- 81. [Shop-talk] What fun - O2 sensor (score: 99)
- Author: scott.hall.personal at gmail.com (Scott)
- Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 09:49:18 -0500
- I feel your pain. My wife's New Beetle is the first car I've ever worked on that I wasn't actually sure I could repair. It literally became an issue that my hands couldn't fit between the frame membe
- /html/shop-talk/2012-01/msg00216.html (9,941 bytes)
- 82. [Shop-talk] Welding table (score: 99)
- Author: scott.hall.personal at gmail.com (Scott)
- Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 10:17:04 -0500
- Me neither, but sometimes I don't see 100% of the posts. I always tend to suspect I've messed up a setting on my end. :-) I can flip the whole table, but I thought after I got it straight, I'd weld s
- /html/shop-talk/2012-01/msg00217.html (11,916 bytes)
- 83. [Shop-talk] What fun - O2 sensor (score: 99)
- Author: scott.hall.personal at gmail.com (Scott)
- Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:42:41 -0500
- My '95 F150 is like that--it's easier to sit on the fender than it is to try and reach all the way in to the engine compartment. I greatly prefer that to the Beetle.
- /html/shop-talk/2012-01/msg00219.html (9,765 bytes)
- 84. [Shop-talk] Welding table (score: 99)
- Author: scott.hall.personal at gmail.com (Scott)
- Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:00:24 -0500
- The ends. The middle is where the 'leg' is--a single column about eight inches in diameter. Interesting...I didn't think about just heating the top of the table and seeing if it'd shrink and pull up
- /html/shop-talk/2012-01/msg00222.html (10,724 bytes)
- 85. [Shop-talk] What fun - O2 sensor (score: 99)
- Author: scott.hall.personal at gmail.com (Scott)
- Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:01:44 -0500
- And yet somehow, whenever I drop a nut/bolt/whatever past the engine and thinl, "oh it'll just get caught on the belly pan and I'll grab it"...it's never there. At least on the F150 it falls through
- /html/shop-talk/2012-01/msg00223.html (9,826 bytes)
- 86. [Shop-talk] Welding table (score: 99)
- Author: scott.hall.personal at gmail.com (Scott)
- Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:05:57 -0500
- I stood on one of the 'long' ends and bounced up and down on the balls of my feet. It didn't move. That design is one of the things I like about it--plenty of room for me to clamp stuff to the edges,
- /html/shop-talk/2012-01/msg00227.html (10,790 bytes)
- 87. [Shop-talk] Didn't get what you want for Xmas? (score: 99)
- Author: scott.hall.personal at gmail.com (Scott)
- Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:59:47 -0500
- Indeed. I drooled a little bit.
- /html/shop-talk/2012-01/msg00246.html (8,335 bytes)
- 88. [Shop-talk] Painting inside a chassis (score: 99)
- Author: scott.hall.personal at gmail.com (Scott)
- Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:04:09 -0500
- That was my initial thought as well. It's lasted this long with nothing...and it's not like you're going to be able to rebuild the engine to *not* leak any oil... :-) But then again, I'd be trying to
- /html/shop-talk/2012-01/msg00250.html (9,840 bytes)
- 89. [Shop-talk] Rebuilding car batteries (score: 99)
- Author: scott.hall.personal at gmail.com (Scott)
- Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:28:33 -0500
- I was thinking that failing to start might actually get you more points in a concourse. Points might actually be deducted if it *did* start.
- /html/shop-talk/2012-01/msg00265.html (9,305 bytes)
- 90. [Shop-talk] Aluminum exhaust tubing? (score: 99)
- Author: scott.hall.personal at gmail.com (Scott)
- Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:25:29 -0500
- You want to make the baffle in the can from aluminum tube? I'd think you can get away with that. Have you tried calling Yosh (or any other pipe maker) and asking about a section of tube? Or even an e
- /html/shop-talk/2012-01/msg00286.html (9,943 bytes)
- 91. [Shop-talk] non ethanol fuel alternative (score: 99)
- Author: scott.hall.personal at gmail.com (Scott)
- Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:52:10 -0500
- If John's not doing that, I second that suggestion. But I'll note that I do that for all my stuff too, and some of it seems to have internal components that don't play nice with even the film left th
- /html/shop-talk/2012-01/msg00294.html (10,343 bytes)
- 92. [Shop-talk] non ethanol fuel alternative (score: 99)
- Author: scott.hall.personal at gmail.com (Scott)
- Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 23:39:55 -0500
- Another thought (and I'm not recommending this, just thinking out loud here): I run old race gas I don't want to run in my bikes any more through the yard equipment sometimes. $8/gallon isn't cheap t
- /html/shop-talk/2012-01/msg00297.html (10,502 bytes)
- 93. [Shop-talk] MY DISHWASHER IS A RUMBLIN (score: 99)
- Author: scott.hall.personal at gmail.com (Scott)
- Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:50:40 -0500
- At the risk of getting kicked off the list, the smartest thing I ever did with regard to home appliance repair is find a local guy that's REALLY good at that, and cheap. My only complaint is that he
- /html/shop-talk/2012-01/msg00308.html (10,405 bytes)
- 94. [Shop-talk] MY DISHWASHER IS A RUMBLIN (score: 99)
- Author: scott.hall.personal at gmail.com (Scott)
- Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:59:19 -0500
- That's where it is on ours too. Still a PITA because it's hard to turn a wrench in the space provided, but the line attaches just behind the kick panel. Oh man...don't do this. Well, don't do it at m
- /html/shop-talk/2012-01/msg00325.html (9,682 bytes)
- 95. [Shop-talk] Can steel cable be welded? (score: 99)
- Author: scott.hall.personal at gmail.com (Scott)
- Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:10:47 -0500
- I'm going to cry. The last one of those we had went tango uniform a few years ago. About six months ago, the bug spraying franchise truck pulls up to my house to spray...and the former owner of the F
- /html/shop-talk/2012-01/msg00349.html (10,618 bytes)
- 96. [Shop-talk] full-service FLAPS (score: 99)
- Author: scott.hall.personal at gmail.com (Scott)
- Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:32:28 -0500
- I sang the praises of that store on this list before. There are NAPA/CarQuests here...and they're just like Discount/O'Reilly's/etc. I guess I'll just be shopping at RockAuto (or where ever it is I f
- /html/shop-talk/2012-01/msg00352.html (9,223 bytes)
- 97. [Shop-talk] Light delay for shop entrance (score: 99)
- Author: scott.hall.personal at gmail.com (Scott)
- Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 15:17:52 -0500
- Which will eventually, over time, drive you stark raving mad. There's one of these in every garage door opener int he country. Surely there's one available at McMaster et al? I'd search, but I am gen
- /html/shop-talk/2012-03/msg00019.html (9,869 bytes)
- 98. [Shop-talk] computer virus question (score: 99)
- Author: scott.hall.personal at gmail.com (Scott)
- Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 09:23:55 -0500
- Awesome!!! Cue The Browser Wars of Religion!!! :-) I keeeed. I use Firefox, but I also like Opera, and Chrome wasn't awful (I just got habituated to where all the buttons are in Firefox). Our I.T. gu
- /html/shop-talk/2012-03/msg00042.html (11,063 bytes)
- 99. [Shop-talk] computer virus question (score: 99)
- Author: scott.hall.personal at gmail.com (Scott)
- Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 09:44:30 -0500
- Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand cue the Wars of the OS/Platform. (I want to put Linux on a box. No idea where to start. Macs seem like they're for the feeble-minded and fanbois. There, that ought to get thin
- /html/shop-talk/2012-03/msg00047.html (9,960 bytes)
- 100. [Shop-talk] Running power to the shop (score: 99)
- Author: scott.hall.personal at gmail.com (Scott)
- Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:01:29 -0500
- Additional trench with two empty conduits with pull strings? I think someone on this list once referred to that as "Cat1000". If you're already digging or have the trencher out there... And then: thr
- /html/shop-talk/2012-03/msg00049.html (8,933 bytes)
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