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Speaking of things burning, I hate too flammable shower doors: http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/owners/SearchResults?refurl=email&searchType=ID&targetCategory=R&searchCriteria.nhtsa_ids=16V336 quote:Forest River, Inc. (Forest River) is recalling certain model year 2016-2017 Forester and Sunseeker recreational vehicles manufactured from February 29, 2016, through April 20, 2016. These vehicles are equipped with a shower door that may not meet the flammability standards. Thus, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) No. 302, "Flammability of Interior Materials."
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I'm surprised they bother with safety regulations on RV's, they're just big rolling egg cartons anyways. You hit anything and they explode their contents all over the roadway.
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Jun 27, 2016 15:24
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I don't know for sure, but I'd guess the issue is more the catches fire while you're in the RV asleep or something. Or, possibly, the manufacture was outsourced to a Chinese firm and the shower curtain is actually structural.
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Jun 27, 2016 16:08
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Number of vehicles impacted: 13. I think they just used the wrong class of fire rated fiberglass panel. Probably C instead of A or something.
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Jun 27, 2016 18:00
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chlorine trifluoride is for wusses. fluoridate it some more so you get chlorine pentafluoride and then we'll talk.
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Jun 27, 2016 21:10
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xzzy posted:I'm surprised they bother with safety regulations on RV's, they're just big rolling egg cartons anyways. You hit anything and they explode their contents all over the roadway. I personally blame Winnebago for lowering the bar by introducing cheap paper mache houses on wheels to the general populace.
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Jun 27, 2016 21:30
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I've worked with Arsine, phosphine, boron trifluoride, germanium tetrafluoride, silicon tetrafluoride, diboron tetrafluoride, diborane, and hydrofluoric acid in live gas environments. Diboron tetrafluoride is by far the worst. It is extremely expensive to make at around $300 a gram. It is used for ion implant in the semiconductor industry. Even making it is  . You start with enriched B11 boron. Heat that fucker up until it glows white hot, the run boron trifluoride over it which will strip boron off of the metal into boron monofluoride, diborane and unreacted BF3. Then in the same reactor a thermal gradient of over 2200C has to supercool it into a stable state until the synthesis is complete. After which you need to warm up the reactor to -20C to begin to form B2F4 to about 30% by mass. You capture it and distill it using a cryogenic distillation technique using hundreds of gallons of liquid nitrogen.The hazards with diboron tetrafluoride include being extremely toxic past 1ppm. It also form a cloud of hydrofluoric acid in contact with air. For those who don't know, not only does the acid burn skin, but it also absorbed through it and will decalcify your bones. The only way to stop it is by introducing a larger supply of suspended calcium to the surface of your skin as a sacrificial media and hope it all reacts. Diboron tetrafluoride is also pyrophoric past 15% which means it spontaneously burns in contact with air. So overall B2F4 is toxic, corrosive and flammable to the very extremes of the definitions. Fun stuff. um excuse me fucked around with this message at 21:38 on Jun 27, 2016 |
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Jun 27, 2016 21:34
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Tubesock Holocaust posted:I personally blame Winnebago for lowering the bar by introducing cheap paper mache houses on wheels to the general populace. If they didn't go for lighter and cheaper components, RVs would cost what firetrucks cost.
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Jun 27, 2016 22:13
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CharlieWhiskey posted:If they didn't go for lighter and cheaper components, RVs would cost what firetrucks cost. The problem is people wanting class a motorhomes. The recall is for some class c motorhomes though. There are some nicely priced high quality class b+ motorhomes, but it isn't a bus so its sexy to them.
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Jun 27, 2016 23:39
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xzzy posted:I'm surprised they bother with safety regulations on RV's, they're just big rolling egg cartons anyways. You hit anything and they explode their contents all over the roadway. The weekly NHTSA digest email is a bunch of mislabeled cars (tire loads, things like that), maybe one real recall "hey the steering knuckle on this isn't actually bolted on", and then a dozen RV/Bus related things affecting 3 vehicles each.
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Jun 27, 2016 23:44
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There needs to be a new Godwin's Law variation involving Chlorine trifluoride. That stuff gets mentioned in so many goddamned threads. Don't get me wrong, I love when it happens, but still.
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Jun 27, 2016 23:52
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It always shows up in a contest of one-upmanship too. "Oh well you think that is dangerous? Well how about THIS??" 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ_afg_ZixU My professional opinion is she's chooched. Edit: my phone posting is the real mechanical failure. Edit 2: Off a 2011 altima. Elmnt80 fucked around with this message at 01:24 on Jun 28, 2016 |
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Jun 28, 2016 01:15
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xzzy posted:It always shows up in a contest of one-upmanship too. Elmnt80 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ_afg_ZixU Yeah it's hosed, but still not as bad as the 3 alternators I had go up in flames on my Ranger.
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Jun 28, 2016 04:29
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CharlieWhiskey posted:If they didn't go for lighter and cheaper components, RVs would cost what firetrucks cost. You say that like it's a bad thing
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Jun 28, 2016 07:58
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Elmnt80 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ_afg_ZixU Not only does it sound like the bearings are gone, but it looks like the brushes are gone too.
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Jun 28, 2016 15:55
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Yeah I think that alternator's done. The pulley isn't looking too concentric either.
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Jun 28, 2016 17:02
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CharlieWhiskey posted:If they didn't go for lighter and cheaper components, RVs would cost what firetrucks cost. And now I have an urge to build an RV on a firetruck chassis. Is this wrong?
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Tubesock Holocaust posted:And now I have an urge to build an RV on a firetruck chassis. Is this wrong? Wrong chassis: 
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Jun 28, 2016 18:53
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Tubesock Holocaust posted:And now I have an urge to build an RV on a firetruck chassis. Is this wrong? I've been wanting to do this for a while, 1960-1990 firetrucks come up all the time with 30,000kms on them, and go for peanuts. https://www.rbauction.com/1958-CHEVROLET-SPARTAN-80-Series-Thibault?invId=9293032&id=ar&auction=EDMONTON-AB-2016306
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Jun 28, 2016 19:04
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CommieGIR posted:Wrong chassis: This photo makes me happy.
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Jun 28, 2016 19:05
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Powershift posted:I've been wanting to do this for a while, 1960-1990 firetrucks come up all the time with 30,000kms on them, and go for peanuts. ...so do they let ambulances run LeMons?
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Jun 28, 2016 19:54
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:...so do they let ambulances run LeMons? 
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kastein posted:Yeah I think that alternator's done. The pulley isn't looking too concentric either. The pulley is also supposed the be all the way down on that shaft. It worked itself another 1/8th of an inch off while I was loving with it.
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CommieGIR posted:Wrong chassis: Definitely wrong thread too. This fucker was for sale not too long ago for around 100k, which made me insanely jealous.
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Powershift posted:I've been wanting to do this for a while, 1960-1990 firetrucks come up all the time with 30,000kms on them, and go for peanuts. I just watched an auction of city busses go for $5k each, one of them was only $1,600. Which I'm sure is a terrible idea for obvious reasons but I don't have any other outlets to share that.
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StormDrain posted:I just watched an auction of city busses go for $5k each, one of them was only $1,600. How much did you pay for yours?
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Jun 29, 2016 02:44
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Jonny Nox posted:How much did you pay for yours? Why buy the cow when I can get the milk for free?
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cursedshitbox posted:Definitely wrong thread too. This fucker was for sale not too long ago for around 100k, which made me insanely jealous. OTOH HEMTTs are definitely a case of "if you can buy two you can afford one," if for no other reason than fuel consumption - optimistically they average about 2.6 MPG, and at current diesel prices you're looking at a shade under $400 to fill one up.
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Jun 29, 2016 05:19
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CommieGIR posted:Wrong chassis: Chuck enough subs into that and you've got yourself 90% of a doof wagon.
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kastein posted:Just make sure you get all the bearing trash out of the crankcase and oil passages as well... and the oil passages in the crank. Otherwise you get to do it again!  look at you thinking it has bearings and oil passages in the crank. Put it all back together last night and ran it for 30 seconds or so, sounds pretty good. I'll give it an extended run once it's back on the snowblower body and it isn't 11pm.
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http://i.imgur.com/v2zozdhh.gifv Whoops
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Jun 29, 2016 16:32
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How the gently caress does that happen? Doesn't the crane operator have a strain or load indicator to tell him it's way heavier than expected?
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Jun 29, 2016 16:38
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Not only can I not see that inline in the post (or the quote), but when I go to the URL in any browser, it's just a still of the first frame of the gif. What's going on with that one that it doesn't work or show up?
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Jun 29, 2016 18:08
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I don't know why it doesn't work right in-browser, but this worked for me: https://imgur.com/v2zozdhh
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Safety Dance posted:I don't know why it doesn't work right in-browser, but this worked for me: https://imgur.com/v2zozdhh Yup, that one works fine, thanks.
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Jun 29, 2016 18:16
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I posted from mobile, maybe that's why.
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It has one of imgur's auto resize flags on the file name, guess that feature is a little fussy with gifv's.
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He should have known the second he started taking weight off the supports that somethign wasn't right. I doubt there was a whole lot in that tank. I've seen 400 barrels that fell over, as in went from standing on the ground to laying on the ground. and they flatten out like a plastic bag.
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Video from further back: http://youtu.be/Gm2ihqpb70o
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