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revmoo posted:This effect is magnified quite a bit when you own a BMW. Blower motor is somewhere around 1500 at the dealer, I replaced it for like a hundred bucks. Yeah, same with the F150 heater core. $50 bucks and about an hour. One thing that Ford engineers got right (until 1997).
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Plinkey posted:Yeah, same with the F150 heater core. $50 bucks and about an hour. Now it requires draining the air conditioning.
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From one of the Facebook groups I joined: "Thanks to all the people trying to help me with my Holley carby I got a chance to work on it again, I pulled off the bowl and this is what I found."   How the gently caress?E: Fixed the image.
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Mar 5, 2014 04:03
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I've never understood carbs. Less so, now.
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H1KE posted:From one of the Facebook groups I joined: Previous owner had issues with a leaky/sinky carb float, so they loving shimmed it with a few pieces of wood. ...I just...bu... 
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Larrymer posted:I've never understood carbs. Less so, now. I'm pretty sure that's not a carb but a busted toaster.
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Mar 5, 2014 04:24
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H1KE posted:From one of the Facebook groups I joined: When Jim-Bob heard about how dem boys down the hollar were a'runnin their trucks on wood, he figured he could make his run on wood, too.
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Mar 5, 2014 04:39
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Boat posted:Previous owner had issues with a leaky/sinky carb float, so they loving shimmed it with a few pieces of wood. Pretty genius if you ask me. Wood floats! I wonder how long it took to get the perfect size piece of wood in there. Last time I had a leaky float and was consigned to roadside repairs I extracted the float, let it drain, and sealed the seam with some duct tape. It got me home!
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Mar 5, 2014 05:09
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I thought that was some sort of sedimentary rock formed by unfiltered tank rust. Wood to float the float?
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I actually saw this article last night on Popular Mechanics about 20 ways you can do homebrew lovely repairs. #1 is replacing a carburetor float with a ballpoint pen. http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/how-to/repair/4337825 #2 is clearing sulfates in a car battery with a DC stick welder.
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That carb fix was loving genius. What an awesome way to save $8 in parts by spending the entire day messing with a stick of wood and getting covered in gas.
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Mar 5, 2014 06:08
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I've learned something today. Carbs are just like toilets. If it runs all the time and leaks a bit, throw something in there to make it stop. Also, fiddle with that screw-thing a few times, and if you completely screw things up, you can always throw  at some plastic replacement that won't work very well or last forever, but who cares - let the next guy deal with it.
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Mar 5, 2014 19:23
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Is that a piece of driftwood? lmao.
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One of the eleven huge dams on the Columbia River was discovered to have a 2 inch wide, 65 foot long crack in one of the twelve spillway monoliths. So how was this crack found? An engineer noticed that the road surface on top of the dam was bowing. Have some pictures! The dam itself:  The monolith in question:  Top of the dam: (Note not just the circled bit, also look at the curb stones on the other side of the road)  Another view:  An immediate measure taken was to lower the reservoir level 21-26 feet. With the reduced water pressure, the crack has gone from 2 inches wide to 1 inch wide. 
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Mar 5, 2014 20:31
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Well, gently caress. There goes the duct tape budget for the year.
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Mar 5, 2014 20:34
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Oh I forgot to mention: The dam is not owned by a federal entity. It wholly owned by Grant County P.U.D. I can't wait to see how they are going to pay for this.
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TotalLossBrain posted:Oh I forgot to mention: The dam is not owned by a federal entity. It wholly owned by Grant County P.U.D. I can't wait to see how they are going to pay for this. Dump a bunch of logs in the reservoir, seed it with beavers.
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TotalLossBrain posted:One of the eleven huge dams on the Columbia River was discovered to have a 2 inch wide, 65 foot long crack in one of the twelve spillway monoliths. Is it a God Dam?  In other news, i have a project manager that refuses to fill out forms.  This provisioning request requires you to fill out this form for the SAN guys. I've never had to fill out a form before. you do now, because you guys never provide all the information to them on the first pass. Just fill out the form. I don't know how to fill out this form, you need to do it. The form is just all the information you used to email the SAN guys. How many fiber ports you need, which rack it goes to, and the name of the server. You need to do it because I don't know how.
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Mar 5, 2014 20:47
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Let me guess, he's an enormous prick when it comes to following his rules too, right?
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TotalLossBrain posted:One of the eleven huge dams on the Columbia River was discovered to have a 2 inch wide, 65 foot long crack in one of the twelve spillway monoliths. So how was this crack found? Sorry I peed in Columbia Lake this summer this is all my fault
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TotalLossBrain posted:Oh I forgot to mention: The dam is not owned by a federal entity. It wholly owned by Grant County P.U.D. I can't wait to see how they are going to pay for this. I live in this area. I can tell you that the PUDs around here that own/operate dams are really really really rich.
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Mar 5, 2014 21:21
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I wish the people that owned dams on the San Marcos River maintained them instead of letting them collapse and create drowning traps.
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Mar 5, 2014 21:28
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Citycop posted:That carb fix was loving genius. What an awesome way to save $8 in parts by spending the entire day messing with a stick of wood and getting covered in gas.
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:Well when you live in Alabama and there's no retail outlets or infrastructure to transport retail items around nor communications system to support mail order parts supply, it makes sense? I guess? How far away from the nearest town can you really be? The entire state is under 200 miles from east to west. Obviously most of the towns will be super tiny but 'ol Bert down at the garage will certainly have something in the back yard that could be used to fix 'er up. I'd guess that whenever the float failed it was the closest thing to a functioning vehicle Mr. Redneck owned, which meant driving to town for parts was out of the question. And once he fixed it and it seemed to run okay, saw no reason to ever revisit the issue.
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So how do you fix a crack in a dam like that? I can't imagine that just squirting it full of concrete will fix anything. Is it even possible to repair? Wouldn't you have to drain the entire reservoir and inspect the whole thing somehow?
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Slavvy posted:So how do you fix a crack in a dam like that? I can't imagine that just squirting it full of concrete will fix anything. Is it even possible to repair? Wouldn't you have to drain the entire reservoir and inspect the whole thing somehow? Well, this is what they can afford:  I would assume they build another mini-dam around it and then somehow pump out the water that was trapped by the mini-dam, then fix it in relative dryness though. At least that's what they do for sewers, they have little inflatable walls that take care of it.
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Underwater welding. With concrete.
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I think they actually use an engineering thing called a Caisson. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caisson_(engineering)
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TotalLossBrain posted:Oh I forgot to mention: The dam is not owned by a federal entity. It wholly owned by Grant County P.U.D. I can't wait to see how they are going to pay for this. Obviously wait for it to let go, and then declare state of disaster, and get funding from the sweet ample bosom of the federal gubnmint
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:Well when you live in Alabama and there's no retail outlets or infrastructure to transport retail items around nor communications system to support mail order parts supply, it makes sense? I guess? As someone searching for parts for a Holley 3367, I've learned that Alabama is actually the Mecca for old Holleys.
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Somewhat Heroic posted:Obviously wait for it to let go, and then declare state of disaster, and get funding from the sweet ample bosom of the federal gubnmint All for the low low price of some random inspection official's job who gets shitcanned as a scapegoat.
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Somewhat Heroic posted:Obviously wait for it to let go, and then declare state of disaster, and get funding from the sweet ample bosom of the federal gubnmint Well, there is an additional complication - a bit of an incentive to get this worked out at a federal level ASAP. The Hanford Nuclear Reservation is about 70 river miles downstream, luckily with one more dam in between. That site was responsible for all plutonium production in the Cold War with fourteen reactors since 1944. Only one of those reactors ever produced power. The rest just heated up river water in single pass cooling (during the heyday of production, over 14,000 curies of activity was released into the river daily) to get uranium converted to Pu just as quickly as possible. It wasn't unusual for the cladding on the fuel rods to have problems. As a consequence, there are tons of deposits of heavy metals and radioactive fission byproducts buried in the river bed. This isn't typically a problem, as the river bed is stable as long as nothing disturbs it. Something like, say, suddenly increased flows. The site also contains over 150 underground tanks with 55 million gallons of highly radioactive waste from fuel processing, some of which are known to have leaked. Some of those underground plumes have gotten very close to the river. I guess what I am saying with all that is there are plenty of good reasons to fix this ASAP. Irrigation and flood control are probably low on the list.
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TotalLossBrain posted:Well, there is an additional complication - a bit of an incentive to get this worked out at a federal level ASAP. The Hanford Nuclear Reservation is about 70 river miles downstream, luckily with one more dam in between. That site was responsible for all plutonium production in the Cold War with fourteen reactors since 1944. Only one of those reactors ever produced power. The rest just heated up river water in single pass cooling (during the heyday of production, over 14,000 curies of activity was released into the river daily) to get uranium converted to Pu just as quickly as possible. It wasn't unusual for the cladding on the fuel rods to have problems. As a consequence, there are tons of deposits of heavy metals and radioactive fission byproducts buried in the river bed. This isn't typically a problem, as the river bed is stable as long as nothing disturbs it. Something like, say, suddenly increased flows. I live near here, and I still think Edward Abbey has the right idea concerning dams.
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I'm in Richland, myself. I worked at Hanford Tank Farms for a few years, then on the Vitrification Plant for another few (what a clusterfuck of messed up engineering and spending of federal dollars), now at the National Lab. For an area that was built and continues to live on federal spending, the people sure like their Tea Party. Sorry for the derail. Another interesting horrible (chemical?) failure is one of the underground nuclear waste tanks. In the 80's, it was found to be boiling. The waste sludge was so radioactive that it self-heated to the point of boiling. It was pumped out a few years ago and filled with grout.
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Saw this on the side of the highway this morning. It didn't appear as though there was an impact of any kind.
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The truck impacted the ground...
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cursedshitbox posted:
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Fucknag posted:Don't a lot of yards punch holes like that to drain fluids rather than go through the hassle of removing a drain plug or cover? That hole was made from the inside.
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lazer_chicken posted:Saw this on the side of the highway this morning. It didn't appear as though there was an impact of any kind. Some poo poo definitely impacted some cotton. What the gently caress happened there e: the logo kind of fits. 
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