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I finally have a mechanical failure at work that I remembered to capture on camera! I work on commercial laundry equipment for a living right now. Not glamorous by any means, but it's steady work. The guy I work for owns 9 laundromats, and several of them are starting to show their age. I went to one today to collect money and fix any machines that were down and found one of the 25 pound washers down. I saw that the breaker was tripped, so I flipped it back on, and cranked the timer around to start the machine. It then let out the most godawful roaring/grinding noise while turning and promptly tripped the breaker again. At this point, I knew the bearings in the motor were smoked and the motor needed to come out to get rebuilt. What I didn't know was that the bad bearings caused it to pull waaaay too much current and do this to the high speed spin contactor   That was almost certainly a fire at some point this week, and I'm glad the whole store didn't burn to the goddamn ground.
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FatCow posted:The L in L-3 doesn't stand for Level btw. They have nothing to do with Level 3. Which is good because L3 is an unbelievably poo poo company. They're probably responsible for the RC-135 fire I posted earlier.
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Aug 27, 2015 05:51
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CroatianAlzheimers posted:Old, stubborn bikers, layerdans, and young kids who worship at their altars. Oh, and a lot of Harley riders. What never fails to amuse me is why these people don't stop and question why there's a front brake on the bike if it's dangerous to use it? Just like the doubling up on condoms: if that was needed, then condoms would probably be twice as thick.
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Aug 27, 2015 06:17
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bolind posted:What never fails to amuse me is why these people don't stop and question why there's a front brake on the bike if it's dangerous to use it? Just like the doubling up on condoms: if that was needed, then condoms would probably be twice as thick. Condoms are more like soft springs on a motorcycle. Completely eliminating every sensation of the ride other than the ups and downs.
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Aug 27, 2015 06:31
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bandman posted:What I didn't know was that the bad bearings caused it to pull waaaay too much current and do this to the high speed spin contactor If it can do that, even in the case of a failure, doesn't that mean the contactor/cables are too small or the fuses/breakers too big?
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Aug 27, 2015 06:46
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DocCynical posted:I've seen the chocolate milk from engines, anyone ever seen Jell-o®? Came from where in the engine, oil pan?
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Aug 27, 2015 12:38
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ionn posted:If it can do that, even in the case of a failure, doesn't that mean the contactor/cables are too small or the fuses/breakers too big? Pretty much. Or the breaker trip curve selected was not suitable for the load being powered.
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Aug 27, 2015 13:12
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No. 6 posted:Came from where in the engine, oil pan? Oil pan, apparently it was in some of the lines as well, not sure if it was fuel lines or what though.
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Aug 27, 2015 13:30
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 Dexcool: not even once. https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/grm/why-i-love-dexcool-summed-up-in-one-picture/105084/page1/
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Aug 27, 2015 15:39
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I didn't realize those were water jackets at first.
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Aug 27, 2015 15:50
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Now they're fleece jackets.
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Aug 27, 2015 16:20
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Seat Safety Switch posted:
4.3 engine. Now I want to check the coolant in my van. 
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Aug 27, 2015 16:25
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CommieGIR posted:Send me hardware.... FatCow posted:The L in L-3 doesn't stand for Level btw. They have nothing to do with Level 3. Which is good because L3 is an unbelievably poo poo company. Godholio posted:They're probably responsible for the RC-135 fire I posted earlier.
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Aug 27, 2015 23:57
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ionn posted:If it can do that, even in the case of a failure, doesn't that mean the contactor/cables are too small or the fuses/breakers too big? Could have been a bad crimp on that connection too. kastein posted:Or the breaker trip curve selected was not suitable for the load being powered. Though this is the most likely scenario. Laundromats are typically built by the cheapest bidder, using the cheapest stuff (except for the laundry equipment itself). Probably the same breakers you'd find in any light commercial setting, instead of selecting by trip curve.
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Aug 28, 2015 05:50
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rainwulf posted:Are you serious.. that there is a seriously human failure. Who the gently caress believes that...  They're also the same people who think that the best way to avoid hitting a sudden obstacle is to flick the handlebars to the side, hamfist the front brake and lowside on purpose. Thus the nickname Layer Dan. ("A dog ran out out in front of me and I had to lay 'er down")
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Aug 28, 2015 10:39
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The Audi smokes, a lot, and runs rough. Let's do a compression test, 0 on cyl #4. Oh well, I pull the head and find this:
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Aug 28, 2015 11:01
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afen posted:The Audi smokes, a lot, and runs rough. Let's do a compression test, 0 on cyl #4. Oh well, I pull the head and find this: That crown looks brand new - manufacturing defect?
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Aug 28, 2015 11:41
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afen posted:The Audi smokes, a lot, and runs rough. Let's do a compression test, 0 on cyl #4. Oh well, I pull the head and find this: Oh god those cylinder walls 
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Aug 28, 2015 13:36
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One of my neighbors seems to have made a booboo.   I thought once the airbags deploy, the car's scrap. So why is this parked in front of our homes and not at the scrapyard by the airport?
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Aug 28, 2015 13:39
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IPCRESS posted:That crown looks brand new - manufacturing defect? Only other time Ive seen that is from a blown head gasket that cleans out all the carbon. Im guessing this is the RS2 so maybe water/meth injection? e: forgot a word
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Aug 28, 2015 13:41
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BloodBag posted:One of my neighbors seems to have made a booboo. He drove it home whilst still drunk?
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Aug 28, 2015 13:50
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spog posted:He drove it home whilst still drunk? I could imagine driven home while elderly. The couple that owns it look rather ancient. Maybe they had it flat-bedded here.
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Aug 28, 2015 13:54
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bandman posted:I finally have a mechanical failure at work that I remembered to capture on camera! This is also incredibly common when those bullshit female disconnects are loose. If it were an issue of the wire actually pulling too much current for its rating you'd see the wire damaged over the entire length. What you are seeing there is the result of a poor connection (poor electrical connections generate heat) that eventually failed. Running AC motors of almost any size off a female disconnect is an incredibly poor decision. If you've got a screw terminal, use it. I understand the unit was factory wired but factory's do a lot of stupid wiring that'll get them just beyond the warranty period.
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Aug 28, 2015 15:11
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BloodBag posted:I thought once the airbags deploy, the car's scrap. So why is this parked in front of our homes and not at the scrapyard by the airport? Urban legend? Airbags are a replaceable part just like everything else on the car. As long as the frame isn't mangled beyond easy repair the car is fully rebuildable. Besides, the worst thing you can do during an insurance negotiation is start building up storage fees. The car is yours until you get a check, so it should be in your possession. Like my V70, it got hit super light but the bags blew anyway. I got it back on the road within a month.
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Aug 28, 2015 16:45
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Looks like an Accord Crosstour, so my vote is "driving while elderly". My 65 year old father has one, and I believe that any Accord is the new old-person Buick. Large, poor sightlines, and much faster than it really needs to be.
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Aug 28, 2015 17:04
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FatCow posted:The L in L-3 doesn't stand for Level btw. They have nothing to do with Level 3. Which is good because L3 is an unbelievably poo poo company. Their network went absolutely nanner-shits yesterday. Huge transit and routing issues.
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Aug 28, 2015 20:47
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BloodBag posted:I thought once the airbags deploy, the car's scrap. So why is this parked in front of our homes and not at the scrapyard by the airport? Even if it is a total, cars don't go straight to the scrapyard after an accident. If you can pay for it, you get it towed home. If you can't, it gets towed to either the police impound or the tow company's lot. Insurance has to do their thing before it heads to the junkyard. BloodBag posted:I could imagine driven home while elderly. The couple that owns it look rather ancient. Maybe they had it flat-bedded here. Most likely answer, but that didn't make it into the driveway under its own power. Insurance will want to get their hands on it pretty soon, and will pay the storage fees once they take possession of it (they sometimes won't pay for any that accrue before they take possession), but for now at least they can get their belongings out of it. Airbags aren't always a total, but the side curtain ones are insanely expensive. And there's a ton of damage under the sheet metal; the front subframe is likely toast, may have frame damage, plus all the bodywork. TrinityOfDeath posted:Looks like an Accord Crosstour, so my vote is "driving while elderly". My 65 year old father has one, and I believe that any Accord is the new old-person Buick. Large, poor sightlines, and much faster than it really needs to be. My 68 year old dad just traded in his Acura RL for... a 2015 Accord.  That has to be the cheapest car he's owned in 20+ years. Granted, it's the EX-L V6, and he DID try to find one with a manual transmission, but the only 6 speeds on the lot lacked navigation and/or leather (I don't get why he likes having navigation built into the car, especially when he rarely goes on road trips and he's lived in the same part of town since the 1970s), and he didn't want to wait for one built to order or to have one brought in from another dealer. When he does go out of town, he flies on Southwest, then rents the cheapest midsize sedan.His excuse? "I got tired of the Acura, but the Accord felt better than the G37 sedan and other Acuras I test drove" (he used to have a G35 coupe several years ago.. followed by a Lexus, then a Prius, then an Acura.. he changes cars every 2-3 years). With what he makes, I'm honestly surprised he's not driving something a lot higher end; his suit collection is probably worth more than the car.
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some texas redneck posted:His excuse? "I got tired of the Acura, but the Accord felt better than the G37 sedan and other Acuras I test drove" (he used to have a G35 coupe several years ago.. followed by a Lexus, then a Prius, then an Acura.. he changes cars every 2-3 years). With what he makes, I'm honestly surprised he's not driving something a lot higher end; his suit collection is probably worth more than the car. This isn't all that weird. Wealthy people are more likely to buy luxury cars than less wealthy people, but the majority still drive "normal" cars. The wealthiest person I know still drives a mid-90s Cadillac and his wife drives a late 2000s Accord. Some people are just really practical and don't spend a lot of money just to have status symbols. Why buy something more expensive if you're just as happy with the cheaper option?
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He's generally driven upscale cars, but not super high end, just fully loaded models - think "loaded G35", "loaded Prius", "loaded Acuras", "loaded GS300", etc. I honestly can't even remember everything he's owned, just that I feel bad for whoever winds up with the cars, since he rarely bothers with even oil changes (even if the dealer throws in a few years of free maintenance). He's not "super wealthy", but makes about 1/4M a year, and owns the first house built in his neighborhood (model home originally - originally a 3 bed/2 bath, now a 2 bed/2 bath/study, with HVAC in the garage), which dates back to the early 80s. Every time I visit I want to find whoever designed the garage and driveway and smack them really hard - it's a 2 car garage, with separate doors, on a sharp 90 degree driveway. The Prius threw me off so bad (not being able to see the hood, etc) that when I tried to back it out of the garage, I wound up driving across his front yard, the neighbor's driveway, and part of the neighbor's front yard (my Saturn did the same thing to me at first; I still have to lean way forward to parallel park it just so I can see the hood). The RL he just got rid of had multiple scrapes on the passenger side from trying to pull into/out of the garage, and my stepmom's Cadillac SUV (no idea what model, she had a beat to poo poo Lexus hybrid SUV last time I was out there) had multiple dents within a few days of purchase. She's in her early 50s, so it's not "too old to drive" in her case (I got in a car with her dad last time I was out there, he has no business on the road... 25-30 on a 50 mph road while looking at me talking the whole time, though he's also in his mid 90s). I'd agree with you, except he buys a new car every 2-3 years, at most, and has been doing that for nearly 20 years now. I think the last time he bought a used car was when he bought his 1991 Probe V6, in 1992 - and it never saw a single oil change the entire time he owned it. IIRC he traded it in with about 50k, and it was belching huge clouds of blue smoke and couldn't pass emissions, and was telling a lot of knock knock jokes. I'm pretty sure that's the only used car he's purchased since the early 1980s - he's even owned not one, but two custom-ordered Mitsubishi Starions (oh god what I would give to have one of those today), both manual, both turbo, both talking. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 08:29 on Aug 29, 2015 |
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Father is driving his Passat estate happily, when suddenly there's a load of warning lights. Anti-skid warning, handbrake warning, tire pressure warning, some other things. Clearly something in the ECU's gone. He takes it to the shop. The sensors in the rear wheel bearings are gone. Can you just replace the sensors? Can you gently caress. Complete bearing change for two sensors. Existing bearings, of course, are fine. £600/$900+. loving VAG.
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Aug 29, 2015 11:50
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The actual sensors, or the tone rings on the hubs? Either way that sounds like your average Volkswagen service appointment.
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Aug 29, 2015 15:54
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Seat Safety Switch posted:The actual sensors, or the tone rings on the hubs? Dunno. He implied the sensors, but I wasn't at the shop with him. And yes. I agree.
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Aug 29, 2015 16:37
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The air compressor I got for free wasn't making pressure, so I go to pull the head to check the reed valves and gasket. Oh well. Now I've got a working 3HP AC motor to play around with.
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Aug 29, 2015 16:40
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I have seen a wheel bearing so far gone that it caused the wheel speed sensor to rub on the tone ring, which trashed them both. It was impressive because driving the car it didn't feel or sound different but then up in the air there was a scary amount of play.
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Aug 29, 2015 17:05
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IPCRESS posted:That crown looks brand new - manufacturing defect? I really don't know. Both the A/F ratio and exhaust temperature was ok right before it happened. Looks almost like a piece of the piston has broken of, but the walls looks to be heat damaged as well. Also, my turbo has a lot of play in the wheels now.
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Aug 29, 2015 17:47
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 Got it.
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Aug 29, 2015 22:58
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Jeherrin posted:Father is driving his Passat estate happily, when suddenly there's a load of warning lights. Anti-skid warning, handbrake warning, tire pressure warning, some other things. Clearly something in the ECU's gone. He takes it to the shop. The sensors in the rear wheel bearings are gone. Subaru does this with tone ring sensors. loving bullshit.
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Aug 29, 2015 23:13
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We had sensors go out on the wife's Yaris last year, same thing but we had to get new bearings because the rustbelt had done its job and the old ones were corroded and got mangled coming off. Yay salt. 
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nm posted:Subaru does this with tone ring sensors. loving bullshit. Eh? On my 2002 at least, you could easily get the sensor out from the back. The tone ring itself, yeah, that requires the hub to be pulled out
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bull3964 posted:Eh? On my 2002 at least, you could easily get the sensor out from the back. The tone ring itself, yeah, that requires the hub to be pulled out I just mean tone ring (I'm not sure why I wrote "sensors." The only time I replaced my rear wheel bearings was for the drivers rear tone ring. Meanwhile, I've lost count of my front wheel bearing replacements. So of course subaru did a warranty extension on the rears only. Subaru also said that the tone ring wasn't covered by the warramty extension, so gently caress you subaru.
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