Don't think so I kind of went through this. I have a friend on FBBO that specializes in them if needed.
cantflip. ask him he knows whats what on them and can even punch them if you have the code.
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cantflip. ask him he knows whats what on them and can even punch them if you have the code.
Unconventional
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I've been out of the concrete game too long.
Them modern mixers got a buttload of axles.
LOL, that might be, I searched for key blanks, and I found that one, and well, you know the rest.
To be honest, I have no clue where I reading. Maybe the wrong place to ask that question.
Bill
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LOL, that might be, I searched for key blanks, and I found that one, and well, you know the rest.
Maybe the wrong place to ask that question.
Bill
Nahhhh. Lots of knowledgeable folks in here. If they don't know off the top of their head, they know where to find it.
nah, you're good. We talk about all kinds of stuff in here. Most don't care.LOL, that might be, I searched for key blanks, and I found that one, and well, you know the rest.
Maybe the wrong place to ask that question.
Bill
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Bill
Just bring a carrier full of Double Espressos you'll be in like Flint
zkx14
Duster De-ruster
Mission accomplished. $30 for the load. Have to love auctions!
plymouth67
It be a lot cooler if you did...
Love auctions hell!!!! Love square bodies!!!
Ben Drinkin
Hey bartender!
Looks like something from a Steinbeck novel!
And since I come from the country I come from (Norski land), I hate auctions. Usually people over there pay more for stuff on auctions than if they went to a store to buy it brand new.... so if people ask them, how much did you pay for it, they can answer back, oh, not a lot, I bought it on an auction. Without saying any figures. Some people are so dumb. It must be two types of folks around, those who are related to monkeys, and those who are not.
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it depends. where Hoppy got those were from a gov auction. Some of it goes insanely high, others, for pennies. Just gotta do your homeworkAnd since I come from the country I come from (Norski land), I hate auctions. Usually people over there pay more for stuff on auctions than if they went to a store to buy it brand new.... so if people ask them, how much did you pay for it, they can answer back, oh, not a lot, I bought it on an auction. Without saying any figures. Some people are so dumb. It must be two types of folks around, those who are related to monkeys, and those who are not.
Bill
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Yeah, it is very important to know what you can get it for in a store. If not you can be horribly fooled. In my old home country people were not used to auctions, then the military started selling surplus stuff, and people went bananas. A few times people could get things for a decent price, but very often people went home with an empty wallet and the "tail between their legs" as we say. Except a young boy, about 12 or so, the guy holding the auction asked him, what are you interested in, they were selling a military Massey Ferguson farm tractor, very little hours with half tracks and trailer and tire chains. The boy said, oh, I am going to be a farmer when I grow up, and need a tractor. The guy asked the boy, how much money do you have ? 1500 Norwegian they boy answered (about $160.00). The guy asked, is that what you are bidding. The boy smiled, and said yes, and the guy smacked the hammer in the table, sold to the young man there and pointed at the boy. Before anyone had a chance to react. So, it is obviously possible.
Bill
Norway huh? How do you like the US? Be honest lolYeah, it is very important to know what you can get it for in a store. If not you can be horribly fooled. In my old home country people were not used to auctions, then the military started selling surplus stuff, and people went bananas. A few times people could get things for a decent price, but very often people went home with an empty wallet and the "tail between their legs" as we say. Except a young boy, about 12 or so, the guy holding the auction asked him, what are you interested in, they were selling a military Massey Ferguson farm tractor, very little hours with half tracks and trailer and tire chains. The boy said, oh, I am going to be a farmer when I grow up, and need a tractor. The guy asked the boy, how much money do you have ? 1500 Norwegian they boy answered (about $160.00). The guy asked, is that what you are bidding. The boy smiled, and said yes, and the guy smacked the hammer in the table, sold to the young man there and pointed at the boy. Before anyone had a chance to react. So, it is obviously possible.
Bill
They are working the concrete, first this thing that reminds me of my Navy days lol, and then they were troweling on all fours with knee skids. They didn't pour the garage, thought they were doing at same time but that's okay, it's progress.
Do I have to be honest ? LOL
I have always liked the US, for the majority of my life been driving American cars. But, when you live somewhere else, you read and hear about other countries, and does not really know how it feels to live there in real life. That goes for no matter what country you are from. In general, Europeans knows nothing about the US, and Americans knows nothing about Europe. Give or take. The little people know is insignificant, and 95% of what people know is wrong.
Let us take the climate first. I so struggle with the heat here in California. I mean, I was born and raised in northern part of Norway, in a half abandoned fishing village. Used to drive with studded winter tires more than 7 months of the year. So, the climate is a huge struggle for me. I have lived here for 7 years, I have gotten a bit better, but not like people from around here. I am having fun making people here upset, I tell them I wish I could wake up tomorrow and have 2 feet of snow on the ground. Oh no, ... you are insane they say. I tell them, just think about how nice the famous California traffic would be, it would be none at all. Well, they manage to laugh a little then.
Norway has a bit over 5 million people, California has 40 or whatever it is now. You should think you could get everything you wanted here. No, I have a huge hassle getting things I am used to from Norway. Language is one issue, I walk around in stores looking for things I don't even know the names for in English. Have to explain what I am using it for. People just look at me like I am some moron, we have not used that here for 50 years... well well... I am old fashioned in addition to coming from Norway.
It is insanely expensive here. Food, oh man, I wish we lived in Maine, a basket of strawberries from the central valley cost $3.99 here, and the same strawberry from the same farmer in the central valley trucked across the country to Maine cost $2.99 they say. Go figure.
Quality of fish here... oh man, did I go there. It once was fish, quality is not in the California dictionary even. Who on earth sell a whole unguted cod in a seafood store ? I mean, it is rotten before it hits the doors to the store. Still legal in California. No wonder people here does not care much for seafood. They have never gotten good food. And the shrimp, they freeze it on the boat, then cook it later. The food is ruined. What could have been culinary wonder is completely ruined. The shrimp has to be cooked right away on the boat, in salted water, and then frozen. Those who have never experienced the difference does not know what I am talking about. I so wish people here could have come to northern part of Norway and experience seafood the way it can taste, if only once in their life. It is so sad that the laws are not in place to get the most out of the seafood.
I am not a fan of spicy food. Let me explain. It is not because it does not taste good, but for some reason my mouth and throat and chest gets numb and then the burning pain comes. And I loose the taste of it. So, if I eat spicy Mexican food, I have no idea if I eat seafood or meat, and I am not even able to tell if the food is perished or not. It is just burning.
Hard to get friends here or be accepted. I was here in 2012, just got married to my wife who is from here. Everyone was friendly when they heard we were here to visit. My wife could not find a job in Norway and we ended up moving here in 2013, and people heard I was now living here. Oh boy what a change in attitude, never felt so unwelcome anywhere as i feel here. I have always read that Americans were very welcoming towards people from other places. Not here.
But, I do realize that moving to a city, where 2/3 of the cars are foreign cars, and you barely see cars older than 15 years, when I am interested in cars older than 15 years, even 30, I am kind of an outcast.
Then, and this is kind a personal thing, I find myself more comfortable with people who are not mainstream. I am not A4. In addition I have the backbone to stand up for myself and admit I am not A4. I tend to gravitate to brands others don't like too much, whatever it might be. And I tend to go my own ways. That is just me.
I still love the US, even if I perhaps would have felt better in other and colder states. Not Minnesota, because I am not too agree with my own kind.
And, I do love my wife, more than anything, and I do love Americans. I do not care so much for American politics, I am not an American citizen, so I can not vote. But I do have my thoughts, and I hate the split between the two main sides of the people. Both sides needs to chill out, and learn to live with that politics is like the pendulum of a clock, it swings, and you have a democracy, you have freedoms others do not have, you have protection, one side will be in the oval office for a while, then after some years, the other side will be there. Just learn to accept it. The fighting that is going on now is plain ridiculous. It is just fighting for the sake of fighting. And people all over the world need to learn one very important thing, being liberal is no better than being conservative, and being conservative is no better than being liberal. It is just that we humans are born different, and liberals have to a certain extent conservative tendencies, and conservative have to a certain extent liberal tendencies. It just happens that some of us end up on one side of the median line, and some end up on the other side of the median line. We need to live with this, and stop trying to tell the other side that my side is so much better. Both sides have pros and cons, and it takes a man or a woman to see this and admit it. And it takes a man, or a woman to tell the other side that, well, maybe you are right sometimes. But it is equally important that the other side is willing to admit the same about the others. If people did, things have a tendency to calm down by themselves. Right now, people from both sides are throwing gas on the fire, and it does not gain anyone. And all this blaming of who's fault this and that is, it is not like only one is to blame for whatever happens in society. It only creates hate and distrust.
Well, that is enough. Hope you got to learn a little about who I am.
Bill
Well, you're welcome here. Sadly, California is actually one of the hardest places, despite its size, in terms of feeling welcomed. Sure, there's some people that are great guys, like the couple that are in here, but my experiences when I've been out there for vacations have been the same. Not exactly a welcoming type people. Come to the midwest, and that changes completely. Much more welcoming than the news media would have you believe. I've been in 39 of the 50 states, the most welcoming of all had to be Kentucky, followed by Iowa, Wisconsin, Missouri, Minnesota and Oklahoma in that order.Do I have to be honest ? LOL
I have always liked the US, for the majority of my life been driving American cars. But, when you live somewhere else, you read and hear about other countries, and does not really know how it feels to live there in real life. That goes for no matter what country you are from. In general, Europeans knows nothing about the US, and Americans knows nothing about Europe. Give or take. The little people know is insignificant, and 95% of what people know is wrong.
Let us take the climate first. I so struggle with the heat here in California. I mean, I was born and raised in northern part of Norway, in a half abandoned fishing village. Used to drive with studded winter tires more than 7 months of the year. So, the climate is a huge struggle for me. I have lived here for 7 years, I have gotten a bit better, but not like people from around here. I am having fun making people here upset, I tell them I wish I could wake up tomorrow and have 2 feet of snow on the ground. Oh no, ... you are insane they say. I tell them, just think about how nice the famous California traffic would be, it would be none at all. Well, they manage to laugh a little then.
Norway has a bit over 5 million people, California has 40 or whatever it is now. You should think you could get everything you wanted here. No, I have a huge hassle getting things I am used to from Norway. Language is one issue, I walk around in stores looking for things I don't even know the names for in English. Have to explain what I am using it for. People just look at me like I am some moron, we have not used that here for 50 years... well well... I am old fashioned in addition to coming from Norway.
It is insanely expensive here. Food, oh man, I wish we lived in Maine, a basket of strawberries from the central valley cost $3.99 here, and the same strawberry from the same farmer in the central valley trucked across the country to Maine cost $2.99 they say. Go figure.
Quality of fish here... oh man, did I go there. It once was fish, quality is not in the California dictionary even. Who on earth sell a whole unguted cod in a seafood store ? I mean, it is rotten before it hits the doors to the store. Still legal in California. No wonder people here does not care much for seafood. They have never gotten good food. And the shrimp, they freeze it on the boat, then cook it later. The food is ruined. What could have been culinary wonder is completely ruined. The shrimp has to be cooked right away on the boat, in salted water, and then frozen. Those who have never experienced the difference does not know what I am talking about. I so wish people here could have come to northern part of Norway and experience seafood the way it can taste, if only once in their life. It is so sad that the laws are not in place to get the most out of the seafood.
I am not a fan of spicy food. Let me explain. It is not because it does not taste good, but for some reason my mouth and throat and chest gets numb and then the burning pain comes. And I loose the taste of it. So, if I eat spicy Mexican food, I have no idea if I eat seafood or meat, and I am not even able to tell if the food is perished or not. It is just burning.
Hard to get friends here or be accepted. I was here in 2012, just got married to my wife who is from here. Everyone was friendly when they heard we were here to visit. My wife could not find a job in Norway and we ended up moving here in 2013, and people heard I was now living here. Oh boy what a change in attitude, never felt so unwelcome anywhere as i feel here. I have always read that Americans were very welcoming towards people from other places. Not here.
But, I do realize that moving to a city, where 2/3 of the cars are foreign cars, and you barely see cars older than 15 years, when I am interested in cars older than 15 years, even 30, I am kind of an outcast.
Then, and this is kind a personal thing, I find myself more comfortable with people who are not mainstream. I am not A4. In addition I have the backbone to stand up for myself and admit I am not A4. I tend to gravitate to brands others don't like too much, whatever it might be. And I tend to go my own ways. That is just me.
I still love the US, even if I perhaps would have felt better in other and colder states. Not Minnesota, because I am not too agree with my own kind.
And, I do love my wife, more than anything, and I do love Americans. I do not care so much for American politics, I am not an American citizen, so I can not vote. But I do have my thoughts, and I hate the split between the two main sides of the people. Both sides needs to chill out, and learn to live with that politics is like the pendulum of a clock, it swings, and you have a democracy, you have freedoms others do not have, you have protection, one side will be in the oval office for a while, then after some years, the other side will be there. Just learn to accept it. The fighting that is going on now is plain ridiculous. It is just fighting for the sake of fighting. And people all over the world need to learn one very important thing, being liberal is no better than being conservative, and being conservative is no better than being liberal. It is just that we humans are born different, and liberals have to a certain extent conservative tendencies, and conservative have to a certain extent liberal tendencies. It just happens that some of us end up on one side of the median line, and some end up on the other side of the median line. We need to live with this, and stop trying to tell the other side that my side is so much better. Both sides have pros and cons, and it takes a man or a woman to see this and admit it. And it takes a man, or a woman to tell the other side that, well, maybe you are right sometimes. But it is equally important that the other side is willing to admit the same about the others. If people did, things have a tendency to calm down by themselves. Right now, people from both sides are throwing gas on the fire, and it does not gain anyone. And all this blaming of who's fault this and that is, it is not like only one is to blame for whatever happens in society. It only creates hate and distrust.
Well, that is enough. Hope you got to learn a little about who I am.
Bill
My wife is from here and she say she thinks it is because Californians have been hammered with so many people coming here, and using and abusing the state. Which I can understand, and accept. But it sort of does not help me either.
Bill
I’m stumped.
How could i have left wheel bearing hub bolts loose? As in one fell out and wedged the back wheel. I have done hundreds and hundreds.
Im lucky it was a good customer,and i owned the failure 100%.
So, replaced bolt, loctite and torqued up all the bolts.did both bearings,so i took other side apart and rechecked my work, adding loctite there as well.
That, im sure will never happen again. Im thinking hub wasnt properly seated when i tightened it.
How could i have left wheel bearing hub bolts loose? As in one fell out and wedged the back wheel. I have done hundreds and hundreds.
Im lucky it was a good customer,and i owned the failure 100%.
So, replaced bolt, loctite and torqued up all the bolts.did both bearings,so i took other side apart and rechecked my work, adding loctite there as well.
That, im sure will never happen again. Im thinking hub wasnt properly seated when i tightened it.
It’s possible. If you ever find yourself in Southern Indiana, let me know.My wife is from here and she say she thinks it is because Californians have been hammered with so many people coming here, and using and abusing the state. Which I can understand, and accept. But it sort of does not help me either.
Bill
Mistakes happen. No one is perfect
My girlfriend sent me these pictures from my new house in VN. Dinner time at 8am our time. Saying that she misses me......Awwww
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