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IOwnCalculus posted:So what do you do in that situation? Wait for a service crew to fix it? Play Warcraft.
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IOwnCalculus posted:So what do you do in that situation? Wait for a service crew to fix it? yes
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InitialDave posted:The world's strongest dolly.
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B4Ctom1 posted:yes That would get...boring. Hope that wasn't too far out in the boonies.
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IOwnCalculus posted:That would get...boring. Hope that wasn't too far out in the boonies. Lots of rail life is horrendously boring or monotonous. But that's better for the rail thread. :-)
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Alereon posted:I've been reading a lot about this while studying NTSB accident reports. Please explain. Sounds interesting.
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Nerobro posted:Lots of rail life is horrendously boring or monotonous. But that's better for the rail thread. :-) Yes, and yes. subforum for planes, trains, and boats? The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Automotive Insanity > Transportation Masturbation B4Ctom1 fucked around with this message at 13:33 on Mar 16, 2011 |
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IOwnCalculus posted:So what do you do in that situation? Wait for a service crew to fix it? Rig the train horn to play Dixie, then yell yee-hah and floor it.
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Splizwarf posted:Please explain. Sounds interesting.
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B4Ctom1 posted:
I may be blind, but can someone point out to me where the problem is?
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Petekill posted:I may be blind, but can someone point out to me where the problem is?  here?
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Petekill posted:I may be blind, but can someone point out to me where the problem is? Looks like the footprints lead to this spot. It's very subtle in this pic. I saw it before I noticed the prints. edit: beaten but I can't delete my pic. :-\
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Alereon posted:The NTSB Publications website has all of the accident reports they've ever done in the last few decades, you learn a lot of interesting things about the kind of common themes you see in accidents. Rail problems due to expansion or contraction figure in pretty regularly in train accidents. I keep thinking I might post a GBS thread with some of the more interesting ones if I ever stop being lazy. Leave us a link in here if you do. GBS is scary. 
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BlackShadow posted:On the other end of the temperature scale, here in Australia when the temperature starts topping about 40C to 45C, the rail actually buckles because of the incredible compressive forces in it. Kind of like this: That reminds me of the Edgecumbe earthquake damage they showed us at school when I was a child:   Bet you the driver of that locomotive poo poo themselves when it tipped over (apparently they'd just got out to use a nearby emergency phone)
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dissss posted:That reminds me of the Edgecumbe earthquake damage they showed us at school when I was a child: gently caress, no biggie. Thats just a chicane to keep the speeds down on the long straights.
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IOwnCalculus posted:So what do you do in that situation? Wait for a service crew to fix it? Collapsing next to tracks and weeping is the standard procedure
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Railroaders are sissys now-a-days. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViU5rr5GcYI
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LobsterboyX posted:Railroaders are sissys now-a-days. Christ, I never would have thought it'd be that hard to derail a train.
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Great video. Seeing the rail twist and bend and jump around like that as the train goes over it really makes you appreciate the immense weight involved. 
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On a similar note to the train not giving a poo poo about missing rails, have a fighter jet with a missing wing crossposted from the aeronautical insanity thread: In 1983, an Israeli F-15D had a midair collision with an A-4 during a training mission. The Skyhawk exploded on impact; the F-15 went into a spin. The pilot went to full afterburner and straightened it out, took a look at the damaged wing but couldn't see anything because of the cloud of leaking fuel, so he decided to try to land. He came in at twice the normal landing speed, tore off the tailhook, and finally brought it to a safe stop. He turned around to shake his WSO's hand and saw that he was missing an entire loving wing. When McDonnell-Douglas engineers came out to look at it, they assumed the crash had occurred while taxiing, because seriously there's no loving way that thing will fly with an arm off ... but it did. Apparently their simulations failed to take into account the fact that it has a greater than 1 power:weight ratio and therefore doesn't really need wings at full throttle, plus the engine intakes and wide fuselage provide quite a bit of lift. The pilot later said that if he'd been able to see how bad it was he would've ejected. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LveSc8Lp0ZE 
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Nothing bad can happen if I leave my car on stands overnight, right?   Oh... I knew I should use plywood, but I didn't think I would need it for only a short time. Lesson learned, luckily it didn't break anything.
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I think what you mean to say is "Lucky I wasn't laying under it."
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After glancing at the top 2 pictures, I thought the driver side stand had embedded itself into the weird-looking undercoating.
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Was that asphalt hot? I had no clue asphalt like that could fail so easily.
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angryhampster posted:Was that asphalt hot? I had no clue asphalt like that could fail so easily. Asphalt is a superfluid of sorts... Maybe non-newtonian is a better term, basically its just a really stiff liquid/colloid.
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I've left divots in hot asphalt from stopping while rollerblading; I'm sure a car on jack stands wouldn't take much to push into it.
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angryhampster posted:Was that asphalt hot? I had no clue asphalt like that could fail so easily. It was barely above freezing today. I didn't think it would actually be malleable enough when it was this cold out, but I guess it got some sun. 2 years ago I left the same car on stands (with plywood) for about 5 months straight and they barely marked the wood. It looks like it was caused by a load imbalance. I have a really uneven driveway and the rear passenger tire was a little flat (only had the front up). I'm guessing this caused it to load one side of the stands with more force and once they dug in it just rolled over. It's good that it happened the way it did, since the only damage was the driveway and a little undercoating stripped off the frame rails. Needless to say, it's back up with all 4 corners in the air and plywood under the stands.
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Crustashio posted:Nothing bad can happen if I leave my car on stands overnight, right? Power Fist: Stronger than the ground it rests on. [edit] Push your safety tabs in!
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I left a ZX2 on jackstands for a few months on a gravel driveway. Verdict; your asphalt is crap.
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Blocko posted:Power Fist: Stronger than the ground it rests on. Safety tabs?
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Splizwarf posted:Safety tabs? They're up on the neck of the stand, right below the yellow label; they're there to prevent you from raising the center of the jack too far. Grab an extension and a hammer and pound it in.
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Also they keep the center thingie fron dropping out should you turn the jackstand upside down. They're not hammered in from the factory because it allows for more compact packaging (I think).
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To add to the pictures of rail destruction:       Major coal rail line in Central Queensland, Australia...this is the result of widespread flooding in the area
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Sponge! posted:Asphalt is a superfluid of sorts... Maybe non-newtonian is a better term, basically its just a really stiff liquid/colloid.  Thixotropic!
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InitialDave posted:
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Welp, went to do a transmisison fluid and filter change on my "new" 92 Dakota 4x4 to deal with some late shifting, dropped the pan and... Oh god...  That glob near the middle of the pan is more shredded metal held together by goo that I assume used to be ATF. I lost reverse on it last week. I predict a transmission rebuild is in my near future. I'm just hoping changing the fluid and filter will buy me some time.
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Landerig posted:Welp, went to do a transmisison fluid and filter change on my "new" 92 Dakota 4x4 to deal with some late shifting, dropped the pan and... You mean glass shards, right  ?
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LobsterboyX posted:Railroaders are sissys now-a-days. Most amazing and reassuring video of train response to track damage I have ever seen.
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