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Erik the Awful

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All the wild stuff I've seen I don't have pics of.

When I was deployed the 4-71 Detroit Diesel on a generator blew a blower seal, pumping engine oil into the crankcase. Since the engine can run on oil almost as well as it runs on diesel, it ran away. It kept chugging faster and faster until the blower blew off the side of the block. The technician ordered a new blower, bolted it on, and it fired up and ran like new. Old DDs are a pain in the butt to work on, but they're tough.

One of our planes got dropped on its nose. The technician troubleshooting a landing gear problem assumed the gear pins were installed and released the hydraulic pressure. Lots of people got in trouble for that one. The plane got repaired and is still flying. You'd be surprised to know how far the Air Force goes to keep 70 year old aircraft in the air.
 

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Some carnage from one problem I assigned my physics class today. I didn’t show the work at the end when I ended up solving for the quadratic (t=3.67 s). 18 m was the final answer during which the runner accelerates from rest to max velocity (V).

PS: The heaviest thing I lift all day is a pen. :D

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All the wild stuff I've seen I don't have pics of.

When I was deployed the 4-71 Detroit Diesel on a generator blew a blower seal, pumping engine oil into the crankcase. Since the engine can run on oil almost as well as it runs on diesel, it ran away. It kept chugging faster and faster until the blower blew off the side of the block. The technician ordered a new blower, bolted it on, and it fired up and ran like new. Old DDs are a pain in the butt to work on, but they're tough.

One of our planes got dropped on its nose. The technician troubleshooting a landing gear problem assumed the gear pins were installed and released the hydraulic pressure. Lots of people got in trouble for that one. The plane got repaired and is still flying. You'd be surprised to know how far the Air Force goes to keep 70 year old aircraft in the air.

We had a B1 develop an issue with fuel distribution. Came into work one day and the thing was sitting on the mains with the nose up in the air. That one got fixed.
 

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I used to work in a large grocery store chain, in the dairy and frozen food department, night stocking. We got leaning pallets all the time, and some nights I'd come in and be told," you'll have to stock the eggs from your backstock, the new ones got broken when the pallet fell over coming off the truck".....
That occasionally happened with other stuff too. Also, the warehouse would be in such a hurry, they'd drop stack juice or other heavy stuff on top of a pallet of yogurt and cottage cheese.....
No, I didn't buy perishables from work any more than absolutely necessary....other than me and the original department manager, no one else did the rotation properly.
Most stores are like this! When you buy some food item, particularly refrigerated items....check the sell by/use before date!
 

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Some carnage from one problem I assigned my physics class today. I didn’t show the work at the end when I ended up solving for the quadratic (t=3.67 s). 18 m was the final answer during which the runner accelerates from rest to max velocity (V).

PS: The heaviest thing I lift all day is a pen. :D

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Reading what you have on the white board made my brain hurt. I don't understand why the alphabet and math needs to be mixed together.
 

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Reading what you have on the white board made my brain hurt. I don't understand why the alphabet and math needs to be mixed together.
Does that mean that there is a formula that predicts that the energy strored in my ex wives arm when she pulls the soup can back and prepares to hit me in the head with it may deduct from the forward force and that that loss of innertia can reduce that big round dent she puts in my head?
Does that acelleration and sudden stop have any effect on the soup.
Times are rough.
If I get hit in the head with a friggen can Im gonna need that soup.
Even if it is alphabet.
 

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This is a few years old now, but the over 100ft tall tower was being opened for a shutdown and a chimney effect dried out the wet pyrophorics, which heated up and weakened the tower. All this happened within a half an hour. No one was hurt, but a few people in the area were pretty shook up.
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Does that mean that there is a formula that predicts that the energy strored in my ex wives arm when she pulls the soup can back and prepares to hit me in the head with it may deduct from the forward force and that that loss of innertia can reduce that big round dent she puts in my head?
Does that acelleration and sudden stop have any effect on the soup.
Times are rough.
If I get hit in the head with a friggen can Im gonna need that soup.
Even if it is alphabet.
LOL! There’s physics calculations for everything. Lots of variables in your scenario, but it could be done! I once helped lawyer buddy calculate the initial velocity of a client’s auto before a collision in order to show they weren’t speeding. All he had to do was present reasonable doubt to a jury.
 
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