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I made ferrofluid at work today! Well, the machine made ferrofluid at work today https://i.imgur.com/2oNV6qo.mp4
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EvenWorseOpinions posted:I made ferrofluid at work today! Thanks for clarifying, I was going to recommend you see a doctor.
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Aug 1, 2020 10:29
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Elviscat posted:Ironic! Seems like they should just divert the ice shavings to land on top of the engine. That could melt them and provide the water for the resurfacing.
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Aug 1, 2020 14:39
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wesleywillis posted:Seems like they should just divert the ice shavings to land on top of the engine. That could melt them and provide the water for the resurfacing. Better slap a biohazard label on that bad boy then. Players spit and bleed and sweat all over that sheet of ice, you really want to glaze your engine with that stew?
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Aug 1, 2020 14:55
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EvenWorseOpinions posted:I made ferrofluid at work today! Making ferrofluid on purpose: wrong thread. Making ferrofluid by accident: right thread.
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Aug 1, 2020 15:18
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The machine in question is not intended to convert bearings and lubricating oil into ferrofluid
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Aug 1, 2020 16:37
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Any machine is a ferrofluid making machine if you operate it wrongly enough
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Aug 1, 2020 16:49
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kastein posted:Any machine is a ferrofluid making machine if you operate it wrongly enough Ferrofluid is the real "grey goo" people were worried about.
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Aug 1, 2020 16:50
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LifeSunDeath posted:Ferrofluid is the real "grey goo" people were worried about.   Uh-oh EvenWorseOpinions fucked around with this message at 17:36 on Aug 1, 2020 |
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Aug 1, 2020 17:33
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xzzy posted:Better slap a biohazard label on that bad boy then. Players spit and bleed and sweat all over that sheet of ice, you really want to glaze your engine with that stew? Look at this guy who doesn't work on his own cars. I mean...I don't spit on mine, but 2 out of 3 is close enough.
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Aug 1, 2020 17:49
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I have definitely used spit on a soft fuel line to get it over the end of a flared pipe end on a cold day It was my car, it was a piece of poo poo anyway and no one was watching.
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Aug 2, 2020 01:55
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Memento posted:I have definitely used spit on a soft fuel line to get it over the end of a flared pipe end on a cold day If it doesn't work by swearing at it you always try spitting as the next step. Never the other way around.
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Memento posted:I have definitely used spit on a soft fuel line to get it over the end of a flared pipe end on a cold day there’s a NAPA product for this called Sylglide or Glidasil or something. it’s supposedly even safe for fuel lines. I have a tube of it in my lube box. not sure when I last used it; I just spit on it
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Memento posted:I have definitely used spit on a soft fuel line to get it over the end of a flared pipe end on a cold day 
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Aug 2, 2020 10:54
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snugglz posted:there’s a NAPA product for this called Sylglide or Glidasil or something. it’s supposedly even safe for fuel lines. I have a tube of it in my lube box. Horrible Mechanical(?) Failures: not sure when I last used it; I just spit on it
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Aug 2, 2020 13:48
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snugglz posted:there’s a NAPA product for this called Sylglide or Glidasil or something. it’s supposedly even safe for fuel lines. I have a tube of it in my lube box. Syl glide is the best brake caliper lube.
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Aug 2, 2020 18:21
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wesleywillis posted:Syl glide is the best brake caliper lube. also good for putting bmw control arms bushings on the control arm
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Aug 2, 2020 18:37
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snugglz posted:I have a tube of it in my lube box.
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Aug 2, 2020 23:19
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wesleywillis posted:If it doesn't work by swearing at it you always try spitting as the next step. Never the other way around. This assumes I'm not swearing at it on a regular basis.
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Aug 3, 2020 02:08
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rndmnmbr posted:This assumes I'm not swearing at it on a regular basis. I start swearing before as i drive it into the garage, and don't stop until it drives out.
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Aug 3, 2020 13:01
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MrYenko posted:
Yup! I figured it wasn't that old though because all the OGs have rusted to poo poo.
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Aug 3, 2020 13:53
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MrYenko posted:
Dude, I'm in Dallas, TX, and we have Zambonis. Because we stole Ontario's hockey team. Also, at least one mall features an ice rink. chrisgt posted:I start swearing before as i drive it into the garage, and don't stop until it drives out. Pretty sure my neighbors think I am an angry crazy man, because I don't have room for the car in the garage, so I swear at it (loudly) in the driveway. 'Course then they come out and see the hood up and understand.
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Aug 3, 2020 19:26
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I think I found the clunking coming from the back of my Outback. I figured it had water in it cause in the winter it stopped moving all together. It was so bad that the spring was rubbing on the inner wheel well. https://streamable.com/j27tll
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Jesus. I get a loud clunk from the center of my Outback when I put it in reverse, but there's also a concerning amount of rotational play in the driveshaft. Nothing lateral though. And the joints at each end are solid.Darchangel posted:Dude, I'm in Dallas, TX You're on the Ft Worth side, therefore NO, you are NOT in Dallas, sir!  But seriously, 2 malls. Galleria and whatever the one in Frisco is.
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Aug 3, 2020 20:29
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We all know both sides of DFW are indistinguishable thanks to the sheer number of home depots
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Aug 3, 2020 20:34
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STR posted:Jesus. I get a loud clunk from the center of my Outback when I put it in reverse, but there's also a concerning amount of rotational play in the driveshaft. Nothing lateral though. And the joints at each end are solid. Does your car have a driveshaft center support?
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Aug 3, 2020 21:33
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Aug 3, 2020 21:55
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PitViper posted:How does I balance tire? Like this
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SIR, I will have you know that I can WALK into Dallas county from my home. And (almost) see DFW airport. But fine - the ice rink at Tandy Center. Now what? Oh, wait, that's defunct now, isn't it? Frisco: Firewheel? taqueso posted:We all know both sides of DFW are indistinguishable thanks to the sheer number of home depots Fort Worth is a little less posh and cheaper, generally speaking, but... yeah.
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PitViper posted:How does I balance tire? I had a customer bring their car back once complaining that we had tampered with their wheels because there were some bright patches on the inside of the rim. They were where we took off the old wheel weights so we could balance it.
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It kills me when someone brings me a car, and complains that another tire shop "could never get them balanced right". Then I pull it in, yank off about a pound and a half of weights stuck on all over the wheel, and put maybe an ounce and a half back on. It's also the one thing that newbies do that all the old timers will chew their rear end for. If you're rebalancing it, don't just add weights where it tells you, see where the old weights are first! You're better off stripping the old weights and starting from scratch most of the time. That one ended up being the heavy wheel.of the pair, about 2oz to balance it out. I could have checked the match of the tire/wheel, but it's not worth it for $85 tires on an old Escape.
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Aug 4, 2020 02:32
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Literally the first thing they taught me as a dumb tire monkey at a chain shop was "scrape/pry all the old onese off first" do... people not know this? 
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MRC48B posted:Literally the first thing they taught me as a dumb tire monkey at a chain shop was "scrape/pry all the old onese off first" There are people turning wrenches out there who don’t know that you’re supposed to drain the old oil out before you add new oil.
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Needed to pump up my tires on the motorbike while at my mom's place, so I grabbed the one the garage with the fancy digital pressure gauge. Motor came on, gauge worked, light worked, no air coming out. She found the spare one with the wildly inaccurate pressure gauge and that was fine. She was going to throw out the broken one but I wanted to take it apart to see if it was fixable. Open it up, and immediate problem was that the conrod for the piston fell off the crank pin. Put that back on and rotated the crank by finger a few times and I could see that it was unseating itself from the crank pin after a couple of cycles, so it would likely have come off if I'd actually plugged it in. Took the piston out to have a look, and half the metal from the conrod where it mates to the crank pin was gone.
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Darchangel posted:SIR, I will have you know that I can WALK into Dallas county from my home. And (almost) see DFW airport. Yeah, Firewheel. Tandy Center... holy poo poo that takes me back. I never actually got to go there when it was open, but when Radio Shack moved their corporate campus out of the towers, I was a contractor for an IT company that helped move all the PCs - so I got to see it long after it'd been shut down. They still had a couple of concept stores in the center, though. Got to see the CEO's office, complete with his own private elevator, full bathroom, bar, etc. That was a trip. Those towers were a serious time capsule, and the higher you got on the floors, the more 70s spending spree it got. Crystal chandeliers, gold plated everything, etc on the top floor. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 04:09 on Aug 4, 2020 |
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Aug 4, 2020 04:05
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The parks in Arlington had an ice rink like a decade ago. Dunno if its still going though.
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Elmnt80 posted:The parks in Arlington had an ice rink like a decade ago. Dunno if its still going though. It's still there
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Elmnt80 posted:The parks in Arlington had an ice rink like a decade ago. Dunno if its still going though. poo poo, I forgot about that one. I lived in Arlington attending UTA while that mall was being built. It was amazing when it was new, and malls were still a thing. And I was a 20-something that didn’t yet hate malls and people. STR posted:Yeah, Firewheel. And with what they spent there, and at the new headquarters campus (while struggling!) they wonder why they went bankrupt. Tandy we’re collectively idiots. Full disclosure: I worked for them, at Computer City. Defected to CompUSA ASAP. I do miss Radio Shack. The old one, not the me too reseller they became.
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Yeah even way back then, I was wondering how the gently caress they were justifying such a MASSIVE campus that you needed literal maps to get around in. And yet, aside from the foyers (which were lined with restaurants, little convenience stores, and of course a few Radio Shack concept stores), it was a pretty generic corporate campus outside of being yuuuuuuge (aside from some fast as hell elevators). I've been to the JC Penney campus a few times as well (on deliveries, also a friend works there, I've met him a few times for lunch). the JCP campus was a lot more tasteful, much more understated, but also just as sprawling, and otherwise generic once you were out of the foyers. Elmnt80 posted:The parks in Arlington had an ice rink like a decade ago. Dunno if its still going though. That's one of the only malls in DFW I never made it to. When I left (granted, 2 years ago), the big shocker was that Town East Mall in Mesquite was not only thriving (seriously, packed on weeknights), but... THE SEARS WAS FULLY STAFFED AND STOCKED.  Most of the other malls were on life support. Valley View has been half torn down for ages, Collin Creek had all the anchors torn down (supposedly they're going to reuse some of the interior corridors, but it's becoming a live/work/shop destination supposedly), Vista Ridge had been through bankruptcy (don't know what it's called now). Northpark is still thriving tho, and probably will be until the boomers decide to stop going to malls.I'm kinda sad that Austin only has 2 (indoor) malls. Apparently the one by work used to be amazing in the 80s mall stereotype (lots of visuals, fountains, etc). It's just generic as hell now. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 21:54 on Aug 4, 2020 |
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Malls were cool growing up. Ours had an ice rink as well. And more importantly, several arcades.
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C-Bangin' it 