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Old 02-22-2018, 07:32 AM   #8351
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Doesn't that require amending the Constitution?
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Old 02-22-2018, 07:41 AM   #8352
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My station has a sponge rest, and I always use it copiously with water. And I keep the tip tinned. It just doesn't seem to be able to deliver the heat to the components well. The tip will readily melt the solder, but for stuff like tinning 12ga wire, I can't get enough heat in the wire. And by the time I do, its melting the insulation.



I will wholeheartedly agree with both of these statements.

I have some thin lead free stuff I bought. I always try first with it, get pissed off, then use some much thicker solder I bought from Radio Shack 20 years ago.

I'm going to be in trouble soon as I have about 1 inch of it left now.

Go buy a used Hakko 959 or something similar on fleebay. They should be dirt cheap by now. The knockoffs generally work decent too. Only buy genuine Hakko tips.

Any lead based solder works well. $teaxas lead free solder can work almost as well too, but is $texas for home use.
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Old 02-22-2018, 07:49 AM   #8353
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I think I finally figured out why one specific toilet is always never flushed.
It was clean this morning, so I used it. It kept making this noise that reminded me of NES Ikari Warriors grenade through
After I'm done, no auto flush. I push the button, doesn't flush. No manual level either. Great.
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Old 02-22-2018, 09:45 AM   #8354
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****ing USPS. They left a "sorry we missed you" slip in my mailbox yesterday. I had to fill out a form today to notify them if I wanted to pick it up, or have them deliver it again. They won't try to deliver it until tomorrow now.

I have a feeling they didn't even try delivering it since my mailbox is down the street and around the corner in one of those big community mailbox things. They've been doing this a lot lately where they publish that something has been delivered when it wasn't, then it magically shows up the next day.

I'm ready for them to be disbanded and let private companies take over completely.
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Old 02-22-2018, 10:31 AM   #8355
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Go buy a used Hakko 959 or something similar on fleebay. They should be dirt cheap by now. The knockoffs generally work decent too. Only buy genuine Hakko tips.

Any lead based solder works well. $teaxas lead free solder can work almost as well too, but is $texas for home use.
I am paranoid about Hakko knockoffs (apparently some are decent, but who knows what you'll get) so I was looking at buying a new 888D from an authorized Hakko dealer.

I also thought about getting a Xtronic 3-in1 with hot air. A guy I know who has a side business repairing circuit boards has had good luck with Xtronic. A friend swears by Weller irons, but every Weller I have ever used was crap.

Mostly I am soldering small electronics and circuit boards, FWIW.
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Old 02-22-2018, 12:57 PM   #8356
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I have two short stretches where I will need to rent a car (if my Ford on order doesn't materialize on time--no VIN yet even!). I booked with Enterprise via Costco Travel.

The gripe is that I then checked out turo.com to see if something local was a better deal. Nope. When my choice is a 2018 Expedition or Tahoe for under $70/day through Enterprise or some dude's 2014 Q5 for $100/day I'm picking the former. Less liability for me, don't have to deal with knocking on some dude's door in the morning, and outright cheaper.
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Old 02-22-2018, 01:07 PM   #8357
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CN Gripe: Doing things that would be deemed insane under the popular definition.

There's a local performance shop near my office that has worked on my cars in the past. I've met the owner a handful of times and he's a really cool guy. I perform most of the work myself but if there are things I can't tackle or have the time to address, I take it to them. I recommend them to my friends and all of them have had great experiences. I liked this shop.

A few years ago, some judgement calls they made wrt the timing belt they installed failed. They said that they didn't need to change one of the idler pulleys because it was fine. Later, that pulley failed and the timing jumped a few teeth. Fortunately, no major damage was done. I don't know why they didn't change all the parts during that routine maintenance. I didn't even bother bringing it up to them because what would have been the point. They weren't going to do anything about it anyways so why bother informing them of it. I stopped going there for any labor work because of it but would occasionally buy parts I needed from their store front.

Recently, I picked up an old 240Z that needed a new clutch/flywheel. God knows why, I went to them for a quote and they took down my info and said they'd talk to their mechanics and get back to me. No callback. That should have been a red flag. Fast forward to today and I needed some custom exhaust work on it. They took my info down, the sales guy didn't seem too interested in selling me the work, so I doubt I will get a call back again. Why do I keep going back to these guys expecting different results?
Still no call back. I took it to another shop about 10 minutes away and they had it in and quoted me on it within 10 minutes.

I'm trying to decide if I should mention my lack of call backs to the owner or not. He is a well respected guy that's active on a lot of car forums. The sad thing is the shop's instagram has photos of 240Zs that they like, I guess they just don't want to work on them, which is fine, just don't waste my time by taking my info down and promising a call back which never happens.
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Old 02-22-2018, 01:33 PM   #8358
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The road outside my work is insanely busy. It's two lanes each direction and a turn lane. There's an intersection a few hundred feet from our building.

Invariably, traffic backs up there and overly courteous drivers make gaps to let people pull out of the lot across the street and make a left.

So, these people will in effect attempt to make a blind left, and then get smoked by someone barreling up the turn lane to get to the intersection.

I see at least one pretty bad accident a week there. And that's just what I see. It's probably a daily occurrence. This is why you don't cruise up the turn lane for half a mile and why you also don't let people out to make blind turns.
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Old 02-22-2018, 01:34 PM   #8359
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Turo is RelayRides renamed. Car sharing: random people put up their cars as available for rental.
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Old 02-22-2018, 01:40 PM   #8360
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Still no call back. I took it to another shop about 10 minutes away and they had it in and quoted me on it within 10 minutes.

I'm trying to decide if I should mention my lack of call backs to the owner or not. He is a well respected guy that's active on a lot of car forums. The sad thing is the shop's instagram has photos of 240Zs that they like, I guess they just don't want to work on them, which is fine, just don't waste my time by taking my info down and promising a call back which never happens.
It is poor of them to give you any pretense they'll get back to you instead of flatly letting you know they don't want/need your work for whatever reason. If you do go back ask to speak to one of their techs or just ask the owner for a recommendation of where to take it. It sounds ****ty but they may really just not want your work for a good reason but will happily and legit recommend someone that is good and trustworthy for you to go to.
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Old 02-22-2018, 01:45 PM   #8361
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Turo is RelayRides renamed. Car sharing: random people put up their cars as available for rental.
I understand that I just don't understand the gripe. A business that is set up from the beginning and top down to rent cars is less of a hassle than a recent brokerage that pairs people willing to sell time in their POV to strangers? I'm guessing you walk out of hotel and hate waiting five minutes for your uber driver to show up and in a huff you just get into one of the five taxis already waiting outside?
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Old 02-22-2018, 01:55 PM   #8362
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I understand that I just don't understand the gripe. A business that is set up from the beginning and top down to rent cars is less of a hassle than a recent brokerage that pairs people willing to sell time in their POV to strangers? I'm guessing you walk out of hotel and hate waiting five minutes for your uber driver to show up and in a huff you just get into one of the five taxis already waiting outside?
If a new business is going to disrupt an old model it had better be significantly cheaper, more convenient, or both as compared to the traditional alternative. This really isn't.
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Old 02-22-2018, 01:56 PM   #8363
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At an intersection...a simple + with stop signs on each side.

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I am Yellow B. As I'm arriving at the intersection Blue C has already come to a stop and Teal A is coming to a stop. Everyone is going straight (no one has blinkers on).

Blue C starts driving. However Teal A stops and looks at me to go. I cannot go because Blue C is in the intersection. Teal A waits, still looking at me, then eventually goes. By this point another car has arrived in Blue C's spot and starts to go...

WTF Teal A? Don't wait for me. Go. You waiting for me totally jacks up the flow of the intersection.
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Old 02-22-2018, 01:59 PM   #8364
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If you're going straight and the guy across from you is going straight and the guys to your left and right are going straight...****ING HAMMER IT when the guy across from you goes because the folks to your left and right aren't going to be able to go anywhere. This is very simple.
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Old 02-22-2018, 02:06 PM   #8365
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If you're going straight and the guy across from you is going straight and the guys to your left and right are going straight...****ING HAMMER IT when the guy across from you goes because the folks to your left and right aren't going to be able to go anywhere. This is very simple.
Exactly.
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Old 02-22-2018, 02:07 PM   #8366
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It is poor of them to give you any pretense they'll get back to you instead of flatly letting you know they don't want/need your work for whatever reason. If you do go back ask to speak to one of their techs or just ask the owner for a recommendation of where to take it. It sounds ****ty but they may really just not want your work for a good reason but will happily and legit recommend someone that is good and trustworthy for you to go to.
If they flatly refused the work, I would have completely understood. Instead they give me an empty promise of a callback. I just realized I haven't been to any other shop for my personal vehicles in nearly 10 years. I usually just do the work myself unless I can't or don't have time. They are right next to my office so I can drop it off and just walk back which is a big plus too.

I think I should reach out to the owner although the inside wants me to call them out on their forums/google reviews.
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Old 02-22-2018, 02:08 PM   #8367
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3rded.

But it happens here (at the entrance to my neighborhood) all the damn time which results in me being stuck for 5-10 minutes while people sit there not moving. Bunch of ****in idiots.
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Old 02-22-2018, 02:19 PM   #8368
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If they flatly refused the work, I would have completely understood. Instead they give me an empty promise of a callback. I just realized I haven't been to any other shop for my personal vehicles in nearly 10 years. I usually just do the work myself unless I can't or don't have time. They are right next to my office so I can drop it off and just walk back which is a big plus too.

I think I should reach out to the owner although the inside wants me to call them out on their forums/google reviews.
It could be beneficial to a lot of people to do so. Not really even being but could help to illustrate they cater to certain cars/clients and outside of their small circles it's best to take your car and dollars somewhere else.
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Old 02-22-2018, 02:29 PM   #8369
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It could be beneficial to a lot of people to do so. Not really even being but could help to illustrate they cater to certain cars/clients and outside of their small circles it's best to take your car and dollars somewhere else.
Good advice, thanks. Now I need to go to the MAIC forum, which I haven't visited in ages, to see if they have a thread I can leave feedback in.
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Old 02-22-2018, 03:26 PM   #8370
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At an intersection...a simple + with stop signs on each side.



I am Yellow B. As I'm arriving at the intersection Blue C has already come to a stop and Teal A is coming to a stop. Everyone is going straight (no one has blinkers on).

Blue C starts driving. However Teal A stops and looks at me to go. I cannot go because Blue C is in the intersection. Teal A waits, still looking at me, then eventually goes. By this point another car has arrived in Blue C's spot and starts to go...

WTF Teal A? Don't wait for me. Go. You waiting for me totally jacks up the flow of the intersection.
I'm glad to see some WA drivers ****ting up CA's roads for once. I'm more familiar with the opposite.

Seriously though this is basically standard NWIC procedure. You go. No you go. No you go. Aw **** now we both went. Stop and repeat the whole process over.
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Old 02-22-2018, 03:27 PM   #8371
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Y'all have me ragin at my desk.
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Old 02-22-2018, 03:56 PM   #8372
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There's one 4 way stop on my drive to/from work. Going home I have to take a right and make sure I'm aware of who gets to the stop first, who is indicating they're turning, who isn't indicating they're turning but who surely looks like they're going to turn but can't be bothered to use a signal light to include the person next to me that should be going straight but not unusual to have them turn right because why the **** not, right? I take all of that consideration in what I do which ends up being realistically just hoping for the best.

Going to work I just take a completely different way to not have to turn left in that intersection.
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Old 02-22-2018, 05:26 PM   #8373
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Regarding the 4 way stop. If only we all thought this way. I guess that why you have laws so people can follow them in a uniform manner.

I go through a few 4 way stops on the bus ride up the hill. The variance in how people treat the stop is staggering. I believe in the above.. Car 1going straight, Car 2 going to cross paths, and Car 3 also going straight in a parallel decision, then the order should be parallel vehicles first, crossing vehicle after blah blah.

Except every now and then you get righteous folks who follow strict priority order and will cut off Car 3.

Which reminds of a hilarious situation where a fully automated cruise car (under testing) basically parked itself at one of these intersections because the stop sign order was completely chaotic.
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Old 02-22-2018, 05:51 PM   #8374
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Fave: 3way stop at a T intersection. Sorry, driver making left or right.. unless you got there way before the thru drivers you gonna get spit roasted.
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Old 02-22-2018, 06:00 PM   #8375
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Regarding the 4 way stop. If only we all thought this way. I guess that why you have laws so people can follow them in a uniform manner.

I go through a few 4 way stops on the bus ride up the hill. The variance in how people treat the stop is staggering. I believe in the above.. Car 1going straight, Car 2 going to cross paths, and Car 3 also going straight in a parallel decision, then the order should be parallel vehicles first, crossing vehicle after blah blah.

Except every now and then you get righteous folks who follow strict priority order and will cut off Car 3.

Which reminds of a hilarious situation where a fully automated cruise car (under testing) basically parked itself at one of these intersections because the stop sign order was completely chaotic.
Well, yeah.

The turning vehicle is cross traffic.

Now, that said, typically wait your turn and assume the moron that appears to be going straight is actually turning.
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