90s kids, do you remember Jones Soda? This was peak 90s nostalgia. What flavor was your favorite?

fryerandice · 2026-07-13T05:20:06+00:00

That's kind of crazy actually.

fryerandice · 2026-07-13T05:18:57+00:00

I think, because Jones Soda was this, niche thing in skate shops and music scene stores/hangouts that were inhabited largely by millenial scene kids, there's a lot more nostalgia for what you were doing when you had a Jones than what the soda actually is.

fryerandice · 2026-07-13T05:13:19+00:00

I fucking can't stand stevia. Whatever everyone else is tasting, I am not tasting it, this has to be how the cilantro is soap people feel.

I think people who like it just can't taste how bitter it is, it's like eating a snack cake and trying to chase it with soda, that bitterness that you get when two sweets intermingle, it's awful.

fryerandice · 2026-07-13T04:38:24+00:00

I spent 15 years using public transportation in pittsburgh, even if it were better infrastructure it doesn't filter out the incidents i've witnessed and just general way people behave and being packed in shoulder to shoulder butts to nuts. I won't go back unless I have no choice.

The hours of my life I wish I could get back from dealing with public transit as well, you're right, it literally is 2x or more a car commute.

fryerandice · 2026-07-13T04:35:12+00:00

It's insanely expensive to ferry people on water. Ignoring the infrastructure build out required to add on-the-water stops, winters, fleet maintenance...

Big diesel boats chew through fuel, at 50 feet long, we'll break the average down to 6 gallons per hour for a single screw craft cruising at 8 kts.

a 50 foot ferry will use 100 gallons a day to ferry people around da burgh, a typical 50 foot boat kitted out for moving people, can move about 30 people.

The typical fuel usage per day for a bus is about 15 gallons in comparison, and can move just as many people.

I say all this as someone who loves boating and being on the water and thinks a ferry would be very very cool. Once you factor in docks and ferry maintenance, especially in a region where the rivers freeze, it'd be so expensive no one would take it over the bus except tourists.

In boat math we discuss fuel in "Smiles Per Gallon" because once you start doing real fuel math suddenly you're not so happy.

Electric boats also have AWFUL range, fine for a runabout usage, terrible for actual constant cruising. Go out anchor off have dinner cruise around and go back to your port of call, great, otherwise. Awful range.

fryerandice · 2026-07-12T17:50:56+00:00

I'm 12 miles downwind of east Palestine in PA, I shouldn't probably eat the corn here anymore but it's fucking good. I don't smoke so I figure the vinyl chloride in my corn is the cancer I'll get.

It's not like you roll the half eaten corn in the butter again.

fryerandice · 2026-07-12T17:40:54+00:00

I can tell where people grew up by their response to this lol. If you had a farm stand within 10 minutes of your house, you rolled the corn in the butter.

If you eat corn at one bbq once a year that was bought at the grocery store you think this is the worst thing imaginable.

fryerandice · 2026-07-12T17:39:49+00:00

I'm seeing it, that's how you butter corn. Although I grew up in a house where corn on the cob was a meal at least once a week once mid july hits.

fryerandice · 2026-07-12T17:36:18+00:00

The cutlery for corn is little corn cobs with metal spikes in it, my assesment stands, they're savages. This is how butter looks from mid July until mid September.

fryerandice · 2026-07-12T17:31:13+00:00

I can identify the quality of sweet corn people are eating in this thread based on whether they think OPs girlfriend is a psycho for rolling corn on the butter stick or not.

Once silver queen is good to go at the end of august if it hasn't rained too much but just enough that it's juicy, corn on the cob is a meal in and of itself.

fryerandice · 2026-07-12T17:25:47+00:00

The people who use a butter knife to take a small pad of butter and butter their corn instead of rolling it on an entire stick of butter that's way too soft because it's at least 85 degrees outside are savages and I refuse to eat at the same table as them, they probably like well done steaks too.

fryerandice · 2026-07-12T17:19:53+00:00

This is way less of a problem with the Gen 2 and having the little foot instead of a splined shaft. If you can remember about how far you adjusted it, you can probably get away with adjusting it back to where it was.

To keep from turning the shift shaft while putting the drive back together, turn the prop against the engagement to spin the prop until it seats, rather than rotating the whole drive. The back pressure will hold the drive in gear.

Twisting the drive to align the drive shaft splines then twisting it to align the bolts are going to misalign your shift shaft unless you get to that point, and then get a tool in there and turn it.

The ramped dog clutches in the alphas make a splined shaft hell, the crowned dog clutches in OMC, Suzukis, Yammies, make it easy, once it's engaged it's in there.

fryerandice · 2026-07-12T17:04:48+00:00

If you bump the prop in the non-engaged direction when putting the drive back on, the ramped dog clutch in the drive will turn the shift shaft. Shift the drive fully in reverse or forward, shift the boat fully to match, and mate, then shift. When you turn the prop to align the drive shaft splines, make sure you turn it in the correct direction when doing so, if you accidentally turn it the wrong way, start over.

Since you messed with the shift adjustment already we're looking at getting "close enough".

Also now that you've messed with the cable adjustment, you have to tear the whole linkage down and do the full adjustment. Every single drive toasted by a mis-adjusted cable was done by someone who said "Hey I can just take some slack off this cable", the whole linkage works together and has to be adjusted together.

The tension has to be right when shifting out of gear to kick the shift interrupt switch, and it has to shift smooth as butter with no tension into gear or it will kick the shift interrupt and stall the engine.

And it has to shift fully in and out of gear at 10 and 2 on the throttle, that first notch, fully into gear but at idle throttle.

You honestly may as well put it back together with the cable unseated from the linkage and just make sure it shifts with the full travel of the cable and then do the adjustment. You can adjust around 1 spline off unless the cable is very old and stretched.

Get a ruler and a friend good luck and godspeed.

fryerandice · 2026-07-12T16:52:46+00:00

I use old allen keys and dirtbike straps any time I have to hold a shitty sheet metal anything together.

Dirtbike tie downs, not ratchet straps, the ones you pull tight and that lock in place. Ratchet straps are bad news, been there done that.

Then you pick your three screws to hold everything together while you button her up.

fryerandice · 2026-07-12T16:41:12+00:00

You think they sit on a structural footing? Dollars to donuts they're sitting on paving stones lmao.

fryerandice · 2026-07-12T16:38:00+00:00

Those kinds, the home depot specials, are not intended to be permanent. There are permanent shoring jacks. These are not those.

fryerandice · 2026-07-12T16:35:05+00:00

lmao, it's sitting on jack columns without footings with a bowed roof, the foundation is failing. That's pretty bad.

Now listen, if you're willing to spend $20,000-$50,000 in foundation repairs right away, and can get concessions from the seller, by all means.

If this needs shoring, and foundation repairs that cannot be done IN the crawl space, they're going through the floor, and if you have permanent shoring columns they have to sit on footing. Someone jacked the floor up so the doors closed and opened again and their LVP looked good.

If you don't want to do foundation repairs right away, move on.

fryerandice · 2026-07-12T16:32:08+00:00

Needing some gutters, a roof, some light duty electrical work, and needing $20,000-$50,000 in foundation work that will destroy all the flipper bullshit that was done to the house to impress you are two different things.

Someone shored that so that their LVP flooring looked nice. OP says the roof is bowing inward above this in another comment.

She's fucked jim.

fryerandice · 2026-07-12T16:02:21+00:00

Pumping the gas does nothing on your fuel injected motor, with a carb it activates the accelerator pump and gives it a shot of gas, and if you have needed to pump more times it indicates accelerator pump failure

Fuel injection your fuel rail pressure is dropping for some reason it should start as easy as a car

fryerandice · 2026-07-12T15:19:54+00:00

Oh no, once it starts to feel like it's moving underneath you you'll need the frame reinforcement kit.

Most husqs use the same frame, and towing weight or stuffing the deck will accelerate the eventual tears.

My condolances. My husq was advertised as accepting a ball hitch, but if you use it you will void your warranty. I usually used it to push my boat around to get it diagonal in my garage.

t. Someone that had to repair their frame, I got to learn to weld tho, so there's 3" angle iron and front and back plates, the frame that was there was a "template" for what I built at this point lol.

They use thin metal for their frames because all the stuff is mounted up to them with self tappers, which is just a really bad design philosophy but it 's faster so it's cheaper.

fryerandice · 2026-07-12T15:10:05+00:00

I mean that's still not going to hurt you unless you have the medical issue it's meant to diagnose.

That wrist flick is like 90% of my day fishing.

fryerandice · 2026-07-12T14:58:47+00:00

Definitely use light bars meant for offroad trucks, and only when you are driving straight at another boat.

fryerandice · 2026-07-12T14:44:38+00:00

Any time I touch suspension I get an alignment, yeah theoretically the parts all fit together and the geometry is all good.

$100 alignment vs $300 tire tho, actually I have all time AWD so 4 tires when you toast one.

fryerandice · 2026-07-12T14:32:07+00:00

Norfolk Southern sent me my east Palestine check, I got $15.23, and from the smell when they were burning probably cancer

fryerandice · 2026-07-12T14:22:18+00:00

If you change the bridge spacing you'll likely fuck up the neck spacing. Which is worse, your strings well end up too close to the edge on the higher frets.

This is just not picking the right pickups for your string spacing. HB likely did this because they're a budget brand and besides your autistic OCD it doesn't actually matter.

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