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heffray posted:Is there a reason to use runny loctite blue instead of the gel type? Gel actually stays in place and seems a lot more convenient. I've used the blue gel on my Husky 701 the last few years, because a big thumper will shake the poo poo out of some fasteners after a while. It's been my experience that the gel stuff stays... gummy, and there's a fair amount of residue when disassembled. The stuff in the little tube dries into a harder plastic in the threads.
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slidebite posted:Talking about loctite/thread lockers/anti seize, Would you believe that my customer and I were once discussing the possibility of installing one of our products with loctite at the factory? And they asked us if we had a recommendation for which one to use. ...no, we don't have a recommendation for what loctite product to use on a part that is supposed to be serviceable. (It was a very "this is last last last resort" sort of discussion and not one really taken seriously, but more of "well, gotta ask for the sake of due diligence.." and in the end no loctite was used. As we expected. But boy that was an interesting discussion)
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i hope it was a sensor and not a spark plug, lol dont they ground through the bung, anyway? i guess you'd get enough displacement when tightening that there'd be sufficient metal-to-metal, but it still doesn't seem ideal from an electrical standpoint either.
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IIRC Subaru actually loctites in their vehicle speed sensors on some years. It's a threaded in, plastic sensor. It goes exactly as well as you would think. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6zjhguOU34
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totalnewbie posted:Would you believe that my customer and I were once discussing the possibility of installing one of our products with loctite at the factory? And they asked us if we had a recommendation for which one to use. Regarding thread lockers, there are more than a few kinds but the biggest issue is does it need to be removable or not and the size of the fastener. Also what the fastener is made of, and hence require a primer/activator or not. You should be able to remove a medium strength thread locker with hand tools and not require heat and a unga-bunga. I did have to correct one of the loctite tech guys regarding retaining compounds and bearings seats. He was mentioning how much better a hold on a bearing seat with a compound is versus an interference fit (which, in plain shear I believe him) but they totally neglected to consider pre-loading that happens to a bearing when interference mounted which is often required for proper operation. Changing a bearing from a specifically engineered interference fit to a slip fit with a retaining compound is not always a no brainer and could easily have ramifications... even if interference mounting can be a pain in the rear end.
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:To my knowledge it's the opposite. Retaining compound is for poo poo that is not supposed to come apart. Period. I've got some green stuff from Loctite - don't recall the number - and it kind of scares me. I haven't used it yet and don't know of anything specific that would require it, but I got some should the need arise. Loctite 680? It is like magic for keeping bearings in place without needing to press them in or have retaining rings. A buddy had the whine of death in his Mercedes transfercase. One of the taper roller bearings had spun in the case. A new slightly thicker spacer to set the preload and some loctite 680 got that bearing firmly back in place without having to re-machine or replace the case.
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Raluek posted:i hope it was a sensor and not a spark plug, lol Sensor largely do not ground to vehicle chassis anymore. Maybe some still do; I know very little about cars outside of what's directly (and indirectly..) relevant to my job heh In the end, the issue was resolved with changing the installation torque. Much better...
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Bought my first ever new vehicle (and most expensive by like 4x) a 2023 Honda Ridgeline RTL. It's so smooth and quiet compared to my 08 Fit that I don't know if I'm going to keep dailying the Fit as I had planned. The 2024s have a few upgrades, the only one I really care being wireless android auto, but the 2023 was a fair bit cheaper and 0.9% financing. The dealership tried to force me to pay $800 something for paint sealant "we do that for every vehicle we sell, and it's already been applied we can't do anything about it now" but when I said 'ok then let's cancel all this' and got up to leave they were suddenly able to drop that charge. Just need my insurance agent to do their thing so I can put on some miles. Too bad the rain is going to resume tonight and continue for ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Man, gently caress brakes. Or at least gently caress brake fluid. What a kick in the dick it is to diagnose brake issues when everything surrounding them is all nice and freshly painted. Goddamn parts haven't even rolled out of the garage yet and already look like poo poo. Worst of all I don't even have anything to show for it because the goddamn things still don't work after nearly 3 weekends of fighting with them. To ensure I'm not only bitching here: kastein posted:Get you a headlamp, anything you look at including the person you're talking to will be very well illuminated. Man, those LED headlamps that are dirt cheap all over Amazon sure are better than messing with a flashlight while under a car. Anyone else that's dumb like me should get one (or a few, seriously they're real cheap).
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Galler posted:Bought my first ever new vehicle (and most expensive by like 4x) a 2023 Honda Ridgeline RTL. It's so smooth and quiet compared to my 08 Fit that I don't know if I'm going to keep dailying the Fit as I had planned. The 2024s have a few upgrades, the only one I really care being wireless android auto, but the 2023 was a fair bit cheaper and 0.9% financing. The dealership tried to force me to pay $800 something for paint sealant "we do that for every vehicle we sell, and it's already been applied we can't do anything about it now" but when I said 'ok then let's cancel all this' and got up to leave they were suddenly able to drop that charge. The Fit could probably benefit from some fresh bushings, engine mounts, and shocks to restore smoothness and quiet.
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It probably could benefit but I don't expect it would make much difference. It's a very good car but it's still an inexpensive city car. There isn't much sound dampening and there is a lot of glass so a lot of exterior sounds make it inside. There's a lot of wind noise even at just highway speeds and legal interstate speeds are about 4k rpm. It's not at all uncomfortable but all of it kind of adds up. Even with many fewer miles the suspension didn't really soak up the bumps but the tires are a much bigger component. I've got a Sport with the 15" wheel vs the 14" that the base model gets. Everything else is the same though so I dropped down to 14" wheels for my winter tires and the extra sidewall makes it ride so much better. In retrospect, I probably should have just bought another set of 14" steelies with summer tires years ago. Doing some of the more involved maintenance tasks that I've been wanting to do will be a lot easier, or at least less stressful, now that I have an alternate vehicle. It was a lot easier when I was still living near my parents and could borrow a vehicle or have someone pick up a part if my car could not move. It will hopefully be a lot easier once the quickjacks arrive, but I ordered mine on black friday and they're still backordered so I've got no idea when that will be.
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I'm always somewhat amazed when I ride in (fairly expensive) new Ubers and there's virtually no sound deadening and very cheap feeling light suspension/rough rides, but that's fuel economy for you.
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The modern trend of lower profile tires with smaller sidewalls don't help suspension feel I would think. And run flat tires make this worse still I believe.
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Galler posted:Bought my first ever new vehicle (and most expensive by like 4x) a 2023 Honda Ridgeline RTL. It's so smooth and quiet compared to my 08 Fit that I don't know if I'm going to keep dailying the Fit as I had planned. The 2024s have a few upgrades, the only one I really care being wireless android auto, but the 2023 was a fair bit cheaper and 0.9% financing. The dealership tried to force me to pay $800 something for paint sealant "we do that for every vehicle we sell, and it's already been applied we can't do anything about it now" but when I said 'ok then let's cancel all this' and got up to leave they were suddenly able to drop that charge. His Divine Shadow posted:The modern trend of lower profile tires with smaller sidewalls don't help suspension feel I would think. And run flat tires make this worse still I believe.
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Ether Frenzy posted:I'm always somewhat amazed when I ride in (fairly expensive) new Ubers and there's virtually no sound deadening and very cheap feeling light suspension/rough rides, but that's fuel economy for you. Last time I flew into MSY the last rental was a Kia, I could barely fit my legs under the dash and was so loud on the drive across lake Pontchartrain I had to put earplugs in. Captain McAllister posted:I've used the blue gel on my Husky 701 the last few years, because a big thumper will shake the poo poo out of some fasteners after a while. There were a lot of parts that got safety wire on the ATK.
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Today I had the privilege of listening to a boomer rant that Audi must have done some fucky metallurgy with their wheels because he had a buddy of his spray them with some “leftover F16 paint” and it was flaking.
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Advent Horizon posted:Today I had the privilege of listening to a boomer rant that Audi must have done some fucky metallurgy with their wheels because he had a buddy of his spray them with some “leftover F16 paint” and it was flaking. perhaps his buddy didn't use leftover F16 aircraft remover and leftover F16 zinc chromate first
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!! https://twitter.com/TrinityGFrancis/status/1762082802718142756?t=2aoD9AMDlAB955pRXOOmTg&s=19
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Found out my lease isn't getting renewed at the apartment I've been at for 3 years. Moving suuucks.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:!! You don't have to cut up a toilet brush, you can get those brushes ready with a shank for an impact. I use them to clean the wheels on the car.
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Advent Horizon posted:Today I had the privilege of listening to a boomer rant that Audi must have done some fucky metallurgy with their wheels because he had a buddy of his spray them with some “leftover F16 paint” and it was flaking. Yep. Definitely the metallurgy and not the complete lack of prep of any sort typical of people who believe they have leftover F16 paint. Cage posted:Found out my lease isn't getting renewed at the apartment I've been at for 3 years. Moving suuucks. Landlords suck. His Divine Shadow posted:You don't have to cut up a toilet brush, you can get those brushes ready with a shank for an impact. I use them to clean the wheels on the car. I have a set that the bristles run the same direction as the shank for scrubbing, as recommended by several YouTube detailers. Probably less effective than the toilet brush for this particular application, but would at least loosen the debris so it could be vacuumed up. Probably should pick up some of the toilet brush style for wheels, as you say.
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So from my little knowledge of aircraft paints, things like Imron etc flake like hell without perfect prep and process so LOL
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meltie posted:perhaps his buddy didn't use leftover F16 aircraft remover and leftover F16 zinc chromate first yeah I mean without the aircraft remover you're stuck with the whole f16 and those aren't really known for their adhesion to wheels 
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His Divine Shadow posted:You don't have to cut up a toilet brush, you can get those brushes ready with a shank for an impact. I use them to clean the wheels on the car. For $9, it's amazing what you can get. Mine have held up for a few years now. https://www.amazon.com/Holikme-Atta...b/dp/B0C8MBNNNC
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wallaka posted:Wife’s Explorer V6 needs a water pump. Transverse or longitudinal? If transverse, condolences.
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McTinkerson posted:Transverse or longitudinal? If it's longitudinal then condolences as well but it's to do with having to live with one of the worst cars I've ever had to deal with.
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McTinkerson posted:Transverse or longitudinal? Hahaha of course it's transverse.
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big dong wanter posted:If it's longitudinal then condolences as well but it's to do with having to live with one of the worst cars I've ever had to deal with. We're had good luck mostly. Put 100k trouble-free miles on a 2013 before totaling it, and this one is pushing 130,000 miles. Only thing I've done to this one so far is spark plugs and maintenance. I've always had good car luck except for Porsche.
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Anyone ever buy this Lego clone brand? https://decadastore.com/products/cada-mercedes-amg-one-c61503w They're licensed with Mercedes Benz so the quality must be fairly solid, and most reviews seem to suggest it's on par with the quality of Lego Technics stuff. I've got the Lego Porsche GT3 RS and have a spare matching shelf next to it, I don't really love the other three 1/8ths car models available from Lego, and their color scheme doesn't match the room this would live in so I'm trying to find something the same size & fun building level but not from that line. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez1alE8tDiw
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Crap, the tooth I had filled last year is hurting again, which possibility I was informed of when this was done. Time for a root canal I guess. Either that, or a life of the entire left side of my head hurting and a liquid diet. Can't lose that molar, because I'm already missing two on the other side, one upper and one lower, and offset, so no opposed pairs on that side.  Wasn't there a smilie of money on wings flying away? That one, too.
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Ether Frenzy posted:Anyone ever buy this Lego clone brand? https://decadastore.com/products/cada-mercedes-amg-one-c61503w Not these in particular, but they’re probably the same ones on aliexpress or banggood, and all of the “technical bricks” I’ve gotten from there have been really nice. Sometimes kits even have the same set number as real Legos.
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https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4044356 Post your kitty in dis thread on Friday and you may receive something! And not a kitty sixxer, altho if you want that too can be arranged 
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So a colleague got killed at a workplace accident and i found out about it today, i go to check the news on the googles and i get a loving article from rupert loving murdoch about how we are overpaid. i swear to god there is no minecraft game that comes even close to what that motherfucker deserves. If you ever buy one of his papers or contribute financially or whatever to his fuckhead empire gently caress you. i stg if people working for that loving lich had a mortality rate like we do the world would be a far better place. im going to calm down now by hugging my cat inbetween chainsmoking and pacing around the yard. if i ever meet the person who wrote that loving tripe or the big man himself im going to loving pissboard them. stay safe at work, gently caress news corp, and all power to the union
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wallaka posted:Not these in particular, but they’re probably the same ones on aliexpress or banggood, and all of the “technical bricks” I’ve gotten from there have been really nice. I want the knock-off Lego King Crab from Battletech/Mechwarrior: https://hansenbricks.com/gallery/lego-battletech-mechwarrior-king-crab-mech/ big dong wanter posted:So a colleague got killed at a workplace accident and i found out about it today, i go to check the news on the googles and i get a loving article from rupert loving murdoch about how we are overpaid. i swear to god there is no minecraft game that comes even close to what that motherfucker deserves. Know who is overpaid? Rupert Murdoch.
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CommieGIR posted:I want the knock-off Lego King Crab from Battletech/Mechwarrior: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005970178433.html
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big dong wanter posted:So a colleague got killed at a workplace accident and i found out about it today, i go to check the news on the googles and i get a loving article from rupert loving murdoch about how we are overpaid. i swear to god there is no minecraft game that comes even close to what that motherfucker deserves. I do so love how rich folks who sit on their asses all day are allowed to comment on how valuable people who actually work for a living should be. gently caress them. edit: Ooo, thanks. Creator says that the parts alone on Bricklink run about $450.
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My kid ordered a cat-back exhaust for his RX8 to replace the super loving janky unit on there now and it came with the downpipe as well, totally unexpectedly. Wasn’t mentioned in the sales listing. The current downpipe could definitely stand to be replaced as it’s been welded and patched in the past so we will count that as a win. Saved him $200 in the bargain.
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