#haynes manuals

[qupritsuvwix]

“classic” car?

[dougielombax]

What do you mean that’s not how i should use tumblr?

What.

Is there like a user manual?

Do I need to get one from the hardware store?

Like this shit?!

Edit: WHY is this labelled as mature?! WHY???????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dielukedie-honda]

A must have for any car owner. Haynes make manuals for just about every make and model.

I snagged that book and a 95 owners manual for -$25.

A lot of superb information in just the 2 books if you are trying to maintain or repair your car.

[swaggertron500]

had a bout of late night maddness

so, anyone know of Haynes, who made manuals on how to use shit for basically anything? me and Dad found a Handley Page Halifax Haynes manual in a second hand bookstore for the relatively cheap price of $15 a book, and brand new as well. This was interesting because books here in nz you normally get brand new for $30-40.

Anyways, i was looking for the publication date, and after looking at the inside of the front cover, i looked at the back.

After 2 pages of sources and the index, i found the 2nd appendix, the particular part being labled Handley Page Halifax, all marks - performance data.

I was looking at the table, and i thought after looking for the plane that had the highest service height with maximum weight, what if this table was organised by the service ceiling at maximum height? so i went into docs and made this

may i present to you: what i started working on at damn near midnight last night. This is what i've got so far, and i might do this if i can get Haynes manuals for any other war planes (eg, the Lancaster or the Mosquito)

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[stra-tek]

The perspective cutaway Star Trek ships masterpost!🎉

It's fascinating to see how different artists have interpreted the interior of the ships differently over the decades

By Christopher Cushman (most of them), Kemp Remillard (Star Trek Beyond ships) and others (the AMT 1701-A and Haynes Manual TOS Enterprise)

[seat-safety-switch]

Don't you hate it in science fiction when the protagonist knows exactly how something works, right down to the theory and components? That pulls me right out of the story. I don't know how a garage door opener works, you probably don't either, so I wouldn't spend four paragraphs explaining it to a hot alien chick I just met. I'd be too busy asking her if she has Craigslist on her phone.

I can absolutely understand why authors want to do this, though. When you're writing a novel, the blank page is terrifying. You fill it with what you know, and if you've been studying "cool spaceships," it turns out that will be top of mind for a little while until you discover a Wikipedia article about a new kind of gravity. The same thing happens at parties. If you ask me about the weather, the conversation will inevitably degenerate into a discussion of exactly when you need to start looking for oversized crankshaft bearings and what kinds of semi-truck batteries are the right size to steal for use in a car. It's detail you don't need, in other words, but that I have in large quantities.

What's the solution for this? Knowing nothing at all. Studies have shown that the less you know, the happier you are. Doing these studies made the scientists involved sadder, which is basically a peer-review if you ask me. The less you know about a subject, the more easily you can let the plot take over. For instance, I don't have a really solid idea of where on the map Egypt is, but if you asked me to throw together a novel about it, it would probably be a pretty good banger until the halfway mark where they find an old Jeep that doesn't run and the next two hundred pages are a regurgitation of the Haynes manual's wiring diagram section. Come to think of it, that would be an amazing book.

So in conclusion, try to know less tomorrow than you know today. Go out there and forget a whole bunch of stuff. Head to your local public library and rub your face on the books until the ideas come back out of your brain and embed themselves inside the pages, where they belong. And then get back home, grab your 1977 Royal Sahara typewriter, which is really a rebadged Triumph-Adler, and re-lube the strike hammer elbow to get rid of that weird little squeak in the spaceb – oh no, it's happening again. I gotta get to the library.

[thedansemacabres]

some car care tips for car animism folks & for all who are interested:

Oil changes are a tough subject when it comes to when, but most people agree taking your factory recommended changes and halfing that is the way to go.

Learn about an engine. What it does and what part does what. It’ll help you in the long run with mechanics and evil dealerships.

Detailing cars is easy and not that expensive to get into, there are plenty of simple YouTube tutorials. This helps keep your interior clean and your car’s spirit nice and shiny.

All cars have problems, and every model has particular ones. For example, on the z31 (my car), the digital dashboards are unreliable and tend to fail.

Learn to do basic wrenching and fluid changes. All cars come with manuals (haynes, chilton, and factory are best) to help you save money and bond with your car by working on it. You will do better than you think.

Some guy on a form has had the same problem you have. Do not be afraid to google—you are not alone, and plenty will help you with cars

Put on parking brake and then turn your car to park. This puts the weight on the break and not the transmission

Learn to change tires and even rims! There are heart rims and such which add personal flare

conversely, interior depending on the car is easy to change, so you can truly get personal with customising.

Ignore fast and furious for actual car things

[ms-demeanor]

Hello Ms Demeaner! May I ask you about old cars? I have a 26-year old suv (i know, not that old), that I love dearly but it is the smelliest car on the block. I've been told the entire engine bay is coated in oil which I guess is a fire hazard? But I've also been told that doing those engine (steam cleanings? Degreasings?) on old cars could strip the engine bay of everything holding it together, and I can't really afford to buy a new engine/everything since I need that car to get to work.

Was I told correctly about the engine cleanings? Is that even a concern for cars just under 30? Do you have any advice on how to help cars not have so many toxic fumes? Thank you 💚

Okay so a basic engine cleaning shouldn't hurt your car in any way if you take proper precautions like covering up fuseboxes and stuff, and this is something that most cars should actually have done fairly frequently even if they're quite new, so I would tentatively recommend either trying to clean out the engine compartment yourself or seeing if there is a trustworthy local company that does this (this is not something I'd hire out to someone with no experience, look for the people in your life who work on their own cars or look for a reliable mechanic who offers this service or a car detailer who specifically works on engine compartments).

Here is a very detailed step-by-step guide to cleaning your engine compartment. If you want to try it yourself make sure that you can identify all of the parts of your engine that should be covered in your particular vehicle - you may want to invest in getting a used Chilton's or Hayne's Manual from ebay - and if you are very new to working on cars I'd say ask a friend who is good with cars to supervise (though I recommend doing this yourself! Learning how to work on cars is good even if it's as simple as cleaning out the engine compartment!)

HOWEVER

Because I don't know your car and can't kick the tires and investigate I'm not sure what the type of smell you're dealing with is or what could be causing it. Are you running rich? Is there a leak? Is there something slowly burning? There are lots of things that can make a car smelly and they are varying levels of problems.

If you haven't had your car in for a tune-up lately it may be time to save up for a full service at a trusted mechanic to see if they can identify any problems that are causing the smell. Someone should check on the life of your belts, the age of the filters, and do the general 100k mile maintenance if you haven't done that yourself and your car has that many miles on it. You should do that regardless of whether or not you clean the engine compartment (and so should everyone; if you own an older car search "my car model + 100k/150k maintenance" and see what parts need to be inspected that don't get checked at every oil change).

Good luck!

[ginandoldlace]

The  Tank Museum Rolls-Royce Armoured Car. This particular original model is the 1920s pattern and is a MK I Armoured Car, chassis number 117WO. The car displays its original Army census number, M247 - M denoting Motor Car. It’s original license plate was H3830 and served in Shanghai with the 5th Armoured Car Companies in 1927. This vehicle is complete with all original parts barring the driving seat. An excerpt from the Haynes Workshop Manual reads, “In May 1997 it was used to provide transport for her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II when she visited the Tank Museum

[somecunttookmyurl]

the only reason i knew what a corvette was when i was little is because my dad was weirdly into (american) cars and had like. those haynes manuals? or whatever they're called? for a bunch of cars we don't really... have and i was always very sad to never spot one "in the wild". tiny me thought they were really rare or something. turns out they're just american.

omg

*david attenborough voice* The Lesser Spotted Corvette, seen here far outside its natural habitat

[stellastra-scribbles]

Hey there, I saw your Dunmer doodle on my dash and my GOSH AM I IN LOVE With your outfit designs! I’d love to chat Skyrim fashion with you some day, keep up the super cool doodles! ✨✨✨✨

Thank you so much! That's so sweet of you to say~

Here's my Nerevarine in her Skyrim outfit (which still needs a bit of workshopping), since I keep spoiling her with outfits lol. She has so dang many outfits but I can't settle on an outfit for my other TES protags.

Feel free to send me a message me about Skyrim fashion someday (or any fashion really)!

Behold, a snippet of my collection of irl clothing I hope to later incorporate into my Skyrim designs:

Source: Viking Warrior Operations Manual: The life, equipment, weapons and fighting tactics of the Vikings (Haynes Manuals)

Source: National Geographic - The Vikings Lords of Sea and Sword (2018)

Source: National Geographic - The Vikings Lords of Sea and Sword (2018)

Source: Viking Warrior Operations Manual: The life, equipment, weapons and fighting tactics of the Vikings (Haynes Manuals)

Source: Viking Warrior Operations Manual: The life, equipment, weapons and fighting tactics of the Vikings (Haynes Manuals)

[piratesexmachine420]

i'm currently reading Ignition!, although most of the chemistry goes over my head, it is a nice book to read

do you have recommendations for similar books on the history of rocketry?

I don't think I have many novel thoughts here, nor have I read more than a few books on the subject (not for lack of wanting!) , but I'll give you what I have on what I've done. (Also, anyone who wants to, feel free to comment/reblog with your own suggestions!)

The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe is great. The movie is... fine, but you really want to read the book. Unlike Ignition, which ignores almost everything for the sake of technical information, The Right Stuff is an analysis of the internal politics of the Mercury program with few technical details.

How Do Astronauts Go To The Bathroom In Space? is 112% out of print, and aimed squarely at an elementary to middle school audience, but IMO totally worth it (as someone who first read it in elementary school) if you happen to find it in a used bookstore. It's basically just 200 pages of little anecdotes from Skylab 4, ranging from "How did you go to the bathroom?" to "What kind of work did you do on Skylab?" to "Did you have trouble swallowing?". Being aimed at kids means that it covers a lot of the minutia of life in LEO that a lot of other books ignore. It also has a certain quaintness I really enjoy, emblematic of other ~80s-90s all-ages science books like The Way Things Work.

Endurance by Scott Kelly is fine but makes some weird decisions. Lots of lingering on his ex-wife.

Moon Shot is an iffily-written piece of propaganda and I wouldn't bother. Besides, it permeated the space nerd culture so heavily you've likely already heard all the interesting anecdotes through osmosis.

There's this book I have titled "Sigma 7: The Six Orbits of Walter M. Schirra--The NASA Mission Reports" published by Apogee books that basically just compiles a bunch of NASA documents relating to the mission together (alongside a CD-ROM with MPEG-1 videos) and while I have serious doubts that you'd be able to it or other books in its series (long out of print, low production run: good luck trying to find it in a used bookstore) I can recommend reading NASA's press releases and transcripts and reports and so forth--they're all available on the internet (if annoying to find). ESA is similar. Roscosmos... not really.

Finally, here are some books I've been meaning to read. I make no assertions about their quality, and in most cases I know very little about them, so take this with a grain of salt:

Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 by Jim Lovell

Last Man on the Moon by Gene Cernan

Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir by Bryan Burrough

Carrying the Fire by Michael Collins

Diary of a Cosmonaut: 211 Days in Space by Valintin Lebedev

and all of the Haynes "Owner's Manuals" for the Space Shuttle, Saturn V, etc.

[hachama]

My child, light of my world, precious angel baby grumpkin yidlet, decided to "read" a Haynes repair manual instead of listening to a bedtime story tonight.

I think TH likes cars. Like, really, really likes them.

[shinygoku]

Captain Scarlet Headcanons

A man stands in the gloom of an alleyway, lit up only by a yellow tinted spotlight. He’s tall, dark and handsome, and his striking red and black uniform give him quite the presence. The latest in the line of Anderson Heroes and the one tasked with enduring the most gruesome of settings and personal circumstance.

Also he’s gay and autistic, good for him!

Welcome to my Headcanons for Paul Metcalfe, aka Captain Scarlet.

I’m primarily drawing straight from the one true canon source; the 1967 Television Series, with some supplementary tidbits from the Haynes Manual and bonus material from my DVD set. I’m not counting from tie in novels, audio only stories, or comics, as they’re lower in the hierarchy and hard to come by, but if they’re any good then they shouldn’t contradict anything I have here ;D

This is a long post, so I’ll put the cut up here. Great to read when you’re sitting down with a nice drink and/or snack~

CANON INFO

Paul Metcalfe will be born in Winchester in 2036 and the series starts in 2068, making him 31 with change (as his DOB is in December and Ep 1 sure don’t look like Winter) when he’s killed and Mysteronised. That’s really quite sad, but of course, this is a series about a war…

With his December the 17th Birthday, he’s a Sagittarius. The prophecy aspect could allude to the occasionally remembered Mysteron Sense he has? Key traits mentioned include (Positive) Idealism and generosity, and (Negative) pronounced impatience and being shockingly blunt. These all fit nicely with our man in red here.

I ain’t sufficiently interested in Military crud to rehash it or try to put my own spin (I had to look up what a commission is in that context and I still only half get it!), same applies with Academic stuff, so for both them I’ll let the bio provided in the Haynes Manual cover it lmao

“Background: From a long-serving military family. Trained at West Point Military Academy. Following completion of degrees in technology, history and mathematical application at Winchester University joined World Army Air Force as private, rising rapidly to colonel through inspiring capacity to command and military professionalism. Having noted qualities of leadership, strategic thinking and dedication to duty, approached by Spectrum selection committee to become leading field agent. Commission accepted immediately.”

Yeah, the main characters of Anderson shows go real hard on the expansion pack pasts, I’m unsure how hilariously over the top it is compared to the 5 Tracy Boys but they weren’t shy about making the leads Cool and Experienced!

Also from the Haynes manual, instead of Personal Interests like most’a the other cast members, there’s a Special Note. It strikes me as a bit more cold and impersonal than what the Show has, and take it with a slight pinch of salt, but I’ve got it transcribed as written:

“After reconstruction by Mysterons following death in car crash and subsequent fall from tall structure, replica accepted as serving officer having completed extensive tests revealing capacity for retro-metabolism and loss of Mysteron influence.” 

Well anyway, that covers the Canon info, it’s limited but pretty interesting for what it’s worth. Below is another short bio, this one from my DVD set (the info presumably having been provided in Annuals prior).

HEADCANONS 

As ya can see in the Marital Status section, he’s Single. I shall make the bold statement too that he’s gay but possibly isn’t consciously aware of that …yet? He can see when a girl is pretty but he doesn’t React much to it, and none of the interactions he does have with ladies is romance coded. In fact, when Linda Nolan pretty strongly implies attraction he literally says: “Thank you. Let’s go, Adam!” –  I really think he didn’t Twig her intent and then he’s instantly getting Blue’s attention instead XD ~ But he does have stronger and more diverse interactions with other guys, especially Blue ;3

I think he’s autistic but good at masking – even before being Mysteronised his resting face is very unexpressive and his seemingly sincere bidding of good luck sounds quite flat. Other factors include the above mentioned focus on professionalism but deviating when his principles are challenged or things aren’t going to plan, plus how he spends free time in a quiet environment and mostly hanging out with Blue when given the chance. Also, again his canon Good At Academic angle. I expect he thrives fairly well in the pseudo military environment as it provides structure, routine and clear rules (Though he will disregard those when he’s being particularly spicy!).

Can be stubborn and impatient (noticeably uses a louder voice when re-asserting something), and isn’t the best at hiding his thoughts. Otherwise seems to have a stiff upper lip and good nerves. Slight hints of arrogance on occasion but strongly principled. He’s got a dry and sardonic sense of humour.

Mostly very professional but he’s not “on” all the time. Sitting at his Boss’ desk with his feet up on the desk as he Vibes is the oddest example, yet it doesn’t feel shockingly out of character. I’ve noticed he sits weird in many scenes too, sometimes his ankle rests on his knee, propping his feet way up on White’s desk, or sitting in a chair sideways (can file under gay / autistic traits / omg he just like me fr), and states in Spectrum Strikes Back that he enjoys the quietness of nature with less people around too (he’s SO real !!) Like when he needs to cool off in White as Snow it’s the little flower house on the Promenade Deck he picks to gaze out into the blue yonder.

I like the idea that Agent Blake from the Secret Service is his grandfather (Meta: the Captain Scarlet puppet was reused for the role), personally I see it working better as him being Paul Metcalfe’s Maternal Grandpa. As for the Paternal line, that’s where several generations of Military dudes comes from :T –  At least the Blake personality may explain where Scarlet got the history and maths nerd interests, Blake does have that bookish vibe rather than a strong presence.

Seeing how his Mysteron Sense manifests as Nausea, I think he gets motion sick more easily than a Pilot and Guy who drives Armoured Tank-Cars Backwards ought to… so he wears Pressure Bands to alleviate the sickness response (but the Mysteron Sense may bypass that, being psychic rather than motion based). I know it’s in part due to the puppets but he sure seems to prefer wearing high necked, long sleeved shirts, be it uniform of civvies (And well, 60’s fashion be like that too lol, maybe he’s a smidge Trendy!).

MYSTERONISATION & RETROMETABOLISM

Ok, so as one of the first to be Mysteronised, it feels like the Mysterons were themselves experimenting with how their duplicates were going to be. Black seems to be forcibly possessed with his personality overridden, and both Brown and Scarlet are killed in a car wreck fireball to be copied. 

While Brown was used to be a suicide bomb, Scarlet was used to try to take the President alive instead. Scarlet’s second death was from being shot in the chest and then falling maybe 10,000 feet (idk distances. It was REALLY really high!) to a presumably gory landing. However, after they get his remains back at base, they’re shocked to discover him showing signs of life again and his body reverts to his as-new form after the first Mysteron Reconstruction, but instead of being a pawn of the Mysterons, this time Scarlet is back to his original body’s personality, and that’s how he stays thereafter. I theorise that as he was an early draft, the Mysterons didn’t have the expectation that the healing factor they installed would be that potent, nor did they put in a way to Keep their programming after said death. That, or they did want to have a worthy opponent in their ongoing war of nerves… But yes, Scarlet remains completely unique as both a Reconstruction (effectively a clone of Paul Metcalfe [re]born at 31 with all his memories before the explosion-death intact), but also one with free will and unlimited healing powers that bring him back from death multiple times.

The Mysterons presumably don’t install a healing factor into the Mysteronised Drones thereafter, though they are harder than normal to kill, with High Voltage Electricity being the only surefire to kill them, and presumably would permakill Scarlet too. They are also unable to be X-rayed, instead being opaque on such photographs.

But yes, the grisly central premise of the show is that even though Scarlet can indeed be killed, he won’t stay down forever. Though he’s Indestructible, that’s from the healing power repairing injuries and reversing death rather than a Superman-esque bulletproof skin (the opening of the show features this only for brevity lol, the episodes themselves stick to the rules). Nope, it’s even explicit that he feels the pain of injuries and dying each time! That’s rough, buddy! 

A much lesser side effect of being a Mysteronised Clone is the “Sixth Sense” Mysteron sensing response that the writers sometimes forget about, where Paul feels nausea when another replicant is nearby.

The healing power is called the same term that the Mysterons use to recreate destroyed matter: Retrometabolism. And now I’ve recapped the origin and summary, I wanna dig in to the headcanoning part that they show sadly didn’t make enough time for… >:3c

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Here’s how I think Retrometabolism works for Scarlet specifically: In the event of injuries, the wound in question will get healed pretty quickly. The smaller the wound, the faster it heals, but even something like a broken leg or bullet wound will still leave no scar tissue or residual effects after the process is complete. However, if he’s been killed, then the Retrometalbolism probably focuses first on his most major organs to get his body restarted as swiftly as possible, with lesser injuries coming afterwards. 

I also imagine if the cause of death was something like being shot, the Retrometabolism will also force the bullet out, assuming it got stuck in his body. If he was poisoned, it would purge and/or neutralise this before getting his body back online. If he had brain damage from either the direct cause of death (hello, Operation Time!) or as a side effect of his brain being starved of oxygen, that damage will be waved away all as part of the package. It also seems he’s immune to disease, a hypothesis actually observed in Place of the Angels. I think he must also be immune to the harmful effects of Radiation, or at least that the death and rebirth would cleanse any lingering sickness.

However, the more grisly his death, the longer it will take to heal. I reckon the only way to speed up the Retrometabolistic process would be for surgical intervention to essentially do as much clean-up as possible so the Retrometabolism can ‘focus’ on the regeneration part. For this reason I think being riddled with bullets would probably be a simpler process than the times Scarlet is caught in an explosion, or some of the potentially-canon situations shown in the end credits which vary from a stock Pulp hazard (Dynamite, being thrown out of a speeding car, threatened by a cobra) to honestly quite nightmarish (the walls of spikes, the swamp/quicksand, being about to be run over by a tank, the impending inferno as he trips on a burning beam….), and the end credit scenarios offer an underrated facet of Spectrum.

It’s easy for bad faith takes to dismiss the dynamics of Scarlet as “the guy who always dies” and the other Spectrum officers as being surplus to requirements, but that’s a reductive and daft way of looking at it. Instead why don’t we focus on how much interest and (for lack of a better term) variation in strategy it offers when one member can offer to make the riskiest plays, in the safety not of having regenerative powers, but the assurance that there’s backup to retrieve him and look after him while he’s completely helpless. Like, in the Shark picture, I think the threat is much less the toothy fish, but instead that Scarlet is doomed to be stuck underwater, maybe ready to return to life but without outside assistance unable to do so without drowning all over again. There would be a lot of trust and courage needed in these situations, not to mention how deeply unpleasant it is for humans to be around a dead body that may also be in quite a state, so it’s a strange sort of sweetness that Scarlet has all this back up when needed.

I also feel it’s worth mentioning my headcanon on the mysterious case of the Two Scarlets - OG Human who is perma-dead and the Mysteron version with Retrometabolism. First of all, while it happens entirely unmentioned and offscreen, I expect Spectrum New York dug around the crash site a bit more after reporting Brown’s corpse and then found Scarlet’s. This body is presumably in a morgue, perhaps cremated or buried but perhaps not. Presumably it’s Scarlet’s call to make…

I don’t think there was any personality change at a core level between the Scarlets, though if he got more moody or distant or whatever I don’t think anyone can hold it against him! But in part of their accepting, embracing even, of Mysteron!Scarlet, I feel like his Self would remain how it was, with the caveat of the new tactical routes opened by the indestructibility. 

And, while the headcanon train chuffs along, I guess I can wonder how long Retrometabolism will last with the Scarlet we know and love? Will repeated use ever cause it to fade, or is it as unshakable like the movement of planets? Will it prevent him from aging, each death reset bringing him back to 31 physically, or will it see him into twilight years? If the Mysterons were defeated, would the power be taken away with them, or eased off as their influence fades like a memory? It may depend on how the Mysterons were to be beaten, or come to a peaceful agreement. If they could strip it from him, then their keeping it active for their recurring counter may add fuel to the idea they’re playing a game and need specific pieces to always be in play.

In that regard, I only have questions. But puzzling out and solidifying my interpretations of this fine fellow has been a lot of fun, and even after I finish editing this, and after I’ve posted it, something else is sure to occur to me to mull over! This show deserved to be longer, but everything it gave me is cherished, and at the heart of that is this autistic gay king. He’s intriguing and, of course, indestructible!

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