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[glricht]

...Schlitz falls into a special pantheon, at least for me, of American beers. So bad that they actually taste better warm than cold. Some other's were Iron City, Falstaff (used to call it fallflat since it had so little carbonation), and Dixie. LOL!!!

Many years ago when I lived in central Wisconsin, there was a regional beer called Point brewed in a town called Stevens Point. After about two of those, I had a headache that lasted two days!

 

[hiddenpcmaster]

 

[TechLady]

 

[NETWizz]

I think the bigger problem is the contact surface has been painted. Probably a good way to trash the caliper pads.

The pads and rotors will probably be fine. That said, you would probably feel a pulsation in the brakes as the paint is scraped off unevenly, and it would stink like burning paint. The pads themselves are basically semi-metalic, ceramic... soft like "brick" they would be completely fine, but the brakes would probably be a bit week until some of the paint burns off. Regardless, the rotors will look bad after that.


This one is funny, too:

 

[NETWizz]

 

[Diggs]

Many years ago when I lived in central Wisconsin, there was a regional beer called Point brewed in a town called Stevens Point. After about two of those, I had a headache that lasted two days!

As the locals say - When you're out of "Point (beer)", your out of town. It's a very regional beer. (Still somewhat proudly made in Stevens Point, WI.)

 

[Krynn72]

Many years ago when I lived in central Wisconsin, there was a regional beer called Point brewed in a town called Stevens Point. After about two of those, I had a headache that lasted two days!

This is how a lot of small-time craft beers are now. Some of them hit like a sledge. And not in a good way.

 

[LordIntruder]

After about two of those, I had a headache that lasted two days!

Are you sure that it not just was the one of them that has passed the "best before" date?

 

[NYJimbo]

I was doing a new circuit install at an old hotel that had been gutted and in the process of being remodeled. Of course the MPOE is down in the bowls of the basement and noticed the below sitting on a shelf. Literally can't remember the last time I saw a pop top can, but was listening to Margaritaville on the way in. LOL!!!

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Around 1990 we were reworking our basement. When we ripped out the panelling we found an old Budweiser can that had no pull top. It has to be opened with a can opener (flat top/steel ?). Looks like the guys drank it and walled it up for laughs.

 

[Markverhyden]

Around 1990 we were reworking our basement. When we ripped out the panelling we found an old Budweiser can that had no pull top. It has to be opened with a can opener (flat top/steel ?). Looks like the guys drank it and walled it up for laughs.

Back in the day when every well dressed construction worker had a church key on their key chain.

 

[Markverhyden]

This one is funny, too:

That reminds me of several customers I've had who shall remain nameless to protect the guilty.

 

[NETWizz]

 

[HCHTech]

Gotta love stock photography - that's EXACTLY how I put in CPUs!

 

[NYJimbo]

Gotta love stock photography - that's EXACTLY how I put in CPUs!

You mean with their fingers ? Why, do you use some other appendage ?

 

[HCHTech]

You mean with their fingers ? Why, do you use some other appendage ?

It looks like he's got his fingers pinched holding it, even though it's already in the socket and there is to "edge" there to grab. For this to be workable, he would have had to glue it to the bottom of his fingers! Considering the death grip he appears to have on that capacitor, though, maybe there is more going on than meets the eye.

 

[TechLady]

 

[NETWizz]

Yes, they will take it out and lower the coffin about three times!

 

[GTP]

ROTFLMAO!

 

[Diggs]

I've watched the discussion with the guy that invented the USB connector. He tried so hard to make it so it didn't matter which way it was inserted, he fought for it, but the poor USB connector was fighting with 3-4 other connector types for dominance at the time. It added something like $0.17 to the USB connector to make it universal. The powers that be (board/BIOS makers, Intel, etc.) wouldn't accept the higher price so we got a second rate USB port.

 

[NETWizz]

Gotta love stock photography - that's EXACTLY how I put in CPUs!

I usually use my thumb and pointer finger, line up the notches, and feel it fall into place... I gently wiggle it side to side without putting any downward pressure on it just to feel it is in place, and then I visually inspect it all they way around. I NEVER touch to pins or the bottom of the CPU! At this point, it is locked into place, and I verify the lever clicks under the tab.

From there, I apply the heatsink that usually comes with factory heat-sink compound. In the absence of that, historically I would put about a pea sized amount dead center and smash it down with the heat-sink. With some CPUs I used to put a small strip about 1 CM long in the center. It's been a while.