In reply to stanger_mussle (Supported by GRM undergarments) :
You'll be fine!
Edited to add: Be sure you know where the weakest link is. In other words, if you're lashing it to that rack, make durn sure that the rack is securely installed to the truck.
Crap. I have a dilemma. 1990 Jaguar XJ. It can be mine for 1k. I think it's all there and it runs. What do I do? It doesn't help that I've liked these cars since I was a wee lad.
1988RedT2 said:What do I do?
Run
Where's Frenchy when I need him? 
It's an XJS with the V12. One owner car. Other than the paint being a bit oxidized, it's as near perfect as a 35 year old car can be.
Peabody said:1988RedT2 said:What do I do?
Run
Towards or away?
I'm building a bridge, 35' long using telephone poles as stringers, and the treads are 2 X 10' rough pine boards
Is it more stress on each individual board if I space them 2"-3" apart as opposed to 1" or less?
The reason I ask is that I built a bridge 3 years ago spacing them 2"-3" apart. I have to replace boards far more frequently on that than any of the others, which are close together.
In reply to Peabody :
Yes, it is slightly more stress because in the grand scheme of things you have fewer boards carrying the same load.
With the boards spaced farther apart, each traveling wheel is going to spend more time supported by a single board than it would with the boards closer together.
In reply to Duke :
I was thinking the load on each board would be greater at entrance/exit if the area between the boards was greater.
I run an auto repair shop, and every so often we get a vehicle with the alcohol sensing ignition interlock. I would bet it's a three or four to one young women vs young men ratio.
Societal change? Behavioral? Other?
What do you call each section of Grm? The builds part, off topic, tech tips, etc?
I've heard those called forums but I thought the whole site was the forum. This isn't limited to this site, but any forum site.
The Forum is one part of the whole GRM website.
The Forum is made up of various message boards, such as Off Topic, For Sale, the main GRM board, etc. Content is generated by users, though staff participates.
Other parts of the GRM site, such as Project Cars, Features, Videos, etc aren't considered the forum. The content there is generated by the magazine editors and staff.
I think the correct term is subforum.
"This content is available for GRM+ members and Grassroots Motorsports magazine subscribers only."
How do I read the article? https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/grm/how-wheels-tires-and-suspensi/281548/page1/
I am a magazine subscriber.
Stampie said:I think the correct term is subforum.
That also works.
Ah subforum. Good... good.
I can just put on a coupler and however much coax I need to the Internet cable before it gets to my modem without any ill effects, right?
RevRico said:I can just put on a coupler and however much coax I need to the Internet cable before it gets to my modem without any ill effects, right?
Any ill effects? Depends. Coupler implies some signal loss, as would an extremely long cable run. I suspect only extreme cases would be any trouble though.
In reply to RevRico :
First thing the cable company will do if you start having outages or weak signal is blame a splitter or booster. One or two probably isn't an issue, but at three plus, you'll see some issues.
RG6 has a max length of about 300m, so in all likelihood it'll be ok in the house.
I'll be honest, this is why I tolerate the hellscape that is streaming. I hated troubleshooting coax issues.
In reply to RevRico :
If you do have issues, run a single length from the cable company's interface direct to your modem. Should be good for up to 1000 feet or so.
RevRico said:I can just put on a coupler and however much coax I need to the Internet cable before it gets to my modem without any ill effects, right?
No. You'll lose signal over distance. High frequencies, which tend to be used by the forward path for cable modems, are affected more by the distance. A standard cable system is designed for a 100 foot drop to the house, 4 way splitter, and 100 foot outlets to individual devices. What modem do you have? A lot of them you can log into the model and look at the signal levels. That will give you a better idea.
1988RedT2 said:In reply to RevRico :
If you do have issues, run a single length from the cable company's interface direct to your modem. Should be good for up to 1000 feet or so.
Hmmm no. We failed installs if the drop to the house was over 400ft. Automatic fail even if signal levels were good at that distance.
EDIT - I just did an online cable signal loss using 1000ft of RG6 at 747mhz and it came out to 83db of loss. A high level at the tap for that freq would be around 30db. The modem needs to see ~ +/- 15db. 1000 ft would have you around -50db.
In reply to Stampie :
Netgear CM1000v2
It's like 80 feet total from the pole to the house (60) then down the wall (15) and into basement where the modem is.
just didn't leave me much room on the inside of the house and working around the modem is going to end with me breaking it the amount of times I've dropped it already.
Since I'm leaving the ceiling open, I could just put a junction box up there and Mount the modem up out of the way, I just thought adding 10-15 feet of coax before the modem to get it across the room would be easier.
In reply to RevRico :
You should be fine with that set up but let me finish dinner and I'll see about you logging into the modem. Off the top of my head I'm thinking go to command line and run ipconfig to get your gateway ip address (usually 192.168.1.1 or 10.10.10.1). Put that address into your web browser and IIRC netgear is user = admin and password = password from the factory.
Edit - Make sure you use good cable. Don't buy premade stuff. Use good compression fittings on RG6.
Here's your manual:
https://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/CM1000v2/CM1000v2_UM_EN.pdf
Page 16:
To log in to the cable modem: 1. Connect a computer to your cable modem. You can connect a computer to your cable modem using the following methods: • Connect a computer to your cable modem using an Ethernet connection. • Connect a WiFi router to your cable modem using an Ethernet connection, and then connect a computer to your router using a WiFi or Ethernet connection. 2. Launch a web browser. 3. Enter http://192.168.100.1. A login window opens. 4. Enter the admin user name and password. The user name is admin. The default password is password. The user name and password are case-sensitive. The BASIC Home page displays.
From there look at Cable Connection according to the internet.
You'll see something like this:
The important items are power and SNR. Netgear says +/- 7db. Last I knew cable tech spec was +/- 10db but down to -15db would work. More important than that is the SNR. 32db on that is the lower limit but I liked to see that 34db or higher.
Wow, that's literally all the information in the modem, I don't know why or what but I was expecting more.
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