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Post by OziRiS on Jun 15, 2015 13:40:03 GMT
Yes. Do you know where it is?.. (It took me a while to find it as well...) However, they now do things by the registration number. Which gives them knowledge of who owns the car.... I aint prepared to share that info with them. Especially when I know the part number of the part I want, but they want to "Register" me as a customer. ...As in, sell my details to mass marketing sharks..... I just want THIS part.... here, the number is on the old one in my hand.... I also know its fitted to other vehicles as well. But no, they want my inside leg measurements and the size of my postbox to work out just how much they can "Sell" me that I dont want?.... However, I have a likkle friend, called Ebay, and it will send me the part, with guarantees of NO marketing, for half the price of what that store wants.... Good innit?... Plus I can see the part before I order it to compare the thing against the old one. A number of years ago, my Ford E-150 van broke down about 150 miles from home. The air injector pump froze up. I rented a car to get home and figured I'd return the next day with a new pump, do a road repair, drop off the rental car and drive the van home. When I went to the parts store to get a new pump, I gave them the model, year and engine size and then they asked me if the old pump had 3 or 4 bolts holding it on. They said different pumps were used on that engine and they were not interchangeable. When I told them the problem, they gave me both pumps and said when I got back, just return the one I didn't need and pay for the one I used. They didn't even ask for a deposit. Nice folks at Advanced Auto. I'll say! I would have probably just offered you to pay for both, keep the receipt and get your money back for the unused one when you came back. Or, if you didn't have the money to pay for both, have asked you to pay for the most expensive one and at least leave your name, address and cell phone number. I would also have called your number while you were still in the store, just to verify that it was actually yours. Not because I wouldn't trust you, but because I've been burned enough times not to trust anyone. It's depressing how little some people are willing to be labelled "thief" for. |
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Post by the light works on Jun 15, 2015 14:12:50 GMT
ah, but two 1958 impalas will be able to interchange parts... and in cars, the model year is part of the model identification. Check out Avensis, Toyota. The windscreen washer pump on all three models is "different", much to my annoyance... But then so are the heater/ac controls, in fact, theres hardly a single part that is the same. Except of course the nut holding the steering wheel.Which is always several shades loose?... Getting spares for a car that hardly ever breaks down is difficult, having to know what bloody year it was manufactured (not sold) is even harder. try international harvester, where the 1977 loadstar 9000 truck with the 440 CID engine, the 6 speed transmission and the black seat belts has an all different ignition system than the 1977 loadstar 9000 truck with the 440 CID engine, the 6 speed transmission and the BROWN seatbelts. International bought surplus parts from AMC who built Jeeps out of surplus parts from everybody else. (actually, International sometimes changed things halfway through a model year - but wasn't quite as bad as advertised.) but my beef was I had a Nutone 665 fan in a ceiling that needed parts - so I called to see if the 665 was still in production and yes, it was - so I bought one - fast simple project of pulling the interior from the old one and replacing it with the interior from the new one - except the new one was a COMPLETELY different unit. the only interchangeable part was the grille. and to be quite honest, if I had known I would be completely replacing the unit, I would have bought a better quality one. |
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Post by Antigone68104 on Jun 15, 2015 17:03:08 GMT
because why should ethnically differenced people get to claim all the offense. personally, I would think if I was a short statured person I would find "little person" to be more offensive than midget. - because to me it sounds patronizing. I'd have to agree with that. I don't know why it seems so patronizing, but it really does. Possibly because "little boy/girl" is often used to address children? |
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Post by OziRiS on Jun 15, 2015 19:25:47 GMT
I'd have to agree with that. I don't know why it seems so patronizing, but it really does. Possibly because "little boy/girl" is often used to address children? I think that might just be a pretty solid bet  |
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Post by the light works on Jun 16, 2015 0:31:21 GMT
you CAN teach an old dog new tricks.
our department fo transportation came through and reprogrammed out traffic signals. now when the light is green for the main road, but the left turn signal is not giving right of way, it flashes yellow, to indicate people may turn left if it is safe to do so.
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Post by ponytail61 on Jun 16, 2015 3:04:10 GMT
C but my beef was I had a Nutone 665 fan in a ceiling that needed parts - so I called to see if the 665 was still in production and yes, it was - so I bought one - fast simple project of pulling the interior from the old one and replacing it with the interior from the new one - except the new one was a COMPLETELY different unit. the only interchangeable part was the grille. and to be quite honest, if I had known I would be completely replacing the unit, I would have bought a better quality one. TLW which parts were bad? I have the same one with a bad vent fan and when I was looking up parts I noticed there was a newer version of the fan and heater assemblies, but they are supposed to fit in older models. I haven't replaced mine yet. Here's the parts diagram. parts.broan-nutone.com/broan/Shop?DSP=30200&PCR=1:22000&IID=665RP&imagesequence=I'd rather pay the $40 bucks for the fan assembly then buy a whole new unit, but will be a little more than PO'd if it doesn't fit. |
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Post by the light works on Jun 16, 2015 4:36:08 GMT
TLW which parts were bad? I have the same one with a bad vent fan and when I was looking up parts I noticed there was a newer version of the fan and heater assemblies, but they are supposed to fit in older models. I haven't replaced mine yet. Here's the parts diagram. parts.broan-nutone.com/broan/Shop?DSP=30200&PCR=1:22000&IID=665RP&imagesequence=I'd rather pay the $40 bucks for the fan assembly then buy a whole new unit, but will be a little more than PO'd if it doesn't fit. the heater was shot, but the whole thing was old - my standard fix is to simply buy a new unit and replace all the guts. in theory, you can buy a new fan assembly for it and even if the bracket doesn't fit, the motor and blower can retrofit to the old bracket. - or just buy the new motor and reassemble it to the other parts. |
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Post by silverdragon on Jun 16, 2015 6:08:49 GMT
24hrs mail....
I just got the replacement washer pump through the mail, 24hrs after I requested it?...
Some companies can do this.
This was not "Requested" emergency mail, this is that companies standard procedure, get it found out and posted ASAP "Because we know all people need parts yesterday"....
Their feedback will be 100% positive.
I WILL recommend them to anyone else I know.
The part was the right one, its on the car, its working, what more can I say....
Payment was "Pay-pal", and by the timing of the payment made, they took the money out after it had been posted?...
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Post by silverdragon on Jun 16, 2015 6:19:09 GMT
Second "Bonus" round.
I went to my usual supply shop for my pond, to get some more food for the fish...
It comes in huge 5gallon tubs, but that is a years worth of food, so I cant complain?.. (Its dried and best before is 3yrs)
On the off hand, I needed a new "tree" for my air pump,
This is the bit of plastic that separates the garden-hose sized output from the air pump to the several small air-line size nozzles.
The guy knows me from several visits a year I make there...
He said "Just a mo, I think I have something", went in the back, went through his "spares bin", and found something suitable.
"You can have that....[Fo' Free?.. we likes free...] its spare from another project we had, and your a good customer...."
The Boss wandered up as I was digesting the fact I wouldnt have to pay for it.
"They break down too quickly, we are trying to get the manufacturer to use better plastics, bit meantime, if you need another, we have a few... "
Well, I had bought the air pump from them, so this was "free" extended warranty repairs?..
But you dont find that level of service in many big stores do you?
This distribution tree is far to big for my setup, it has 10 nozzles where I only need six at best, but linking a short piece of hose between two nozzle will blank them off.
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Post by silverdragon on Jun 16, 2015 6:25:35 GMT
Third bonus round.
I gets to one of my favourite drops yesterday morning, the people there are really friendly, we have a laugh.
"Hello [Bwian] how are you?.. aint seen you for a bit....
You got here at the right time."
not sure what he meant, this isnt a time sensitive drop...
"So the boss is buying, what you having?... we are just sending out for breakfast, bacon sausage egg cheese or all three...?"
That was four, but dont count the teeth [gift horse] so I went for Bacon and Egg muffin
Turns out this is a regular offering from the Boss to buy breakfast, because his early start lads start too early to get breakfast, and the boss rewards them for their extra effort....
I want a full time job there....
[edit, I want getting tipped whilst the lads were on a break, so I would have had to wait anyway.]
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Post by OziRiS on Jun 16, 2015 7:35:09 GMT
Nice to hear some positive stories about other people being nicer than they have to Dog knows there's no shortage of idiots in this world, as the "How stupid...", "Needing to vent" and other threads here clearly show, so giving praise where praise is due can be a good feeling |
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Post by Antigone68104 on Jun 16, 2015 14:27:30 GMT
you CAN teach an old dog new tricks. our department fo transportation came through and reprogrammed out traffic signals. now when the light is green for the main road, but the left turn signal is not giving right of way, it flashes yellow, to indicate people may turn left if it is safe to do so. That makes a lot of sense. We've got "Left turn yield on green" (meaning: you can turn left on a green arrow, or if the road's clear on a regular green light) signs around here, and I'd like to know how often that confuses people. |
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Post by the light works on Jun 16, 2015 14:50:26 GMT
you CAN teach an old dog new tricks. our department fo transportation came through and reprogrammed out traffic signals. now when the light is green for the main road, but the left turn signal is not giving right of way, it flashes yellow, to indicate people may turn left if it is safe to do so. That makes a lot of sense. We've got "Left turn yield on green" (meaning: you can turn left on a green arrow, or if the road's clear on a regular green light) signs around here, and I'd like to know how often that confuses people. we also have two intersections without dedicated left turn lanes, where you can sometimes get both a solid green and a green arrow, indicating you have the right of way to make a left turn, and otherwise just have the solid green indicating opposing traffic also has green. - previously the lights in the left turn lane were red if they were not green arrow - meaning you had to wait through the cycle even if there was no traffic the other way. |
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Post by OziRiS on Jun 16, 2015 18:11:16 GMT
Today I learned that a purchase I previously made in error - a Parkside electrical hobby grinder tool that i bought from German store chain Lidl, thinking it was something like a Dremel Multi Tool - is actually really great at sharpening things.
I have an apple tree in my back yard that's grown branches lower and lower down on the trunk for the past 3 years. They grow fast, they grow thick and they're now so low that I can't get my mower under them, so they need to go. Since I don't have a chainsaw and a regular handsaw is more or less out of the question, because it's fresh branches, so the teeth will just get stuck in the moist fibres, my axe was the only real choise. But after many years of abuse, that axe wasn't exactly sharp anymore.
I start sharpening the axe, first on some concrete, just to get going and later with some rough sand paper and then I realize I have that grinder thing tucked away somewhere in the shed. Maybe that's worth a try? 5 minutes later the axe is sharper than it was when I bought it and 20 minutes after that, 3 big branches (about 4-6 inches thick each) from the apple tree are lying on the ground.
Good thing I never threw that grinder out. I'm now planning to give the blades on my lawn mower a good workout with it too.
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Post by the light works on Jun 17, 2015 0:27:13 GMT
Today I learned that a purchase I previously made in error - a Parkside electrical hobby grinder tool that i bought from German store chain Lidl, thinking it was something like a Dremel Multi Tool - is actually really great at sharpening things. I have an apple tree in my back yard that's grown branches lower and lower down on the trunk for the past 3 years. They grow fast, they grow thick and they're now so low that I can't get my mower under them, so they need to go. Since I don't have a chainsaw and a regular handsaw is more or less out of the question, because it's fresh branches, so the teeth will just get stuck in the moist fibres, my axe was the only real choise. But after many years of abuse, that axe wasn't exactly sharp anymore. I start sharpening the axe, first on some concrete, just to get going and later with some rough sand paper and then I realize I have that grinder thing tucked away somewhere in the shed. Maybe that's worth a try? 5 minutes later the axe is sharper than it was when I bought it and 20 minutes after that, 3 big branches (about 4-6 inches thick each) from the apple tree are lying on the ground. Good thing I never threw that grinder out. I'm now planning to give the blades on my lawn mower a good workout with it too. if you have Japanese pull saws in hardware stores over there (thinner blade, and teeth raked back to cut on the pull stroke) they make excellent pruning saws (and general purpose saws as well) *disclaimer: the nickname comes from the fact that they are knockoffs of saw technology developed in Japan. |
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Post by silverdragon on Jun 17, 2015 6:43:37 GMT
Low branches, I love my Gator saw.  |
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Post by OziRiS on Jun 17, 2015 10:08:54 GMT
My back yard isn't big enough and doesn't require enough work that I want to invest in stuff like that. Apart from my mower, which is the thing I need most to keep the yard from looking like a small piece of jungle, every gardening tool I've got in my shed is either something I've bought on discount or have been given by someone else for Christmas, or just because they bought a new one and was going to throw the old one out if I didn't want it. As I think I've mentioned before, I rent the house. It's from around 1885, so there's a lot of stuff wrong with it to begin with, but what didn't make it better - especially in terms of the back yard - is that the couple who rented it for 10 years before we moved in was a pair of chainsmoking old alcoholics who never did the slightest bit of maintenance. As far as I've been told by my landlord, before we moved in, the ceilings had to be changed on both floors after they moved out, because they were so damaged by these two sitting inside all day, never opening a window and smoking 40-60 cigarettes a day each for 10 years. The yard, on the other hand, wasn't so easy to do something about. Here's a picture of my house from Google Earth (the red lines are the boundaries of the property):  To give you a sense of size, the square thing in the yard is a 6x6 foot sandbox. The thing with the yard is that, as these two never did any maintenance on anything, weeds grew to be 3-5 feet tall during the summer and then died in the winter, decayed and turned into dirt. Over the course of 10 years, the yard developed a bulge. If you squat down in front of the house and look towards the parking lot, you can see the terrain rises toward the middle and then drops again toward the fence facing the parking lot. You actually can't see the bottom foot of the gate in the fence. The beech hedgerow that you can see between the parking lot and all the yards doesn't belong to us. It's on county property and there's just a narrow passage through it to our gate, like the one you can see going into the yard to the left of ours. It's only just wide enough that you can push a lawn mower through it. If we were to do anything about this yard, we'd have to start completely over on it. Remove the trees and the sandbox, dig up the entire lawn, flatten it and plant new grass. Problem is, with that hedgerow on county property, we're not allowed to cut any of it down, so we can't get any machinery through and it all has to be done by hand. Not being the owner of the place and probably not getting any thanks for the effort once I move out someday, I'm not about to do that amount of manual labor. And that's also why I refuse to spend money on expensive gardening tools. Whatever I do, it'll still look like crap, so my mission is to just keep it tolerable. |
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Post by the light works on Jun 17, 2015 13:57:26 GMT
My back yard isn't big enough and doesn't require enough work that I want to invest in stuff like that. Apart from my mower, which is the thing I need most to keep the yard from looking like a small piece of jungle, every gardening tool I've got in my shed is either something I've bought on discount or have been given by someone else for Christmas, or just because they bought a new one and was going to throw the old one out if I didn't want it. As I think I've mentioned before, I rent the house. It's from around 1885, so there's a lot of stuff wrong with it to begin with, but what didn't make it better - especially in terms of the back yard - is that the couple who rented it for 10 years before we moved in was a pair of chainsmoking old alcoholics who never did the slightest bit of maintenance. As far as I've been told by my landlord, before we moved in, the ceilings had to be changed on both floors after they moved out, because they were so damaged by these two sitting inside all day, never opening a window and smoking 40-60 cigarettes a day each for 10 years. The yard, on the other hand, wasn't so easy to do something about. Here's a picture of my house from Google Earth (the red lines are the boundaries of the property): To give you a sense of size, the square thing in the yard is a 6x6 foot sandbox. The thing with the yard is that, as these two never did any maintenance on anything, weeds grew to be 3-5 feet tall during the summer and then died in the winter, decayed and turned into dirt. Over the course of 10 years, the yard developed a bulge. If you squat down in front of the house and look towards the parking lot, you can see the terrain rises toward the middle and then drops again toward the fence facing the parking lot. You actually can't see the bottom foot of the gate in the fence. The beech hedgerow that you can see between the parking lot and all the yards doesn't belong to us. It's on county property and there's just a narrow passage through it to our gate, like the one you can see going into the yard to the left of ours. It's only just wide enough that you can push a lawn mower through it. If we were to do anything about this yard, we'd have to start completely over on it. Remove the trees and the sandbox, dig up the entire lawn, flatten it and plant new grass. Problem is, with that hedgerow on county property, we're not allowed to cut any of it down, so we can't get any machinery through and it all has to be done by hand. Not being the owner of the place and probably not getting any thanks for the effort once I move out someday, I'm not about to do that amount of manual labor. And that's also why I refuse to spend money on expensive gardening tools. Whatever I do, it'll still look like crap, so my mission is to just keep it tolerable. it needs a dingo.  |
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Post by The Urban Mythbuster on Jun 17, 2015 14:05:23 GMT
My back yard isn't big enough and doesn't require enough work that I want to invest in stuff like that. Apart from my mower, which is the thing I need most to keep the yard from looking like a small piece of jungle, every gardening tool I've got in my shed is either something I've bought on discount or have been given by someone else for Christmas, or just because they bought a new one and was going to throw the old one out if I didn't want it. As I think I've mentioned before, I rent the house. It's from around 1885, so there's a lot of stuff wrong with it to begin with, but what didn't make it better - especially in terms of the back yard - is that the couple who rented it for 10 years before we moved in was a pair of chainsmoking old alcoholics who never did the slightest bit of maintenance. As far as I've been told by my landlord, before we moved in, the ceilings had to be changed on both floors after they moved out, because they were so damaged by these two sitting inside all day, never opening a window and smoking 40-60 cigarettes a day each for 10 years. The yard, on the other hand, wasn't so easy to do something about. Here's a picture of my house from Google Earth (the red lines are the boundaries of the property): To give you a sense of size, the square thing in the yard is a 6x6 foot sandbox. The thing with the yard is that, as these two never did any maintenance on anything, weeds grew to be 3-5 feet tall during the summer and then died in the winter, decayed and turned into dirt. Over the course of 10 years, the yard developed a bulge. If you squat down in front of the house and look towards the parking lot, you can see the terrain rises toward the middle and then drops again toward the fence facing the parking lot. You actually can't see the bottom foot of the gate in the fence. The beech hedgerow that you can see between the parking lot and all the yards doesn't belong to us. It's on county property and there's just a narrow passage through it to our gate, like the one you can see going into the yard to the left of ours. It's only just wide enough that you can push a lawn mower through it. If we were to do anything about this yard, we'd have to start completely over on it. Remove the trees and the sandbox, dig up the entire lawn, flatten it and plant new grass. Problem is, with that hedgerow on county property, we're not allowed to cut any of it down, so we can't get any machinery through and it all has to be done by hand. Not being the owner of the place and probably not getting any thanks for the effort once I move out someday, I'm not about to do that amount of manual labor. And that's also why I refuse to spend money on expensive gardening tools. Whatever I do, it'll still look like crap, so my mission is to just keep it tolerable. it needs a dingo. I suppose a Bobcat might not fit...  |
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Post by the light works on Jun 17, 2015 14:27:20 GMT
it needs a dingo. I suppose a Bobcat might not fit... a full size one wouldn't. I don't know if bobcat makes them as small as a Dingo or not. |
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