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The Door Frame posted:But I keep burning through and couldn't get good fusion, so I poured on giant globs of metal every time it cooled to make sure that it's a strong weld The more filler, the better, right?
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CommieGIR posted:The more filler, the better, right? Take a play from my dads NASA soldering training: The bigger the glob the better the job 
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*in Xzibit voice "you dawg we heard you like welds so we put welds on your welds so you can weld more welds on your welds"
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Tuesday Weld. Also the other six days of the week, that must have taken forever.
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cursedshitbox posted:Check your screen it's a 400, the 900 is over a decade newer. You are correct. This is what I get for trusting my memory. Cacafuego posted:Same when I worked at toys r us and someone bought one of the big play sets that couldn’t fit in anything, so they took it out of the boxes and had to attach it anywhere they could. “Here’s some string, good luck!” What's up, TRU buddy? I helped a lady put a swingset (in box) in her Fox Mustang. This was actually possible, because it was a convertible. Fit in the back seat with the passenger seat forward, resting on the folded top!
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It works by the same principle as 10-yo me fixing something with tape 1. single strip of tape across tear 2. cross-pieces of tape across each end of the first strip to keep it from lifting off 3. cross-pieces of tape across each end of the previous two strips to keep them from lifting off 4. etc
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Data Graham posted:It works by the same principle as 10-yo me fixing something with tape 
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Data Graham posted:It works by the same principle as 10-yo me fixing something with tape I have never, ever done anything like that. How dare you. ...maybe one more strip.
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The following is posted purely as terrible car stuff, no political statement is implied: https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1666935969562628096
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Its still got some tread left.
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Sidebiters are still good 
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Plus, less tread means less friction means less rolling resistance means less fuel consumption means more range. Bing bong so simple 
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Just put in some more negative camber, problem solved.
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lmao I've never noticed this as I don't have a VW but apparently they now have ugly plastic caps for wheel bolts https://www.theautopian.com/these-plastic-caps-vw-put-on-wheel-bolts-are-stupid-and-confusing/ This might be the dumbest and most pointless thing I've seen in a while
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mobby_6kl posted:lmao I've never noticed this as I don't have a VW but apparently they now have ugly plastic caps for wheel bolts They've had those for bloody ages. Lots of manufacturers do something similar too
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Yeah, my 03 Cavelier wheel nuts had male threads sticking out like they show at the end of that article. The hub caps had captured plastic nuts that tightened onto them. About 50% of the nuts were stripped or broken after 3 years, just hanging onto the hub cap flopping around.
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Why use bolts instead of lugs and nuts? It’s such a pain in the rear end to maneuver a tire into place, slip a bolt in with a free hand, and pray you grab some threads vs hang the tire on the lugs and bolt it up. Is there some engineering advantage I’m not aware of that made VW do this on my Atlas?
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Scratch Monkey posted:Why use bolts instead of lugs and nuts? It’s such a pain in the rear end to maneuver a tire into place, slip a bolt in with a free hand, and pray you grab some threads vs hang the tire on the lugs and bolt it up. Is there some engineering advantage I’m not aware of that made VW do this on my Atlas?
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fridge corn posted:They've had those for bloody ages. Lots of manufacturers do something similar too Scratch Monkey posted:Why use bolts instead of lugs and nuts? It’s such a pain in the rear end to maneuver a tire into place, slip a bolt in with a free hand, and pray you grab some threads vs hang the tire on the lugs and bolt it up. Is there some engineering advantage I’m not aware of that made VW do this on my Atlas? It's a German thing I think, my Opel uses bolts as well as do BMWs, IIRC.
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mobby_6kl posted:It's a German thing I think, my Opel uses bolts as well as do BMWs, IIRC. Very German, on the old 928 the wheel bolts were some super light alloy. Every German car I've owned has had wheel bolts from the factory.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:The following is posted purely as terrible car stuff, no political statement is implied: How do they have so little imagination? Take a soldering iron and draw new grooves if you need them
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NitroSpazzz posted:Very German, on the old 928 the wheel bolts were some super light alloy. Every German car I've owned has had wheel bolts from the factory. It's very French and Italian too
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Scratch Monkey posted:Why use bolts instead of lugs and nuts? It’s such a pain in the rear end to maneuver a tire into place, slip a bolt in with a free hand, and pray you grab some threads vs hang the tire on the lugs and bolt it up. Is there some engineering advantage I’m not aware of that made VW do this on my Atlas? Anecdote here, but I work exclusively on German cars and it is extremely rare to run into a stripped or broken wheel bolt/hub, but I have seen/heard about tons of studs snapping or stripping. Installing wheels with bolts is easy. Drop a bolt in one of the holes, set your impact gun on it, lift all together and line it up, bam. If you don’t have a hoist to work at the correct level, there is a threaded pin you can get (or is already in your car’s tool kit) which you pop in the hub to make installation easier.
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I used to hate wheel bolts too but since working exclusively on Italian cars you do get used to it. Having a proper ramp helps of course but if I do find myself fitting a wheel on the deck I usually just sit on my rear end and prop the wheel up to the hub with my feet lol
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For my VW, I found some fine thread bolts, cut off the heads, and would screw them into the hub to give me a rod on which to hang/align my wheel while I put on the other bolts. My BMW uses an ultra fine thread and I haven't found a pair of bolts to use. (though looking now there are actually some cheap ones that I can buy that I hadn't seen before) VVV Yeah, that! Uthor fucked around with this message at 15:17 on Jun 9, 2023 |
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for my Alfa I use a wheel hangar (I think that's the name) which is just a long piece of metal that you screw into one (or more) of the holes, hang the tire on that and just thread in the rest of them.
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You know you can just line the holes up, right?
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No. 6 posted:You know you can just line the holes up, right? if the car's up on a jack it's a pain in the rear end without the hangar or a second person to lift the wheel up into place
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Fair, but I always rest the tire on the top of my feet and use them to help position. It's odd, but works great.
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No. 6 posted:Fair, but I always rest the tire on the top of my feet and use them to help position. It's odd, but works great. you sound a lot more flexible than I am
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No. 6 posted:Fair, but I always rest the tire on the top of my feet and use them to help position. It's odd, but works great. I didn’t know people did it any other way?
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I'd swear its been like 2-3 months since the last time we had this discussion/argument.
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Sit on the ground, wheel in your lap then put in position and hold there with your legs. Quick, easy and even fairly weak person can hold it in place for as long as required. Sure you get a little dirty but this way you don't have to risk your toes when wearing your garage safety sandals.wesleywillis posted:I'd swear its been like 2-3 months since the last time we had this discussion/argument.
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NitroSpazzz posted:Sit on the ground, wheel in your lap then put in position and hold there with your legs. Quick, easy and even fairly weak person can hold it in place for as long as required. Sure you get a little dirty but this way you don't have to risk your toes when wearing your garage safety sandals. wesleywillis posted:I'd swear its been like 2-3 months since the last time we had this discussion/argument.
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People's hubs don't have those little posts to hang the wheel on and line up the holes for them?
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Yeah on normal cars they're called lugs
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Fifty Three posted:Yeah on normal cars they're called lugs Nuts to you I say
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fridge corn posted:It's very French and Italian too And occasionally Japanese. My '78 Fiat had bolts, as did my '79 RX-7 originally. Bothe '79 and '80 had that, as well as other Mazdas of the era. Mazda switched to studs in '81. I even still have a full stud kit for it that I never installed (upgraded to the later hubs and rear axle.) Woolwich Bagnet posted:Nuts to you I say Yes, that's what you use with studs.
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fridge corn posted:It's very French and Italian too I can confirm it's very Swedish too. In fact I would go so far as to say it just might be very European, overall.
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I was under the (obviously mistaken) impression that Maybachs were supposed to be tasteful luxury. These wheels are incredibly tacky and look like plastic trims which is not a vibe I'd want if I was paying out the arse for a posh Mercedes. https://twitter.com/CARandDRIVER/status/1667683107896451072?t=NJ8--sAJDecj751cpsojNg&s=19
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