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Collateral Damage posted:And I'm guessing the whole thing is at least a six figure fuckup? Probably 7 figures. Steel alone would be almost 5 figures depending on the grade to 6 figures. They probably will make a new one because you never know how bad something can be messed up even if they can fix the bent plates in the first place.
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Here's an automotive-related horrible mechanical failure: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/12/sinkhole-collapses-kentucky-corvette-museum 
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Feb 12, 2014 19:44
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News from my old hometown, truck driver forgot he had a crane on the back of the wagon: http://www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/news/video-footbridge-collapses-over-busy-doncaster-road-1-6431918
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Taaaaaaarb! posted:Here's an automotive-related horrible mechanical failure: Wow, that's a pretty big sink hole. I hope they are able to recover the cars without too much damage. Or OTOH, someone should ask where Das Volk was at that the time the sinkhole appeared 
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Godholio posted:For some reason gifs aren't loading on my phone. Default setting, at least on the Android app is to have gifs not animate unless you touch them. You can disable it in the settings.
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So the thread has intentional tunnelling that doesn't really work, and unintentional tunnelling that works far too well. Figures.
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InitialDave posted:News from my old hometown, truck driver forgot he had a crane on the back of the wagon: Now he has a bridge on the back of the wagon :|. Edit: Just saw that this was in Doncaster. I'm totally not surprised that someone from Doncaster would do this.
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ShittyPostmakerPro posted:Now he has a bridge on the back of the wagon :|.  Hah! He was going to Doncaster!Probably from Rotherham. 
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the spyder posted:It's not what happens right after you run it, it's what could happen in the next 1-10k. This all depends on how the car was taken care of, but if you run seafoam/mmo/ect through a block that you don't know the history on and missed a oil change or three, it will break free large contaminants, clog, and possibly cause serious damage. I sold it probably a thousand miles after the oil change... Yikes. Certainly did not mean to sell a ticking time bomb. 
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Taaaaaaarb! posted:Here's an automotive-related horrible mechanical failure: I was wondering why a bunch of fire department trucks and cops were sitting around there. I thought someone had broken in or there was a fire I didn't see.
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Collateral Damage posted:And I'm guessing the whole thing is at least a six figure fuckup? Considering that it also fell into the machine and took out a good part of it, yes.
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InitialDave posted:News from my old hometown, truck driver forgot he had a crane on the back of the wagon: Some insurance adjuster is going to poo poo a brick.
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InitialDave posted:
Let me rephrase that, I'm totally not surprised that someone would do that to Doncaster. It's probably an improvement.
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InitialDave posted:
Trying to get home in time for tea. No time to waste with trivial things like lowering the crane into a safe position.
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"How could you forget the boom?" "Forget? Did you hear that fucker?"
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 Normally we reserve the finger for ez-out work, but in this case the photo is the culmination of 3 hours of work. The strut broke internally, which in itself wasn't really the problem. The problem was that the top nut would release no matter what. No matter the tool or combination of tools, no release on it. So I cut the strut and ground flat spots on the shaft afterwards so I could stick it in a vice and turn it, eventually getting off the nut and salvaging what parts I needed. It was only later that it occurred to me that using a sawzall inside a spring compressor may not have been the brightest idea.
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Mr. Wiggles posted:It was only later that it occurred to me that using a sawzall inside a spring compressor may not have been the brightest idea.  So did you feel  or did your rear end eat a chair when you realized this?
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Who let dasvolk drive a NASCAR pace car? http://jalopnik.com/chevy-ss-pace-car-goes-up-in-flames-at-sprint-unlimited-1523747377
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Who let dasvolk drive a NASCAR pace car? Seriously, I wonder what happened. I was thinking it might be the equipment to run the lightbar, and one of the commenters (who seems to be a track safety worker there) is saying the same thing.
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InitialDave posted:So the thread has intentional tunnelling that doesn't really work, and unintentional tunnelling that works far too well. Figures. hah!
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My extra job is car wash maintenance for the largest self serve car wash company in the country. It's been loving cold so this winter has been brutal on hoses and fittings. I've had poo poo freeze and break that never never breaks. Here's an ice mountain and the leaking manifold box that i can't turn off until i actually fix it. If i turn off the weeps then the line will freeze all the way back to the building causing even more problems.  I carry one of those deadblow hammers like you see on a crab boat on Deadliest Catch for this very reason. It's fixed now but this is a common occurrence. Floors are heated or this would be even worse.
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I always wondered if the car wash themselves maintained it or if they outsourced to anyone/the chain. I guess now I know. If you have any funny stories you should make a thread or something, though I bet the auto washes have more horrible customers than the self-serve.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:I always wondered if the car wash themselves maintained it or if they outsourced to anyone/the chain. I guess now I know. We have auto washes also, people can not loving drive.   You put your money in the bunker and drive straight in. We have rails because evidently people can't drive straight forward. Yes, people drive over the rails weekly because they can't loving drive straight. Maybe you'd like to drive into a garage door as it opens.  We use big fuckoff garage door openers so basically it will eat itself trying to go up. Sheetmetal screws and a prybar sort of fix it.  That was a brand new door from an old person mistaking the gas for the brake and running through the old one. Old people are the number one reason for car wash doors going missing.
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I can't say I've ever seen an automatic roll up door on a car wash before. 
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some texas redneck posted:I can't say I've ever seen an automatic roll up door on a car wash before. In places with weather this happens frequently. My carwash not only has roll up doors but they're manual ones in the winter. Do you guys have dryers in your auto carwashes or do you just let the water boil off the surface of the car as soon as you step out of a building and directly into the core temperature of Hell?
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some texas redneck posted:I can't say I've ever seen an automatic roll up door on a car wash before. I honestly haven't seen one without. There's a couple that are manually rolled up via chain at some smaller local washes but most are automated. The garage door style doors I've seen in places where space isn't an issue, otherwise it's a roll up style. Maybe it's a cold climate thing.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Do you guys have dryers in your auto carwashes or do you just let the water boil off the surface of the car as soon as you step out of a building and directly into the core temperature of Hell? The automatic ones have dryers, though the cheapest wash options usually don't run it. And as you pointed out... don't really need that in the summer anyway. Bajaha posted:I honestly haven't seen one without. There's a couple that are manually rolled up via chain at some smaller local washes but most are automated. The garage door style doors I've seen in places where space isn't an issue, otherwise it's a roll up style. Maybe it's a cold climate thing. I guess it is. This is the car wash I usually use; they don't even have roll up doors on the auto wash bay. Click the image for streetview.. 
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I'm in the same general area as STR, and I've never seen doors on a car wash either. I can certainly see why you'd want doors up north in the winter. Didn't notice them when I've visited up there, probably because it wasn't winter.
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Darchangel posted:I can certainly see why you'd want doors up north in the winter. Didn't notice them when I've visited up there, probably because it wasn't winter. Honestly I live in the snowbelt of NE Ohio and I can only think of one self-serve carwash that has a roll-down door on one side. It would be nice to see more like that (seems like the bays are wind magnets that become more effective as the temperature gets lower), but at most of the ones by me you're lucky if 75% of the bays are operational at any given time.
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Here in Charlotte, self service washes don't have doors, but I don't know that I've ever seen an automatic wash without a door on each end. It's ubiquitous enough that it's probably building code, actually.
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Around here they usually just have rubber flaps that you drive through.
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Never seen a car wash with a door here in CT. They tend to stay closed for business if it's below freezing, which is irritating.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Your cam seal just poo poo. Ahahaha yep  Also, I couldn't find a c-clamp to compress the tensioner so I used what I had on hand. Is this a mechanic(al) failure?  The seals were hard enough that I could try to stand on them sideways and there was no squish or deflection. The timing belt in the car still had its timing marks on it, so it had to be new. Why whoever did the belt 10k ago didn't do the cam seals and water pump/thermostat I'll never know.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:In places with weather this happens frequently. My carwash not only has roll up doors but they're manual ones in the winter. Some of them have dryers, Norwalk for example has an air curtain on the back of the building. The automatic car washes all have auto doors. The doors keep the bay warmer in the winter, which keeps the ice down, and in the summer it keeps the spray inside instead of blowing water all over the parking lot. The self serves have roll up doors that we lock down in the winter to keep the wind out and the ice down.
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Mechanical to almost the point of failure... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x85YYLuCY4
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Mechanical to almost the point of failure... Until that plane gets almost to the ground you could believe it was VTOL. That pilot must have trouble sitting with balls like that.
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EightBit posted:Until that plane gets almost to the ground you could believe it was VTOL. That pilot must have trouble sitting with balls like that. also, after a slam like that, does the plane have to get pulled for a maintenance inspection before it's next flight to a LEAST check the shocks?
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Fire Storm posted:after a slam like that, does the plane have to get pulled for a maintenance inspection before it's next flight to a LEAST check the shocks? Diagnostic procedure: 1. Is there public footage of the landing? - if YES, proceed to 2. Initiate Detailed Inspection - if NO, proceed to 102a. Probably Fine (Whew)
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Splizwarf posted:Diagnostic procedure: Rule 1 of flying: any landing you walk away from is a good landing. rule 2 of flying: any landing you walk away from AND CAN USE THE PLANE AGAIN WITHIN 24 HOURS is a great landing.
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