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Mr_Asa
Mr_Asa Dork
8/11/20 12:20 p.m.

have no clue what the hell they are talking about?

Found on a thread about someone else that had a Lonestar Flamingo they were working on.  The original poster had started sanding down and polishing a stainless steel catch tray.

 

 

Trent (Generally supportive dude)
Trent (Generally supportive dude) PowerDork
8/11/20 2:52 p.m.

I guess if we are being charitable buffing compounds/rouge are sold in bricks.

but the rest of that ..... whoa! 

 

Fueled by Caffeine
Fueled by Caffeine MegaDork
8/11/20 3:10 p.m.

That's up there with send Bob's and vagene. 

ShawnG
ShawnG UltimaDork
8/11/20 3:18 p.m.

Direct Exhaust Injection...

Reason #1893 why I abandoned all other forums and just hang out here now. 

slowbird
slowbird SuperDork
8/11/20 3:35 p.m.
ShawnG said:

Direct Exhaust Injection...

That one's an all-time classic.

Appleseed
Appleseed MegaDork
8/11/20 6:12 p.m.

He had me till $10,000 to polish Vette rims. Lololololo lo lolzers.

DirtyBird222
DirtyBird222 UberDork
8/11/20 6:23 p.m.

On a Tesla Facebook group someone said "There are widespread power outages in Iowa and Illinois due to the dereche. Will the Tesla Superchargers still have power?" Like common sense and deduction are thrown completely out the door in these groups. 

Will
Will UltraDork
8/11/20 6:39 p.m.
Appleseed said:

He had me till $10,000 to polish Vette rims. Lololololo lo lolzers.

I think he meant the wheels cost $10k to begin with.

barefootskater
barefootskater UltraDork
8/11/20 8:16 p.m.
Will said:
Appleseed said:

He had me till $10,000 to polish Vette rims. Lololololo lo lolzers.

I think he meant the wheels cost $10k to begin with.

Polished wheel with a mural of a wheel painted on the inside. 
 

makes me want to paint a mural of a car with its hood up, and on the underside of that hood, you guessed it, another corvette. With the hood up. Corvetteception. We need to go deeper!

11GTCS
11GTCS Reader
8/11/20 8:31 p.m.

In reply to DirtyBird222 :

Wow, that’s impressive logic eh? laugh  Ya think???   Unfortunately there will always be a certain percentage of humanity that needs to be told what to do.  The rest of us figure it out and fix stuff.   

11GTCS
11GTCS Reader
8/11/20 8:33 p.m.

In reply to Appleseed :

Lolz for sure but someone out there would pay it as messed up as that is. 

Appleseed
Appleseed MegaDork
8/11/20 9:29 p.m.

Unless they're filled with cocaine, $10,000 and rims should never be used in the same sentence unless for lolzers.

I'm concerned with my metal bleeding.

Tony Sestito
Tony Sestito PowerDork
8/11/20 10:01 p.m.
slowbird said:
ShawnG said:

Direct Exhaust Injection...

That one's an all-time classic.

I don't think anything will ever top that one. Not even the "Welded Diff". 

barefootskater
barefootskater UltraDork
8/11/20 10:20 p.m.

In reply to Appleseed :

Unless it's not $10000 to "polish a rim." Maybe it's $10000 for "a Polish rim". 
 

Europeans are freaks, according to the internet. wink

ShawnG
ShawnG UltimaDork
8/11/20 10:27 p.m.

There was a "Poured NOS in my fuel tank, now bike won't run" post on a sportbike forum. Guy supposedly poured NOS energy drink in his tank.

I'd like to think it was epic trolling but it IS the internet.

slowbird
slowbird SuperDork
8/11/20 10:33 p.m.

In reply to Tony Sestito :

Crub and fents guy was pretty good too.

https://forums.vwvortex.com/showthread.php?1585548-Hit-two-a-crub-and-2-fents-load-cam-knock (warning: not safe for brain cells)

Antihero (Forum Supporter)
Antihero (Forum Supporter) GRM+ Memberand UltraDork
8/11/20 10:52 p.m.

I never knew that by sanding metal I was making it bleed.

 

Kinda feel like a monster now with all the metal I've tortured over the years.....

Floating Doc (Forum Supporter)
Floating Doc (Forum Supporter) GRM+ Memberand UberDork
8/12/20 6:24 a.m.
slowbird said:

In reply to Tony Sestito :

Crub and fents guy was pretty good too.

https://forums.vwvortex.com/showthread.php?1585548-Hit-two-a-crub-and-2-fents-load-cam-knock (warning: not safe for brain cells)

Hahaha... 

BoxheadTim (Forum Supporter)
BoxheadTim (Forum Supporter) GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
8/12/20 7:39 a.m.
barefootskater said:

In reply to Appleseed :

Unless it's not $10000 to "polish a rim." Maybe it's $10000 for "a Polish rim". 
 

Europeans are freaks, according to the internet. wink

Another case of "don't believe everything you see on specialist websites", I think.

z31maniac
z31maniac MegaDork
8/12/20 8:52 a.m.

I'm gonna look that guy up and see what kind of expert financial advice he has for me as well.

Duke
Duke MegaDork
8/12/20 9:32 a.m.
Appleseed said:

He had me till $10,000 to polish Vette rims. Lololololo lo lolzers.

No, I think he polishes $10,000 rims, not charges $10,000 to polish them.

 

Duke
Duke MegaDork
8/12/20 9:35 a.m.
slowbird said:

In reply to Tony Sestito :

Crub and fents guy was pretty good too.

https://forums.vwvortex.com/showthread.php?1585548-Hit-two-a-crub-and-2-fents-load-cam-knock (warning: not safe for brain cells)

I actually wanted to run a watercooled VW in LeMons with a "2 fents 1 crub" theme.

 

Curtis73 (Forum Supporter)
Curtis73 (Forum Supporter) GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
8/12/20 9:40 a.m.

Back in the day when I was not very confident about residential electric work, I asked a forum for advice on something.  This was a forum for electricians.

I forget what my question was, but one of the answers I got was "as long as you have enough wattage coming out of the wall outlet..."

wvumtnbkr
wvumtnbkr GRM+ Memberand UberDork
8/12/20 9:41 a.m.

Sooo, there does appear to be some truth to what that guy was saying...

 

For example, if you scratch ss while working on it, it can rust.  Also, you can decarborize steel alloys by exposing the underlying surface. 

 

These 2 points are both WAY down the rabbit hole and not really applicable to what we are doing here.  However, in the steel manufacturing industry, they are concerns (as well as some others).

 

Usually, heat (and atmosphere) is more likely to mung up the material more so than physical manipulation...

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