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Well, there is a difference between someone who is OCD and treats their "transportation device" as a priceless piece of art, while neglecting other important things in their life and someone who simply takes general care of his/her nice vehicle. I'm a busy person, and can still find time to wash and clean my car myself, but also realize it is just a car and meant to be driven, thus likely to sustain some wear and tear over time.
There's also a difference between someone who maybe doesn't keep his/her vehicle very clean for whatever reason and someone who basically neglects every aspect of vehicle maintenance. I've certainly known many of the latter, who were also fortunate enough to have really nice cars basically handed to them. One example is a friend who was given a really nice 65' Mustang as his first car. He not only didn't take care of it, but didn't realize you're supposed to change the oil. Another friend was given a fully loaded Jetta 1.8T. Sure, that's nothing awesome like a W8 Passat, or something, but it was a nice car, which at the time I would have taken in a heartbeat. She ragged it out, soon had a makeshift closet/dirty clothes hamper in the back seat, and refused to use anything other than regular octane fuel, even though I'm sure her parents helped her pay for gas, too.
My first car was a 92' Camry with 70K miles on the clock. I took good care of it, and felt fortunate to have such a "nice" car at 16. Obviously, I had many friends with MUCH nicer cars at the time, but I was never really envious of them. However, it was really annoying to see some of those friends with such nice cars not taking at least basic care of them.
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a G35 will have the same power, lighter, bigger interior, better on gas, much more reliable.... There's just no point on having a W8 Passat unless you're a fanboy.
This axe was made to grind.
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So now a fanboy is someone who might prefer the look, style, feel etc. of something from one brand over another or does this application of the term only work when it's someone favoring a VW?
Since we're talking a lot about Passat W8s in here, Ill say this: I thought it was a neat, appealing package for its day. I've heard some with aftermarket exhaust which make a pretty nice sound, too. There was something just funky and neat about the general concept. Obviously, in retrospect it was too much complexity and $$$ for a car in that segment (midsize sub-premium). Furthermore, they have clearly proven to be high maintenance for many owners. I'd say it's a vehicle for someone with curious tastes who gets enough enjoyment out of it to deal with its flaws. I know that's crazy, even fanboyism to some -- maybe even myself included, but there are people really into a lot of things which leave me scratching my head wondering why... To each their own, I guess.
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way down to h2oi i rolled by a 2011 Porsche 911 GTS with a pair of jersey shore wannabees in it... sooooo disappointed.
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- mikey
"It's not a real build until there's Plasti Dip involved."
My point is I don't fault those who treat their expensive / enthusiast vehicle as an appliance. It just means they are not really into cars but purchased it because they thought it was nice. Once they own it they treat it as all the other nice things they most likely have around their home, and when it gets a few years old they replace it with a new one.
The reality is these people have their priorities straight and most likely are focused on making real money rather than the measly sum that your or my preventative maintenance and upkeep saved at trade in.
Wait. So you can tell that a guy doesn't appreciate his car just by looking at him driving it? WTF?
I think the point he is making is why do people buy top of the line/rare vehicles if they dont care and only need them to get from point a to b, AND not take care of them on
top of that. They could have just bought a base model.
I am NOT VW fan, but the anyone who says the W8 Passat isnt a neat car is just full of themselves.
if it weren't for the repair bills, insurance costs, and fuel consumption;
i would be all over the w8.
feels like a proper passat. like every other one should have felt like.. although heavy, quite quick enough, and amazing in the elements
- mikey
"It's not a real build until there's Plasti Dip involved."
I hate rolling up to little douchebags in their super hot GTI who then proceed to drive like a dipsh!t around me when they're not worth the gas.
you win!
What about that kid that was selling his MKV his dad bought him for 40k?! Huh!?!?
- mikey
"It's not a real build until there's Plasti Dip involved."
I have nothing to add to this thread but this:
I read the thread title as different than everyone else (I think) I was thinking of it as, I hate when I roll up like yesterday I'm in my WRX and pulled up next to a new Shelby. I glanced over to give the guy a and all I got is the douche bag, stink eye.
I always like to believe everyone driving an enthusiast car, is actually an enthusiast.
But as far as the first page of this thread goes, call me a car NERD if you will. As much as I hate that gen Passat, I find the W8 Passat something pretty cool. Mostly because I am suprised to see one still working Lol but I also find the exhaust note extremely awesome and unique. I thought I read something expensive breaks on these that costs more than the car is worth to fix, is it the timing chain or ????
I think the biggest case of "competition" or whatever you want to call it comes between truck drivers. A Ram owner thinks his truck is better than the GM/Ford and heaven forbid a truck that is not domestic.
If you're really rich and don't give a crap about looking rich and you *really* have your priorities straight, then you emulate Warren Buffett, live in a small house and drive a car with minimal upkeep. You don't get a nice car and let it rot just because you can.
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I love Brussels sprouts, and I'm blessed with the ability to eat fields of them in one sitting. Some people hate them to the point of legislating against them.
Some people crave eggplant. I would rather eat dirt and will only eat eggplant at gunpoint, which of course makes for some interesting dinners at my household. But I digress . . . .
Having said this, allow me a Captain Obvious moment to say that folks have different tastes, likes and dislikes, which in the final analysis boils down to a subjective smorgasbord of opinion rather than any resemblance to objective fist-bearing, knuckle-bashing fact.
I loathe Unity with a heat of a nova, but some people absolutely love it to the ends of the earth. And that's great, but it's not for everyone. What about those Ubuntu users who don't like Unity because it's a brain-numbing, unintuitive desktop environment that's has a my-way-or-highway range of tweakability (or do I overstate it?), or what about an Ubuntu user who can't use it because they're using older hardware?
What's an Ubuntero to do?
Use another distro is always an option — I'm beating Fedora's Juan Rodriguez to the punch here (touche, Nushio!) — but if you're truly a dyed-in-the-wool, adjective-before-animal-loving Linux user, you have Ubuntu options that don't include Unity, and for this many of us are truly thankful.
In my order of preference, they're:
Xubuntu: Ubuntu with the Xfce desktop environment is probably my favorite 'buntu; it was my first Ubuntu distro several years ago, and you never forget your first distro. Or maybe you do. But anyway, I have always had an affinity for Xfce's smaller footprint, especially since I am usually using hardware that is not — how can I put this tactfully? — the latest model. My sincere hope is that with GNOME fumbling away much of its user base with GNOME 3, Xfce can pick up users and developers. But of all the 'buntus, Xubuntu is probably the best of the pack in performance. Of course, if you have hardware old enough (in computer years) to occasionally scream out, "Get off my lawn," then Xubuntu is ideal if you have to use Ubuntu.
Kubuntu: I have an interesting story that I always tell when the issue of KDE and Kubuntu come up. Years ago, the principal at my daughter's school was inspired so much by using Kubuntu that she wanted to convert the computers at the school to the distro. She didn't succeed — a lot of inside baseball was at play there — but if a woman just introduced to FOSS and Linux is that inspired by a distro, then it's speaks volumes on its behalf. I have a love/indifference relationship with KDE — on the odd-numbered Fedora relases, I use the KDE version and I'm generally happy with the 4.x version of KDE, even though I probably only scratch the proverbial surface on the desktop environment's abilities (the even-numbered Fedoras? Now, Xfce, but previously it was GNOME until I was unable to use GNOME 3 due to hardware restrictions).
But wait, there's more:
Lubuntu: OK, Lubunteros, don't flame me. To be honest, I've never tried LXDE. I've seen it, it looks nice, everyone I talk to who uses it loves it, but the reason I have had neither the chance nor the inclination to use it is because the Xfce desktop environment seems to be my go-to DE when it comes to hardware with, um, limitations (yeah, that's it, limitations). If anyone would like to give me a compelling reason to try it, I will.
One more thing: A few years ago, there used to be a fledgling distro on the runway called Fluxbuntu, which had the Fluxbox window manager atop Ubuntu. I used it briefly when I had a larger computer lab and loved it, and while it looks like they're still going, they're probably going to need a little help there, if you're so inclined.
(Larry Cafiero is one of the founders of the Lindependence Project and has just started developing software in his new home office. Watch this space.)
Dropping the grammar hammer
OK, it's crunch time. At the end of the week, you should be in Columbus, Ohio, at Ohio Linux Fest –if you're going to a Linux show before the year's out, make it this one. This is the last big show on the North American continent until SCALE in January. At OLF, Bradley Kuhn and Cathy Malmrose are keynoting — along with Jon "maddog" Hall — so you'll not want to miss that (especially Cathy — Go ZaReason!).
Many of you already know this, but for those of you who don't, I don't do tech for a living. I'd like to it for a living, and I'm working on that. This is why you'll find me with my nose in a book, studying for the Red Hat Certified Engineer certification test I'll take someday (and, if I ever scrape up enough money, Red Hat classes).
What pays the bills — what I've done since my first day on the job at The Miami Herald on President Carter's inauguration day (yes, I'm that old, and get off my lawn) — is newspaper work. I currently work as a copy desk editor at the Santa Cruz Sentinel, but it's a news career that has spanned three decades, three different media (print, TV and radio) and two continents.
I am a third-generation man of letters: My father was also a newsman and his father was a mailman.
I bring this up because at the Sentinel I am known as the Grammar Hammer; a moniker which I am honored to have and one that I constantly strive to live up to. I have a three-pound sledge at my desk. I wield it with the same conviction and passion that Thor might wield his hammer, only instead of vanquishing bad Nordic guys, I'm vanquishing bad grammar and spelling.
As you might imagine, I spend a lot of time reading; more than I spend writing, as a matter of fact (isn't that always the case?). In much of the tech realm — most in forums and comment sections — the spelling and grammar aren't always what they should be for people who, generally speaking, are smarter than the average person (and sometimes are smarter than the things they say. But I digress . . .). In the grand scheme of things, that's OK — I'm not really that interested in picking nits, gramatically speaking, as much as I am concerned with content.
[Note to those who speak English as a second-, third- or fourth-language. This does not apply to you, and thanks for making the huge effort to communicate in tech's lingua franca. My hat is off to you, and thank your lucky stars you don't have to communicate with me in Spanish or Japanese, the only other two languages in which I can communicate. I dare not say I "speak" them.]
But there are a few things that drive me up the wall and across the ceiling when it comes to grammatical and spelling morsels I see in comments and forums (and even in tech stories and blogs, albeit rarely), like:
MAC, as in Macintosh: It's not an acronym. Mac is short for Macintosh, the product from the new evil empire based in Cupertino called Apple. It's big-M small-a small-c. Not to be confused with MAC, as in MAC address, which is the Media Access Control address, and the MAC there should be all upper case. The next person who writes MAC to refer to the Macintosh, I'm going to come through your screen with hammer blazing.
It's Xfce, but LXDE: With all the desktop hubbub going on, these two up-and-coming environments sometimes get mislabled. I've seen it XFCE and Lxde, most recently in discussions on the Felton Linux Users Group, which is going great guns in the desktop debate on the mailing list. I've never understood why Xfce is 75 percent lower case, but it is. LXDE, according to its site, is all upper case. Speaking of all upper case . . .
GNOME, not Gnome: This is not a GNOME 3 issue, surprisingly. A general rule of thumb is that if it's an acronym, it's all upper case. GNOME originally stood for GNU Network Object Model Environment, though I understand that this was so long ago in a galaxy far, far away that some want to drop the caps. I can live with "Gnome," but on a purely grammatical stanpoint, I'll keep capitalizing it, thank you. Besides, GNOME folks, do you really want KDE to be the only major desktop environment to be all caps? Fuel, meet fire . . . .
There are more, of course, otherwise I wouldn't be the Linux curmudgeon that you all know and love; at least the Linux curmudgeon you all know. But you get the idea.
All of which is to say, when posting here or elsewhere, let's be careful out there. Dot each i. Cross each t. Don't dangle your participles.
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Notes from The Jungle Room
Next up: OSCON. Get there if you can — it's starting today — and give them my regards because I can't make it this year 😦
The new apartment has what is considered by my family a sort of study, but it's quickly becoming the computer lab that I lost when I gave up my commercial space. That lab, of course, was dubbed "The Jungle Room," after the man cave at Graceland. The study has been dubbed the same.
[Yes, if he had done nothing else, Elvis would have earned my respect and admiration for inventing the man cave decades before the concept existed on cable TV. Uhthankyouverymuch]
Before I continue, allow me a mea cupla: In my last item, I wrote about Openbox and referred to a "desktop" in the same paragraph. Technically, Openbox is a window manager, not a desktop environment, as I was so dutifully reminded by an astute commenter. True. However, when using the term "desktop," I was actually referring to what one sees on their screen as opposed to a specific desktop environment — my bad for being unclear.
Nevertheless, as the last moving boxes are being punted out the door (Oh, I will take them down to the recycling bin shortly), I wanted to drop off in today's blog a couple of items worth mentioning in FOSS news over the last few days, like . . . .
Mac hardware to get that shiny Chrome look? The VAR Guy drops an interesting hint in a column late yesterday outlining the proposition that Google's Chrome OS has been compiled for the MacBook Air, thanks to a blogger/hacker named Hexxeh. "It's a unique utopia, and one that won't likely exist anytime soon," he writes. "But the alleged smoothness in which the MacBook Air runs Chrome OS is worth watching." Indeed, and the VAR Guy promises a review of Chrome OS in the near future. Watch that space.
Matt Hartley gives us the business: On a couple of rare occasions I've crossed proverbial swords with Matt Hartley, but for the most part his articles are informative and newsworthy. Special mention goes to yesterday's Datamation item about choosing the right distro for your business. In the wrap-up, Matt writes that, "Everyone is going to have different needs. A company's decision may range from weighing what type of support is needed down to selecting a community-based option over a highly specialized Linux distribution. With every example presented above, the common theme is that Linux offers plenty of choices." Amen to that.
At ease, soldier: You find developers of Linux in the most interesting places; like, oh I don't know, the U.S. Department of Defense, for example. The DOD brings us Lightweight Portable Security (LPS) Linux, which is a live CD focusing on privacy and security. It boots from a CD and executes from RAM, providing a browser, a file manager and some interesing tools. From the screenshots at Unixmen, it looks surprising like . . . Windows. Now if that's not great camouflage, I don't know what is. I haven't tried it yet — I might soon — but if it runs off a CD and has all the tools I can use, it might replace the Ultimate Boot CD and Knoppix CD that I usually carry and often lose.
Last, but not least . . .
An extra chair at the dinner table: Until recently, Lubuntu was an independent project based on Ubuntu — Ubuntu with the Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment, or LXDE for short. Starting with Ubuntu 11.10 in November, however, Lubuntu will join the Ubuntu family as an official variant, according to this article on the Liliputing site. Welcome to the family, Lubuntu.
This blog, and all other blogs by Larry the Free Software Guy and Larry Cafiero, are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs CC BY-NC-ND license. In short, this license allows others to download this work and share it with others as long as they credit me as the author, but others can't change it in any way or use it commercially.
(Larry Cafiero is one of the founders of the Lindependence Project and has just started developing software in his new home office. Watch this space.)
The Three Faces of Fedora 11: Epilogue
During the course of the week, I had been asked the following question in various forms (the "forms" being a mangling of the desktop's initials): "What about LXDE? Are you going to discuss the 'fourth face' of the Three Faces of Fedora 11?"
Well, the answer is: Not right away. Though very appealing and a desktop that has piqued my curiosity, LXDE was not part of the Fedora 11 constellation this time around (key words here: "this time around") — neither was it an offering on the regular distro nor was it a "spin" (the spin list is here). However, I have the instructions on how to get going with LXDE, and I promise to take it for a test spin in the next couple of weeks.
Watch this space.
As for the "three faces" blog series, it's always a joy to do blogs like this because a.) I get to play with software I normally wouldn't fiddle with, and b.) I get to find out a lot of stuff that I didn't know in the first place (look up "lifelong learning" in the dictionary and you'll see my picture).
For those of you who are curious, and even if you aren't, I think I'm going to break ranks with my GNOME roots and primarily use KDE on Fedora 11.
(Larry Cafiero runs Redwood Digital Research in Felton, California, and is an associate member of the Free Software Foundation.)


text: I am so over the lil brothers. Their taxi etiquette lost it for me, plus hoping the duhtectives would help. Not a good strategy at the end. The cowboys better win. In any other season the other 2 teams probably would not be in the finale. Didn't Caite say something about proving that she is not as dumb as people think she is, not necessarily that she is smart, just less dumb (hee hee). Brent - sometimes he seems ok/capable and other times not so with it. plus he is with Caite, which makes me think the later. Back to an previous post on another episode. I do think the Cowboys are using their 'aw shucks' attitude as a strategy. Love their comment about 'buckles'. They really have been pretty even keeled during the whole competition. I am pretty sure they made the currency goof in the first episode that made me think less of them at first.


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The event will offer Wayne Law alumni and students the opportunity to hear from and network with accomplished women lawyers. A number of prominent Wayne Law alumnae will serve as panelists, including Margaret Raben, '86, partner, Gurewitz and Raben PLC; Angela Davison, '02, associate general counsel, Amcor Rigid Plastics; Aleksandra Miziolek, '80, director of Dykema's automotive industry group; Anne MacIntyre, '93, president, Community Central Wealth Management; and Judge Nancy Edmunds, '76, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan.
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Event organizer and alumna Kim Yapchai, '93, director of corporate ethics, Masco Corporation, added, "Women constitute about 50 percent of the entering class, and 14 of the current Top 50 Women Michigan Super Lawyers are alumnae. This panel provides alumnae a dynamic opportunity to learn from each other and to share their experience and wisdom with students."
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|Hey this is the first time using this, I have exactly the same story as the topic opener. The problem is the tack coat. If you do exactly the same thing again it will turn out the same way. It looks like dust in the clear. When it happened to me, I blocked it down the next day and put on two medium wet coats and it turned out perfect, nothing else was changed, temp, hose, gun nothing. I think it's because the clear is cheap, the reducer is cheap etc. This does not happen with expensive clear!
Today I finished the bed..
Convinced that it was the deference in temperature between the room and metal, trapping solvents giving my the major solvent pop......
Today we had better wormer weather...I didnt bother turning on the heater. The room temp along with everything in it was at a steady 65*
I skipped the sealer, and applied 6 light-medium coats of base, with a 45 minute wait between coats, and an hour and a half wait between the last base coat and clear.
The clear was mixed 4:1:1 and not wanted to take any chances, since I used the fish eye eliminator on the front end, I also added a couple drops of it for the bed. Laid down 2 medium-wet coats of clear, with a 15 min. tack time in between.
Everything else was done exactly the way the front end was done......I used the same gun, compressor, line, filters, paint products, types of mixing cups, stir sticks..........well you get the point.
It came out GREAT........nice gloss, no runs, and only the minimal of orange peel (like oem jobs) I will still be giving it a light cutting and buffing to match the front end.........which I start cutting tomorrow.....all day tomorrow
This was definitely a bad case of the planets aligning just right to give me a major case of solvent pop.
I want to thank everyone who responded to this post. All your comments and ideas were greatly appreciated.
Ill try to get pics of the bed tomorrow.
Solvent pop VS Fisheye.
Most painters do not really know the difference between the two. Before you throw things at me read on.
If you paint for a big shop and the paint rep comes in from the factory not the jobber and you say Im having a fisheye problem, even if he does know the difference do you really think he is going to say no that is solvent pop? If he does say that it now goes from user error to product problem and he does not need that hassle. Thats why you don't know!
First of all fisheyes rarely give you problems in spots, such as a 6 strip down the center of the hood or just the top of doors or fenders, fisheyes will consume the whole panel, so if the top of the door is fisheyes and center down is ok, its not fisheyes with rare exception.
First stage of a solvent pop.
Looks like dirt in hood and top surfaces of car the little speck can be black, white or gray depending how much water the iso took on. These are usually spaced at random so painter thinks it trash and no big deal.
These are caused by unsealed activator, water in line, watering down the booth floor and over atomization on a humid day.
Second stage.
That same speck of dirt with a ¼ moon fisheye coming off the speck of dirt. Same causes as above but more serious water problem.
These can be a full fledge the size of a bad fisheye but the speck of dirt will still be in center. Wetting floor on a rainy day and using a 1.3 tip?
Third type of solvent pop.
Is baby pinholes to full blown fisheye size. These are caused by trapped solvent in primer or sealer loading or solvent trapped in base is the most common and happens the most with black dark blues and dark reds or colors with poor hiding and 6 or more coats to cover. These can show up in clear on first coat as pinheads (gassing) or in the second coat as full blown fisheyes. 90 times out of 100 it happens on second coat of clear within minutes after you spray it.
A true fisheye will almost always go through the clear and leave a small center of the base exposed, solvent pop, there will always be clear covering the base in center.
ANYTIME you get what looks like fisheyes on second coat of clear its solvent pop.
Hope this helps, I keep it short as this is an hour subject to explain in class setting.
|Ive been told by paint reps for years that fisheye killer was silicone and just having it in the shop could cause more fisheyes, like fighting fire with fire.Use it if you absolutely have to then get rid of it. And like baddbob said clean everything afterwords.
With the limited information and without seeing the shop it is darn hard to say anything. Barry's info on solvent pop would cover that subject.
Let's go down with the most common.
1. Solvent pop (that is why I mentioned it) it can happen pretty soon. How soon did this occur? Hard to say, one mans "as soon as I applied the clear" is another mans ten or fifteen minutes later. It still could be solvent pop. Look close to see if there is a "volcano" look to the craters formed by the solvents rushing out of the "film" on the top of the clear.
2. Contaimination, DIRT, yep, "bondo" dust can look exactly the same as discribed. As soon as a nice coat is applied the top starts to "film" from the solvents evaporating. The tiny dust particle (too small to see without looking REAL close) falls on the "film" and sets there a while before it falls thru, wham, a "fish eye". These can be seen if you look real close. The spec is sometimes seen at the bottom of the crater. Plus, the top of the crater doesn't have the "volcano" look.
Any other contaiminant such as a wax or something, very unlikely. These flaws appear only on the top surface or mostly on the top surface.
If it was something in the line, water or whatever, it would be all over. This is one of the first misconceptions with "contaiminants". How in the heck could it be only in one area if it was "in the gun"?
3. Towels, again, nearly impossible being it is only in one place.
"When you hear hoof noises think Horse not Zebra".
Start at the most common (likely) and work down.
|And throw that fisheye eliminator away, it will cause nothing but grief on future jobs. Just think about this, any overspray that ended up on the garage floor or anywhere else in the shop has the fisheye eliminator in it. This means every spec of it is now a possible contaminant for future jobs. You may actually need the eliminator again for spraying the bed unless you clean the garage very well so your air movement doesn't pick up any of the contaminated particles. I've never seen solvent popping that bad or had any happen that fast, but I have seen millions of fisheyes appear when spraying in contaminated air- start a diesel up near your air intake or if a squirt of armor all gets sprayed upstream and this kind of thing will happen instantaneously. I hope your next spray goes well.
70-75 is a good temp. No reason to go much higher unless your just wanting to help the utility co. out Main thing is to have the metal STABILIZED at that temp.
70 is the "magic" number and any time your shooting below it those planets seen to have alot more alignment issues I've found.
I'd shoot the first coat "straight" and on a TEST PANEL
Just incase "Their Baaaack".
I really don't see the 10% helping that much outside of helping it to run easier.IMO.
Beds are a major PIA to shoot and runs are going to be high on your list of things to avoid.
One other thing. WHAT clear are you using??
IF it is the Nason Selectclear 497,
Better reread the mix ratio.
Just wanted to thank everyone for the great advice and impute
Convinced that it was a combination of low temp, and fast reducer trapping solvents giving me the worse case of solvent pop Ive ever had
for the bed Im going to get the temp as high as I can, which shouldnt be too hard since we should be getting better weather in the next few days. Depending on how high I can get the temp, will determine whether I spray or skip the sealer. I will be laying down lighter coats of base with plenty of flash time in between. For the clear I will skip the tack coat and just lay down 2 medium coats, and 1 wet coat. Plus I will be reducing the clear 10% for better flow out.
Any other recommendations will be highly appreciated
Thanks again.
Alex. S
I will have a 6 pack handy just in case
|Its real hard to see from them pictures, but looking at how bad the top of the hoods looks, it sure seems more like contamination to me. How did the bottom of the doors look. If it was dry enuff to tape the two tone off with out the tape eating in to it or peeling it off, its usually good to go. Then again ,metal temp is pretty critical for most clears to kick properly. Im not familiar with nason brands, but most paint lines I have used do have special hardeners( Polar hardeners) for cold weather shops. Hopefully your bed goes better with warmer temps. If all else fails, sacrifice a six-pack to the paint gods and do alittle dance, sometimes that helps.
I've used the "Select" in green /yellow can and it is a nice clear for the $$$ as in cheap. All though, It is a 3:1 mix,which is strange for a cheepie.
The 7500 Chroma series Dupont is a 4:1 and no reduction,Not sure on the 7800,Haven't tried it yet.
Let me throw this at you!
That Nason is less likely to cause a problem like this than say the good Dupont or Basf or PPG. The better the clear the more sensitive in a case like this.
Be happy thats what you used or you would be 320 and redoing.
The system being used is Dupont Nason with 4:1 clear.
And yes I know using 4:1 clear is just asking for problems, but I've used it befor with good results
Trust me, if it were up to me I would only use Dupont Chroma series or HOK all the way
But I gata make money, and it is the quick inexpensive jobs that are the most popular around here.
I give my "customers" the choice of what products to use, and always recommend the high end stuff, but all they see is the price deference.
But then again, like I said before........For being a low end product, I am very pleased with the results I have had with Nason in the past, and it is the only low end product I would use.
Switching to Med. temp red. will help but can give you the same problem all though no where near that bad.
Getting the metal temp up is crucial during this time of year.
That Purple/Flame hood I repaired pulled this on me with the first coat of clear,not as bad as your's but still sad using Med. red.,which I blamed on trash in the clear,there was some fine specks of dust in the cup floating around.I dumped the clear back into a clean cup and installed that little filter which goes between the cup and fluid body back into the gun,restrained clear and layed the second coat which layed fine.
Point being, The hood was still probly 55 or so at the first coat.Beings it was a 'glass hood and the heat running the whole time of the gun rework it had got up to a "shootable" temp and thus the real reason the second coat layed down I'm guessing.
The subsquent jr. dragster I shot was done around the same temp BUT, was kept in the shop at 60 and set to 70 in the morning and shot after lunch.
I had no problems what so ever laying the clear.
What clear did you use that required no reducer? I'm don't know much about other products except for PPG/Autocolor. I've demo'd others and don't remember not using reducer. I'm sure there are ones that don't require reducer I'm just checking.
What speed/temp of hardener did you use, too?
I think Barry has point is right on.
Because if you don't have a contaminate problem you will with everything if you keep using it.
So true if your painting in a garage at home (small area)
They also tend to work less than they do work.
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FYI, this the same land the Nature Conservancy bought a couple of years ago. It was the last big tract of native grasslands left in the PPR of the US. A classic example of how private groups can work to help us sportsmen, as they could swoop in with $ to buy at an opportune time since the Govt too often takes years to come up with the $. Often private sellers do not have that kind of patience.
I also heard from an attendee of the national convention that that DU has a $40M drive on to conserve 400,000 acres thru conservation easements (can not be plowed or ditched). One guy wrote a check for $20M, another 1M. This is the best way to go the stretch the bang for the $. BTW that is 625 sq miles, about 10 townships worth of land.
I wish the Govt would have been spending even 10% of the Farm Bill for conservation easement programs over the last 20 years, as that is would have been well over 100B by know, and serious acreage would have been saved.
But something is better than nothing. So hats off to the Nature Conservancy and DU.


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Today the US Supreme Court hears the first of two cases that could change how America deals with same-sex marriage.
Today's case will decide whether California's voter-approved ban - known as Proposition 8 - is unconstitutional.
People on both sides of the issue have been camped out for days to get one of the few seats inside.
The first campers arrived here last Thursday - five days ago. When the court heard a landmark challenge to the new health law - the line only started three days early - giving us some idea for many people just how important this case is. "It's ok to disagree with us about issues but we still need to be recognized as part of the fabric of this country," said Gay Rights Advocate Frank Colasonti.
Experts say it'll be hard for the Court to ignore a huge shift in public opinion. Twenty years ago, most of the country opposed same-sex marriage. "The fact that the majority of Americans support marriage for gay and lesbian couples is something that is going to be in the back of justices minds," said Elizabeth Wydra, of the Constitutional Accountability Center.
Two California couples are challenging the state's 2008 voter-approved ban.
Opponents say it violates the 14th amendment. "We want to feel the same sense of security that married couples want to have," said Gay Rights Advocate Sandy Stier, "We think it's worth fighting for."
Supporters argue traditional marriage must be protected. "The institution of marriage and marriage laws are designed to attach mothers and fathers to each other and to the children that they may create and raise in the best environment," said Austin Nimocks, Lawyer for Prop 8
9 states plus Washington DC allow same sex marriage, 38 states don't.
President Obama has changed his mind, and so have some Republicans. "If you believe the government shouldn't be involved in personal lives - which most Republicans and most Conservatives DO - then I don't see how it's contradictory," said Alex Lundry, Republican pollster.
"We're here for them to get married," said Child of gay parents, Leo Crampton.
Last night's vigil - just the beginning of two days of arguments that will determine how American defines marriage, and for whom.
It's with another election in less than two years. It's not just about the law here. Republicans say changing views on same-sex marriage could open up donations in traditionally liberal states like California and New York.
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West Valley City • The Utah Grizzlies had a ready-made excuse for a flat, lifeless performance Sunday.
They certainly used it.
Playing their third game in 48 hours against Idaho, the Grizzlies mostly stood and watched as the Steelheads rolled to a 6-0 victory at the Maverik Center.
Utah was shut out for only the second time this season, the other time being Oct. 20 at Alaska.
This game turned when Idaho scored three goals during a seven-minute stretch of the second period, leaving coach Kevin Colley speechless.
"I'm probably going to have to keep my comments to myself right now," he said. "I don't even know where to begin. But it's my job to find a solution."
The Grizzlies lost for the seventh time in 11 games after Idaho's Tristan King scored twice and assisted three times before a matinee crowd of 2,421.
"I haven't been stomped like this in five years as a coach, to be honest with you," said Colley.
He admitted being frustrated "with a group that has quite a bit of potential, I think, but isn't close to competing the way I envision. It's sad."
Utah actually played decently in the opening minutes before taking two back-to-back penalties.
First, Berkley Scott was called for interfering with Idaho goalie Josh Robinson. Forty-one seconds later, Colin Vock was called for cross checking during a scrum in front of Grizz goaltender Shane Owen.
The Steelheads took advantage of their 5-on-3 when Tyler Gron scored with 7:08 remaining in the first period.
It was downhill from there.
Idaho started the second period on another power play, and just after it expired, the Steelheads made it 2-0 on Matt Case's blast from the left face-off circle.
With 14:56 left in the period, King gave Idaho a 3-0 lead. Then, David Toews capped the blitz on a deflection with 10:40 remaining in the period.
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By: Andrew Gavin (@GBGavin)
GREEN BAY, Wis. (GreenBayPhoenix.com) – The Green Bay men's basketball team returned to town in winning fashion on Saturday, defeating Wright State 62-55. On Wednesday, the Phoenix will be looking to extend its home winning streak to 11 games when UIC visits the Resch Center at 7 p.m. The contest will be the middle game of a three-game homestand, which concludes on Saturday at 1 p.m. against Milwaukee.
The first 1,000 fans on Wednesday night will receive a free t-shirt presented by Baylake Bank.
Senior Alec Brown (Winona, Minn.) returned from missing the first game of his standout career and made an immediate impact defensively against Wright State, but his frontcourt teammate Greg Mays (Chicago, Ill.) took over on offense. Mays made 9-of-10 shots from the field en route to a game-high 22 points. Mays and Keifer Sykes (Chicago, Ill.) combined to score 27 of Green Bay's 33 second-half points.
Green Bay's smallest margin of victory in Horizon League play came in a 69-64 win at UIC on Jan. 19. The Phoenix trailed 63-61 with less than three minutes to play before closing the game on an 8-1 run. Sykes scored 19 of his 21 points in the second half, including a go-ahead three-pointer with 1:51 remaining.
G – #24 Keifer Sykes, G, Jr., 5-11, 175
G – #12 Carrington Love, G, So., 6-1, 171
F – #4 Jordan Fouse, F, So., 6-7, 225
F – #15 Greg Mays, F, Jr., 6-9, 222
C – #21 Alec Brown, C, Sr., 7-1, 235
LIVE COVERAGE: For fans unable to attend Wednesday night's game, the contest will be available on the Horizon League Network and on WNFL 1440 AM with Matt Menzl (play-by-play) and Cordero Barkley (analyst) calling the action.
INSIDE THE SERIES: Green Bay has faced UIC more than any other program in its history, and the Phoenix holds a 52-36 edge in the all-time series. That record includes a 30-14 advantage in games played in Green Bay. The Phoenix has defeated the Flames nine-straight times at the Resch Center with UIC last winning 63-55 back on Feb. 18, 2004.
RECORDS IN REACH: Brown's return last Wednesday kept him in pursuit of a couple of records. The 7-foot-1 senior has 756 career rebounds, just 11 shy of breaking Terry Evans (2005-09) Division I program record. With 284 career blocks, Brown needs 26 more rejections to break the Horizon League record of 309 set last season by Youngstown State's Damian Eargle. Brown has held the Phoenix career record since his sophomore season.
HOME SWEET HOME: Green Bay's win over Wright State was its 10th-straight at the Resch Center. The Phoenix is 11-1 at home in 2013-14 and 5-0 in Horizon League action. In 12 home games, the team is shooting 48.6 percent from the field at home while holding opponents to just 35.1 percent from the field and 27 percent from long range. In the past four seasons under head coach Brian Wardle, Green Bay has a 45-10 record on its home floor.
FIRST MEETING: Of Green Bay's eight Horizon League wins, the smallest margin of victory came against UIC when the Phoenix posted a 69-64 victory over the Flames on Jan. 19. Green Bay trailed 63-61 with three minutes to play before closing the game on an 8-1 run. Alec Brown (23) and Keifer Sykes (21) combined for 44 points in the win, with Sykes scoring 19 points in the second half.
A-MAYS-ING: Mays continued his strong junior season with an impressive game against Wright State. Mays made 9-of-10 shots from the field and scored 17 of his game-high 22 points in the second half. In three games on ESPN TV networks this season, Mays is averaging 20 points on 71 percent shooting (22-31). On the year, Mays is averaging career highs in points (10.7), rebounds (5.4), blocks (1.0) and field goal percentage (.590).
SYKES SET APART: Ranking 20th nationally in points per game, Sykes is one of just two players (Lafayette's Elfrid Payton) nationally averaging 20-plus points, five-plus assists and four-plus rebounds per game. Shooting 49.3 percent, Sykes ranks 10th in field goal percentage among players averaging 20-plus points per game.
MOVING ON UP: Brown now ranks eighth in Green Bay history in scoring (1,552 points). Sykes has scored 1,327 career points in 86 games, and with 18 points against Wright State passed Ryan Tillema (2005-09) into 13th place in program history.
BLOCK PARTY: With 161 blocked shots in 22 games this season, Green Bay needs only two more rejections to break the single-season school record of 162, set last season. With an average 7.3 blocks per game, the Phoenix ranks second nationally in blocks per game behind only St. John's (8.4).
BROWN'S BLOCKS: Brown is having the best season of his career, which includes blocks. Averaging 3.3 per game, the 7-foot-1 senior is 10th nationally. With 69 blocks in 2013-14, Brown is on pace to break his own school record of 89, set in 2011-12. Brown now owns each of the top-four spots on the program's single-season blocks chart (59, 67, 69, 89).
A LEAGUE OF HIS OWN: Brown is in the midst of the most impressive season and most impressive stretch of his standout career. The 7-foot-1 center is posting career-high numbers in points, field goal percentage, three-point field goal percentage and blocked shots. Against Detroit, he became the only player in program or Horizon League history to tally 1,500-plus points (1546), 750 rebounds (752) and 250 blocked shots (281).
All tickets for the 2013-14 men's basketball season are on sale now. For more information about season tickets, ticket packages and more, please visit the ticketing page at GreenBayPhoenix.com.For the latest and most up-to-date information on Green Bay Athletics, please visit GreenBayPhoenix.com.


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The Griffs will square off with Penn State, St. John Fisher, Fredonia, Geneseo, Ithaca, Union and Roberts Wesleyan and Houghton.
Last week, Canisius competed in its first meet since being added as a program at Cornell's Southern Tier Collegiate Open.
Freshman Haley Keene tied her personal best in the 800-meter run (2:24.63), missing out on the school record by just six-tenths of a second at that meet. Sophomore Cooper Roach, who finished third in the mile with a time of 4:23.92.
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Transmission problems?!?
I got so many problems that i'll just bomb you guys with it. I want to se some serious brainstorming Well then my first consern is that I think i migth need more preassure in the trans because when i shift it from neutral to drive it delays it for 5 seconds, but reverse slams in immediately. That i dont know maybe a bad pump thingy, when i take it from park to first it acts a bit quicker maybe 3 seconds or less. But when driving it, it works fine when shifting manually 1-2 but from there is is a pain. Going up the hill it wants to shift to first but just cant do it, and i have to do it manually or it shakes. manually shifting 1-2 is fine as i said but when in D or OD it just purrs and shakes during shiftpoints that is 1-2 is around 3.000rpm 2-3 is around 5.500 3-4 hah dream on... You can get it at wide open throttle but i dont want to ruin a perfectly good 305... The delay has always been there but the slipping only started after i fixed the speedometer i had to change the wire and the outer speedo gear i had the govenor out (i guess i messed up around there) but the gear only missed one tooth so i guessed it would go fine i needed the green gear so i kept it in. The ECU is removed so i am trying to find a way to wire the lockup on a way that it reacts on the 4th gear switch and the brake lights, that would be enough wouldnt it?
And recently i was refurnishing my brain i remembered that the problems started after dooing a burnout slide in a public parking space, I just hammered the brakes in panic (when the cops saw me). I then remembered that i drove only about 5 kilometers and it started the purring so i stopped to check the oil and the dipstic was burning hot (i know i need some new parts because of that, but not what parts). And now i read somewhere that the governor spring could fall out doing that, so i wonder if that is the shaking but i havent smelled anything burned. so... I DONT KNOW! I maybe have a 86 LS parts car if a new trans is needed (pluss i want some of the interior).
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Re: What wood is this cabin sole made off??
Appreciate all the responses, Ill try to remember to post pics when I finish the job.
Re: What wood is this cabin sole made off??
I had similar uh-ohs on a quality built taiwanese boat. The strakes were 1/4 thk teak and 1/4 x 1/4 white meranti (?). I found my meranti at a 'quality' hardwoods dealer and carefully 'routed out' all the old and simply very carefully 'inlaid' the new.
For a wet section of sole that began to rot away from underneath in the supporting ply, I cut out a square section of the sole with a very fine 'cabinet saw blade' (on a fein tool), removed the 1/4 thick teak straking and (probably) white meranti without loosening the strake to strake glue lines by careful chiseling/grinding/sanding away the adhering underdecking and then simply re-glued to the rebuilt 'underdeck'. The only way one can determine that this was a repair was to closely look for those very thin 'cut lines' that were filled with 'saw dust filled resin'.
hope this helps.
Re: What wood is this cabin sole made off??
need better photos Crux really. Is this looking down at the sole? and is the little strip the lumber that would be the "holly"? Holly doesn't have any grain pattern that I've seen. Maple would. quilted, tiger, birdseye...
tiger maple
Re: What wood is this cabin sole made off??
The ply wood is not the issue here, its This "striped looking wood in the pic" which again is no veneer, it is half inch thick by 1/4" wide. The only thing I am trying to show you in the pic is the top half of the picture where you see the 1/4" stripped wood next to the teak. its the striped looking wood in the pic is what rotted out from between the teak, and I am trying to match. I was thinking luan as well, some areas appear stripped like the pic and others not so much. The floor is holding up magnificently every where there were not puddles sitting every time it rained. Overall the cabin sole was designed and built with quality in mind, and compared to countless other boats iv seen over built. I'm surprised the yard would splurge on half inch solid teak flooring instead of using the thin veneer/ ply stuff that most used, then use some an inferior wood for the strips. Im not so sure its terribly inferior though, as I said this boats hatches were cracked bad and it poured in. being in those conditions in south florida for at least a year , I'm very surprised it only penetrated to the extent that it did. Guess ill just have to take a piece to the hard woods place and search for a match.
Re: What wood is this cabin sole made off??
Looks like Luan (a.k.a., Philippine Mahogany) to me. But, like others have said, it's tough to tell from a pic. Whatever it is, it's pretty rotten. Just match it with something that looks close; you'll probably never get it to look exactly uniform without replacing the entire floor.
Re: What wood is this cabin sole made off??
Looks like Meranti, one of the various species that is 'lumped into' the generic name for Luan.
In the 70s and 80s many of the asian yards used luan ply as the base structure for soles, even with 1/4" teak and 'faux-holly' top surfaces ; some used meranti as a strake or thick veneer overlay to the substructure - red meranti for the faux-teak and white/yellow meranti as the faux-holly.
It rots quite well if fed by any 'boat leaks'.
Meranti - http://www.wood-database.com/lumber-...k-red-meranti/
Re: What wood is this cabin sole made off??
I'm not sure that it's mahogany, the grain doesn't look right and mahogany doesn't flame like I'm seeing. But some pictures with better perspective will help. I agree that the substrate is probably cheap mahogany or luan.. the grain definitely looks like luan.
I really can't see the areas that you're suggesting are holly... more pictures please. BUT I wouldn't use holly in this application. Denise is right that maple is a much better wood. Holly is very obstinate with messy grain and unless carefully dried never stays straight. It's true that some species of holly are very white, but maple can be quite white too. BUT either wood will yellow under any flooring finish except super blonde shellac (not an option here).
There really isn't a good reason for a solid teak (or mahogany) floor. It will expand and contract with temperature and humidity. It will cost a fortune and be a major job to install. I'll stress that there is absolutely nothing wrong with a marine ply subfloor and 1/8" to 1/4" teak/maple overlay. The floor will be stable and look great for decades. Your problem was with water ingress, not the floor.
Send more pictures and we can give more confusing advise... )
Re: What wood is this cabin sole made off??
Looks like Lauan "mahogany" plywood. Poor choice for a cabin sole.
Re: What wood is this cabin sole made off??
Needs a better picture. Looks like maybe mahogany plywood but there are lots of mahogany species and genuses so matching is probably impossible. Trying to match it might be done using stain and trial and error on some scrap pieces. The veneer looks like maybe a maple stain would be close.
Re: What wood is this cabin sole made off??
Its hard to tell from the photo, mahogany perhaps. I often smell the wood as a way to determine what it is. Teak has a musty type of smell wile mahogany is more peppery and spicy.
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Basti, many thanks for the reply. The advise is exactly what I was after.
Welcome to the forums.
First of all, I wouldn't mix bindings, ever. There are so many out there, you can certainly find something suitable for you.
As for boards, a directional all mountain/freeride board would be your best bet. In your case I'd rather go stiffer than softer. Stiffer boards are more stable. You should also think about the camber profile. In your case I'd say camber or hybrid camber. Your Ride is most certainly a camber board (in case you don't know about the camber options, check this: http://www.snowboardingforum.com/boa...g-between.html).
Also, go longer. I'm 10 KGs lighter than you and I ride a 159. Try out something in the 160-163 range. It will give you more control and since you're not spinning you don't need anything shorter.
My suggestions: Lib Tech Jamie Lynn or Lando, Burton Custom X, Arbor Element CX, Never Summer SL or Heritage, Ride Berserker. Search for reviews on those boards on the web or here in on the forums to get an overview. You can get most of these boards from last season, still new and unused for a very decent price. Better option than eBay in my opinion.
Time to trade in the Ride Timeless?
Hey folks, please excuse my poor terminology and hopefully one of you knowledgeable folks can help.
I've been boarding for the past 15 years on and off, for the past 7 (more consistently) on a ride timeless 55 (Circa 2003) with flow flite 3 bindings. I got the board 2nd hand in 2005ish. I had no idea about types of boards when I got it, but do enjoy riding it. I'd peg myself as a well contented intermediate. I can get down most things (reds and blacks) but I'm a lazy bugger and usual stick to the main slopes and a wee bit of powder. I like long red and blue runs (my favourite is a 14km run at Bramberg an Wilkogel). I've no interest in fun parks/jumps and rarely ride fakie (always goofy footed).
I'm 5ft 8in, 92.5kg and size 8uk boot. So average height but stocky. Ride daffish +15deg and -8deg.
I'm thinking of getting a new board. I like the recycling idea so will probably look at ebay, but for the right price may purchase a new board (I don't mind one a few seasons old).
Any ideas on the following:
Should I try a longer board 160cm? or just stick with the 155cm? board calcs point to larger boards
Best to stick with an all mountain or try a free-ride? I think my timeless is classed as an all mountain.
Should I consider something less stiff, I've noticed it's a bugger to turn when the slopes are compacted/icy, i'd imagine a more flexible board would help?
Also is the done thing to have flow bindings with a stiff board.
And probably a stupid question? I'm interested in trying out my lead foot in a burton mission and back in the flow (mix the two bindings but have the benefits of both). Has anyone tried this? I fancy relative stiffness/fixity and feel would be the main issue.
Any advice would be grateful.
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