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Wasn't me. I kept all my clothes on after I hit my turkey a few years ago.

Went to the Strasburg railroad museum with my dad over the summer. They run 100% steam on the passenger train which is cool. Yes these are full size trains, not models. They are in that good of condition. The steam engine pulling into the station with the passenger cars.

Neither do I. Its an evga board so it has the numerical POST indicator on it. During boot it is always crashing between the video init and before the bios is available for access. The # on the display almost always stops at 50 which is for the USB hub subsystem. Got me confused as heck. I've unplugged everything from the board other than the power supply and the power button and keyboard and it refuses to start. Tonight is to pull the video card and drop it down to a single memory stick and try another keyboard to see what I can get.

Sorry, my sticks are probably no good. The PC I tried them in is toast. It worked fine before putting these sticks in and its a paperweight now. Its failing the POST checks and won't even boot far enough to get into the bios. I've run out of spare hardware that im willing to risk burning up and don't want to pass it on and risk your machine.

Ok, the offer may be off the table. Not sure if they are any good. I put them in an older Xp machine I have to do garmin map routing. All was good till trying to run prime 95, it refused to run stable and was failing within a few seconds. Shut down, checked and reset the memory timings in BIOS and I think I may have bricked it. Bios won't even boot now. Tried a bios reset, no good. Put the old memory back in with a bios reset and same thing. I gotta research the boot step it's locking on but Its not getting far before failing.

I have Tuesday till Friday off next week. Hit me with a PM and pick a day/time. I'm on the West edge of Pataskala so it's not a far drive to Pickerington, we can meet up somewhere.

A quick selection of the non-standard beer at home right now.

I have a free pair of 1gig Adata DDR2 800 sticks (ADQVE1A16) with the pink heatspreaders . They would need tested as I don't know the history on them.

I don't condone damaging other peoples property. Usually. But I would make the exception for that one and it would get rolled over.

That's cool, I thought maybe you had seen common mechanical failures. Can certainly understand what your seeing with range time versus effective usage. C-Bus, continue to be critical. I agree that the current mid to high end 1911 guns are built too tight. They are kinda like an AK, the like having a little more play in the parts. It may seem like blasphemy but the first day I had my Kimber I loaded the slide rails with a thinned down aluminum polish and manually racked the slide a couple hundred times. All the break in of 2-300 rounds without the ammo costs. Took it to the range after that and it has been flawless since.

Not looking to start a fight but have you seen guys have troubles with the higher end 1911's? What kinds?

I like it a lot. The trigger is as good as my match Springfield. The fit and finish was great, very little break in required. The Kimber mags are about 3/4 inch shorter than a standard mag but still hold 7 and sit flush on the bottom of the grips. I changed the grips out for the more agressive slim fit ones as the original wood grips were kinda fat for me. It shoots to the sights and I have had no need to adjust them. I like it enough that I posted my for sale on the Smith revolver. The snubbie used to be my primary carry and has been replaced with this.

Bump for a price drop. Still for sale.

That's when I worked out in Reading Pa. took the picture back in 2005. These days now that I run a desk it sits in my garage collecting dust waiting on the occasion to twist a wrench on a bike or the cars.

Tool box porn for everyone. And yes it was expensive.

This is why both of my vehicles are pre-blackbox. I prefer that other people can't use my driving against me. Just wait until the hackers break that network and turn everyones shit off at the same time.

Well, looks like Tony is somewhat in the clear. Grand Jury declines to indict him. Says the kid was high on marijuana and was impaired enough to affect judgement. http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2014/09/24/grand-jury-finished-hearing-case-against-nascar-tony-stewart/

So the professional nitpicking mechanic in me is noticing a few things from the pictures. 1st is that the wall thickness on the heads is way too thick, I can think of all kinds of places that wrench won't fit because it is just too large. 2nd is the grip area in the center of the wrench is not smoothed. Just wait until you get that first carbon fiber splinter in your palm and that bugger is gonna be painful for the next month till it works it's way out. 3rd is the heads are not angled away from the axis of the tool. Lots of busted knuckles. As for the price, I have payed more for single wrenches than that entire set so the price doesn't scare me off. They just don't look as ergonomic or functional as other available options. If I was all geek about getting super light weight I would just buy the titanium wrenches. They are roughly the same price or cheaper and weigh less with none of the faults of carbon fiber. Motion-Pro and a couple other people carry them. Here is a 5 piece set that weights less than the carbon ones and is $60 cheaper. http://stores.advmonster.com/titanium-open-box-wrench-5-piece-set/

Current Rig is a Kimber Ultra CDPII in a Bianchi leather IWB holster.

Being it doesn't seem that I have posted a picture of the rifle collection in this thread. I will admit that I need to pull everything from the safe and retake this one as there have been some additions and a few changes in the lineup but it gets you the general idea.

The list of mods runs very long on mine. I tossed that offer out there but never figured you would be curious. For the time, money and obsesion I have with my bike I honestly don't think I would give up on it. I'll send you a PM with a list of the goodies just for the fun of it though. Keep pressing for someone who's not tire kicking. GLWS.

Package 3, trade ya for the most highly modded sportclassic you will ever see?

Why not just learn to stop dropping your phone? I bought my last phone full retail and can't conceive of dropping a $500 piece of electronics. Then stick it in a cheap $20-30 plastic hard case with an aggresive texture and clip it to your belt. Solves both problems and you can look at getting a phone that is functional as well as having better radios and not some second rate phone only being sold as a gimmick for drop proof.

Just generally figure on none of them being quality, I would assume they are all made in china/hongkong/asian country of some sort. I have two, A full size and a mini and both came with undertermined country of origin. The full size works on my Triumph and every car I have ever plugged it into. The mini will only work with the cars, for some reason it won't communicate with the bike. I mentioned to buy the least expensive one you can find on Amazon only because there are some that sell for under $15 that use the exact same photo as people selling them for over $75 on Ebay and other places. It is a single circuit card inside them and I can't see how there could be much in build quality changes for the price difference. As a side note, for any of the guys on the forum with a modern Triumph motorcycle that has on OBDII plug (speed triple, sprint st, etc) this will work on your motorcycle also. You can read and clear any faults along with viewing real time data. You can't change any settings like you can with some of the other programs but it works as a good scan tool.

I have OEM Dual mufflers from a Ducati Sportclassic I am looking to offload. Removed when the bike was brand new, they have never been used.