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I'm back in the real world! The honeymoon was a blast, but damn if there wasn't a mountain of **** waiting to fall on me as I got back to work this morning.
 
Chameleonbear said:
No pictures? REALLY?! DUDE! You know the rules!

You can go with the Esee method of attaching handles. Two flathead bolts with a connector in the middle.
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Pitchurz? You want pitchurz? Here's a few...












I forgot I hadn't uploaded 'em yet when I went to ask the question.
Anyway, black flatheads sounds like a good plan. Anybody got a better one?
 
Sitting here with a foot feeling like someone is beating on it with a very big hammer.
I was clearing a fence line and found a rusty nail in a board the hard way.

I stepped on a board hidden by some brush and the board popped up and over and drove a nail through the tongue of my boot, literally the thinnest piece of leather on the boot. Didn't stick but about 3/8" into the top of my foot. Hurts like hell but not quite as bad as when I managed to skewer a 7" gutter spike through the sole of my tennis shoe, all the way through my foot and out the top of the shoe. Now THAT hurt, almost as bad as the thumb vs table saw incident, but not for as long.
 
The Warrior said:
Dig it my ass, haha. From the curb stop to the corner of the house, was 63 feet, plus another 12 feet to the house, not to mention 3 feet down. My uncle has a grave digging business.
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shallow graves done dirt cheap
 
bigghoss said:
Big cars and a nation-wide Beckerhead effort to move a sex swing.
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oh, if only

just think antique cherry furniture, and you're close

not really worth it, all considering, but a nice day dream
 
zzyzzogeton said:
Sitting here with a foot feeling like someone is beating on it with a very big hammer.
I was clearing a fence line and found a rusty nail in a board the hard way.

I stepped on a board hidden by some brush and the board popped up and over and drove a nail through the tongue of my boot, literally the thinnest piece of leather on the boot. Didn't stick but about 3/8" into the top of my foot. Hurts like hell but not quite as bad as when I managed to skewer a 7" gutter spike through the sole of my tennis shoe, all the way through my foot and out the top of the shoe. Now THAT hurt, almost as bad as the thumb vs table saw incident, but not for as long.
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You should really try to NOT do stuff like that, or we're gonna have to start calling you "The Kid II".

Bladite said:
oh, if only

just think antique cherry furniture, and you're close

not really worth it, all considering, but a nice day dream
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Something "textilely"? I'm betting I'm closest!

So, I decided since I'm officially keeping my car till it falls the (...) apart, I should make it more "my" car. I was looking at "safety" upgrades instead of "performance" upgrades. I was looking at lights, right now I have the H7 halogen lights, I'm looking at HID upgrades. Granted I'd also want the new housings as well with the projector lenses instead of just the regular factory housing. Then I was also looking at the LED taillights. Between those TWO sets of lights, I'm looking at $500! However I'd be spitting out 5,000 lumens in the front which sounds so beautiful!
 
Please don't blind your fellow motorists on the road CB. I was blinded by someone with those super bright headlights in some construction one night in a corner and almost took them out. I ended up driving over a bunch of cones and losing my night vision for a while. Luckily I was able to get pulled over safely and sat for a while until I could see properly again.
 
ac700wildcat said:
Please don't blind your fellow motorists on the road CB. I was blinded by someone with those super bright headlights in some construction one night in a corner and almost took them out. I ended up driving over a bunch of cones and losing my night vision for a while. Luckily I was able to get pulled over safely and sat for a while until I could see properly again.
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The thing I think a lot of people forget to do when installing new lights is to make sure they are aimed properly, not just horizontally lined up, but also properly seated vertically. My car sits pretty low, my headlights are roughly 18 maybe 20 inches off the deck. There is no reason they should be hitting anyone directly in the eyes.
 
Hang in out in the control vans on the 12-4 watch...
What are your excuses?
 
Can't sleep... had a migraine most of the day, so slept for a lot of it. Finally got rid of the headache. Looking at stuff for Angel (the car) and I found out the lights that are recommended for my car are from a company called DDMTuning out of San Diego. The part that is funny about that is it's owned by a guy named Jim Powell who owns a BMW and is part of the BMWCCA in SoCal and knows a lot of the same people that I know. So much so that I've crashed one of his parties.
 
Chameleonbear said:
The thing I think a lot of people forget to do when installing new lights is to make sure they are aimed properly, not just horizontally lined up, but also properly seated vertically. My car sits pretty low, my headlights are roughly 18 maybe 20 inches off the deck. There is no reason they should be hitting anyone directly in the eyes.
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I'm thinking they had theirs aimed wrong and had aftermarket lights. Their dims were so bright that I thought it was their brights and flashed them a couple times as they were getting closer. Then instead of just flashing their brights so I knew they were already on dims, they just hit the brights and left them on. I have never seen headlights that bright in my life.
 
ac700wildcat said:
I'm thinking they had theirs aimed wrong and had aftermarket lights. Their dims were so bright that I thought it was their brights and flashed them a couple times as they were getting closer. Then instead of just flashing their brights so I knew they were already on dims, they just hit the brights and left them on. I have never seen headlights that bright in my life.
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were they white or were they more blue or even purple-ish? Cause it sounds like a 55W HID with 12K bulbs. Personally I'm looking at a 55W with 6k bulbs since it's a truer white not blue, although I might even go with the 35W with the 4k bulbs since I want "daylight" but not blue daylight.

They also might have gotten the cheap set and didn't have the projectors which basically puts the light out EVERYWHERE. The set of headlight housings I'm looking at have the projectors which focus the light. Think of it like turning the bezel on a mag light either focused with some wash around it versus light everywhere.
 
Speaking of headlights, my Tundra has a feature I've really grown to like. There is a dial on my dash that actually adjusts my headlights up and down. Its really nice for when you have a load in the box or are pulling a trailer or if you are in line somewhere and your lights are hitting the mirrors of the vehicle in front of you.
 
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