You guys ever see this? Thought?
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If you can remember the last time you had a flat tire in your replica, it might be useful. If not, a can of "fix a flat" and your AAA emergency card take up less room.
Meh.
I have never been a fan of 12 volt “impact” wrenches, because I have yet to see one with enough power to actually remove a lug nut.
I have used a 110 volt AC impact gun (supposedly a 250 ft. Lb.) and wasn’t much impressed with that one either.
Give me a decent lug wrench and a piece of pipe any day.
Not to rain on your parade Marty, but I used to carry a spare, a small scissor jack and a 1/2" breaker bar and a 19mm socket.
But with the new car, I'm with Jim above. I have Hagerty insurance and they'll tow 25 miles for free, and you can add coverage for long distance from home as well. Fix a flat it is.
What Danny says. Never had a jack or a spare in any of my Speedsters.
Never had a flat - touch wood.
Cheaper, smaller, no batteries required:
But make sure you get your flat tire on a smooth, dry, level stretch of road where the car won't roll off a spindly, little jack.
And you do carry a plastic trash bag for wrapping the full-sized road wheel you'll be taking off, right? Which will only fit in the back seat.
If the top is down.
On second thought, maybe this is the way to go:
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The thing I noticed- "lifting range 6.1 inch to...". Will it even fit under most Speedsters?With a flat tire your car will be even lower. And what Gordon said about 12v. impact wrenches...
It definitely won't fit under my Spyder, especially with a flat. I have a HF quick-pump aluminum 1.5 ton jack, which is very low(3.5 to 4 inches), and that just fits with air in all 4 tires.
The little scissor jack I have is about three inches flat. Six inches might fit under my Audi.
DannyP posted:Not to rain on your parade Marty, but I used to carry a spare, a small scissor jack and a 1/2" breaker bar and a 19mm socket.
But with the new car, I'm with Jim above. I have Hagerty insurance and they'll tow 25 miles for free, and you can add coverage for long distance from home as well. Fix a flat it is.
That's how I roll now too Danny. Was Just curious.
Marty this is what carry in my car, and I hope to never use it.
I can count on one hand the amount of flats I've had in my lifetime.
Sacto Mitch posted:
Cheaper, smaller, no batteries required:
But make sure you get your flat tire on a smooth, dry, level stretch of road where the car won't roll off a spindly, little jack.
And you do carry a plastic trash bag for wrapping the full-sized road wheel you'll be taking off, right? Which will only fit in the back seat.
If the top is down.
On second thought, maybe this is the way to go:
Mitch, I should have been more clear. I was thinking of the Alfa too which has a full size spare. A back up could be the lug wrench and a small siccer jack if the AAA people take forever to show. The IM-forget about it, fix a flat is the only option.
That was my problem once I added the heater - no space for either the diminutive spare nor the electric scissor jack I bought long ago for another car. Ended up with my trusty Armstrong scissor jack behind my seat plus a tiny 12V compressor and a set of plugs in the Frunk. If that doesn't get me going again, then it's the AAA card route.
I suppose that the pump is small enough that I can relax and watch the traffic as I wait for the tire to inflate. Now, if I only had a 12 volt Keurig.....
Gordon Nichols posted:....Now, if I only had a 12 volt Keurig.....
Why not just do pour-over coffee, Gordon?
You could boil the water on the Eberspacher.
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Sacto Mitch posted:Gordon Nichols posted:....Now, if I only had a 12 volt Keurig.....
Why not just do pour-over coffee, Gordon?
You could boil the water on the Eberspacher.
Ok, that had me snorting up my orange juice!
Speaking of coffee and goofy gadgets for Speedster life on the road, we've put together this collapsible silicone kit for morning coffee. For when you need real coffee and the motel room Mr. Coffee just ain't gonna do. The two-cup kettle actually folds and unfolds without leaking - so far.
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It's a coaster! No, it's a coffee cup!
Hold on, kids, it's BOTH!
Starbucks makes a great tasting instant coffee packet.
I use a 928 jack. It is compact and lightweight. I mounted two aluminum plates under the car with holes to fit the bump on the top of the jack. One aluminum plate is under the frame upright in front of the door and the other is just in front of the rear wheel.
The jack easily fits in the Carlisle tool bag. In the bag, I also have a 1/2" drive ratchet with an extendible handle instead of an X-shaped lug wrench.
Bill Prout posted:Starbucks makes a great tasting instant coffee packet.
IMHO Starbucks is the worst swill you could ever call "coffee".
@DannyP, I'm curious what kind o coffee you drink at home and on the road.
I'd rather drink Dunkin or MacDonalds over Starbucks. Starbucks is more artificial and cheap(but not to you $$$) and chemical-laced than anything else out there.
At home, I grind beans from a few different local roasters.
Dunkin or MacDonald's ( PLUS the senior coffee) over Starbucks anytime, during a 20 year span you could easily save $4,500
Michael McKelvey posted:I use a 928 jack. It is compact and lightweight. I mounted two aluminum plates under the car with holes to fit the bump on the top of the jack. One aluminum plate is under the frame upright in front of the door and the other is just in front of the rear wheel.
The jack easily fits in the Carlisle tool bag. In the bag, I also have a 1/2" drive ratchet with an extendible handle instead of an X-shaped lug wrench.
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Here are pictures. Sorry about the blur on one.
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FWIW, as to flats, not coffee, I do carry a small bottle jack, and an actual Porsche lug wrench -- a crank handle sort of thing. AND a can of fix-a-flat, AND the AAA card. So far no wear on any of these. At Carlisle last year, was in need of a clutch cable adjustment, and so needed a jack and tire removal. Was so happy to have dry weather and the Drayer mobile tool unit on hand for that one.
As to coffee, I grind at home, will drink about anything on the road except whatever they provide in motel rooms. Just wont go there.
I'm with El F...
DannyP posted:I'd rather drink Dunkin or MacDonalds over Starbucks. Starbucks is more artificial and cheap(but not to you $$$) and chemical-laced than anything else out there.
At home, I grind beans from a few different local roasters.
Starbucks over roasts cheap beans, then passes it off as premium stuff.
They lost me with the Christmas coffee cup follies.
They lost me when they took the nips off the mermaid.
This is America.
If you work hard and spend enough on marketing, you can make a success of any mediocre product.
"Starbucks over roasts cheap beans, then passes it off as premium stuff."
Boy, ain't THAT the truth - it always tastes burnt. I usually stick with Dunkies (starting to rename them "Dunkin" up here - I wonder if that will stick?) but we used to get coffee beans shipped in to Engineering where I worked, from Turkey, Israel and Puerto Rico. The PR stuff was Yaucono and we did it like Expresso. It is naturally slightly sweet and at 10 am in an expresso cup would blow your socks off. Now, 20 years later, I don't think my heart could stand a double.
First world survival tips:
If you're forced to drink Starbucks, try the 'Pike Place' medium roast - it's burnt, but less burnt.
Insist on a real, ceramic mug. Paper cups are for urine samples.
At the office we have Pete's, Spyglass, and sometimes Blue Bottle. At home I get our beans from Mountain Thunder Plantation. None of these are used to fill tires or to jack up the car.
"Starbucks over roasts cheap beans, then passes it off as premium stuff."
It's not Starbucks. It's Charbucks. Cheap beans burnt beyond belief.
Petes (Major Dickinson's) is what I drink, the Starbuck instant I take when we go camping...it works!
We drink Peet's Sumatra. Often time on sale at Target, Save Mart and to a lessor degree Safeway. One cup's my limit, other wise my heart beats like an out of tune vw.
Call me a Cretan, etc., but FWIW: I really, really (really) like “overroasted” arabica beans. The rest of the world just calls dark-roasted beans "coffee". Coffee as a "thing" came to us via the cafes of Italy and France-- places that brew, press, or pump coffee roasted almost black.
Back in the Folger's day, coffee in America was all medium roasted and percolated in various strengths depending on whether or not the people partaking really liked coffee or not.
It’s a uniquely upper-middle-class domestic thing to buy expensive beans, barely roast them, drip brew, then add a half-pint of whipped half-and-half, 3 teaspoons of sugar, top it with whipped cream and chocolate sprinkles, then put it in a 44 oz paper cup (saving the earth, don’t you know) with a cardboard sleeve and a plastic cap, and tell the world how much you love coffee. It's vaguely coffee flavored candy in a cup.
Alternatively, this may be the only place on the planet where customers willingly pay 4 bucks for “blonde roast” coffee. In most other places, people just brew tea if that’s what they want.
Dark roasted is good. Darker is better. At my house, it’s the darkest roast I can get, double-shot through the Breville espresso machine.
Let the flagellations begin.
Saint R Buck is not my favourite it is just bitter most time while Dunk the donut is weak and even more so Country style so it is hard to get something decent to drink and I like strong coffee. Our own brew works out at the strength we like it 