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CaptBubba posted:I don't understand the point of that safety wire. It won't prevent any of those bolts from backing out, unless that's the backside or they're left-handed 
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Mahnarch posted:Guilty as charged! That's what I was thinking. Basically buy a half-built one as a parts donor for all the expensive stuff (instruments, engine, landing gear, etc) and then do all the airframe stuff myself, unless I could simply disassemble it and verify that all parts were properly made or chosen. 13-20k is... a bit out of my range right now. That high number's about half what I bought my house for, and the low number is significantly more than I bought all five of my jeeps for. Seeing as I have a very cheap house and a lot of very cheap jeeps to fix, it doesn't leave much, so I'll probably end up with a very cheap airplane that also ends up costing significantly more than its pricetag. Kotaru posted:Yey! I finally get to post one of my own.   that head gasket looks remarkably like the rear head gasket off my M54A2! Already posted it in this thread, but here it is again: It actually still ran and drove pretty well like that, it just had a nasty tendency to fog you out of the cab with diesel vapor and exhaust fumes. You can't beat an old inline-6 for durability, they may not be efficient but they are about as tough as an anvil. I expect the middle of the HG in my 98 XJ to look about the same when I take it out. I think I'm up to 10k miles on it since it dropped two cylinders now. Compression test showed 150, 150, 30, 30, 150, 150 psi readings.
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EightBit posted:I don't understand the point of that safety wire. It won't prevent any of those bolts from backing out, unless that's the backside or they're left-handed MonkeyNutZ posted:Looks correct to me
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EightBit posted:I don't understand the point of that safety wire. It won't prevent any of those bolts from backing out, unless that's the backside or they're left-handed
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Jan 11, 2012 00:25
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EightBit posted:I don't understand the point of that safety wire. It won't prevent any of those bolts from backing out, unless that's the backside or they're left-handed Adding to the pile, but that safety wire is just fine for normal (right-hand) thread bolts.
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Jan 11, 2012 01:20
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InitialDave posted:Yeah, that's the right way for a right-hand thread. Any anti-clockwise movement of the head is resisted by the wire. Yeah, I'm majorly stupid today, had my head wrapped around an Oracle problem all day.
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Jan 11, 2012 01:55
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CaptBubba posted:
gently caress. Looks like I better get a bike up and running so I can avoid the metro.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:gently caress. Looks like I better get a bike up and running so I can avoid the metro. It really makes you think about their motto doesn't it? "Metro Forward: because stopping isn't really an option at this point."
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:gently caress. Looks like I better get a bike up and running so I can avoid the metro. That explains the "gently caress this loving city" Facebook status from one of my DC-area friends then. I thought it was just another case of some more ceiling tiles falling on people since that's not too unusual.
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Kotaru posted:Edit: Can you show pics of the head/block surfaces? I'd be SURPRISED if they weren't gouged all to gently caress from the gasses...
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Jan 11, 2012 03:27
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It turns out that auto transport train cars are slightly higher than normal train cars. (My brother sent me this, anyone got any further info?)
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Jan 11, 2012 08:54
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Google has a nice reverse image search feature that is really handy. It even has plugins for the main four browsers. Seems that triple-high closed automotive cars don't fit under bridges/tunnels on certain routes. Also seems that people, being human, tend to forget facts like this when planning transport.
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bolind posted:It turns out that auto transport train cars are slightly higher than normal train cars. Not anymore!
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From our latest buoy recovery:
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Jan 11, 2012 18:10
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How long does it take to wear that much?
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:gently caress. Looks like I better get a bike up and running so I can avoid the metro. The number of tourists that use it make it an ambassador for public transit too, how many of them go home and vote against any kind of mass transit because of how poo poo WMATA is.
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Jan 11, 2012 18:38
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If you think DC Metro is 'poo poo', maaaannn.... I would kill for that level of service and lack of shanking in LA.
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Hillridge posted:How long does it take to wear that much? 3 years, give or take. It all depends on the location, and the mooring design. This one is in rough water, and has a substantial amount of the 1 1/4" chain (what you see there) up in the water column to handle winter storms and 15+ ft astronomical tides. Some of our steamer chain is a decade old, and not noticeably worn. That's not the case with that steamer.
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Cygni posted:If you think DC Metro is 'poo poo', maaaannn.... I would kill for that level of service and lack of shanking in LA. Seconding this, I was impressed with the DC Metro when my wife and I made a day trip visit there two years ago while on our honeymoon. $18 for a pair of day passes that gave us unlimited riding was a steal compared with hiring taxis. If something like that was even remotely possible where I live (its not, Amtrak doesn't even have a stop in Akron anymore) I'd vote for it in a heartbeat and would go around knocking on doors to get others to do the same. Geoj fucked around with this message at 20:26 on Jan 11, 2012 |
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Jan 11, 2012 20:24
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CaptBubba posted:It really makes you think about their motto doesn't it? "Metro Forward: because stopping isn't really an option at this point." More than you know http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Metro#Collisions
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sharkytm posted:3 years, give or take. It all depends on the location, and the mooring design. This one is in rough water, and has a substantial amount of the 1 1/4" chain (what you see there) up in the water column to handle winter storms and 15+ ft astronomical tides. Some of our steamer chain is a decade old, and not noticeably worn. Is that chain..hollow? Edit: I mean I wouldn't think it would be but what are those dimples on each side of the break where it gets welded? Mr-Spain fucked around with this message at 03:10 on Jan 12, 2012 |
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Mr-Spain posted:Is that chain..hollow? Some chains on ships are connected with a pin that is secured with a lead plug. Could be one of those. The chains are not hollow though.
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CaptBubba posted:It only fell apart because they took off the wire. It was obviously still doing its job.
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Jan 12, 2012 03:56
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Mr-Spain posted:Is that chain..hollow? It's not hollow, trust me. The dimples are from the way they weld it. It's not stud link chain, however.
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Whoooops.
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Jan 14, 2012 00:52
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that looks like a subaru that crashed into a curb
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Nope, just a broken/missing sway bar end link. Over-designed garbage.  E: \/  I stand corrected. \/
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jamal posted:that looks like a subaru that crashed into a curb You're so good at that. Lets count the broken suspension parts! 
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there appears to have been some... custom suspension reconfiguration done to that vehicle
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It's amazing how flimsy those control arms are once you shove a shitload of lateral force through them.
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I guess they're deliberately the weak link in that situation.
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If they didn't break I suppose the chassis mounting points would be next?
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Seat Safety Switch posted:It's amazing how flimsy those control arms are once you shove a shitload of lateral force through them. What's hilarious is just how low the bar is for the definition of 'shitload' - the collision that trashed all of that was basically 5-10 mph into a curb. Admittedly, it was entirely compressive force on those parts, and only those parts, as somehow I managed to make sure the only impact surface was the wheel.
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So, yeah, a boat fell over in Italy. Anyone want to talk about that?
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InitialDave posted:So, yeah, a boat fell over in Italy. Anyone want to talk about that? So that would be a captains failure more than anything else. edit: Who the hell takes a ship of that size that close to a coast? Also: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/01/14/article-2086527-0F7474AE00000578-838_634x481.jpg (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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dor1 posted:But it ran aground, right? Didn't it hit a sandbar beforehand? I thought it hit something then it was taken closer to land so that people could have at least some chance of swimming to land.
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Steamos posted:Didn't it hit a sandbar beforehand? The three people that died tried to swim to land. I can tell you that jumping from that sort of height and now knowing how to land "safely" will hurt like hell.
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There's a lot of bullshit info, excuses, and rear end-covering going on right now, but in a few days there should be more solid info. A few stories I've heard: * hit a sandbar, captain went closer to land to give people better chances of swimming * hit rocks, hosed, punctured the hull (obviously) and got stuck on them, when the boat takes on water that results in it tipping to the side not supported by the rocks, which tips the hole in the hull up for all to see... Since people heard the scraping and felt the ship tip to the side and it moved no farther, and the picture above lines up with hitting rocks and tipping immediately, I'm inclined to say the captain is lying to try and cover his rear end for running into poo poo that was close to the coast and probably on the charts. Obviously I could be completely wrong, and we'll know for sure soon.
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The Italian Cruise industry has a tradition of laying ships over after collisions with other objects.
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