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InitialDave posted:From the looks of it, my first stop would be I'm poo poo at sewing and the foam underneath the armrest is close to being shot.
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of leather look vinyl and have a crack at making your own gaiters and recovering the armrest.
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Adiabatic posted:YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES Grats dude! Stamp some poo poo! The thought of studying for that, let alone actually taking the test, is overwhelming. I did the FE back before graduating but no way could I do the PE now without ~6 months of refreshing.  Good on you.
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May 25, 2018 02:55
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Kid at Oldsmobile back in the 90s where I worked got 8 fingers cut off and miraculously reattached and got 100k settlement and thought he was set for life. Tried to catch a 455 falling
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everdave posted:Kid at Oldsmobile back in the 90s where I worked got 8 fingers cut off and miraculously reattached and got 100k settlement and thought he was set for life. Tried to catch a 455 falling That's like 30x less than you need to be set for life, but holy poo poo I can't imagine losing all my fingers in one accident. That must have been beyond traumatizing
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May 25, 2018 04:03
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I saw it happen 3 wheel stand pitted concrete valve covers off surprisingly very little blood he came back to work after all fingers but thumbs clean cut off what is that a 800 pound engine anyways he was happy back then
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May 25, 2018 04:44
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Switching gears away from fingats, for fog lights, selective yellow or white? I'm on the fence and can't device, leaning a little yellow. I've read the Daniel Stern article on them, and it seems like maybe there's no objective difference in terms of performance in fog, snow, rain, etc and it's a mostly subjective with but maybe it just being easier on the eyes? Going to be using LED bulbs, the new generation style that uses 3 chips on either side of a pcb to approximate an incandescent filament so I won't be an rear end in a top hat dazzling everyone. 
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I have no idea man only thing I know from AI is if it seems brighter and better to me I can burn in hell and I am wrong no (I have never installed hid or led just saying common responses)
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May 25, 2018 05:11
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No, it's just all about beam pattern.
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May 25, 2018 05:13
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Adiabatic posted:YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES
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May 25, 2018 05:16
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Yeah, HID in halogen reflectors or halogen projectors are terrible since the brightest part of the HID bulb will be at the tips of the arc while for a filament it'll be in the middle. Most housings use the dim part of the filament to give fill lighting to light up road signs, with HID's in those housings suddenly that fill light is super bright dazzling oncoming traffic. Same goes for the light directly in front of your car that now is overly bright reducing your vision in the far field. And the dimmest part of the arc is now lighting the area that is expecting the brightest part of a filament, so your beam pattern is garbage. With the old style LED's you get a fuzzy beam pattern as the origin of the light is multi point as the bulbs had dozens of chips. The new style looks to actually produce a decent focused beam pattern from what I can tell. Less risky with a fog light anyway as they shouldn't have a reflector designed to scatter light upwards for road signs as that'll be handled by the main low beams
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May 25, 2018 05:23
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Go for yellows. It makes little to no difference but you won't be the nob dazzling other road users.
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Damnit USPS. ""Delivery attempt: Notice Left (no secure location available)" my loving rear end. Camera didn't see anybody come up to my door, there's parcel lockers next to the mailbox (currently all 4 are empty), and they've never had a problem leaving packages at the door if they didn't fit in the lockers (and there was no notice). I was kinda counting on having that Rockauto shipment tonight. Now I gotta go pick it up from the post office in the morning (assuming they actually pay attention to the online redelivery/hold at PO request), since I'll be at work all day tomorrow. Thanks assholes.
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Magnus Praeda posted:MGS: I hope your lawyer reams idiotlady good and proper. Sucks that you're having to deal with that. Read the specs on the MTB carefully, a few of them are really old, which mostly matters in the forks, though there are also some triple MTBs, which is kinda funny. STR posted:Damnit USPS. ""Delivery attempt: Notice Left (no secure location available)" my loving rear end. Camera didn't see anybody come up to my door, there's parcel lockers next to the mailbox (currently all 4 are empty), and they've never had a problem leaving packages at the door if they didn't fit in the lockers (and there was no notice). Thankfully they stole that box instead of the $140 worth of poo poo in the two other packages next to it. How loving weird. nm fucked around with this message at 08:12 on May 25, 2018 |
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I'm not in the best neighborhood, but there's four USPS parcel lockers right next to the mailbox. All 4 were empty when I left for work today (keys in them), all 4 were still empty when I got home. That's why I'm so annoyed (also the carrier never tried coming to the door). It was a serpentine belt and two sets of headlights, shouldn't exactly be a large package. First time I've ever had USPS not leave something, so I don't know what the hell. Need the belt ASAP as it's never been changed and shows some pretty bad rot, and I've been driving 100+ miles a day on it, on average (highest so far was 400 in a day - put almost 5k on the car in the ~6 weeks I've had it). Headlights were more because wholesaler closeout and wanted something brighter (also, original bulbs from 2005... they're not exactly new, I think even the shittiest bulbs would be an improvement). Figured I'd try two varieties of brighter Wagner bulbs, since they were less than $3/ea. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 08:42 on May 25, 2018 |
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May 25, 2018 08:35
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STR posted:I'm not in the best neighborhood, but there's four USPS parcel lockers right next to the mailbox. All 4 were empty when I left for work today (keys in them), all 4 were still empty when I got home. That's why I'm so annoyed (also the carrier never tried coming to the door). It was a serpentine belt and two sets of headlights, shouldn't exactly be a large package. First time I've ever had USPS not leave something, so I don't know what the hell. I lost a $XXXX prototype PCB due to the mailman leaving a parcel at the front door of the facility I work at. It was tagged to be signed on delivery and through the dispatch dock for security. Even if it was classified as 'safe drop' the photo of proof that it was 'safe dropped' from Australia Post doesn't actually show the parcel in frame. Of course Australia Post just shrugged it off.
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Adiabatic posted:YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES Nice, congrats! I thought about getting my PE but there's no way for me to get signoffs so, welp.
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Bajaha posted:Switching gears away from fingats, for fog lights, selective yellow or white? I'm on the fence and can't device, leaning a little yellow. I've read the Daniel Stern article on them, and it seems like maybe there's no objective difference in terms of performance in fog, snow, rain, etc and it's a mostly subjective with but maybe it just being easier on the eyes? If it wasn't a felony, I would shoot people running lovely LED's lights out for the safety of everyone around them. Humphreys posted:I lost a $XXXX prototype PCB due to the mailman leaving a parcel at the front door of the facility I work at. It was tagged to be signed on delivery and through the dispatch dock for security. Even if it was classified as 'safe drop' the photo of proof that it was 'safe dropped' from Australia Post doesn't actually show the parcel in frame. Of course Australia Post just shrugged it off. USPS has done that to us several times. It's annoying.
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meatpimp's linguistic bitch of the day -- "bespoke" is the most ridiculously overused word in common auto culture right now.
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Seminal Flu posted:meatpimp's linguistic bitch of the day -- "bespoke" is the most ridiculously overused word in common auto culture right now. Used seriously or mockingly? I use it mockingly all the time.
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Seminal Flu posted:meatpimp's linguistic bitch of the day -- "bespoke" is the most ridiculously overused word in common auto culture right now. I remember hearing it when I was younger, almost always referring to the interior on exotics and rollers and poo poo. Now every dumbass who puts some pleated leatherette seats in has a bespoke interior.
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Since we were talking about animus earlier: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/beanbandit/kenichi-sonodas-bean-bandit-new-anime-project?ref=user_menu
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Bajaha posted:Switching gears away from fingats, for fog lights, selective yellow or white? I'm on the fence and can't device, leaning a little yellow. I've read the Daniel Stern article on them, and it seems like maybe there's no objective difference in terms of performance in fog, snow, rain, etc and it's a mostly subjective with but maybe it just being easier on the eyes? I'd love to upgrade my '06 Impreza to some decent LEDs. The new Forester has LEDs, and when I use the Impreza at night I have to keep checking to make sure I'm not just driving around with the DRLs on, the old headlights are so dim in comparison.
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KakerMix posted:Used seriously or mockingly? I use it mockingly all the time. Seriously. Just heard it on Motorweek used unironically.  iwentdoodie posted:I remember hearing it when I was younger, almost always referring to the interior on exotics and rollers and poo poo. Exactly. "Custom" is correct and never goes out of style.
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Bespoke is for your suit, not your car. I may accept it with singers though.
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Yep. There's a Savile Row Bespoke Association who probably have best claim to being able to lay down the law on use of the term.
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iwentdoodie posted:Oh god I just found my 2nd grade year book. I didn't even know I had it. You were 12 in second grade? STR posted:Damnit USPS. ""Delivery attempt: Notice Left (no secure location available)" my loving rear end. Camera didn't see anybody come up to my door, there's parcel lockers next to the mailbox (currently all 4 are empty), and they've never had a problem leaving packages at the door if they didn't fit in the lockers (and there was no notice). It seems like most postal carriers now are contractors or something, and are useless, lazy knobs. They probably didn't even attempt to deliver it, just marked it down like they did. loving Post Office. Nidhg00670000 posted:Since we were talking about animus earlier: Sweeeeeet. Riding Bean is one of my favorites, and I just started watching Gunsmith Cats.
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Darchangel posted:Sweeeeeet. Riding Bean is one of my favorites, and I just started watching Gunsmith Cats.
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Darchangel posted:You were 12 in second grade? Two seperate things. That's why I said "also found"  And to me nothing will beat when my wife and I were standing in the garage, UPS guy gets out, walks to the door with a missed delivery sticker, sticks it on, then just walks away as we're both yelling for him that we were right there. The package was like 30lbs and he never even got it out of the truck.
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Darchangel posted:Sweeeeeet. Riding Bean is one of my favorites, and I just started watching Gunsmith Cats. That's pretty cool. Sonada is obsessive about guns and cars, so the details in GSC were always top notch. The comics were really loving creepy in a few points, though. Not a big fan of blonde Rally, but at least it looks like he's keeping the bit where she's not-so-secretly gay and definitely not into Bean romantically. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 17:59 on May 25, 2018 |
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nm posted:Bespoke is for your suit, not your car. Only acceptable when James May is talking about a rolls or something. Has to be James May, has to be something over au$200k
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Fo3 posted:Only acceptable when James May is talking about a rolls or something. Has to be James May, has to be something over au$200k I'd argue that Binky is a bespoke automobile
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Liquid Communism posted:That's pretty cool. Sonada is obsessive about guns and cars, so the details in GSC were always top notch. The comics were really loving creepy in a few points, though. Not a big fan of blonde Rally, but at least it looks like he's keeping the bit where she's not-so-secretly gay and definitely not into Bean romantically. All the tiers of the kickstarter are either guns/calibers or cars/engines. The Door Frame posted:I'd argue that Binky is a bespoke automobile So far pretty much everything but some of the shell and the actual engine.
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Darchangel posted:So far pretty much everything but some of the shell and the actual engine. Wrt a Mini build I'd argue having a Celica engine inherently counts regardless of how modified or not it is. But yeah I think literally the roof skin is all that remains of the original sheet metal.
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One could argue that since they're building it themselves rather than having someone else build all the bits or doing it for someone else it isn't actually bespoke.
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It'd need to be truly clean sheet stuff to say it's bespoke, really, but even then, using the term for something other than clothing or related stuff is a bit desperate. "Bespoke leather interior" on a Rolls Royce is potentially a reasonable phrasing, if it is.
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nm posted:Read the specs on the MTB carefully, a few of them are really old, which mostly matters in the forks, though there are also some triple MTBs, which is kinda funny. I hope they don't sell quill stems and as long as it's threadless, I could just replace the forks (since it looks like they mostly have cheap Suntours on bikes with front suspension), right? When you say "Triple MTB," is that as in triple crankset? My bike knowledge is spotty since I've only recently started viewing them as anything more than "a way to get around that's not my car" so I'm not sure why that would be a bad thing on a mountain bike. I'm at the "knows enough to be dangerous" stage. Basically, I realized that I'm a lardass and thanks to some weirdness with my foot and knee, running ain't happening. So bikes it is. And then I realized I live in an amazing area for mountain bike trails and I should use them.
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Magnus Praeda posted:I hope they don't sell quill stems and as long as it's threadless, I could just replace the forks (since it looks like they mostly have cheap Suntours on bikes with front suspension), right? Magnus Praeda posted:When you say "Triple MTB," is that as in triple crankset?
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