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jmonroe1

@henryn said:
Hmmmm........

https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/textbook/experiments/chpt-2/voltage-usage/#:~:text=If your multimeter is digital,a battery to measure voltage.
If your multimeter is digital, it will require a small battery to operate.

If it is analog, it does not need a battery to measure voltage.

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More proof that you can’t believe everything you read on the internet. The antiquated analog VOM’s that I once had required a battery for correct operation of all ranges. Just like the digital VOM’s I have today.

FWIW, i no longer live in the analog world of VOM’s.

jmonroe

driver100

kyfdx said:

driver100 said:

I just got this video of a guy who shows an invoice from the dealer....they recommend that he change his cabin air filter...........total cost including labor would be $140.
Then he shows you how he ordered one for $15, and how he installed it himself in about 45 seconds and saved $125. It went in behind the glove box - do they still call it that?

Plus the 45 minutes he spent on YouTube, figuring out access to behind the glovebox?

And, the pure luck of having a car that didn't entail 30 minutes for removal and replacement of said glovebox?

And, the carcinogenic material that his knockoff cabin filter is made from? (okay, I made that one up).

OTOH......1) now that he knows how to do it, it will only take 30 seconds next time.
2) The dealer said it would be....$140 for that same car.
3) Got me!

henryn

jmonroe1 said:

@henryn said:

Hmmmm........

https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/textbook/experiments/chpt-2/voltage-usage/#:~:text=If your multimeter is digital,a battery to measure voltage.

If your multimeter is digital, it will require a small battery to operate.

If it is analog, it does not need a battery to measure voltage.

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More proof that you can’t believe everything you read on the internet. The antiquated analog VOM’s that I once had required a battery for correct operation of all ranges. Just like the digital VOM’s I have today.

FWIW, i no longer live in the analog world of VOM’s.

jmonroe

I no longer own an analog VOM myself. But I do recall, in years gone by, when I did own an analog VOM, the batteries were dead and it would not measure resistance, but it would still measure volts. At least DC volts, I was working on a car at the time.

Who knows, it might have had more than one battery, I never opened it up to check. I just replaced with a digital model (which are really cheap these days).

venture

driver100 said:

I just got this video of a guy who shows an invoice from the dealer....they recommend that he change his cabin air filter...........total cost including labor would be $140.
Then he shows you how he ordered one for $15, and how he installed it himself in about 45 seconds and saved $125. It went in behind the glove box - do they still call it that?

If you look in my glove box you will find the owner's manual, registration and insurance cards, and gloves.

driver100

venture said:

driver100 said:

I just got this video of a guy who shows an invoice from the dealer....they recommend that he change his cabin air filter...........total cost including labor would be $140.
Then he shows you how he ordered one for $15, and how he installed it himself in about 45 seconds and saved $125. It went in behind the glove box - do they still call it that?

If you look in my glove box you will find the owner's manual, registration and insurance cards, and gloves.

I checked and I found the owners manual, some insurance and ownership papers, a few granola bars, a baggy with some quarters, some old receipts, a coupon for the car wash that expired 4 years ago......but no gloves, everything else but!

Michaell

Why do you need gloves in Florida? Unless ... you're using them to avoid leaving fingerprints behind. Which makes me wonder what you're really doing down there.

imidazol97

FWIW
My glovebox lifts out after pushing in on two spring-loaded prongs to let it rotate further than normal toward passenger. Remove two screws on ends of small door. Lift spring clip on top of door and it opens allowing access to the filter.

I believe the process is shown in the glovebox owner's manual. (Like many, I haven't read the manual in the glovebox.)

Total time: 2 minutes to carefully get filter out, including dumping glovebox's contents into cardboard box.

cdnpinhead

Is it such that some posts are "gaslighted?" You won't know because you won't have seen them. I've been on here for over 20 years and have a decent handle on who's going to respond to what I post, if anyone. I put up a reasonable comment related to the license plate thing, and got zero response, even from the one or two people I can usually depend on to recognize my existence.

Just asking.

Maybe I've lost my touch.

kyfdx

cdnpinhead said:

Is it such that some posts are "gaslighted?" You won't know because you won't have seen them. I've been on here for over 20 years and have a decent handle on who's going to respond to what I post, if anyone. I put up a reasonable comment related to the license plate thing, and got zero response, even from the one or two people I can usually depend on to recognize my existence.

Just asking.

Maybe I've lost my touch.

Everyone can see your posts..

driver100

cdnpinhead said:

Is it such that some posts are "gaslighted?" You won't know because you won't have seen them. I've been on here for over 20 years and have a decent handle on who's going to respond to what I post, if anyone. I put up a reasonable comment related to the license plate thing, and got zero response, even from the one or two people I can usually depend on to recognize my existence.

Just asking.

Maybe I've lost my touch.

Repost it again and I'll give you some feedback.....no charge!

snakeweasel

Michaell said:

Why do you need gloves in Florida? Unless ... you're using them to avoid leaving fingerprints behind. Which makes me wonder what you're really doing down there.

Well they have to have something to keep their hands warm when they put on those parkas when the temperatures drops below 65.

driver100

The native Floridians wear long pants for outdoor tennis when the temp is below 60F
The snowbirds wear long pants when the temp is below 45F.

carnaught

cdnpinhead said:

Is it such that some posts are "gaslighted?" You won't know because you won't have seen them. I've been on here for over 20 years and have a decent handle on who's going to respond to what I post, if anyone. I put up a reasonable comment related to the license plate thing, and got zero response, even from the one or two people I can usually depend on to recognize my existence.

Just asking.

Maybe I've lost my touch.

Sorry man, you and I are not in the popular boys and girls crowd here 😐.

oldfarmer50

cdnpinhead said:

Is it such that some posts are "gaslighted?" You won't know because you won't have seen them. I've been on here for over 20 years and have a decent handle on who's going to respond to what I post, if anyone. I put up a reasonable comment related to the license plate thing, and got zero response, even from the one or two people I can usually depend on to recognize my existence.

Just asking.

Maybe I've lost my touch.

I apologize for losing you in the crowd. I acknowledge your existence as well as being better for it.

ab348

kyfdx said:

cdnpinhead said:

Is it such that some posts are "gaslighted?" You won't know because you won't have seen them. I've been on here for over 20 years and have a decent handle on who's going to respond to what I post, if anyone. I put up a reasonable comment related to the license plate thing, and got zero response, even from the one or two people I can usually depend on to recognize my existence.

Just asking.

Maybe I've lost my touch.

Everyone can see your posts..

Funnily enough, I went to his profile page to see the comment in question since I didn’t recall seeing it. I couldn’t find anything he posted there. Although it showed a number (1.2K) for comments, none of them showed.

tjc78

I have two old Simpson VOM’s from the 60s. They take batteries as has any digital or analog I’ve had.

andres3

Inflation is so high that the standard $2 off a large Pizza at Round Table Pizza coupon is now $3 Off. Of course the price went up more than a dollar last year. Used to be you had to order the XL to get $3 Off, now you get $4 off on that one.

cdnpinhead

Mea culpa

jmonroe1

@carnaught said:
Sorry man, you and I are not in the popular boys and girls crowd here 😐.

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Do you really think it would be safe to allow carte blanche access to every Tom, Dick and Harry to our club?

jmonroe

Michaell

andres3 said:

Inflation is so high that the standard $2 off a large Pizza at Round Table Pizza coupon is now $3 Off. Of course the price went up more than a dollar last year. Used to be you had to order the XL to get $3 Off, now you get $4 off on that one.

When I was in SD recently, I tried to get my sister and her family to go to Round Table - they declined.

Last time I ate at one was in Anchorage, AK.

stickguy

Don't think we have those on the East coast.

driver100

It was only one page back:

cdnpinhead said:

When I was early in my driving career (or avocation) each state had a single color scheme for their license plates and kept it for years. This was when CA had black plates w/ yellow lettering. You could tell from a hundred yards away what state the vehicle in front of you was from. I thought that was a pretty useful arrangement, and I wasn't even in law enforcement.

Well those days are so gone. AZ currently offers a choice among 93 (I just checked) options in a wide variety of color combinations. Oh boy. Other states & provinces may not have such a ridiculous number of options, but there appear to be several at least.

And, by the way, get off my lawn, and drive your cars somewhere already.

I reprinted it here....I do remember reading and seeing it.
My impression was it was a rhetorical post....makes a statement but nothing needs to be commented on.
And, you're not here very often, so I thought you wouldn't be here if I did reply.
My comment is "Florida has over 120 choices"
I said it a long time ago, my favorites are the North West Territories plates;

see, we aren't ignoring you cdn!

kyfdx

To be clear.. our software doesn’t support muting, blocking, or anything like that. If you can see the post, everyone can see the post.

fintail

andres3 said:

Inflation is so high that the standard $2 off a large Pizza at Round Table Pizza coupon is now $3 Off. Of course the price went up more than a dollar last year. Used to be you had to order the XL to get $3 Off, now you get $4 off on that one.

Round Table here is so pricey that I feel like I need a HELOC to order anything more than lunch. Dominos hasn't gone nuts anyway.

henryn

I don't recall ever hearing of a "Round Table Pizza". Around here, we have Papa John's, Domino's, and Caesar's. Maybe some others that I can't recall at the moment. But not Round Table.

About the post by @cdpinhead,

cdnpinhead said:

Is it such that some posts are "gaslighted?" You won't know because you won't have seen them. I've been on here for over 20 years and have a decent handle on who's going to respond to what I post, if anyone. I put up a reasonable comment related to the license plate thing, and got zero response, even from the one or two people I can usually depend on to recognize my existence.

Just asking.

Maybe I've lost my touch.

I didn't reply on the license plate thing as we have been over that subject pretty thoroughly, and not that long ago either.

Michaell

henryn said:

I don't recall ever hearing of a "Round Table Pizza". Around here, we have Papa John's, Domino's, and Caesar's. Maybe some others that I can't recall at the moment. But not Round Table.

About the post by @cdpinhead,

cdnpinhead said:

Is it such that some posts are "gaslighted?" You won't know because you won't have seen them. I've been on here for over 20 years and have a decent handle on who's going to respond to what I post, if anyone. I put up a reasonable comment related to the license plate thing, and got zero response, even from the one or two people I can usually depend on to recognize my existence.

Just asking.

Maybe I've lost my touch.

I didn't reply on the license plate thing as we have been over that subject pretty thoroughly, and not that long ago either.

Round Table is a West Coast chain.

jmonroe1

I don’t waste my time with national chain store pizza shops. Don’t even like local chain store pizza shops either. I’m a pizza snob and only like locally owned mom/pop pizza shops and very few of them.

jmonroe

tjc78

@jmonroe1 said:
I don’t waste my time with national chain store pizza shops. Don’t even like local chain store pizza shops either. I’m a pizza snob and only like locally owned mom/pop pizza shops and very few of them.

jmonroe

This x1000

kyfdx

We have a small chain in Cincinnati that is great. 11-12 stores, plus another half-dozen in other cities. Dewey's. Of course, we also have a huge local chain (50 stores and 70 years in business), that we thought was great, before we knew better (LaRosa's).

It's amazing how much great pizza is out there, compared to 20 years ago. It's so good, that now I'm a snob, too. Why waste calories on mediocre pizza?

carnaught

jmonroe1 said:

@carnaught said:

Sorry man, you and I are not in the popular boys and girls crowd here 😐.

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Do you really think it would be safe to allow carte blanche access to every Tom, Dick and Harry to our club?

jmonroe

As some people say, negative attention is better than no attention 😔.

jmonroe1

@carnaught said:
As some people say, negative attention is better than no attention 😔.

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Nah, although that’s true I don’t wanna hang around folks like that. Maybe after we give them a few shots they’ll come around.

jmonroe

driver100

We don't get pizza too often...we can't afford the calories with our strict regimens. But, we don't gain weight with a Dominoes thin crust pizza. Though all the chains seem to have cut back on the amount of stuff they put on the pizza.....like they can't spend an extra $1 on ingredients when you are paying $30 for a bunch of dough.
One chain that is prolific in this area is Hungry Howies, and they have a new item called a No-dough pizza that sounds intriguing.

jmonroe1

driver100 said:

We don't get pizza too often...we can't afford the calories with our strict regimens. But, we don't gain weight with a Dominoes thin crust pizza. Though all the chains seem to have cut back on the amount of stuff they put on the pizza.....like they can't spend an extra $1 on ingredients when you are paying $30 for a bunch of dough.
One chain that is prolific in this area is Hungry Howies, and they have a new item called a No-dough pizza that sounds intriguing.

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The day I pay 30 bucks for a pizza that’ll be the day I eat more rib eyes.

FWIW, a pizza without dough ain’t a pizza.

jmonroe

henryn

Papa John's has been selling these for a while, they call them "Pizza Bowls".

snakeweasel

andres3 said:

Inflation is so high that the standard $2 off a large Pizza at Round Table Pizza coupon is now $3 Off. Of course the price went up more than a dollar last year. Used to be you had to order the XL to get $3 Off, now you get $4 off on that one.

I eat McDonalds only in the winter because there is one literally a two minute walk away from where I do taxes so it's easy to run and get something. Anyway last year I was able to get 2 burgers a small fries and a large coke for under $5. Now two burgers a small fries and a medium coke comes to over $7.

Oh well at least beers at the post only went up a quarter.

snakeweasel

jmonroe1 said:

@carnaught said:

Sorry man, you and I are not in the popular boys and girls crowd here 😐.

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Do you really think it would be safe to allow carte blanche access to every Tom, Dick and Harry to our club?

jmonroe

You mean these guys?

snakeweasel

Michaell said:

andres3 said:

Inflation is so high that the standard $2 off a large Pizza at Round Table Pizza coupon is now $3 Off. Of course the price went up more than a dollar last year. Used to be you had to order the XL to get $3 Off, now you get $4 off on that one.

When I was in SD recently, I tried to get my sister and her family to go to Round Table - they declined.

Last time I ate at one was in Anchorage, AK.

Really? I just checked their website and they have no locations anywhere near South Dakota.

Michaell

snakeweasel said:

Michaell said:

andres3 said:

Inflation is so high that the standard $2 off a large Pizza at Round Table Pizza coupon is now $3 Off. Of course the price went up more than a dollar last year. Used to be you had to order the XL to get $3 Off, now you get $4 off on that one.

When I was in SD recently, I tried to get my sister and her family to go to Round Table - they declined.

Last time I ate at one was in Anchorage, AK.

Really? I just checked their website and they have no locations anywhere near South Dakota.

In my world, SD = San Diego.

The only time I've stepped foot in South Dakota was to change planes at the Sioux Falls Airport.

cdnpinhead

Something about the princess and the pea comes to mind.

stickguy

question for the computer experts. I am back to being fed up with this cranky slow piece of something.

any thoughts on Acer? Amazon has a good deal on an Inspire 5 (20 GB ram, 512 Gig SSD, latest 3.0mhz 3 chip). most reviews seem pretty good (though as with everything online, mixed in with people that think it is the worst thing ever!)

jmonroe1

snakeweasel said:

jmonroe1 said:

@carnaught said:

Sorry man, you and I are not in the popular boys and girls crowd here 😐.

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Do you really think it would be safe to allow carte blanche access to every Tom, Dick and Harry to our club?

jmonroe

You mean these guys?




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Exactly, that’s what I’m afraid of.

jmonroe

Michaell

stickguy said:

question for the computer experts. I am back to being fed up with this cranky slow piece of something.

any thoughts on Acer? Amazon has a good deal on an Inspire 5 (20 GB ram, 512 Gig SSD, latest 3.0mhz 3 chip). most reviews seem pretty good (though as with everything online, mixed in with people that think it is the worst thing ever!)

I've always looked at on-line reviews like Olympic scoring - throw out the high and the low, and average the rest.

Probably won't help much, but that's my .02.

How long have you had your current computer? Any sense of how long you plan to keep the new one?

jmonroe1

Michaell said:

stickguy said:

question for the computer experts. I am back to being fed up with this cranky slow piece of something.

any thoughts on Acer? Amazon has a good deal on an Inspire 5 (20 GB ram, 512 Gig SSD, latest 3.0mhz 3 chip). most reviews seem pretty good (though as with everything online, mixed in with people that think it is the worst thing ever!)

I've always looked at on-line reviews like Olympic scoring - throw out the high and the low, and average the rest.

Probably won't help much, but that's my .02.

How long have you had your current computer? Any sense of how long you plan to keep the new one?

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You should know by now that he doesn’t have any sense.

jmonroe

henryn

stickguy said:

question for the computer experts. I am back to being fed up with this cranky slow piece of something.

any thoughts on Acer? Amazon has a good deal on an Inspire 5 (20 GB ram, 512 Gig SSD, latest 3.0mhz 3 chip). most reviews seem pretty good (though as with everything online, mixed in with people that think it is the worst thing ever!)

Acer is actually a fairly old company, in the tech business they are a very old company. They made components for other companies before they started building computers to sell under their own name.

A lot of different brands come out of the same factories in China and Taiwan. A lot like Dodge and Plymouth in the old days.

Dell, HP, and Lenovo are the premium brands these days when it comes to notebook computers. Gateway is down at the bottom, but still decent for the price. Everything else mostly falls somewhere in between.

If the warranty is really important to you, then I would recommend Dell or HP. Both companies provide fairly good warranty support.

mlevine

I am not a big fan of acer. Acer was known for making mother boards. I prefer HP or Dell. Ram not bad as I say minimum should be 16 GB. I am a big fan of 1TB SSD and prefer minimum of i5 or i7 chip. If you look at different sites such as best buy and costco may be able to find a great deal.

stickguy

I think I got this laptop (an HP) in about 2015 or so. It's been a while. I hope to keep the next one as close to forever as possible. As long as it works like it is supposed to, no reason to replace it.

Michaell

Prior to the Dell I got from the girls, I had a Toshiba laptop that I bought from Sam's Club. Had to replace the hard drive in it a few years back, but other than that it worked pretty well.

stickguy

laptops are cheap enough now to be like TVs. Buy whatever you like the best, and it lasts until it breaks, and you buy a replacement.

driver100

stickguy said:

laptops are cheap enough now to be like TVs. Buy whatever you like the best, and it lasts until it breaks, and you buy a replacement.

Just do what I do....if it lasts for 7 years and costs $700, that's only $100 a year. btw, if You buy a cheap one for $350, that's $50 a year. It is probably worth $50 a year more to get the better one.

driver100

cdnpinhead said:

Something about the princess and the pea comes to mind.

But what does the princess and the pea have to do with no crust pizza? Or South Dakota and San Diego? Or Acer computers?
There.....someone replied!