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xzzy posted:My concern is that from the photos the only contact with the ground looks to be those two feet. How is that thing stable? Is it just not showing additional feet off the front and rear? It has 4 feet. The first photo shows the rear feet, the others show the middle feet. There is nothing supporting the front.
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Sagebrush posted:What they've got there is basically a pile of railroad ties, so if it can support a train, I'm pretty sure it can handle a big truck. Also wood has the benefit of making horrible noises for a while before failing unlike steel which just loving blows up when it's past it's limit.
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8ender posted:Also wood has the benefit of making horrible noises for a while before failing unlike steel which just loving blows up when it's past it's limit. lol where do people get this stuff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yield_(engineering)
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Mar 2, 2016 13:56
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Slavvy posted:I mean it's true even though everything Grohl does Krupa did first and better.
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A girl at work bought a brand new, off the lot 2015 VW Convertible Beetle TDI early last year. She loved it and talked about it all the time. She lives fairly near me, and I often see her driving to work. Today, I see her driving a new, bright red VW Passat. I asked her about the Beetle and she said she had to trade it in (at considerable cost). I figured it had something to do with the diesel+cold weather, but it was actually due to the way the soft top interacts with the windows. When the top goes down, the windows bump down a bit automatically, for clearance, and the same in reverse. Apparently, this system absolutely shits itself when it's cold out and can't seal worth a drat. She's been shut out of her car 5+ times during this rather mild winter due to the poor seal on the door freezing the doors shut and had serious trouble with getting to work when she's called in for emergencies. It was basically lose the Beetle or possibly lose her job.
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Scrambles posted:lol where do people get this stuff To be fair, if it were high carbon steel (which it wouldn't be) it would probably, literally, explode on failure. That poo poo can shatter like glass.
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robotsinmyhead posted:A girl at work bought a brand new, off the lot 2015 VW Convertible Beetle TDI early last year. She loved it and talked about it all the time. She lives fairly near me, and I often see her driving to work. My mom bought a 15 Beetle but it was the 1.8t. The windows did strike me as being a possible issue. When you open the door the window drops and goes back up when closed. A dead battery is going to basically lock you out of the car. Luckily she lives in Texas where cold doesn't happen. She has put less miles on her car in the year+ she has had it than I've put on mine since August. I love putting stingers on my bug because not only do you bruise idiots that don't watch where they walk, you get to burn the poo poo out of them too!
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That's basically every frameless window built in the last 15 years, though; from what im reading you can still open the doors on ie a mustang, it'll just rub the seal real bad, and damage it if you do it repeatedly (which shouldn't happen). the mechanism freaking out at low temp is entirely on vw.
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Mar 2, 2016 19:49
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BoostCreep posted:It has 4 feet. The first photo shows the rear feet, the others show the middle feet. There is nothing supporting the front. It wouldn't have to support the front. The 4 supports would be centered on the crane pivot axis. Wood cribbing like that is standard - usually hardwood so it lasts a while. As long as you're stacking in alternate directions it can take quite a bit in compression as stated. When you've got say a foot square on that foot that works out to 144 sq. inches, so say 500 psi allowable (just guessing) in compression is around 70,000 lbs.
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Mar 2, 2016 20:14
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My e46 coupe has frameless windows with the same auto-up/down thing when you open the door, which I assume is what most frameless doors do, and I've driven and parked it in well-below freezing weather and torrential rain and its operation or weather sealing has never been an issue. Even in a case where you've got a dead or unplugged battery, the doors still open and close they just rub the rain rail that they normally tuck under a little bit. Wouldn't want to leave it broken like that forever, but in a pinch it's just fine. Somehow it's not surprising that VW found a way to make a problem out of a system everyone else has had figured out for decades.
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I didn't ask her about it too much cause she's not really that savvy about cars in general, but I assume it's something like this:some vw forum posted:When you open the door, the glass is supposed to drop ~1" to clear the upper window lip that covers the glass. Here in Chicago, we get a lot of freezing rain, and whenever this happens, the glass will freeze in the closed position and will not drop when you open the door. Then when you try to close the door, the window will get stuck on this upper lip and not seal properly (since it's supposed to be tucked underneath)
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Timmy Cruise posted:It wouldn't have to support the front. The 4 supports would be centered on the crane pivot axis. I worked on a similar crane that did have a single front support, but it was only there so the cab wouldn't stress the frame rails. It didn't do anything to help hold the crane itself or aid in lifting operations. This was for a client that decided to completely change how the outriggers would work at least three times in nine months, causing us to scrap the entire design each time and start from scratch. Then they got mad at us because we went so far over budget. By the end, it was "gently caress it, put a jack on the front and call it good." This was the machine I had to route pneumatic lines for. I found a mistake in the initial (rough) diagram and ran them correctly. They didn't look at the work that I did, decided to plum the lines however they wanted, then got made that the brakes didn't work. I believe we got into a minor legal scuffle over that project, then dropped them as a client.
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Mar 2, 2016 20:41
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Hope I'm not too late for hitch shaming. This is one of my coworkers. His front bumper was about an inch off the wall also. I should check with HR and see if OSHA covers walking into that.
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Mar 3, 2016 01:06
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poo poo that should be illegal, but seems to pass muster, and wouldn't be enforced even if it was illegal.
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Actually it is illegal (not supposed to keep that stuff in while not towing) and no one gives a single gently caress. Seriously though, it aint that hard to avoid walking into it, just put your phone down while walking through parking lots. I've beaned myself on my own before, but I had no excuse, I wasn't looking where the hell I was going. e: I normally remove mine, but it's more because I don't want it getting stolen than because I care whether it's illegal or not or give a poo poo if people walk into something sticking off a parked, immobile object because they were too oblivious to notice it.
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Slavvy posted:I mean it's true even though Ringo's not even the best drummer in the Beatles.
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kastein posted:Actually it is illegal (not supposed to keep that stuff in while not towing) and no one gives a single gently caress. Truck owners have lost lawsuits when someone runs into an unused hitch and injures themselves. Also, this isn't a phone down thing, you shouldn't have to scan the parking lot for hazards 1 foot off the ground while also keeping an eye out for cars several feet off the ground.
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Mar 3, 2016 06:58
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GopherFlats posted:I don't know if it's still the same, but in California you were able to get a learners permit when you were 15.5. You had to do 25 hours of classroom time plus another 6 hours of driving time with a certified instructor. Then once you got your permit you were only able to drive when someone in the car with you was 25 years or older and had to basically be a parent or guardian. You couldn't drive alone at any time. Before they did provisional / graduated licenses in the late 90s you could get a driver's license after 30 days of having a learner's permit (provided you were 16). Now it's 6 months and a lot more hours. I knew somebody who got a license at age 12 but I don't remember what state she was from.
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Meydey posted:Hope I'm not too late for hitch shaming. This is one of my coworkers. I had a coworker do that (not with that dumb of a hitch though), but instead of parking with the hitch out in the car travel lane, he/she backed in until the tires hit the curb, blocking about half the sidewalk with the truck itself, and then another foot or so with the hitch, leaving maybe 8-12" of sidewalk open for people to actually walk down. It was bad enough that I reported it to security, and they looked up who owned it and made them go outside and move it. I have a neighbor who has a truck that is almost too long for his driveway that pulls that poo poo all of the time too, instead of pulling right up against his garage door, he leaves room to walk in front of the truck, which of course means about 12" or so of the truck is in the sidewalk. Then he leaves his hitch in (or sometimes the tailgate down, because 'airflow for better mileage' believer) sticking way out into the sidewalk. It's actually pretty drat difficult to see if you are walking at night, as his driveway is in a pretty dark spot.
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My building has a really tight parkade, and for some reason Chinese people in Vancouver only seem to back into spots. So the person that parks diagonal from me in their 3 series backs into the spot, but leaves 2-3 feet from the wall to their bumper, I'm guessing so they can access the trunk while they are parked, so the front of the car sticks out from the pillars a few feet, which makes me have to do two more back and forths to get out of my spot and in a position to drive out of the parkade. Last month there was an x3 parked in the same spot and they seemed capable of backing all the way in. Serious question though what is it that makes people predominately back into parking spots?
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Mar 3, 2016 08:21
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Inability to back out?
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Terrible car stuff is getting my windscreen replaced because it had cracked, and not half an hour's driving with my new one fitted a big stone strikes it and leaves a massive chip right in my line of sight. I don't think I could get away with posting the vast string of expletives coming out of my mouth when that happened.
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D C posted:
I do it because when I go to leave, I start the car, release the handbrake and start letting off the clutch (the car's already in gear) and I'm on my way. Also in the winter, it's easier to control getting out of the parking space when it's snowy.
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But it takes so much longer to park? Its way easier to back out into a big open space then to back straight between two other cars.
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Mar 3, 2016 08:31
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I come home at 0200 and leave for work at 1130, so, traffic density?
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I'd be happy if people treated the white line in the middle of the road as a loving rule and not just a loving guide line. Smashed a small tree to bits with the entire passenger side of a truck and float with a backhoe on it this afternoon because i came up over a crest in the road and there was some little poo poo stain in a 80's corolla half in my lane with nowhere for me to go except into this tree or have a head on... Tomorrow i'll work out what i broke! looks like the electric mirror and antenna aint happy from a first glance...
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The Locator posted:I have a neighbor who has a truck that is almost too long for his driveway that pulls that poo poo all of the time too, instead of pulling right up against his garage door, he leaves room to walk in front of the truck, which of course means about 12" or so of the truck is in the sidewalk. Then he leaves his hitch in (or sometimes the tailgate down, because 'airflow for better mileage' believer) sticking way out into the sidewalk. It's actually pretty drat difficult to see if you are walking at night, as his driveway is in a pretty dark spot. Cordless sawzall. Yes I am advocating that sort of behavior, because if who I am as a person. I'm not really but it would be funny After all non-violent methods have been exhausted of course, like mentioning it to them.
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D C posted:Serious question though what is it that makes people predominately back into parking spots? Better visibility/safety when pulling out of the spot. It only takes like a second or two longer than pulling in. They drilled it into us during drivers ed when I was a kid getting my license. Then one night I didn't do it and pulled into my friend's driveway when I was like 17, and when I reversed out with a fogged up rear window, I backed into the side of a black van parked opposite the drive that I couldn't see. It took ages to pay for that at part time minimum wage. Lesson learned. If people backed into parking spots and driveways there would be no need to mandate reverse cameras to stop children and pets getting run over.
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This seems thread appropriate: http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/01/china/toddler-falls-from-van-video/
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Cakefool posted:After all non-violent methods have been exhausted of course, like mentioning it to them. I did actually.. fixed it for about a week, maybe even two.
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D C posted:But it takes so much longer to park? Its way easier to back out into a big open space then to back straight between two other cars. Once you get the feel of a car, I don't think it takes much longer at all- roll past the space, check over your shoulder till your aimpoint is about right for the lines in the parking bay/other cars, shift to reverse and then turn hard while rolling back, use mirrors to align, and if you gently caress it up a bit, roll forward a bit to get sorted. I prefer rolling back into a narrow space where there's less chance of some stupid person wandering around or an idiot going round the car park too fast, a lot less area to worry about, then I get a superb view for pulling out when I leave. That, or pull into a space forwards, then reverse into the opposite bay, if they are lined up and free. That's how I did the bay parking on my test and the invigilator commented after that he was surprised more people didn't do it that way. Now parallel parking, that I'm not so good with.
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Linedance posted:Better visibility/safety when pulling out of the spot. It only takes like a second or two longer than pulling in. They drilled it into us during drivers ed when I was a kid getting my license. Then one night I didn't do it and pulled into my friend's driveway when I was like 17, and when I reversed out with a fogged up rear window, I backed into the side of a black van parked opposite the drive that I couldn't see. It took ages to pay for that at part time minimum wage. Lesson learned. This, and, when you choose to back into a spot, you have full control over the 55-or-so square feet inside that spot, so reversing into it is safe. When you go to leave, you are facing all the unpredictable assholes in the parking lot. On the other hand, when you front into a spot, you're reversing into a world of unpredictable assholes.
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D C posted:Serious question though what is it that makes people predominately back into parking spots? Because you have the time and visibility to do it then, especially if you're off peak at the time, but you might not have that same time and visibility (fogged windows, brodozer blocking viewing lanes) later?
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Ludicro posted:Terrible car stuff is getting my windscreen replaced because it had cracked, and not half an hour's driving with my new one fitted a big stone strikes it and leaves a massive chip right in my line of sight. I hate that - almost as bad was last winter on my car, I had a chip in the windshield I was going to get fixed. Unfortunately it snowed and temps got below zero for a couple days, and I came out to find that the little chip had expanded into a crack about 2 feet long  wasn't too terrible though, insurance covered it and I had a new windshield in a couple hours.Safety Dance posted:This, and, when you choose to back into a spot, you have full control over the 55-or-so square feet inside that spot, so reversing into it is safe. When you go to leave, you are facing all the unpredictable assholes in the parking lot. Plus the more you practice, the better you get at it - I can practically back a car into a spot blindfolded because it's my preferred way to park. Have trouble backing into a spot? Go to a semi-empty parking lot and get some practice in, really doesn't take that long. Only problem I've had is being able to tell if my rear bumper is blocking anything, but even then a quick head-out-the-window peek is all I need. BOOTY-ADE fucked around with this message at 19:43 on Mar 3, 2016 |
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You know what's even more fun? Getting an inspection ticket (car was uninspectable because the brand new windshield had cracked days before I was due for inspection), then getting the windshield replaced on a Saturday afternoon and getting a giant rock chip right in my field of view (i.e. again uninspectable) on Monday morning on my way to work. So long brand new windshield #2 of 2014, we hardly knew ye. Less than 48 hours old and already trashed by MassDOT's habit of not cleaning up after road construction. Then got another inspection ticket on the way home Friday... which was the day before I was going to have time to have the windshield replaced, again. That car was loving cursed I swear. I can't wait to sawzall it into a million tiny pieces.
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Maybe it's time to get a lexan windshield for the Justy. Or maybe those tear off sheets motocross riders use.
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Safety Dance posted:Maybe it's time to get a lexan windshield for the Justy. Or maybe those tear off sheets motocross riders use. Fortunately the only windshield it's had replaced was because I bought it with a really badly cracked one. I'll probably put tearoffs on it though (have a page for them bookmarked... anyone got a favorite vendor, though?) because those windshields aren't exactly common.
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H110Hawk posted:
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Yeah toss the carpc with touchscreen in front of the shifter, that won't ever get annoying.
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