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Offroading is a motorsport. Not a question, a statement. If you disagree with me, go look up "Dakar Support Truck" on youtube. Anyways, my Jeep, no dubbed Pokey after her last outing, is going up on blocks this weekend. 3" lift kit shows up on Monday and shortly after it is installed, 33" tires will be ordered. All for the absolutely beautiful offroading out here. New Mexico may fall short in some aspects, but not the view.

As requested. Really impressed with the Chanel. It arrived today after a bit of delay for the duties.

Are you afraid to scare the jeeps off by getting too close to them with your camera?

Two too many.

Way to fuck over your poor daughter, asshat.

We settled for $1500 for the diminished value claim. I'm pleased and will likely roll that into the OZ Ultraleggera super light autocross wheels. Edit: it appears that Enkei has just released even superlighter wheels that are cheaper. 15.8 lbs.

I'm sure I wouldn't know. Oh my, the vapors! * faints *

soren wanted this, work in progress

^ Well, I'm not gettin' on the highway today! I guess it's Netflix and chill.

I know the thread is 15 pages, but this info is in here multiple times. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It was really salty.

LMAO...tough crowd HS

Happy birthday Mr. DIYer! Cloudy with a chance of hops is my forecast for your evening. Hope it plays out that way. Cheers!

Happy Birthday, Nate!

Great music to listen to at work.

Happy Birthday Nate! Wishing you clean 7.2 wiring and warm insulation for your birthday!

"You should know that a man with the power of nature can bring you to the end of your luck. And you should know by my stride and the look in my eye that you are about to be massively f...orced to give up!" (ancient yodel of peace, wisdom, and justice)

No doubt! Best modern wagon ever. A buddy of mine has one with a 3.6L Kenne Bell supercharger. Calls it the BadWagon. Can't make that up... HS

Not mine, though, I just think it sexeh.

I was more concerned that the fact that my ground clearance is more than the elevation change your car might see would scare you off.

definitely craziness they hopefully figured out. Is that a Magnum wagon in your avatar? Very cool. HS

Also reliving those memories,.. It was just a few years later, I was at a large teaching hospital (Stanford) and there was a lot of interest in what was going on in one of the rooms on the floor I was working. When I went to check out what was going on, the room had a number of doctors, journalists and medical students crowded around a jovial patient and his partner. He was all smiles as photos were being taken while shaking hands with one of the doc's. Turns out, he was one of the first to receive the AIDS Cocktail and was living proof of it's effectiveness. He was fat and happy and tears rolled down most of our faces!

Made some more permanent modifications. First, couldn't get proper length hanger bolts, so shaped the bolts post cutting by holding them with my fingers on a bench grinder to emulate Steve's finger Then more pictures without comment Then when I got to one of the holes, there was no resistance in the drill bit. Ignore the hole on the right, which was the final hole, but found out the plinth isn't solid and the power switch wire is routed this way. The factory foot nearly pierced the wire!

(involuntarily shudders)

Kyle Lowry? Injured. Kevin Durant? Injured. DeMarcus Cousins? Traded. Man... the rest of the season feels a whole lot more interesting than it did two weeks ago.

So I think this is pretty cool (sorry to toot my own horn, but I can't help it sometimes ). I've been meaning to miniaturize the GRLV supplies. I've got them down to boards that are 1.16" (H) x .8" (W). The output transistor mounts to the board and you can mount it directly to heat sinks. They are designed as LM78xx and LM79xx except with a TO-247 footprint. This means you'll still need the supporting components (bridge, diode and a few caps) that are found on the current boards. Here's what they'll look like... Note that the pass transistor will be folded up on to the board and you'll need to put some mounting pins in. I've made it so it is the same size as a standard horizontal TO-247 mount. EDIT: Note that there are set resistors are on the board (R2, R3) so the boards act like fixed regulators in the circuit.

Open baffles do things box speakers don't. Of course they need extensive EQ, but one of the things you notice if you are used to box speakers is they can sound bass-shy. If you are used to open baffles, or electrostatics, of planar magnetics (Like Magnaplanar) there are no surpises. The bass is there in the right proportion to the rest of the music with no overhang, and sounds tight and fast. And open baffles interact with the room in a completely different way, exciting far fewer resonances. Well you can buy a kit, or even buy one already built. Or you can do what I did - buy two sheets of Baltic Birch and build them from scratch. Then hot hide glue veneer them, and French polish them. Parts which are not veneered I made from a Rosewood called Cocobolo, and the feet were made from Goncalo Alves.

Yup. The main consideration (well as far as I was concerned!) in buying where we have lived for the last 20 years was the listening room. It is actually the lounge, but was 6m x 4m with a concrete floor. So I have the luxury of siting dipole speakers 1.6 metres from the end wall. And I have a listening seat that I pull out and put in the sweet spot. Bliss.