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I am trying to buy filters for my paint respirator. I can only buy them if I am a front line worker on Covid-19.
grrrrrrr
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TORT: The ONSC Rant Thread (1 Viewer)
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I just wrote, and deleted, a lengthy diatribe about the HVAC layout in my mother's house. Short version = dammit I'm angry. And either very cold or very hot depending on which room I'm in because of the layout of the 2 systems. Welcome to summer.
Found out today at 1317 of my fate for the next few weeks. Guinness has reduced my typing significantly. Furlough now through the end of July. Looking for multi night trips weekdays where I can sleep in my truck on private land. Base camp is obviously from Roanoke, VA.
frustrated to say the least.
frustrated to say the least.
Sorry to hear of the furlough.. maybe check out some sections of the MABDR? Not too far away and accessible
Now to find a bike? Haha. Haven’t been in the saddle since my better half asked me to stay alive longer. 30 years is a long time.
bookmarked.
No need I'm pretty sure most if not all is doable in a 4x4. Someone on ONSC posted a year or so ago and it's why I have had it in mind for a multi day trip.
So while removing all the oxidation and rust from the wheels on the 80 last week and resealing them, one of the front studs got crossed. I knew it could happen, that bolt was marked to use only "with that nut", and if I was careful enough it would work. But no, it got crossed. So I need to replace the one stud and nut. Starts like this:
- Need one bolt and one nut, check my spares in the truck
- I have one rear and one front stud and 2 new nuts on my spares bag, great! But I better keep them for spares...
- Hmm, will also need a new gasket for the hub, so get that too
- Well, if I am going to remove the hub, might as well replace the other janky bolt or 2. s***, order 4
- Since the partsouq OEM bolts and nuts are 1/4 the US price, might as well get more just in case
- And while at it, order a couple of rear ones, just one spare might not be enough (like last time)
- Holy crap! The one stud and one nut project is up to $33? Do I need all this stuff?
- Well yeah, if you buy one bolt and nut, shipping is not worth it, and Scott Clark Toyota will ask $33 just for one bolt anyway, and Hendricks Toyota will ask that I bring the truck for a 2 day diagnostic since their parts guy say wheels are magnetically attached and don't use bolts.
- Fawkit, buy the lot and replace those 3 iffy bastards
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Don't feel bad Izzy, I have parts on the way from Dubai as well. Body mount rubber and sleeves, a couple bolts, 10 washers and 6 nuts. 4 rubber brake lines. $540.33. Imagine the cost here IF they could find them. I'd bet the farm th local dealers could not put together a full set of rubber body mounts for a 60.
Who are all these people ordering new F150s with a freaking front bench seat? High trim levels, $40k+ trucks with a flip down bench?!
I'm not paying $30k for a high trim level used truck with a bench seat. But that's what is available.
I'm not paying $30k for a high trim level used truck with a bench seat. But that's what is available.
What cab configuration are you talking about?
Maybe people want the extra seating capacity, but I agree, that's weird.
Maybe people want the extra seating capacity, but I agree, that's weird.
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Maybe the ones that want their "sweetie" to be sitting really close to them when they go out on the town......For some reason Southern Culture on the Skids "Dirt Track Date" just popped into my head.....dammit
Buy it and grab some captain seats off eBay from new wrecked f150s. If the trim matches.
Crew cab and extended cab. XLT/Lariat/FX4
It's not all of them, and I get work trucks, but come on. Way more than I would have thought.
That's wild. I didn't know they offered a bench front at the Lariat trim level.
If I was investing in a work truck for employees the more seating would be better. the expense is vaguely negligible as it is a business expense.
well yea...it'd be a work truck. Most likely as cheap as possible, with yes, lots of seating. Probably an XL trim.
Not a shiny wheel, painted trim, nice interior, offroad suspension, power and heated everything trim.
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If my job was to replace a damaged section of home roof that my company had kept under a tarp for three months, then I did part of the job and just draped the used tarp, now full of hundreds of nail holes, over the unfinished work when I left for the day...... I would expect to be woken up to a midnight phone call firing me. It doesn't matter that radar didn't even show rain WHILE IT WAS ****ING RAINING for 30 minutes... Leave things better than you found them and prepare for the worst.
I guarantee you my insurance company just doubled, at a minimum, the cost of the original claim. Roof, attic, first floor, crawl space. Water everywhere. Never mind the fact that they left easy access for critters into my attic via the missing soffets. I was originally fine with that and just put a radio up there. Now I'm not so fine.
The fun part will come tomorrow when insurance tries to tell me this will be a new claim with another deductible. The very nice gentleman I spoke to tonight was not able to assist me in this matter and the NC-region guy was already gone for the night. WTF??? They're open 24 hrs a day but not for everything? To his credit, he DID state that he could transfer me to a claims agent but it would be treated as a new claim with a deductible, and he hoped I would be able to avoid that. I kept the "no ****ing s***, asshat" thought to myself. Big smile. Big smile.
I guarantee you my insurance company just doubled, at a minimum, the cost of the original claim. Roof, attic, first floor, crawl space. Water everywhere. Never mind the fact that they left easy access for critters into my attic via the missing soffets. I was originally fine with that and just put a radio up there. Now I'm not so fine.
The fun part will come tomorrow when insurance tries to tell me this will be a new claim with another deductible. The very nice gentleman I spoke to tonight was not able to assist me in this matter and the NC-region guy was already gone for the night. WTF??? They're open 24 hrs a day but not for everything? To his credit, he DID state that he could transfer me to a claims agent but it would be treated as a new claim with a deductible, and he hoped I would be able to avoid that. I kept the "no ****ing s***, asshat" thought to myself. Big smile. Big smile.
John, you put up the tarp? Or the roofers? If it was them , then their insurance should be responsible for all damages and repairs
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@angerhater They did the tarp.
