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Fake Chinese products are still so bad that there are both legal and private job site restrictions on the use of things like Chinese-made slings for cranes, because they have such a nasty habit of snapping under load.
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Methylethylaldehyde posted:
. . . Huh. That might explain some oddly short lived bulbs we had.
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Cyrano4747 posted:. . . Huh. That might explain some oddly short lived bulbs we had. Grey market items were really bad for a while there, where the 3rd factory shift would use 60C rated power system parts in the bulb drivers instead of the 105C or 130C rated parts that the spec actually calls for. Both of them will work exactly the same, for about a month. Which is about when the 60C parts have degraded enough to start failing en masse. Which is more than long enough for the reseller to quietly go out of business and leg it with the profits. I think the EEblog dude did a teardown explaining how you can get a $4 BOM down to <$1 by doing that, and what happens when you do.
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Sagebrush posted:this is just fake and racist right It's someone trying to claim that lazy counterfeiting is actually a systematic attempt on the part of a country to deceive other people, so yes. You should be suspicious for the same reason you'd be suspicious of a U1 logo where a UL logo should be, not because it's some "china export" nonsense. Cyrano4747 posted:. . . Huh. That might explain some oddly short lived bulbs we had. I had a box of Ecosmart LEDs that lasted a few hundred hours before dying, at which point I said gently caress it and went back to buying Feit. corgski fucked around with this message at 20:05 on May 19, 2020 |
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May 19, 2020 20:02
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A White Guy posted:This is amazing. Its probably putting a shitload of more stress than an engine is supposed to take when you're driving a boat, but gawddamn, this guy probably has enough money to finance the stupidity. Some electrical pieces may suffer, but it should work.
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May 19, 2020 20:15
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gvibes posted:Some electrical pieces may suffer, but it should work. Since this is a trailer, and by physical nature those cannot be without a fault at any given time, it probably fixed one electrical issue and caused another.
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The electrics of a boat trailer are like $2.50 of wire and lights who cares. You don't do that because the moving parts are gonna seize/you should regrease everything that has now been subjected to water infiltration you don't really see when just giving it a dip.
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May 19, 2020 20:44
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What part of the trailer is submerged that wouldn't be submerged anyway when launching the boat?
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Cojawfee posted:What part of the trailer is submerged that wouldn't be submerged anyway when launching the boat?
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There's also a difference in force when backing it in at 5mph and cruising at 10+ and a difference in time between 5 minutes and hours.
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May 19, 2020 21:08
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Kith posted:like yes i know they're not related but holy gently caress my sieve brain can't help but conflate them and i'm dying Mid-shot portrait to landscape switch. Incredibly powerful
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May 19, 2020 21:08
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Mid-shot portrait to landscape switch. Incredibly powerful Yep, director really cementing the theme of the piece.
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May 19, 2020 21:23
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Xaintrailles posted:Yep, director really cementing the theme of the piece. The shot just falls into place.
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May 19, 2020 21:42
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Mid-shot portrait to landscape switch. Incredibly powerful Quibi was truly ahead of its time
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May 19, 2020 21:46
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there was some show I watched about wingsuit people who died, and the wife of one talking about how they were not just adrenaline junkies but basically drawn to death, they felt like they destined to die young and that mindset pushed them closer and closer to the limit.
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May 19, 2020 21:52
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It would be so easy to become tangled in the ’chute.
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Cojawfee posted:What part of the trailer is submerged that wouldn't be submerged anyway when launching the boat? From spending a lot of time around yacht clubs in the 90s I was always told you don’t submerge the trailer. At most you back it in to cover the rubber at the bottom of the tyre. Never get the axle and wheel bearings covered in water.
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May 19, 2020 22:04
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This seems like an extraordinarily short drop even for everything going right.
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Varkk posted:From spending a lot of time around yacht clubs in the 90s I was always told you don’t submerge the trailer. At most you back it in to cover the rubber at the bottom of the tyre. Never get the axle and wheel bearings covered in water. Maybe, but they do sell waterproof bearing grease specifically for boat trailer bearings. Although bearing assemblies are generally well sealed to begin with, otherwise all your grease would spew out of the wheel hub within the first few hundred miles of driving.
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May 19, 2020 22:29
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Kith posted:https://i.imgur.com/1ucHKaA.mp4 Does that stuff get hot? It looks like it gets hot.
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https://i.imgur.com/gAddTMF.gifv Found another one. I agree with the other poster, how do the cords not get tangled up?
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Cartoon Man posted:https://i.imgur.com/gAddTMF.gifv Jump out far enough and flip so that the shoulders are always facing the parachute without allowing too much slack. This is likely easier said than done.
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Cat Hatter posted:Jump out far enough and flip so that the shoulders are always facing the parachute without allowing too much slack. This is likely easier said than done. Practice makes perfect but how do people even practice these things? It's not like you can wear a backup chute if get tangled in the cables.
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drat that's rad af. My grandma had all hardwood and we would sock-slide all over the place, but this would have been hella fun.
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That head snap though. Really needs a HANS device.
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Holy poo poo I want this, right now.
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That's a neat way to drain the pond, but how do you refill it?
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Uthor posted:That's a neat way to drain the pond, but how do you refill it? https://i.imgur.com/8a0p1JT.mp4
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Anybody with a forklift can drain a decorative pond. Only a real forklift operator can fill it back up again afterwards.
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the fart question posted:Does that stuff get hot? It looks like it gets hot. I'm not entirely sure how hot it gets, but that reaction is definitely exothermic and I'm pretty sure that's steam visible in the video.
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Varkk posted:From spending a lot of time around yacht clubs in the 90s I was always told you don’t submerge the trailer. At most you back it in to cover the rubber at the bottom of the tyre. Never get the axle and wheel bearings covered in water. It depends on your boat, trailer, and the angle of the ramp. At steep ramps I didn't have to submerge the wheels but at shallow ramps I did.
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Sagebrush posted:this is just fake and racist right There's a certain kind of naivete that doesn't realise/can't accept it's just a badly-faked CE mark, and fumbles for an explanation that involves people acting in good(-ish) faith.
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Speaking of airframe parachutes. Anybody remember when the A380 was still in development and they would advertise some weird emergency parachute slide in the center of the aircraft and a chute for every passenger?
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