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Neil Chowney
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Wished that I didn't undertake preventative maintenance on the Cappuccino's brakes.
Brakes just didn't feel as sharp as I think they should - and as the car had been sitting for a few months before the summer, I figured I'd take the pads and such out, clean the slides up and reassemble.
Fine and good until one of the caliper mounting bolts decided to shear off on the offside! Grrrr! So now I have a slide with its bolt still stuck in it.
...Anyone happen to know of any relatively common cars I might find in a local scrap yard that shares these front calipers?
...This was meant to be preventative maintenance too...Grrrr!
Brakes just didn't feel as sharp as I think they should - and as the car had been sitting for a few months before the summer, I figured I'd take the pads and such out, clean the slides up and reassemble.
Fine and good until one of the caliper mounting bolts decided to shear off on the offside! Grrrr! So now I have a slide with its bolt still stuck in it.
...Anyone happen to know of any relatively common cars I might find in a local scrap yard that shares these front calipers?
...This was meant to be preventative maintenance too...Grrrr!
LOZ: Oddball cars, lighting information, and anything else I remember to upload!
Current fleet: 02 VW Caddy 1.9SDI, 90 Mercedes 208D Autotrail Navajo, 85 Sinclair C5, 78 Vauxhall Cavalier 1.6GL, 73 AC Model-70.
Current fleet: 02 VW Caddy 1.9SDI, 90 Mercedes 208D Autotrail Navajo, 85 Sinclair C5, 78 Vauxhall Cavalier 1.6GL, 73 AC Model-70.
Drove around scrap yards trying to find a suitable replacement for the offending bit in my previous post.
In the end found one that will do until I can get a proper replacement (or I get the bolt out of the current one depending what Suzuki quote me for the bit). There's a bit of play in it, but by a bit, I mean about 0.5mm.
Reason the brakes don't feel as sharp as they could however appears to be because the pads are, for want of a better term, cooked. *adds them to the stuff to buy list.*
Starting to get fed up of finding bolts on this car which are done up completely unecessarily tight now!
In the end found one that will do until I can get a proper replacement (or I get the bolt out of the current one depending what Suzuki quote me for the bit). There's a bit of play in it, but by a bit, I mean about 0.5mm.
Reason the brakes don't feel as sharp as they could however appears to be because the pads are, for want of a better term, cooked. *adds them to the stuff to buy list.*
Starting to get fed up of finding bolts on this car which are done up completely unecessarily tight now!
LOZ: Oddball cars, lighting information, and anything else I remember to upload!
Current fleet: 02 VW Caddy 1.9SDI, 90 Mercedes 208D Autotrail Navajo, 85 Sinclair C5, 78 Vauxhall Cavalier 1.6GL, 73 AC Model-70.
Current fleet: 02 VW Caddy 1.9SDI, 90 Mercedes 208D Autotrail Navajo, 85 Sinclair C5, 78 Vauxhall Cavalier 1.6GL, 73 AC Model-70.
Argued with our IT section after they decided to come around our office (and every office in the entire building) and nick EVERY SINGLE ONE of the standalone printers.
We now have to walk a good couple of hundred metres and up a flight of stairs to share a Xerox document centre, shared between us and a department of a good couple of hundred people.
A document centre which prints in colour at all of 5 ppm.
...Plus when someone sends a secure print job, it locks up the entire queue until the owner of said print job enters the required code.
Okay, so it'll save them on some toner. How about the lost man hours?
...Plus that stupid thing was always breaking down even BEFORE the whole 1st floor was using it as their sole printing device!
Trying to print on headed paper's going to become an entirely new game as that'll have to go in the manual feed tray...which it will feed from automatically if there's something there and a job comes in.
Yet one more move of complete stupidity in our workplace...I reeeallly need a new job.
We now have to walk a good couple of hundred metres and up a flight of stairs to share a Xerox document centre, shared between us and a department of a good couple of hundred people.
A document centre which prints in colour at all of 5 ppm.
...Plus when someone sends a secure print job, it locks up the entire queue until the owner of said print job enters the required code.
Okay, so it'll save them on some toner. How about the lost man hours?
...Plus that stupid thing was always breaking down even BEFORE the whole 1st floor was using it as their sole printing device!
Trying to print on headed paper's going to become an entirely new game as that'll have to go in the manual feed tray...which it will feed from automatically if there's something there and a job comes in.
Yet one more move of complete stupidity in our workplace...I reeeallly need a new job.
LOZ: Oddball cars, lighting information, and anything else I remember to upload!
Current fleet: 02 VW Caddy 1.9SDI, 90 Mercedes 208D Autotrail Navajo, 85 Sinclair C5, 78 Vauxhall Cavalier 1.6GL, 73 AC Model-70.
Current fleet: 02 VW Caddy 1.9SDI, 90 Mercedes 208D Autotrail Navajo, 85 Sinclair C5, 78 Vauxhall Cavalier 1.6GL, 73 AC Model-70.
Spent a few hours after work trying to figure out how to get a triple headed monitor setup working.
...Thus far unsuccessfully. Will take a break then argue with it some more after dinner.
...Thus far unsuccessfully. Will take a break then argue with it some more after dinner.
LOZ: Oddball cars, lighting information, and anything else I remember to upload!
Current fleet: 02 VW Caddy 1.9SDI, 90 Mercedes 208D Autotrail Navajo, 85 Sinclair C5, 78 Vauxhall Cavalier 1.6GL, 73 AC Model-70.
Current fleet: 02 VW Caddy 1.9SDI, 90 Mercedes 208D Autotrail Navajo, 85 Sinclair C5, 78 Vauxhall Cavalier 1.6GL, 73 AC Model-70.
Hmm, that's not likely to happen.
Seems that people have done it - some even with six or more monitors across two cards - and it sounds as though it should work...If you know what you're doing.
The real headaches start if you're trying to use two cards of different makers, which need different drivers. These however are both Nvidia cards (actual Nvidia ones too - not otherwise badged cards using Nvidia chipsets either).
It seems as though it's a simple matter of making sure that each device and each display are listed in xorg.conf - however half the examples I've found look totally different to each other, so I'm getting confused!
...I should point out that confusing me is not difficult.
Seems that people have done it - some even with six or more monitors across two cards - and it sounds as though it should work...If you know what you're doing.
The real headaches start if you're trying to use two cards of different makers, which need different drivers. These however are both Nvidia cards (actual Nvidia ones too - not otherwise badged cards using Nvidia chipsets either).
It seems as though it's a simple matter of making sure that each device and each display are listed in xorg.conf - however half the examples I've found look totally different to each other, so I'm getting confused!
...I should point out that confusing me is not difficult.
LOZ: Oddball cars, lighting information, and anything else I remember to upload!
Current fleet: 02 VW Caddy 1.9SDI, 90 Mercedes 208D Autotrail Navajo, 85 Sinclair C5, 78 Vauxhall Cavalier 1.6GL, 73 AC Model-70.
Current fleet: 02 VW Caddy 1.9SDI, 90 Mercedes 208D Autotrail Navajo, 85 Sinclair C5, 78 Vauxhall Cavalier 1.6GL, 73 AC Model-70.