• @Donjuanme
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    657 months ago

    Effing plastic fasteners, and dry wall…

      • @Cosmos7349
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        247 months ago

        Dude was a true og. I remember reading about all sorts of stuff on this site forever ago when I was looking into building a bike: https://www.sheldonbrown.com/frame-materials.html

        Unfortunately, he passed away in 2008; the site is now being maintained by his wife and close friend.

      • @eating3645
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        397 months ago

        This product is so new that we have not yet determined the actual retail price. Whatever it turns out to be, you’ll certainly want at least one. Send us your actual credit card (not just the number!) along with a sample signature, and when the price has been finalized, we’ll charge your card accordingly.

        Order one and let us know!

          • Fuck spez
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            87 months ago

            I still give it an 83% chance that at least one random dude named Sheldon Brown has received a stranger’s credit card in the mail.

    • Gormadt
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      217 months ago

      Torque specs are really really important and not enough people know that to be the case

      It’s no fun at all having to tap an engine block because someone didn’t RTFM. I’ve done it twice (on the same car 3 years apart) because my brother didn’t RTFM the first time, and then still hadn’t when he tried to do the water pump on his Subaru the second time. I told him that the next time it needs done to call me and I’ll do it for him for the cost of parts. He just has to call me and not fucking touch it.

      For those that don’t know: RTFM stands for Read The Fucking Manual.

      • @toynbee
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        167 months ago

        They’d know what RTFM meant if they RTFM.

      • @[email protected]
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        Torque specs are really really important and not enough people know that to be the case

        In other cases torque spec was pulled out of the tech writers rectum to avoid having people ask.

    • kersploosh
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      97 months ago

      For that bolt, I’d say give it 5 ugga-duggas and call it good.

  • @[email protected]
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    7 months ago

    Nothing that a Few Squirts of Glue™ for extra strength won’t solve.

    That’s a Few Squirts of Glue™

    “Surely you will not regret adding a Few Squirts of Glue™!”

  • @gedaliyah
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    127 months ago

    That happened to me with plumbing once. It was very wet and expensive.

    • @perviouslyiner
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      yeah, when you turn off a shower so good that the tap turns freely and water is flowing again, that is an expensive time!

  • @Fosheze
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    Just fill the hole with JB weld, put the bolt back in, and let the next guy think he broke it.

  • @Romeowns
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    117 months ago

    Tighten until you hear the crack, then back it off a quarter turn.

    • Gormadt
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      127 months ago

      Nah mate, some torque specs are so low that you’ll strip it out before you hear such a thing.

      Like the water pump bolts on my brother’s Subaru. 7 ft/lbs was the torque spec. Now with the new bolts I had to put in there after having to drill and tap the block it’s at the correct torque spec. He cored all but 1 bolt out before I could stop him.

    • clif
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      47 months ago

      “guten tight”

      “Tighten until you hear the crack, then back a quarter turn”