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Post by Icctrombone on May 1, 2016 19:41:23 GMT -5
It's May 1st. Is this the second anniversary for CCF ?
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Post by shaxper on May 1, 2016 19:43:56 GMT -5
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 1, 2016 20:14:06 GMT -5
Workers and comic-book fans of the world, unite!
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Post by Rob Allen on May 1, 2016 20:58:23 GMT -5
For a second there I thought you were doing a Nightcrawler impression!!! I was! Nobody in Germany says that. Even less so the mis-spelled "Leibchen" which is an archaic word for undershirt. Always wondered whether it was Claremont or the letterer who kept making that mistake. A couple of us here happen to know Tom Orzechowski, who lettered all those X-Men comics. We can ask him about "Leibchen".
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Post by DE Sinclair on May 2, 2016 11:26:21 GMT -5
Well I guess I am going to be a diy mechanic soon. My 2000 Chevy pickup has been dead for a few years, and I am comfortable enough financially to start on it. I found 1aauto.com that sells parts and has installation/repair videos on their site. I need to either replace the radiator and/or the water pump. When it went out on me, I had no choice but to deal with one car. Now, though I have a company vehicle, I want to get my own truck up and running. The radiator doesn't look too difficult, but that water pump looks a bit intimidating. But I'll save money doing it this way, and I can go at my own pace. Maybe $250 in parts if they're both bad. I've done maintenance stuff on my truck (oil change, spark plus, distributor cap, wiring, and washer fluid reservoir) but nothing this major. For what it's worth, I'm not much of a mechanic, and most of what I've done on cars has been because I had no choice (couldn't afford to pay someone skilled to do it). But some 20 years ago I replaced a radiator and air pump on an old Chrysler by myself (without benefit of online video help) and managed to do it successfully. With the added advantage of step-by-step videos, you should do fine.
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Post by Bronze Age Brian on May 2, 2016 12:43:06 GMT -5
Car issue note: We've lost AC to both of our cars within a year. Luckily it magically came back on our Toyota, but our other car (Saturn Vue) has been diagnosed with a leaking compressor, which the repair shop is asking $1600 to fix. Yikes! I might as well trade it in for another car at that price, which I think is the route we're going to go. AC is a must in California.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on May 2, 2016 13:03:49 GMT -5
Well I guess I am going to be a diy mechanic soon. My 2000 Chevy pickup has been dead for a few years, and I am comfortable enough financially to start on it. I found 1aauto.com that sells parts and has installation/repair videos on their site. I need to either replace the radiator and/or the water pump. When it went out on me, I had no choice but to deal with one car. Now, though I have a company vehicle, I want to get my own truck up and running. The radiator doesn't look too difficult, but that water pump looks a bit intimidating. But I'll save money doing it this way, and I can go at my own pace. Maybe $250 in parts if they're both bad. I've done maintenance stuff on my truck (oil change, spark plus, distributor cap, wiring, and washer fluid reservoir) but nothing this major. For what it's worth, I'm not much of a mechanic, and most of what I've done on cars has been because I had no choice (couldn't afford to pay someone skilled to do it). But some 20 years ago I replaced a radiator and air pump on an old Chrysler by myself (without benefit of online video help) and managed to do it successfully. With the added advantage of step-by-step videos, you should do fine. Knowing the cost of at least new parts with a warranty, it is kind of hard for me to justify paying someone to do it, when I know at least I can make the effort. And being I do have a few people to back me up, my father in law in particular, if it does get too complicated, makes me feel this is a good route to go. It's the only part of it I can cut the cost on, as getting the tag updated is going to cost what it's going to cost. I can't change that.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 2, 2016 15:35:20 GMT -5
Bane's voice kept reminding me of Marvin the Martian so I couldn't have taken him seriously if I'd tried. Cei-U! I summon the least of the movie's problems! This is not going to help taking Bane seriously, but I love it!
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Post by wickedmountain on May 3, 2016 0:25:44 GMT -5
Bored ugh :/
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Post by the4thpip on May 3, 2016 12:11:10 GMT -5
I was! Nobody in Germany says that. Even less so the mis-spelled "Leibchen" which is an archaic word for undershirt. Always wondered whether it was Claremont or the letterer who kept making that mistake. A couple of us here happen to know Tom Orzechowski, who lettered all those X-Men comics. We can ask him about "Leibchen". That would solve a mystery dating back to my childhood! In other news, I quite enjoyed Civil War.
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2016 14:46:54 GMT -5
Well I guess I am going to be a diy mechanic soon. My 2000 Chevy pickup has been dead for a few years, and I am comfortable enough financially to start on it. I found 1aauto.com that sells parts and has installation/repair videos on their site. I need to either replace the radiator and/or the water pump. When it went out on me, I had no choice but to deal with one car. Now, though I have a company vehicle, I want to get my own truck up and running. The radiator doesn't look too difficult, but that water pump looks a bit intimidating. But I'll save money doing it this way, and I can go at my own pace. Maybe $250 in parts if they're both bad. I've done maintenance stuff on my truck (oil change, spark plus, distributor cap, wiring, and washer fluid reservoir) but nothing this major. For what it's worth, I'm not much of a mechanic, and most of what I've done on cars has been because I had no choice (couldn't afford to pay someone skilled to do it). But some 20 years ago I replaced a radiator and air pump on an old Chrysler by myself (without benefit of online video help) and managed to do it successfully. With the added advantage of step-by-step videos, you should do fine. Yep. Once upon a time I was a halfway-decent shade-tree mechanic, at least until they started computerizing all the shade trees. Uh ... I mean, until they started computerizing all the cars. If I could accomplish things (as I did, mainly on my mother's old '73 Pinto, my then-stepdaughter's I-think-'72 Pinto station wagon & my '88 Dodge Colt) like changing out starters, a U-joint, shocks, a master cylinder, etc., there's no reason someone like you can't do what you're hoping to. That was almost all before the internet, much less YouTube & the equivalent. These days I'm not as likely to get much done under the hood, even with a 20-year-old Maxima, but even so a couple of years ago I managed to save myself $300+ in labor by poking around on Google, heading out to a salvage yard & coming back with & installing a screen about the size of a silver dollar.
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2016 14:52:40 GMT -5
Car issue note: We've lost AC to both of our cars within a year. Luckily it magically came back on our Toyota, but our other car (Saturn Vue) has been diagnosed with a leaking compressor, which the repair shop is asking $1600 to fix. Yikes! I might as well trade it in for another car at that price, which I think is the route we're going to go. AC is a must in California. That, i think, is basically the problem with my Maxima's A/C; the fix would apparently cost more than I paid for the car (not that I didn't get quite a bargain buying from my ex-gf, with whom I'm still on perfectly fine terms ... & I bought it knowing about the A/C situation, which had kicked in a few years before the transaction). Luckily, as a cheapskate I doubt that I've ever run the air in any car for more than a combined total of a couple of hours a year. These days I turn it on only to help with defrosting windows when needed (a trick I learned from "Car Talk" on PBS back in the '90s). It gets hotter than hell in Alabama, of course, but big deal -- I survived nearly 3 years in Phoenix in a Corolla with navy blue interior & no A/C whatsoever, so I can take whatever's thrown at me.
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2016 14:54:43 GMT -5
Learned via email today that a friend's twin brother, who I had gathered from FB was ailing, has died. Such an odd situation -- my friend is perfectly normal, but his twin was Down syndrome. I can't imagine that happens very often.
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2016 15:01:13 GMT -5
Learned via email today that a friend's twin brother, who I had gathered from FB was ailing, has died. Such an odd situation -- my friend is perfectly normal, but his twin was Down syndrome. I can't imagine that happens very often. This is very odd to hear this and I'm so sorry that you have to learn about this today via e-mail ... my hearts goes out to you and your dear friend here.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 3, 2016 15:18:39 GMT -5
Learned via email today that a friend's twin brother, who I had gathered from FB was ailing, has died. Such an odd situation -- my friend is perfectly normal, but his twin was Down syndrome. I can't imagine that happens very often. My sympathies to your friend. I lost my sister a few years ago and it's quite a blow. Regarding their respective conditions, and with all due respect, my inner Spock can't help but think "fascinating". How many times must your friend have thought, while considering the obstacles his twin faced, "there but for the grace of God I go"? All it took was one cell improperly splitting while the two of them were in the womb together, and two men who should have been exactly the same physically turned out different.
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