Bob Cross

There are lots of reasons but they include the fact that engineers are just better at what they do these days!

@User1974 I would use those to cut at an angle or flush to a blocking surface.

You might be able to read the total miles with a scanner. A quick Google implies that you'll need a "pro" model, though. A basic scanner likely just queries the gauge cluster

For real

RGR thanks for passing it on!

That's a good question @User1974. Are you asking to move it here? Or just letting us know?

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That's an interesting application. As long as the valve cap is plastic, it might be fine. If there's any metal on metal, though, I'd expect corrosion and possibly those metal bits rust welding to each other.

@AndyD273, glad to hear that things went well. Yes, this room is always open for topics that might be adjacent to our nominal Stackexchange mandate but maybe don't really fit in the standard one question, one answer pattern.

@AndyD273 you're welcome to bring it up here in the chat room. I suspect there are people who have an idea. We're much more loosey goosey in this room! 😉

Full disclosure: I envy the armor. There have definitely been times when I'd have felt better just having that layer of armor walking around an area that felt sketchy.

Right, I'm used to placing a lot of trust in drivers when I'm cycling on the road. I'm also aware that, the faster I go, the quicker I'd have to react to make up for someone's poor choices.

I'm glad that @RoryAlsop is here to answer the questions!

FWIW this is why I don't ride bikes that have a propulsion source that's more powerful than my feet :-)

@vitamind Hi!

Wow - I've been here almost thirteen years. A lot has happened since then!

@Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2 congrats!

Retirement seems like it's so far away. First, age. Second, OMG money!

She knows about electrons and stuff so I'm intimidated

@misk94555 as a computer guy who learned most of my mechanics knowledge by osmosis, I'm fascinated by the question and haven't the slightest what the answer is! 🙂

In the chat room, almost all kinds of chatting are welcome!

@Chenmunka please don't be shy if you think anyone is being a jerk. We all deserve a place where we can talk about something that we're crazy about without dealing with a bunch of nonsense and static!

Oozing walls does feel a little cursed. "Help, I'm in a horror garage!" 😉

@GdD good to hear! My oil stains are down in the concrete. I should probably try some of my hard core grease removers but my expectations are limited!

Hey, whatever solves the problem! 🙂

That is an interesting source - we all need manuals!

Feel free to put whatever links you like in your member profile, though

@JackBosma I think it depends on what you mean. Are you talking about a social network? If so, we already have one here, thanks.

Knockhill is another safety rating eater in Iracing. I'm looking for races on Nurburgring these days so I can do laps with many many turns in order to repair my rating. I don't want to lose my class A (even though I almost never race at that level)

Sorry Oulton Park

I end up doing some penance races just to keep my license! 😉

It’s a hoot of a car but Oran Park is a safety rating eater. So small, so smashy!

Wow - the new FF1600 on IRacing is such distilled fun in a tiny package! :-)

On my current car, the lug bolts are generally disdainful of my impact wrench. However, after a good rattling, they give up to the breaker bar right away

Impact wrenches are the best. I have done dumb things with them (don't use them to put nuts on!) but they're usually 100% awesome. I often use mine on lug nuts as a threat. "If you don't come off this time, I'm putting the impact wrench back on! Wouldn't you like to just wrench off?"

They truly don't stink!

@Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2 it was a telework day for me: arrive at basement office at 0600, done by 1500! Commute time is one flight of stairs :-)

@RoryAlsop right and the whole point of the Cool Wall was to lean into the reality that their arbitrary cool rules were silly goofs! 🙂

I would be concerned about design of the gauge, though. As in, is there a sender for the signal and an electrical connection to the gauge? Any possibility of a failure of the pressure fitting? that sort of thing

@GdD sorry, no. I've never had to install a pressure gauge.

@DennisJaheruddin that would be an interesting psychological study or even a machine learning project. It would obviously be entirely subjective but it wouldn’t be impossible to have a Tinder-type system that assessed a car based on whether you might like this one! 😉

Youngest and I are hard-core rooting for Williams! We're really enjoying how anything halfway decent that happens to that team is scoring major press time these days :-)

@Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2 I've been watching qualifying and races with family via the F1 app which allows us to dodge most drama and focus on races (plus tech which the wife is super taken with!)