What is a good place to begin building a kit/set up for performing your own service?
For example:
oil changes
waxing
detailing
What are the best tools/equipment to start with?
So... I attempted to find the "Make this a Community Wiki" Check-Box/Radio-Button I swear I've seen before... But I couldn't find it when editing the existing post, so I decided to make a new post... And I can't find it there either... What am I missing to make something a Community Wiki?
Why don't you leave it as is for now. If there are enough edits to a question for a lot of different people, the community wiki tag will be applied automatically.
If you post a good question, I certainly don't have a problem with you scoring some rep for it
When trying to diagnose problems with conventional analogue electrical circuits, such as lights, speakers, heated rear windows, etc, as well as short-circuits and unexplained current draws, it can be difficult to track down the exact source of the problem. What is the best way of doing so?
People I've seen who have garages have it made. They have a clean, dry workspace with all of their tools within arms reach. In the most organized garages, a mixture of rolling Snap-on Roll Cab with Drawers and pegboards helps create an organizational paradigm that lets the do-it-yourselfer focus ...
I would like to know the step by step troubleshooting procedure for discovering the source of oil appearing in coolant. There are several different points of failure that can be the root cause for oil in coolant.
What are the various points in an engine that could be the source of oil appearin...
Based on a comment, I'm clearly being misunderstood. The format of the site allows for each answer to have it's own separate thread, so each answer could be a procedure, and any information to add to said procedure can be a comment in that thread. Is there a better way to do this without posting it as a question?
Users would then be able to link to said procedure, which would reduce the repetitiveness of answers on break fix questions.
This is something I've seen before where there are two different cars, with different issues, yet the answer itself is the same. IMHO, if the question is different, then the question needs to be separate, even if an existing answer covers the problem.
I mean I guess you could print out some physical representation of the blockchain, take a picture of it, embed the image file in an HTML document and then something something bitcoin
Im not trying to be dense here, but if it's about fixing issues, why wouldn't we want a list of procedures which are performed generally based on situations?
I feel like that kinda would make sense though? Questions for diagnosing and understanding concepts, then directions to wiki pages for actually fixing things
@Paulster2 The format of the site allows for each answer to have it's own separate thread, so each answer could be a procedure, and any information to add to said procedure can be a comment in that thread. Is there a better way to do this without posting it as a question?
rather than "list the procedures", something like "What procedures could I use to diagnose a problem with a car's 12v electrics"
@NitrusInc Answers aren't supposed to be a separate thread - comments are supposed to just be for clarification or suggesting fixes for answers
we have a flag "Comments are not for extended discussion, this has been moved to chat" (though we don't tend to need to use that as much as some of the other Stack Exchange sites do)
The thing that gets me is the site is coded to allow for more answers, meaning the answers can be separate threads. Again policy is a different story, and I understand.
If I'm not allowed to do something ,I get it, and I'll drop it.
Just figured we'd exploit what the site allows to make things more streamlined. I mean I'd obviously want to have a nice collection of procedures, for my own sake, but just saying.
In my opinion, the priorities when selecting trekking food are:
maximizing calories per kilogram
not easily spoilable, especially in hot weather
reasonably priced
variety throughout the trip
I'm posting to help build a wider variety of ideas. I would like to see as long a list as possible of...
Which, btw, is one of the main reasons that we've always pushed political talk away from this SE. It's obviously off-topic and there's almost no way to communicate effectively. Ergo, hurt feelings, nonsense and BS. No thanks.
When trying to diagnose problems with conventional analogue electrical circuits, such as lights, speakers, heated rear windows, etc, as well as short-circuits and unexplained current draws, it can be difficult to track down the exact source of the problem. What is the best way of doing so?
Post your general/specific Testing/Diagnostics Procedural Lists for Automotive Electrical Systems.
These procedures are intended to target vehicles with modern 12V systems.
The format of the site allows for each answer to have it's own separate thread, so each answer could be a procedure, and...
Other examples would be O2 sensor, sensors in general, with the expected values.
So for one person to have info about everything is unlikely, but if each person contributes the electrical diag procedure and info they know/have, it becomes a central source
That was the other thing I was hoping for... Comments could be made like "I've seen it as 8-10v for Nissan's"
in which case, I think each group of procedures needs it's own question - so one for "what procedures could I use to test for a failing battery", another for "what procedures can I use to test for a stray current" etc
Nick has a point in that each individual issue is actually more searchable. that means that the person who actually has a specific problem is more likely to find something helpful.
I'm starting to feel like if it was beneficial, it would make more sense to most, more easily, and be more widely accepted. So that's another negative against it.
I'm thinking you could make a separate site that's basically a generic service manual and then link to that along with your answer- like say "Check the R/R with a multimeter (see {link})
@NickC exactly. Your post should stand on its own and make it clear that you are using a specific source for reference. If someone wants to drill down from there, that's their thing. I'll usually have an important pull quote wrapped in some flavor text with the URL
@NitrusInc I think your goal is admirable, it just doesn't quite fit into the SE format as-is - I'm trying to explain how I think it can fit, but I'm not very good at explaining
@NitrusInc - This is a community ... we are here to listen and to make better. I don't think your goal is a bad one, by far. I just agree with others we'd need to rake it across the coals a few times to come up with a way to do it so it'd work.
I thought of a shirt I definitely need to have made- "Trust me, "I'm thinking" is all you need to know" with a loading spinner-- because I was sitting on the couch spinning a nerf gun to help me think and Liz commented it looked like a loading spinner and that a progress bar would be more helpful
I understand that most car starter motors' power is rated between 0.5kw to 1.5kw.
Doesn't that mean that they are supposed to draw 40-120 amps?
(500 w / 12 volts etc.. )?
Yet when they start, they draw hundreads of amps for the split second they run.
Why does that happen? Are the motors "overcloc...
Two someones have put closed votes on this question. To me it seems to be perfectly valid. The question is over six months old. The person who put a close vote on it stated it should belong on Electronics ... they are fairly new to SE and don't even have an account on Electronics, so they don't realize it would have been migrated over here anyway. If anyone feels this should be left alone, please vote to "Leave Open"
@Ceshion For some reason, I read that as 'sniffing a nerf gun' rather than 'spinning a nerf gun.' I was trying to formulate a response that wasn't judgemental. :)
LOL.
shouldn't ::OnFire be a function call?
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I'd love to see Liz's idea for a prototype nerf progress bar.
@Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2 I don't have enough rep to vote 'leave open' apparently.
@Ceshion sure. But, if you set it to true, you probably want to do perform some action, like setting a spark. So, you need a getter / setter (ick, I hate those) instead of a public field.
I got a small four-drawer toolbox for the shed, sized perfectly to fit under a shelf on my workbench. Unfortunately, the drawers won't open unless the top is open. Looking for my angle grinder.
And I just discovered that (duh) if I leave the drawers slightly open before closing the top, the locking mechanism won't engage. Probably easier than tearing the thing apart.