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Measly Twerp posted:I've always wanted to build down, instead of build up. Just somewhere other than Coober Pedy. In regards to building down, is there a spider table in Australia, like there's a water table here in South Florida I would just imagine that any hole you dug would immediately fill with venomous local fauna.
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CommieGIR posted:"Our RAID Array just failed....yes we were aware that there were some failed drives...no we didn't replace them and rebuild the array. Backups? What backups?" It should be legal to punch that person in the mouth, and then leave a steamer on their desk before you leave.
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Nov 21, 2013 03:54
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Is that to make sure you're trapped inside when it catches fire? I've never seen an external roll cage, before...
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Nov 23, 2013 01:56
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Being an interior mechanic is basically either for guys fresh out of school, or a punishment for sleeping with the station managers wife. I am forever glad I worked for a cargo airline.
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Nov 25, 2013 17:48
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Tide posted:In no way a failure: That's a goddamned spectacular idea. Also an excellent litmus test for womenfolk you bring home.
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Dec 3, 2013 20:04
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Cakefool posted:Any goons here that work in aircraft maintenance? I attended a little talk at work a couple of weeks ago that talked about how the designers took "maintenance" and "what is humanly possible" and no part exists in isolation" into account when designing systems, fastenings, plumbing, routing etc. It was all very interesting & they showed some cad walkthroughs of an engine mounted on a wing, maintenance doors opening, human arm and recommended tool comes into view, bolts & brackets get removed, parts come out & in again. Captain Postal posted:See if you can find the 777 anti collision light example. The 777 was designed from scratch on CAD and they did include a little human figure to see where arms can reach and what can be accessed with what range of motion and what physical strength and so on. They still managed to build the dorsal (or maybe tail) strobe light so the bulb could only be access from inside the dome but outside the pressure hull - so you'd better hope the thing lasts 20-odd years because there is literally no way of accessing it. I think there was something similar with the 787. The system exists but it isn't fool-proof. I used to be a line mechanic, and I can confirm that it is light years better on newer airframes than on older ones. That said, there's always Douglas products. 
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Dec 8, 2013 14:42
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Splizwarf posted:It's only the dogs (and deer and other wildlife) that you have to worry about. Cats don't give a gently caress about it because they have literally zero taste or smell receptors for "sweet". My girlfriend's cat showing up begging every time one of us has ice cream, pie, cake, candy, etc, would like to call bullshit on this.
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Dec 11, 2013 22:16
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Terrible Robot posted:Pro mechanics use all their senses, including taste, to identify leaks. What has been tasted... Cannot be untasted.
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Dec 11, 2013 22:22
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How the hell did he get to fifteen minutes banging off the limiter without someone coming over and shoving his teeth down his neck?
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Dec 16, 2013 17:39
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InitialDave posted:He's in a retail park with a lovely Focus with quad headlights. Everyone around him would be part of what can cautiously be called his peer group. Anyone who's into cars should know that a car banging off the limiter isn't awesome, it's the sound of a machine being beaten by its owner, and that you need to step in and punch him in the mouth before he breaks it.
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Boat posted:
The mag fed cartridges facing straight down, the breech had to rotate the cartridge 90 degrees, lock, seal the chamber, and then keep rotating to vent the chamber, and feed the next round, all at instantaneous rates of fire around 2000 rounds per minute... It's basically the best :germany: gif ever conceived.
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Dec 21, 2013 15:43
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That's that gun that fires caseless ammunition, why is it full of clockwork?
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Cakefool posted:Please post this gif if you have it? I've never seen an animated gif of the mechanism, but here's a pair of stills to help you picture it. 
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Dec 21, 2013 22:16
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PatrickBateman posted:That reminds me of a problem we solved at work. On the CFM56-5A engine, there is a turbine clearance control valve, called the HPTCC. It bleeds air from the compressor to shrink the case around the turbine for efficiency. It's such a CUTE little engine. I so, so wish I had pictures of me draining ten gallons of skydrol out of the oil scavenge pump feed line of a CF6...
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Dec 24, 2013 12:37
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CommieGIR posted:How...how....gently caress Each engine has two hydraulic pumps a primary, and a backup, and the garlock seals on the primary pump failed in a rather spectacular fashion, which let the pump dump the entire contents of the #3 hydraulic system into the engine main gearbox. Kicker A: The flight crew saw the engine oil temp go up, but didn't want to declare an emergency or do the paperwork that a shutdown would have called for, so they just yanked it back to flight idle, and flew it another three hours home.  Kicker B: GE technical services had us change the oil, run it for half an hour, change the oil again, and then test fly it, and signed it off, despite three hours of operation with hydraulic fluid for oil. 
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Dec 24, 2013 18:38
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dietcokefiend posted:What airline or plane type? I want to make sure I just drive cross country instead of hop in that thing. Gemini Air Cargo, no longer in business.  Note, the airline didn't sign it off, the engine manufacturer did.
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Dec 24, 2013 21:15
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tactlessbastard posted:Quit browsing the forums at family events you loving goon. I was kinda wondering in what context you would have people watching you browse a forum...
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Dec 27, 2013 02:16
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That's either a fancy kitchen drawer knob, or the worlds teensiest weensiest little failed compressor wheel.
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Jan 26, 2014 05:44
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Slavvy posted:I love how the MDPS ecu is on the rack under the engine. There is a special place in hell for that engineering team.
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cursedshitbox posted:Oh yeah, 90s LT1 distributors mounted under the god drat water pump But at least Optisparks had a breather hole, so They got slightly better when they went to an engine-vacuum connected vent in '95, but the best thing to do with an gen II at this point is to replace it with a gen III/IV, anyway...
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Jan 27, 2014 00:26
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Id say that the only thing that got greased was the checklist.
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Jan 28, 2014 15:07
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It's not broken, it's just excited.
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Jan 29, 2014 18:35
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tentative8e8op posted:
Wheels, hell. That's the whole godamned axle. See also; American Graffiti.
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Feb 23, 2014 21:49
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Seat Safety Switch posted:So your AC compressor seized but the clutch is fine? Well... Was fine.
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Feb 23, 2014 22:19
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Yeah, if you're out walking here and it's below -10 you can A. hear Fords approaching from a mile away because their power steering is howling and B. hear any car that's over 5 years old because the belt is making the sound of a baby seal getting stabbed in the eye. Ford power steering pump whine is the first car noise that car guys learn to identify. It's like a babies bottle.
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Feb 24, 2014 14:34
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TotalLossBrain posted:edit: The Mk VIII had a busted air compressor for the shocks. I thought they came from the factory dragging their rear end on the pavement.
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Wisconsin?
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Alabama doesn't have CIWS and Tomahawk ABLs. That's an Iowa.
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Mar 14, 2014 14:46
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Throatwarbler posted:"Stolen Viper found in parking lot stripped" The thieves didn't strip it. The thieves did half the work of turning it into an AWESOME go-kart.
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BoostCreep posted:The last time I tried taking Craftsman tools back for replacement I got a remanufactured socket wrench that broke a week later and they wouldn't replace my screw drivers because they were "clearly used for things other than just turning screws". I used to have an older 1/4 drive ratchet that was amazing. It had a very fine ratcheting action, and I couldn't break it if I tried. I'd put some of the older Craftsman stuff up against SnapOn any day. When it grew legs out on the ramp one night, I replaced it with a new Craftsman. What a piece of poo poo. It had like eight clicks for 360 degrees, and it broke the third time I used it. craftsmancomplaints.txt
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kastein posted:I've used them... don't know that I'd spend money on them, but they can be nice. Especially if the bolts aren't rusty. Stop parking your poo poo in the ocean, seriously.
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tater_salad posted:I can't believe the drat things ran for 10k hrs and 8 years on original fluid.. that's really drat good. Exactly. Not surprised they died, but poo poo, I bet they're buying Cats again.
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I like walking up to an unfamiliar compressor with a pressurized tank, hitting the bleed valve, and getting not just a solid stream of water, but a solid stream of RUSTY water. It inspires confidence.
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NOS (Nitrous Oxide Systems) is a company (now owned by Holley) that specializes in nitrous oxide injection parts and systems. N2O is nitrous oxide, the gas that is injected by a nitrous system. You cannot inject a company into an engine. Please help me make the ringing in my head stop. 
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quote:Friction welding chat My favorite video, possibly on the entire internet. (Which says terrible things about me...) http://youtu.be/5JbnDXw-0pM
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MrChips posted:Impulse magneto This is why you don't let pilots in the hangar...
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I think I just heard kastein's head explode.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:How they film the crash tests. Jesus loving poo poo 4:27. 
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kastein posted:Protip: do not rearend vehicles outweighing you by an order of magnitude if you want to live. Exactly right, I just had no idea they actually did crash tests of that kind of impact. Related: One of my girlfriend's coworkers rear-ended a school bus this morning. (Everyone is ok.) Frustratingly, my girlfriend not only failed to get pictures, but she didn't mercilessly ridicule the person in question for the entire day.
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