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Powershift posted:Horrible parking brake failure. Doesn't look like a keeper. He'll have to throw it back. 
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:Milk chat: I don't get why half a gallon of milk costs more than a gallon at a lot of stores. At Winco they're within 20 cents of each other, but the half gallon is still more. That's precisely why. The gallon is cheaper by unit cost, but you'll dump half of it out when it goes bad. If they're the same price, you're actually ahead if you drink more than half of the gallon before it spoils, but we all feel guilty for dumping out excess food so we tend to buy what we will use, and not more. Stores know this and maximize their income. Milk has a limited shelf life, so you're paying for that. You can't buy in bulk and store the excess forever. One solution may be to increase your milk consumption by cooking more dishes that use it as an ingredient. That would give you the benefit of the lower unit cost of the gallon milk, while not feeling force to consume it as straight liquid.
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kastein posted:You bastards are really milking this derail for all its worth though. Wow. I thought we had a chat thread so people would stop derailing everything else? Udder destruction.
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Beach Bum posted:Reminds me of this one. Love those new metallic pads. 
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Nov 4, 2016 23:06
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Bulk Vanderhuge posted:Horrible mechanical design failure The only aesthetics for a tool is how well it does the job it's designed to do. Tools that aren't designed to be used aren't tools.
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Nov 16, 2016 01:11
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Bulk Vanderhuge posted:Look at all the kickstarter projects under the Design category. It's just teeming with useless wankery but because they have look m i n i m a l i s t people are falling over each other because it looks like good design. Supposedly it can get a 9-hour charge in about 2 minutes, so it's not as big of a deal as it seems. If your mouse dies, plug it in and go to the bathroom. It'll be good to go when you get back.
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Nov 16, 2016 06:19
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I couldn't bare myself to turn the page. I'd just say screw it and not count the unread posts. You're all nuts.
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Nov 18, 2016 21:54
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wallaka posted:The gently caress is EMPTY PIPE for? Every vacuum line is an EMPTY PIPE. 
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Dec 2, 2016 19:38
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Fermented Tinal posted:The gently caress does it run on, tar? 16:1 requires around 110 octane, so probably straight methanol or ethanol.
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Dec 9, 2016 20:24
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TotalLossBrain posted:A guy I work with bought a wrecked 2005 Saturn LE (?), cut the rear off, and welded another on. "Clip jobs" are a real thing. Insurance companies will take the undamaged front half of one car and the back of another car and get a body shop to weld them together. They can then sell the car for some profit out of their two wrecks. Other times they'll "repair" a damaged vehicle that way and return it to the owner because it's cheaper than ordering all the component parts individually. Example: http://www.chicagotribune.com/classified/automotive/chi-rides-clipped-cars-1005oct05-story.html
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Dec 13, 2016 05:36
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big crush on Chad OMG posted:I have never seen an estimate where you put two cars together. I don't even think most of the standardized estimating software has that as an option. The gist seems to be that it's not an "official" procedure but one body shops employ. Sometimes at the behest of an insurance company, sometimes on their own to cut corners. And insurance companies most certainly do sell cars. When a car has been totaled, what do you think happens to it? The wreck then belongs to the insurance company, and they have to dispose of it somehow. They can recoup some costs by cobbling up a working vehicle out of the pieces. They will usually end up at an auction house. I-CAR even offers a class on "Full Body Sectioning." The exact details of how and when it's done may be sketchy, but it's a real thing.
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BitBasher posted:Grandpa insisted that was all bullshit and someone should light Ralph Nader on fire if I remember correctly. My immediate family had at least 3 at the same time. Grandpa, my mom, and her sister. My wife's family had one. They put a bumper sticker on it: IF YOU CAN READ THIS You are in grave danger
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InitialDave posted:Try cockpit green, though it might be a bit bright. Land Rover pastel green would probably work. "50s type light green" was called avocado. 
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big crush on Chad OMG posted:Cars damaged enough to be totaled don't sit around in lots just waiting for it's opposite number. You're absolutely right no one would ever do such a silly thing. 
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Dec 16, 2016 19:35
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Bajaha posted:Can't say I wouldn't do the same just for shits and giggles. gifv isn't actually an image like a gif was, it's an mp4 movie. So just post the link and it gets embedded automatically.
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Dec 18, 2016 18:12
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Wild EEPROM posted:Reminder that many Japanese and German cars have had the shark fin antenna or one that is hidden, and neither will be ripped apart in a car wash. The shark fin is for Sirius XM reception. You still need an AM/FM antenna somewhere.
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Dec 29, 2016 15:54
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tactlessbastard posted:How does a rear window take a rock? One of ours took a chestnut one night while parked in the driveway. Zero deductible on glass is a separate rider on our policy. It's been very worthwhile.
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Dec 30, 2016 15:28
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I guess that kills the "Oh, yeah! Prius is here!" ad campaign.
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Jan 18, 2017 21:02
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Powershift posted:"OH gently caress OH gently caress OH poo poo OH gently caress OH gently caress" ~this guy, probably. never lift
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Feb 4, 2017 04:05
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Mr-Spain posted:At least the spectators are a respectable distance back and it even looks like the driver lived! Gonna say it's positive all the way around. He certainly stuck the landing. Full marks from the East German judge.
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rdb posted:Personally, give me propane. It's safe to power the engine with, safe to keep in the trunk, but somehow the flammability is a huge issue with the AC? We can even have hydrogen fuel cells, lithium ion batteries, and CNG busses these days, but not propane in the AC. It's too dangerous. It certainly could be done. The question is whether it's a cost-effective solution. Using nonflammable refrigerants allows you to make a simpler and overall cheaper system.
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TotalLossBrain posted:It's used in RV refrigeration all the time so idk what the big deal is. In RV refrigerators, it's burned to drive a piston engine which spins the compressor. The actual coolant is ordinary Freon.
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Platystemon posted:Is this a new thing? You're right, that seems to be the way they operate. My last look at it was a long time ago and may have been a specific application. The propane is burned to evaporate the refrigerant directly.
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Godholio posted:Yeah this is my question. I've done a couple dozen body mount replacements over the years, and this doesn't make sense to me. Yeah, that explanation seems rather suspect. More likely is that they were trying to use the hoist to lift the body itself off the frame and screwed it up. Cars do occasionally fall off lifts, usually for dumb, easily mitigated reasons. It's best just to admit it and move on rather than make up a lame cover story.
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spog posted:I don't want to have a job changing a robot's oil. 
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Blue Footed Booby posted:I know a number of folks who've changed insurance company to save money, then gotten boned because the cheap company tied itself in knots to avoid paying out. Like, moreso than usual. Yeah, with insurance, what you're really buying is claims service. Everything they do and say means jack if you have to fight them tooth and nail to get anything repaired every time. It's usually worth paying a slightly higher rate to get someone easy to deal with. Or else never make a claim, then it doesn't matter.
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Aug 21, 2017 14:01
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NASCAR sponsored by Hot Wheels
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Godholio posted:I'd like to see the 30 seconds before and after that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM412bojrdA
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SEKCobra posted:To be fair, sounds like terrible design. Mercedes: even our lugnuts are special snowflakes
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Cojawfee posted:What? Why? What if you've been using the sprayer and then need to use the spare tire? The sprayer doesn't use much air. You were expected to check the tire pressure regularly. Old VWs had no fuel gauges, either. They had an emergency tank to get you to a gas station when the main one ran out. There was a switch on the floor you could kick to change tanks. Again, you were expected to keep track of how many miles you'd driven and have an idea of how much gas you had left. Old cars had a lot of stuff like that because they were cheap and electromechanical stuff was unreliable unless you spent a lot of money.
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ionn posted:If you checked the spare tire pressure whenever filling washer fluid you're good, and I think it also came with a manual pump to fill things up if needed. Also many people overinflated the spare to get a stronger spray. I know about the foot switch thing because my parents had a Beetle when I was little. One time my Dad accidentally kicked the switch and as a result ran out of gas completely on a trip to my grandparents' house. My mother hasn't let him forget it nearly 60 years later.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:What the gently caress? Was that like the first beetle ever? Because even 50s ones had a fuel gauge. My Dad's was a '57 and had no gauge. It may have been available as an option, though, I don't know. Edit: per Wikipedia quote:For 1962, the Beetle received a mechanical fuel level gauge in place of the former fuel tap. The Standard model continued without a gas gauge until the end of the 1965 model year. Deteriorata fucked around with this message at 20:33 on Sep 17, 2017 |
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:Yeah, like I said, I'm not Mr. Forum Rules but I know regular porny nsfw stuff is supposed to be linked. I don't know why. Either way, it got an audible "AGH" out of me. Definitely a horrible operator failure. It's because spoilered images still load. If it's something people might get in trouble for if it simply loads (like a work computer), it should be linked. NMS/NWS images should be linked anyway, because if you just mouse over the spoiler accidentally you'll still see it. Link it so people have to choose to see it.
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Why was someone filming that so specifically? "Hey, drive slowly past me so I can make a cool video of the front suspension falling apart and ruining your car!"
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Sagebrush posted:What is in windshield washer fluid that would turn the oil into a polymer like that? Or is it just really really foamy? It looks like some kind of gross meringue. It's just an emulsion of oil and water, whisked to mousse by the crankshaft.
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astropika posted:I was surprised to find that there are no publicly available porsche 911 crash test videos, I was wondering how the frunk functioned at a crumple zone. It is mandatory that manufacturers certify that their cars can pass specific crash tests, but they don't have to submit those tests to the NHTSA routinely. The only time they have to supply them is if the NHTSA is doing an inquiry into something specifically, and if those tests aren't actually available there is hell to pay. The NHTSA does a few crash tests of its own to double check, but not a lot.
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sandoz posted:still does actually Don't know about heated seats, but adaptive CC may be related to not being able to control the gear if a downshift or upshift is necessary to maintain the distance. My car has heated leather seats and manual transmission, btw.
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BloodBag posted:Hey, I finally have something to contribute (for once in my posting). I'm in the process of fixing all 22 years of deferred maintenance on my 95 M Miata. I was going to take it for a little drive when the water pump started draining the whole cooling system down the front of the block. Great. After a couple of days on ramps and all the other poo poo that has to come off for a water pump replacement, I was greeted with...this  Galvanic corrosion is due to dissimilar metals being in contact. It has nothing to do with water.
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TotalLossBrain posted:IIRC, the mineral content in "straight water" provides electrolytes necessary for galvanic corrosion. I think it is more that antifreezes contain ingredients to create boundary layers that prevent water from contacting metal parts directly. Plain water is bad because it leaves the metals unprotected.
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Dannywilson posted:This is completely false. RO seeks to return the water to a ph of 7.4 which is exact neutral. Last time I checked, exact neutral was pH 7.0.
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