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Not in Orlando, the outlying country roads around it. I can't remember exactly where, all I remember is driving through those areas and having fun. I test drove an ITB'd Miata for Fuji Racing years ago in that area and had a blast.
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angryhampster posted:It is GLORIOUS, and way too big for our 1300 sq ft place. If it was really way too big it wouldn't be glorious at all (it would short cycle and not control humidity properly). Congrats on your PO hiring a competent HVAC company and footing the bill for quality work.
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Jul 25, 2015 02:43
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This week needs to be over. Time to get some taco's and drink.
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Jul 25, 2015 03:42
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ilkhan posted:This is the rear end in a top hat father-in-law, right? At least it will be quick. Yup, the jerk has got it pretty bad. Karma I guess. Be a truly lovely person and life will poo poo right in your goddamned mouth.
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Jul 25, 2015 03:43
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There are some nice roads in Clermont, which is SW of Orlando. Seminole and Orange counties were meh as a whole.
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Jul 25, 2015 03:50
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Shiiiiiiiit, Cradle came out!
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Jul 25, 2015 04:43
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(Hopefully) snagged a US General 4 drawer tool cart for $20. Going to pick it up tomorrow night when I get off work. I know it's the Harbor Freight brand, but for 20 bucks it can't be bad. Drawers are unlocked, but there's no keys to the lock. Any idea if I can get replacements?
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Jul 25, 2015 05:10
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I just noticed that one of my car-guy friends loses his ability to recognize cars when he's hammered. He thought a normal face-lifted E46 was an M3, and then said a 1 series was a new 3 series. Well, I guess it's not that severe, but still funny.
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Jul 25, 2015 06:03
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"So I looked it up, turns out there's an actual reason why babies cry on airplanes, and it's because they're upset that gay people are gettin' married." Louis C.K. 
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Jul 25, 2015 06:13
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meatpimp posted:I took a chance and bought a newer (mid-'90s) Shopsmith Mark V. The seller started out at $1000 on craigslist and I watched it for a while. Picked it up a couple days ago for $500 and when I got there she had a matching dust collector that didn't work that she threw in. I focused on the dust collector first, got it "fixed," as in "pushed the spade terminal back on the power switch" and sold it in a day for $250. Nice on the Shopsmith! I was looking at one of those years ago but didn't really have the room at the time. On the dust collector... I am sure that the unit that you got was hot garbage for wood work but good dust collection is a very good thing. Wood dust is not good for you and you can develop a nasty sensitivity to it. Pretty much no inexpensive dust collection/filter system is going to be useful as they will all let through the fine particles that are an issue for your lungs. The only way I have found to do this in a relatively cheap way is to have the dust collector exhaust outside (through a basic filter). The filter bag systems are totally useless and I would not touch one. You need a HEPA type filter if you want to recirculate shop air and you better have a really good cyclone separator to keep from plugging them up all the time. Most of the people that develop sensitivities are serious hobbyists or professional workers but it is good aware of the potential issues.
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Jul 25, 2015 06:19
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Wrar posted:There are some nice roads in Clermont, which is SW of Orlando. Seminole and Orange counties were meh as a whole. Now that you mention it, I think it was Clermont where I test drove that Miata. Phone posted:Grover lite over here. Your PMs are full jerk, clean 'em out 
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Jul 25, 2015 06:41
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CommieGIR posted:Our power bill jumped from $160 to $360 due to summer weather. I need to get the HVAC system re-done and some other stuff. My power bill, for a 1700 sq. ft. house in Phoenix, AZ, jumped from $30.37 to $72.09. This solar thing is working out pretty loving good. 
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Jul 25, 2015 07:31
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The Locator posted:My power bill, for a 1700 sq. ft. house in Phoenix, AZ, jumped from $30.37 to $72.09. This solar thing is working out pretty loving good.
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Jul 25, 2015 07:39
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Got bitten by the neighbours loving cat after it got itself stuck in my cat trap. Little shits been pissing on my doors and upsetting my two cats. $65 later at the doctors for a tetanus shot and a course of antibiotics. Not loving happy.
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Jul 25, 2015 07:43
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Ferremit posted:Got bitten by the neighbours loving cat after it got itself stuck in my cat trap. Little shits been pissing on my doors and upsetting my two cats. You in Canada or something because in  that poo poo would be like $250
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Jul 25, 2015 07:53
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http://tampa.craigslist.org/hil/cto/5098920178.html Gonna shoot him a seriously low ball offer and see what happens. If its been up for 25 days and nobody has bitten, its either a poo poo heap nobody but a complete idiot would want to actually have or some other terrible factor. What is the worst that can happen?
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Jul 25, 2015 08:18
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Ferremit posted:Got bitten by the neighbours loving cat after it got itself stuck in my cat trap. Little shits been pissing on my doors and upsetting my two cats. I've got some real nice scars on my hand from the cat recently. He's come to see me as his captor or something. I was helping the stupid bugger off the roof and down the tree at night. Picked him up, all purring and happy. Take a few steps toward the house and he went full Freddy Kruger on me. I'm so loving sore today after finishing replacing a lower ball joint. It just didn't want to happen. What I read said the old one should just slide out against the rubber of the CV boot and the new one should do the same. Yeah, no. I had to use a rubber mallet and drift to get the old one out and a shitton of pounding on the new one, wiggling it, moving the ball joint, twisting it and rotating the axle. Got it all together and couldn't do the new nylock nut on the taper up because the taper was spinning. Put the wheel on and dropped it to put some pressure on it. Couldn't get the drat socket in there. Ended up using a shifting spanner. I really have to get all the work done so I can re-register the Niva. I hate having to borrow the Jeep.
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Jul 25, 2015 08:21
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Geirskogul posted:In Phoenix my normalized bill for 1200 sq feet is 105 with no solar. The nest works well. Mine was normalized to $152 before solar (2 years ago). I was using a programmable thermostat, keeping the house at 79 when I was in it, and 85 during the work day. Now I work a fair number of days at home, so I dumped the day-time programming, and keep the house at 76~77 all the time. Except for this bill through September, my bills are $25-$30. The higher bills during the summer are for off-peak, as I have more than enough on-peak credits to get me through the hot months without paying for a single Kwh of on-peak power. If I average it out over the entire year, including the cost of the solar, I'm about $35~$40 ahead per month. This will be my first full year where I can do a true Jan-Dec comparison, as it was installed part way through 2014. Also, I have no idea what 'the nest' means in your post. 
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Jul 25, 2015 08:22
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I have a nest thermostat, and keep the house at 71-72 when we're home, and 80 from noon-7. It does a good job of off peak pre-cooling, and predicts how long it will take based on weather forecasts and adjusts accordingly.
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Geirskogul posted:You in Canada or something because in Glorious communist republic of Australia- the doctor even bulk bills so the government picks up the tab for the consult with zero co payment and I only had to pay for the tetanus vaccine and the antibiotics, both of which are subsidised by the government!
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Ferremit posted:Glorious communist republic of Australia- the doctor even bulk bills so the government picks up the tab for the consult with zero co payment and I only had to pay for the tetanus vaccine and the antibiotics, both of which are subsidised by the government! Gotta love our healthcare. Best friend's 1989 MX-5 has developed a lifter tap when cold. Boo-urns. Thing has 275k km/170k miles on it, and was not treated very well for most of that time, so not hugely surprising. E: Poured a bottle of "lifter stop tap" into the oil. Figure it can't make things any worse. Seems to have stopped for now. Next step is probably going to be ripping the engine/trans out and rebuilding the engine, throw in some titanium valve springs for 9krpm operation, etc - I'm trying to talk him into a 13B swap (  ) but he's wussing out.But then he's insisting that it makes more sense to put a supercharger on the thing than a turbo, which may be true if you don't account for all the time and effort people have put into making turbocharging them easy and modern turbocharger technology not really having throttle response issues  Some people just don't know what's good for them, dang it. literally a fish fucked around with this message at 12:42 on Jul 25, 2015 |
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Motronic posted:If it was really way too big it wouldn't be glorious at all (it would short cycle and not control humidity properly). Maybe it's not too big, but it's physically enormous compared to our next-door-neighbor's unit. It's definitely efficient though. We had an HVAC tech come out 2 weeks ago to fix some wiring on the furnace blower, and even he was impressed with it.
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 I SHALL RIDE THIS CHARIOT TO THE GATES OF VALHALLA!
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QuarkMartial posted:(Hopefully) snagged a US General 4 drawer tool cart for $20. Going to pick it up tomorrow night when I get off work. I know it's the Harbor Freight brand, but for 20 bucks it can't be bad. Elmnt80 posted:http://tampa.craigslist.org/hil/cto/5098920178.html That's a beaut!
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Catpics remind me that we need a name for the dogge we adopted yesterday. He's a 2 year old heeler, only 30 lbs and the best disposition I've ever seen... No idea how he stayed in the shelter for 24 days. They named him "Rugby", the wife and I are leaning towards "Bubbles" (who's got your belly?), but drat if Nux wouldn't be a pretty good name too. Or Dogmeat
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literally a fish posted:But then he's insisting that it makes more sense to put a supercharger on the thing than a turbo, which may be true if you don't account for all the time and effort people have put into making turbocharging them easy and modern turbocharger technology not really having throttle response issues On the other hand though, supercharger.
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scuz posted:What do they look like? Swapping out a lock isn't that big of a deal. Does it have any numbers/letters stamped on the front of the lock cylinder? I've not picked it up yet so I'm not sure. I was thinking that I might could call and give the serial off the lock and get replacement keys or a replacement lock. Not that big a deal though, I just want it for the sake of completeness.
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literally a fish posted:Gotta love our healthcare. On the other hand.. have you heard how sweet a supercharger sounds Plus it's not like supercharged miatas are slow, they are still fast as poo poo
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literally a fish posted:
Mine goes away with new oil so I can actually use it as an audible oil change indicator. Car's a tapping? Oil change!
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RillAkBea posted:Mine goes away with new oil so I can actually use it as an audible oil change indicator. Car's a tapping? Oil change! Mine with a built 1.6 was set up loose for big boost... so I could never hear the lifter tap over the piston slap when cold. 
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Pham Nuwen posted:Catpics remind me that we need a name for the dogge we adopted yesterday. He's a 2 year old heeler, only 30 lbs and the best disposition I've ever seen... No idea how he stayed in the shelter for 24 days. Pics? I love my heeler because she is so smart and usually pretty obedient, but she's also super needy and attention-seeking. I named her Turbo because it fit her personality, but other names in the running were Sierra, Hunter, and Nordy.
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My rescue dogge is watching you.
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RillAkBea posted:Mine goes away with new oil so I can actually use it as an audible oil change indicator. Car's a tapping? Oil change! I had a BG chassis Protege with the 1.8L BP, and it had the same thing. Lifter tick that would go away with new oil. Just Mazda things
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bandman posted:I had a BG chassis Protege with the 1.8L BP, and it had the same thing. Lifter tick that would go away with new oil. Just Mazda things Yeah my Miata has been loud lately, in fact one lifter in particular never shuts the hell up. I don't think it likes the Rotella, back to 10w30 I guess.
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A wild Mercedes appears! Doing brakes and aircon today, PPI on Tuesday. Two buyers lined up on my 15k ask. Everything's gotta be right. Tell you what, I much prefer selling old Hondas and IH trucks. No-one scrutineers the poo poo out of you like vintage Merc buyers.
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leica: it was nothing spectacular, apparently mnet doesn't let you edit posts after an hour RillAkBea posted:Mine goes away with new oil so I can actually use it as an audible oil change indicator. Car's a tapping? Oil change! Not really. Using the HLA tick as an indicator as to when to change your oil doesn't hold up to scrutiny since it's caused by a poor engineering choice. Unless if you pull apart the HLAs (or use the Kia p/n for new ones), it's caused by oil that was once in there like 60k miles ago. Just use a high quality synthetic and change is at 5k; the Miata motor is dumb dumb dumb dumb and stuff like the "change your oil when your lifters tick!" is just conjecture made up by mnetters to make them feel better about themselves. That said, I'm assuming that your oil is at the appropriate level because the HLAs will make noise if you're down a quart (or two). Just consider it a design flaw that gives the Miata more character.
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First rain in my 2015 Focus! What's this, the wipers are kinda hosed? Quality is job #1 at ford!!
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I know a lot of you are IT types. Switching my internet to TWC 200mbit. I have a choice of 4 modems I can buy - I've ruled out one of them due to price, so I'm left with a Motorola/Arris SB6183, SMC D3CM1604, or Netgear CM500-100NAS Thoughts? The SMC and Netgear are more attractive simply because of the price ($99 for either of them on Amazon, vs $132 for the Arris), and I really don't like how little info I've been able to get out of the Motorola modems I've had in the past.
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I could be very wrong but Motorola/Arris always seem to be the go to modems.
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