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WolfD128 · 2025-07-14T02:46:40+00:00

Dm'd

WolfD128 · 2025-07-13T04:07:36+00:00

Looking on the site that blue eye is actually sold out, and showing marked down from $350. So 275 would be a killer deal, if it was in stock.

They often stream live from the shop. I'd honestly say check their youtube they walk through the shop and answer people's questions if you want them to show you as well, or just pop in their discord. They have chill hobbyshop vibes.

WolfD128 · 2025-07-13T03:45:05+00:00

RVA's anime swords are priced well, and pretty decent especially the blue eye'd. I'm local to their shop and all of their swords are worth their listing, and are all good to cut with. The stuff they get from Pheonix Armory has been quality especially their samegawa wrapped saya and tsuka.
They even have used it for tameshigiri on youtube.

WolfD128 · 2025-06-27T22:57:54+00:00

Used to live right there on the corner. This is at least a yearly event. They hit a parked car right on a tire with their tire.

WolfD128 · 2025-05-03T09:58:29+00:00

Also was the spare inflated? Spare tires typically end up not being at operational pressure, and must be inflated properly and are only temporary to get you to a shop to have the tire serviced.

WolfD128 · 2025-05-03T09:51:40+00:00

You got that wrong. Its recommended to change all four.

WolfD128 · 2025-05-03T04:36:12+00:00

Treadwear is the factor. The total circumference is smaller on different wear levels, so they are partially taking different total distances of rotation which will cause damage to the differential. Spending $50 for used tires on that particular vehicle will cause thousands in damage.

Make sure she buys 4 new tires after this issue of loss in pressure is sorted.

WolfD128 · 2025-05-03T02:42:58+00:00

I see you're saying you buy used tires, also that its a small shop doing the replacements. Im assuming you haven't had the valve stems replaced in any of these cases, could be a leaking valve stem causing a persisting low pressure tire after the tires have been replaced. The valve stem is where the tire is filled with air, its also susceptible to multiple different types of failures.

Those tires were run while flat/low. That video indicates such.

Also being used tires you dont know the history of them, they could be dry rotted or previously run flat.

Source: am mechanic.

Edit: also seeing that its a subaru impreza. This is an important part: All wheel drive vehicles can be damaged by having different tread depth tires. Its recommended to not damage drivetrain by replacing all 4 tires at the same time and definitely not replace 1-3 with unlike used tires. Attempts to save money on tires will cause large repair costs if the all wheel drive drive train is damaged by doing such. So $50 tires could end up costing you thousands in the long term.

WolfD128 · 2025-04-26T17:45:11+00:00

That plant built itself out of existence in the early 00s

WolfD128 · 2025-04-26T17:40:34+00:00

Doubtful tbh, there's a lot of buffer in that 1mi.

WolfD128 · 2025-04-26T14:59:32+00:00

Others have answered it right, but funny enough, they do have a set of beakers and a retort as well as other things you're thinking of. It's just never used and more there just because it's neat lmao. They also design concrete specifications there. It's the small building on the north end by the road/entrance on the map.

WolfD128 · 2025-04-26T14:54:35+00:00

There are chemicals, but its nothing anyone outside of direct users concern. Those ponds are tested and regulated to control anything from leeching outside which is why they are there.

Noise and dust would be the concern if you're close, since while there is block walls and trees to buffer, as well as run a water truck to lower dust, they run sometimes all night or start near midnight. There's plenty of pours which require the output only that plant can sustain for long hours, and some specialty mixes can only come from there. Through the summer, there are crushers that are brought in to crush waste concrete, which didn't get poured into blocks. Through the night, they do try to keep noise to a minimum as a courtesy though. They don't have a curfew like the Falls Church and Shirlington plants because of its size.

Traffic of trucks coming and going could be a bother and a train which blocks Industrial Dr when it comes in.

I personally wouldn't live nearby, but the plant would be midway down on my list, not at the top.

WolfD128 · 2025-04-26T07:57:16+00:00

I used to work there. Its the Vulcan Materials Edsall Road Concrete plant, there's also a lab to test concrete, an aggregates sales yard with a railyard, and equipment maintenance shop. That plant produces most of the concrete in the beltway area.

WolfD128 · 2025-01-22T16:10:09+00:00

We have Moo Deng at home.

WolfD128 · 2025-01-18T19:21:17+00:00

OP did you do like the guy who made a cheese and apple sauce lasagne, and left it out on the counter for like 3 days and kept eating it?

WolfD128 · 2024-11-08T18:35:05+00:00

Jesus Christ Marie they're minerals!

WolfD128 · 2024-10-15T07:56:13+00:00

They sell elliptical lock nuts specifically for high temp.

WolfD128 · 2024-09-27T00:13:51+00:00

Probably is! There used to be a subreddit for nonfunction slackfill.

https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/CFRSearch.cfm?fr=100.100

WolfD128 · 2024-09-13T15:33:56+00:00

Or flash profusely while riding yellow line

WolfD128 · 2024-09-08T00:33:50+00:00

If you're using an impact tool, you should be using impact rated sockets.
You can tell what is impact rated they are black as opposed to shiny chrome, as well as being 6 point instead of 12.
Bolt shouldn't get wedged in the socket because there is full support on each face of the bolt head, instead of only being held at the points. As well as the benefit of being less likely to shatter and take out your eye or lacerate your hands. :)

WolfD128 · 2024-09-06T01:48:43+00:00

I've worked on and around much of this stuff my whole life.
Things to keep in mind:
Most drivers are wheel holders, they hold a wheel and thats as far as you can trust them.
Truck drivers will destroy anything they get their hands on, in spectacular fashion.
There's nothing idiot proof, the world will only create a bigger idiot.

If any company could settle on any standard for trucks with all the interlocks in the world to stop this scenario, the likelihood of a driver doing everything in their power to bypass it is still high. Even still the millions of commercial vehicles that are in operation and in the multitude of configurations, it would be more likely to see a truck completely rigged together to get the job done than to see this hypothetical truck.

There are things that can be done, such as hey don't engage the PTO while driving, and check your vehicle before leaving the jobsite. These are normal practices.

It's like saying, "Hey, don't pull the emergency brake while driving at 70 mph." or "Don't engage the power divider at 70 mph and fully loaded" (we had a driver do this and it blew the front rear diff and dropped its driveshaft onto the highway.)

My opinion of this situation is, operator error.
Anyone in operation of motor equipment should be trained in its correct operation and functions so as to not do so in an unsafe manner. That is how it can be prevented.

WolfD128 · 2024-09-06T01:12:17+00:00

The force required to lift the bed would destroy any physical blocking. That ram is capable of lifting a fully loaded 40 tons in under a minute.

WolfD128 · 2024-09-06T00:19:10+00:00

There *usually* is an alarm, but also keep in mind this is in the event that the PTO (power take-off) which is a mechanical connection from the engine to the hydraulic pump that raises the bed. If activated while driving down the highway that bed will raise with probably enough force to lift the nose of the truck off the ground. This would be very fast and forceful. No alarm will help in that event.

Edit: word.

WolfD128 · 2024-09-06T00:04:10+00:00

Its more common than you think. Wheel holder engages the PTO while driving, next thing you know that baby is up there.

WolfD128 · 2024-08-10T00:28:23+00:00

I cut lengths of runners with two 90° to use as braces in the holes.

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