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Queen_Combat
Jan 15, 2011

Nerobro posted:

"Spare the rod..."

The car thought to itself. I mean, it has seven other ones, why does it need to carry an eight around. So the car decided to do something it had been thinking about for awhile, and let the eight rod free, to play with its friend, Mr. Oil Pan.

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Lowclock
Oct 26, 2005

Nerobro posted:

Spare the rod...

... oil the child.

Ron Pauls Friend
Jul 3, 2004
Anyone got any horrible rotary failures?

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

Moderator at http://www.ridgelineownersclub.com/forums/and soon to be mod of AI. MAKE AI GREAT AGAIN. Motronic for VP.
ruined apex seals look pretty boring.

MrChips
Jun 10, 2005

FLIGHT SAFETY TIP: Fatties out first

kastein posted:

ruined apex seals look pretty boring.

There's always flywheel explosions, though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYIdJCvK4uQ (embedding disabled, sorry)

Rujo King
Jun 28, 2007

I say old chap have you any of the good sort of catnip if you know what I mean... harrumphaarmaammhhhmm

MrChips posted:

There's always flywheel explosions, though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYIdJCvK4uQ (embedding disabled, sorry)
I was watching that without sound and the moment the hood popped up I said, "Wheeee!"


Wheeeeee!

AzureSkys
Apr 27, 2003

Getn Rod atAnimecon posted:

Anyone got any horrible rotary failures?
Probably not what you're looking for, but this was a failure of sorts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-SklRbt9bs
Mis-timed an old rotary airplane engine at school and it made a nice sound.

oxbrain
Aug 18, 2005

Put a glide in your stride and a dip in your hip and come on up to the mothership.

Getn Rod atAnimecon posted:

Anyone got any horrible rotary failures?




slidebite
Nov 6, 2005

Good egg
:colbert:

drat. That's tragic. :(

Slung Blade
Jul 11, 2002

IN STEEL WE TRUST

Replica or restored warbird?

Jonny Nox
Apr 26, 2008




Silverwood?

Snoopy finally got his I guess

dissss
Nov 10, 2007

I'm a terrible forums poster with terrible opinions.

Here's a cat fucking a squid.
This happened locally a couple of years back



Guess Spitfire gear still doesn't like rough landings

Bondematt
Jan 26, 2007

Not too stupid
Must of been a goon, I'll alert the prop and gear warehouse.

EightBit
Jan 7, 2006
I spent money on this line of text just to make the "Stupid Newbie" go away.
I'm sorry, but none of those planes have rotary engines. Radial is the term you're looking for.

Skyssx
Feb 2, 2001

by T. Fine

EightBit posted:

I'm sorry, but none of those planes have rotary engines. Radial is the term you're looking for.

Rotary an radial are not the same. Wankles are not the first engines to be called rotaries.

This is a radial with an inordinately long intro, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1rjRmTV9qE&feature=youtube_gdata_player

This is the original meaning of rotary engine, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1rjRmTV9qE&feature=youtube_gdata_player
To which you would rightly say "holy poo poo!" like wankels, they were fatally flawed.

Skyssx fucked around with this message at 03:46 on Nov 8, 2011

Nerobro
Nov 4, 2005

Rider now with 100% more titanium!
Rotaries are awesome. And utterly useless.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_engine

Read up! And enjoy. They're a lot like steam engines in how backwards and crazy they are.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wankel_engine

Wankel... something different.

And radial, which is cool too. And completely relavant, even today.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radial_engine

Nerobro fucked around with this message at 03:54 on Nov 8, 2011

EightBit
Jan 7, 2006
I spent money on this line of text just to make the "Stupid Newbie" go away.

Skyssx posted:

Rotary an radial are not the same. Wankles are not the first engines to be called rotaries.

This is a radial with an inordinately long intro, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1rjRmTV9qE&feature=youtube_gdata_player

This is the original meaning of rotary engine, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1rjRmTV9qE&feature=youtube_gdata_player
To which you would rightly say "holy poo poo!" like wankels, they were fatally flawed.

I'm well aware of that. The old-style of rotary engines had a stationary crank and the chambers spun around with the prop. This configuration has a very high angular momentum that causes the plane to drift and makes cornering speed lopsided.

It's a bit hard to tell, but that triwing one appears to have a cowling and internal engine, which suggests that it's a multiple-bank radial, rather than a rotary. The spitfire is most certainly not a rotary-engined aircraft.

Petekill
May 14, 2005

Where's Hammond?
Well I'll call him!

Skyssx posted:

Rotary an radial are not the same. Wankles are not the first engines to be called rotaries.

This is a radial with an inordinately long intro, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1rjRmTV9qE&feature=youtube_gdata_player

This is the original meaning of rotary engine, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1rjRmTV9qE&feature=youtube_gdata_player
To which you would rightly say "holy poo poo!" like wankels, they were fatally flawed.

I think you accidentally a video. Both of those are the same radial engine.

Cowwan
Feb 23, 2011

Nerobro posted:

Rotaries are awesome. And utterly useless.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_engine

Read up! And enjoy. They're a lot like steam engines in how backwards and crazy they are.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wankel_engine

Wankel... something different.

And radial, which is cool too. And completely relavant, even today.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radial_engine

Thank you, I learned something today because of you.

dissss
Nov 10, 2007

I'm a terrible forums poster with terrible opinions.

Here's a cat fucking a squid.

EightBit posted:

This configuration has a very high angular momentum that causes the plane to drift and makes cornering speed lopsided.

From the Wikipedia article on the Sopwith Camel -
"With rotary engines, the crankshaft remained fixed while the cylinders and attached propeller rotated around it. The result of this torque was a significant "pull" to the right. In the hands of an experienced pilot, this characteristic could be exploited to give exceptional manoeuvrability in a dogfight. A 3/4 turn to the right could be done in the same time as a 1/4 turn to the left."

It also killed a lot of inexperienced pilots - pretty crazy stuff really

EightBit posted:

It's a bit hard to tell, but that triwing one appears to have a cowling and internal engine, which suggests that it's a multiple-bank radial, rather than a rotary.

It looks like a Fokker Dr.I to me, which would have originally had a rotary

Queen_Combat
Jan 15, 2011
Pretty easy to remember - rotary engines rotate the casing around. Radial engines have the cylinders radiate out of the center, but the cylinders themselves don't rotate.

Geoj
May 28, 2008

BITTER POOR PERSON
More of "Horrible structural/engineering failures" but I couldn't find anywhere else on the forum for stuff like this: Why its a good idea to not build a shopping plaza on top of a capped landfill.







The story behind this is the literal last scrap of developable land in the Cleveland suburb of Garfield Heights was a capped landfill just southeast of the I-480 and I-77 interchange. Some developers decided it would be a great place for a new shopping center and got a bunch of major anchor tenants (Wal-Mart, Dick's Sporting Goods, Circuit City and a regional grocery chain) to sign on and built an $81 million complex in 2006-2007.

Five years later, and almost all of the anchors have vacated along with a bunch of the smaller stores after structural problems popped up from the shifting trash heap the place is built on and explosive levels of methane were found in the parking lot storm sewer system. The place is slowly turning into a ghost town; the major anchor buildings are being filled with discount furniture and dollar stores, many storefronts are vacant and a number of new construction projects have been sitting half-finished for two to three years.

Chinatown
Sep 11, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
Fun Shoe
Those cracks? Yeah, just throw some tar down; should be good.

astrollinthepork
Sep 24, 2007

When you come at the king, you best not miss, snitch

HE KNOWS

Geoj posted:

More of "Horrible structural/engineering failures" but I couldn't find anywhere else on the forum for stuff like this: Why its a good idea to not build a shopping plaza on top of a capped landfill
Ha, I shop at the Giant Eagle there all the time. I've heard tales of "trash juice" bubbling up through the Wal-Mart plumbing. That Giant Eagle is billion times better than the one in Bedford so I hope it sticks around. Those cracks are around the back and side of the Wal-Mart there. I've seen 5-6 foot deep holes back there too.

That may be the only empty Wal-Mart in this country, and it's a fantastic sight.

astrollinthepork fucked around with this message at 08:28 on Nov 8, 2011

Fire Storm
Aug 8, 2004

what's the point of life
if there are no sexborgs?

Geoj posted:

More of "Horrible structural/engineering failures" but I couldn't find anywhere else on the forum for stuff like this: Why its a good idea to not build a shopping plaza on top of a capped landfill.

Yeah, I was afraid of stuff like that when they built Fairlane Green shopping center, since it's on a industrial waste/toxic waste dump (I think Ford dumped paint and other chemicals there. Don't know exactly WHAT chemicals, but the article lists "industrial waste"). For years they were talking about building homes there but that didn't fly at all. I am surprised at how well it's done there and even more surprised that they have ponds on that land (some with stocked wildlife that's doing pretty well).

Don't have many mechanical failures to contribute to this thread, but I have an electrical one that may become a problem soon: I can hear my computer processing. More processing = louder noise. Louder than my fans and hard drives when playing games, and it's getting worse as time goes by.

Rorac
Aug 19, 2011

Nerobro posted:

Rotaries are awesome. And utterly useless.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_engine

Read up! And enjoy. They're a lot like steam engines in how backwards and crazy they are.

Why the gently caress.



Seriously, that's all I can think about that.

Skyssx
Feb 2, 2001

by T. Fine

Petekill posted:

I think you accidentally a video. Both of those are the same radial engine.

I did indeed. Here's a rotary.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UBAukXPD-0&feature=youtube_gdata_player

nitrogen
May 21, 2004

Oh, what's a 217°C difference between friends?

It sounds like one of the cylinders keeps missing, or do they always sound like that?

BloodBag
Sep 20, 2008

WITNESS ME!



nitrogen posted:

It sounds like one of the cylinders keeps missing, or do they always sound like that?

They always sound like that because it has an off/on ignition system. So the speed of the engine is regulated by the ignition system's duty cycle. In the Camel I believe there are two ignition systems. One for WOT and one for less than WOT. Engine management is accomplished by switching back and forth between the two while in flight :v:

rscott
Dec 10, 2009
Yeah, most rotaries didn't have anything approaching a carb or any type of throttle control so the only way to vary engine speed was to cut the ignition. I think some of the later ones had manual air/fuel control so they would lean them out to drop engine power and then dump fuel for more power.

Geoj
May 28, 2008

BITTER POOR PERSON

Fire Storm posted:

Yeah, I was afraid of stuff like that when they built Fairlane Green shopping center, since it's on a industrial waste/toxic waste dump (I think Ford dumped paint and other chemicals there. Don't know exactly WHAT chemicals, but the article lists "industrial waste").

Same deal with this place, the landfill operated from the early 60s until the early 90s. There was an article in the paper around the same time they broke ground on the project about how the community in the valley just adjacent to the landfill has recently had a major uptick in people coming down with rare cancers and how everyone has stopped using their wells after their water started smelling like rotting garbage. The reporter hypothesized that given Cleveland's industrial roots there's likely all kinds of toxic and heavy industrial waste buried there.

astrollinthepork posted:

That may be the only empty Wal-Mart in this country, and it's a fantastic sight.

I work for a third-party contractor to FujiFilm and work at a large number of Wal-Marts. This is the only store I can say I've actually seen them close without first building a new store a mile or two down the road.

Skyssx
Feb 2, 2001

by T. Fine

Geoj posted:

I work for a third-party contractor to FujiFilm and work at a large number of Wal-Marts. This is the only store I can say I've actually seen them close without first building a new store a mile or two down the road.

They closed the one at Midway in Elyria, OH with no replacement. They were going to build a super center across the street, but backed out when they realized Midway was 9/10ths of the way to wasteland. I seriously dislike going there for anything. You need a truck to even drive on the roads.

e: It was built on a landfill, too. This one was just where the town threw its trash from its founding.
"just dump it over the edge of the black river ravine, we'll never fill it up!"

Skyssx fucked around with this message at 17:22 on Nov 8, 2011

Geoj
May 28, 2008

BITTER POOR PERSON

Skyssx posted:

They closed the one at Midway in Elyria, OH with no replacement.

The replacement store is on Leavitt Road in Lorain. I know, because I had to pick up about $10,000 in computers from the photo lab at the store at Midway and move them to Lorain.

Geoj fucked around with this message at 17:40 on Nov 8, 2011

Conelrad
Mar 22, 2004

Everything will be fine
Grimey Drawer

Geoj posted:

More of "Horrible structural/engineering failures" but I couldn't find anywhere else on the forum for stuff like this: Why its a good idea to not build a shopping plaza on top of a capped landfill.







The story behind this is the literal last scrap of developable land in the Cleveland suburb of Garfield Heights was a capped landfill just southeast of the I-480 and I-77 interchange. Some developers decided it would be a great place for a new shopping center and got a bunch of major anchor tenants (Wal-Mart, Dick's Sporting Goods, Circuit City and a regional grocery chain) to sign on and built an $81 million complex in 2006-2007.

Five years later, and almost all of the anchors have vacated along with a bunch of the smaller stores after structural problems popped up from the shifting trash heap the place is built on and explosive levels of methane were found in the parking lot storm sewer system. The place is slowly turning into a ghost town; the major anchor buildings are being filled with discount furniture and dollar stores, many storefronts are vacant and a number of new construction projects have been sitting half-finished for two to three years.

As a geotechnical inspector....how the hell did that thing pass any sort of compaction testing?/did they not at least over-excavate like 30 goddamn feet and put in some sort of engineered fill? Holy settlement batman, that makes me cringe.

Queen_Combat
Jan 15, 2011

Podothehobbit posted:

As a geotechnical inspector....how the hell did that thing pass any sort of compaction testing?/did they not at least over-excavate like 30 goddamn feet and put in some sort of engineered fill? Holy settlement batman, that makes me cringe.

But, you see, this was mainly for a Walmart, and it's cheaper to do it the way they did. What, you think they'd spend money doing things properly?

Also, something something about groups of people and it being impossible to shift blame on a group.

Geoj
May 28, 2008

BITTER POOR PERSON

Podothehobbit posted:

As a geotechnical inspector....how the hell did that thing pass any sort of compaction testing?/did they not at least over-excavate like 30 goddamn feet and put in some sort of engineered fill? Holy settlement batman, that makes me cringe.

They did dig out a bunch of the top layer of the landfill, there's a huge mound of buried trash just across from the shopping center: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=city+...p=12,98.43,,0,0 (its behind the gas station.)

I assumed they properly supported the buildings but just laid the parking lot down without really doing anything beneath it, hence the parking lot sinking around the building.

Previa_fun
Nov 10, 2004

Geirskogul posted:

Also, something something about groups of people and it being impossible to shift blame on a group.

What do you mean? Wal-Mart hates unions! :v:

SHAQ4PREZ
Dec 21, 2004

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Economy Car
http://youtu.be/RLB8dmVIlGE

Scary as hell. It would be bad enough to have that happen on the street, but at 190 km/h?

BlackMK4
Aug 23, 2006

wat.
Megamarm
That had a much better outcome than every other broken rotor I've ever seen. Wow.

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Beach Bum
Jan 13, 2010
Would be taking that rotor manufacturer to town for every penny of my expenses including my soiled underwear because :stare:

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