Any guitarists here? Care to explain whether trimming your strings at the pegs affects the way you play?
I always trim strings to the pegs for safety. Don't want to poke any eyes out.
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I always trim strings to the pegs for safety. Don't want to poke any eyes out.
Telecasters suck and are only good for country. Strats are better for everything else.
Bass players should not use a pick.
Mayo for cheeseburgers. Mustard for hamburgers. Ketchup on the side for dipping so the burgers aren't as soggy.
Dimitri
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mayo with french fries, or ketchup on spaghetti....You can use the looks you get as a crude geolocation device
Tolerable, but ketchup is better for fries.
or ketchup on spaghetti....You can use the looks you get as a crude geolocation device
Ketchup is just a type of tomato sauce.
I've found there is nothing worth arguing about. I'm right and everyone else is wrong. Pretty simple for me. I don't care if people are objective or subjective.
It's absolutely NONE of my business or anyone else's for that matter. As a master mechanic some of the things I've heard, witnessed, and seen defy all logic
or any part of being close to right. Now that I'm retired, I agree that everyone has the right to be WRONG. It's why I have an off button on my phone and
a front door.
Regards
It's absolutely NONE of my business or anyone else's for that matter. As a master mechanic some of the things I've heard, witnessed, and seen defy all logic
or any part of being close to right. Now that I'm retired, I agree that everyone has the right to be WRONG. It's why I have an off button on my phone and
a front door.
Regards
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Reminds me of another crazy argument. Thunderbird vs Wild Irish Rose. Two unnatural flavor fortified budget wines.
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You should meet people who keep the 1960s Ultra Vans GM made. These were fairly large for their day motorhomes with a Corvair drivetrain. Yes direct from GM that way. You wonder about the pitch meeting for that project. People love them and are fanatical about keeping those few out there on the road.
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Very interesting quite funky.
In a nutshell, can you tell me what makes people so enthusiastic about those vehicles in particular?
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On photography forums, dpreview or fredmiranda, there is a lot of debate about 3d pop... if it's a real property of lenses and there are some weird theories that lenses have 3d pop when their MTF charts have multiple crossings of the sagittal and tangential lines.
But many times it doesn't stop me from engaging.
I just quit trying to explain when it doesn't get through (60% by the first time, 90% by the second time, 100% by the 3rd time.)
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The best are very overweight men in very tight and colorful cycling clothes and with very expensive bikes, whose fat belly is almost on top of the bike.
Otherwise, any topic is suitable for arguing about on the internet for nights on end.
A step up (better than a lot of new ones if they have been redone to original or even better spec).
GMC Owned or was affiliated with Boeing Commercial Airplanes for design with the Oldsmobile Tornado FRONT WHEEL DRIVE engine & transmission. Many incredible innovations.
Me too!
Changing the final drive for a better hill climbing, acceleration one actually helps the economy at lower speeds & there is a way to overdrive the trans from what I understand which would hep it on the open road. The 455 ones can be set up to have enough torque to pull it along, even towing.
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If you know Corvair enthusiasts, they are unusually involved with anything related to that car. This vehicle was a large fiberglass motorhome which used an air cooled flat 6 Corvair drivetrain of 140 hp. Made no sense. But it was part of the Corvair universe. Such people are a bit different and this was different even for them so double bonus points.
The original interiors were advanced with dishwashers and appliances. Those of course were in gold or brown or avacado as was the coming style in those years. Why did they build such a thing with an air cooled engine of not much power when big engines were available? Who knows? A couple I've seen had over 150k miles on the original drivetrain. The rest is often customized. Sometimes heavily. It is almost like an old air frame from 1950s airplanes. The air frame if sound can be put together with something to power it as long as someone is interested.
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Yesterday I ended up on a place where farmers were disucssing old tracktors. It seems to be a scene where they restore old tracktors wit hall kind of magic and whoo arround certain parts that are very expensive but for me are not that logic. I'm not an expert in this, but it looked and sounded a lot like audiogon discussing cables; the same kind of arrogant "i know it all and you're dumb" attitude and snobism.
And the best is, they don't use those on their fields, there they use modern ones. It's their sunday tracktor.
And the best is, they don't use those on their fields, there they use modern ones. It's their sunday tracktor.
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a flat6 of 140HP, that is inefficient. The from the same era (1964) Porche Type 771 engine (2.2L flat6) got 270HP and 230nm torque. It was used in a varity of Porche cars of that time and the decade after it and often used to mod VW Beetles also, as their standard engine was also weak.
