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IOwnCalculus posted:So what do you do in that situation? Wait for a service crew to fix it? Collapsing next to tracks and weeping is the standard procedure
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Motronic posted:Some departments use foam on car fires because it will go bad sitting in the tank before we get to blow our loads on a real job. This is from a few pages back but it reminds me of when the "Art Barn" at my elementary school burned down, and the firefighters decided to use foam... ...and sprayed it onto the building from the side directly opposite the creek, where a population of endangered salmon live. The stuff floated downstream and the local salmon-based non-profit had dozens of volunteers out for months scooping the stuff out.
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Motronic posted:I'm not sure how soap bubbles can last for months....... I could be; I was little then, so I might've misremembered how much time they (and sometimes I, since my mom works for that organization) spent scooping foam out. I'll check with her to get the actual details.
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CommieGIR posted:Not mine, someone I knew. Jesus what did they do? Drive into a lake?
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JD Brickmeister posted:Lesson - this kind of poo poo happens with sealed batteries - something I did not know. Technically, it only happens with unsealed batteries.
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My UPS functioned as nothing but a glorified power conditioner when I picked it up off the sidewalk. Its main function is to make a horrible squealing noise to let me know that the power is fluctuating or going out. I'm afraid to open it up because the battery probably no longer resembles its original form.
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peepsalot posted:Also don't forget that it's one of the few acids that will dissolve glass. gutta percha 4 lyfe
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kastein posted:this is why HOAs are the devil, especially for ham radio and AI types. Also why I refused to even consider any property burdened with HOA covenants when I was in the market, seeing as I am a ham operator and an AI type... Stealth antennas!
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And as a bonus, the propane will let you know that your AC system is leaking automatically, with its odor-based warning system!
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Shine on, you crazy diamonds.
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Just make a handle out of steel stock and weld it to the problem fastener, then cut it off when it's out. 
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You've invented bunker C! Powershift posted:press it all into a jar, and send it to them with no explanation and wait patiently for them to poo poo themselves. Do this and then post the results. atomicthumbs fucked around with this message at 00:21 on Jun 8, 2012 |
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Beach Bum posted:Have you tried reverse lately? From those parts and his description, it sounds more like he blew out neutral.
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:That was beautiful. What was the car? Something British? Triumph Spitfire.
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This morning I checked my dad's truck to see if I could find its vacuum leak. I wonder why this side's so greasy and the other one's not?  wait a minute  well, there's the vacuum leak and the oil leak, which apparently has been spewing oil all over half of the engine compartment for at least a year. Wait a minute, what was  no  noooooooooooooooo Why? How? How long has he been driving it like this? How has he not noticed!? Also, possibly related: the bump stops on the control arms are beaten to poo poo and half missing on both sides. Unrelated: the flexible steering coupler has beaten itself to poo poo and the steering is unpleasantly loose. atomicthumbs fucked around with this message at 06:58 on Sep 8, 2012 |
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Boat posted:I wonder if there's a name for the weird psychological phenomenon of it feeling like I'm chewing on a mouthful of rocks when I look at those. It's better than the feeling of chewing on a mouthful of teeth.
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General_Failure posted:It may be, but unless this is the HAMmiest town on earth, they can't all be. Sticking my head out the door just now, even with trees in the way I could see plenty of other ones about the same height sticking up above everything. If the antenna has several elements arranged in a line, and the elements are the same length, it's a Yagi-Uda directional antenna, optimized for one band. If it has elements arranged in a line, decreasing in length, it's a log-periodic directional antenna with a higher bandwidth. If it has LOADS of crap all over it, little tabs and rods and stuff sticking all over what looks like a log-periodic, it's a TV antenna.
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General_Failure posted:It's possible, although it probably was the ravages of age. General rule of thumb is almost everything here is old. When I was driving past it looked as though it had failed at the base and tipped. No distortion or unevenness at the base. Are these things bolted to a slab or something? There are tilt-over towers that are designed to, well, tilt over. You work on your antennas while it's horizontal and then hoist it back up when you're done; that way, you don't have to climb it. General_Failure posted:There's also one a few houses away that's associated with some kind of storage shed. It just seems to have a single spike coming out the top. That's definitely an amateur radio or CB antenna.
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KozmoNaut posted:To add a bit onto this, the problem is exactly as massive as it sounds. This engine is used in basically every single model from Peugeot/Citroën, loads of Fords, MINIs, Volvos and so on, and they're all affected. You'd think Volvo would've learned their lesson about Peugeot after the first time. atomicthumbs fucked around with this message at 12:51 on Apr 12, 2013 |
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Beach Bum posted:I had a serious issue with this on the Volvo 240. You jack it up with the jacking points, and then there's not anywhere else to shove a jackstand. I ended up jacking on the center cross-frame-rails with a 2x4 and the floor jack and getting jackstands under both ends at the jacking points. That's the way you're supposed to do it on the 240, I think.
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Rugoberta Munchu posted:I wonder if they were doing that thing where you rest your palms on the wheel and breath out an "oh poo poo" while staring straight ahead in disbelief and didn't even notice dumpster boulder having second thoughts at the last moment. They have very quick reflexes on the hazard lights, in any case.
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West SAAB Story posted:
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Ozmiander posted:Daylight in your engine bay fight! 
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