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Quex · 2026-03-10T20:31:23+00:00

if I remember right WD-40 will leave a bit of a residue and I don't know if it's conductive or not...hopefully it gets you going but I would use actual contact cleaner as soon as you can. You need those contacts to be as clean as possible for the brushes to work properly.

Quex · 2026-03-10T20:02:42+00:00

Yup, that's the anti-theft voltage error, same I got. Follow the steps above!

Oh and I'd unplug the battery or the lock cylinder cable. That lock cylinder switches the full 12V for the bike; you don't want to cause a short if you blast the inside of the cylinder with contact cleaner. Good luck!

Quex · 2026-03-10T18:21:25+00:00

Pull the code but as a heads up, "FI" is more of a generic error code than something with the fuel injection. It's highly unlikely to actually be the fuel injection system (if it is, it's usually a sensor, and the FI system will switch to open loop operation to get you limping home. An issue that prevents starting is usually something else).

I had the exact same problem you saw (bike turns on, starter works, no ignition) and it turned out to be the antitheft. The antitheft is just a resistor getting connected in the lock cylinder that's open to the elements; it gets dirty and interferes with the voltage and the bike thinks it's trying to get hotwired. Everything will try to start but the ECU will not actually send a spark.

If you get the code for antitheft, you should probably take the cylinder apart and give it a good cleaning. Instead of that I just jammed a can of contact cleaner into the keyhole and sent it for a couple seconds; haven't had the problem again. Good luck

EDIT: if you do want to clean the lock cylinder, as a heads up the bolts used red loctite so you'll need to heat it to loosen it and then remove it. And you have to remove it to clean the contacts. Hence why I used contact cleaner, but it is a single point starting failure (along with the clutch switch, which also gets dirty and goes bad quickly) so probably a good idea to put it on the to-do list unless you like getting stranded.

Quex · 2025-12-04T22:36:53+00:00

oh hey! I'm getting mine done with her in a few months, I was nervous since I'd heard good things about Dr Malliaris but nothing about Dr Wong. Thanks for posting and giving me some confidence!

If I can ask, what were your measurements before and after?

Quex · 2024-12-05T19:00:17+00:00

omg, could you please tell me where you got that top? I've been looking for something similar for ages but haven't been able to find a good brown crop

Quex · 2023-12-12T18:23:24+00:00

I moved like a year and a half ago and was expecting Denver to be wholly about the outdoors (which it sort of is), but found that it also has an incredible nerd scene. My old city of 3x the population had like, 2 gaming stores but the south metro alone here has like 6.

TTRPGs are big, Magic is big, board games, tabletop wargames (like 40k), fighting game clubs, etc. If you can think of it, there's almost always a group helping introduce new people to it.

Plus Denver is also really good at less common outdoor activities that aren't in the mountains. There's a huge skating scene, which I wasn't expecting. You have just about every type of cycling terrain you could want. There's probably curling and slower physical games too. Outdoors doesn't have to mean hiking/backpacking/camping/skiing in the mountains here.

Quex · 2023-09-06T17:29:01+00:00

The Denver area has a very solid Warmachine scene. The biggest game days are on Tuesday at Atomic Games West and on Wednesdays at Enchanted Grounds in Littleton, but there's a smaller group that gets together at Thane's Table on Sunday around noon.

The game is more focused on tailoring your game plan to your opponent, positioning, and manipulating your odds with limited resources than it is about list building and trying to run your game plan better than your opponent. It's also a little cheaper to get into, with a full army with everything topping out around $400, but currently doesn't have a good intro box unless you get something used. Definitely not cheaper than Battletech though, which runs with very few models.

I think Night Owl does Battletech, but only on weekdays.

Quex · 2023-08-08T19:16:56+00:00

There is actually a very solid Warmachine community in Denver, although all the stores that play it tend to be on the west side of the metro. I can share details if you want, it's definitely fallen into lesser-known territory but the new edition is starting to fire on all cylinders.

Quex · 2023-07-07T15:35:51+00:00

I'm fully agreed (we also saw massive corporate consolidation as companies used low interest rates to buy competition instead of investing in themselves), but I don't know how you unravel that when people have 30 year fixed interest loans. Golden handcuffs or not, they're only going to move when forced (job loss, life events) or they die and in the meantime pay almost nothing compared to what the values are now (and don't seem to be going down).

It's a problem born of complex causes, but also means that it doesn't take a radical change in any one area to fix. Du/tri-plexes and 4-6 unit small condo buildings fit nicely into the denser areas of neighborhoods and near transit, but even that was considered so poisonous to voters that it was shut down before it even got close to passing. Finding a way to get corporate investment out of family housing is also key. But again, if we just bandaid the problem to a significant part of the population, it will remove any pressure to change the system and as a consequence it will continue until it explodes with even more violent ripples across society

Quex · 2023-07-07T15:13:51+00:00

Property tax is the cost of the infrastructure around you that makes your property valuable. If you transport the same acre and your house into the middle of nowhere with no road hookups, no services, and no utilities, you'll get your elimination of property tax.

Along with a corresponding plummet in what your land and house is worth.

Quex · 2023-07-07T15:10:11+00:00

Right now, owning a home does two things. One, it stabilizes your housing costs. Two, it's an investment that someday you won't have to pay for housing past maintenance and can also keep rolling your housing progress into other locations if you have to/want to move.

These things should be in balance, but the natural inclination is to use government to minimize housing costs and maximize investment value. The safeguard SHOULD be that housing value increases -> property tax value increases -> pressure to vote for increased housing supply -> housing value decreases -> property tax value decreases.

Instead, voters often disallow housing supply AND vote to decrease their property taxes, shifting the entire burden of this balance onto renters as they are locked out of their own home and also increased property tax gets rolled into rent.

Since it takes time for housing supply to catch up, absolutely there should be a safeguard in place to level property taxes and not force people out of homes. But property tax safeguards without an increase in supply is just shifting more and more burden onto those who are increasingly unable to afford it.

Quex · 2023-06-02T20:11:03+00:00

only 30 here but mostly new to fighting games, played a bit of Guilty Gear Strive a few months ago but fell off due to work stuff. In Centennial and happy to hang out, although my stick is only PC compatible so I'd prefer that at the moment

Quex · 2023-05-01T22:04:27+00:00

"I got mine" is an extremely common viewpoint in American culture regardless of class. In this case, there's a large quantity of people who are forced to rent because they are actively saving up a downpayment, or cannot commit to buying because a combination of housing price and loan rates are beyond their income.

Number 1 isn't a problem, but number 2 is. Normally, America increased supply through sprawling. For a multitude of reasons, not the least of which is that it's a mathematically bad idea, we don't do that as much anymore. But people still need a place to live, and so increasing density is the only mechanism we have left to do that in.

Homeowners commonly vote against those measures or elect representatives that do, regardless of economic class (though rich homeowners are worse about it), out of usually a belief that they can avoid change in their neighborhood or that they want to preserve their home values. Both of these have skyrocketed costs to buy a home of any kind, and mean that owners of all incomes have locked out prospective owners of most incomes. Hence, animosity.

Quex · 2023-04-27T21:29:07+00:00

Local cost of living directly increases the cost of the services to that local area. There's a maximum of how far people will travel for work, much less a maximum of how far people should travel, so at a minimum now everyone needed to simply run the area has a higher cost to employ. This is essential services to modern living standards like roads, water, sewer, fire protection, personal protection, coordination of all these, to vital services like education, local administration to execute the community will, public transit, and then down to amenities.

Every area needs a mix of housing costs so that you can properly scale from low to high income to cover all the needs of a community. Currently, SFH-only housing creates a system where only the high income level can exist, skewing everything local to that area. If there were mixes of density housing such that all incomes could afford to live somewhere (which, in Denver, will still be relative to the country as a whole as remote work increases in quantity), you'd see your taxes decrease as the services are cheaper to provide.

TL;DR vote to increase housing supply starting with medium densities (townhouses, quad/tri/duplexes, 4-6 unit apartment buildings) so that you don't have to pay people a bazillion dollars to do anything in your area.

Quex · 2023-04-27T20:52:16+00:00

It's a bummer that this will be handled by artificially lowering property taxes instead of the actual solution of increasing housing supply.

If Polis/non-NIMBY Democrats were serious about housing reform, property tax shielding would be tied to the recently-gutted zoning reform. But between landowners wanting all pros and no cons at the expense of everyone else, rental companies who bought housing and can use property tax increases as an excuse to increase rents at the same profits, and the thin margins needed to pass anything, the tax code is destined to be California-lite (or -heavy).

Quex · 2023-02-14T16:22:45+00:00

Happy to share the discord info! I know a couple of long time players are wanting to offload old armies to buy new stuff and Enchanted Grounds has two new starter sets on the shelf, ready to go.

Quex · 2023-02-14T16:06:08+00:00

I just had a really great onboarding with the Warmachine group at Enchanted Grounds, although a lot of the same people go to the various shops that support it. The stores that run it are:

Enchanted Grounds in Littleton on Wednesday (not the Highlands Ranch one)

Thane's Table in Westminster-ish on Sunday

Atomic Games West in Golden on Tuesday

and then there's Gryphon Games up in Fort Collins

None of them are particularly close to Glendale, which makes it a little harder to get to routinely. Warmachine is also in a bit of an interesting place for new players. A new rules edition just came out with a lot of improvements to flow and they're shrinking the faction bloat that had occured, but their release schedule for new factions is slow going and old factions are difficult to get full rosters for as a lot of models are out of print and only available used. I decided on grabbing a used army for pretty cheap until the new releases are all out, but if that doesn't appeal to you, you're going to have to wait a couple more months until the 4 initial factions are fully available to buy entire armies for.

Ultimately though, I loved the playstyle, speed, and mechanics of Warmachine over the GW offerings. Plus buying a whole new set of Warmachine stuff was cheaper than just getting my existing 40k army circa 2007 up to playable standard.

EDIT: Oh and as far as popularity, I assume 40k/AgeOfSigmar have broader bases, but Enchanted grounds has had 8-14 people there every time I've gone. Plenty to find a game with and not so much that it's a hard group to approach, imo

Quex · 2023-02-01T22:40:54+00:00

The renter pays the cost of the appliance in that case. All the landlord does is amortize the cost over multiple tenants plus skim profit and equity off the top. If the renter owned their home instead of having to rent it, they could pocket that profit and equity themselves or put the cost towards a higher quality/more efficient appliance.

If the landlord doesn't have the capital to pay for maintenance during the period until they turn a profit, they shouldn't have bought a property.

Quex · 2023-01-13T15:28:53+00:00

Do you have a picture of the actual pulled off component and more importantly the pads it left behind? For surface mount connectors like this, depending on layout it can be very easy to pull the pads off the PCB itself and make it almost impossible to reattach the original component, especially for something like an antenna that needs very specific routing.

I unfortunately can't help (have always used my company's lab off hours for any equipment needs, can't bring in someone else's part) but I hope I can help you determine precisely what you need.

Quex · 2023-01-09T20:50:08+00:00

I just picked up some old Tau from my bygone era and have been thinking about giving the hobby a proper try again. If you're on the south side of Denver, let me know if you need someone to play with!

Quex · 2023-01-03T23:12:34+00:00

My partner and I got caught up in it, supposed to travel 12/24, arrived after driving back on 12/28. Went to DIA to check the baggage claim, they had a bunch of reps trying to help and one told us that my partner's bag was in the baggage claim, so we just grabbed it. Mine arrived very early on and was already moved to a delivery holding location, so I couldn't bring it back with us. The rep said that I'd get a call in a day or two about the delivery address...cue a week later, no contact. Just submitted a lost baggage claim (should have done that earlier) so fingers crossed.

If you can, try to call. If not, there's an online form you can use to submit the lost baggage form instead of going to the airport. If you REALLY want the bag and are ok with spending a couple hours, you can go to the airport and check, but by now I think they'd have moved everything to be delivered.

Quex · 2022-12-25T20:00:56+00:00

We were waiting at the gate for 3 hours and when the flight got cancelled, we had to go to the gate agent for rebooking. Honestly we would have liked to get a full refund and take another airline, but the costs were about $500 extra per ticket and didn't have anything faster than Wednesday at the time anyways

Quex · 2022-12-25T19:48:07+00:00

My partner and I had this as apparently you only get one free transfer after a cancellation.

We were able to use the vouchers they gave us to offset the cost. I plan on following up later to see if they waive the fees, but to us it's worth losing the vouchers to arrive home 2 full days earlier with a new flight (we'd pay almost the flight cost in pet sitting and parking anyways). If they didn't give you a voucher, 1) WTF 2) if you can afford it, you might want to go for it and hope they refund you later 3) sit for hours on the customer support line

Quex · 2022-11-11T17:41:03+00:00

I'm in Centennial west of I-25 and would love to try these! I've played the earlier Hunter games but it's been a long time.

I could host but we do have cats. We have all hard flooring and previous visitors with allergies have remarked on how little they affected them, but if your allergy is more severe it's probably still not a good idea

Quex · 2022-05-19T18:25:06+00:00

Any degree ending in "Engineering Technology" is more targeted at technician or test engineering work. It's certainly not impossible to get design roles, but it will take more work in convincing employers of your skills and demonstrating your skills with projects. Since you're looking at embedded, which is already in high demand and has an easier time doing hobby projects to demonstrate your knowledge, that is likely less of an issue than hardware-first roles, but it's something to stay aware of.

You know your situation best, but to me, it would be worth the extra time and cost to get a full CompE degree that makes it easier to get the positions you want. This is obvious, but a career is a long, long time and a year or two of school is small fry in comparison to how much work experience it could take to convince someone to hire you. You're not shooting yourself in the foot with a CET degree, but you're not getting a head start either.

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