WTF as in 'what the F, there's snow on the ground again.'
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Friday bitches.
I'm taking my full three day weekend too, thank you very much.Suck it up Nancy, 1-3 inches of snow predicted here tonight.
so many cry babys today
the plural of baby is babies
Grammar Monkey tag added.
And "crybabies" is one word.
And from the Ridemonkey home mechanics horror files, a friend and I tried our damnedest to change out one of the CV axles on my Escape last night in preparation for sale. It was a real whore to get out of the hub side and just refused to come out of the stub shaft. So now I have to hitch a ride to work and hope for the best tonight. 
and you're a giant blubbering vagina
Holy crap it's windy. I'm glad I squeezed in a ride yesterday. (even if just on the road bike)
Good one, slugger.
Good morning. Back home, excavating the van. The tour was 2,500 miles.
how hard is building your own wheels, anyways?
easy enough i can do it.
wow ok that's pretty easy!
I did tension/dish/true my lefty wheel last night, seems pretty good. Not sure just how much tension needs to be on the spokes, but they feel "alright" and are mostly even. It's the lacing I'm scaret of.
I did tension/dish/true my lefty wheel last night, seems pretty good. Not sure just how much tension needs to be on the spokes, but they feel "alright" and are mostly even. It's the lacing I'm scaret of.
Lacing is the easiest but also the most annoying part.
lacing is easy as long as you know how to count. check out sheldon brown, he'll help you out. from beyond the grave!
regarding tension, i just go for high tension. i don't have a tension gauge or any of that BS. obviously not so high that you are stripping the threads, but enough that they wont back out on you.
also, linseed oil > spoke prep.
I just looked at a spoke calculator the other day that had a recommended spoke tension figures built into it. I think it was the DT/Swiss one....
also, anti-seize > linseed oil or spoke prep
no need for threadlocking stuff
no need for threadlocking stuff
linseed oil is all you need if you build the wheels right. also, a gallon is like 20 bucks. enough for a life time of wheel building.
Got the scooter registered this morning, waiting for orientation to start, gonna be a long day
I've used linseed oil in the past but it was pretty expensive for what you need. There's no option to buy a quart, you have to buy a gallon, and it's like $25...and apparently you only need it one time per nipple.
I have anti seize hanging around, that would be easy to do...but do the spokes back out? I'll probably be building with butted spokes this round. Probably old nips and hubs and new rims and spokes.
No, they don't back out. If you tension and de-stress (unwind) the spokes well, they will never spin in the nipples and get loose. OTOH, when you'll need to true the wheel in the future, the last thing you want is seized threads and rounded nipples. If you want and can, reuse spokes and discard old nips.
discard the old nips? why those?
They are cheap, and their edges wear down with truing / taking wheel apart / tensioning up to a point when you cannot true a wheel any more. Also, they are high stress components that are much more likely to crack than any other part of the wheel. Simply put, if you spend all the time and energy with building a wheel, don't be cheap and spend the two bucks for new nipples to get a good fresh start.
Just can't catch a break this week. A machine operator left a door open on his machine. Then it began running. Then a coolant nozzle, brilliantly aimed AT THE DOOR THAT WAS OPEN, proceeded to shower me head to toe with oil.
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pretty sure some movies start that way.shower me head to toe with oil.
Maybe if I was a pool boy, plummer, or pizza delivery guy. I've yet to see one with an engineer...
beta testing a new in vehicle routing system today. bet its first test is a cluster····
Interlock fail?Just can't catch a break this week. A machine operator left a door open on his machine. Then it began running. Then a coolant nozzle, brilliantly aimed AT THE DOOR THAT WAS OPEN, proceeded to shower me head to toe with oil.
I did it, too. Regarding spoke tension, I used the musical pitch method since I'm both a nerd and a musician:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+ToshiClark/posts/MV1GX5Qg374 has details.
In I-am-old news, I managed to trip down 4-5 stairs heading to the basement carrying a bag of laundry last night. I grabbed the railing while in flight and dislocated my (chronically lax) right shoulder. It popped back in spontaneously as it has so many times before, but neither it or I are a happy camper today.
Closed on the sale of our house yesterday, open escrow today on the new pad. That is all.
Congrats
! Where did you buy a house at and if you stayed in orange county did you sell one of your kidneys to be able to afford a home there ?
Yes, staying in OC. Made 100K on my house I purchased while a bachelor 6 years ago. Took a cash offer on the first day for $510K which was full price. House is about 950 sq ft. Purchasing a house in North Tustin area for $625K. The new house is 1400 sq ft but is very low priced in the neighborhood and we have a 9500 sq ft lot, with a pool and jacuzzi. It's sort of updated but still needs some work.
Noice
congrats kazlx! that looks like a nice spot to land, if you MUST live in OC.
Thanks man. The real estate market around here is insane right now. There is no inventory right now, especially where we were looking. We stopped by the house last night and got to talking to the neighbor. He said there had to be a couple hundred people through the open house and they kept coming even after the stated hours. The agent got to meet us on the day of the open house even though we had been by earlier and already submitted an offer. I think that helped us out. Sounds like they had multiple offers and even though we weren't the highest, they countered to us to match and gave us first shot. We decided to just do it since there is no doubt it would sell for that.