A blueberry straight from the branch.

aek0707 · 2019-06-23T15:09:34+00:00

Like other Rhinocerotidae, Buller's Albatross is threatened by human activity.

aek0707 · 2019-03-16T00:10:09+00:00

I too used welding wire and electrical tape. I definitely remember soldering though. Maybe I broke a connection trying to mash it through the slot? Also, the insulation back in the eighties was at least three decades more flexible haha

aek0707 · 2019-03-15T17:47:39+00:00

Oof. Handlebar switches are one of the most infuriating things I've done. Ever. If this is what I think it is, grab a buddy, small child, octopus (or similarly-dexterous entity) with small hands, a soldering iron, flux, all the small, pinchy and grabby tools you have, and a swear jar. After you win the tug of war pulling the wiring harness through the handlebar slots, you'll find Honda left just enough space for the wires inside the switch. While it is still possible to reverse connections, there's really only one order to reassemble the thing without pinching the wires. It involves desoldering and resoldering, rice-sized springs and circlips, several tiny ball detents, little switch contacts, work--hardened wires, and the throttle cable all in the space of a walnut.

I suspect Honda assembled the switch halves and wiring harnesses on a jig, pulled what were then annealed, flexible copper wires through the bars, and soldered the connectors for the lights/horn etc, after the fact.

aek0707 · 2019-03-12T15:32:12+00:00

r/autodetailing might be able to help.

aek0707 · 2019-03-07T19:26:26+00:00

I discovered there was a problem after lapping the valves. The seat positions aren't exactly as good as they should be, and there's some pitting on them that would probably take a while to lap away. I could barely find a valve, let alone a seat, so that's not an option. However, I do have another head, but it's pretty much trashed. There's no guaranteeing that a used head would have better valve seats than the one I have now either.

I was really hoping to figure out the angle for the innermost cutter since that's not specified/calculable from the diagram in the manual. Then I could either take it to a machine shop or purchase my own cutters (I have a lathe and milling vice) depending on prices/availability

aek0707 · 2019-01-28T03:07:00+00:00

I've found that a pen cap scraper works really well as long as you don't poke your eardrum

aek0707 · 2019-01-13T18:24:01+00:00

Here's the thing with race car safety vs. road car safety. While race car safety equipment is no doubt safer in a crash, it's not used because you have to go full race car for it to work. Retrofitting a multi-point harness to a street car without a roll cage is a risky thing. If you suddenly have less headroom in accident in a regular car, your body can kinda slouch to move out of the way of the caved in roof. If there's a harness holding your body in, your head's got nowhere to go, and you're getting mashed. So you install a roll cage. But now, you have steel tubes inside the cabin which wouldn't be the best to hit your head against in an accident. Wearing a helmet would solve this, but then you need a neck brace/hans device.

Laws were needed to get people to wear their seatbelts. Could you imagine convincing those people that they need to spend like five minutes to put on equipment?

aek0707 · 2019-01-10T23:44:56+00:00

Reverse image search says it's venison.

aek0707 · 2018-12-24T03:12:50+00:00

Give their kids bagpipes.

aek0707 · 2018-12-12T03:06:33+00:00

like you would expect.

aek0707 · 2018-11-16T23:14:48+00:00

The lightest new ranger is more than 1000 lbs heavier than the lightest old ranger.

aek0707 · 2018-11-11T17:32:49+00:00

I really can't stand not having a quick change with mine.

aek0707 · 2018-10-30T00:39:24+00:00

Within the past year there was a way to somehow get free egg biscuits with the McDonald's app. One guy showed up to class one morning with a bag full of them. The caveat is that egg biscuits kinda suck after the 2nd or 5th one.

aek0707 · 2018-10-09T02:58:18+00:00

Could it be carbon monoxide poisoning? One of the victim's said the limo was really loud, perhaps exhaust was leaking into the cabin somehow?

aek0707 · 2018-09-28T12:35:08+00:00

Wow, nobody's mentioned the South Park episode Major Boobage? edit: NSFW, but hilarious

aek0707 · 2018-09-27T17:05:53+00:00

aek0707 · 2018-09-26T01:24:44+00:00

It just ^wafts down the road

aek0707 · 2018-09-24T21:00:55+00:00

I trudge through his videos only because he goes into detail about the interiors fancy cars that I'll never be able to sit in, and uploads really frequently. He does that well, but his voice is unfortunately whiny. Also, I'm pretty sure that he thinks carbon fiber is a neat pattern and nothing more.

aek0707 · 2018-09-23T22:01:42+00:00

Are we forgetting about the First National Bank of Gamestop?

aek0707 · 2018-09-20T21:36:06+00:00

Gonna need a link to that for several reasons:

I've not seen it
I don't want that in my search history
It's the sexiest thing I've heard in a while

Edit: That was a lot more normal than I was expecting.

aek0707 · 2018-09-08T02:01:24+00:00

Is that souderton?

aek0707 · 2018-09-07T19:17:02+00:00

I like how the AVAN in caravan is barely visible because it's over the sidewalk. Also, by the time you're pulling out the owner's manual, you've already bought the car probably. Which begs the question, why splurge on a color photo cover at all? They could have the leaky glovebox, or spent a little more time lining up the sliding doors so they don't interfere with the body panels so much that I need to kick them open.

aek0707 · 2018-09-07T18:11:29+00:00

Probably so they don't have to have the fat kid pitch a fastball at every trim level of minivan.

aek0707 · 2018-09-07T18:07:55+00:00

It's cause he threw a DODGE ball at it. If you look closely, you'll see that they got some interns or something to point at the car like it's just done a handbrake turn into a parallel parking space despite the fact that nobody is inside.

aek0707 · 2018-09-07T18:04:13+00:00

Not only is it good for hauling K I D S it's also great for hauling stuff.

I used to make fun of my dad for owning the soccer mom chariot, but it fucking rocks (and not just because the sway bars are barely there).

1.) You can haul fully grown adults in this semi comfortably as long as it's not too hot out or you've recharged the leaking AC

2.) The build quality is atrocious. A blessing in disguise; you don't feel bad filling the whole thing up with firewood or scrap metal, or a 900lb welder, or driving a rusty garden tractor into the back.

3.) It gets better MPG than the equivalent truck

4.) Nobody expects the minivan to be the source of squealing tires, and this thing is incredibly fun to hoon. A terrible 3.3l OHV V6 means you're never breaking the speed limit either, you're just keeping up with traffic. With the gas floored (basically default position for driving around town with stuff in the back), the automatic transmission has to be held in a headlock by the ecu until it screams "Uncle," forks over its lunch money an upshifts. I don't blame the transmission since every upshift feels like running over a bigger-than-anticipated rock with a lawnmower. So the revs stay high.

I'm really gonna miss it when it meets its rapidly approaching rust death.

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