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buttcrackmenace posted:I remember an article written by Henry Manning back in his Road & Track columns about the 2CV. He recounted seeing two of them crash head-on into each other... "there was a crash, a tinkle and a puff of steam, followed by two Frenchmen sitting in a pile of Citroen parts wondering what just happened. " 
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Phanatic posted:It sure can be, though. Tire debris flying up into the wing and rupturing the fuel tank is what killed the Concorde. And here's a rejected takeoff test of an A340 featuring some spectacularly poor communications between the test director, the aircrew, and the fire crew, in which they're lucky nobody got killed: Nothing happens for over a minute after stopping the welding, but then the temperature and pressure start to rise exponentially and the tire blows up. And here's an Airbus A380 brake test on a dynamometer. The dynamometer energy is 125.2 MJ which is equivalent to 30 kilograms of TNT. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1dv_y_3EK0 But why were they doing something similar on a real aircraft in the A340 test? Were they accidentally going faster than planned before braking or was their idea really to set the brakes on fire and blow the tires?
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Xy Hapu posted:
Is there also a brake pad wear sensor clipped to something definitely not a brake pad?
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DiggityDoink posted:I had an experience like this but it was a blizzard at 3am when everyone at work went home and locked the building. Then thanks to a wiring fuckup in the car, it would lock the doors every time you started the car. My phone and keys were sitting on the passenger seat and I ended up just breaking one of the partial side windows to get in. loving stupid Blazer. A friend of mine was also in a situation where he had to break one of the windows of his car to get in. "I'll break the smallest one, it's probably the cheapest!" he thought. The smallest one was one of those little ventilation windows with vertical hinges in the middle, like in a beetle. (It wasn't a beetle but I forget which car it was.) Turns out it was the most expensive window in the car to replace. He would have saved quite a bit of money if he had just smashed the windscreen instead.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:There are plenty of content creators who don't make clickbait crap and do quite well. OTOH DeMuro is just pure crap with no redeeming features who would suck whatever the platform he is on. Medical not mechanical but I like Chubbyemu because while his every video title is clickbaity as gently caress, the actual contents are well presented (and educational) medical cases. A Farmer Removed His Own Skin Cancer With A Pocket Knife. This Is What Happened To His Brain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKaJhQBusH8
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I was doing the same job just a while ago and I also wish I had known that after they have been on the road for a while, there are no such things as outer and inner tie rod ends, there are just tie rods.
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Saukkis posted:Where does the dislike for torx come from? It was the first good fastener standard and everything should use it, except for the applications more suitable for the common hex nut. The older standards are inferior and the newer ones are too rare and not enough of improvement over torx. All slot, phillips and hex sockets should be thrown in the Mount Doom.
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