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AmbassadorofSodomy posted:God, I wonder what that actually was at one point. Given how the ground looks, I think they picked up the car with a forklift and the tires (and rear axle) just sort of... stayed there. Not a mustang - too much rear overhang, coil springs in the rear, and the coil springs in the front would have stayed with the car because they're *over* the upper control arm. Looks like a full-size, I'm thinking GM X-frame, given the rust pattern in the dirt. Whatever it was, there's likely very little left below the door sills.
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context: guy who buys and parts out a lot of cars definitely hosed something up. guessing the neighbors hate his bullshit even more than before
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Escalade and… F-150? Maybe a Toyota 4Runner/Taco? Those big power cables heading to the rear of the vehicle are of interest.
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denali and Escalade I think edit: probably the only time I've been that close to a burned car and its hard to overstate how bad it smelled OBAMNA PHONE fucked around with this message at 21:54 on Jun 15, 2021 |
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Jun 15, 2021 21:47
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Yeah, it's pretty acrid, especially if it's not a complete burn. Get 'em hot enough and let them burn long enough and there's not much of a smell at all, because everything that isn't metal is gone (and some of that, too...)
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Jun 15, 2021 22:24
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Yeah having accidentally set a parts car on fire in 2013ish and had it burn 3/4 of the way to the ground hooooo boy that is a smell. Cutting that thing up and shoveling the debris into the trash loving sucked.
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BraveUlysses posted:context: guy who buys and parts out a lot of cars definitely hosed something up. guessing the neighbors hate his bullshit even more than before Jump gone wrong?
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Platystemon posted:Jump gone wrong? The one on the right doesn't even have a wheel, that didn't just burn off. Though jumping off of an immobile vehicle you're "currently working on" probably isn't beyond the pale for this guy.
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Jun 18, 2021 15:26
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Turns out pinion bearings and oil are important, and when it gets hot enough it turns the pinion shaft into silly putty, twists off, sprays any remaining oil everywhere and the red hot metal sets it on fire Also XJ people aren't great on maintenance Edit: especially lifted ones. Those aren't factory leafs. Looks like a 97-01 from the ebrake cable.
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Powershift posted:
That’s impressive. kastein posted:Turns out pinion bearings and oil are important, and when it gets hot enough it turns the pinion shaft into silly putty, twists off, sprays any remaining oil everywhere and the red hot metal sets it on fire I love that I’m not the only one who can pick details out and identify stuff like that. Not that I knew that particular one.
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Knowing how bad old gear oil smells, I can only imaging what that stench is like.
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Supposedly the wind picked it up in a storm. I don’t have a location.
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I would like to watch a Tesla autopilot that.
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Breaking: possibly informed speculation:quote:Hi. I do pavement management for a living. Civil engineer by education and now I do it across the US. This looks to be northwest Florida and the pavement section appears to have been subjected to flowing water. In that part of Florida, sand and seashells are often a mixture (a very poor one) for the subbase. The asphalt course is laid after a thin coat of asphaltic oil (RC-250?) is sprayed on the surface. In this case, the asphaltic oil didn’t bind well to the subbase and this is what you get when the water flowed over and around it and hydraulically separated it from the subbase. quote:Are seashells + sand subbase used in that area just for logistical reasons or AADT is low in that area that’s why thin wearing course? Seems like it could have lasted longer if the subbase was also mixed with concrete or maybe done insitu stabilisation? quote:t's commonly done on roads for the reasons you cite (cheap and available) and for a road like this that doesn't appear to see a great deal of traffic, it probably is fine until storm surge comes along. For roads that see more traffic and heavier loads, they will bring in proper well-graded subbase material. That obviously costs more. I usually only see a cement admixture when clays are involved, but I suppose you could use it in a situation like this...but it wouldn't be cheap anymore. Interestingly, I've seen similar issues ins parts of New Mexico where they use a lot of sand in their subbase and the tack coat won't adhere properly there either. The failures manifest themselves in different ways, but the reasons are the same. but maybe it was the Bahamas: quote:It is from the Bahamas. This is Queens Highway in Grand Bahama going towards east end.
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Platystemon posted:Supposedly the wind picked it up in a storm. Lol Wind cannot shift tarmac like that. It's definitely from water.
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Platystemon posted:Breaking: possibly informed speculation: So the problem is that roads get slippery when wet.
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Then you're just living on a prayer
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♫ Take me home, country roads All my memories gather 'round her Miner's lady, stranger to blue water ♫
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Jun 20, 2021 18:07
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upset 'autonomous' vehicles with this one weird trick
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Jun 20, 2021 23:56
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No. 6 posted:Lol Wind can't melt steel beams.
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I have seen this happen when main battle tanks do emergency brakes on lower quality tarmac. Can happen with very heavy trucks too (this is also how the weird shaker profile in front of traffic crossings evolves) E: not an emergency brake but this is what happens if you don't use rubber padded tracks on tarmac Combat Theory fucked around with this message at 16:31 on Jun 21, 2021 |
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Jun 21, 2021 16:19
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That's what happens when you don't design the road to be able to handle big dumb military parades.
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Platystemon posted:but maybe it was the Bahamas: I mean that road was under ~6' of water 2 years ago during Dorian, so it makes sense.
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Same issue with construction equipment like track hoes and such. I worked digging up pipelines for two summers during college and whenever the track hoe or dozer needed to cross a road, we would lay down big plywood sheets in front of it as it went. Grab the ones it rolled off, move them in front of the tracks, repeat a bunch of times until it was across the road. It was tedious but certainly protected the pavement
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Combat Theory posted:I have seen this happen when main battle tanks do emergency brakes on lower quality tarmac. And those are just T-34s. Modern tanks can be about twice the weight.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:And those are just T-34s. Modern tanks can be about twice the weight. But larger tread area so the difference in ground pressure isn't that pronounced. A 70-ton M1A2 is about 15psi, roughly the same as a 28.5-ton Tiger.
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Phanatic posted:But larger tread area so the difference in ground pressure isn't that pronounced. A 70-ton M1A2 is about 15psi, roughly the same as a 28.5-ton Tiger. I did some napkin math to make sure I wasn't saying something stupid but forgot I'm bad at math.
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Phanatic posted:But larger tread area so the difference in ground pressure isn't that pronounced. A 70-ton M1A2 is about 15psi, roughly the same as a 28.5-ton Tiger. I didn't realize the footprint was that much larger. One day my AWACS had to divert due to weather (it's crazy I only diverted once), and I was amused and educated by the brief argument our pilot had with the ground controller at this airport. Turns out we were too heavy, as in ground pressure, for several of their parking areas and the controller's response of "But 747s use them all the time!" didn't really change the math. A lot of weight sits almost directly above the main gear, which has less than half the footprint of a 747.
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Phanatic posted:But larger tread area so the difference in ground pressure isn't that pronounced. A 70-ton M1A2 is about 15psi, roughly the same as a 28.5-ton Tiger. Overall ground pressure isn’t the problem, though. Pneumatic tires have ground pressure roughly equal to their inflation pressure - so cars are around 25-30 psi, and road bikes are way higher than that. 15psi is basically nothing. The problem in the picture is a combination of the pavement quality, the specific track design (which probably has ridges designed to dig into soft surfaces, focusing the tank’s entire weight onto tiny points until it breaks through), and doing tight turns on the pavement.
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I think this could go here because it happened when getting out of the car and it's a mechanical failure. My laptop bag fell off my shoulder because the strap detached itself on one end as I was taking it out. Because it's held by a tiny c-clip:  It's supposed to go in that narrow slot to keep the big clip and strap parts attached while allowing some rotation. Of course it went flying somewhere so good job Lenovo.
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But if you tried to remove it for a repair it would take 10minutes.. C-clips.. They Know.
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Combat Theory posted:Can happen with very heavy trucks too (this is also how the weird shaker profile in front of traffic crossings evolves) In Phoenix, all the roadside bus stops have the asphalt by the curb rippled outwards like a wave of lava, presumably from buses standing there repeatedly on hot days.
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Sagebrush posted:In Phoenix, all the roadside bus stops have the asphalt by the curb rippled outwards like a wave of lava, presumably from buses standing there repeatedly on hot days. That's more an issue with asphalt liquidity though. It's in issue in several southwest cities.
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Might also be bad base prep on the road, we have lots of that here in my town in Sweden and we've got more of a Minneapolis weather.
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Nidhg00670000 posted:Might also be bad base prep on the road, we have lots of that here in my town in Sweden and we've got more of a Minneapolis weather. In places that care about public transit (note, not the USA), they put concrete at bus stops to prevent this. No amount of base prep can fix the fact that bitumen is a liquid. Asphalt is a suspension at best, and if you want a bitumen composition that can withstand hot, then it will turn to glass when it gets cold and then you get potholes. It's easier to ignore a wibbly street than one with potholes. So US cities just let their pavement turn to rear end around bus stops because they hate poors.
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:In places that care about public transit (note, not the USA), they put concrete at bus stops to prevent this. No amount of base prep can fix the fact that bitumen is a liquid. Asphalt is a suspension at best, and if you want a bitumen composition that can withstand hot, then it will turn to glass when it gets cold and then you get potholes. It's easier to ignore a wibbly street than one with potholes. So US cities just let their pavement turn to rear end around bus stops because they hate poors. the ones around here (CA) are concrete. i was about to post "arent bus stops usually concrete for this reason?" but i guess AZ, which would need it even more, doesnt do that for some reason? 
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