I find this strangely amusing: tires vs. rims, aluminium vs. aluminum, they got each other’s backs. Aluminum sound like the Muppet song Mananana

would’ve mounted it closer to the wall and used a pivoting motion(like a trap door in the ceiling) rather than an up-down slider. Using linear actuators the build would be pretty simple after a bit of CAD.

Festo did it better with pneumatic muscles.

The video gives the impression that they didn’t bother trying to call the owner before smashing glass, is this the case or regular procedure?
Calling the owner, demanding that they be on scene within 5 min, with an ultimatum to smash the window if they’re not, would seem like a more sensible approach.
Still, fining…

Want to heat up a sealed bearing, to get it to fit on an axle, without melting the plastic with a torch? Wrap the bearing in wet tissue paper and heat it up in a microwave oven, the water will keep it from sparking and while turning into steam it heats the bearing up to a toasty ~100 degrees celsius - Bob’s your uncle.

Love the casual basketball hoop in the background, helps remind that a trip to the Antarctic - harsh as it might be - isn’t without the occasional leisure activities

Multiwindow has been in Samsung Notes for many years. TBH it’s quite redundant.

As an engineering student I was thinking just that

Harris is charming as f**k and as car savvy as they come and he being funny and enjoyable to watch doesn’t rest on silly faces and juvenile or snarky comments as the old crew did. Imo he alone brings more to the table than the pensioner crew combined: good journalism-/driving skill, knowledge and class - and all in a…

Finn #3 here: Right and wrong, the concept came from Germany, but alas, the filling is not chocolate but rather a chocolate flavored nougat.

Neither is Karelia :/

I’m pretty sure that the last one (the techno-maggot-bear-skull-tentacle-thing) doesn’t just remind me of, but is in fact pretty much lifted straight from John Carpenter’s The Thing (from the scene where the “dog-thing” has killed the huskies in the kennel and is assimilating before being driven off by the…

Not a fan of the biohazard rims. What is it with Swedes and tri-spoked rims?

Nothing is more annoying for a mechanic than a know-it-all customer oogling at their work, getting in the way and/or being a supervisor. This is why most shops prohibit customers from even entering the work area - most claim this is due to legal-, insurance- or safety reasons

sincerely
a motorcycle mechanic

It's a pick-up, of course it looks ridiculous!
Like incest and shotgun weddings incarnated.

This is from Finland, (and I DO apologize for my countryman's terrible taste in white trash Finnish music) but alas, not a poor country.
I'd recon those tires will most likely be used in amateur rally/folkrace.
The sign on the background says "car disposal shop" so most likely they are re-purposing old tires from…

Looks silly with tose huge rims, everything in moderation, even wheel size

Finland mentioned! Torilla tavataan :D
BTW some of the translations are pretty misleading!

Proud to have a Finnish driver like Jari-Matti.
Suomi mainittu, torilla tavataan!