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Sponge! posted:If I had nearly 200 angry HP between my thighs I certainly would. Or you could just do what racers do when the bike catches fire. Bail.
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Sponge! posted:If I had nearly 200 angry HP between my thighs I certainly would. You don't? 
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2ndclasscitizen posted:Crank goes kaboom! Saying 'drat' for this failure does not properly convey the magnitude of failure. That's a 'drat' where every letter is pronounced. Like "dah-muh-nuh!"
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Skyssx posted:Saying 'drat' for this failure does not properly convey the magnitude of failure. Pictures like this make me thank god the Mazda BP crank is made out of invincible.
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My great-grandfather's Case traction engine exploded in the 20's.  The exact circumstances of this accident aren't known, but it is said that no one was hurt.
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The thought of a boiler exploding terrifies the hell out of me.
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rocket_350 posted:My great-grandfather's Case traction engine exploded in the 20's.
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Fire tube boilers seem like a total bitch to maintain, hundreds of joints running huge pressures and temperatures, one tiny little fault and you have a Cthulu.
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I wonder which forum he posted those pictures in when that happened.
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There's a reason they aren't used for much anymore, and treated loving carefully where they are. With modern safety systems, metallurgy, and maintenance they're safe enough, but it's still cringe inducing for me. Water tube boilers are still a bitch to construct and maintain, and anything involving superheated steam can be a real clusterfuck when it goes wrong. A modern water tube boiler, even without a superheater or reheat, usually ends up looking like something a savant four year old made after a week of work with a case of spaghetti noodles. I can't find any good pictures online, I'll try and scan something from one of my steam related textbooks. Steam is invisible until it condenses, so a leak can get you an invisible jet of 900 degree flesh melting goodness, nevermind the caustic boiler water treatment chemicals. It's also possible, through a combination of fuckups and inattention, to suck a great deal of the fire in your auxiliary boiler out of it, which makes its surrounding space somewhat inhospitable. Thankfully I wasn't there for that episode, I heard it was a bit exciting.
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drzrma posted:
I've had to strip insulating blankets from a few steam headers inside a coal fire power plant. They look loving wicked! I just wanted to add looking at a 30' (yes, foot) long steam header is like looking at the worlds longest equal length header. Sockington fucked around with this message at 02:01 on Feb 2, 2010 |
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http://www.nagtroc.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=36946 Why won't Nissan give me a new engine? I only put on a few minor modifications and remapped the ECU and put a rod through the block. Those bastards! quote:can anyone share any experience with the engine? any thoughts what could have happened? is there is any other cases with broken cylinders blocks???? i cant believe that the AP software upgrade could have blow off the engine.. these engines should support more than 70hp of upgraded power IMO 
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Throatwarbler posted:http://www.nagtroc.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=36946 The best part is him admitting to running the wrong octane setting (he got the AKI and RON confused since he has a USDM car).
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Nocheez posted:The best part is him admitting to running the wrong octane setting (he got the AKI and RON confused since he has a USDM car). That's possible but not readily apparent from the thread, as according to the AP website, there is no 97 AKI map, only a 97 RON.
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Either way, it's still  . We're not talking about a GM dealership denying your warranty for a broken radio because you installed long-tube headers, we're talking about a car getting blacklisted because the owner threw a tune on it that added 70-100hp and blew the engine.
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IOwnCalculus posted:Either way, it's still Yeah, I have trouble sympathizing with the guy. Nissan may be stingy with the GT-R's warranty but when you hamfistedly modify your engine and split the block....yeah.
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55k for a new GTR motor? For that price you could buy a Z06, and two spare motors.
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blankooie posted:55k for a new GTR motor? PUSHRODS AND LEAFSPRINGS! You jest good sir, nothing like that can be as fast as a GTR!
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My favorite part of the thread is the guys wrangling over whether or not Nissan techs can detect a tune in the black box. "Gee guys I heard it only stores 36 hours of data, I mean it's just a little box right?" "Yeah just remove the tune, they can't prove you did anything."
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VikingSkull posted:My favorite part of the thread is the guys wrangling over whether or not Nissan techs can detect a tune in the black box.
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rocket_350 posted:My great-grandfather's Case traction engine exploded in the 20's. Wrong thread. This obviously goes in "Post Pictures of Awesome Mechanical Failures."
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blankooie posted:55k for a new GTR motor? which is good because you'll need the spares.
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SNiPER_Magnum posted:I like how one person says to open your doors and leave the ignition on for 36 hours, and another says "That is actually the most logical solution I've heard of". What the gently caress, how is that logical?  : If the battery dies them japs can't read poo poo! : Whadda ya mean you've heard of the 36 hour glitch? You can see that my doors were open with the accessory on? Well goddamn.
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Take one russian hydroelectric powerplant, badly maintain it for years then overrun a turbine trying to compensate for the ones that are inop and... tada.    
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My god. Do you happen to have a link to more info about that?
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blambert posted:Take one russian hydroelectric powerplant, badly maintain it for years then overrun a turbine trying to compensate for the ones that are inop and... tada. Reminds me of Chernobyl. One reactor was working way too hard then ppffttt
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Alereon posted:My god. Do you happen to have a link to more info about that? Mhm, sorry should've put it there in the first place. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Sayano-Shushenskaya_hydro_accident  Click here for the full 990x654 image. blambert fucked around with this message at 04:20 on Feb 2, 2010 |
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Alereon posted:My god. Do you happen to have a link to more info about that? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Sayano-Shushenskaya_hydro_accident efb by 5 seconds
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blankooie posted:55k for a new GTR motor? Or a handful of LS9s. 
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angryhampster posted:Reminds me of Chernobyl. One reactor was working way too hard then ppffttt Actually, it wasn't even connected to the grid at the time... 
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blambert posted:Take one russian hydroelectric powerplant, badly maintain it for years then overrun a turbine trying to compensate for the ones that are inop and... tada. How did I miss hearing about that? That's epic. There is a bunch of video of this as it happened on Youtube. The first one is a compilation of CCTV footage, it even shows a wall of water engulfing a camera. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2dp8Sdw5rY&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cHMS_7oqvI&feature=related
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blambert posted:Mhm, sorry should've put it there in the first place. This was totally the reference from TopGear when they spent the night in front of a dam in their cars in Romania! WOO! 2+2=4! "Probably built by the Russians."
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rocket_350 posted:How did I miss hearing about that? That's epic. There is a bunch of video of this as it happened on Youtube. The first one is a compilation of CCTV footage, it even shows a wall of water engulfing a camera. I'm probably a terrible person, but I had "Yackety Sax" playing in my head with the gatekeeper and the guy thinking "The hydroelectric plant just exploded, but I don't want to scratch up MAH SUV by breaking through the gate."
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blambert posted:Take one russian hydroelectric powerplant, badly maintain it for years then overrun a turbine trying to compensate for the ones that are inop and... tada. Looks like they tried to drill to the center of the Earth and miscalculated, coming up into the power plant. 
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drzrma posted:There's a reason they aren't used for much anymore, and treated loving carefully where they are. With modern safety systems, metallurgy, and maintenance they're safe enough, but it's still cringe inducing for me. I actually have an old copy of PNE sitting on my desk, but I'm not going to risk having it fall apart to put it on the scanner. Steam is genuinely terrifying. Thousands of psi, turbines spinning at tens of thousands of RPMs. Give me a nice 105 rpm diesel any day. sandoz fucked around with this message at 16:46 on Feb 2, 2010 |
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sandoz posted:Steam is genuinely terrifying. Thousands of psi, turbines spinning at tens of thousands of RPMs. Give me a nice 105 rpm diesel any day. On one of the older steam-powered ships I work on, this summer they had an awesome failure in the steam plant. While they were in port, a night engineer hosed with a safety cutoff valve to the steam turbine generator, and it went from operating at near max of 4000RPM to around 20,000RPM in a matter of seconds, split the casing and went off like a bomb, sending chunks of metal throughout the (fortunately almost completely unoccupied) engine room. They had to bring in a containerized generator just to be able to leave port while they could scour the planet for a drop-in replacement STG for the 30 year-old ship. Beyond the harshness of working in 120F engine rooms, gently caress steam for reasons just like that.
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sandoz posted:I actually have an old copy of PNE sitting on my desk, but I'm not going to risk having it fall apart to put it on the scanner. Because doing maintenance when you could be drinking is so much fun. Besides, you've still got turbochargers doing tens of thousands of rpm, with the added bonus that when they pop a lube oil line they've got a conveniently located red hot surface to spray on. Explosion doors are neat pieces of work too, thankfully I've never seen one actually called on to perform its intended function. We're not going to get started on what happens when you give direct control of stuff to mates, I'll be amazed if that 2nd ever goes near the motor room or any high voltage stuff willingly again. I do hate that I've ended up with so few pictures of all this stuff, but between lack of camera due to environmental factors and the fact that not sinking is more important than having pictures it just doesn't work out. Edit: Holy crap incredibull, that sounds fun. gently caress people that gently caress with stuff they don't know about, and gently caress them harder for doing it on stuff that's working. Between some of the people I worked with, working conditions, and political/economic stuff, I'm glad I got out. My Dad was an engineer for a long time and the last couple years I think were the worst for him. The people are generally getting worse, the ships are getting worse, management is getting worse, OSHA/USCG/DHS stuff is exponentially worse. I know my parents where incredibly happy when I decided to change fields, and honestly being able to dial 911 for the fire department and just step outside is pretty nice. drzrma fucked around with this message at 19:39 on Feb 2, 2010 |
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Godholio posted:Or a handful of LS9s. Oh poo poo, LSX swap into the GT-R!
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drzrma, who did your dad sail with most of the time? I've heard terrible slave-driving stories of some lines, and some are smart and will give the engineers pretty much whatever they want. Either way, I wouldn't want to be an ME just to not have to deal with port engineers. There's very few that I get along with well. They're all very intense and have huge egos - I don't know what it's all about.
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