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Dave Chapman

@wrenchmonster

Motorcycle / Scooter Mechanic Instructor, ASE Certified Mechanic, Retired Semiconductor (High Speed Memory) Electrical Engineer / Marketing VP, Liberal Jack-of-all-Trades Fix-it-Guy. www.WrenchMonster.com

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She fed the entire Big Beautiful Bill into ChatGPT and asked it to analyze for her and

Wow…

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30.06.2025 23:20 πŸ‘ 323 πŸ” 206 πŸ’¬ 30 πŸ“Œ 68

Agree. I tell my customers/students if you ever see a mechanic coming at your bike with an electric gun to tighten a faster, GRAB YOUR BIKE AND RUN.

11.03.2026 06:39 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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🀣🀣🀣🀣 Is it War? 🀣🀣🀣🀣

08.03.2026 04:24 πŸ‘ 86 πŸ” 56 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 8

F___ing moronic garage gorillas. I hate em. I see their lunacy in my shop too often.

11.03.2026 05:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is news?

11.03.2026 05:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Well, this may be the only honest thing he has ever said.

11.03.2026 05:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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DeWalt for the win. Every time. Learned the hard way: Impact driver and drill driver not the same. Both VERY useful but continuous drill torque produces different results from impact torque. Need both. google.com share.google/tVvh6zAC1Jrg...

11.03.2026 05:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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My new hand held solid-state oscilloscope/multimeter/signal generator. Looking at a failed CDI module output on an SV650. Aqua (rear cylinder) good, blue (front) not so great. Scope displays trace history as the gray cloud around the active trace. Awesome for a $100 tool.

10.03.2026 20:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Tool envy

10.03.2026 15:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes...on the curb in the shade at the convenience store / gas station where he got it off the roller grill, 500 miles into a 750 mile ride, telling himself, "Corn is a vegetable, right?", as his bike ticks and cools briefly at the pump in front of him. Yes. Definitely.

10.03.2026 11:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Ok. Props for accuracy. Is this a cautionary tale or voyeurism?

10.03.2026 10:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is Texas in all her glory.

09.03.2026 14:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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From my buddy in Philippines: People tip Toto 10 pesos (less than 20 cents) for him to retrieve their scooter. He doesn't give you a number…you just find your bike and stand by it until he comes over and shuffles 5 bikes out of the way to get yours out to the curb.

09.03.2026 07:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, but not far on $8/gallon gas...

08.03.2026 13:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Best Thanksgiving cartoon ever. Ever!

08.03.2026 13:33 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Putin plans ahead.

08.03.2026 13:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Happy they are using their ammo on each other. I hope they spend every campaign dollar they have in the primary.

04.03.2026 12:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A Taste of Armageddon - Wikipedia

The death spiral of normalized war...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Taste....

04.03.2026 12:48 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What the actual fuck?

04.03.2026 07:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ‘‡πŸ‘‡

01.03.2026 03:52 πŸ‘ 11933 πŸ” 4143 πŸ’¬ 598 πŸ“Œ 285
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Austin bar shooting leaves three dead, including suspect, and 14 wounded Police confronted a male gunman pointing a weapon at them, they returned fire and killed the suspect

Male, SUV, pistol, assault rifle. My town. Three dead pointlessly. Again.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

01.03.2026 16:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump’s current war on Iran picks up where a longstanding enmity left off The mutual resentments that have fueled tensions between the US and Iran have simmered for nearly half a century

The sins of the fathers are visited upon the sons...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

01.03.2026 14:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo. A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.

Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a Rohingya refugee from Burma, was nearly blind and spoke no English.

Dropped off by Border Patrol agents in Buffalo 5 miles from his home, Nurui has been found dead.

His family was not notified of his release.

25.02.2026 21:54 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 3

Performed this one myself in '73...to mixed reviews. We were the entertainment at a banquet.

26.02.2026 14:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Wish we had a President this smart.

25.02.2026 22:57 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

After telling my Texas Singer/Songwriter buddy that my motorcycle shop retirement side hustle was keeping me out of the bars, he asked "What's wrong with bars?" Wisdom personified.

24.02.2026 18:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I suspect you will need to pay someone to take them off your hands...

24.02.2026 16:41 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I have seen this failure too...on some Japanese bikes. Hope there has been some better quality control on the glues they use since then.

24.02.2026 16:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

05.02.2026 11:50 πŸ‘ 32290 πŸ” 13863 πŸ’¬ 589 πŸ“Œ 1595
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Man, I gotta figure out a more flattering camera angle for these "successful repair" videos I send my customers...

24.02.2026 15:49 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0