Thread 514882822

Is unironically due to low T from all the gooning to midgetporn?

Are men slowly turning into homo-erotic dancers from all the fat overweight truckers they suck off?

What is their deal?

Are people infact, retarded?

>>514882822 (OP)
>gets a beat-up car
>breaks down in months and he keeps repairing it
Well there you go!

>>514882822 (OP)
They didn’t have dads to teach them, anon.
I’m 51, my skills are limited because my dad worked 12 hour days as an insurance manager and we didn’t have a lot of time where he showed me how to fix shit, Most of what I learned was after learning basic tool usage (mostly from assembling bikes/skateboards and building ramps), but beyond simple things, I contract out because I don’t wanna fuck up a major project.
Now, imagine these 20-30 year olds who had parents who learned even less than I did, they can’t even hook up a television, they’re fucked.
Being.a handyman will make you a lot of money in the future if you can do it.

>>514882822 (OP)
back in the day it was pretty cheap to mess around and try to fix shit but now if i want to fix a machine lathe it costs like 5 grand just in the parts to try and fix it and if you fuck up you are out 5k...

>>514882822 (OP)
Self-repair is impossible thanks to everything mechanical being bricked if you dont use proprietary software. Right-to-repair is gone.

>>514882822 (OP)
this is why

>>514882822 (OP)
Couple things. Lots of stuff is cheap garbage made to break down with repairs being way more time, effort and money than simply replacing it. Most vehicles made within the last 10 years at least are purposely made extremely difficult to do DIY repairs on. For instance, I have a ‘20 1 ton diesel ram and, despite there being a veritable shitload of room under the hood and under the motor, they decided to mount the oil filter in the front passenger wheel well right next to the spring, completely inaccessible from below and only accessible from the side via a special tool.

I know a lot of guys grew up with single moms or whatever and were never taught how to do anything, but even for someone like me who prefers to do that stuff, it gets harder and harder as time goes on because manufacturers do everything they can to discourage home maintenance of stuff.

>>514882822 (OP)
Women have been empowered to the level of soviet commissars by local governments. Every time I turn anwrench in my backyard I get a letter from code enforcement about "light pollution" from my motion sensor lights or a visit from the police about a noise complaint

You are guilty until proven innocent and if the cunt keeps complaining you will still get in trouble even if you are fully in compliance with the law and zoning codes

>>514882822 (OP)
I had a mechanic rape me recently.
I could have done it myself but I'm a pussy who's dad never taught him anything

Anyone have luck cleaning out the evap purge valve solenoid (or at least a way to bypass that system).
I need to replace it but if I can just clean it I’d rather do that.

>>514883087
Some dads are also just retarded. My dad us incapable of fixing anything even though he has an entire garage full of tools. He just breaks shit or more commonly adds a shit ton of useless modifications until the item no longer fulfills its original purpose or is otherwise ruined

>>514883104
>freedumbs
You're free to not get an iPhone. There, that's easy.

>>514883087
shit excuse, all you need are some tools and the internet and you can figure out how pretty much anything works and how to fix it

Will it ever get fixed?

>>514882822 (OP)
modern cars are gay and costs too much

>>514883087
You are based, sir.

I changed the oil in my truck yesterday. I almost forgot the filter kek. I put the housing on and looked at my filter box with the filter in it then some brain wrinkles started wrinkling. Also the plastic from the oil bottle almost went in where the oil goes. Otherwise job well done. Spilled oil everywhere but oh well not my problem. Need to go recycle the oil at advance on my way to wage slavery.

nigga, because the world sucks dick and there's nothing good about it, who cares anyway

>>514883087
This
>>514883670
He said he's 51 you utter retard, the internet wasn't around when he was young.

Yeah

>>514882822 (OP)
Because it cuts into their gooning time

>>514882822 (OP)
The amount of projection and self-reporting in this post is hilarious.

because it's unironically cheaper and faster to just hire a guy
>durr hurr I'll just go do an engine swap or refacade my house from scratch by watching youtube videos

>>514882822 (OP)
>Why dont men repair their shit anymore?
Nigger, that's all I do.
My truck is from 1973
My car is from 1988
I keep my 25 year old stove going with spare parts I source online
My shirts have been mended at least 3 times, each
I taught myself how to plaster, sand and paint walls
You should see my resource library
You think posting up an image of you changing your brake pads is impressive somehow?

>>514883311
Also this. 2015 tundra is reliable as fuck but just look up replacing a headlight bulb. You need to remove a body panel under the light, the headlight housing itself, the front fender, then there is a tough rubber grommet held down by a metal clip that you have to finger under the rubber to loosen the clip. LITERALLY WHAT THE FUCK. Its not hard but extremely unnecessary.

products are designed to be disposable and difficult if not possible to repair so you buy more of them

>>514883311
> they decided to mount the oil filter in the front passenger wheel well right next to the spring, completely inaccessible from below and only accessible from the side via a special tool.

Yeah that shit sucks balls.

>>514882822 (OP)
>he doesn't use jack stands
>double sided open end wrenches

I guarantee this car spends 2x as much time sitting there in pieces than it does actually driving around anywhere.

>>514883104
Blessed thread, dankie

>>514882822 (OP)
I literally don't have enough time in a day to work on everything. Some things need to be outsourced in order to manage time wisely

>>514883457
> Every time I turn anwrench in my backyard I get a letter from code enforcement about "light pollution

Is this real?? Wtf

>>514883533
Start by doing small stuff like oil changes, but be autistic about it. Dont overfill and the likes

>>514884323
If he was under the vehicle, then yeah get jackstands. Or at least something that is strong in compression - like big chunks of railroad ties - under the frame or hard points
>shits on tools
You have to use what you have.
If you want to flex on someone, show a user-made tool you created for a specific purpose.
Extra points if you created it out of broken tools you salvaged.
Like a stair saw or a plane.
User made tools are best tools.

>>514883600
> even though he has an entire garage full of tools. He just breaks shit or more commonly adds a shit ton of useless modifications until the item no longer fulfills its original purpose or is otherwise ruined

Based dad, atleast he has tools and he fucks around with stuff.

>>514883087
My dad didn't teach me shit. That's what every man should do if their child doesn't show interest. I started to service my car and do stuff by myself when I moved to my own place. I always drive my shit home, I assemble it myself. That's when I started to ask stuff to my dad and he's always there to help. I didn't like him much in my 20s but now in my 30s I'm really happy to be more like him than I thought. He built his own house and knows how to fix a lot of stuff. That's cool. Don't blame your dad and move your ass.

>>514882822 (OP)
More and more shit is not repairable. They've turned life into a disposable commodity.

>>514882822 (OP)
>OHHHH LOOK AT ME IM REPLACING A TIRE
>OHHH IM SO PROFESSIONAL I HAVE HIGH T

>>514883673
Maybe next week, ill keep you op de hoogte

>>514883855
Gebaseerde amerikaan

>>514883989
I'm over 50 and my dad wasn't the least bit mechanical and my brother who is an engineer can't even change a light bulb.
I fix all sorts of shit from cars to appliances because I learned to do it. But maybe I'm autistic.

>>514882822 (OP)
>But i did just replace my heater core

>>514883670
whats up retard parts cost lots of money sometimes impossible to find. h>>514883827
appy 18th birthday btw!

>>514884250
of all the things to brag about you chose plastering, sanding, and painting lmao. let's see that resource library aka shelf of mint-condition books

>>514882822 (OP)
I work on my own shit as well. Yes, it's low T combined with no father figure growing up

>>514882822 (OP)
i do, especially car stuff. I would probably completely fix my car by myself if I had a garage with hole/place where I could lift my car up. I don't even dislike it, it's like a meaningful, money saving hobby.

>>514884061
1340cc? Harley frame

>>514883600
>more commonly adds a shit ton of useless modifications until the item no longer fulfills its original purpose or is otherwise ruined
Your dad sounds like an unironically good guy to be around

>>514884617
>More and more shit is not repairable.
There is truth to this.
Designed obsolescence is a thing, though not a formal policy as far as I know.
The way to combat this is to buy things that can be repaired - are designed for that - even if you have to repair it to begin with in order to use it.
Example:
Our power grid is a suggestion. So, I turned to kerosene lanterns as auxiliary lighting and heating (they put out some heat - really).
But the chinky shit they sell anymore isn't worth buying. It's worse than useless because it promises something and delivers nothing.
The German lanterns are pricey, so I got some of those, but they do not last all that long on a tankful.
So, I got some old German lanterns - the big yellow fuckers they made for the railroad that will run for days on one tankful of kerosene.
But they have not made them for decades and new old stock doesn't exist.
So, you buy the beat up used stuff, mend them, paint them, put them back into working order and back into circulation they go.
>They've turned life into a disposable commodity.
Subscription service, but yeah. Point taken.

>>514883102
>>514883093
This.

>>514882822 (OP)
Because we can’t. It is literally impossible in most cases (like cars) to repair it yourself unless you have 15k to drop on their decryption system. Add in licenses and regulatory BS and if your not a billionaire making the laws you have no ability to repair things.

Land of the free…..

>>514882822 (OP)
>globohomo changed all of our stuff to planned obsolescence disposable garbage
>right to repair is an ancient concept
>subscription as a service, usury and jew trickery abound
>men don’t have time for families, let alone hobbies


Yeah it sure is a mystery.

>>514883104
>>514882822 (OP)
> buy 100s of $ worth of tools
> spend 10s of hours of time watching youtube
> waste days trying to repair thing
> fail with a 20% chance of success

Alternatively:
> pay $100 to repairman
> pick up thing in <1hr.

>>514883855
You're only supposed to have 1 beer while the oil drains, not 5 lol

>>514884072
I honestly think it's vidya

>>514882822 (OP)
How many times are you going to post this bait?

Because tiktok brain

>>514883087
You live in a time with almost instant access to knowledge and manuals. You have no excuse. I hate repairing shit because it steals my time but it’s better than paying a nigger to do the job.

>>514884665
two more weeks

>>514884323
Unironically i always use jackstands

>>514885357
It’s not vidya per-se. It’s light years easier and more realistic to do all of that stuff if you have a dad who teaches you.
>Dont have a truck?
Good luck hauling anything
>Dont have hundreds to thousands of dollars in tools?
Good luck fixing shit
>Dont have space to park your vehicle to tear it open for days?
Good luck even beginning the process of learning
>just YouTube it bro
Might as well as someone to perform HPLC from a YouTube video alone. If you don’t have the equipment, space or some experience based know how, it won’t happen for >90% of people.

Can autists who are lucky to be blessed with time, money, space and family who don’t ride them pull it off? Sure, but those people are in the minority bigly. All of those factors aligning are a privilege, much less a commonality.

>>514882822 (OP)
I do

>>514882822 (OP)
old things are easy to fix
new things are hard to fix

I used to fix laptops for a living. Back when they were easy to fix. Now everything is glued together and it's hard to take it apart without breaking it even more.

>>514885107
>if I had a garage with hole/place where I could lift my car up.
Same. Or even just super-ramps

>>514885642
> You have no excuse.

>You ought to have a horse anon! You live in a time with endless manuals on horses. Why don’t you have a horse?

>I live in a shitbox apartment with no space or ability to even feed it, much less purchase it in the first place


I don’t think half of you retards who espouse these opinions have ever experienced a real La k of resources lol

>>514882822 (OP)
Lack of time and merchant obstruction

>>514882822 (OP)
>time consuming
>need hundreds of tools
>shit info on how to repair
>risk of making things worse
just not worth the time and frustration

>>514882822 (OP)
Boomers took all the houses that have decent sized garages and driveways.

When I was still living with my parents I did all the mechanic work on my families cars. Now I'm stuck in a shitty 2bdm apartment.

>>514882822 (OP)
You unironically have to be a brand loyalist if you are serious about working on your car.
Each brand requires different tools.

>>514884533
> Don't blame your dad and move your ass.

Based spaniard and agreed

>>514885731
>>Dont have space to park your vehicle to tear it open for days?
That is my biggest issue. I really want to make my own furniture and shit but I have done the calculations. The amount of tools I would need, the space you’ll need, the electricity and what not. The same for gardening, you really don’t save costs but pay more. Most people do it to have a hobby but economically it’s not feasible. If I would have been rich I would do it tho

>>514885838
> Now everything is glued together and it's hard to take it apart without breaking it even more.

Because our stuff in the globohomo west is designed from the start to be impossible to repair. It also breaks in short order. This was all done on purpose as it forces ongoing consumption.

The globohomo jews literally did this on purpose to us.

>>514882822 (OP)
>he doesn't know about organic solidarity in 2025
Unless it's a specific skill that I'm trained to do for pay, I'm not participating.

>>514885979
Your ancestors used to risk life and limb to raid western european nations.
Now you retreat at the thought of technical difficulties.

>>514885070
>of all the things to brag about you chose plastering, sanding, and painting lmao.
My walls are horsehair-and-plaster over lath, asshole.
House is about 100 years old.
Having a skill like... being able to patch your fuckin wall, sand it properly, paint it so it doesn't look like shit instead of just having beaners hang 3/8" drywall with shitty drywall screws and tape that will disintegrate in a year or two is a handy fuckin skill to have.
Like you would know anything about that.
>let's see that resource library aka shelf of mint-condition books
Picrel
bite my dick

>>514886052
This is absolutely true about german cars

>>514885863
Oh shut up man. I’m not talking about cars only, most faggots don’t even know how fix a leaking sink. Or build a shelf from IKEA using the retard proof manual. And guess that they also add tools in the package most times.

Check out this sweet dip bar I made. I used extra material from jobs and old gas/galvanized pipe I had laying around. Took me about 2 hours and cost me nothing.

>>514885292
>Alternatively:
>> pay $100 to repairman
>> pick up thing in <1hr.
Okay, but for if I bought the tools I now own them and they come in handy for other things or repeat work in the future and won't have to pay someone else another $100 or more at a later point in time because I'm able to do it myself. And won't have to make the fixes on the scheduling availability of someone else.

>>514883989
>He said he's 51 you utter retard, the internet wasn't around when he was young.
bull shit, besides manuals were pretty good back then too, guy >>514883087 sounds like a total limp wrist dick sucking faggot

>>514886226
Decent. You can probably do some Aussie pullups on there too

>>514886057
There are dozens of things I’ve always wanted to do. I’ve simply always lacked the resources, space and time to even begin. It makes sense though, the globohomo system here in the U.S. is set up to keep us barely surviving, permanently locked in debt, sad and willing to consume.
I’d have a garden if I could. The landlord doesn’t allow any gardening, and I work so much I’d probably miss weeding and watering too.

Been turning wrenches since I was 5 thanks to my dad. Self taught and was trained on how to build a house from the ground up. My major regret is not learning how to cook from my mother. I can cook simple shit but nowhere near as good as that woman, God rest her soul. She could make a $3 steak from Walshart taste like a $200 steak. She could've opened up a hillbilly soul food type of restaurant and made a killing.

Every man, no exceptions, MUST have at the very least a basic array of basic tools.

>>514886187
>anon pointed out how one needs access to resources and time for hobbies
>kraut responds that assembling ikea garbage with the hex wrench included counts as a hobby instead


Lmfao. You globohomos and your goalpost shifting are wild

>>514886526
How did you get that from what he said

>>514885642
when he was in his youth, 40 years ago, do you think the internet existed then? i can tell you're a brownoid

>>514885107
I like you in a non homo way

>>514882822 (OP)
i pay poor men like you to do it for me

>>514882822 (OP)
My father has this Yamaha lawnmower. It's way older than me, but he refuses to buy a new one. He just keeps fixing it and making work around solutions. It's like something out of Mad Max

>>514886262
> and they come in handy for other things or repeat work in the future and won't have to pay someone else another $100 or more at a later point in time because I'm able to do it myself
Oof! Thats a big "if" anon.

>>514882822 (OP)
Actually it's because modern cars have proprietary software that you need a manufacturer authorized computer to decode in order to do any sort of diagnostics with or a fucking degree in computer sciences to hack into, which will void the warranty.

>>514886591
It’s his second sentence in the post, jew.

>>514886262
Great, now possess the tools to make your own clothing. Now possess the tools to make your own food (don't forget land), now possess all the tools needed to repair your boots, now possess all the tools you need to make the tools

>>514886689
You'll do the same someday. He knows what kind of bullshit he's in for if he buys new

>>514886804
> which will void the warranty.
Warranty for what?

>>514886833
>I called him a Jew guise don't I look cool??
He's saying it doesn't have to be as extreme as having tools for working on cars, shit can be as simple as not sucking at putting together Ikea furniture (which most people DO actually fail at doing)

>>514883662
indian

>>514886187
>most faggots don’t even know how fix a leaking sink.
They don't.
They will stand in the shower and bitch until they drop from exhaustion about shitty water pressure instead of taking the shower head apart and ripping out the fuckin flow limiter they are REQUIRED by law to put in there with a pair of needlenose pliers.
Because they don't know how to disassemble a shower head because they don't know what a fuckin adjustable wrench is.
Best place you can go to get tools is a pawn shop.
Dudes pawn tools and tool sets all the time, and most times it's old shit that's way better quality than what it sold today. Just a bit dirty or greasy maybe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6AdXc4YPHw

>>514886620
The only anoned thing would be that

Lots of men have low testosterone and are not anoned

>>514886849
Autistic black and white thinking. Nobody unless they're a rich little shit just gets EVERYTHING at once. Our fathers scrimped and saved while we were kids, and they were probably already slowly accumulating tools.
I'm 35, I have lot's of tools, but it took 20 fucking years to do it. That's just life man

>>514887064
It's only women who can't put together Ikea furniture

>>514886599
> when he was in his youth, 40 years ago, do you think the internet existed then?


There’s an ocean of difference between reading how to ride a bike, watching YouTube’s, and actually climbing in a bike and having your dad work with you to learn.
One way cements the feelings, understanding, subtle psychological signals and inputs into your subconscious. The other does not. There is no substitute for living and experiencing something. Knowledge can be learned and applied from books or a YouTube video, but it is necessary to have all of the inputs as well as a budget to handle the inevitable fuck ups during the learning process.
That’s why a professional is a professional. He doesn’t he to learned, he already knows what he’s doing by virtue of the experience and output he’s generated.

You will never be a meme no matter how much you force it

>>514883102
outside the EU
kek

>>514885135
1200 Sportster. Good eye

>>514887109
I used to work at a furniture bank, think a food bank but more strict and with furniture instead of food. We got our furniture via donations from individuals, most of it shit that was "broken" but actually had a leg that needed to be tightened...that's how helplessly retarded and lazy normies really are.

>>514886394
Based mom

>>514887224
> Our fathers scrimped and saved while we were kids

Clearly you never met any actual boomers. My parents were busy working, and being strung out from stress and depression on the weekends (because we lived in the upper Midwest and the farm crisis was going on). Many people have never had access to the resources you think are every day occurrences.

>>514885292
you cant even get an alignment for less than 100 dollars what sort of cope are you smoking. every mechanic shop wants like 1.5k just to do brakes(the most piss easy job ever)

fixing your own shit is one of the real ways to save money nowadays. doesnt really work if you are wageslavemaxxing and have zero free time and your weekends are spent recouping from being a good wagie.

>>514883087
My dad was on a ship 6 month out of the year and I learned to fix all my shit. There's no excuse with the internet. A month ago my temperature indication on my rearview mirror went out and instead of buying a new one I took it apart and resoldered the components. Think my dad taught me that shit??

>>514885847
Am I supposed to trust a wooden ramp like how I'm just supposed to trust wooden doors?

>>514887228
I don't know. We used to get "corporate volunteers", who are just desk jockeys who felt like doing my job for 10x the pay. Well, their main tasks usually involved assembling dressers...hardly 1 in 10 of those fucking things stood up straight and didn't feel like it'd fall apart.

Don't fix your own cars, it doesn't make you manly. I see all of you amateur fucks come into my shop begging us to fix your mangled up DIY jobs and a lot of the time we just turn the work down because its not worth the trouble of fixing someone else's hack job. Not to mention those types always complain about every little thing and alway come back unhappy about some unrelated bullshit.

>>514887482
Nigger, I'm from the upper Midwest and ate hamburger helper from the church donation box

>>514887636
I used to fix residential garage doors for a living at one point, the weekend warriors really have a way of doing things in the most incorrect way humanly possible

>>514882822 (OP)
I've saved myself thousands of hours and money by not owning, maintaining, or repairing a car. It's a BS timesink thats quickly going out of date, but if it's your cope good for you. For me It's pure freedom of not having to pay some kike insurance and gas money.

>>514887636
Zoomer can fuck up an oil change. What other DIY shit are they trying to do?

>>514887888
Easy when youre unemployed and dont need one/cant afford one

>>514887410
>furniture needing mending
My old comfy chair that should have been dragged out back and shot years ago, I taught myself how to repair and reupholster it instead of buying new because new furniture is shit
Working at a furniture bank, mending "broken" furniture and helping people... doing Yeoman's work there.
Good on you.
Most normies are clueless, yes. But it is not their nature - they were created through excess and dependency
I am reminded of what the ruling class did with their kids in the deeps of history: because they knew their kids would grow up to be spoiled, insufferable fuckheads if they were given a life of leisure they would throw their kids to a bunch of handlers who would treat them like shit and teach them things...
As I recall, I think it might have been King Darius who had to kill a male lion in single combat before he was allowed to return home
Normies should be stripped of all their convenience and taught how to make and repair things. Then they can have their toys back

>>514887647
>poverty competition

Ok? Well if what you say is true you lucked out massively, in ways few did or do. You should feel very blessed instead of assuming it’s an easy pathway available for all.

>>514887636
Actually I wanna add for humor's sake on the topic. Before I got my car (it's an 03 shit box brand shit box), someone replaced the fuel filter. I found this out when I had a small gas leak.....some redneck mother fucker used a SNOWMOBILE fuel filter on my V6 car.
Everyone had a good laugh over that one, I even kept it because it's so comical and absurd

>>514882822 (OP)
Only the rich or people who are on welfare can afford to do it. You need time off work or you need a second car that will get you to work while you take the time to fix your hobby car over weekends. The working class don't have the luxury of fucking around with shit until they get it fixed.

>>514882822 (OP)
My father has always been this way, especially with lawnmowers. At the slightest sign of a problem he just dumpsters it and buys a new one

>>514887636
i bought an 89 ltc from some diy boomer who assured me it was all good and when i went to change the oil both plugs were stripped and held in place with loctite. had to pull the pan and put a new one

>>514886599
Ah okay, that means he never can acquire these skills now or 20 years ago

>>514887961
I'm employed, I just save my money. If I had a car I wouldn't be able to save as much as I currently do. Why are carcucks so salty about pedestrians all the time?

>>514887965
>Working at a furniture bank, mending "broken" furniture and helping people... doing Yeoman's work there.
I haven't worked there in years, but by far my favorite part was when I was done in the warehouse I'd sneak off to the workshop to fix or improve some of the items. I made a shit ton of really nice wall mirrors by converting vanity and dresser mirrors that had lost their matches. Or modifying pieces that had been on the shelf forever in hopes someone would take it then.
Was incredibly satisfying to see a client choose a piece I personally had refinished.
I agree, these people are spoiled and essentially worthless space thieves. I think the underlying commonality is the complete and total absence of any sort of intellectual curiosity. Normies dislike learning, they want to know the absolute bare minimum that it takes to do ______ task. Recreational learning, totally off the radar

>>514888469
>Why are carcucks so salty about pedestrians all the time?
Because there's a lot more of of you than there used to be. And in my area, we got our car lanes halved so we could get a bike lane for the 8 people in my state who ride a bike

>>514882822 (OP)
>Could instead be working on making money than fixing a car

>>514887486
I was actually directly linking via >>numbers to the anon talking about phone repair. Which for $80-100 I have a guy that can part swap or battery replace at his repair shop. Which i dont need to do math or know the tools needed as the battery alone i can look up is $80-$100. Meaning he either is working for free, or gets the batteries and parts in bulk then replaces them for very little profit. Buying in bulk is another 100s of dollars. Repair shop, etc etc. its excessive and time consuming for cheap computer tech thats easier and cheaper to throw away. USA made computer companies should try to "innovate" and compete with chinkware by going for long lasting, repairable, modular, swappable, fixable designs. It touch back to good ol days americanism. Why people still love classic american cars.

>>514888680
So? Bikers and pedestrians came before you. I don't have to drive hundreds of miles away from my area every day to live my life, thats your cope. I don't see why your cope is giving you a superiority complex, you're really not that special for driving or fixing your own car. Fuck you idiots kill families and crash trailers across three lane straight highways every day. You cause far more damage than any pedestrian or bike combined.

>>514888215
They make them to be disposed of, shitty carburetors with passages as thin as a human hair, when they get clogged with dirt no amount of cleaning is going to help and you'll spend hours fucking with it if you decide to fix it. If you make good money then a day of your free time is worth way more than the cost of a new mower.

This is what pisses me off about my mother, she wants me to waste hours of time on stupid shit so she can save $20 meanwhile I could just buy her whatever the fuck she wants and it would be way less effort than what she's asking for because I make good money, but that's not acceptable.

>>514888835
Yeah you’re working 80 hours a week.

Nobody does that. Just stop gooning and start wrenching

>>514888010
Saying years of slow accumulation is basically unachievable is a really great way to never own any tools in your lifetime.
That all or nothing thinking will kill you.

>>514882822 (OP)
i dont see what the problem is, looks like the dog is doing a decent job

>>514888892
Do you enjoy riding the bus with indians?

Of course you do, you ARE indian.

>>514882822 (OP)
Because my dad fixes it for me? Also that sort of thing is for poors? Why would i need to learn something I can pay someone else to do.

>>514888892
I'm giving you an explanation and you take it as an assault on yourself and everything you stand for. Take a goddamned chill pill, cos I ain't reading your sperg rant

>>514882822 (OP)
working on old cars is easy. new cars not so much
Why did THEY make things un-repairable.!?!?!

>>514889018
Got 'em

>>514889084
Sometimes in the mid 90s. About the same time seats started being made of super hard foam instead of the soft and cozy foam from before

>>514889018
I don't ride the bus I just get an Uber or walk. If I do ride the bus I'm not scared of jeets or nigger like you are, apparently. I dominate them with my mere presence anywhere I go on public. Besides, a jeet or chink is far more likely to kill you while smashing his car into yours than riding the bus.

>>514889058
Yea my bad I didn't check ID and thought you were the guy who implied I was unemployed, for merely explaining my own situation.

>>514882822 (OP)
No, some us are just too busy making money and sports instead of wasting time with some shit somebody else can do for us for some few bucks
>hurr durr im manly man i repair car
I fuck your wife when you're wasting time repairing your shitbox

>>514888569
Nice. That must have been very satisfying. Worthy of reward.
Here: wood finish I make here at home. Maybe you can use it.
>1/4 part Tung oil
>1/4 part Tru oil
>1/4 Linseed oil
>1/4 part Jap drier
You can also color linseed oil by using alkanet root.
That's some genuine centuries-old knowledge there.
Take an old clean Ball jar with lid and seal.
Fill with plain linseed oil
Add in about a handful of alkanet root - not the powdered stuff. The shredded looking stuff.
Put the lid on and set it aside.
Over time, it will go a rose color, then it will go red, then dark wine color
When it gets to the color of red you like, pour the contents through a coffee filter into a clean Ball jar and put the lid on.
Add it to your wood finish for a reddish tint without the use of industrial dyes. Especially Cherry wood - it gives it a real pop.

>>514883600
Same as my dad, except he has filled the entire garage and the entire basement with tools, and has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on them.
I learned to never agree to help him with anything, because it involves standing around for hours until I finally break down and look up how to actually do everything he wants done, which often involves buying yet another tool.

>>514883989
hey retard, he said 20-30 year olds are fucked and cant even plug in a TV, read it again, thx

>>514889533
Based on the trauma caused by mixing tru oil with other oils on a gun stock I did once, I worry about that. But maybe I just used an especially incompatible mixture, because it wouldn't dry, even after more than a month in a really warm and dry room.
I'm gonna screenshot this so I can look into it the next time I do any wood work. My 870 at the very least needs some BLO

>>514882822 (OP)
transmission and all the other pieces needed costs too much, would rather just buy another used car

>>514883102
Stop buying faggot aids shit then and buy stuff that actually works and can be repaired.

I fixed a major crack in my Argentine Mauser recently. The crack was bad enough to justify 4 brass rods

>>514883102
this, i need £1,500 software from ross tech to fix my car. and I don't have a pit, or hydralic lift and ramps are shit. I do change my oil and filters myself but thats about it

>>514882822 (OP)
Ik ook. Currently im too hesitant to change my coolant. Seems like its not too hard but plenty of things can go wrong. I got full access to both block and radiator tap because of these car ramps. Got a chinky spill free radiator kit funnel. Im scared things will go wrong. Also the jack stands I bought are just a bit too high to be used with these car ramps so dangerous as well.

>>514882822 (OP)
I just repaired my PC, and the soap dish in the bathroom.

>>514889856
that's why it's 1/4 jap drier
Tru oil needs a drying agent. You just can't put it on and forget about it. It will stay tacky till rapture.
This stuff.

>>514890258
I guess the most scary part is the water flush. I have to get the car up to temps on only water. I got car software on the laptop but the temps dont make sense. Only indicator I have of a warm car is the "cold coolant" light goes off. My intention is to drive around until the thermostat opens but I dont know when that happens. The specs say a particular number but, again, cant do nothing with that. Im afraid of running the engine too hot at that point and cooking the gaskets or something

>>514885847
I remember when this would be considered a cheap solution

>>514887563
>2*10s have insufficient compression strength to hold a car

Which is heavier a house or a car

>>514890028
>I fixed a major crack in my Argentine Mauser recently. The crack was bad enough to justify 4 brass rods
Nice.
Military stocks are notorious
They would take them by the dozens and plunge them into huge vats of linseed oil
That oil goes all the way to the heart of the stock
You can't use acraglas or anything like that to repair it - it won't stick to oil
Even if you use whitening and acetone mix to get the surface oil out, it will still leach back and undermine the repair compound
I approve of the brass rods - it's better to fix it mechanically like that and you really can't put a stock bolt in there.

>>514890499
Not him but that'd terrify me. I just got a new radiator and fan in my car, but before that it leaked bad enough I couldn't economically justify buying that much coolant, so I ran water.
It only seemed to work if I was driving quickly, lower speeds or in traffic I'd have to pull over to let it cool.
I wish you luck and that your engine doesn't blow a head gasket

>>514889498
t.gooning to naked men

>>514890499
You can take off the thermostat and flush the system then.

Just make sure you ontlucht it good

>>514890821
Initially I considered using JB Weld in addition to the rods, but I watched a youtube video on repairing an Arisaka stock to see if anyone had better ideas than me. The guy sold me on pic related, supposedly forms an actual bond with the wood. Hope it works because I want to take it deer hunting this year

>>514891138
Whoops, forgot pic

>>514890900
Water actually cools better than coolant, the antifreeze element is less conductiing than water. But water corrodes the pump and other shit and it will freeze

much crap is designed now to be thrown away. One could fix even TVs without much knowledge if a resistor or a capacitor was burned. Just a normal hot gun. Now all TVs have 2 boards, power and digital and even if is not some heavily integrated shit, you'll need a soldering station. I see a lot of jeet videos though where they just strap the defective piece and hope it will work until it burns thorugh their pocket. Saw them repairing led bulbs, which is the fuckiest crapiest "green" thing ever designed with leds burning out even on known brands, let alone each one having an AC/DC transformer and converter inside the base. And still costs 10x a regular 100 year old bulb design (used to be 40x). With shittier light quality too.

>>514891266
My temperature gauge disagrees with that statement, but we may have had different experiences.

>>514882822 (OP)
Lol dutchoids do repair because were all so poor we have to

>>514889498
nothing is worse than an upitty useless half-jeet pretending he's royalty.

>>514883087
Youtube exists retard, i learned basic mechanics, C# python, photoshop, sound design, psychology, plastic and metal welding, video editing, aswell as multiple languages because of Youtube. I can fix tires of bicycles and i can repair my scooter/mopad what the fuck is youre excuse

>>514882822 (OP)
>why don't men spend all weekend changing one part on their car
I don't want to :(

>>514891266
Desk Jockey anon - the feed hose to the rad should remain cool until the thermostat opens, in which it will then heat up real quick

>>514882822 (OP)
1. No one has the time to experiment
2. It's more efficient to just work your actual job and use money to pay a professional
3. Most people don't even have a yard or area to work on things

>>514891612
You can do something as basic as a tire rotation

>>514883600
Tell us about your dad's creations.

>>514891605
>psychology
amaze us

>>514891612
> Millenials
> Men
Choose one and only one

>>514883087
YouTube is right there though

And my dad would honestly just have me hold the flashlight while he did everything that was actually interesting, because he was a cunt and a poor father figure.

>>514891131
Do I even need to bother with the thermostat when I got access to the block tap? If I drain both the radiator AND the block tap wouldnt that take car of the entire system?

Im a amateur mechanic, best I can do is follow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFB_adKLmPg which seem to answer all the questions. She shows the "drive around the block with water to flush the system well" thing

Also as a amateur mechanic how do you even reach the thermostat. Belt gotta come off too then. I am having a frighten.

Had major issues the other days with spark plugs. Unexplainable things. Bit spooked of it atleast the car runs now.

Dankje bro for giving me courage

>>514891715
He, to start with

>>514882822 (OP)
Somebody say 'midget porn'?

>>514891485
We are poor yes. We scrape by
We paybtaxes for ukrainians and southern europe

>>514890613
You are thinking in the wrong direction.
I think he meant this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPcpwTMgjLM

>>514882822 (OP)
To replace the battery on my Dodge Intrepid, I had to: Jack up the car, take the passenger side wheel off, remove a panel, remove a retention bracket, and finally remove the battery and install the new one. I don't ever want to work on a piece of shit design like this, it does not spark joy.
Do you know how much fun I would have working on a 1969 Pontiac GTO? Probably a lot because I can fit my hand in the fucker. Just like with everything, Boomers had it better.

>>514886226
you really should add some piping at the base to inhibit bowing due to downward forces. Better safe than sorry anon.

>>514882822 (OP)
Lmao you really took this picture and went to fucking 4chan to virtual signal your masculinity hahahahahah

>>514891697
>1. No one has the time to experiment

If you stop gooning you have days a week free to experiment

>>514882822 (OP)
Because it's a pain in the ass To work on new cars it used to be you just needed fuel air spark In the right combination,/order in your car would run. Now it's all f****** dictated by computers. And if you don't have thousands of dollars worth of equipment to talk to those computers, you can't get shit done.

>>514890613
In cardboard america case? Is a toss-up, depends on the car.

>>514883600
My dad was far from retarded, he just worked constsny to provide an upper middle class life for us, at the expense of having a lot of time until I was about to graduate and move on.
After 70 hour work weeks, he was like fuck it, let’s just pay someone to do that shit. I can’t blame him. But I missed out on learning more to do it myself.

>>514891887
I agree. Awhile back, I had an oil leak in my 03 Buick. We figured it was the oil pan gasket. Turns out you have to detach the motor from the mounts and fucking lift it at least an inch upward to do the job...we got tools but we don't have a fucking engine crane. Luckily it didn't end up being that, it was actually a faulty oil filter. Hard to tell when going highway speed spreads the shit all over underneath

>>514882822 (OP)
Men don't have a place to do that anymore retard. How can you replace a head gasket while living in an apartment with shared parking? It's like asking why men don't join your local yacht club anymore. Stupid fucking Neanderthal.

>>514891887
lmao my ride it was done in 5 minutes

As a kid I had this impression that as you get older you just naturally learn how to fix things and you naturally start getting interesting in boring things like cars and air conditioners etc.

I wish it worked that way. It was probably a lot easier to learn by osmosis back then too since if you weren't learning it you could at least count on one of your brothers to learn it and then some of that would be exposed to you.

>>514883670
I don’t have a lot of tools, why am I gonna spend thousands and have to learn to fix my car as a new career?
No thanks, I’m well enough off to pay someone else to do that shit now.

>>514892113
>the finger covering the license plate
Fucking spot on

>>514886176
You seem like an insecure boomer lmao

>>514884533
I don’t blame my dad, anon, he came from nothing, dropped out of school at 15 to forge his way into the military to fight in Korea (which tells you how much his home life sucked), and when he found opportunity, he took it and ran with it. My dad was a silent gen autist, the older I got, the more I saw we were alike, neither of us fit into the world well. I never blame him for busting his ass to live the American Dream that no longer exists. And I miss that man like hell since he passed 2 Decembers ago.

>>514891724
What would you like to know?
- pavlovian conditioning, skinner box
- all black books of Jungian psychology
- neuroscience and brain neurochemical reactions (oxytocin, seretonin, dopamine, noradrenaline, GABA)
- any theory of freud adler, carl rogers, marie louise von franz
- any effect of psychoactive substances on the psyche
- EDMR
- WAIS-IV IQ testing
- Big Five Personality Typology
- ingroup and outgroup behaviour and friction between them
- repression, intellectualisation, projection, deflection
- Any and all coping mechanisms
- dream analysis (not very valid or reliable but i can do it technically)
- any and all diseases and their symptoms in the Diagnostics Psychiatry Manual 5 (DSM5) (antipersonality disorder, schizotypal, aspergers, gender dysphoria, anxiety disorders, agoraphobia or any other you can think off
- scientific method and how to apply it correctly with control groups
- SPSS statistic calculations

>>514884250
> I taught myself how to plaster, sand and paint walls

>>514886849
>Great, now possess all the tools in existence
How far do you want to move this goal post exactly? I was arguing that the assertion that
>"cheaper to hire someone one time"
Was a stupid argument. I've been in plenty of repair/replace situations where I had to decide between buying the tools myself or paying someone else to do the work with the tools they have. And I didn't choose to buy the tool in every circumstance, but I chose it in the majority where buying and owning the tool was a much better way to spend that money.

Automotive and small engine repair isn't really as difficult or expensive to do yourself and the number of tools ACTUALLY required for it doesn't require as much of an investment as people tend to claim or assume. And you don't buy all of them at one time either.
>be self sufficient
It's a good idea no matter what. If I had the opportunity and means to make that choice for everything I probably would.

>>514885642
As I said, I’m old now, well enough off, fixing things I don’t understand is t thrilling to me, so I call my handyman who’s 80 and he takes care of shit for only $45/hr when I need him. That works for me.

>>514891843
Thermostat is easy to get loose without removing a belt

>>514890821
For future reference you can thin Acragas with light heat from a hairdryer. This will create a watery consistency in the epoxy and then you can literally inject it with a hypodermic needle into the crack. The thin consistency will enable the epoxy to wick deep into the crack far better than any glue or jb weld could ever do. Keep in mind it will begin curing fast after the heating so get that epoxy in the crack and then rap the stock with surgical tubing so it can create a strong bond. And if oil is a concern within the crack boundary, flex the crack lightly to open it up and then inject acetone into it. You will have to do this a lot granted it works very well. I have repaired two destroyed stocks this way and both are solid as can be, plus they do not have a real outward appearance that they have had repairs beyond some wood dowels stakes that have a slightly different grain pattern. With historical pieces always try to have that leave no trace kind of mentality with repairs anon. And if you would like some great resources for further repairs and conservation check out mark Novak, that mans a host of great information on this matter.

>>514884253
I've heard replacing the starters on those things is a real bitch too.

>>514892453
- SCL90 personality test, CBSA, UCL, UB0S,
- Gestalt theory
- needs theory and maslovian theory
- reflection techniques,
- sociology
- social loafing
- business psychology (foot in door, mere exposure effect etc.)

>>514891887
> To replace the battery on my Dodge Intrepid, I had to: Jack up the car, take the passenger side wheel off, remove a panel, remove a retention bracket, and finally remove the battery and install the new one

>>514891605
I’m 51, Jewtube didn’t exist during my teens and 20s, anon. And it was shit for most of my 30s. I use it now on occasion to learn to fix small things, but the fuck I’m gonna try to fix my car without half the tools and no idea what I’m doing.

>>514892453
>kike babble

Amazing you're so hekking smart anon

>>514892805
Thanks anon! I have scoliosis so i cant do manual labour my entire life so id rather focus my efforts on helping men who suffer from depression or suicidal ideation!

>>514892801
Fair enough, yeah it can be hard to be digitally literate at that age i have the privilige of being born into the technocratic clownworld, when i was 7 i had windows 98 the rest is history

>>514892805
I also got white goy babble if you prefer that more

>>514882822 (OP)
Nobody has the space space to store all the tools required to fix a car like that. Even if they had, cars nowadays have all these electronic parts that need to be fixed by a professional
I have some basic tools, but I dont fix my sink when it breaks because I dont own the fucking house, and it's the landlord's responsibility to fix my shit

>>514892801
Do you also find the youtube videos to usually not be helpful? Everyone always praises how-to's on youtube but I usually have better luck trying to find a person to ask personally.
Like I'll regularly call mechanic shops and pick their brains over the phone, if they don't mind brainstorming with me, and I've never had a mechanic that didn't at least entertain my questions

>>514892794
I was gonna say this sucks

>>514892794
>>514891887
>>514893248
I'm just amazed there are still Intrepids that run

When I was poor and my spare time was worth nothing, it was worth it to spend all day doing a job a mechanic can do in an hour.

Ive replaced the CV axle on my truck twice in two years and I'm over the bullshit.
It sucks and all of these Amazon garbage parts are out of spec.
If I have to take those fucking control arms off one more fucking time...

>>514893470
What brand truck anon? My dad has an old 2003 F150 that always has something (always EXCEPT for the engine) wrong with it he has to fuss and fret over

>>514882822 (OP)
time is 100x times more valuable than money.

>>514888469
>save my money
how, if economy in constant inflation?

>>514893676
This is true only if you're high-income enough to where devoting time that isn't to work, is a waste of money, no matter how much they pay someone else.
It's a richfag luxury

>>514893761
I swear there are people out there that have an uncanny ability to absolutely thrive under severe austerity

>>514893607
A 2012 gmc Serria with 200k miles.
It will always be a mess of brittle plastic and rubber randomly exploding every other three months.
Then the parts you buy are out of spec garbage from CHYNA so your shit has to sit on jackstands in the driveway for a week while you wait for more bullshit parts.
Faggots will change their oil and shit like "woah who needs a mechanic"
Me after wasting a weekend sitting under my truck getting mad at inanimate objects...

>>514882822 (OP)
Because retarded car engineers make shit so goddamn retarded to repair. This shit needs to stop NOW.
>inb4 skill issue
Fuck off useless nigger

>>514893201
>Nobody has the space
>I dont own the fucking house
There it is, the main issue OP is ignoring like every other jew from shitposters all the way up presidents.

>>514893607
That's because the truck is 22 years old anon. You think if it were a Silverado he'd have no problems?

>>514893863
>Me after wasting a weekend sitting under my truck getting mad at inanimate objects...
I don't think I've ever experienced rage quite like the rage of trying to work on a car that is fighting you tooth and nail the entire time. I will always end up on some rant about how I'd be better off buying a fucking horse

>>514882822 (OP)
I make more from working extra at my normal job than trying to figure out this basic shit I have no training in and buying the tools for. I hand my car over to a reputable shop and just pay them. What's wrong with that? If I actually need more money for it (which I don't). I work 27 hours a week, the rest is hanging out with my wife and kids. You repair shit all you want if it feels important to you.

>>514893943
I only said F150 in the chance anon has the same or similar truck. There's still a lot of that generation still on the road.
And yes, vehicles that can legally buy a beer will usually have a community of gremlins living deep inside it

>>514893997
The heavy duty models the CV axles slide right out through the control arms.
The 1500 you have to take part the whole fucking thing.
OK so you buy the $100 Chinese bullshit.
The ONLY oem part you can find seems to be the only oem part in the entire country and it costs $600.
They make these thing disposable on purpose or else the entire automotive industry would collapse.

>>514893470
>>514893863
For stuff like that you really do need to spend the money on OEM parts or at least name brand. China has no shame so never buy anything from them that has to be strong and made from proper materials like car parts, gun parts, climbing equipment, scuba gear, etc.

>>514893676
But learning things on your own is great for the soul. Money is mammon, fake bullshit to entice you to not live a real life.

Fixing and learning shitbis worth more

>>514894117
Its fun to learn shit i guess?

>>514882822 (OP)
I do repair things where I can, just oday I repaired my old laptop and kept it going but in the age of cheap goods sometimes it makes more sense to simply buy something new. Things also move on and you can't get the parts for old stuff. Also old cars are shit for the most part. Modern cars are more comfortable and better to drive. Keeping an old car that you have to fix all the time is retarded.

>>514894228
I know it can be dicey, but have you tried a junkyard? That's where I got my cooling fan.

>>514894427
What to do about avoidance behavior? I show it in all areas of life

>>514882822 (OP)
Because I earn enough where the time it takes to fix something myself is wasted compared to getting someone else to do it and enjoying myself with a hobby instead.

>>514894117
>>514894582
He doesnt understand changing oil is the easiest thing ever. It takes a short time to learn and then for the rest of your life you save both TIME and MONEY. Because its much faster diving under the car and doing it and of course much cheaper.

And all skills have to do with eachother so you build up your overall self with this

>>514894585
>Keeping an old car that you have to fix all the time is retarded.
Usually people who are in that particular car situation are people who can't just go buy a car at 400 a month plus full coverage insurance as dictated by the creditor who enables a person to buy the car.
Unless you just so happen to have 40k sitting around

>>514882822 (OP)
Because most of it requires computer knowledge. Even if its a mechanical part, its got sensors that need resetting. Yeah, you can do an oil change or brakes, but the rest needs specialized training. Makes you miss older cars though.

>>514882822 (OP)
Fixing things is for poor people. Rich and successful people just buy new, which also stimulates the economy and improves living conditions for all.

>>514892453
congrats anon, you're a honorary jew now well versed in their hoax science.
>SPSS statistic calculations
World would be so much better without kikes trying to control and micromanage every fucking aspect of life and economy. But then they'll have to pick a real job.

>>514894632
Not him obviously but I found that reading stories from WWII of what those men went through, men without option, getting through it, then being decent men when it was over, helped me harden up some.
You just need to keep thinking of words like "courage" and "bravery" to motivate yourself.

>>514894745
Yes and its fun to buy good oil, the shop mostly has basic bitch oil. Oil changes are litteralky therapy for me, have a beer and change the oil. Friends hang out too, its fun, i love oil, we need more oil and oil filters to raise our testosterone

>>514888857
What phone? I work in a phone repair shop and I like to know other places labor rates. We want 80 to 100 profit on a repair. No phone battery I have ever seen is 80-100 cost.. The expensive ones are like 40-50 for new OEM apple on new release models. Average phone battery is like 10-20 dollars from b2b suppliers. Bulk discounts aren't really a thing that I have seen unless maybe your guy buys hundred at a time. He would have a line out the door to have that kind of frequency. I'm not saying he's giving you a bad price, they guy has expenses just to allow people to show up at a known location let alone part costs and the hassle to customer interactions. It all depends on 100 little factors.

It depends on the man. Doing the work on my 2009 Honda Fit has saved me tons of money. I'm single and make 75k a year with $800 a month rent (two bedroom).

>>514894632
Its a thing. Just start doing it i guess

>>514894765
Then you trade up a used car for another less used car but you have to do it ALL OVER AGAIN because the suspension is blown out, it still has the oil it shipped with in it a decade ago or something fucking stupid.

>>514894949
>we need more oil and oil filters to raise our testosterone
Don't ever change anon

>>514883087
I just use YouTube for everything.

My dad had no idea how to fix a single fucking thing. He always hired a handyman because my grandfather "repaired" everything and my dad hated growing up in a house where everything was this amateur repair job.

So I had to learn all this myself. The thing is, you never know what you are capable of doing until you try it. I think a lot of people just tell themselves "Oh I can't do that" and just default to calling someone.
But I have way better resources than my grandad did in terms of learning. I can learn how to fix almost anything given the time to do it.

>>514895105
Yep, it's fucked. Either bankrupt yourself with the shit box or truly bankrupt yourself with the new(er) car

Yeah. I'm taking a shit break while rebuilding a spare lycoming O-320.

>>514894949
Oh it's you.
>I did a simple straight 4 head gasket once, took a bunch of pics like a woman, and now my entire identity revolves around that

>>514895338
I envy anyone with a pole barn

>>514882822 (OP)
this fucking thread again, really? And it triggers so many people. You have won. Here's your (you) and a bump.

>>514883104
You are committing your first error by buying an iphone.

>>514895412
This is probably the most civil and productive thread on the board at this time

>>514895338
Just gotta keep my hands busy.

>>514883087
I'm 49, and we were jocks not grease monkeys, so I didn't learn how to do all that much
But, I bought a fixer-upper mobile home for $1800, and with youtube, I've learned how to do about everything in 3-4 years, and the rest is clearly easily doable down the line as well.
You get comfortable and confident with it fairly quickly. Nothing actually mysterious or magical about any of it.

>>514895406
It's a hangar at the local airport. Same construction, bigger door. Built the hangar too. It's chaos in there. I need to sell one of the planes.

>>514894765
Or don't want to afford it. I have the money but drive a 2012 chrysler shitbox 200. It;s just cheaper to fix until it needs and engine replacement. 1 year of payments at about 400 a month is more than the occasional 300 dollar repair. One year I put in 1700 for brakes and exhaust work, got a year out of it longer and therefore it was worth it. Now it needs more work in the suspension and will probably cost less than 1 year of payments on a new car. There is no equity to be had in a new car.

>>514882822 (OP)
>>514882822 (OP)
>Why dont men repair their shit anymore?
A whole slew of reasons but the long and short of it is that it is leading to a sever competency crisis in technical professions. I am in one and the kids we get in are largely clueless with how to use their hands and making sense of machinery. Sort of a positive feedback look from outsourcing to local incompetence, I'd say.

>>514883087
Nigger, nowadays you can Google, YouTube anything. I don't do mechanical work because I consider it below me.

>>514887563
DIY wooden ramps are better than the shit you can buy,

>>514884402
Definitely not the norm, but I can easily imagine that happening sadly enough. His overall initial claim is true however

what is that, a dodge neon? theyre just brown/black. im sure its some euromutt rebrand but thats a dodge neon if ive ever seen one. its pretty simple. no white man would be caught dead driving a jew car. jew cars are probably made with kabbalah runes and foreskin sealants

>>514883457
if you kill your enemies, you win

>>514885847
thats a thousand bucks worth of lumber there...
aaaand we have something called winter around here...
skeeter in the summer...
oh, well some are luckier than others, eh?

>>514896402
Simple and clever, I like it.

repair what? most shit is designed that it can not be repaired or it completely voids the warranty

>>514886449
hahhaaha
i am one of the kings of all trades
i have a whole collection of these
aaaand i know how to use them
t. journeyman blacksmith

>>514882822 (OP)
It's more fun to build the new LEGO thing than to work on a car.

>>514896704
I would have definitely added at least a half-foot to the business end, however.

>>514895412
Based. Unironically its positive here. Every week

>>514884333
This. I am expected to work full time, keep the apartment clean, cook 3 healthy meals a day and exercise to look good. Literally half of this shit would have been handled by a woman and growing up daughters 99% of human history.

>>514896787
Based and anvil pilled

>>514895499
Cheers

>>514886226
Your dip bar must be one piece or you will hurt yourself.

>>514887109
pawn?
waaay too expensive
rural yard sales are the goldmines
i've picked up very valuable tools at estate sales for pennies or even free at the end of the sale
lots of well tooled up boomers are croaking and the dumb widows just "want to get rid of his shit"
rural yardsales!

>>514896624
It's not my ramp, I just said it'd be nice to have something like that where you can truly comfortably work under the car.
In reality all I have is an old travel jack and two ancient jack stands

>>514883087
Yeah, my Dad didn't teach me much, either. I taught myself using YouTube, mostly electronics and a bit of sanitary. I still can't lay tiles or bricks properly, though. Never had an opportunity to practice.

>>514883457
This is what a society of unbeaten women is like

>>514896913
the unwashed laugh at this
but hey, we still live in a world that would not exist without blacksmiths
the blacksmith lifts mankind out of the stoneage
think about it
i am just in the process of opening my blacksmithing school
lots of interest
will be fun...
cheers

>>514895159
Yezzir

>>514896787
Why do anvils have this shape?

>>514896828
>needing something to be fun to do it
Are you 7?

>>514897260
Nice. I saw a cool clip on yourube of a swedish dude making a ball peen hammer. Wait i find it
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HTV0nX6vb_0

>>514897050
I can't answer that
all I know is one of the best things about porn is if you jerk off enough and hard enough one time, then it's over after that

I get it though, some stuff can get to you in some ways, like watching guys in the porn makes it really painful

>>514882822 (OP)
>want to replace 3 year old phone battery and screen
>tools and kit costs $30, nice
>screen and battery costs $200
>renewed phone on amazon is $200
It's literally cheaper to buy a new (renewed) device than it is to fix it myself. I'm not even pricing out the time or risk of breaking shit and having to fix even more.
Why don't people repair their shit anymore? It used to save money and now doesn't.

>>514882822 (OP)
There are no real men younger than 35 any more. They are all faggots and wannabe women nowadays due to feminism dominating politics.

>>514882822 (OP)
Why would I? It costs more to buy oil and get it recycled than it is to get an oil change from a licensed mechanic.
Same goes for pretty much every other shit. I don't want a single-use tool in my garage to take up space just so I can do that one job for my car, nigger, get bent.

>>514897843
Interesting contrast. Here, I can buy 5qt of oil for less than 20 dollars, and a filter for about t dollars. Ten bucks more if you wanna drink beer while doing it. Some things are just satisfying to do oneself.

>>514898066
>t dollars
5 dollars.
I have an occasional hand tremor, fucking irritating

>>514897421
form und funktion
der amboss im bild ist die sueddeutsche form
gibt nix besseres
an dem amboss kann ein gelernter schmied so ziemlich alles machen, was gemacht werden muss

>>514884665
What's wrong with your cylinder head?
I'm quessing you don't have the tools to fix it yourself?
So 1000-2000€ at the metal workshop?

>>514897649
menachim?
the fuck you doing here?
this is about tools and work
not your thing, eh?

>>514892453
>-
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>>514897634
i know him
torbjorn
makes nice stuff
he is actually an IT man, not a blacksmith
more of an advanced hobbyist

>>514898138
Its allready fixed. Are you negative finanon? You seem the same as last time. Why so negative nancy?

>>514882822 (OP)
Waste of time. I can spend a few hours fixing some old shit to save a few bucks, or I can just buy something new and not stress over it.

>>514898292
You make money with it?

>>514898433
What was wrong with it?

>>514883670
It's also a lot harder now mang

It wasn't long ago you could almost look at a v8 engine at a distance and figure out how it works by sheer intuition

But now? Engines come as one solid 3d printed block, all one single piece, they come like that from the factory

Source: my Jewish doctor says I suffer from severe pseudologia fantastica, which I think means I'm a jack of all trades

>>514892186
>spend thousands
wtf are you a retard it doesn't take thousands of dollars to buy a few tools

>>514898764
Or the motor has 216,000 unnecessary plastic covers all over it. Fuck, in my 2003 I have to remove a reinforcement bar to lift out the battery. Not to mention all the fucking conduits EVERYWHERE

>>514898939
I guess for him it's snap-on or nothing

>>514898970
When I look at buying a car I do as much research as possible on basic maintenance and repairs to make sure its not jewed to the point where they basically require you to take it to a dealership to to replace a light or battery. Some of these designs are retarded

>>514898532
Headgasket was leaking

>>514882822 (OP)
Are you going to post this shit everyday? Did they run you out of /o/ or something?

>>514899126
I don't think there's a single car out there that's g2g for owner maintenance anymore. One of my dreams is that someone will make a new production verbatim copy of a 1991 Ford Taurus

>>514899254
It's better than whining about niggers, kikes, and trannies all day

>>514898939
you always need more than just a few tools, so yes it does cost thousands

>>514899174
How did you determine that?
How did you determine that your valves aren't leaking?
I'm just asking because the machines to properly test cylinder heads aren't exactly cheap, and workshops like that don't exist in every village. In my hometown of 100k people there's 1-2 shops like that and they usually charge quite a bit.

>>514899362
You gradually buy more tools, and tools you can use multiple times, did you know?
Its great, i try to find excuses to buy more tools all the time,infact im getn hard right now thinking about it

>>514899362
You can replace brakes with a tire wrench and a socket set

>>514899465
It cost litterally 60 euros to have the head decked and valves checked for leaks. To a pro shop its not a big deal.

>>514899538
I'm certain I have the autismus, but I don't understand that black and white thinking. They think they have to fill a whole garage on day one. It starts with a screwdriver set, then some wrenches/spanners, socket set. It's really not that complicated and it's doable

>>514897682
They wouldn't refurbish if they didn't make a profit
The renewed phone probably had less wrong with it yours on average

>>514899646
Yes but they don't exist everywhere. And if valves or the head itself is leaking, fixing will cost a lot more than 60 bucks. You just got down lucky it was only the gasket. And you sound like a trained mechanic, this isn't exactly DIY stuff. If you want it done right that is.

>>514900327
>The renewed phone probably had less wrong with it yours on average
That's what I like about refurbished stuff: what was going to go wrong with it already did

>>514900327
I meant a renewed version of my exact phone is cheaper than buying two OEM parts for it.
At the very least it makes more financial sense to buy a renewed replacement phone and use my old one as a donor than it does to just simply fix the old phone.

>>514897843
Protip:
You can mix the oil with heating oil and burn it normally. Specifically bought an oil heater for getting rid of waste oil. Or someone with an oil heater will take it off your hands for free.