone to come out and fix it, it probably would have cost as much as replacing the whole thing with a similar model, and this is the last generation of Maytag's Dependable Care line (which you'll have to pry out of my cold dead hands, the only way this washer gets replaced is if the transmission fails). And it took about 30 or 45 minutes, start to finish. Paid $25 locally for a new blower wheel for our dryer a few years ago, which took a little under 2 hours - took so long only because I vacuumed out all the dust and cleaned up the inside + ducting + heater while I had it apart, and had to play a bit of trial and error to figure out what needed to come out to get to the blower. When our gas range flipped its poo poo and kept running the ignitors nonstop after it'd been The owner of where I work paid a handyman $150 to ... remove 2 inches from two counters, so we could fit new soft drink coolers into the space. The guy was very nice, but didn't do the greatest job. I could have gone to Lowe's and purchased a decent circular saw + blade for that, and done it myself, then had the tools leftover for something else. I have a circular saw as it is, but it's an ancient 70s or early 80s Black & Decker piece of poo poo with a cracked cord held together by tape and unicorns. Everyone was bitching about how much he charged. My argument was "do you own the tools?" Their answer was universally "No, but I know I could borrow them" (sorry, but no, you don't make a living by borrowing tools). I asked "do you own the truck he showed up in, and are you trying to make a living by doing little jobs like this?". I personally think $150 was excessive for about 10 minutes of work (I'd consider $75-100 to be reasonable), but the guy came to us, with good tools, measured twice, cut once, and squeezed the coolers into the space. West SAAB Story posted:You can't smoke the resin of (not yet) dead relatives.. as far as I know. However, you look like a brown person. Perhaps you can elucidate. Oh come on, CSB himself constantly cracks brown jokes. But enough about what he sticks his cock in.
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, but too many people lack an understanding of the value of physical labour. To actually do something.
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To cheer up the thread (maybe): Feline foot warmer works very, very well. Shut up about the socks, it's laundry day. Adiabatic posted:That's loving disgusting and predatory and I hate this dumb world. It is and it isn't; a lot of older people that are filing bankruptcy are doing so either because of medical debt, or because of lost income over medical issues. The latter applies to my mother - she had to shutter her business because she flat out couldn't walk anymore. Two hip replacements and 9 months of recovery later, she's doing far better than she has in years. Of course, she's in no financial shape to buy a car; she can barely cover the maintenance on the car she has now (03 Toyota Avalon with 140k; it's starting to need a bit more attention, mostly related to dry rotted vacuum lines, various leaks, could use motor mounts, and some interior trim clips are broken). She's working on getting her Etsy store back up and running though. She has no plans to replace the car anytime soon - in fact, this is the first car she's owned for more than 3 years, she bought it new in 2002 - but the option is there if sometime catastrophic happens to the car. CommieGIR posted:This past year was the first time I've hit 5 figures and held it there....ever. I cannot describe the liberating feeling that savings has actually given me despite what I've thought in the past. That's my goal as well. My reported income was about $17k (though I'm having to repay $300 in insurance subsidies). Actual income was probably in the low 20s. If I didn't have a car payment and a very expensive appetite for fiber internet + high end cable TV (those two alone are about $450/month), I could easily be living alone. Once my contract is up, I may cut it down to just internet. My credit score took a big jump when a bunch of old crap aged off, then took a huge nosedive when I got two credit cards (one secured, one unsecured) and maxed them out, but they'll be paid off by the end of this month. That should send my credit score back up. BrokenKnucklez posted:But with the abundance of cheap credit, I don't think it will ever go away. If the interest rates ever climb about 8% or 9% these 300,000 homes are going to crash in value. My parents were paying 9% on their house... with perfect credit when they bought it, and a MASSIVE downpayment (over 50% of the value of the house - the mortgage payment was the same as my rent on my last 1 bedroom apartment [$650]). They kept refusing to refinance... then GMAC went tits up, the mortgage got sold off to a very well known scummy lender (mom used to work in finance, and was very familiar with them). They decided to borrow against stepdad's 401k and pay it off. I think it would have been smarter to just refinance, both of them had fantastic credit at the time, especially since they knew stepdad's income was about to be cut in half. Now he's stuck making massive repayments into his 401k every month. CommieGIR posted:I get this a lot too, there is some weird emphasis that being able to fix things and being handy is 'bad' in some way. One of my coworkers has a car nearly identical to mine - also a 2006 Saturn Ion 3, differences being hers is a sedan and has leather seats (I didn't even know those were an option). She was bitching about a headlight burning out, I told her "I'll run by AutoZone and snag a bulb for you, it takes about 2 minutes to change". She said I'm not a mechanic and only mechanics can touch her car. I even offered to show her HOW to do it and let her do the work. "No, I'll break something". Okay, go pay a shop $50 to change your headlight bulb, it takes literally less than 2 minutes to do on this car. (it's also so weird seeing 3 Ions in the parking lot at work.. boss has an 04 Ion 1 sedan, I have an 06 Ion 3 coupe, coworkwer has an 06 Ion 3 sedan) keykey posted:The best Chinese thing I've ever bought was this: http://www.amazon.com/HIGH-POWER-RA...asin=B007M7RP6Q Goddamn, at that price, I'm tempted to buy one just to see what I can pick up with it. You could probably also boil water if you got a cup close enough to the antennas. CommieGIR posted:When can I have OS/2 back and OpenVMS! I still have my beta copy of OS/2 4.0 on a CD somewhere.. and an OS/2 2.11 original box set. On 3.5" floppy disks.
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Car payment is $215 (I try to toss at least $250 at it). 50mbit (both up and down) plus the high end cable package, plus multiple DVRs, plus multiple cable cards, runs about the same. Once my contract is up, I'm probably going to kill the cable and just keep the internet, and MAYBE the phone line. My cell is long distance from DFW, so I generally give the home phone # out on applications. I have the voicemail on it setup so that anytime a voicemail is left on the home phone, I get a call on my cell.
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It is becoming more clear to me why people murder their spouses instead of divorcing them. She is a miserable, vindictive bitch and she can take a long walk off a short pier. I'm immeasurably happier without her and I'm seeing a girl now who is basically the sweetest person on the planet 
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bandman posted:It is becoming more clear to me why people murder their spouses instead of divorcing them. She is a miserable, vindictive bitch and she can take a long walk off a short pier. I'm immeasurably happier without her and I'm seeing a girl now who is basically the sweetest person on the planet
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bandman posted:It is becoming more clear to me why people murder their spouses instead of divorcing them. She is a miserable, vindictive bitch and she can take a long walk off a short pier. You described my mother, my stepmother, and my stepfather in the second sentence. I'm close to my mother, but I would never want to be her spouse. This house is the very definition of "passive aggressive bullshit".
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some texas redneck posted:Car payment is $215 (I try to toss at least $250 at it). I understand the car payment but to spend that same amount again on internet and cable tv is loving crazy to me... If I were to get the fastest internet available to me along with the largest TV package with DVR functionality and free international calls from Sky it'd be £118 a month.
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88h88 posted:I understand the car payment but to spend that same amount again on internet and cable tv is loving crazy to me... If I were to get the fastest internet available to me along with the largest TV package with DVR functionality and free international calls from Sky it'd be £118 a month. To be fair the cable/internet providers here in the US are horrible and have monopolistic practices without the Utility restrictions Power companies have. It's a mess and they're constantly the most despised companies on consumer satisfaction. That being said, I cut cable out and get 70/70 internet for $56/mo with Netflix adding another $12/mo.
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That's why I'm trying to transition from cable boxes to low end PCs to handle the cable poo poo. I have two HDHomeRun Prime network tuners (each have 3 tuners, each takes 1 cablecard @ $5/month). I'm paying $40/month for two cable boxes once you add the DVR "fee" (it's built into the main cable box, but you have to pay extra to get them to enable it  ). I just need to find a low end PC with HDMI (or one modern enough to have PCI-x, and toss a $20 video card in) for the master bedroom, and figure out something for the living room TV (which is an ancient CRT 1080p TV; it has component inputs, but that's not something I'm going to get out of any PC)..As it is, 3 TVs are running on PCs. The guest bedroom TV (where mom sleeps a couple of nights a week) has a Dell P4 2.8 I found next to a trash can. Tossed 2GB RAM in (a little over :20bux), a copy of Win7 (had a license leftover from when I upgraded), an old 38GB Raptor SATA HDD (been sitting on the shelf for years), my old Geforce 240 to add HDMI (leftover from my last upgrade; I was shocked to find a PCI-x slot in it - and no Win7 drivers for the onboard video anyway), and the onboard networking is actually gigabit - it has no problems whatsoever streaming recordings from my PC, or live TV @ 720p (it's connected to a a 24" 720p TV via HDMI). It's setup to record everything to a 2TB drive in my desktop PC. It stutters a little with Netflix when you first start a video, but live TV and recorded TV is no issue whatsoever. It does help that the only things installed on that PC are Win7 Home, Chrome, Microsoft Security Essentials, Windows Media Center, and a program that basically forces it into Media Center anytime it's rebooted. It doesn't even have a keyboard or mouse hooked up; just an IR receiver, remote, and it sleeps if you don't touch the remote for 3 hours. I'll eventually put a working DVD-ROM in it, I just have to find an IDE version (it has ONE SATA port, occupied by the ancient Raptor). That was one hell of a high end PC when it was built (old Dell Optiplex tower). My TV in here is also run by my PC, and has 3.6TB of storage. It's plugged into the ISP-supplied gigabit router, as is the PC in the guest room (drilled a hole in both walls, installed ethernet jacks on both sides with a hilariously short run of cat5e). My PC is Windows 8.1 Pro with the  Windows Media Center addon, and I have the 2TB drive shared out to the other PCs.The office TV is now mom's desktop PC, except an old 14" LCD monitor stepdad hasn't used in 3 or 4 years is plugged into the 2nd video output on it. It's also a Windows 7 PC, with Windows Media Center. That's 3 cable boxes eliminated ($36/mo). It's on wireless; with the original adapter it had, it would pixelate constantly. The one it has now, it has a perfect picture, but drops the wifi signal a couple of times a day (with requires unplugging/replugging the external adapter, yay for TP-Link quality!). I just need to pull cat5e in there, and also into the master bedroom. Stepdad's laptop in the master bedroom is so bogged down with poo poo that it takes nearly 10 minutes to reboot (it's a C2D w/4GB and a 320GB HDD, far more powerful than the P4 in the guest bedroom, with twice the RAM), and it only pulls 2-3mbit over wireless. It's on powerline ethernet now, and manages about 20-30mbit most of the time (we have 50mbit both up and down, but it'd be nice to have true gigabit through the whole house). I might experiment with a cheap 802.11ac AP and adapter to see how they do, just to see if I can get out of pulling wiring. The only cable boxes are on the living room TV (an ancient Panasonic 36" 1080p CRT TV that takes 4 people to move) and master bedroom TV (32" LCD, just need a computer to run the drat thing). Between those two boxes, and adding DVR service, I'm paying about $40 a month on top of the cable/internet/phone bill. I'm thinking a mid-level Intel NUC would be best for the master bedroom TV, if I can't find a decent off-lease C2D or better for cheap. The living room TV is basically "burn it with fire, replace with something from this decade that actually has HDMI", followed by another older PC or NUC. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 16:01 on Jan 16, 2015 |
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Some people think I'm strange because I don't have a TV or a landline phone. Why bother? I can watch anything I want online, and for years I've just used my mobile anyway.
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I had the most horrific dream last night. So bad that I had to call my mother to confirm that something I thought might have been a recovered memory was in fact just a part of the dream.
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InitialDave posted:Some people think I'm strange because I don't have a TV or a landline phone. Why bother? I can watch anything I want online, and for years I've just used my mobile anyway. We have a landline simply because it's part of the package. I bought a reallllllll nice Panasonic plasma a year or so ago and I've watched maybe 2 dozen things on it. I probably don't need it.
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People think I'm strange because I actually have a landline. It actually knocks $5/month off of my overall bill for cable and internet (both come from my phone company, but via fiber instead of copper). It actually knocks money off of my cable TV bill to have the phone line.  I only give the number out on job applications - my wireless # is long distance from where I live, but I don't want to change the # (since I plan to eventually move back to that area). There's only 1 phone connected to the line, and the ringer stays off - if someone leaves a voice message, I get a call on my mobile stating I have a new voicemail at home (if I actually answer it, it asks for the PIN, then plays the message for me). The only time I make outgoing calls on the landline is if I've misplaced my mobile and can't find it. Or if I need to make a call when my mobile is dead. The landline rings nonstop with telemarketers, and it's started ringing will bill collectors, despite the # being "unlisted". I put the caller ID in my mother's name when I set it up (since I had a lot of bill collectors after me), and since she did the whole bankruptcy thing recently, everyone's scrambling to get sued for trying to collect on debts that got discharged.
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leica posted:My dream bike right now is the Yamaha WR250X, I'll have one eventually but they are so rare I'll probably have to go out of state to get one T-Square posted:I miss my Suzuki DRZ-400SM the most, by-far, out of anything I've owned so far, car or otherwise. Eventually I'm going to try my damnedest to find a way to get my '94 Honda CR-250 street legal and/or "street legal" and throw some supermoto wheels and tires on it. That thing would be downright scary on the street. Also, you can get into trouble with a scooter if you try hard enough! goatse guy posted:I've got a friend from Arizona visiting me in Minnesota this weekend. I think we did this wrong. InitialDave posted:Some people think I'm strange because I don't have a TV or a landline phone. Why bother? I can watch anything I want online, and for years I've just used my mobile anyway. Just found out I have a 3 day weekend. Hope to get the 928 brake master swapped tonight then drive that over the weekend. Then see if I can get the brake lines setup and put the 5-speed in the 320i. Debating whether I should pull the engine though to clean up the firewall (melted crap insulation) and run new brake and electrical lines.
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InitialDave posted:Some people think I'm strange because I don't have a TV or a landline phone. Why bother? I can watch anything I want online, and for years I've just used my mobile anyway. I'm convinced you're the alternate universe single me, except you're apparently tall.
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some texas redneck posted:If I didn't have a car payment and a very expensive appetite for fiber internet + high end cable TV (those two alone are about $450/month) Same, except car payment = $350 and "high end internet" (10 mbit if I'm lucky) = $100. Country life amplifies the cost of modern conveniences drastically. Though looks like we're moving back into the city sometime this next year because of new career prospects so I can pay $45 and get 105 mbit.
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keykey posted:Same, except car payment = $350 and "high end internet" (10 mbit if I'm lucky) = $100. Country life amplifies the cost of modern conveniences drastically. Though looks like we're moving back into the city sometime this next year because of new career prospects so I can pay $45 and get 105 mbit. My minimum car payment is $215, but I try to throw at least $250-300 at it most months. My cable/tv/phone bill are a little above $200. That's for 50mbit (both up and down), a shitton of channels, but goddamnit one person in the house refuses to learn how to use Windows Media Center. And hates the idea of "oh poo poo, we're pulling new wiring in the house".. and can't resist clicking any link that says "free". I've spent a couple of nights in a hotel just for suggesting "we should pull actual ethernet cable". We've had our connection shut off twice in the past year due to botnets on his laptop. I've gone into the router and basically limited his laptop to HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, and SMTP ports, and last time I fixed it, I told him it was the last time I'd ever touch his computer. Any time he starts shouting, we have a sudden ISP outage.  He used to take away my PC (which had one of the most popular BBS's in the city on it) when I pissed him off when I was 16, so turnabout is fair play, right?  Protip: if it says "free", DON'T loving CLICK ON IT YOU loving IDIOT.
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Maker Of Shoes posted:I think the bearings on either my AC, PS or alt took a poo poo. She's normally squeaky after it rains but it's been a week and all its done is get louder. /sigh. Yeah, I'm pretty sure the AC compressor on my Audi 90 has bad bearings, its making some noise and scared me because I thought it was the engine. I'll isolate it today or tomorrow and see if the noise stops, thankfully RockAuto has the AC compressors cheap. some texas redneck posted:My minimum car payment is $215, but I try to throw at least $250-300 at it most months.  I pay $40 a month for 60 down / 5 up cable internet.
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CommieGIR posted:Yeah, I'm pretty sure the AC compressor on my Audi 90 has bad bearings, its making some noise and scared me because I thought it was the engine. Yeah, I fear its my compressor too. Google says its about $240 so I guess that isn't horrible.
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Maker Of Shoes posted:Yeah, I fear its my compressor too. Google says its about $240 so I guess that isn't horrible. Used to be you couldn't find a reman compressor under $500, I'm actually surprised I found one for almost half that.
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some texas redneck posted:Protip: if it says "free", DON'T loving CLICK ON IT YOU loving IDIOT. B.. But.. That's how I got all my ipods.
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Has any one bought a car off copart? There's a Jaguar XJR (the strait 6 super charged model) for same near me that's ending in a few days. I figure if I can snag it for a 1000 and repaint it I'm going to break even or make money. (It has the n word sprayed all over it - I'll cover it with paint before it leaves) its a nice looking car other than n words all over it.
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I haven't, but I would bet that you can show up with a gallon can of acetone and a bale of paper towels and shop rags and have that spraypaint off of the car before you even drive it home. If it is proper two stage paint, it shouldn't even hurt it really unless you take your time, so work fast. E: I have done this to get all manner of garbage sticker residue and spraypaint off jeep two stage paint and parts of my subaru, and recommended it to a friend who used it to take an entire poorly done black rattle can job off a gold XJ. no significant damage, it will strip any wax on the car in a loving hurry so expect to be stripping the rest of the wax and redoing it, and it will eat the hell out of a single stage paintjob or lacquer so no old cars unless you want bare metal. No one I know has had anything more than slight clearcoat whitening/opaqueness result from using acetone judiciously though, so it is my first step in killing rattle can vandalism and bumper sticker residue these days. kastein fucked around with this message at 18:23 on Jan 16, 2015 |
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Jan 16, 2015 18:15
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BrokenKnucklez posted:(It has the n word sprayed all over it  Pix?
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Jan 16, 2015 18:16
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mafoose posted:Jamal, how long are you in town for? Cool, will be around through next week. Ums is having their nasa az dyno day tomorrow so I'll probably stop by that for awhile.
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Jan 16, 2015 18:25
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BrokenKnucklez posted:Has any one bought a car off copart? There's a Jaguar XJR (the strait 6 super charged model) for same near me that's ending in a few days. I figure if I can snag it for a 1000 and repaint it I'm going to break even or make money. (It has the n word sprayed all over it - I'll cover it with paint before it leaves) its a nice looking car other than n words all over it. I've bought all my cars for the last 20 years from Copart, except for my old one. What do you want to know? They charge pretty high fees, for a $1000 car it'll be like $200-$300. They also only store the car for 5 days, after that it's $20 a day if you leave it there. And they charge for weekends even though they're not open for you to go pick it up. And yeah you should be able to clean spraypaint off easily. The car wasn't prepped so it's not going to stick for poo poo. I'd take the acetone advice or plan on using rubbing compound and it'll knock right off.
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Jan 16, 2015 18:43
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God drat. My girlfriend got sideswiped in a parking garage a few years ago and just two months ago we got it repaired. We step outside today to find another scratch on her rear quarter panel on the same god drat side. lovely luck. At least touch-up paint will cover this up...
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Jan 16, 2015 18:44
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I am excited because I now have custom motor and transmission mounts done for the 240SX. It's nice to be able to pay people to do things that you can't do yourself but want done because you are stubborn and foolish.
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Jan 16, 2015 18:45
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LloydDobler posted:I've bought all my cars for the last 20 years from Copart, except for my old one. What do you want to know? They charge pretty high fees, for a $1000 car it'll be like $200-$300. They also only store the car for 5 days, after that it's $20 a day if you leave it there. And they charge for weekends even though they're not open for you to go pick it up. I'm not worried about the paint, I'm just figuring that's the least of my worries. Do you need a dealers licence to buy from there? Any positive/negatives? Any general information? I'm aware that its a jag and could be a head case but i figure I'm going to buy it low enough I can part out the unusual parts and junk the rest and be either money ahead or even. Edit: can you proxy bid where you just set the limit of what ever you want to pay and it will bid to that and if you do win its the lowest price? BrokenKnucklez fucked around with this message at 19:45 on Jan 16, 2015 |
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Jan 16, 2015 18:55
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FYI: It takes quite a bit of abuse to pop the head on the aj6. an it is quite the oval office to replace the HG. The headbolts thread into the cooling jacket so if the PO filled it with seawater and piss the head bolts break off in the block when you try to remove em. That mill makes ~350hp too and its quite fun to throw that big fat gently caress around.
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Jan 16, 2015 19:08
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cursedshitbox posted:FYI: It takes quite a bit of abuse to pop the head on the aj6. an it is quite the oval office to replace the HG. The headbolts thread into the cooling jacket so if the PO filled it with seawater and piss the head bolts break off in the block when you try to remove em. Im not to worried about the engine, but the electronics. But if I recall, that's the years they started getting their poo poo together. Plus a supercharged 6 cylinder just sounds wonderful. I figure a 1000 bucks isn't terrible right? I figure I can easily part out the super charger and other bits for a 1000 bucks, and the rest would be money added.
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Put the motor in your rrc.
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