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Uthor posted:For some reason that reminds me of a sign I saw in a local motorcycle repair shop. I want that sign. Is it available in a print-friendly size?
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KozmoNaut posted:I want that sign. Is it available in a print-friendly size? I just have the photo. There's "medium" sized images that I see on Google Image Search. It's just text, so it should take like 5 minutes to whip something up that looks really close.
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A truck hit the overhead structural steel on a local bridge today.   Red was a temporary work platform and yellow was a straight piece of structural steel earlier this afternoon.  A picture from the bridge deck. This is a main arterial road into Toronto, and it looks like the bridge will be closed for weeks if not months during the repair.
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Aug 1, 2014 00:49
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The overhead view is quite spectacular
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Aug 1, 2014 01:33
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Bridge is going to have to go through a full inspection, right? You can't just rip away chunks of the structure without increasing load somewhere else, and maybe the stress will cause something to fracture.
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Looks like the dump truck was driving with the bucket up, which doesn't surprise me. Every summer, the city comes through my parent's alley to patch the pot holes, and every year the dump truck snags a utility line and causes some major damage because the guys drive down the alley with the bucket completely raised..
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xzzy posted:Bridge is going to have to go through a full inspection, right? You can't just rip away chunks of the structure without increasing load somewhere else, and maybe the stress will cause something to fracture. Bridge was in Canada, not the United States of Libertopia.
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Aug 1, 2014 02:31
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The truck to the right is a nice touch. 
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I thought bridges like those were the non-redundant styles that if you take out one link the entire thing crumbles down. As the local engineers crank up into oh poo poo mode... what sort of repairs do you do ASAP to keep the structure up, and then stage to get that repair done? Also who ends up paying for those repairs? I'm guessing most insurance policies don't cover public infrastructure costs like a bridge.
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GTi_guy posted:A truck hit the overhead structural steel on a local bridge today. That is just straight up impressive.
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dietcokefiend posted:I thought bridges like those were the non-redundant styles that if you take out one link the entire thing crumbles down. As the local engineers crank up into oh poo poo mode... what sort of repairs do you do ASAP to keep the structure up, and then stage to get that repair done? Also who ends up paying for those repairs? I'm guessing most insurance policies don't cover public infrastructure costs like a bridge. Similar thing happened in Washington state last year, except one span did collapse. Much smaller bridge but still a major headache for a few months. As far as I know the state ate the cost for the temporary span and the replacement, with some federal help I think. I'm sure there will be a nasty court battle over it, but realistically that just means some lawyers get fat paychecks. Just like with the tunnel debacle Seattle is not dealing with, lawyers and scum will get rich, the rest of us have to live with it.
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`Nemesis posted:The overhead view is quite spectacular Holy poo poo One niggle: As the bridge didn't collapse, this was a horrible mechanical success, though a horrible human failure.
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KozmoNaut posted:I want that sign. Is it available in a print-friendly size? Here you go. Click for printable bigness:  Enjoy!
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GTi_guy posted:A truck hit the overhead structural steel on a local bridge today. Which bridge is this? I'm from TO but can't place it. As an engineer, that's terrifying. Mechanical success though. I'd bet on months before it's open again.
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TrueChaos posted:Which bridge is this? I'm from TO but can't place it. The Burlington Skyway. Between this and Gardiner being worked on Toronto is slowly being bottled up and will eventually be a lawless dystopian 24 hour traffic jam.
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Godholio posted:Aren't these generally poo poo for most engines? Yes - their ignitability is poor due to all of the ground electrodes sucking up the heat/energy during initial combustion phase. On the other hand, they're great if you're constantly fouling - but you could just go to a hotter heat range, instead.
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No. 6 posted:Bridge was in Canada, not the United States of Libertopia. And? totalnewbie posted:Yes - their ignitability is poor due to all of the ground electrodes sucking up the heat/energy during initial combustion phase. On the other hand, they're great if you're constantly fouling - but you could just go to a hotter heat range, instead. But, +4 is higher than +1 or +2.
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CuddleChunks posted:Here you go. Click for printable bigness: Thank you kindly 
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totalnewbie posted:Yes - their ignitability is poor due to all of the ground electrodes sucking up the heat/energy during initial combustion phase. On the other hand, they're great if you're constantly fouling - but you could just go to a hotter heat range, instead. While we're on this: I have a mate with a BMW e34 540i. I remember once, a few years ago, he replaced the spark plugs with no incident. A few months later his car started making ticking noises that you'd swear were tappets or exhaust header leaks. Upon closer inspection it seems the plugs had somehow come loose in the plug holes slightly; they were basically only finger tight. I reinstalled the plugs myself and just chalked it up to him being an idiot. A few months later, the same thing happened. These were some sort of 2- or 3-pronged bosch plug which AFAIK was the recommended plug for that vehicle. After this I stuck some NGK's in it and it's still going perfectly fine with a dozen track days under it's belt. What on earth happened here? I've never been able to figure it out. I've done plugs on countless hundreds of cars, BMW v8's included, and never had this issue once.
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Slavvy posted:After this I stuck some NGK's in it and it's still going perfectly fine with a dozen track days under it's belt. What on earth happened here? I've never been able to figure it out. In my professional opinion, I think that you could probably chalk that up to Bosch plugs being very bad.
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I had the opposite problem with my car. I've always run NGKs in every car i've owned. The Saturn was pinging a bit with them, so I pulled them after about 8k. Center electrode was melted on 2 of them (not badly, but they looked like a small glob of solder instead of a sharp tip), with the other 2 starting to show the same signs. It's back to ($$) AC Delco Iridiums. Also the first car I've owned that didn't use crush washers on the plugs - to say I was nervous about overtightening the plugs would be an understatement.
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atomicthumbs posted:In my professional opinion, I think that you could probably chalk that up to Bosch plugs being very bad.
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Aug 1, 2014 13:32
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Unless you drive low tech engines. Champion copper core for life yo. 
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:New Royal Enfields come from India with Bosch plugs and most of them foul up for no apparent reason in the first thousand miles or so. We replace them with NGK and never hear from them again. BrokenKnucklez posted:Unless you drive low tech engines. Rev you should try champion *gearbox explodes, wheels fly off dramatically*
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I just run without spark plugs entirely. I find it works pretty well.
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Slavvy posted:While we're on this: I have a mate with a BMW e34 540i. I remember once, a few years ago, he replaced the spark plugs with no incident. A few months later his car started making ticking noises that you'd swear were tappets or exhaust header leaks. Upon closer inspection it seems the plugs had somehow come loose in the plug holes slightly; they were basically only finger tight. I reinstalled the plugs myself and just chalked it up to him being an idiot. A few months later, the same thing happened. These were some sort of 2- or 3-pronged bosch plug which AFAIK was the recommended plug for that vehicle. Most of my spark plugs weren't even finger tight. I put NGK iridums in. i'll check them in 10k, but i'm betting on the problem just being bosch garbage.
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So on the topic of making sure your load can clear the bridge height: Post Pictures of Horrible Giraffe Failures
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Re: spark plug chat Please torque your spark plugs correctly   AC Delco hasn't made their own spark plugs in YEARS since they sold all their poo poo to... uhh, Torch, I think it was? That was years ago. GM gets all their AC Delco plugs from their OEM suppliers. GM and Ford insist on conical seat plugs because they're special snowflakes. Almost every other OEM in the world uses gaskets. And don't use Champion. Just don't. I can't repeat the stories I've heard about Champion but, suffice it to say, the only thing they've got going for them is that they're dirt cheap... which, if you consider the fact that their market share in the OEM world is very low despite being dirt cheap, doesn't offer much confidence in their actual product.
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totalnewbie posted:
If you knew British cars you'd say otherwise.
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How's that?
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Found another pic of that truck/bridge impact.
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ExplodingSims posted:So on the topic of making sure your load can clear the bridge height: This is bloody awful  Impressive!
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More a horrible bankrupt city police department failure (stacked on top of a horrible driver failure,) but this picture was taken 40 minutes after the accident blocked the road and the police still hadn't arrived. Much less someone from the FD to pour out oil-dri/foam/inspect to see that the mixture of oil, fuel, and coolant leaking on the road wasn't flammable. We're not even Detroit but damned if we aren't trying our hardest.
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Way too green to be Pendelton IMO.
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I 17 northbound 30 miles south of Flagstaff. Made an impreSsive sound.
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`Nemesis posted:Found another pic of that truck/bridge impact. Something like that happened in Houston last year too http://www.khou.com/story/local/2014/08/02/11516574
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2012 Kia Soul.     Brittle. 
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