randeez
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we are starting to see very long lead times on stainless 316 or 304 enclosures for control panels and what not. and generators are like a year out for most manufacturers
What did you do to your NNBS GMT900 Tahoe/Yukon Today?
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I mean, sure there’s a few things we could still make here and not drive up the cost of our living (construction supplies for instance since labor is the main cost of construction) but for the most part there’s no way to compete against the workers over there. Look at that Netflix documentary- when the Americans went to their factory in China and saw how the workers would spit out glass products like they were a machine, you could see there was no way to replicate that here. That’s why the US plant went to robotics to compete. That plant lost millions every year for the first 4 until they brought in the robots. And more US jobs were lost again, this time to machines. If we are going to make manufacturing competitive again, it won’t be because American workers are doing it. That’s way too inefficient and thus expensive to compete. It will be because we innovate using machines. We still design most of the worlds chips here, then outsource them to other countries to produce. We need to design them for US markets only in order to gain an advantage. We need to build the things that build things, better than anybody else can do it. We still innovate and invent better than any country in the world.
It’s gonna get even worse, China is going into lockdown again because their vaccine doesn’t work good against omicron they found out and now they’re in the middle of an outbreak again. And our new chip plants are still 6 months out. Generators take chips. Furnaces take chips- we’re in a furnace shortage as I recently found out when I replaced mine- as well as pretty much everything else that uses electricity.
bought a $30 battery cable to get 7 of these little stand-off wire harness clips, GM doesn't sell them and the ones on mine are brittle and breaking
I guess it probably beats buying them individually from gm if they did sell them lol
I guess it probably beats buying them individually from gm if they did sell them lol
when I went to get my windshield replaced they guy I go to gave me a weird look when I told him I needed a new windshield lol so I automatically asked don't tell me there's a shortage of glass...........no but price went up.
iamdub
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Looks like I need to buy a couple of large C-clamps from Harbor Freight or Amazon to cut up...
iamdub
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That looks way better than I was picturing. The painted bezels and everything else black makes them look more machine-like instead of fish-eyed.
What steering wheel control adapter or interface are you using? Mine can be programmed to assign the various features to certain buttons, but the default settings for my Pioneer were perfect as-is.
iamdub
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iamdub
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Last weekend, my neighbor broke a fitting on a small hose while replacing the fuel filter on his '20 F250 (Diesel). He had to buy an entire hose assembly to get that one fitting. It has a few standoffs like that and some miscellaneous clips. He was gonna trash it so he happily gave it to me.
Sparksalot
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You buyin’?I can’t stand a broken windshield. It makes a vehicle look like junk. Fix that thing!
