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kl8ton

Ozzie_Isaac said:.   and get as much penetration as you can.

Isn't this always the goal?

GrateEggspectations

JohnInCarolina said:

fishlessman said:

guy showed up one summer with the center support shaft on one of these sheared in half, wanted it welded..........get out of here

Yes something similar was one of the cases my prof talked about.  The ride was different - one of those with like 5 arms that spin around and go up and down, while you sit in a pod.  Meant for little kids.  

The carnival guy noticed that some of the bolts connecting one of the pods to the arms were rusting, so he did the natural thing and went to... the hardware store to find replacements.  Might as well do them all, can't take anything for granted, safety first - right?  Got the correct size and everything.  Of course he didn't realize he was replacing high strength bolts with ones designed to, well, hold kitchen tables together and whatnot.  

That same pod came clean off during the operation of the ride the next day, once it was up and running at full speed, sending a mother and daughter flying clear across the park to their deaths.  

Kinda getting pretty dark here, but the only thing worse than dying as a result of an accident like that would be the realization of what was happening prior to impact. I can’t imagine how much terror and how much you’d be wanting to communicate with your loved ones in those brief moments. 

Botch

JohnInCarolina said:
The carnival guy noticed that some of the bolts connecting one of the pods to the arms were rusting, so he did the natural thing and went to... the hardware store to find replacements.  Might as well do them all, can't take anything for granted, safety first - right?  Got the correct size and everything.  Of course he didn't realize he was replacing high strength bolts with ones designed to, well, hold kitchen tables together and whatnot.  

When I was working Nuclear Weapon Safety (DNS) in '87-'92, an Army helicopter shed a couple blades and killed (iirc) 8 soldiers.  The bolts were marked correctly:
 

...but later analysis showed they didn't meet the spec required; turned out that they were chinese bolts, but intentionally marked incorrectly per the US company that ordered them/delivered them to DoD.  It was a big part of my job in that assignment to try to track down those bolts used on nuke support equipment.  
 
It was Dickens who described the two Curses on Mankind as "ignorance", and "want"; I'm thinking he left out "Greed", or possibly that's a reciprocal of "want".  Some things never change.  

HeavyG

fishlessman said:

HeavyG said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

JohnInCarolina said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

One of my favorite college classes was taught by a mech eng prof who used to serve as an expert witness.  The course was machine design, and he had all sorts of horror stories to share with us from cases he was involved with.  Most of these resulted in industry-wide standards to add warning labels in locations that couldn't be missed, so that the companies would be protected against law suits from morons. 

For example, there were the clowns who decided to try and trim a set of hedges by picking up a lawnmower and placing it on top of the hedges.  Their bright idea was to turn it on and then move it across the top of the hedges, one on each side.  You can imagine what happened when they reached under it to try and move it, after it was up and running.  Somehow they won the subsequent suit because there was no warning label telling you not to reach under the mower when it was running.  So now you know where all of those labels telling you to definitely not do that, you ahole, come from.

The one piece of advice he gave which I will never forget is to avoid ever stepping foot on a pop-up carnival ride.   Surely you've seen these traveling carnivals that come and go and basically move from town to town, staying in each locale for a week or two.    Avoid them like the plague if you value your life or the lives of your children.  

Sketchy equipment, drunk and unqualified operators, no training, transient workers, no background checks, constant dismantling and setup, very lax oversight and inspection, poor locations not designed to secure rides.  What possibly could go wrong?

But I'll bet real world data tells us that in the USofA you or your children are far more likely to be killed by a bullet (or seven) than sketchy carny rides.

That's cause we don't put our kids on carnie rides 24 7 every day of the year.

True. but when there are only about 5 carny/amusement park ride deaths per year and there are about 5 gunshot deaths per HOUR/day that's quite a gap to overcome.

shtgunal3

Enjoying a camp fire with my 17 year old son. 

ColbyLang

HeavyG said:

fishlessman said:

HeavyG said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

JohnInCarolina said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

One of my favorite college classes was taught by a mech eng prof who used to serve as an expert witness.  The course was machine design, and he had all sorts of horror stories to share with us from cases he was involved with.  Most of these resulted in industry-wide standards to add warning labels in locations that couldn't be missed, so that the companies would be protected against law suits from morons. 

For example, there were the clowns who decided to try and trim a set of hedges by picking up a lawnmower and placing it on top of the hedges.  Their bright idea was to turn it on and then move it across the top of the hedges, one on each side.  You can imagine what happened when they reached under it to try and move it, after it was up and running.  Somehow they won the subsequent suit because there was no warning label telling you not to reach under the mower when it was running.  So now you know where all of those labels telling you to definitely not do that, you ahole, come from.

The one piece of advice he gave which I will never forget is to avoid ever stepping foot on a pop-up carnival ride.   Surely you've seen these traveling carnivals that come and go and basically move from town to town, staying in each locale for a week or two.    Avoid them like the plague if you value your life or the lives of your children.  

Sketchy equipment, drunk and unqualified operators, no training, transient workers, no background checks, constant dismantling and setup, very lax oversight and inspection, poor locations not designed to secure rides.  What possibly could go wrong?

But I'll bet real world data tells us that in the USofA you or your children are far more likely to be killed by a bullet (or seven) than sketchy carny rides.

That's cause we don't put our kids on carnie rides 24 7 every day of the year.

True. but when there are only about 5 carny/amusement park ride deaths per year and there are about 5 gunshot deaths per HOUR/day that's quite a gap to overcome.

Treading lightly here. The gun nor the carnie ride kills anyone……negligence of said operator of both is the culprit. 

JohnInCarolina

shtgunal3 said:

Enjoying a camp fire with my 17 year old son. 

Doesn’t get much better than that man! Enjoy!

alaskanassasin

GrateEggspectations said:

JohnInCarolina said:

fishlessman said:

guy showed up one summer with the center support shaft on one of these sheared in half, wanted it welded..........get out of here

Yes something similar was one of the cases my prof talked about.  The ride was different - one of those with like 5 arms that spin around and go up and down, while you sit in a pod.  Meant for little kids.  

The carnival guy noticed that some of the bolts connecting one of the pods to the arms were rusting, so he did the natural thing and went to... the hardware store to find replacements.  Might as well do them all, can't take anything for granted, safety first - right?  Got the correct size and everything.  Of course he didn't realize he was replacing high strength bolts with ones designed to, well, hold kitchen tables together and whatnot.  

That same pod came clean off during the operation of the ride the next day, once it was up and running at full speed, sending a mother and daughter flying clear across the park to their deaths.  

Kinda getting pretty dark here, but the only thing worse than dying as a result of an accident like that would be the realization of what was happening prior to impact. I can’t imagine how much terror and how much you’d be wanting to communicate with your loved ones in those brief moments. 

Swmbo was flopping loose in a NC State Fair ride, she wasn’t strapped in properly.  We were young and shrugged it off but yeah it was bad, and I realized she literally could have slipped out if she and I weren’t holding her in her seat.

shtgunal3

JohnInCarolina said:

shtgunal3 said:

Enjoying a camp fire with my 17 year old son. 

Doesn’t get much better than that man! Enjoy!

Thanks brother. Perhaps I should have said, “enjoying my 17 year old son with a campfire.”

Ozzie_Isaac

JohnInCarolina said:

fishlessman said:

guy showed up one summer with the center support shaft on one of these sheared in half, wanted it welded..........get out of here

Yes something similar was one of the cases my prof talked about.  The ride was different - one of those with like 5 arms that spin around and go up and down, while you sit in a pod.  Meant for little kids.  

The carnival guy noticed that some of the bolts connecting one of the pods to the arms were rusting, so he did the natural thing and went to... the hardware store to find replacements.  Might as well do them all, can't take anything for granted, safety first - right?  Got the correct size and everything.  Of course he didn't realize he was replacing high strength bolts with ones designed to, well, hold kitchen tables together and whatnot.  

That same pod came clean off during the operation of the ride the next day, once it was up and running at full speed, sending a mother and daughter flying clear across the park to their deaths.  

****.  That is awful.

kl8ton

Hoping that this 20 degree F night is the end of it for the season. 😁. 

26 fine...... Lower....ehhhhhhh not so good.

Forgot to check all water hydrants were still plugged in today. I lay in bed and pray. 

Ozzie_Isaac

Botch said:

JohnInCarolina said:
The carnival guy noticed that some of the bolts connecting one of the pods to the arms were rusting, so he did the natural thing and went to... the hardware store to find replacements.  Might as well do them all, can't take anything for granted, safety first - right?  Got the correct size and everything.  Of course he didn't realize he was replacing high strength bolts with ones designed to, well, hold kitchen tables together and whatnot.  

When I was working Nuclear Weapon Safety (DNS) in '87-'92, an Army helicopter shed a couple blades and killed (iirc) 8 soldiers.  The bolts were marked correctly:
 

...but later analysis showed they didn't meet the spec required; turned out that they were chinese bolts, but intentionally marked incorrectly per the US company that ordered them/delivered them to DoD.  It was a big part of my job in that assignment to try to track down those bolts used on nuke support equipment.  
 
It was Dickens who described the two Curses on Mankind as "ignorance", and "want"; I'm thinking he left out "Greed", or possibly that's a reciprocal of "want".  Some things never change.  

Counterfeit parts is a big big problem right now.  Especially with part brokers.  Shady ass people.

CPFC1905

We’re right in the mixer now. All the matches carrying meaning with virtually every team in either a relegation or Euro’ placings battle.   The ‘international break’ has given teams time to re-group and plot their success or demise.

Here we go then;

Saturday

Man City v Liverpool, the hosts are playing well and the Reds are hard to call, as per their demolition of Utd recently.  Certainly a good game in prospect and I’m going 3-2

Arsenal v Leeds, Gunners are inching towards glory while Dirty Leeds are in the dog-fight, for the second season running.  Should be a home win but a reversal will see the league leaders slip to within striking distance of City in second.  Big game. 2-1

Bournemouth v Fulham, The Cherries are second from bottom and need at least a point from this, while their guests can conceivably creep in to the last Euro spot by inverting their recent performances of two defeats.  They are, though, shorn of talent after a pair of red cards.  1-1

Brighton v Brentford, very similar seasons and reasonable expectation of Europe next season.  The Filthy Seagulls are better disposed given their games in hand over this opponent. They’re in identical form too - but home advantage claims it, 2-1

Palace v Leicester, the start of the end of times for the mighty Eagles.  It’s been horrendous since December and now there’s a sequence of real do or die matches coming against the teams below us.  No room for slip ups and no favours will be distributed. 1-0 and please for the all that’s holy, make it so.

Forest v Wolves, very similar to above, both in abject form and at risk. Tense and combative affair. 1-1

Chelsea v Villa, the hosts have put together a run of better form and have the depth of talent to sustain that, don’t rule out a late charge for Europe.  Villa are safe and it’s about playing for pride and places.  2-0

Sunday

West Ham v Southampton, it’s the big one at the bottom.  The Hammers are in the relegation zone and Saints last, separated by one point only.  A draw suits everyone except these two.  I think home advantage is enough again so, 2-0. 

Newcastle v Man Utd, a home win puts Toon 3rd - which is big news and not out the question given recent form. Entertaining encounter, 2-2

Monday

Everton v Spurs, The Toffees will take a point all day long here, but this Spurs are the new Spurs who are unleashed from the tyrannical leader after Conte was sacked.  Free flowing goals machinesor still the same old Spursy Spurs?  0-0

Copy filed early in light of lengthy SWMBO taskings received for tomorrow.

fishlessman

JohnInCarolina said:

fishlessman said:

guy showed up one summer with the center support shaft on one of these sheared in half, wanted it welded..........get out of here

Yes something similar was one of the cases my prof talked about.  The ride was different - one of those with like 5 arms that spin around and go up and down, while you sit in a pod.  Meant for little kids.  

The carnival guy noticed that some of the bolts connecting one of the pods to the arms were rusting, so he did the natural thing and went to... the hardware store to find replacements.  Might as well do them all, can't take anything for granted, safety first - right?  Got the correct size and everything.  Of course he didn't realize he was replacing high strength bolts with ones designed to, well, hold kitchen tables together and whatnot.  

That same pod came clean off during the operation of the ride the next day, once it was up and running at full speed, sending a mother and daughter flying clear across the park to their deaths.  

On this one you could see that the shear plain was broke half way thru for several years. For whatever reason it held on and finally broke during setup with no passengers.

JohnInCarolina

fishlessman said:

JohnInCarolina said:

fishlessman said:

guy showed up one summer with the center support shaft on one of these sheared in half, wanted it welded..........get out of here

Yes something similar was one of the cases my prof talked about.  The ride was different - one of those with like 5 arms that spin around and go up and down, while you sit in a pod.  Meant for little kids.  

The carnival guy noticed that some of the bolts connecting one of the pods to the arms were rusting, so he did the natural thing and went to... the hardware store to find replacements.  Might as well do them all, can't take anything for granted, safety first - right?  Got the correct size and everything.  Of course he didn't realize he was replacing high strength bolts with ones designed to, well, hold kitchen tables together and whatnot.  

That same pod came clean off during the operation of the ride the next day, once it was up and running at full speed, sending a mother and daughter flying clear across the park to their deaths.  

On this one you could see that the shear plain was broke half way thru for several years. For whatever reason it held on and finally broke during setup with no passengers.

Sometimes dumb luck ends up saving lives.

lousubcap

Drinking bourbon and eating CHEETOS.  How sweet it is. 

nolaegghead

@dmchicago

installing a bidet in the men’s room at the shop.  Time for motherly hugs to the buttocks…

kl8ton

Opening day! Go Tigers! Oh never mind.

dmchicago

nolaegghead said:

@dmchicago

installing a bidet in the men’s room at the shop.  Time for motherly hugs to the buttocks…

Don’t use that rubbing alcohol in it. 

nolaegghead

Ozzie_Isaac

kl8ton said:

Opening day! Go Tigers! Oh never mind.

Go Cards!  Oh.  Didn't see that coming.  Looks like we got all the luck out during Spring Training.

Botch

dmchicago said:
Don’t use that rubbing alcohol in it. 

That might be refreshing in July/August...

ColtsFan

Never good when the Electric Coop is running on generator 

Gulfcoastguy

Planting dad’s garden: yellow squash, cucumbers, okra, peppers, and eggplants so far with sweet corn in a few minutes.

FrostyEgg

Strapping in for a blizzard tonight. They're calling for 5-10" of snow and 50mph winds. Mind you the average high this time of year should be around 50. Good old Minnesota...

WeberWho

FrostyEgg said:

Strapping in for a blizzard tonight. They're calling for 5-10" of snow and 50mph winds. Mind you the average high this time of year should be around 50. Good old Minnesota...

You're lucky if all you have to do is stay home through it. It sounds like 50's next week. Unfortunately that's not how plowing works for business and homeowners who hire out. I'm looking at 6-8 hours of shoveling wet heavy snow for a friend because no one wants to work anymore. I'm happy it's the weekend and I don't have to put in another 10 hours worth of work at my actual job on an hour or two worth of sleep. I do have the weekend going for me. It might just go from winter to summer this year in MN.

FrostyEgg

WeberWho said:

FrostyEgg said:

Strapping in for a blizzard tonight. They're calling for 5-10" of snow and 50mph winds. Mind you the average high this time of year should be around 50. Good old Minnesota...

You're lucky if all you have to do is stay home through it. It sounds like 50's next week. Unfortunately that's not how plowing works for business and homeowners who hire out. I'm looking at 6-8 hours of shoveling wet heavy snow for a friend because no one wants to work anymore. I'm happy it's the weekend and I don't have to put in another 10 hours worth of work at my actual job on an hour or two worth of sleep. I do have the weekend going for me. It might just go from winter to summer this year in MN.

Stay safe man! I agree, I think we'll get a week or two of "spring" and then it'll be 80.

nolaegghead

My buddy in Wisconsin got it yesterday.  I work with colleagues in Minneapolis mostly but also Appleton and they’ve been talking about this freak season

Botch

Alta topped an 800" base this morning, and Snowbird will probably do the same by tonight.  

WeberWho

nolaegghead said:

My buddy in Wisconsin got it yesterday.  I work with colleagues in Minneapolis mostly but also Appleton and they’ve been talking about this freak season

We're expected to get between 7-10" of snow tonight. We need 3" of snow for it to become the 5th snowiest season on record.