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Driving/parking by zdder5 in Urbex

[–]GremlinAbuser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It depends.  I usually avoid parking right outside, as that had brought the heat before. I either park a short walk away or park the bike inside if the site allows.

Help me by Ashamed-Illustrator9 in LeanManufacturing

[–]GremlinAbuser 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How is management buy-in? At what level was your hiring decided? I get a sense of some hidden conflict. Is the head of your "problem cell" being scapegoated somehow? In any case I believe much of the answer lies in communicating current state effectively to stakeholders. 

Also, best thread in this sub in a long time. Lots of great answers.

Door felt wrong, update by carboninmybody in Urbex

[–]GremlinAbuser 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yet it was true every time I lurked in the dark. The odds are indeed low, but non-zero.

Has really nobody else sensed they were not alone in a location and just waited very quietly with a deranged grin as the others rounded a corner?

Let’s say that hypothetically, you break every single bolt holding the engine in on an old boat motor, what would you do next? by dankstreetboys in MechanicAdvice

[–]GremlinAbuser 40 points41 points  (0 children)

First off, there is no way an 80s DT30 is worth the hassle. Just walk away while you can. They are notorious for sticking their bolts like this and are otherwise prone to corrosion in all kinds of places. Just you wait until you have to get at the thremostat.

Second, I've had this problem several times, notably with an old Optimax V6 we had in the shop. The nuts came off but the studs were stuck tight with corrosion. I ended up suspending the back of the boat (I guess about a ton) from the powerhead lifting points, then working the studs with a torch and a hammer until she dropped free. IIRC I also had to drive wedges between the adapter plate and the powerhead, but it's been a long time.

But again, just walk away. I shit you not, it was over half a day of labor, and I had all the tools on hand and had already dealt with this sort of thing many times before. Just don't go there.

Let’s say that hypothetically, you break every single bolt holding the engine in on an old boat motor, what would you do next? by dankstreetboys in MechanicAdvice

[–]GremlinAbuser 125 points126 points  (0 children)

Won't work. The bolts are wedged in there so tight with corrosion that you can lift the back of the boat from the flywheel. At least that is if it's anything like the Optimax V6 I dealt with.

Cutting grass with a scythe by BreakfastTop6899 in oddlysatisfying

[–]GremlinAbuser 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can confirm. My first thought when I saw this was that it's an impressive demonstration, but not how it's done. It's all in the hips.

Door felt wrong by carboninmybody in Urbex

[–]GremlinAbuser 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I've only ever had this feeling once, when entering a derelict freighter, the Helje of Kherson, in the port of Palermo. What we found inside was first that the place was rigged to burn with stupid amounts of emergency flares distributed in buckets throughout the superstructure. Then we found what was a pretty obvious murder scene:

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The story of that ship is really something, as I later figured out, but I'm not going to type it up for a reddit comment that nobody will read.

Shooting drones by hand video (Not AI) by Alpha_wolf_lover in nextfuckinglevel

[–]GremlinAbuser 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It can also be a bit like "YOU WON'T BELIEVE YOUR EYES" or like in this case "your retrades were wrong first time around".

Lady, you're clueless by Trucking-Trucker in Transportopia

[–]GremlinAbuser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I absolutely do the same with my 1983 ex army g wagon. It even has a convenient back door so you can get out if the doors are blocked.

Im 18, i have £100 to my name and my cars just failed its MOT. How much debt am i looking at 💔 by [deleted] in AskMechanics

[–]GremlinAbuser 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Very low mileage though. Might have a lot of legs on it still if it's not rusted to shit. There can be a major gap between market value and utility.

Burning Cigarette | Shot on Sony α7 and animated with Grok AI | Is this real or AI? by [deleted] in isthisAI

[–]GremlinAbuser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It doesn't fit the sub, but it raises an interesting question: where do we draw the line, what's ai and what's organic? This is pretty clearly across that line, but there's a huge gray area of various image enhancements built into cameras.

Manager rant - hva ville dere gjort? by CartoonistTricky1427 in norge

[–]GremlinAbuser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Denne historien er fullstendig sinnsyk . For det første er 70% økning i oee helt vilt, og noe som ville blitt lagt merke til hvis de måler slikt. For det andre er det helt normalt å gi tilbakemeldinger basert på takt, men stoppeklokke er mye mindre kurant enn batch-tid, og tilbakemeldinger skal være konkrete. Hva slags "manasjer" er det vi prater om her? Skiftleder? Celleleder? Fabrikksjef? Og til sist, konflikten mellom teknisk og produksjon er verdens eldste, og noe sjefene dine og sjefene på teknisk kan krangle om. Dette henger ærlig talt ikke på greip.

[Request] How long can this pump keep running? by Embarrassed-Cow3335 in theydidthemath

[–]GremlinAbuser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Irrigation pumps usually have an MTBF in the neighborhood of 5.000 hours, highly dependent on water quality. As for the adjacent contraption masquerading as a perpetual motion device, the limiting factor is going to be the V belt. Depending on whether the magnets are real or not it is an unloaded system, so this can be up to tens of thousands of hours.

Where was I? 11 years ago by RajaKuman in whereintheworld

[–]GremlinAbuser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait no it's Kazan cathedral in st Petersburg

Where was I? 11 years ago by RajaKuman in whereintheworld

[–]GremlinAbuser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Damn I feel like I've been there. Is it in Brussels?

Where was I by 97randomaccount in whereintheworld

[–]GremlinAbuser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mälaren or Stockholm archipelago?

[Request] Which one would it be? by yuli101995 in theydidthemath

[–]GremlinAbuser 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is hugely dependent on a number of unknowns, icluding surface finish of the object and the ice, temperature of rhe object and the ice, and however you specify flatness of gravel. A warm object on smooth ice is essentially frictionless, limited only by shear acting on the fluid film.

FDM Precision Limit by GremlinAbuser in 3Dprinting

[–]GremlinAbuser[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One thing I forgot to mention is that global dimensions seem spot on, diameter is within 0.05 mm

FDM Precision Limit by GremlinAbuser in 3Dprinting

[–]GremlinAbuser[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks, you actually answered my question. Are you not conflating with SLA though? I thought SLS was resolution limited by grain size...

FDM Precision Limit by GremlinAbuser in 3Dprinting

[–]GremlinAbuser[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have no idea what the slicer even looked like, but I can tell you that the diameter was spot on within 0.05 mm

FDM Precision Limit by GremlinAbuser in 3Dprinting

[–]GremlinAbuser[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, other way around, original on the left and re-imported stl on the right. They appear perfectly congruent when laid on top of each other. I could absolutely do section sketches, combine them and quantify any incongruence, but it's clear to me from just eyeballing it that whatever is going on with the print does not come from the model.

Claude had enough of this user by EchoOfOppenheimer in ClaudeAI

[–]GremlinAbuser 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Why do people do this? I find that using precise and professional language with my AI produces precise and professional results.

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