A Call For Humor!

[Robin L]

 

[xanalog]

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Over 20 years ago, adaptive-suspension technology 'hit' the road.
GM/Cadillac became the original proponent of the DelphiAutomotive introduced magnetorhetorical (MR) suspensions systems.
Originally dubbed the 'MagnaRide',

MR technology saw leaps-and-bounds of advancements, via computer-control (etc.); thus, removing the need for the magnet-juice.
GM, BMW, Audi, Ferrari, Ford, Lamborghini, Acura and even LandRover have been using such adaptive-suspension advancements in many of their models.

 

[Audionaut]

Over 20 years ago,

Over 20 years ago, adaptive-suspension technology hit the road.
General Motors, through its Cadillac division, was the first to introduce Delphi Automotive’s magnetorheological (MR) suspension system, originally called MagnaRide.
MR technology has since advanced by leaps and bounds thanks to improved computer control and sensors.
Today, manufacturers such as GM, BMW, Audi, Ferrari, Ford, Lamborghini, Acura, and Land Rover use such adaptive-suspension systems in many of their models.

 

[Kal Rubinson]

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So... this triggers what I would consider a funny memory. When I was in grad school, there were two married couples in my class. One couple, Bob and Barb, were living in a University-owned apt. building. They moved from one apt. to another, "nicer" (it's all relative!) one, but one or two floors up. Several of us helped 'em move. They had a big sofa. It wouldn't fit into the building's tiny elevator (their original apt was on the ground floor). We ultimately went to the stairway and passed it up through the large open space in the stairway from floor to floor! Couple of us pushing it up from below, and a couple more grabbing it from above.
It was an endeavor... but a successful one. We didn't drop the sofa.
There was probably beer involved. I don't remember anymore... it was a long time ago...

I was involved in a similar operation but, instead of a sofa, it was an upright piano. However, we had to stop midway for disassembly in order to complete the job.

 

[mhardy6647]

I was involved in a similar operation but, instead of a sofa, it was an upright piano. However, we had to stop midway for disassembly in order to complete the job.

yowza!
I have been party to carrying a spinet (i.e., a kind of compact piano) up a short flight of stairs for a high school chorus concert when we were on tour in the southeast in the late winter of 1976. It took some effort.

 

[Gary_G]

Overly complex = unreliable.

When the headlight bulb of my BMW blew, I had to replace it. The headlight assembly is accessed from the front wheel well. To get at it: turn the front wheel, remove a panel, stretch your arm forwards and feel the back of the bulb, undo some screws which you can't see, then remove another panel. The bulb is mounted on another panel, which requires some complicated manoeuvring to get out. Replace the bulb, then reverse the procedure. Unnecessarily complex.

In my old Toyota, just pop the hood and access the headlight assembly from the top.

Don't get me started!
2004 Volvo S80 with a bad headlight. The dealer finally found a replacement on Ebay of all places. After sourcing the light, bumper removal, new bulbs, etc.; well let's just say it was a big check.

 

[somebodyelse]

yowza!
I have been party to carrying a spinet (i.e., a kind of compact piano) up a short flight of stairs for a high school chorus concert when we were on tour in the southeast in the late winter of 1976. It took some effort.

Were you on a mission from Glod?

 

[norman bates]

 

[rgpit]

yowza!
I have been party to carrying a spinet (i.e., a kind of compact piano) up a short flight of stairs for a high school chorus concert when we were on tour in the southeast in the late winter of 1976. It took some effort.

Once you moved it you should be glad you didn't have to move it Bach.

 

[mhardy6647]

It was a long time ago , but I think we beat a hasty retreat before anyone realized their piano got moved...

 

[mhardy6647]

Over 20 years ago, adaptive-suspension technology 'hit' the road.
GM/Cadillac became the original proponent of the DelphiAutomotive introduced magnetorhetorical (MR) suspensions systems.
Originally dubbed the 'MagnaRide',

MR technology saw leaps-and-bounds of advancements, via computer-control (etc.); thus, removing the need for the magnet-juice.
GM, BMW, Audi, Ferrari, Ford, Lamborghini, Acura and even LandRover have been using such adaptive-suspension advancements in many of their models.

magnetorhetorical?!?
Dude... did Cicero sue for infringement?


PS In case it's not obvious -- yes, this is a magnetorhetorical question. No answer is required, nor sought.

 

[mhardy6647]

less magnetorhetorically -- I look at that suspension meme... and I think to myself...
yup, DUAL record changer...

Compare the good old Voice of Music changer of the late 1950s...

My father was a huge VM fan. He hated working on DUAL and Garrard changers.

 

[mhardy6647]

as a not-particularly-humorous aside, VM's last gasp was in the form of the wildly (if briefly) popular BIC turntables of the late-70s/early-80s.

Yeah, so it might get stuck on a curb...

 

[Doodski]

less magnetorhetorically -- I look at that suspension meme... and I think to myself...
yup, DUAL record changer...
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Compare the good old Voice of Music changer of the late 1950s...
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My father was a huge VM fan. He hated working on DUAL and Garrard changers.

LoL... I never repaired many Dual turntables because I had bigger fish to fry but when I was first starting out I was given a pretty nice Dual turntable with a auto return failure. I looked at the levers and all the assemblies underneath and was amazed that all this worked. The auto return was not operating and I analyzed that thing for about 25 minutes and determined nothing wrong with the assemblies. I was very perplexed. So my mentor was chuckling away and smiling giggling at the matter. He walked over with a container of liquid silicon of the factory specified heavy thick sticky weight and tells me to put a little glob @ a very specific location and so I did and then he said now try the auto return about 10 times to work that liquid silicone grease over the parts and let the mechanism get sorted out by itself. Just like he said, I kept using the auto return function as it malfunctioned and progressively with each iteration of engaging the auto return it commenced getting better with each attempt. Finally it settled in and voila... It worked perfectly and then customer was a happy clam. I was amazed that such a complicated sophisticated mechanism with such large heavy metal levers would rely on a heavy thick sticky liquid silicone but it works very well when setup properly.

 

[mhardy6647]

LoL... I never repaired many Dual turntables because I had bigger fish to fry but when I was first starting out I was given a pretty nice Dual turntable with a auto return failure. I looked at the levers and all the assemblies underneath and was amazed that all this worked. The auto return was not operating and I analyzed that thing for about 25 minutes and determined nothing wrong with the assemblies. I was very perplexed. So my mentor was chuckling away and smiling giggling at the matter. He walked over with a container of liquid silicon of the factory specified heavy thick sticky weight and tells me to put a little glob @ a very specific location and so I did and then he said now try the auto return about 10 times to work that liquid silicone grease over the parts and let the mechanism get sorted out by itself. Just like he said, I kept using the auto return function as it malfunctioned and progressively with each iteration of engaging the auto return it commenced getting better with each attempt. Finally it settled in and voila... It worked perfectly and then customer was a happy clam. I was amazed that such a complicated sophisticated mechanism with such large heavy metal levers would rely on a heavy thick sticky liquid silicone but it works very well when setup properly.

After a few decades, they're notorious for gunking up like that.
Of course, the other ones all do (did), too -- eventually.

I actually wish I still had the VM changer that I grew up with, but when we cleaned out my parents' house it was too rusty to salvage. The issue was mostly cosmetic, though -- I'll bet it would've worked.

 

[Ralph_Cramden]

 

[KellenVancouver]

 

[xanalog]

magnetorhetorical?!?
Dude... did Cicero sue for infringement?

Congrats but you may have missed the 'hit the road' and 'magnet-juice'... so that no one can get on my case for getting off the humor track!

 

[Ken1951]

as a not-particularly-humorous aside, VM's last gasp was in the form of the wildly (if briefly) popular BIC turntables of the late-70s/early-80s.

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Yeah, so it might get stuck on a curb...

Hadn't seen one of these, or even thought about them for half a century. The company I worked for way back when was a dealer. Sold a bunch of them and the speakers as well. Not great stuff - but affordable.

 

[mhardy6647]

BIC owned the 'entry level' for a few years for 'turntables' with the (to their credit) belt-drive 940/960/980 line (quickly expanded down to the 920 and up to the 1000).
These changers, as I understand it, were designed by VM at the very end of their corporate viability.

Jeez -- I've gone off topic in the humor thread!
HAVE I NO SHAME?!?