Horrible Mechanical Failures: Looks Like the Tin Man's Undies After Taco Tuesday

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Coasterphreak: May 29, 2007; I like cookies.

jesus christ. every picture I see of that fire reminds me more and more of some horrible Michael Bay movie.

And we're all in it.

# ¿ May 3, 2010 10:11

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# ¿ May 20, 2024 01:21

Coasterphreak: May 29, 2007; I like cookies.

Nothing a panel beater and some bondo can't fix. :colbert:

# ¿ May 9, 2010 03:56

Coasterphreak: May 29, 2007; I like cookies.

MATLAB 1988 posted:

What kind of failure mode is my tire in?

your alignment might be a bit off.

# ¿ May 17, 2010 02:51

Coasterphreak: May 29, 2007; I like cookies.

InitialDave posted:

You also have the "If this breaks, we be hosed" things like tierods that hold together a sandwich of multiple rotating components, and the controls for these are on another level entirely. You want to know who fitted the collet to the lathe that did this operation on this batch? Fair enough, that's what you're paying us for, just give us the number on it.

They take this poo poo seriously, too. I get purchase orders occasionally from people which have a note on them basically saying "FFS, don't buy material from _______", and when you look the company up, it turns out the entire upper management were indicted for falsification of certification. Doing that deliberately, and getting someone killed because of it somewhere down the line, can be a life imprisonment and eight-figure fine booby prize.

Hell, the other day we had to have a customer rep come in so we could show him our entire system for control and documentation, simply because one company we occasionally buy from sent out one batch of material with the incorrect heat treat on it, and a less careful manufacturer than us went and made some parts which were then stretching under load. The HT was correct to what was on the material docket, that was fine, but the customer had ordered something else and not checked it properly. The parts were only spotted when one tech putting in one fastener noticed it was showing more bare threads than the others when torqued up.

Needless to say, getting off an end user or major supplier's poo poo list is rather hard work, so you don't gently caress around. Nothing makes you popular like being the guy who gets to tell the Director that nope, that $40,000 worth of parts is going in the bin, and yep, you are going to start again from scratch. A tenth of a thou is as good (well, bad) as a mile.

Haha, that's my father. He runs the NDT division at a local manufacturing plant that mostly does parts for helicopter jet engines. I am always amazed when he explains how much paperwork he has to do if he doesn't want to lose his job/license/freedom, in addition to making sure everyone else does it too (always an adventure in backwoods NC).

# ¿ Jun 11, 2010 04:11

Coasterphreak: May 29, 2007; I like cookies.

Sponge! posted:

Exactly. And when I've been schlepping people around who can't get places on their own I've had more than one scream out in terror as I'm calmly spinning the wheel like a submarine hatch with one hand, and jockeying the transmission with the other... And I drive an 89 civic wagovan, and these people are too afraid to drive their focus or escort...

I think the fundamental problem with winter drivers is the failure to understand that screaming will never keep the car out of the ditch.

# ¿ Jan 17, 2011 04:34

Coasterphreak: May 29, 2007; I like cookies.

IOwnCalculus posted:

I wanna know how much kW you're running in a cabinet to justify an A/C setup like that in there, holy poo poo.

You're probably looking at a Cray cabinet or something roughly equivalent.

# ¿ Feb 1, 2011 06:12

Coasterphreak: May 29, 2007; I like cookies.

D C posted:

Where did the rest of the hood go?

Into the atmosphere (how flammable is carbon fiber, anyway?)

# ¿ Jun 23, 2011 06:18

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Boat posted:

Every now and then the internet just smacks you upside the face with how small it's made the world.

So that was your car, then?

# ¿ Jun 24, 2011 01:09

Coasterphreak: May 29, 2007; I like cookies.

The Scientist posted:

I just moved to Charleston, South Carolina, and the roads are crazy.

Where did you relocate from? Charleston's roads aren't that bad by Carolinas standards. I live up the road a piece in Charlotte, where we have numerous artery roads that change name more than once.

And the narrow country roads with no streetlights or shoulder and populated by suicidal deer are pretty much ubiquitous in the southeast. Once you learn them, they're a ton of fun to drive, and most of them are limited at 45-55.

# ¿ Aug 8, 2011 17:52

Coasterphreak: May 29, 2007; I like cookies.

anonumos posted:

I like this part of town here: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=charl...44&z=15&vpsrc=6

Scroll around, zoom in and out. See if you can figure out where Queens Rd W, Queens Rd, Providence Rd, Kings Dr, and East Blvd actually go. Scroll around and count how many Queens Roads there really are. Then follow Morehead St, and pay particular attention to how many times the name changes. Check out Tyvola Rd turning into Fairview Rd turning into Sardis Road bisecting, then watch Sardis take an abrupt turn to the south. Downtown's even worse.

Queens-Queens and Providence-Providence is my favorite intersection.
Queens on the NW goes straight through the 4-way light to Providence on the SE.
Providence on the NE goes straight into Queens on the SW.
If you wanted to stay on the same road, you have to turn.

Oh, and the roads are potholed, rippled, and banked due to poor maintenance. The typical car has a wheel in the gutter and a wheel on the dashed lines. That and the drivers are idiots. Downtown is almost unnavigable.

It's always a barrel of monkeys to be sent to an address on "Queens Rd." But which one?

Providence/Queens is exactly what I was thinking of, sup Charlotte goon.

You forgot Runnymede turning into Woodlawn, and if you take the wrong exit for 277 from I-77 it puts you on Westinghouse with the hookers and crackheads instead of in the middle of downtown. Of course, downtown itself is full of poorly lit and terribly marked one-way roads, which is always tons of fun as you mentioned.

# ¿ Aug 10, 2011 22:57

Coasterphreak: May 29, 2007; I like cookies.

I hear HFl is great for etching parts. Would it be overkill to wear gloves while I'm dunking engine components?

# ¿ Sep 19, 2011 06:08

Coasterphreak: May 29, 2007; I like cookies.

heat posted:

He was making fun of people for using aircraft remover without gloves (I hope)

We have a winner!

Actually, skin and eye protection are a good idea with pretty much any cleaning agent/solvent stronger than ammonia, especially where prolonged or repeated exposure is involved.

# ¿ Sep 19, 2011 21:23

Coasterphreak: May 29, 2007; I like cookies.

Rujo King posted:

The only reason I didn't have mine on them was because I figured I was only dealing with one wheel, so there'd be no need to use them. (FAT CHANCE DOUCHENOZZLE LOL.)

I'm just a bit reluctant to go all out because where I live now, if you have a car up for any reason the homeowners' association naturally considers it to be precisely the same as putting a rusted mid-1980s Chevette up on cinderblocks for an indefinite period of time, and they send people out to bug you until you stop beating your wife, listening to southern rock, and drinking wine coolers.

Please tell me you spend sunny Saturdays chilling in a lawn chair on your driveway wearing a Speedo and sipping Smirnoff Ice.

# ¿ Oct 31, 2011 03:34

Coasterphreak: May 29, 2007; I like cookies.

Rujo King posted:

Nah dog, Hanes and Private Stock.

I like the cut of your jib.

# ¿ Nov 3, 2011 00:38

Coasterphreak: May 29, 2007; I like cookies.

I am now convinced that I should probably never own anything nice (read: fast), because I would probably "break it in" in about three days.

If I survived that long.

# ¿ Dec 24, 2011 13:33

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BlackShadow posted:

For content:

http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/aus...c-1226239657302

This chick has more balls than all of GBS combined.

# ¿ Jan 9, 2012 15:03

Coasterphreak: May 29, 2007; I like cookies.

Australia.

# ¿ Apr 27, 2012 03:50

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some texas redneck posted:

I'm just gonna drop this here

_{This may give you an idea of how hosed that particular county is}

It's always Maricopa County.

# ¿ Nov 11, 2013 12:05

Coasterphreak: May 29, 2007; I like cookies.

some texas redneck posted:

I blame Joe.

I blame the colostomy-baggers that keep voting Joe and his ilk into office.

# ¿ Nov 11, 2013 12:36

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MA-Horus posted:

It apparently took out a good half-foot of concrete from the customer's bay when it hit the ground.

So what you're saying is that it made an earth-shattering kaboom?

# ¿ Feb 12, 2014 12:30

Coasterphreak: May 29, 2007; I like cookies.

Here in Charlotte, self service washes don't have doors, but I don't know that I've ever seen an automatic wash without a door on each end. It's ubiquitous enough that it's probably building code, actually.

# ¿ Feb 19, 2014 12:49

Coasterphreak: May 29, 2007; I like cookies.

Javid posted:

This is as good a thread as any to post my friend's shop of horrors.

Bandsaw is behind some junk:

Switch is down here:

This supplies power to most of the equipment:

Including this sander, which has no power switch beyond being unplugged (just like half the other stationary tools):

Sander is also weighed down by these:

"Yeah that's been like that for a while"

An OSHA inspector would probably stroke out in this place.

Not pictured: the 55-gallon garbage barrel overflowing with empty Bud Light cans

# ¿ Apr 23, 2014 09:20

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InitialDave posted:

I seem to recall someone going off-roading in the US, Moab, maybe? They were bimbling along in low second or first, and came to a nice, wide run down a slope, so just dipped the clutch and rolled down it, getting up to a reasonable speed and modulating with the footbrake.

The clutch disc, being attached to the input shaft of the gearbox and therby driven regardless of the pedal being dipped, did not like seeing what was later calculated as nearly 20,000rpm, and made its escape in exactly the way you would expect.

Yeahhhh, I think I'll start putting my car in neutral when I decide to coast down a hill. (Never thought about this, honestly)

# ¿ Jul 23, 2014 22:40

Coasterphreak: May 29, 2007; I like cookies.

I used to have a pocketknife I loved that was fairly hefty and had a built in safety hammer and belt cutter.

Unfortunately, I lost it in the bowels of my attic while replacing the exhaust fans in the upstairs bathroom, and all the insulation is the blown in kind so it's probably gone till somebody opens up the walls in twenty years.

# ¿ Aug 11, 2014 22:40

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Elviscat posted:

That's not an SR-71.

Edit: as much as the type of extremely fast airplane wasn't the point of that post.

What is it, an A-10?

# ¿ Aug 15, 2014 02:30

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# ¿ May 20, 2024 01:21

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MrChips posted:

That's from Qantas Flight 32. The replacement engine itself cost $14-15 million US, but the total cost to repair all the damage to the stricken A380 was on the order of $145 million.

Every single person on that aircraft exited through one door and walked away alive and unharmed. That's loving impressive.

# ¿ Oct 20, 2014 19:48

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