I Modified My Son’s Racecar...

"That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms" (thatbastardkurtis5) 11/10/2018 at 17:39 • Filed to: None

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...bed. See, a major flaw in the Step2 C7 Z06 bed is it’s 200lb weight capacity. How is a grown 300lb man supposed to sleep in a racecar bed with a 200lb weight limit?!

Of course I’m joking, but I’m also 100% not joking. We’re trying to get my (almost) 3 year old to sleep on his own in his own bed...he’s been sharing a bed with me and my wife his whole life, but with my second son being born last week, the eldest needs to finally be in his own room.

The problem is he’s really used to sleeping with at least one of us, so the last week or so he and I have been sleeping in his old room on the mattress for this bed. I finally got the bed set up yesterday, but I can’t lay in the bed with him because 200lb weight limit...meaning last night we slept on the mattress on the ground next to the bed.

This is the stock setup, there are two particle board pieces that cover the holes and the matress sits on top. You can kinda see what I did on the right, I got a piece of 15/32 plywood and made eight 2x4 feet to go in the holes and take the weight off the bed. I didn’t need eight feet, it’s massive overkill...a horse could sleep in this damn bed now.

Done and done. I laid in the bed, it’s solid as a rock...the 2x4s take the weight, but it’s still sitting on the edges of the bed so there’s no movement. Now I can lay in the bed with my son until he falls asleep, then sleep sitting up in my chair for two hour stints between diaper changes for the new guy. Good times!

pip bip - choose Corrour > That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms 11/10/2018 at 18:03

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Lose some weight



random001 > That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms 11/10/2018 at 18:08

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Wonders how #2 came to be with #1 in the bed...

=0P

That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms > random001 11/10/2018 at 18:11

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He may have been at his grandmother’s house, haha. 

That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms > pip bip - choose Corrour 11/10/2018 at 18:12

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If I’m ever 175lbs (my son weighs about 30) I’ll have been dead for 9 months already. 

Longtime Lurker > That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms 11/10/2018 at 18:17

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Put something under the feet or they’ll scratch the floor over time. W e had to learn that the hard way.

random001 > That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms 11/10/2018 at 18:19

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Heh

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms 11/10/2018 at 18:39

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I'd just take the car bed and leave the master bed to the kid and spouse.

That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms > Longtime Lurker 11/10/2018 at 19:10

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Fortunately, the floor in that room is fuuuuuuuuucked already, haha.

HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute > pip bip - choose Corrour 11/10/2018 at 19:13

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hEy mAn tHaTs tOo oFFe nSiVe dOnt sAy tHaT hErE oR aNyWhErE yOu sHoUlD bE aShAmEd oF yOuRsElF

 (had a run-in with someone who said something like this when I was making an inside joke to my friend smh my head)

Nom De Plume > That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms 11/10/2018 at 19:20

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Seemed like a lot of work when you could have installed a tire wall and catch fence.

Maxima Speed > That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms 11/10/2018 at 19:35

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Hmmm, it’s always a hard choice. Add lightness or increased rigidity? I think you made the right call on it. 

wafflesnfalafel > That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms 11/10/2018 at 19:37

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T hat is super cool, (needs little black trim rings around the front wheel arches and it’d be a spot on z06)

But you didn’t say if it’s the A8 slush box or the manual?

That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms > HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute 11/10/2018 at 19:49

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If somebody meets me and doesn’t tell me I need to lose weight I wonder what their deal is. I’m preeeeeetty fat, haha. 

OPPOsaurus WRX > That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms 11/10/2018 at 20:12

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My son is almost 2 and all comes into our room every night around 1am so good luck with that . Good luck with the noob too.

That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms > OPPOsaurus WRX 11/10/2018 at 21:39

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This one sleeps pretty decent. Since the newborn got here a week ago, I’ve been laying with him to get him to sleep and then sleeping in my chair or something. Even with the newborn crying every few hours he hasn’t gotten up, so I guess we’re on to something. 

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 11/16/2018 at 11:28

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and install a CB radio so you can talk to other car beds?