You need to buy a torque wrench that can get up to, say, 125 foot-lbs of torque. The lug nuts are typically 85-ish but some of the bolts of the caliper assembly can be tightened at 120+; tightening that hard in the small working space without a lever arm is...interesting.

“...Also worth mentioning that some older cars may require bleeding of the brake system following the compression of the calibers”

“...in those days, you had to know how the hardware and the code worked to even use a computer, unlike now...

“...It also gives us bragging rights: “I used to walk to school 2 miles through a foot of snow, uphill, both ways.“

“...Star Trek...”

Collator, man, collator! Create those cards “marked” in the far right columns, stick them in the collator post-spill, and...voila!...autosort!

“Submits deck of cards...”

“Do you remember how to toggle in the bootloader?”

“...You can use the Raspberry Pi to do pretty much anything a low-powered computer can...”

I once plugged an S-100 board into a motherboard, powered it up, and was shocked by the two loud BANGs that came off it as a couple incorrectly soldered in capacitors blew up - shrapnel all over the place. Wrote a quick (snailmail) note to the company and got a (snailmail) reply from the CEO saying “Oopsie! Sorry!”…

I bought the jack stands (and ramps, for that matter) at the local Walmart a couple miles from my house (bought the jack from Amazon, however), however Amazon has the same ramps and (minimally) very similar jack stands:

I just started all this. First I changed transmission fluid (twice - essentially a flush); that required a couple ramps (or jack stands) and a couple wheel blocks and a big “oil pan” to drop the draining fluid into and a whole bunch of used milk/etc containers to store the fluid and a dinky funnel that fit the trans…

So, okay - I have a couple jack stands and a nice hydraulic jack. I want to jack up both front wheels, insert said jack stands, jack up rear wheels one at a time, and do a standard tire rotation. The procedure seems trivial but I have zero clue where to place the jack to jack up the front wheels when I ALSO have to…

Zero is so boring.

Stepper motor driver with 2n2222A transistors with no stops to a limited-freedom of motion motor - I wonder if the simulation would note some sort of current overload.

Lol! I once hooked up a rather expensive early-version research robot arm to “try it out” and rapidly proceeded to “smoke test” small driver transistors because there were no built-in limit switches to the joint movement - hit end of travel, overload, poof! Soldered in some replacements, tried again - poof! Soldered…

“If you love your job, you never work a day in your life...”