I usually run power 6 but I got a road 6 on the rear for the extra miles but what’s a tire that comes in a 200 that’s comparable to the road 6 in terms of grip and mileage? I like the power 6 but I just ran through it so quick commuting. I like to commute and hit the canyons on the weekends.
Pic just cause
Do I need to replace this screw on the coolant overflow reservoir? No leaks seem to be coming from any hoses or connections, just the overflow reservoir itself. Is this common? Replace whole reservoir or just the screw?
2012 R1
I started hearing this rattling noise in my bike and I thought it was the cam chain tensioner at first. I thought this because the sound didn’t change when I pulled in the clutch, but now it does. (Maybe I just didn’t notice the sound good enough). In this vid, the sound changing is me pulling in the clutch and then releasing it. I do this a couple times here and u can tell by the sound.
I already have the Graves manual cam chain tensioner on hand, and new oil. I can either change this part and see if it helps or, order an EBC SRK clutch kit and change that at the same time so I don’t have to buy new oil again.
Opinions? Will either of these even fix the sound? Is it something else? maybe clutch basket?
Just picked up these bad boys for my casual riding. It has good reviews but wanted to hear some experiences about them here.
I’d also like to see your casual riding boots/shoes.
I’m going to go for my LSIT and I’d like some suggestions on the best resources to study and where I should focus. My co worker said NCEES FS but ofc it costs money. I don’t mind paying but I just want to hear if there’s a better option? Also, which courses on NCEES would be best.
I work in CARLSON SURVEY.
I’d like some opinions or experiences of how you have managed big construction jobs. My predecessor at this company, who’s now gone, had everything in one crd and one dwg. To me, that’s crazy lol. We’re talking roughly 30,000 calc’d points by the end of this thing. This may not be “big” to some of you, but for me it is. This is a multi bldg park with plans from the ground up, area drains, to grid lines, to landscaping.
My first question is on crd management. I took over this project well into phase 1 and just before phase 2 so everything was already setup. I’ve had many pain points of poor coding descriptions and very little group and layer management. I’m kind of getting a fresh start for phase 2 since I’ll be in sole control of how it’s managed. I’ve started by starting a completely new dwg and crd for bldg 2. Even the xrefs were all overlaid and nothing was modular so very hard to just show what I want on a certain calc map, e.g. I don’t wanna plot the trees if we’re staking grid lines. So I’m doing my best to layer all the xrefs and overlay them instead of attached. This dwg was so bogged down by all the xrefs and poor xref management. The question is, generally what’s the most points you put on one crd before it’s better to just separate things into a new one?
Also, do you guys use seperate dwgs and crds? For example, all drainage in one dwg and crd, all landscaping in one, all hardscapes etc.
I’m open to hearing anything else that may be insightful in managing this project. TIA
2012 R1. Power 6s, rear tire, how many miles left you think I can safely get out of this? I usually don’t ever ride in the rain and I’m in cali so it’s unlikely I’ll get caught in the rain by surprise.
I wish I could load another pic here because the middle profile of the tire is flat af. It used to be nice and round when I only weekend rode in the canyons but I started commuting on this tire, by circumstance, and the middle just flattened out real quick. Now I don’t have to commute with it but I like to take it to work at least once a week (110mi round trip per day). Debating on power 6s or road 6s next. I still like to go in the canyons on the weekends sometimes but I don’t wanna really corner hard on a road 6. But I don’t wanna waste another power 6 commuting. Opinions on spirited riding on a road 6?
I recently started at a company and they do NOT store their staking shots. They have a hand written cut sheet and that is their record of staking. My last company would store our points. Honestly, I think it’s a bit bonkers to not store them. If that cut sheet gets lost (which they do), or miswritten, or someone pulls out the stakes, there is zero evidence that it was even staked or staked correctly. I feel the benefits of storing them heavily outweigh the effort to literally just click “store” when they reshoot it to get the elev. You can drop the points in CAD as another check to see it was staked correctly, have a concrete record that can’t get lost or altered. Idk seems like common good practice to store them to me.
I’m tryna convince the owner and all the party chiefs to store them but everyone is set in their ways and I’m just the new guy basically. Is it worth my effort to voice this?
Thoughts?
2015 428i N26
There’s a sound that recently started happening. Only in the mornings when it’s cold, but not every morning. Right when I start the car, there’s 2 distinct knocking sounds immediately after start up, and then the car idles higher than normal on a cold start. It usually cold starts around 1100-1200 rpm but when that sound happens, it goes to around 1500, then drops down to normal. You’ll see in the vid it actually spikes higher than 1500. No CEL, no lights/codes. Seemingly, nothing else is affected. It is just a scary sound tbh. Not much more info than this and the video. The video audio doesn’t quite sound the same too idk but it’s the best I got.
I use Carlson, Intellicad 2026.
In surface manager, There’s a couple things that don’t quite work how I would like or expect, maybe bugs or I’m not using it correctly.
- When I accidentally cross a break line, it asks if I’d like to overwrite it. Seemingly, when I choose yes or no, sometimes it kicks me out of the manager and I lose all my progress from that session.
- some triangles are made not on points. Sometimes there’ll be a triangle right next to the point or even kind of far away from the nearest point and I wonder how the surface decided to put a triangulation point there.
- similarly, I’ve seen a surface triangulate all along a curb between shots, like every foot. Is that because of a 3d poly line or is there a difference using 2d or 3d poly lines? Those shorter intervals between triangles seem to draw a more accurate surface following the curb as it slopes up, if that makes sense.
- I’ll make a point group using the points I want to use for the surface and sometimes the triangulation will skip points. I know for sure that point was in the point group used to make the surface and there aren’t any triangulation on it and I’ll have to “add point” to include it.
- Break lines, in a perfect world, I’ll select all my break lines before running the surface but inevitably some break lines over lap because my field crews aren’t perfect ya know? Like the lip of gutter will fall into the curb and that will cause an overlapping break line. Any way to avoid this without moving the point? I’ll typically just trim the line for aesthetics sake. Or is this a field crews not being accurate issue?
Last thing, thoughts on using “add point” to bring the surface to the edge of wall, for example, keeping the nearest elevation shot. I’m talking a couple tenths max. since it’s impossible to shoot a perpendicular edge all the way up to a wall or curb in the field.
In surface manager, There’s a couple things that don’t quite work how I would like or expect, maybe bugs or I’m not using it correctly.
- When I accidentally cross a break line, it asks if I’d like to overwrite it. Seemingly, when I choose yes or no, sometimes it kicks me out of the manager and I lose all my progress from that session.
- some triangles are made not on points. Sometimes there’ll be a triangle right next to the point or even kind of far away from the nearest point and I wonder how the surface decided to put a triangulation point there.
- similarly, I’ve seen a surface triangulate all along a curb between shots, like every foot. Is that because of a 3d poly line or is there a difference using 2d or 3d poly lines? Those shorter intervals between triangles seem to draw a more accurate surface following the curb as it slopes up, if that makes sense.
- I’ll make a point group using the points I want to use for the surface and sometimes the triangulation will skip points. I know for sure that point was in the point group used to make the surface and there aren’t any triangulation on it and I’ll have to “add point” to include it.
- Break lines, in a perfect world, I’ll select all my break lines before running the surface but inevitably some break lines over lap because my field crews aren’t perfect ya know? Like the lip of gutter will fall into the curb and that will cause an overlapping break line. Any way to avoid this without moving the point? I’ll typically just trim the line for aesthetics sake. Or is this a field crews not being accurate issue?
Last thing, thoughts on using “add point” to bring the surface to the edge of wall, for example, keeping the nearest elevation shot. I’m talking a couple tenths max. since it’s impossible to shoot a perpendicular edge all the way up to a wall or curb in the field.
New to California surveying and I’m wondering what the market looks like here for rodman/chainman, party chiefs, CAD technician, etc. What are the current union rates and do non union companies stay competitive with that?
Also, is there typically a big bump for LSIT (don’t have that where I’m from, just LS)? Is LSIT worth getting, do companies look at LSIT as important or just a cert. on paper?
I’m basically trying to gauge what I should be getting paid out here.
Resume:
Grew up surveying in a family business, started in the field as young as 10yo. Spent 6-7 years in my adult life from Rodman to PC to CAD/Calcs. I’m mostly in the office now. Drafting topos, calcs, prepping for field crews, researching BMs, Corner records, CL mons. We do mostly construction, few lot surveys so not too much boundary work. My main role is to churn out topos and make sure field crews have everything they need. Construction plans, calcs, control, etc.
What should I be asking for? No LSIT or LS.
Btw, I get paid (a little bit) more when I go in the field as a chain man rather than stay in the office. Which is mind blowing to me, seeing as a monkey could be a chain man and you couldn’t fill my office role efficiently without years of experience. Not to mention soft skills, working with veteran party chiefs and managing personalities, which does count for something. Being humble enough to hear feedback and confident enough to provide accurate work.