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On 21/02/2018 9:50 PM, ultred ragnusen wrote:
> rbowman > wrote:
>
>> Can you say 'lawyer'? I've spent some time in southern AZ close to the
>> border. It's refreshing to deal with Mexican mechanics. They still use a
>> bit of ingenuity.
>
> Speaking of ingenuity, check out this redneck rear rotor surfacing
> technique at home, with a grinder and while the rotors are spinning.
> https://youtu.be/q5p-KHkx1YA?t=123
>
> I guess it works for driven wheels only though.
> https://youtu.be/SUIJySdkCZk?t=370
> https://youtu.be/xokh96wRxb4?t=236
> https://youtu.be/YsfadqO9V2A?t=55
> https://youtu.be/rum-Wlok7n4?t=2
>
> I guess this is how rednecks do the non-driven wheels.
> https://youtu.be/R9qCFfDiw5A?t=350
> https://youtu.be/Qgz3BnWpeUg?t=22
> https://youtu.be/NxLeKG-oRmc?t=67
> https://youtu.be/7dFBaLCjYck?t=71
>
That's the problem with the internet - the blind leading the blind!



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On 21/02/2018 10:39 PM, alan_m wrote:
> On 21/02/2018 10:50, ultred ragnusen wrote:
>
>> Speaking of ingenuity, check out this redneck rear rotor surfacing
>> technique at home, with a grinder and while the rotors are spinning.
>
> Judging by those videos you don't need to ban guns in the USA - just ban
> power tools!
>
Power tools are extremely useful, I use them a lot.

Just *ban idiots* from using power tools.



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Xeno wrote:
> On 21/02/2018 10:39 PM, alan_m wrote:
>> On 21/02/2018 10:50, ultred ragnusen wrote:
>>
>>> Speaking of ingenuity, check out this redneck rear rotor surfacing
>>> technique at home, with a grinder and while the rotors are spinning.
>>
>> Judging by those videos you don't need to ban guns in the USA - just
>> ban power tools!
>>
> Power tools are extremely useful, I use them a lot.
>
> Just *ban idiots* from using power tools.
>
>

Or even ban Americans !!!

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On 21-Feb-18 10:19 AM, alan_m wrote:
> On 21/02/2018 01:45, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>
>>
>> The robots don't care where they are.Â* OTOH, look where the car makers
>> have put up plants.Â* No new ones in Detroit, New York, or California.
>> Mexico has some.
>
> The robots may not care where they live but it still needs a large,
> mainly unskilled or semi-skilled workforce to feed them and to perform
> all the other tasks that currently cannot be assigned to robots.

You need a smaller but very skilled workforce to maintain and repair the
robots.

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On Wednesday, February 21, 2018 at 8:50:43 AM UTC-10, Peter Hill wrote:
>
> You need a smaller but very skilled workforce to maintain and repair the
> robots.

After a while, the robots will learn to fix themselves. Even skilled workers will be obsolete. Humans will mostly be working on getting a serious tan.

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On 21/02/2018 11:47, Xeno wrote:
> On 21/02/2018 9:50 PM, ultred ragnusen wrote:
>> rbowman > wrote:
>>
>>> Can you say 'lawyer'?Â* I've spent some time in southern AZ close to the
>>> border. It's refreshing to deal with Mexican mechanics. They still use a
>>> bit of ingenuity.
>>
>> Speaking of ingenuity, check out this redneck rear rotor surfacing
>> technique at home, with a grinder and while the rotors are spinning.
>> https://youtu.be/q5p-KHkx1YA?t=123
>>
>> I guess it works for driven wheels only though.
>> https://youtu.be/SUIJySdkCZk?t=370
>> https://youtu.be/xokh96wRxb4?t=236
>> https://youtu.be/YsfadqO9V2A?t=55
>> https://youtu.be/rum-Wlok7n4?t=2
>>
>> I guess this is how rednecks do the non-driven wheels.
>> https://youtu.be/R9qCFfDiw5A?t=350
>> https://youtu.be/Qgz3BnWpeUg?t=22
>> https://youtu.be/NxLeKG-oRmc?t=67
>> https://youtu.be/7dFBaLCjYck?t=71
>>
> That's the problem with the internet - the blind leading the blind!
>
>
>
so you are still on about tyres and nuts, jesus who do you work for ?
kwikfit !!!!

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On 18/02/2018 00:48, ultred ragnusen wrote:
> Can you teach me more about lug bolts & related tire tools on this vehicle
> whose tires I rotated today and which I plan on rotating every 4K miles (6K
> km).
>
> First question is what is the practical difference between these three 21mm
> (13/16ths) "sockets" for the lug bolts on the car I was working on today?
> http://wetakepic.com/images/2018/02/17/socket_ends.jpg
> 1. The standard lug wrench (green) has 6 points, each at a sharp angle.
> 2. The impact socket (black) has 6 points, each at a semicircular angle.
> 3. The standard socket (chrome) has 12 points, each at a sharp angle.
>
> Second question, are these "cut marks" on a lug nut normal?
> http://wetakepic.com/images/2018/02/17/dented_nuts.jpg
> I always use deep sockets, which fit over the whole nut, so I know I didn't
> make these marks - but what did make the marks? Are they factory original?
> If so, why?
>
> Third question is related to this combination pictu
> http://wetakepic.com/images/2018/02/17/torquewrench.jpg
> Where this question is a combination question of:
> a. Why is the green 21mm "lug wrench" so very short compared to all others?
> b. What's the practical difference, if any, with respect to torquing lug
> bolts to 85 foot pounds (115 N-m), between the two types of torque wrenches
> shown?
> c. Does anyone even use that bottom-most "auger style" ratchet bar for fast
> removal anymore? (I don't have power bolt-removal tools so that's why I use
> it.)
> And, the most important question, for torquing lug nuts, is
> d. Does the torque change depending on the length of the socket extension
> bar?
>
> Fourth question is more of an observation than a question, where I combed
> the tires for rocks and nails, as I always do when I rotate the tires every
> 4K miles, when I saw this tiny little steel dot embedded in the rubber in
> each of the front tires.
> http://wetakepic.com/images/2018/02/17/splinter1.jpg
>
> That tiny dot turned out to be this funny-shaped steel sliver, pointy side
> was pointing into the tire in both front tires.
> http://wetakepic.com/images/2018/02/17/splinter2.jpg
>
> The question is whether these embedded rocks and splinters, of which I
> always find between 50 and 100 in each tire (mostly tiny pebbles and bits
> of glass stuck in the tiny sipes of the tire tread) would eventually fall
> out as the rubber wears (negating the need to periodically pick them out at
> each tire rotation)?
> http://wetakepic.com/images/2018/02/17/splinter3.jpg
>
> In summary, I ask these basic questions simply to learn more about how to
> better rotate tires every 4K miles (6.5K km).
>
are you all dickheads ?????

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In article >,
James Wilkinson Sword > wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 18:50:37 -0000, Peter Hill > wrote:

> > On 21-Feb-18 10:19 AM, alan_m wrote:
> >> On 21/02/2018 01:45, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> The robots don't care where they are. OTOH, look where the car makers
> >>> have put up plants. No new ones in Detroit, New York, or California.
> >>> Mexico has some.
> >>
> >> The robots may not care where they live but it still needs a large,
> >> mainly unskilled or semi-skilled workforce to feed them and to perform
> >> all the other tasks that currently cannot be assigned to robots.
> >
> > You need a smaller but very skilled workforce to maintain and repair the
> > robots.

> That's the UK out then.

Not a problem. Once out of the EU, you just issue work permits to the
Germans needed. When a robot breaks down, shouldn't take more than a
couple of months to get the paperwork needed, and a few days to get
through the border checks.

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Dave Plowman London SW
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On 22/02/2018 00:29, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

> Not a problem. Once out of the EU, you just issue work permits to the
> Germans needed. When a robot breaks down, shouldn't take more than a
> couple of months to get the paperwork needed, and a few days to get
> through the border checks.
>

What makes you think that you require German engineers rather than Korean?

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critcher > wrote:

>> That's the problem with the internet - the blind leading the blind!
> so you are still on about tyres and nuts, jesus who do you work for ?
> kwikfit !!!!

Last night I did all six brake sets (12 pads/shoes) on a German car:
http://wetakepic.com/images/2018/02/22/fronts.jpg

The fronts mic'd greater than 0.800 inches so I kept the rotors.
http://wetakepic.com/images/2018/02/22/front_rotors.jpg

But the rears were below 0.7200 inches & they were edge lipped:
http://wetakepic.com/images/2018/02/22/resurface.jpg

You never know if a rotor will be below thickness specification until you
measure it, so since I didn't have a new set of rotors, I decided to try
the redneck methods of truing them up, just for the learning experience.
http://wetakepic.com/images/2018/02/22/drums.jpg

One nice thing about doing all your own mechanical work on a car is you
find stuff like this busted brake line, which you won't know if a mechanic
will find because they don't spend the time to look around that you might.
http://wetakepic.com/images/2018/02/22/brakeline.jpg

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PS: I made a mess of the rotor resurfacing project, but I'm gonna replace
the rotors anyway since they were 0.695 inches in diameter, so it was just
for the fun vote for American ingenuity that I even tried it.