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Sigourney Cheevos posted:My grandpa had a Mark IV I was looking into possibly doing this with. You can get a set of mounts made to bolt in a PowerStroke pretty much off the shelf. I figured in the end it was still too much of a boat to be worth it. It got 7mpg highway, 4mpg city. The 460 that came in those things wasn't really meant to be a power house, even though it was big as gently caress, even for the time. Not sure about the 400 that was also available in them bitches. That was a longer stroked 351 Cleveland IIRC.
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mobby_6kl posted:Oh, I've got this in my phone You have brandy and raisins in your phone?
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Powershift posted:nope. god drat she's gorgeous
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https://www.instagram.com/p/BqxxQAHlj0P/ https://scontent-iad3-1.cdninstagra...619836928_n.mp4 Platystemon fucked around with this message at 05:37 on Dec 2, 2018 |
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goatsestretchgoals posted:Door latches and seatbelts: one of the two. My 90' s passat has a design flaw with the door latch where if it gets wet and the temp drops below freezing, the catch freezes in the open position and the door won't latch shut. I've had two of these cars in the past 10 years, and they've had the exact same issue. The only thing you can do is drive around until the interior heats up enough to melt the ice on the latch, fine if you're taking left turns, but right turns fling the door open. Hand on the door, hand on the wheel, hand on the shift knob... So, I run the shoulder belt (separate motorized shoulder belts, thanks 90s) through the door handle, and cinch it tight into a knot so the door stays shut while I drive. I could just let it warm up idling.. But it would take a week. NoWake fucked around with this message at 06:25 on Dec 2, 2018 |
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NoWake posted:My 90' s passat has a design flaw with the door latch where if it gets wet and the temp drops below freezing, the catch freezes in the open position and the door won't latch shut. I've had two of these cars in the past 10 years, and they've had the exact same issue. The only thing you can do is drive around until the interior heats up enough to melt the ice on the latch, fine if you're taking left turns, but right turns fling the door open. Hand on the door, hand on the wheel, hand on the shift knob... Spray some lock de-icer in the latch?
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Would an ice pick do the job?
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wesleywillis posted:Spray some lock de-icer in the latch? Over the years I've used wd-40, silicone spray, grease, oil, nothing works to keep the latch from freezing open. Really only happens after a good freezing rain, maybe 4 times a winter. I'm leaning toward it not being in the actual latch on the door frame, but some linkage hanging up inside the door panel shared between the interior and exterior door handles. (handle I use with the belt is the solid pull-it-shut handle, not the smaller pop-it-open handle) It's got 252,000 miles now and honestly could have been junked 3 years ago, but I keep resurrecting it for some dumbass reason.
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wesleywillis posted:The 460 that came in those things wasn't really meant to be a power house, even though it was big as gently caress, even for the time. The 400 was the economy engine, the 460 was the performance engine. Presented without comment.
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Platystemon posted:You have brandy and raisins in your phone? Sigourney Cheevos posted:My grandpa had a Mark IV I was looking into possibly doing this with. You can get a set of mounts made to bolt in a PowerStroke pretty much off the shelf. I figured in the end it was still too much of a boat to be worth it. It got 7mpg highway, 4mpg city.
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I have questions  Like do steps have to be some specific height? And what would happen if you put an american on the first and last step?
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Karate Bastard posted:I have questions The first step is harder because you need to schlep yourself out of your rascal scooter, and the last one is where you get a coronary and die from overexerting yourself.
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Karate Bastard posted:I have questions I don't know if there are rules for that. What I do know is that the most comfortable height for stairs is well-known and nearly always applied in new buildings. Older European houses and especially historical castles and churches did whatever considering stair height/stair width so climbing stairs in those is annoying as gently caress.
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NoWake posted:My 90' s passat has a design flaw with the door latch where if it gets wet and the temp drops below freezing, the catch freezes in the open position and the door won't latch shut. I've had two of these cars in the past 10 years, and they've had the exact same issue. The only thing you can do is drive around until the interior heats up enough to melt the ice on the latch, fine if you're taking left turns, but right turns fling the door open. Hand on the door, hand on the wheel, hand on the shift knob... This happened with my dad's VW Vento (the 90s Jetta for Americans) more than once one winter. The seatbelt was too short to actually latch on when routed through the handle, but I did discover that if you manage to get the door to lock, the lock will actually hold it in place for the most part. It thawed out pretty fast once you started driving it around, so it wasn't a huge issue but it was definitely a bit of a surprise closing the passenger door and having it just uselessly bounce back the first time it happened to me. e: The lock solution was a bit perilous though because the door was functionally open and just held in place by the locking mechanism somehow. I was a bit concerned the lock was going to fail and the door slam open taking a corner, but luckily it stayed put.
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Carbon dioxide posted:I don't know if there are rules for that. What I do know is that the most comfortable height for stairs is well-known and nearly always applied in new buildings. There is a DIN(DIN 18065) in Germany specifying tolerances that a mandatory stairwell cannot over/undershoot. There's also decorative stairs, those are more relaxed https://www.bauen.de/a/din-18065-vorschriften-zum-treppenbau.html Hope this clears all questions Jack-Off Lantern fucked around with this message at 11:21 on Dec 2, 2018 |
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Karate Bastard posted:I have questions Hopefully it would never get to that point. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaPzN2gD3PQ&t=5s
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Challenge accepted.
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Splicer posted:Challenge accepted. Shamelessly stolen and reposted elsewhere.
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I used to daily this beast for about ten years. 6 MPG.
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JamesieAB posted:Hopefully it would never get to that point. Those sure are some Irish people attempting American accents lol
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Carbon dioxide posted:Older European houses and especially historical castles and churches did whatever considering stair height/stair width so climbing stairs in those is annoying as gently caress. Went to Amsterdam for the first time recently and the aspect ratios of some of the stairs were truly  I know the history behind "build em tall and narrow" but some of the residents must've been real masochists.
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Platystemon posted:You have brandy and raisins in your phone? More likely flowers.
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Jack-Off Lantern posted:There is a DIN(DIN 18065) Well I was also thinking since the first step is the last step, and itself seems to weigh in at an american or two even unloaded, and seems affixed in either end to some 2x2 matchsticks using pop rivets or whatever, I figured maybe it'd explode or do something completely groverific if you sneezed at it wrong.
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 This is the jobsite that I was invited to work at for some extra cash. Replacing some rotted-out shredded wheat siding with T1-11 plywood. The old siding was super fun to remove because it was put up using like 4x the amount of nails needed. Nobody wanted to disassemble the janky-rear end staircase, so it was decided that pulling it away from the barn and holding it there would be the best plan of action...however, the hydraulics on the tractor don't hold the bucket in place and it starts to sag after 30 minutes, so it either has to be constantly adjusted or a standoff would have to be constructed to keep the whole thing from wobbling horribly. A standoff that doesn't butt up against the barn framing, but instead crosses the gap and is driven into rotten plywood flooring inside the barn using two 3-inch deck screws. The standoff is one jerky movement from breaking. For "extra safety", a post is used to turn the platform into a tripod. It's attached using two 3-inch deck screws. It barely stabilizes the platform. Also, the wood is slick with algae and rain. Also pictured is the step ladder used to hang the siding at the very peak. It has one functioning spreader. All of this plus the owner of the barn is a massive rear end in a top hat who watches you like a hawk and critiques your every move, all day long. It's fabulous. I had to quit after the ultra-sketchy staircase plan was implemented. Sarah Cenia fucked around with this message at 21:39 on Dec 2, 2018 |
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Sagebrush posted:Those sure are some Irish people attempting American accents lol How dare you. The fat dude is Welsh.
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Karate Bastard posted:I have questions In the US, most of the building code for stairs revolves around maximums and minimums. The maximum riser height is 7.75 inches. The minimum width is 3 feet. Stair treads should have a minimum of 10 inches of depth. And there should be a minimum of 6'8" of head room.
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Karate Bastard posted:I have questions See, my big problem with this - that no one else has mentioned - is that I don't see a railing. Plus, the stairs have that nice smooth downward curve on the outside edge. Maybe I just can't see right and there's a railing there, but if not, I KNOW I would slip off one of the top flight of stairs eventually, and I'm sure there's people even more clumsy than me out there.
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You could grab the matchsticks that make up the walls. That window doesn't look reinforced. Slip on the polished wood when you're running up stairs and out you go.
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How about the landing. If you've got short legs and are wearing socks....
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You're all missing the most glaring issue: How do you insulate these stairs?
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Thomamelas posted:In the US, most of the building code for stairs revolves around maximums and minimums. The maximum riser height is 7.75 inches. The minimum width is 3 feet. Stair treads should have a minimum of 10 inches of depth. And there should be a minimum of 6'8" of head room. This is like a list of things my stairs at home don't provide or meet. Nice. (It's in a house that was built in 1903)
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IPCRESS posted:You're all missing the most glaring issue: 
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Applesnots posted:I used to daily this beast for about ten years. 6 MPG. Neil?
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Thomamelas posted:In the US, most of the building code for stairs revolves around maximums and minimums. The maximum riser height is 7.75 inches. The minimum width is 3 feet. Stair treads should have a minimum of 10 inches of depth. And there should be a minimum of 6'8" of head room. Also every step needs to be the exact same size and there's constraints on the positioning of the railing.
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I took an aftermarket 3-port 220V USB charger to the Zurich Novotel in 2013. On the third day, all the power went out in the room while my son was charging his phone. Moments later, the front desk made a WTF call to the room. While I was professing ignorance in my lovely 8th-grade German, the charger ignited; we grabbed a wet washcloth & threw it in the sink & doused it before any real smoke could form. Hotel management seemed nonplussed.
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I've never seen that emoticon before. Genius!
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Log082 posted:See, my big problem with this - that no one else has mentioned - is that I don't see a railing. Plus, the stairs have that nice smooth downward curve on the outside edge. Maybe I just can't see right and there's a railing there, but if not, I KNOW I would slip off one of the top flight of stairs eventually, and I'm sure there's people even more clumsy than me out there. And not to mention the stairs appear to stop a decent distance before the window, so when you go down in your socks for some evening snack and inevitably slip in the turn on that polished wood you won't even have a wall on any side to grab on to. Xaintrailles posted:That window doesn't look reinforced. Slip on the polished wood when you're running up stairs and out you go. Unless you go at it full clip I think the distance between the stairs and the window is actually big enough for you to fall down onto those stones instead.
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Powershift posted:I should note i drive a 73' on winter tires through the canadian winter with 100lbs worth of weights in the trunk. https://i.imgur.com/bbdLSqN.mp4 Mr. Apollo fucked around with this message at 00:53 on Dec 3, 2018 |
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