Official Gramps' Memorial Eternal OT Thread

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marcusluvsvols said:
This disturbs me bro....
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Eh I just lost interest Marcus. This wasn’t a bolt on kit I basically designed my own with some input from Kenne Bell. I modified their intake to accept a customs designed intercooler. I adapted the Lightning heat exchanger. I added a bypass valve as the standard 1.5L Kenne Bell didn’t have one. This was all prior to 2001. Then THAT happened and I got crazy busy for the next decade. And then the fire wasn’t there anymore. Most likely it will all wind up with a nephew who is a mechanic and he can decide what he wants to do.

Right now if I build anything it would be a Factory Five AC Cobra kit car.
 
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NorthDallas40 said:
I’m it’s been a hard day of being retired and doing nothing I need a nap before XBox time this evening. Gotta pace myself.
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Absolutely. The next step is to master waking up and going through mental exercises - like doing and completing projects and then expanding into an exercise routine - running through all the steps in your head until you are tired. Then you roll over and go back to sleep for a while. I found the first step in that process was working through a project in my mind to find out the flaws and things that will trip you up or make it fail. When you hit a snag, then you decide that's a problem best saved for later thought, and you need rest before tackling it. As you say, pacing yourself is very important.
 
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VolStrom said:
I've been pacing myself for years and I still can't get anything done, so I just hire it out.
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I'm beginning to resemble that remark. My garage door torsion system was getting very problematic since the cable winding spool had twisted on the shaft and wasn't coming loose. I checked for companies who installed the particular door and made an appointment. The guy showed up, took away the original tensioning system, and installed the new type for $250. That's almost what buying the kit alone would have cost me. The guy had worked for the company for about thirty years and likely installed the doors twenty some years ago. I don't mind paying a reasonable cost for good work, but that is a hard combination to find. It's why I used to do all our car work myself - dealerships made you feel used on quality and price.
 
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AM64 said:
I'm beginning to resemble that remark. My garage door torsion system was getting very problematic since the cable winding spool had twisted on the shaft and wasn't coming loose. I checked for companies who installed the particular door and made an appointment. The guy showed up, took away the original tensioning system, and installed the new type for $250. That's almost what buying the kit alone would have cost me. The guy had worked for the company for about thirty years and likely installed the doors twenty some years ago. I don't mind paying a reasonable cost for good work, but that is a hard combination to find. It's why I used to do all our car work myself - dealerships made you feel used on quality and price.
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I've found over the years that it's hard to beat a man at his profession. When I was in my 40s I never paid for anyone to fix things, now I don't hesitate.
 
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VolStrom said:
I've found over the years that it's hard to beat a man at his profession. When I was in my 40s I never paid for anyone to fix things, now I don't hesitate.
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I'm not there yet, but I'm finding there are more things I'm willing to let someone else do. The hard part is finding someone you can trust to do the job right and reasonably - not cheap but what the job is worth. We had the original siding on this house replaced with Hardie Plank lap siding (that's the fiber cement stuff); the first guys were good when we did the part of the siding that was really weathered and sun damaged; the second guy who did the back and front of the house a few years later was great. We started talking about gutter covers and he recommended one, so I had him do that, too; and it turned out to be the best solution we ever had - and cost a lot less than the people who replaced the gutters proposed. I'd love to find someone like him to do some small projects around the house.
 
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Unless the patent has expired and the market changed, Gutter Guard was the only one who would come make 1 piece gutters (no cap or screen on top of a regular gutter) from rolls of aluminum onsite at your house. They measure and make each run of gutter fit exactly so that the product is seamless as well. That stuff is very expensive though. The guys installing it were making $1000 a week and up back 20 years ago. Likely make twice that now.. there are other products similar but nothing as nice as what they made. Fwiw i have never put caps on the gutters in my own home even though i would do it myself...we dont have many trees though and i do not mind getting up on the roof and cleaning out my gutters either. I always cleaned my folks gutters out every year as well. Once a person gets a little older though and balance etc is an issue, it becomes quite dangerous. Definitely not worth taking a fall.
 
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marcusluvsvols said:
Unless the patent has expired and the market changed, Gutter Guard was the only one who would come make 1 piece gutters (no cap or screen on top of a regular gutter) from rolls of aluminum onsite at your house. They measure and make each run of gutter fit exactly so that the product is seamless as well. That stuff is very expensive though. The guys installing it were making $1000 a week and up back 20 years ago. Likely make twice that now.. there are other products similar but nothing as nice as what they made. Fwiw i have never put caps on the gutters in my own home even though i would do it myself...we dont have many trees though and i do not mind getting up on the roof and cleaning out my gutters either. I always cleaned my folks gutters out every year as well. Once a person gets a little older though and balance etc is an issue, it becomes quite dangerous. Definitely not worth taking a fall.
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Few years back I almost fell off the back of my house cleaning the gutters, about 20'. Said F that, never again and had gutter screens installed shortly after.
 
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hog88 said:
Few years back I almost fell off the back of my house cleaning the gutters, about 20'. Said F that, never again and had gutter screens installed shortly after.
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Gutters? We don't have those in the AZ desert. No rain, and pretty much no leaves.
 
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