Dan Fixes Coin-OpsThe impetus of doing this job was The Goo Is Falling Out and yaknow what happened all throughout the job? You know what happened? To the goo? Do you know what the goo did? It fell out
Dan Fixes Coin-OpsNow that the old rad's out I gotta put a temp switch in the new one and put the new rad in and then d'you know what I gotta do? With the goo?
I gotta put, the goo, back IN
Dan Fixes Coin-OpsNot the same goo! Same TYPE of goo, but not THIS goo, this goo's bad 🙂
Dan Fixes Coin-OpsImagine if the other machines in your life needed as many different sorts of fluids and pastes as a car
Imagine topping off and draining out and flushing through all the chambers and tanks on, like, your phone
This is literally the stuff of nightmares, this is creepypasta territory
Dan Fixes Coin-OpsSo taking the old rad out took like a day and a half and putting the new one in took about half an hour lol
Dan Fixes Coin-OpsI just saw down the Bad Leg of the Trousers of Time and narrowly avoided this series of internet searches:
Radiator coolant in eye
Safety goggles fogging up
How stop safety glasses fogging up
Prevent safety glasses fogging forum
Transmission fluid in eye
Dan Fixes Coin-OpsRad filled up, battery reconditioned and now she purrrrrrrs
Gotta get some screws to replace the rounded-off or broken ones from the old rad (fan was held on with zip ties wtf) and then I can run it out for an inspection
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for the first time in forever,
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what's this on my computer now
🦊💻 looks like a guy doing his own repairs on a 20-year-old car
🦊💻 what a silly thing to do, why would you do that
🦊💻 I know how to help
🦊💻 "You should buy an electric vehicle!"
🦊💻 There, that'll help put him on the right track
🦊💻 Honestly, how are so many people this oblivious when the solution is so obvious
Dan Fixes Coin-Ops🦊💻 "If an EV is unaffordable for you, why not simply send your butler to mechanic school"
Dan Fixes Coin-OpsMuch like nobody on fedi has a normal relationship with technology, nobody here has a normal amount of money either. Fedi is either stripeysocked people who don't have two pennies to rub together because they'll give their last fiver to a starving artist and forget "oh shit wait I'M a starving artist" and so they have keep passing the same wrinkled fiver around in a big stripey circle, or it's Computers People who've been doing Computers Things so long they don't know how to live on less than a hundred grand a year and there's nowt in between
This thread's for the first half, if you're in the second half I'm obviously not talking to you, I'm not fixing this car for fun y'know, you're welcome to watch but You Must Be At Least This Poor To Comment