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At this point, you've got nothing to lose, so why not?
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Galler posted:Pretty sure I figured out why the engine on my lawn mower suddenly lost all compression. That's a fairly common Briggs and Scrapiron failure. Peening the seat in is the accepted repair. I've actually done a few, it's really ghetto but it works if you do it well.
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Jul 30, 2018 03:20
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Mechanic 1: "Who the gently caress did you piss off? That's not natural, someone loosened your lugs". Zero deformation on the rim holes. No stripping on the studs. All six nuts flew off simultaneously in under a minute. Now I've filed a police report. 
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Jul 30, 2018 03:30
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I've lost two wheels before, both on sketchy CL purchases, and on the second one I specifically tightened all the lugs before starting my long drive with the car. poo poo just happens, no reason to panic. With that level of corrosion, it's just as likely two of them worked a little loose or were never tightened all the way (or there was crud behind the wheel and/or on the stud, preventing or simulating full tightening), and they just worked their way out. On one of them (an early 90's ford escort) the studs and holes were just fine afterwards, too 
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Jul 30, 2018 03:48
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True, a few years back I came upon an ‘02 Firebird beached on the road, missing a left rear wheel. I helped him reinstall it using a nut from the other 3-wheels (it was hairy - just past a rise on a fairly busy road with no real shoulder - we sent his son over the rise waving a towel so we all wouldn’t make the news). He had just had new tires installed & was on his way home; heard a noise, car started to wallow, and he pulled over just as the wheel left. Lugs & wheel were fine. He had a few words for the tire shop. PainterofCrap fucked around with this message at 10:37 on Jul 30, 2018 |
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Jul 30, 2018 10:35
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:On one of them (an early 90's ford escort) the studs and holes were just fine afterwards, too Funny, I had the same thing happen on an early 90s Escort (my first car). I was kind of surprised at the time at how easy it was to control the car still after the front driver's wheel shot off. Finding the wheel after it kept rolling down the highway for a bit before ending up in a field was the hard part.
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Jul 30, 2018 19:36
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Mine was also the front driver's wheel, and we had to search for it alongside the highway and then a field. Was your Escort silver? The biggest damage (other than the flat spot on the disc) was the corner of the fender/rocker panel getting crunched.
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Jul 30, 2018 19:44
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 So I suspect this hub and rotor may no longer be separable...
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Aug 1, 2018 01:08
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Use a grinder to make a slot in the rotor, insert a wide cold chisel, beat. With some luck it'll crack the rest of the way and come off the hub with less fuss. That's how I had to do the rotors on my Mazda 6, every loving brake job.
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Aug 1, 2018 04:25
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EvenWorseOpinions posted:Tornadoes in my area recently reminded me of something that happened a while back. Anyone happen to know if jet-a seals are compatible with 100ll? Intuition tells me it might not be. Was accepting a fuel load recently when a seal burst in the fuel filter sump assembly and started spraying low lead everywhere. This fuel filter assembly which is currently connected to our low lead tank was previously hooked up to our jet-a tank, hence the question. About this time thunder starts to become audible over the delivery truck idling. It would have probably been an easy fix to mummy it with electrical tape or something until it could be drained, except that tornado sirens started going off a few minutes later, and AWOS was later reporting gusts of 62ish knots (our system doesn't appear to record windspeed above 62 knots) from a storm cell traveling directly towards us in the opposite direction of prevailing winds.  That’s the kind of poo poo you find ten years later on late-night discovery channel. ”And then the tornado hit the enormous fuel spill, resulting in a rare phenomenon known as FIRE TORNADO.” Ya, Jet-A and avgas are mostly compatible. You don’t basically ever want to mix them because spark engines won’t run on Jet-A, but it won’t cause fuel system problems like ethanol or something.
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Aug 1, 2018 13:44
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Fermented Tinal posted:Use a grinder to make a slot in the rotor, insert a wide cold chisel, beat. With some luck it'll crack the rest of the way and come off the hub with less fuss. This is loving brilliant - I never would have thought of this!
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Aug 1, 2018 16:28
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MrYenko posted:
Fire tornados have actually been spotted in California. The wildfires are so big they're causing their own local weather, what's called a firestorm. Same thing happened over Tokyo during the firebombing and after the A bombs. Most of the pictures and video are just little fire devils, but there was a fire tornado near Redding that reached 18,000 feet high.
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Aug 1, 2018 18:10
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Seems like a fitting end to California. I think everyone was hoping an earthquake would dump the whole place into the ocean, but unfortunately tectonics in that area don't work like that.
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Aug 1, 2018 18:12
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xzzy posted:Seems like a fitting end to California. Learn to swim, see you down in Arizona Bay...
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Aug 1, 2018 18:51
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Blue Footed Booby posted:
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MrYenko posted:Ya, Jet-A and avgas are mostly compatible. You don’t basically ever want to mix them because spark engines won’t run on Jet-A, but it won’t cause fuel system problems like ethanol or something. The FAA answer is *DETONATION MAY OCCUR* I thought I had remembered something about seals not being compatible but looking back I think that was for skydrol and 5606 Also skydrol and anything other than skydrol
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Aug 2, 2018 05:00
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0toShifty posted:This is loving brilliant - I never would have thought of this! It works really well when you live somewhere the rotors rust weld themselves to the hubs.
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Aug 2, 2018 05:06
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Rime posted:
depending on what vehicle it is, they might never have been. On my lincoln the rotor and hub are one piece.  
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Aug 2, 2018 05:15
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Good news, 24 hours of liquid wrench and a rusty railroad spike broke the rotor off. Bad news: the lower ball joint crown nut sits below the rotor, and thus no longer exists.   Can't really drive without that one, right?
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Aug 2, 2018 05:35
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It seems to be holding, give it a shot! 
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Aug 2, 2018 05:47
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Rime posted:Good news, 24 hours of liquid wrench and a rusty railroad spike broke the rotor off. Loving the safety sandals. In answer to your question, I might if it was just me and I needed to limp it home at 20mph, but I would be super paranoid about it the whole way. Not sure if that's an option for you 
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Aug 2, 2018 06:06
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Most of the pictures and video are just little fire devils, but there was a fire tornado near Redding that reached 18,000 feet high. Firewhirl. Whirlwinds are not tornadoes. Tornadoes only come from specific conditions inside supercell thunderstorms. I only make this pendantic observation, however, because there is actually a single documented case of a fire tornado: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqYEeivt8Eg Tldr; the fire in question generated a pyrocumulus cloud, which subsequently developed a mesocyclone, and dropped a 100% for-real tornado into the middle of a huge brushfire.
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Aug 2, 2018 07:54
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EvenWorseOpinions posted:Also skydrol and anything other than skydrol Correct. Skydrol doesn’t mix with anything at all, including but not limited to engine oil, 5606 hydraulic fluid, mechanics, plastic ID badges, etc. I’ve posted this story elsewhere, but I once had an MD-11 come in from South America with a hot engine, and we found the entire contents of a hydraulic system in the oil sump. Six gallons of skydrol, drained out of the engine. It was a fun night.
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I'm sitting at my desk actively avoiding going out to deal with a Dash-8 hydraulic problem right this second. I don't even like being in the same room as Skydrol, just looking at it gives me a rash.
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rndmnmbr posted:Firewhirl. Whirlwinds are not tornadoes. Tornadoes only come from specific conditions inside supercell thunderstorms.
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Aug 3, 2018 00:27
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A parking garage collapsed in Texas(no injuries reported, thankfully) and I'm a bit confused about what I'm looking at. There doesn't appear to be any rebar or real structural supports in the parts that are falling, right? https://i.imgur.com/14jNz0M.gifv
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Aug 4, 2018 00:47
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The Door Frame posted:A parking garage collapsed in Texas(no injuries reported, thankfully) and I'm a bit confused about what I'm looking at. There doesn't appear to be any rebar or real structural supports in the parts that are falling, right? Look at Mr. Big "I want building codes and inspections" Government over here 
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I guarantee it had rebar. That slap couldn’t hold up its own weight without rebar.
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Aug 4, 2018 01:16
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They're built modularly and never bonded together. Allows them to expand and contract with temperature. All of the members will be reinforced individually. Similar to pylon bridge construction. The road deck kind of just sit on top of the joists.
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Aug 4, 2018 01:17
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um excuse me posted:The road deck kind of just sit on top of the joists.
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Cool thing? That garage is across the highway and down a bit from where I work. We could see the emergency vehicles and the garage from our floors after the collapse. My wife texted me when she saw the news alert to make sure it wasn’t our garage. Thankfully no one was hurt. It was around lunch time when it fell. That white car with the black roof on the collapsing slab is a Tesla Model S or 3, isn’t it? Can’t quite tell on my phone.
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Aug 4, 2018 04:06
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Not anymore
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Darchangel posted:Cool thing? That garage is across the highway and down a bit from where I work. We could see the emergency vehicles and the garage from our floors after the collapse. My wife texted me when she saw the news alert to make sure it wasn’t our garage. Thankfully no one was hurt. It was around lunch time when it fell. could be a kia, they have been doing white car black roof for awhile. Lights are pretty tesla though
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Aug 4, 2018 04:56
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Fauxtool posted:could be a kia, they have been doing white car black roof for awhile. I wager it's a Nissan Maxima. Were it a Tesla, it'd likely be close to a charge station that would be near the elevator, and you'd be able to read the sophomoric vanity plate in the image.
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rndmnmbr posted:Firewhirl. Whirlwinds are not tornadoes. Tornadoes only come from specific conditions inside supercell thunderstorms. The one in Redding produced winds up to 143 mph. At that point the whirl/nado distinction is kind of academic. Blue Footed Booby fucked around with this message at 14:46 on Aug 4, 2018 |
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Darchangel posted:Cool thing? That garage is across the highway and down a bit from where I work. We could see the emergency vehicles and the garage from our floors after the collapse. My wife texted me when she saw the news alert to make sure it wasn’t our garage. Thankfully no one was hurt. It was around lunch time when it fell. One of my coworkers cars is parked in the row that's just out of the top of the frame. She happened to be there for an appointment. Last I heard, the engineers were pretty sure they could get her car out without it collapsing further, but the spots closer in were still at risk. They hope to start moving cars out this weekend. Also, since her car is undamaged, nobody's insurance will pay anything, not even for a rental car. 
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FBS posted:Also, since her car is undamaged, nobody's insurance will pay anything, not even for a rental car. Make their adjuster verify nothing is damaged.
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MrYenko posted:Correct. Skydrol doesn’t mix with anything at all, including but not limited to engine oil, 5606 hydraulic fluid, mechanics, plastic ID badges, etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lehDBlH4iz8 Minutes 12-20 are great "Skydrol is skin safe, but make sure to wipe it off of tires, paint, plexiglas, tools, floors, or wire insulation to prevent damage" lol EvenWorseOpinions fucked around with this message at 19:46 on Aug 4, 2018 |
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Skydrol. Not even once.
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Nidhg00670000 posted:Skydrol. Not even once. I was working on the main gear changing a tire or brake or something one night while another pair of mechanics were changing a hydraulic valve in the opposite main gear wheel well. They failed to completely relieve the pressure in the system, cracked a line, and the guy took a face full of aerosolized skydrol. Both eyes, sinuses, everything. He was screaming like he’d been stabbed, and to top it off, he was working while standing (now laying) on the gear door. If I hit the handle to drop the gear door so I can get to him, he’s going to fall the nine feet the the ramp, blind. I had to find a belt loader, position it JUST RIGHT, and shimmy my way into the wheel well along the main gear bracing strut. It was another long, long night.
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