chit chat thread

[Jdesign]

GB-335xiCoupe said:

Someone kindly translate the overpass ones? I can make out some of the letters, but not really making sense to me.

SLICK ROSE? Maybe...

This is what I see:

Vitial / Vitel (more likely an "a" due to his signature)

RUE - Pretty easy to read

Spar___ I cant see the whole thing

Separate artist working together at the same time is the case in the first 3. This is pretty common because you can get more color down faster. Both artists will most likely have pre-drawn examples of what they are going to paint before hand and just copy it to the wall. Both will likely layout their own outlines, but will work together to do fills, shadows, and highlights.

[SteelBlue]

HipMF said:

Also, was downtown earlier Saturday. Surprised to see everything still pretty much as it was. i guess the police investigation is still on-going...

El Primo: we miss you q_q

Where is this that it looks like a bomb went off?

[HipMF]

SteelBlue said:

Where is this that it looks like a bomb went off?

Downtown Sun Prairie. It was a natural gas explosion.

[Ryan...]

Very "lucky" that only 1 person died in that explosion. The other firefighter that was near the building when it exploded very nearly died as well. Everyone involved did a great job at containment and evacuating people.

[straight6pwr]

m42b32 said:

It sure does look like it, steel roof panel maybe? 

i dug for a second, i think its an f350 pre dating the aluminum switch

the aluminum trucks have aluminum roofs

[jc43089]

Well it's a big day today.  I'm putting in my two weeks notice at Hormel Foods.  I'm taking a job back in Wisconsin!  Nine years ago I graduated from Northcentral Technical College in Wausau with an AAS in Electromechanical Technology and went to work for Hormel Foods in Dubuque, IA.  Through that time I was a Maintenance Electrician, then an Instrumentation Technician, then moved to their Engineering R&D group near Austin, MN as a Programming Technician, basically an hourly Controls Engineer.

I will be going back to NTC as an instructor in the Electromechanical Technology department.  Hormel is a great company to work for it's mostly about being closer to family.  Both my family and my wife's family live near Wausau.

So this is pretty exciting but also happening pretty fast.  Yikes.

[Earl]

Congrats to you=) So you'll have to sell your house with the dream barn and hopefully find something up this way?

[jc43089]

Earl said:

Congrats to you=) So you'll have to sell your house with the dream barn and hopefully find something up this way?

Thanks, yea it isn't finished but it's a good start for whatever somebody else wants it to be.  I just trenched in a 100A feeder and installed a breaker box out there last weekend.

[YoungCR]

Congrats! You'll be a great instructor.

[Jdesign]

Congrats!

[straight6pwr]

welcome back! hope you inspire some minds.

[HipMF]

I've got an idea for a "rat rod" project. Someone buy me this

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Hewland-Racing-VGC-Transaxle-with-Lola-suspension-BBS-wheels/283073312598?hash=item41e87bf756%3Ag%3AoIIAAOSwHHFZAR8I&_pgn=2&_sacat=0&_nkw=hewland&_from=R40&rt=nc

[ChrisO]

I've been looking at this trying to determine if it's photoshop. Looks real, hoods even cut...

[Earl]

Ive never seen that intake manifold before. Leads me to believe it's photoshop strictly because of that lol

[GunMetalGrey]

Patiently waiting for @HipMF to post some weekend photos.

[HipMF]

GunMetalGrey said:

Patiently waiting for @HipMF to post some weekend photos. 

Took zero pictures this weekend.

"Fixed" the rad fan on the e21. (kept blowing fuses. took it off, tested it, worked fine. put it back on, works fine...)

Other than that, just dug up some stuff out of storage that I need to get rid of. Looking forward to getting my new apartment. Not looking forward to moving.

[GunMetalGrey]

HipMF said:

Took zero pictures this weekend.

"Fixed" the rad fan on the e21. (kept blowing fuses. took it off, tested it, worked fine. put it back on, works fine...)

Other than that, just dug up some stuff out of storage that I need to get rid of. Looking forward to getting my new apartment. Not looking forward to moving.

Sounds like the perfect fix. 
I heard Brett showed up and put in an equal amount of effort.

[GB-335xiCoupe]

HipMF said:

Took zero pictures this weekend.

"Fixed" the rad fan on the e21. (kept blowing fuses. took it off, tested it, worked fine. put it back on, works fine...)

Other than that, just dug up some stuff out of storage that I need to get rid of. Looking forward to getting my new apartment. Not looking forward to moving.

Moving sucks. I hate it. Amazing how much $h!t you accumulate over the years.

[Jdesign]

ChrisO said:

I've been looking at this trying to determine if it's photoshop. Looks real, hoods even cut...

I saw that a few days ago. I think its real, but I have no proof. Im pretty sure there was a third picture too.

[patsbimmer1]

I've been looking for a new winter beater and 4runner's have been coming up.  Let's say I can find a rust free-ish model, what are your thoughts on the 3rd gen 4runner?