Other What currently makes your life awesome?

Nothing thankfully, it was just a case transplant

 

I was accepted as family with my in-laws for New Year's. It was really nice to go out with my long braided hair and be accepted for just being me. We even got a gift addressed to both of us. Makes me happy inside. I don't get enough of that.

 

chassis transplant successful, (nothing more wracking then flipping the switch for the first time) now just waiting on proper sata cables to arrive so i can put the ssd's in the right place as they're hanging loose.

 

Yup affirmative. This weekend I will be working on a group B legend. One Golf Rallye in met green.

My cousin brought it over from Germany in 1998. He paid about 9k for it then. It's worth five times that now.

He's just had it restored and I'm doing all the audio gear. He sent a pic and the memories came flooding back. Back in 98 I met who would become my first wife on Yahoo, and we took the car to Brighton. The first pic I ever sent my wife was me sitting on the car lol.

Then the day I first met her we took that car to the airport. The window wouldn't work so we had to park next to a wall and my cousin had to climb out of the window lmao.

Oh man, memories. Memories of going past stone henge on the way to Cornwall doing 150.

This is going to be emotional.

 

Been playing with my new 3D printer some more



USB for scale as I'm out of bananas.

 

I’d give that a good 5 out of 7

cracking.

 

Model is from here:- https://www.artstation.com/artwork/XBLgX3
I'll attach the rifle after painting.

 

That's damn good.

You gonna print yourself some keycaps on that thing?

 

Not immediately. I got it for DnD miniatures. Patreon'd a couple of amazing figure designers too.

• Epics 'n' Stuff
• Onmioji

 

This year is already picking up speed!

Just had a call & a bunch of emails from BP Chargemaster about installing the free* wall charger before my new electric car (See purchases thread) arrives.

*- Free means that I fill forms for BP to claim the £500 government grant for installing the charger, and Renault pay the rest.

 

Nice - welcome along. I had to buy ours and install it myself! Our Gen1 LEAF is starting to get a bit long in the tooth now (have had it from new, Dec 2011). Half thinking about a new LEAF, will be interested to hear your thoughts on the ZoE.

 

You may want to keep an eye on Fully Charged Show. In an upcoming story trailed on today's podcast, Bobby Llewellyn announced he will be taking his 2011 Leaf "somewhere" to have a 40kW battery fitted.

BTW - I'll have lots of electricians around next month. Smart meter install booked for Feb 7th, and the charger is pencilled in for 21st.

 

New Dracula on Netflix

 

I inherited my uncles semi-dead (Part of the 12v circuit had pooped its pants, and I jury-rigged it with a few parts I had lying around, meant manually turning the cooler on though) Prometeia back in the day. I think it was a Mach I, though.

Running a stock clocked Athlon XP 2400, IIRC, at -35 was loud, loud, fun.

Those things are wicked fun. Sad it eventually fully pooped its pants.

 

New car battery installed and the damn thing fired up first time without so much as a radio glitch.

Did a few turn overs to make sure it wasn't a fluke, going to check again (and take the multimeters to get a reading) in an hour or 2. Part of me still expecting life to kick me in the balls and wake up to another drained/dead battery in the morning. But if we do get to that point and it's still fine and dandy, I'll be happy.

 

Have you tested the alternator?

 

Not yet, but when the previous battery was very obviously at the end of its life (and took a solid dozen attempts to get the engine turned over some mornings), it never once hiccuped once it was running - no dim headlights, no battery warning light, no loss of power steering or radio/satnav cutting out.

Like I say, I'm not gonna let myself think I'm completely out of the woods yet, we'll see where we're at in the morning, but all signs did point to the battery being the issue... Like the horrid stink I used to get come out of the blowers when it did eventually start - apparently its a nice sulphur mix of gases being released from the battery. I just thought something crawled into the vents and died in there.