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A friend works for a professional pressure washing company (he builds the trucks they use) and they have washers that can be set up to 6000 psi water that is also heated to a point that it would just be steam if it wasn't under so much pressure. Those things will take the chrome off the bumpers of semi's. They normally use a much lower setting, and I have no idea what they would use that sort of pressure for, unless it's cleaning off concrete or purposely stripping paint off of shipping containers or something.
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steady posted:Did he ever realize it's possible to wash off grime or other dirt with less pressure? He sounds like someone who could never have enough pressure to wash stuff. *turns washer up to 6000* never clean enough never clean enough never clean enough never clean enough....
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Nov 8, 2016 15:58
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:
Sounds like a tough son of a bitch. I'm over here moaning after being maimed with what I'll assume was roughly half the psi. I honestly didn't even feel it happen, and the pain didn't kick in until a while later. That said, the pain was only a 2 out of 10, with 10 as having stepped on a landmine while being crushed by a tank and eviscerated pain scale index, or a 10 out of 10 according the pain scale index utilized by my patients. My toe still works, but the same can't be said for Metal Geir Skogul's hand thanks to an errant O2 regulator at work today. Worst ouchie we saw all day on this boo boo bus.
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Nov 12, 2016 05:11
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I'm fed up with the driver's side CV axle. It loosened all six bolts again, even cleaned and with red loctite gel. Just spent $30 on nord locks.
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Nov 12, 2016 05:28
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:I'm fed up with the driver's side CV axle. It loosened all six bolts again, even cleaned and with red loctite gel. Wouldn't safety lock-wire work in that orientation?
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Nov 12, 2016 06:39
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Yeah, though it'd be a pain in the dick, less than constantly fixing it I guess. Can I drill new bolts?
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Nov 12, 2016 06:44
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:Yeah, though it'd be a pain in the dick, less than constantly fixing it I guess. You can get washer thinguses which let you use safety wire with non-drilled bolts. Motorcycle racers love 'em. http://www.jpcycles.com/product/910-159
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Nov 12, 2016 06:51
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Looks like those require hex bolts, these tend to be cap screws. And with how aggressive these are loosening, I wonder if they'll hold. But thanks for linking them - I didn't know those existed and there are a few things I think I could use them for. Hey, this is an excuse to get a drill press!
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Nov 12, 2016 07:00
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:Looks like those require hex bolts, these tend to be cap screws. And with how aggressive these are loosening, I wonder if they'll hold. But thanks for linking them - I didn't know those existed and there are a few things I think I could use them for. Do they have to be cap screws? Can you not swap to hex heads with lock tabs? Looks like you can also buy drilled head cap screws if you were so inclined and wanted to wire them
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Nov 12, 2016 22:36
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Maybe the holes the bolts thread into are all hogged out from being rattled loose a million times and need to be helicoiled or the part replaced? Spitballing ideas here
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Nov 13, 2016 00:37
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Yeah if red loctite isn't doing the job, time to look elsewhere for the cause.
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Nov 13, 2016 02:18
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I need to get out of this loving city. 
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Nov 15, 2016 01:56
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People are awful. What was the take?
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Nov 15, 2016 02:17
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Literally just the camera. Used a rock, smashed the corner with the camera, and literally ripped the end off of the camera charging cable.
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Nov 15, 2016 02:24
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Oh and also hosed up the sliding door handle by trying to pry it upwards. It opens by pushing down, but I get it. gently caress this bus gently caress my life this is the second one in a year (other one was on the beetle). I'm going to dump all of this and buy a loving forester or something holy poo poo I hate people so much right now. Give me a goddamned reason.
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Nov 15, 2016 02:25
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There goes 175 goddamned dollars that I don't have but I can't afford to have the window broken out for any longer than the minimum necessary to get it in the mail. The debt deepens.
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Nov 15, 2016 02:28
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It looks like just a flat piece; would it cost that much to just get a glass place to cut you something to size? I understand the frustration; my car has been vandalized and stolen on different occasions and it really does feel like you've been violated.  I'm sure the guy will get what's coming to him in the end, and it's worth owning interesting vehicles despite the heartbreak when these things happen. Sorry, dude.
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Nov 15, 2016 02:35
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Raluek posted:It looks like just a flat piece; would it cost that much to just get a glass place to cut you something to size? Tempered safety glass can't really be cut.
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n0tqu1tesane posted:Tempered safety glass can't really be cut. Oh yeah, safety glass. Dang, forgot about that. Could go lexan as a temporary fix, then fix it properly once you have a bit more money?
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Nov 15, 2016 04:28
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The taped up window fell out (inwards) overnight. Hmmmm but nothing stolen. I don't have the time to fix it, but I have a 3 day drill fri-sun and I guarantee it won't be in by Thursday. So, how to keep it covered. Tape? I hate adhesive
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Nov 15, 2016 21:07
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Man that loving sucks Adhesive sucks, what about long 1x3s and clamps? Or strip magnets? To hold sheet plastic in place, that is.
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Nov 15, 2016 21:13
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Home depot sells sheet metal, or go cut the roof off a car at the yard, trim it to fit and panel van that bitch. people loving *suck*.
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Nov 15, 2016 21:17
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Maybe a cut to fit bit of cardboard, on the outer lip, with screws through it to a but of wood behind the inner lip, clamping it in. Bonus is I can cut that tonight when I get home at 0200 without waking the neighbors. E: didn't see your post about the sheet metal, that works, too. But I can't shop at work and I'm on 1300-0100. A duct-tape covered piece of cardboard with a horizontal wood bit might fool the weekend tweakers, hopefully. Or panel van with aluminum. That would afford a lot more privacy... Queen_Combat fucked around with this message at 21:25 on Nov 15, 2016 |
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Nov 15, 2016 21:19
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Thinking more and more about panel vanning it. Instead of welding and bondo though, using the new window as an expensive template, and cutting steel or thicker aluminum sheet, and installing it with the stock rubber molding. I could also cut vents or tiny camera holes, too. Buddy did get me a patch for my jacket, though, so today's not 100% poo poo 
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Nov 15, 2016 23:44
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Where can I buy about a thousand of that awesome patch? e: don't panel it - visibility and a cool breeze are critical to enjoyment IMO
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Nov 16, 2016 00:41
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What about Lexan? That poo poo is pretty easy to cut and you could even get one of those cool slidey-vents.
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Nov 16, 2016 01:10
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Scratches? And for Lexan, I'd have to build a frame. The existing windows don't open. I was thinking, install with the rubber strips like standard.
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Nov 16, 2016 02:27
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Tentative plan: aluminum cut to shape with the replacement window as a template. For windows/ventilation... portholes? Or similar. Paint aluminum white, install using the stock rubber. If I desire, small camera hole. Provides additional piracy, unbreakable, and I have the jalousie windows for ventilation and light. The current windows already don't ventilate. Then, return the replacement window.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:Provides additional piracy Don't you work for the government? I thought they'd take a dim view of that 
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That's what the portholes are for, whoops
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Nov 16, 2016 07:57
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:That's what the portholes are for, whoops Where else would the canons go?
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Gas cap missing. It all makes sense, even though I'm missing no fuel.
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Nov 17, 2016 09:18
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Welp, somebody used the exhaust pipe as a step to get up onto the bumper for *~~reasons~~*, and broke the joint with the flange. Came out this morning to it hanging down at an angle.
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Nov 17, 2016 21:01
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You live in a lovely neighborhood man. Move out to the boondocks and learn to enjoy your 75-90 minute commute like me. I hate my loving commute
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Nov 17, 2016 21:04
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You moved to the wrong boondocks, man.
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The Locator posted:You live in a lovely neighborhood man. Move out to the boondocks and learn to enjoy your 75-90 minute commute like me. Your 75 minutes becomes my 2 hours, remember
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:Your 75 minutes becomes my 2 hours, remember Doubt it, I drive to Tempe every day, you go to Scottsdale I believe? So you'd take the 202 when I turn south on the 10, might be pretty close to the same. And yea, when I moved out to this boondocks and bought the house I didn't have the job in Tempe and I had a company truck. Then 2009 happened, and someday maybe I'll actually have equity so I can maybe move.
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Yeah, I go to alma school / main in mesa from central / thomas in Phoenix. I usually hop on the 51 at 16th / indian school, to the 202, to alma school. When I drive the bus, I take surface streets all the way, Van Buren all the way down where it becomes Mill, then Rio Salado to Alma School. 202 on the way home because it's at 2 AM and nobody cares about a 60mph VW in the right lane.
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I'm bored, so I went out and adjusted the hydraulic valves. I think I should have when I got the engine initially, even though the paper said they were already adjusted. I did the recommended 1.5 turns in. I think one or two of the lifters are semi-stuck, as it made a clacking noise badly on startup, and took a LONG time to get better. I took that noisy lifter (cyl 2 intake) and "exercised" it a bit by loosening it up, and tightening it down the alleged full limit it can go (4 turns), a few times, with putting the valve cover on and running the engine in-between. Got it to the point where it clacks on startup, but a quick blip of the throttle makes it quiet down. Also, while I was down there, I noticed the goddamned cv axle bolts loosened again. Thankfully, my 30 dollar box of 25 sets of Nord Lock washers came in, so I re-installed the bolts with the nord lock washers. Maybe that'll help? It's what everyone recommends, but they're super expensive.  E: watching GitS for the first time in, jeeze, maybe 13 years? New movie trailer disgusted me, so I decided to break my self-imposed animuuuuu ban that's been in place since maybe 2008, under the pretense of enjoying an older classic.  Wonder how much that costs. Queen_Combat fucked around with this message at 02:41 on Nov 22, 2016 |
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Nordlocks are awesome. I use a ton of the 316SS ones on the gear I make, and they really work. I just wish they made them in 6AL4V Ti...
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