1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

Working on adding a second battery to the GX. Used cardboard to mock up the location. Struggling to figure out how to support it. Like most other trucks, threads wheel well is sheet metal and I'm not sure if it can support the weight of a battery. If it were strong enough to support, I'm not sure how I'd make it work with all the weird contours.

Any ideas from the brain trust? @Kwikvette?

Wheel well:


Tray Mockup:


Battery Mockup:

 

That's a great question.

Couldn't a small tray be used just to sit the battery into?

Then maybe small feet below the bracket, sort of like "mounts" on a bed and the frame it's attached to? Two or three feet may not even be the same length but that's no biggie. The feet will just support the weight at each corner (or near each corner). Could use some sort of rubber puck in between it and the wheel well with small bolts.

I made a small ARB bracket for @Wulf as she installed one where the cruise control sits, or close to.

 

My locker still doesn't work

 

That's kind of what I did on the cardboard mockup, put a small support "bracket". Just wasn't sure how to secure it to the wheel well...

 

Tonight, I decided I'd finally try to figure out why my phone/laptop can only see my Chromecast devices through my 5Ghz network; not through my 2.4GHz network.

Turns out the all-in-one access point/router/PPoE terminal provided by my ISP arbitrarily blocks multicast traffic across network ports. This doesn't appear to be a configurable setting--or at least nobody on Reddit has found a way to configure it.

The fix is to buy a standalone router, preferably one that supports open-source firmware. Nothing new there--ISP-provided hardware has always been the ire of people who care about such things--but I was really hoping the industry had figured out how to not mess up the basic stuff by now. Like, this is just normal networking. It's been normal for decades. Are they going out of their way to get it wrong?

Fine, anyway, I'll just move everything to 5Ghz and disable 2.4Ghz.

Nope, my Logitech Harmony Hub (which is a great piece of hardware that Logitech has abandoned) only supports 2.4GHz. Luckily it must not depend on multicast.

This is probably why my old smart lighting hub never quite worked right, too. I just unplugged that and let the switches and bulbs run on peer-to-peer connections.

My day job is fighting with technology, I don't enjoy doing it at home anymore.

 

What’d u do to it

 

Oh yea I saw that one the other day. I'm actually really surprised it hasn't sold yet. It's tempting to go take a look, but Sand Point is a bit of a haul.

 

How's the new place going? The wife and I bought a house in South Reno.

 

Place is awesome. Have been adding tools and needed a new box for the shop. Also got a 65" TV for Xmas that I need to hang. Lots of work planned for the winter so getting the shop set up properly. If you're in S. Reno, you should swing by sometime. Let me know if you ever want to use the shop/lift. Worst case scenario let's go grab a beer.

 

The shop is looking good. How tall is the sealing? My garage still has a lot of work needed, do you take out the CRF often?

 

Wtf Mike Shapiro

#HalfLife

 

12 foot ceilings. The ceiling is recessed so that the top bar of the lift can clear the full 12 feet (top bar of the lift raises/lowers with the arms).

Don't take the CRF out too much these days. My normal rides are from the house up to Peavine and explore the back side. I work out off USA Parkway and will ride it home through Carson City a few times a year too. I'd ride more but not a big fan of riding solo and it's tough for me to find riding partners.

First pic is a few randoms I paired up with back in Dog Valley. Last one is top of Peavine.

 

Finally back in the state I call home after over a month of travel, and we got a record snowstorm for our area! the extra 2500 RPM from the 2GR makes the truck absolutely wicked to drift...

then we got Ice overnight, and I am now one of 3 people who went into the office for work.

 

I saw a post from Haltech US and it says their Lexington office is closed, the picture of like 2.5" of snow has prompted some funny responses. It's probably like a natural disaster for you guys though huh.

 

we got about a foot of powder then about an 1-1.5" of frozen rain, now theres ~4-6" with a nice crust on everything.

and yeah for the locals it is indeed a disaster. I think the city has 7 plows, the state has 30 for all the highways lol

the worst part is most of the operators seem like they watched a 5min youtube vid to learn how to plow.

 

That inch and change of frozen rain is a real bitch, that stuff is actually dangerous. Powder is cool though, I'm sure at least some folks' kids are enjoying that. I can't imagine a state having only 30 plows, think we have about that many just for the north side of town, can't imagine you have any dedicated sanding/salting/melting trucks either. Plowing can be dangerous if the operator is clueless, they make those guys for the DOT here run a gauntlet of tests and some simulations if they're gonna operate a double swing plow like this...

 

This is the most snow we've had since I moved here 10 years ago. The other factor is the temperature fluctuates so much the ground almost never freezes (which I hate immensely, it makes "winter" the shitty part of spring the whole time), but its actually frozen this time, so the snow will stick around a minute.

its the Local/City guys that are dangerous, there aren't enough trucks for the amount of snow, and having everything plowed a lane and a half wide is more dangerous than not plowing at all imo.

I bet the roads are still crap tomorrow and shit will still be closed.

 

I got 8.5 inches of snow in my driveway, on top of some ice. So far roads aren't too bad though. AWD feels like cheating though.


Gfs kids school was supposed to open tomorrow, closed till Thursday.

 

Anyone have any experience with the 3rzFe starting to piston slap when cold? Only happens at or below ten degrees. Worried about it