Absorbs Smaller Goons posted:

An engine block can twist when overheated. Combine that with torque and you can easily bend an engine block.

Kotaru posted:

Source?

Blinken posted:

Personal favorite.

Rogz posted:

I've done that to 2-strokes by overheating them so much the piston swells and touches the cylinder wall.

I've done some really horrible things to 2-strokes.

Ericadia posted:

IIRC they overloaded it by about 200,000lbs

Dr. Awesome MD posted:

Fucknag posted:

Unless they're used for firefighting duty.

Fucknag posted:

Now I feel bad.

blankooie posted:

55k for a new GTR motor?

For that price you could buy a Z06, and two spare motors.

teh jhey posted:

I love that you can almost hear the giant gulp as the car went nose-first into what he called a "puddle"

incredibull posted:

Pictures from work. What happens when a crane operator tries to stick a 40-foot container into a hole meant for a 20-foot container? The question that everybody has always pondered. IT HAPPEN.

InitialDave posted:

Salvage isn't really a "keep what you catch" situation, though. Technically you have to claim a percentage-value reward for rescuing someone else's property. In UK waters, at least, cargo remains the property of the original owner.

Luckily, if you're shipping a car in a container, the "total loss" insurance for when the container goes for a swim in the drink isn't expensive, but apparently damage insurance is a complete arse to organise.

grover posted:

Speaking of forklift accidents and subsequent mechanical failure, this is what happens when a structural member supporting a shitload of russian vodka is forcibly removed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stDWNam7RtE

Bob Morales posted:

trouser chili posted:

That's probably just from condensation. No biggie, do you drive a lot of short trips?

warcake posted:

This happens when you forget to do up big end bearings...

huskyjackal posted:

D: My poor old Corolla. I guess it's a mechanical failure.. if by mechanical I mean "those liquid-carrying semi trucks" and failure I mean "caused me to lose control and it ran over the front of my car". It was not a good night for me. But hey! It still drove to the side of the road before another semi hit me, so.... huzzuh?
e: the driver of the semi had the audacity to tell me, "You bent a couple o' my rims!!" "Oh yeah? You BENT HALF OF MY CAR." dick.

blankooie posted:

Automotive Insanity > Post Pictures of Horrible Mechanical Failures > Amtrak

Dave Inc. posted:

Aren't most semi/car accidents caused by the car? And how does a semi-truck cause you to lose control?

MATLAB 1988 posted:

Obviously, it was another case of Toyota unintended acceleration into the semi's rear tardbar. I am tweeting CNN's Rick Sanchez to alert the public at large.

grover posted:

Why are retreads still legal?

Jack the Smack posted:

Read about it and no one was even seriously injured.

InitialDave posted:

Needless to say, getting off an end user or major supplier's poo poo list is rather hard work, so you don't gently caress around. Nothing makes you popular like being the guy who gets to tell the Director that nope, that $40,000 worth of parts is going in the bin, and yep, you are going to start again from scratch. A tenth of a thou is as good (well, bad) as a mile.

frozenphil posted:

I never said it was incorrect, I just made a lovely economy joke. loving goons, always over thinking poo poo.

Splizwarf posted:

_{e: "Needs airbag."}

Wombot posted:

"Oh, that truck must have broken down."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_f2kLzcVWI

"Well, it's definitely broken. And down."

Saw that last night. Immediately thought of you, AI

IOwnCalculus posted:

Snapped this one today at the local Home Depot parking lot:

Whitey Ford posted:

Because this thread has become a catchall for mechanical things getting hosed up, here's some photos from Iceland;

CommieGIR posted:

Looks actually like a V-12, you can faintly see the other exhaust manifold on the other side.

Ola posted:

I think a can of soda would stay intact in a vacuum. Only 14 PSI delta, no big deal. It's even got an expansion sphere at the bottom. I submit that the can would survive until it struck the car on the other side of the parking lot, across the train tracks.

greenman100 posted:

Ice cream explodes at 12,000 feet? Yeah no.

Ola posted:

That is absolute nonsense.

Ola posted:

Loads of people live at or above 12,000 feet, does Coca Cola have its own low pressure production line to serve this market?

Ferremit posted:

i had a can of Cambells soup detonate in my bag on a flight from melbourne to Adelaide- Little Focker shitbox plane thing, we went up to about 9-10,000 feet and the fucker exploded all through my fire gear.

scapulataf posted:

May be its got to do with the vibrations causing the pressure to increase inside the can?

Muffinpox posted:

Maybe you truckers get Nitrogen Narcosis at high altitudes and eat all of it on the way you tubby fucks.

Longinus00 posted:

Haven't thought about it too hard or read the report that was talked about earlier but at first glance it's possible both of you are right. It might be possible for a undisturbed can to survive going in a vacuum chamber and surviving at very low pressures but not for a can which is being physically agitated as the carbon dioxide will bubble out of the containing liquid and increase the pressure in the can.

B4Ctom1 posted:

I haul everything from each coast over this track.


Chips, ice cream, soda, beer, everything. Right next to that track is a section of I-80 at the same altitude. They haul everything there also.
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=41.12469,-105.333352&spn=0.011702,0.027595&t=h&z=15

Toucan Sam posted:

That's actually part of what is wrong with people today. I have a couple very nice led televisions but i also have old school tube televisions from 10+ years ago that work very well for what i need them for. Maybe i'm getting to the old people stage but appliances and electronics used to last back in the day.

NitroSpazzz posted:

drat just realized we have around 18000 pounds of r134a in that room.

Horse Divorce posted:

While not particularly a mechanical failure, it's in the right spirit.

Lowclock posted:

Okay, I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who has no idea what the gently caress you're talking about anymore.