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Happy New Year, folks. My resolution: try to keep up with this thread more than I did last year.
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My whole family got hit hard by rotovirus or some similar bug that makes you throw up while you're pooping your brains out. I probably changed my son's diaper once every 15 minutes during the worst of it. I think we're all on the mend now.
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Jan 8, 2024 18:45
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My car's radio started making the most awful loud static noises today. Two things changed since yesterday: a shop had it for a few hours to mount a tire, and the temperature dropped to well below freezing. gently caress, I don't feel like chasing down audio issues.
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Jan 12, 2024 18:49
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Kastivich posted:My friend's 955 developed the same issue. Static and popping when the temp dropped. It ended up being the amp. Maybe it'll fix itself if I wait until the temperature rises and don't do something foolish like drive to Alaska next month.
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Jan 12, 2024 21:07
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The Door Frame posted:We don't use ground wires here, the metal conduit is the ground wire. And I meant it as a statement of why those rules don't really apply to regular home repair, because the spirit of those extremely strict laws is to protect A friend of mine is an electrician in Chicago and he insists on putting a bare copper ground wire in conduit in case somebody uses their conduit as a pull-up bar and breaks the ground path that way.
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Jan 18, 2024 21:29
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The Door Frame posted:I got called beautiful by a stranger in public for the first time! I'm awkward as gently caress, so I said thank you a bunch of times and practically ran away, but she made my entire week Practically? quote:Random person claiming to be a nurse drove me to the emergency room after confirming nothing critical was broken. I know she had black scrubs on with her name embroidered, said she worked in a nearby hospital. The color of scrubs suggested ER doctor. I was in no shape to argue - she helped me into the back of her car and asked if it was too painful to put on the seat belt (no). Black scrubs with both local hospital systems denote a full blown ER doctor - or denotes a full vet You're concussed. You need to be evaluated for that. If you need somebody who isn't concussed to have a conversation with your girlfriend to figure out why she's not speaking to you, I'm sure any of us could do it.
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Jan 19, 2024 19:13
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In the past few days, Amazon Logistics have left one of their big totes and a pretty nice hand truck in my front yard. Ethically how concerned do I have to be about returning the hand truck vs enjoying my windfall?
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Jan 24, 2024 02:15
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I swear to god when I move this summer I'm going to find a place with a taller garage. The rag is on the hood because it's rubbing against the garage door.
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Jan 29, 2024 01:07
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Darchangel posted:This is on my list for the “next house” as well, mostly so I can install and use a lift or two. I’m very tired of crawling under cars. A separate shop would be ideal. Next house is going to be yet another rental. My wife will start her first real deal doctor job this summer so we're going to rent for another year in that area, and if she doesn't hate the facility then we'll start home shopping in earnest. A lift and a separate shop would be amazing. Work temporarily suspended this afternoon because my son fell asleep on my arm. 
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Jan 29, 2024 01:32
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His Divine Shadow posted:
I've got a decent outdoor slab, but it's been raining. I wanted to nose into the garage to stay dry. I think those ramps are actually underrated for my car. I think they say 1 ton on the sticker -- if that's 1 ton for the pair, the front end of the cayenne is probably 1.5 tonnes. I didn't need to get under the truck so it wasn't too terrible.
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Jan 29, 2024 07:54
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He moved to the wrong state if he wants to avoid more old Subarus.
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Jan 30, 2024 19:26
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RIP Paul Walker posted:YouTube can kiss my rear end for making this a short instead of a video, but I was looking for content on YouTube to passively show off this 32:9 monitor and one of the options was a gameplay video of Stray. My wife captured this adorable video. Your cat definitely "Long live the king!"'d the cat from Stray.
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Feb 5, 2024 20:48
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CommieGIR posted:I still want to make a turbodiesel-electric plugin hybrid. Just a diesel and a generatoe and an EV drivetrain. Neil Young's electric Lincoln Continental uses a 30 kW microturbine generator.
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Feb 12, 2024 19:32
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Advent Horizon posted:Cries in 1993 Mazda B2600i That's just a Ford Ranger, isn't it?
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Feb 23, 2024 07:49
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I'll just have to buy a 911 if my golf bag won't fit in a full-sized pickup.
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Mar 4, 2024 22:03
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My two year old is going through it. This morning's tantrum started when I wouldn't let him play in the cat's water bowl and just escalated from there. We're trying to teach him not to throw things, and it's not going great.
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Mar 10, 2024 19:38
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Wistful of Dollars posted:why millimeters. Another example of how terrible and counterintuitive the metric system is.
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Mar 11, 2024 02:48
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I have been nerdsniped. ASME b18.2.2 (page 25) specifies the minimum and maximum wrench opening for a given nut size of code:There's remarkably little overlap if you want the kind of tolerances described in ASME b18.2.2. 5/16 definitely works for 8mm, and 3/4 definitely works for 19mm. If your socket set is on the large end of the allowable size, then 11mm works for 7/16, 5/8 works for 16mm, 22mm works for 7/8, and 15/16 works for 24mm. Safety Dance fucked around with this message at 21:21 on Mar 13, 2024 |
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Mar 13, 2024 20:58
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You should get a complete set of sockets in tap drill sizes.
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Mar 14, 2024 06:20
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Advent Horizon posted:My Toyotas use hardly any 10mm but a ton of 11mm (or 13mm) since that’s the JIS head size. Maybe they're 10mm heads that have rusted into 11mm.
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Mar 15, 2024 00:42
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His Divine Shadow posted:imperial sizes I never knew existed I had a poorly translated instruction manual tell me to use a 1/5" drill bit once. That's an imperial size I never knew existed.
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Mar 15, 2024 07:48
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Dubai only functions as a city because of a steady stream of oil money. Once that dries up, it's all over.
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Mar 21, 2024 15:47
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Biden has committed to rebuilding the bridge. I imagine there will be a long, drawn out finger pointing game between Baltimore and the ship's insurer, but the process of rebuilding the bridge from scratch will also be long, so starting soon is important.
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Mar 26, 2024 19:47
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The little man helped me replace a taillight assembly today.  Then he got his hand on an impact driver and I had to keep him from "fixing" the paint on my driver's side door.
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Mar 31, 2024 05:34
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wesleywillis posted:How the gently caress did I know? Fred Rogers, probably.
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Apr 9, 2024 02:51
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Pick and pull haul (with donor)  I got a washer fluid reservoir and more wire pigtail than I need from a VW Touareg. There was an Audi Q7 that was pretty well picked over, but the VW had some good parts. The washer fluid bottle looks pretty close to what I need. If not, I'm only out $20. Victory lunch 
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Apr 12, 2024 23:15
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Just put Convoy by C. W. McCall on repeat. https://youtu.be/d9BWlGP_DJw?si=bRQWFRQi_TBvE-CG
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Apr 14, 2024 18:03
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Ya boy just spent a solid ten minutes trying to figure out the directionality of BFG Tail Terrain T/A tires, which are non directional
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Apr 14, 2024 20:41
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Applebees Appetizer posted:I had some kid troll me when I was selling some fishing stuff, lowballing and trying to be funny asking dumb questions so I played along for a bit before deleting it If you still have some of the fishing stuff, you should just give it to the kid.
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