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InitialDave posted:Mmm, a lot of stuff is post-WW2, thanks partly to There is a lot of post WW2 stuff but also not everyone is living in a thatched cottage. As for wood frames it is becoming more popular with new builds where they throw the frame up and just have a brick facade. A few new build places I rented in the past were like it and crap in comparison to something brick all the way through.
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Alarbus posted:My parents bought a house in Folly last fall. I believe there are no HOAs in Folly, but the town itself has a few things, largely focused on property expansion/additions. Nice! The condos that are one bridge out, and then when you get out by the Harris Teeter have exorbitant HOA's. I think you're right though, if you have a stand-alone on the island, there aren't HOA's. We're actually looking at a development called Meridian that's up closer to the James County Park, still only like 10 min to Folly, 15 to Charleston.
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Garage2Roadtrip posted:Nice! The condos that are one bridge out, and then when you get out by the Harris Teeter have exorbitant HOA's. I think you're right though, if you have a stand-alone on the island, there aren't HOA's. We're actually looking at a development called Meridian that's up closer to the James County Park, still only like 10 min to Folly, 15 to Charleston. Ohhhhh. Yeah, I about choked when I saw the fees for the condos. I know where you're talking about. Wouldn't take long for those fees to add up to house payments on a stand alone on Folly itself.  I'm really glad my cruise control works at 30 mph, the Folly police are often bored and camp the speed change at the bridge.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:You sure it's not a ground loop? Disagree, save it if you can. meatpimp, you're on the right track with the capacitors idea, but yeah that does look like a mess. It's probably a power supply capacitor, which looks like those big blue ones. It shouldn't be too hard to replace them, or even pull them one at a time to test them, but I understand not wanting to dive into that spaghetti mess. It's entirely possible that it could be the caps on the board, in fact the end of the one at the bottom of the board looks like it might be blowing out? Hard to tell from that picture. It can't hurt to replace them, but I wouldn't count on it solving the problem. Then again, I'm not some wise old radio sage, so take my advice with a huge grain of salt.
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I have no idea why anyone would open up an old electronic device and expect to find the issue without offering a sacrifice to the gods first
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FAT32 SHAMER posted:I have no idea why anyone would open up an old electronic device and expect to find the issue without offering a sacrifice to the gods first All pre integrated circuit electronics are super easy to diagnose. You really just need your eyes, nose and a multimeter. Maybe an oscilloscope in the very rare case. Once chips started showing up, then things get much more difficult.
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Hmm, that reminds me, I have an old Sony high end CD player from the early 90's that ran when parked but isn't working anymore. Is it worth it to get it fixed? I'm sure just getting it diagnosed locally is gonna cost at least $60 or more....Any good places online i could ship it off too? Anyone here wanna take a shot at it? [edit] and by shot I don't mean literally shoot it ok Applebees Appetizer fucked around with this message at 01:14 on Jul 7, 2017 |
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The Locator posted:poo poo like this is why, if you have to live in an HOA community (and sometimes it can be very difficult to avoid in some areas), then you should take the few hours per month needed to be actively involved in the HOA or even get on the board, so that the HOA doesn't turn into a group of old grouchy retired people who love to have power over everyone's lives. Or too busy. Once those 7 retired guys get on the board, they tend to do stuff like move the meetings to 2pm Thursdays and start trying to change the rules for electing the board.
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I really want to have a HOLY DIVER themed wedding.
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Liquid Communism posted:Or too busy. Once those 7 retired guys get on the board, they tend to do stuff like move the meetings to 2pm Thursdays and start trying to change the rules for electing the board. My HOA has 408 homes. We have reduced the board to 3 because we can't get anyone willing to serve even after explaining that it is one meeting every other month (2 hours max) and the rest via email. We get anywhere from 0 to 10 homeowners showing up for a meeting. We hold the meetings on a Wednesday night at 7pm to make sure anyone that wants to attend has plenty of time to get there. Because of the complete apathy of the homeowners, we can't actually change any rules in order to get rid of the rules that people commonly show up to complain about, because it takes a LOT of homeowners to change the rules (this is set by state law). We can change simple stuff like architectural guidelines, and we can tell the management company not to enforce 'rule x', but we can't actually change anything, so we spend a lot of time listening to a few old people bitch about their neighbor parking their work truck (pickup with a company logo on it) in the driveway, because it's against the rules. We can't actually change the rules to allow the 100+ 'work vehicles' that park in the community to be allowed to do so, because none of those people will show up. We also get like 3 or 4 people who want us to enforce the no overnight parking on the street (the streets are owned by the city, so iffy on enforcing that anyway), and don't care that everyone in the community would have to pay an extra 10 bucks per month to pay for that enforcement. So if it wasn't for me and the other two guys who all hate being on the board, but do it to keep the board from becoming those guys, I'm sure my HOA would be hellish to deal with. I spent 4+ years fighting to get the rear end in a top hat retired guys off the board, and now I'm stuck because since nobody is getting harassed by the HOA, nobody can be bothered to care enough to show up. If I left, they would have to fill the vacancy with the grouches who show up to the meeting, and the slide into terrible HOA would begin again, so I know firsthand how HOAs get like that, and it is completely the fault of the members of the HOA who can't be assed to give up an hour or two every other month to at least show up to the meetings. The grouches won't volunteer to be on the board now, because they know they would lose all the votes 3:2 (with a 5 person board), but as soon as the current board became 2, they would be jumping in to 'help' by volunteering. I hope that I'm the first one to move out of the community so I don't have to deal with it.
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Car game? https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3825994
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Or... We could just ban HOAs.
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No, leave it, it's beautiful just the way it is! edit: damnit
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:Or... We could just ban HOAs. I'd be perfectly ok with that. Not sure what happens to all the green areas, playgrounds, tot-lots, etc. that the HOA's are currently maintaining though, because I'm sure the towns down have the budget to take care of all of it.
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The Royal Nonesuch posted:No, leave it, it's beautiful just the way it is! Forgive me father for I have sinned. 
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The Locator posted:My HOA has 408 homes. We have reduced the board to 3 because we can't get anyone willing to serve even after explaining that it is one meeting every other month (2 hours max) and the rest via email. We get anywhere from 0 to 10 homeowners showing up for a meeting. We hold the meetings on a Wednesday night at 7pm to make sure anyone that wants to attend has plenty of time to get there. my HOA owns. $25 per YEAR. pays for cutting the grass and plowing the snow in the common areas which is like two nice parks and a lake. rule enforcement is pretty lax because it's all young couples and a few old scared grouches that post in the neighbourhood app
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You're a dick. Best mod 2017.
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Cop Porn Popper posted:Forgive me father for I have sinned. Fine, I'll play too. I just enjoy the simple pleasures sometimes.
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Applebees Appetizer posted:Hmm, that reminds me, I have an old Sony high end CD player from the early 90's that ran when parked but isn't working anymore. Is it worth it to get it fixed? I'm sure just getting it diagnosed locally is gonna cost at least $60 or more....Any good places online i could ship it off too? Anyone here wanna take a shot at it? Check eBay for values I don't know if it is worth $1 or $1m but I had a Sony minidisc deck I bought for like $50 on clearance and in 2005-7 I sold for $650 on eBay long after minidisc was dead
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I wonder when Michelin will release some more size 18 PS4S. Seems weird to me that they released dozens of 19" and 20" sizes and only the 1 18" size. Muh staggered wheels E: found this. quote:The company is launching 35 size variants in the 19-inch rim size in March 2017, and 20 size variants in the 18-inch rim size in March 2018 fozzy fosbourne fucked around with this message at 06:07 on Jul 7, 2017 |
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Kazinsal posted:I don't think I've ever seen an HOA in Canada. We have bylaw enforcement here which can be just as bad, and city wide, so inescapable outside of leaving the city.
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Friend got a liver transplant today. it went well, he's awake and coherent. Yay! Another friend's mother died from liver failure 2 months ago at the same hospital, and was on the same transplant list.  (both were due to hep c from blood transfusions)
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Dannywilson posted:I love plum crazy, but what about a Sassy Grass Green Challenger? Um.... isn't that a Cuda?
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Rhyno posted:I really want to have a HOLY DIVER themed wedding. 
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Adiabatic posted:Car game RIGHTEOUS
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If you have a "project" car that you really have because it kind of fell into your lap, but you're honestly not that bothered about, it's probably better to sell it on rather than wrangle with your ambivalence and keep buying bits for it to try and kindle some interest, isn't it? Tbh I'd almost certainly end up well in profit by selling the car and accumulated bits.
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Yes. What's the car?
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Lifes to short to be bored. Do whatever makes you happy. 
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It's a Ford Sportka with an apparently blown headgasket. I was going to try and build a comedy monster hot hatch on the cheap, aquiring bits like a Focus 2.0 front cut, forged pistons, big turbo etc, but I've come to the conclusion that I can't really be arsed. Partly because I've ended up with other stuff that's more interesting to me, partly because I can't find a cheap way to sort out the engine management and fuelling.
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How much work to just drop the 2.0 in and sell? Also does it have the compulsory fuel filler rust? E: just to be clear I don't want it
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Actually, surprising lack of rust. It's a pretty good one. Physically getting the 2.0 in there would likely be easy enough, though I'd either need a different flywheel for the Ka gearbox, or custom driveshafts to use the MTX75 (which was the original plan). But making it run could be entertaining, as it turns out the later Ka uses a Siemens ECU, not a generic Ford 104 pin EEC-V jobbie. It seems less plug and play than older ones. Not insurmountable, but again, I basically can't be bothered when I'd rather be messing about with other stuff. Also, I'd probably get more money selling the Ka with the sickly engine and the Focus front cut (or parts thereof) separately. The prospective project was largely a product of getting the Ka and bits really cheap.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:You sure it's not a ground loop? Nope, I'm not sure of that at all. Whatever it is, it's strong. The hum is much louder than the input. So there's probably a single point of failure that I may or may not fix with a shotgun recapping. Raluek posted:Disagree, save it if you can. meatpimp, you're on the right track with the capacitors idea, but yeah that does look like a mess. It's probably a power supply capacitor, which looks like those big blue ones. It shouldn't be too hard to replace them, or even pull them one at a time to test them, but I understand not wanting to dive into that spaghetti mess. FAT32 SHAMER posted:I have no idea why anyone would open up an old electronic device and expect to find the issue without offering a sacrifice to the gods first Solder for the solder god. McTinkerson posted:All pre integrated circuit electronics are super easy to diagnose. You really just need your eyes, nose and a multimeter. Maybe an oscilloscope in the very rare case. Once chips started showing up, then things get much more difficult. So how do I get on the track of learning to diagnose that stuff? Go to the other sub that GnarlyCharlie4u linked and ask? Is there a good learning web site? Edit: Nevermind. I don't have time to track down a bunch of random failures on decades-old equipment. Where's this coming from? Well, I had my Mirage subwoofer, circa 1993 start making some nasty poo poo noises. I threw a couple main caps at that to see what it would do... nothing. I am not going to take time to replace the IC or power amp, so I'm just replacing the whole damned thing with a Klipsch wireless one, since I wanted to get a wireless kit for the sub, anyway. GnarlyCharlie4u posted:IMO, you should just pitch the guts and replace it with a Sonos or something. If you're really sentimentally attached to it then... RIP your freetime and enjoy your new retirement project. What Sonos would you suggest? I don't want to spend a ton of money on it, but there's gobs of space in the console. I could get any plate amp and put it in there, along with some type of bluetooth controller and probably be good. meatpimp fucked around with this message at 13:35 on Jul 7, 2017 |
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Got our wedding venue sorted and regestary office sorted so we can put money down for it now Whilst we aren't going for a tiny wedding we aren't having a massive one and we certainately aren't spending the UK average on a wedding which is apparently just over £23,000.
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InitialDave posted:Not insurmountable, but again, I basically can't be bothered when I'd rather be messing about with other stuff. Fixing a project car you don't care about is like dating a stripper with no boobs: without the excitement, it's not worth the hassle. InitialDave posted:Also, I'd probably get more money selling the Ka with the sickly engine and the Focus front cut (or parts thereof) separately. The prospective project was largely a product of getting the Ka and bits really cheap. 
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spog posted:Fixing a project car you don't care about is like dating a stripper with no boobs: without the excitement, it's not worth the hassle. CommieGIR posted:
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Top up the fluids and throw some saw dust in it like my old scum uncle used to. Note I have no idea if this works.
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