Recent content by link1896

Happy Easter too, getting in now while the server is up.

this generation of teens are FUCKED. My step daughters public highschool here in Vic, the teachers believe 80% of the students relying on AI. Teachers have taken to seating kids on the perimeter of the room facing outwards so teachers can see what they are up to on their notebooks. Doesn’t help...

I ended up configuring uptimerobot.com to inform me when the site came back online, I grew frustrated checking. Even then, between the time the email was sent and I managed to read it, site was back down.

F12 should get you to the boot option menu on all dell laptops. When attempting to reset the bios password, after entering the reset code bios-pw.org gave you, did you press control + enter or just enter? Must be control + enter. Sometimes, it takes three attempts at entering the reset code...

Could be worse. Could have been DOT fluid.

Casing the landing down the Sydney opera house steps with these wheels would totally be worth it. We someone who is mad and prepared to send it from the top of the stairs.

Use a Schrader valve instead of the rubber pellet and grub screw arrangement (which was only ever used to lockout the end user from servicing). It has been discussed before. Summitfever introduced this idea many moons ago. Links to the teknik parts are a bit broken, think this is the one but...

And now ZF, the automotive gearbox manufacturer, has launched two new motors 75Nm/350w and 90Nm/600w in a radically reduced size and weight package. It will be sealed for life of course and won’t need to be serviced according the the bike manufacturers. All jokes aside, an open standard for...

And the Racoon on meth believes they are the Scandinavian architect and will die on that hill.

Booval Maccas yet again. Same store as mop head scandal last month. I’ve been doing networking in a competitor to Maccas stores, installing 19” racks, new cabling and patch panels, etc. fast food restaurants are fucking disgusting places. Not in a million years would we even get close to a...

https://www.realestate.com.au/news/international-buyers-fly-in-to-see-75m-toorak-mansion-that-has-potential-to-break-state-record/ Now that the house is for sale, I can talk about it. There is a very exclusive club for building high end HT’s in Melbourne. You become the go to guy for the...

Could also be turned up in brass on the lathe with a rotary broach and a 4 jaw chuck. Sometimes you’re lucky and something like an m10 cap head bolt can be turned down and made eccentric. Even a pressed on eccentric lobe with a tad of a shrink fit can work. Broaching the hex is the hard part...

A mates dad bought this 993 RS CS brand spanking new in 1996, took delivery on a monday, drove it enough to break it in for the dealer to give it an oil change on the Friday, took it to Winton on the weekend and raced it in anger. Thing was a bloody weapon. Duttons sold it for 700K a few years...

Two piece floating rotors from 034Motorsport? Now 3 grand an end, was looking for a mate. While scary, you need to be sitting down for Brembo kit prices, 405x32mm rotors and big callipers are 9 grand a corner……