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  • OleBoot
    OleBoot Posts: 2,683
    motorstereo wrote: »
    So I'm thinking I'm alone in grabbing the plug wire to check for spark on a motor that won't start? Sometimes the spark would really get your attention, other times barely a tickle.

    We used to call this the lick and f*ck test when I was a kid and we had motorbikes. Lick finger, put in plug lead and kick engine over. If it worked - f****ck.
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  • smglbrth
    smglbrth Posts: 1,468
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    Our electric fences get my attention once in a while. :/
    Fairly similar to that insistent little bzzzzt of a spark plug wire, at least from my perspective.

    Ya, electric fences! The ones we had years ago on the farm when I was a kid were pretty great (meaning they worked for some of the crazy steers we had, with one exception). We called them weed burners. If I remember right, around 3 quick pops and a thick button weed was cut in half. The cattle used to go up to it and try to give it a smell or feel the "humm" to see if it was working. Most of the time they got too close and the spark would jump right at their nose to the sum of about 2-3 inches. My dad used to say people who loved farm animals never farmed. Ah, memories...
    Remember, when you're running from something, you're running to something...-me
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  • daddyjt
    daddyjt Posts: 2,465
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    "Conservative Libertarians love the country, progressive leftists love the government." - Andrew Wilkow


    “Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
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  • daddyjt
    daddyjt Posts: 2,465
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    "Conservative Libertarians love the country, progressive leftists love the government." - Andrew Wilkow


    “Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
    ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,380
    daddyjt wrote: »
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    😢😢😢
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 18,994
    1 of only 1,935 ever built and this is how they store it? That's not redneck. That's stupid.

    No doubt, Ivan. That's a painful image to see.

    Tom
    ~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~
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  • SeleniumFalcon
    SeleniumFalcon Posts: 3,739
    That is criminal!
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  • ken brydson
    ken brydson Posts: 8,751
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  • bcwsrt
    bcwsrt Posts: 1,870
    daddyjt wrote: »
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    This one’s almost as bad. Just took it a few minutes ago …

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    Brian

    One-owner Polk Audio RTA 15TL speakers refreshed w/ Sonicap, Vishay/Mills and Cardas components by "pitdogg2," "xschop" billet tweeter plates and BH5 | Stereo REL Acoustics T/5x subwoofers w/ Bassline Blue cables | Rogue Audio Cronus Magnum III integrated tube amp | Technics SL-1210G turntable w/ Ortofon 2M Black LVB 250 MM cart | Sony CDP-508ESD CD player (as a transport) | LampizatOr Baltic 4 tube DAC | Nordost & DH Labs cables/interconnects | APC H15 Power Conditioner | GIK Acoustics room treatments | Degritter RCM
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  • audioluvr
    audioluvr Posts: 5,574
    bcwsrt wrote: »
    daddyjt wrote: »
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    This one’s almost as bad. Just took it a few minutes ago …

    obq8zi8875xp.jpeg

    Looks like a place I found one in rural Iowa. What a waste
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  • machone
    machone Posts: 1,508
    motorstereo wrote: »
    So I'm thinking I'm alone in grabbing the plug wire to check for spark on a motor that won't start? Sometimes the spark would really get your attention, other times barely a tickle.

    I leaned over to listen and my long hair touched the coil wire and pow!
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 18,994
    Not that I have ever done that (touched a spark plug wire) but...that is pain that you will NOT forget! Holy Smokes Batman!

    I cringe just thinking about the hypothetical happening again!!!

    Tom
    ~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~
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  • msg
    msg Posts: 9,987
    daddyjt wrote: »
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    Pfff. Everyone knows that's an S2.

    I disabled signatures.
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,380
    Poor GTX tisk tisk...
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  • bcwsrt
    bcwsrt Posts: 1,870
    It’s in Mahomet. I feel like rescuing it. 😢 Still has the original exhaust tips on it, so I’m guessing it’s been there quite a while.

    Brian

    One-owner Polk Audio RTA 15TL speakers refreshed w/ Sonicap, Vishay/Mills and Cardas components by "pitdogg2," "xschop" billet tweeter plates and BH5 | Stereo REL Acoustics T/5x subwoofers w/ Bassline Blue cables | Rogue Audio Cronus Magnum III integrated tube amp | Technics SL-1210G turntable w/ Ortofon 2M Black LVB 250 MM cart | Sony CDP-508ESD CD player (as a transport) | LampizatOr Baltic 4 tube DAC | Nordost & DH Labs cables/interconnects | APC H15 Power Conditioner | GIK Acoustics room treatments | Degritter RCM
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,380
    bcwsrt wrote: »
    It’s in Mahomet. I feel like rescuing it. 😢 Still has the original exhaust tips on it, so I’m guessing it’s been there quite a while.

    Start at the floor pan and work your way up, get expensive faster that that car went new.
    😁😁
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  • ken brydson
    ken brydson Posts: 8,751
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  • Viking64
    Viking64 Posts: 7,032
    Where no man has gone before.
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 18,994
    Putting a 20 amp breaker on a 15 amp circuit...

    Gee, I wonder where I got that from...

    Tom
    ~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~
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  • msg
    msg Posts: 9,987
    Viking64 wrote: »
    Where no man has gone before.

    doubtful.
    I disabled signatures.
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  • Viking64
    Viking64 Posts: 7,032
    msg wrote: »
    Viking64 wrote: »
    Where no man has gone before.

    doubtful.

    I have only seen the episodes from the 1960s. I can only speculate as to what kind of Gomorrah-y nonsense has occurred since.
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  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 17,210
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  • Viking64
    Viking64 Posts: 7,032
    The Liberty Bell housing.
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  • audioluvr
    audioluvr Posts: 5,574
    Looks legit!
    Gustard X26 Pro DAC
    Belles 21A Pre modded with Mundorf Supreme caps
    B&K M200 Sonata monoblocks refreshed and upgraded
    Polk SDA 1C's modded / 1000Va Dreadnaught
    Wireworld Silver Eclipse IC's and speaker cables
    Harman Kardon T65C w/Grado Gold. (Don't laugh. It sounds great!)

    There is about a 5% genetic difference between apes and men …but that difference is the difference between throwing your own poo when you are annoyed …and Einstein, Shakespeare and Miss January. by Dr. Sardonicus
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  • bcwsrt
    bcwsrt Posts: 1,870
    Our good friend, J-B Weld!

    Brian

    One-owner Polk Audio RTA 15TL speakers refreshed w/ Sonicap, Vishay/Mills and Cardas components by "pitdogg2," "xschop" billet tweeter plates and BH5 | Stereo REL Acoustics T/5x subwoofers w/ Bassline Blue cables | Rogue Audio Cronus Magnum III integrated tube amp | Technics SL-1210G turntable w/ Ortofon 2M Black LVB 250 MM cart | Sony CDP-508ESD CD player (as a transport) | LampizatOr Baltic 4 tube DAC | Nordost & DH Labs cables/interconnects | APC H15 Power Conditioner | GIK Acoustics room treatments | Degritter RCM
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  • audioluvr
    audioluvr Posts: 5,574
    I wonder if the torque converter is glued in too.
    Gustard X26 Pro DAC
    Belles 21A Pre modded with Mundorf Supreme caps
    B&K M200 Sonata monoblocks refreshed and upgraded
    Polk SDA 1C's modded / 1000Va Dreadnaught
    Wireworld Silver Eclipse IC's and speaker cables
    Harman Kardon T65C w/Grado Gold. (Don't laugh. It sounds great!)

    There is about a 5% genetic difference between apes and men …but that difference is the difference between throwing your own poo when you are annoyed …and Einstein, Shakespeare and Miss January. by Dr. Sardonicus
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  • motorstereo
    motorstereo Posts: 2,125
    Cabin fever on the brink of or possibly over the edge of insanity is my best guess for someone doing something like that.
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  • machone
    machone Posts: 1,508
    At least the tranny will be on center
    Mojo Audio Illuminati v3>>Quantum Byte w/LMS>>Rpi/PiCoreplayer>> Starlight 7 USB >> Mojo Audio Mystique v2 SE>>ModWright SWL 9.0 SE Signature>>Hafler DH-500 Amp+ (Musical Concepts Fully Modded)>>
    SRS 2.3TL (Fully Modded)...Velodyne Optimum 8 subwoofer
    1KVA Dreadnought

    Marantz SA 8005
    Pioneer PLX-1000 Turntable - Shure SC35C/N35X - V15III/VN35HE
    Yamaha TX-540 Tuner...Sony BDP-S570
    Sony PS4

    Separate subpanel with four dedicated 20 amp circuits.
    1. Amplification 2. Analog 3. Digital 4. Video

    "All THAT IS LOST FROM THE SOURCE IS LOST FOREVER"
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,727
    audioluvr wrote: »
    I wonder if the torque converter is glued in too.

    If it wasn't a lockup torque converter before.... it is now. :#
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