I don’t know what the correct way to cleaner a slicer is but I do know that OSHA would not have approved of the way 16 year old me was taught to clean one years ago.

Entire exhaust from the cat back just a couple of weeks ago. It had gotten progressively louder over the week prior but I just figured it was a small rust hole in the cat that had gotten bigger. In fact it was the weld joining the pipe to the flange just behind the cat. Rolled over a speed bump in a parking lot and it…

Driving home from school with Dad in the early-80's in the old Bonneville. Nothing really going on then suddenly a dark streak flashed by the driver’s side window, kinda up and backwards. Before anyone could get out a “what the heck was that” CHUNKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK the front left suspension hits the asphalt…

one that you missed: Person behind you flashes their beams while you have your turn signal on —> It’s OK to merge in front of me.

A quick flash of the brights means there’s something ahed for them to pay attention to (usually a cop) if you’re moving or “go ahead and pull in front of me” if you’re stopped/slowed and they’re waiting to turn.

I lost the entire driver’s side windshield wiper assembly off my 1980 Celica Supra, at highway speed, in a driving rain storm, at night, while passing a semi on a single highway. So, there I was, courageously (yet cautiously) passing this truck, windshield wipers going full pelt, when I first hear, then see, my entire …

My buddy and I were taking our combined 3 kids to the local air show, blasing down the freeway at 120km/h, when the splash shield on the bottom of the engine fell right off our 2010 Tiguan. A rather surprising “ba-dum-bum” as the back wheels drove over it, and it was gone forever behind me in heavy traffic.

Notable partings:

September, freshman year, heading from school on Lawn Guyland up to Binghamton for a friend’s party in my oh-so-lightly-used-and-lovingly-cared-for (snicker) ‘75 Monte.

I had a 1998 S-10 2 door, 2wd with the 4cyl that use for commuting. One day the three bolts holding the exhaust headers to the downpipe broke or shook loose. I was basically running straight pipe into the engine bay for the rest of the week until I could get it fixed. Made a ton noise but no extra power.

Wasn’t me but my father had a front brake caliper come off on the highway. Honestly I don’t remember anymore if it was still dangling or just gone completely but it made a hell of an unpleasant sound when it went AWOL. And I do still remember my dad being uncharacteristically concerned by the noise and the immediate…

I had a Fiero, this could get long. It was basically like Hansel and Gretel and you could trace my movement by a path of random parts that fell off it it.

Destroying this plane really showed off Putin’s tiny dick energy.

to give some perspective on how big this thing actually was, here it is crossing a 6-lane autobahn:

Lurking on the Gran Turismo Reddit, I came across a post venting about which cars can/cannot be turbo/ supercharged, which led to this gem:

Adam, thanks for investigating this...very illuminating! While a lot of this is, as you said, an “open secret”, it’s nice to have confirmation for someone who is actually in the thick of it.

Once you’ve experienced real soft-body damage everything else just feels like a cheap gimmick.

Corvette / Mustang, anything with a ton of horsepower. Seen more than one teenager end up dead that way. Very glad my dad gave me his hand me down Oldsmobile Delta 88 as my first car.

Definitely not a labor shortage...it’s a wage problem. For a very long time artists have been paid peanuts and affordability has exploded everywhere. The sad thing is it comes at a time where this AI “artistry” is coming up so what does a company do instead of raising wages...
We’re truly in a crossing point in our…

ND - un-register-able, homely and a replacement parts nightmare. Insuring it might be an adventure too,