The evil spirit has been exorcised from Steve's 8!!! Now we just need you to go down to Brown's Stadium and repeat whatever it is you did.

 

Ok, this actually made me laugh pretty hard.

 

Now now, lets not go that far - maybe he's just sleeping.

I am trying to write this DIY so a chimp could do it... but its actually really difficult to include all the details.

 

Anybody talk to Jon?

 

No, I haven't. But knowing Time Warner, he'll be lucky to be online by the end of the week.
That, or he isn't emotionally ready to be back on here after "the incident"

 

Let me know what you guys think before the hoard "flames" me for doing something wrong:

https://www.rx8club.com/series-i-do-yourself-forum-73/diy-oil-catch-can-install-basic-164463/

 

Good job on the catch-can Steve... I like where its positioned.
Time Warner Cable JUST got my internet running and I have to run to work.
I'll fill everyone in later (unless its busy at work).

 

*peeks in*

/thumbs up for steve's DIY

what's new? I bought a house, moved on Dec 29th and then promptly went to Vegas for the CES. My cable wasn't hooked up until yesterday.

With that being said, what's new? I see there has been some "incident" involving John. Backtracking through the posts and seeing things like Doc's sig... i imagine that something with his stove?

BTW, This weather + Protenza Tires = Challenging! especially living in Massillon where the closest thing to a snow plow doing side streets is you and your shovel... ah well, provided i can survive to this saturday, i will get tires then. Simply no time during the week due to work.

Anyway, the CES was awesome! I will post pics i took from the car audio section. No RX8's were there though... kinda disappointed. Aston Martins, 350z's and Lambo's were the dominate vehicles there for show.

It's 5:20 and i am outa here. Looks for pics in the Lounge section in a bit. Need to get home and post them first though.

Hope everyone's had a great new years so far! Maybe this spring / summer, i will host a get together at the new house. It's huge and i have a hot tub! Will post pics of it as well in this section when i get home.

~ peace!

 

Whoa... they live.

Just so you know, we're meeting at Outback (I forgot which outback) this Friday... and buy snow tires.

 

Can looks nice Steve. I think it is the outback near where 271 and route 8 meet

 

Good job on the DIY Steve...only found one issue. You have "do I" instead of "so I" in the first post...first sentence or so.

Meet is at the Outback between Route 8 and Route 82 just off 271. If you went to the Lizard over there it is on that road that connects the Route 8 and 82 exits off 271. From Route 8 make a Right at McDonalds and from 82 & 271 make a straight. :P

btw banned...what incident did I have? and welcome back :P

 

I know what the "incident" is and its not with you John (he meant me)
I was just seeing if anyone puzzled it together between Doc and Steve's posts.

 

jon: i'd have to guess the stove was dropped.

John: Outback, Friday? Cool. See what happens! Could be there... but snow tires are saturday. Weather allowing, wife and i will be there!

 

Close!
Doc was strapping my BEAUTIFUL electric stove to the dolly and didn't think about what would happen if the strap was tightened while wrapped around the front glass door.
As he tightened the strap........ lets just say we found out it was tight enough by an audible indicator.
I joked and said that I was going to take a pic of my stove and use that as his avatar.

 

Poor Doc. . .

Jon, how are the new digs?

 

So the move went pretty well Sunday.
Thanks to John for helping Friday with disassembling my entertainment center and workout machine.
Too bad the drive to Summit during our break took 1.5hrs because of the weather.
Thanks to Doc and Steve for helping me move... you guys were a life saver (unfortunately, not a stove saver )

I was supposed to be back online Monday because Time Warner Cable had me scheduled 4-6pm.
At 7:30pm I called them to find out what was going on.
I was told that the account transfer was on their computer, but the equipment was still showing at the old house.
Then she said that the work order to come out to my house was not in their computer!!!
So for the inconvenience she waived the $14 transfer fee
She then scheduled me in the next morning (Tuesday) for 8am-12pm.
At 12:30pm I still haven't received a phone call or nothing from TWC so I try to call.
My wait time was supposed to be 3-6 minutes....
So after 20 minutes I hung up and was pretty pissed off because I had no sleep waiting for these ******* ****** ***** for a 2nd time.
I called an old friend who works for TWC and he offered to come to the house later to complete the transfer.
So at about 4:45 TWC arrives and gets everything running.

Then of course, like anyone moving into a new house can relate, I found little things here and there to work on.
My furnace's squirrel cage had a nice build-up on the fins that needed to be scraped off.
I also found a 1" square piece of plastic inside the squirrel cage.

Then I had a problem with my garage light switch!
The switch is INSIDE the house, not the garage!
So needless to say I had to re-route that wire into a new switch inside the garage.

I then discovered that I had an electric base board heater.
My landlord told me that the 2nd thermostat was for aux fans in the furnace.
When I inspected the furnace, I didn't notice a 2nd pair of 22awg running to the furnace as a signal for the 2nd thermostat!
So I removed the 2nd thermostat and saw 12awg electrical wires.
I measured the wires, but only got 214mV (little common voltage is normal).
I went into my breaker and saw a double-throw braker off, so I turned it on.
I now measured 220V across the wires.
So that's how I discovered the base heater, to which I now have to move my entertainment center to a different room since it sits right in front of the base heater.

And other little stuff like one outlet had a bad contact and you couldn't plug anything into it, so I just replaced the outlet.

 

No good deed goes Unpunished!

 

Ouch...sorry to hear about that Jon. Glad I could help out though and at least get you guys started. It also sucks that we spent all that time going up to Summit for a part I really didn't need after closer inspection.

 

Oven still works... just can't touch the exposed area.
I'll call around this weekend for glass prices.

Oh well... maybe someone local will want it.

 

Thanks John - changed it....

So, I'll take it upon myself to do the call ahead seating for 6pm at the Outback in Macedonia. However - I need a final number. I'm thinking perhaps 10 max.

Vyndictive - Steve
Devilboi - John
Doc? (Pit crew in tow?)
Jon? (Yulia in tow?)
"banned"? ( i laugh each time I see that )

 

Don't forget Noel with his wife and pit crew in tow

 

I'll be there with the boys. Total of 3. Meeting time is closer to 7. Not 6.

Tnx

 

I'll be there.

 

Yes I will be in attendance with wife and 2 y/o

 

i'll try to be there! 7pm it is... weather permitting.

/skid /skid /skid "weee!" /skid /skid /skid "POLE!!!" /skid /skid /skid "weee!"

Ouch about the stove glass. Yes, we had similar ... adventures when we moved on Dec. 29th. At least though i had decent weather. No snow or rain at all and avg of 40 degrees most of the day.

pics coming soon. sorry not posted last night. got home and crashed on the couch. at work right now. should get them posted later today or evening.