And now for something weird...

GopherT

Joined Nov 23, 2012
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First world problems. People are struggling just to survive right now and these Bozos are rioting over sauce.
“One couple drove 4-hours...”.
Let’s see, four hours at 60mph is 240 miles. At 25 mpg... round trip
Oh, my, McDonalds caused them to convert 20 gallons of gasoline into CO2, warm the planet and flood some pacific islands. McDonalds is bad!
 

spinnaker

Joined Oct 29, 2009
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Thing has a steerable back end. Makes the job a lot easier.

I saw a driver make a turn towing an I beam that must have been at least 30 meters or more. He was on 9th street in Pittsburgh and made a left onto Liberty Ave. He had to backup just once for just a short bit to complete the turn. No steerable backend. Just him in the cab. Take a look on Google Earth to apprecaite how narrow the streets are in the city. It was one of the most amazing demonstration of driving skill I have ever seen.
 
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GopherT

Joined Nov 23, 2012
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And I'm willing to bet they're powered too. Not precisely by an engine, but at least some form of hydraulic auxiliary motor. A bend that sharp requires that the back end is at least pushed a little.
You can hear the motors for the rear trailer wheels as it passes close o he camera at about 30 seconds into the video (and in the first few seconds).
 

cmartinez

Joined Jan 17, 2007
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cmartinez

Joined Jan 17, 2007
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So, very few projects made here are hacks, by that definition. Buying eggs or a tray of chicken breasts from Walmart is easier than building an automatic chicken coop door opener.
That's true. But in here we do things for fun, mainly.... where's the fun in making a Pb&J? It's not like you're gonna grill or bake the thing!
 

GopherT

Joined Nov 23, 2012
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That's true. But in here we do things for fun, mainly.... where's the fun in making a Pb&J? It's not like you're gonna grill or bake the thing!
Cutting frozen peanut butter might be fun to some people. Probably the same people who would say, “ where is the fun in soldering doo-dads to a PCB.”
 

nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
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https://www.navytimes.com/news/your...er-punishment-loomed-over-a-demoralized-crew/
Sailors aboard the cruiser Shiloh during the 26-month command of Capt. Adam M. Aycock often worried about the CO’s use of one of the Navy’s most arcane punishments: confinement for three days in the brig while being fed only bread and water.
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That first sailor had been late for curfew and absent without leave, according to records obtained by the Navy Times via a Freedom of Information request.

At least six other Shiloh sailors would receive bread and water under Aycock, for offenses that included curfew violations and underage drinking, the records show.

One sailor got bread and water in part for lying about his mother living “in a dangerous area,” according to records.
Wow, I'm surprised that this is a legal punishment for such common offenses. We had one guy do bread and water brig time but it was disobeying a direct order from the XO about his conduct to a fellow sailor. His crew should be glad that 'walking the plank' is not longer on the books.

https://exit142a.wordpress.com/2016/09/23/september-23-2016-the-u-s-navy-brig-bread-and-water-diet/
 

BR-549

Joined Sep 22, 2013
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About fifteen years ago, I worked for an environmental lab.......we did a lot of contract work for the EPA and other states "epas".

The county wastewater plant was receiving doses of some kind of solvent that was disturbing the plant.
The powers that be....suspected a precious metal vendor here in town. This was a large concrete building with very high security.

I clandestinely installed a self contained flow weight sampler for 3 days into the building's outfall.
Flow rate sampling is quite a chore. A sealed weir plate....air pump bubbler....sampler pump and strip chart recorder. All in manhole.

Anyhow........the solvent was not coming from there(it was coming from a truck frame manufacture)........but you would not believe the high precious metals we were getting from there.

When all this was over......I went back to the metals vendor and showed him what he was washing away.

Of course he was in shock.....and bought a 100 K $ paper filter machine. All production liquids were passed thru this paper. The paper was dried...then burned...then sent to smelter. Paid for his paper filter within months.

And paid me every six months to check his outfall.
 
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