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med6753:

--- Quote from: Cerebus on July 22, 2022, 01:27:04 am ---This was both entertaining, and informative.



Do the Knipex pliers win?

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How so? Regardless of the total destructive force required to break them which one still at least still had some function? But we can't have that, can we? Oh no....never.  ::)

So my contention is that none of them won. They all broke.  :-BROKE
mansaxel:

--- Quote from: 25 CPS on July 21, 2022, 09:29:33 pm ---

The consensus across the board at the shop, myself, some friends in transportation engineering and a couple of car guys I've shown the pictures to is that it was most likely defective, and that it was waiting to break the next time the truck hit a pothole the wrong way.

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Some time in 2007, IIRC, the Volvo P2 platform got control arms from cast steel having had alloy (Al+Mg?) arms before; and I've swapped both kinds, so know the kind of part intimately. Whatever snaps one of those must be a lot of violence -- unless it's defective.  I concur on the "defective" guess.

mansaxel:

--- Quote from: tggzzz on July 21, 2022, 10:50:30 pm ---
Not long afterwards I saw this car, and sniggered!



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It's an Audi. No-one is surprised.

Having just covered around 7000km of European roads, and having a puny 410 km left to get home, I have now formed an opinion on motorway drivers in several countries.

It's a well established fact that in Germany, and Sweden, BMW and Audi drivers sort of gang-thug-assertive-but-still-nervously expect everyone to move when they come. Mercedes drivers are much more relaxed; they know you'll move.

In France, the rôle of the bully is taken by Peugeot drivers. They are much more aggressive while not more competent than all the other brands. Citroën drivers (both "DS" and normal) are the kindest, and Renault drivers are like Volvos in Sweden or VW in Germany; they're so many that they're all over the spectrum.

All Belgian drivers are thugs, and more so if they're driving a premium car. Rude and assertive driving. I give those number plates on an Audi wide berth. It's going to be needed.

Italians are generally reasonably good, and mostly kind. Unless you're being a prick.

All these are stellar and very competent compared to the average US driver. Though.
mansaxel:

--- Quote from: TERRA Operative on July 22, 2022, 12:38:03 am ---
I'll have to see what version of Linux I can run on a Dual-CPU Pentium 3 Dell Precision 410 workstation. :D

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Anything that still ships a 32-bit compile. I assume. The kernel has only gotten faster. It's the graphical shit that is getting slower. No problem running the latest code on really old machines, unless you insist on GUI's for people with more CPU than taste.

If I run a Linux desktop today, I'm only going to use the stock GUI setup as a stopgap measure until I've migrated into my prefered window manager, which is Fluxbox. On the BSDs I usually don't bother, but stick with twm. It's there, and it manages windows. And, it ran snappy on SparcStation 4's in the 90s, so it of course is going to scream on PIII.
AVGresponding:

--- Quote from: Vince on July 21, 2022, 08:57:21 pm ---


--- Quote from: factory on July 21, 2022, 07:33:35 pm ---
--- Quote from: bd139 on July 21, 2022, 03:39:16 pm ---34401A. £250. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/374184377229

Would buy it but I’ve already got a really nice one

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Oops, might have accidentality hit the buy button.  ;)

David

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I don't understand...... just the other day you people were saying that these went for silly crazy high stupid prices.... and now they go for half price ?!  :-//

Hardly complaining, of course.... just finding it very difficult to understand the market, it's a Mach 5 roller coaster  :-//

So, knowing that, I guess when I am in the market for one, I will just wait until they are half price like here...

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It's mainland europe where the prices are silly, as informed by Ice-Tea. Here in the UK the last two I've seen sold went for £208 and £250 respectively.
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