The old school ones were actual plumbing parts screwed together, and modern iterations use NPT threading to this day. Probably 1/2"

Didn’t mean to give you grief, hope you enjoy whatever you end up doing with it. Matching barely legal beaters with people I see sleeping rough is kind of my Thing, as long as they can gimp between parking spots enough to not get towed it’s a huge comeup

Imo if you don’t care about it get it to someone who will, wheels are an absolute game changer when you don’t have any

A as a step towards B man

I’m gonna dig a pit deeper than I am tall and jerk off in there until the earth swallows me

Or, hear me out: now we know that any car with duct tape on the plates is above the law

It’s a trick, god wants you to pet every cat

You were 100% playing one of the many remakes

All of this is 100% correct, but to shed some light on the perspective you’re replying to: this deep into dystopia, slimy business bullshit as opposed to literal dictates from the surveillance state counts as “organic growth” for a lot of people

I can understand, disagree, and not be a dick about it. Please work on that last one. I genuinely love to talk about this stuff, but it’s no fun confrontationally. Enjoy your dead, sterile, static zine shrine if that’s what you want. Those butterflies are too beautiful to ever exist again, you’re super special for having witnessed them, good thing they’re pinned in your shadowbox. My “point” here is that this world and that culture is a beautiful, living, evolving, ever-changing Thing still very much available for you to participate in. Come out and play, or not! There was a “post your lab” thread in the selfhosting comm here just a couple days ago that should’ve been able to melt your jaded old phreaky heart, wires going everywhere, scavenged gear, tunnels and proxies and containers, people learning and sharing and experimenting and helping each other out, punk’s only as dead as you let it be

As best as I can tell your point is to enshrine a medium best known for how accessible it is into something precious. I spread my first lil xeroxed pamphlet in 1992 and last one (so far) a couple years ago and genuinely from a place of love hope to see you do the same rather than sneering at “posers”. It’s way more fun to participate than judge and I earnestly want that for you. One person didn’t make monty python, but they absolutely made your favorite zine and so can you :)

Fuck it, I don’t care if he’s old. Bernie’s Ghost 2028

Heck yeah, happy cruising :)

I know it’s a typo but “worst case Ontario” is absolutely becoming part of my lexicon

Hello! Heed me op, got your fix right here. There’s a goofy filler neck that comes off sometimes, a couple people have marked where it’s supposed to be with red squares. It’s gone though! There will be a hole in the top/side of the valve cover there with lord knows what field expedient solution plugging it. ~Mine~ was a chunk of radiator hose that came up to the original location with the original cap jammed back in it to retain convenient access, but we can’t all be the world’s greatest shadetree mechanic. Here’s a video of some nerd actually fixing it with factory parts like a big dumb loser with way more money than me, just to help you find it:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FNaJr_PD97g

This one popped up in /all, I think there’s room for homecooked graphite memetics pretty much anywhere :)

If you tried to make them today, you would just be a poser.

False. Idolizing that snapshot and discouraging human output misses the point entirely and is the worst poser take on the subject I can imagine. Curated sips of ancient counterculture are just pretentious self indulgence if you aren’t drawing inspiration, and disparaging those who would actually participate is extra gross. Go make a zine about how much you love old zines, it’ll be fun

Updoot for human output, looking forward to more in your freshly minted signature style op

You got a link on this, something I can share with regular peeps?

I think your provider would probably be willing to exempt you from their AI processing shit if you talked to them, given the good relationship you seem to have built. Raising your concerns like that could benefit other patients in their care as well, depending on how well you articulate them and how receptive they are