Off topic discussion - no food, booze, politics, or religion

Hit a milestone on the might Sorento today. Bought her new in 2019. Been a good enough ride for me. Sprung one oil leak and the SD card for the nav died, both covered under warranty.

Relatively low mileage for a 6+ year old vehicle, but that is now changing since my new commute is 110 miles a day. I plan on doing that through the winter and next spring at which time we will consider relocating. I should know by then if I really enjoy the job or not, although so far so good.

Couple perks.

  1. Salary are expected to work no more than 40 hours.
  2. I get to leave my work phone on my desk when I leave for the day. We run no night shift.

Really the only two drawbacks are I had to shave off my beard (I have to wear a respirator from time to time) and the commute.

Anyways, never mind the 70mph - I was also in a construction zone lol.

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Spooky - and on Halloween too….

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I entered a car show yesterday called Rad Revivals. It’s all 80’s/90’s themed cars and stuff. I entered my 95 Saturn.


I think there was 120 cars or so. There was a pretty good mix of cars and trucks, from Ferraris to dancing bed mini trucks to a Fiero, an Escort, to RX7’s, to VW GTIs. Not to mention all the ols school BMX bikes! Unfortunately it rained that evening, not a show ending down pour, just a miserable drizzle. Good time regardless. Got some great comments on my Saturn, the only one there🤘🏼






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Can you plz post more pix of your Saturn?

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That’s a great picture Ron!

A few of it’s various versions…





Thanks for asking, I’m so happy to still have it. It was 4 years old when I bought it.

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Thanks, it looks great! It looks really clean, even the engine bay!

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Sometimes I forget just WHY i got into speaker building, but then I am reminded.

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It was all about the ‘knobs’ back then :wink:

I was thinking that image was busted, more than once.

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I just ordered another 32GB of RAM for my home video editing PC. Holy cow, the prices are insane now. The first 32GB G-Skill DDR4 kit was $60 in late August - now it’s $145!!

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Guessing import fees? I know everything on AliExpress is now fucking ridiculously priced. So much for bargain deals.

AI build out rush is driving chip prices right now.

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That’s one of the big issues I read about. Another is the general decline of DDR4 as manufacturers are working on the impending launch of DDR6.

Measured some Focal car audio speakers. There were two different 6" K2 midbasses. One had a smaller VC and magnet (SVc)
Pics of the larger VC (BVc)units…


FR:

Mids are okish…not for $450 a pair!!

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These are the tweeters, meant for the Harley Davidson set.
FR:


:flushed_face:. $350 a pair!!

Did a comparison with one of the Bose units…


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Bose vs Focal

Wow (the french girls are nice to look at, but don’t let them sing)

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Finally going to try some water based contact adhesive to use with laminate. The Wilsonart construction water based contact adhesive from HD (was suggested to me here by someone, don’t remember who). If it works that should allow me to apply it indoors. Not stocked locally so I get to twiddle my thumbs for a while until it arrives. Gives me time to get off my arse and pre-cut some laminate.

I definitely give the Wilsonart H2O contact adhesive a thumbs up.

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