post a *PIC* of your latest purchase (can be anything as long as you purchased it)

[Lonster]

Rihama, I keep a portable 15 gallon gas storage full for my small engines and the generator ( if the power goes out). I use non ethanol fuel and I add stabilizer because this gas can sit for a year sometimes. This way it's ALWAYS ready and good.
Just like this: https://www.amazon.com/DuraMax-Flui...t=&hvlocphy=9032372&hvtargid=pla-347612513020

 

[two wheel tramp]

Rihama, I keep a portable 15 gallon gas storage full for my small engines and the generator ( if the power goes out). I use non ethanol fuel and I add stabilizer because this gas can sit for a year sometimes. This way it's ALWAYS ready and good.
Just like this: https://www.amazon.com/DuraMax-Flui...t=&hvlocphy=9032372&hvtargid=pla-347612513020

Smart. We have power outages at Mom's house. The winds here are NUTS! Regularly 50 mph and then several inches of rain, too. I'll add to our gas collection on hand and ask about their generator again. I made them buy a gas camp stove for when the power goes out (and so I can use my wok :laughing).

Have you ridden that 890 with fresh boingers yet?

 

[TheRobSJ]

Saw this little gem on Amazon. Had to have it for the lolz.

If you don’t get why it’s hilarious, professional mechanics constantly have to clean up what people try at home to save a buck from stuff they read on a forum or watched on YouTube. Or worse, they come in and argue with us that they know better since they saw it on YouTube and we’re doing it wrong.

 

[Kornholio]

Give one of those to Scotty! :facepalm

 

[Abacinator]

:rofl

The most obnoxious customers. So many times I have to keep myself from saying, "why don't you do it yourself, then?"

The other customers I hate are the ones with a $20 OBD scanner from Amazon.

 

[bikewanker]

But you can you have it on you sleeve at work? Years ago I thought the real ASE patches were hard to come by, or they were just pissed I’d lost one.

 

[Kurosaki]

Saw this little gem on Amazon. Had to have it for the lolz.

If you don’t get why it’s hilarious, professional mechanics constantly have to clean up what people try at home to save a buck from stuff they read on a forum or watched on YouTube. Or worse, they come in and argue with us that they know better since they saw it on YouTube and we’re doing it wrong.

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I don't work in a shop but I've worked on cars and bikes as long as I've learned how to drive and ride.

I kinda want one of those because of my friends that I help do maintenance/fixes on their cars and constantly argue with me about what they saw on youtube while I'm trying to help them.

 

[TheRobSJ]

But you can you have it on you sleeve at work? Years ago I thought the real ASE patches were hard to come by, or they were just pissed I’d lost one.

Oh I don’t think I’d ever wear that one to work. Just got it to have it.

The real ones are supposed to be hard to come by. But I remember awhile back asking the uniform company to put some master tech patches on my new shirts. And I was about to hand the guy a stack of my own to use, but then he said “oh you keep them, we have those already.”

 

[TheRobSJ]

Give one of those to Scotty! :facepalm

Exactly the kind of cook that people watch and then come in thinking they know better.

There are some good youtube wrenches out there. Eric the Car Guy comes to mind. I wouldn’t bring my 2021 Acura to him and take whatever he’d say about the newest cars with a grain of salt (though he seems to stay in his lane and not deal with the newest stuff), but the guy was a legit Acura Master Tech for a dealer once upon a time before opening his own shop. So something he might say about how to fix the distributor on a ‘99 Integra is just fine.

It’s just when the boob on the other side of the screen tries to execute what he says who may not have all the tools needed and just wings it. Or they’re mechanical aptitude is terrible, but either way they wind up breaking more than they fix.

 

[Pushrod]

Exactly the kind of cook that people watch and then come in thinking they know better.

There are some good youtube wrenches out there. Eric the Car Guy comes to mind. I wouldn’t bring my 2021 Acura to him and take whatever he’d say about the newest cars with a grain of salt (though he seems to stay in his lane and not deal with the newest stuff), but the guy was a legit Acura Master Tech for a dealer once upon a time before opening his own shop. So something he might say about how to fix the distributor on a ‘99 Integra is just fine.

It’s just when the boob on the other side of the screen tries to execute what he says who may not have all the tools needed and just wings it. Or they’re mechanical aptitude is terrible, but either way they wind up breaking more than they fix.

Well, yeah.

But thats the whole point of the exercise. If Bubba Buttcrack is willing to put his failed efforts on YouTube I'm willing to let him pay the tuition so I can learn to do it differently and correctly.

As maintenance manager in a food processing facility YouTube has been a great resource. Saved my budget by learning where the rocks in the stream are and where to get parts.

And factory YouTube tutorials are pure gold.

Oh. . .and the kitten videos are precious.

 

[brichter]

Saw this little gem on Amazon. Had to have it for the lolz.

If you don’t get why it’s hilarious, professional mechanics constantly have to clean up what people try at home to save a buck from stuff they read on a forum or watched on YouTube. Or worse, they come in and argue with us that they know better since they saw it on YouTube and we’re doing it wrong.

Remember way back in the day, guys would come walking into the shop with the toolbox in one hand and ASE certifications in the other thinking I owe them a job. When I ask him where they worked before to get the ASC certifications, they would say they tested for those while they were in school. Gave three or four of them a try, only one of them was worth a job.

 

[TheRobSJ]

Remember way back in the day, guys would come walking into the shop with the toolbox in one hand and ASE certifications in the other thinking I owe them a job. When I ask him where they worked before to get the ASC certifications, they would say they tested for those while they were in school. Gave three or four of them a try, only one of them was worth a job.

ASE has a 2 year experience requirement before they will actually certify you. Unfortunately, they’ve worked it out so school counts as half (maybe more now?) that time. I’ve been ASE Master since my first year in the business. I still didn’t dare call myself a master tech back then. I knew I was simply good at taking tests.

Experience > Papers

But since I have both now, now I was known to be cruising around the shop checking on my guys wearing my shop jacket. So many patches on it, I looked like Idi Amin.

 

[Lonster]

Smart.
Have you ridden that 890 with fresh boingers yet?

No. I'll put it on after the initial service, when I add the power commander, the full Ti exhaust and all the carbon body work that I had left over from the first one.
You might want to think about an automatic switch for the generator. Your parents might struggle with the genie if you're not there...

 

[two wheel tramp]

No. I'll put it on after the initial service, when I add the power commander, the full Ti exhaust and all the carbon body work that I had left over from the first one.
You might want to think about an automatic switch for the generator. Your parents might struggle with the genie if you're not there...

I've got the switch? A friend gave me his.

 

[Lonster]

Nice!

 

[McGrude]

2001 Honda Elite 80. Picked this up in Aptos.

 

[tzrider]

 

[kelsodeez]

Picked up a new midi controller

 

[engineboy]

Saw this little gem on Amazon. Had to have it for the lolz.

Awesome.

I start rolling eyes when I get a customer that starts the conversation with "I looked it up on youtube and it looks simple".

 

[Sharxfan]

I had to replace the starter on my Big Bertha my '95 Chevy 4x4 so I did the normal and looked up how to change it. There was this hard line running right under the starter motor and I could not figure out if it was a fluid line or a hard vacuum line of some kind to see what I would get myself into if I disconnected it. Well after about 6 you tube videos with guys talking about their starter and truck and then saying okay lets take the old one out they would cut the video and then it would go to okay we got the old one out so here is how it looks. I was like WTF happened to showing how to get it out that is the hard part I was pissed.