Not so much a story

[Guest]

but rather a short couple clips that I imagine most of us can relate to at one time or another.

Over the weekend I did the 530 conversion, and what should have been a quick job turned out to be quite an affair and I have video to prove it. Just a word of warning: LOTS of swearing involved, so turn the volume down or avoid it if you need to. http://youtu.be/H1jzKtHCJvU

[steve murdoch]

Just remember we are laughing "with" you not "at" you.
I figured the flat on the car was going to produce a head explosion straight out of Scanners.

[old_skool]

Thanks for sharing, I'm sorry though, I had to laugh both with and at you, some funny stuff. I buy a lot of HF tools also due to cost, some crap, some actually good, and as far as the impact screw driver, works fine for me and several other members, although I do now have to buy new bits for it as they've all shattered on some really tough ones, solution...replace everything with stainless allen sockets!

[Notz]

"You don't want anybody to steal yer doughnut"

[Gonzo]

If you laughed, good! Looking back I can't help but laugh too.

Cheap tools exist to fill a void for those of us in a pinch, and I'm sure somewhere down the line I'll end up needing to get something cheap again. But God help me, if I can swing it, I'ma gettin the good stuff! :P

[earlfor]

That had me rolling out of my chair. Funny as Hell! I have been there for exactly those same reasons and with crap tools. I think we had the same commentary at the time also. ehehehe I don't buy cheap tools anymore because I don't have the tolerance for the frustration they cause. heheh I've also learned to sit down and take everything apart in my head in the same sequence I would if doing the job. I may spend an hour researching and thinking through a job before doing it. It saves me time, money and frustration in the long run and the job still gets done quicker than if I had just jumped on it without a plan.

[chiphead]

That was excellent! Thanks for sharing.

[capnjim]

That was great...BTW, when your cleaning all the tar and crap out from the sprocket cover, thats the cleanest whitest T-shirt I have ever seen worn by someone working on a bike!!!
If I wore a white T-shirt to so much as change a spark plug, I would come out looking like I fell in a puddle of grease.

[NeyborDayfid]

So true. I know 3 people other than myself with that same impact driver and theres maybe 1 bit left intact. They look like they're made of cast zinc.
After a few years of GS-wrenching I know to spray everything down with PB-Blaster and then once it's out it get's REPLACED with a metric allen-head socket head cap screw.
Thanks for the vid.

[spyug]

Sorry, but you are seriously disturbed...... but aptly named I especially enjoyed the veins popping out in your neck. Nice touch !

Like many others, I have had more than my share of those kinds of days and at your age I reacted the same way. Now that I'm a coronary disease ridden old fart, I have learned to "zen" out over such situations.........yeah right, but instead of going balistic for half a day, I limit my tirade to 5 minutes and a maximum of 5 bad words. I would recommend that if you want to make it to a ripe old age

Thanks for sharing the great Jack Nicholson impression. It was very entertaining. Your academy award is in the mail.

cheers,
Spyug