Jump to content

wd40

Legacy Members
  • Posts

    1033
  • Joined

Everything posted by wd40

  1. hell, no. keep it flowing. a day without dead russians is like a day without sunshine.
  2. your mom is Alison Brie?
  3. just turned 54. new board. bad back. fuck am I doing?
  4. wine cork dart board backer thing, and scoreboard.
  5. just like your dear Papa?
  6. love me some Sea Monkeys Alfredo
  7. the last part first: I needed some bread crumbs for tonight's dinner recipe. I pulled this out of the cabinet: empty, except for the egg shells. must have been from when she made meatballs, however many weeks ago. corking the empty wine bottle and leaving it on the counter every time is annoying, but whatever. this? come the fuck on.
  8. I don't know why I made this, because for all the times I saw it on the Double Dave's buffet, I never had any interest. like, I'd just wait for them to reload, if this was all that was left. maybe even get a salad. bbq chicken pizza. skillet-reheated heb rotochicken on garlic naan.
  9. "The Spanish are never ready." -Jack Aubrey
  10. avatar checks out all the boxes
  11. wd40 has joined the chat. I work from home. my workspace is a recliner in the corner of the living room, at the base of the stairs up to the master bedroom. was waiting for the system to finish running something and didn't want to get on some other task and fuck both up, so I leaned over and poked around on the ipad for a bit. in this tilted position, I faced the point of decision: should I push a bad position or...? I jumped up and moved quickly but carefully up the stairs, with The Right Stuff running down my legs. stepped straight into the shower, rinsed myself, my shorts, and waffle-stomped the evidence. fortunately: a) I had a load of laundry about ready to go, anyway b) I didn't get any on the recliner c) my daughter wasn't awake yet when it all went down. unfortunately: when I came downstairs, I saw there was about a 3in puddle of chunky soup on the floor, just in front of said recliner. I got it cleaned up just before daughter came into the room.
  12. after much blood, sweat, mail order parts and beers, I finally got the 12sp dialed. took it to cat today. first time there in a while. 50T got me up the hill, where I promptly punctured the rear on a rocky landing. my tire went all Ron Swanson: give me all the bacon and Stan's you have. literally. so I cut the ride short. just as well. ended up having a perfect day of sailing up on Buchanan. pretty steady 17kt wind, surfing the SW swells on the way back, just skimming along. hiked all the way out, dragging the sheet hand in the water. wife blowing up my phone, inaudible in the dry bag, wondering if I'm ok. fuck yeah, I am.
  13. wd40

    I'm not dead

    oh hay, found a pic of her asshole.
  14. great. now I got Fast Car playing in my left ear and Chattanooga Choo-Choo in my right.
  15. wd40

    I'm not dead

    so confused. is your hobbie toddlers, or just being not dead?
  16. what I usually do is 'power brake' in the driveway (I have a long one). stand-up pedaling with moderate braking force. works best with the old Six Million-Dollar Man theme in your head, but Chariots of Fire is fine. an old trick was to run water from a hose over your rotors when you're doing this. I don't understand the physics behind it, but it seemed to help. we still occasionally squirt camelbak water on our rotors if they're making noise with fresh pads, on the trail.
  17. interesting. I've never opened up the system to press the pistons back to zero for pad reinstall. just use the butter knife pushed all the way through the caliper so I can put even pressure across the face of the piston. just googled it and it looks like this is how at least a few youtubers also do it. probably means it's wrong. as far as the der clutch, I've never used it. I just put the drive train in a high gear (small cog) and that's been good enough. I mean, remember the days before clutch ders? how did we survive? speaking of ders, the last piece of the puzzle just arrived today: a 12sp chain, ordered shipped (free) to Sun&Ski on Anderson from their Tulsa store. no one local had one in stock (even pure online shops seemed to be out), and SnS surprisingly had the best price. the hidden price was having to wait for Fedex to rout it from Tulsa to California, to Cypress, to Pflugerville, back to Cypress, then back to Pflugerville with no deliver date estimate. So I was surprised to get an email from the store this afternoon that it was ready for pickup. the OEM packaging had definitely done some traveling. hopefully, the chain itself isn't bent. can't wait to climb without dying, in this blast furnace.
  18. [FARTING SNACKS] lies [/FARTING SNACKS]
  19. automotive brake cleaners are fine. it's what I use. current have a can of Blaster brand, but have used Gum-Out. what isn't paint-safe is the mineral oil Shimano uses in their brakes. bleeding Shimano brakes is super-easy. just have to buy their bleed 'kit' which consists of a cup with a removable plug that you thread into the reservoir at the brake lever. have to be very careful to minimize and immediately clean up any spillage.
  20. fair point. I assume we have an export version and the 'full' version of the more advanced systems, but maybe not. I saw some discussion about the M777s we were sending that were missing the boxes for guidance systems, for example. as 'unforecasted demand', we may not have any of the export versions immediately available of the HIMARS. but yeah. we probably really are just dumb.
  21. the whole argument is stupid. if a Uke is standing at a border crossing and pisses over the gate, the russians will start barking about their badass nukes again. we know all this. if there's any debate to be had, it's about US-built tech getting captured, and what kind of rules we can fet the Ukes to follow to keep it safe. hell. I'd be sending them the longest-range shit we got. if the russians are good at anything, it's stealing.
  22. some pics from last sunday. much better day. found some trail I hadn't seen before in an area I've been riding for 20 years.
  23. one reason the piston cleaning is #1 is because if they're not clean and moving freely, they're probably not moving uniformly, so you may have one pad extending more than the other and doing all the work, and wearing faster. obviously, caliper alignment can cause this result as well. but you're smart to be nervous about over-extending the pistons. so again, liberal application of brake cleaner spray can get in there and flush out dirt and buildup without that risk; if not the warm fuzzy of eyeballing your shiny clean pistons. as far as truing the rotor, it doesn't have to be any more complicated in than just spinning the wheel at a speed where you can detect any wobble in the rotor between the insides of the caliper, and/or actual intermittent rubbing on one pad or the other. as far as a plastic knife being thick enough: stack your pads together. that's the minimum thickness your plastic cutlery needs to be to keep from vomiting a piston if you just start mashing the brake lever with the pads out. it's like anything: takes a little practice to get decent at it. but it's not rocket surgery.
×
×
  • Create New...