I learned on an old tractor, in the rain, on a mossy hill. Got good at hill starts pretty quick! The park brake doesnt work in the truck at the moment due to a manufacturing defect on the cut of the drums. The cross bar doesnt physically move far enough to apply enough pressure to hold the truck. Couple that with a 6 puck ceramic stage 3 clutch and hill starts are less than greaceful and usually involve some wheel slip and axle hop. People no longer sit on your tail on hills at stoplights once youve done that once!
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I learned on an old tractor, in the rain, on a mossy hill. Got good at hill starts pretty quick! The park brake doesnt work in the truck at the moment due to a manufacturing defect on the cut of the drums. The cross bar doesnt physically move far enough to apply enough pressure to hold the truck. Couple that with a 6 puck ceramic stage 3 clutch and hill starts are less than greaceful and usually involve some wheel slip and axle hop. People no longer sit on your tail on hills at stoplights once youve done that once!
Woke up to no water. Fun fun. Had it happen about a month back, and it ended up being the pressure switch. I thought it was frozen that time and it was a bit colder than it was last night, so I was reasonably sure I wasn't froze up. Went to the pump house and as soon as I stepped in, I could smell the motor was Burnt/hot. Unplugged it and she was really hot. Not sure how long it was siezed up, but enough that it was to hot to touch for less than a second.
So I hit up this guy on Facebook that had a Gould pump I was looking at when I thought I might have had more than just a pressure switch issue. He responded back quick and still had the pump. So I went to work put in 6.5 hours then went picked up the pump for a decent price and installed it. had to swap pressure switched over as the other one was a 20/40 switch, and I wanted more pressure to installed the new 40/60 switch I bought for the pump that just siezed up.
I may take it in and get it rebuilt. Always nice to have a spare pump, and its a Myers pump so worth the money for a rebuild.
So that was my Tuesday. lol But I got water flowing again and the ducks and chickens will be glad to get some fresh water in the morning.
So I hit up this guy on Facebook that had a Gould pump I was looking at when I thought I might have had more than just a pressure switch issue. He responded back quick and still had the pump. So I went to work put in 6.5 hours then went picked up the pump for a decent price and installed it. had to swap pressure switched over as the other one was a 20/40 switch, and I wanted more pressure to installed the new 40/60 switch I bought for the pump that just siezed up.
I may take it in and get it rebuilt. Always nice to have a spare pump, and its a Myers pump so worth the money for a rebuild.
So that was my Tuesday. lol But I got water flowing again and the ducks and chickens will be glad to get some fresh water in the morning.
That's a pain Tim but you got it done yourself!
Went to work myself. We had recent service on the work vehicle done, getting the fuel pump and filter replaced after I was left stranded after 5pm in a rural area. And today after heading into the hills the SES light came on and motor started to misfire. Thankfully it still drives better than the slow failing fuel pump that only allowed me to accelerate half throttle at the time, but I'm sure it needs attention in the ignition department now. I cannot express how good of a feeling it was when I can accelerate on an on ramp to highway speeds comfortably
As for the rest of the evening, this Knightkeeper will be getting an overdue refreshment.
- 1.55 wheels and tires
- IFS2
- Shock tuning
- Light kit
- Replacement passenger mirror
- Misc scale details/clean up
Went to work myself. We had recent service on the work vehicle done, getting the fuel pump and filter replaced after I was left stranded after 5pm in a rural area. And today after heading into the hills the SES light came on and motor started to misfire. Thankfully it still drives better than the slow failing fuel pump that only allowed me to accelerate half throttle at the time, but I'm sure it needs attention in the ignition department now. I cannot express how good of a feeling it was when I can accelerate on an on ramp to highway speeds comfortably
As for the rest of the evening, this Knightkeeper will be getting an overdue refreshment.
- 1.55 wheels and tires
- IFS2
- Shock tuning
- Light kit
- Replacement passenger mirror
- Misc scale details/clean up
Finally broke down and picked up a new hard-drive. Been having nothing but issues with our old one. What a difference! Old computer was a Dell inspiron 3847(?) running Windows 7 and apparently that's just a tad out of date.
New one is an HP something and running Windows 11. It's not even fair to say that this new one is better... amazing really... audio, speed, ad-blocking, features, etc, etc. The tower is about half the size and probably 2/3 lighter than our old one and it runs so much cooler. Still figuring some things out but suffice it to say that this new one is night/ day difference.
Haven't tried yet but once I get a little more familiar with this one, I'm going to try to get my files situated so that I can again post pictures. It got to the point that I was pretty much dead in the water being able to upload images which put a damper on my RC10GT Resurrection thread. Hopefully the old software was the issue with that. Will be so cool to be able to post pics again ( assuming the outdated and unsupported Windows 7 was the cause).
Also... damn it's cold outside! Got down to 19 last night and we haven't gotten out of the mid-twenties so far today. With that, I decided it's a good time to make chili. Nothing like a piping hot bowl of Frito-pie for dinner when it's this cold out.
New one is an HP something and running Windows 11. It's not even fair to say that this new one is better... amazing really... audio, speed, ad-blocking, features, etc, etc. The tower is about half the size and probably 2/3 lighter than our old one and it runs so much cooler. Still figuring some things out but suffice it to say that this new one is night/ day difference.
Haven't tried yet but once I get a little more familiar with this one, I'm going to try to get my files situated so that I can again post pictures. It got to the point that I was pretty much dead in the water being able to upload images which put a damper on my RC10GT Resurrection thread. Hopefully the old software was the issue with that. Will be so cool to be able to post pics again ( assuming the outdated and unsupported Windows 7 was the cause).
Also... damn it's cold outside! Got down to 19 last night and we haven't gotten out of the mid-twenties so far today. With that, I decided it's a good time to make chili. Nothing like a piping hot bowl of Frito-pie for dinner when it's this cold out.
For reference, windows 7 was followed by windows 8, then windows 10. Windows 10 is going end of life in October of this year. That computer was ancient as computers go. Lol
I thought someone might pick up on this lmao. Absolutely ancient to be sure and I knew it was. I think the "tech guy" said that windows 7 had become almost obsolete around 2010(?). We don't do much with our home computer so it wasn't a big deal for quite a few years but over the last 5-6 yrs it became impossible to do literally anything due to the lack of support and not being able to install updates.
My laptop can't accept Windows 11 unfortunately. Might get one that can support games.
Unfortunately a laptop would've been cheaper but for whatever reason my wife and I both like having a PC with separate mouse, keyboard, printer, external drive, etc. Tons more laptops at the store... very few tower choices.
So far, I like this new one... excel, word, pp, etc. Being able to edit and manage pics again is great. Snipping tool is really cool too. System seems to be working kink-free so far... streamlined navigation and all that. Shoulda done this years ago.
So far, I like this new one... excel, word, pp, etc. Being able to edit and manage pics again is great. Snipping tool is really cool too. System seems to be working kink-free so far... streamlined navigation and all that. Shoulda done this years ago.
My buddy actually wants me to do a PC, but I really need the mobility. Or maybe I could do a cheap laptop, mainly for doing stuff for my parents and then have my buddy help build me a PC too. Hmm 
Computer tech has really changed since I last looked at building a machine. My last machine was a Phenom X4, 4GB RAM, 1TB Hitachi Deskstar and a GTX560Ti in a massive old Alienware case. That was ~2010. Just put together a desktop in December. Addressable RGB fans, water cooled, Ryzen 7 7700X, 32GBRAM, 1TB M.2 and a RTX4070.
I went from PCIe 2.0 to PCIe5.0, 2.0GHz quad core to 5.5GHz octicore, almost 15 years of GPU progression, being able to individually address LEDs in hardware, little bitty solid state memory on the motherboard and the weirdest to me is no disc drives. the Deskstar line isn't even a thing anymore!
The new stuff is pretty nutty!
I went from PCIe 2.0 to PCIe5.0, 2.0GHz quad core to 5.5GHz octicore, almost 15 years of GPU progression, being able to individually address LEDs in hardware, little bitty solid state memory on the motherboard and the weirdest to me is no disc drives. the Deskstar line isn't even a thing anymore!
The new stuff is pretty nutty!
VoltSCX
Pebble Pounder
I'm a PC guy (ish) but one day I decided to grab me a brand new high-tech gaming laptop with the latest and greatest doodads and gizmos. Behold.
(I can't even get it to run Doom lmao)
(I can't even get it to run Doom lmao)
I can't help but point out that interesting lamp shape
Oh, doom will run on anything. I have doom running on a Zune HD.I'm a PC guy (ish) but one day I decided to grab me a brand new high-tech gaming laptop with the latest and greatest doodads and gizmos. Behold.
(I can't even get it to run Doom lmao)
Also someone got Linux to run within a PDF. Doom can also run within a PDF.
VoltSCX
Pebble Pounder
Lmao yeah. I'm sure it's just an issue with the install or somethin, but I did have a friend help me install it that's a bit more knowledgeable than me on this kinda stuff, and it did legitimately refuse to boot up (it was on a disc too if I remember correctly). I'm gonna mess around with it a bit, hopefully that'll fix things. I've gotta archive what's on it right now and then I'm going to try a fresh win95 install to see if that helps. We'll see.
That's not even safe at that point. You really open yourself up to viruses and having your information stolen. On older hardware, you can sometimes move to Linux, if you can stand it, and still maintain security. Linux is command-based. I've ever really only tinkered with it. Some of the distros for common folks are more user-friendly such as elementaryOS, Mint, Ubuntu, etc.
Laptops can be cheaper, but they can also be way more expensive. What I do is find what I want and watch for sales on this website called https://slickdeals.net/
I'll reiterate my response above. Laptops can be cheaper, but they can also be way more expensive. What I do is find what I want and watch for sales on this website called https://slickdeals.net/My buddy actually wants me to do a PC, but I really need the mobility. Or maybe I could do a cheap laptop, mainly for doing stuff for my parents and then have my buddy help build me a PC too. Hmm
What is that thing called? I think I kinda/sorta remember it.I'm a PC guy (ish) but one day I decided to grab me a brand new high-tech gaming laptop with the latest and greatest doodads and gizmos. Behold.
(I can't even get it to run Doom lmao)
A Zune?! Awesome! Wish they still made those. DAP are so damn expensive.
@JatoTheRipper - Yeah... not safe to be running such an out of date system. We avoided doing very much with that computer and stayed away from performing anything but the most basic tasks with little to no personal/ sensitive info and constantly updating passwords and such. And we did have up to date anti-virus software running although there's only so much that can be done to protect such an old system.
We thought about looking for deals online but we needed to do this immediately so brick and mortar was the ticket.
We thought about looking for deals online but we needed to do this immediately so brick and mortar was the ticket.
im still using windows 95 lol my poor old mini asus dang thing is so old lol
it dosent go online anymore been maybe 15 years since it last connected to the net
it dosent go online anymore been maybe 15 years since it last connected to the net
I don't even run AV at home. I just keep my computer updated and be smart about clicking on links.
What does one do with a PC not connected to the internet?
