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When in aircraft maintenance school, the WWII B-17 Aluminum Overcast was parked nearby. Our class was invited to see it up close in exchange for helping to clean it. The pilot grabbed some buckets and poured in some fuel from the wing tank sumps to use for cleaning along with some rags. He called it "wing solvent".
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Humphreys posted:My house is similarly old as gently caress. All sorts of janky poo poo with the wiring. If I open the refrigerator on one side of the house, my wifi USB stick disconnects from windows (not the network - legit the USB disconnected sound can be heard). It happens at random times of the day or night - not every time. The worst is if I'm in the middle of a gaming session and running to the fridge for beers between rounds. I love guessing about such things. So I'm guessing your refrigerator lamp (draws enough power to EMP somethingsomething). Disable the lamp with a bit of tape to the connector or screw it out and tell me if it still happens.
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Jun 6, 2017 12:08
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A lot vehicle crews during WWII would use gasoline as a paint thinner. The paint that was distributed for vehicle touch-ups and camo changes was often a thick, mud-like substance, so they'd just mix in a bunch of fuel to thin it out. Still better than field-repaired zimmerit on german tanks though, which would often have fuel, urine, hay, etc etc, anything they could mix together to make a paste. And speaking of urine, machine-gun operators in WWI would often refill the fluid-filled cooling jackets on their machine guns with urine, since water was in such short supply.
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Jun 6, 2017 12:10
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Still better than field-repaired zimmerit on german tanks though, which would often have fuel, urine, hay, etc etc, anything they could mix together to make a paste. Why even bother repairing it? It wasn't useful for anything.
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Jun 6, 2017 12:17
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The Lone Badger posted:Why even bother repairing it? It wasn't useful for anything. Yeah, but there was a period where they thought it was useful.
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Jun 6, 2017 12:25
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Platystemon posted:https://giant.gfycat.com/AppropriateBronzeGelada.mp4 This is extremely "What do you think what was going to happen?". Putting it inside makes shrapnel go everywhere. You put it on the front blast that away from you. Here is another idiot for your pleasure. He made a mini car bomb. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS9USKP0f2o
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Jun 6, 2017 12:39
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Jabor posted:Tech bubble results in a big influx of highly-paid tech workers, spiking demand. SF itself is also like, 8 miles large. Its not a big city land wise
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AzureSkys posted:When in aircraft maintenance school, the WWII B-17 Aluminum Overcast was parked nearby. Our class was invited to see it up close in exchange for helping to clean it. The pilot grabbed some buckets and poured in some fuel from the wing tank sumps to use for cleaning along with some rags. Shurely "prop wash"
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Jun 6, 2017 14:57
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:SF itself is also like, 8 miles large. Its not a big city land wise Also, IIRC there has been a lot of real estate investment from China in the area. Buying homes to hold (and earn) currency overseas and all that.
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Jun 6, 2017 15:35
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BattleMaster posted:I never really thought about it before but I guess gasoline is a pretty good solvent huh Also a handy weedkiller! (Though supposedly diesel works even better, assuming you never want to grow anything their again.)
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Jun 6, 2017 16:39
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Jabor posted:Tech bubble results in a big influx of highly-paid tech workers, spiking demand. Plus foreign investors buying houses and leaving them unoccupied as investment properties, and vastly outbidding local buyers to secure said properties, artificially inflating the surrounding market until the only people who can afford to buy there are wealthy foreign investors. e: late to the party!
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Jun 6, 2017 16:59
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chitoryu12 posted:Exactly what's causing housing prices to balloon in San Francisco so badly? It seems way out of proportion to what it should actually be worth compared to similar cities. Everything other people have said, but the geography is super weird too, almost like Manhattan in the sense that it's surrounded by water and living on one side of any of the bridges has major connotations for what you can afford and where you can get to in a timely manner. http://s4.e-monsite.com/2011/06/06/09/resize_550_550//carte_san_francisco_baie.jpg
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Jun 6, 2017 17:07
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It's like Portland, everywhere you go there's a bottleneck -- but worse, because of the density. Plus the downtown is hard to navigate by car. I usually prefer driving wherever I am, but I refuse to drive in SF. Most of my team is in SF, and you'd think visiting them would be productive, but whenever I show up, there's a transit strike or some poo poo and everyone works from home.
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Adjacent to the property where I work were the last few commercial row-house holdouts in the downtown DC area that avoided either renovation or redevelopment in the 80s and 90s. These particular properties had a 'rich' history dating back to the 19th century as many things including shoe shops, bakeries, tattoo parlors, and brothels, possibly several times over, before falling vacant in recent years. A few years ago, ahead of a long-awaited project to develop the lots to a modern mid-rise multi-use building, the structures were razed and their rubble used to fill the footprint; however, the basement wasn't totally demoed and filled. Since then, the rooms that extend into the alley have continued to deteriorate.   This little pit is about 6-8 feet deep and is just waiting for a trash truck to wander a little too close and cause some excitement. Someone has helpfully already run over one of the cones another engineer stuck out there; I keep expecting to hear a noise one of these mornings. I'm also told the old coal room that extends out under the sidewalk in front features similar conditions, but is a bit more reinforced. One hopes so.
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Don't forget there's plenty of geriatric and/or affluent NIMBYs on city councils killing poo poo too.
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Jabor posted:
My city hadn't approved a building permit for an apartment complex of more than 10 units for over 30 years until they got sued by the state. Everyone who's got theirs (property they own) do everything in their power to stop new construction in order to keep price appreciation high. The creation of "open space districts" 50 years ago was expressly intended to stop new construction. Supply doesn't increase much, demand increases a lot, prices go up a lot.
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Humphreys posted:My house is similarly old as gently caress. All sorts of janky poo poo with the wiring. If I open the refrigerator on one side of the house, my wifi USB stick disconnects from windows (not the network - legit the USB disconnected sound can be heard). It happens at random times of the day or night - not every time. The worst is if I'm in the middle of a gaming session and running to the fridge for beers between rounds. That's pretty great.
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Bacon Taco posted:My city hadn't approved a building permit for an apartment complex of more than 10 units for over 30 years until they got sued by the state.
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chitoryu12 posted:Exactly what's causing housing prices to balloon in San Francisco so badly? It seems way out of proportion to what it should actually be worth compared to similar cities. from top to bottom, the biggest reasons are: -state laws (prop 13) and local laws (NIMBYism) preventing denser development of san francisco proper -difficult geography which leads to a shortage of land (SF Bay area is a peninsula on a bay surrounded by hilly terrain, flat land is relatively scarce and pretty much all developed or protected) -difficult geography also leading to difficulty in transportation infrastructure -general growth of american cities in 21st century as job and cultural hubs leading to an imbalance of demand vs supply for housing -city with a lot of cultural pull factors leading to people preferencing living in the bay area over other american cities -city is epicenter of lucrative industry leading to oversized wages, distorting what the top segment of the population can pay for housing -also foreign investors buying pacific coast real estate as an asset (also true of domestic hedge funds) Yawgmoth posted:My city keeps letting developers build apartment/mixed-use buildings but they're all these stupid loving "luxury apartments" with a heated dog garden and koi ponds and poo poo. Great job idiots, build another complex that charges $1500/mo for a studio the size of my office then wonder why people still say there's no housing! housing in american cities is hardly ever built for the middle class, let alone the poor. it's more effective from a profit generation standpoint to target the wealthy and let the rest of the housing stock trickle downwards. brand new middle class housing is basically the suburbs boner confessor fucked around with this message at 21:51 on Jun 6, 2017 |
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Yawgmoth posted:My city keeps letting developers build apartment/mixed-use buildings but they're all these stupid loving "luxury apartments" with a heated dog garden and koi ponds and poo poo. Great job idiots, build another complex that charges $1500/mo for a studio the size of my office then wonder why people still say there's no housing! You live in Seattle, huh?
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Yawgmoth posted:My city keeps letting developers build apartment/mixed-use buildings but they're all these stupid loving "luxury apartments" with a heated dog garden and koi ponds and poo poo. Great job idiots, build another complex that charges $1500/mo for a studio the size of my office then wonder why people still say there's no housing! Kesper North posted:You live in Seattle, huh? Portland?
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can't be Vancouver, we're too busy building million dollar OSHA condos: https://youtu.be/0j3SChqp51Y tl;dw: faulty wiring, faulty switches, bad cabinetry, bad drywalling, bad drainage, bad carpeting, bad flooring.
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ReelBigLizard posted:And that guy who killed the 29 miners got what? a year? Were the miners in Oakland, California? Phanatic posted:Even with those, you still need to verify things are turned off. If a non-contact indicator beeps, it's a pretty safe bet the power's on. But if it doesn't beep, it's not as safe a bet that the power's off. Exactly, use non-contact testers to confirm hot, not to confirm cold.
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DirtRoadJunglist posted:I think my dad still has the needle nosed pliers with one of those notches from the time he wanted to show me how to fix something in the basement. If I recall, he flipped the breaker that killed the lights to the room and called it good, but the circuit the work was on belonged to an entirely different breaker. my dad borrowed one of my heavy-duty jewelry making pliers when he was loving with something in my mom's bathroom and said he didn't need to turn off the breaker. I'm sitting in my room next to that and hear a POP, the lights go out, and a couple seconds of silence. then my dad starts laughing.  he knows what he's doing, usually, but jesus christ he scares me. and my pliers have a melted notch in them.
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Ultraklystron posted:tl;dw: faulty wiring, faulty switches, bad cabinetry, bad drywalling, bad drainage, bad carpeting, bad flooring. Vancouver SAR is adapting quickly to the Chinese building code
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 This seems useful. e; wrong picture Kith fucked around with this message at 12:37 on Jun 7, 2017 |
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boner confessor posted:it's more effective from a profit generation standpoint to target the wealthy and let the rest of the housing stock trickle downwards.
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Yawgmoth posted:I can't imagine that being true, at least around here. These loving things sit 70-90% empty year round. How is it effective to charge one person $2200/mo for his 1Br and be surrounded by empty apartments when you could put up the exact same building, charge $600/mo and fill 30 apartments immediately? Is there some kind of bad developer subsidy? Well that's 30 apartments you'd have to service and maintain heating, cooling, water, and pest control on.
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ReelBigLizard posted:And that guy who killed the 29 miners got what? a year? the guy who killed the 29 miners is more rich, therefore
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIPMfHUIVvk Video of a scuba diver in the St. Clair River in Michigan encountering a stealth freighter.
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Nth Doctor posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIPMfHUIVvk That's not OSHA, that's a dumbass recreational diver. SEA PATROL would send him straight to the disintegrator.
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JB50 posted:LOL and RIP if you dont use one of these when loving with electricity: Just a little note on those detectors THEY SO NOT WORK ON DC, ONLY AC. In the substations I work we use 125Vdc to operate relays, power circuit breakers (like 2000A 13500V), and even automation equipment - all the critical stuff is on 125Vdc. These detectors will not indicate anything on DC circuits. Also photovoltaic systems can operate at dangerous DC voltages. We've also got bigger detectors for checking up into the tens/hundred+ kV range. Three-Phase fucked around with this message at 02:42 on Jun 8, 2017 |
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Obsurveyor posted:That's not OSHA, that's a dumbass recreational diver. SEA PATROL would send him straight to the disintegrator. fuckin scooby doos kill em all
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Ol Standard Retard posted:fuckin scooby doos Man that was such an amazing thread that got closed or goldmined far too early. "JOHNNY DIVES WHERE HE LIKES"
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‘No one has inhaled this much plutonium’: 5 staff exposed to radiation in Japan lab accident The accident occurred at 11:15am on Tuesday in the analysis room of the facility dedicated to researching improved nuclear fuel for its fast reactors. One of the five men opened a metallic cylinder where the fuel, a mixture of uranium and plutonium, is stored before and after experiments. In the process, the double plastic wrapping inside which the radioactive material is kept ripped, and the toxic substance burst into the air. Shunichi Tanaka, chairman of the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA), which has frequently criticized the JAEA for the conditions at its facilities, said “workplace complacency” was possibly to blame. The NRA said the workers had never experienced a similar plastic rip before, and as a result, did not feel the need to complete their research in a tightly sealed environment. The researcher responsible for opening the box, described as a man in his 50s, had 22,000 becquerels of plutonium-239 detected in his lungs, and the other four between 2,200 and 14,000 becquerels. https://www.rt.com/news/391283-japan-nuclear-accident-plutonium/
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Three-Phase posted:Man that was such an amazing thread that got closed or goldmined far too early. What, a good thread!?!? Better make it disappear.
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Three-Phase posted:Man that was such an amazing thread that got closed or goldmined far too early. The best part of that thread was the drat write-up of the insanely complicated QWOP -esque Sea Patrol videogame. Wasabi the J fucked around with this message at 04:23 on Jun 8, 2017 |
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Lime Tonics posted:‘No one has inhaled this much plutonium’: 5 staff exposed to radiation in Japan lab accident The article says it's not a deadly amount - but I want to know what that translates to in MSv, that's a more useful unit in comparing how bad it is.
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