tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post4322235191007629795..comments2024-03-26T10:02:32.848-04:00Comments on The Adventures of Roberta X: Composed Of Suck, Fail And TriumphRoberta Xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09956807794520627885noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-6697287815222526842014-01-31T13:55:42.445-05:002014-01-31T13:55:42.445-05:00Due to advancing age and wisdom partly keeping up,...Due to advancing age and wisdom partly keeping up, I hope, each of my vehicles in the fleet has its own 1/2 inch drive breaker bar with suitable sockets and extensions. Its a multipurpose tool whose uses are limited only by your deviousness.Ritchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-33266075824683582532014-01-30T23:31:47.117-05:002014-01-30T23:31:47.117-05:00If you're only using it once in a blue moon, y...If you're only using it once in a blue moon, you don't need an oiler on the line. A squirt in the inlet is good enough. It's not like you're going to run a full service garage.Rob Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15604826633798229422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-67867357042788756792014-01-30T21:49:04.222-05:002014-01-30T21:49:04.222-05:00Rob K: Not a bad idea, and one we have discussed. ...Rob K: Not a bad idea, and one we have discussed. There are some issues with needing an oiler and that would have be a separate branch off the clean air system.<br /><br /> Jay Dee: No offense taken, just me getting a little aspie.Roberta Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09956807794520627885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-16218705172630155262014-01-30T11:19:43.334-05:002014-01-30T11:19:43.334-05:00If there's free air at work and it's deliv...If there's free air at work and it's delivered at a high enough pressure & volume, they should obtain an inexpensive air impact wrench and a set of metric & SAE impact sockets-- should be under $100. That would have made your life so much nicer, and I'm sure it could be justified for actual work uses.Rob Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15604826633798229422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-30454706464040280232014-01-30T00:04:38.230-05:002014-01-30T00:04:38.230-05:00My car also has one of those toy spare tires. Once...My car also has one of those toy spare tires. Once one of my real tires disintegrated in the middle of the freeway (we were only going 15 in rush hour traffic so it wasn't quite as traumatic as it could have been). Nothing left but a fringe around the wheel like the beard on a clam. Took out the spare, and it was narrower than the real deal, and had 50 Miles 50 MPH stickers all over it. Since then I've gotten a fifth wheel and tire for times when 50 miles won't even get me to a seller of gasoline, let alone tires, and 50 miles would only prolong the agony. <br />But your tale of trouble has me beat. I didn't think that could happen. My life has a ways to go before it can even get to the red part of the weirdness meter.Windy Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01951254236693386401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-67643790046824324782014-01-29T18:48:56.561-05:002014-01-29T18:48:56.561-05:00Keads beat me to it, I also have a new car with so...Keads beat me to it, I also have a new car with some magic juice and a little air compressor instead of a spare. Thankfully, it's been a while since I needed a spare tire, drove my Jetta for about 10 years and 140,000 miles and never pulled it from the trunk.<br /><br />Of course, now that I said something...<br />jdunmyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09304517693383396419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-89805543201985689522014-01-29T14:38:19.626-05:002014-01-29T14:38:19.626-05:00Oooh! I love it when you talk technical.
Sorry to...Oooh! I love it when you talk technical.<br /><br />Sorry to hear that the Hyundai picked the coldest day to manifest its' poor pneumatics' condition.<br /><br />I've had a tire do the rotten stem trick in the middle of nowhere and then ran over a discarded muffler clamp five minutes later, taking out the spare.<br /><br />So see, it's not just you the universe is picking on. For instance, I just posted this on the wrong entry.rickn8orhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16911803300343351338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-82038145419527747622014-01-29T13:12:29.032-05:002014-01-29T13:12:29.032-05:00Roberta,
Please pardon my low humor. Working in ...Roberta,<br /><br />Please pardon my low humor. Working in defense for a couple decades, I have great fun slaughtering the acronyms endemic to the industry. Sometime I'll have to tell you about COWPIE.<br /><br />JayJay Deenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-30812334389575187722014-01-29T06:56:48.989-05:002014-01-29T06:56:48.989-05:00Jay Dee, an LNA = Low Noise Amplifier; LNB = Low N...Jay Dee, an LNA = Low Noise Amplifier; LNB = Low Noise Block upconverter-amplifier. Those are at the receive end. At the transmit end, SSPA = Solid State Power Amplifier; SSPB, well, you get the picture. The one in question has already been returned to the factory for service twice.Roberta Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09956807794520627885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-53170425905955755242014-01-29T06:12:47.697-05:002014-01-29T06:12:47.697-05:00SSPB? The Scissors Sisters Party Bus?SSPB? The Scissors Sisters Party Bus?Jay Deenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-77691744463070072302014-01-28T23:08:54.750-05:002014-01-28T23:08:54.750-05:00It's for precisely this scenario that I keep a...It's for precisely this scenario that I keep a cheap foam kneeling mat from the garden center in my breakdown box*. And a pack of inexpensive dust masks lives in the winter kit. Bad enough to deal with cold hands (doubly so after some serious burns in my past) but freezing my lung by gulping super cooled air as I exert myself is to be avoided.<br /><br />*The breakdown box is actually a basket with folding handles such as you find at the grocery or drug store. Perfect for toting jumper cables, selection of basic fluids, work gloves, and a plastic coffee can of select hand tools from trunk to whichever bit of auto has earned attention. <br /><br /><br />BGMBGMillerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02848795924399360183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-10591602397242627042014-01-28T22:41:32.665-05:002014-01-28T22:41:32.665-05:00I must protest, Madame! The NSA doesn't abduc...I must protest, Madame! The NSA doesn't abduct people. They don't have to because they know everything that you say ...Borepatchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05029434172945099693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-81528899069011159552014-01-28T21:59:37.435-05:002014-01-28T21:59:37.435-05:00That sucks! If it is ANY comfort to you, my new ca...That sucks! If it is ANY comfort to you, my new car has NO spare at all. Just some happy magic plastic box that will make it all better. Well, unless its a sidewall puncture and you can kiss that 70 buck pressure sensor and maybe the 19" alloy wheel goodbye after deployment of said magic box anyway.<br /><br />Stay warm!Keadshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09982258812373127063noreply@blogger.com