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Whoever designed those allen key type endlinks is evil. I always forget how terrible they are to work on and I sincerely hope that the designer is in the hot place. *edit what a poo poo snipe. Have this video of immaculately dressed Chinese longboarders as toll. https://twitter.com/Velinxi/status/1388659170723995650?s=19 Olympic Mathlete fucked around with this message at 18:21 on May 2, 2021 |
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Whoever designed those allen key type endlinks is evil. I always forget how terrible they are to work on and I sincerely hope that the designer is in the hot place. Best way I've found to deal with these is to use a wire brush in a dremel to clean up the exposed threads as much as possible, and a big shot of Deep Creep or similar on the nut. Place a gear wrench over the nut, and tap the allen key socket into the end of the threaded part as far as it will go with a hammer. Hold the socket wrench steady and whack the gear wrench with the hammer to start it, and (if you're lucky) it should come right off of the freshly cleaned up threads. I just swapped out two of these on my van (with 200k miles and 15 years of Michigan road salt exposure on it) and got both out in one piece this way with minimal fuss. The most important step is cleaning the poo poo off the exposed threads before starting. e: don't even think about running one of those little dremel wire brushes without very good safety goggles. These are awesome. Black88GTA fucked around with this message at 20:06 on May 2, 2021 |
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May 2, 2021 19:59
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AirTag trip report: speaker removal was pretty easy, but required some hot gluing to get the body back together. Currently in center console, and can be detected from in the house. I think they have to be in lost mode for other iPhones to detect, which is unfortunate, but not a deal breaker.
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May 2, 2021 20:12
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Krakkles posted:AirTag trip report: speaker removal was pretty easy, but required some hot gluing to get the body back together. Currently in center console, and can be detected from in the house. I think they have to be in lost mode for other iPhones to detect, which is unfortunate, but not a deal breaker. I'm half way through a project of stripping down an android phone just to it's board for a GPS enabled tracker.
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May 3, 2021 03:20
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Powershift posted:the options for mildly used stuff is so loving bleak right now. Amen brother! I’ve been limping along our 2003 Suburban, trying to keep it going until we are done building the house and have all the finances settled with the property and the mortgage. Poor bastard has 330,000 miles on it and the body is rusting off in pieces on a daily basis. I honestly don’t know if it will be running and driving in the morning. It makes a hell of a racket when it’s running and my confidence is dwindling. I’ve been keeping a close eye on replacement 7 passenger SUV’s. 2013-2014 with around 100k miles and the 6.2 v8. I’ve been watching the prices creep up constantly. What was listed for $18-20k 6 months ago is now $24-26k. Now I feel like I either need to look at something older and higher mileage or plan on spending way too much to get what I want. Or for less than $2k I can get a rebuilt engine to put in the suburban and hope the body doesn’t just decide to fall off the chassis for another year.
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I embraced my impulsiveness and I'm swapping the generator to an alternator on the Galaxie. It's about the easiest time since I've got most of the front apart. Of course now I have to figure out brackets and mounting and belting. Fortunately it's new enough that it has the right hole in the cylinder head for it, and brackets available from newer models. Just gotta find one. So now I have the steering brakes, and charging systems all in a state of disrepair. Well on addition to a bunch of other parts. Nearly everything actually. I'm fully in the stage of things are going to look worse before they look better. I'm a few deliveries away from turning the tide. Edit: this post started as a general statement that I turned into a regular post... I guess I gotta go paste it in my thread lol. StormDrain fucked around with this message at 04:46 on May 3, 2021 |
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May 3, 2021 04:43
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Modus Man posted:Amen brother! I’ve been limping along our 2003 Suburban, trying to keep it going until we are done building the house and have all the finances settled with the property and the mortgage. Poor bastard has 330,000 miles on it and the body is rusting off in pieces on a daily basis. I honestly don’t know if it will be running and driving in the morning. It makes a hell of a racket when it’s running and my confidence is dwindling. Honestly with the house situation I'd just go for the rebuilt engine and keep saving money for a real replacement.
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Given it sounds like you live in the rust belt, grab a 300 dollar junkyard motor and slamdunk it in there in a weekend, keep driving it.
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Or fly one way to drive back a car from a less rusty place. I'm sure that's a viable business model, buy cheap non rusty stuff from a desert state and drive it up to the rust belt, triple its value. Hell do it on a transporter trailer and do like 7 at once.
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cakesmith handyman posted:I'm sure that's a viable business model, buy cheap non rusty stuff from a desert state and drive it up to the rust belt, triple its value. That sounds like fun! cakesmith handyman posted:Hell do it on a transporter trailer and do like 7 at once. That sounds like work.
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May 3, 2021 11:08
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Modus Man posted:I’ve been watching the prices creep up constantly. What was listed for $18-20k 6 months ago is now $24-26k. Now I feel like I either need to look at something older and higher mileage or plan on spending way too much to get what I want. StormDrain posted:Edit: this post started as a general statement that I turned into a regular post... I guess I gotta go paste it in my thread lol. cakesmith handyman posted:Or fly one way to drive back a car from a less rusty place. Got home early afternoon yesterday, holy crap it's good to be home even after just one week. Place we stayed was downtown and close to the hospital which was convenient for all the appointments but it was so loud all the time. We're used to quiet so we didn't sleep for crap all week. On the way home we got a nice hotel but didn't think about scaled back services due to covid so the very good room service menu didn't exist and the attached restaurant breakfast menu was very limited. I understand why and feel bad for all the people that place likely laid off, we're just idiots and didn't even think about it. edit: Anyone else that's drastically or completely reduced their commute due to covid fighting urges to buy a fun/old/stupid car as their 'daily'? Or is it just me and midlife crisis or being reminded of my own mortality? NitroSpazzz fucked around with this message at 14:05 on May 3, 2021 |
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Black88GTA posted:Best way I've found to deal with these is to use a wire brush in a dremel to clean up the exposed threads as much as possible, and a big shot of Deep Creep or similar on the nut. Place a gear wrench over the nut, and tap the allen key socket into the end of the threaded part as far as it will go with a hammer. Hold the socket wrench steady and whack the gear wrench with the hammer to start it, and (if you're lucky) it should come right off of the freshly cleaned up threads. I just swapped out two of these on my van (with 200k miles and 15 years of Michigan road salt exposure on it) and got both out in one piece this way with minimal fuss. The most important step is cleaning the poo poo off the exposed threads before starting. Tips noted, thank you. These would have been especially annoying because there was so little thread to grab to begin with. Chopped the back of the link off, tapped a centre point in and just ran it through with drill bits until they disintegrated. Luckily I have a new sway bar and could skip doing 2 by just cutting that lot out in one go. Nice shiny bits going in today.
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May 3, 2021 11:58
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Krakkles posted:AirTag trip report: speaker removal was pretty easy, but required some hot gluing to get the body back together. Currently in center console, and can be detected from in the house. I think they have to be in lost mode for other iPhones to detect, which is unfortunate, but not a deal breaker. The airtag just piggybacks on nearby iphones to report its position right? It looks like they alert other people that they are travelling with? so if you had an airtag hidden in a car and that car was taken by someone with an iphone they would get an alert that the airtag was there? Humphreys posted:I'm half way through a project of stripping down an android phone just to it's board for a GPS enabled tracker. I like the tk103a trackers but would kinda like something better (and not stupidly expensive). One of the drawbacks of the cheap trackers is that you don't get any software unless you pay for it or host it yourself. being able to integrate with google find my device would be great.
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Tomarse posted:I like the tk103a trackers but would kinda like something better (and not stupidly expensive). Wow those arent really a bad price to my eyes! Oh well, a bespoke custom jobby stuffed somewhere hard to find is more my style (and with random issues and no support or company to blame!)
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May 3, 2021 12:34
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Humphreys posted:Wow those arent really a bad price to my eyes! Oh well, a bespoke custom jobby stuffed somewhere hard to find is more my style (and with random issues and no support or company to blame!) There seem to be about 20 Chinese manufacturers making them and they range from £5 - £40 here. I've found that the mid range ones seem to work OK. If you leave them on SMS only mode they use virtually no data - so if you want to put something in until you get your proper solution made up then you cant go far wrong and can just reuse any wiring later.
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May 3, 2021 12:56
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pfizer trip report: all good except it's really hosed with my ability to fall and stay asleep. hope that goes away, falling asleep anywhere and sleeping well is one of my few talents.
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May 3, 2021 15:23
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME HUZZAH 31 consecutive years without dying (not even once) im going to celebrate by paying a shitload of bills and getting ready for my nans funeral
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big dong wanter posted:HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME HUZZAH Happy Birthday and condolences.
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Tomarse posted:The airtag just piggybacks on nearby iphones to report its position right? It's entirely possible that the only value I get out of this will be finding it after I park it in a large parking structure, though. big dong wanter posted:HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME HUZZAH Krakkles fucked around with this message at 16:25 on May 3, 2021 |
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Happy Circle the Earth Day. Yeah my 30s thus far have been the best mix of body still functioning but financially stable enough to enjoy life.
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BigPaddy posted:Happy Circle the Earth Day. Yeah my 30s thus far have been the best mix of body still functioning but financially stable enough to enjoy life. Same here. My 20's were a whirlwind of overwork and scrapping to make money. My 30's have been more sane... until 2020. But no complaints overall.
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May is looking pretty good so far. My wife finally decided to do something productive about her crippling anxiety and she starts her new job this month (these two things are not related). Also we got some family pictures done at a nearby winery. I finally got the weeds in my yard under control and my grass looks like a thick green carpet. I bought a shitton of bird seed and have been having fun with my two year old "feeding the chickens". She knows we're not actually feeding chickens, and she can even name a lot of the individual birds like robin, cardinal, finch. She even knows that squirrels are called "loving fuzzy tailed tree rats." I have no idea why she calls it "feeding the chickens." I think I'm gonna build a couple birdhouses and birdfeeders out of some junk pallets the I need to get rid of. big dong wanter posted:HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME HUZZAH HBD. I swear this is where it gets good. When I hit my 30's I started making more money, actually getting some sleep, stopped working 80-90 hour work weeks, and multiple jobs, and just generally slowed down and stopped trying to burn myself out. 30's good. GnarlyCharlie4u fucked around with this message at 17:00 on May 3, 2021 |
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With you on the wife with anxiety thing. The other half is registered disabled due to a connective tissue disorder that was first diagnosed in the 80s so next to no doctor knows about it and is one of the main drivers of moving from New Hampshire to Arizona since the cold and humidity cause her to have days or weeks where she cannot get out of bed and needed help down the stairs etc.... She has two masters degrees and over a decade of experience as a therapist/policy consultant but couldn’t work full time due to her condition which caused her to be depressed as she felt I paid for a did everything which is kind of true but why was I supposed to do? Force her to get a job and suffer? Been in AZ a week and with sub 20% humidity and warmer weather she is up and moving around and seems happier, right up until the 3 months of 110 degree heat of course, and is looking for jobs, signed up for a gym with a plunge pool and spa etc... so just have to support and encourage her to keep going and give her something to do so she feels like she contributes to the household. She is never going to get “better” but we hope she will be able to get around and manage her illness better.
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BigPaddy posted:With you on the wife with anxiety thing. The other half is registered disabled due to a connective tissue disorder that was first diagnosed in the 80s so next to no doctor knows about it and is one of the main drivers of moving from New Hampshire to Arizona since the cold and humidity cause her to have days or weeks where she cannot get out of bed and needed help down the stairs etc.... 
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Humphreys posted:Used to do burnouts in mums Camry all the time. I have since grown up and don't do burnouts as I am the one paying for tyres. Sadly, this is why I don't do more burnouts. The paying for tires thing, not... the other one. Found some neat Hot Wheels at, of all places, Kroger:  Some 2020 New Models I didn't have (or didn't have that particular color of,) and ditto some 2021 New Models. Also some randoms I just liked, and 4 out of 5 of the Fast Wagons series (5th one is a '69 Nissan Skyline van), and a Lancia with transporter. Probably should have bought the R34 and Mercury Cyclone transporters, too... I already have a 787B and Nissan Laurel trrnsporters:  Plating setup is still being weird, so my RX-7 project is stalled for a bit, without shiny bolts to put the front suspension back in. Spent some time yesterday fixing the fence on one side of my yard - one panel was loose, and another the 2x3 stringer at the top had completely rotted away, plus several broken pickets. Fortunately, I had enough scraps, and a whole spare panel to choose pickets from. We've got a new doggo for a few days to see if he's compatible with us, and I didn't want to give him an opportunity to escape. Besides, the fence bothered me. I don't like broken things.
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BMW update 1. There is a tick at all idle. No hail Damage except the front little bit of the hood, and the brakes are awesome. I think Somebody put a grand into this thing to go up flip it It is awesome
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That tick will likely go away with an oil change and some driving. My M54 does that if it’s been sitting for a while.
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Powershift posted:BMW update 1. There is a tick at all idle. No hail Damage except the front little bit of the hood, and the brakes are awesome. I think Somebody put a grand into this thing to go up flip it Give it an Italian tune-up, I'll bet the tick disappears. Congrats!
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sharkytm posted:Give it an Italian tune-up, I'll bet the tick disappears. Congrats! It has an unbelievable amount of scoot for a 5000lb 6 cylinder. It’s almost perfect. I’m over the moon.
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Yeah my sister had one of those for a while, it was white with the black trim, looked like a cool storm trooper mobile. Looked good, sounded good, surprisingly peppy.
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Italian tuneup and fresh oil, sounds like that's all it needs.
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Powershift, good to hear the X5 is solid. Dad chat: my three-and-a-half-year-old learned to bike yesterday. Like proper push bike no training wheels bike. On the bike he’d owned for three hours. I’ve been annoyingly proud ever since and showed the video to every person I could corner. 
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Powershift posted:It has an unbelievable amount of scoot for a 5000lb 6 cylinder. Very nice to hear my man!
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bolind posted:Dad chat: my three-and-a-half-year-old learned to bike yesterday. Like proper push bike no training wheels bike. On the bike he’d owned for three hours. Sounds like the kid has a future on 2 wheels. I was at the liquor store for breakfast yesterday and entered a drawing for a pretty sweet BMX bike. If I win I’ll send it your way.
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BigPaddy posted:With you on the wife with anxiety thing. The other half is registered disabled due to a connective tissue disorder that was first diagnosed in the 80s so next to no doctor knows about it and is one of the main drivers of moving from New Hampshire to Arizona since the cold and humidity cause her to have days or weeks where she cannot get out of bed and needed help down the stairs etc.... gently caress, I've been temporarily disabled for coming up on a year and unemployed (largely unemployable due to illness) except for some lovely temp work spread across almost 9 months and the guilt and anxiety that come with being a burden are so crushing. I have hope that I'll be back to about 90% strength in the near future, and as long as the biopsies come back clean, I'll be in a position to actually start working relatively soon after I get my eyes fixed and can loving see I can't imagine being permanently disabled, especially with so much education and experience in her field, that has to be so rough to live with. Even worse if you've got a case that could go into a medical textbook and every doctor has to shrug when asked for help... I initially resented the patronizing "something to do" routine my partner would lay out for me, but as time drags on and I'm still not fit for work, I'm more appreciative for days where my goals go beyond "kill 16 hours". Hopefully you and your missus can find that balance that keeps her healthy and happy, but also feeling like she's substantially contributing to the household
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Modus Man posted:Amen brother! I’ve been limping along our 2003 Suburban, trying to keep it going until we are done building the house and have all the finances settled with the property and the mortgage. Poor bastard has 330,000 miles on it and the body is rusting off in pieces on a daily basis. I honestly don’t know if it will be running and driving in the morning. It makes a hell of a racket when it’s running and my confidence is dwindling. Man, about a month ago I sold my sister-in-law's 2007 Toyota Highlander Hybrid for $3500. Seats seven, gets almost 30 mpg on the highway and can tow. Great shape too. 180k miles which is nothing on those.
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Darchangel posted:Found some neat Hot Wheels at, of all places, Kroger: Hot wheels Volvo Amazon? Fuckin bought. This story should restore faith in humanity, but doesn't. -My dad put a car on craigslist Thursday. Woman finds it Friday, wants it, sends a $1000 deposit on paypal, F&F. (red flag) -They drive down from Seattle on Saturday morning and love the car, agree to pay full asking price of $6495 (kind of a red flag but not really) -They hand my dad an envelope that says "$5500" on it. Dad starts to count the money and they keep interrupting him with questions about the car and my 122 (red flag) -They complete the paperwork and leave. The next morning my dad counts the money and finds it is $5050 instead of $5500 (red flag) -Dad calls them and they immediately paypal the balance, apologize and don't even question it. (wtf) So unless something is still coming, we just totally didn't get scammed in a situation that smelled like scamming the whole time. This should make me think "wow there are still good honest people left in the world" but instead all I can think is "these people have more money than brains and are total marks for someone to gently caress them over".
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