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InitialDave posted:Land Rover temp gauge seems to read quite high, but I think it's the regulator for the gauges causing it, rather than it being an actual cooling issue. He was scoping out any potential salvage, gotta keep your eyes peeled in the wasteland.
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InitialDave posted:Landie community in action though, in the time it took me to get the can out and pour it in, a guy in a P38 had pulled over to ask if I needed a hand. That's a very Land Rover reaction, isn't it? *Sees a LR parked by the roadside* *Stops* "Hello there, what's broken?"
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LloydDobler posted:I think my gaming days are over for real now. I can't keep up with hardware. I feel you. Games are getting huge these days. I downloaded Wolfenstein The New Order a few weeks back, ~50 gb, and then found out the game wouldn't start because it doesn't play nice with AMD gpus (I have a 7950). I guess I'll try again in another few months when I get a new GPU.
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spog posted:That's a very Land Rover reaction, isn't it? yes, the sky is blue.
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So my girlfriend has moved onto a farm recently. The guy that owns it was born on it 70 years ago and is one of those 'make it work' types simply because his way of farming is oldschool and not making fat cash like intensive farming. Yesterday he was faffing about with his tractor, a 1980 International 784. It's big, old, looks like poo poo and been repaired a million times but still runs hard. 38 years isn't a bad number for a workhorse tractor. Anyway he was faffing with it saying the gear linkages are getting progressively worse, not shifting all the way and needed to do something about it. I return back to the farm later and find him out front driving about testing his new repair, asking what he'd done he told me the thing has a gated shifter(!!) and that because it wasn't allowing him to shift into gear all the way he simply made the gates longer... It now works perfectly. Bodgetastic.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:Defragging just shags your SSD turbo quickly. Don't do it. gently caress. How bad is it if you just do it once? I ran it after encountering and clearing up this fun bug, but only did it the once. Turbofucked? I just want this poo poo to survive until they pull the plug on cablecard, or the guide updates finally stop.
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It just reduces the available writes, I wouldn't worry about it. I've had the same SSD in a machine for at least 4 years now and it still is at 100% writes available. Its probably had 6 OS reinstalls and runs a handful of VMs that aren't ever stopped. It wasn't even a nice one, since the machine doesn't have SATAIII anyway (HP Microserver N36L).
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cakesmith handyman posted:He was scoping out any potential salvage, gotta keep your eyes peeled in the wasteland. spog posted:That's a very Land Rover reaction, isn't it? cursedshitbox posted:yes, the sky is blue. Olympic Mathlete posted:Bodgetastic.
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I don't know if I ever mentioned it, but I did pick up 323 GTX #4 (or 5?) and have slowly been amassing awesome period performance parts from eBay and Croooober. Parts so far: New in box HKS PFC F-CON (piggyback fuel computer) vintage pre-SSQV HKS bypass valve original HKS EVC (boost controller) Boost/EGT gauges in 52mm Boost/EGT/water gauges in 46mm I'm still looking for an amber face oil temperature gauge (46 or 52mm whatever), Graphical Control Computer, and maybe the scramble controller if someone knows anyone looking to sell that stuff, even if its random parts. If anyone wants a white face HKS boost gauge, I have both the 20psi export version, and the 'compound meter' 1 bar Japanese market one. I don't need the 46mm boost/EGT either. The boost is mechanical and the EGT uses a standard K type thermocouple. ps HKS roolz GReddy and Blitz suck
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This last week has been kind of crazy for me. I discovered that my good friend of nearly 20 years is my half-brother, DNA confirmed. Before my folks got married, my mom had a child she gave up for adoption. This is some Hallmark channel poo poo guys. Dude was a groomsman in my wedding. Wrar fucked around with this message at 20:10 on Jun 25, 2017 |
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Wrar posted:This last week has been kind of crazy for me. I discovered that my good friend of nearly 20 years is my half-brother, DNA confirmed. Before my folks got married, my mom had a child she gave up for adoption. Brought together by the Gorester.
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Wrar posted:This last week has been kind of crazy for me. I discovered that my good friend of nearly 20 years is my half-brother, DNA confirmed. Before my folks got married, my mom had a child she gave up for adoption. That's actually kinda awesome but odd too.
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Wrar posted:This last week has been kind of crazy for me. I discovered that my good friend of nearly 20 years is my half-brother, DNA confirmed. Before my folks got married, my mom had a child she gave up for adoption. toplitzin?!
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Adiabatic posted:toplitzin?! LOL no, Top was not adopted and his parents are good people. To clarify further this is not a small town thing. I'm from Miami, my folks are from Miami and my (now know) brother is down there still.
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Wrar posted:LOL no, Top was not adopted and his parents are good people. Did you both have pendants with half a gold coin on them or something?
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cakesmith handyman posted:Okay, so how much will it cost me to admit I'm a terrible need and want both these things? The Up Goer Five (design of the only space car to take us to another world using.only the ten hundred most common words) poster is from xkcd. I glued mine to some foam board. The Lego Saturn V is like $130 Ameribucks. It has 1969 pieces  Moral cosr? Eternal virginity.
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I was ogling the Saturn V on display at the Lego store in Chandler yesterday. Isn't that kit pretty much sold out already?
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The drone racing league has been playing in the background at work for the past week or so, and it makes me wonder if that might be the future direction of professional motor sports. It's faster and more intense than humans can handle, and the designs can be significantly better because you don't need every control surface centered around a 160lb, 5'10" ballast. Plus, safety only needs to concern onlookers, not the ballast, so courses can be much more dangerous and exciting
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Silverado Day two update: Big loving hammer got the ball joint off the knuckle. Heat and a pair of pipe wrenches took care of the inner tie rod. Proceeding with drilling out the control arm rivets. hosed up a HF 1/2" bit so I bought a pricey carbide bit. Drilled the rivets, smacked them with a cold chisel to remove the heads but I can't drive the fuckers out. More drilling I guess. Hope the bit lasts. Lesson learned, just buy new control arms next time.
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Question for anyone in the know. Why are top loaders a thing in the US? Over here in the UK they're seen as antiquated and old fashioned to the point where the only top loading washing devices you can get are designed for places like caravans or boats and are cheap.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Question for anyone in the know. Why are top loaders a thing in the US? Over here in the UK they're seen as antiquated and old fashioned to the point where the only top loading washing devices you can get are designed for places like caravans or boats and are cheap. Front-loaders were a thing here for awhile and now have fallen back out of favour with their uncomfortable predilection for developing mildew and/or leaking. Since we (generally) are not space limited, stacked front-loaders are also unnecessary.
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Those probably don't have the traditional agitator, at least my set of LGs don't, so they aren't really any older of a design then the front loaders. They clean well, don't easily develop odors because you can leave the lid open without tripping over it, and they are mechanically simple enough, fit in the same footprint, really I don't see the disadvantage.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Question for anyone in the know. Why are top loaders a thing in the US? Over here in the UK they're seen as antiquated and old fashioned to the point where the only top loading washing devices you can get are designed for places like caravans or boats and are cheap. Purely anecdotal but I would imagine machines designed for the US market are generally larger and space is at less of a premium. A large, top-loading machine might cost close to what a smaller, front-loading machine would cost; and the smaller, front-loading machine could be stacked with the dryer if space is at an even higher premium.
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Not sure if its still the case but when I bought a top loading HE in late 2013 the front loaders had a $150+ premium when compared against a top loader with similar features. Also for US vs UK/Europe, isn't it fairly common in Europe to have your washer/dryer under a counter in the kitchen or bathroom (in which case a top loader wouldn't work)? In the US the norm is to have a dedicated laundry room or put your washer/dryer in an unfinished part of the basement. monsterzero posted:Lesson learned, just buy new control arms next time. Seconding this, I was going to do my ball joints in late March but for about double the cost of replacement ball joints I was able to buy a lower suspension rebuild kit from an Amazon vendor that included the entire control arm with ball joints and bushings plus swaybar endlinks and inner/outer tie rod ends. Cleaned up a nasty front-end shimmy I had for the past ~10k miles, I'm sure my swaybar links were nearing the end of their useful life and now I have spare tie rod ends when the time comes to replace them. Geoj fucked around with this message at 22:40 on Jun 25, 2017 |
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I love my augerless top loader, because it has a ton of space. I also love that there's no seal to fail and leak water everywhere. Also parts for front loaders are impossible to find and they develop mildew and eat your change in the stupid rubber gaskets and pockets.
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LloydDobler posted:I think my gaming days are over for real now. I can't keep up with hardware. This is pretty much why I turned the Xbox 360 years ago. More that I was too poor to keep up with PC hardware at the time. Now it's totally that I don't care. Caveat is that you have to get used to a controller, and mods are pretty much right out.
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InitialDave posted:Land Rover temp gauge seems to read quite high, but I think it's the regulator for the gauges causing it, rather than it being an actual cooling issue. He pulled over to help, because he *knows* he's going to need someone to pull over and help him, at any time. Just paying it forward.
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Geoj posted:Not sure if its still the case but when I bought a top loading HE in late 2013 the front loaders had a $150+ premium when compared against a top loader with similar features. Also, power. We don't run 110V here, as a side effect of which there's no such thing as a "dryer outlet", you just plug them in wherever, which means people site them where they want. Most people will put them in a secondary utility room off the kitchen if they have one, but that's more keeping them out the way and the noise down than any particular need to. I'd only expect to find one in the kitchen proper if you were very tight on space. Darchangel posted:He pulled over to help, because he *knows* he's going to need someone to pull over and help him, at any time. Just paying it forward.
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Top loaders are just way less of a pain in the rear end. They seem to break less and are easy to fix. Also European dryers are vastly inferior to superior American dryers.
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nm posted:Top loaders are just way less of a pain in the rear end. They seem to break less and are easy to fix. ...that are made in China.
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Darchangel posted:...that are made in China. Even so (though my maytags were musa), the design is just better.
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Darchangel posted:...that are made in China. whirlpool are made here in michigan (though i'm sure all the parts are from china)
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I think I remember driving by a big whirlpool factory in Mexico. They are headquartered in MI, but who knows where it actually came from. E: I think it was in Monterrey
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monsterzero posted:Silverado Day two update: Big loving hammer got the ball joint off the knuckle. Heat and a pair of pipe wrenches took care of the inner tie rod. You poor bastard. I bought the arms and the job still kind of sucked.
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You know what's really great after being forced to get up a 3AM for a false alarm? Having to work til 3 PM non-stop, then getting home and finding your house at 90* Yeah, turns out the disconnect box failed, started throwing off sparks and shorted the transformer. Replaced the transformer and box and called the landlord. Gonna have an electrician out here soon to hopefully replace the breaker, because holy poo poo why didn't it trip.  Oh, and then finding the R22 system running at 350 Head pressure. Good think I was planning on building a misting system since half the coil is rotted away anyways. And yes, I'm trying to get the landlord to replace the system, because that compressor is toast. Just a matter of time now.
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Darchangel posted:...that are made in China. Speed Queen supremacy, made in Wisconsin 
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IOwnCalculus posted:I was ogling the Saturn V on display at the Lego store in Chandler yesterday. Isn't that kit pretty much sold out already? Yes, but lego said they are going to keep making it until at least 2018 so it should be possible to buy them at the regular retail price eventually.
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Geoj posted:Not sure if its still the case but when I bought a top loading HE in late 2013 the front loaders had a $150+ premium when compared against a top loader with similar features. HE toploaders without a real agitator are trash. They do a dogshit job of cleaning, but my biggest gripe is that the tub seals seem to fail more often than traditional top loaders, which causes leaks and wipes out the tub bearing pretty much immediately. Those are a giant ball ache to replace. Replacing a front seal on a front load machine is a cinch, at least on Speed Queens. I can do one in about 15 minutes. I've only seen the tub bearing fail on a Speed Queen front load machine twice. One of them wasn't even a bearing failure really. The aluminum spider assembly on the back of the drum that is attached to the main shaft was eaten away completely and the basket was just sitting in the tub totally disconnected. They apparently used an acidic cleaner for washing mop heads and it ate clean through the aluminum spider assembly, but not the stainless basket or tub.
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