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monsterzero posted:Then what's the point? The moochers *will* eat them by the handful. And he won't warn them not to. redgubbinz posted:The LA Beast (an idiot on youtube) ate an entire 5lb bag of them on camera, with predictable results. And so do many of my coworkers on a daily basis, if the state of the bathroom at work is any indication. Is that the guy who got a technicolor yawn, quite literally, afterward (before the but cannon fired)?
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Why the gently caress would you eat anything that you know is going to erupt from your rear end in a forceful spray later????? Hello, welcome to The Internet.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:More fool him He (I assume that's not you, just from the lack of RX-7s or Subarus in the other pictures) just nearly killed me with "illiterate grundle-vultures." fake edit: and "off-key dick trumpets."
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Rhyno posted:I've kind of muddied the details but basically she was the community manager here. That came with a free apartment. Then her father got cancer and she needed to be there for him so she stepped down to the leasing agent position. This meant our rent was $800 a month but that's fine, it's roughly what we paid for a place half this size and here we get a garage and driveway. I love how certain people seem to feel that the details and necessities of getting poo poo done are somehow vulgar and need to be hidden away from polite company. I guess working on and washing your own car are for plebeians, whom they definitely don't want living in their apartments. I bet they don't know how sausage is made, either.
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Anyone know what happened to ReelBigLizard and his Network Traffic story? Original thread is locked, and a quick glance doesn't show a new one. I was really digging that tale. edit: whoa, CSB! That's a heck of a life change. More power to you, since you seem to know what you're doing. Keep on posting. It's cool to see what other bits of the world are doing. Darchangel fucked around with this message at 19:21 on Jul 7, 2017 |
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nm posted:JFC Holy crap, I love everything about that house except that it's in California (for the cost of living, mainly) and the price, obviously. While I'd like several more acres of land, the garage helps mitigate that need. Cached Money posted:This, also get some goddamn peaches y'all (paraguayos/flat peaches is a pro buy). Parker County (Texas) Peach Festival was this past Saturday. Came home with a bushel of peaches that will become peach preserves. Only spent a couple of hour at the festival itself, because 90-something degrees F, humid, and way too many people in too small a place standing in too long line to buy overpriced stuff. So, you know, like any fair or festival. Got to visit my folks, too. I forgot to post that the last time I visited, dad gave me a Hobart Handler 135 that he had rescued and fixed. that made me happy.  It's slight years beyond the crackerbox Harbor Freight fluxcore-only welder I got (which did what I needed it to do fro all of $82, so no complaints.) I've only used the Hobart with fluxcore so far, since I need to source and fill a gas bottle, and they're not inexpensive if you want to own. For as little as I currently weld, there's absolutely no way I'm going to rent. Dad also offerred this to me for he and I to repair and restore:  I'm stoked about that! It's small enough to fit in my garage, and just a cursory Google shows it to be a very popular machine that was made for many years. And the 9A has all the bells and whistles, like threading. I've already grabbed service manuals, user manuals and training videos from the net for it. Best part is some of these manuals go back to the '10s, but they made the machines up to the '80s! I'll have to get the serial number and such to figure out when mine was made. It's been stored outside, so there will be a lot of Evaporust and/or electrolytic de-rusting involved. possibly a few parts, but nothing major is missing or broken. Now I just need a little mill.
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Fo3 posted:Conversation that happened today with my 4y/o (his words in italics): God, that's adorably awesome.
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LloydDobler posted:I love it, those are the stories you remember and then repeat to anyone who will listen, much to their embarrassment. My daughter is very tired of me telling everyone she got straight As in honors courses this year. I can't stop though. I'm sure that my daughter, who is now 15, will eventually hate me for relating the story from when she was 3 or so, riding in my RX-7, and SRV's "Texas Flood" was on the radio. When I went to around to unbuckle her from her seat, she looked up at me and say "There's flooding down in Texas", and I had to respond, "yes, and all the telephone lines are down." I was so proud, and utterly amazed that she had managed to pick that line up from the song.
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Geeze - I didn't see the clutch detail on my phone when you pinged me. That's hosed proper. Enourmo posted:Man I am getting pretty goddamn sick of the world not being built for someone with my frame. Being fat I can deal with, but I'm pretty goddamn sick of, when I'm at school, choosing between: Username/post combo. I'm 6'2" and don't have quite those issues, but that's tall enough to begin to feel your pain. I can't drive a Miata first gen at all with the top up, and barely with the top down. 3rd gen I can drive but still not terribly comfortable. Saturn Sky/Pontiac Solstice are right out. I could drive the Fiat 500 if they hadn't mounted the seat on a scaffolding (there's plenty of actual vertical distance inside the car, but they mounted the seat like 2 feet off the floor, so it crams my head against the roof.Damned short Italians.) Hell. I just barely fit in my first and second gen RX-7s. 3rd gen is a tight fit, and forget a helmet unless there's a custom lower-mounted and/or thinner racing seat. As far as work and desk/chair size: YMMV, in my experience. Some desks are way too short, some are better. Good news is that usually, with cubicles, you can move them around, since the desktop just hangs like a shelf. Chairs are a crap shoot, though most of them I are about right for me at their highest extension. Enourmo posted:6'5". I'm at that magic proportion, too, where both my legs and torso are inconveniently long. Yeah, me, too. Evenly split between legs and upper body. Previa_fun posted:I'm 5'6 with short legs, AMA. Oh, god, don't even talk to me about airline seats. I can't even imaging Enourmo in coach. On the plus side, I can reach stuff in the overhead bin great!
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Somewhat Heroic posted:Something is pushing me to want to buy a CNC machine. Something that I can start making billet aluminum parts from. It seems like there would be demand to have access to a machine like that. I am saying that as while I feel confident in my current occupation it is always good to have something in reserve. I am wanting to either look into manufacturing/selling things or learn some sort of high paying skill trade. I don't even know where to begin on this though. It is normal to have thoughts like this, right? For us? Yes. If you're any kind of handy with electronics and computers, you can buy an older (analog?) CNC and upgrade it to a more modern system using a PC and some interface boards, along with new steppers. My late brother in law was doing this as a side business, as well as to get cheaper machines for his machine shop business. He was going to coach me through refitting one of the machines for my own use, but sadly, the cancer got him before we had a chance. It would have been entertaining getting the mill into my garage, but I was willing to try. If we can figure out which machine he was wanting to give me, I still want to give it a try. Speaking of home fabrication, what's AI's recommendations for a 3D printer? Unfortunately, I can't really spend $1500 on one, so what's the best bang/buck? What I've read so far, the Monoprice Maker series are very good for the price, and support Open source and standard G-code, with a lot of features not normally found at the price point. I can swing $400 for a Maker Select Plus. there really doesn't seem to be much below $500. Hell, there's not a lot below $1000. I want to make widgets! Kind of inspired by the guy making wiper and pop-up headlight bushings for RX-7s (they're unobtainium unless you buy a whole linkage).
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:"He just buys lovely cars because of brain damage" What did you buy this time? Or is that just a general statement? ZincBoy posted:The older CNC thing is a bit of a crap shoot unless you know what you are doing. Many of the old machines have been ridden hard and put away wet and if you don't know what to look for, you will have a pile of scrap. Just check the mechanical workings of any machine before starting on the conversion and return it to the scrap yard if it is too horribly worn. I haven't converted an old machine but have converted a manual to CNC with decent results. Worth noting, indeed. I've not done anything in this direction, and it will likely be some time if and when I try a conversion myself. I know just enough about machine tools to get myself in trouble, though my dad is an engineer with machine shop experience, and I took metal shop in high school (manual tools only), so I do know a few basics, at least. Not enough to evaluate a machine - i'll let dad handle that for me. quote:That being said, I mostly print things these days as 3d printers are fire and forget once you get them dialed in. I have several of the Monoprice Maker Ultimate printers. They tend to go on sale from time to time and I picked mine up for $500 each. They can use a few inexpensive upgrades like an all-metal hot end if you want to print more automotive compatible plastics. It is great to prototype with the 3d printer and machine the final version. I have also printed suspension bushing boots using X60 TPU that have worked great (need a flexion extruder for this). Thanks. I could probably swing that much for the Maker Ultimate. I get that the four-post design is going to be more stable, and therefore more precise than the two-post design of the lower-end Makers. I see that there's a 3D printing thread, but it's got a bazillion (old) posts, and, frankly, I trust you guys more than SA as a whole... keykey posted:Serious question time, when the hell did brake pads stop coming with wear indicators? Apparently, my wife's 2013 Taurus doesn't have them and neither do any of the aftermarket pads for it. I got to change out pads and front rotors tonight and apparently need to look at those fuckers more often now that I know the only wear indicator involved is rotor replacement time... It just boggles my mind that a safety item like that wouldn't be standard much less manufacturers cheaping out and not adding in a $.02 piece of metal. Did the bean counters just not account for a markup on that poo poo?!? gently caress... I noticed that on the Centrics I put on my Crown Vic, and the existing pads that were on it. Not sure why the wear indicators are going away. Perhaps the manufacturers want to sell more rotors after we grind them up with the pad backing? quote="cursedshitbox" post="474351932"] Six hours from now I board a train that takes me to Kiev then to Pripyat/Chernobyl. [/quote] This is a trip I'd like to make. There's just something about it, ever since I learned about it in the Call of Duty mission featuring Pripyat. It's just eerie.
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:So the Goodwill down the road has a Kirby vacuum for a not horrible price. You want a Dyson? I have a DC07 that the neighbors threw away because they're stupid never-clean-or-maintenance anything users (they leave they're kid's carseat out in the driveway all the time, in rain, sun, whatever. currently, their lawnmower is in the middle of the yard, and has been for several days, along with the gas can. And the lawn is half [rear end] mowed. Bet they always bitch about how nothing lasts, too.) The Dyson needs a belt, and could use a hose ($15 for a knockoff. It has tears that are currently vinyl-taped), and the catch on the bottom of the dustbin is broken, so you have to hold it closed when you remove to dump it. Works fine, other than the beater bar not running due to the belt. I have enough vacuums as is. I cleaned it up and out, figure out what wasn't working besides being clogged up from never cleaning it. $cheap as is, $30-50 more if fixed.
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So, guys, talk me out of this house: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/414-S-New-Hope-Rd-Kennedale-TX-76060/29172265_zpid/ (The pictures towards the end are what interest me, beyond the TWO ACRE lot. Note in those pictures that the guy clearly has the right stuff) I see nothing that I hate, that can't be changed with wallpaper and paint (that bathroom...) Better still, take a look at the Google Maps satellite view: https://www.google.com/maps/place/4...5!4d-97.2198324 That runway-looking thing to the southwest? that's an 1/8th mile dragstrip. Further down the road is the local dirt track. Up and down the major road to the east (Kennedale Pkwy) are multiple wrecking yards and industrial supply shops. Basically, all stuff that would drive off a normal buyer, but are bonuses to me. My wife is cool with it. She says she'll put up with the drag racing noise if it means she can park her car in the (apparently 3-CAR WIDE, 2 CAR DEEP) 2-car garage. I realize that all the pics are from a fish-eye lens, which makes everything look bigger, but the house is still 400 sq. ft. more than my current place, not counting the shop and such. any decision will be after advice from my financial adviser on the feasibility of being able to afford it (would be 1.5-2x my current mortgage), and a home inspection. I kind of hope the 40-foot container goes with the house. I can live with the cedar shake siding. Would add 10-20 minutes to my commute, before traffic, which I could also live with to get space and privacy for my uncouth hobbies. Also holy poo poo that kitchen storage.
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monsterzero posted:I think one of my Subaru's heads is warped. I don't have a very good straight edge, but it seems like theres a high spot between two of the cylinders. I'm planning on taking everything into the machine shop tomorrow. I'll ask them to check that head for true, and if it's warped stop (and I'll over an My wife noted the hinges. color matching them would diminish the effect somewhat. On the plus side, if those are the actual hinges rather than cosmetic, they'll be much sturdier and more well-attached than the poo poo on my current cabinets.
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:Holy poo poo the 60s are strong with that one. Dirt track, drag strip, wrecking yards, industrial supplies. Hang on, need to check where the nearest Harbor Freight, Northern Tool, and/or Tractor Supply are. And with 2 acres, I could just *build* another house if I decide I hate the existing one... quote:Nah, thanks though. I was interested in the Kirby more because it'll outlive me. The vacuum I have now works well. Sometimes it's good to be someone who can fix stuff. edit: HF in Arlington on the way to/from work. For that matter, there's one in Irving not far off my potential route. Northern Tool also on the route, in Grand Prairie. Tractor Supply in Mansfield (5 miles). Home Depot in Mansfield (ditto). Lowes same. Grocery stores a few miles. Whelp. guess it's time to ask my finance guy if I can afford it. Darchangel fucked around with this message at 23:31 on Jul 17, 2017 |
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Cop Porn Popper posted:At worst you'd just have to swing up into Arlington to get something. As for the strip, my dad lives a short drive over in everman and we could hear the cars running if we sat outside, but it never went too late. I also grew up just nort of there by lake arlington. All in all, a chill place to live. Google is predicting 45 minutes to an hour at my normal leave time, for about 35 miles, and about the same in the mornings. My current drive is 20-30 minutes. I'm willing to put up with more traffic/drive time in order to get land and privacy. I have a coworker who lives in Canton (70 miles from work - he bought his grandmother's place), so this is still better than his commute, but he does it for the same reasons. And yeah, he bought a little Mitsu Charade for the commute. Larrymer posted:Have a serious sit down with your boss. If he isn't receptive then start looking. This. Not that I'm very good at that sort of thing, myself. It's at least worth a try.
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KakerMix posted:I have a question Never, ever cleaning it, treating it, or using a sunshade. It's just foam with a smooth skin. The skin shrinks just like a vinyl dash, but it's way thinner. Notice the complete lack of care for the leather seats. Same root cause. InitialDave posted:Was it owned by a woman? This is definitely true of PC keyboards and mice. Hand cream is amazing at removing the lettering. In this case, i think it's just sun damage.
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cakesmith handyman posted:Hey isn't it funny when you find out someone you've had a major Dang. Good news/bad news.
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Previa_fun posted:My wife loves Miatas too but hates almost literally every other car I have an interest in or could afford. No stupid vans, no Volvo wagons, no 90s Japanese warm hatches for me. Mt wife actually likes my '70 Cutlass - she said as much when we met - but, while not negative toward my RX-7s, doesn't particularly give a poo poo about them. The Crown Vic is just a car to her. She loves her Spectra5, but would really like to upgrade to the "stuff" capacity of a Soul. At least she likes/prefers manual transmissions. She doesn't give me crap about what I drive, at least. She detests, BMWs and Cadillacs, but that's more the drivers/type of people who tend to own them than the cars themselves. cursedshitbox posted:Phone won't stop ringing? More like I'm perched on the wing of a b52 during takeoff. Selection bias? bolind posted:All this hearing loss talk, I should probably get tested. If I'm frying something at the stove I can't hear a single word my wife is saying. Isn't that just because it's mostlywhite noise, like running water? stump posted:Finally got to try a car with Apple CarPlay. What a disappointment - it's worse in many ways than a decent Bluetooth unit. This, I hate. I'm thinking about an aftrermarket CarPlay head, and this just steams me. I *like* Waze, dammit. quote:- Can't have one app up on the phone and one on the dash - i.e. nav and music. Why do you need this? You can't have two apps showing on the phone, either. Use the music controls to change tracks or whatever. Or switch apps briefly. quote:- Can't connect one phone via CarPlay and another via Bluetooth. May be a limitation of the head itself? Silly, either way, but made it simpler for the programmers, I expect. quote:- Can't make a phone call using steering wheel controls. Well, that's just dumb. Not like that would be a new feature or anything. quote:- Spotify and Overcast apps are buggy as poo poo - at one point I opened Overcast, which launched on the phone, but CarPlay opened Spotify. As you say, that might be down to the head unit itself rather than CarPlay per se. quote:Some of these may be down to the head unit ('17 VW Tiguan) but it's just a bit poo poo. Aside from having a big screen I don't see the benefit (aside from Dang. I wish there was a better way to try it out than spend $400 and up in a head unit. stump posted:On the subject of charging... when will car / head unit manufacturers start putting quick charge USB slots in. Every one I've used charges phones at a snails pace, especially when using nav and playing music. I've used a few which were so weak that my phone was discharging despite being plugged in. My Pioneer mechless head seems to charge pretty quick. Not sure if it's actually high current or not. You wouldn't think it would be difficult - they've got a pretty beefy power supply to tap into.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Oh my Gawd I feel I just stepped into a rabbit hole Yeah, I have that thread bookmarked, but I'm afraid to read it.
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:GM has been a fan of this party trick for awhile, as well as running chimes, dings, dongs, basically any noise the car makes, through the stereo. Can confirm. My brother in law's Cobalt used the CAN bus to turn on the radio. Fortunately, his was the base model, and the didn't do all the chimes and driver info center through the radio on that one. Just had to dig out an ACC from the fuse panel conveniently located in the center console just below the radio.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:I'm looking forward to seeing Valerian at the cinema, I know it's not going to be great but it's going to be very pretty and entertaining because Luc Besson and that's currently all I require from sci-fi because the genre as a whole is trash. I respect Howard Taylor's (author and artist of webcomic "Schlock Mercenary") opinion on movies, as he seems to have similar tastes to myself regarding SF/fantasy stuff. He says that Valerian is beautiful, *but*. Summary quote: "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets deserves top billing in a future season of Mystery Science Theater 3000. It was only slightly less painful to watch than Cry Wilderness or Starcrash. It clears my Threshold of Disappointment, obviously, and does so with such aplomb that I almost feel like apologizing to Transformers: The Last Knight." Ouch. (http://howardtayler.com/2017/07/valerian-and-the-city-of-a-thousand-planets/) Still may go see it on matinee/second run. Somewhat Heroic posted:I recently streamed 13 Hours, the Benghazi movie. I enjoyed it even though it was a Michael Bay-Splosion film. I was excited when I saw the trailer for that, until it got to the Michael Bay part, then I actively avoided it, because I hate what he's done to a part of my childhood. On a related note, just saw the teaser for Pacific Rim 2. I'm in. Love my giant robots, just not Michael Bay. Also, Stranger Things 2! And Death Note live action (will watch that one with my daughter - she loved the anime) and Marvel's Defenders on Netflix, and The Tick on Amazon Video, Olympic Mathlete posted:Tits are great, commenting about someone's tits on an internet forum is weird. ...unless it's a forum dedicated to tits. Or possibly an internet comedy forum.
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NitroSpazzz posted:Movie chat: Saw this earlier on imgur and it's relevant - https://imgur.com/gallery/GAqOU I'd forgotten that there was a Kingsman sequel coming. Thank you. I'm excited about ready Player One - I've been meaning to read the book for some time. I'm also cautiously hopeful for the new Wrinkle In time movie. The last one... deviated significantly from the source. It's a testament to how much Seminal Flu posted:Or possibly they were just really nice tits. That, too. Nice boobs are always worth notice. At least from my cis-male heterosexual (did I say that right? I'm not terribly hip on all the words for gender nowadays) viewpoint. I can't speak for any other. Leperflesh posted:are we gonna talk about balls now, or Hey, you do you (see above). CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Talk about whatever body parts turn ya all on I dont care. Not like I get any what with all these Subarus giving me negative sex appeal. QFT. spog posted:Wait, does anyone actually like balls to look at? To quote Kryten, on Red Dwarf, regarding the entire male lower arrangement: "That's it? That's what it's *supposed* to look like? the last chicken in the shop?" CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Balls or vagina are always ugly. But I think everyone can agree a shaply rear end is a drat fine thing no matter what sex it's on I've heard that male humans are genetically predisposed to like a nice butt, because that's what we get to look at after successfully wooing the female, in the default-until-missionary-style mating ritual. Not sure about why boobs are so wondrous.
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spog posted:Well, for the first few years of your life, that's where you get your food from, so I guess they continue to look big and tasty when you are an adult. Who says I don't? Mmmmmm.... Big Macs.....
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Liquid Communism posted:God, don't read it. I have read worse books, but I'd be hard pressed to determine when. The whole thing is just a nostalgia wankfest of 80's pop culture in a terrible, pandering way. Speaking purely as a child of the '80s, with actual good memories of that period, I'm OK with this. InitialDave posted:I dunno, the fact that 80s pop culture is awesome may help, even if it seems strange to me that some teenager forty years from now would be a fan of it. It seems like fascination with a past era runs in cycles. Clothing styles from the '60s and '70s keep coming back, for example. Probably other eras as well - i don't pay too close attention to clothing. Pop culture seems to collect from everywhere, kind of like American culture, I guess.
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KakerMix posted:At least eat cheese instead, milk is a piss-poor source of calcium and is pretty much bad at everything besides making cheese. It's pretty good at making calves into cows. People, too. Size-wise, I mean.
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You kids keep it down in here! I'm trying to take a nap. (Born a month after the moon landing. Class of '88)
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The Locator posted:Yea. As someone who was registered 'R' for most of my life.. I changed that to Independent about 10 years ago, and now I hate both parties. I lean conservative in a lot of ways, but on social issues lean towards the left. I would have voted for Bernie if my loving state allowed Independents a voice in the primaries, but instead was not allowed to vote until the choice was shitpile one or shitpile two. Are you me? Leperflesh posted:I was not a Hillary Clinton fan but I detest the false equivalence argument. Clinton was not a good candidate in broad historical terms compared to many other US presidents and presidential candidates, but she was massively, massively better than Trump and it's a huge, incredibly self-defeating mistake by the left to equate them. Objectively, yes, she was well qualified, certainly from an experience point of view, but the Dems essentially picked the ONE person that a huge number of people hate so much that they would rather vote for their own destruction, for whatever reason. she just had a was of pissing people off. I don't care for her, but given the other choice, i swallowed my bile. And I'm not even all that political. Hillary just rubs folks the wrong way. You'd think that the left would figure out that we don't want just another damned politician at the helm. keykey posted:It's probably because I just don't care anymore, but my eyes glaze over and I throw on a smile when people start politireligion talk. I quickly find an exit and walk away because it's not worth the brain power. I have my own thing going on and don't care to be bothered with any of that negativity in my life since every few years the new message is exactly the same except this time in package 2.0, or in my case package 10.3.2 or so. Yeah, pretty much that. I don't mean to diss other people's opinions, but after so many years of the same book with a different cover, it's hard to give a poo poo. that said, Trump is changing the book. Not for the better, but it's definitely a change. The part of me that wants to watch train wrecks is excited. the part of me that has to be IN the train wreck is not.
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Jul 27, 2017 19:20
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Fo3 posted:*yelling* A six?! Stick an LSx in it!
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Jul 27, 2017 20:52
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Fo3 posted:There's no middle ground here, so we are going to have to become enemies and live off hateful diatribe. I've changed my mind. Put a rotary in it! Suck it, piston lover.
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Jul 27, 2017 21:01
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mekilljoydammit posted:gently caress that, how hard could housings be to make? The castings themselves are relatively easy, it's the hardened apex seal surface that only Mazda seems to know how to pull off.
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Jul 27, 2017 21:52
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InitialDave posted:I suspect some of the "repair" plasma-sprayed coatings used in aerospace could do it, but the development work might be a bit expensive. Someone tried to do something like that years ago, but I haven't heard anything else about it. Would be nice if it happened, since the usual reason housings are chucked is because of peeling chrome. Grind them down a little, and spray a ceramic coating or whatever, polish, and not throw away a housing. IOwnCalculus posted:I mean, yeah, but 'Murica won't let us get that. Yeah, that. either bit - the ute or the 6.
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Jul 27, 2017 23:00
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Rhyno posted:So I'm gonna regret missing out on this car right? I've always liked 929s, that generation and the previous. RWD! This weekend I did this:  ...and I mean ALL weekend. That's a friend's Nissan Rogue. We did a CarPlay headunit, steering wheel control and OBD2 integration, XM Radio, and sub/amp install, AND he decided to do all four door speakers and bypass the factory Bose amp for them. Getting the loving iDatalink Maestro RR interface box flashed and working was dumb. It's a brilliant box that has upgradeable firmware to allow it to be mostly universal as far as integrated car features with aftermarket heads, but god-drat their documentation and IE-only web based firmware flashing is poo poo. For that matter, I'm disappointed in Pioneer's documentation. It used to be that the install guide had a nice big wiring diagram with everything labeled, and similarly a diagram of the radio back with all the interfaces labeled, but you have to go on the web for that now. the owners manual has an install guide, but no master diagram, despite being 1/4" thick (because 4 languages in one damned manual.) Got it all in and working, even able to use the factory satellite antenna, and he's got OBD2 gauges on the radio, which is neat. dual 10" JBL sub box is so much better than the nearly useless Bose sub in the spare tire, though of course he lost half his cargo area to the box. Personally, I would have just used the factory Bose amp with the Infinity speakers we put in - the amp for that added a lot of work (2 extra RCA cables, interfacing with the factory wiring at the Bose amp.) We tested the system just like that before moving on the amps, and it sounded fine. ah, well. I got a couple meals and a 10' x 10' shade canopy out of it as payment. My hands are tore the gently caress up, but at least that insured that the stereo gods had their blood sacrifice so that everything would work. Also, my everything hurts. This is part of the reason I stopped doing this for a living...
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