Darksidesm Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 I will try and post everything I am doing. Although it might not be very entertaining. Lol. Here are some exterior pics. Here's the engine. Chech out the paint! Here's the interior. Not bad at all. My 1st task is to get the battery checked and charged and get the old gas out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Lewis Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 Wow! That's a very nice truck! As for the posts, we love them. Bring them on! On the pics, are you ok with editing posts? I can tell you how to edit your post and insert a "width" statement so the pics come out as big as is possible. And on rotated pics, you have to open them in an editing app and then save them. That usually rotates them using the metadata embedded in them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darksidesm Posted July 21, 2018 Author Share Posted July 21, 2018 Wow! That's a very nice truck! As for the posts, we love them. Bring them on! On the pics, are you ok with editing posts? I can tell you how to edit your post and insert a "width" statement so the pics come out as big as is possible. And on rotated pics, you have to open them in an editing app and then save them. That usually rotates them using the metadata embedded in them. Thanks! I dont mind editing posts. I dont understand the pics. They all show straight up when I view them on my phone? I insert them using the medium size option. Should I use a different one? Oh and I forgot to post my books! These 2 came with the truck. This one took me forever to find. The rest I got on ebay. Got them rotated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Lewis Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 Thanks! I dont mind editing posts. I dont understand the pics. They all show straight up when I view them on my phone? I insert them using the medium size option. Should I use a different one? Oh and I forgot to post my books! These 2 came with the truck. This one took me forever to find. The rest I got on ebay. Got them rotated. Pics taken with modern cameras have "metadata" embedded in the file, and that gives the rotation of the camera when the pic was taken. But many forums don't have the smarts to decode that info, so pics frequently come out rotated incorrectly. You can fix that by opening the pic in some software, like Photoshop or somesuch, which does read the metadata. Then, if you save the pic it usually updates the orientation such that it'll display correctly in a forum. As for the width of the pic, edit the text that is created when you "Insert" it to include width = "100%". For instance, the text for one of my pics looks like nabble_img src="P-18855.jpg" border="0" width = "100%"/ without the "<" and ">" on the ends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darksidesm Posted July 21, 2018 Author Share Posted July 21, 2018 Pics taken with modern cameras have "metadata" embedded in the file, and that gives the rotation of the camera when the pic was taken. But many forums don't have the smarts to decode that info, so pics frequently come out rotated incorrectly. You can fix that by opening the pic in some software, like Photoshop or somesuch, which does read the metadata. Then, if you save the pic it usually updates the orientation such that it'll display correctly in a forum. As for the width of the pic, edit the text that is created when you "Insert" it to include width = "100%". For instance, the text for one of my pics looks like nabble_img src="P-18855.jpg" border="0" width = "100%"/ without the "<" and ">" on the ends. I got the pics rotated. Thanks I will have to play with the width on my computer. It's a pain on my phone. Do the pics show up really small? On my phone they are huge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Lewis Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 I got the pics rotated. Thanks I will have to play with the width on my computer. It's a pain on my phone. Do the pics show up really small? On my phone they are huge. I use the None option to make it as big as possible. But if that doesn't work I think you might want to try the Big option. As you can see below, they are about 1/2 of what they could be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darksidesm Posted July 21, 2018 Author Share Posted July 21, 2018 I use the None option to make it as big as possible. But if that doesn't work I think you might want to try the Big option. As you can see below, they are about 1/2 of what they could be. I will try the big option next time. Well I got the battery pulled out today and I killed some bees nesting in my truck. Anyone have any thoughts to keep the bees away? I knocked a nest down this morning and they were rebuilding this evening. I was going to spray a vinegar solution. I read they dont like the smell. Any other thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Lewis Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 I will try the big option next time. Well I got the battery pulled out today and I killed some bees nesting in my truck. Anyone have any thoughts to keep the bees away? I knocked a nest down this morning and they were rebuilding this evening. I was going to spray a vinegar solution. I read they dont like the smell. Any other thoughts? Here there are lots of burgeoning bee keepers, and if you were to call one they'd happily come over and take the hive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darksidesm Posted July 22, 2018 Author Share Posted July 22, 2018 Here there are lots of burgeoning bee keepers, and if you were to call one they'd happily come over and take the hive. Well the problem is these aren't honey bees. These are wasps Hornets and yellow jackets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Lewis Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 Well the problem is these aren't honey bees. These are wasps Hornets and yellow jackets. That's a different story entirely. In that case, the hornet/wasp spray that shoots a jet of foam would be my choice. I used it the other day and it was pretty effective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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