CannonFodder posted:

What language are they speaking? Dutch?

ab0z posted:

Probably these pictures are just geared toward a different crowd.

meatpimp posted:

May I be so bold as to request a container thread? Both disasters and normally working with them. Since they can be put on axles and trucked around, I'd say it fits in the AI spectrum.

Dave Inc. posted:

There are a thousand ways to die in a cereal plant, I wouldn't gently caress with smelting.

But you haven't lived until you've wandered the basement of a recently flooded coal power plant. Handrails and platforms covered in wet mud in cave-like darkness?! Okay great!

Thinking back I don't know how we were allowed down there at that stage of the recovery, that was just stupid.

Blocko posted:

Clearly there needs to be a resurgence of woodgas technology.

Ziploc posted:

My Dad changed the oil in our lawnmower for the first time in 20 years.

He said it came out in lumps and had to wait forever for it to drain. Runs like a champ now.

He was so impressed with it he cut the neighbor's lawn.

Everyone posted:

Phy posted:

They were making four-stroke mowers 20 years ago?

Yes, you dumbass

InitialDave posted:

Thixotropic!

Two Finger posted:

Yeah, this poo poo.

Geoj posted:

The first hit if you Google "Amtrak cars retention toilets" is a railroad forum thread discussing a story that a Florida state senator was fishing in a boat under a railroad bridge when an Amtrak train crossed and someone flushed the toilet at just the right moment, resulting in the senator being coated in poo poo. The story goes that the senator made a bunch of noise and as a result Amtrak retrofitted/did away with their "heritage" cars.

There's also speculation later in the thread that western trains still discharge sewage onto the tracks because they run too long between stops to pump the holding tanks and keep the toilets running.

CommieGIR posted:

How about the sound of horrible mechanical failures.

http://youtu.be/7EoN38iPapw

Broken piston or connecting rod, it runs with EXTREMELY low compression and sounds like crap

Maker Of Shoes posted:

How to remove your engine REALLY FAST

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b603DA-JE0U

I'm amazed this worked, this is incredibly dumb and and and....

Armacham posted:

Those are just speedholes. They make the car go faster.

CommieGIR posted:

I did it again.

8th-samurai posted:

I can tell you that if I haven't driven an automatic in a while I will almost certainly jam on the brake pedal looking for a clutch at least once during a trip.

B4Ctom1 posted:

The child in me says, "is it snowing right over the center console?"

netwerk23 posted:

Your picture does not conform to A/I EZ Out Victory Picture Standard (AI-EZO-VPS) as it does not include an out of focus middle finger salute in the foreground of the image.

IOwnCalculus posted:

Yeah, they used the same soft-as-butter mounts that they did in the regular 3 as far as I know - despite the 100hp advantage over the naturally aspirated engine. Even when they're in new condition they don't really work that well.

atomicthumbs posted:

xarph posted:

I dunno man using air from the spare tire to spray windshield washer fluid is a pretty simple thing.

TotalLossBrain posted:

One of the eleven huge dams on the Columbia River was discovered to have a 2 inch wide, 65 foot long crack in one of the twelve spillway monoliths. So how was this crack found?
An engineer noticed that the road surface on top of the dam was bowing.

Have some pictures! The dam itself:




The monolith in question:




Top of the dam: (Note not just the circled bit, also look at the curb stones on the other side of the road)




Another view:




An immediate measure taken was to lower the reservoir level 21-26 feet. With the reduced water pressure, the crack has gone from 2 inches wide to 1 inch wide.

SocketSeven posted:

My Girlfriends windshield fought a goose. They both lost. There were feathers stuck in the glass. She did the right thing though, and hit that fucker head on rather than risk her life swerving or something else stupid.

Terrible Robot posted:

Using the crust of whatever planet you're aiming at to stop the vehicle. i.e. smashing it into the ground at Mach 10. This can either be planned (such as that decommissioned satellite they slammed into the moon to get seismic readings) or very much unplanned (joint UK/US mission to Mars).

blugu64 posted:

eurodixiehorn.jpg

Collateral Damage posted:

It's

From the trucking thread:

Sagebrush posted:

Deep drawing is a hell of a thing.


What always fascinates me is that it's not the pressure itself that causes the danger, but the compression. A scuba tank being filled with air at 3000psi is a bomb ready to go off. A scuba tank being filled with water at 3000 psi is no big deal if it springs a leak. Doesn't make logical sense but there it is.

MrChips posted:

From.the article, "Turn Your Backyard Into a Superfund Candidate by the Time the EPA is Invented!"

Jonny 290 posted:

My 540i has 182k and the original clutch.

(stolen from /justrolledin) content because one of my favorite things is hand tools in tires

xergm posted:

This really isn't that crazy if you regularly ride a motorcycle, though. You just got to remember to check the trip odometer and reset it every fill-up.

Enourmo posted:

Coming from auto-mechanic land it boggled my mind how completely terrible people can be with tools in my college work lab. Here's a guy using a hacksaw to cut through 1/2" plywood. Here's a guy attempting to use a dremel as a router in plywood... with one of those ceramic grinding heads. Here's someone hammering a 1/2" diameter wood-thread bolt through a 4x4. Here's someone using a step drill to create a hole in a 2x4.