What's Oppo doing tonight?

"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
01/10/2018 at 20:57 • Filed to: Wrenching

We’ve got an unseasonably warm evening here in Chicagoland. It’s 52 degrees outside. I love the sweet relief of these occasional nights. They make the long cold winter not so bad. I cracked a nice root beer, put some tunes on, and am going to enjoy an hour or two tinkering in Shop-Teacher’s home for wayward tiny motors. I just wish the garage floor wasn’t so wet. Oh well! I’m going to enjoy this!

What’s shakin’ Oppo?

DISCUSSION (55)

shop-teacher > shop-teacher
01/10/2018 at 21:04

Ugh, the camera in my new phone sucks!!!

Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner > shop-teacher
01/10/2018 at 21:08

Kinja'd!!!

Watching Dakar highlights

MM54 > shop-teacher
01/10/2018 at 21:09

Drained the coolant out of the RX7 and took the radiator hoses and one of the heater return lines off, will put new ones on tomorrow I suppose, which aren’t sketchy and slightly leaky.

Svend > shop-teacher
01/10/2018 at 21:14

It’s 2:14am and I’m doing absolute bugger all. I’ve been awake all day and I’m not tired. Not much on TV, sat in front of the computer ust flicking through random pages here and there.

Phyrxes once again has a wagon! > shop-teacher
01/10/2018 at 21:19

Sucks or got really confused as to what it was supposed to focus on?

AestheticsInMotion > shop-teacher
01/10/2018 at 21:22

Blasting Yes while doing dishes and meal-prepping for the next couple days. Hat tip to K-roll for the prog rock reminder

Urambo Tauro > shop-teacher
01/10/2018 at 21:26

I’m totally squandering all this nice weather and letting myself get way too carried away looking at chassis codes .

... again . Why do I do this to myself?

smobgirl > shop-teacher
01/10/2018 at 21:30

Amazing race! Then either an online CPR class or start reviewing another report.

shop-teacher > Urambo Tauro
01/10/2018 at 21:39

Ah jeeze! Go outside! The chassis codes will still be there this weekend when it’s freezing cold again this weekend.

shop-teacher > AestheticsInMotion
01/10/2018 at 21:39

Nice!

shop-teacher > Phyrxes once again has a wagon!
01/10/2018 at 21:40

I think the answer to that is yes. I’ve been wildly disappointed in the camera. Enough so that I may get rid of it soon.

LimitedTimeOnly @ opposite-lock.com > shop-teacher
01/10/2018 at 21:48

Collecting my tools for sway bar swap Friday.

EL_ULY > shop-teacher
01/10/2018 at 21:51

52 is too cold!

I’m trying to think of someone that might have a BMW with an m54 engine that would let me borrow their MAF to see if my lean codes go away

shop-teacher > EL_ULY
01/10/2018 at 21:52

Too cold? Pfft, I didn’t even bother closing the garage door.

I can offer RallyMetro parts.

Or scooter parts

Under_Score > shop-teacher
01/10/2018 at 21:53

52 in Chicago? That’s like the equivalent of it being 75 here. Weather up there is weird.

EL_ULY > shop-teacher
01/10/2018 at 21:55

Its way too cold for me. Id honestly be shivering at 52

shop-teacher > EL_ULY
01/10/2018 at 22:10

I have run out of things I can do with the parts at hand. I’m now just sitting in the garage enjoying the weather.

shop-teacher > Under_Score
01/10/2018 at 22:11

It sure is! It’s going to be buttass cold again by this weekend. Gotta enjoy it while it lasts.

crowmolly > shop-teacher
01/10/2018 at 22:15

Avoiding putting the holiday lights up in the attic at the moment. Gotta check them all first and I’m too beat from a long day.

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > shop-teacher
01/10/2018 at 22:19

It’s been damn cold up here in Nova Scotia...was -15C (5F) the other day without the windchill....with the windchill that day, it was -25C (-13F)! (Which is not cold for a lot of Western Canada, but pretty cold for here!)

It’s supposed to be 13C (55F) on Saturday though from a rainstorm that is going to be moving through, so that will be a welcome change!

My evening has consisted of lesson planning for class tomorrow and doing some computer work for a very annoying, full-of-himself old guy photographer (who is admittedly really skilled, but not very modest...) who lives in town that calls me 9 million times if I don’t answer right away despite knowing I am at work and that computer tutoring/repair is my SIDE job...

CB > shop-teacher
01/10/2018 at 22:31

I started playing The Last of Us. After the first chapter, I’m gonna be crying myself to sleep.

Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > shop-teacher
01/10/2018 at 22:33

Worked late, went to Chipotle, then sat through my first regional SCCA meeting (was very bored), came home and have done nothing since.

CB > smobgirl
01/10/2018 at 22:34

Kinja'd!!!

Under_Score > shop-teacher
01/10/2018 at 22:36

Yeah, it’s gonna be lows in the 20's here again. Gotta love the cycles!

benjrblant > shop-teacher
01/10/2018 at 22:43

I’m dreaming that I have a shop or garage to work in.

shop-teacher > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
01/10/2018 at 22:53

We had a couple really cold weeks of temperatures mostly not even getting up into the teens. It finally broke on Monday, and tomorrow is going to be even warmer. It’s going to be back to a high of like 12 on Saturday though. Gotta enjoy it while it lasts!

shop-teacher > Under_Score
01/10/2018 at 22:53

I think the high on Saturday is forecast to be something like 12.

shop-teacher > MM54
01/10/2018 at 22:54

Good progress!

shop-teacher > benjrblant
01/10/2018 at 22:55

It’s pretty great. Even with the crappy floor.

shop-teacher > LimitedTimeOnly @ opposite-lock.com
01/10/2018 at 22:55

Nice!

smobgirl > CB
01/10/2018 at 23:02

I’m hanging this up in the classroom.

BaconSandwich is tasty. > shop-teacher
01/10/2018 at 23:12

Installed a power bar and an LED light in the garage. And by “installed”, I really mean screwed on to the wall (and hooked chains onto the roof). Much brighter in the garage now!

Kinja'd!!!

Urambo Tauro > shop-teacher
01/10/2018 at 23:15

There. I cleaned out my car and removed the wiper pulse module from my truck.

BaconSandwich is tasty. > CB
01/10/2018 at 23:15

My wife bought me the sound track for Christmas a year or so ago. I still need to find myself a Playstation and play it.

shop-teacher > BaconSandwich is tasty.
01/10/2018 at 23:15

Nice!

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > shop-teacher
01/10/2018 at 23:19

I ate dinner and then got on oppo. That lead to reading the post about Janet (airline), which lead to looking at aecom job openings worldwide, which lead to considering if a 32 year-old American could enter Britain’s apprentice system for transportation system planner (if so, what city in England would one choose since there multiple opening. Decided a preliminary decision could be made from references to the various cities from Top Gear over the years), which circled back to a rabbit hole of reading about Area 51/Groom Lake, which has concluded to flipping on the fireplace and hopefully finding something relaxing to watch on TV for a little bit that doesn’t prompt another rabbit hole of interesting reading while hanging out on the couch with the doggos.

BaconSandwich is tasty. > shop-teacher
01/10/2018 at 23:22

Thanks. I’m thinking that this year I want to get it insulated so it is a bit more tolerable in the winter. 2x4 studs, though, so not a lot of room. I’m thinking I’ll end up doing the pink fiberglass (or Roxul) stuff, and do it myself, but instead of drywall, use oriented strand board. I’m going to double check with the local fire code before I do that, though.

shop-teacher > Urambo Tauro
01/10/2018 at 23:34

Good!

Dang. I should’ve cleaned my truck out.

shop-teacher > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
01/10/2018 at 23:35

Wow! That was an elaborate evening!

shop-teacher > BaconSandwich is tasty.
01/10/2018 at 23:37

I’ve been wanting to do the same actually. My garage is detached, so I don’t care about fire code.

Urambo Tauro > shop-teacher
01/10/2018 at 23:42

Looks like it’s supposed to be this warm again tomorrow. Probably gonna rain, though. Really weird, considering how cold the weekend was, and how cold the next one will be. This is the goofiest January weather that I can recall.

shop-teacher > Urambo Tauro
01/10/2018 at 23:52

I recall having a winter like this maybe 5 or 6 years ago. The humidity is crazy, EVERYTHING in the garage is wet. My tools were all wet. I remember that happening several times a while back.

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > shop-teacher
01/10/2018 at 23:56

Or at least an elaborate way of describing an evening of interwebs surfing.

BaconSandwich is tasty. > shop-teacher
01/10/2018 at 23:58

Mine is also detached, but when it eventually comes time to sell the place, it’ll be easier if everything is to code. I’m not sure there are any regulations, but I figure it’s definitely smarter to look into it before doing it.

shop-teacher > BaconSandwich is tasty.
01/10/2018 at 23:59

Sound logic.