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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:I've heard tubed dirt bike tires blow up from over inflation, sounded like a shotgun going off. I can't imagine what a tubeless car tire blowing would sound like. "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"
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Jan 25, 2015 19:34
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kastein posted:I believe I read somewhere that the actual failure point is usually around 350 psi, and tires are ridiculously overengineered, but I would be tempted to tell them to buy a whole new set just to teach the idiot a loving lesson about not doing dumb poo poo that will endanger them and anyone in front of them when they have to panic stop on roller skate wheels. What kind of spike in pressure is there when you hit a pothole? I'm no engineer and I've never been able to think my way to a reasonable answer.
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Jan 25, 2015 19:51
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xzzy posted:What kind of spike in pressure is there when you hit a pothole?
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Jan 25, 2015 20:04
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PCOS Bill posted:This is terrible car stuff and a question rolled into one (Or maybe I'm who you share the road with...) but fits with the last topic here - My tires on my four wheeled vehicles always look low despite being at the pressure listed on the door frame. The ride is decent, and they don't wear funny that I've noticed (Not that I've kept many vehicles through more than one or two sets of modern tires) but every time I look at them they make me think something is wrong. Some cars have placard pressures that are too low for all but the smoothest roads. If it bothers you, bumping them by 2-4 psi won't hurt anything.
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Jan 25, 2015 21:03
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:I've heard tubed dirt bike tires blow up from over inflation, sounded like a shotgun going off. I can't imagine what a tubeless car tire blowing would sound like. You know, I've seen 6 tires blow out on airup with varying degrees of violence and I don't actually remember the sound itself very well. Adrenaline fucks with your memory a bit I think. But an 11R22.5 at 80psi is rather like a grenade and a car tire is a bit bigger boom than say, a film canister bomb or a very small pipe bomb. The last and most violent one (14.00-24, <40PSI) I remember hearing it and getting hit with a miniature dust storm a split-second later and being pissed that the shockwave put my lighter's flame out while I was lighting a cigarette before I realized what the sound was and oh gently caress the other guy on the call was right next to the tire (no, he was up at his cab lighting a dart as well). Apparently a nearby crane op poo poo his pants, and we had half a dozen safety guys around the tire by the time I was done that cigarette.
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Jan 25, 2015 21:23
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I'm still trying to figure out where the gently caress they found somewhere with 129-psi capability. My (admittedly broad) presumption is that anyone that owns a compressor would know better. That's a poo poo-ton of quarters at your local station. Not to mention it would take forever.
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Jan 25, 2015 21:42
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PainterofCrap posted:I'm still trying to figure out where the gently caress they found somewhere with 129-psi capability. My (admittedly broad) presumption is that anyone that owns a compressor would know better. I think he is missing a period. 12.9 sounds more likely.
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Jan 25, 2015 21:44
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Some 12v compressors have a surprisingly high maximum pressure. I wouldn't be surprised if the car's owner didn't plug one in and let it run for half an hour on each tire.ratbert90 posted:I think he is missing a period. 12.9 sounds more likely. Why would the technician worry about explosions after making a typo?
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Jan 25, 2015 21:44
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Safety Dance posted:Some 12v compressors have a surprisingly high maximum pressure. I wouldn't be surprised if the car's owner didn't plug one in and let it run for half an hour on each tire... Good god, they do. There's one at WalMart for $12.75 that says it can hit 300-psi.
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Jan 25, 2015 21:50
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PainterofCrap posted:I'm still trying to figure out where the gently caress they found somewhere with 129-psi capability. My (admittedly broad) presumption is that anyone that owns a compressor would know better. Never underestimate the perserverance of dumbasses.
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Jan 25, 2015 21:53
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A truck stop compressor probably goes that high.
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Jan 25, 2015 21:59
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Yeah the little 12V compressors don't have a tank, meaning they don't have to regulate to the tank's rating like big compressors do, so they can just pump and pump and pump until the user shuts it off or the load gets too high for the motor to turn anymore. Realistically it would take eons since it slows way down as the pressure builds, but never underestimate peoples' stupidity.PCOS Bill posted:This is terrible car stuff and a question rolled into one (Or maybe I'm who you share the road with...) but fits with the last topic here - My tires on my four wheeled vehicles always look low despite being at the pressure listed on the door frame. The ride is decent, and they don't wear funny that I've noticed (Not that I've kept many vehicles through more than one or two sets of modern tires) but every time I look at them they make me think something is wrong. Most likely you should stop worrying, radial tires bulge a lot more at the contact point than bias plies (used on nearly all bicycles and a good number of motorcycles, one of which I imagine you own based on your 4-wheel comment) due to the sidewall being a lot thinner and the different belt structure inside the rubber. Even radial-tired bikes don't get that bulge just due to how light they are per tire compared to even the smallest of cars. The tires are designed to take that into account, and the vehicle manufacturer pays lots of knowledgable engineers to choose an appropriate tire and set the pressure to the right number. If it really bothers you, there's a foolproof method to check. Put a chalk stripe across the tread, then drive a few tire revolutions down the road and check it. If the chalk's worn off evenly, you're golden. If just the middle is worn but the edges are intact, lower the pressure and repeat, raise it if just the edges are worn. If you're really picky, do this after driving so the tires are warmed up to driving temperature.
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Jan 25, 2015 22:14
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I routinely use gas station compressors to top up my air pig for autoX. They easily do 100+ psi. 12v compressors overheat far before reaching 100psi in my experience, we've tried to refill air pigs with them before. Maybe if you kept going back with one, but that would take ages.
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Jan 26, 2015 00:13
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Fucknag posted:never underestimate peoples' stupidity.
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Jan 26, 2015 00:21
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Crustashio posted:I routinely use gas station compressors to top up my air pig for autoX. They easily do 100+ psi. I think the way it happened was probably the light came on randomly, so idiot owner went "Oh, my tires must be low.  " and stuck a pump on them for 10 minutes per tire. Then the light didn't go off, so he added more. Repeat a bunch of times, finally ending with him coming into the dealer cause "I keep adding air but it still says problem!" and you wouldn't run into a duty cycle problem.
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Jan 26, 2015 02:20
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Guarantee the owner tried to inflate it to the kPa number but with Psi instead. Probably a good thing they didn't make it.
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Jan 26, 2015 02:30
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I'd think the valve stems would go before the tires did most of the time
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Jan 26, 2015 02:44
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Raluek posted:I think the way it happened was probably the light came on randomly, so idiot owner went "Oh, my tires must be low. This right here, my wife's Honda is just a little symbol on the dash and after hunting down the tire and airing them up, you have to drive around for 20min to make the light stop. 
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Jan 26, 2015 02:46
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An actual, honest-to-god, running and driving Maserati Biturbo!
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Jan 26, 2015 03:00
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Vitamin J posted:An actual, honest-to-god, running and driving Maserati Biturbo! It looks like an 80s Nissan with those wheels, good lord
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Jan 26, 2015 03:03
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rscott posted:I'd think the valve stems would go before the tires did most of the time Remember that it's pounds per square inch. That air is pressing the tires out with a lot more surface area than a valve stem that's... *does napkin math* less than 1/4 of a square inch (so at that pressure about 30 lb force).
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Jan 26, 2015 03:04
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Vitamin J posted:An actual, honest-to-god, running and driving Maserati Biturbo! Not by now, probably.
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Jan 26, 2015 07:11
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Vitamin J posted:
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Jan 26, 2015 07:47
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Sudo Echo posted:It looks like an 80s Nissan with those wheels, good lord
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Jan 26, 2015 15:25
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thetechnoloser posted:How else would you do this.. True story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQhfcdQf1QA&t=21s As many times as I have seen this video, I just now noticed the huge open wound on his left hand. Pause it at 42 seconds and amaze at how he still has 10 fingats.
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Jan 26, 2015 15:44
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Bicycle pump? My road tires are around 105 psi iirc and 129 psi isn't outside of the range of a decent pump. This said, it would take sustained effort to do all 4 tires like this.
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Jan 26, 2015 16:48
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surebet posted:Bicycle pump? My road tires are around 105 psi iirc and 129 psi isn't outside of the range of a decent pump. This said, it would take sustained effort to do all 4 tires like this. Sustained effort on the order of a month of pumping per tire, probably.
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Jan 26, 2015 17:27
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I had the hood up on my Jeep while it was running (Random belt squeal I was listening for, not just because I like it) and accidentally put my hand down on the fan shroud. There's now a few dozen pieces of fan shroud spread around my garage. I didn't get hurt... but I need a new one or I might next time.
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Jan 26, 2015 17:37
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Sudo Echo posted:It looks like an 80s Nissan with those wheels, good lord That is what I thought it was!
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Jan 26, 2015 18:16
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PCOS Bill posted:I had the hood up on my Jeep while it was running (Random belt squeal I was listening for, not just because I like it) and accidentally put my hand down on the fan shroud. What jeep? If it's an 87-01 XJ with a 4.0, at least that was like a 12 dollar mistake, the part number is CH3110104 and you can get them from like 9 million vendors.
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Jan 26, 2015 19:42
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kastein posted:What jeep? If it's an 87-01 XJ with a 4.0, at least that was like a 12 dollar mistake, the part number is CH3110104 and you can get them from like 9 million vendors. It is, it was just really embarrassing
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Jan 26, 2015 20:00
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The other day during morning rush hour traffic I saw the most beautiful sight. A three lane road was heavily backed up, and something seemed to be going on ahead in the right lane. I could see flashing police lights and everyone in that lane was trying to move over. As I approached what I thought was the accident, I saw a typical lifted brotruck sitting on its rear end, rear bumper almost touching the ground, nose pointed at the sky at about a 25 degree angle. There was a huge trail of metal shards on the road behind the truck that looked like it had been shotgunned out, so whatever happened to him, happened suddenly. Hundreds of morning commuters slowly passed by to witness the schadenfreude. Sadly I couldn't get a picture safely without being an rear end in a top hat to the people behind me.
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Jan 26, 2015 20:15
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A piece of Brotruck suspension put an insanely large dent in my steel skidplate after I hit it at 80mph in a dark section of freeway. gently caress them.
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Jan 26, 2015 20:28
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So it turns out porsche cayenne aren't the only good lights for growing weed.  
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Jan 26, 2015 21:55
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Powershift posted:So it turns out porsche cayenne aren't the only good lights for growing weed. Is lighting getting that expensive? 
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Jan 26, 2015 21:57
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Imagine a crackhead who grows weed cause he can't cook meth. Now imagine Russia. Now imagine a Russian crackhead.
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Jan 26, 2015 22:00
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CommieGIR posted:Is lighting getting that expensive? More expensive than free anyway :/
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Jan 26, 2015 22:00
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CommieGIR posted:Is lighting getting that expensive? I suspect the real cause is that anyone buying the appropriate lighting legit immediately gets their name handed to the police and are awarded with a blacked out van parked across the street.
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Jan 26, 2015 22:00
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CommieGIR posted:Is lighting getting that expensive? It's always more expensive than free. With HIDs and LEDs, they use far less electricity, so if you're stealing electricty too, you're far less likely to get noticed. There has been a big problem in northern alberta with expensive light bars going missing off brotrucks and ending up at grow ops in prince george.
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