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dexter6: Sep 22, 2003

ExecuDork posted:

I love how flimsy the whole thing is. Under a week of actual use I would expect the device to fall off the wall and come completely apart by Tuesday.
And how calm she is as she's "woken up" by the rubber arm slapping her face.
*WHAP WHAP WHAP WHAP*
Urh.. I'll get up now... *fumbles for switch*
*WHAP WHAP WHAP WHAP*

I agree with all the comments, in that I want to marry her too.

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# ? Jun 1, 2024 14:36

Robo Reagan: Feb 12, 2012; by Fluffdaddy

lordofthefishes posted:

From the SSD thread

http://m.wikihow.com/Destroy-a-Hard-Drive

wikihow is the gift that keeps on giving and doesn't stop giving even though you've asked it to do so repeatedly

# ? Nov 23, 2015 01:39

Synthbuttrange: May 6, 2007

Robo Reagan posted:

wikihow is the gift that keeps on giving and doesn't stop giving even though you've asked it to do so repeatedly

# ? Nov 23, 2015 02:43

Enfys: Feb 17, 2013; The ocean is calling and I must go

Imagine the conversation with the artist.

"So there's going to be a tube..."

# ? Nov 23, 2015 02:50

The Bloop: Jul 5, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

Enfys posted:

Imagine the conversation with the artist.

"So there's going to be a tube..."

The artist wanted to draw it first and wrote to hundreds of dog breeding experts to find one who would pay for it

# ? Nov 23, 2015 03:12

lordofthefishes: Mar 30, 2008; 01000111 01010010 01000101 01000101 01010100 01001001 01001110 01000111 01010011 00100000 01000110 01000101 01001100 01001100 01001111 01010111 00100000 01000011 01000001 01001110 01000001 01000100 01001001 01000001 01001110 01010011

Robo Reagan posted:

wikihow is the gift that keeps on giving and doesn't stop giving even though you've asked it to do so repeatedly

I cannot stop laughing at the thought of people trying some of these:

http://m.wikihow.com/Make-Your-Own-Gasoline
http://m.wikihow.com/Make-a-Water-Heater
http://m.wikihow.com/Flush-a-Heater-Core

What could possibly go wrong? :downsrim:

# ? Nov 23, 2015 03:22

JB50: Feb 13, 2008

lordofthefishes posted:

I cannot stop laughing at the thought of people trying some of these:

http://m.wikihow.com/Make-Your-Own-Gasoline
http://m.wikihow.com/Make-a-Water-Heater
http://m.wikihow.com/Flush-a-Heater-Core

What could possibly go wrong?

Tips for making gasoline:

The help of a certified engineer or mechanic would be useful before trying to make gasoline. If no one is available, buy the EIT manual and teach yourself engineering.

Ehhhh OK.

# ? Nov 23, 2015 03:45

UP THE BUM NO BABY: Sep 1, 2011; by Hand Knit

http://thefpl.us/search?q=wikihow

You are all welcome

# ? Nov 23, 2015 04:13

door.jar: Mar 17, 2010

JB50 posted:

Tips for making gasoline:

Don't forget that key ingredient in gasoline, citrus fruit.

# ? Nov 23, 2015 04:52

Hexyflexy: Sep 2, 2011; asymptotically approaching one

JB50 posted:

Tips for making gasoline:

The help of a certified engineer or mechanic would be useful before trying to make gasoline. If no one is available, buy the EIT manual and teach yourself engineering.

Ehhhh OK.

That's brilliant. "Build a petroleum plant and supporting infrastructure".
Well, can do. Got any cash on you?

# ? Nov 23, 2015 04:56

ncumbered_by_idgits: Sep 20, 2008

lordofthefishes posted:

http://m.wikihow.com/Make-a-Water-Heater

quote:

Make sure that the water heater will comply with government safety standards. Your homeowners insurance might reject a claim if it doesn't comply with these standards.

# ? Nov 23, 2015 04:57

Applesnots: Oct 22, 2010; MERRY YOBMAS

Say Nothing posted:

Well, the slapping alarm clock at least has a practical function.

http://geekologie.com/2015/11/not-okay-man-builds-crazy-knife-wielding.php

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ2dI_B_Ycg

This thing is beautiful and a work of art.

# ? Nov 23, 2015 05:09

tacodaemon: Nov 27, 2006

lordofthefishes posted:

I cannot stop laughing at the thought of people trying some of these:

http://m.wikihow.com/Make-Your-Own-Gasoline

Hahahahahaha oh my god

e: I guess door.jar beat me to it :hf:

tacodaemon fucked around with this message at 05:18 on Nov 23, 2015

# ? Nov 23, 2015 05:16

Synthbuttrange: May 6, 2007

I was wondering if they meant the fruit, or meant the mineral and drew the fruit.

quote:

Things You'll Need
Gasifier (309 stainless, flanged, ID, parts under pressure are Sch. 120)
1 24" x 30" "trashcan" (3" outlet in bottom with additional fitting for 6" pipe as a jacket)
2 6" x 12" pipe with (3) 1/2" taps in side 3" apart
1 9" x 12" pipe (2 caps, one with a 3" outlet tap in center and another 1/2" to the side)
1 9" in diameter 200 mesh screen
3 3" x 12" pipe
1 3" x 9" pipe
1 3" x 24" pipe
12 3" 90 degree bend
1 3" 4-way
2 3" Tee
1 6" cap
1 6" cap with
1 6" cap reducing to 3" OD
3 1/2" valve 600 psi/700 F (this is actually part of the water system)
1 9" x 12" with (2) 1/2" taps in the side
1 9" cap
1 9" cap with 1/2" tap
1 1/32" restrictor plate for 1/2" pipe
2 1/2" x 3"
2 1/2" x 8"
F-T (Std steel, Sch. 80)
1 10" x 60"
1 8" x 59.5"
24 1/2" x 59"
193 1/2" tee
192 1/2" 90 degree
192 1/2" x 1"
2 1" x 4"
2 1" 90 degree
2 1" > 1/2" adapter
1 1/2" x 36"
1 1/2" x 24"
1 1/2" x 24"
1 1/2" 90 degree
2 Pressure gauge to 600
2 Temperature to 1000
2 1" 300 mesh screens
1 8" 100 mesh screen
1 100 kg 200m iron filings, Separation (Sch 40)
2 1/2" x 12"
4 1/2" x 6"
4 1/2" x 36"
5 1/2" 90 degree
1 1/2" x 2"
1 6" x 12"
1 6" by 6"
1 6" to 1/2" cone
1 3/8" venturi
1 4.7 angstrom filter
1 1.8 angstrom filter
1 10-gallon storage tank Gas system (309, sch. 40)
1 500 PSI relief valve 3"
1 100 psi relief valve 1"
1 6" x 12" with 3" and (2) 1/2" taps in the side and a 1/8" and 1" tap next to each other and 90 degrees from the other 3 taps.
2 6" caps
1 1" x 60"
1 1/8" x 60"
1 3" x 48"
3 1/2" x 12"
1 1/2" 4 way
50 1/2" 3-way
50 1/2" gas nozzles with a 1/8" aperture
8 1/2" 90 degree
4 1/2" caps
(std)
2 1/2" (inlet and outlet) Gas regulator with 1.9mm venturi
2 1/2" x 24"
2 1/2" x 12"
4 1/2" 90 degree water system (309)
1 6" x 6"
2 6" caps with 1/2" taps
1 1/2" x 24"
1 1/2" x 12"
4 1/2" x 36"
1 3" x 6"
1 3" cap
1 3" cap with 1/2" tap
1 1/2" 500 psi check valve
1 1/2" x 6"
18 1/2" 90 degree
2 1/2" tee
1 1/2" x 60"
1 1/2" x 30" Catalyst maker (std)
1 6" x 36"
1 6" cap with 1/2" tap
1 6" cap with 1/2" tap and 2 1/4" taps
3 1/2" 90 degree
1 1/4" Temp gauge to 1000 F
1 1/4" Pressure gauge to 600 psi
6 1/2" tee
7 gas nozzles as per gas system
other equipment

Synthbuttrange fucked around with this message at 05:19 on Nov 23, 2015

# ? Nov 23, 2015 05:17

tacodaemon: Nov 27, 2006

I've read enough about gasification processes that I feel certain that they meant calcium oxide (quicklime) and whoever did the illustrations didn't know what the gently caress

# ? Nov 23, 2015 05:21

FrozenVent: May 1, 2009; The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.

Aren't limes green anyway?

# ? Nov 23, 2015 05:22

IPCRESS: May 27, 2012

door.jar posted:

Don't forget that key ingredient in gasoline, citrus fruit.

For people still motivated to try their plans: the only product this device is going to reliably produce is high-velocity red-hot mild steel* plumbing parts.

But citrus fruit is actually a good feedstock for FT reactors. Which, again, this isn't a plan for. This is a plan for a hilarious obituary.

*: the go-to material of choice for high-pressure, high temperature work in a reactive atmosphere.

e: Citrus also contains limonene which gets a write up in everyone's favourite book about letting engineers do primary science, Ignition.

IPCRESS fucked around with this message at 05:35 on Nov 23, 2015

# ? Nov 23, 2015 05:29

Synthbuttrange: May 6, 2007

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# ? Nov 23, 2015 06:10

Hexyflexy: Sep 2, 2011; asymptotically approaching one

I think this is the only time I've felt a quote from Anansi Boys is appropriate;

"You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

# ? Nov 23, 2015 06:18

Anagram of GINGER: Oct 3, 2014; by Smythe

ReagaNOMNOMicks posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeIS7XuUE3M
There's no I in team.

Yeah but there's a ''me"!

# ? Nov 23, 2015 06:31

Gumbel2Gumbel: Apr 28, 2010

Frozenpussy posted:

Yeah but there's a ''me"!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlpXmED-xVA

Someone explain this and also why I am getting a horrible feeling in my stomach watching a man in a t shirt carry a tray full of thermite with a shovel while walking between railroad ties on rocks.

# ? Nov 23, 2015 15:11

Dagen H: Mar 19, 2009; Hogertrafikomlaggningen

Platystemon posted:

Illustration from 1956 or 1958

How did you rule out 1957?

# ? Nov 23, 2015 18:26

Nicodemus Dumps: Jan 9, 2006; Just chillin' in the sink

Bucephalus posted:

How did you rule out 1957?

They didn't have odd numbers back then.

# ? Nov 23, 2015 18:28

Platystemon: Feb 13, 2012; BREADS

Bucephalus posted:

How did you rule out 1957?

The caption had one year and the file name had another.

# ? Nov 23, 2015 18:29

Flash Gordon Ramsay: Sep 28, 2004; Grimey Drawer

Reverse google image search points to several listings from a 1972 National Lampoon magazine. Looks like Bruce McCall is the artist. "Hobby Pop" may be the name of the image.

# ? Nov 23, 2015 18:33

Elendil004: Mar 22, 2003; The prognosis
is not good.

Gumbel2Gumbel posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlpXmED-xVA

Someone explain this and also why I am getting a horrible feeling in my stomach watching a man in a t shirt carry a tray full of thermite with a shovel while walking between railroad ties on rocks.

What even are they doing? Are they joining the track together? I feel like there's GOT to be a faster way to do that.

# ? Nov 23, 2015 20:52

Pinch Me Im Meming: Jun 26, 2005

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6GfUvWESUQ
Have some "controlled" unraveling.

# ? Nov 23, 2015 20:56

Zopotantor: Feb 24, 2013; ...und ist er drin dann lassen wir ihn niemals wieder raus...

Elendil004 posted:

What even are they doing? Are they joining the track together? I feel like there's GOT to be a faster way to do that.

AFAIK that is SOP for welding rails.

# ? Nov 23, 2015 21:02

ullerrm: Dec 31, 2012; Oh, the network slogan is true -- "watch FOX and be damned for all eternity!"

Elendil004 posted:

What even are they doing? Are they joining the track together? I feel like there's GOT to be a faster way to do that.

Yep, they are welding the tracks together. They mount a refractory mould on the gap between the tracks, pre-heat the rail ends with a torch, then light the thermite to fill the gap. It's actually the fastest way to do it.

The other major way to weld them is flash-butt welding -- you electrify the two parts of the track, start an arc between them with a stick, wait for the arc to heat up the ends of the track until they puddle, then turn off the current and physically push the tracks together, creating a forge weld. It's slower, and the fact that you need to move one of the tracks means that it's tricky to use when you're repairing an existing track. But it produces very smooth, clean welds.

# ? Nov 23, 2015 21:14

Synthbuttrange: May 6, 2007

That's just a thermite weld. Pretty standard.

# ? Nov 23, 2015 21:14

Gumbel2Gumbel: Apr 28, 2010

Yeah I had a buddy who used a can of some sort of lighter fluid that didn't break the stream properly (non suppurated? it may not have been grill lighter fluid, don't remember). The flame traveled up the stream and backblasted up the can and spread all over his body. He lost 90% of his skin and should have died (he kept his face, junk, and fingernails though).

Any burny things scare me now

# ? Nov 23, 2015 21:16

Synthbuttrange: May 6, 2007

Now if you want OSHA look at the safety gear here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoV_49L1ZRI

# ? Nov 23, 2015 21:20

Explosionface: May 30, 2011; We can dance if we want to,
we can leave Marle behind.
'Cause your fiends don't dance,
and if they don't dance,
they'll get a Robo Fist of mine.

SynthOrange posted:

Now if you want OSHA look at the safety gear here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoV_49L1ZRI

There's even a guy wearing sandals right there. :gonk:

Also, it's really weird for me to see railroad ties made from anything other than wood.

# ? Nov 23, 2015 21:27

Vicodiva: Sep 27, 2012

ReagaNOMNOMicks posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6GfUvWESUQ
Have some "controlled" unraveling.

# ? Nov 23, 2015 22:54

goatsestretchgoals: Jun 4, 2011

Explosionface posted:

There's even a guy wearing sandals right there.

Also, it's really weird for me to see railroad ties made from anything other than wood.

It's weird for me to see ties that aren't (half) buried. Is that normal on the parts of train tracks that are nowhere close to roads, or are they going to dump some gravel once the welds are done?

goatsestretchgoals fucked around with this message at 23:48 on Nov 23, 2015

# ? Nov 23, 2015 23:46

GotLag: Jul 17, 2005; 食べちゃダメだよ

Zopotantor posted:

AFAIK that is SOP for welding rails.

If it's a repair job on track that's in use you can skip the grinding stage and let a train ride over it while it's still red-hot

buttcoinbrony posted:

It's weird for me to see ties that aren't (half) buried. Is that normal on the parts of train tracks that are nowhere close to roads, or are they going to dump some gravel once the welds are done?

It's called ballast and in that video it hasn't been added yet. Looks like new-build track and they're welding the rails together.

Edit for OSHA content:
As a kid I used to watch the railway men repair track near my house. Once when moving to get a better view of the new weld, I ended up standing on one of the discarded pieces of slag, until I noticed my foot was feeling warmer. Melted the tread off my sneakers.

GotLag fucked around with this message at 00:00 on Nov 24, 2015

# ? Nov 23, 2015 23:51