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BlankIsBeautiful posted:We have bunches of them around here in Ohio. After the incident at the Medina County fair (which may be what you're referring to), they're all super heavily regulated, and inspected by state boards. You used to see old steam tractors at pretty much every local fair, but not really anymore because they cost so much to maintain regulatory status. I also lived in Ohio, which is how I know they explode and kill people, because one exploded and killed me, and now I am dead. The Medina County Fairgrounds incident is one of the ones I was thinking of, but there are actually quite a few going back a long way.
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Facebook Aunt posted:Superglue your shoes to the soles of your feet. Be immortal. This 20 pages back but made me audibly laugh in the bar. Truth.
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a kitten posted:https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1090402748808421376?s=19 They should have trains running over it while it's on fire 
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a kitten posted:https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1090402748808421376?s=19 The train ones are automatic! The crews themselves don't do it, the switches have built in heaters. It's also common in the mountains and areas where heavy snow is a problem
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a kitten posted:https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1090402748808421376?s=19 That river seems unsafe  
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jemand posted:asbestos isn't supposed to burn. So if it burned, you're probably OK? I mean it turned red hot like in that video. I didn't stand by to watch because I was busy banging walls, but it's definitely ash in the fire pit now. I'm a mechanic so I'll likely die from some sort of ailment related to either semi constant exposure to carbon monoxide, or exposure to acetone and heptane(parts cleaner or brake clean). On the drums of heptane and acetone it states heptane is a substance that likely causes cancer. So, that's cool. I take precautions I can, including using a large fan when using brake ckean, even when its zero degrees F out. I'm gonna google it, but when can I expect my physical effects of asbestos exposure to kick in? The bathroom teardown was early December. I've got all the cement board up now, which in itself is causing me cancer(according to nearly everything purchased at home Depot, via the state of California). Christ when you think about it, especially given my family history, I'm definitely gonna get the cancers.
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Asbestos doesn't have a defined incubation period. So you may or may not get cancer 2-22 years from now.
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interwhat posted:I'm gonna google it, but when can I expect my physical effects of asbestos exposure to kick in? 30 years from now.
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interwhat posted:I'm a mechanic so I'll likely die from some sort of ailment related to either semi constant exposure to carbon monoxide, or exposure to acetone and heptane(parts cleaner or brake clean). On the drums of heptane and acetone it states heptane is a substance that likely causes cancer. So, that's cool. I take precautions I can, including using a large fan when using brake ckean, even when its zero degrees F out. Acetone itself is remarkably safe for being such a great solvent. It's such a common organic molecule that your body has to deal with it as a normal part of operation. So sane amounts of touching it or having it around won't cause major problems for you. Heptane on the other hand... 
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Yeah the liver is amazingly good at using and converting acetone. It's a fairly large part of your liver's regular processes and you can tolerate a comparative truckload of acetone versus other solvents in the same category. Like, everything else gives you super cancer or dissolves your bones. Acetone? Try not to get it in your eyes or drink more than a few shots of it at once.
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Acetone reminds me of acetylene and how one poor guy found out the hard way that while both plant A and plant B had different connectors for breathing air lines and acetylene lines so that the twine should never get mixed up, they were swapped between plants. This wouldn't have been a problem had he not taken his mask and tools from plant A to plant B. He died.
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iospace posted:The train ones are automatic! The crews themselves don't do it, the switches have built in heaters. It's also common in the mountains and areas where heavy snow is a problem Is that gas-heated though? We just got electric heaters in the switches. It's safer.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Acetone reminds me of acetylene and how one poor guy found out the hard way that while both plant A and plant B had different connectors for breathing air lines and acetylene lines so that the twine should never get mixed up, they were swapped between plants. This wouldn't have been a problem had he not taken his mask and tools from plant A to plant B. He died. Wow that's rough as gently caress. When you started your story I thought you might be going for the one about the New Zealand plumber who "discovered" an amazing way to save room in his van, by combining oxygen and acetylene in the same tank.
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Related military OSHA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fog_Investigation_and_Dispersal_Operation quote:The device consisted of two pipelines situated along both sides of the runway and through which a fuel (usually the petrol from the airfield's own fuel dump) was pumped along and then out through burner jets positioned at intervals along the pipelines. The vapours were lit from a series of burners, producing walls of flame. The FIDO installation usually stored its fuel in four circular upright tanks built at the edge of the airfield with a low brick bund wall in case of leakage. The tanks were usually encased in ordinary brickwork as protection from bomb splinters or cannon fire.
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Memento posted:Wow that's rough as gently caress. It's one of the examples I bring up whenever some supreme idiot hell fucker piece of poo poo starts going on about how national or even EU-wide rules and regulations are not necessary because workplaces can regulate themselves. Had there been a national standard as to what connector goes with what (and had it been observed), the guy would be alive. I have no idea what the situation is nowadays.
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What kind of work has both breathing lines and acetylene lines? Are you not thinking of oxygen and acetylene lines?
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Sudbina posted:This isn't a safety issue, but more of a health issue. They weren't wearing their Amazon Basics™ Adult Diaper as per company policy?
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GotLag posted:What kind of work has both breathing lines and acetylene lines? Are you not thinking of oxygen and acetylene lines? Semi-conductor foundry if I remember correctly.
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GotLag posted:What kind of work has both breathing lines and acetylene lines? Are you not thinking of oxygen and acetylene lines? Ebola Welding
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GotLag posted:Related military OSHA: Meanwhile the Germans are right over there starved for gasoline fumes. The FIDO setup was an amazing demonstration of how badly the Nazis hosed up their long war calculations.
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GotLag posted:What kind of work has both breathing lines and acetylene lines? Are you not thinking of oxygen and acetylene lines? What kind of work doesn't require you to breathe? 
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GotLag posted:Related military OSHA: You forgot the best part Wikipedia posted:[...] as a courtesy the joint-patent (595,907) held by the Ministry of Supply was shared by the department head Dr Ramsbottom spankmeister fucked around with this message at 09:01 on Jan 30, 2019 |
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GotLag posted:Related military OSHA: haha quote:"It is difficult for the modern (2008) UK resident to comprehend what World War II fogs were like. It was not uncommon for a person to be unable to see the hand at the end of an outstretched arm. The post-war Clean Air Act hugely ameliorated UK fogs" "sir, the smog is too bad to safely land aircraft! what shall we do?" "burn more fuel to evaporate it!"
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Jerry Cotton posted:What kind of work doesn't require you to breathe? drat, they should really make those connectors different sizes so you can't mix them up. Also isn't red always supposed to be acetylene and blue oxygen or something?
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luxury handset posted:haha This was Little Inferno's plan all along! (If anyone remembers that game).
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jobson groeth posted:They should have trains running over it while it's on fire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z76ywZDXyPw
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spankmeister posted:drat, they should really make those connectors different sizes so you can't mix them up. The connectors were altogether of a different shape as far as I know, if not a different type (locking mechanism). Colour-coding is nice but physical incompatibility is safe.
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Jerry Cotton posted:What kind of work doesn't require you to breathe? I don't know about your crazy commie country but here in the Anglosphere breathing is a luxury employees can do on their own time and at their own expense
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jetz0r posted:Acetone itself is remarkably safe for being such a great solvent. It's such a common organic molecule that your body has to deal with it as a normal part of operation. So sane amounts of touching it or having it around won't cause major problems for you. The body produces acetone naturally when in ketosis. It's thought that the reason the ketogenic diet works to prevent seizures in epilepsy is that acetone is a powerful anticonvulsant and you're maintaining constant levels of it in the brain that way 
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luxury handset posted:haha The crazy thing is that before FIDO was developed, the answer was “point ’er towards the Sea and bail out”. Perfectly good aircraft were being lost because no one could land them in the fog.
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Platystemon posted:The crazy thing is that before FIDO was developed, the answer was “point ’er towards the Sea and bail out”. Nobody's saying FIDO wasn't valuable, I, at least, am saying that it was in practice a big gently caress you to the Luftwaffe to be burning fuel you could use for operations or, on a slow week, training, just to disperse fog.
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mllaneza posted:Nobody's saying FIDO wasn't valuable, I, at least, am saying that it was in practice a big gently caress you to the Luftwaffe to be burning fuel you could use for operations or, on a slow week, training, just to disperse fog. They also built a high-performance scout plane out of plywood. They had plenty of aluminium, unlike the germans (who were desperately short). But they went with the plywood, partly because that meant furniture workshops could now contribute to the war effort and partly (I assume) as an extra 'gently caress you, we have better engineers than you'.
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Powershift posted:Well there's certainly no shortage of steel spaghetti on the internet, so i don't doubt that. Immeadiatly reminded of this Rodney Matthews piece: edit, moved to imgur 
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spiny posted:Immeadiatly reminded of this Rodney Matthews piece: Might want to check your hosting's permissions, that image won't show up unless I go directly to it I would bet real money the artist used that picture as inspiration
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The Lone Badger posted:They also built a high-performance scout plane out of plywood. Hermann Göring posted:In 1940 I could at least fly as far as Glasgow in most of my aircraft, but not now! It makes me furious when I see the Mosquito. I turn green and yellow with envy. The British, who can afford aluminium better than we can, knock together a beautiful wooden aircraft that every piano factory over there is building, and they give it a speed which they have now increased yet again. What do you make of that? There is nothing the British do not have. They have the geniuses and we have the nincompoops. After the war is over I'm going to buy a British radio set - then at least I'll own something that has always worked. Of course they weren't just used as scout aircraft. Bombing, ground attack, night fighters, maritime interdiction, the Mosquito did it all, and was probably the closest thing to precision bombing available.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GI2AxVJbLg When the RAF blew up the Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen one of the Mosquitoes was flying so low it hit a street lamp and crashed into a school and killed a bunch of kids. 
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C.M. Kruger posted:Of course they weren't just used as scout aircraft. Bombing, ground attack, night fighters, maritime interdiction, the Mosquito did it all, and was probably the closest thing to precision bombing available. Man I really hope we never fight another way like this.
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