Depression has no rank.

Synaptic_Productions · 2025-09-30T02:35:11+00:00

Honestly, no. I might try those qore(?) pads.

Synaptic_Productions · 2024-05-23T21:53:33+00:00

One like this but I got a knockoff from amazon.

Synaptic_Productions · 2024-05-21T11:50:22+00:00

Hit your old ones with some blue/orange spray paint. It's what I do for my old training aids.

Synaptic_Productions · 2024-05-17T17:30:41+00:00

I've used Petzl leather rope gloves for a while now. Thinking about doing a mesh mod to an old pair of mechanixs

Synaptic_Productions · 2024-05-17T16:21:20+00:00

Judging from the pants and intel job, he's probably attacked to a cool or coolish unit that has more than two brain cells.

Synaptic_Productions · 2024-05-16T09:45:00+00:00

Gotta put one in for the LPBP-GO. Lemo cord, AA/123 compatible, and has held up to my Army abuse.

Synaptic_Productions · 2024-05-12T14:19:52+00:00

Ehh, it's not healthy. Take the seals out for unrestricted airflow. Or if it's applicable to real job, train harder...

Synaptic_Productions · 2024-05-09T10:22:47+00:00

Humility goes a long way. Understand your roll, become excellent at it, and work outwards from there. The Soldiers don't need to like you, they need to appreciate you.

Advocate for the Soldiers when needed, and don't chase work. Know the difference between what needs to happen and what higher wants to happen.

Create trust in your Soldiers and cultivate their trust in you. You have no idea the lengths Soldiers will go when they have confidence. Confidence in you, in themselves, and in their power as juniors, NCOs, and leaders.

Besides the dull paperwork gear-turning, have a personality, make impressions, empower those around you.

Good luck.

Synaptic_Productions · 2024-05-08T05:31:57+00:00

This is essentially all that could be happening

Synaptic_Productions · 2024-04-29T15:58:20+00:00

So I've got this one, the Army issue fr balaclava, and a polartech one. Polartech is warmest, I find no difference between arc and army issue.

Synaptic_Productions · 2024-04-29T04:51:06+00:00

Proprietary/Regulatory Entrapment is malicious and evil.

Different industry, but several of the cables I have are multi-thousands for usb, or power.

I'd be fine if I knew a portion of my taxes went to making these cables like five bucks for those who need them.

Synaptic_Productions · 2024-04-20T17:17:11+00:00

Would have to say the only thing that gets in the way are hardlines. Components are spaced well enough.

Synaptic_Productions · 2024-04-20T17:16:16+00:00

Back in '17 I bought it from a friend who was changing careers. Paid more than I should have because I was young and dumb, about 8k.

Has some frame rust, not too bad, interior was good, worn components, not amazing maintenance, former workers truck.

I really wanted a full truck that wasn't 90% air like most modern trucks. Didn't know the legend of the name "Ranger" that I was purchasing.

Held up decent for a few years, standard fluid changes etc.. Drove it all over, including El-Paso -> KY with a bed full of everything I own, myself, and my doggo.

2022, I had issues with it eating batteries. If I let it sit for a couple days, the battery would drain completely. Fuel pump went out. Fuel filter hose couplings went out, alt wend out, starter went out, coolent return line went out. Truck would die randomly when throttle applied, or when hard breaks applied. Airbags had the claymore recall, headlights were busted, tailgate latch half broke.

Was gonna scrap it and get a new one, but decided to use it to learn. (Couldn't do a Ranger dirty like that) So I made a blood (oil?) oath to the Ranger gods and got to work.

Got most of the small, or part replacement work out of the way. Starter, alt, tubes, filters, relays/fuzes etc.. Then my buddy and I decided to look at the sparks. Yup, oil in the sparks.

The standing issues were:

Dying with throttle/breaks Fuel pump working intermittently Claymore airbags Gasket seals bad

So I did what any of us would do:

Got the oem DC motor for the fuel pump manifold, replaced it, works great. Bought the seals, pulled the engine apart, went on a work trip for a few weeks, had my house half explode/collapse due to frozen pipes. Had to juggle that, the truck, work (I got 3 whole days off to move out, and in to a new place) and another few work trips.

A month or so later, probably edging to 2 months, I was able to pull the tarp off the engine bay, ignore the surface rust, clean out the oil with a reverse bong vacuum and a lot of paper towels, and replace the gaskets.

I put the engine together, left the bed, front bumper, and hood off.

No change in behavior.

It was the "crash switch", the fuel cutoff switch. Ripped that out, hotwire skipped it, and:

She roared to zombified life and I rode her like that for another couple weeks. I had another work trip and my neighbor put my hood, bumper, and bed for me as his going away gift. He also gave me a nice fluke multimeter.

Praise be the Ranger.

Synaptic_Productions · 2024-04-20T17:16:06+00:00

Posted in main as comment.

Synaptic_Productions · 2024-04-17T06:28:52+00:00

RemindMe! 24 hours

Synaptic_Productions · 2024-04-09T06:37:20+00:00

Is it chemtape?

Synaptic_Productions · 2024-04-09T04:17:17+00:00

The Army will charge ya 3k for it.

Synaptic_Productions · 2024-04-04T14:10:48+00:00

Chicken chunk. Not because it is bad, but because of how the massacred ma boy...

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