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[seapotato]

Shhh!!! Haha.

I hope we never experience it.

I had a theory going way back that if enough ice melts with climate change it could lead to more quakes. Ice melting relieves a lot of mass off the land. Land tends to rise up when that happens which can displace/shift things deep down. I've seen a couple papers on this recently, so I guess others have started coming to similar conclusions. Hopefully not in our lifetimes.

Ha, yeah I definitely had some thoughts about the 60 year old concrete stacked several floors above me

 

[GTSSportCoupe]

Ha, yeah I definitely had some thoughts about the 60 year old concrete stacked several floors above me

Same at my work. 5 stories 60s concrete building. They did a reinforcing project....on the faculty office wing only! Not where I work! My plan is to exit as fast as I can. Watching videos of the major quakes in Japan, they last a couple minutes. People definitely getting out the whole time.

 

[seapotato]

Same at my work. 5 stories 60s concrete building. They did a reinforcing project....on the faculty office wing only! Not where I work! My plan is to exit as fast as I can. Watching videos of the major quakes in Japan, they last a couple minutes. People definitely getting out the whole time.

I know a guy who works at the company supplying the structural steel for the new hospital. He had full 3d plans on his phone, was pretty cool.

Should be a slight improvement in the earthquake department.

I was told I'm expected to report to whichever facility is closest if there's a disaster to which I said "expected" is an interesting choice of word...

I'll be going home thanks

 

[cruiserpilot]

I watched the whole 9 min. Seapotato has a lathe that could do this. In a land where there is no 'online' order a new one.
Trust that the welds are solid and he got enough penetration on the sides of each weld into the shaft. Interesting
nonetheless, again clever fix to an othewise unrepairable situation.
'Rebuilding and repairing broken rear axle'-

MSN

BTW, I just pulled a couple of old SF rear axles apart and aside from not being able to remove and continue to drive, they
are by far more stout than my FF. Ironically they are only 'weaker' where they are reduced to match differential input spline.
I'm not saying they are better, just interesting to do a side by side. Lets face it, 99.999% of most people don't need
the FF advantage.

 

[seapotato]

I watched the whole 9 min. Seapotato has a lathe that could do this. In a land where there is no 'online' order a new one.
Trust that the welds are solid and he got enough penetration on the sides of each weld into the shaft. Interesting
nonetheless, again clever fix to an othewise unrepairable situation.
'Rebuilding and repairing broken rear axle'-

MSN

BTW, I just pulled a couple of old SF rear axles apart and aside from not being able to remove and continue to drive, they
are by far more stout than my FF. Ironically they are only 'weaker' where they are reduced to match differential input spline.
I'm not saying they are better, just interesting to do a side by side. Lets face it, 99.999% of most people don't need
the FF advantage.

I think the weakness or tendency to fail in the same spot, is not so much that it necks down, it's that the FF can absorb shock or twist slightly over its whole length. SF it gets focused on one point, and has no give so it snaps.

 

[bikersmurf]

1) The big FF advantage, and why I have one, is that the bearing doesn't use the axle as a bearing surface.
2) Swapping out a broken 3rd member is quite quick and can be done with basic hand tools, and no jack or axle stands.

I've only had one 3rd break. Although, I can't remember which broke first the ring or the pinion. One lost a tooth or two, and it was game over for the other.

 

[cruiserpilot]

April Fools - So what's the price of gas or was this whole carbon tax drop just another f**n Liberal April Fools joke!
I'm working in Colorado Springs, reg $2.19/ US gal diesel $3.09 US gal

 

[seapotato]

April Fools - So what's the price of gas or was this whole carbon tax drop just another f**n Liberal April Fools joke!
I'm working in Colorado Springs, reg $2.19/ US gal diesel $3.09 US gal

He probably can't do anything while he's in the "caretaker" mode until the election.

 

[stevebradford]

Well Premier David Eby had said he expected gas prices to fall by about 17 cents a litre Tuesday as the impact of the tax's repeal kicked in, but price-watching websites were mostly showing smaller drops around 7 a.m.

Now the province needs to find a new tax to make up the $1.99B loss? A joint statement issued by Eby's office and the ministries of energy and finance said cancelling the tax and credit will have an estimated impact of $1.99 billion in the coming fiscal year.

 

[GTSSportCoupe]

Well Premier David Eby had said he expected gas prices to fall by about 17 cents a litre Tuesday as the impact of the tax's repeal kicked in, but price-watching websites were mostly showing smaller drops around 7 a.m.

Now the province needs to find a new tax to make up the $1.99B loss? A joint statement issued by Eby's office and the ministries of energy and finance said cancelling the tax and credit will have an estimated impact of $1.99 billion in the coming fiscal year.
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Yup; I can only imagine what might be coming. To some degree taxing fuel is not a bad idea imho. It's a luxury that most people don't use responsibly.

 

[seapotato]

Yup; I can only imagine what might be coming. To some degree taxing fuel is not a bad idea imho. It's a luxury that most people don't use responsibly.

Yeah, that tax was never going to survive the election.
Probably shortsighted but
Peepee has spent years bitching about it, so it was a bit of an albatross for Carney.
He's doomed either way but he had zero chance if he didn't cut it.

it was actually kinda funny seeing pp have to change his whole ad campaign when the repeal was announced

 

[stevebradford]

Yup; I can only imagine what might be coming. To some degree taxing fuel is not a bad idea imho. It's a luxury that most people don't use responsibly.

Unfortunately commercial carbon tax didn’t get dropped the one that really makes living more expensive. From the farmer being taxed on the fuel used in his tractor and the truck driver delivering goods to the the retailers. Fuel being the very tip of any inflation pyramid, all those extra costs get passed on to the end consumer.

 

[bikersmurf]

That sucks… people think they are getting a break but instead we are being stabbed in the back while we count the pennies we save.

 

[seapotato]

That sucks… people think they are getting a break but instead we are being stabbed in the back while we count the pennies we save.

That's the problem with elections.

Doesn't matter who you vote for, the government always wins.


At least our upcoming one isn't as cut and dried as the one our neighbours ****ed up recently.

 

[cruiserpilot]

Proof - Toyota has completely lost its way in N America because this is NOT a truck. It’s a f*n mall crawler meant to cause devastating injuries to anything around when it crashes on the I35 going thru Austin at 95 mph. This $$ in US too, so that's too much to even bother with converting for here. But it’s not a truck.

 

[cruiserpilot]

@JimJ this is a truck. The Chinook body taken to gigantic proportions. My closest estimate is 13’ high! In front of a speed shop. There is evidence of intercooler tubing if ya look close. But this is a monster and the weirdness that is everywhere down here sometimes.

 

[GTSSportCoupe]

Proof - Toyota has completely lost its way in N America because this is NOT a truck. It’s a f*n mall crawler meant to cause devastating injuries to anything around when it crashes on the I35 going thru Austin at 95 mph. This $$ in US too, so that's too much to even bother with converting for here. But it’s not a truck.

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The lx450 (80 series), lx470 (100 series), lx570 (200 series) all looked dumb too, but are actually still some of the best vehicles ever built. I have not read about 300 series, but something tells me under the facade of plastic is probably still an exceptional vehicle.

 

[seapotato]

@JimJ this is a truck. The Chinook body taken to gigantic proportions. My closest estimate is 13’ high! In front of a speed shop. There is evidence of intercooler tubing if ya look close. But this is a monster and the weirdness that is everywhere down here sometimes.
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There's something a bit like that down the road from me.
Not as big, on a Ford truck chassis not a van. Very much looks like a Ford version of the Chinook.

 

[bladedog]

Proof - Toyota has completely lost its way in N America because this is NOT a truck. It’s a f*n mall crawler meant to cause devastating injuries to anything around when it crashes on the I35 going thru Austin at 95 mph. This $$ in US too, so that's too much to even bother with converting for here. But it’s not a truck.

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Now, now... don't be so angry. Just rip off the plastic bumpers front and back and replace with something more appropriate. We've been trying to get @Ol Yeller to do that for years with his wife's Lexus GX that he's sometimes brought wheeling!

 

[seapotato]

Now, now... don't be so angry. Just rip off the plastic bumpers front and back and replace with something more appropriate. We've been trying to get @Ol Yeller to do that for years with his wife's Lexus GX that he's sometimes brought wheeling!

Lol, I think those plastic bumpers would remove themselves pretty quickly