Today I Learned (TIL)

In reply to BoxheadTim (Forum Supporter) :

Sorry to realize that. Please don't.

...about the monolith

Streetwiseguy said:

Do you guys not wear your glasses in your welding helmet?  

That would be a major mistake.

I wore mine as well as used the lens in the helmet. It's not always possible to be on the right part of the bifocal lens as you're lying on your back or scrunched into a ball welding new rails in a heat treating furnace

Peabody said:

Streetwiseguy said:

Do you guys not wear your glasses in your welding helmet?  

That would be a major mistake.

I wore mine as well as used the lens in the helmet. It's not always possible to be on the right part of the bifocal lens as you're lying on your back or scrunched into a ball welding new rails in a heat treating furnace

Oh, I know.  My problem is that I have quite different near vision from eye to eye, so the lens just makes one side bad.  And, I wear progressive lenses...  And, I build roll cages...  If it weren't for the sunburn and skin cancer I'd weld with goggles.

til i HATE rockshox maxle. i was trying to take it out and sheared the little spindle (only 1/8" thick). had to get it out with a easy-out

Pete. (l33t FS) said:

Scott_H said:

wae said:

TIL that the reason it was so hard to see through my welding helmet is that I never took the protective film off.  Derp-a-doo!

And, today I learned that if I would have spent the $8 on what is the equivalent of drug store "readers" ( a corrective lens for your helmet) years ago my welds would have one less excuse for looking bad.  Seriously, Miller sells the corrective lens for $8 that just slides into the helmet, awesome!!

wait, WHAT??

 

This one is a 1.5 correction, I got the 2.0.  The local welding supply had it for $8.

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TIL when Dusterdb13 gives you two fire extinguishers it's not all E36 M3s and giggles. One they were dead so no cool escape of gases.  Two when the powder gets in your mouth it taste like dried bird E36 M3.  Three while you're dumping it all into a garbage bag Lil Stampie will be on his phone researching the chemicals he's reading off the label and informing you that you're now catching all the cancer and destroying the ozone layer at the same time. So if Dusterdb13 offers you a free fire extinguisher just say no. 

TIL that lava lamps are used to help encrypt the internet.

Stampie (FS) said:

TIL when Dusterdb13 gives you two fire extinguishers it's not all E36 M3s and giggles. One they were dead so no cool escape of gases.  Two when the powder gets in your mouth it taste like dried bird E36 M3.  Three while you're dumping it all into a garbage bag Lil Stampie will be on his phone researching the chemicals he's reading off the label and informing you that you're now catching all the cancer and destroying the ozone layer at the same time. So if Dusterdb13 offers you a free fire extinguisher just say no. 

Try having one go off in your hatchback after an autocross. The only way I was able to get it cleaned out was to open the hatch and use a leaf blower one inch off of the carpet to blow it all out.

In reply to Brett_Murphy (Ex-Patrón) :

That sounds really bad.  How did that happen?

Stampie: ain't budget free parts a pain? 

Today I learned that there's some people you just can't please 

That the older my kids get the more expensive it is on Christmas

Stampie (FS) said:

In reply to Brett_Murphy (Ex-Patrón) :

That sounds really bad.  How did that happen?

To this day I'm not entirely sure. 

TIL the Utah monolith disappeared and reappeared in Romania.   Who's got the monkeys?

In reply to 914Driver :

Thats a different one. Unless between removal and installation, they decided to try to grind it smooth. You can see swirls on the one in Romania.

In reply to RossD :

Intentional curly cues says me. Interdimensional beings are berkers.

RE: Extinguishers: In college, some ass hole sprayed one into my dorm under the door while I was inside, asleep. Woke up the next morning to a cancerous snowscape. Good times.

TIL that there is a Rotrex supercharger kit for my Yaris. Bumps it from 105hp at the crank to 150hp.

In reply to NickD :

AND you have bonus experience with Rotrex.  I say DOO EET.

Duke said:

In reply to NickD :

AND you have bonus experience with Rotrex.  I say DOO EET.

 

 But wasn't it no so good experience with Rotrex?

Appleseed said:

Duke said:

In reply to NickD :

AND you have bonus experience with Rotrex.  I say DOO EET.

 

 But wasn't it no so good experience with Rotrex?

No, the Rotrex is awesome. The standalone EFI kinda sucks (like when you pay a shop $750 to tune it and they don't give it any accelerator enrichment and then they blow you off when you complain and say "its probably a mechanical issue" that it stumbles on throttle tip-in). I actually stumbled across the Yaris Rotrex kit while trying to see how much the old Blitz positive displacement blower kits go for.

In reply to Brett_Murphy (Ex-Patrón) :

Unfortunately I know exactly what you've gone through

TIL that apparently instead of using a green screen for the production of The Mandalorian they used a giant wall of LED monitors hooked up to the Unreal Engine from Epic Games.

TIL that on the new Mazda3 Turbo, Mazda charges you $919 per wheel for the black BBS wheel option.

In reply to NickD :

Holy sheep dip.

In reply to Duke :

Also, I don't think that even Porsche, who would wrap your wheels in lime green leather if you were willing to pay, charges you by the wheel.