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Cop Porn Popper posted:My buddy bought a lancer/evo spoiler for his car. While normally I deride him for his ricey tendencies, this one I'm forgiving. Why? Because I get to loving drill holes in his car. You're welcome to grind holes in my ford... and plate it back in with real metal.
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Cop Porn Popper posted:My buddy bought a lancer/evo spoiler for his car. While normally I deride him for his ricey tendencies, this one I'm forgiving. Why? Because I get to loving drill holes in his car. Start with the crank case and the fuel tank! 
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Jan 7, 2017 21:43
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cursedshitbox posted:Yeah don't bother with the stock lego controllers. at minimum arduino + whatever sensors/drivers. Awesome. I bought this kit ten years ago when I was doing my degree and it taught me all sorts of stuff, like multiplexing sensors and motors and managing current and memory and so on, because it was so loving limited. I'd have done bad bad things for an arduino back then and now they're like £15. Funny thing, ladder code was mentioned once in one lecture: "nobody uses this". I use it every damned day at work. My final project was an autonomous fish. We built lego robots all the time though, peaking at the mobile ashtray that had an extending arm and sought out particular coloured lights.
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Jan 7, 2017 21:43
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Holy poo poo I thought I got hosed over hard being paid 25 Australian Pesos an hr to run into a bushfire and put it out, but $10 an hr to be a god drat paramedic? gently caress me! For comparison, our state government owned Ambulance service pays its Basic ambulance officers AU$43K-53K a year (US$31,372-38,668) and a paramedic gets AU$61K-74K a year (US$44,505-53,990) and THEYRE considered god awfully underpaid over here! Poor white people voting for the groups who try their hardest to gently caress em over is exactly like the outback and regional areas here in Australia ALWAYS voting Liberal/National, despite the fact that the Libs/Nats are relentlessly trying to cut services to the bush because they're so expensive and gently caress over the people out on the land. BUT THEY ALWAYS VOTE FOR THEM!
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Jan 7, 2017 23:23
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ilkhan posted:Someone can understand why people do things without believing they'll be in that position, you know. In other situations it's called empathy. *If* I was in their shoes I'd do the same thing. I don't for a minute believe I will ever be in that position. Holy  your only defense against being a total piece of poo poo is "I'll probably never have the opportunity to do it"?
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Jan 7, 2017 23:53
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Ferremit posted:Holy poo poo I thought I got hosed over hard being paid 25 Australian Pesos an hr to run into a bushfire and put it out, but $10 an hr to be a god drat paramedic? gently caress me! Really though, when you factor in purchasing power and living costs, $10 usd is pretty much $25 aussie pesos.
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Jan 7, 2017 23:57
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Except with the missus on casual and me on 38hrs a week and 25 peso's, we've been able to afford to buy a house?
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Yeah, but the house is in australia. You can buy houses in the unihabitable parts of the states for 50 grand, too.
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Powershift posted:You can buy houses in the unihabitable parts of the states for 50 grand, too. Or even $36K! 
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Jan 8, 2017 00:21
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Powershift posted:Yeah, but the house is in australia. Theres nothing wrong with Adelaide.  The fact its not Sydney or Melbourne just reinforces the point.
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Jan 8, 2017 00:22
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Ferremit posted:Theres nothing wrong with Adelaide. Nothing? how was the weather yesterday? 
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Jan 8, 2017 00:31
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Geoj posted:Holy Ikhan.txt
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Jan 8, 2017 00:38
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I just helped a dude find all the fittings to plumb the brakes on his '59 Edsel Ranger with a mystery master cylinder, '77 Ranchero front disks, a brake proportioning valve out of a '79 F-150 and rear wheel cylinders out of a mystery year CJ5. It only took an hour and a half. Scratch that off the do it once and never wanna do it again list!
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Jan 8, 2017 00:42
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Powershift posted:Nothing? how was the weather yesterday? Perfect. I told work to get hosed on sitting in a fire truck all day in case something happened and spent my entire day either in the AC or floating in the spa with beer. 40 degrees means all other work i should have been doing was on hold!
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spog posted:Oh cool, 100 new posts in this thread. There must be something pretty darn interesting happening in the automotive world. Also, Bristol is a place with large areas in need of gentrification. By orbital strike, if possible.
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I boarded the loft out and now I'm buzzed on bourbon. Bourbuzzed if you will.
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Tried getting those precision screwdrivers again so I went to Sears #4. They apparently were going out of business and had even fewer tools available. 
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Ferremit posted:Perfect. I told work to get hosed on sitting in a fire truck all day in case something happened and spent my entire day either in the AC or floating in the spa with beer. Yeah, well to regular human beings, it means "oh, it's a nice balmy OH MY GOD IS THE SUN GETTING CLOSER? IT FEELS LIKE IT'S GETTING CLOSER"
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rdb posted:I drove my car (well truck) to a new place today. Florida! 10 hours of hellish frozen roads and morons through KY, TN and AL. I put on a set of Bridgestone Turanza Serenity Plus a week or two after black friday and they impressed me with how well they handled the hills and snow. Got a little momentum at the bottom of the neighborhood then when I lost enough speed went down to 2nd gear and sat at 15mph all the way up, no spinning tires at all. CommieGIR posted:Yeah, that's the fun part: The largest collectors and beneficiaries of social programs are poor uneducated whites. And they generally vote for people who are vocally against those programs. Boaz MacPhereson posted:In other news, I'm pretty sure I'm getting a super neat RC truck this weekend for Hanukkah so that's pretty cool. Everybody staying warm out there this winter? eighty-four merc posted:Tires are General Grabber AT2 27x8.5R14LT. They don't rub at all.  Just showed girlfriend and she said she would not mind driving something like that. If you haven't you need to post that in the post your ride thread asap.Since this is the general thread this will be only completely off topic. 1/4" plate steel, overkill for engine mounts or pretty standard and good practices? Think I finally figured out how I'm going to mount the engine in the race car. Was supposed to have a fab guy come look at it today but snow/ice killed that.
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NitroSpazzz posted:Since this is the general thread this will be only completely off topic. 1/4" plate steel, overkill for engine mounts or pretty standard and good practices? It's overkill for doing things "properly", but once you accept you're not going to do things properly, it's "pretty standard".
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InitialDave posted:Yes. 1/4" it is then, not like this thing is going to have an easy life. 1/4" plate and some left over roll cage tubing should work pretty well.
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meltie posted:I thought that was an Austin Princess for a sec and thought you'd gone mad.  cakesmith handyman posted:Awesome. I bought this kit ten years ago when I was doing my degree and it taught me all sorts of stuff, like multiplexing sensors and motors and managing current and memory and so on, because it was so loving limited. I'd have done bad bad things for an arduino back then and now they're like £15. I just finished building the lego ideas maze that my sis gave me for Christmas. It is so much harder than I anticipated - the ball gets stuck on the edges between the bricks if you go too slow so you have to go faster thus making it much trickier!
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NitroSpazzz posted:1/4" it is then, not like this thing is going to have an easy life. 1/4" plate and some left over roll cage tubing should work pretty well. A lights--on-the-front-panel Series 2A is technically possible in the BL era, though gently caress knows why anyone would admit to it, it does kind of go against the whole "built 2 last" reputation.
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angryrobots posted:Are there places that don't outsource ambulances? I always thought of them as private companies. At least in TX, EMS is usually part of the city fire department if the city is large enough to have a paid fire department, and the ambulances are parked at the fire station in one of the bays. The firefighters are almost always cross trained to at least an EMT Basic level, and calling for an ambulance often gets a fire truck too. Rural areas will sometimes have a county-run EMS service, others may contract with the nearest city or a private company. The city I'm in requires all firefighters be at least EMT Basic certified, and has almost all ALS ambulances (if not all of them). I always thought most cities had EMS under the FD. Guess not? Dallas runs EMS under the FD as well, though they'll station ambulances around the city during the afternoon and evening. They have contracts with private companies for overflow, which was a big deal last year in the news when that cost came to light (it would be a lot cheaper long term to buy more ambulances and hire more EMTs). randomidiot fucked around with this message at 02:42 on Jan 8, 2017 |
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I would like to clean my 'new' transmission a little bit before I install it. What's the best way to get old nasty grease off without making a huge mess / killing all my grass / etc? Purple Power and a rise? If I work on a concrete slab, will it stain the fucker?
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You're a sick, sick individual.
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The marque of the beast
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Pham Nuwen posted:I would like to clean my 'new' transmission a little bit before I install it. What's the best way to get old nasty grease off without making a huge mess / killing all my grass / etc? Purple Power and a rise? If I work on a concrete slab, will it stain the fucker? Yes, it will stain the slab. Lay down several layers of cardboard and go to town with some brake cleaner? Or throw it in the back of someone's truck and take it to a self service car wash and hit it with degreaser, use the rinse there. Take it out of the truck first if they value their paint.  Or do what I did and just toss it in the trunk with some rags, take it out to wash it, wipe it off as best you can and chunk it back into the trunk to take it home.Goes without saying, but make sure the tailshaft opening is covered somehow.
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Pham Nuwen posted:I would like to clean my 'new' transmission a little bit before I install it. What's the best way to get old nasty grease off without making a huge mess / killing all my grass / etc? Purple Power and a rise? If I work on a concrete slab, will it stain the fucker? throw down a lot of old and hit it with a ridiculous amount of brake clean. Its how I clean my kart since the chain throws oil everywhere and it works ridiculously well. you can buy a 4L jug for like $40-50 and a WD-40 spray bottle for like $2 and you'll probably still have half a jug left over.
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:Yes, it will stain the slab. Oh, cardboard, what the hell's wrong with me? I've got cardboard out the rear end. There's also a self-service car wash just down the street, which would be a pretty good lazy option. Edit: I have a truck so the car wash is pretty easy.
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Powershift posted:Yeah, well to regular human beings, it means "oh, it's a nice balmy OH MY GOD IS THE SUN GETTING CLOSER? IT FEELS LIKE IT'S GETTING CLOSER" It beats the poo poo out of "Its Minus two billion degrees and theres a windchill and the ground is frozen and the snow is 80 feet deep and I cant feel my organs but i have to change my brake pads" weather.
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Pham Nuwen posted:Oh, cardboard, what the hell's wrong with me? I've got cardboard out the rear end. Do it at the self service car wash, they are usually required to clean the waste water that runs off.
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Worst I ever had to do was a battery change on a Honda Fit in about 15 deg. F. Of course that battery is probably smaller than the ones used in Power Wheels toys. I'm not kidding here. The battery is so small.
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On Thursday night my older cat Smokie passed away. She was only 9, and my heart is broken  I miss her a lot already. She was my first cat. It's been a bad couple of years for pets at my household. Three-Phase posted:Worst I ever had to do was a battery change on a Honda Fit in about 15 deg. F. Honda loves them some tiny batteries. My Civic starts stupid fast no matter how cold it is, though. Even if it's warm the Subaru takes a couple revs of grumbling before it kicks over.
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A popular mod with the ricer crowd on 80s and 90s Civics was to use a motorcycle battery to save weight. It would start the engine fine... so long as you didn't dare turn on any lights or the radio without the engine running.
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I gave up on motorcycle batteries and went to Oddessey's. Smaller, lighter, gel cell. If they are used regularly, they hold up just fine. Some day I'll find a LiFo that works, but until then I'm happy with these.
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Three-Phase posted:Worst I ever had to do was a battery change on a Honda Fit in about 15 deg. F. Made it home but had to use it the next morning, called around and o'reilly had one in stock. Had my wife pick it up and changed it in the yard at about 10° F that night. No wind though, so it really wasn't bad. Worst part was that I had replaced that rad only a year before when the original started leaking.
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Heretic! while we're on the topic of all things England.  12pt 12mm heads. 3/8-16 threads. ayup.
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Three-Phase posted:Worst I ever had to do was a battery change on a Honda Fit in about 15 deg. F. During the second hurricane to hit florida this year, we had a dude come in requesting a battery change. Guy didn't seem to get why I didn't want to go out and change it while it was loving raining sideways.
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Pham Nuwen posted:I would like to clean my 'new' transmission a little bit before I install it. What's the best way to get old nasty grease off without making a huge mess / killing all my grass / etc? Purple Power and a rise? If I work on a concrete slab, will it stain the fucker? If there's anything I've learned lately it's that Panther Piss is some kind of loving magic for this. It's also likely to give you all the cancers.
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