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Humphreys posted:Yeah I don't gently caress around with that poo poo without an arc-flash suit. Just ensure you are not in the Chinese "imposter" version. 
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MRC48B posted:Yes. We will. And it will be because managers cheaped out on maintenance when revenues dropped, not because of virus concerns. I know some industries, like aviation, have protocols for temporarily decommissioning systems, but I can only assume this is one big experiment to see how any of these protocols fare. What happens to elevators if they’re not used for a year? Does the grease dry up? Is anyone paying for maintenance to make sure it doesn’t? I feel like mundane things like this are going to be the source of, at best, early system failures, and at worst, injuries etc.
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I remember seeing some discussion about the potential for Legionnaire's disease from water systems that hadn't been used in a year.
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On a smaller scale this is absolutely happening. I work at a small nonprofit park thing and on top of the disuse our maintenance guy was also fired a little before COVID and never replaced. So far nothing dangerous has happened, just small poo poo like doors and toilets and whatever breaking a lot more often than usual. Leaks going unnoticed and causing damage, that kind of thing. It doesn't help that most of the construction is not even a lowest bidder job, it's frequently discounted further as a "donation" so the corner cutting is intense. They built this massive wedding venue about 6 years ago and had these 30ish foot high white stone pillars. When these midwest fracking earthquakes started happening, we found out the guys who built it didn't really bother to secure some of the stones and some maybe 20-30lb stones near the top wiggle free and drop to the floor. Needless to say we had to shut down the entire venue while we paid someone else to come in and redo all of it.
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ultrafilter posted:I remember seeing some discussion about the potential for Legionnaire's disease from water systems that hadn't been used in a year. it showed up at Buckingham Palace
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A Stupid Baby posted:So far nothing dangerous has happened, just small poo poo like doors and toilets and whatever breaking a lot more often than usual. Leaks going unnoticed and causing damage, that kind of thing. Our old pest control guy said that early in the pandemic a lot of his business clients (hotels, etc.) stopped doing regular visits for control since nobody was coming, then about 6 months later he ended up getting bigger jobs when they had problems and the prospect of having clients in again started getting better.
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mycomancy posted:Tan is sus Motherfucker always hiding in electrical 
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For commercial buildings during the pandemic, there's a lot of stuff that needs attention when it's not getting used as normal. Elevators have to be run extra to keep the guide wheels round, traps and drains have to be kept wet, flushometers need exercise, and as noted you need to flow water to prevent bio stuff from growing. Even with regular pest treatment you don't have people spotting the single cockroach wandering around so you maybe don't know there's a problem until it's bigger. Early on the starving rats that usually fed on the restaurant trash in the alley dumpsters came calling, but that problem sorta solved itself. I think I've kept up with stuff, but I'm sure there's places that slashed the budget with no rent coming in that are going to have some tough times later this summer/fall.
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Humphreys posted:Yeah I don't gently caress around with that poo poo without an arc-flash suit. "What do you mean you forgot to pack the f*cking gloves?!"
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JackSplater posted:Driving a forklift is pretty easy. Driving a forklift well takes a lot of practice. A lot of people don't seem to think that and it's always entertaining watching them realize they're in way over their head. The learning curve is steep but, once you get the hang of it they're easy. Initially I could barely just move one around the warehouse. Within a few months I was picking pallets off the top rack with the mast at full extent. Once you figure out plugging it get's way easier. The brakes are always grabby. Never driven natural gas though. Only electric. I grew up on a farm so I'm used to driving a tractor with a bucket and rear hydraulics so I had a bit of a leg up, just not much. The really dangerous warehouse device is a stand-up rider. The power pallet jack type that have a tiny platform that you ride on. They can throw you pretty easily if you aren't careful. The reverse safety switch keeps you from squishing yourself if you're walking behind it but you can still run yourself over, flip the truck, run over other people, smash stuff up good. At least they do stop themselves if you fall off. When I'd show people how to operate a fork truck, they always thought the power pallet jack would be the easy one. You're way safer on a regular fork truck. You just have to pay attention. It's worth it to make sure everyone is certified. Remember, when you change jobs, you have to re-certify in most cases. Also, don't drive off the dock. You will die. It will be squishy.
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I want to say that powered pallet jacks are scary because they are kind of fun, sort of like riding a skateboard or scooter that weighs up to 5-10 tons depending on where you're scooting. Just don't get a piece of flesh caught between the machine and a rack doing 10-20mph. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SyVuPxkuxA This is something of a best case scenario accident. All of the worse variations are harder to laugh at. E: I thought I was exaggerating the 5 ton bit, but just the single length pallet truck pictured there weighs between 3 and 4.5 tons including battery, without load. nomad2020 fucked around with this message at 19:25 on May 24, 2021 |
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Ak Gara posted:do you WANT another Battlefield Earth!? Yes, very much so. 
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a primate posted:I know some industries, like aviation, have protocols for temporarily decommissioning systems, but I can only assume this is one big experiment to see how any of these protocols fare. Yeah the plane's "warranty" or the airplane equivalent is voided if it doesn't fly at least once a year so they periodically fly the stored planes around a bit. They're also concerned about pilots skill levels after being furloughed for a year.
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Pekinduck posted:Yeah the plane's "warranty" or the airplane equivalent is voided if it doesn't fly at least once a year so they periodically fly the stored planes around a bit. They're also concerned about pilots skill levels after being furloughed for a year. We're also finding out engine storage procedures may not be the best procedures the aerospace industry has come up with.
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Powershift posted:Yes, very much so. Lol wat
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mycomancy posted:Lol wat Never seen 'em make ground beef?
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one of my uncles, in a wide-ranging set of careers, used to fly broken Cessnas (I think) to Canada (I think) to get them repaired. he quit because he started getting complacent, treating it like driving instead of really paying attention, and he was worried he'd kill himself through carelessness. which is a little surprising bc he did not quit immediately after the time the flight controls broke off in his hands midflight
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Powershift posted:Yes, very much so. "Cows! I hate cows worse than coppers!" [fires his spacegun at them] "Oh, George... not the livestock."
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:Never seen 'em make ground beef? At least it's lean
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Powershift posted:Yes, very much so. My favourite bad movie!
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mostlygray posted:The really dangerous warehouse device is a stand-up rider. The power pallet jack type that have a tiny platform that you ride on. They can throw you pretty easily if you aren't careful. The reverse safety switch keeps you from squishing yourself if you're walking behind it but you can still run yourself over, flip the truck, run over other people, smash stuff up good. At least they do stop themselves if you fall off. A lot of them also allow you to fold up the riding platform, thus turning them into just a powered pallet jack. A colleague did that at work a couple of months back and is still out of work because he managed to crush his ankle between one of those and a wooden platform. It's predicted that he'll recover but we probably won't have him back for another couple of months yet. His ankle was hosed.
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Purgatory Glory posted:Ghostride the ship. lol
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olympic level cat-in-tree-removal.
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Well yes, they tried, but obviously it failed for numerous reasons. Foremost among them being the lack of a heart, and second to that, the lack of fibrillation.
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Bad Munki posted:Well yes, they tried, but obviously it failed for numerous reasons. Foremost among them being the lack of a heart, and second to that, the lack of fibrillation. The other thing that caused it to fail is that the meat is apparently already shocked as part of the butchering process. The fresh fish he tries later on does flex in response to the defibrillator.
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Bad Munki posted:Well yes, they tried, but obviously it failed for numerous reasons. Foremost among them being the lack of a heart, and second to that, the lack of fibrillation. Next thing you're gonna tell me is they did surgery on a grape.
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So Elon Musk built Black Mesa?
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FuturePastNow posted:Volcanic lightning is a hell of a thing: haven't thought of it this way, but isn't a volcano essentially a charged particle beam
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the particles aren't charged when they come out, but rather gain their charge from friction as they travel through the air. i believe.
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https://i.imgur.com/EhqMsh2.gifv https://i.imgur.com/3qWyeM2.gifv For anyone who uses TikTok, the sound on the second one has some incredible stuff. https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMe7mFC23/ Woozie66 fucked around with this message at 06:05 on May 25, 2021 |
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Woozie66 posted:https://i.imgur.com/EhqMsh2.gifv lmbo
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