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Well, the white piece fits over the C02 canister, forcing it down onto a spike in the middle of the valve that punctures it.
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I've seen one of those little CO2 canisters get punctured before, and it really has a lot of force behind it when it goes.
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Phanatic posted:See also: Love Canal. Yeah, about that... quote:In March 1952, Bjarne Klaussen, Hooker's executive vice president, worried that it might be "advisable for us to discontinue using the Love Canal property for dumping ground" because of the development of the area. "It is also rather clear to me," Mr. Klaussen wrote, "that we should not sell the property in order to avoid any risks." "This pit we've been dumping waste in could be a liability, with all the development going on around it." "What if we give it away but with a clause exempting us from all liability?"
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Normal commercial varieties of those canisters that I've come across have been full stainless steel in their construction. Provided the top section is screwed on straight two canisters can be easily added without issue. In the cleaning of them though you do have to be careful. Failing to dis-charge the gas means you end up with cream over everything including the ceiling and walls. If you aim it the wrong way it'll hit you as well.
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Splode posted:I've seen one of those little CO2 canisters get punctured before, and it really has a lot of force behind it when it goes. As kids we used to make rockets out of them and it's amazing we never killed or even hurt ourselves. Some metal pipe for a barrel and some wood and rubber bands to hold things in place, then 'pop' the cartridge using a hammer hitting a nail stuck halfway through the wood behind it. Somehow we only ever managed to shoot them either straight up or at plastic army men, but when I think of how many times I'd hold the canisters in place with my bare hands if we couldn't find any rubber bands, I'm amazed I still have all my fingers.
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When I think about all the absolutely retarded poo poo I survived as a kid, WHILE BEING THE CAUTIOUS ONE, it makes me terrified to have children. Like I easily should have drowned/broke my neck/been killed by that bear/died of alcohol poisoning
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Gumbel2Gumbel posted:When I think about all the absolutely retarded poo poo I survived as a kid, WHILE BEING THE CAUTIOUS ONE, it makes me terrified to have children. Yeah but this is how you learn the important lesson that you are invincible and therefore PPE is for children and babies.
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Gorilla Salad posted:As kids we used to make rockets out of them and it's amazing we never killed or even hurt ourselves. In middle school shop class we made race cars powered by them. We were amazed by how cold they got. Adiabatic expansion of an ideal gas wasn't something a 13yr knew.
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Literally A Person posted:Yeah but this is how you learn the important lesson that you are invincible and therefore PPE is for children and babies. Good lord have I heard that excuse from a lot of people with hosed up backs and knees at work telling me to do dangerous poo poo.
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GotLag posted:Yeah, about that... The deed doesn't do that. quote:Prior to the delivery of this instrument of conveyance, the grantee herein has been advised by the grantor that the premises above described have been filled, in whole or in part, to the present grade level thereof with waste products resulting from the manufacturing of chemicals by the grantor at its plant in the City of Niagara Falls, New York, and the grantee assumes all risk and liability incident to the use thereof. It is therefore understood and agreed that, as a part of the consideration for this conveyance and as a condition thereof, no claim, suit, action or demand of any nature whatsoever shall ever be made by the grantee, its successors or assigns, against the grantor, its successors or assigns, for injury to a person or persons, including death resulting therefrom, or loss of or damage to property caused by, in connection with or by reason of the presence of said industrial wastes. It is further agreed as a condition hereof that each subsequent conveyance of the aforesaid lands shall be made subject to the foregoing provisions and conditions. You can't exempt yourself from *all* liability. That first bit, about the grantee assumes all risk and liability incident to use, is utterly standard with any transfer and property. The second bit limits lawsuits from the city, and anyone the city subsequently assigns the property to, but doesn't limit lawsuits from third parties. And the third bit specifically says "If you sell this land to someone else, *you need to warn them about the same things we're warning you about*. Hooker actually escorted city officials around the site and took test samples to show them "See, bad stuff's buried here, and here, and here." And, again, the Board threatened Hooker with condemnation proceedings in 1952.
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What happened to the days when you would just get a balloon and a cracker at the local porn store??
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KoRMaK posted:What happened to the days when you would just get a balloon and a cracker at the local porn store?? Excuse me I think you mean deflator.
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ulmont posted:Excuse me I think you mean deflator. *uh hum* sport-flate
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Is "lifestyle blog" what we're calling where women post saucy pictures of their bottoms these days?
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Trunko posted:Is "lifestyle blog" what we're calling where women post saucy pictures of their bottoms these days? I just read it for the articles!
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Phanatic posted:The deed doesn't do that. Plus, it all may have been okay if the people building the school and poo poo didn't BREAK THE GODDAMN CLAY CAP SEALING THE BAD poo poo
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So Math posted:I guess the actual set-up was deemed too unrealistic for the movie. IIRC NDT's Cosmos remake went full cheese/camp and have that incident happen with some over sized giant crowbar.
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saw some primo health and safety on CBC's website today 5 people die after being electrocuted at water park in Turkey the dead included the initial victims and some rescuers
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Anta posted:Supposedly one of these: Is it just me, or do plastic-on-metal threads seem like a poor choice for a device that could be under intense pressure??
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Probably why it failed cheap plastic giving way or not threaded on correctly. Isi whippers(the only kind I've ever personally seen/used)either have a metal thing that holds the cartridges while charging or a harder plastic possibly a reinforced nylon. People also leave the cartridge holder on the whipper after charging it all the time which is unnecessary and could potentially cause the threads to wear out sooner. The Isi whippers come with a dust cap thing that you put on after chatting it to keep crap out of the port.
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BattleMaster posted:saw some primo health and safety on CBC's website today Ugh. I have this habit of tapping anything metal with my knuckles before getting into water like a jacuzzi.
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DirtRoadJunglist posted:I just noticed how close dude's crotch is to that assembly
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Ceiling fan posted:I didn't realize how long people have had to wear those drat picture ID badges. And you can spoof them the same way now as back then. eh I work with a lot of HCN (up to 99+% purity) and it is considered the pleasant way to go, just sleepy time. When people are exposed and pass out they're known as "knockdowns" and have no long term health effects. HF and being burned by high pressure steam to death are a lot scarier to me (we also have lots of these!) torturemyballs fucked around with this message at 03:08 on Jun 24, 2017 |
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Anta posted:Supposedly one of these: It's not CO2. CO2 turns the cream sour. It's some gas that's inert in cream, usually laughing gas (which is why those little whipped cream gas cylinders are popular among certain drug users).
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You can see another pile of bricks on the other side, so I guess this is just their usual workflow.
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JB50 posted:I love the lack of reaction from everyone here. They knew they couldn't fight fate.
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Given how it was lopsided already they probably knew they were losing those bricks but had to try anyway.
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The pallet didn't seem totalled or anything so its pretty questionable to not scoot it back and re-rig. They were clearly hoping the bucket would have clamped the brick load to the pallet supported by the rigging chain through the pallet but dynamics had something else to say about one line of contact along the bottom. But to the nonchalance, the natural state of rigged things is falling so its more of a shrug and whispering poo poo under your breath than needing to run around with arms waving like could you believe that amateurly rigged load fell????
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Phanatic posted:Hooker actually escorted city officials around the site and took test samples to show them "See, bad stuff's buried here, and here, and here." And, again, the Board threatened Hooker with condemnation proceedings in 1952. Have you got a source for this threatened condemnation? The Atlantic posted:Few of those who, in 1977, lived in the numerous houses that had sprung up by the site were aware that the large and barren field behind them was a burial ground for toxic waste. That year, while working as a reporter for a local newspaper, the Niagara Gazette, I began to inquire regularly about the strange conditions reported by the Schroeders and other families in the Love Canal area. Both the Niagara County Health Department and the city said it was a nuisance condition, but no serious danger to the people. Officials of Hooker Company refused comment, claiming only that they had no records of the chemical burials and that the problem was not their responsibility. Indeed, Hooker had deeded the land to the Niagara Falls Board of Education in 1953, for a token $1. With it the company issued no detailed warnings of the chemicals, only a brief paragraph in the quitclaim document that disclaimed company liability for any injuries or deaths which might occur at the site. ed: quote:Though Hooker was undoubtedly relieved to rid itself of the contaminated land, the company was so vague about the hazards involved that one might have thought the wastes would cause harm only if touched, because they irritated the skin; otherwise, they were not of great concern. In reality, as the company must have known, the dangers of these wastes far exceeded those of acids or alkalines or inert salts. We now know that the drums Hooker had dumped in the canal contained a veritable witch’s brew—compounds of truly remarkable toxicity. There were solvents that attacked the heart and liver, and residues from pesticides so dangerous that their commercial sale was shortly thereafter restricted outright by the government; some of them were already suspected of causing cancer. Edit 2: Definitely the school authority should have halted construction when mysterious, vile-smelling poo poo start appearing, but I don't think it's at all honest to present Hooker as some kind of innocent victim. GotLag fucked around with this message at 15:33 on Jun 24, 2017 |
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GotLag posted:Have you got a source for this threatened condemnation? http://reason.com/archives/1981/02/01/love-canal/1 quote:Then there are two letters from the School Board's attorney, Ralph Boniello—one dated September 4, 1952, informing the Board's business manager, Frank Lang, that procedures were under way to purchase four lots abutting the Canal; the other dated September 19, 1952, addressed to Mr. Carmen J. Caggiano and sent registered mail, return receipt requested, informing Mr. Caggiano that since he had refused the Board's "price offered of $10 per front foot" for the strip of 10 lots he owned along the east side of the Canal, "The purpose of this letter is to apprise you of the institution of an action in condemnation to acquire the above--escribed property for educational purposes."
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Gumbel2Gumbel posted:Like I easily should have drowned/broke my neck/been killed by that bear/died of alcohol poisoning
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Shirts are generic freebies, did not represent the company they worked for. Weird glare is because I was taking the pics from a window. No ear or eye protection.  No collapse protections or precautions, they didn't think twice about being under the load or excavator bucket, and there's a second guy in the trench, under the pipe, that you can't really see here. 
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A tanker truck crashed in http://www.bbc.com/news/world-south-asia-40396036 e: I get my -stans mixed up 
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Pakistan, though that happens inf Afghanistan all the time as well. But jeez I'm always amazed by how many people these fires kill. Looks like the Highway of Death in that photo.
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For the first time in a while, I had to proctor practical exams for guys getting their crane certifications. It was an articulating boom crane being operated by remote control. The second guy we tested had sticky thumbs, having a lot of difficulty stopping when given the signal. This was a worrying sign. During the third challenge (maneuvering a 400 lb barrel full of water in a figure 8 through a course without letting the chain hanging from the bottom come off the ground or the barrel hit the ground), he ended up hitting one of the switches too hard and suddenly slammed one of the oil drums on the course so hard that it went flying into the air. His attempts to get the barrel back to the start/finish point resulted in him swinging it around so wildly that it nearly hit myself and the examiner, and he swung so wildly that the zip tie holding the chain snapped and the chain fell right off. A later candidate decided to take his familiarization time since he wasn't that good with the crane. I have some video that I unfortunately can't post to keep my workplace a secret, but he ended up swinging the arm around and nearly clocking the examiner in the face with a 150 pound ball. Out of the whole group, only half of them actually passed their written exams. They had a mess of learning disabilities (the guy who knocked over the barrel must have dyscalculia because he adds extra zeroes to numbers after adding them wrong), 4th grade educations, poor reading comprehension, and grasps of English so poor as to need an interpreter. Some of these men have been allowed to operate for 30 years. And OSHA just extended the deadline to get certified by a year. Don't drive under any suspended loads for a while!
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Was posted in the weird news thread:Lime Tonics posted:Czech Republic nuclear power station hosts bikini contest to choose interns
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Horrible Lurkbeast posted:Was posted in the weird news thread: The release said the experience was greatly enjoyed by the girls, who were required to wear hard hats and enclosed shoes at all times.
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