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Sponge! posted:Direct connection to the cable line or you using a box? I was using a broadcast tv box.
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Kylie Sven Opossum posted:I was using a broadcast tv box. Coax or composite?
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Skyssx posted:loving balls! At least in IT you never have to deal with biological material. Some of us have to, or had to. When I worked in field support at a hospital you have no idea how many monitors, keyboards, mice and thin clients I replaced due to blood, puke, poop, pee or any of a number of other lovely fluids (or solids).
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For those interested here is a quick ask/tell thread about Cray and the supercomputers I keep running. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3386166
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NitroSpazzz posted:Good guess. This is on a the Cray XT5 supercomputer JaguarPF (PetaFlop). The cabinets idle at 8-10kW and run between 22-30kW most of the time. Now take into consideration JaguarPF has 200 of these cabinets, Kraken in front had 88 cabinets and is currently being upgraded to 100 cabinets. That seems like absolute overkill for 30Kw a rack. I've got clients running 30 Kw on air cooled racks (Thanks P-Class blades!). I can understand the need for water cooled heat exchange doors, but refrigerated? Seems like a waste of money.
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I saw that my favorite thread about things that go/went BANG had 20 new posts, only to find a discussion about televisions and computers. Let's get this back on track, shall we? Apologies for reposts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfttA0mds-c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgkmdLN8mD0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyB6U2JhX_E While not particularly a mechanical failure, it's in the right spirit. 
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Horse Divorce posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgkmdLN8mD0 I love that guy and his engine failure videos
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Runaway diesels: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zx3qKX_Pno http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw2r_lIRgpY That's a lot of smoke.
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Horse Divorce posted:While not particularly a mechanical failure, it's in the right spirit. Was it exposed to any source of vaccuum?
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Nomex posted:That seems like absolute overkill for 30Kw a rack. I've got clients running 30 Kw on air cooled racks (Thanks P-Class blades!). I can understand the need for water cooled heat exchange doors, but refrigerated? Seems like a waste of money. I think one of the main reasons for the cooling systems we have in place is to take a lot of load off the chillers located throughout the room. The cabinets peak at 42.7 kW so if all 300 were running at that it may be too much for the air handlers to overcome. The way it is setup the air coming in at the bottom is supposedly the same temperature being expelled at the top of the cabinets. But yes we have several air cooled systems that run just fine.
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Horse Divorce posted:While not particularly a mechanical failure, it's in the right spirit. I don't think I've ever seen train cars like that. Are those just semi-trailers with train wheel sets joining them together? If so, no wonder it crumpled up like that.
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Didn't know where to paste it so I thought I'd put it here, because even though it is just an "easy" way to access the entire engine, most of you probably class the Disco 3/4 as a horrible mechanical failure. I am in Sales so I can't comment on what a pain in the arse it is to work on these things, except to say I see this a few times per week, and it takes 4 or so hours to do.  The techs complain far more about the cars then the customers do, obviously. In case you didn't know, the LR3/4 has both a monocoque and a frame chassis. All I see is a potential 440Nm full time 4wd go cart. Edit: it is actually a good car, so long as you only own it under factory warranty, just like any European car 
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Oh I wish I could do that in 4 hours. It's gonna take me a couple of weeks to replace some 44+ year old body mounts. 
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 Click here for the full 1023x764 image. I snapped two of the bolts that hold my exhaust manifold off. It's not that horrible but they will have to be drilled out and that's no fun. the thing in the middle isn't the same but it shows whats stuck in there.
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Someone needs to work on their parallel parking skills. "Parallel to the road, ma'am. Not perpendicular." If you don't believe it there's a video of the aftermath here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niEIuwLCCiQ
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Lilbeefer posted:Didn't know where to paste it so I thought I'd put it here, because even though it is just an "easy" way to access the entire engine, most of you probably class the Disco 3/4 as a horrible mechanical failure. If I could have completely free and unobstructed access to the engine in four hours work I would be the happiest man. How's access to regular maintenance items without removing the body?
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Kill-9 posted:Someone needs to work on their parallel parking skills. "Parallel to the road, ma'am. Not perpendicular." Not a mechanical failure and also not what happened.
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renraku posted:Not a mechanical failure and also not what happened. Really? Wow, I really thought that's what happened. 
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5fFh31Ejmk&NR=1&feature=fvwp I thought this was a pretty cool video, but I could go without the music. Edited for stupid spelling. scapulataf fucked around with this message at 23:15 on Feb 2, 2011 |
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scapulataf posted:
If you posted this comment on all youtube videos, you would be adopting the time keeping tactic of the stopped watch but with much higher accuracy.
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14 INCH DICK TURBO posted:Was it exposed to any source of vaccuum? No, it must have been full of potato chip bags and took I-70.
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Kill-9 posted:Really? Wow, I really thought that's what happened. then thank you for posting it in the wrong thread after it was posted by someone else in the right thread.
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That's on I-93 in Massachusetts, near the NH border. The roads here were really bad yesterday. I saw a truck and a Mercedes sedan spin out on Rt. 2; the truck didn't hit anything but the Mercedes lodged itself in a snow bank pretty badly. Later, I was coming home on 495 and I had to get off an exit early (as did everyone else) because all of 495 South was blocked by an overturned sedan and a jackknifed 18 wheeler.
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Lilbeefer posted:Didn't know where to paste it so I thought I'd put it here, because even though it is just an "easy" way to access the entire engine, most of you probably class the Disco 3/4 as a horrible mechanical failure. Reminds me of this fairly cool time lapse video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWsGsunQwM8
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renraku posted:
Look at the post times. The are within a few minutes. I didn't see that post until I'd already posted here. You realize people do take time to read through threads and once they've read one that day/morning/hour they don't go rushing back through them all just before posting just in case it was posted elsewhere? Dupes happen. I'm sorry it offended you so. As for the thread, I didn't think it was awesome as much as a failure so I put it here. There's no "Post pictures of horrible human failures" thread that I see. Though maybe there should be.
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Lilbeefer posted:Didn't know where to paste it so I thought I'd put it here, because even though it is just an "easy" way to access the entire engine, most of you probably class the Disco 3/4 as a horrible mechanical failure.  . Apparently he never really thought about the idea of someone taking the body/chassis unit apart after it was assembled.I should probably ask him for a specific name to which your techs can address their "You, sir, are a right bleeding bastard" letters. Though 4 hours for a body/chassis split really doesn't sound bad to me, quite quick, in fact, given that it's a "carefully separate to do work" job rather than a "rip it off and throw it away" one.
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XK posted:I don't think I've ever seen train cars like that. Are those just semi-trailers with train wheel sets joining them together? If so, no wonder it crumpled up like that. Triple Crown is the only one to run units like that, using Norfolk Southern locomotives to run 'em around. They have specially designed things called "bogies" that link each trailer together and lift it off the track. Usually trailers are lifted unto flatcars, but running them with just bogies is far lighter/more fuel efficient. The downside, of course, is that picture.
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Horse Divorce posted:
That has to be the dumbest thing I have ever seen. The best part is the load completely poo poo out on the other side.
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What I don't understand is that I've seen gobs and gobs of Triple Crown trailers set up on a train like that, but I've never seen one actually being hauled by a tractor. Why don't they just invest in proper train cars?
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I'm surprised you don't see the opposite of that happening - a trailer finally giving up after having however many other trailers (not to mention traditional rolling stock) pulled behind it. There has to be a limit to how much weight you can tack on behind a semi trailer and not have it split in half - right?
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Sponge! posted:Heh, in a fire scenario that *is* a lot of phosgene now that I think of it... The formation of phosgene requires the presence of chlorine, which is absent from the 134a molecule  Still, that much refrigerant in one spot is dangerous due to the risk of suffocation if there were a massive leak. A facility like that should have a refrigerant detector to alert occupants in the event of a leak. The detectors are often wired to exhaust fans, which are activated when the alarm goes off.
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Leaf spring bracket failure on my uncles truck, not too horrible but its going to suck to fix.
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Kylie Sven Opossum posted:Leaf spring bracket failure on my uncles truck, not too horrible but its going to suck to fix. Oh god that's gonna be a few hours with some plate and a stick welder... Best of luck with that.
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Sponge! posted:Oh god that's gonna be a few hours with some plate and a stick welder... Best of luck with that. I don't think welding it would be strong enough, hes looking for a replacement right now.
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Kylie Sven Opossum posted:I don't think welding it would be strong enough, hes looking for a replacement right now. Come now we both know a good weld can/should be stronger than the joined metals.
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Sponge! posted:Come now we both know a good weld can/should be stronger than the joined metals. Yea but the bracket is only slightly thicker than aluminum foil at this point and it would probably fail right the edge of the weld.
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Sponge! posted:Come now we both know a good weld can/should be stronger than the joined metals.
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Kylie Sven Opossum posted:Yea but the bracket is only slightly thicker than aluminum foil at this point and it would probably fail right the edge of the weld. He's saying to simply remake the piece out of plate steel and weld that to the chassis rail (probably after welding a patch section there too). It's a bit of work, but by no means un-reasonable for a week's work.
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