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now THAT is a mechanical failure. ^^^ Regarding those UAV pics of Fukushima, that one little truck-based crane they have spraying seawater on one of the stricken reactors seems pretty pitiful. Like "hey, we'll just turn this garden hose on and spray it on the massive pile of molten metal here. Everything's gonna be OK guys!"
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199k miles and still going strong on my original clutch. 2000 camry v6 It's all about how you treat it. I have friends who routinely will still be slipping the clutch like 3-5 seconds after the car has started rolling, and during every upshift while getting on the accelerator HARD, too. Get your foot off that pedal, yo. Plus my dad went for a trip with me in my car recently, he'd downshift from 5th->4th->3rd from about 65mph without even attempting to revmatch, just jamming the stick down a gear and dropping the clutch. Come on Dad. wilfredmerriweathr fucked around with this message at 18:01 on May 1, 2011 |
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May 1, 2011 17:57
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Yeah, my response to helmet teasing in school was "well, I wear one on the dirtbike too  "
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Maker Of Shoes posted:
yeah if there was ever a car to just poo poo on til it blows up, it'd definitely be a wrecked neon.
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Aug 20, 2011 21:54
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Yeah that turbine's death whine is pretty great. It's like "NOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooo whyyyyyyyyyygod"
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Nov 23, 2011 16:53
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I've been wondering about the elevator thing, too. I work with both liquid nitrogen and liquid helium (physics lab) and we regularly travel with dewars in the elevator because the helium liquifier is in the basement and the lab is on the 3rd floor. How else am I supposed to get it up there, send it up unattended in the elevator while I run up the stairs? This is a serious question, everyone here rides with the dewar. But sometimes I'm riding up and I'm like "huh, what would happen if this ruptured?"
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Dec 10, 2011 13:58
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I did that same thing to the swingarm of my gary fischer hi-fi pro. Got a new trek fuel 7 frame for free out of it (it was less than 9 months after I bought the gary fischer)
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Delivery McGee posted:My friend has a Honda Civic, and is from a mountainous area, so she reflexively puts the parking brake on every time she switches off the ignition. It's rather useless and I've been trying to train her out of it, now that she's in northeast Texas. That loving car will not move with the handbrake on, as I discovered the first time I borrowed it. Yeah, maybe you should teach her to stop using blinkers, too. Oh, and I guess there's no real need for even parking it in gear, because it's so darn flat, huh? Seriously, sit in your car with the engine off, and knock the shifter out of gear. Pretty easy to do, eh? Why would you trust your vehicle to something so easy to accidentally disengage, when there is a piece of equipment made specifically for this purpose? I have had more than one friend who would refuse to use the parking brake. And I have had more than one friend whose car wrapped itself around a tree/building because they refused to use the parking brake.
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Apr 22, 2012 15:54
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There's a fine line where in light snow (at night) highbeams really help but then it starts snowing a bit more heavily and HOLY gently caress I can't see poo poo!
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May 27, 2012 17:03
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The way that rod is bent makes it look like some sort of weird mushroom.
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May 30, 2012 02:55
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law abiding rapist posted:Yup, mechanical fuse. Straight from the mouth of your friendly local Canadian jet turbine repairman: Ok this guy is the best youtube channel I've ever seen. Thanks for this!
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Jul 28, 2012 15:45
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Hmm, just got back from a trip where I rented an altima with the CVT and DBW. I figured it was just the CVT being super responsive as often I'd suddenly rocket forward when lights turned green, but after reading this I suppose it was probably the throttle software instead. The CVT was actually pretty cool though, way more responsive than a normal auto.
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Aug 2, 2012 03:47
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I can't believe you just got me excited about a chrysler 300. I would so buy that (or the chevy cruze diesel)
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Aug 7, 2012 04:25
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A highschool friend posted his new car on facebook the other day And yes it's turbo/awd.
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Aug 8, 2012 03:39
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MikeyTsi posted:Not a mechanical failure? Not until you roll it, that is. Though I suppose that's really more of a "structural failure." wilfredmerriweathr fucked around with this message at 13:02 on Aug 8, 2012 |
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Aug 8, 2012 12:37
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I had no idea that spares were optional on so many cars now. That just seems like a horrid idea. One winter in Denver I came out of my apartment to find one of my brand new snow tires had gone flat. I needed to get to summit county and I didn't want to use my donut so I tossed my summer back on that wheel (it was one of the rears). That was a fun drive, the back would kick out every time I turned opposite to that side of the car - it was snowing pretty good.
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Aug 23, 2012 14:10
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Lord Gaga posted:This whole post is about firearms "engineering" if that is not your cup of tea feel free to skip it. How does this extend to firearms manufacturers in other countries? I have to believe that European manufacturers employ better engineers than we do in the states.
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Aug 31, 2012 14:16
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Haha yeah I was thinking more like SIG or something. I mean, the swiss must do it right, right?
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Aug 31, 2012 18:57
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I want to see that. A friend has a supercharged seadoo that's ~200hp. It's totally ridiculous, I don't know the acceleration numbers but it feels like you're immediately going 70 the moment you squeeze the throttle.
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Sep 19, 2012 13:23
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Gusting wind + sidestand = spilled gas and wounded pride
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Oct 8, 2012 14:01
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Transmission from a kenworth (part of it, anyway)
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Oct 8, 2012 23:20
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How come you see so many RVs towing generic cars on all four wheels? Camrys, RAV-4s, Wranglers, etc; with the type of people that drive those RVs most of the time, I can't imagine their cars are stickshift.
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Feb 15, 2013 04:28
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Geirskogul posted:Though the demon core is also up there. Holy loving poo poo I have no clue how the hell this was allowed. A great quote from the physicist standing right next to the guy during the second incident (Alvin Graves): "[Fallout dangers associated with atomic weapons are] concocted in the minds of weak malingerers." Jesus these guys were pretty chillaxed about their job.
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Feb 25, 2013 20:21
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Sounds like it is a lemon.
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Mar 5, 2013 17:45
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Magnificent.
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Mar 13, 2013 03:02
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Slavvy posted:I take it you're in NZ/AUS? I think the forester is overtaking the legacy for unadulterated terribleness now. This is the truth. I don't know how they accomplished it so quickly, going from "awesome wagon with tons of storage space/headroom" to "is that a RAV-4?" I saw a 2005 outback parked next to a 2013 XV yesterday and I shed a single tear for the death of the midsize subaru wagon.
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Apr 1, 2013 13:09
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KozmoNaut posted:Wait, is the filter inside the banjo bolt? Holy poo poo 
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Apr 13, 2013 03:23
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Shifty Pony posted:In fairness, they did say that they were a transmission shop and not an exhaust shop... Those pictures make me want to punch whoever thought that was a good idea.
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May 22, 2013 12:54
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D C posted:I've never quite grasped that, fresh air comes in the front, exhaust goes out the back. Is it because the exhaust side of the engine gets hotter and thus needs the cooling more? And the wonky placement means it gets a cooler breeze? Just a thought.
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Jun 24, 2013 22:50
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Actually I know most of the IT guys in my building run dual screens and default to just having a huge browser window spanning both. I don't know how they do it; I have two screens but my second one is only used when I fill my primary one up or need to extend my workspace.
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Jul 10, 2013 03:15
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TheNakedJimbo posted:Loose lug nuts This happened to my girlfriend's car too; after she got it back from the shop she kept complaining to me that it "felt like a wheel was about to fall off!"  So after a few days of that I had her take me for a ride, then I got out and had her drive by me once because it felt like her rim was bent and I wanted to see it from outside the car. Turned out her lugnuts were just finger tight and one of the wheels was cocked at an angle because of it.  So her original assessment was in fact accurate!
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Aug 11, 2013 16:09
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No picture, but I saw a truck worse than that uhaul last weekend in the UP (Keeweenaw actually). It was a dump truck, an old Mack I think, that was owned by a logging company, and had *no* license plate. It turned in front of me on a two lane highway and I ended up following it for about an hour. I first noticed "Hey, this thing's driver side front wheel sticks out a lot more than the back wheels do." Then I noticed that he kept swerving around, almost like he had to fight the natural inclination of the truck. I then asked my passenger if they could see the passenger side front wheel sticking out, and they were like "I can't see any wheels on this side...". That truck must have been rolled or somehow bent in a concave shape towards the driver's side. It was seriously sketch, and I have no idea how a truck of that size could be so badly hosed, or how the hell it was still being driven. I'm assuming it lacked a license plate because there's no way it was safe enough to pass inspection.
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I am dumbfounded that Bosch still exists as a company. Every experience with a Bosch product (both electrical car components as well as non-electric parts) has ended with my throwing up my hands and vowing to never buy Bosch again. It all started with a vw coilpack.
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Oct 18, 2013 14:09
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When I was scrolling down and saw that top of that pic my first thought was "oh hey, somebody is posting a picture of a radial engine from an old aircraft." I stand corrected.
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Nov 8, 2013 21:01
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What kind of smarmy loving rear end in a top hat owns a expensive car but doesn't get the oil changed? (Actually come to think of it, probably a lot of expensive car owners do this.)
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Nov 18, 2013 14:13
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And replacing a motherboard is a bit less intense that replacing an engine.
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Nov 21, 2013 02:06
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rscott posted:Back in 2005 I worked on a project replacing the token ring network in an Owens-Illnois glass factory with ethernet and the PCBs on the workstations in the hot side of the factory were so brittle that trying to install a new NIC snapped the motherboards in half in at least a half dozen cases. My first IT project was replacing token ring networks. Goddamn token ring was some pretty metal tech, especially the newer system that had physical relays in the hub to keep the ring unbroken.
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Nov 21, 2013 17:13
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That is one of those jobs that you think "holy poo poo this job is gonna be so cool" and it's only once you get a few months in that you start slowly realizing what you've signed yourself up for (chasing random faults around on a tight schedule while working for people who give no shits, just FIX IT NOW!!)
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Nov 25, 2013 15:02
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Even Red Green would be ashamed of this man's handiwork.
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kastein posted:I have to say it is a bad rear end picture though. I want to see a picture of that.
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