Ericadia posted:

IIRC they overloaded it by about 200,000lbs

Jack the Smack posted:

Mostly I look at everything in AI related to engineering and kind of get what's going on, but don't understand much. This is the first picture I've seen mechanical related and understood completely. (just learned about oil in my automotive class)

chem42 posted:

It was more likely due to the 60k mile oil change interval than any design problem.

sharkytm posted:

10,000 at lost at sea (reported... according to some sources, it could be 5x that)

frozenphil posted:

I went to an interview at a plywood plant for an IT job when I first moved to Alabama. It was August and the temps in the sheetmetal building they did all of the work in were well over 150°F. They use steam presses and poo poo to do most of the work so the humidity was 100% as well.

The amount of near death experiences just walking in the designated walking path was unreal. Plywood was cruising by at head height on gantries, forklift operators were tearing rear end around the building moving loads as they got paid by the load, huge steam presses were venting superheated steam at random intervals and made walking around them like some kind of hosed up Super Mario level were you had to time it just right.

I never even made it back to the HR office, I said gently caress this place and left.

Hey heres an idea posted:

Well, its not really automotive, but it does involve a centrifugal pump, so its close enough, right?

scapulataf posted:

I'm certainly mot calling bullshit, or disputing this in any way, but that piston seems to be quite small given the length of the crankshafts in locomotive engines.

About 5 years ago, I was doing a job at a place in Winnipeg this place to be preciseand they were remanning locomotive crankshafts. Which were 2 pieces each piece longer than my arm span which is about 5 1/2 feet. So, the whole thing put together is 10+ feet long.
So, my point being. It looks like an awfully small piston, given the length and over all massive size of the crank shafts that I saw at that place.

Was that a "small" locomotive that happened to?

Coasterphreak posted:

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.

ModernDayDiogenes posted:

Arresting cable snaps on a carrier during an F/A-18 landing. It's worth watching just to see the one member of the flight deck manage to jump over the cable and not get injured. Several people got injured by this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcFZx3tMEnA

Slung Blade posted:

InitialDave posted:

Horrible stereotype failure:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/10475343.stm

Ola posted:

post pictures youtubes links to a blogspot with embedded google video of horrible mechanical engineering failures


http://rootsgpk.blogspot.com/2009/01/what-14-drilled-hole-in-wrong-place-can.html

2ndclasscitizen posted:

Hooooooly poo poo. Would that have gradually crushed in, or just collapsed suddenly?

(Please say the latter)

Glynis27 posted:

Hmm, I've had an idler pulley making noise for a few years. It whines so badly that 2 people have asked if my car is supercharged when I start the car. Maybe I should finally get around to replacing that pulley.

jamal posted:

this happened to us last weekend:

miss_catherine posted:

E36 S50 money shift

Whitey Ford posted:

Because this thread has become a catchall for mechanical things getting hosed up, here's some photos from Iceland;

FatCow posted:

Fat driver.

InitialDave posted:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13537084

Ola posted:

You know how they have shock pics of diseased lungs on cigarette packs? They should have pics like this on the face of service booklets.

Plinkey posted:

Shroomie posted:

Not my picture, but how in the gently caress does this even happen?

Veeb0rg posted:

Its fairly common on Lifted Jeeps. It doesn't take much for it to happen on a jeep, A bad bushing, bad ball joint, Loose Trackbar. All common causes, The problem is trying to fix it as most of the time its caused by a group of things and not just one single issue.

DELETED posted:

"It's actually had diarrhea!"

Goober Peas posted:

Guy's Trailblazer grenaded its transmission

http://forums.trailvoy.com/showthread.php?t=22724

GnarlyCharlie4u posted:

This was the first youtube channel I ever subscribed to. I love this guy.

Watch the video where he puts a brick in a dryer.
Then find the one where someone gave it eyes and a soul.

kastein posted:

lowered the hood and ran, 5 seconds later it let loose and spewed superheated steam and coolant all over where I had just been standing.

Javid posted:

Somebody once remarked, possibly in this very thread, that you could cement those jeeps together to build a bunker that would survive the nuclear apocalypse, then chip them out and fire them up to take over the wasteland.

wdarkk posted:

I'm going to have to go find a picture of the technique they use to cut these, but it basically is just a giant bandsaw.

EDIT: No picture yet, but they used a carbide-encrusted cutting wire.

EDIT: Oh, Rent-A-Cop already discussed this.

EDIT: Anyway, here's some pictures of the process.

Hypnolobster posted:

I remember reading that Cougar Ace article about the ship salvage team a while ago. Seems like such an insane, incredible job.

EightBit posted:

I don't think that that was enough to kill a 4.0.

Poing posted:

Looks like it may have been an anchoring chain, so maybe a combo of long-term stress, salt and rough water? You can see the rig starts to bob after the chain snaps.

Also, that I4 with no intake valves is pretty ridiculous.