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    Most automotive parts jobbers should carry the relay ... you want a Bosch 4 (I think it's 4) point relay. Bosch is a good one but anything comparable in quality would do.
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    c'mon you guys .... let's not open a can of worms in MY THREAD puhleeze (only I should be allowed to do that! )
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    Regarding the battery cables and corroding .... many folks might clean "what is visible" but the corrosion works it's way down the cable, inside the cover and in between the cable strands. Rip back some of the covering to check this and if there is corrosion and the cable is long enuf, cut it back to where the corrosion ends, clean what's remaining, solder it and install a new battery clamp.
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    gas pedal???? don't you mean throttle? 7.1 celcius = 44.6 fahrenheit 6.3 celcius = 43.3 fahrenheit in other words ... El Niño
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    The numbers are in and we've hit an all-time record for the month of January. The average daily temp was 7.1 celcius. The previous record, last hit in 2006 was 6.3 celcius and our highest temp for Jan was 14 celcius. WOW!
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    Any beer can be a Corona .... just pop the top and let is sit for a couple days ... you can't mistake that "skunky" taste....
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    how's this for worms... I'm installing a Bridgestone Spitfire S11 130/90 on the front tomorrow and once the stock rear Dunlop is worn out, and depending on how well the front does, I'll be getting a 170/80-15 Spitfire S11 for the rear. Can't comment on performance of them at this time but I eventually will.
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    Great advice Renne...thanks!!! The new guitar the guy in the shop showed me definately had a much better sound than mine and did have a solid wood top. Learning to play is one of those "bucket list" items and if I never get good at it, I really don't care so for the time being, I'll stick with this Yamaha but if/when I do decide to get a better one, I am certainly a lot better educated now.
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    "Pumpkin" ... Also known as "Differential"
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    Takes us 2nd genners a little longer.... coz we're slower .... (according to many)..
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    Also note the zap ties for RK muffler hangars... very ingenious!
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    the one I have is less than 10 seconds. I think most of the newer one are pretty quick. Heck, I can even remember 15 years ago a higher quality Office HP would get the first page out in about 10 seconds or less.
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    I have an HP1020 ... compact, inexpensive, and does a good job...but the cartridges are a tad pricey. http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF05a/18972-18972-3328059-14638-3328066-439423.html
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    I'M P.O.

    SilvrT replied to kantornado's topic in Watering Hole

    SCREAMING would be better!
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    I'd be on the phone to Yamaha yesterday!
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    yep... I'm doing his lesson stuff too .... pretty good and the price is right!
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    All good advice Renne but a little clarification would be appreciated. Are you inferring (and concurring with the shop guy I mentioned) that a Yamaha guitar (in this case an F310 having a new price of $199) is of inferior quality to other brands in the same price range? This guy in the shop showed me a different brand (new) guitar which he sells for $199, suggesting that it was of much better quality. Really, how is one to know ... what should a guy be looking for?
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    No worries mate ..,. but get this... right from the "get-go" that I walked in there I got a bad taste in my mouth. I walk in ... guy who appears to be the "boss" is chatting with, what I thought, was a customer. Nuther "kid" behind the counter just sittin there listenin. So I sand there...looking around a bit... these 2 guys keep on chatting and it wasn't long before I realized they were more like "visiting" ... talkin about stuff like "and what did you do for Christmas" and so on.... this goes on for about what seemed like 10 or 15 minutes. Now as you know, this shop is pretty small so it wasn't likely they didn't see me standing there .... finally this guy that looks like the "boss" looks at me and asks if he can help me. So I tell him what I'm looking for and then go bring the guitar in from the truck. He looks it over and tells me it's in bad need of strings... ok, no problem... so I ask him "how does it sound" ... well, the look he gave me! ... "not bad for a cheap plywood guitar" he says. Well that P/O'd me even more. I say... "I thought Yamaha was a good brand" and he says "sure.... back in the 70's maybe" By this time I'd told him that I bought it used so he asks how much I paid... $95 I say and he just shakes his head and says "you paid way too much"... well now I'm really feeling good... yep warm and fuzzy feeling I have coming to this place.
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    :rotf:
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    My bench vise was hungry so.... [ATTACH]40974[/ATTACH]
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    I hadn't even thought of that "emblem" so ran down to the garage, ripped it off the cassette player cover and put it here.... [ATTACH]40971[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]40972[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]40973[/ATTACH]
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    Thanks Monty ... I am aware of that.
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    yo brotha! ... I gots me muh own rock 'n roll band now and we're dooin gigs down at the local blues club... LOL... yeahsureright! Well, let's see.... 3 weeks ago Saturday I took the guitar into a shop to have it re-stringed and to see if the action could be made a bit easier (we bought a used one) ... they told me it would be ready Wednesday. I neglected to ask "Which Wednesday" ... a week later Saturday, I goes over there and it hadn't even been looked at yet ... guy says "I'll have it ready in an hour" ... it was too much hassle for me to go all the way back there an hour later so I said I'll get it next Saturday. So, "next Friday" rolls around (this is now 2 weeks later) and I phone them..."is my guitar gonna be ready tomorrow?" I ask ... guy says "well, we've been pretty busy... we might have it done" So I respond with my favourite response to these kinda statements... "maybe is not acceptable... either you will or you won't, which is it?" ... Guy says it will so Saturday I go there and voila` ... it's done. I pay the man and leave thinking "I'll nver do business there again". Get home and start practising... "hmmmmmmm..." I'm thinkin... "this doesn't sound right" so I find out it's way out of tune...get that fixed and I'm dooin good. So all in all ... I got about 2.5 weeks of practising in since I got it. Bummer! By the time I got it back from the shop, my finger callouses had all but disappeared (what little I did have). Anyhoo, to make a "long story short" (LOL) .... fingers are toughening up pretty good and I'm up to 7 of the basic chords ... Majors...A, C, D, E ... Minor...A, D, E and I'm workin on G Major. Can't do the change from one to the other very fast but it's coming along and was able to change from D-A-E Major once or twice without looking LOL. All in all, I'm having a blast. I'm also working on a song... it's called "Some Day" ... and it goes like this... "Some day... I'm gonna be... a guitar playah.."
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    Doesn't do that for me... one click is all.
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    I went into msconfig | Startup and disabled ISUSPM, issch, nwiz, and QTtask. You may or may not have these but the problem seems to have stopped.
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