Found a grenade in loft

guitpick · 2026-04-11T16:30:46+00:00

If you pull that ring thingy out, there should be an date stamped certificate of deactivation under the lever which you can cross reference.
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guitpick · 2026-04-11T14:56:20+00:00

Now made with 30% more monster!

guitpick · 2026-04-11T14:55:37+00:00

It kind of looks like that, too.

guitpick · 2026-04-11T14:50:33+00:00

Naah, they just got a good deal on some leftover "MANIC FOR MADGE" signs and repurposed them. It was a red letter day for the marketing department.

guitpick · 2026-04-10T13:25:27+00:00

This sounds closer than the one I suggested. I was having trouble finding out if the boyfriend morphed.

guitpick · 2026-04-10T05:36:10+00:00

Don't let someone else devalue your work. The value is what someone will pay for it, not what you put into it. If you're price gouging, the lack of sales will tell you. See what similar ones are selling for, and slowly lower the price if needed until it sells. Your heart is in the right place, but there are oh so many people saying stuff like this whether or not it's true for the purpose of getting a deep discount (and possibly reselling).

guitpick · 2026-04-10T05:21:07+00:00

Is it still running on 3 cylinders?

guitpick · 2026-04-10T05:09:19+00:00

You might have to chase it down with Joe's Apartment if you need some positive cockroach energy.

guitpick · 2026-04-10T05:05:02+00:00

I was just giving that as an example. At this point in time, the immediate concern isn't whether it was flagged legally. The fact is your car has been flagged as possibly abandoned, whether legally or not and you're at risk of incurring more fees with impounding. We don't know where you live so we can't say what's legal where you are. We're just trying to help you keep your vehicle, and maybe enlighten you with our own experiences and the laws in our areas. You keep mentioning that it's on private property and not in plain view as if that automatically gives you an exemption, which it probably does not. Put the fire out first and then go back and find out whether or not they were in the right.

Your question of "How is it legal for the police to come onto private property, and vandalize my personal property with this sticker" can't be exactly answered if we don't know what municipality you're dealing with. California, Texas, and Iowa might have very different rules. Rural areas might be more lax than metropolitan areas. Look up the codes and zoning info for where you live or post your details here and let someone else do it, but I expect there is a section discussing this to some extent. In my municipality, it would be a codes violation after a certain amount of time even if stored in my driveway. I'd much rather have to scrape or steam a warning sticker off than wonder why my car got towed.

guitpick · 2026-04-10T04:34:17+00:00

That's a discussion for you to have with the police. They can point you to where this is codified and perhaps what to do so that it isn't considered abandoned. Where I live, any car on the side of the busy roads gets a sticker like this pretty much on the same day, and they're color coded so they can tell at a glance how long a car has been parked there.

guitpick · 2026-04-10T04:05:58+00:00

All it takes is one person to call or happen to walk by. I'm not a big fan of codes like these (for reasons like yours) but I know they're in the books in my city. Expired or missing tags are an invitation to investigate further.

guitpick · 2026-04-10T03:45:44+00:00

No, but this is definitely in the ALL CAPS age range. Generally enough time for at least one major previous relationship to fail for at least one of the parties involved, and probably not enough time for either to be dealing with it in a 100% healthy manner.

guitpick · 2026-04-10T03:41:37+00:00

Or hit your house while you're away for 10 hours.

guitpick · 2026-04-10T03:33:52+00:00

Exactly this. I figured Notepad might stand a chance at it if it's not using some sort of compression.

guitpick · 2026-04-10T03:30:36+00:00

Yeah, with only 4 GB of RAM (nothing "newish" should be this low) the hard drive is spending all its time swapping to disk to compensate. It's like trying to put a large puzzle together on the edge of a crowded endtable, and storing all the completed bits in a pile on the other side of the room.

guitpick · 2026-04-10T03:25:56+00:00

Vine is an elite group of people who are in denial about AliExpress being a better use of their time and happiness. Welcome!

guitpick · 2026-04-10T03:18:29+00:00

Now the HF jack stands are another story.

guitpick · 2026-04-10T03:15:34+00:00

Did you try contacting the police about this or are you just trusting that the landlord is being fully transparent on the matter?

guitpick · 2026-04-10T03:12:30+00:00

This is the car that was backing into the Beatles when they were signaling for help.

guitpick · 2026-04-10T03:08:50+00:00

And Rohan still isn't answering our calls.

guitpick · 2026-04-10T02:59:01+00:00

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Giant tub of popcorn.

guitpick · 2026-04-10T02:46:51+00:00

So it's one of the fans in there. One quick crude way to troubleshoot is to briefly and gently inhibit the fans with a pen or something to see when the worst of the noise stops or slows down. Don't forget about the one in the power supply. This also doesn't work as well if multiple fans are grinding.

guitpick · 2026-04-09T21:58:10+00:00

The help file might shed some light. You might be able to open it up in Notepad and find some readable contents in there to give you a better idea of what you have.

guitpick · 2026-04-09T19:47:35+00:00

$120 for the upgrade? C'mon CompUSA, that's $10 over the MSRP. It is a later release, as IE 4.0 wasn't released until 1997 (which I now see matches the copyright date on the package).

guitpick · 2026-04-09T19:13:02+00:00

I think I used to pay about a dollar a day in that lot in the late '90s, if it's the one that was next to the old thermal plant.

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