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CAinCA
CAinCA GRM+ Memberand HalfDork
8/30/21 3:18 p.m.
SaltyDog said:
neverdone said:

I get a simple haircut- just a buzz cut with clippers.  Tried four separate haircut places at 12:30 today and all were booked for the rest of the day.  Ok, guess the wife will do it and we'll save the 20 bucks.

I bought a $30 pair of clippers 8 years ago and never looked back.

I'm going on 25 years. My first Wahl clipper lasted about 15 years. It cost me about $.17 a month to cut my hair.  ;^)

jfryjfry
jfryjfry SuperDork
8/30/21 4:00 p.m.
CAinCA said:
SaltyDog said:
neverdone said:

I get a simple haircut- just a buzz cut with clippers.  Tried four separate haircut places at 12:30 today and all were booked for the rest of the day.  Ok, guess the wife will do it and we'll save the 20 bucks.

I bought a $30 pair of clippers 8 years ago and never looked back.

I'm going on 25 years. My first Wahl clipper lasted about 15 years. It cost me about $.17 a month to cut my hair.  ;^)

I bought my wahl clippers in 1997 and have been cutting my own hair since then.  It started out because I had no money but now it's as much for the convenience.   In fact I brought them on my last trip as I needed one and didn't have time to do it before I left.

I've had hairdressers complement me on it which I share not as a boast but rather as an encouragement that if a dummy like me can do it, anyone can.  

Datsun310Guy
Datsun310Guy MegaDork
8/30/21 4:18 p.m.

I worked with a guy whose wife chopped the E36 M3 out of his hair but he was saving money to help pay for his campground lot.  

Appleseed
Appleseed MegaDork
8/30/21 5:14 p.m.

I saved 100% on my haircuts the last 4 years...by not getting one.

Dusterbd13-michael
Dusterbd13-michael MegaDork
8/30/21 5:19 p.m.

We started buzzing my head last year. I don't really have enough hair to give a E36 M3 anymore....

My rant: 7 minutes on Facebook marketplace before the stupid started....

M2Pilot
M2Pilot Dork
8/30/21 5:22 p.m.

I live in NC and got a new car in FL in mid June.  Dealer gave me 30 day FL tags and shortly  before they expired I contacted NC DMV about my NC title & tags. I got a response a month later telling me that NCDMV needed more info from the dealer & that I needed to contact dealer. I did so, dealer said they'd received request for more $ from NCDMV 4 days prior and had overnighted the funds.  I've contacted NCDMV a few more times and they've consistantly told me to "wait another 7-10 days".  A week ago I emailed the head of NCDMV title/tags division and have received no response.  Currently I'm driving the car with bill of sale, proof of insurance & expired FL temp. tags.  Hope I don't  get pulled over.

 

Mr. Peabody
Mr. Peabody UltimaDork
8/30/21 5:25 p.m.
Appleseed said:

I saved 100% on my haircuts the last 4 years...by not getting one.

I attempted that a few years ago and was confronted by  the bitter reality that the business in the front could no longer support the party in the back. Business hasn't been so good lately.

RevRico
RevRico GRM+ Memberand UltimaDork
8/30/21 5:33 p.m.

I've been going bald for 15 years, for those playing along at home, since I was 19. I've been through 6 Wahl trimmers in that time. No guards. I've gone from 3 times a week to once everything 3 weeks, due to equal parts laziness and lack of growth. 

RichardSIA
RichardSIA Dork
8/30/21 10:50 p.m.

Cheap-junk "Modern"  brake calipers!
Only one piston and a moving casting.
Except that the casting does NOT move that well.
Just pulled the front pads on the Buick, outboard are almost to the metal, inside are less than half worn.
Car only has 112,000 miles and I know this will be the second set of pads.

Secondary rant, having to "Special Order" brake parts for an American car that was made in huge numbers.

mtn
mtn MegaDork
8/30/21 11:32 p.m.
RichardSIA said:

Cheap-junk "Modern"  brake calipers!
Only one piston and a moving casting.
Except that the casting does NOT move that well.
Just pulled the front pads on the Buick, outboard are almost to the metal, inside are less than half worn.
Car only has 112,000 miles and I know this will be the second set of pads.

Secondary rant, having to "Special Order" brake parts for an American car that was made in huge numbers.

Wait, you got 100k miles out of a set of pads, and are complaining about it? Even if this is the third set of pads, 56k miles on a set is nothing to shake a stick at. Pretty damn impressive honestly.

RichardSIA
RichardSIA Dork
8/31/21 1:04 a.m.

Might be fourth set?
In any case they would not be an emergency if they had just worn reasonably evenly.
I will now be taking great pains to ensure they move freely.
Of course I will have no way of knowing if that remains true five minutes after I put the wheels back on.

Appleseed
Appleseed MegaDork
8/31/21 6:43 a.m.

In reply to RichardSIA :

Every sliding caliper I've ever dealt with favors one side versus the other. Some were far worse than others, but they all did it. Nature of the design.  New pins and grease did help, though. And that's an impressive run for the pads. 

Mr. Peabody
Mr. Peabody UltimaDork
8/31/21 8:28 a.m.

I spent a good part of yesterday tidying in the shop and organizing parts/leftover parts from various bikes and bike builds. Now is as good a time as any to put that stuff up for sale, but missing from those parts was a really nice graphics set for a previous race bike. I must have spent an hour and a half looking for that thing, going back to where it should have been a dozen times or more. It was driving me crazy and I woke up with that same burr up my ass this morning, looking all over the house this time. About half an hour into that exercise I remembered that I sold a bunch of leftovers from that particular build to a club member. I can't remember what all I sold him, but I do remember the graphics kit was a part of it.

What a drag it is getting old

dculberson (Forum Supporter)
dculberson (Forum Supporter) MegaDork
8/31/21 9:45 a.m.
mtn said:
RichardSIA said:

Cheap-junk "Modern"  brake calipers!
Only one piston and a moving casting.
Except that the casting does NOT move that well.
Just pulled the front pads on the Buick, outboard are almost to the metal, inside are less than half worn.
Car only has 112,000 miles and I know this will be the second set of pads.

Secondary rant, having to "Special Order" brake parts for an American car that was made in huge numbers.

Wait, you got 100k miles out of a set of pads, and are complaining about it? Even if this is the third set of pads, 56k miles on a set is nothing to shake a stick at. Pretty damn impressive honestly.

I think he means they've been replaced before, so 112k miles on two sets of pads = 56k miles per set, not so hot on a Buick.

mtn
mtn MegaDork
8/31/21 9:46 a.m.
dculberson (Forum Supporter) said:
mtn said:
RichardSIA said:

Cheap-junk "Modern"  brake calipers!
Only one piston and a moving casting.
Except that the casting does NOT move that well.
Just pulled the front pads on the Buick, outboard are almost to the metal, inside are less than half worn.
Car only has 112,000 miles and I know this will be the second set of pads.

Secondary rant, having to "Special Order" brake parts for an American car that was made in huge numbers.

Wait, you got 100k miles out of a set of pads, and are complaining about it? Even if this is the third set of pads, 56k miles on a set is nothing to shake a stick at. Pretty damn impressive honestly.

I think he means they've been replaced before, so 112k miles on two sets of pads = 56k miles per set, not so hot on a Buick.

He's back!!!!

Ashyukun (Robert)
Ashyukun (Robert) GRM+ Memberand PowerDork
8/31/21 12:07 p.m.

In reply to Dusterbd13-michael :

I've been buzzing mine for the last 17 years since my previous wife and I split up (she liked my hair long- was well worth the look on her face when a week before we were moving out into separate apartments I went out and got a nice short buzz cut), and doing it myself for the last 14 years or so. 

Appleseed
Appleseed MegaDork
8/31/21 1:12 p.m.

Apparently I need a referral to go to my endocrinologist. Hey, Appleseed,  your have elevated blood sugar levels. We believe you might have diabetes. 

Really? No berkeleyin E36 M3!

GIRTHQUAKE
GIRTHQUAKE Dork
8/31/21 1:36 p.m.

This isn't super recent and it's mad petty, but I have random moments with small "Business owners" whom run their crap so badly I wonder how easy it would be to take their business.

Over a year ago I had these two run-ins with this one local small engine rebuilder and "sports" person, a shop that's like a 3-man team. I had gotten a lawnmower for free in my neighborhood and I was hoping to find some reliable parts after the box marts turned up empty for a mower made in '09- why not support the little guy? Well, you don't when they make E36 M3 up and desperately try to sell you their political ideology instead of working. I asked if he stocked any MTD carburetors for an '09 push mower, and he began going on a tangent about "EPA Nazis" and how'd they'd "shut him down" if he sold me parts before I corrected him, and showed him the label it was scarcely 10 years old. The "discussion" from there was this guy trying to tell me he can't get parts for it while sitting in a chair and doing nothing.

I had to go back to him later, now looking for any old info on Kohler 241s for my IH tractor and hoping he wasn't there and I could just find some service manual. Surprise to nobody he was at the register again, and when asked he preceded to blatantly make up a number in the hundreds of dollars just for things like a missing carb, even rolling his eyes back in his head and all. I called him out on it, told him if he wasn't gonna do any work for my business he might as well not waste my time, and he keeps whining while I try to look for any manuals at his shop- Shocker, there's none and I leave, and later buy a repro carb off ebay for $20.

The only reason I bring this up is because my stepdad ended up going there recently for some random tidbit. Instead of getting a belt or doing anything, once again the fat berkeley just bitterly whines about electric mowers, how all of them are bad, and how his "generation learned to do their nails and not work on things" or some other drivel. My stepdad is old enough to be his grandpa, and joshes him that even a near retiree like himself could learn electronics, like he did to work transmission controllers- and gets the same whining from this dude about his identity politics instead of the parts he wanted to buy.

How do you have a business? Who's buying anything from you?

 

 

eastsideTim
eastsideTim PowerDork
8/31/21 1:46 p.m.

In reply to GIRTHQUAKE :

I've learned a lot of businesses survive in spite of their management, not because of it.  This goes for everything from one person shops to multinational corporations.

Mr. Peabody
Mr. Peabody UltimaDork
8/31/21 3:27 p.m.

In reply to GIRTHQUAKE :

I went to look at a bike last week, a really nice two year old competition enduro bike and, though it has some nice aftermarket stuff on it, he's asking top buck.

I get there and it's filthy. There's something wrong with the forks, the chain is rusty and there's months old dirt all over it.

This is the small specialty dealer I've been supporting the last 4 - 5 years, if not longer, and I drove an hour each way to see this thing. He knew I was coming because he'd put a hold on the bike for me.

That's not how you treat your regular customers, especially when an hours work, maybe two, and I probably would have bought it.  Now there's a pretty good chance I'll never buy anything from him ever again.

dculberson (Forum Supporter)
dculberson (Forum Supporter) MegaDork
8/31/21 4:00 p.m.

In reply to mtn :

I'll try not to pull a Keyser Söze again any time soon.

Stefan (Forum Supporter)
Stefan (Forum Supporter) GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
8/31/21 7:19 p.m.

Dammit, thanks to the anti-vaxxers we've had to make the painful decision to keep our 5-year old home for ANOTHER school year.  What's worse is that we were accepted into a local charter school that would have been great for her (it even shares part of her first name with the rest of it being one of the founder's favorite words).  So even though we went through the entire process of having her meet the teacher, meeting the students/parents (at an outdoor setting) and she's literally scheduled to start tomorrow?

We just can't get around the fact that we are so terribly worried of her bringing COVID home and making any/all of us sick, especially after watching another family get sick with the parents still dealing with the illness 2-3 weeks later.  As much as she NEEDS socialization, it ultimately doesn't seem worth the risk.

I really hope this doesn't turn out to be a mistake.

I just feel so bad for the time the staff at the school spent to welcome us and I really, really hope kids and parents avoid getting sick.

RichardSIA
RichardSIA Dork
8/31/21 8:03 p.m.

May be better off avoiding "socialization" with the feral and or "Woke" children of today.
The most successful young folk I know were homeschooled.

Stefan (Forum Supporter)
Stefan (Forum Supporter) GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
8/31/21 8:08 p.m.
RichardSIA said:

May be better off avoiding "socialization" with the feral and or "Woke" children of today.
The most successful young folk I know were homeschooled.

Don't.  Just don't.  I don't need your brand of BS and ignorance right now.

Wally (Forum Supporter)
Wally (Forum Supporter) GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
8/31/21 8:16 p.m.

In reply to RichardSIA :

That's the complete opposite of my experience.  

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