This is the most efficient way of tilling floor 15, right?

I'm 99.7% sure there is no way to do it quicker, but still want to check. Thanks!

u/MysticMarbles — 9 hours ago

Any recommendations for a very formable sanding pad? Something a little thicker and a little softer for finishing the more intricate door and moulding profiles?

You know exactly what I'm asking for, and I don't know the name of it to search it or track it down.

Looking for a typical 1/4" to half inch thick sanding pad (320 or 400 obviously) that can readily conform to tight beading and profiles to resist burn through.

What I have on hand (sheets and pads) are all a bit too rigid and take a little more off the edges than I would like when trying to get into fine details. I certainly don't care if these areas are smooth to the touch after clear coat, but it would be nice to spend a little less time folding or shaping pads and sheets if there was something, even a 600 grit version, that I could just shove in the gap and rub a couple times to get it a bit more presentable.

Any recommendations? Trend in my area is to leave pimples and whatnot in there so my paint store, cabinet shop, even the autonomy supply don't quite seem to understand why I want a thicker, softer (almost light memory foam) pad with an ULTRA flexible grit surface.

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u/MysticMarbles — 10 days ago

What would you consider a good countertop height for somebody who is 5'2?

I want to suggest 33, curious on your opinions. What has worked for clients in the past?

Jesus I forgot some info. This is only for a 51.5" section of countertop independent of all appliances.

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u/MysticMarbles — 13 days ago

Quick question, on site and can't decide. Centre handle on total stile or flat section?

Never done this profile before.

Brain says centre on the flat (so 1/4 inside of true centre, photo 1), agreed?

u/MysticMarbles — 15 days ago
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Anybody know any news regarding LaChute/LPA?

I've not gotten through on a few attempted calls, and they haven't replied to any emails.

While they are continuing to post showing off their wheels and shop builds, there have been no updates regarding their performance and adventure parts after the fire.

I'm wanting to move on a front bar and skids fairly soon and I want to run their setup but I have no idea if I'm waiting a few months or a few years for productions starting again (if at all, maybe they aren't reopening the parts side...) I'll move to another brand but I'd like it to be an informed decision.

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u/MysticMarbles — 28 days ago
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New wheel day.

Fast FC04 in Matte Bronze, 18x8 +40.

Continental DWS06+ in 245/45.

Black Splines from GA on Amazon, Acropix 56.1-72.6 rings.

Fills the wells up nicely, may need to shave rear plastic flange on inside top of arch but I can't tell until I take it offroad, it might camber in and tuck under compression.

Big shock was the weight compared to stock, FedEx said they were 43.12lb per corner (all between 43 and 43.3) which should mean nearly 10lb saved per corner. Never weighed the stock setup but most sources claim around 52-54?

Rides great. Squishy, little bit floppy, but insanely comfortable and still predictable, if less direct, in the corners.

The Dunlops still have maybe 2/32nds to the wear bars so I'll be swapping them for track days until they die, then either wrap them in new stickies or just sell off the stock wheels for a couple hundred bucks.

u/MysticMarbles — 1 month ago

First stall in about 4.5 years.

A/C kicked on at the same time I went to pull away from a light with 4 people, 2 dogs, and all of our luggage, with 2 parents moaning about their other children in the back seats.

Had a good streak going. Also blew a 5-6 shift into a 5-4 shift an hour before that. Guess all good runs have to come to an end eventually.

Edit to address a few comments. I've been driving stick since 2006, tractors and on private property for a decade before that. This was a lighthearted post, I'm not losing any sleep over this.

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u/MysticMarbles — 1 month ago
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2750km, carting family around so no fun driving. I need seat recommendations.

So, while puttering along on our family vacation I had the wife behind me so we took the time to analyze the seat discomfort I've been having.

Sure, my spine is curved, yes, I sit to the right, and yes the steering wheel is angled and no part of the cockpit actually lines up. Cool. However one day after mom started ranting about the fact that children make noise, everybody is out to get her and that that there are no coastal views on the roads in the town THEY BOOKED I finally figured it out.

When I slouch down, say in an act of exhausted frustration with the family dynamics, my shoulders seem to lock into a natural design of the seat and I get to experience the seating design as intended. I'm too fucking tall. That's all it is. A bit of slouch and I cozily sink into a little recess that supports, fits, and my god holds you in place while cornering.

So, fellow humans who have a typical Dutch build and who have 12" longer than normal torsos (I'm 6'4 but I wear 35/28 pants) do we have any seat recommendations? My initial plan is to just adjust the pivots ro raise the entire seat back up by 2" but assuming that that isn't possible, I'm entirely open to ideas. Just the drivers seat, and not something that will bankrupt me.

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u/MysticMarbles — 1 month ago

Looking for a lawyer or any advice on a name change.

Hey all. Curious of anybody had any links, resources or legal advice for a last name change.

Changing to my mothers maiden and I feel like between legal documents, medical waitlists and alllllll the other cards and whatnot I won't have the capability to pull it all off without missing any major steps.

Any advice, money isn't a huge issue and would prefer guidance beyond just "follow this list and you'll be fine", because I'm too busy and scatter brained to pull it off. Know your limits, yanno?

If anybody has done a last name change (not through marriage) let me know what we can expect. Thanks.

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u/MysticMarbles — 1 month ago
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After a year of difficult internal debate, I finally made a decision.

New Spring and Fall setup for the 25 WRX (and eventually Summer as well)

Have 225/55's on Rally Bronze Sparco Terras in 17x7.5 for winter, and of course the 245/40's on the stock 18x8.5's which now can not be driven in the rain and will be relegated to track use until they are worn off.

This year also taught me that only having UHP summers alongside winters means I'm either driving winter tires when it's 28° or I'm driving summers when it's -8, so I don't see us keeping 3 sets longterm, will likely try to sell off the dunlops with a hair of life left on the stock wheels for what, maybe a couple hundred bucks next year?

Any idea on what a set of the stock Subaru 15 spokes (base trim) are worth? I see them listed for $750 and not moving at all. $2-$400 seems right to me.

Was going to go 255 40 on 18x9.5 but my roads are just too shit. I like the comfy.

u/MysticMarbles — 1 month ago
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After much internal debate, I've settled on comfort over performance.

Wanted to grab some 18x9's with 255/40's but it's going to make more sense to run the still usable stock tires for track days and have a set of something that can be driven in the rain we get around here.

Stock Dunlops are at maybe 4.5/32nds and with our rutted roads (which means standing rain water) they truly are not usable anymore in the wet. Plus these should be about right for how much gravel and dirt we drive on our roadtrips.

So I now have 225/55r17's on Sparco Terras for winter, stock setup for summer roadtrips to places with nicer roads and track days, and a good all season for Spring and Fall and trips where I keep the R in wRx.

Will post pics in a few weeks.

u/MysticMarbles — 2 months ago
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Clutch delay delete for under $100 Canadian?

$68, plus $20 shipping, plus $13 tax through SSC.

Can somebody remind me which retailer normally has free shipping without an order minimum? I'm going through my tabs and bookmarks and can not find a website that I SWEAR existed when I was last looking.

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u/MysticMarbles — 2 months ago

Mmm. Dinner.

I have to say it but I kind of forgot about Dutch Babies for the last 3 years. Lovely "meal" from the 12".

No, I didn't think to take the photo until it was out of the pan and falling.

u/MysticMarbles — 2 months ago

Well, I settled on my next challenge farm. Keeping it simple. Blueberries to perfection.

I've done every manner of bizarre artisan good, so screw it. Simple playthrough, only blueberries. Only allowed to buy blueberry seeds, only allowed to sell blueberries.

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Obviously year 1 will be pointless but as long as I can sort out 3-400 garden pots and a bunch of sheds before the end of the first Summer with my limited profits I'll be hoping for perfection around year 4. Clay is going to be the huge bottle neck between garden pots and eventually deluxe retaining soil though. Obviously we will be primarily growing in sheds given the whole seasonal aspect of the game.

Edit, this is only selling blueberries for perfection. This means NO other profit. Entirely Joja, really just earning a way to success. I've played too many farms to enjoy making friends and going through those paces. This is just a quick way to kill 15 minutes a few times a day, and I expect to end with a few thousand blueberry plants making a quick run to perfection*

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u/MysticMarbles — 2 months ago

37/M. Smacked my left pinky finger knuckle with a drill. No penetration, just a wicked hard lateral (inside to outside) blow.

Age 37

Sex Male

Height/Weight irrelevant

Race irrelevant

Duration of complaint see text body

Location hand/canada

Any existing relevant medical issues None

Current medications None

(Finger has always been bent photo is just to show impact area and current swelling

Sat at 3pm. No pain or issues.

Sat at 7pm. Unable to move finger. Incredible swelling.

Sun midday. Able to flex finger to normal reaches manually, however using the finger itself triggers immense pain.

Sunday evening. Able to bend the finger 80% down and 100% up with minimal discomfort. Noted pain is along tendon? to the right side of the knuckle at this point from the second knuckle to halfway up the backside of the palm.

Currently hospital waits are averaging 36 hours which is why I'm not seeking medical care. Should I be immobilizing it? Keeping it neutral? Doing anything special at all?

I know the photo doesn't show it great but the little skin flap is just where the impact was, in a downward direction (from ring finger towards impact which was a crush against floor of the van, well as much of a crush as a 2lb tool can cause from 6" away)

u/MysticMarbles — 2 months ago

Wanting to get into another farm but can't think of any challenge ideas.

I've paid for perfection selling only maple syrup. Only eggs. Only mushrooms. Only strawberries. I've limited myself to no pickaxe, no axe. I've done only crabpots. I've forced myself to max all friendship before selling a single item, and a few other types of ways to force a new style of gameplay.

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For those of us stuck without mods... got any other ideas?

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I'm kind of leaning towards selling only flowers, might take a bit to get there but at least my farm will be pretty, right?

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u/MysticMarbles — 2 months ago

This is more of a vent than anything about our state of Healthcare (or maybe licensing), but if anybody has any ideas...

I'm out about a weeks wages and 2 tanks of gas trying to write for a drivers license, which I have now been denied twice.

Half day off, drive an hour north, get my medical form done. Half day off, head to SNB, get denied for a condition, cool whatever. Wait for forms and instructions in the mail. I'm now a couple months in with booking the exam a few weeks after the medical, waiting on letters to arrive, getting an appointment with our NP. Normal stuff.

NP is booked out 2 or so months. Half day off, drive an hour north, get the longer medical form done. Opthamologist was already booked for a normal exam, so I threw a form at them, but it's in town so minor inconvience. Half day off, and get all my lab work done. Fill out the drivers form myself. There have been small delays here and there since I have a job and need to line things up in advance but I felt like I moved as fast as possible.

All 4 forms and lab work done, sent off to the ministry. Wait for review board date, get the go ahead without any issue since this is really just a formality, book the soonest available written test date. That's another ~2 weeks in limbo, followed by another 12 days to the soonest test date booked the second I got the approval.

Book another half day or maybe 3 hours off, head to SNB. Denied. Why? Because my ORIGINAL medical form, the short one, expired last week, and apparently the long form one which details almost all the same things in significantly greater detail, that was also accompnaied by a full labwork panel, does not count.

Call my NP. What's the earliest date available? Why it's August somethingth, of course. Explain that I literally met her about an extended version of this form like 5 or 6 weeks ago and need her to check off 8 lines and sign it, nope, can't be fit in.

So, now I guess I either pay $190 at Medicalux or just continue waiting on this while everybody else moves through training. I absolutely could not imagine doing this if it was for my class 5 and I needed to be chauffered around.

I dunno, just needed to vent. This is insanity, and it shouldn't take 4+ moo tha to get a few medical forms done. Sure, I delayed things through the end of December and atart of January like any sane person would, but the timeline has been as tight as possible otherwise.

Get original medical.

+5 weeks not bothering with it during Christmas vacation. *Because this can't possibly not be done in time*.

Denied to write.

3-4 weeks for Ministry to supply instructions, our mail delivery seems to take forever in my town, or maybe it just takes them a while to get around to it.
10 weeks for extended medical form. Did ophthalmologist before this, lined up with an existing eye exam.
2 weeks to find time for bloodwork after NP requisitioned it. Trying to schedule around employment to not start TOO many dumpster fires at work.
1 week to contact ministry and figure out how to submit that wasn't by fax, since somebody was on vacation and like hell if I have access to a fax machine.
2.5 weeks waiting for approval.
2 weeks for soonest exam date.

Surprise, that's 6 months. Can't see my doctor for another 2 months, not sure if anybody who knows nothing about me will sign off on this medical form without knowing my history, even if I supply the long form done recently that just says I'm healthy as $%&#. Yeah it's a "major" condition but I have absolutely no issues at it's been 25 years now.

Bonus? SNB didn't know about this condition until I tried to upgrade my license *I guess they didn't look at my of province restrictions when I changed it to NB a decade or s ago* so even if I throw in the towel and give up at this point (which I likely will), now I still need to submit all these forms annually going forward, and I've heard you don't get a lot of notice for that so, that should be fun...

WHY DOES IT TAKE IN EXCESS OF 2 MONTHS TO SEE MY PRIMARY CARE PROVIDER. This whole process should have taken a couple months tops, and if people had availability I could have taken a single day off and smashed this all out within 8 hours, right?

/rant.

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u/MysticMarbles — 2 months ago
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245 45 or 255 40. Stock rims.

Looking to add some sidewall and curious if anybody has any input. Ended up deciding against new 9" wheels so it's a bit tricker now. All tire options will be DWS06's.

255 40 seems like the best fit between a comfier tire and not increasing the gearing ratio with tall rubber, because if my 27" winters taught me anything, it's that it feels slow on tall tires. The only concern being washy feelings on corners with the section width vs 8.5 wheel, however I know the DWS runs a bit narrow.

245 45 will give that cushion and be a square fit on the wheel but it's that size that worries me again.

I drive some of the worst roads in Canada, and spend a lot of time on gravel, clay, and sand.

Any input? I'm leaning towards 255 40 for looks and knowing that the DWS is squishy I'm not super concerned about adding sidewall for cushion, but really curious on thoughts from those who have done either. 255 calls for a 9", 245 45 calls for an 8", so both close enough.

Searched the group, find lots of comments about fitment to arches but not a lot about how they actually drive. Most posts are just "installed today", and not long term reviews.

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u/MysticMarbles — 3 months ago