I searched and could not find a thread on this. What does everyone do for a living?

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2015 ML350 4Matic. Wifes DD
2015 GLK350 4Matic. My winter DD
2012 E350 4Matic. Road Trip car
2009 CLK350 Coupe Designo.Kleemann Tune For nice days/DD
2006 CL600. V12.Eurocharged Tune. Enough said
2005 CLK55 AMG Coupe.Kleemann Tune. For the sound and style
2004 CLK320 Cabriolet. 2005+ Interior swap. For the sunny Florida days & beach days

Poor, broke college student....





I do IT stuff for food, and insurance stuff for money.


(there have been a few threads on this.)

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91 560 SEC AMG - other dogs dd
01 Honda S2000 - dogs dd
07 MB ML320 CDI - dd
16 Lexus IS250 - wifes dd

it's automatic.

I shovel money to offspring.

I'm sell snow throwers and garden tools...

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2018 Subaru Crosstrek (Mine)
2019 Subaru Outback (Wife's)
1979 300CD (sold)

Community organizer.

Same as Obama.

Just kidding, I'm really a liberal pisser offer.

Do you have any used 2 stage throwers?

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1998 C230 330,000 miles (currently dead of second failed EIS, yours will fail too, turning you into the dealer's personal human cash machine)
1988 F150 144,000 miles (leaks all the colors of the rainbow)
Previous stars: 1981 Brava 210,000 miles, 1978 128 150,000 miles, 1977 B200 Van 175,000 miles, 1972 Vega (great, if rusty, car), 1972 Celica, 1986.5 Supra

I do Construction Materials Testing. That is soil testing when used as Fill, concrete, bituminous, and welding inspections.
With the downturn in the Construction industry, our business has been slow, to say the least.

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1982 300SD " Wotan" ..On the road as of Jan 8, 2007 with Historic Tags

I own a Printing & Sign Business. I'm also a Professional Beer Drinker.

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Is there a poor mans way to find the PSI of my garage slab? I think it is pretty hard. I have hit it with a hammer and not much happens.

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1998 C230 330,000 miles (currently dead of second failed EIS, yours will fail too, turning you into the dealer's personal human cash machine)
1988 F150 144,000 miles (leaks all the colors of the rainbow)
Previous stars: 1981 Brava 210,000 miles, 1978 128 150,000 miles, 1977 B200 Van 175,000 miles, 1972 Vega (great, if rusty, car), 1972 Celica, 1986.5 Supra

Since we are slow, I think I can give you a deal. How about portal-to-portal ( Balt to Seattle) at only $80 per hour. Plus Core drill and bit rental. I can cut a core, and transport it back to my lab and break it and give you the PSI compressive strength.

What a deal!

The cheap, easy, but not too accurate, way is to use a rebo9und hammer. Some are called Schmidt hammers, and others are called Swiss hammers. Basically it does what you have dobe but with a calibrated hammer and it measures the rebound.

If you have some concrete of a known strength to compare, you could try using your hammer technique on the known concrete and then on your slab. More rebound is better. Failing having some concrete of know quality, you could use some curb concrete. Most curbing is extruded using a moving slip form. This requires very low slump ( i.e. stiff) concrete. As a result it will usualyy be quite strong--usually over 4000 PSI. If it is more than a few weeksa old, and not deteriorated from salt, that should give you a "standard" for comparing.

How old is your garage slab? Is there a reason you want to know its strength? If you were able to cut a 2"X2" X2" chunk, I could test it ( feebie). If you had a broken chunk, I could trim it to a sample I could test.

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I think it is around 15 years old. It was professionally built. I want to put in a 2 post lift so I think thickness is my main issue. They usually require 3.5" and 3500 PSI I think. I don't have any pieces but that is a good offer. I have pounded on bent lawnmower blades on it and it barely scratches so that is why I think it is pretty good.

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1998 C230 330,000 miles (currently dead of second failed EIS, yours will fail too, turning you into the dealer's personal human cash machine)
1988 F150 144,000 miles (leaks all the colors of the rainbow)
Previous stars: 1981 Brava 210,000 miles, 1978 128 150,000 miles, 1977 B200 Van 175,000 miles, 1972 Vega (great, if rusty, car), 1972 Celica, 1986.5 Supra

I'm the chairman of the Illinois Nazi Party.

One of the interesting qualities of concrete is that it continues to gain strength over time if it has access to water. 15 year old concrete, even 150 year old concrete will continue to gain strength.

Which offer--the portal-to-portal coring one?? I would love to get to the west coast on someone else's dime.

My guess is that your slab will be more than adequate for the installation of the lift.

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1982 300SD " Wotan" ..On the road as of Jan 8, 2007 with Historic Tags

I write computer code to make video slot games. In the past I did PC games.

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Past MB's: '96 E300D, '83 240D, '82 300D, '87 300D, '87 420SEL

In my past life, I worked in a County Planning Office, talk about a lot of stress

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2018 Subaru Crosstrek (Mine)
2019 Subaru Outback (Wife's)
1979 300CD (sold)