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drzrma posted:They do tend to collapse if buried, and they rust like nobody's business if they are allowed to stay damp. I thought I saw someone in AI that had built one into a pretty decent looking shop, but I can't remember who or when. I remember that it was a turbo dodge guy, if that's any help.
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The mining industry never ceases to amaze me. Click here for the full 640x480 image.  Click here for the full 640x480 image.  Click here for the full 625x500 image.  Click here for the full 640x480 image.  Click here for the full 640x480 image.  Click here for the full 640x423 image.  Click here for the full 640x480 image.  Click here for the full 640x480 image.  Click here for the full 640x480 image.  Click here for the full 640x426 image.  EDIT My all time favorite:    How'd they even get that in there? economic haircut fucked around with this message at Feb 11, 2010 around 00:09 |
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I got this one in my inbox today. The hangar at the Dulles Jet Center collapsed under the weight of snow and wrecked 4 planes.        edit: corrected number of planes damaged. Fist of Freud fucked around with this message at Feb 11, 2010 around 05:02 |
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Slow is Fast posted:I remember that it was a turbo dodge guy, if that's any help. It was dorquemada, I haven't seen him post in a while. His little K cars were a perfect fit.
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Detonation is bad, kids. However, if you know a badass with a welder, he can fix you up proper.    
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Captain Postal posted:I'd be willing to bet that many are "lost" rather than lost, because no one wants their contents to be found Fermunky posted:I guess in comparison to the total number of containers shipped, it's not a huge percent. But I am actually shocked to hear that many containers are simply lost at sea. Does that happen simply by a boat tilting enough and they just fall off, or rogue wave etc...? grover posted:Archaeologists of the future will thank us. No doubt our plastic toys and rubber duckies will tell them a great deal about our civilization. We've tried to move the "floating" containers. You have to remember that they are 53' long, 8' wide, and ~8' high. 3392 cubic feet of space. If you fill that even 1/2 way with something that floats (sea water is ~64 lbs/cubic foot), call it 45lbs per cubic foot. 3392 cubic feet, divided by 2=1696 cubic feet*45#/cubic foot=84,800lbs of CARGO. (The load limit for a 40 ft container is 30,000KG, I don't have the figure for a 54. Ignore the fact that its half full of seawater, which is at least another 50,000# of water. Not a chance in hell of moving it, tipping it, or even towing it very effectively. The best thing you can do is report it, and hope the CG can tow it or sink it. The one we saw was way out of the shipping lanes, and we were well out of VHF contact with the CG. Oh well, hopefully no one ran into it. Just an FYI, mounting a gun on ANY vessel in the US is a terrible idea, as is making any hidden compartments. sharkytm fucked around with this message at Feb 11, 2010 around 01:41 |
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orange lime posted:Of course, if you live in Phoenix like 2/3 of the population does, you have to obey CARB emissions requirements. 4 wheels, a seat, and three catalytic converters and a vapor reclamation system I've run cars through with injectors unplugged to reduce the fuel going in so it'd be lean enough to pass. The visual inspectors here aren't exactly sharp. Also, I'm pretty sure the last time I ran my Volvo through, the guy was tired of seeing the car over and over again and stopped the test early so it'd pass 
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frozenphil posted:Detonation is bad, kids. However, if you know a badass with a welder, he can fix you up proper. This is not horrible mechanical failures. This is amazing mechanical miracles.
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frozenphil posted:Detonation is bad, kids. However, if you know a badass with a welder, he can fix you up proper. I refuse to believe this kind of quality work can be cheaper than a new head.
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Fist of Freud posted:Planes The way their noses are up in the air makes it look like they're being buggered. By the roof.
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In reply to all this container talk, check out this video, towards the end, to see what kind of damage big waves can do to ships and their cargo. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5HZvg0M2Xk
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Good lord, that's insane. Those containers were stacked at least six high and that last wave went right over the top of them!
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OK this is scheduled maintenance and not routine failure, but not often do you get to see impellers this large. Mind you, this is from a "small" slow-speed marine diesel. 
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Ak Gara posted:I refuse to believe this kind of quality work can be cheaper than a new head. That's an extensively worked over Ford 4.6L SOHC NPI head. It would cost roughly $1000 to buy a new head and redo the port work to it vs. the $550 it cost to repair it. Note: The spark plug didn't blow out. 
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incredibull posted:InitialDave fucked around with this message at Feb 11, 2010 around 17:08 |
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incredibull posted:OK this is scheduled maintenance and not routine failure, but not often do you get to see impellers this large. Mind you, this is from a "small" slow-speed marine diesel. Not being familiar with .5 ton turbo impellers, what is the scheduled maintenance that this will see? Cleaning?
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I like to believe that the pickup truck has a permanently-mounted frame in the bed specifically for carrying those around.
And yeah, it would be so much cooler if it were on bearings. I wonder how fast it would spin in a 60mph wind? bolind posted:In reply to all this container talk, check out this video, towards the end, to see what kind of damage big waves can do to ships and their cargo. I cannot believe that they're allowed to have an open spinning shaft like that. I know it's got a railing in front of it, but if you get your hand caught anywhere near that green support you don't have a hand any more  orange lime fucked around with this message at Feb 11, 2010 around 19:46 |
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orange lime posted:I like to believe that the pickup truck has a permanently-mounted frame in the bed specifically for carrying those around. Imagine getting caught on it and flopping around and around and around and around and around. There's so much torque it wouldn't slow in the slightest. You'd just flail and flop and splat until completely shredded.
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trouser chili posted:Imagine getting caught on it and flopping around and around and around and around and around. There's so much torque it wouldn't slow in the slightest. You'd just flail and flop and splat until completely shredded. 100 rpm direct drive and tens of thousands of horsepower. There really isn't a word for how much torque that is. I'll have to see if I can dig up the data files from the radio telemetry strain gauge test I did on one of those in college.
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What the gently caress happened here?
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sandoz posted:100 rpm direct drive and tens of thousands of horsepower. There really isn't a word for how much torque that is. I'll have to see if I can dig up the data files from the radio telemetry strain gauge test I did on one of those in college. Sure there is. Torque = (hp*5252)/engine speed at which hp was measured. If it's putting out 10,000hp at 100 rpm that's 525,000 lb-ft. As I said,
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Doctor Zero posted:What the gently caress happened here? Clockwork Sputnik's girlfriend.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clementine_Maersk 84,484hp Although, this is wikipedia, it says the top speed is 256.1 knots (294mph)
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orange lime posted:I like to believe that the pickup truck has a permanently-mounted frame in the bed specifically for carrying those around. If you've never been to an industrial factory you should give it a shot. It's like they're made for killing careless people. One time while inspecting equipment I almost fell down a 20' ladder-cage because one of the employees forgot to put the chain-guard back up. Guy at a factory I did some work for had one of his fingers ripped off by a vibratory conveyor, but that was his fault. He had the thing re-attached, and I poo poo you not, did the same exact thing a few months later while relating the story of what happened, though he kept the finger that time.
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orange lime posted:I cannot believe that they're allowed to have an open spinning shaft like that. I know it's got a railing in front of it, but if you get your hand caught anywhere near that green support you don't have a hand any more I can't think of any real sized ship I've been on that had much more shaft enclosure than that. Even on yacht size stuff shafts are usually only covered by floorboards, they're bare and exposed in the bilge/shaft alley once you pull those up. There really isn't much you could get snagged in though, if you look the shaft is perfectly smooth and it's not doing all that many rpm. You might be able to lose a finger if you really worked at it playing around the bearings, but usually if you are that retarded you end up as a mate before you finish engineering school. Anywhere there are exposed moving parts or stuff you could get hung up in should have some kind of cage or other enclosure, it's just not a real issue with the aftermost parts of the shaft. I worry more about the hose clamps on yacht sized shaft seals, those bastards are sharp and tend to be rusty. Should something go wrong, it's not just the torque, it's the momentum of the rotating bits. I've seen someone have their arm broken in six or seven places due to a fuckup with a medium sized hobart floor mixer. Machine was turned off, they got hung up while it was spinning down. Happened in just a moment and was probably one of the most horrible sounds I've ever heard.
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MonkeyNutZ posted:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clementine_Maersk Holy poo poo why does it take so long to get cheap poo poo from china? With ships that fast I should get stuff YESTERDAY! ab0z fucked around with this message at Feb 11, 2010 around 23:18 |
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ab0z posted:Holy poo poo why does it take so long to get cheap poo poo from china? I with ships that fast I should get stuff YESTERDAY! See, it's not the travel time from china to a US port. The ship gets here in just a few hours, getting it all unloaded takes time, and there are lots of further fuckup opportunities before USPS/UPS/Fedex get to stack heavy poo poo on it and throw it around. Although with that top speed, they can probably only carry whatever cargo the crew is smuggling, rest of the ship is all fuel tank. Napkin math reveals they'd need something on the order of a quarter billion SHP to do do 256 knots, and that's very generously assuming that a 347m long ship approximates the drag of a medium sized powerboat. Fuel consumption would be an astronomical number of tons per hour. drzrma fucked around with this message at Feb 11, 2010 around 22:04 |
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Dave Inc. posted:If you've never been to an industrial factory you should give it a shot. It's like they're made for killing careless people. I've never been more in awe of sheer danger than the time I toured a smelter.
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trouser chili posted:I've never been more in awe of sheer danger than the time I toured a smelter. There are a thousand ways to die in a cereal plant, I wouldn't gently caress with smelting. But you haven't lived until you've wandered the basement of a recently flooded coal power plant. Handrails and platforms covered in wet mud in cave-like darkness?! Okay great! Thinking back I don't know how we were allowed down there at that stage of the recovery, that was just stupid.
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Dave Inc. posted:There are a thousand ways to die in a cereal plant, I wouldn't gently caress with smelting. Post stories of horrible mechanical failures, too, please?
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angryhampster posted:Not being familiar with .5 ton turbo impellers, what is the scheduled maintenance that this will see? Cleaning? Cleaning, replacement of fatigued impeller fins, machining or replacement of worn shaft bearing journals, etc. orange lime posted:I cannot believe that they're allowed to have an open spinning shaft like that. I know it's got a railing in front of it, but if you get your hand caught anywhere near that green support you don't have a hand any more That's why there's the DEADMAN ALARM. Of course, it won't help you, because you're dead. It's just there to let everyone else know that since you didn't press the button on time, you're probably dead (or on Russian vessels, the engineer is drunk and passed out). 
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Dave Inc. posted:If you've never been to an industrial factory you should give it a shot. It's like they're made for killing careless people. Like a janitor at one of our plants who was cleaning around a machine mid-production without securing her hair or wearing the protective headgear (as required) and was scalped. 
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economic haircut posted:The mining industry never ceases to amaze me. nothing wrong with this picture. just poppin a wheelie to impress the shovel operator.
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Doctor Zero posted:What the gently caress happened here?
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Goober Peas posted:Like a janitor at one of our plants who was cleaning around a machine mid-production without securing her hair or wearing the protective headgear (as required) and was scalped. Oh good god. I don't even know what the aftermath of something like that would be like. Scarring all over your scalp? Does the hair even grow back? gently caress that's terrible.
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MonkeyNutZ posted:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clementine_Maersk quote:Speed: 25.6 knots (maximum) ...but it says 25.6?
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incredibull posted:Oh good god. I don't even know what the aftermath of something like that would be like. Scarring all over your scalp? Does the hair even grow back? gently caress that's terrible. Ideally, they find your scalp and replant it. Barring that, you get skin grafts, which end up looking pretty strange. Google scalp avulsion if you want to see what it looks like (don't do this).
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deviant. posted:...but it says 25.6?
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Fats posted:Ideally, they find your scalp and replant it. Barring that, you get skin grafts, which end up looking pretty strange. Google scalp avulsion if you want to see what it looks like (don't do this). Fist of Freud posted:I got this one in my inbox today. The hangar at the Dulles Jet Center collapsed under the weight of snow and wrecked 4 planes.
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