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grover posted:I've heard many a firefighter say how much they love getting a chance to do this: The only problem with that oldie but goodie is that you need to have a leaky coupling inside on the hose going through the car. I've actually been in that situation (needed a hydrant that a car was parken in front of) and ended up doing something responsible and boring.....winched it out of the way a few feet. I got crap from everyone on the scene that I missed our golden opportunity. Sometimes having a white helmet sucks.
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Motronic posted:The only problem with that oldie but goodie is that you need to have a leaky coupling inside on the hose going through the car. Fire chiefs ruin everyone's fun.
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grover posted:I've heard many a firefighter say how much they love getting a chance to do this: They drive up on 2x4s.
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nm posted:They drive up on 2x4s. My car isn't slammed and I have to do that for my "low profile" floor jack. However, the crappy scissor jack in the tire kit is only about 3 inches tall when totally retracted, so I'd never have a problem getting it under the jack points.
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nm posted:They drive up on 2x4s. I couldn't get a 2x4 under my car, I ended up making a long ramp out of plywood.
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grover posted:I've heard many a firefighter say how much they love getting a chance to do this: Don't get in the way of firemen's work.
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Motronic posted:The only problem with that oldie but goodie is that you need to have a leaky coupling inside on the hose going through the car. Or percolating hose- thats good at totally soaking the interior of a vehicle.
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Aug 26, 2012 01:11
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Why would a fire department use a percolating hose?
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Geirskogul posted:Why would a fire department use a percolating hose? In case the fire gets near it. http://www.duralirrigation.com.au/onlinestore/index.cfm?NavigationID=668
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Bondematt posted:In case the fire gets near it. I have seen that used in high rise and commercial buildings in hose caddies and hose closets (which is probably why you link is for basically 1" and 1.5" hose). In 20 years of doing this, I've never seen it on a truck or in use by a fire department. That's building protection kind of stuff, and would NEVER be used as LDH supply line (which is never near a fire anyway unless things have gone really, really sideways).
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Motronic posted:I have seen that used in high rise and commercial buildings in hose caddies and hose closets (which is probably why you link is for basically 1" and 1.5" hose). Have you ever watched a cop in a regular cruiser try to cross your 5-inch LDH? It's really funny.
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Motronic posted:I have seen that used in high rise and commercial buildings in hose caddies and hose closets (which is probably why you link is for basically 1" and 1.5" hose). Generally its because our 64mm supply lines been overused and is weeping through the rubber coatings. All our 25mm and 38mm is percolating because its more for bushfire than buildings and you spend a lot of time dragging hose across hot ground in bushfires.
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So I knew my thermostat was bad when I dived into the timing belt/waterpump job on my E30, but I wasn't expecting this   Well there is certainly a problem here.   THERE'S A PIECE MISSING  I've never seen a thermostat failure quite like that before. Beach Bum fucked around with this message at 16:49 on Aug 26, 2012 |
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Aug 26, 2012 16:26
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Replaced the brake master cylinder and I was about to start bleeding the system and this happened.  
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Aug 26, 2012 17:19
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Hammer a 3/4 inch socket onto it w/ a sledge. It's easy.
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Cheap sockets work best since they're usually softer. Go to your friendly local run-down pawn shop and buy some out of the big bin of assorted sockets.
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Aug 26, 2012 17:46
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Haha or go to Autozone and look for any socket labeled 'Duralast'
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I have a certain knack for compounding failures and simply didn’t want to gently caress with it. Ended up limping it down to the local Les Schwab on spongy rear end brakes and had their guys deal with it. Dude had a proper nut extractor and made short work of all four locks.
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revmoo posted:Haha or go to Autozone and look for any socket labeled 'Duralast' 1 better, Harbor Freight. Pretty sure they make theirs out of compacted talcum powder. 
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Two days of bad luck. Yesterday my girlfriends Focus had a battery death. A few days ago the brakes on my GTP started grinding. I dug into that to find.... poo poo. The friction material made a brake for it (forgive me). Ruined the gently caress out of the rotor too. I gotta say that Autozone rocks. New rotors and pads gratis. Unfortunately I got home and it started raining like crazy. I gotta get this done so I can get to work tomorrow.
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That picture is a weird optical illusion when you scroll past it.
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Fist of Freud posted:Replaced the brake master cylinder and I was about to start bleeding the system and this happened. Get to use this in two threads. Solution: Vise-Grips
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A couple of days ago I bought a 91 firefly for $200, it needed front brakes, ball joints and wheel bearings. I took said car and put it on the back of my lovely old 75 ford fireball (E350) RV converted to a ghetto 18 foot flat deck (sill had the linoleum from the floors on the deck). Now this ford was a major piece of poo poo that has broken down more times then I can count. Went out into butt gently caress nowhere and proceeded to poo poo kick the firefly into oblivion. Here is some pictures and video:  Here's before the mayhem begins.  Here's the combo at the scrap yard later the next day, only got $360 for the whole thing including the flat deck  .Video 1: The Beginning of the end Video 2: After a few more buddy's showed up we got the great idea to roll the thing. Rollover
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You live on the North side of the Fraser, don't you?
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Copied from the nasioc mechanic bitching thread: I hear fancy Italian valves have the same failure:  On a horrible design failure note: I have an '02 Cadillac Deville. Under 70k miles, prior to me it was old-man driven, garaged, dealer maintained, clean, etc. I was cleaning some drain holes during a brake change and found one of the worst bits of straight stupid design that I've seen in a while:  That's inside the fender liner behind the front wheel. There's over a POUND of straight dirt/debris. Seems that GM put a 1/4"x1/2" drain hole at the bottom of the fender and for sound insulation put a curtain of heavy felt/insulation vertically along the A-pillar line at the door hings, so anything that goes down from the windshield header area has to go through that small drain hole. And that drain hole gets plugged. And this happens. Both sides were identical. That's on top of the rear spring perch design that does the exact same thing. Just lazy design. After:  Bonus horrible mechanic failure -- as I was changing the front pads and rotors (previous owner paid over $500 for the same operation at the Cadillac dealer last August), I found the slide bolts on both calipers(calipers themselves, not the brackets) tightened so much that I needed a 24" breaker bar because hand wrench and air wrench wouldn't touch them. That explained why the rotors had a funny wear pattern.
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DefaultPeanut posted:You live on the North side of the Fraser, don't you? Vancouver Island
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This Buick Lucerne got dropped off via tow truck right as we were closing. The owner claims he swerved to avoid a rear-end collision with another vehicle and ended up hitting a concrete median about 6"-8" high at about 40 mph with the left front wheel. I only had time for a few quick shots, I'll see if I can get a few more of the rest of the carnage tomorrow:   
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Wow, that looked like a chipped hubcap at first glance...
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So, mechanical failures doesn't necessarily mean "cars"? Alright.  
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Exit Strategy posted:So, mechanical failures doesn't necessarily mean "cars"? Oh, poo poo. AR-15? Nobody hurt when that blew up, I hope.
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Loaded a little hot there? edit: that or they forgot that you can make the upper receiver out of cheese, but not the bolt.
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Slim Pickens posted:Loaded a little hot there? 1) I got hurt. I got hurt quite a lot. Fortunately, the company who made the rifle admitted that they were heat-treating stainless steel bolts (WHY?!) and paid me for my trouble. 2) I was using bog-standard M855, for which the rifle was rated. Don't buy ATI. e: For reference, if I hadn't been wearing impact-resistant glasses when that bolt went (and the upper it was in got shattered), I would have been picking lugs out of my brainpan. As it was, some of those lugs came out of my forearm instead.
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Exit Strategy posted:1) I got hurt. I got hurt quite a lot. Fortunately, the company who made the rifle admitted that they were heat-treating stainless steel bolts (WHY?!) and paid me for my trouble. wouldn't heat treating the bolts make them stronger? i don't understand the problem. too brittle?
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Root Bear posted:This Buick Lucerne got dropped off via tow truck right as we were closing. I let out a long "ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh sheeeeeeeeeeit" when I got to the last picture. God drat that had to make a noise like a motherfucker. That poo poo let go hard.
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Wiglaf posted:wouldn't heat treating the bolts make them stronger? i don't understand the problem. too brittle? Stainless is usually low carbon, so heat treating doesn't make it harder. Low-carbon steel is just high-carbon iron. Heat-treated iron tends to shard when struck. Bad combination with significant repetitive concussive force and heat. Exit Strategy, sorry dude - that must have sucked a lot.
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sofullofhate posted:Stainless is usually low carbon, so heat treating doesn't make it harder. Low-carbon steel is just high-carbon iron. Heat-treated iron tends to shard when struck. Bad combination with significant repetitive concussive force and heat. Exactly. Stainless steel bolt + heat treating + gas piston system = Exit Strategy hates piston ARs now. They actually made good on it, paid for the doctor's visits, new glasses, and parts for me to build a new (better) rifle.
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Exit Strategy posted:Exactly. Stainless steel bolt + heat treating + gas piston system = Exit Strategy hates piston ARs now. You could sued them so hard that you owned the company.
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n8r posted:You could sued them so hard that you owned the company. Who wants to own a company with that kind of liability in the field? gently caress that noise.
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