dor1 posted:

Not really sure on that one, often we define the minimum radius as "if you can bend it by hand, it's fine". But it also depends on how high it's rated, 400bar hoses will bend less than 250 bar ones.

xzzy posted:

Maybe if the US had effective vehicle inspections we'd not only have some data on the subject, but get these jalopies off the road.

stump posted:

FogHelmut posted:

Yes, the great thing about my Ryobi 18v NiCd is that it's not actually powerful enough to overtorque the lugs when I put them back on. It's still another 1/2 turn with the torque wrench after the driver maxes out.

slidebite posted:

Here is a photo I took on the job yesterday. I would not expect everyone to get it, but what's wrong with this picture and why?



e: Also, WTF? Chris Cornell? Didn't see that coming.

MrYenko posted:

Do you find yourself able to NOT making drilling jokes when you hit on girls?

MrYenko posted:

While browsing related images on imgur:

Ferremit posted:

Thats a horizontal boring rig thats gone REALLY badly.

Those things on their own are loving horrible things. No sand, No tape, no trench fill, No warning at ALL what the gently caress they have buried in there until you find it. Could be gas? Could be fibre optic thats going to net you a $1M fine for busting? Could be 66KV power! You wont know until you find it with your excavator!

NoWake posted:

When the driver doesn't own his truck and has no control over the maintenance, the company who employs him and provides & maintains the truck should be the ones getting hosed. Sure, obvious defects such as tread depth, tire pressure, headlights, brake pressure, alignment, oil, fluids, belts, etc. and things easily noticed by the driver during their 5am pre-trip inspection in an outside lot without access to overhead lighting, tools or a lift should be on the driver. But how in the hell is a driver going to reasonably check the meat on the brake pads, when he's just been called to the yard, has never been in the truck before and has about 15 minutes before he needs to be on the road to hit his pickup time?

TrueChaos posted:

On the truck wheels falling off resulting in the driver going to jail - at least in Ontario, drivers are responsible for the condition of their vehicles, and failures like that kill people. One of the guys I worked with was killed driving to work when a trailer wheel came off a transport, crossed the median, and bounced into the windshield of his car going the other way. This was a few years ago, but the driver was found, charged, and did jail time.

Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:

That sums up my day pretty well.

Also am I doing this right?



e: damnit we both tried to ninja in multiple edits. yeah it's been a real loving long day.
e2: someone needs to mate that video up with Yakety Sax

Blue Footed Booby posted:

Ahem

SquirrelGrip posted:

how do i tell my friend he cannot do an alignment on a car by eye when he has adjustable loving everything

currently "its setup right" means "my 9" wide wheels are not touching the spring when its sitting still"

um excuse me posted:

Not to downplay the seriousness off throwing a tire off a vehicle, but lug centric wheels make huge loving racket when the lugs loosen up. Bearings make noticeable amounts of noise when they start to go, not as much as lugs, but noticeable. But these are the ones on the vehicle you drive. I imagine you could miss quite a bit on a trailer before being loud enough to hear.

Sagebrush posted:

Words

PainterofCrap posted:

Words

big crush on Chad OMG posted:

The teal you can get on the boxster/cayman (maybe others?) is pretty rad. Second only to the bright orange.

slidebite posted:

We build hydraulic hoses and systems in my shop and the "fixes" we see people doing to their hoses can be outright horrifying. Like gear clamps (the kind of thing you'd see on your heater hose on your car) on high pressure hoses, or splicing in poo poo with barbs is just

That looks like just a 1 or 2 wire spaghetti hose. It's probably off shore and had a very, very hard life. Sadly that stuff is becoming a commodity now and people or OEMs don't see the benefit to spending $.50 per ft for a high end 1/4" hose when they can spend .25 for the same thing

slidebite posted:

Just looked at my standard g2 gates approximate sell price for industrial people.

.250" about $3.70
.375 $4.00
.500 $4.50
1" $9.00 per foot.

That's not giving it away and . Of course, higher, lower pressures $$ vary.

Seat Safety Switch posted:

When I was a kid, my friend and I used to use his family's quad to tow his little brother behind it on a toboggan on the highway.

I'm not sure what I learned since there were no negative consequences.

Sagebrush posted:

yeah everyone knows it's spelled "viola"

Sagebrush posted:

No pictures of this one because it wasn't that interesting to look at, but earlier today one of our students destroyed the chuck on one of our drill presses by trying to drill a hole through a piece of wood without installing a drill bit.

Yes, that's what I said.

He tightened the chuck down all the way with no bit installed, so that the jaws came out and closed up into that blunt cone that they do, spun up the drill press, and then rammed the jaws into the surface of a 2" thick glued-up plywood block. Now the chuck no longer opens.

Dirt Road Junglist posted:

Yep, that's what happened to two 3800 II engined cars I've had (1997 Malibu and

Deteriorata posted:

There are some water-free "permanent" coolants out there, that are essentially pure glycol (ethylene or propylene) with stuff other than water added to improve its properties. Jay Leno is always promoting some on his videos.

I have no idea how its performance compares with traditional water/glycol coolants, but it apparently works well enough (at least in places where it doesn't get too hot or too cold).

IOwnCalculus posted:

I don't buy into Evans coolant - if it was as awesome as they claim, why hasn't an OEM licensed it for the first sealed-for-life cooling system?

ExplodingSims posted:

Boaz MacPhereson posted:

gently caress it, man. Throw some stories in the chat thread.

Oddhair posted:

chrisgt posted:

Only if you let off the gas... Wide open there's force on the gears and it's not gonna go into neutral.

Godholio posted:

Yep, did that. Had a friend forget to put the cap back on the oil filler hole. Drove to my house and had lost almost all of it in the roughly 2 minutes the engine was running.

Edit: Same friend somehow hosed up installing wiper blades on that car, too. They do fly off like in the movies!

BloodBag posted:

The best part about disassembling struts is aiming the strut body at a box across the garage, putting your foot on the spring, and rattling the nut off the end. Those fuckers go flying*.

*Of course you're never supposed to do this

xzzy posted:

Runaway ski lift failure:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcPTcQpkso4

No gore or death, but there were some "serious" broken bones from people getting ragdolled.

My knowledge of the function of chair lifts is basically zero but I would have thought if there was a drive failure it'd completely seize up instead of freewheeling.