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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by crabby3 on April 25, 2015, 02:58 AM »
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by crabby3 on April 25, 2015, 02:56 AM »
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Living Room / Re: Interested in doing my own car maintenance.. Advice?
« Last post by crabby3 on April 25, 2015, 02:29 AM »
@Mouser

A few more suggestions  :)

WD-40 may help loosen rusty stuff.  Like lug nuts.
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Anti-oxident compound will provide a lasting connection between the battery poles and the cables.
You apply it to the cleaned (wire brushed) poles and/or cable lugs and then connect the cables to the battery.
The Home Depot sells this brand.  It's in the electrical dept.  Possibly near the light-fixture parts; (pull-chains, toggle switches, etc).

When i asked my auto-parts store people about this type of stuff... they looked at me like i had three-heads.
Then tried to sell me some kind of liquid.   :-\   Noalox is like toothpaste.

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Petroleum jelly will help prevent the white-powder from forming on the outside of battery connections.
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by crabby3 on April 24, 2015, 07:03 AM »
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by crabby3 on April 24, 2015, 05:17 AM »
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by crabby3 on April 24, 2015, 04:34 AM »
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by crabby3 on April 24, 2015, 03:02 AM »
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by crabby3 on April 24, 2015, 02:08 AM »
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DC Gamer Club / Re: Yikes, A Guy Played So Much Candy Crush That He Ruptured a Tendon
« Last post by crabby3 on April 23, 2015, 06:13 PM »
Gameboy Advance will deliver this pain, in both thumb joints, as well.  ;D
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Living Room / Re: Interested in doing my own car maintenance.. Advice?
« Last post by crabby3 on April 23, 2015, 05:34 PM »
May I suggest Harbor Freight Tools.. You may have a store near you.


There is one quite near me -- I bought my floor jack there (consensus seems to be that their floor jacks are good). :up:
-mouser (April 23, 2015, 07:26 AM)

I have one of their floor jacks as well.  A small one made of steel and it does the lifting quite well.
As you may know... not all of Harbor Freight's stuff is first-rate so beware. :)

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Love is blind so i presume a Carfax Report would not sway you?  http://www.carfax.com/free-carfax-reports

I'm no gearhead but any vehicle with around 22k miles that needs shocks (already), 5-wheel alignment and just 2 rear tires, may indicate mistreatment of some kind.  A bent frame will continue to twist all shocks you install and constantly erase tire treads.

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Some gaskets and seals may start to leak when you flush things out.  Replacing old sludge with clean fluid sometimes does this.  (i used old dirty engine oil to help clean greasy hands before using the store-bought cleaner).  Non-clumping kitty-litter will help absorb these fluid puddles and it's cheaper that oil-dry.

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Stay hydrated.  Sweating is healthy but it's hard to concentrate on the task at hand if you're spittin-cotten and the muscle cramps are murder.
Screaming for help comes easier as well.

p.s.  You know about anti-freeze and animals drinking it... right?  Doesn't take much to lose a bud.  :(
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Living Room / Re: Interested in doing my own car maintenance.. Advice?
« Last post by crabby3 on April 22, 2015, 08:23 PM »
Too late to turn back now, i have purchased an obscene amount of tools and materials and will soon be jacking up the car and:
  • Changing oil
  • Changing the brake pads and rotors
  • Flushing tranmsission fluid
  • Flushing coolant
  • Flushing Transfer case and rear differential fluid
  • Flushing brake fluid
  • Flushing power steering fluid
  • Replacing spark plugs
  • Rotating tires

I've watched dozens of youtube videos, read a half dozen books, I'm ready to bond with my car through the experience of learning how to care for it :)
-mouser (April 22, 2015, 07:44 PM)

Don't forget hand-cleaner.  Liquid gallon size with a hand-pump works best IMO.  The cream types tend to liquify when exposed to grease, heat or humidity.

May I suggest Harbor Freight Tools if you're a shop-rag user.  http://www.harborfreight.com/#  You may have a store near you.
Their mail-order shipments used to take forever.  When i used them the choices were next-day, second-day and Conestoga.  :-\

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I presume you have an alternate form of transportation?  Like if you forgot to get something you need for 'this' repair.
Or the parts you bought don't fit your model.
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Living Room / Re: Interested in doing my own car maintenance.. Advice?
« Last post by crabby3 on April 22, 2015, 07:37 PM »
@Mouser

As you will discover, reading about repair and hands-on 'fixing' are totally different.  Mostly more brused or bloody w/ perpetually dirty fingernails.

Maybe you could use some of your auto-repair knowledge to help weed-out the scam-shops and find one or two that need a little IT help?
You have an ace in the hole.   8)

FWIW: Motor's Auto Repair Manual was my bible back in the mid 60s.  Back when the ground was visable while looking under the hood.   ;D

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by crabby3 on April 22, 2015, 05:57 PM »
more alarming than silly

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by crabby3 on March 26, 2015, 11:47 AM »
This is just batshit crazy...

These people are worried about being "triggered" by clapping. Really.

-Renegade (March 26, 2015, 06:03 AM)

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by crabby3 on March 22, 2015, 03:09 PM »
...contrasting POV .. :)

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by crabby3 on March 22, 2015, 03:04 PM »
Cloak a Cola

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by crabby3 on March 22, 2015, 02:55 PM »
 ... some days IE9 starts like this as well ..  ;D

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by crabby3 on March 04, 2015, 01:23 PM »
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by crabby3 on March 03, 2015, 01:06 PM »
You've heard "think of the children" but now the DEA wants you to "think of the bunnies!"

http://www.washingto...marijuana/?tid=sm_fb
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-Renegade (March 03, 2015, 04:45 AM)

Fairbanks said that at some illegal marijuana grow sites he saw "rabbits that had cultivated a taste for the marijuana. ..." He continued: "One of them refused to leave us, and we took all the marijuana around him, but his natural instincts to run were somehow gone."

Possibly the bunny was just waiting for the bong to come back around?   :)
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by crabby3 on March 02, 2015, 01:04 PM »
Pot made me hungry, lazy and sometimes paranoid... but not stupid.   ;D

.. anomaly ..  ya think?
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-crabby3 (March 02, 2015, 11:48 AM)

It's still tough to beat "Up In Smoke" even after all these years.  Guys crossing the border in a van made of pot, searching LA for a bag of weed.  It was pure genius.  :)
-MilesAhead (March 02, 2015, 12:53 PM)

Not sure which movie this is -- funny though   ;D

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by crabby3 on March 02, 2015, 11:48 AM »
Pot made me hungry, lazy and sometimes paranoid... but not stupid.   ;D

.. anomaly ..  ya think?

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Living Room / Forum post preview question
« Last post by crabby3 on March 02, 2015, 11:04 AM »
Your post reminded me to ask about this.  Would it be possible to adjust the way a preview looks?

To show it moved to the right, or condensed, so as to display how it will be when posted?

To allow for the yellow portion below?
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by crabby3 on February 28, 2015, 02:05 PM »
Speaking as a Floridian since 1967... ^That is NOT an exaggeration.

The Florida DMV's motto is: "God cares, so we don't have to".

 :D
-Stoic Joker (February 28, 2015, 01:53 PM)

The character count is all that is added.  Sadly... the rest is genuine...   ;D  ... including my comment.
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by crabby3 on February 28, 2015, 01:13 PM »
Not far from the truth -  :(

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Living Room / Re: Cell Phone Questions
« Last post by crabby3 on February 18, 2015, 02:10 PM »
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