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frozenphil posted:I really need to buy one someday when I'm not as poor so I can actually understand what having an alfa or jag would probably be like.
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bladernr posted:But that's neither an Alpha nor a Jag... It's a Maserati Well yes I know, but the experience would be roughly the same.
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DELETED posted:What a mesh Your comedy is apawling
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Nov 21, 2009 07:03
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I think it's time to condense these puns.
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Nov 23, 2009 10:12
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It would have been okay if he hadn't been pulling high and being pulled low. The truck in front kept the nose down and all the force just found the middle of the frame.
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Joe Mama posted:90's 4.6 and 5.4 are horrible. There are many reasons that spark plug threads take abuse, but these can't take ANY if you want them to last more than 100-150k mi. I've done several of these. The biggest cause of failure is that the person left them in there for 90k or more miles or until they went bad and caused misfires. I did the plugs in my beater Grand Marquis with 120k on the engine (the first engine exploded after the plastic intake cracked and blew a rod out the side of the block  Ford.), and I've done 3 other 90's panthers around or past 100k and never had any problem (other than always breaking at least one coilpack boot). The SOHC is pretty difficult to gently caress up unless you're really unlucky or have never seen aluminum before.
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el topo posted:Workers are also responsible for their own safety gear. They get paid squat and pro equipment is expensive, so they have to show some ingenuity. He's going to get a wicked forehead sunburn.
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Phy posted:They were making four-stroke mowers 20 years ago? They had engines in 1990.
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May 10, 2010 21:37
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Pipkin posted:You can still buy them for around $100 but sharpening them costs about that or more when it needs it. At work we've got a little tiny briggs powered Eclipse reel mower. I got it running last year with about 10 minutes of work. 
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May 11, 2010 13:56
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Every blown up component of anything at work I toss in a big bin, and on break I just make it into little guys that I hide around the shop. I've probably made about 40 by now in 2 years and they're just starting to notice them everywhere. This is the only one I brought home because it was the first one I made and I was pretty amused with myself. They generally have arms and halves of washers for eyebrows and other silly things.
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Jan 16, 2011 06:25
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Petekill posted:Why do the Dutch like tractor pulls so much? Seems like half the vids around here I see of tractor pulls are from the Dutch. I thought it was a redneck american thing? The dutch are considerably more redneck than most rednecks.
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Jan 26, 2011 03:55
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kastein posted:that's the whole subframe that holds the suspension arms, steering, etc. I think on some cars it may also hold the motor in. Heh, I've done that, but hit my fingernail. Even through gloves, that absolute split second is enough time to eat the glove and cut a 1/4" slit into the fingernail and into the nail bed. The poo poo hurts.
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Jesus christ.. If he hadn't locked the front brakes, the damage it could have caused had it gone back the other way down the track would have been absolutely horrific.
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Nov 24, 2011 06:45
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Mr. Despair posted:I didn't realize the top shelf of my fridge got this cold. Or that the can would deform that much before it finally failed, normally they pop along the side before anything else happens. Freeze plugs are SUPPOSED to do that. It's not a mechanical failure at all.
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Nov 29, 2011 05:33
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Oxy-acetylene can be loving scary. On top of the leaking and blanketing an area, the hilarious level of power in acetylene it just gets scarier with regulator blowout. Crack open the oxygen tank main valve quickly with the adjustment screws in working position and all that high pressure oxygen slams into the valve with a tiny little bit of steel shavings or oil and the whole valve can explode. High pressure oxygen rushes into the valve, heat of recompression heats up a contaminant inside the valve and ignites, regulator turns into a ball of flame. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwFRYlJQ6RQ I've yelled at a lot of people at work for just grabbing the torch and going out to cut something. If you actually use the correct procedure it's not remotely frightening, but watching people just walk up, grab the torch and popping open the valves is.. dumb.
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Dec 9, 2011 03:24
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I've always sort of wondered why school busses don't have underride bars.
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Dec 14, 2011 21:36
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Cast iron sucks to weld. I've used the Lincoln nickel rods and ferroweld rods on it before. You can do the hot as the sun and keep it that way method or the weld cool and they both work, usually. Even weird stresses from heat can crack it if you're welding with preheat. Short sections at a time (usually), maintaining even preheat (like 900ish degrees in my experience) and burying it in sand after you're done. I've only ever tried the preheat version. Cold version and you have to weld in short sections, let it cool, weld again, let it cool etc.
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Dec 15, 2011 00:42
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she sounds hung
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Dec 24, 2011 06:17
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I remember reading that Cougar Ace article about the ship salvage team a while ago. Seems like such an insane, incredible job.
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Jan 23, 2012 19:27
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kastein posted:this is the one and only reason I own a 15mm flex-head gearwrench. This is one of the reasons I buy craftsman wrenches and have a torch and a vise.
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Feb 17, 2012 08:00
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Ziploc posted:Holy poo poo. What if it sucked his hand in?? Yeah, hand anywhere near a runaway detroit is a pretty idiotic thing to do. This is why you keep something large and slightly rubbery nearby. And also why every single detroit should have the "oh poo poo" lever on it that's designed specifically to stop that.
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So, it sounds like a healthy diesel? It's pretty impressive it managed to evacuate the bearing all the way out.
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I got a picture text from a coworker of an axle tube snapped in half. Our "needs some love" 7k trailer apparently gave up the ghost on the remaining original axle. Went over with a jack, torches and some blocks of wood and pulled the axle and drove the bastard home.  The equalizers are not supposed to be vented, or have oblong holes 
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