cool
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 23:35 (nine years ago) link
http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-bertha/
― 龜, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 12:15 (nine years ago) link
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--3SkYaW6P--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/1285811036231333733.gif
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 7 June 2015 15:37 (nine years ago) link
https://twitter.com/nbashaw/status/615021067338403840
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 28 June 2015 14:46 (eight years ago) link
good account caek
http://i.imgur.com/mTLFVur.png
― 龜, Monday, 6 July 2015 20:36 (eight years ago) link
lol, literally just coming here to post that too
so cool
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Monday, 6 July 2015 20:38 (eight years ago) link
i like that it's called 'troll a'
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 22:26 (eight years ago) link
Those stilts are straight from a Chris Foss piece
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 23:29 (eight years ago) link
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, July 7, 2015 6:26 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
good place to set up a colony of noize dudes
― 龜, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 00:41 (eight years ago) link
http://gizmodo.com/these-are-the-sad-remains-of-the-soviet-space-shuttle-p-1710827956
http://i.imgur.com/MHtvdSk.jpg
― 龜, Sunday, 26 July 2015 19:39 (eight years ago) link
crane lifting a crane lifting a crane lifting a crane
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--IHGBEqWq--/1375638805181310248.gif
― ledge, Sunday, 9 August 2015 21:07 (eight years ago) link
http://sploid.gizmodo.com/a-giant-crane-lifting-a-huge-crane-lifting-a-big-crane-1722806551
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--j9HnbX26--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/1371242170630926116.jpg
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Monday, 10 August 2015 18:59 (eight years ago) link
Does this go here? "High Voltage Marx and Tesla Generators Research Facility":
https://img.rt.com/files/news/29/ad/00/00/tesla-coil-marx-generator.jpg
http://www.rt.com/news/170704-tesla-tower-lightning-russia/http://www.rt.com/news/181748-tesla-marx-generator-lightning/
― salsa shark, Tuesday, 11 August 2015 18:01 (eight years ago) link
xp ha, I did think of that shortly after. Could do without the extra shopped panels though.
― ledge, Tuesday, 11 August 2015 21:20 (eight years ago) link
oh I only just noticed that, bah
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Wednesday, 12 August 2015 09:28 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/UOXMc6X.gif
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 28 October 2015 18:04 (eight years ago) link
https://giant.gfycat.com/BaggyCostlyDrongo.gif
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 10 December 2015 20:56 (eight years ago) link
https://giant.gfycat.com/AdmirableHideousChafer.gif
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 28 January 2016 18:05 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-XlbUDPt7A
― 龜, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 13:02 (eight years ago) link
reminds me of bucket's observation in Murphy that the rocking chair is the only thing that gets faster and faster and faster and then stops. tho more terrifying. something essential about it made me think 'oh god, life'.
― Fizzles, Monday, 23 May 2016 10:36 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/hkPZ5a1.gif
― 龜, Thursday, 16 June 2016 03:37 (seven years ago) link
http://media.gizmodo.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/loczr2lukuqnouxaxq0w.gif
(look carefully and you'll notice that some of these gears are turning in the same direction as their neighbours...)
― koogs, Thursday, 16 June 2016 09:13 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/4MUVq4y.gif
― 龜, Thursday, 14 July 2016 13:11 (seven years ago) link
https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--AzVwHsci--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/bhn9yxqvs1aeybjhtzie.png
http://gizmodo.com/a-17-000-ton-oil-rig-ran-aground-on-a-beach-1785029783
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 9 August 2016 17:11 (seven years ago) link
*thumbs up*
― 龜, Tuesday, 9 August 2016 17:40 (seven years ago) link
that picture is amazing
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 9 August 2016 17:51 (seven years ago) link
http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/08/20/atomic-light-akademgorodok-laboratories-scientists/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 28 August 2016 21:51 (seven years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/Machine1806/videos/398237297186905/?hc_ref=NEWSFEED
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 15 January 2017 16:24 (seven years ago) link
Brutal. Why didn't they just cast it to that shape in the first place though?
― brekekekexit collapse collapse (ledge), Sunday, 15 January 2017 17:16 (seven years ago) link
"Chinese steelworkers hate this one neat trick!"
― brekekekexit collapse collapse (ledge), Sunday, 15 January 2017 18:04 (seven years ago) link
yeah, like the anchor chain upthread it's a striking combination of sublime machinery and a surprising dependence on manual labour
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 15 January 2017 18:29 (seven years ago) link
Why didn't they just cast it to that shape in the first place though?
Two thoughts. China spent decades as a low-capitalized nation with massive amounts of manpower and a full employment policy, and there are probably still many remnants of that economy left in the hinterlands. It is also possible that the tensile strength of the metal (steel?) may be much higher when it is beaten into shape rather than cast. But I am not a metallurgist.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Sunday, 15 January 2017 19:09 (seven years ago) link
...
― 龜, Sunday, 15 January 2017 23:18 (seven years ago) link
ime forgings normally have less surface porosity, finer grain structure, higher tensile strength, better fatigue life/strength, and greater ductility than castings
― Roberto Spiralli, Sunday, 15 January 2017 23:30 (seven years ago) link
yup
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_hardening
― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Monday, 16 January 2017 00:24 (seven years ago) link
y'all need to watch more Science Channel
― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Monday, 16 January 2017 00:27 (seven years ago) link
What is it a wheel for?
Typical train wheels are cast as one piece but the load bearing bit, the tyre, is a band that is added later. I remember them showing a short piece about this on Blue Peter about 100 years ago. They heat it up to get it on and it contacts as it cools. Pic here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_wheel
That goes on to say that they sometimes don't use tyres any more. And one of those pictures suggests that the flange is part of the tyre.
― koogs, Monday, 16 January 2017 06:48 (seven years ago) link
garu g to thread
― the late great, Monday, 16 January 2017 07:51 (seven years ago) link
It's so funny that you posted that bc my dad at Christmas spent about 45 mins telling me about being in an open-face forging operation in the mid-80s before it went out of business, and how the steam power hammers were 3 stories tall -- one story underground and two above. And the shop had 6 of them. He remembered a lot of details and they made flanges much like the one in that video, by his description. Only without forklifts.
― If authoritarianism is Romania's ironing board, then (in orbit), Monday, 16 January 2017 23:54 (seven years ago) link
I thought blacksmiths shops were supposed to be dark so you could tell how hot the metal was by the color it glowed. (This was confirmed for me by an actual blacksmith last week.) But I suppose needs must.
The one detail that wasn't in the Chinese video is that my dad says the scale--the oxidized impurities that flake off after each hammer blow--has to be swept away or else it gets stamped back into the metal. So a guy with a broom would sweep the surface in a synchronized pattern between hammer blows but every time the hot metal would make his broom catch on fire, so he'd throw it into a bucket of water. And then again. And again. Etc.
It sounded very exciting, albeit noisy.
― If authoritarianism is Romania's ironing board, then (in orbit), Monday, 16 January 2017 23:56 (seven years ago) link
ha! wow
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 02:44 (seven years ago) link
I correct myself, it's called open-die forging according to the internet, because there's no recessed shape that you're forcing it into. Instead the metal is taking whatever shape it will under the force of the hammer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forging#Open-die_drop_forging
Anyway he said it stopped being desirable when the Japanese (I think) invented a kind of steel that could be stamped out and have the same strength and grain characteristics that had been achieved by forging without all the mess and labor and, well, actual forging. So the operation was shuttered before the end of the '80s and all those men who had made their lifetimes' craft of that work were unemployable. And it will never come back.
Dinner conversation at my house is just riveting obv.
― If authoritarianism is Romania's ironing board, then (in orbit), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 02:54 (seven years ago) link
I see what you did there, dad.
― pplains, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 02:59 (seven years ago) link
this is extremely messed up and should be illegal
https://twitter.com/MachinePix/status/833764654308405248
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 20 February 2017 20:00 (seven years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/Mp40luu.gif
― 龜, Friday, 14 April 2017 15:02 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VMQRhWGflg
― 龜, Sunday, 4 June 2017 17:43 (seven years ago) link
I used to get queasy working at 50 ft type heights, jeez imagine being an ant on that site. I could just imagine you have broke much sweat completing some work at absolutely terrifying heights, and then you take a week off sick before the clerk of works can hand you a snag sheet!
― calzino, Sunday, 4 June 2017 21:39 (seven years ago) link
thred:
An excavator mulcher can quickly clear land. pic.twitter.com/hf1lbvJaBC— Machine Pix (@MachinePix) February 19, 2016
― ein Sexmonster (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 22:28 (six years ago) link
http://assets.atlasobscura.com/media/W1siZiIsInVwbG9hZHMvYXNzZXRzL2QyODNjZGFlZWNiOTA3OTA0MF8xMDg1NTYzNzkyNF82NjFkYTQ0MzIwX28uanBnIl0sWyJwIiwiY29udmVydCIsIi1xdWFsaXR5IDgxIC1hdXRvLW9yaWVudCJdLFsicCIsInRodW1iIiwiMTI4MHg-Il1d/10855637924_661da44320_o.jpg
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/flip-ocean-research-platform-scripps?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=atlas-page
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 8 August 2017 20:02 (six years ago) link