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LobsterboyX posted:the newer exploders had the issue where it was co2 poisoning the coppers, i looked at them briefly as they are comfy, big and somewhat powerful. Personally I just cant swing a pickup, any modern truck is just so goddamn huge (says the guy with 20' long cars) , to me it defeats the purpose of having half a vehicle, gently caress even the new "midsize" trucks dwarf the full size trucks of the 90s - that stews me Wasn't that partly determined to be an issue with the way the interceptor versions were running wiring or something? Or some kind of rubber floor plug not sealing right? Either way, it was only an issue if they sat idling for extended periods of time. Ford's supposedly fixed the issues that caused it.
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LobsterboyX posted:This is the Colonial Model 700 "New World" Globe Radio from 1933 - this is a grail piece for me, as it was designed by one of my favorite designer Raymond Loewy Hoooooly poo poo. That is one beautiful piece of art. Is it in working condition? (I think we all know the answer already..) Midjack posted:From a different thread, something that will probably appeal to you: 
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A lot of cameras also have the option to just flip the video while recording - negating the need to do it in editing.LobsterboyX posted:Man! I’ve always wanted one of those early sun diagnostics machines - I’ve had the chance to get one more than a few times but I always have doubt that they are not working or missing parts - they’re a rather large space investment- I’ve seen plenty of them still in use today at old school shops. I haven't seen Sun machine in use in at least 20 years. My very first dedicated mechanic had some Sun stuff, but he worked exclusively on Hondas, and mostly older Hondas at that time. Nothing for points or anything, but definitely some stuff that went PING.... and had thick layers of dust on it. His son in law was my last solid mechanic (he spun off into his own shop about 15 years ago), and didn't have any Sun stuff. He mostly works on 80s and newer Japanese stuff, with the occasional domestic showing up through his church (he does a fair bit of cost-only work for people at his church). He knows HOW to work on old Hondas (he was a Honda dealer mechanic at one point), but that's about it once you get below ~1985 outside of 60s muscle cars. He'll look it up and he's drat good at what he does, but he does most of the carb stuff by ear. He'd need a bit of time researching if he touched something older than 60s.
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I knew Lawry's had a restaurant (there's one in Dallas, though I've never been), knew about the salt (it was a staple in my grandmother's house, my mother's house, and my home as well... plus I kinda work in a grocery store). Didn't know about the history though, that's pretty neat. Especially the carts.
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LobsterboyX posted:but its not big enough to make my other favorite depression era food "egg-in-a-hole" We called those "cowboys on horseback" when I was a kid. No, I don't know why they were called that, aside from being in Texas. But I'm suddenly hungry, think I'll fix a couple of them.
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I remember seeing 80s and early 90s grocery commercials with super generic "beer", "paper towels", "corn", etc labels. The generic of generics. Always just a white package or can, with "BEER", "CORN", "PAPER TOWELS", etc on them. I kinda wish it'd come back. With paper goods, it sort of has thanks to last year's panic shopping (my store has a bunch of stuff just labeled "toilet paper" and "paper towels" that we're struggling to get rid of below cost, most of it with packaging in Spanish, with English stickers on them). e: here's an ad from Jewel (I assume the company that later became Jewel-Osco?) for generic dairy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_BZVHjce_Q e2: my home town has been through a ton of different grocery chains, the only one that has stuck around has been Albertson's (the stores were originally Smith's Alpha-Beta, then Jewel-Osco, then Albertson's) and Big 8 (part of Lowe's Market - no, not that Lowe's). Growing up, we also had Furr's, which bought the local Safeway stores sometime in the late 80s or early 90s. Weird thing is Albertson's has kept almost all of their stores, both new and old - in DFW (where I lived for ~20 years), they closed ALL of their new format stores, and only kept their 60s-70s stores open with very modest remodels - but they also operate as Tom Thumb there, which is considered the most upmarket grocery retailer in the area. Kroger is king for affordability. Going back to my hometown, it's a mindfuck walking into the "modern" (90s) Albertson's - they just don't exist in the rest of the state, AFAIK. They closed the modern ones and kept the old ones everywhere else, AFAIK - the one by my old apt in DFW, for example, the meat counter person had been there since the store opened in 1975. Pretty sure she would have run me through the meat grinder if I mouthed off to her the wrong way.  Where I'm at now, Randall's is literally Tom Thumb with a different sign, but it's also now part of Alberton's (but a different division). It's pretty much HEB or Randall's here, unless you want Whole Foods (they originated here, but really don't have many stores here). We have ONE Aldi that I know of, no Save-A-Lots, no Winco, etc. HEB is pretty reasonably priced, but not for the penny pincher. We have the other high end grocers here like Sprouts, Whole Foods, Natural Grocers, but the mainstream is essentially only HEB. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 08:51 on Jun 7, 2021 |
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Darchangel posted:"Generics" have pretty much been replaced by house brands at more or less the same price point. You haven't been in a Safeway/Albertsons/Tom Thumb/Randall's recently, have you? They are incredibly proud of their house brands... price-wise anyway - they're sometimes as expensive as name brands at competing stores. They taste just like Sam's Choice (Walmart's house brand) to me, and HEB's Hill Country Fair. HCF is the almost bottom-barrel HEB house brand.. the only one lower is Economax, where a bag of dog food is 99 cents (I think my store carries two Economax products... dog food and ranch dressing are all I've seen). There's nothing wrong with HCF stuff, it's just your typical store brand stuff. The stuff actually labeled "HEB" is a lot better (on par with name brand, sometimes better thanks to no HFCS), "HEB Select" is the stuff they're really proud of. If I didn't have my employee discount at HEB, I'd probably be shopping at Aldi if we had one remotely close (there's only one in Austin metro that I know of, and it's in far east Pflugerville), MAYBE Walmart. Miss my Winco and Save-A-Lot 
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my turn in the barrel posted:Opened it up and put in a led Edison bulb and plugged it in as a floor lamp. That LED bulb isn't going to last long at all in there, if you didn't know. LEDs hate enclosed fixtures (heat builds up and kills them). An incandescent is best for that fixture; barring that, a CFL. Nice finds man.
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That sounds extremely expensive to heat. Let me guess, it had something like this controlling the lights too? Normally used on line voltage stuff, but I know it was still installed into the 70s.
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Goddamnit, now I'm gonna have Wheatus stuck in my head all day. LBX, you have some of the best stories. I'm not familiar with her work, but Allee sounds like she was an amazing person. MrYenko posted:So immediately after contemplating a move to Sarasota, I thought of LobsterboyX… Holy poo poo. I'd be afraid to even fart near any of that furniture, but that's someone very committed to MCM.
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LobsterboyX posted:my only rule in the house is to go nowhere near our oil cloth parlor set - Time to go full on great-grandparents and put plastic covers on everything.
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That's a Webb Motorworks logo on the "valve cover". Decent chunk of change for that, but sounds like it's a turnkey kit that they plan to offer.
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Goddamn, I need to pick up my camera again.
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ExplodingSims posted:In other news, I'm joining the Buick owning club it seems. I'll get so.e better pics when it gets delivered next week, and I'll be starting my own thread. Don't you have a fleet of possible drivetrain donors in your driveway?
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:Man, you must have a shitload of surplus speakers to offload. And free candy.
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Jesus dude, you need to learn how to tag porn with spoiler stuff. Pretty sure I just ripped my pants 
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I'm no expert, but I'm gonna say you pretty much stole it. They still sell it for $2300 (not identical, but pretty close). That engraved plate looks late 80s to 90s though (definitely a computer controlled engraving machine), so I'm gonna guess not as old as you think - they've been making that chest in some form or fashion for nearly 100 years. I'm sure Lobsterboyx knows more than I do on the actual box, but that's a pretty generic engravable plate that you used to be able to pick up from thousands of mall kiosks and trophy stores for $5-10. Can't find anything about the cosmetics company - if it existed. You can still get a replacement key for it. You can find other parts here (takes a long time to fully load for me) If you happen to be in MI, I found an obit for someone with that exact name married to a William.  Makes me wonder if someone gave it to their wife as a gift, with "Sir William Cosmetics" as a tongue-in-cheek joke. It looks incredibly clean, and probably a lot heavier than what a cosmetics rep would be lugging around.
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LobsterboyX posted:I'd say he was family. He was family. He really was. You don't need to be related by blood or marriage to be family. Rest in peace, 'cap Frank.
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I'm sure I speak for a lot of us when I say many of us would do terrible things to have such an awesome house, an awesome garage, an awesome collection of everything, and the stories that go with it. I feel safe in saying your grandparents would be extremely proud of what you've done with the place (and your life), as well as your mother.
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I would suggest a spacer to move the speakers back a little - the cone being up against the metal will not only make them sound crappy, it'll rip the surrounds up. Normally the cone fires outward. But if you wire the speakers backwards (negative to positive, positive to negative), they SHOULD fire backwards, which should keep the cones from hitting the metal. As long as both speakers are wired the same, you shouldn't notice much difference unless you really crank it up. There's always going to be a little bit of rebound, but the primary direction the cones will be moving will be backwards. I'd wire it to ignition power, the bluetooth should take a few seconds to connect. You can usually configure your phone as to whether or not it'll resume playback once connected, though that's not always reliable. As for a box - the bulk is behind the dash, that's usually enough. Doors aren't exactly sealed well, and that's where most speakers wind up. GM and a lot of imports used to just stick little 4" or 4x6" speakers in the dash or at the very bottom of the dash with nothing behind them; you're not going for sound quality here, you just want to hear it, right? randomidiot fucked around with this message at 10:48 on Jun 18, 2023 |
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If the Cayenne has external CD changer support, there's almost guaranteed to be something out there that will mimic a CD changer to give you either an aux in or (better) bluetooth streaming audio. Same if it had something like Sirius or XM support. If it has a 3.5mm aux input (unlikely given the year, but....), there's tons of decent bluetooth adapters. I can personally vouch for this one, but you'll need a USB power supply for it. One of the best sounding adapters I've used.
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As far as tire vs brake cylinder, looks like you might be running a touch underinflated. But I'd definitely try to fix both at the same time. If money is an issue, then the brake cylinder first, but the brake fluid isn't great for tires. I had a brake cylinder pop on my 80 F-150 on my way home from school one day, and managed to get it home between engine braking, what was left of the brakes (dual circuit thankfully) and the parking brake (not... my brightest idea). And of course the master cylinder failed shortly after, since the pedal was going to the floor (and thus, piston going way further in than normal). There's something way way back in the cobwebs of what little bit of brain I still have that's telling me my kindergarten had those same trikes in the early 80s.
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That Fart shirt is calling my name. How's the sizing on them - true to size or a little small/big? I can wear a longish large, otherwise I have to go to XL (.. stupid belly).
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I can't really do thin shirts anymore, but not from living in the past - I just hate people being able to see exactly where my nipples are and how well they judge temperature, even with an undershirt (and I only wear undershirts in the summer or when I know I'm going to be sweating a lot). Good to know everything else, I'll get one ordered. Sucks about the water heater, but you more than got your money's worth out of the old one. And at least it's outside, where it can't do much damage. We like to shove them into attics here when in SFHs, otherwise somewhere inconvenient in multifamily housing. Mine (also from 1998) is behind the drat washer, with shelving (that I can't even reach without climbing on top of the washer) above it. Apparently I'm in one of two apartments in the entire complex that doesn't have it in its own closet (I'm also in one of two one bedroom apartments with full size w/d hookups, all the others only accommodate stacks, despite being the exact same floorplan otherwise). My last apartment had it in a closet outside... electric.. and we actually do get winters here (sometimes). My electric bill was horrific in the winter unless I dropped the thermostats on it way down to barely doing anything (3000+ kWh/mo for a 1 bedroom apt with electric heat, I kept the heat around 60.. I could see a very obvious difference at the meter if I turned off the WH breaker).
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Fornax Disaster posted:I’m in a low rise wood framed condo building with water heaters in each unit. We had an epidemic of water damaged apartments about a decade ago when all the original heaters from ‘89 started leaking around the same time into the apartments below. That's been happening in my ~1998 2 story building pretty regularly, along with dishwashers flooding kitchens (when mine finally had the fill valve stick open last week, they found a metric ton of water damage to cabinets and subfloor from it leaking from the pump for years - our 4 year old cabinets are scrap at this point, and I've been reporting water dripping out of it for a couple of years now). Thankfully I'm on top of a garage, and the garage under my laundry room is just used for storage of... uh... judging by what I've seen on the rare occasion my neighbor opens it, a lot of hoarder stuff with a handful of actual stuff that should be kept (you can't even walk in it). I've already placed my PC and UPS on a milk crate for when our water heater finally lets go (it's not if, it's when), since they're all of 6 ft apart. We have ~rules~ about how garages should be used, but nobody follows them. Including the rule about not parking in front of someone's garage unless it's yours (the garage comes with a driveway parking space)... I'm on 14 tows out of my driveway so far, waiting on the tow truck for #15 for show up. One car was towed 4 times before they finally stopped.. my SO leaves for work at 4:30am, it's drat near impossible to get an uber at that hour. (ask me my opinion on Greystar...) randomidiot fucked around with this message at 18:25 on Sep 19, 2023 |
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Just gonna toss a modeling photo here.
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LobsterboyX posted:I loving love it Oh buddy, you don't know what kind of can of worms you just opened.  Once I'm over this COVID poo poo, I'll make sure to take plenty of disturbing selfies.But serious talk, it's insanely comfortable and well worth the money.
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Darchangel posted:In the related videos to that: "drat that has a mean idHOLY MOTHER OF GOD"
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Darchangel posted:Watching a vintage nitro dragster switch from gasoline to pop (they start them on gasoline) is the same on MOAR. I would say your definition is quite mild. It goes from nice to "gently caress YOU, I WILL RIP YOUR HEARTS OUT THROUGH YOUR ASSHOLES AND EAT THEM ONE BY ONE WHILE STARING DOWN YOUR PARENTS AND CHILDREN". ..... I went to rehab with a dude that did anime voiceover (he's also into cars), so anytime I hear something angry I just picture the time he dropped the I WILL RIP YOUR HEART OUT FROM YOUR rear end line in an evil anime voice.
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