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Had no idea steam engines had that much piping going on in there.
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Steam is legit terrifying to me unless it's in those adorable little benchtop engines that still scald you if you put your hand in the wrong place.
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Nov 14, 2015 03:59
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xzzy posted:Had no idea steam engines had that much piping going on in there. 
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Nov 14, 2015 03:59
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I legit thought it was a big old water tank 
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Nov 14, 2015 04:19
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And that was how I spent an hour learning about steam engines.
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Nov 14, 2015 04:23
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It was a think in the 70s to take the boilers off turn of the century steam engines and put them in a rig shack to heat water for the rig. It was about as fatal as you would expect. I saw a few up for sale a year or so ago, the one was produced in 1899.
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Nov 14, 2015 04:25
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Took some balls to run one of those. Also, I always wondered how trains turned since they have fixed axles. Here's Feynman explaining it for those that've wondered: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7h4OtFDnYE
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Nov 14, 2015 04:29
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QuarkMartial posted:Took some balls to run one of those. It took balls when they were new. even larger balls when they were 50 years old. I can't find the interesting ones, but here's the inspection sheet for one, there are 2 dates on the page.    
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Nov 14, 2015 04:40
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Powershift posted:It took balls when they were new. even larger balls when they were 50 years old. I can't find the interesting ones, but here's the inspection sheet for one, there are 2 dates on the page. This would've been cooler had they left the whistle on.
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Nov 14, 2015 04:45
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One of the old guys who works the blacksmith shop with me in irricana on special events used to feed one of those when he was a kid. He's in his seventies now so I think it's been a thing earlier than the seventies. Says the foreman or whoever recruited him, drove him out to site that night, and left him there for the night, and maybe the next day because he had to go drinking and no one else wanted to do it. For real though, that boiler looks OK. The ones on the park's working steam tractors aren't much better than that.
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Nov 14, 2015 04:51
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Slung Blade posted:One of the old guys who works the blacksmith shop with me in irricana on special events used to feed one of those when he was a kid. He's in his seventies now so I think it's been a thing earlier than the seventies. Yeah, but how much cocaine, in pounds per week, do the people running those tractors consume.
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Nov 14, 2015 04:58
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This is terrible and so am I
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Nov 14, 2015 05:13
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QuarkMartial posted:Took some balls to run one of those. Huh, that would explain why they don't just rub on the wheel flange all the time too. Neat.
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Nov 14, 2015 06:02
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DiggityDoink posted:Huh, that would explain why they don't just rub on the wheel flange all the time too. Neat. This animation has been around forever. 
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Nov 14, 2015 06:06
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Ran an oil analysis on my rebuilt jeep 4.0, came back with high bearing metals. Well, found the source of the high bearing metals: 
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Nov 14, 2015 23:24
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CommieGIR posted:Boiler explosion due to pressure valve failure. Blew the endcap off the locomotive and blew out/bent a bunch of the fire tubes. testing the relief valves is fun as gently caress ok get her going, now close the outlet valve and watch as the pressure goes up and up and up and oh gently caress i hope it opens and up and up and up and BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR now test the other one!
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Nov 14, 2015 23:40
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Powershift posted:It was a think in the 70s to take the boilers off turn of the century steam engines and put them in a rig shack to heat water for the rig. ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha that's one of the best things i've read in a while
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Since that image is roughly the size of my office, can you at least tell us what we're supposed to be looking for? Edit:  That makes more sense.
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Nov 15, 2015 19:59
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Yeah had the wrong link in before 
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Nov 15, 2015 20:04
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Shoreline? Was it pulled from high tide or what
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Nov 15, 2015 21:28
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Powershift posted:Cthulhu the tank engine.
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Nov 16, 2015 13:16
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Anyone go straight to Amazon to look for David Macaulay books?
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Nov 16, 2015 13:32
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Man is the 2nd warmest place to hide.
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Nov 16, 2015 13:48
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EightBit posted:Ran an oil analysis on my rebuilt jeep 4.0, came back with high bearing metals. gently caress! Any idea what caused it? That is a LOT of damage. The pitting makes me think water contamination, the scoring makes me think debris in the oil galleries past the filter. But I could be wrong.
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Nov 16, 2015 16:08
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Someone repost this on imgur instead of tinydick, tia. 
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Nov 16, 2015 16:18
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I gotcha, buddy. (firewall issues?)
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Nov 16, 2015 16:33
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QuarkMartial posted:Took some balls to run one of those. I will never be as happy about my job as this man.
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Nov 16, 2015 16:40
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Enourmo posted:I gotcha, buddy. (firewall issues?)  Yeah, tinypic is blocked at work, but SA and imgur aren't. Also tinypic sucks, if you try to open images from their hosts without a referrer you get shown their malware-banner riddled pages instead of just the image, so just typing the URL on your phone doesn't work.
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Nov 16, 2015 16:48
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Feynman had a lot to be happy about, help build an atomic bomb and help create a new field of research to prove to everyone you're pretty smart. Then spend the rest of your life experimenting on whatever the heck you felt like, because hey, who's going to tell you not to? Though his one big trick was to actually have a personality. Most theoretical physicists are about as exciting as a funeral.
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kastein posted:gently caress! That bearing only lasted 6,000 miles. I'm going with debris in the oil galleries, but I need to pull the engine and do a teardown to know. I took that cap off, saw the scoring, and called it a day. The crankshaft is scored pretty bad on that journal, too. There was also a small chunk of aluminum in the pan, definitely a piece of piston, though I couldn't see any damage from below. I'll be posting more porn here soon  .Edit: Blackstone analysis didn't really show water contamination, but the bearing metals prompted this investigation. When I last pulled it into my garage, the engine was starting to have a little bit of laziness and roughness, though that could just be my mind playing up a worrying oil report. EightBit fucked around with this message at 16:57 on Nov 16, 2015 |
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xzzy posted:Feynman had a lot to be happy about, help build an atomic bomb That, he wasn't very happy about. He actually suffered some pretty serious depression about it post-war. He'd see new buildings and bridges going up and just think "Those idiots, don't they know how futile that all is?"
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I get that, but it set him up for a pretty comfortable life later on which was what I was trying to say.
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Steam chat: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBdj-vOveiEFWe3vnGoJUag/videos This guy has a steam powered machine shop. The belts are scarier than the steam engine.
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thebigcow posted:Steam chat: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBdj-vOveiEFWe3vnGoJUag/videos  That's so drat cool. I don't care that its weaker, higher maintenance and less safe.
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xzzy posted:Most theoretical physicists are about as exciting as a funeral. You have been to some sad-sack funerals, man.
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Phanatic posted:That, he wasn't very happy about. He actually suffered some pretty serious depression about it post-war. He'd see new buildings and bridges going up and just think "Those idiots, don't they know how futile that all is?" Also his first wife and college sweetheart died of tuberculosis less than a year after they were married.
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Which actually occurred in new mexico while they were at Los Alamos if I am remembering correctly. He would visit her in the hospital in between helping with building the bomb and playing jokes on the other physicists at Los Alamos.
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Audi eat your heart out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp4tGTNNi1I
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It's the german version of asking "how do you keep an idiot in suspense?"
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