Part VI
i ain't rite
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From: Marlboro Mental Hospital.
i ain't blowing the boots off the pipes, i am splitting the stock boots in the middle due to overboost!!
i am aware of the sanding the pipe deal Tristan. i do that to the Mack's when the boots slip.
and i am replacing the boots with mack boots. they see 35-40 lbs boost all day long, and compared to the 15-20 lb rating of the stock ford boots.
since there is only one stock boot left, i think tomorrow i will replace that one too, and be done with it.
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I am, and actually more than putting it together I am having it 100% custom made in the USA.
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LOL That was the first post in this OT Series!!!!
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I not only read mine, but I also reply to nearly every one. On a slow day I will do 50. Today was over 65 and I am still reading them.
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you win.
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Thanks Chris, Tristan and Pete.
My first cell was a bag phone also. I have probably been threw 20 or 25 phones since that one. Only about 2 of those were replaced because of something I did. A few were just upgrades at the contract renewal time. The rest were crap phones that had to be replaced under warranty.
I just posted this at the NH thread...I was venting, here it is again...I was amused after I read it again...
Good afternoon all.....Just got back from the phone store....
I think my family enjoys killing cell phones, I have had to replace more phones in the last year, it shuts off by itself, won't receive calls, battery keeps dying, the screen doesn't change fast enough, the number 3 button is stuck, I need more memory, Jamie's phone is newer, it won't play my music, the camera doesn't work, the cat ate the charger cord, it has a scratch...........
I have had the same phone for 2 1/2 years since I dropped my previous phone in 12" of water. But I have had the same battery, the same charger, the same carrying case, the same stylus for over 2 years.
My first cell phone was in 1988, weighted about 3 lbs. was called a bag phone, then I had a handheld that weighted about 3 lbs., I think all together in the last 21 years of cell phones I have owned about 5,that averages to 1 phone every 4 years, I don't get it.......
My daughters have had cell phones for 4 years and each has had about 4 each, so equals 8 phones in 4 years to 2 phones per year.
Oh and let's not talk about my wife........I won't go there...
That has to say something about insurance and warranties, but there is still a deductible and upgrade charges that have to be paid.
All for the sake of communications........and I thought it was a good thing.
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Good afternoon all.....Just got back from the phone store....
I think my family enjoys killing cell phones, I have had to replace more phones in the last year, it shuts off by itself, won't receive calls, battery keeps dying, the screen doesn't change fast enough, the number 3 button is stuck, I need more memory, Jamie's phone is newer, it won't play my music, the camera doesn't work, the cat ate the charger cord, it has a scratch...........
I have had the same phone for 2 1/2 years since I dropped my previous phone in 12" of water. But I have had the same battery, the same charger, the same carrying case, the same stylus for over 2 years.
My first cell phone was in 1988, weighted about 3 lbs. was called a bag phone, then I had a handheld that weighted about 3 lbs., I think all together in the last 21 years of cell phones I have owned about 5,that averages to 1 phone every 4 years, I don't get it.......
My daughters have had cell phones for 4 years and each has had about 4 each, so equals 8 phones in 4 years to 2 phones per year.
Oh and let's not talk about my wife........I won't go there...
That has to say something about insurance and warranties, but there is still a deductible and upgrade charges that have to be paid.
All for the sake of communications........and I thought it was a good thing.
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Thanks Chris, Tristan and Pete.
My first cell was a bag phone also. I have probably been threw 20 or 25 phones since that one. Only about 2 of those were replaced because of something I did. A few were just upgrades at the contract renewal time. The rest were crap phones that had to be replaced under warranty.
My first cell was a bag phone also. I have probably been threw 20 or 25 phones since that one. Only about 2 of those were replaced because of something I did. A few were just upgrades at the contract renewal time. The rest were crap phones that had to be replaced under warranty.
Man have things changed. I've been through about 20 phones since then and have had the best luck out of Motorolas.
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Pete,
if you think a 330D is a lot of machine, you need to get behind the sticks of a 345, or 365.
there is talk of getting a 385 for the quarry in the next few months. i cant wait to get behind the sticks of that thing.
the 385 weighs somewhere in the area of 200,000 lbs
if you think a 330D is a lot of machine, you need to get behind the sticks of a 345, or 365.
there is talk of getting a 385 for the quarry in the next few months. i cant wait to get behind the sticks of that thing.
the 385 weighs somewhere in the area of 200,000 lbs
In all seriousness I couldn't imagine running a 200k lb machine all day every day. I'm sure the novelty of it wears off after a while, but dang. That's a lot of machine. You could probably load a triaxle in 2 or 3 buckets at most. I bet I could've loaded our triaxle in 10 buckets or so from the 330. And that's really packing it right in.
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Trust me, I don't feel like I won anything. It sucks, flat out. Most of the e-mails are delivery requests. How fast can you deliver order #______? Others are complaints about something my guys did, or didn't, do. Then there are the ones that I get from engineers that are either so ****ing techincal that I do not have any idea what they are talking about or, they are completely ****ing stupid and make me want to tell them that their parents sent them to engineering school and got ripped off. Then, if that wasn't enough, there are the ones that I get from China, Belgium, South America or the Middle East that are in broken English and that I have to try and decipher just what it is that they are asking me for.
Ok, end of rant. It's been a long *** day.
Ok, end of rant. It's been a long *** day.
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From: Wallingford, CT
I'm hoping that the truck you posted is what is left from a rollover that someone decided to mess around with. I think I'd kill the person if they did that to a perfectly good PSD.
And it sits WAY higher in the front than in the rear from what I can see.
Also: Note the STOCK exhaust hanging under there.
I'm really hoping that is a Photoshopped set of pictures, but it doesn't look like it.
And it sits WAY higher in the front than in the rear from what I can see.
Also: Note the STOCK exhaust hanging under there.
I'm really hoping that is a Photoshopped set of pictures, but it doesn't look like it.