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bull3964 posted:The question is the funding. Anyways on the whole i'm glad it's a mandatory thing. It sucks to fail over an inoperable foglight or something dumb like that but I've had to fix rod ends, ball joints, wheel bearings and seatbelts after a failed inspection which are all good and valid reasons for failure IMO. Also a re-visit for them looking over a fix of a specific previous failure is significantly cheaper and you usually get a month to carry out the work where I live. Pretty reasonable.
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bull3964 posted:The question is the funding. There are hundreds of inspection locations in Finland and they seem to operate profitably just fine. They can manage with minimal personnel and equipment, the customer base is pretty guaranteed and it's difficult to reduce prices significantly by competitors
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bull3964 posted:The question is the funding. There is more money in safety/emissions than in fixing cars for a sizable part of the European continent. A badly working car is unpleasant, a car that fails the inspection can be impounded or destroyed depending on the country, so people will search for a shop whose standards can be negotiated for an acceptable amount.
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Sorry to keep dragging this poo poo along... bull3964 posted:The question is the funding. just be like the good ole US and A.. Inspections themselves are not profitable. they're mandated at ~20 dollars in my state including emissions ODB2 check.. They become profitable when you tell people you need to fail them for the brakes they put on 6 months go (I've had 2 shops do this) and now it's $600 for $150 in parts and an hour of labor. Especially when someone is past due for their inspection because then the sticker gets scraped.. you don't even get to "risk it" with the right color sticker for the year and the old date. (But also insepctions are tied to your plate at the DMV so I'm assuming cop's plate readers can see them) IMO safety inspections should occur everywhere to prevent the scary rear end poo poo-boxes with rotted frames we see on just rolled in. Emissions inspections I"m torn on, my state exempts cars 25 years old or older, but at 15 or so years old many cars value is eclipsed by a dead catalyst, or an exhaust manifold leak, or diagnosing a dead sensor or two. I've see many a car end up in the scrapyard because the emissions system repairs were the full value or 1/3 of the value of the vehicle. At that point it's hard to weigh the environmental impact of a dirty vehicle vs manufacturing of a new vehicle and crushing the old one. Issue is, 100% have to be run by the government as a whole (state or fed), with govt trained folks who do just the inspections all day. This would be better than for profit repair shops doing them and gaining a profit, and all they do is inspections all day, no turning folks around because they need to focus on other things, or upselling to turn that $21 for 45 mins into something meaningful.
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tater_salad posted:
That's exactly what I said we needed to get away from. I'm in the US, this system sucks.
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tater_salad posted:Emissions inspections I"m torn on, my state exempts cars 25 years old or older, but at 15 or so years old many cars value is eclipsed by a dead catalyst, or an exhaust manifold leak, or diagnosing a dead sensor or two. I've see many a car end up in the scrapyard because the emissions system repairs were the full value or 1/3 of the value of the vehicle. At that point it's hard to weigh the environmental impact of a dirty vehicle vs manufacturing of a new vehicle and crushing the old one. We do have full exemptions for historical vehicles and i usually have to use my windshield washers if i stay behind one going uphill due to the soot coming from the exhaust. I would love to remove public road usage right for those cars since people daily environmental disasters to not get emissions checks and heavily discounted insurance.
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The Door Frame posted:The government doesn't directly test the safety of cars leaving the factory, you think they'd accept the responsibility of directly testing cars that are already on the road? That's what Delaware does.
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PhotoKirk posted:Ever watched the videos from Australia where the cops get super-duper-excited about catching a driver who has modified a car? Yeah, ironically, the Interceptor, a cop car, has never been legal in Australia. It's always amused me that blowers through the hood and zoomies are completely illegal on the street in Oz - and how many cars still do it. I'm not thrilled that Texas is removing the safety inspection requirement in 2025. There's enough junk on the road as is.
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LifeSunDeath posted:watch the steering wheel Is no one going to talk about the vice grip window winder?
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 quote:The other day I was on the takeoff roll and just before rotation speed I heard a loud bang. Training kicked in and I pulled the power to abort the takeoff and contacted tower with my intentions. quote:Composites fabricator here. I can't help you with a replacement, but I can say that your original spinner was crap. Looking at the full-res photo, it appears to be an inner and outer ply of coarse cloth, with some random-strand mat in between. It looks to me like Piper really cheaped out on this bit of kit. The front fell off. No more cardboard or cardboard derivatives.
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slothrop posted:Is no one going to talk about the vice grip window winder? that's the least surprising thing about the video
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Platystemon posted:
Bondo is a perfectly fine building material
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Platystemon posted:
It looks like they completely failed to fully impregnate the glass cloth/mat.
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Darchangel posted:It looks like they completely failed to fully impregnate the glass cloth/mat. The OEM charges eight thousand dollars for a replacement. 🤣 (This model of plane happens to be flyable without the spinner. It just results in an ærodynamic penalty to performance. That is not true for all aircraft. It’s common for cooling airflow over the cylinders to be disrupted by the spinner’s absence.) e: To be clear, this is an airplane that belongs to some Redditor. Not me or anyone I know. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 00:33 on Mar 5, 2024 |
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Darchangel posted:It looks like they completely failed to fully impregnate the glass cloth/mat. Pull out game good af.
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wesleywillis posted:Pull out game good af. LOL Platystemon posted:The OEM charges eight thousand dollars for a replacement. Clearly worth it for the quality of OEM. Oh, wait.
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And since it's an aircraft, I bet there are regulations saying you can't just go ask someone to hammer out a sheet metal spinner for you instead.
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Collateral Damage posted:And since it's an aircraft, I bet there are regulations saying you can't just go ask someone to hammer out a sheet metal spinner for you instead. There’s a process for “owner-produced parts” that can help, but you certainly can’t get someone to hammer out a sheet metal spinner because that doesn’t conform to the original design of shittily resin-impregnated cloth.
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The original part was only 75% impregnated with resin, and this new part is 98%. This plane is grounded until you get an appropriate part.
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Guess my basic question is wouldn't this failure be reported and someone would need to fill out a shitload of paperwork.
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Boeing murders people with their lovely planes. You think any authority is going to freak out over a private plane having a small oopsie?
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Considering people do get routinely dinged for fines for posting plane violations on youtube, yes. Boeing has a lot of money and connections to bury their crimes.
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Isn't that due to pilot behavior, not mechanical issues?
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The owner of the plane is not getting in trouble for having the spinner explode. That type of mechanical failure is not a reportable incident unless it caused an accident, or if it caused more than $25,000 of damage to something other than the airplane (say if pieces of it got launched through the Cirrus in the next parking spot). Even if it had caused an accident, the owner still wouldn't get in trouble unless the logs showed that they hadn't been keeping up with maintenance. The mechanic who signed off on it most recently might get in trouble if the spinner had to undergo some sort of regular inspection that would have caught the flaw, and that inspection was performed poorly or not at all. If there was any sort of investigation and the FAA determined that there was a manufacturing defect in the spinner, Piper would be at fault, but they wouldn't be in trouble because nothing really bad happened here. Pipers with that spinner would be grounded, an Airworthiness Directive would be produced requiring some sort of mitigation, and Piper might have to do some kind of recall and replacement program. But nobody is getting fined or jailed.
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jesus christ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdctY5iHhY4
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Its my lovely reading comprehension to blame My line of thought was theyd get a fine for replacing the spinner with a user made part
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Oh, yes, that would be illegal. But the way the FAA works, nothing would happen until the homemade spinner also exploded and caused some sort of damage that initiated an investigation. It's not like there are sky cops pulling you over for expired tags.
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Can't park there, mate. Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/perth/comments/1b9i4bh/what_do_you_reckon_happened_here/
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They're cops. They can park anywhere they want. Who's going to ticket them.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSxLHINQlgo
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Every video I await the spray foam and without fail every video there’s at least one spray foam example why are people like this
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I'm starting to wonder if spray foam is ever used in the correct way.
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opengl posted:Every video I await the spray foam and without fail every video there’s at least one spray foam example why are people like this It works like the potions from Pokemon, if there's a problem just spray some foam in there and it's fixed!
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spray foam has taken over from the previous worst product for fixes, which was just household silicone. we are long past the days of baling wire and duct tape
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I'm starting to wonder if spray foam is ever used in the correct way. there is like 1 correct use of spray foam in a can (filling in the gaps in door frames and the wall, or window frames and the wall) and not a single other use for it at all.
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Wild EEPROM posted:spray foam has taken over from the previous worst product for fixes, which was just household silicone. excuse me my passenger side window is held up by duct tape
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Wild EEPROM posted:there is like 1 correct use of spray foam in a can (filling in the gaps in door frames and the wall, or window frames and the wall) and not a single other use for it at all. Actually only the non / low expansion stuff should be used for this. 
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I'm starting to wonder if spray foam is ever used in the correct way. "Whenever I have a problem, i just use spray foam, and now I have a completely different problem!"
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Even with my worst failure, I'd never go for spray foam. It just seems to add to the work than remove or even delay.
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The difference between applying "enough spray foam" and aplying "way too much spray foam" is smaller than I'd want for anything that isn't insulation
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