Reminds me of the 500 mile email (2002): https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
Which was discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37576633>
(It's an HN perennial.)
Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)
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Re: Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)
#332Why they have those posts as text file?
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#333Earlier quoted context omitted.
> He might be able to work on a carburetor I'm absolutely a car guy, and I'm 41 years old. Strangely enough, I've never owned a carburettored engine, and it seems unlikely I ever will (except, maybe, for a chainsaw)
I suspect a common reason would be for a classic car or motorcycle.
Or general aviation since they use engines derived from ancient automotive designs. Fuel injection isn't common.
Re: Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)
#334I find it incredible that not only a family would eat ice cream every, but that they would travel to get it everyday instead of just having it on hand in the house.
In addition I find it incredible that a commercial car would get vapor locked after driving to get ice cream.
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#335Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Go to your mechanic and find the oldest guy in the shop. He might be able to work on a carburetor."
these days it's "just buy a new carburetor" - i remember rebuilding a few like 20 years ago - on small engines, but now a rebuild kit is, say, $12 and a new carburetor is $20. For an extra $8 you only have to remove two bolts and fasten the new one in, rather than take a carburetor apart and replace gaskets and floats (or whatever, it's been 20 years). word to the wise - never use the shutoff switch on anything with…
I acquired a generator from a family member, and unknown to me when I needed it to power the house the thing wouldn't run unless the choke was held closed with a wire tie. You can imagine how well that ran...
So, that sounds like a carb rebuild, right? Come to find out that for about $17 shipped a seller on eBay with something like 200K feedback will sell me a brand new carb. Fitted that, it starts on first pull. There's absolutely no reason to mess around with a rebuild on something like that.
Re: Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)
#336Honestly, you would have to be pretty stupid to take this at face value.
I immediately went to time, location, etc.
Re: Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)
#337Earlier quoted context omitted.
> He might be able to work on a carburetor I'm absolutely a car guy, and I'm 41 years old. Strangely enough, I've never owned a carburettored engine, and it seems unlikely I ever will (except, maybe, for a chainsaw)
I suspect a common reason would be for a classic car or motorcycle.
I consider the OG S2000 a classic car :)
Re: Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)
#338This is a secondhand anecdote, but it’s pretty funny. Back in the days of server rooms, a friend’s server for his company would reboot every day around 5pm. They checked everything they possibly could with the OS, they would be logged in and running checks on it and it would spontaneously go offline for about 5 minutes and reboot every day. Finally they decided to go stand in the presence of the server around the tim…
This story is older than the internet.
Re: Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)
#339Earlier quoted context omitted.
Goes again to show the usual thing that gets you caught is repetition. Had he struck once or twice and then left the rest alone nobody may ever have figured it out.
I would expect the repetition generally comes out of necessity. If he's selling the parts to feed himself or his family he's that much less likely to choose to stop if it means giving up some source of income, however ill-gotten.
It's more likely from "I got away with it, I'll get away with it again" - but I've not done deep research into thefts, but the ones I know were along the lines of "I need more money for more drugs, this will get me some money".
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#340When I moved into my last house, I had a fun electrical problem. We moved in October and I would end the day by taking the trash out. Now, my garbage can was outside the door from my garage to the backyard. One night the light outside that door didn't go on. It was late, so I figured I'd look at it the next day. Worked fine all day, then at night it didn't work again. It was a new house, so I called the builder. The…
my wellhead does this when it's below 20F outside. Oxidization on the wires throughout the year mean that any shift of the wire causes a disconnect. haven't figured out a solution, i just run a drip that is loud enough i notice if it stops so i can go out and reseat the wire, otherwise the stuff outside the well can freeze and that costs money to replace.
Sounds like you just need a better mechanical connection. There are silicone-filled waterproof wire nuts available. Maybe if you clean the wires and secure them with those all will be good?