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We've had this same wild hare visit us at the bird feeder now for several weeks. He's been loosing his winter coat, going from white to brown-ish
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Been working my ass off this weekend with changing tires on two cars and dealing with the mazda rear brake calipers and replacing the disc. Everything stuck, so much fighting with bolts... hammers, levers and propane torch was required. Much less pleasant to work on than the much older Saab. I think...

Swapped out studded winter tires to summer tires again. For the first time I used a torque wrench to pull them to spec (~105nm / 76ft-lbs) and holy crap that's nothing. I have tightened the bolts a lot harder by hand all the 24 years I've been driving.

TIL that Al Bundy has a black belt in brazilian jiu-jitsu

This is what happens to the water when doing electrolysis


And this is the anode, goop likes to build up on it so I strop and scrape everything off

Finally, many smaller parts are becoming a lesser amount of larger parts again. I went with silver and black since that's what was available. The brake shield is showing some wear but I think I'll get a couple more years out of it since it won't be seeing any salt anymore. https://i.imgur.com/VhIzpt...

Dick Dorkins, case closed.

And just like that here the same calipers are after several rounds of electrolysis baths and wire brushing. https://i.imgur.com/vFlasr3h.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/qCP7QzUh.jpeg Ready for paint, personally I'd like gold. Also built this failure over the weekend to try and force out the lower ball join...

I've been taking apart the front right drive joint / hub. I got a new ball joint to fit. I also got a new CV joint but that was me ordering based on the incorrect assumption that it was bad. I am undecided on replacing the CV joint or just leaving it for now, it will fail eventually, it's a wear par...

Oh yeah what about the trunk/boot? I'm glad I asked. Rolled on a layer of epoxy primer in the trunk. https://i.imgur.com/30D6j0dh.jpg Day after and keeping the garage at 20C so it's cured enough to be painted over. I then put a layer of stone chip protection. This is oil based with anti-corrosive pr...

I removed the front bumper again and modified the fog light brackets. They had been bugging me for a while, too far apart compared to factory ones. So I decided to move them 5cm further in on each side. Looks better this way IMO. https://i.imgur.com/tuo5UZSh.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/6uZKqTwh.jpeg (r...

TIL that VMWare is price gouging it's customers, example an 8 mill contract is now a 100 mill contract. Thanks VMWare for showing the inherent risks of cloud computing. This means returning to bare metal servers will be economical and probably a lot of customers are implementing this right now and g...

Possibly it's just that easy, but the lack of information and posting pictures that are later retracted for supposed manipulation makes for some real juicy gossip and conspiracy theorizing

Apparently there's something up with Kate Middleton and the royals don't want to let anyone know. Dead, Coma, something else?

Some people have likened the earlier released photos akin to attempting a Weekend At Bernie's.

After looking for half a year it suddenly happened. A set of -431 injectors out of a Saab 9000. E85 conversion is a go! E85 last I looked was 60 cents cheaper per liter, which is almost 3 euros cheaper per gallon. https://i.imgur.com/iKYygO9h.jpg Filter baskets removed already https://i.imgur.com/cQ...

The insanity continues, ordered custom notebooks (and a mug) so I can have my own service book, factory one is filled right up. Designed these myself on a site called visaprint. https://i.imgur.com/tLPVnCol.jpg Car info on inside front cover https://i.imgur.com/9xacCH6l.jpg Oil change table back of ...

Also been chiseling, grinding and scrubbing and cleaning, repeat ad nauseum. All while bent over into the trunk area, my lower back isn't happy. https://i.imgur.com/bcI6HeNh.jpg https://i.imgur.com/H9MuCZmh.jpg https://i.imgur.com/auH93FLh.png The dark patches are bare metal that I've applied a rust...

I washed the Saab last night when we had above freezing temps because it had a lot of grinding dust on it from being in the shop. Of course afterwards I find two pools of water in the trunk, that I'm about to repaint with epoxy primer. Leaks coming in same place as last time it appears, from the tai...

Back to the Aux port. It's now installed and it sounds really good. But I ran into a lot of problems with static and horrible noises... So I've been troubleshooting this setup for quite some time. In the end I came to the conclusion that the phone was the problem, something in the software in the ph...

Labour gained 107 votes in Wellingborough and the Tories lost 24,869 compared to 2019. So it's not really people voting for Labour more than they did, just conservative vote collapse. I haven't seen how it went in Kingswood but not surprised if that too is more a result of cons not voting. However t...

OK I've completed the welding and made my first fire. No smoke leaks! https://i.imgur.com/i5ek3JOh.jpg You've heard of MIG like TIG, I present MIG like Stick: https://i.imgur.com/bBP7xzdh.jpg Still need to disassemble and paint it with proper heat resistant paint, and maybe clean up behind the stove...

Pie cuts are cool and easy to make with a bandsaw. But I don't have a bandsaw, just an angle grinder. So I have to do it the harder way. I made a 1:1 template in fusion 360, I needed to print this on two A4s , it's a 22.5 degree template. It's pretty cool, de https://i.imgur.com/BTcIQqj.png That fee...

Try and tax those and the media targets you until you are dead.

I guess taxes can't be raised anymore. Or anything done about all the faffing about with corrupt deals that cost the tax payers billions while benefiting mates of MPs and the like. Nothing. can. be. done.

Better things are simply not possible.

I took the opportunity to work on the cassette player while it was removed from the car. I want to install an aux input so I can connect the phone to it. The first thing I did was build an audio probe. I connect it to the phone and play something on it. What is wrapped in duct tape is a capacitor. h...