1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

Have you used it? If so, how do you like it?

I've been on the fence of adding one, and well you already know the top 3 named companies for us DIYers.

JD has ridiculous wait times, and their customer service isn't the greatest, but so many people rave about their products.

 

I've just helped him get it set up and bend some test pieces to see how well us two noobs could follow bend guides. It's easy enough, the instruction/rule sets it comes with are good at stopping you from doing something dumb in between bends, hard to mess up the bend much besides forgetting about spring-back, but between bends you can make things really hard for the next one if you take apart the wrong bend sleeve. I really like that it doesn't waste space, we don't have a ton of floor space but we have a ton of ceiling height and the rogue makes use of that by bending vertical rather than horizontal.

 

@eon_blue The ghosts of possums past are being summoned since you pissed off your neighbors with Dex's instincts.

 

After taxes, $73...

 

yayayayayyyyyy

 

Looking at doing wheel bearings since something has been grinding up front, and thinking about grabbing a 12T HF press since I need to do lca bushings as well..
Are wheel bearings easily screwed up by someone with no bearing pressing experience? Is that something I should just leave to a shop or machinist?
I've stumbled through a cylinder head job so I feel like I can figure it out but I really don't want to screw up a spindle

Also are the hubs worth replacing while I'm at it as well, or would that just be throwing money away

I'm gettin pretty excited for this job, it should be the last maintenance items left for my 300k service. Already got ITRE,OTRE and UBJs sitting around waiting to knock it all out at once. Will have done nearly every single wear item on the truck in the past 6 mo.

 

Buddy's vvt solenoid should be arriving today so I should be able to get his LS400 up and running

Still that's a nice, smooth driving car

 

if that much

 

At least now it's easier to remove if it's on there tight

 

Dex had an existential crisis this morning...for some reason there were a lot of squirrels in our yard (Spring time I guess) and he knew it, was absolutely dying to go outside. But I had also just filled up his food bowl and if he's not around to eat it then Harley will get to it first

Watched him by the backdoor whining/crying to outside then run to the kitchen to check on his food then run to the backdoor, back to the kitchen, back-forth back-forth like he couldn't decide what was more important to do first haha.

 

Fuck

The fat kid in me is craving a donut, I have no idea why suddenly, and now

 

Low on sugar?

Our store bakery recently stopped making donuts and just carries Krispy Kreme now....I might be in the minority but I don't like 'em. Too soft and sugary they taste like cotton candy to me

 

these are the best kinds of donuts (the chocolate glazed ones)

sorry @Kwikvette , donut p0rn incoming

 

Just craving a donut, but really had a craving for fresh apple pie

Might just buy some apples and make one today or tomorrow

It's just a hassle as it's easy, but I hate how temperamental dough can be since I make my own bottom crust and lattice

 

YES!

Skip the powdered sugar/cinnamon one but the chocolate and maple are sooo good

 

I mean shit you've had several of my booked goods already; fresh is always best!

Especially from scratch.

 

@eon_blue

I need to swing by your place one of these days in hopes that Rebecca's making focaccia

 

Definitely, plus Krispy Kreme to my knowledge only makes those big fluffy soft kind of donuts which aren't bad, but I'll take the other kind (cake donuts I think they're called?) over them any day.

 

She only does it once in awhile because her and I both gorge ourselves on it when she does lol. It's so good