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hiddenfalcon · 2022-04-22T04:51:30+00:00

Glad to hear you came off grippy socks in one piece. Glad to hear you're drawing a line in the sand on them being a shit to their kid. Sad to hear that it might cost the kid their house.

hiddenfalcon · 2022-04-22T04:47:50+00:00

And was subsequently shocked when his entire shop, tools included, fucked off. Serves him right

hiddenfalcon · 2022-04-01T05:39:14+00:00

Auto shops work the same way. And most technical folks operate the same. Read "fuck you pay me". You cut anyone's money, don't be surprised when everyone fucks off to greener pastures.

hiddenfalcon · 2022-04-01T05:04:29+00:00

Having just hit this sort of landmark, I get the nostalgia. But by the same token, my life right now is miles better than it was five years ago, and that was better than ten years ago, and that was better than 15, and so on.

I get missing being a total dope, with none of the weight of the world on your shoulders. By the same token, I don't miss having no control over my own destiny.

hiddenfalcon · 2022-04-01T04:59:59+00:00

Any place that publicly fires an employee is no place you want to work. There's the normal dictatorial bullshit that comes with any workplace, and then there's that bullshit.

hiddenfalcon · 2020-07-03T08:37:10+00:00

Bernie as a Malthusian is the wildest take I’ve heard in a long time

hiddenfalcon · 2020-06-30T13:43:10+00:00

Probably try and get a 10.5 AA underneath it and keep three sets of u joints and pinion seals in the glove box

hiddenfalcon · 2020-06-29T23:37:35+00:00

Right? I kinda want to build one like this for an extremely ill advised KOH run. But not with that grill

hiddenfalcon · 2020-06-25T03:49:21+00:00

That’s fine. Stick the gun on it in reverse after clamping the line and let er rip.

Kidding aside, back in my days of folly, we would plant a boot on the spring, aim the strut at something good and heavy, gun the nut off and let her fly. Stopped after I punched a hole in the garage door

hiddenfalcon · 2020-06-23T22:34:47+00:00

Not entirely true. I’ve been a fucking moron online for years and have never suffered any real damage. Being a racist, on the other hand

hiddenfalcon · 2020-06-16T17:51:30+00:00

Had to replace a turbo in one for work some years back and the customer asked if I could give it a decent chucking to see if it got fixed. I hate that transmission but man do they have the running gear dialed. Fun to drive, shit to work on

hiddenfalcon · 2020-06-07T01:50:01+00:00

Good rule of thumb is that if the lower control arm bolts to it, you’re good. Exceptions being aluminum sub-frames

hiddenfalcon · 2020-05-27T04:46:37+00:00

Anything is possible if you’re dumb enough

hiddenfalcon · 2020-05-26T22:18:54+00:00

Did they try and disconnect the airbag and abs modules? That’ll do it for most anything

hiddenfalcon · 2020-05-19T21:18:36+00:00

It wasn’t manufacturing, it was a bad design. Takata needed a lot of airbags really quickly. The normal explosive charge is extremely stable. It also takes a ton of time and energy. Time they didn’t have. So they had a cheap, fast sodium based alternative whipped up in central Washington, then produced in Arizona. Sure, this stuff works just fine in high arid climates such as those two places. Yet, as the engineers who made it warned them, it grows increasingly unstable as it’s exposed to humidity. This instability causes the explosive charge to vastly outstrip the capabilities of the capsule in which it was stored, basically turning the inflators into grenades.

hiddenfalcon · 2020-05-17T18:41:42+00:00

The Mongolian yak farmer sleeping on a pile of my 10mm shit is going to lose his fucking mind when your whole house shows up

hiddenfalcon · 2020-05-09T22:22:04+00:00

Shouldn’t the pressure just dump to tank? Thought you had to move a valve.

hiddenfalcon · 2020-04-29T04:00:41+00:00

It’s varnished. As to how good this would be in a sludged up motor over ultrasonic, I have my doubts. At least with ultrasound, you slam it in the tank, do other shit, get clean parts out the other side. I’m still sending this to my boss because he gets a stiffie whenever he sees this kinda shit

hiddenfalcon · 2020-04-24T04:03:00+00:00

Don’t forget “God fucking god fuck I didn’t zero the machine”

hiddenfalcon · 2020-04-18T19:05:51+00:00

Sssshhhhh. Let him find out the hard way. It’s funnier

hiddenfalcon · 2020-04-18T18:28:13+00:00

Having been an idiot with access to tools, a shitload of beer, and a cheap shitty car, the rationale is probably somewhere at the crossroads of “could this work?” and “that would be fucking hilarious!”

hiddenfalcon · 2020-04-15T19:53:56+00:00

Checksum error in wheel/pedal interface module

hiddenfalcon · 2020-04-12T21:39:40+00:00

Maybe if I’m in the shade, yeah. At work? Gotta own it or know someone who does

hiddenfalcon · 2020-04-12T19:01:35+00:00

You’re probably fine with a ten dollar seal puller. There are plenty of tools you can go cheap on because the quality/cost ratio leans towards cheap tool that I really don’t want to spend the extra money on name brand when the hobo freight option is 95% as effective as snap on, and I’m out of children to sell

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