Things that make you frown :(

Had to drive to one of the main offices for work today. After 55 minutes of traffic arrive at office and head to the main building where the cafe and gym are to grab a bite to eat.

I hit the men’s room since after a long drive it’s mandatory and as soon as I walk in I see a complete casual work outfit hanging up off (shirt, pants, shoes on the floor) and then I come around the corner and almost passed out from the stench. 🤮

Guy is standing at the sink in running shorts and no shirt clearly taking a sink shower !! Like WtF dude there’s a gym and locker rooms right down the hall and membership is FREE.

Glad I don’t work with him today there’s only so much that axe body spray can help with.
 
iman29 said:
I know this is a first world problem but I’m really major frown on this one.

After a great 65 mile ride on Sunday, came home knowing I need to cut the grass. Since the line trimmer was not working the last 2 weeks the edges were all overgrown especially around the pool.

Yup you guessed it. Somewhat self inflicted somewhat well the pool is 22 years old and was rusting out along the bottom in more spots than this one. After the leak started it went kinda like this:

- repetitive cursing.
- told wife I f*cked up the pool
- told young adult sons the pool is f*cked
- drove to and from Lowes (lucky no cops) to get flexseal stuff and goggles from the dollar store while boys took pool cover off
- more repetitive cursing
- changed to swimsuit and had to get in the ~55F pool like a goddamn cold plunge to seal it off as best I could before I got hypothermic
- more really loud repetitive cursing.

Then I had to finish cutting the yard. Then I had to take a hot shower I was still cold.

It held pretty good to a very slow trickle until I could get a hold of a pool repair guy today that said either way it’s gotta be drained but that pool has to be replaced can’t be patched with other steel pieces. FML.

New pool price plus removal plus install = OMFG I’m gonna need to rob a bank. TBD if I replace it or just concede to no more pool.

Out of the 5 members of this household im
The one that uses it the most especially after a hot summer bike ride.

As I write this I’m draining it out with a spare sump pump i had on standby because I was supposed to replace the one In the basement 3 months ago.

Sigh.




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Apparently, this is the way. Anyone want give this guy a hand getting this into the yard?IMG_2041.jpeg
 
Patrick said:
crane or helicopter will be there shortly.

Sit on porch, should be a good show.
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My wife manages huge commercial moves and is looking forward to this. Our houses back up to the Middlesex Greenway. Probably would have been easier coming in from the back. Paid $1m cash for the house last year. Spent last week removing the existing in ground pool and basketball court.
 
serviceguy said:
Converting the gravel el mariachi to UDH just because. Ordered the Salsa UDH plates, specs call for a M12x1.0x171mm rear axle. The wolftooth closer to the size was 174 and leaves about 1.5 mm play, so I figured I ordered tha SRAM UDH 171.5mm 12x1.0 and bam, just gently trying to thread the SRAM axle into the UDH adapter the axle thread is stripped! Mind you, the axle is marked 174 x 12x1.0 so it doesn’t make any sense it wouldn’t thread into its own (or that it would be sold as 171.5, thank you SRAM, I knew there was something keeping me away…).
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Apparently I cross-threaded the axle, I re-threaded it and it works now. Still too long. Two M17x1.5 shims under the USH bolt fixed it, so now the axle is fully threaded and the should not be any weak link in the system. Or I could just go back to the old alternator plate and post mount calipers…
 
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I think this belongs here. For fucking real??!?. Jad to take the hex driver out of the socket and put an open end wrench in it to get it out. And then it. Was all wedged against the exhaust.🙄
 
shrpshtr325 said:
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I think this belongs here. For fucking real??!?. Jad to take the hex driver out of the socket and put an open end wrench in it to get it out. And then it. Was all wedged against the exhaust.🙄
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Engineers have a deep-seated hatred for mechanics. And manufacturers have a deep-seated hatred for people who work on their own vehicles. There's probably a specially-shaped tool for that for the low price of $2800.
 
zmartene said:
Engineers have a deep-seated hatred for mechanics. And manufacturers have a deep-seated hatred for people who work on their own vehicles. There's probably a specially-shaped tool for that for the low price of $2800.
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as an engineer i feel like im the only one who thinks about this type of shit.


for this one i just knocked the 10mm (yea, i know right?) out of the ratchet end and used a box wrench, gonna have to buy the real version of this tool instead of the ghetto method for future use.
 
shrpshtr325 said:
as an engineer i feel like im the only one who thinks about this type of shit.


for this one i just knocked the 10mm (yea, i know right?) out of the ratchet end and used a box wrench, gonna have to buy the real version of this tool instead of the ghetto method for future use.
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As a scientist, I keep wondering why engineers design things that can't be maintained.

Except Ferrari, pull engine to change plugs is fine.

I have a 9/16 box wrench bent to remove the upper bell housing bolt of a 69 firebird
 
Patrick said:
As a scientist, I keep wondering why engineers design things that can't be maintained.

Except Ferrari, pull engine to change plugs is fine.

I have a 9/16 box wrench bent to remove the upper bell housing bolt of a 69 firebird
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As an engineer I wonder the same thing. We have maintainability requirements to consider whenever we design stuff in house. The root cause seems to be that many (by a significant margin) of the new hires we get have 0 hands on experience so don't know what to watch out for in that dept. Droves those of us nuts who know what's what
 
shrpshtr325 said:
As an engineer I wonder the same thing. We have maintainability requirements to consider whenever we design stuff in house. The root cause seems to be that many (by a significant margin) of the new hires we get have 0 hands on experience so don't know what to watch out for in that dept. Droves those of us nuts who know what's what
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I feel bad I said pull instead of drop....
 
Patrick said:
As a scientist, I keep wondering why engineers design things that can't be maintained.
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As an engineer that worked in automotive electronics for 6+ years, it's horse blinders and no concept of the real world. 3 years from retirement, I keep explaining this weekly. They should have "what real humans are like" classes in engineering school
 
Karate Monkey said:
I can't even tell you the number of times I've needed to make my own, even shorter stubby key, because nobody bothered to design clearance into the actual part.
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This here is the exact situation. A standard external hex would have been perfect here
 
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