I would guess that the road surface in the second iron horse pic is made of individual bricks or some other kind of pavers.
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Look up "cobblestone road construction".
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I'm a little wary of this rig. Maybe on level ground but I think I'd put outriggers on it anyway.
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I saw one like it recently and liked it.
Gotta watch the center of gravity to avoid the Porsche prob of a week or so ago. |
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Looks like it cuts it off at the end too. The pieces of tubing are part of the design of something so the know all the lengths, radius of the bends and the angles, and probably on a drawing somewhere. So all they had to do is build this two stage machine. Stage one to read the drawing and stage two bend the tubing. Still has to have a human there with rag in hand to grab the piece when the machine cuts it off to precisely the right length.
Check this out the video of this guy working on an old car. The video is basically boring but he runs into a clearance problem with a spark plug socket. At about 14:00 he solves the problem in the most dangerous way I can think of. :facepalm: |
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Bruce: "Boring" is generous. I don't have a power wrench, but if I did, I would not use it on plugs. |
JFC, dude! Just remove the head bolt.
Geez, how hard can ya make something?! |
Taking out a head bolt can be tricky. One, the spark plug might be in the way. ;)
Also head bolts usually have a torquing order and may be torque to yield bolts that can't be reused. I'd have chucked it up like he did but taken it down with a portable grinder. Even a file or coarse sandpaper would have been safer. |
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These have been around for more than twenty years and nobody I know ever heard of them.
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Cool idea! Bikes are getting torque crazy maybe there’s a market.
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There are so many things wrong with the concept, the ad and the video, it makes my head spin.
They need to disappear for another 20 years. |
What's wrong with the concept, I think it's a great idea. My concern is if it works reliably enough to be trusted.
There is no ad, and the guy who made the video has no connection with the company, just one of those hundreds of Utubers making entertainment. They do a cost analysis showing the savings on selected applications. - http://www.smartbolts.com/wp-content...ayJune2011.pdf |
The top part of your post is indeed an ad.
The video has some strange ways of testing and, even if the bolt has been sacrificed for the explanation, it hurts me to see it clamped by its threads in a vice. I do not use either the break off at torque or the machining routine. I don't see the strength spec of the colored bolts, but they are 12 times the cost of regular Grade 8's. I really don't want the grade 8's holding my wheels on, my third member secure or my cylinder head tight with whatever those are with a hole drilled down the middle to install the stretchy part. The cost of my torque wrenches are probably currently in the ranges of less than a penny per use. I can't say there might not be a good place for them, but I don't have one. So there, now we are equally grouchy. |
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I like how it's pouring out of the radiator...
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A spiffy Maris Transport truck taken at South Bend Indiana in the late 30's...
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When one has the responsibility of maintaining the lawn it wouldn't do to shirk that responsibility.
However we can comport ourselves in a civilized manor rather than suffer the slings and arrows of perspiration and ring around the collar. |
With two sources of CO to pump in, it could be a dream job.
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lol Worse ways to go I guess.
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That car has moonshiner written all over it. nice
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That would make a tanker. Take out the interior and build a giant tank for the white gold.
I miss me some corn-in-a-jar. Gonna be a while yet...Gotta get rid o'some o'these pills. |
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Be safe, tie on your hard hat...
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The only civilized way to gawk at Mowgli and his pets.
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Serious machines.
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I've been changing oil for about 65 years for myself, GF's, parents, kids, grandkids and friends.
I pour the drained oil into old milk or water jugs for recycling. (It is amazing how long oil recycling has been available). I can't remember the first time I looked at what I had drained and wondered how it always happened that I had replaced it with substantially more. Yesterday it was 3 5/8 quarts into my Pathfinder, as called for and perfect on the dipstick before and after. Today I measured the oil I drained at 3 quarts. This difference may be a less than I've noted 10+ times with 5+ vehicles. Anybody noticed this phenomenon? Anybody know why? I have some ideas, but none I like. |
I have some ideas, also.
You won't like them either, too. |
If you're not seeing something super obvious like drips or wet with oil or a puddle, consider this. You're not emptying the crankcase. There's oil in there even if you let it drain a long time. Also, you're probably changing the filter too, how much oil is in the dirty filter? And a certain amount of oil is going out the tailpipe. If your rings are bad then more is getting into the cylinder, but even a brand new engine has a positive crankcase ventilation system and some of that atomized oil is plumbed into the intake, and burned.
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Always change filter with contents joining drained oil in pan. (Except the 1/2 ounce or so that Nissan designed to get away to drip on floor. Always parked inside on same place on concrete.)
100,000 miles on engine, always full on dipstick, no add necessary between changes. Baseline is the same: drain 'til no drip, start with 3 5/8 qts. 3000 to 4000 miles later the 1/2 quart or more is gone. But keep in mind, I get the same mystery with other vehicles. Grav: Try me with the bad possibilities. |
I too have always done my own oil changes. From twice a year, using regular oil, in my Datsun B210 V4 ... to now annually, using full synthetic (with Z-Max additive during wintertime) in my Hyundai Sonata V6.
As BigV said, all vehicles burn some oil. The more mileage there is on the vehicle, the more wear there is on the parts. As the parts wear down, the spaces between them become larger. More oil goes into those spaces; so, more oil is burned off. A half quart or so, over 3,000-4,000 miles, on a vehicle with 100,000 miles on it is not unheard of. Your oil change interval suggests you're using regular oil rather than synthetic. Synthetics are expensive; but, more heat stable and you may see less burn-off. Synthetics can go for longer intervals between changes too, The engine could even last longer; however, it can't be a very old model with seals that aren't compatible with synthetics and the vehicle has to have been well maintained so there isn't already a potential leak. Synthetics will clean out sludge that may be plugging an existing leak. A compromise may be to run a High Mileage Synthetic Blend in the engine at the next oil change. Those have additives to help plump up seals like when they were newer so they won't leak. It might cut down on the burn-off loss, do just a little cleaning, and slow down further engine wear. That' s what I would do in this situation. If there's no appreciable difference, you can always go back to just regular oil. |
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No doubt there are things I still need to learn after 60+ years of wrenching, but nothing mentioned here so far is one of them.
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Chinese double-parked hauler. Might be 21 or?:
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Probably OK, but it doesn't seem like a good place.
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Better than in the trailer and the exhaust stream is up high.
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The only downside I see is that if I were in one of those pods, I would get dizzy trying to look at individual objects on the side of the road as we speed by. Too much eye motion. Otherwise, it looks kind of fun, assuming it's big enough to lie down.
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Kind of brings ol' Mitt Romney to mind.
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In the outback there's nothing on the side of the road to see. Everything worth looking at is up in the sky or a quarter mile from the road. :haha:
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