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jdfording posted:This is the right landing gear of a Citation Jet CJ2. The aircraft blew a tire on takeoff and was lucky it was on a 10,000ft runway so they aborted and stopped before the aircraft went air born. Closed our runway for about 5 hours. We had to use air bags and a dolly to get it off without doing further damage. The brake was embedded into the runway. Aircraft is currently on full jacks in a hanger awaiting parts and bags of money. Just to fix the sheet metal damage the tire did to the flap will probably take over 100 hours. The wheel and tire alone costs about $10,000. They will need to replace the strut as well and all the sheered brake lines. We had an A-10 do this at Davis-Monthan around 2007, except it was on landing. I wish I had photos because it was the craziest thing I'd ever seen. The radial wire from the tires was sticking out from the wheel pod and wing like hair and the jet had slid down the runway far enough that the break assembly was totally torn away and the hub where the axle went through was ground flat. It looked like someone had cut it in half with a saw. Crew chiefs were driving around with the strut in the back of their little flightline pickup showing it off. -Zydeco- fucked around with this message at 08:11 on Jul 31, 2013 |
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This should qualify on the grounds that failure is inevitable.kastein posted:Holy hell I want to know what this idiot was smoking.  
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kastein posted:For those not familiar with Cherokee suspension, that is where this moron has taken two stock lower control arms (which locate the front axle under the vehicle and handle braking forces on pavement and braking+acceleration forces with 4x4 engaged) and chopped them both in half, then half assedly stuck one over the other and booger welded along the seam to make a longer control arm to handle the suspension lift. Don't forget his winning personality. Moron posted:ok, I guess i'll close the stupid thread. You guys are loving LOOSERS!! always wanting to bash people with their stuff. its my jeep, my build, i'm happy with it, like the looks and gently caress OFF if you don't.
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Terrible Robot posted:Can some kind person upload his pictures and post them? I can't see any of them, on the computer or phone. The picture posted has so much wrong it took a minute to notice the control arms, and now I really want to see the rest of this abomination. These are the only other ones I could get off there.   Apparently that tubing is from a trampoline frame. The thread is a good read and there's more stuff just no more pictures. -Zydeco- fucked around with this message at 02:02 on Nov 23, 2013 |
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VikingSkull posted:Couldn't find this thread before for some reason, so crosspostin' a sight I had at work from the terrible images thread. Fits better in here, anyway. 
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Cakefool posted:Any goons here that work in aircraft maintenance? I attended a little talk at work a couple of weeks ago that talked about how the designers took "maintenance" and "what is humanly possible" and no part exists in isolation" into account when designing systems, fastenings, plumbing, routing etc. It was all very interesting & they showed some cad walkthroughs of an engine mounted on a wing, maintenance doors opening, human arm and recommended tool comes into view, bolts & brackets get removed, parts come out & in again. I worked avionics on A-10s and I could see how stuff was easy to get to when it was built. In the 70s. Now after so many modifications and additions it's a horrible multi-layered mess in some places. Still wasn't as bad as an F-16.
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Crossposting from the terrible car stuff thread.jaegerx posted:The ghost is coming from inside the car How does that even happen.
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Was working on some local biogas power projects today here at the local landfill which has this old site that has been capped Very brief description is bacteria digest nitrogen and phosphorus and crap methane in the absence of oxygen This is fine and normal, but methane is a nasty green house gas and normally you try and keep landfills from doing this, but with the right gear you can trap the methane and use it to run one of these guys  You use that to generate electricity and sell it to the local power company while also charging the local landfill to take care of their nasty methane issues and you make a nice bit of money every month (until natural gas prices crater and undercut you  ).This is all fine and good and very green, but if the guy who buys and sets op the system has never tuned an engine before, much less to run on methane, unfortunate things happen.  This was presented to me along with the comment "apparently it was running too rich". That lump top dead center on the edge is apparently one of the valves. We're trying to get another project capping a local universities cattle and swine manure lagoons to run a small block V8 off the ground. This would be in concert with undergraduate engineering design students, so looking forwards to some really dumb failures next year. -Zydeco- fucked around with this message at 21:14 on Aug 7, 2015 |
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totalnewbie posted:Out of curiosity, what spark plugs do you use for those engines? totalnewbie posted:They don't have to be, but that's a good point; they probably are diesel. That is indeed a diesel. I don't know what particular model, but it's a Waukesha I6 if that helps. -Zydeco- fucked around with this message at 22:34 on Aug 7, 2015 |
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What the hell is going on here? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSN6gSlNdRE
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This empty quote button sure is annoying.
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