FIRES and Tires Oh My

[abnorm]

Hmmmmm........An In-tents-fire........Something seems wrong with that Photo????

We're running from the Fires in Oregon.........We were at the Harriman Fire when it brokeout and jumped the lake......hanging out in NorCal for a while..............Forest Service Campground

The Rainbow Family Gathering just got shut down in the area.............34 Rangers moved in to enforce the forest closure notice
NO FIRES ALLOWED !

On our way here I discovered a Tire problem.............I must have clipped a rock and split the edge of a tire..........
There's a Les Schaub tire store 30 minutes away..........He has ONE tire I need................I broke out the Silicone Caulk and glued and clamped the "Flap" in-place to prevent further damage during the drive..........Fingers-crossed ! I tried to RE-Tire earlier this Spring BUT Big O tires quit making this series...........................

YES I have a spare BUT at 70 yrs old I can't Break-loose the Lugs


Careful out there.............................

 

[INTJohn]

Hey people put cigarette & marijuana smoke in their lungs why not build a fire in the tent?
Itsa murahka.
sayin…….

 

[eDJ_]

That wouldn't be a "blonde joke" would it ?

 

[ChileVan]

Wow, is that an AI generated image? If so, that's pretty crazy!

 

[maki2]

AI is not something I am fond of seeing on the internet. It is the worst of the worst for fake anything and everything situations.

For Paulette…I recently came across an article about how crochet patterns created by AI are showing up on internet sites with AI generated images of them being completed projects. That people attempting to follow the directions were finding the patterns impossible to follow and make.

 

[Morgana]

You could do that photo pretty easily with 1990s Photoshop.
AI is good for a lot of things and bad for a lot of things but it's also famous for its glitches. When it loses those glitches, that's when I'd start to worry ...
The quality of the output depends a lot on the quality of the prompts you feed into it. There's actually a job specialty right now called "prompt engineer" because it's pretty complicated to get this right, but I imagine that the more sophisticated AI gets, the less sophisticated the prompts will need to be.
MacDonalds tried to use AI to take orders but has given up on it for now (one of the funnier results was ice cream with bacon). https://www.yahoo.com/tech/mcdonald-gets-rid-ai-drive-224352910.html
You definitely have to fact-check anything generated by AI since it's not really "thinking through" the facts, it just "knows" what words are likely to appear together. (Sort of like the Google Ngram Viewer on steroids with a lot more buttons and bells, is my primitive idea of it.) So it can write really slick-sounding prose which might be totally wrong.
I think it's really unethical to put AI-generated product out without labeling it as such. There are a lot of other issues too that businesses and governments are going to have to come to terms with. I took a couple weeks to try to learn more about it last year but it scared me xitless and I went back to ignoring it. Not really a smart move as it is not going away. FWIW, the best courses I found were at CodeAcademy (https://www.codecademy.com/) and quite a few of them are free.

 

[VanFan]

Man! That's in-tents! (Sorry.)

Wishing for a better journey for y'all ahead!

 

[abnorm]

We're fine...........Just got back from Tire store and Groceries.....RV Dump and Gasoline

All set for a Holiday weekend....................Safe Travels

 

[maki2]

We're fine...........Just got back from Tire store and Groceries.....RV Dump and Gasoline

All set for a Holiday weekend....................Safe Travels

Glad to hear you got the new tire on and a bonus of groceries and gas.

 

[tx2sturgis]

Baby gots a new pair of shoes!

 

[NctryBen]

Glad you made it to the tire shop… nothing worse then being stuck changing a tire with people speeding by inches from your vehicle. I hear ya on the lug nut tightness. My Minnesota tire guy puts them on way too tight. I have to carry a breaker bar and pipe and I’m still calling him choice names… while on the road.
I’m stuck changing my tires yet as I have a year and a half before I turn that big 70.

 

[maki2]

I’m stuck changing my tires yet as I have a year and a half before I turn that big 70.

I am really glad to hear I am too old now for changing tires! That is the best news I have heard this week

 

[VanFan]

Torque spec on our new van is a whopping 140 pounds, compared to 100 on the old van.

 

[Happy Camper]

Torque spec on our new van is a whopping 140 pounds, compared to 100 on the old van.

For those of you concerned about removing highly torqued lug nuts, I would recommend getting a portable impact wrench. Makes the job fast and easy. If you don't have any other use for it, it can be expensive. But for those in the boonies when a tire goes out, it might be a lifesaver.

 

[NctryBen]

For those of you concerned about removing highly torqued lug nuts, I would recommend getting a portable impact wrench. Makes the job fast and easy. If you don't have any other use for it, it can be expensive. But for those in the boonies when a tire goes out, it might be a lifesaver.

The problem I found was torque being way past the required lbs. so much that studs are taking kind of a hit. Electric impact wrenches are kind of the problem here. I’ve lost studs to extremely over tight lug nuts.

 

[bullfrog !]

A four way, a jack stand to support it and a cheater bar with my weight have worked when impacts don’t. Impacts are too often the problem going on or off! Lol!!! I use my battery powered impact to screw in lag bolts I use for tent stakes. They do make torque extensions for impacts that are used in a lot of tire shops now but I still hand torque them and check them again after a few miles down the road. Getting old ain’t easy, so I keep good tires, a plug kit and air compressor in the car so hopefully I don’t have to change the tire on the road.

 

[Happy Camper]

I was thinking impact for getting removal started. But not putting them on.

Good points on the studs. I have had that happen to me as well.

 

[user 2252]

Torque Wrench and correct lug nut torgue will help

 

[abnorm]

I'll revive this thread........Three weeks later.......

The PARK fire in California is burning almost 120 miles away.....The smoke is choking.......The sky is orange at Mid-day......The Van and Tarps are completely covered in ash and burnt bits......Enough is Enough !.....Free campground or not.....It's time to move

The plan is to head South toward Susanville.............Re-supply and RV services there and travel on past the fire/smoke impact area............we've got a cheap 14 day forest service campground where the Solar and the Starlink work perfectly........that is clear sky above the van NO trees shading the space

Starlink is a real "connectivity" gamechanger..................We are NEVER without an internet signal IF the dish is out and the power's ON..............Happy Wife Happy Life

Same space.........Different view "everyday"

 

[tx2sturgis]

I had seen the news about the fires and was wondering how close you were.

BE SAFE!