Re: General discussion chat behind my desk is worse on cable managment. along with my computer cause i have a cheap case that had no cable managment
Re: General discussion chat I know, I hate the management too. There are just quite a few things back there, and a few of those have long wires. But I really need to get the lip off of my desk. FFB is already crazy enough for me to get used to, but I don't need my wheel flipping up at me when I am trying to turn hard. It will help the mounting situation, and it will help it a lot.
Re: General discussion chat any of you guys had experience with vacuum forming plastic? i just built a vacuum former yesterday, and im trying to figure out where to get good plastic to do this. i have bought some of those styrene garage sale signs from walmart, but they dont work the best
Re: General discussion chat First thing I'm going to buy is a G27, then an Oculus VR dev kit 2(Sickest gaming experience). But first before all this cool stuff, I need to replace the cambelt for my car, which sucks.
Re: General discussion chat YES G27 with an Oculus Rift at 1080p playing BeamNG is a must for me Ultimate virtual driving experience
Re: General discussion chat Well, 2 days later the Vanster is still sitting there. It been a week and 2 days since whoever bought it did so, and it's still sitting there. It hasn't moved either. Smells fishy. I woke up today with a missed call on my phone from a random number. I flipped shit because I thought it might be that lady calling about the Vanster, but it was the asian lady down the street calling about me cutting her grass. And yes, Cushman made a van based on the Truckster chassis and called it the Vanster. Gabe you name stealing slut.
Re: General discussion chat I looked at Cushmans on Craigslist in my area. I laughed when I saw this: $1500
Re: General discussion chat Yeah they're goofy little things. Pretty ugly too. I don't know why I like them, I just do. The cab on that one looks bigger than the ones I've seen, and I think it's a swb. They always go for a lot, that's why I'm mad I missed out on a working, running, 4 wheel Vanster for 500. The lady also sounded like she was getting more than it was worth. I think both the seller and the buyer have no idea what they have. This is one of the few pics on google of a 4 wheel vanster. Shows you how rare they are.
Re: General discussion chat Acrylic is what I used to use in school, worked real good but isnt cheap. Heard ABS works but although it might look like an innocent sheet of plastic, warming ABS to the point its malleable releases particulates which really dont do your lungs any good and I dont mean like the whole you might get cancer in 10 years or something (although that is also a risk) I mean you may get woozy after exposure and suffer short term damage, know a guy who used to run 8 hour ABS prints on a 3d printer in his room and has been stuck with severe coughing fits and agitated lungs ever since, taking months of recovery but he's getting there, another ABS print worsens it again. All plastics really, put a mask over your mouth and keep some ventilation going. Any thermoplastic will work really. Generally thats most of them. Polystyrene is a very commonly used one (another one that needs a mask, lets just leave it at using a mask near a vacuum former). Polyethylene, Polypropylene, nylon and pvc are all usable. Lexan too. May need to research the correct temperature for each material and it needs to be evenly heated (heard placing a wire grid between heating elements and the plastic really helps distribute the heat)
Re: General discussion chat i guess on the subject of needing a mask near a vacuum former. I need to get some heat resistant gloves (probably looking to welders gloves for that 1 size too large), a leather apron and maybe a new set of safety goggles as I can't find mine. Some might accuse me of living a cotton wool life or being some kind of stuck up bitch for actually using safety equipment, but considering my thumb is currently bound in bandages from the burn I already posted above which it now transpires has killed the nerve endings aswell as blackening the skin all because I wasn't wearing my gloves, I think its worth it. Heres one. The safety guard on drills and angle grinders etc. That isn't just to prevent your fingers coming into contact with it. Personally witnessed the blade on an angle grinder explode while in use, the guard keeps the shattered remains from flying into your face, remember that next time you think about removing the guard.
Re: General discussion chat Yeah, offer the kid or the lady more money for it. If you can afford to buy one for $500 why do you have a GT 610?
Re: General discussion chat When the lady said that she had sold it I jokingly asked if I could offer a little more than he did and have it. He already gave her the money, it'd be kinda dickish to go behind his back and sell it to someone else. And something tells me that lil shit won't wanna let go of it. I wouldn't be willing to pay more than about 6 or 7 hundred for one of these. I have the money, but I'll have to buy a car here in about a year or so. And I've explained why I don't buy better computer parts. I just don't care enough. I'd rather spend 500 bucks on a vanster than I would on a new computer. I'm more of a car/vehicle guy than anything else. This is a family computer anyway. Not my responsibility to pour money into it. If I was gonna put money into a computer it'd be a laptop.
Re: General discussion chat http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classif...true/onesearchad/used,nearlynew,new?logcode=p Damn I wish I had £350 Technically the car I drive is registered to my stepdad with me as named driver on the insurance. Stepdad wants me to buy the car from him. My brother is learning to drive but parents have decided that they simply can't afford to give him the financial help in getting a car like they did for me so are adding him as a driver on the car I use aswell. Come to conclusion between brother and I that the best option with stepdad wanting me to buy the car from him anyway would probably be me to buy and insure my own car and let my brother carry on with the current one. Looking at getting another felicia, had one before, love them. Cheap, reliable, what more could you want? Sadly with insurance, I need about a grand.
Re: General discussion chat Go to the Czech Rep, you can pick up a working one for around 50 quids on a scrap yard. Anyways, still waiting for my card, does anyone have any expirience with Overseas?
Re: General discussion chat will cost me more than the £300 saving to get it imported. Plus it will be wrong hand drive not right hand.
Re: General discussion chat The more I learn about the cash for clunkers program the more it pisses me off.
