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Latest update: called the dealer about 9am. Service manager said he would look into the issues and give me a call with-in a few hours. 7 hours later... I called him, he said he got busy and forgot. Turns out the diff is jacked and it needed new gears. He said they didn't have the 3.55 gears instock. Why don't they just give me a gear upgrade? Least they can do for all this BS.

I just want to know my family is safe. I can't trust FCA to be honest after all this.

Today the window crank fell apart on an '89 Jeep Wrangle YJ. So I fixed it. Very simple repair considering how easy it is to remove jeep doors. I made a template while it was apart, I'm thinking this jeep is going to be a 'woody'. Real wood dash and door panels. Mostly because I can use scraps and that how you roll in a YJ

Sounds like you know water heaters so can I ask a question? We bought a cabin up in the mountains above Southern California (Idyllwild) It's a very charming place but super small. 1 bedroom, 1 bath, & an attached enclosed deck that doubles as an office & 2nd bedroom. The back door to the deck is blocked by a stacked washer/dryer while a more convenient spot is occupied by a traditional (propane) water heater. We can't use the mud room because of the layout. I was thinking it might be possible to remove the water heater, put the washer/dryer in its place, add a tankless on the wall where the washer/dryer was. In this way I would have access to my back door and mud room. We don't live in the cabin full time and we try not to use too much water. (Septic) it does snow but I hear the snow doesn't last long. Would an electric work in this situation or is gas till the way to go? We are 'on the grid' for electricity but have a very large propane tank for gas. Any advice is welcome

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I had a CCTV install on a military base because of copper thieves. Remote Com relay stations, recall off-grid. Watched the thieves tie the wire to the back of their truck and drive away....

I own the ridgid r4512 and love it. For the price it's a great saw. The first thing I built for it was a cross-cut sled, then a finger joint (box joint) jig, then another sled.

2010 Dodge Ram 1500 5.7 Hemi Quad-Shortbed 4x4 (with open recalls -hate dodge right now!) 1989 Jeep YJ small lift, 33's, rock crawling bumpers, and a few other mods My brother bought a 2015 Chevy Colorado z71 4x4 short bed. I installed a roll up hard bed cover, rack, arb style truck tent, rock sliders, CB, Ham, wips (bad-ass truck) Father-in-law just bought a Jeep trailhawk. He asked me to off-road it and test its capabilities

So now I'm pissed! Check this shit out; and forgive my bad typing: iPhone post After 3 days at the dealer they called me and told me the truck was finished. I go down to the dealer, ask the girl helping me why it took 3 days, she ignored me and picked up her phone. I went to the counter, paid for the over priced $350 oil & plug change, get the paperwork and head out to get my truck. The girl caught up with me and explained the reason it took 3 days was because they had to call in a heave equipment mechanic. (Ram 1500 Bighorn is heavy?) anyway, I'm pissed and about to have one of those PTSD incidents so I just jump in the truck and go home. When I got home I looked through the paperwork and noticed that the recall was NOT completed due to 'Parts not Available' . For those who don't already know, Fiat (dodge) got in trouble from the government because they never had parts available to fix recalls. People went years with open recalls. The problem as it turns out, was not a missing nut or thread compound. Bad machining left threads undersized. Lock-tight isn't going to fix that one. This all happened around the Dodge bailout and many people blame the unions. Regardless, I brought my truck in to get the recall fixed, I told them the recall number and made an appointment. I added the extra oil & plugs because they were due and figured they might cut me a break on labor. What actually happened: they took 3 days to change spark plugs and oil. They mislead me into thinking the shit was done so I would pay. So, I told my wife to look into the recall. I told her I was about to lose my shit. She called the dealer and the service manager gave some BS. She left a negative Yelp review and called the recall center and they confirmed the recall is still outstanding. They even got us in touch with a local dealer who had the parts. Shortly after the negative Yelp review the service manager calls us and 'try's' to make it right. He said he would come pick up the truck & give me a loaner car. We told him we found another dealer and the only thing he could do to make us happy is to reimburse for the other services. He said no way... So I left a bad FB review and called it a day. You would think this journey is over, but it gets better... I talked to FCA.. They are in charge of the buyback program. I already knew the answer to the question I was about to ask, but wanted to hear it from the source. I asked if my truck qualifies for the buyback program. ... The answer: because of a loophole, my truck doesn't qualify. My recall number is N43- or something like that. There are 3 recall numbers that qualify for the buyback but N43 is not one of them, HOWEVER, N08 does & N08 is pat of the N43 recall. It was during the N43 recall that Dodge found the real problem was not just a loose pinion nut. In the official docs for recall N08, it says -N08 is an extension of N43... Logically it tracks that my truck should qualify, but the lawyers rule and I lose. What-ever. I do like my truck so I probably would not have sold it anyway. But wait, I didn't tell you the best part. My truck has been at the dealer for 3 days, ... Again! This time I was in communication with the dealer, he told me it was taking longer then expected. I told him to keep the truck as long as he needed, that I have an '89 YJ I can use. I told him I just wanted to make sure the recall was done right. He called today, while I was balls deep into re-wiring a bad GFCI install (6 outlets protected by a GFCI outlet, but the GFCI was @ the end not source) ... I asked how long he was going to be open. He said he was going to close soon but we could process the paperwork now and I can pick it up later as sales would still be open. Things took a turn for the worst when he asked for my credit card,

I took my 2010 Dodge Ram in for a recall repair. This is the 3rd day the truck has been @ the dealership...

The Big Green Egg is one of the best but don't cheap out, get the big one.

I wouldn't be so quick to judge this as fake. If you guys remember the same thing happened to me on July 4th. And I took a selfie, so that I could show all you clowns what NOT to do. Not too much blood when I cut myself either, the wheel is going so fast, my theory is it carteriz the wound. Anyway, most accidents are avoidable but to call someone stupid... Well you just sound like a dip-shit. Work with tools long enough and your bound to have an accident.

It's a "magnetizer" pass the tip of your bit or screwdriver through it and the bit is magnetized. I use another brand for my electronics workbench to mag & demagnetize precision screwdrivers. Unless I'm mistaken, this attachment doesn't mount to a tool, it is the tool on its own.

So my wife's mother bought a cute cabin up in Idywild CA. Near Hement, and about an hour from Palm Springs/ lake Elsinore. I need a skilled tradesman to remove a few wall heaters and replace a water heater with tankless unit. I'm hoping a TIA member is local and wants the work. Priority is replacing the water heater. It's new, we just need the room for washer/dryer. Let me know, I'll be up there doing some other work this week and it would be great to knock out this job before my mother-in-law & wife return from vacation.

I used to work for Behr. I worked on the robots that made/filled paint. I can tell you that the quality control is very strict. I have watched the lab guys perform the battery of test on each batch. I have seen the scientific rankings of the test and Behr comes up on top in almost every one. But like I said, I used to work for them so I might be bias.

Sell the BB guns and buy a real gun & miter saw

Well hell. Why not have TIA spencer your team? Dan & Erick don't have to fork over money directly, they can just hype the race and chase for a championship on YouTube. The TIA members will be the real sponcer. While individually we may not have much, we can give a little. It may not be $20K, but every dollar helps keep a kids dreams alive, not to mention empowers girls. And besides, we all want to be part of a racing family

Good to hear u made it through your incident w/o any serious injuries. An unfortunate byproduct of being a Manly Man is getting hurt. We offer put ourselves into questionable situations most try to avoid, smiling and happy to sweat. It only takes that 1 time, I'm liking that cordless grinder! After my accident, tangling the grinder cord/cutting off nose, I think I want to investigate the Milwaukee.

I was a Twidget in the military. A nickname given to the electronically inclined individual. the ee prefix stands for embedded engineering, and I started adding it because throughout the internet Twidget was take.

I have a 1989 Jeep Wrangler I want to upgrade. Being an electrical guy I would like to build my own digital dash. Most of the gauges are easy enough to integrate into the new design, however the speedo is mechanical and I require some kind of converter of a new sensor all together. Has anyone done a mech --> electric mod?

CNC

I wish I did have a CNC. I design all the time. I use AutoCAD,Solidworks, Sketch-up, etc. Most of what I would do is build circuit boards. You can rout a copper board and use it to prototype designs. Not as nice are professional built PCB's but they do have a fast turn-around. I even worked for a company called K2CNC. I developed some of the electronic control systems. This was in my office I have a few other non-PCB related projects I can post. I designed and built a learning toy. Digital Logic Gates, robots, keychains, multitools, Cats .. .. My grandfather is a retired finished carpenter and I grew up building with him. I remember when I learned to use a scroll-saw. I made 100's of cats. The kind that sit on the edge of a door. Well, last year I was able to use a laser cutter and replicate the same cats but in black ABS. They look great and he loved them. I helped a guy with a guitar project. We laminated multi-color wood together and carved a guitar body, the results were amazing .. rainbow guitar. Unfortunately i only have this photo of the test cut. but check out this pro version. same end results. One of the cooler project. .. We wanted to demo a large CNC so we made an 'almost life-sized' han solo in carbonite. Carved from a foam block and painted to look like metal. lots of CNC for my tornado project. I prototyped the lid out of wood then cut it from metal on the waterjet. 16 hour cut but the thing looks solid! and one last example of some electronic equipment. I used Solidworks to model the unit then a combination of fabrication methods, including CNC.

Yes, we all do stupid sh*t sometimes. I still get myself un-chucking a hot drill bit on occasion. The silver-lining; I'm not too bad considering, and maybe my sharing will prevent someone else from making the same mistake.

ya, when she said that I knew I was fighting a loosing battle. Worst part though. They stole a laser I won from TIA. Bastards!

I was laid off. Really I was fired. I did 2 stupid things. 1)questioned the company integrity when I discovered we fudged numbers and charged for material we never installed 2)while offloading large & heavy eqp from the back of a semi, I was operating the fork-truck. I had asked everyone to move back for safety. My boss cussed at me and refused. I stood my ground and turned the truck off. Later I was told by the owner (bosses wife) the company didn't fall under OSHA rules. They fired me but called it a layoff. They handed me a check and told me not to go back to site to retrieve my tools. Well, they put a stop payment on the check before I got home and have not returned my tools. They ignore my phone calls and emails. While working in the tornado project they did the same thing to a vendor. Decided not to pay him and pretended he never worked with the company.