Necessity is the mother of invention . . .

[kiwigtx]

you guys got rock auto in NZ ? i guessing so but shipping usually to issue . i find some decent deals on amazon too ….

I was buying from Amazon until I got ripped on an item.

Rock Auto has been my go-to for the regular parts - their shipping is the fastest and the best value for money....and I have a fridge door covered in their magnets.
Summit is good but they don't know how to pack conservatively - the box is always three times bigger than necessary - much like what Year One does. I'm sure they get a kick-back from the shipping.

For anything specialised I have a few good friends who help me out when parts are available.

 

[MarPar]

$900 for a dinky little fan?? That guy at the dealership should be slapped in the face!

 

[kiwigtx]

Well Duh, you had to reverse polarity because.....wait for it, you ordered a part from the northern hemisphere.
Good thing your van was bipolar.

Even my wife laughed at that one.

 

[kiwigtx]

Does our toilet still vortex in the same direction?

Inquiring minds want to know.

I can make a video if you like.....

 

[Don Frelier]

Just make sure you have the camera orientation correct. Otherwise @Kern Dog will get all upset.

 

[kiwigtx]

I'm sure there's be a market for them in Canada and the USA but they don't meet the crash tests and so aren't allowed here.

I can see that - and that is possibly why Toyota has re-designed the latest version.....ugly IMHO but they are a winner with a lot of Tradies here now.

My buddy Nathan and another guy I know just bought one each....and they are nice to ride in, and have some decent power as well as stump-pulling torque numbers.

 

[kiwigtx]

$900 for a dinky little fan?? That guy at the dealership should be slapped in the face!

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wrong colour but I know where you were going with that. My brother found a brown one of those at the tip a few months ago....maybe I could borrow it for a day.

I did buy that speed control resistor new, as I don't want unreliability - the old one was looking a bit cracked on the porcelain.

 

[kiwigtx]

Just make sure you have the camera orientation correct. Otherwise @Kern Dog will get all upset.

We cannot have that...can we.

 

[Kern Dog]

Just make sure you have the camera orientation correct. Otherwise @Kern Dog will get all upset.

Doing it right costs no more and looks much better. Why tolerate substandard efforts?

 

[kiwigtx]

Doing it right costs no more and looks much better. Why tolerate substandard efforts?

Again KD is making sense....what is wrong with the world these days?

 

[Kern Dog]

I know that I'll look like a hard *** to those with a much more casual or tolerant nature but I take pride in most of what I do. For too long, I've worked around the "that is good enough" types of people that it just disgusts me to see it. There are some things that are done wrong that could have just as easily been done right but people that are lazy or indifferent just pass it along. There are YouTube political channels that post clips of politicians doing or saying something with no context in the description, no explanation of what the video clip is actually about and they do that day after day. I rail on those lazy bastards too. Doing things right shouldn't be considered going the extra mile...it should be standard practice.
Imagine your engine builder bored the block to .060 oversized and told you it was .030. That is close enough, right?
How about the plumber that sets the toilet drain 6 inches off the wall instead of 14"?
The lazy media hacks that tell half of the story, the half that inspires anger instead of the whole story that justifies it?

 

[kiwigtx]

I know that I'll look like a hard *** to those with a much more casual or tolerant nature but I take pride in most of what I do. For too long, I've worked around the "that is good enough" types of people that it just disgusts me to see it. There are some things that are done wrong that could have just as easily been done right but people that are lazy or indifferent just pass it along. There are YouTube political channels that post clips of politicians doing or saying something with no context in the description, no explanation of what the video clip is actually about and they do that day after day. I rail on those lazy bastards too. Doing things right shouldn't be considered going the extra mile...it should be standard practice.
Imagine your engine builder bored the block to .060 oversized and told you it was .030. That is close enough, right?
How about the plumber that sets the toilet drain 6 inches off the wall instead of 14"?
The lazy media hacks that tell half of the story, the half that inspires anger instead of the whole story that justifies it?

I'm a great believer in the saying "If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing right" ....and sometimes I find there are more ways to skin a cat.

 

[Kern Dog]

The "skin a cat" thing......I hesitate to learn how that one actually started.

 

[kiwigtx]

The "skin a cat" thing......I hesitate to learn how that one actually started.

There's more than one way to skin a cat......has been a popular saying for many decades now. I don't know how or why it started either.

I always thought the Chinese ate them raw while still kicking & scratching.

 

[33 IMP]

Where's that Chinese restaurant meme, "we no see your cat".

 

[kiwigtx]

Where's that Chinese restaurant meme, "we no see your cat".

@MarPar

 

[33 IMP]

We no see your cat.
Try our chicken. It's Purrfect.

 

[kiwigtx]

We no see your cat.
Try our chicken. It's Purrfect.

 

[33 IMP]

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The lady that reads "Brenda's beaver needs a barber" is a complete riot!



Boy, did this thread fly off the rails, !?! Lol.

 

[MarPar]

Where's that Chinese restaurant meme, "we no see your cat".

Ask and ye shall receive!