Rep Retirement Lodge 79: A decade of USCHO

[The Rube]

Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 79: A decade of USCHO

Hah, nope... Bondo's for cheap bashtards who think they can hide the big rust holes. If you're trying to keep the rust from eating through in the first place, you'd use something like Extend. Turns the rust into a stable coating, and keeps it from rusting further.

no, bondo is more putty for filling in the rusted out parts

Got it.

ARM,

Sorry for messing uo the Rep I sent to you.

RALPH'S BLASMED!!!!!!!!!

 

[bigmrg74]

Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 79: A decade of USCHO

Yes, but I didn't bring any to NYC.

FAIL!!!!!!!

Morning! Another day, another attempt at being superwoman! Yesterday, got up early, dropped car at the new place, went to work, stayed an extra hour, went to the new place painted for just under 2 hours, washed everything up, picked up friend and her husband and their houseguest, took them to the husband's performance (he plays acoustic guitar and banjo at a local open mic night), took pictures, and drove them home at 1:30am.

Got up this morning, dropped off the car at the new place, working, then heading to the mall to get ... undergarments for the dress I'm wearing to a wedding this weekend and then finishing painting the bedroom and the kitchen.

Thank goodness tomorrow is an easy day (up early, drop car at parking lot off 93), work, date.

hehehe..... you said undergarments!

I have - no lie - 80 Facebook application requests from my cousin.

What the hell?!??!!?

Thank you all for not being remotely that bad.

Yikes. I hate people like that. Might be better off just removing the cousin than trying to block all of those apps.

Evening Lodge.

Car is fixed for now - turns out I had somehow blown my coolant cap and was spilling coolant all over my intake. It was quoted at $1200, but they managed to find a way to fix the problem for $140. Hopefully it doesn't start up again.

I am, however, beginning to entertain thoughts of a new car. My Evo is admittedly a pipe dream, but if I can manage to get a loan I may pick up a slightly-used Mazda 3 at some point in the mid-future. I've heard nothing but good things about them (including from a friend who is a sales rep for GM and owns one.)

And apparently I look like enough of a high roller to have a sleazy salesman attempt to sell me the Corvette Z06 I was ogling in the showroom.

That, or they're just as desperate as a MTU undergrad in trying to get themselves with some booty.

Evening Lodge

Long overdue pictures of the chickens, run and coop

I'm still plugging away at the coop. Need to add a ceiling, nest boxes, perches and full walls. I'm getting there though. I expect to start seeing eggs toward the end of September.

I put a picture of my fat cat at the end of this set for 'Ewe and others who've asked about her

I see you did go with my suggestion of the solar powered fencer. Doesn't look like you've got the second layer of fencing on yet though. You did remember to ground the inner layer of the fencing right?? That so in case something like a mink jumps up onto the hot fence, and doesn't get shocked from that, they'll be in for a world of pain when they reach in for the inner layer and have a couple volts travel thru them. Personally, It would be very cruel, but funny as hell to watch something get halfway in thru the outer layer of the fencing, and then get shocked when it touches in inner layer of fence. Either way, that would be one critter that won't be coming around the chicken coop anytime soon. And will likely tell his friends about it as well.

Bando? (I don't know much about cars, I have heard of this Bando thing quite a bit though, with rust spots).

FYP.

 

[Ralph Baer]

Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 79: A decade of USCHO

RALPH'S BLASMED!!!!!!!!!

I have been doing that a lot lately.

 

[Ralph Baer]

Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 79: A decade of USCHO

FAIL!!!!!!!

 

[Ralph Baer]

Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 79: A decade of USCHO

Good Morning, Lodge!


Today is Monday for me.

 

[Ralph Baer]

Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 79: A decade of USCHO

I wonder why sneaker86 did not spam this forum. He did hit the D-I polls forum.


Edit: he has now.

 

[mookie1995]

Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 79: A decade of USCHO

s'upp y'all...

 

[Gonzo]

Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 79: A decade of USCHO

Morning Lodge

I see you did go with my suggestion of the solar powered fencer. Doesn't look like you've got the second layer of fencing on yet though. You did remember to ground the inner layer of the fencing right?? That so in case something like a mink jumps up onto the hot fence, and doesn't get shocked from that, they'll be in for a world of pain when they reach in for the inner layer and have a couple volts travel thru them. Personally, It would be very cruel, but funny as hell to watch something get halfway in thru the outer layer of the fencing, and then get shocked when it touches in inner layer of fence. Either way, that would be one critter that won't be coming around the chicken coop anytime soon. And will likely tell his friends about it as well.

I went with a wire on the perimeter of the top and the bottom of the run. It works like a champ, because so many country n00bs can't resist touching it.
I've never asked or encouraged anyone to "test the fence". Eventually they talk themselves into it. They also don't understand that electric fences have a pulsing current so when they grab it and say "It doesn't work" I just wait for the word "work" to watch their reaction.
It works

 

[JF_Gophers]

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Morning Lodge,

Work from home Wednesday is underway!

Now to find some coffee, or there won't be much work done...

 

[leswp1]

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GOOD MORNING EVERYONE!! wobbly wednesday is here.

 

[Hammer]

Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 79: A decade of USCHO

I wonder why sneaker86 did not spam this forum. He did hit the D-I polls forum.


Edit: he has now.

He's not done yet.

 

[bigblue_dl]

Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 79: A decade of USCHO

Good Morning Lodge!

Somehow, my Jeep beats the government estimate of 17 mpg usually. Dad was thinking of trading it in on a Patriot (he owns "my" Jeep) but there's no dealers in the state with 5 speed manual + 4wd Patriots.

And mine also has a while, despite pushing 196k. One of my coworkers has a nearly identical Cherokee with 270k

The old Cherokees were beasts! My grandpa had one, and IIRC, before him and grandma started trading cars back after every 3-4 years*, that thing had about 200K on it, an it was still like new.

*They traded back because of things like "grandpa likes this shade of red better than our current shade of red" or "this one has a better interior." Well, not really, but dang close to why they traded cars so often.

Old Jeep Wranglers are awesome too
270k and still going strong! The Jeep might be the best $2300 I've ever spent!

Hah, nope... Bondo's for cheap bashtards who think they can hide the big rust holes. If you're trying to keep the rust from eating through in the first place, you'd use something like Extend. Turns the rust into a stable coating, and keeps it from rusting further.

I've used the Extend stuff before, it works ok, but once the rust starts theres not much you can do except hope to slow it down a little. One trick that I've found to prevent rusting on the bottom of the doors is to squirt oil up into the drain holes on the bottom of each door. Make sure theres enough oil so the entire bottom seem of the door is covered from the inside. Then the door will last twice as long because you don't get moisture in that bottom seem.

Bondo can be the worst thing when used wrong, which it is very often. But that isn't the original purpose of body filler. If you watch a professional body guy they'll definitely use bondo, they just use it in very thin layers and sand off any excess, so that the body filler only fills in the tiny imperfections in the sheet metal, and gives the body a perfectly smooth surface to paint.

 

[The Rube]

Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 79: A decade of USCHO

I have been doing that a lot lately.

Getting blasmed?

 

[JF_Gophers]

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Easily my favorite part of the spam posts...

We sincerely wish to cooperate with you , making mutual benefit and approach double win !

Holy crap! Double win!

 

[Nathan]

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Nathan, you're missing a good conference. I think you would have found it quite useful and informative.

first day done. Checking email,, spending a little time here. Then off to find a decent place for dinner. Anyone know a good steakhouse in Chicago??

Yeah, I think I would have. Unfortunately we can't head off wherever we want, whenever we want. Especially since I'm heading back to Mass 8/31-9/2.

 

[bigblue_dl]

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I got confirmation from my former roommate at Tech and probably closest friend that he'll be free Thursday night when I'm in Green Bay, so we can go out for drinks. We'll probably have some fried food too. Unfortunately, we'll both have to work Friday morning, so no getting blasmed like college days.

 

[Ralph Baer]

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Getting blasmed?

I meant messing up Reps.

 

[The Rube]

Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 79: A decade of USCHO

I meant messing up Reps.

 

[nmupiccdiva]

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'Morning, Lodge! Waiting around for the cable guy--I'll have real TV again for the first time in a year!!

My truck has about 161K on it, and despite its little quirks still works well enough. It gets about 13-14 MPG, so that kind of sucks, but eh, it could be worse.

 

[JF_Gophers]

Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 79: A decade of USCHO

'Morning, Lodge! Waiting around for the cable guy--I'll have real TV again for the first time in a year!!

My truck has about 161K on it, and despite its little quirks still works well enough. It gets about 13-14 MPG, so that kind of sucks, but eh, it could be worse.

Are you going to work your feminine ways to get a few extra channels?