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Mr-Spain posted:I saw a bit of a rare bird today. Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:I wanted a tan, but I wanted it to be even on both sides of my body. So far it's mostly on my left arm and one side of my face. Easy answer: get a RHD car and alternate days.
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I tried contacts for a while, but I was having to constantly use resetting drops, or everything got blurry. I wonder if maybe the drops recommended above might be an improvement. I intend to get LASIK at some point, but $$. I absolutely hate glasses, for all the reasons above. It's lovely being under a car, and sweaty, trying to look at something, but your glasses keep sliding to one side or another. I'm functionally blind without these things.
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KozmoNaut posted:It sounds like you got the wrong size lenses or something, they should stay put by themselves. They don't stay put all that well when your eyes keep drying out. I apparently don't make enough tears.
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IOwnCalculus posted:Get some prescription safety glasses. They can be had pretty cheaply and they make all the difference. Probably, but that's more $$ to spend. Damned daily glasses are already $300+. I'd love to have shades, etc. settled for Transitions, which work well, except when your in a car, because of the UV protection in the window glass.
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extreme_accordion posted:Worked with a man in a grocery store that made a customer vomit when she came within 5 feet of him due to his BO. How does someone like that even get hired at a grocery store, of all places? Did the hiring manager have no sense of smell? Powershift posted:But like, aren't alligators the dinosaurs that decided not to become chickens? Nah, reptiloids weren't dinosaurs. At least, I think that's correct.
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Terrible Robot posted:Do the Konami code (use enter for start, duh) That's awesome. Kudos for the Bank of Canada having a (nerdy) sense of humor. Also, I want a collection of the current loonies. They're so much more interesting than American bills.
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Holy poo poo do want. The Locator posted:Perfect in every w... holy poo poo, $100! Ok, not quite perfect. That's just what shirts built like actual hockey jerseys cost. Sucks, but they all cost that. Edit: a friend has the Doctor Who one from there. It's really well made, and seems to be made just like a real sports jersey, with sewn on letters and numbers. Darchangel fucked around with this message at 01:49 on Jun 5, 2017 |
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Liquid Communism posted:I'm a horrible nerd, so I ordered Rockastansky, #79. Witnessed.
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:I got a text from my old roommates. They're pregnant. How the hell does one owe a 1/4 mil in child support/alimony/etc? According to the numbers, as a dirty Oh, and send him his stupid sign in lieu of either option. It's not like he doesn't know how babby is made. CommieGIR posted:Or just remove the hose and take it to a hydraulic shop and have them rebuild it. This is what I was going to say. If the hose is $40 new like the guy in the video said, I think it would be worth it to have the flexible bit remade by a hose shop. I'm feeling rather satisfied with myself. I bought this weed whacker as a pig-in-a-poke. It came in yesterday, and I immediately took it out into the garage to see what the problem was. The description was correct. It'll turn a little, then struggle and stop. I opened the case, all of 5 screws, and I think I found the problem:  Yeah, that's a whole wad of fishing line. 20 minutes of quality time with a set of nippers and a pair of needle-nose pliers, and I had a $0.49 + $16.00 shipping 18V line trimmer, and a pile of fishing line:  (bonus note from seller) I'm getting tired of maintaining my finicky 2-cycle gas trimmer for my less-than-a-quarter-acre lot, and already have Ryobi 18V tools and batteries, so I'm good to go. Folks, this is why I'm so happy to be someone who can fix poo poo rather than just throwing it away. That trimmer is $60 new, and this one looks barely used.
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keykey posted:I've bought 2 gas trimmers that lasted me 2 years each, then a cheap rear end electric trimmer that I paid all of $30-40 at home depot that's lasted me 15 years so far. Unless you're on acreage/in the lawn business gas trimmers don't make any sense since they just sit and rot for 30 minutes use every 2 weeks. To be fair, I've had the gas trimmer for 15 years, but pretty much exactly as you say. I didn't even need the cordless one, as a 50' extension cord will reach anywhere I need to go. Unless I get some acreage that requires it, I'm never buying a small gas engine again. When the lawnmower dies - electric. Chainsaw - electric. I don't use any of them often or long enough to keep them healthy and/or the gas fresh. that said, my 17-year-old Briggs-powered MTD mower keeps chugging along with minimal maintenance. I just bought a carb kit (AKA "a gasket") and governor spring for it because it's surging, but that and a new spark plug every couple of years is pretty much all it's ever needed.
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Siochain posted:Have a cordless weed whipper and a cordless hedge trimmer - both were cheap, and just loving work. I love them. gently caress the gas ones unless you are doing this poo poo for a living and its running hours a day where batteries would just run out. I used a Harbor Freight electric chainsaw (corded) that my buddy had when we were cleaning up his back yard. It seemed to work fine. It's a little strange using a chainsaw that doesn't, well, sound like a chainsaw. Kind of like electric cars, I guess. rdb posted:Electric is fine for stuff up to 7-10" with a sharp chain. Just a word of warning, however, chaps designed for gas saws won't protect you from electric since those don't have a clutch. I go through about a spool every two mow and trim sessions, and less than a tank of gas per. .23 acre, Ryobi Quick-Link trimmer from 2001 or so. It's just getting worn, and the carb is finicky. keykey posted:Mine is corded, but still electric. I use an edger whenever, this one specifically: http://www.homedepot.com/p/BLACK-DECKER-Edge-Hog-7-5-in-11-Amp-2-in-1-Electric-Landscape-Edger-LE750/100052063 whever I can, but use a weed whacker when I have to. I replace the string once every couple months, but spool it with this stuff, it lasts longer and works better than anything else I've used: http://www.homedepot.com/p/Rino-Tuff-Universal-0-095-in-x-830-ft-Heavy-Duty-Trimmer-Line-16526/203041777. It's also a single line feeder, the last one I used was a dual line feeder and the line was also used up twice as fast since it's not the grass that screws the line, it's the wood/brick. Gas one is dual line, cordless one I fixed is single. I'm hoping it might last longer. The cordless one is also auto-feed, which I'm not sure I'll like.
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DICK DICER posted:So the civic is getting expired tabs tickets literally every other day. I cant renew them until my license is valid. I cant get that restored until I pay off all the tickets. The close outdoor storage places all require a car be running and fully tabbed and Insured to store for.a month plus, and the one that didn't require that starts at $300/mo just for an unsecured spot in their lot Why does the state of your license have anything to do with the tags on the car? Is that a Washington thing? In TX, you can register, tag, and inspect a car without a license required, as far as I know. Maybe I'm wrong - I've never had an expired or revoked driver's license.
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BraveUlysses posted:yeah its a Washington thing, you have to have a valid drivers license to register a car to stop illegals. if you're caught parking on the street with tabs that are 6 months or more expired they can impound your car! Huh. I get the parking on the street with expired tabs thing, but the driver's license thing is... I don't know what to call it. Hostile. You get circular poo poo like 14's got now.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Get a car cover? I bet Washington required that the license plate be visible regardless, given that they're already being assholes about renewing the tabs.
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The Door Frame posted:Anyone have any experience with car dollies? Those tiny casters look like a giant pain in the rear end to move on uneven concrete I don't have any complaints about my Harbor Freight dollies, but I have a pretty smooth garage floor, and the RX-7 that's on them only weighs about 2500 pounds or so.
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Looks like my Crown Vic will be needing pads and at least front rotors soon. What was the Goon collective preferred configuration for daily driver brakes? I seem to recall Centric rotors and ceramic pads of some sort. Is there really any difference, particularly with rotors? Even the plain-jane poo poo at O'reillys is almost $50 per rotor. Ditto for the "Brake Best" ceramic pads. I might as well get the Power Stop Daily Driver kit from Rock or Amazon (probably Amazon because $LOL shipping @ Rock Auto.) I'm not going to be racing the thing. I just need it to stop confidently, and preferably without making GBS threads up my fancy wheels.
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monsterzero posted:I did DD-grade centric rotor/pad kits with ceramic pads (Posi-Quiet iirc) from RockAuto and it was cheaper than Amazon with Prime. I don't see the kits anymore though. So far so good. Haven't run into anything and they're quiet and not dusty. Thanks. Yeah, looks like the only kits Rock has are the Power Stop, which aren't too bad - DD is &170, + $44 shipping. Less than (cheap) rotors alone from O'Reilly's. i'd like zinc of black coated rotors because I hate rust, but I can paint them if I need to. I will admin that I actually want cross-drilled rotors purely for the appearance, too. I'm bad, I know. Cop Porn Popper posted:The brakebest rotors are one of the tiers of raybestos rotors, whichever ones mimic the OE rotor material exactly along with vane construction, etc. The pads I've gotten varying answers, but all responses were bosch, centrix or wagner and I have seen a few very old wagner boxes rebranded brakebest. Fwiw, outside of an insanely finicky customer or two, I don't get complaints about gold box ceramic pads we sell. Cool. I'm looking on the website. I usually know what I want to get before I go in, just so I can shoot that poo poo down.
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cakesmith handyman posted:https://twitter.com/PolComForum/status/873186390539988993 Without doing research, I'm guessing that she said something similar about a reduction in the budget/number of police officers? That would seem in line with what I know about her (dumb Colonial here. We have our own orange-utan to worry about).
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Seminal Flu posted:Could there be a more boring and unoriginal name for a next-gen console than the Xbox One X? Beats Xbox One 2. Specs sound nice, though, and the price isn't outrageous if it actually churns out that power. Since they made sure it's backwards compatible with Xbone and 360, I'm in. Seems like Microsoft is actually listening to its users. edit: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/e3-2017-where-to-preorder-xbox-one-x/1100-6450738/ (also has the presentation video, and links to pics/specs)
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Ah, so that's what that noise was. Note the weird wear on the corner tread near the missing chunk:   That was also the tire that had a slow leak, so I guess this was why. Fortunately, we were about 1/4 mile from home when the chunks started flying. A visit to Discount Tire is in the near future, if I can manage to get in before work. Fortunately, I've still got good tires on the original steelies handy to fill the gap.
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rdb posted:What was the date code on that tire? The tread looks great and that kind of failure just shouldn't happen. Dunno, but I bought them less than two years ago. Pictures I have up say 11/17 for the purchase date. Also echoing the Doom is great. Even on console. I imagine it's better on mouse and keyboard. I'm stuck at the final boss.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Doom is superb, the engine is so smooth and solid. I made the mistake of picking it up after Titanfall 2 though which has the superior movement system, is faster and allows you to pilot a giant robot and punch people into a fine red mist. GOTY. that reminds me that I need to get back in and play Titanfall 2 some more. I keep forgetting I have it when I try and decide what to play in my limited time. Currently in progress: Fallout 3, Borderlands (1), Akham Origins, Just Cause 3, Saints Row IV, LEGO Dimensions (which never ends - they keep adding stuff), GTA V, and probably more I'm forgetting. On the shelf, unplayed: COD:BLOPS 3, Halo 5, and who knows what else in the "Games With Gold". Several Steam games on my PC, and they just opened the Quake beta back up. InitialDave posted:Gamechat: Just found out there's another Wolfenstein out in October. Hope it's good. In honor of that, BJ Blaskowicz is a playable character in the Quake Beta, BTW. quote:My parents are in Japan this week, and took a trip to the Toyota Megaweb in Odaiba today. At the Heritage Garage cafe, my dad was showing someone pictures of his current restoration projects, and got invited into the workshop to have a chat with the old guys who do the cars there: Oh, that's awesome.
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:Hello future Darchangel! Ugh. I meant 11/15, of course. Didn't get a chance to look at the date codes last night, and forgot to look at the mileage. I set up an appointment with Discount Tire on Saturday, since I'm hourly and don't want to lose any hours. I've got a good tire on a steelie on there, so no worries. CommieGIR posted:Technically, everything is my hobby. Computers, Electronics, Cars.... Dude. I'm with you there. Only made one of them my money hobby, though.
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CommieGIR posted:I'm just getting sick of IT, I can't stand dealing with these....people, anymore. Poor management, ignored consultations and counseling, poorly planned projects. Well, since I got released from the company and contract that I'd been working for 17 years, I've discovered that there are actually companies out there that can do IT intelligently. So far, I seem to be working for one now.
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QuarkMartial posted:Traffic or no, I couldn't do a one hour commute to work. That's at least two hours of my day spent driving, and, well, gently caress that. LOL at "decompressing" while driving in traffic. I currently work 9AM-6PM, so I get to miss most of the stupid poo poo, at least on my route. If I had to commute in peak idiocy, I'd arrive home/work in a rage. Bad enough as is, and my commute is about 11 miles (20-30 minutes.)
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The Midniter posted:How un/safe is it to keep my propane grill on my deck? It's got wooden railings and a trex floor. I grill about once a week, the only time I'm not actively outside with the grill is when it's initially heating up, and I turn it off as soon as I'm done using it. Seriously? I've got a gas stove *inside the house* WITH a pilot light! There are things continuously ON FIRE inside my home. I think a gas grill on your deck isn't going to be much of a hazard. What's it going to do, spew fire like a flamethrower? Just don't, like, shove it right up against the siding while in use or still hot. I get it - firefighters have to deal with stupid people with limited understanding of physics, but my god, the safety folks sometimes...
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everdave posted:You can turn half that poo poo off in a deep sub-menu and most of the rest off with a Bluetooth code reader and torque or what have you. Also found it funny today on TTAC where a writer had such a poo poo show time with a rented $42k Durango and its start-stop engine (it turns the ac off wtf?) and the little shitbox baby Prius C I bought has near instant cold no motor running AC and it obviously keeps it on non-stop WTF FCA? Dodge is probably still using the engine-driven AC compressor. Prius , and most hybrids, have an electrically driven AC compressor. Folks doing EV conversions covet those and electric-hydraulic power steering pumps. Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:Waking up to the bed shaking and the sounds of jackhammers is always fun. Either that, or you got lucky at the club last night. Hey-o! edit: cursedshitbox posted:Are you sure it was foundation work? Dammit!
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So, sitting in Discount Tire to get my tire with the missing chunk replaced. Two hours, and they finally pulled my car in. All covered by the warranty, at least. Spent the $18 for a new warranty on the new tire. Date code was FMR3315, which jibes with the purchase date. August 2015 versus, I believe it was October for the purchase. The other three are holding up fine, so probably a manufacturing defect. Once I get back home, it's time to put on the new brakes, which will involve painting bits. I bought a StopTech kit with drilled and slotted rotors and Centric ceramic pads. The rotors are for appearance only, don't hate me. I realize there's no real performance benefit on a daily driver. You probably will hate me for my painted calipers when you see them.
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DJ Commie posted:I bought a super rare set of late 80s HKS temperature gauges for my GTX (to go with the boost and EGT i already have) and am going to need to figure out oil/water temperature senders. Anyone know of charts I can find a match for, or even a supplier for the actual sensors? I don't mind actually using an attiny or arduino to translate from gm or denso sensors, maybe then I could code in startup sweeps for gauges that never had them... This is where the variable decade resistor network in the electronics kit from my schooling comes in handy. I've used it a few times to verify gauge operation. That and the power supply are pretty much all I've used it for since, though the prototyping area on it has come in handy once or twice.
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keykey posted:The best part of letting your in-laws borrow your car is fixing it when they gently caress it up. Also finding more poo poo wrong upon inspection when they want you to fix their "initial" gently caress up. Driving it 25 miles back home with the temp light on and the needle pegged to max is the proper way to do things, right? "We managed to get it home..." Also "the tags are due and it DMV says it needs to be snogged, are you going to do that for me while you're fixing the cooling issue?" No you assholes, you've had it for a year without buying anything else yet. Get off your rear end and pony up to borrow it. Sorry. Rant over. Yeah, I think you've got a right to bitch. I've always been the opposite. I tend to fix things when i borrow a car. they get it back better than it was. monsterzero posted:It's supposed to be 110* today so I thought I would get an early start on playing with some new toys but 9:00am wasn't early enough. I pulled the front wheels off the Silverado to confirm that all the rubber is trashed and that everything else looks okay. Things were actually better than I expected, no play or grinding from the wheel bearings and the brakes looked recently replaced, in the last 5k maybe. Mid '90s here in DFW, TX, but humid, this past weekend (it's finally raining now today). And I was out in it all weekend doing the brakes on my Crown Vic. Power/Air tools help a lot. A box fan and some portable shade helps, too. I have the rolling stool, but it was still a bit tall for how i had the car positioned - I should have jacked it up as far as the jack and stands would let me. Ended up sitting on the removed tires, so worked out OK. Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:That's about what I pay for my Saturn's insurance. If you need AC equipment (vac pump and gauges), I have them, and three major auto parts stores within a mile or two. Regarding the aforementioned Crown Vic brakes:  Soooo much better than rust/semi-metallic brake dust. Note the water on the ground where someone had to degrease and wash the engine compartment, frame, and driveway because they forgot to siphon off little brake fluid before compressing the caliper pistons, which were pretty much all the way out (front pads were reeeeeaaaally thin.)
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I could probably knock a bit off if I dropped collision, but I'd rather pay a bit more per month instead of having to go "ohshit" and find another car if I gently caress up (or, as with what happened last year, someone with insurance hits me, but their insurance drags it out for 9 months).
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I'd appreciate a recommendation folks. My wife's Kia Spectra5 needs at least one front strut (meaning it needs two, of course). It looks like KYB GR-2/Excel-G struts are the favored OE replacement. Any reason not to go with KYB? Other options are Monroe OE Spectrum, Sachs, and Gabriel. Not much change in price either way. there are cheaper ones, with names i don't recognize (who the hell is Sensen?) I've not fiddled with OE replacement much. I have no issue with how it rode and drove on the OE stuff when new. Not a racecar, so no coilovers. I need to look at it to see if it needs new strut mounts, too, and I may need a lower control arm or two. The bushings are cheap, but I don't know how much of a pain pressing them in and out of the control arms might be. Need to check the CV joints to see if it needs new axles, too...
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FAT32 SHAMER posted:I finished painting + hanging the cabinets in the laundry room You should paint those cabinets. They seem a little worn.
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FAT32 SHAMER posted:Ha I made the same joke to the missus I know it's not too original, and not that I hate it or anything, but I think that every time I see weathered finishes. And "patina".
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everdave posted:My experience has been the opposite hello $12 after coupon nailer that I have already shot 1k plus brads/nails through and is awesome. $9 air comp acc kit. Free volt meter that let me diagnose my water heater. Have only had it a few months I am saving money. And so many free tarps/screwdrivers/whatever The only reason I didn't buy an HF trim nailer is because I though their price was a little high (quite a hike up from the brad/staple nailer) and found a $40 nailer on eBay that did 16d trim AND 18d brads and staples. It worked a treat on the kitchen baseboard trim. An HF framing nailer built my shed, and an HF roofing nailer stuck the shingles on it. Those both belonged to my friend, so I'll be buying my own soon-ish. (I actually bought the ones we used, as replacements for the pair that were stolen from my garage while I was borrowing them.) The $12 HF HVLP paint gun I bought did a fine job shooting Rustoleum satin black on my RX-7. GnarlyCharlie4u posted:We have ways of making you talk. I just want you to know I appreciate the subtle subtext in the background, there.
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InitialDave posted:I can turn the Zoe's AC on remotely from the office before going outside at the end of my shift. My colleagues are going to shiv me if this weather continues. I've got remote start on my Crown Vic. It's lovely, if I remember to turn the AC on when I get out in the morning. Thankfully, I park in a parking structure at the new job, rather than out in the blazing Texas sun like at the old one.
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InitialDave posted:That's why I like it, you can just turn the HVAC on. Nothing else. 5 minutes of chilling on a timer. It's brilliant, as is the logical opposite (heater) on frosty mornings. That is slick. Hybrid/electric, I presume? Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:I see we're on the same level for taco sauce. Oh, god yes, the humidity sucks. Doing all the brake work last weekend was just shy of miserable. I had to take breaks in the garage with shade and a box fan, and keep a towel handy. Wearing a boonie hat helped. I didn't use to be that bad here in N.TX. Both of my grandparent's hoses had swamp coolers, and they actually worked when I was kid in elementary school (loooong ago). I was accustomed to this sort of humidity when I lived down near the Gulf Coast. Don't really want it up here...
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:Man okay the blacksmithing thread has no respect for hobbyist level stuff I guess. I just bought myself a $200 milling attachment for my lathe. Seems expensive, but they usually go for $350+. That's because they made a poo poo TON of Atlas/Craftsman lathes, but barely anybody bought the expensive accessories for them back in the day. So the survivors have to fight over a tiny amount of remaining attachments. So it makes it a small horizontal mill? edit: oh, hey, look at this! Darchangel fucked around with this message at 16:22 on Jun 22, 2017 |
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monsterzero posted:Lol. Whatever it takes to justify it.
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