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Oh hey Kastein, it turns out I'm kinda acquainted with your brother. He posted some vines on Twitter of a five ton truck going through the woods last week, I asked him about it, he said it was at his brothers' in Massachusetts, and I put the pieces together. That truck continues to amaze.
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Remind me what has to happen before you can register the 5 ton.
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Mar 7, 2014 23:25
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So, 48 hours awake and then back to designing flying cars?
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Mar 17, 2014 21:53
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I love how much blood, sweat, and tears you pour into fixing your Jeeps so that you can drive them off of cliffs.
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Mar 23, 2014 17:27
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Makes me want to get another lovely jeep, drive it to wherever kastein lives, and then just spend a week installing whatever parts he says to install. That or, give him my debit card and install whatever parts he throws at me.
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Apr 5, 2014 03:56
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And here I thought the AX5 was made out of saltine crackers and hope.
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Apr 30, 2014 03:04
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I think I found Ken's Saudi Arabian cousin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP-iZkVfvt0
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May 18, 2014 20:43
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kastein posted:It's all out there, just not in the same place. I've considered putting together a giant gantt chart type thing that shows year changeovers for every part I'm aware of on various vehicles, but I haven't found software that works well enough for me to get more than 5 minutes into it and give up in frustration. Sit down with GraphViz. Once you learn it's bizarre domain specific space language, you could make a whole bunch of this-connects-to-this graphs.
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May 21, 2014 20:21
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If anyone's workplace has a big old CNC mill, I would expect yours to, kastein. Machining a new bellhousing out of a big block of steel couldn't cost more than, what, three or four junkyard transmissions?
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Jun 16, 2014 15:54
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Good lord man. I don't want to know what a burning can of brakleen smells like.
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Jul 11, 2014 01:06
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kastein posted:I might start working on an airplane to put it in. How does this work? Do you just mount the motor backwards and throw a 10:1 gearbox on the output shaft? e. Oh, that's what a PSRU is. My bad.
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Jul 29, 2014 15:19
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Geirskogul posted:I've been meaning to ask: trigger warning? Like, that thing tumblr people do when they can't deal with real life? Some AI folks react badly when they encounter multiple positive Sockington Units of rust. Kastein's just being a good guy by warning them.
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Sep 9, 2014 02:08
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kastein posted:You must have missed the last 19 times someone suggested that and I noted I live down a steepish rocky dirt road and around a corner, the city doesn't plow it during the winter, and wouldn't even make it to the driveway nevermind out to the paved road if I drove a 2wd vehicle Only a month and a half until you can use the five ton to tow your boring commutermobile to the top of the hill?
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Nov 14, 2014 17:14
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kastein posted:Yeah, quality connectors are very much a pay to play game unfortunately. For instance I was looking at 7 pin minimultilocks for everything on the vehicle at work only to find that they were fairly cheap... but the only certified crimp tool for them was $2300. I can justify that for production, but for a test prototype? Hellllll no. So I ended up speccing d369 for everything, which weighs somewhat more but costs $bazilliondy less and is actually nicer for assembly and maintenance. I've read through this a handful of times, and I just want to confirm something. The battery-to-car connection looks like this in your mind, correct? 
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Dec 19, 2014 18:26
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Awesome. Thank you.
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Dec 19, 2014 18:47
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I'm gonna second the Chicago invitation.
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Mar 17, 2015 17:23
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Ken, your brother sang like a canary when I asked him. I can't wait.
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Mar 20, 2015 03:04
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Man, I miss getting tires shipped to work. Stupid high rise.
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May 12, 2015 01:01
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I'm gonna bet "as soon as the new one arrives from Digikey" is a phrase Ken uses so often at work that he typed it on autopilot.
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Mar 29, 2016 00:53
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How do you pop the cap without being yourself drenched in superheated ethylene glycol?
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May 29, 2016 00:00
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kastein posted:Remember that if you don't use a V drive and just try to run something like a custom built transfer case (such as an NP200 from an M715 combined with parts from an NP205 from anything they came in, which can result in a case with two rear outputs, one of which you could use as an input) you're going to have to find a way to turn the engine backwards. Honda powered, got it.
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Aug 9, 2016 17:58
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That's loving awesome, Ken. I imagine it's been discussed, but is that runway technically still active? also  nice
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Aug 23, 2020 05:13
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kastein posted:I have never ever had to shim a Jeep or Subaru starter, this is a bullshit design. Be better, GM. It hearkens back to the days of hand-built automobiles assembled by master craftspeople, each part being meticulously fit by hand. Tolerances? What's that?
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IOwnCalculus posted:I think Chicago's a fantastic place to visit but if I'm driving cross country and not actually stopping there, I'm definitely picking a route that says away from there. Absolutely the scariest driving I've seen in my life. I drove from NYC - Seattle twice and went through Chicago both times (intentionally, because I unironically love Chicago). The first time the potholes were so bad they caused the trailer to pop off of my U-Haul, but the second time it was really lovely right at sunset and well worth detouring a little bit. Elviscat posted:I'd probably break North and take the Muskegon/Milwaukee ferry. This is also a good plan. I think the ferry is $200ish if you have a car, but it's a gorgeous ride especially if you've never been at sea before.
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Sep 13, 2023 20:08
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IOwnCalculus posted:been surrounded by a biker gang of dirt bikes and quads that did wheelies and donuts around our Uber. That's a semi-frequent occurance in every city I've lived in.
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Sep 13, 2023 20:18
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kastein posted:Next up software. I had never developed for esp32 yet. I had a large degree of disdain for Arduino Studio and if anything, this experience has increased that. I had pretty decent luck with Visual Studio Code. I wrote my libraries and unit tests in C++ in VSCode, and did the bare minimum in my .ino file, only using Arduino Studio to flash my ESP32.
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drat dude, nicely done.
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