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CommieGIR posted:I kept reading this as Railroad Hall of Fame. Can we have this instead?
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Way behind on this thread due to vacation, but figured I'd chime in on the candy-fest that was Monday night. I got back from vacation about 5pm, and was pretty damned tired, so I thought briefly about not even turning on the lights since I was wiped out, but figured that the last thing I needed was to keep 144 full sized candy-bars in the house (I decided to be 'that guy' this year and bought 4 boxes from Costco instead of the little snack-packs). Instead, when the kids started showing up a bit before 7pm, I just gave every single one of them two candy bars. It was actually a lot of fun, as the kids were just stupidly stoked to see full sized candy bars dropping on top of all the dinky little pieces of candy in their bags/buckets. Some of them did funny dance/run things back to the street screaming to mom and dad that they got full sized candy bars. Was pretty funny. Ran out about 7:30 and turned all the lights out and crashed, and to my surprise didn't get a single knock or doorbell ring after that. Made the early 70'ish kids that showed up really happy though. Downside is that my house is probably marked by those little bastards for next year, so if I cheap out they'll be pissed.
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Nov 3, 2016 22:06
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Rhyno posted:Can we have this instead? Close... http://www.irm.org/
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Nov 3, 2016 22:09
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The only thing I know about Ohio is two of my aunts live there and every highway sign sets off my radar detector for some reason.
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Nov 3, 2016 22:11
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ohio is for lovers
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Nov 3, 2016 22:12
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nm posted:It's America. That would have happened even if there was no baseball.
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Nov 3, 2016 22:20
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You Am I posted:Fixed that for you for the brutal truth Yeah but even by US standards Chicago is really bad.
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Nov 3, 2016 22:35
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You Am I posted:Fixed that for you for the brutal truth Chicago's murder rate is like the one thing this city has going for it. Don't take it away.
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Nov 4, 2016 01:39
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Any of you work for a company that deals with MILSPEC connectors? I need a specific one for work and I'm having a hell of a time finding it. I'm already waiting on a quote from Amphenol.
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Deeters posted:Any of you work for a company that deals with MILSPEC connectors? I need a specific one for work and I'm having a hell of a time finding it. I'm already waiting on a quote from Amphenol. I get mine through Amphenol. Is this like a Cannon Plug style connector or what? http://www.alliedelec.com/circular-connectors/circular-connectors/
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Nov 4, 2016 02:34
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FML. Spent a good 3 hours trying to explain the difference between virtual addresses and physical addresses to the new hire on the SMMU design team. I didn't even get to intermediate physical addresses. I was nearly convinced I should go to HR after the discussion to double check the validity of their ECE degree. Then I had the "pleasure" of spending two hours on the phone to try to get one of our suppliers to explain why the datasheet for a part says it can be powered by up to 12VDC, yet the part won't actually operate if I give it anything more than 10.6VDC. Our specs state the part needs to work off of 11.5VDC, so of course we've got a metric fuckton of non-functional product sitting around due to this discrepancy. Beer o'clock is gonna start real early tomorrow....
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Nov 4, 2016 03:40
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:Yeah... I do have an O2 sensor spacer I was going to try out. Problem is, the secondary sensor is visible from under the hood (if you look anyway), so it'll probably fail the visual check. Going to throw it on tomorrow anyway though and see if it gets rid of the light. Resistor/capacitor trick works better.
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Nov 4, 2016 03:49
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Brigdh posted:FML. Spent a good 3 hours trying to explain the difference between virtual addresses and physical addresses to the new hire on the SMMU design team. I didn't even get to intermediate physical addresses. I was nearly convinced I should go to HR after the discussion to double check the validity of their ECE degree. Jesus loving christ. This is like when I had to explain the basics of networking to a Comp Sci grad, I seriously was about ready to call in HR and another Operations guy and get him to explain it in front of them.
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Nov 4, 2016 03:52
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CommieGIR posted:Jesus loving christ. This is like when I had to explain the basics of networking to a Comp Sci grad, I seriously was about ready to call in HR and another Operations guy and get him to explain it in front of them. The low point of my career in pricing out health benefits for a major insurance company was trying to explain to my trainer, coworkers and manager that if you have X in the numerator and X in the denominator you can cancel them out and we really didn't need to document twelve extra steps that could be simplified into one basic calculation. Oh and I to this day am apparently wrong. I pretty much checked out after that meeting.
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Nov 4, 2016 04:41
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Daily driving a 15 year old $2,000 Eurocar is starting to get annoying. >KEY ON< Yes, I know you think the back bulbs are dead because the ground isn't as resistant as you expect after I fixed that lovely ground. >CLEAR< Yes, I know you think the front passenger blinker bulb is out due to the fact that it's a Thursday. I tried cleaning you, and replacing it, but you are still being bratty. Time to check for another lovely ground! >CLEAR< Yes, I know the third brake light is unhappy- I noticed that when I pulled into the driveway and there was the ebbing glow of ascension behind me, with no red filter whatsoever. >CLEAR< >START<
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Nov 4, 2016 04:51
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West SAAB Story posted:Daily driving a 15 year old $2,000 Eurocar is starting to get annoying.  e: full disclosure, mine just freaks out about the brake lights most of the time. The rest is okay. epic bird guy fucked around with this message at 05:27 on Nov 4, 2016 |
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Nov 4, 2016 05:25
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SCA Enthusiast posted:
That's going to be wrong bulbs and/or ground.
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Nov 4, 2016 05:28
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I dunno with my 30 year old euro shitbox you just have to prime the pixies in the starter. After three or four turns of the key the the starter usually works.
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Nov 4, 2016 05:29
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West SAAB Story posted:That's going to be wrong bulbs and/or ground. Its one of those things I just haven't quite mustered the energy to deal with yet, but thanks for the tip. I think ground is more likely because it was only fairly recently that it started doing it every time. That said, this is the car where the PO "fixed" the burned out headlight by duct taping the lamp to the inside of the plastic cover since the retaining clip was missing.
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Nov 4, 2016 05:38
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1500quidporsche posted:I dunno with my 30 year old euro shitbox you just have to prime the pixies in the starter. After three or four turns of the key the the starter usually works. It always starts, runs, and performs all of the functions I would expect- it just bitches everywhere along the way about doing so. In that sense, I guess it might be Trans-British (but born a Swede).
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SCA Enthusiast posted:Its one of those things I just haven't quite mustered the energy to deal with yet, but thanks for the tip. I think ground is more likely because it was only fairly recently that it started doing it every time. That said, this is the car where the PO "fixed" the burned out headlight by duct taping the lamp to the inside of the plastic cover since the retaining clip was missing. Pull all bulbs. Clean holders like hell, scrubbing until you can see the metal. Replace with new PROPER bulbs (P21 probably). If persists, what I like to do is run a 16ga run of 10' wire with two alligator clips. One goes on the metal taillight socket, and the other onto a bit of the H which isn't covered in oil, grease, and tears. If it goes away, bad ground found!
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West SAAB Story posted:Daily driving a 15 year old $2,000 Eurocar is starting to get annoying. For some reason I read that as back rubs instead of back bulbs and I was really confused
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Nov 4, 2016 05:44
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For my Audi 90, its the washer fluid bottle warning alert.
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For my car - not my particular one (yet, anyway), but extremely common on Delta platform GMs - it's the low coolant warning. Can't buy just the sensor. You have to buy the entire reserve tank. It's not that big of a deal to replace it, but goddamnit, why can't they sell just the sensor?!  puberty worked me over posted:Resistor/capacitor trick works better. How have I not heard of this?  I tried to install the spacer tonight... and found out it won't fit. Hell for that matter I can't even get a regular O2 socket on the sensor, thankfully the O2 sensor tools that Autozone has in their loan-a-tool program include a crowsfoot. It's cramped enough that the wires coming out of the back of the sensor are smashed into the heat shield. I'd have to use a 90 degree spacer, and extend the wires quite a bit. Resistor/capacitor, with a bit of heat shrink, looks a hell of a lot cheaper. And doesn't stand out nearly as much as a spacer. I was pretty surprised how easily the sensor broke loose though. My exhaust is fairly rusty (for here, anyway, but the car spent most of its life in SLC), but crowsfoot + 3/8 drive + 1 solid tap from a hammer broke it loose. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 06:34 on Nov 4, 2016 |
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CommieGIR posted:I get mine through Amphenol. Is this like a Cannon Plug style connector or what? It's from MIL-DTL-24231. I'm not really an electrical guy, so I just end up calling everything an Amphenol. The guy who designed the part basically told me "Yeah, that connector is really hard to find. Good luck!"
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My wife's on her way to the University of Florida for a residency interview. I hope it goes well for her, but dear god I don't want to move to Gainesville. I think we're single-handedly propping up the airline industry between rescheduling interviews and booking last minute flights. She hits three programs in four days next week, and she's on the waitlist for one more.
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Re: vehicle warning lights. So after owning a succession of BMWs and Volvos, my current DD Toyota kinda weirds me out because Toyota doesn't think you need any warnings of any kind. Tundra and Corolla are the same way, no bulb out, no coolant level. Oil pressure lamp and whatever the emissions kicks on a CEL for, that's it. Hell the Volvo had a fuse and circuit for every individual bulb....which meant the dual filament bulbs had two per bulb.
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I like doggos as much as anyone can but this morning as I was 3-point turning in my street I saw our white trash neighbors dog making GBS threads in someones elses yard. I see this fucker in my backyard making GBS threads occasionally because they just let him run loose all the time. He'll be in the street and up and down everyones driveway and backyard. So I gave him a rev to redline and he stopped mid-poo poo and ran away. I know its not his fault but I don't care, would do it again.
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Cage posted:I like doggos as much as anyone can but this morning as I was 3-point turning in my street I saw our white trash neighbors dog making GBS threads in someones elses yard. I see this fucker in my backyard making GBS threads occasionally because they just let him run loose all the time. He'll be in the street and up and down everyones driveway and backyard. So I gave him a rev to redline and he stopped mid-poo poo and ran away. I know its not his fault but I don't care, would do it again.
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Nov 4, 2016 13:35
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I dont want to get revved at. 
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angryrobots posted:Re: vehicle warning lights. On the one hand, I appreciate the utility of bulb-out warning lamps, particularly for bulbs that are difficult to check (brakes, reverse). On the minus side, those things freak the gently caress out when you convert to LEDs. Fast-blink is bad enough, and usually easy enough to fix (I had to essentially intercept the flasher function and reroute it to an external flasher unit, since it's built in to the Lighting Control Unit, and I don't want to resort to crass hackery like adding load resistors.) I may need to convert a couple of my dash warning lamps back to incandescent. they glow dimly when not "lit". apparently just enough voltage to start lighting an LED, but not a filament bulb. ABS warning light is noticeable at night, and another one just barely lights. My Cherokee did the same thing with the check Engine lamp.
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Cage posted:So I gave him a rev to redline and he stopped mid-poo poo and ran away. I know its not his fault but I don't care, would do it again. drat, nothing is worse than being interrupted mid poo poo, I remember being in basic training and the drill instructor yelling "PUSH AND CUT!!!" frantically trying to get it all out before I got in trouble. Never had a peaceful poo poo in basic, it was horrible.
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Darchangel posted:On the minus side, those things freak the gently caress out when you convert to LEDs. Anyhow I have LED in my licence plate, reverse, and interior bulbs, and regular incandescents everywhere else.
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Nov 4, 2016 16:25
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angryrobots posted:I thought the consensus was that for brake/marker/turn bulbs, LED was generally A Bad Idea and not worth the trouble? This all depends on the vehicle in question. I did a full LED swap on my external lights (running lights/brake/tail/turn/reverse/rear license plate) but its an '02 Focus that only flashes the turn signal fast if resistance isn't correct, which was easily fixed with a pair of load balancers. If your car has a warning center that tells you specifically "rear/left turnsignal bulb is burned out" then yeah, probably more trouble than its worth unless you want to spend $20-30+ each for CANBUS error correcting modules.
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I put an LED in my glove box because it's kind of annoying to get to and it flickered and died. Didn't last as long as the stock one. Same as the LED I put on the underside of my microwave (stove lamp). It's annoying how much the quality of these can vary.
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Huh, I guess a Chinese knock-off Jeep parts company that's cloning products had the gall to exhibit at SEMA where the original company was showing too. They got busted and their stuff seized  http://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/sema-2016-counterfeiters-busted-by-us-marshalls/ar-AAjRwzE?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp
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(sadbrains post ahead) Furnace update: I hosed up in the most basic way possible and now I'm a real-life Charlie Brown. I didn't do any research on which company to use, just used a company that has a good local presence and does good work, didn't realize I'd be spending so much on it. Now that I'm doing research (way after the cows left the barn) I can see that I've spent not-quite double what another company would ask for the same work. I'm completely hosed. My girlfriend is furious at me for spending all that money and everyone thinks I'm a dolt, including myself. All I had to do was not panic and do any research at all and I would have saved a ton of money that I don't really have. Now I get to make the call to cancel our satellite TV (which, honestly, is fine by me since it's so expensive) and try to convince my girlfriend not to dump my rear end because she trusted me to get this done and it went 100% pear-shaped. Went to bed last night and when I woke up it was horrible since my lovely decisions still exist and she's still mad. 
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scuz posted:(sadbrains post ahead) That sucks  Everyone makes a bad call once in awhile.
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scuz posted:(sadbrains post ahead) Don't underestimate the value of getting something done correctly by a good company. There will always be someone cheaper. But 2 years down the line when the house falls down or you die of CO poisoning, you'd regret not going for the good company.
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Yeah, there is real value to using a reputable company and it's worth extra for some piece of mind. That said, 2x sounds fishy though if they are literally the exact same thing. Is the other company quoting the exact same brand/model of furnace? Any accessories? Something has to be different or the other company bids super low to get the job and then SURPRISE WE FOUND THIS OUT AS WE'RE INSTALLING IT AND IT'S GOING TO BE $$RAPE$$ EXTRA. SORRY! CharlesM posted:Huh, I guess a Chinese knock-off Jeep parts company that's cloning products had the gall to exhibit at SEMA where the original company was showing too. That is awesome, although the company is probably going to just forfeit their stuff, gently caress off and just start peddling their poo poo again.
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