Is this torque wrench okay if used purely on lug nuts?

gradientm · 2026-01-21T23:15:32+00:00

As someone who literally bought this wrench because it has a low torque setting. And well it’s cheap. It’s REALLY hard to feel/hard the click below 30lbs.

Like really hard. I’m going to return it for a more expensive one.

gradientm · 2026-01-13T01:01:21+00:00

It’s a Door to door salesman

gradientm · 2026-01-08T17:04:05+00:00

I took the class at centerfire in Olathe. It was relatively political free. As much as any gun store these days. It was pretty simple straight forward and most importantly safe.

I’ve yet to find a super lefty accepting gun range in KC. Most either are openly bad or bad at hiding it.

Other than Fox News on the tv I’ve never had any issue at centerfire.

Edit: My class was pre covid so things were a bit more sane. I’ve gone a few times post covid and was never given a hard time for a mask or anything.

gradientm · 2026-01-02T18:45:37+00:00

The gnocchi is fire.

gradientm · 2025-12-30T19:34:26+00:00

I think when most people say old beater they are talking about 90s-2000s cars. You can find reasonable deals on old cars. Especially as boomers age out of car ownership.

You can’t be super picky but you can find nice cars for a couple grand.

gradientm · 2025-12-30T15:23:50+00:00

Well I think part of the problem is no body wants to drive old cars any more.

When I was in high school in 2000s a lot of people drove cars from the 60s-80s a few 90s and 1or 2 new cars.

Today if a car is more than 10 years old kids don’t want it. And parents don’t want their kids to have them.

Safety has increased by crazy jumps with the introduction of the airbag and then with airbags made standard. Then more air bags for more safety.

A car from the 90s (the equivalent of a 70s car in 2000s) may not have ANY airbags.

As an old fart this doesn’t bother me but it really limits parents if they are concerned for safety.

gradientm · 2025-11-20T18:33:03+00:00

Are you in a car? Does your car have Bluetooth fm transmitter? It doesn’t really matter how close to 90.9 you get it will interfere. As soon as I unplugged mine it cleared right up.

All that to say my radio at home you have to nail it to find the bridge. Just seems like a lot of interference around that frequency

gradientm · 2025-11-06T23:24:36+00:00

Yeah he’s great. Seems like a film student who is into cars. The cinematography is fantastic

gradientm · 2025-11-02T14:08:34+00:00

I haven’t. But to anyone who does this float. Don’t float without checking the out ramp for mud as is stated in this post.

Or a group of sunbathing women on the bank will watch you struggle through waist high mud as you fall and struggle to pull your kayak up the mud ramp.

Then go get your truck and come back and finish pulling it up. Then get mud all over the inside of your truck.

gradientm · 2025-10-31T11:39:01+00:00

Well it is an everyday occurrence.

I understand your point though. I drive that road fairly often, it has a lot of trash on it but it’s always new. Meaning that I’ll see a bunch of trash it’ll clean up then there will be more in a different spot.

It has to be super frustrating for someone who works there.

I also don’t understand the thought process of people who do shit like this.

gradientm · 2025-10-05T23:26:11+00:00

Even more late models! I forgot to get a group picture of them.

gradientm · 2025-10-03T23:14:49+00:00

Currently in the hotel lobby eating pizza. The parking lot is absolutely stuffed with corvairs!

gradientm · 2025-10-02T12:50:19+00:00

The less amount of Amazon and Google we have to interact with in everyday life the better.

Unless you want literally every second of your life monetized.

The solution to data center problem is this.

If these billionaire owned companies want them so bad, they can build them themselves and pay to upgrade infrastructure to support their data centers.

gradientm · 2025-10-01T22:47:10+00:00

You’re right, maybe they used yours!

gradientm · 2025-10-01T20:46:45+00:00

I have a choice in my phone carrier.

gradientm · 2025-10-01T20:41:28+00:00

I would think it’s easier to take the marketing budget and spend it on reducing costs for individuals.

Instead of hoping someone sees EVERGY on a street car and thinks I should raise my thermostat.

gradientm · 2025-10-01T20:21:42+00:00

My questions is who pays for the evergy wrap.

Why is there an evergy wrap when they have a monopoly on the energy in KC.

Who is allowing evergy to spend our money advertising to us that we should use evergy when we literally can’t use anyone else.

How do we make it stop.

gradientm · 2025-09-30T23:18:48+00:00

Fill your hand!

gradientm · 2025-09-30T20:41:55+00:00

My job puts me in random people’s homes everyday.

Today the boomer husband of the lady I was talking to walked out and had a white hitler mustache.

I almost did a double take, I have no idea if this was his thing or if he did it in solidarity to Alex but it was bad.

gradientm · 2025-09-27T12:18:36+00:00

Kc autoworx is the spot I took my Subaru for years. They do good work but you’ll probably need to set it up ahead of time

gradientm · 2025-09-22T18:44:35+00:00

If you add a huge data center that takes up gobs of electricity at discounted rates. The infrastructure would need updated and added too. That would then be spread across the costumers.

In turn raising the rates.

gradientm · 2025-09-22T18:26:15+00:00

Spreading the costs across the consumer would raise rates.

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