MetalAirship

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[–] MetalAirship 1 points 1 month ago

Rochester checking in - not Buffalo but sometimes we get similar amounts of snow. I love it. Snowmobiling is a thing everyone should do at least once in their lifetime, there is truly nothing else like it. I'm not talking the mountain riding through 10ft of powder like you see on IG or FB, even just normal trial riding on a couple feet of snow is incredible. You learn how to drive a car on it pretty quick, it's not that bad and the cities that typically get snow like this one are prepared for the amount of snow they get except in the most extreme circumstances. Ice fishing, skiing/snowboarding - snow just opens up a whole new set of fun wintertime activities

[–] MetalAirship 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Harbor freight has some diamonds in the rough, just gotta be careful of what you get there. Some stuff is great, some is crap.

[–] MetalAirship 6 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I have one of those harbor freight Daytona 3 ton low profile ones that I really like. Also let me introduce you to the Project Farm channel on YouTube, he does non-biased scientifically fair comparisons of lots of different kinds of tools including jacks and jack stands.

[–] MetalAirship 67 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Me: yes, it's still available Them: never to be heard from again

[–] MetalAirship 2 points 1 month ago

It definitely takes some careful scrutiny to find a good one, but I've had my 07 Grand Prix for about 3 years now (in the rust belt even) and in total it has still cost me less than $7k including initial purchase and all repairs. Even if it dies right now I'd say I got my money's worth, considering no car payment since I bought it outright. Although I would consider myself pretty handy and I do most repairs and maintenance myself which saves a ton of money. Maintenance and reliability aside, in my opinion the actual driving experience is as good as if not better than some brand new cars, as long as you do the aforementioned radio mod to get AA/car play. Just an option, and obviously it's a bit of a risk, but it could get you through a year or two to allow you to save up enough for a newer car.

I love my Grand Prix, it has a heads-up display like a frickin fighter jet or something. Very few cars have that even today.

[–] MetalAirship -1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

If you don't live in the rust belt, find you a GM W-body with a 3.8 V6. Pontiac Grand Prix, Buick regal, Chevy Impala, maybe more I don't remember. Cheap to buy, reliable drivetrain, plentiful and cheap parts. Get a double-DIN radio unit with Android Auto/apple car play for that touch of modern convenience, it's super easy to replace yourself even if you aren't super handy. Just look underneath and make sure the rockers aren't rusty (rockers are the part of the car directly underneath the doors, you need to look at them from below the car to see them because there is usually a plastic cover over them).

[–] MetalAirship 3 points 1 month ago
[–] MetalAirship 2 points 4 months ago

Mostly I get printers at the thrift store. For some reason people donate perfectly good working printers. They cost like $15 and all you need to do is find out what kind of ink they use and get some

[–] MetalAirship 5 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I have internal curtains and blinds and this actually still works well, at least better than keeping them open. Maybe it would work better with externals but this is still worth doing if all you have is internal

[–] MetalAirship 18 points 6 months ago

I used to not have AC. I found the best strategy was to open up all the windows at night and let the cool night air in, and then as soon as I wake up I close all the windows, curtains and blinds to trap the cool air in and prevent the sun from heating it up through the windows. If you live in a house that has a basement and central heating, you could add some intake ducts down there and turn your furnace on to fan only mode to circulate the cool basement air into the rest of the house.

[–] MetalAirship 1 points 7 months ago

Not yet, but he's been talking about it!

[–] MetalAirship 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

that's what it looked like before the weed killer and fence drag right after we finished building it. Unfortunately I don't have any videos, the host has an iPhone and I have an android so when he sent them to me they came through as potato quality to the point where it's not even worth watching.

It's a big oval/rectangle mostly, with an inner section we can add if we want to. Sometimes we have the whole race go through the inner, or sometimes we require a "joker lap" like rallycross

 

We had about 8 trucks racing, this is a backyard track that my coworkers brother built. We had some Losi, Traxxas, Arrma, and a few Tekno.

 

I have this Meyer lemon tree in a pot. The leaves are slowly but steadily falling off, and each little lemon turns completely black and falls off before it even grows to like a centimeter or two. What could I be doing wrong? I have a soil moisture meter and I only water it when the meter reads "dry". Could it be my grow light isn't right or isnt strong enough?

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submitted 2 years ago by MetalAirship to c/rc_cars
 

Welcome! This is a brand new community so to get some posts rolling and some discussions started, feel free to post a picture/text list of some of the RC cars you have, which one(s) is/are your favorite(s), and why

 

I'm really into RC short course and similar, but have yet to find a community on Lemmy that could be related. Anyone know of one? I don't really want to create one, I have no interest/time to be any sort of admin/mod

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