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My dad used to be a mechanic back in the 60's, and he's told stories of how Pontiac straight-8 blocks used to twist, so much so that there were actually machines made to straighten the blocks back out.
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Toucan Sam posted:BMW either has the strongest wheels ever made or the weakest suspension. I'd expect a lot more wheel damage for the suspension to fall the gently caress off, speaking from experience. I slammed my Mustang into a curb at ~30 mph one time (doriftuuuu) and absolutely destroyed one of my wheels, almost folded it in half, took it in for an alignment after replacing the wheel.... 0 damage to the suspension
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BIG HORNY COW posted:Reminds me of some Ford Expedition commercials, one where the truck was literally flying through clouds and the other where it demonstrates braking ability by not skidding off the deck of an aircraft carrier. I like the Charger one where he's driving down a road, and a single tear leaks out of his eye in the shape of the road, along with the standard warning of "professional driver closed course" at the bottom of the screen. "DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CRY WHILE DRIVING A DODGE CHARGER!"
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INTERNETRACECAR posted:You all need to shut the fork up. I think it's cool that their thoughts are all synchro'd up.
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Nov 21, 2009 19:12
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Biscuit Joiner posted:http://youtu.be/3h1O7-r7Wrw?t=6s Makes me more afraid to ever put my car on a dyno  I've ripped a few nails off past the bed, they always come back in all mutant and flaky and lumpy and hosed up, then one day you wake up and it's perfectly a normal nail again... it's weird.
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Eh, it's just Ford being Ford, like when the HEMI came out, so they just submitted Mustangs with insane cams/heads/fueling to car magazines so the test cars made like 50% more power than stock. There was a memorable quote from some journalist along the lines of "yeah, when it was sitting there idling like a top fuel dragster we kinda figured something was up, but just ignored it." y'know, in the good old days when comapnies lied about horsepower instead of fuel economy*  *by "fuel economy" I mean empeagee's
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I was able to kick the rear side window out of a Passat wagon while simultaneously drunk, hypothermic and pretty badly concussed. Just gotta hit it right.
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13 INCH DICK posted:At the Boeing air museum when my dad came to visit he made me stand at the nose of he SR71 while he photographed me from afar. He then shouted his thanks because he needed a banana for scale. That's not an SR-71. Edit: as much as the type of extremely fast airplane wasn't the point of that post. Elviscat fucked around with this message at 01:12 on Aug 15, 2014 |
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"I'll just pry this serpentine belt off of my alternator real quick before I change it out... wait, why can I do that by hand without any real trouble?" oh
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When I was still an electrician, I got the pleasure of troubleshooting a bunch of lights and outlets the had mysteriously stopped working, turns out a squirrel had chewed out a 2" section of 12ga. wire, right through the copper, turns out the cloth sheath on old rubber-insulated wire makes great squirrel beds. Lucky for the squirrel it was knob&tube, so it could chew through each conductor individually without frying its poor little brain.
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Shifty Pony posted:Whatever fluid Ford puts in their PS pumps probably was selected for its acoustic properties more than anything else. When I was younger and dumberer I blew a power-steering hose off the cooler in my '01 Mustang, I walked to the nearest gas station, and bought PS fluid, because logically that's what you put in loving power steering systems, and dumped that poo poo in. Didn't hurt the power steering system, but it apparently had twice the acoustic velocity of ATF, 'cause goddamn did that motherfucker whine until I flushed it out.
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Arrath posted:Looks like a buffing or waxing wheel, so eye pro proooobably isn't strictly necessary...just smart. He does have some safety maglarses, don't know if they were tucked behind his head before or after "the Grinder Incident" though.
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I thought most cars relied on an inertial cut-off switch to kill the fuel pump, one that triggers at a certain g-force and is resetable? It seems to me it would suck to be in a minor collision that caused you to not be able to pull over to the side of the road
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stevewm posted:He has such the following that several people have taken the time to make a Google Doc listing all the AvE slang and even defined it in dictionary format. See: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-_b2m8brkZ3SftLiqO-O-noAJATZixfMfxmTT_kjoEw/edit#heading=h.yagk8f928lzl I really enjoyed "Multitudinous" ... "a real word"
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PainterofCrap posted:For that pun, you should only be shot. Why do you have so much resistance to it?
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Oct 14, 2018 18:09
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I feel like he could have amped it up more.
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Oct 14, 2018 18:10
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Why's everyone so charged up about this?
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I don't know if this thread has the capacitance for many more jokes, but I like to resist change.
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honda whisperer posted:I don't think most people know what recirc is or what it does. This is obfuscated on the controls as well, many times "MAX AC!!!"
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Nov 3, 2018 02:34
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I snapped a drill bit in wood the other day, how the gently caress do you apply that much torque without breaking it???
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stranger danger posted:It'd be gimmicky and IDK if it would stand the test of time but I'd give it a test drive. I've had occasion to drive my mom's Forester with a CVT, it seems as good or better than most modern manuals I've driven.
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I have a couple of those poo poo plastic lines on my Ranger that are weeping, would copper tubing be an ok replacement, or would it have some weird electrolytic interaction and I should spring for CRES?
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I don't see a problem? Looks like a right fine repair jerb to me
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Little backstory: I got a $200 John Deere Lawn tractor with no deck from a barely-verbal man who lived in middle of the woods, only stated problems were that it didn't run very good, and had no deck. I brought it home, learned how to set a government , which went well, and everything was hunky-dori  Then, a couple days later, my roommate reported he had driven the tractor over a bump, and couldn't re-start the engine, we both assumed it was the government linkage again, but fiddling produced no results. I re-cleaned the carb, replaced the ignition coil, and hosed around variously with the carb and engine, it continued to not start even with go-juice straight in the intake. I finally took off the valve-cover, hoping I could find an issue dropped or burnt valve, anything evident.  Dang, nothing.
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I kinda respect what he's going for, but that is a lot of time and effort to make a lathe that makes those el cheapo Chinese minis look like precision machines. The angle he tapped that loving screw hole at bugs the poo poo out of me on a deep psychological level.
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Jun 19, 2019 19:29
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Guess I'll just stare off into space instead of looking at what the gently caress I'm doing.
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helno posted:That is what we do on our large generators (875 Mw) Static buildup and discharge is a huge problem on any large rotating machinery with plain bearings, it can buildup to thousands of volts and arc across the oil film, causing small pits in the bearing surface, until that surface is no longer smooth enough to support the oil film, then you wipe your bearing. Fortunately it is a well solved problem with shaft grounding and whatnot, but it's kinda cool MRC48B posted:Some mechanical engineer tell me why you cannot just put an insulating spacer around the outer race of the bearing, or between the inner race and motor shaft. To elaborate on what others have said, it's doable, but costly, your stator-to-rotor clearances are measured in thousands of an inch (or other unit), and it's very difficult to find something strong, rigid, and insulating all in one, definitely doable for a 20MW turbine with a 50 year service life, but not so much on your 10 grand motor, and proper grounding is an easier and cheaper solution that obviates coming up with a different one. Honestly you just don't see radical bearing wear like that in most small motor applications, so much so I'm really glad Slidebite posted those photos since that's borderline porn for me. Also to be clear, the damage caused in his photos is full on current flow, like measured in amps, not microamps like static, I work with VFDs a lot, and don't see that failure mode, I would be fascinated to see if this becomes more of an issue, with VFDs being the Second Coming in the land of making things rotate with electricity.
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The rust is strong in that part of the country, right after they salt the roads it turns 50 and raining to really help speed the corrosion process and evenly coat all metal surfaces, I can't imagine Daewoos have good rust proofing, or that the owner of an Aveo would ever care enough to regularly wash their car.
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Oh, and somewhere the roads are so bad that they destroy your suspension components? Where someone will sell you a welder for $20 in illicit pharmaceuticals? The answer is the American Rust Belt isn't it? E:^gently caress.
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Blue On Blue posted:Tesla is a cool car and all, and I like that it pushed the boundaries upon inception There's a bright future for automated cars, but for fucks sake you have to wait until it can avoid loving lampposts and pedestrians before you half-rear end roll it out
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Took me a minute, mostly because that crimp is so nice and cleanly obv the wrong drat thing.
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Someone's been watching too many AVE videos on "flextures"
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Anyone trying to drill out anything: invest in some good-quality loving drill bits, made in the US or Japan or Germany, be careful, and use low speed and lots of pressure. You'll save so much in bit-shrapnel and heartache this way. I have some ¼",⁷/16", and ½" bits I bought off McMaster, and holy poo poo are they a revelation, I haven't burnt up a single one, and I've used them to drill dozens of holes each now. You can get a set of good Cleline drills from Lowes, just do it.
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I've driven in most of the major cities on both US coasts, and Philly was a special hell, I was in a hotel down by the airport, and the roads around there often had no lane markings, lanes would end without signage, and indeterminate lane markings would make merging impossible, this seemed to contribute to no one, ever, under any circumstances actually following traffic laws. Many parts of the third world have a better driving experience.
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um excuse me posted:Fiberglass tanks are standard use on most SCBA tanks in the US. Those suckers are 4500psi. LPG is 320 psi at room temp, though I'd rate them for 200°F at least. I think that's probably Compressed Natural Gas, not Liquified Propane Gas that gets used for car engines, CNG has MUCH higher pressures, and can't be liquified at room temperature. They should also have a relief valve integral to the valve assembly, I'm sure that was removed/defeated though. I don't think they're rated for extreme cold though, and that pic looks like Russia in winter so it's also possible that the tank has a flaw, and passed below its Reference Transition Temperature, which could have lowered the strength of the steel tank liner by an order of magnitude, and caused it to rapidly and catastrophically fail by a mechanism known as Brittle Fracture. Elviscat fucked around with this message at 08:29 on Dec 22, 2019 |
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That's honestly perfectly serviceable, nice big bolts and nice thick sheet metal, bolting circle could be a little more even, but it looks like the spacing is ok.
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Drill 8 more holes, you need to stress-relieve the ends of the crack.
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That right there is some quality home-grown content for this thread, drat.
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If it was the Navy it'd be a digit (multitool/leatherman)
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Did you notice if the low oil pressure light came on? If it didn't you're fine, the dipstick is conservative. That's a lucky place to have a break! It'll be an easy fix. Learning to diagnose issues by yourself on the side of the road can be a very valuable skill, it can help you avoid, say, destroying all your bearings in a case like this.
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