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ZapaxTheCoder wrote: in free time
What is this "free time" thing you speak of?
Could you not get anyone to join your team in the Collaboration forum?
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I have not tryed collaboration form yet :3
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ZapaxTheCoder wrote: not tryed collaboration
Well why not? That would be the appropriate place to post this.
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I changed the oil in my Jeep because I'm one of those rugged, do-it-yourself kind of guys.
There is that, and also I don't like paying $35.00 for an oil change.
I decided to use synthetic oil which is more expensive.
The oil alone was $35.00, plus the filter which came in at $14.00.
I bought an oil pan to catch the oil that doubles as a storage unit for used oil. $20.00.
I wanted to take care to use the right sized ratchet (13mm) that came in at $12.00.
Toss in the pair of jeans I ruined ($35.00) and the oil soaked T-Shirt ($15.00).
I'll probably let nature take care of the large oil stain in the driveway.
So I got in my first oil change for $131.00
Not bad.
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The positive side is that the next oil change will only be $99. 
Oil $35
Filter 14
Jeans $35
T-Shirt $15
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Yeah, I'm trying to take the long-term view of the matter.
Although, if I ruin another pair of jeans I'll have to fund a divorce. ($50,000.00)
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It is for reasons such as these that I decorate naked.
It is a lot easier to wash paint off me than off clothes.
I assume it is the same for oil.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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Remind me not to drive by your house when you're painting the outside!
Iain
I am one of "those foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs". Yay me!
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ChrisElston wrote: It is for reasons such as these that I decorate naked.
 Mind bleach please someone pass me the mind bleach.
luckily I haven't eaten lunch yet else I would of brought it back up
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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ChrisElston wrote: It is a lot easier to wash paint off me than off clothes.
And the wifey doesn't care either 
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MehGerbil wrote: if I ruin another pair of jeans I'll have to fund a divorce. ($50,000.00)
Either keep the ruined jeans or get a pair of "workwear" pants when doing stuff like that, it helps keeping the clothes cost down (talking from experience fiddling with race cars, etc).
But who am I to say that, last weekend I painted a door to a cupboard at home and thoght to myself: "-Change clothes? For this? No, it's easy and I can't possible get paint all over the place..." . Well, it turns out I can get paint on a lot of places where it's not supposed to be. 
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MehGerbil wrote: if I ruin another pair of jeans I'll have to fund a divorce. ($50,000.00)
Why were you wearing her jeans?
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MehGerbil wrote: I'll probably let nature take care of the large oil stain in the driveway.
Kitty Litter will absorb it, throw it over the affected area let sit for a day or two then sweep up. Don't do if it's going to rain.
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I got told you can remove it with coke.
This was when I had a car with a little oil leak and got banned from parking on anyone's drive.
I asked a mechanic who was looking at a different problem if he could see where it was coming from and he replied "It's piddling out everywhere".
I got through a liter of oil a week in the last few months of the car.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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ChrisElston wrote: I got through a liter of oil a week in the last few months of the car.
When I got out of the service and went home my brother had bought a car, if I remember I think Buick for $15 and it didn't have a hood. When I got in to take a ride there was a case of oil in the back seat and my brother explained to me that oil shot out of the motor onto the windshield so at every light you had to stop and wipe the oil off, I don't think wipers worked (it's been a lot of years) and every other light you had to wipe and add a quart of oil.
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ChrisElston wrote: I got told you can remove it with coke.
Damn, that's a lot of money to remove an oil stain from the driveway.
I'd probably need a full pound.
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I assumed they meant a-cola rather than ain.
But I didn't try either.
On the stain.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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Coke is probably not going to be very effective. It's a lot better at removing rust and tooth enamel than oil. But lye or any product based on lye (NaOH) will work, since most oils are saponified by reaction with lye and water, and become water soluble. I use EasyOff oven cleaner for driveway cleaning and it's fairly effective, but not perfect...
Will Rogers never met me.
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Cheaper to pay an oil change place huh? I learned that lesson a long time ago.
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Don't ever go fishing.
--
Harvey
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Places like Jiffy Lube are going to charge more than $35 for synthetic oil anyway.
I change my own oil but mainly because I don't trust the kids those oil-change places have working on my car nowadays. One time I went to Walmart (I know, bad choice in the first place) and had them change my oil because I was in the process of moving and did not have access to my tools. Everything seemed OK until I went to change my oil myself the next time. The idiot at Walmart (redundant?) had used a pair of pliers to remove my oil plug and stripped it. Are you kidding me?! And they always want to nickle-and-dime you to death with little upgrades: Want a new air filter? That's an additional $30. Want a new cabin filter? That's an additional $50, which is ridiculous considering how inexpensive and easy it is to change a cabin filter -- just Google/Bing/Whatever it to figure out how to do it yourself if you don't know how -- and for all that is holy in the universe don't ever ask a dealership to do it as that will cost you at least $75. How about a transmission fluid flush? Yeah, right -- don't fall for that one either. And that nice air freshner they want to "give" you, only $5. What a deal!
Keep changing your own oil. It will be worth it. And the satisfaction of doing it yourself and doing it right, priceless.
(OK, I feel better now!)
-NP
Never underestimate the creativity of the end-user.
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what did you climb into the engine and shoveled it out?
I hope you fully drained the mineral oil before the change, a lot of these synthetic oils react badly to being mixed
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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I always heard it wasnt a problem, and in fact semi synthetic oil is sold.
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some are fine but some do state that the engine need flushing prior to use
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Synthetic oil is the dogs bollocks, it is incredible stuff. Truly.
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