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Ironhead posted:Wrecking in that thing somehow feels worse than wrecking on a motorcycle, and I still want one. I've heard brush guards on trucks nicknamed "damage multipliers" and I feel like that is an apt comparison for the jagged crumpled plexi wreckage.
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Did everyone just miss what would happen if you took the padlock off? Sliding it left only locks it more. Unless it tilts up or something Quaint Quail Quilt has a new favorite as of 18:10 on Sep 1, 2023 |
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Sep 1, 2023 18:07
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You can’t slide it left. Look at the nubs.
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Ok, i'm going to be the dumb guy in the room I guess. What the gently caress am I missing here? Because it's not clear from the pic where the gate is and where the fence is. Assuming that they didn't do something dumb and bridge the gate/fence junction with the bit on the right, and that the gate is the bit on the left, that's a perfectly functional latch. Open lock, slide right, bar pulls out of gate-side latch, open gate.
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This looks like something I would do to keep my kids out of places they might try to go in impulse but get bored when they see it won't open easily. EDit: You can take it off with a screwdriver
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Cyrano4747 posted:Ok, i'm going to be the dumb guy in the room I guess. Rotate lock 90 degrees, latch can now slide right through all the ample space the shackle provides with how long it is.
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Relyssa posted:Rotate lock 90 degrees, latch can now slide right through all the ample space the shackle provides with how long it is. Ahhh, I see it now. Lol I am the stupid one in the room.
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edit - nevermind, was confused about what the confusion was
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I love how the single missing screw implies that somebody took a screwdriver to it before figuring it out.
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BrianBoitano posted:They also have security by obscurity since I don't know where that fence is These are mandated in Finnish apartment buildings as every apartment has a little basement closet for storing junk. The basements are built to shelter standards with air filters and chemical toilets and they have to be convertable to that purpose in three days from official order by emptying the closets and removing all walls. Sometimes there are surveillance cameras to be sure, but mainly it relies on only residents having access because it's behind a locked basement door and people know that they're not break proof so they just keep junk with little value but that take space there.  Though they never have latches like that, just two hoops for the padlock.
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WithoutTheFezOn posted:You can’t slide it left. Look at the nubs.  Anytime you have exposed screws like that go with different kinds so they have to have a flathead, Philips, torx, square etc. I've seen several "security doors" even that the hinges could be removed from the outside. Quaint Quail Quilt has a new favorite as of 18:23 on Sep 1, 2023 |
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Nenonen posted:These are mandated in Finnish apartment buildings as every apartment has a little basement closet for storing junk. The basements are built to shelter standards with air filters and chemical toilets and they have to be convertable to that purpose in three days from official order by emptying the closets and removing all walls. So what's this about? Some old reg about having extra shelter space in case the cities get bombed, bomb shelter basements, something else?
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Quaint Quail Quilt posted:As far as I can tell you can't slide it right either The thing the lock goes through on the right is the thing that moves. The bit with the hole on the left is attached to the back. So if the lock wasn't there, you could slide it right. Or if some idiot put a lock with a super long shackle, you could just turn the lock 90 degrees, and now you can slide the thing to the right along the lock, and open it.
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minato posted:This one's real too, and also looks like something out of a Richard Scarry book Something with balls and pea that I can't work out
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Quaint Quail Quilt posted:I've seen several "security doors" even that the hinges could be removed from the outside. If they're like this then that doesn't help.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9f-8UCZJ3k Cyrano4747 posted:So what's this about? Some old reg about having extra shelter space in case the cities get bombed, bomb shelter basements, something else? Stone and concrete buildings over 3000 cubic metres in volume must prepare protected shelters in case of war, nuclear apocalypse, pandemic, chemical disaster, zombies etc. The law was enacted in 1958 so draw your conclusions what the main reason was. There has been talks about removing the mandate to make building a little cheaper, but given recent developments it seems like it's staying. Just means that Finland has some very sturdy basements.
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Nenonen posted:The law was enacted in 1958 so draw your conclusions what the main reason was.   
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_nuclear_weapons_program 
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Milo and POTUS posted:Something with balls and pea that I can't work out
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And to provide a funny picture, here's a Swedish nuclear submarine design from 1957 that had a 26 torpedo revolver nose. The version launched in 1967 was diesel-electric and had 12 torpedoes. 
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Med plutonium bringar vi dansken på knä.
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The Muppet chef was the PR face of the swedish nuke program. Follow the money
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loving foreign cars. I read the plate immediately as "PAY-ah" because I was reading something about the VAG/Spanish auto company Seat, which is pronounced "SAY-at" (or at least that's how the brits).
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^^ wtf Gotta have somewhere to store the pee, presumably
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bennyfactor posted:^^ wtf Pee is stored in the binnacle
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Imagine two balls on the edge of a conning tower.
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Railing Kill posted:Imagine two balls on the edge of a conning tower. Maritime works the same way. Lobok has a new favorite as of 21:48 on Sep 1, 2023 |
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bennyfactor posted:^^ wtf YouTube, man 
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freeedr posted:YouTube, man Hope crackerbarrel6965 is holding up OK.
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Unperson_47 posted:Hope crackerbarrel6965 is holding up OK. Better wish them a happy early reconvalescence.
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bennyfactor posted:^^ wtf Those are the shield generators. Need to blow them up first.
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Those are the iron correcting balls. AKA Kelvin’s balls or the Navigator’s balls.
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NmareBfly posted:Those are the shield generators. Need to blow them up first. Thanks for the X-Wing video game flashback
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Bar Ran Dun posted:Those are the iron correcting balls. AKA Kelvin’s balls or the Navigator’s balls.  edit: brass monkeys were also the name of the devices used to keep cannon balls stacked. Basically British sailors had a thing for monkey balls Cable Guy has a new favorite as of 03:29 on Sep 2, 2023 |
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Bar Ran Dun posted:Those are the iron correcting balls. AKA Kelvin’s balls or the Navigator’s balls. This is correct. The two large iron masses placed on either side of the compass in the middle mitigate the tendency of the magnetic needle to be attracted to nearby large iron or steel masses like cannons (and later, the ship's hull, decks, and bulkheads). They ensure that the needle is most strongly influenced by the Earth's magnetic field and points true. Cable Guy posted:... and the mounting is called a Brass Monkey. This is... less correct.  You may be conflating them with the folk etymology for the phrase: that the rack on which cannonballs were stacked on deck was called the "brass monkey", and when it got really cold the brass would contract and the cannonballs would fall off the rack.Unfortunately that's not true. First, brass doesn't really contract all that much more than iron does and the difference wouldn't make a stack of cannonballs fall off. Second, you can't actually stack cannonballs that way on a ship at sea, since the rolling of the ship would knock them loose, and they'd start to rust if left out exposed to the sea air. Third, variations of the phrase "<blank> the <blank> off a brass monkey" are known all the way back to the early 19th century but usually referred to charming or talking the tail off, wind blowing the nose off, etc. "Freeze the balls off" specifically doesn't come around until decades later. It sounds right but it just doesn't work out historically. Sorry. The device they are on, upon which the compass is mounted, is called the binnacle.
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It's called the binnacle because it's at the very top of the ship
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Soul Dentist posted:It's called the binnacle because it's at the very top of the ship More like the ballacle.
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