The Random Image Thread (keeping it PG-13 at the worst)
ukimalefu wrote:
That's .... ... Strangely intriguing. ....kind of... want. ...kind of.
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radarman wrote:
I like that
Sean wrote:ukimalefu wrote:
That's .... ... Strangely intriguing. ....kind of... want. ...kind of.
Yeah, looks "interesting", but I'm not sure about its safety, you know, impact resistance.
Kirk?
Elegant but overly complex and likely to be a reliability problem. A complex mechanism stowing the door underneath the car? Where all that road dirt and salt collect? Subject to rocks and other things denting the mechanism? Bad idea
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An aluminum body vehicle finally making it to mainstream. Huzzah.
I had a hard time tracking down which aluminum alloys Ford is using. All I could find mentioned are 6000 Series and 5000 Series. There's a lot of options in those two series. All will have good to excellent corrosion resistance. I'm going to hazard a guess they're probably using 5032 or 5038 for the body panels. Those form easily and would have nice surface finish for painting. They're probably using 6061 or 6063 for the structure as they can be solution treated for high strength (relative to other aluminum alloys of course). If they need to do any brazing to join panels, the 3000 series alloys would work nicely.
I had a hard time tracking down which aluminum alloys Ford is using. All I could find mentioned are 6000 Series and 5000 Series. There's a lot of options in those two series. All will have good to excellent corrosion resistance. I'm going to hazard a guess they're probably using 5032 or 5038 for the body panels. Those form easily and would have nice surface finish for painting. They're probably using 6061 or 6063 for the structure as they can be solution treated for high strength (relative to other aluminum alloys of course). If they need to do any brazing to join panels, the 3000 series alloys would work nicely.
Kirk wrote: I've driven this stretch of the I-10. The moral of the story is to get (far) off the damn road if you're going to stop.
It's not just dust storms you have to watch out for. When I was just starting my freshman year of college, a sudden fog bank rolled in over I-40 between Little Rock and Conway. Apparently it all started when a compact car slammed on their brakes, not thinking about the dozen or so tractor trailer rigs behind them.
By the time we got through, they had cleared most of the debris and started burying a couple dozen head of cattle in the median. We found out later that they found a minivan in the wreckage. It took a while, because it had been between two of the rigs (both of which burned to the ground). The occupants were identified through the VIN on their vehicle and dental records because there wasn't enough left of them to scrape into a Sucrets box (almost literally)
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Ford is subsidizing licensed repair shops for the training and expenses required to work aluminum bodies
Aluminum welding ain't steel.
Aluminum welding ain't steel.
don't care what it is made of or if it's fueled by the tears of dying baby seals.
That's a giant stick fiddling ugly monster.
If Godzilla saw it, he would avoid stepping on it because of how ugly it is.
That's a giant stick fiddling ugly monster.
If Godzilla saw it, he would avoid stepping on it because of how ugly it is.
Kirk wrote: Yeah, these aluminum alloys are a Group IV weldment. Everything changes.
So I expect lots of brazing instead.
There are already a lot of aluminum hoods and such, very little repair to them. It's more if the dent is bad enough you replace the entire thing.
If a boat is a hole in the water you throw money in, do you really want your ship to come in?
radarman wrote:
I have several of those. Fire melts the retainer holding the spring arm back and the arm shatters the bottom of the glass stem under the globe, dumping the contents on the fire. When they put our new furnace in back in 2003, one of the guys working on it smacked it with his head and broke the one hanging above the old furnace, dumping it all down his back. He tore off his coat and shirt and ran outside and rolled in the snow because he didn't know what chemicals may be in it. They called poison control and they told my dad to evacuate the house until they could figure it out. They finally said it was probably alcohol and water and not to worry about it. After making my 95 year old grandma sit outside in the cold for over an hour, of course...
"Don't curse the farmer with your mouth full."
Ah, cows. A thousand roast beef sandwiches wrapped in a gorgeous leather coat.
Ah, cows. A thousand roast beef sandwiches wrapped in a gorgeous leather coat.
I believe those things were intended to be thrown into the base of a fire. They contained CTC or carbon tetrachloride, which is, in fact, fairly toxic.
I'm sorry Dave...
mmaverick wrote:TOS wrote: sony was awesome in the 80s
man, what happened to them
They started treating their customers like criminals instead of producing better products.
They bought what became Sony Studios. Their electronics division pretty much went to crap after that got fully integrated. Seriously, if they had stuck with providing decent equipment, instead of kowtowing to the studio side of the house, they would probably still be on top, if from brand recognition alone.
radarman wrote:mmaverick wrote:TOS wrote: sony was awesome in the 80s
man, what happened to them
They started treating their customers like criminals instead of producing better products.
They bought what became Sony Studios. Their electronics division pretty much went to crap after that got fully integrated. Seriously, if they had stuck with providing decent equipment, instead of kowtowing to the studio side of the house, they would probably still be on top, if from brand recognition alone.
yeah i think that was the deciding factor ... they never should have bought that studio
also their obsession with going all apple with their own ecosystem but being completely useless with software
"TOS ain’t havin no horserace round here. “Policies” is the coin of the realm." -- iDaemon
I thought they lost those...
I'm sorry Dave...
