MAY 2017 CHAT THREAD - All my freinds are getting married

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cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

Oldsmobile posted:

Hey, back on the subject of run flat tires. What's that system called, where they put a plastic thing inside the tire on top of the rim. And you can presumably use regular tires with it.

Is that still even a thing?

Tire bands? Tyron bands? Something like that, I've only ever seen them on trailers/caravans

# ¿ May 1, 2017 00:21

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# ¿ May 3, 2024 12:15

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

Woke up to a bunch of voice mails and missed calls from work this morning, looks like I'll have some interesting mechanical failures to fix when I get in in half an hour :v:

# ¿ May 3, 2017 05:26

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

CornHolio posted:

So a buddy of mine is looking at a 1999 Range Rover.

I told him to never buy a $2500 Range Rover, but other than that advice, what should he be looking for if he goes to check this out and how bad of a vehicle will it be for him?

He should be looking for a spare car.

# ¿ May 4, 2017 16:56

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

I installed Strava. A week ago. I'm going to try to get out on the bike tonight, even if it's only a little 2-3k loop.

# ¿ May 6, 2017 09:24

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

My younger brother had been sending fuzzy barely focused pictures of their new dog for the last couple of days.

In response my parents started sending pictures of their brand new cockerpoo puppy. Also fuzzy.

And I will go for that ride after I've put the kids to bed, promise.

# ¿ May 6, 2017 18:15

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

https://www.strava.com/activities/973975493/shareable_images/map_based?hl=en-US&v=1494099768

Poor cakesmith, thought of cadence and died.

I won't poo poo up the thread with these in the future, promise.

# ¿ May 6, 2017 21:05

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

Rhyno posted:

You're allowed to send out a wedding invite without a "plus one" line on it right?

You can do what the gently caress you want, but people feel they can ignore or reinterpret things like that as they feel. Hell you could literally write "don't bring your batshit crazy wife" and they'll laugh it off and bring her anyway.

# ¿ May 8, 2017 18:43

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

Safety Dance posted:

When the time comes for me to be a homeowner, I'm really tempted to install davits alongside an upper story window for this reason.

British aerospace company. They make my favorite adorable airplane, the BAE 146

Unless you live on the second floor or have a solid concrete house putting a washer upstairs is a terrible idea, think whole house vibrations.

# ¿ May 8, 2017 21:21

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

slidebite posted:

Yeah its not ideal, but most front loader washer manufacturers for the North American market at least are aware of that and have made the drum suspensions killer for 2nd floor installs.

IE:
http://www.electroluxappliances.com/Washers-Dryers/Second-Floor-Guarantee/

That's pretty cool, never seen that over here in the UK.

Went for another ride, broke a brake cable, survived. Need glasses for flying bugs.

# ¿ May 8, 2017 21:41

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

I went to a painfully expensive super posh wedding a few years ago where the bride insisted the first dance was to that "let the bodies hit the floor" track. She was wearing big black new rock boots under her dress.

# ¿ May 10, 2017 06:16

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

Take a poo poo.

# ¿ May 10, 2017 19:51

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

funny Star Wars parody posted:

I'm mad at the world today so please excuse me (but really, gently caress Musk and the rest of Silicon Valley forever and I look forward to that bubble bursting)

Shut up dude. Coming from a guy who openly felates Apple products your comments all sounds pretty loving shallow and stupid. Go for a run with your dog then drink a shower beer.

# ¿ May 11, 2017 06:34

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

I spent ten minutes yesterday on the phone to a guy who wanted me to write an excel report to collate a bunch of data from other excel sheets so he could achieve one of his annual objectives, due next week. He wouldn't outright ask or even tell me to do it, he was trying to get me to volunteer. I didn't make it easy for him and never actually said I would do it. My supervisor was listening in and wetting himself laughing.

They won't let me play with SCADA, I've briefly had access to our plant network last year but they revoked it because they didn't have enough licences.I think it'd be a useful skill to have.

# ¿ May 12, 2017 06:29

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

InitialDave posted:

I find those sprays like Covonia that include a numbing effect can be quite good.

Glenlivet does a good one but it doesn't come with an applicator

# ¿ May 12, 2017 23:40

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

Enourmo posted:

I guess it's a side effect of hearing her war stories. She grew up dirt poor, her dad was an engineer for 40 years but between 7 kids they just barely scraped by. At 18 she was out on her own, working through accounting school at winn dixie (at the same university as me no less), then fighting the next 20 years to be taken seriously as a career woman in the 80s and 90s, all while having me and my sisters and divorcing my dad. Finally landed a good job around 2k, lost a ton of real estate value in 08 but still manages to have a mind boggling net worth, at least from my pov.

She literally bootstrapped herself from nothing to upper middle class. Next to that it feels like how loving dare I be so... mediocre.

Take back the bootstrap comment, then compare how many hours you had to work to pay for college at her time vs yours. I failed my first year of uni and had to redo from start pretty much at my parents cost, I hope they never find out it was because I was stoned and loving almost non-stop but I know they don't care about the money now because of where I've got to 15 years later. I've underachieved compared to my dad in my opinion but they're proud of me and my brothers for who we are.

poo poo dude I got a 2,2 degree and I've never had to actually tell anyone that when getting a job, it's literally never mattered.

# ¿ May 14, 2017 08:38

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

Enourmo posted:

I mostly want trim rings to avoid the murdered out look, kinda visually break up the mass of black.

Buck the trend, get full moon discs.

# ¿ May 14, 2017 21:23

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

At one point it was about £5 more expensive to buy a set of 16"s and matching Pirellis than replace the 15" tyres I had on my Volvo.

Currently keeping my eye out for any interesting looking alloys that crop up in 5.5x13 4x98 for cheap.

# ¿ May 16, 2017 09:32

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

InitialDave posted:

I have a set of original Uno Turbo alloys in my stash. See if you can find some of those, they've got a nice classic sort of "Compomotive TH" look to them.

I know where there's a set but security just got a lot tighter :haw:

# ¿ May 16, 2017 09:53

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

It's those clever new bone reducing medicines big pharma have been keeping secret, obviously.

# ¿ May 16, 2017 13:37

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

That reminds me I should be buying hybrid tyres for my bike instead of alloys for my car. Boo.

# ¿ May 16, 2017 18:56

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

jamal posted:

I got out on a borrowed fat bike a few times this winter and getting one for myself is not really on the radar. You actually need pretty specific snow conditions for them to roll well and they are just heavy and slow everywhere else.

A cross/gravel-type bike might have some downsides for you. They have drop bars, and the tires can still be relatively narrow,. You are going to want to be riding on at least 40mm wide tires. That will be more comfortable, give you better grip off pavement, and be nicer to the wheels. So this does include some, but not all cross bikes (mine is for racing- has minimal tire clearance, narrow gearing, and low bars and a high seat). I don't usually suggest "hybrid" bikes but this for example might work out really well

https://www.raleighusa.com/redux-192

The main thing you don't want in a 500-1000 new bike is a front suspension fork (they are just dead weight at that level), or a ton of gears. The 1x drivetrains are simpler and shift better and have a wide range these days.

The £400 mountain bike I bought 4 years ago has front suspension and 3x gearing. I wish I'd known this back then.

# ¿ May 16, 2017 22:26

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

MrChips posted:

As far as I am concerned, this hop war is just to cater to the hipsterest of hipsters.

Hopsters.

Olympic Mathlete posted:

If a place sells Asahi I'm a happy man, all I want in my beer/lager is a nice crisp refreshing taste. I've had all sorts of weird and wonderful beers and ales but I've never liked one enough to have a second pint of it so I end up drinking everything, disliking all of it and then being annoyed (and drunk) when I've pissed away cash on crap drink

Serious suggestion aldi pilsner.

# ¿ May 18, 2017 23:04

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

InitialDave posted:

I don't associate cider with millenials. It's basically chavvy teenagers hanging around the youth center, chavvy adults hanging about the betting shop, or the archetypical hybrid of real ale fans and the Wurzels.

I don't think I'm chavvy so I think that makes me a wurzel. Okay.

Rhyno posted:

Hahahaha HOLY poo poo

I just started a dialogue with a dude in a local car club, he needs a 4 door car as he is suddenly saddled with being a single dad to two kids. And he has a non running 96 Miata up for trade. So I should absolutely swap the PT for that car right? And then LS Swap the motor?

Bizarrely you'd be doing both of you a favour, help the guy out.

# ¿ May 19, 2017 06:21

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

Just took the wife to watch guardians of the galaxy 2, it was pretty good and I'm glad I went, except I've just come out of the other side of a loving honest to God migraine induced by the cinema sound system. That meant I really didn't enjoy the meal afterwards but it looked like my wife did so I'll call the day a success and try to mow the lawn with 1 eye closed.

Seriously if half the audience are cringing at the loud parts it's too loving loud. I know how old I sound, gently caress off.

# ¿ May 21, 2017 17:12

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

Clearly we need to get CT a trike with one of each hub to perform a true trial

I know that's not how they work but it'd be funny right?

# ¿ May 23, 2017 07:06

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

If you had a narrow light car like a 70's British sports car you could lift it with a high reach pallet truck :haw:

# ¿ May 27, 2017 11:12

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

rdb posted:

Details?

Does anyone know where the AC thread went? I need it. Not sure if I should bother changing what I think is a stuck txv or not. System still cools great but pressures are not ideal. High pressure line is a bit high and low a bit low. Might be an airflow issue too.

It's back on like page 6 or 7

# ¿ May 27, 2017 20:38

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

If I need to reference a thread I usually end up using the Maryland metrics website. It was eye-searing yellow until I figured out how to make my browser display that exact shade of yellow as a muted grey. Funny how you latch onto particular websites as data sources.

Find out this morning a friend husband is in our local hospital, she's 3 hours away with 2 kids and can't drive, going spare with worry. As soon as we found out we offered to go see him today and deliver the essentials and put them up for the week when she gets a train down. Hope he's good but reading between the lines I think he's here to see a spinal specialist :ohdear:

# ¿ May 28, 2017 13:32

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:

Anyone want a second hand driveshaft?

A few more of those and you'll have the makings of a throne.

# ¿ May 29, 2017 08:32

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

I've got the whole week off and planned to get the patio finished off. 40% done yesterday, then I pulled my back this morning getting shopping out of the car. Hope it clears up quickly, I've got a huge list of poo poo I needed to get done

# ¿ May 30, 2017 13:22

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

BigPaddy posted:

I had to send out invites to people I never wanted to see and I knew would never come to the US for it because my mother didn't want to upset anyone. Some of those I had to invite include literal drug dealers and rapists.

My wife really really really didn't want one particular uncle on her side being invited but her mum forced her into it. I posted them.

Well, almost all of them.

# ¿ May 31, 2017 18:59

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

funny Star Wars parody posted:

whatta nice guy

I can't tell the tone intended by text alone, so bite me ging.

# ¿ May 31, 2017 21:13

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# ¿ May 3, 2024 12:15

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

Nah, the subject never came up. More than 10 years have passed, I think I'm in the clear.

# ¿ May 31, 2017 21:37

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