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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:oh also there's someone in AI from NZ with a Lada Riva rebuild thread. There's a good Top Gear where they explore the question "Did a Communist country ever produce a good car?" and they point out that the Riva was based on a Fiat 124. But then the Russians changed the design to replace the disc brakes with drum brakes (aluminum drums!) , thicken up the steel of the body panels, and add a crank starter and a manual fuel pump. Then they pointed out that the car was still in production in Egypt. "A car designed by the Italians, 'improved' by the Russians, and produced by the Egyptians. I can't think of anything worse than that."
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Cojawfee posted:Use it wear it make it do it Our work is house of Grover
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Phanatic posted:There's a good Top Gear where they explore the question "Did a Communist country ever produce a good car?" and they point out that the Riva was based on a Fiat 124. But then the Russians changed the design to replace the disc brakes with drum brakes (aluminum drums!) , thicken up the steel of the body panels, and add a crank starter and a manual fuel pump. Then they pointed out that the car was still in production in Egypt. "A car designed by the Italians, 'improved' by the Russians, and produced by the Egyptians. I can't think of anything worse than that." The thicker panelwork was silly and certainly made the car slower, but I doubt anyone really noticed the substitution for drum brakes. But in fairness to our Russian friends, most of the other changes were legitimate improvements for the Russian market. It had a supplemental crank starter and a manual auxiliary fuel pump because the expectation was that the battery would fail to crank and that you would have to prime the engine without working electrics in very cold Siberian conditions - which was accurate. It's not like those features replaced the electronics, they were just supplemental.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:The thicker panelwork was silly and certainly made the car slower, but I doubt anyone really noticed the substitution for drum brakes. But in fairness to our Russian friends, most of the other changes were legitimate improvements for the Russian market. It had a supplemental crank starter and a manual auxiliary fuel pump because the expectation was that the battery would fail to crank and that you would have to prime the engine without working electrics in very cold Siberian conditions - which was accurate. It's not like those features replaced the electronics, they were just supplemental. I think there's also the thinking that it's better to have a car, any car. A lot of the target market in the Soviet Union for cheap vehicles would be people without a lot of resources who would need reliable transportation down roads without very good infrastructure. This would inevitably lead to a desire to make the simplest car possible that could easily be maintained and operated by someone who's used to taking care of things by themselves (like people in rural areas).
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Getting a car way back in the soviet union was a huge deal and you had to take a whole test to show you were practically a certified mechanic able to fix any problem with the car on your own. Unless you had connections of course, which was the main source of cars.
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chitoryu12 posted:I think there's also the thinking that it's better to have a car, any car. A lot of the target market in the Soviet Union for cheap vehicles would be people without a lot of resources who would need reliable transportation down roads without very good infrastructure. This would inevitably lead to a desire to make the simplest car possible that could easily be maintained and operated by someone who's used to taking care of things by themselves (like people in rural areas). That doesn't jive with what actually went on with the modifications to the 124. If anything, VAZ made the design more complicated by putting in a newer engine and a bunch of redundant systems. There were Russification changes to improve ride, ground clearance, and cold start capability, but they did not make the car any simpler.
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chitoryu12 posted:I think there's also the thinking that it's better to have a car, any car. A lot of the target market in the Soviet Union for cheap vehicles would be people without a lot of resources who would need reliable transportation down roads without very good infrastructure. This would inevitably lead to a desire to make the simplest car possible that could easily be maintained and operated by someone who's used to taking care of things by themselves (like people in rural areas). ...except that it still cost the equivalent of three years' wage so it's not like the people in rural areas were going to afford them anyway.
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Kanine posted:oh btw osha thread ive spent the last 4 years going to an art school with a fairly good sculpture department which means ive spent a lot of time with other students in wood and metal shops and have some pretty fucken osha stories if you folks are interested Oooohh, this reminds me about the jewelry/metal professor at my college. In addition to numerous warning signs, lectures, etc., on the importance of tying back long hair and loose clothing while operating the buffer, he would tack scalps to the wall above the buffer. Actual pieces of scalp and hair that had been caught in the machine by student who didn't listen. Pretty  way of getting the point across.
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chitoryu12 posted:There's a famous moment from WW2 when Packard was licensed to produce Merlin engines. Which plane was it that was assembled to a minimum possible flying condition at one facility and flown a short distance to another for major rework and finishing?
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May 13, 2019 21:10
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OSHA report all stating "management was informed several times of the difficulty communicating with subj. Jeremiah, this was overlooked due to the quality of his wine." edit- just thought of a way simpler one: Jeremiah was a bullfrog. was.
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Powershift posted:Is he gonna be okay, or did he...... 
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May 13, 2019 21:24
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hah, get a load of the guy who doesn't know how to post mp4s.
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May 13, 2019 21:27
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Powershift posted:hah, get a load of the guy who doesn't know how to post mp4s. It's working fine for me? Are you using Awful app, that may be why.
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May 13, 2019 21:28
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nope, browser, just shows a broken image logo. https://i.imgur.com/skyhpY0.mp4
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madeintaipei posted:Saw some nice OSHA thread Saturday morning: beat-to-hell first gen. Scion Xb on fat little spoked chrome wheels minus the rear passenger wheel, which was a donut spare. Behind this is attached a four foot long flatbed trailer. The kind of contaption that doesn't even have lights, just reflectors, and no brakes. Crudely lashed in a heap on said trailer is a refrigerator, riding lawn mower, filing cabinet, and a few hundred pounds of scrap metal. Dude weaves through traffic down one of the shittiest roads in Tampa dragging the safety chains and scraping the towbar on every bump before merging onto the interstate going up-hill. My desire to get home overrode morbid curiosity this once, it seemed like a bad idea to be behind that death trap. I don't go to classy places. People just inject weed in or outside the library nowadays as far as I know. I remember Cosmic Comic Cafe had blue lights in the john like ten or fifteen years ago vOv
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This guy is definitely too weird to die, but i'm sure his fingers aren't long for this realm.
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May 13, 2019 22:32
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i am firmly convinced colin while an absolute treasure has made a pact with dark gods. and he keeps finding more dangerous things to possibly do and managing not to die doing them
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Asmodai_00 posted:holy poo poo I know, right? NEVER place your grinder face down. if you grab it by the button it could kick and take out your kneecap.
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Cojawfee posted:I've heard that injecting weed is the most lethal way to do it. You know someone is failing fast when they start butt-chugging it. So sad to see them walking around like that. Finland, Florida of the North. Sorry, I'll stop.
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e: nvm
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LifeSunDeath posted:This guy is definitely too weird to die, but i'm sure his fingers aren't long for this realm. He's been doing this stuff for years and years, with only minor injuries. I think he's under the protection of some kind of arcane British shed magick.
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suuma posted:Wait what, what the gently caress Probably a bridge collapsed, someone decided to get creative, and everyone followed them before the police could set up cones.
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You can now adopt a hallway at work to make it phone-walking free. I'm not sure how it works beyond the dorky adopt a highway knockoff posters. Maybe you can safely jump in front of phone-walkers and go BOO?
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Running tackle errrrrybody
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Mustached Demon posted:You can now adopt a hallway at work to make it phone-walking free. I'm not sure how it works beyond the dorky adopt a highway knockoff posters. Maybe you can safely jump in front of phone-walkers and go BOO? Do you get a cap or a sash for enforcement?
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excuse me if its America a full tactical ensemble is more appropriate.
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Syncopated posted:I would have flailed around a lot longer before going for the grinder tbf that's the resigned reaction of someone who's done this before imo or it's scripted
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfDa8tR25dk Apologies since this isn't really OSHA but I can't think of a better thread to share it in. If it's been linked previously, my bad.
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Mustached Demon posted:You can now adopt a hallway at work to make it phone-walking free. I'm not sure how it works beyond the dorky adopt a highway knockoff posters. Maybe you can safely jump in front of phone-walkers and go BOO?
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IPCRESS posted:Apologies since this isn't really OSHA but I can't think of a better thread to share it in. If you're not watching the HBO miniseries, you should be.
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More Australian OSHA....  (3.6m = 11'9")
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