In reply to BoxheadTim :
One benefit to streaming the race is the commentary just goes quiet during the commercial breaks so you get to listen to the cars.
Rant: waiting for a vendor to finish the installation instructions for a part I've already received, and some critical measurements are involved, so I'm stuck. This was fully disclosed going in, so it's partially my own fault for starting without complete documentation.
It's Saturday, and you know what that means! Someone has turned over a rock and let all the would be handymen loose, and they have descended upon my store. If I had a dollar for every time I had to actively prevent someone from burning their home down....
Mike said:I will never keep chives, scallions, and shallots straight.
Chives are smaller, weaker green onions. Scallions are green onions. Shallots are smaller, weaker regular onions.
6 extra 12 year old boys in my house for my twins birthday party. I worry about the future of mankind some days! 3 of them are talking about hentai porn and boners.
Folks. Some mating surfaces require gaskets. Some require silicone. I have never met a surface which required both. Yet somehow every car I own has been worked on by folks who use both on everything. Hacks.
*edit. Yes I know some things (sbc intake/valley gaskets need some goop in the corners where the gaskets meet) require both. Or some goop as glue to hold a gasket in place temporarily. Not every surface though. Not by a long shot
The laptop screen that I ordered to replace my broken one has the wrong plug.
barefootskater said:Folks. Some mating surfaces require gaskets. Some require silicone. I have never met a surface which required both. Yet somehow every car I own has been worked on by folks who use both on everything. Hacks.
*edit. Yes I know some things (sbc intake/valley gaskets need some goop in the corners where the gaskets meet) require both. Or some goop as glue to hold a gasket in place temporarily. Not every surface though. Not by a long shot
Normally, if I need a gasket held in place, I paint a bit of grease on it. Intake manifold gaskets are definitely a special case, but rtv and gaskets? Blech...
I always smeared some Right Stuff around the coolant passages on paper type gaskets to ensure against leaks. Not great big gobs of the stuff, mind you, just a little fingerpainting.
And ALWAYS get some on the inside, too. Fel-Pro intake gaskets had a NASTY habit of leaking coolant THROUGH the gasket. Once was a fluke, twice was a trend, and I never installed them dry anymore so there never was a third time. I'd smear some Right Stuff on the head face of the gasket, stick it on, then smear some on the intake face of the gasket making sure that I got it pushed inside the gasket to make a kind of set-in-place O-ring barrier.
dropstep said:6 extra 12 year old boys in my house for my twins birthday party. I worry about the future of mankind some days! 3 of them are talking about hentai porn and boners.
Sounds like they are about to have the future of mankind "in hand" so to speak...
Knurled. said:I always smeared some Right Stuff around the coolant passages on paper type gaskets to ensure against leaks. Not great big gobs of the stuff, mind you, just a little fingerpainting.
And ALWAYS get some on the inside, too. Fel-Pro intake gaskets had a NASTY habit of leaking coolant THROUGH the gasket. Once was a fluke, twice was a trend, and I never installed them dry anymore so there never was a third time.
Almost all v8 intake gaskets get this treatment from me. Around water and intake ports. Dunno if I have to, but ive never had a problem because of it.
Thread makes it occur to me that I'll probably never work on another old school V8 again. Kind of wistful about that.
I do a lot of my heavy wrenching at my parents. When I was rebuilding the axle in my S-10 (NOS Torsen diff baby!) dad walks by and asks if I'm gonna use RTV on the diff cover gasket "so it won't leak". Nope. Clean surfaces, quality gasket, proper torque. Never leaked a drop in the two years of abuse that followed.
My thermostat has been seeping for a while and the water pump has been leaking a bit for a couple weeks now. I pull it apart tonight to replace stuff and everything is gooped, glued, gasketed and grungy. Stuff is way harder to clean.
Duke said:Mike said:I will never keep chives, scallions, and shallots straight.
Chives are smaller, weaker green onions. Scallions are green onions. Shallots are smaller, weaker regular onions.
I'm just thankful leeks have a distinct name. Also there's some sort of fish... Scallops?
In reply to Mike :
Scallops are a mollusk. Tasty, though...
My headphones died. No audio to one side. I traced the fault to a break in the wiring about an inch from one of the earpieces. Being cheap, I decided to try to just take apart the earpiece down to the speaker, cut the wire at the break, strip the wires, and resolder it to the speaker an inch shorter.
I go to look for the boxcutter I keep hanging around.... remember that I left it in my garage, which for Knurled reasons is about 20 minutes away. But I remember! For Christmas a year or two ago, someone got me one of those credit card sized "emergency tool" gimmick things that had a screwdriver and a wrench end and a can opener and who knows what else. Looks kind of like this (actually this is probably it):
Seriously, is that a fish scaler?
Anyway, I hold the 36-gauge wire against my left index finger tip and try to cut it with the Chinesium "blade" that is no doubt as dull as the back of a plastic butter knife.
Nope. Sliced right through the wire and my fingertip down to the "wow look at all the blood" level. That is one SHARP mofo. I've had razor blades duller than that.
Anyway, it didn't seal up with application of tape and it's a constant throb. And typing without using my left index finger sucks because it's the only finger I use on that hand (right handed means you're anti-ambidextrous)
Recon1342 said:In reply to Mike :
Scallops are a mollusk. Tasty, though...
You can tell they are real scallops because the meat has rings like a tree. If it appears striated, it's probably cheap shark meat being sold as scallops
mad_machine said:Recon1342 said:In reply to Mike :
Scallops are a mollusk. Tasty, though...
You can tell they are real scallops because the meat has rings like a tree. If it appears striated, it's probably cheap shark meat being sold as scallops
So scallops are sea scallions?
This IS confusing.
In reply to Knurled. :
Scallops are actually the only bivalve mollusks that can swim.
My brain won't shut down.
Thanks, brain, for dwelling E36 M3 that doesn't matter any more. Great job thinking about how you wish you could've done better in school and how you never told your dead uncle how much he influenced you. Oh, now you're dwelling on wasted potential with the mind of a middle aged man looking back at your life when you were a teenager? Great job. What good does dwelling on mistakes you made when you were younger do? If you had E36 M3 figured out back then, you'd have been the exception. This is the way it goes. Right. Everybody berkeleys things up. Nobody had it all figured out at age 16, or age 20.
berkeleying hell. It's 3 AM, why do you do this, brain? When you know exactly what's happening on an intellectual level, but emotionally you're still just a berkeleying passenger along for the ride. You know that people smarter than you write scholarly articles about exactly this kind of thing, but it doesn't help when it is happening. When you know that drinking alcohol or doing other E36 M3 to try to shut this E36 M3 down will get you, because you carried three of the berkeleying coffins already. God damn it. Why do you do this brain?
This too will pass. It's just one of those things that happens once in a while. Was that girl flirting with you? What if you'd gone to flight school? What if you could've paid to go to RPI or MIT because the acceptance letters didn't mean a damn without the money for a blue collar kid? You've got a good life, a good wife, good kids, a decent job, but the focus just gets blurry and the brain meats just focus on the negatives the WHAT IFs and all that E36 M3 But could you be doing more? For your kids? For yourself?
berkeleying hell.
Headphones and music. Pick the major key, even though your life seems like it's been mostly minor key. Upbeat man. The sun will be up in four hours. Make the kids pancakes. Tell your wife about it. Move forward. Talk it out. You'll be alright. This too will pass.
(edit) Everything is fine today. I can't imagine having how difficult having anxiety like that all the time would be.
In reply to Brett_Murphy :
Preaching to the choir, man. Some days, 3 am sucks.
Just talk it out. Theoretically, you get over things once you have talked them through and accepted them.
I think that might be bullE36 M3.
In reply to Brett_Murphy :
Ever since I was eight years old, I wanted to be a Marine. My whole life was devoted to making it to that goal. I served on active duty from 2001-2009, and deployed to Fallujah, Iraq 3 times. Now, I work as a mechanic in industrial food processing and wonder if I'm doing anyone any good. I feel like I'm constantly spinning my tires and going nowhere...
What I'm saying is, it sucks when your brain decides to be a shiny happy person...
I know that he's in pain and thata being in the hospital sucks. But I got to sleep at about 2am after the midnight garage walk and Dad called me at 615 to bring the clothes that he won't need until tomorrow to the hospital.
Just one more hour of sleep would have been so nice
In reply to Brett_Murphy :
What's is like every day?
Pure .
Berking.
Hell.
That's why I take on so many projects. Real airplanes, r/c airplanes, model airplanes, model trains, watercolor painting, motorcycles, hot rods, steampunk. And about 700 other things. If I occupy my mind with all of those things I just mentioned all at once, there's less room for anxiety, doubt, and self-loathing.
It really doesn't work, not for long, but if I can get a break from the BS for even an hour, it feels like it was worth it.
You guys really need to learn how to forgive yourselves. It's nothing that can be taught, but will come if you work towards it. Hanging onto the past prevents you from moving into today
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