If you use them properly you will only bend the offcut material.
Going for this power supply and this motherboard with a E7200 and a BFG 8800GT (OcUK don't have 3850s and I'd rather order from one place to get this order reasonably quickly), is this an ok choice?
A good heavy duty pair of snips will cut through much thicker material than they are rated for but you will need to take the absolute minimum material off on each cut, for what you want it would be very time consuming and wasteful. If you wanted to trim small pieces cut to roughly the right size then a pair of snips would be ok for that kind of material. For what you want a guillotine is the only sensible option and it shouldn't cost you anything.
You can download the drivers from the Logitech Wingman website (and will need to in order to set the wheel up correctly), so no worries about not having a disc.
Need some advice on a budget gaming system
I'm looking to replace an old family computer with something more contemporary, it will be primarily used for playing games. Budget in the region of £300, less would be desirable but it could stretch if needed.
I think the main technical difficulty would be I've got a micro-ATX case and would like to stick to micro-ATX. How much of an issue would this be with modern middle of the range graphics cards and processors (both from physically fitting it in and cooling)?
I'm not interested in overclocking/RAID/anything else fancy.
So basically I'd be looking to get:
A power supply
Graphics card
Processor
micro-ATX motherboard
RAM
Hard drive - smallish but needs to be replaced as the current one makes funny noises
An OS - probably Vista Premium
I'd be grateful for any thoughts and suggestions as to the best combination of these bits for around the £300 mark with an emphasis on gaming?
I think the main technical difficulty would be I've got a micro-ATX case and would like to stick to micro-ATX. How much of an issue would this be with modern middle of the range graphics cards and processors (both from physically fitting it in and cooling)?
I'm not interested in overclocking/RAID/anything else fancy.
So basically I'd be looking to get:
A power supply
Graphics card
Processor
micro-ATX motherboard
RAM
Hard drive - smallish but needs to be replaced as the current one makes funny noises
An OS - probably Vista Premium
I'd be grateful for any thoughts and suggestions as to the best combination of these bits for around the £300 mark with an emphasis on gaming?
Got mine from Amazon, about £160 and 2 day free delivery.
So long as you slip the clutch enough you will never need more power at idle than driving along fully clutched. If there was insufficient power at idle you would have to slip the clutch to prevent the car from stalling.
It is a good wheel, probably generally accepted as being a similar quality to the DFP. If your budget doesn't stretch to a G25 then this would be a good alternative. I wouldn't pay more than $100 for it though (or whatever you can get a new DFP or Momo for if less).
You will not be expected to heel and toe for your ARDS test, in fact if you're too young to have a driving license then all that is expected is basic car control, make sure you can do a start relatively smoothly and change gear proficiently and I'm sure you won't have an issue. There is no need to heel and toe in most front wheel drive road cars and by trying to do so you'll only increase the chance of messing up (I heel and toe on the road but not on track days), which is exactly what you must not do. You'll also find you won't be changing gear very much if you choose a 5 speed car with typical long road gearing, avoid something with more power and more (and closer) gears if you have a choice.
Cutting straight with a hacksaw is difficult and it will still need finishing. Leave the plastic on it as long as you can.
Those are right, get a sided (left or right) pair, given that you're just cutting big bits of sheet with them you should be able to just get one sided pair (you can turn the sheet over to ensure it cuts on the correct side).
A heavy duty pair can cut through 2mm steel sheet without too much difficulty so long as you take it off in small strips (it all depends on how much you're trying to turn up), I think you could snip 3mm aluminum. Having heard the size of the piece and that you want to get 3 bits side by side (which couldn't be done with snips because there wouldn't be an edge to turn up) I would suggest getting it guillotined is the only sensible way of getting a straight, square cut which doesn't need finishing, mark it out clearly and take it to any local machinist (or school workshop) and they'll be able to do it in seconds and probably won't charge you for it (less than £35 anyway).
Band saws are the most annoying tools ever invented, they're all noisy and slow, the horizontal table hand fed ones are hard to cut things accurately and give a rubbish finish and the blade comes out of the automated/gravity fed one I've had the pleasure of using all the time. They're never a good solution to any problem and if you have access to one I would expect you've probably got a guillotine anyway
A guillotine or if that isn't possible scribe a straight line and use a pair of aviation snips, taking care to note siding and remove the excess material before doing the final cut to ensure that it doesn't crease the edge (you will probably need to do several cuts with 3mm aluminum but it should be cut).
EDIT - If you've got tin snips use them (I presume you don't seeing as your asking), if not get a pair of aviation snips because they are a bit cheaper for a decent pair and useful if you want to cut corners.
EDIT - If you've got tin snips use them (I presume you don't seeing as your asking), if not get a pair of aviation snips because they are a bit cheaper for a decent pair and useful if you want to cut corners.
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I don't really see what is distasteful about my point of view. Simply put there has been a plane crash which is a nasty occurrence, but sufficiently rare to warrant front page headlines for two days in a row. Surely that in itself is testament to how plane crashes are not a common occurrence or an unacceptable risk? The 19 that did survive (which the media doesn't focus on), survived because of the excellent safety measures and response that would have saved the lives of many more in a less serious (but more common) incident.
Plane crashes get lots of attention in the media, which in turn makes people paranoid, because they are so infrequent. Aside from the issue of safety in current planes what suggestion are you making to improve them, surely you haven't got a solution that is better than a steel box with fuel tanks sticking out of it, if you have I'm sure lots of people would like to hear your idea, if not I suggest you just accept that current air travel is very safe and the chance of a serious accident is kept so low that it offsets the mess when you do have one.
Just getting used to driving cars is the most helpful thing to do, you shouldn't memorise the biting point based on pedal travel. You should find it from feeling the pedal and what the car is doing.
This whole idea that spending lots of money makes things/you better is rather chavish.
Mechanics are required to know how cars work? We had someone come round from next door suggesting we position the air intake vent behind the radiator to 'get some nice warm air for the engine'.
Your brand conscious and choose expensive brands, that is a proper case of chavishness.
They are getting easy. Seriously if you can't get 10 A-Cs without trying you should worry.
If it takes effort to write coherent sentences you are either very lazy or a thick little shit...
Well he probably wouldn't make such a fuss if he fell off his bike...
Your prepared to go karting with very few safety measures? You drive a road car without issue? But are scared of planes just because when one does crash it is a bit messy? Stop being such a wimp and live a little.
What feasible alternative is there to air travel as we know it? It isn't a bad way of getting a lot of people around the world cheap and fast. I wouldn't say it is exactly dangerous either, your a 150 times more likely to dye in the bath than in a plane crash, you don't consider bathrooms to be a ridiculous unacceptable risk do you?
It is a pretty good place to store fuel, good for practicality of storage and about the safest place you could store it, in a belly landing the wings normally don't take much weight and are likely to be ripped off in a hard (but survivable) hit with the ground, I'd rather have a lot of highly flammable liquid ripped off the wreckage rather than sitting on top of it, which would be the only feasible alternative. It doesn't sound like this plane had a serious fuel fire anyway, from what I heard the helicopters were only putting out the engine which was still on fire and would explain why there were some survivors.
Given that death toll presumably only about 9 of them have actually crashed properly (based on the assumption that they carry 150 passengers and you don't walk away from a plane crash), given that 1200 have been built it's not that bad really, then you've got to look at how many crashes and incidents were anything to do with the design of the plane.
Road cars are very rarely tested and when they are it isn't at 3/4 max. A lot of standard sportscars fail noise tests at track days and I remember Autocar couldn't take a Zonda onto a track because it failed the standard race noise limit (106db @ 3/4).
Racing cars body kits are designed to provide maximum downforce with minimum aerodynamic penalty by really boring clever Germans using science. Styling kits are botched together by simple people because they 'look cool', they normally add weight and have an aerodynamic disadvantage over standard body panels which have been carefully designed using science and common sense.
DTM cars have a carbon tub/steel spaceframe mixture and bear no relation to road cars, suspension design is free (including pick up points) and they have to use rear drive V8s (which most of the cars don't have as standard).
Not at all, there are lots of championships for road legal cars. The only real thing that makes most standardish race cars illegal is tyres.
I only assume it is this status symbol and demonstrating you've spent lots of money on carbon bits, I still don't think it looks very attractive, it looks ok for interior pieces and little bits so not bothering to paint it where it won't be so obvious is alright, but I'm still a bit confused as to whether people like the look of unpainted body panels or if you just want to willy wave.
I really don't understand the obsession with carbon fibre, the cars I work on have 5 figures worth of carbon fibre bodywork, all of which is painted so it doesn't look so naff. If you really need the carbon look then why not just get some fake carbon fibre stickers, it's not going to look any worse than a large unpainted panel.
The things you were standing by in your previous avatar, far less attractive than what you're standing by in your current avatar.
It is only an old cheap car, I'd be worried if you miss it when you get your second slightly more memorable car so stop trying to waste money on it
Seriously though check tyres and levels are ok and check the brake pads/shoes if you know how (or book it in for a service). Other than that ensure you've got air in your tyres (don't forget the spare). Also ensure you can locate locking wheel nut remover (probably not relevant for you), a jack and a wheel brace, sounds silly but when I had a puncture the other day I found that I had no wheel brace in the car no idea where it went
I managed to get to 11 without cheating (just lots of guessing ).
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