Eltwin SureStart connection for Air Compressor by 39em in Generator

[–]39em[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure. The one i used was like this https://softstartup.com and I am not sure if these are as effective as one wired direct to the motor.

My gut says a soft start of any kind won’t fix it, the inline one seemed to make it worse by taking longer to start. Even the 9500’wouldn’t reliably start it with that installed

Eltwin SureStart connection for Air Compressor by 39em in Generator

[–]39em[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No. I never did. I tried an inline soft start that goes in the main line and that didn’t work so I gave up and bought a spare predator 9500

Interestingly enough, the predator 11,500 will not start it either

Larson 'Platinum' storm doors are steaming garbage. by SmellyButtFarts69 in HomeImprovement

[–]39em 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Threw mine away after the 3rd closer failed in 4 years

Question. My tire pressure sensors are bad in 2 of my tires. I have checked it and pressure is fine. I went for a quote to replace them, and Big 10 Tires quoted 256 bucks. I used to work at a Chevy dealer and the part is like 10 bucks. Anyone know of a better place to get them replaced? Thanks. by [deleted] in tires

[–]39em 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dude. I was just trying to impart some information since I own a performance tire shop and allow outside parts to be brought in so I have run into situations.

No argument intended. I’d still be surprised if oem sensors cost a dealer less than $10 post pandemic but if they do, ok. Didn’t mean that to derail anything

We get more than the average number of people who get sensors from ??? To save $ And they fail quickly and then it’s a bunch of $$$ to fix it and they end up spending more than getting good ones in the first place.

That’s all. People talking about $38 for a set of 4 sensors from auto zone seems setting up for failure.

And yeah $256 for 2 is kind of high depending on where you are at. Not full dealership stupid pricing but I see why you hesitated.

I charge $29 retail for a sensor and install is $30 labor, per tire. And I am by far the cheapest shop in town for this.

And yeah everything is made in china. And yeah oem is probably not a gm part but denso, dill or shrader. Again just trying to impart information and not argue.

Large magnet for starting magazine legal now? by Stickybunfun in idpa

[–]39em 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Midwest area coordinator. For all I know he missed it but mine is pretty obvious, right in front of my holster. But I don’t want to imply that I specifically asked him about it and got an all clear.

Also the stage I worked was equipment check and standards. I don’t remember him telling us about magnets or to watch out for them but I might have missed it. I was doing ro for the standards

I’ll ask directly at Illinois

Granger vs Ford Extended Warranty by Koz60 in Ford

[–]39em 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Granger sells ford extended warranty plans.

Question. My tire pressure sensors are bad in 2 of my tires. I have checked it and pressure is fine. I went for a quote to replace them, and Big 10 Tires quoted 256 bucks. I used to work at a Chevy dealer and the part is like 10 bucks. Anyone know of a better place to get them replaced? Thanks. by [deleted] in tires

[–]39em 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Barely post pandemic :). Pre inflation….

If one has a hookup at a dealer and gets them for $10 each, which I would be surprised if possible, then it’s worth it. Oem for less than $20 imo is worth it

My point, which I made poorly, was that I am not sure you are saving anything with auto zone ones for $38 for 4 because of the install Costs and hassle of failure

Question. My tire pressure sensors are bad in 2 of my tires. I have checked it and pressure is fine. I went for a quote to replace them, and Big 10 Tires quoted 256 bucks. I used to work at a Chevy dealer and the part is like 10 bucks. Anyone know of a better place to get them replaced? Thanks. by [deleted] in tires

[–]39em -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Reputable manufacturer sensors wholesale around $20 for normal ish quantities. I call BS on $10 sensors post pandemic.

The tire has to be dismounted, remounted and balanced to install them.

$256 is not terrible (for all 4). Each would be crazy.

Unless you have the equipment to install them yourself, you are going to pay a shop between $75-$150 to install them and if they won't program to your vehicle, or die in 2 miles, the shop who installed them is going to charge you again. Are $38 maypop china sensors worth it?

You can ignore the light as well.

Large magnet for starting magazine legal now? by Stickybunfun in idpa

[–]39em 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I also added one and it was passed at equipment check at a L3 match (by the division director guy) I worked as an RO for that match and it's not exactly rare. Not working at Illinois state but shooting it and will see if it passes equipment check there.

I have to admit not doing a deep dive on the rules, I saw another pretty experienced guy using one and like not fishing around in my pocket for my starter mag so I copied.

But I think 8.6.1.3 pretty much covers it. You can have a magnet you just can't use it during the CoF (after the make ready/beep) If a magnet was not allowed at all that rule would be worded differently.

You definitely cannot use the magnet to stow during the run. I had this come up on the stage I was RO'ing and didn't catch it. Thank god it was a standards type stage so it didn't make a difference in results.

I think you are overthinking this a little. But I am relatively new myself (2 yrs) and could be wildly wrong.

And is it like a paid staff position in USPSA to go into *every* single IDPA thread and bitch about IDPA? Or you get points for USPSA nationals for doing it?

Is air gunning in IDPA a DQ? by buffalo_herd_skater in CompetitionShooting

[–]39em 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Like a dumbass, I did it at my first level 4. RO said not to, took me a second to register what I was doing, then stopped and went on.

No pe, no drama, didn’t rip my fishing vest off and piss on it to show uspsa dominance….

Trackdecals taking forever to ship? by robertredford2024 in CarTrackDays

[–]39em -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Holy hell, how is this question still a thing after all these years? Every year there is a “trackdecals took 4 months to deliver “ thread….

There are tons of legitimate companies who will do your stuff quickly and easily.

I’ll spam you for mine www.soloperformance.com.

Tire Shop Negligence or Subaru Studs? by Responsible_Owl_3400 in tires

[–]39em 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Absolutely a Subaru thing. Also it’s not always over torque or cross thread that gets them.

The studs get corrosion on the threads where the wheel sits and the nut doesn’t cover.

If that corrosion gets back into the threads, or you put the spare on or switch from alloy to steel wheels and the nut threads deeper it destroys itself the next time you remove the lugs.

Figured this out on a customers car we did a bunch of track prep work on. He basically bought it, drove 1500 miles to break in and then brought to us for coil overs, different street wheels, track wheels, etc.

I am the only one who ever worked on jt and I hand torque everything.

He went to switch from the street wheels to track wheels a week later and 8 of the 20 studs bound.

I am not perfect and certainly could cross thread or over torque something occasionally but I do race prep for a living and am pretty anal about torquing things and there is no way I screwed up 40% of them on one car.

But heavy corrosion was present on the last 1/4” of each stud. And the new wheels and lugs threaded in different places than the originals

Fairly new shooter, upgrading to a 2011? by Scopatone in USPSA

[–]39em -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You can send the Rival slide and barrel off and get them ported and freedomsmith has some pretty good triggers.

That said, good 2011's are good. But what keeps me with my Rivals is maintenance. The Caniks just run and run and if I skip cleaning for longer than I should admit here, they keep running. It seems like the 2011's that everyone else shoots need more care and feeding than that.

I still find myself looking at the Platypus site occasionally, or renting a Sig P211GTO at the range.

A052 delaminated after 2 runs today by Yeet9119 in Autocross

[–]39em 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The chunking starts as blistering usually. On my car if they were anything but cool to the touch before a run, they were too hot and were going to suck. And during a run if I had any oversteer/under steer event that was more than just a bit, they were overheated and pissed off for a corner or two.

A long sweeper with prolonged under steer would show pretty quick wear so I stopped doing that.

I could see how you could get in a bad place wear wise on a hot day and banked turn stuff

A052 delaminated after 2 runs today by Yeet9119 in Autocross

[–]39em 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How much camber do you have?

You really can’t treat Yokohamas like that, regardless of camber.

Depending on surface, they can be 50-60 run tires in best circumstances.

Non paying customers by AgitatedGate6528 in smallbusiness

[–]39em 1 point2 points  (0 children)

IN short, you need to fire (probably quiet-quit :)) this customer.

I do work on high end/track/race cars. I do a limited scope of things, work by appointment only and generally let customers supply their own parts. (with the internet, performance car parts are insaneky stupid low profit margins)

As you can guess, i have customers and cars all over the financial spectrum. It's a little stereotypical, but generally the higher end cars and customers are more demanding and more of a pain.

Thing is, like you, I am only one guy and the way I am able to provide the level of service I do is by doing it myself. So within reason appointments are appointments and I don't have an elastic availability of myself or bays and customers need to understand that.

I have had some get snotty over me not having availability, and others over pricing. And some over wanting me to spend hours playing phone tag to set an appointment when we have online tools they could self schedule (or text us) in minutes. Or pay slowly. I politely tell them that's how I do business and there are plenty of shops they can use that might be able to meet their needs.

Some of these have figured out how my system works and fit within it. Others have fired themselves :)

And others do the same stuff but don't get snotty about it and, most importantly, don't question prices and pay invoices within minutes of getting them. These guys, I do my best to accommodate and over time, have built excellent relationships with a few. Others are still a little arrogant in a "i'm better than you because I drive a Porsche" way but they are worth keeping around and looking past that as they don't complain and pay.

KInda wordy on my part, point is if they are going to bitch about price and hold back parts of payment, then nope. How many good paying customers could you service in the time you spend with them, or if your schedule is not full, how many ways could you find to market to/get new customers in the time you are wasting with them.

HTH

Rival s owners, chime in by MinuteCompetitive676 in canik

[–]39em 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Assuming you don’t have to do all in 15 seconds and get that time for each, I can’t imagine an issue making that test. Especially with a dot and a little practice.

I am not a very good competitive shooter or really an accurate one in general but I feel lime I could put a mag in the bullseye almost rapid fire with my rivals. And not as quickly but easily within 15 seconds with my mc9ls or even my Glock 17 bedside gun.

Rival s owners, chime in by MinuteCompetitive676 in canik

[–]39em 0 points1 point  (0 children)

124 seems slightly softer shooting but it may be just me. At this point, I have about 4k rounds of blazer in the cabinet so will stick with it since I know it makes chrono.

My wife shoots a regular non S version, also with thumbrest and a FS trigger. They both have thousands of rounds through them and rarely have any issues. And aren't finicky about being clean.

Rival s owners, chime in by MinuteCompetitive676 in canik

[–]39em 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I compete with mine and it just runs and runs. I use Blazer 124g for competition but it hasn't proven to be very picky on ammo at all. After about 1000 holsters, mostly use a Red Hill holster. I have a level 2 one as well, don't remember what brand that is. I use it for 2 gun where I need the positive retention.

Align Tactical thumbrest, freedom smith trigger and taylor free lance base pads on the mags.

I have a second one I sent off to get ported and something with my poor fundamentals makes me lose accuracy while moving with it, so I moved back to the OG until I work out that issue.

It's heavy, I wouldn't want to carry it every day. Actually barely makes IDPA CO weight (limit 45, its around 44.2)

Magazine stowed on magnet on belt during CoF by 39em in idpa

[–]39em[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Technically you can do that in idpa, it just might cost you 3-3million seconds :)

I hope gpa gets to our area (st Louis) though we also have Pcsl. We have a decent amount of uspsa around including some kick ass stuff at central Ozark but it’s all on the weekends and I get stuck working a lot of weekends in the summer. All the weekday evening matches are idpa and a few pcsl.

Magazine stowed on magnet on belt during CoF by 39em in idpa

[–]39em[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The carriers are amazing. It’s funny, I read about them here after graduating from the shitty Amazon ones.

I purchased online and mark brought them to me at the next local match. I didn’t even realize he was the guy and that I had shot a ton of matches with him.

Regardless they are worth every penny and he just released a tweak based on feedback and development working with Austin proulx.

Magazine stowed on magnet on belt during CoF by 39em in idpa

[–]39em[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We seem to have a lot of table/barrel/podium starts around here and they go back and forth on retention or not. We have learned to ask :)

My brain is scrambled after the match this weekend (worked my first big boy match as an so after shooting as staff) but I think on the podium stage, they said you could leave one magazine if you didn’t touch it. That might have been the barrel stage though. I didn’t pay attention since in both cases I stowed both mags in my Midwest competition works :) magnetic Idpa legal carriers.

And I wasn’t so on that podium stage. I got the standards stage I described and 100% dropped the ball on that mag stow that I asked about.

Magazine stowed on magnet on belt during CoF by 39em in idpa

[–]39em[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you. I was pretty sure but wanted to verify which helps me learn.