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jamal posted:how not to jump start a car: What. The. gently caress. How does that even happen? How do people like that not stab themselves with their shoelaces in the morning?
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Previa_fun posted:Kind of like a turbocharger failure but on a bigger scale: I had an APU come back from overhaul, and get installed with a 1st stage that looked like that. Day shift couldn't figure out why it kept shutting down and BITing overtemp during the ops check, till I stuck a borescope down the intake. It looked like someone had fed it rocks.
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Feb 3, 2013 01:47
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PatrickBateman posted:hmmm.... was this at NWA in 2005 right before the strike? we had one like that.... No, Gemini Air Cargo, ~2007. Phanatic posted:That's kind of terrifying. This is what our APUs fail like:  Phanatic posted:Aside from the body of the APU itself, no, not really. Theres your problem. It's not covered in oil and hydrualic fluid. They run better on an air/fuel/oil/skydrol mix. "Gemini 515, returning to the gate, smoke in the cockpit." 
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Feb 3, 2013 17:06
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Root Bear posted:
I cant tell if that's a failed weld, JB Weld, or dental amalgam.
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Feb 6, 2013 04:56
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TotalLossBrain posted:Real edit: Have some turbine generator failures. Was that some kind of military strike, or a dynamic failure? Either way; AWESOME.
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Feb 7, 2013 03:45
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Devyl posted:You're funny. Try aircraft carrier arresting gear. Not to mention that the incredibly valuable aircraft full of people and explosives that snapped it is now most likely too slow to go around, and is now pointed at the water.
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Feb 8, 2013 18:08
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CommieGIR posted:'Rolling Coal' is a death sentence for an engine. It's a death sentence for the owners chances to ever touch a woman who still has all her teeth, as well.
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Feb 10, 2013 18:22
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InterceptorV8 posted:http://youtu.be/_JQdxC63vCQ They tried to reject the takeoff well past V1, and overran the end of the runway. Everyone walked away, luckily.
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Feb 16, 2013 23:13
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Previa_fun posted:The IIHS small overlap crash test is loving brutal. Jesus, still almost no deformation of the passenger compartment. I'd buy that engineering team a round of beers.
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Mar 6, 2013 23:23
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Measly Twerp posted:That's what you get when a semi pulls onto the road going much slower than traffic. If you've left yourself zero room to either change lanes, or enough space to get slowed down, then you're loving doing it wrong.
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Mar 8, 2013 03:22
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PainterofCrap posted:I'm afraid that's steel belt weave. The best way to inspect control cables/wire rope is to have an apprentice run a rag down the length of the cable. When he screams, and blood comes out, that cable fails inspection.
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Mar 11, 2013 04:50
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sofullofhate posted:Fixed that for you. You think BMWs are characterless? Try a Mercedes. 
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Apr 2, 2013 12:45
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Shai-Hulud posted:Not a horrible mechanical failure yet but yeah: The lovely home-depot pipe clamp holding the turbo discharge pipe on the housing is an indicator that the owner probably doesn't know a great deal, either.
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Apr 11, 2013 23:02
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Previa_fun posted:The best part is when he still counter steers. ...He drove the wheels off it...
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Apr 26, 2013 20:21
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BlackMK4 posted:I know how it all goes money wise, but I still can't ever imagine loving with an engine that costs so much to rebuild. I'll stick to my lovely little bike engines where I can get a used motor with 10k on it for $1500. I'd rather rebuild the engine than the transmission. I don't think a Saturn V costs as much as a GTR transmission.
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Apr 27, 2013 16:31
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D C posted:What a hack. Imagine how many idiot customers he has that don't know the difference between good work and bad... I'd wager a couple bucks that they outnumber the ones who do.
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May 10, 2013 01:27
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opengl128 posted:loving hell ...To say nothing of endangering EVERY OTHER PERSON ON THE ROAD NEAR THAT loving ABORTION. People and their lack of mechanical understanding annoy me.
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May 19, 2013 16:43
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Can't you call the cops for endangering a child like that?
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May 26, 2013 18:50
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stump posted:Mechanical Failures in the Making: A British Leyland quality control video I like that they didn't just pick an incident with a pedestrian, they picked one with a pedestrian, AND a smashed infant.
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Jun 3, 2013 22:49
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Opensourcepirate posted:On the unintended acceleration front - most of the cars that were 'experiencing' it were Toyotas. It's easy to just blame that on the fact that Toyota has marketed their cars specifically to the people that don't want to have know anything about cars to keep theirs on the road. I think it has a lot to do with the throttle response on their new cars though. My parents have an 08 (or something like that) Corolla, and every time I drive it for the first time in a while I start almost peeling out every time I accelerate. The first 20% of the pedal movement has to account for at least 50% of the actual power available. Almost everything for the base consumer is like this now, Toyota or not. When people unfamiliar with actually kinda-quick cars drive my GTO for the first time, their first comment is always, "It feels so slow, why doesn't this peda- OH MY GOD," because the throttle is so much more linear than is standard in new cars.
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Jun 8, 2013 18:12
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So... What's it for?
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Jun 18, 2013 01:53
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Raluek posted:While I don't have any pictures, I just witnessed a very strange mechanic(al) failure. I'm waiting to turn left, and I see a late second gen Camaro ahead of me lose a wheel. So I go straight through the intersection instead of turning, and ask the driver (wearing a three piece suit without the jacket) if he needs a hand. He frowns and says "Lemme think about that" as he pulls his wheel out of the ditch. Then he gets back into the car and fuckin' floors it down the road, dragging the right front brake disk. So there I am, about to offer him a jack, standing in his cloud of dust, next to his wheel (which he left in the road). I drive home via the road he took and never saw him again, what a strange fellow. I guess he was late for whatever he was going to? But he didn't even throw his wheel in the trunk. Who the hell drives a plastic fantastic camaro and wears a three piece suit?
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Jul 6, 2013 22:59
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Devyl posted:2nd gens were not plastic, mister 
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Jul 7, 2013 01:12
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Astroman posted:This looks like an open wound with visible viscera. My first thought was "What the hell was living inside that engine!?"
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Jul 10, 2013 19:25
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The natural gas combined cycle combustion turbines at the power plant my father works at have actively cooled turbine blades and stators. Basically, each blade/stator has tiny air bleeds in the leading edges, fed with compressor bleed air, which forms a boundary layer on the blade, allowing higher turbine inlet temps, without making things all melty. I'm not sure, but I dont believe there are any aviation engines that do this, since at those scales, the bleeds would have to be impractically small.
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Jul 20, 2013 15:01
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helno posted:It is pretty common actually. To be fair, all the aviation turbines I've seen disassembled were 35+ year old designs. 
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Jul 20, 2013 15:14
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kastein posted:haha, you think ANYONE actually changes their differential oil except rednecks with offroad trucks and car enthusiasts with track cars. I change mine every 36k miles. 
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Jul 22, 2013 12:28
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Where the gently caress was this when I was looking for an avatar?
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Aug 25, 2013 14:55
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"That's not so bad, I wonder why this is in mechanical disasters..."  "... Oh."
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Sep 5, 2013 12:47
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EightBit posted:Probably not, welding onto cast metal is usually a bitch, and that area would probably just break again without careful heat treatment. This. The only way I could see it being attempted is if the block is something rare, like a side-oiler FE, an original-to-a-specific-chassis engine for a restoration, or something.
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Sep 19, 2013 21:14
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:Is that engine full of marshmallows?! It looks delicious. Just need to find a K-car so we can make some marshmallow milkshakes.
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Oct 3, 2013 19:01
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14 INCH DETECTIVE posted:Unrelated: Was that just fatigue , or was there a projectile? If so, what was it?
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Oct 3, 2013 21:09
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Brain Issues posted:Engines don't normally have water shooting out of cylinders do they?? Why is it only one cylinder?
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Oct 15, 2013 17:51
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CommieGIR posted:Just don't huff it and don't bathe in it and you'll be fine. Its all about exposure limits. Well, there goes MY weekend plans...
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Oct 21, 2013 17:38
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Geirskogul posted:Bitch you've never worked in Arizona Or Florida. Garages here are generally unbearable to work in, even with ventilation.
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Oct 28, 2013 20:57
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Seat Safety Switch posted:This was me last night: Why is your car covered in cocaine?
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Oct 28, 2013 22:49
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Endless Mike posted:That was the AT&T iPhone 4, not the 4s. (The later Verizon iPhone 4 had fixed it, as well.) When I got my 4, (on release day) I tried HARD to replicate the antenna-gate problems, and really couldn't. The only way I could come close was to death grip the entire surround of the phone with my forefingers and thumbs of both hands, and even then, I would still have (degraded) reception.
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Oct 30, 2013 18:31
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anonumos posted:My high school class took a trip to the Keys. While driving on one of those narrow as gently caress 2 lane roads, a pygmy deer decided to dive bomb one of the charter bus' tires. Funniest thing I'd ever seen (it bounced off the hubcap and ran off in a daze, thankfully). Key Deer (not pygmy deer) are endangered. Cute little buggers, too.
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ironblock posted:Sounds like we know why. Much like white tails, they're loving dumb.  (Combined with their natural range being minuscule.)
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thylacine posted:
Imagine being a passenger at the next station when gore-train pulls up...
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