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Moo the cow posted:Is his nickname 'One-eyed Jack'? Or 'Jack the one-eyed monster'?
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don't post ur selfies please
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Jul 21, 2020 21:07
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Sagebrush posted:don't post ur selfies please
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Jul 21, 2020 21:34
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I've never seen a dumptruck cough up a hairball before
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Jul 21, 2020 21:38
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It is literally a pile of hot garbage.
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Jul 21, 2020 22:35
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Necrosaro posted:I knew someone in high school who thought it was ok too. He has one less eye now because the jack failed. Mom always said jacking it would make me go blind...
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Jul 21, 2020 22:48
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All the jack talk has me wondering how people feel about things like Rhino Ramps?
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Jul 21, 2020 23:21
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bobfather posted:All the jack talk has me wondering how people feel about things like Rhino Ramps? Aside from changing oil, I don't see any use for ramps. And the Amazon page for them has prominent pictures of failures where they broke. I'll stick with my heavy duty jack stands.
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Jul 21, 2020 23:29
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Cojawfee posted:Aside from changing oil, I don't see any use for ramps. And the Amazon page for them has prominent pictures of failures where they broke. I'll stick with my heavy duty jack stands. I have a pair just for changing oil. They’re convenient for me being an apartment dweller. Also, I fit under my car without them, just not enough to change the oil.
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Jul 21, 2020 23:33
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Moo the cow posted:For a long time, I used to imagine that a car falling on you would be like this: This is how falling in a crevasse kills you. Your body heat melts the ice, meaning you fall further down the gap, slowly increasing pressure on your chest until you can't breathe.
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Jul 21, 2020 23:40
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Ramps do have the advantage that you can use them without having to search the users manual to find where the jacking points are and you don't have to worry about having the right kind of stand/jack and whether it needs a hockey puck on the top, or risk damaging your still. I'm supposed to have a specific bit of square plastic between my jack and the jacking point to make sure there is no damage, but the official one costs more than my stands did.
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Jul 21, 2020 23:42
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Moo the cow posted:Ramps do have the advantage that you can use them without having to search the users manual to find where the jacking points are and you don't have to worry about having the right kind of stand/jack and whether it needs a hockey puck on the top, or risk damaging your still. What brand of car do you have? I have a BMW and got some pucks that fit into the jack points pretty cheap.
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Jul 21, 2020 23:47
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Nice try car fascists but you can't tell me where I can or can't jack it.
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Jul 21, 2020 23:48
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Cojawfee posted:What brand of car do you have? I have a BMW and got some pucks that fit into the jack points pretty cheap. In this case, there were supposed to be solid plastic pads by the sills to put the jack on, but they were notorious for falling off, leaving an open-ended box section which didn't fit nicely on a standard jack. I've also encountered points on a pinch weld, so you need a hockey puck with a groove in it as an adaptor and another vehicle where the official stand points were the midpoint and too low for the stands until it was jacked up, which meant having to get a bit too much of me under a vehicle whilst only supported by the jack. Not terrible problems, I admit, but ramps would have been easier.
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Jul 22, 2020 00:06
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I have a set of the old Blitz Rhino Ramps that I've been using for the better part of a decade without issue. I guess the new company's aren't as good.
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Jul 22, 2020 00:50
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BMan posted:Also, don't use a jack stand from harbor freight can someone explain to me what the deal is with harbor freight? or, maybe put another way, why are they so apparently uniquely terrible that it's kinda common knowledge that they sell dangerous poo poo? like, if they were some weird site where you can buy direct from overseas factories, that I would at least understand...
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Jul 22, 2020 00:59
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Azathoth posted:can someone explain to me what the deal is with harbor freight? or, maybe put another way, why are they so apparently uniquely terrible that it's kinda common knowledge that they sell dangerous poo poo? It's not like everything you buy there kills you. They are just a store that sells cheap tools at affordable prices. It might work forever, or it might not. The point is that you needed a tool for one thing and harbor freight had one and chances are you'll only have to use it a few times so it probably won't break for as long as you own it. Limit what you buy there to things that you don't depend on to keep you a live, like jack stands. Anything else will probably be fine.
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Jul 22, 2020 01:04
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Harbor Freight sells cheap poo poo, literally and figuratively - their prices are often half the ask of proven brands like DeWalt, but that means their quality control is mostly driven by glances. Their hand tools are decent enough (mostly because it's pretty hard to gently caress up "lump of metal in a useful shape"), but anything complicated has a 90% chance to burn out or break in short order. My personal rule is "do not buy anything from HF that can kill you if it fails." Outside of that, Harbor Freight is a good place to go if you need a tool immediately or cheaply. Or both.
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Jul 22, 2020 01:06
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Extremely relevantly to this conversation (and the story I suspect BMan had in mind when they posted about it), just this month, Harbor Freight announced that the jack stands they gave people to replace defective jack stands were themselves defective.
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Jul 22, 2020 01:16
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Harbor Freight is the dollar store of hardware. You shouldn't buy a jack stand or multimeter or safety glasses from the dollar store but yet they sell them so they are maybe a slightly more malicious dollar store since I'm pretty sure most of what Dollar Tree sells wont kill you.
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Jul 22, 2020 01:24
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zedprime posted:I'm pretty sure most of what Dollar Tree sells wont kill you. i've seen milk at plenty dollar stores
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Jul 22, 2020 01:41
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The Waterjet Channel guys (a source of OSHA in and of themselves) cut a Harbor Freight anvil in half and part of it was made of bondo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quL14Csmi_Y&t=159s I don't think they say it's from Harbor Freight in that video but they've referenced it in others
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Jul 22, 2020 02:44
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That makes it the perfect anvil to use when you want to launch an anvil by exploding a car airbag or something - being lighter means it'll go higher!
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Jul 22, 2020 02:54
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Everyone knows that the only way to launch an anvil is with another anvil https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhQ4dE_RGnQ
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Jul 22, 2020 02:59
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Memento posted:Everyone knows that the only way to launch an anvil is with another anvil I'm sorry but, WHAT? "World Champion Anvil Shooter?" Like... that is a THING? So they just light it off and back up and hope for the best? What the gently caress do you do if the sun gets in your eyes?
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Jul 22, 2020 03:06
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For anvilmaking purposes, bondo isn't any worse than cast iron. It has to be cast steel or it's poo poo.
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Jul 22, 2020 03:07
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I'm sorry but, WHAT? "World Champion Anvil Shooter?" Like... that is a THING? I doubt it's really a "thing", but if you're the only person doing it, you get to call yourself the champion and no one can really complain Also, to answer your second question, I guess you just gently caress around and find out.
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Jul 22, 2020 03:17
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During the storm yesterday a power line fell down and cut power to the neighborhood. Then the line itself caught on fire in the street while waiting for pepco to show up then the street caught on fire. Fire dept showed up 5 mins after it happened but couldn't do anything because the wire was still live. When they finally shut off the power the fire dept had to chop a hole in the road to chase the fire. The line was down 3 houses up from us and even while inside you could hear the electricity making noise.
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Jul 22, 2020 03:23
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Whenever I am present for high-energy fuckery, I pray to the gods of the inverse-square law.
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Jul 22, 2020 03:24
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I'm sorry but, WHAT? "World Champion Anvil Shooter?" Like... that is a THING? go and take his title then if you think you're hot anvil shooting poo poo
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Jul 22, 2020 03:27
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Oh, they've started up daily "coronavirus briefings" again?
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Jul 22, 2020 03:57
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I'm sorry but, WHAT? "World Champion Anvil Shooter?" Like... that is a THING? Apparently! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP-X7nLwvVY
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luxury handset posted:go and take his title then if you think you're hot anvil shooting poo poo Everybody's An Anvil Fuckler Until The Real Anvil Fuckler Shows Up
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Jul 22, 2020 04:12
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All that and only 9 feet? Pfft I can make them go farther than that easy! Yes I know it's more than that
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Jul 22, 2020 09:17
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i bet they have a name for when it comes back down directly on top of the other anvil.
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Jul 22, 2020 09:23
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VectorSigma posted:i bet they have a name for when it comes back down directly on top of the other anvil. Like Pass the Pigs? 
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Jul 22, 2020 09:27
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VectorSigma posted:i bet they have a name for when it comes back down directly on top of the other anvil. I mean if they are all shooting from the same spot, you could just put down a jack at the start and turn it into anvil shooting lawn bowls. This would require... quite a few anvils though.
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Jul 22, 2020 09:47
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dr_rat posted:I mean if they are all shooting from the same spot, you could just put down a jack at the start and turn it into anvil shooting lawn bowls. Does Gay Wilkinson look like the kind of person who would only have a couple of anvils? I guarantee you he's got a shed full of the drat things.
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Jul 22, 2020 09:55
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Memento posted:Everyone knows that the only way to launch an anvil is with another anvil I really did not enjoy him packing the void with black powder and then placing it on top of another anvil. Wiggling it. While bending directly over it. Surely he has to be grinding some black powder residue between the two anvils when he does that? 
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TTerrible posted:I really did not enjoy him packing the void with black powder and then placing it on top of another anvil. Wiggling it. While bending directly over it. Surely he has to be grinding some black powder residue between the two anvils when he does that? I've always wanted to die like a Loony Tunes villain so I'm kind of ok with it.
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