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I mean, not everyone has access to an aircraft carrier when they want to see what happens to a wire cable when it fails under tension.
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Is that a redneck attempt at straightening a frame?
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Mar 5, 2020 19:18
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Beach Bum posted:It's not a mechanical failure but there's certainly enough potential here for a disaster. Click for big. What in the world? Is he trying to straighten out the frame?
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Mar 5, 2020 19:19
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As far as I can tell, the goal seems to be to push the driver's side framerail outward, using the connection to the tree to hold the other side in place and prevent it from just bending instead. It seems like it could possibly work, but there are a lot of parts in that equation that'll be storing energy and just looking for a place to let it go so I wouldn't want to be near it when in use.
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wolrah posted:As far as I can tell, the goal seems to be to push the driver's side framerail outward, using the connection to the tree to hold the other side in place and prevent it from just bending instead. Precisely. MomJeans420 posted:Is that a redneck attempt at straightening a frame? A redneck with a law degree, mind you. Beach Bum fucked around with this message at 20:36 on Mar 5, 2020 |
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Mar 5, 2020 20:20
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Fixing a bent frame? Edit, need to refresh the page sometimes.
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Mar 5, 2020 20:37
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1) stick a pair of 2x4s into the frame rail 2) push it with another vehicle when that doesn't work: 3) take to a shop with a proper frame machine. I've pulled out rad supports using a tree & chain only, finishing the final adjustment with a come-along. Big chain only, no rope. You dingdong.
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Beach Bum posted:It's not a mechanical failure but there's certainly enough potential here for a disaster. Click for big. Apparently he's never seen the first five minutes of "Ghost Ship".
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wolrah posted:As far as I can tell, the goal seems to be to push the driver's side framerail outward, using the connection to the tree to hold the other side in place and prevent it from just bending instead. Stand on the roof with a cheater bar.
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The more I look...geesus. HF type clamps holding up a 1/4 for the jack.
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 Vehicle owner wasn't present. Insurance fraud, mechanical failure in combo with panic, stolen truck, or something else?
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EvenWorseOpinions posted:
When I was in high-school back in 04 we did that with a car we bought from the Quokka for $150. We were trying to take it out bush for some hooning but the engine exploded so we pushed it into a ditch and set off some nang -bombs inside. Then we went to the foreshore to get drunk on cask wine.
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What language is that? I think I got the gist of it but yeesh
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Pile Of Garbage posted:When I was in high-school back in 04 we did that with a car we bought from the Quokka for $150. We were trying to take it out bush for some hooning but the engine exploded so we pushed it into a ditch and set off some nang -bombs inside. Then we went to the foreshore to get drunk on cask wine. Is this
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Mar 6, 2020 18:17
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Yeah if you're stupid and can't work poo poo out from context:
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Yes, other people are stupid, that's the problem.
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Pile Of Garbage posted:
Never heard of either of these but ok guess I'm stupid 
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I've heard of Quokka, and that's roughly how I understood it (I'm not sure I knew it was a paper rather than a website ... maybe it's a website now, but was a paper then?). I suspect the "nitrous oxide canisters (you) get high on" rather explain the rest, though.
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Pile Of Garbage posted:Yeah if you're stupid and can't work poo poo out from context: 
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Krakkles posted:I've heard of Quokka, and that's roughly how I understood it (I'm not sure I knew it was a paper rather than a website ... maybe it's a website now, but was a paper then?). "Whippits", and this is literally the first time I've ever heard of anyone making a bomb out of one. But huffing nitrous kills brain cells, so... Hooning, we don't need explained to us, thanks.
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Tbh quokka sounds more like some weird australian animal, not aussie craigslist (that's gumtree, isn't it?).
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Arguing with a Pile of Garbage looks a lot like Grandpa Simpson yelling at a cloud
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ryanrs posted:Tbh quokka sounds more like some weird australian animal, not aussie craigslist (that's gumtree, isn't it?). A quokka actually is an animal. It's a marsupial the size of a cat.
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Cojawfee posted:A quokka actually is an animal. It's a marsupial the size of a cat. The marsupial had truck for sale??
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Darchangel posted:"Whippits", and this is literally the first time I've ever heard of anyone making a bomb out of one. But huffing nitrous kills brain cells, so... I also think it's funny that he skipped "out bush", "foreshore", and "cask wine". Because THOSE are perfectly common non-Australianisms. tactlessbastard posted:The marsupial had truck for sale??
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Darchangel posted:But huffing nitrous kills brain cells, so...
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Krakkles posted:Oh, agreed, I've heard of Whippits (and hooning). I thought quid were British Shekels? taqueso posted:It does not, the worst thing that happens in normal use is vitamin A deficiency. Unless you manage to get yourself stuck in a bag or seal up a room or something else that suffocates you. So when the article I linked says it damages the brain and nervous system, what do you think they mean? Granted, I suppose it’s possible to damage the brain with an inhalant without killing brain cells, somehow. Actually, I don’t really care. It was mainly a half-joke. Maybe 1/4-joke.
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With any inhalant, you can damage your brain by oxygen deprivation if you aren't dosing it properly, but I'm sure that if you're huffing nitrous oxide you're making sure to do the math and keep track of your intake
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tactlessbastard posted:The marsupial had truck for sale?? I assumed that Quokka was a racist term for Australian natives.
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I'm Australian and never heard of Quokka.
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Krakkles posted:I've heard of Quokka, and that's roughly how I understood it (I'm not sure I knew it was a paper rather than a website ... maybe it's a website now, but was a paper then?). I've heard some wild stories about their website. Apparently it was developed by the Australian version of Radium and is just completely cooked. Crankit posted:I googled the quokka and its cute af. Would buy a car from one any time They're adorable. Here in WA the Quokka's have a whole island (Rottnest) all to themselves however it's lousy with tourists. Also we keep having to throw shitheads in prison for abusing them ("Quokka Soccer" was in the papers for a while a few years ago).
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EvenWorseOpinions posted:With any inhalant, you can damage your brain by oxygen deprivation if you aren't dosing it properly, but I'm sure that if you're huffing nitrous oxide you're making sure to do the math and keep track of your intake I'd call that touching faith in human nature given the content of this thread and TCC.
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Colostomy Bag posted:Apparently he's never seen the first five minutes of "Ghost Ship". I think only about 15 people globally did.
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Krakkles posted:Apparently for 150 quid! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu4BjivBHVo&t=20s
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Krakkles posted:Apparently for 150 quid!
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Darchangel posted:"Whippits", and this is literally the first time I've ever heard of anyone making a bomb out of one. But huffing nitrous kills brain cells, so... Fair dinks, sparkler bombs were pretty common when I was a dumbarse young teen. Used to take off down the local scrub with some mates and set off a box or two's worth. Fucken good times. You didn't need cream bulbs for them either, just the regular soda bulbs you can get at woolies.
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Godholio posted:I think only about 15 people globally did. Sadly, I have. 
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