False EconomiesSometimes the cheapest option isn't the right one. I fondly remember my neighbours going to a well-known catalogue-based store and buying the cheapest lawnmower they stocked. How we laughed as they realised it had non-rotating wheels and died when presented with grass. Tell us about times you or others have been let down by being a cheapskate.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 12:42)
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Cheesy drumsA wheel bearing went on my Ford Fusion (called, when I remember, the Magnet as the last 3 letters are FNE. It's funny on some part of space-time, I'm sure). These are pressed into the rear brake drums, so I went on eBay and found some kind soul selling drums with the bearings already pressed in, with brake shoes for a damn good price, or so it seemed...
Come the next MoT, I needed to adjust the handbrake cable. Jack up the rear, pop it on axle stands, try to take the wheelnuts off. Ah. The studs are turning in the drum, presumably because the drums are seemingly made of cheese. Result? New drums and new fecking wheel bearings, and a bill for £400! Bah!
Why did I not just get bearings pressed in by a friendly garage? To do that would have needed me to take the heavy drums off, and then manhandle them to the aforesaid friendly garage by public transport, and I figured the drums might need replacing soon, anyhow.
Length? Brake drums are round...
(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 21:32, 6 replies)
sorry, i may have to ban you for referring to ebay as "the bay of eee"please edit your post asap, thank you
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The Doveston haunted by the memory of his own amnesia, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 21:35,
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thanks for the clarification on that bitbut if you could ask him to translate the rest of it into something resembling human language, it would be appreciated.
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^ what his holiness said(
monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 25 Jun 2014, 10:23,
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he's made the change now, so no further action will be takenyour mod has spoken
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The Doveston haunted by the memory of his own amnesia, Wed 25 Jun 2014, 12:03,
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Wow, this might just be the dullest post I have ever read.and on this site that's really saying something.
(, Wed 25 Jun 2014, 10:16, closed)
This is like those times whenI have ended up inadvertently chatting to greasy-overalled spanner wielders, and while recognising every word, cannot fathom the syntax.
The attention I paid during lessons on William Blake offers nothing.
(, Wed 25 Jun 2014, 10:22, closed)
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