Everything posted by Mark Maras
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COVID-19
And that's how Bullies maintain power. No one speaks up and the charade continues until one person points out the King has no clothes. A few "fake news" reporters are beginning to stand up to the Pres. and remind him of his selective memory. Dangerous territory for them until they succeed in showing everyone what he really is or rather he ends up showing everyone his true self. The last thing a narcissist wants is for everyone to see the real person behind the mask. If and when that happens he will shut himself off from his previous contacts and surroundings and lick his wounds, still believing that people are just too stupid to understand how great he is.
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High Tone Horn Not Working
Use a voltmeter. Black wire to ground and the red wire to the relay connection that goes to the horns. Have a friend push the horn button. The reading should be the voltage going to the horns. Did you measure the voltage at each horn connection? That would tell you if there's a difference in voltage to each horn. If the voltage is the same the problem is in the horn.
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What's the most needed Z part that's currently NLA?
Fuse box cover and the ashtray are the same piece with a hole for the lighter. An ashtray lid and a spring completes the assembly.
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Lock retaining clip lost in door?
Sometime in the future it will show up as a rattle in the door.
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Snarky comments to people not wearing masks - wrong?
You've brought up one of the positives in this epidemic. We're seeing it bring out the best in some people and the worst in others. It makes it pretty easy to see what's going on inside others that's normally hidden. Our lack of sympathy, empathy and compassion, in varying degrees, is a gauge of how Narcissistic we all are. In these strange times we can easily spot the selfishness in others but can rarely see it in ourselves.
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Snarky comments to people not wearing masks - wrong?
I assumed a homemade face covering was a barrier between one's face and ones own hands. Before this outbreak I didn't realize how many times a day I touched my face.
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What is this part
interior light switch?
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COVID-19
Natural Selection at work. Hitler sent his followers out and told them to fight to the end too. No surrender. Risking and giving one's life for their Leader is still the ultimate glory for some. One person's glory is absolute stupidity to others. Looking back at the 1918 flu everyone started to relax as the summer months came around and the number of flu cases dropped dramatically. Little did they know when the virus came back in the fall it was going to be far worse than what they had experienced before. My fear is history is going to repeat itself.
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Frame Rail Patch Yes or No?
Or buy new rails and replace the old ones. I'm sure you'll find a rusty mess inside those rails. By the time you figure out how to treat all the rust in hidden places and insert new sheet metal in the holes, it's easier to replace the rails. The worst part is over-head welding but at least the rails are skip-welded. They weren't heavy ga. sheet metal and it doesn't take long for rust to thin them from the inside out.
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Frame Rail Patch Yes or No?
Love it. A 12 oz. b.f. frame checker. Well there's your problem there's a hole in the frame.
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Frame Rail Patch Yes or No?
I've used a pointed implement of destruction such as an ice pick and pushed, probed and stabbed frame rails. You'll find any thin spots and the inspection tool will leave little to no damage if the rail is sound. I'm betting you'll find more soft spots.
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COVID-19
It's been my suspicion all along that the reason everyone wearing a mask (of some sort) was played down by the Feds was they knew of the extremely limited stock and the panic that would ensue. Imagine, if the Feds had said, Everyone has to mask up. It would have been uglier than it already is. However, looking at old photos of US cities in 1918, I found one of a man boarding a streetcar in Seattle. Everyone was masked in bandanas and the like. No N95s back then. The caption stated that no one was allowed to ride without a mask.
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Won't go into gear
Pull the rubber release fork grommet from the bellhousing. With a coworker in the car operating the clutch pedal, take a look inside the bellhousing using a good light and possibly a mirror. Check the movement of the slave cylinder, release arm, release bearing and the pressure plate.
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Isolation Videos/Content to Keep Spirits High: Post Something (Non-Virus) for Entertainment of Others
I assumed the pilot coughed.
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COVID-19
Well, ABC news just reported 3.8 million dollars went to a lab in Wuhan to study bats! Not much detail yet but it's reported that money came from the National Institutes of Health.
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COVID-19
Social isolation will spare most. Sadly, the risk takers will have and cause the largest fatality rate. I can't help but be reminded of Darwin's theory of "Natural Selection". The slowest and the dumbest are the first to die in a herd of wildebeests.
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S30 Sheet Metal - Body and Chassis Panel Thicknesses
In the pic it looks like all the perimeter bends are usable. I'd consider cutting the bad (missing) parts out, leaving all the bends that are usable, and welding in inserts.
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Virus face shields, masks - ideas and designs
I read an interesting (perhaps over simplified) article about the Covid-19 virus, don't remember where now. The outside of the virus has a coating of lipids (fat) that acts as a protective coating much like our skin. Once that lipid layer has been compromised the virus will soon die. That's why grease cutting soap, hot water (min. 140`f- 150`f is what I've heard) and min. 70% alcohol are recommended. Following that logic any good heat source (boiling water, oven) or grease cutting solvent (lacquer thinner, acetone, etc.) should do the job. Lacking an oven, I'd boil water and the mask in the microwave to ensure even heating.
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Checking correct fuel level at Round Top 3 screw SU CARBS Float bowls
@siteunseen
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Checking correct fuel level at Round Top 3 screw SU CARBS Float bowls
I can't see if they're the same level. They're probably very close which explains your spirited driving.? Glad to see you found the source of the leak. Dripping fuel from the carbs of a Z can be disastrous.
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Checking correct fuel level at Round Top 3 screw SU CARBS Float bowls
When you pull the covers take a look at the fuel levels. Specifically if the one with the stain has more fuel than the other. I think you would have noticed an extreme too-rich condition if that one float was set that high or the needle and seat were was stuck open. As I recall it's been running well. My guess is a bad gasket and spirited driving.
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COVID-19
You're right. In this case, nuts is a Sociopath and an extreme Narcissist all rolled into one. In the 1830s this disorder was called "Moral Insanity".
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COVID-19
IMHO, Fear. They believe that owning a gun will relieve them of the fear that drove them to buy the gun. At what point does the gun start to own the owner. There are far better ways to address fear than buying a gun but that takes looking inside oneself to find where the fear is coming from and what can we do to stop it from controlling our actions. Fear is just an emotion that the crappy roommate in our heads (the one that never shuts up and you can't get rid of) uses to induce drama into our lives. "It" likes drama and no, "it" is not you.
- 1976 280Z Restoration Project
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COVID-19
Good to see the Republicans and Democrats working together for a change. I wonder how long until they start pissing on each other again. It's a shame that it takes a common enemy to unite them.