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I have no idea what's going on here, but I doubt it's working as intended. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_zC7QK64Ks
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Revolvyerom posted:"Hm, that looks kind of bad, but if they shut it down maybe they can..." "Huh, that doesn't look right, but maybe it's just leaking fuel into the exhaust, no big d..." 
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More like a horrible design failure.  Swedish car magazine "Teknikens Värld" puts the Jeep Grand Cherokee through a standard 70kph (43mph) evasion test. All three sample cars fail horribly, and in 7 of the tries they even blow a front tire. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaYFLb8WMGM
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Chrysler's response is pretty funny.quote:During the evaluation, the publication was able to capture images of a Grand Cherokee on two wheels as it performed an extreme maneuver in an overloaded condition.
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Tekne posted:Finally, Germany's Auto Motor und Sport ran their ISO standard moose test and couldn't destabilize the Jeep with any load even up to maximum weight, which is curious when you combine that with Teknikens Värld inability to produce these results when Chrysler's engineers were present. Either way I'm sure this will get more media attention as it develops and we'll just have to wait and see.
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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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KozmoNaut posted:I find it disturbing that someone actually dared get close enough to take that picture. 
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Sockington posted:My sister's rotors weren't very far from becoming two-piece. 
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You said you wanted a differential lock. It's locked. What are you complaining about? 
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At least it went out and not in. I'm guessing there's some sort of shielding on the inwards facing side so you don't shower the passengers or cargo with shrapnel in case it blows?
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InitialDave posted:poo poo, Bob, get the cordon from the cafeteria queue set up around that hole before someone hurts themselves!  ("accident" because the plant operators knew the #2 turbine was vibrating out of spec for a long time but didn't want to spend the money to fix it.) Collateral Damage fucked around with this message at 23:37 on Feb 8, 2013 |
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On the topic of nuclear reactors, Sweden's first experimental nuclear reactor R1 was built in the basement of the royal institute of technology, smack in the middle of our capital, in a time when nuclear research basically amounted to "let's smack these two things together and see what happens  ".
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Feb 8, 2013 23:52
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Would you download a car? 
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"Sorry, didn't see you there mate."
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Tactical Bonnet posted:I believe the word I used to describe it was "awesome." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsjRvYnjDUE
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There's everything from kids classes where you run basically souped up lawn tractors to the superheavy classes where you have machines with 3-4 supercharged V12s, quad gas turbines, etc all fuelled by money and madness.
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Soodonim posted:imageshack is a flaming pile of poo poo e: Nice to see SA translations are still around. 
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a nest of hornets posted:The Detroit People Mover definitely qualifies as a horrible mechanical failure.
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nitrogen posted:In Los Colinas where I used to work, we had one hell of a boondoggle of a monorail there. For the longest time, it only operated for a few hours in the day, from like 11a-3p for lunchtime. Since DART expanded to the area, it runs longer now to ferry people from the DART trains now.  Too bad most existing systems are crap.
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And I'm guessing the whole thing is at least a six figure fuckup?
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Feb 12, 2014 11:27
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Around here they usually just have rubber flaps that you drive through.
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I've been a passenger during a landing in very turbulent crosswinds once. It's definitely one of the most pants-making GBS threads moments in my life.
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If I were to guess, I'd say a combination of a rusted frame and overloading. Then you hit a pothole and it's the straw that literally broke the trailer's back.
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http://theaviationist.com/2014/03/05/tunguska-out-of-control/
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atomicthumbs posted:piston was hiding
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Off topic, how are you liking that Sculpt Ergonomic? I'm a zealous fan of the old MS 4k Ergonomic but have been eyeing the Sculpt.
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Just get some gears and make a U12. 
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The N2O made it run super lean and probably melted half the engine. e: Happy now? Collateral Damage fucked around with this message at 11:50 on Apr 13, 2014 |
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Apr 12, 2014 22:15
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Do they pull and rebuild the same engine between each run, or do they have a spare engine they swap into the car while rebuilding the one that recently ran?
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KozmoNaut posted:They also like to hide inside helmets. Content related to Fire Storm's exploded battery. Not quite as dramatic, from a 2U rackmount UPS. 
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revmoo posted:You can tell it's clearly a knockoff battery, nice. Anyway a replacement battery pack from APC was about $300 and a completely new UPS was $400 so we quickly decided not to waste any effort on it, junk the entire device and get a new one.
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Lead-Acid batteries last about 5 years, then it's time to replace them regardless of what battery tests say. Normally they don't fail quite as spectacularly as Fire Storm's or mine, they'll just silently stop holding a charge. Starting to bulge like that is a trait of Gel/AGM batteries, usually happens when they've suffered overheating or overcharging, but can happen when cells start to fail with age as well. This is why you should always have a support contract on your main UPS that includes battery replacement at regular intervals.
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From reddit.
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Hillridge posted:Most APC UPS systems use nothing fancy for batteries. It's usually a bunch of 12-7 or so Lead Acids. Find decent quality replacements, swap them out, and you're good to go. The main electronics will last a long time, no reason to buy a whole new unit.
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Not quite that drastic, but yes, shooting it from a distance behind cover is the preferred way.
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Zemyla posted:I was expecting that to spell out words at the end.
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Do all multimeters feed its entire voltage through the probes in resistance mode? I would expect there to be a resistor or something to prevent shorting it (and doing dumb stuff like kill yourself).
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Xlorp posted:Your sacrifice is acceptable to Fingat, patron deity of horrible mechanical failures.
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Tommychu posted:Just googled jubilee clip, and my ignorant North American brain is once again confused by British automotive nomenclature. A hose clamp isn't really deserving of the term 'clip', and the preceding 'Jubilee' makes even less sense. The hell?
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