Duck Pond Redneckery

[Duck]

Best you can do for a test is ohm the brown wire all the way up the boom if it's accessible. Using the machine itself as a neutral may cause failures of other components and leave you stuck at the machines upward limit. Now we want pictures of you getting down!

Nah those two AC wires go into a cable with a bunch of other wires, one of three cables that go all the way to the platform, and they also join like 5 hydraulic hoses. There ain't no finding the break.

 

[389 Hood]

Get a long extension cord then.

Better yet, battery operated tools.

 

[Duck]

Get a long extension cord then.

Better yet, battery operated tools.

Trying to paint the fascia on the house.

It involves using the blow gun on the loose paint, and using a nylon wire wheel in the drill to get the brown stuff off of wood that's been exposed for years.

I'd run down the battery in the cordless fast.

I'm going to have to hang an air hose on the platform anyway so I guess I'll just do that with an ext cord too.

 

[Duck]

Flexzilla - and the Harbor Freight knockoff version - those are the only kinds of air hoses I'll buy now.

I need another 50 foot.

I pulled out a rubber hose I had on a hook in the barn & it's all dry rotted & leaks like a seive.

The cheap polysomething hoses are stiff in the cold.

Rubber gets dry rotted even when stored indoors.

Flexzilla hoses lose their green color & fade to yellow, then eventually like a cream color in the sun but they don't dry rot & they don't get brittle.

 

[GAnthony]

Best you can do for a test is ohm the brown wire all the way up the boom if it's accessible. Using the machine itself as a neutral may cause failures of other components and leave you stuck at the machines upward limit. Now we want pictures of you getting down!

oh christ, we want pictures..???

like what another 45,000 of them..>????

you flucking nutzoid or somrhing..????

 

[Electric Chicken]

My hoses are flexzilla. Pretty good product. PITA to roll back up since they have their direction and be damned if they'll let you change it.

 

[Electric Chicken]

oh christ, we want pictures..???

like what another 45,000 of them..>????

you flucking nutzoid or somrhing..????

You're nicer when you're in danger.

 

[GAnthony]

You're nicer when you're in danger.

i'm real much nicer when i'm eating my raviolis and not hot dogs.

 

[krelithous]

4 is too high for you to count?

Even dumbass teenagers can count to 4.

They gotta use both hands to do it, but they like taking selfies proving that they can count to two on each hand.

They get extra points if they can do it while making a duck face.

It's the 21st century equivalent of walking & chewing gum at the same time, which most of the kids around haven't mastered yet. (They're always walking into walls, parked cars & utility poles.)

 

[Duck]

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I wonder if @Electric Chicken has one of those.

 

[389 Hood]

I wonder if @Electric Chicken has one of those.

His is double shielded!

 

[Duck]

So the throttle cable on my dad's motorcycle broke the other day and I had to go get him with the trailer.

New throttle cables arrived today.

1. Remove the seat to access gas tank mounting bolt.
2. Remove the gas tank.
3. Remove the carburetors. Pain in the ass.

4. Remove old cables from carburetors.
5. Remove them from the throttle control on the handlebars.

Reverse the procedure starting with the new cables.




The damn cables they sent are too short.

The housings are too short by about a foot, and the cables inside are an inch too long relative to the housings.


This f*ing sucks, because now The Geezer's 400 is in the middle of my shop all taken apart until we get the right effin' cables.

F-you eBay

 

[389 Hood]

I've pretty much given up on FleaBay for any correct parts application. They say its an exact fit for the vehicle but it's never even close. I learned that sourcing parts for my 59 Cadillac. Shockingly, Amazon has been really good for having OEM stuff and not giving you a bunch of garbage that wouldn't fit if it had too, to look through.

 

[Electric Chicken]

I'll get parts on eBay if I have the actual part number to search. I never use their fitment guide thing.

Although after the AHI module debacle I'm less inclined to even do that anymore.

 

[389 Hood]

HOLY CRAP!!! My dog is laying on the floor next to me and just farted. Damn, that's nasty!

 

[Electric Chicken]

HOLY CRAP!!! My dog is laying on the floor next to me and just farted. Damn, that's nasty!

Bet he's smiling tho.

 

[389 Hood]

Bet he's smiling tho.

Not sure. I gotta leave the room and get some Fabreeze. Something died inside this dude.

 

[Electric Chicken]

Not sure. I gotta leave the room and get some Fabreeze. Something died inside this dude.

BTDT. I've had to walk away from myself before.

 

[389 Hood]

You know it's coming when you hear the 'pisssssttt'. Vacate at once. Silent and deadly.

 

[389 Hood]

I had a big yellow Lab that would sit in the back yard watching you pick up his land mines before cutting the yard. As soon as you were done and had the lawn mower out, he would get up and drop a fresh steamer right in the path you are going to mow. Then the MFer would look at you while he was doing it and grin.