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TIL that you should always check the battery first...
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10-07-2022, 09:00 AM | #3572 | |
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Even though online a search of "hood" would probably have got it open well under the hour so that it took them. Took me exactly 28 seconds (not including the 45 seconds search and download time to get the manual). I appreciate that I am sitting safely in an office not stuck in traffic but he KNEW he wanted that hood open right from the start.
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10-07-2022, 09:08 AM | #3573 |
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On the thread where this video first popped up on a different forum I did mention that, as well as it would help if GM had just used a standard "hood pop" pull instead of an unlabeled cable loop. Just another example of overcomplicating things just because its an EV.
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TIL that a surprising number of people think my car is a Porsche. For the third time in a week I have heard it called such.
Guy at the gas pumps yelled over "nice Porsche" this morning. Woman at the grocery store on Wednesday asked "what year is your Porsche". The best was the three twenty something girls at the park on the weekend that stopped to discus and admire the "Porsche" parked on my site. The guy with them was very quick to show his expertise and correct them though. I was glad to learn that my car is not a Porsche but actually a really old, very valuable and highly sought after Saturn! All this went down with them standing staring at the Toyota emblem on the trunk lid.
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I was sitting on the deck and they couldn't see me. I just chuckled and let it be. Wouldn't have even thought of it again if not for the two other comments this week.
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TIL there is a specific screw driver meant for wiring housing outlets and light switches called an ECX driver.
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Sort of redundant but cool.
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Sort of like JIS instead of Philips? The shape is just different enough that they cam out when mismatched. One of these days I'll sack up and order a set of JIS drivers.
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Not really. Just a #1 Robinson with slot extensions on the side. I don’t know how much torque you would have to use to cam it out. Probably break the head off before that would happen.
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Great! Now I can tell my dad there's something else I've been doing wrong for 40 years.
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siemens maintains the same square/flathead style, with the square portion rotated 45 degrees from ecx style. there's also most conduit fittings that use the ecx style screws, which is where i really started using the bit style the most--it offers a little more torque than phillips, and still maintains the self-centering feature. i keep an ecx bit in my 11-in-1, but really prefer to use it as a last resort. i generally use the flathead most times so then i can screw the cover plate on afterwards without changing bits. Quote:
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it really doesn't cam out, ever. unless you're going at the screw head at an odd angle, then it'll strip the top of the screw off to the point that nothing else really gets it back out.
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Spoke to my brother this morning who is traveling way up north. He overheard a conversation from a guy on his mobile. Guy had been on phone organizing car freight. After the guy finished talking on the phone my brother asked what was going on. The guy told my brother that his late model BMW had had a flat battery. Guy called battery installer. Battery installer replaces battery. Car tells guy his car is dead and has to go to an authorized BMW service center. It turns out to replace the battery one has to attach a auxiliary battery so the car always has some power. So, attach aux battery, remove car battery, fit new car battery, remove aux power battery. Modern cars.
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TIL deer can get zoomies like a dog. Was drinking coffee with my buddy on his front porch and these two deer were playing for 15-20 minutes. Alternating from bounding around to a full sprint. It was pretty comical.
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