Little Things You Hate

[cokeonspecialtwodollars]

could be tennis elbow, I had this for a few months last year
get into somewhere that does acupuncture, and see if it relieves it at all

I've had gout in my toe - bloody painful.

How much beer do you drink?

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Yeah I had it a couple of times in my toe some ten or fifteen years back now, which is what lead me to that diagnosis, but had never considered that you could get it in your elbow... rapid onset, excruciating pain radiating all the way down to my wrist, localised swelling and inflammation. If I wasn't familiar with the symptoms from previous bouts then I would have been thinking spider bite or similar.

I don't consider myself a heavy drinker but have been enjoying a couple of beers of late which will have to cease until this clears.

 

[Brow]

Perfect riding day but nursing a sore shoulder and don't want to make it worse. Sore due to sleeping in bad position and old injury.

 

[Brow]

Breaking an M6 tap off.






Twice.

Photo's? Tapping what caused this?

 

[Dales Cannon]

Photo's? Tapping what caused this?

BFOI. I could say I was tapping the Duratec main bearing cradle to support the new oil pickup. In my defence the motor was hanging off an engine crane and it moved thus breaking off the first tap. The second caught some of the remains of the previous broken tap in the drilled out hole and snapped.

And the 2.3 sump I bought from an American Ford Ranger has the 5 tapped holes imperial threads! I should have guessed. Bastards. I neeed to make a pick up baffle, apparently 4wds dont need these.

 

[rowdyflat]

Mr cokeonspecial it could be gout if its come on quickly without any particular injury to your elbow.
Red hot swollen? Get a uric acid blood test you may be genetically prone to gout or is it lifestyle?
Too much beer + food will do it .
Then again too much cokeonspecial can cause oxalates and rarely arthritis.

 

[Brow]

BFOI. I could say I was tapping the Duratec main bearing cradle to support the new oil pickup. In my defence the motor was hanging off an engine crane and it moved thus breaking off the first tap. The second caught some of the remains of the previous broken tap in the drilled out hole and snapped.

And the 2.3 sump I bought from an American Ford Ranger has the 5 tapped holes imperial threads! I should have guessed. Bastards. I neeed to make a pick up baffle, apparently 4wds dont need these.

Ok, what does BFOI mean? Next obvious question - why doing that work on a crane and not stand? If it was me the answer would be just lazy, but your work in the auto thread suggests you are better than that. Not criticising, just curious. I used to all my own engine rebuilding etc in my drag racing days and am interested and following what you are doing with your cars.
Typical yanks, often using imperial when you think it should have been metric. Where was the 2.3 made?

 

[Dales Cannon]

BFOI is brute force over ignorance.

Ok, engine was in transit from the back of the ute to the Escort. While fitting the sump decided to make sure the oil pickup fitted too since the engine doesnt normally go NS and has the oil pickup at the other end. In the process noticed that the brackets on the pickup line up with bosses on the 2L bearing cradle so drilling and tapping should be a 5 min job while the engine hung on the crane. I have an engine stand but this was just expeditiously lazy. The motor moved and the tap snapped while being run back out. Wasnt at all tight. Anyway all good now.

The 2.3 is fitted to the previous model US Ranger. Probably an older model built in the US. I could buy the factory alloy sump and pickup from a dealer in the states for $150 landed or buy a fabricated metal sump from the UK for £350 or make my own. Alloy sump has about a litre more oil capacity. Never thought that it would be imperial and the M6 screws that tie the timing cover to the sump were weirdly tight. Tapped them out and some metal came out with the tap so not just cleaning up the holes. Later while putting the rest of the bolts in between the engine and box one that goes from the box to the sump wouldnt fit. Hole was centralised but M8 would not start. Pure chance I tried a 5/16" UNF (I think, bolt box doesnt discriminate between metric and imperial and different thread pitches though this was definitely imperial with three nicks on the head) and in it went! Explained the four front screws, they were likely 5/32". I will retap them all when the engine comes bavk out. The Escort still has some imperial bolts though that is now limited to the brake caliper adapter onto the diff and struts and the 1/2" wheel studs (knurl is bigger than any M12 studs I could get). I have replaced the rest.

 

[Ultra Lord]

Mr cokeonspecial it could be gout if its come on quickly without any particular injury to your elbow.
Red hot swollen? Get a uric acid blood test you may be genetically prone to gout or is it lifestyle?
Too much beer + food will do it .
Then again too much cokeonspecial can cause oxalates and rarely arthritis.

how you gonna afford ya AMG merc if you hand out advice for free? C’mon man.

 

[cokeonspecialtwodollars]

Mr cokeonspecial it could be gout if its come on quickly without any particular injury to your elbow.
Red hot swollen? Get a uric acid blood test you may be genetically prone to gout or is it lifestyle?
Too much beer + food will do it .
Then again too much cokeonspecial can cause oxalates and rarely arthritis.

Cheers rowdy, it copped a small knock and some bark off a few weeks back but I've definitely had worse stacks before. Given that I have had a couple of bouts of gout years ago but am otherwise healthy and wouldn't consider myself a heavy drinker you're probably onto something with the genetic predisposition, I'll keep an eye on it and if it becomes chronic then I'll book in to the GP for testing.

 

[rowdyflat]

Haha Ultra Lord if you knew me you would understand . Every thing I own is shabby.
Where I live , as I said a few weeks ago I would be run out of town even if I bought a new $30K car.

 

[Flow-Rider]

Haha Ultra Lord if you knew me you would understand . Every thing I own is shabby.
Where I live , as I said a few weeks ago I would be run out of town even if I bought a new $30K car.

I often try and read my Doctor's hand writing and think how the hell did this bloke go through UNI .

 

[Cardy George]

LTIH: Mrs George having NFI on how acoustics work, despite being brought up in a classical music home.

We have a pair of 40 year old 12" subs mounted in solid boxes.

Bodgily wired to the mini system along with the mini's speakers, the combo was a beautiful balance of detail + bass.

Mrs George decided the lounge room needed re-arranging and the boxes can no longer sit either side of the TV. Her solution? One box to the far front right, one to the far back left. With no amp/splitter/channels, half the sound is coming from behind you.

So they're now just storage tables, and we're relying on the mini system speakers.

It sounds like turd.

 

[pink poodle]

rarely buy coffee

What the f@ck is wrong with people?

You've answered this yourself!


People who ¥§$^% out the swears...bring back the fucks!

 

[Brow]

BFOI is brute force over ignorance.

Ok, engine was in transit from the back of the ute to the Escort. While fitting the sump decided to make sure the oil pickup fitted too since the engine doesnt normally go NS and has the oil pickup at the other end. In the process noticed that the brackets on the pickup line up with bosses on the 2L bearing cradle so drilling and tapping should be a 5 min job while the engine hung on the crane. I have an engine stand but this was just expeditiously lazy. The motor moved and the tap snapped while being run back out. Wasnt at all tight. Anyway all good now.

The 2.3 is fitted to the previous model US Ranger. Probably an older model built in the US. I could buy the factory alloy sump and pickup from a dealer in the states for $150 landed or buy a fabricated metal sump from the UK for £350 or make my own. Alloy sump has about a litre more oil capacity. Never thought that it would be imperial and the M6 screws that tie the timing cover to the sump were weirdly tight. Tapped them out and some metal came out with the tap so not just cleaning up the holes. Later while putting the rest of the bolts in between the engine and box one that goes from the box to the sump wouldnt fit. Hole was centralised but M8 would not start. Pure chance I tried a 5/16" UNF (I think, bolt box doesnt discriminate between metric and imperial and different thread pitches though this was definitely imperial with three nicks on the head) and in it went! Explained the four front screws, they were likely 5/32". I will retap them all when the engine comes bavk out. The Escort still has some imperial bolts though that is now limited to the brake caliper adapter onto the diff and struts and the 1/2" wheel studs (knurl is bigger than any M12 studs I could get). I have replaced the rest.

All is now clear. Those prices sound like what I used to pay for similar stuff on the big block Ford, 20yrs ago. At least I knew all mine was imperial, 5/16" was small on those engines.

 

[pink poodle]

Yeah I had it a couple of times in my toe some ten or fifteen years back now, which is what lead me to that diagnosis, but had never considered that you could get it in your elbow... rapid onset, excruciating pain radiating all the way down to my wrist, localised swelling and inflammation. If I wasn't familiar with the symptoms from previous bouts then I would have been thinking spider bite or similar.

I don't consider myself a heavy drinker but have been enjoying a couple of beers of late which will have to cease until this clears.

Don't burst the bursitis!!!

 

[Dales Cannon]

LTIH: Mrs George having NFI on how acoustics work, despite being brought up in a classical music home.

We have a pair of 40 year old 12" subs mounted in solid boxes.

Bodgily wired to the mini system along with the mini's speakers, the combo was a beautiful balance of detail + bass.

Mrs George decided the lounge room needed re-arranging and the boxes can no longer sit either side of the TV. Her solution? One box to the far front right, one to the far back left. With no amp/splitter/channels, half the sound is coming from behind you.

So they're now just storage tables, and we're relying on the mini system speakers.

It sounds like turd.

Are they now out of phase? Try swapping polarity of the one behind you. Really bass shouldnt care where it comes from. When I move my sub (Thunderbox SE, great name, especially since I grew up using a thunderbox for the first 15 years of my life) I have to play with gain and timing but can always get it back.

 

[Cardy George]

Are they now out of phase? Try swapping polarity of the one behind you. Really bass shouldnt care where it comes from. When I move my sub (Thunderbox SE, great name, especially since I grew up using a thunderbox for the first 15 years of my life) I have to play with gain and timing but can always get it back.

If you're an audiophile, I beg of you to please look away now

The problem is the system's not that fancy. All the speaker wires are shoved in the back of the cheap(ish) mini system, luckily the impedances all play nice. There's no way of separating the bass/mid/treble, it's just each speaker outputting the frequencies it's good at. Mini's are doing high to mid, subs are covering mid to low, so there's vocals coming from everywhere.

 

[Dales Cannon]

If you're an audiophile, I beg of you to please look away now

The problem is the system's not that fancy. All the speaker wires are shoved in the back of the cheap(ish) mini system, luckily the impedances all play nice. There's no way of separating the bass/mid/treble, it's just each speaker outputting the frequencies it's good at. Mini's are doing high to mid, subs are covering mid to low, so there's vocals coming from everywhere.

Understand. You can get cheap electronic crossovers...

 

[silentbutdeadly]

Understand. You can get cheap electronic crossovers...

The last pair of crossovers I made is a few components wired directly to each other and glued together with hot melt glue...

 

[Haakon]

If you're an audiophile, I beg of you to please look away now

The problem is the system's not that fancy. All the speaker wires are shoved in the back of the cheap(ish) mini system, luckily the impedances all play nice. There's no way of separating the bass/mid/treble, it's just each speaker outputting the frequencies it's good at. Mini's are doing high to mid, subs are covering mid to low, so there's vocals coming from everywhere.

Shame. Nice drivers. I have a pair of Goodman floorstanding mains that I bought 20 years ago. Super nice, very clean sound.