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tater_salad posted:BUT.. it was NEVER used for support, the car went up, got dropped on jack stands (I always use 2 on the side I'm working on). I also try to put the tires under the frame of the car for just 1 more point of protection. Yea, pretty much this. You have to be pretty retarded to use a scissor jack for support. Even if you for whatever reason don't have a jack stand, use your spare tire, a brick or whatever.
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OneStopShop posted:http://youtu.be/RLB8dmVIlGE I suppose its lucky this happened where he had a runoff area.
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some texas redneck posted:Ever wonder what happens when a fire starts at an acetylene bottler? The must suck so much, being a firefighter and not being able to do a damned thing about a fire. Even if a bottle of acetylene is consumed by fire and doesn't explode (not heated for long enough) it's still dangerous, even if the bottle has been cooled down. That said, oxyacetylene cutters are soooo fun.
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 Might not be so horrible compared to some of the stuff in this thread, but not really a thing you want to happen to you while driving.
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meatpimp posted:There's a whole lot more to that story than just "happened while driving." I don't really know the guy whose car this is, but from what i know he is a petrol head (imsobadwithwords). Not that it really matters, the car was a '00 Legacy Outback. But i find it hard to believe that he didn't notice anything wrong before going "oh god no brakes".
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Cakefool posted:By the looks if that, "ooh god no brakes" happened a while ago. That may be, but keep in mind that in Iceland everything is swimming in salt before you can say "helvítis snjór". Ok that is a bad example, but you get my point.
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Motronic posted:Salt doesn't make you put your foot on the brake pedal after you've removed the caliper. What i meant was that most disks look like this after say, 4 days, of no movement because of the insane amount of salt everywhere. But i really have no idea what the condition of that car was, it appeared on a facebook feed (or whatever those things are called) and then sent to me. dor1 fucked around with this message at 17:12 on Dec 22, 2011 |
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InitialDave posted:So, yeah, a boat fell over in Italy. Anyone want to talk about that? So that would be a captains failure more than anything else. edit: Who the hell takes a ship of that size that close to a coast? Also: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/01/14/article-2086527-0F7474AE00000578-838_634x481.jpg (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Steamos posted:Didn't it hit a sandbar beforehand? The three people that died tried to swim to land. I can tell you that jumping from that sort of height and now knowing how to land "safely" will hurt like hell.
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Two Finger posted:A relief valve lifted, this is a small room off to the side of the main engine room that I normally just glance into to see if there are any problems, and, well. I dunno how long the relief valve had been dumping for but it was several tonnes of water. edit: also, why isn't there a water sensor or some such poo poo in there?
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Two Finger posted:The two problems are actually unrelated, they just happened on the same day. The big pool of water is from one system, the heat exchanger leak is from the cooling for the main engines. I just thought most 'rooms' where the coolers are had flotation sensors that activated a bilge pump. VVVVVVV - I am an illiterate dumbass dor1 fucked around with this message at 15:16 on Jan 30, 2012 |
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InitialDave posted:Also, if you dimension a UNJF thread in millimeters you deserve a slap. Who? Who does this? But keeping with the Boeing inch thing, a friend of mine is working for an airline as a technician that use Boeing aircraft exclusively, and he has no problem with it, probably because he, like everyone else working there has gotten used to it a looong time ago.
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A coworker of mine had a bit of trouble with his Renault.  He claims that the sparkplug broke and did that damage, although i'd reckon the valve broke first, because i'm fairly sure it'd take a broken spark plug a long time to do all that damage. And another coworker messed up a 'bit' when reassembling a forklift 
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Captain Postal posted:I swear I heard it somewhere that there was a requirement on ease of removing the steering wheel and exiting (with help?) in the event of a fire. From the F1 regulations: quote:13.1.4 From his normal seating position, with all seat belts fastened and whilst wearing his usual driving equipment, the driver must be able to remove the steering wheel and get out of the car within 5 seconds and then replace the steering wheel in a total of 10 seconds.
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MrChips posted:The fire risk, while real, is a bit overstated in Formula 1 these days. To add a bit on this: Pretty much every time there is an engine fire these days the on board extinguisher will eliminate any danger to the driver.
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Woops As it turns out, 600Nm is not enough torque to fasten wheel bolts on forklifts.
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Number 1 Sexy Dad posted:Only the day after do I realize these were Mopar 1970s driver's-side reverse-thread studs and lugs. So I am the mechanic failure. I'm real strong though, apparently. Why the hell would they have reverse threads?
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tactlessbastard posted:How so? I'm assuming the Audi is towing the lorry.
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Pomp and Circumcized posted:Sometimes, companies sell jack stands as sets, and quote "10 tons" per set. Rather than 10 tons per stand. Which is pretty shady. RE: jackstand. We lifted the crane using the hydraulic rams on it, removed the wheel and placed the stand under hub, switched out the hydraulic cylinder/shock absorber, and the wheel put back on, but the problem was that the stand was placed in such a way that it was too close to the wheel, and when the wheel was back on (which was an absolute pain, no wonder) the tire made contact with the stand, and so when we dropped the crane back down, poo poo happened and the stand was hosed. The weight should really only have been 8 tons max. dor1 fucked around with this message at 15:22 on Mar 5, 2017 |
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