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blackcherry20 05-20-2013 11:40 AM

ok, back to it. sigh.
see you guys this evening. Mini has ball practice which means I have 1.5 hours to :postwhore: :excited:

kenchan 05-20-2013 11:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Haboob (Post 2323951)
It depends, it can get down to the mid-high 30's. Usually sustains around low 40's-50's.

Which I know isn't cold to most, but when the prior week it was 85, then all of the sudden it's 50, your body goes into shock. :eek: :icon17:

That and the Summer heat thins out your blood, a lot.

As for the map light, if I put it on the inside, it may darken it a little bit, but if I put it on the outside it may blend the map lights into the plastic housing a bit - could look pretty neat.


:icon17: hahaha, yah, mid-30's, im washing my car outside on my driveway.
your summers are incredibly hot vs our summers here.

ahh, yah, on the outside i suppose it could bend with the trim. :) but if you were going to do that, wouldn't the stock frosted lens work just as well? :confused:

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Originally Posted by blackcherry20 (Post 2323953)
:tup: THat RO may end up on a list for hubby (for me from hubby!) ;)

:tup: :icon17:

i asked my wife i want a wiha extra heavy duty screw driver set for f-day and it already arrived. :excited:

silly me, i already cleared a drawer in my tool case for them. :p still got a couple weeks to go though... :ugh2:

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Originally Posted by LMBmikeZ (Post 2323957)
nice :tup: and with RO you don't have to worry so much about damaging the clear coat on your paint you won't burn through inless you held it in one spot for a LONG LONG TIME!

:iagree:

imho, using RO is safer than spot polishing by hand because the rotation is always even vs doing a karate kid motion by hand. polish on, paint off. :ugh2:

LMBmikeZ 05-20-2013 11:42 AM

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Originally Posted by blackcherry20 (Post 2323970)
ok, back to it. sigh.
see you guys this evening. Mini has ball practice which means I have 1.5 hours to :postwhore: :excited:

Me to back out to the garage to see if I can do any more prep before I start to paint :tup:

LMBmikeZ 05-20-2013 11:43 AM

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Originally Posted by kenchan (Post 2323972)
i asked my wife i want a wiha extra heavy duty screw driver set for f-day and it already arrived. :excited:

silly me, i already cleared a drawer in my tool case for them. :p still got a couple weeks to go though... :ugh2:

imho, using RO is safer than spot polishing by hand because the rotation is always even vs doing a karate kid motion by hand. polish on, paint off. :ugh2:

:tup: to the screwdriver set :tiphat:

:iagree: RO is probably the safest way to polish a car :tup:

kenchan 05-20-2013 11:44 AM

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Originally Posted by LMBmikeZ (Post 2323960)
:iagree: that would not be good for the wife or the baby on the way :shakes head:

we have been here 5 months now and I have done lots of projects already, hopefully I can get a bunch more of them done before the early december due date :tup:

now that's good preparation. :tup:

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Originally Posted by GaleForce (Post 2323961)
You need to come over some time and give my Rupes Bigfoot a try. You'll :drool: It's a game changer. :tup:

is that the one that can handle 12" pads? :icon17: ;)

lol, imagine someone polishing their cars with a 12" pad.

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Originally Posted by blackcherry20 (Post 2323970)
ok, back to it. sigh.
see you guys this evening. Mini has ball practice which means I have 1.5 hours to :postwhore: :excited:

laterz, msbc! :hello:

LMBmikeZ 05-20-2013 11:47 AM

12" pad would be ok if you had a big old boat of a car like a town car or a big caddy with large flat body panels :ugh2: not much else a 12" pad would be good for........I hardly use my 8" pads even..... I think they have only been used on my buddies boat :ugh2:

LMBmikeZ 05-20-2013 11:49 AM

K I gtg back to work, only so many hours left until day is done :ugh2:

kenchan 05-20-2013 11:49 AM

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Originally Posted by LMBmikeZ (Post 2323973)
Me to back out to the garage to see if I can do any more prep before I start to paint :tup:

nice! :tup: i need to vac my garage pretty soon. i sprayed some scentless/colorless insect spray yesterday to prevent spiders and stuff. already i saw these tiny spiders making their webs without paying any rent. :mad: :icon17:

kenchan 05-20-2013 11:50 AM

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Originally Posted by LMBmikeZ (Post 2323985)
K I gtg back to work, only so many hours left until day is done :ugh2:

laterz! :hello:

Haboob 05-20-2013 11:59 AM

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Originally Posted by kenchan (Post 2323972)
:icon17: hahaha, yah, mid-30's, im washing my car outside on my driveway.
your summers are incredibly hot vs our summers here.

ahh, yah, on the outside i suppose it could bend with the trim. :) but if you were going to do that, wouldn't the stock frosted lens work just as well? :confused:

I still have the stock frosted ones. :tup:

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Originally Posted by LMBmikeZ (Post 2323985)
K I gtg back to work, only so many hours left until day is done :ugh2:

:icon23:

GaleForce 05-20-2013 12:37 PM

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Originally Posted by kenchan (Post 2323978)
now that's good preparation. :tup:



is that the one that can handle 12" pads? :icon17: ;)

lol, imagine someone polishing their cars with a 12" pad.



laterz, msbc! :hello:

:icon18: No, 6" or 5" pads. The Bigfoot 21 has 21mm of RO travel. You can correct bad paint nearly half the time it takes a normal RO.

Davey 05-20-2013 12:48 PM

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Originally Posted by GaleForce (Post 2324060)
:icon18: No, 6" or 5" pads. The Bigfoot 21 has 21mm of RO travel. You can correct bad paint nearly half the time it takes a normal RO.

Or burn through the clear in half the time... I went through mine with a cotton pad and my right arm. :ugh2:

Haboob 05-20-2013 12:49 PM

This is the calmest conversation from the hood of a moving vehicle I've ever seen. :roflpuke2::roflpuke2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=falJxsLLL3E

"Just call the po-lice baby." :bowrofl::bowrofl:

Had me rollin'.

onzedge 05-20-2013 12:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Haboob (Post 2324083)
This is the calmest conversation from the hood of a moving vehicle I've ever seen. :roflpuke2::roflpuke2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=falJxsLLL3E

"Just call the po-lice baby." :bowrofl::bowrofl:

Had me rollin'.

Ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

kenchan 05-20-2013 01:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Haboob (Post 2323995)
I still have the stock frosted ones. :tup:

:tup: sounds good. i thought you replaced them with the GTR clear lenses. :D

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Originally Posted by GaleForce (Post 2324060)
:icon18: No, 6" or 5" pads. The Bigfoot 21 has 21mm of RO travel. You can correct bad paint nearly half the time it takes a normal RO.

nice professional use. :tup:

good thing my Z and G have barely any swirls so i only use the mildest polishes and or just glaze. (polish3 from Griots / Prima Amigo for glaze) :D


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Originally Posted by Davey (Post 2324081)
Or burn through the clear in half the time... I went through mine with a cotton pad and my right arm. :ugh2:

yah, cotton does that. it generates too much heat.

Pintsize725 05-20-2013 01:06 PM

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Friend of mine just posted this on Facebook. I told him I would park like that too if I was away from everyone.

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kenchan 05-20-2013 01:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Pintsize725 (Post 2324106)
Friend of mine just posted this on Facebook. I told him I would park like that too if I was away from everyone.

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:icon18:

Haboob 05-20-2013 01:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Pintsize725 (Post 2324106)
Friend of mine just posted this on Facebook. I told him I would park like that too if I was away from everyone.

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I usually do...

Haboob 05-20-2013 01:11 PM

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Originally Posted by onzedge (Post 2324107)

Yes! :tup: :bowrofl:

LunaZ 05-20-2013 01:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Pintsize725 (Post 2324106)
Friend of mine just posted this on Facebook. I told him I would park like that too if I was away from everyone.

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Nah... you'd still be an a-hole.

LunaZ 05-20-2013 01:22 PM

WARNING: Street Racing Kill Post

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Went for a run today and a 300lb woman on a mobility chair coming out of a side street turned the corner in front of me and cut me off.
I pulled up alongside and gave her the "oh really?" look. She threw me the stink eye and it was on. This chair was a sleeper.... man did it have some legs on it!
I could barely keep up with her when the road started going down hill and then the next thing I knew, she was putting chair lengths on me like nobody's business. :eek:

Until we meet again, granny. Next time, we race uphill.

JARblue 05-20-2013 01:24 PM

Just finished installing my new dryer :tup:

I didn't actually short out the plug earlier, so I was very relieved when I plugged in the new dryer and it turned on and played a tune :icon17:

90 degree stairs suck though... I have an appliance dolly that I had to abandon halfway up the stairs cause I couldn't rotate it on the landing. I thought I was going to have to move the washing machine out of the laundry room to fit the dryer first, but taking laundry room door off the hinges wound up be significantly easier. Now I get to go back to the office all sweaty and nasty :yum:

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Got the old one downstairs and the new one unloaded from the car
http://i40.tinypic.com/91gl7b.jpg

Here's the landing where the stairs turn, which is about the size of the box the dryer came in - oh and my helper, who was more hindrance than help :icon17:
http://i42.tinypic.com/2uq2jcm.jpg

And here it is at the top of the stairs after having to abandon the appliance dolly
http://i41.tinypic.com/28v4phx.jpg

And final result installed :woot:
http://i44.tinypic.com/2up5kc6.jpg

Pintsize725 05-20-2013 01:28 PM

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Originally Posted by LunaZ (Post 2324115)
Nah... you'd still be an a-hole.

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y29...ps7aa31856.gif

Haboob 05-20-2013 01:29 PM

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Originally Posted by JARblue (Post 2324128)
Just finished installing my new dryer :tup:

I didn't actually short out the plug earlier, so I was very relieved when I plugged in the new dryer and it turned on and played a tune :icon17:

90 degree stairs suck though... I have an appliance dolly that I had to abandon halfway up the stairs cause I couldn't rotate it on the landing. I thought I was going to have to move the washing machine out of the laundry room to fit the dryer first, but taking laundry room door off the hinges wound up be significantly easier. Now I get to go back to the office all sweaty and nasty :yum:

( Click to show/hide )
Got the old one downstairs and the new one unloaded from the car
http://i40.tinypic.com/91gl7b.jpg

Here's the landing where the stairs turn, which is about the size of the box the dryer came in - oh and my helper, who was more hindrance than help :icon17:
http://i42.tinypic.com/2uq2jcm.jpg

And here it is at the top of the stairs after having to abandon the appliance dolly
http://i41.tinypic.com/28v4phx.jpg

And final result installed :woot:
http://i44.tinypic.com/2up5kc6.jpg

This is another reason why stairs suck.

Also, why have that equipment up stairs? I guess it's more convenient, but not when something breaks and you have to replace it! :icon17:



I can't have a two-story house though, so I won't have to worry about that ever.

LunaZ 05-20-2013 01:32 PM

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Originally Posted by JARblue (Post 2324128)
Just finished installing my new dryer :tup:

I didn't actually short out the plug earlier, so I was very relieved when I plugged in the new dryer and it turned on and played a tune :icon17:

90 degree stairs suck though... I have an appliance dolly that I had to abandon halfway up the stairs cause I couldn't rotate it on the landing. I thought I was going to have to move the washing machine out of the laundry room to fit the dryer first, but taking laundry room door off the hinges wound up be significantly easier. Now I get to go back to the office all sweaty and nasty :yum:

( Click to show/hide )
Got the old one downstairs and the new one unloaded from the car
http://i40.tinypic.com/91gl7b.jpg


Here's the landing where the stairs turn, which is about the size of the box the dryer came in - oh and my helper, who was more hindrance than help :icon17:
http://i42.tinypic.com/2uq2jcm.jpg

And here it is at the top of the stairs after having to abandon the appliance dolly
http://i41.tinypic.com/28v4phx.jpg

And final result installed :woot:
http://i44.tinypic.com/2up5kc6.jpg


Dude, you need a darker colour carpet on those stairs! :icon17:
I installed a 220 outlet in my house when going from a gas to an electric dryer. Man was that a little scary!

JARblue 05-20-2013 01:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Haboob (Post 2324139)
This is another reason why stairs suck.

Also, why have that equipment up stairs? I guess it's more convenient, but not when something breaks and you have to replace it! :icon17:



I can't have a two-story house though, so I won't have to worry about that ever.

Laundry upstairs is fantastic. I'd rather deal with it once every so often, than have to drag the laundry up and down the stairs on a regular basis. Plus, if it was really a big deal to exchange them, I could have had free delivery, installation and removal of the old dryer - it just would have been more inconvenient to have to meet them on their schedule. Luckily, my dad is out of town, so I was able to borrow his Rav4 to get the dryer home. I've already rerun the laundry that got interrupted last night and transferred it to the new dryer :tup:

Haboob 05-20-2013 01:35 PM

Any pics JAR posts are filtered here at work.

So I'm going to assume he carried the dryer on his back the rest of the way up the stairs.

JARblue 05-20-2013 01:36 PM

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Originally Posted by LunaZ (Post 2324148)
Dude, you need a darker colour carpet on those stairs! :icon17:
I installed a 220 outlet in my house when going from a gas to an electric dryer. Man was that a little scary!

I'm not doing anything to that carpet until we replace all of the upstairs flooring. I plan to do wood plank on the stairs and upstairs hallway if we stay in the house for a while. If we decide to move sometime in the next few years, I'll just do the cheap $99 carpet install right before we have to show.

Haboob 05-20-2013 01:36 PM

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Originally Posted by JARblue (Post 2324154)
Laundry upstairs is fantastic. I'd rather deal with it once every so often, than have to drag the laundry up and down the stairs on a regular basis. Plus, if it was really a big deal to exchange them, I could have had free delivery, installation and removal of the old dryer - it just would have been more inconvenient to have to meet them on their schedule. Luckily, my dad is out of town, so I was able to borrow his Rav4 to get the dryer home. I've already rerun the laundry that got interrupted last night and transferred it to the new dryer :tup:

I guess that's true.



Here I am thinking that if this happened I would actually do any of the work myself. :bowrofl:

I'm a weak bitch (and lazy). I'll have their guys do it. :ugh2:

JARblue 05-20-2013 01:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Haboob (Post 2324160)
Here I am thinking that if this happened I would actually do any of the work myself. :bowrofl:

I'm a weak bitch (and lazy). I'll have their guys do it. :ugh2:

:icon18: :icon17:

JARblue 05-20-2013 01:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Haboob (Post 2324158)
Any pics JAR posts are filtered here at work.

So I'm going to assume he carried the dryer on his back the rest of the way up the stairs.

Here are the stairway photos. Not sure why the forum decided to rotate them... that's not how I uploaded them :ugh2:

Nah, I just pushed it up the last few stairs from below. Thankfully, a dryer is pretty light for a household appliance :tup:

kenchan 05-20-2013 01:42 PM

luna - :rofl2: @ street race. :tup: sounds like she was really hauling arse!!


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Originally Posted by JARblue (Post 2324159)
I'm not doing anything to that carpet until we replace all of the upstairs flooring. I plan to do wood plank on the stairs and upstairs hallway if we stay in the house for a while. If we decide to move sometime in the next few years, I'll just do the cheap $99 carpet install right before we have to show.

woo, mr. jar has luckygoldstartstupidtunes as well. :tup: nice.

so you installed it yourself? :tup: i just let the installers do it for me since they came to take away the old units. :tup:

Haboob 05-20-2013 01:42 PM

My neck hurts from viewing those.

Wait... this isn't the complaint thread. :icon17:



At least it wasn't the washer. I couldn't imagine having to deal with a flood. :eekdance:

kenchan 05-20-2013 01:43 PM

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Originally Posted by JARblue (Post 2324170)
Here are the stairway photos. Not sure why the forum decided to rotate them... that's not how I uploaded them :ugh2:

Nah, I just pushed it up the last few stairs from below. Thankfully, a dryer is pretty light for a household appliance :tup:

:tup: your dog is asking, can i play with the buttons when you're done? :icon17:

Haboob 05-20-2013 01:43 PM

Speaking of the old unit...

Take that out to the range/desert and use it for target practice. Maybe even put a little tannerite in there and make it go BOOM! (Just stand waaaayyyy far away from it)

JARblue 05-20-2013 01:44 PM

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Originally Posted by kenchan (Post 2324173)
woo, mr. jar has luckygoldstartstupidtunes as well. :tup: nice.

so you installed it yourself? :tup: i just let the installers do it for me since they came to take away the old units. :tup:

Yup :tup: And yes, installed it myself. Too much hassle to try to coordinate delivery. As long as everything goes right and works properly, I very much enjoy doing things like this myself :icon17:

kenchan 05-20-2013 01:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Haboob (Post 2324175)
My neck hurts from viewing those.

Wait... this isn't the complaint thread. :icon17:



At least it wasn't the washer. I couldn't imagine having to deal with a flood. :eekdance:

yah, you see, the plan was, last year i wanted to replace all the major appliances so that i dont have to deal with crap. the luckygoldstartupidtunes are doing great, but then that pos maytag... :shakes head: broke only after 6months use. was new and not a cheapo either. was a failed plan.

after that, i decided maybe i should just wait till the dishwasher dies... :ugh2:

JARblue 05-20-2013 01:46 PM

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Originally Posted by kenchan (Post 2324176)
:tup: your dog is asking, can i play with the buttons when you're done? :icon17:

No she's asking, "Daddy, can I have a treat since I was so good and stayed out of your way while you worked?" My response: :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by Haboob (Post 2324180)
Speaking of the old unit...

Take that out to the range/desert and use it for target practice. Maybe even put a little tannerite in there and make it go BOOM! (Just stand waaaayyyy far away from it)

If I had a car to haul it out there maybe... I'm gonna just leave it on the front curb and post a craigslist ad to come pick it up. I can pretty much guarantee it'll be gone within an hour or two of posting.

LunaZ 05-20-2013 01:47 PM

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Originally Posted by kenchan (Post 2324173)
luna - :rofl2: @ street race. :tup: sounds like she was really hauling arse!!


She was hauling a lot of arse!!! :roflpuke2:


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