Comments by "spaceflight101" (@spaceflight1019) on "Rainman Ray's Repairs" channel.

  1. Helpful hint: when attempting to loosen rusted fasteners, a six-pointed socket or box end is far less likely to round the fastener off than a 12 point or adjustable wrench.
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  2. Helpful hint: if the lower control arm is horizontal, there is no side load on the rear bushing and the vertical bolt will easily drop out, especially if an uncovered floor drain is close by.
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  3. Every time you say "I'm just gonna go ahead..." I'm hearing Bill Lumbergh. When I worked at a power plant we had brass tools for working on the hydrogen and natural gas systems. Your tool man should be able to get you a brass drift for lock ring removal. One more hint: when working with flammable stuff ALWAYS have a proper fire extinguisher nearby. Things can turn to crap in a New York second with fuels.
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  4. "Oh no!" "WTF was that?!" "The motor. We've thrown a rod!" "Is that serious?" "Yup."
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  5. Not really. Ray did all of the detective work, if I owned the truck I'd replace the parts myself.
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  6.  @acheeseburger9645  Let me tell you a story. After 18 years at Westinghouse I was building gas turbine power plants for $19.50 an hour, less than J.B. Hunt was paying. When my boss told me to go drive a truck I quit without notice and, because they weren't interested in upgrading to the new ISO standards all of their customers came to my new employer. Same service, lower price, better quality. Five years later that shop closed. Sometimes you don't have to work on revenge, it just happens.
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  7. Actually, if your battery terminals are that corroded it's a good idea to clean the visible corrosion with baking soda and water, then remove the terminal clamps and clean them internally.
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  8. Anti-seize compound does the very same thing...it gets everywhere!
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  9. In the 1980s instrumentation that used a nuclear source to measure density of liquids became popular. As those plants were abandoned and eventually scrapped the sources found their way into the scrap chain. After an incident involving the radioactive contamination of a steel mill scrapyards were forced to install radiation detectors.
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  10. When the time per task books are written the vehicles used are fresh from the assembly line and have zero corrosion.
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  11. You forgot #1: make sure that the trailer frame is independently grounded via a separate ground rod. That way, if the trailer frame became energized grabbing the door handle wouldn't put you in the circuit.
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  12. It's this simple: when you're on the clock you do what your boss tells you to do. When you're off the clock then you can do whatever you want to do. Getting arrested or thrown off the jobsite and getting the company thrown off the jobsite is not cool.
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  13. Did it smell like booze when you opened the door? What us old-timers did to find which circuit was causing the problem was to connect a 12 volt test light between the battery and one of the main leads. Remove all of the fuses in case there are multiple problems. Replace them one at a time until the light illuminates. Replace the remaining fuses and troubleshoot the ones that light the light.
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  14. "I'm a doctor, Jim, not a miracle worker!"
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  15.  @noworriesmate5903  Ray needs to find a buddy who either is an electrician or knows one.
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  16.  @mikejacob3536  I can't say if the state Ray works in has any kind of state inspection for motor vehicle, but in Pennsylvania what we saw here is quite common. The emission inspection comes first. If that fails you can't get the safety inspection done. If the safety inspection fails you can either have the inspection mechanic do the work or take it to have it fixed, do the work yourself and pay for another inspection.
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  17. People have this misconception that because they bought a welder at Harbor Freight that it makes them a welder. After nearly 50 years of watching people weld everything from natural gas transmission pipelines to power station boiler tubes I can tell you that it doesn't. It takes years of practice and experience. Even at that there are various levels of certification for various jobs. Ray, you have nothing to be ashamed of. When the power station offered a welding course I declined. I was an Instrument Repairman and Electrician, and we don't lean into the arc, we make the arcing stop.
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  18.  @lgninjalo  I beg to differ with you. I used to be an E&I tech at a power station. My boss was an IBEW Local 5 member. The power station was IBEW Local 29. Before an outage, I was tasked with connection of shower trailers to 240 volt breaker panels. We ran 4 conductor feeders, black, white, red, green. All were properly connected. My boss instructed me to ground the trailer frames via a separate ground rod. He said that The Code mandated this. Doing this eliminated any possibility of the trailer body and frame becoming energized and a worker completing the circuit by grabbing the door handle.
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  19. As someone once told me, sometimes you gotta talk to the parts!
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  20. That truck was way past "rode hard and put away wet"!
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  21. Well, the "DOOO-DEE-DOOO" should be louder..
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  22. Gotta put the first dollar in the frame in the office!
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  23. Good luck with that! "Good Stuff Cheap" replaced "United We Stand" a long time ago.
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  24. Permatex makes this spray can stuff called "Hi-Tack" that's really good at keeping gaskets in place while you assemble things. Did we coat the crankshaft seal with Vaseline prior to assembling?
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  25. Cars turn into ovens very quickly in Florida.
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  26. Yes, but by replacing a CVT with another one, in the immortal words of Indiana Jones' father, our situation has not improved.
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  27. I had a light like that one when I worked at the power station. It survived three multi-floor drops. The fourth one did it in. I would have made a video of an average power station Electrical and Instrumentation tech day but the noise level was too high.
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  28. ​ @tommcintosh7241  There is a phrase, spoken by Engineer Scotty, that seriously applies to modern cars: "The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain."
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  29.  @IR-nq4qv  Nitrogen is subject to the Ideal Gas Law like every other gas. Its advantage lies in the fact that it has zero moisture and the change in pressure versus temperature is predictable.
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  30. Temporal displacement is often accompanied by vibration.
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  31. 20 years ago my sister was driving a 90s Firebird with the 5.0 V8 and throttle body EFI. It had a module problem. She bought a new Pep Boys module for around $300 that didn't solve the problem. I tried troubleshooting it but took detailed notes. The mechanic at the local Pontiac dealership read the notes and told me that I needed a new module. I balked because I had already done that. When the service manager said, in writing, that they'd cover the cost of the module if it wasn't the problem I said Ok. A genuine GM Goodwrench module fixed the problem. She moved to Florida. A year later the car broke in half after crossing railroad tracks, thanks to western New York road salt.
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  32. NASA uses the name for tools used to work on the Hubble Space Telescope. They are socket drivers that have a planetary gearset system that boosts their torque output while minimizing the amount of force that a spacewalking astronaut has to put into the tool.
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  33. Did I miss where he checked the oil level?
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  34. "Hello, Ray's Auto Clinic. Yes, of course, he's serious. You do? You have? No kidding? Let me slot you in for tomorrow. Of course he'll be totally discreet. Thank you!" (Rings bell) "WE GOT ONE!"
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  35. Wasn't north of the Florida-Georgia line ever.
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  36. No, it's more like "Jeep made this easy to service...said no one ever!" These are meant to be traded in after the lease is up, nothing more.
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  37. Looking forward to seeing that Corvette on the lift.
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  38. That's Jack-Jack.
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  39.  @GreenAppelPie  but, like the fire ants, skeeters, love bugs, and no-see-ums, they'll be back.
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  40.  @91TITANS  Orange? I'm used to black-white-red-green for 240.
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  41. ​ @dbeckley43 Spray the bolt with freeze spray or an inverted can of canned air. -40, then spray it with PB. Repeat it a few times. I've been able to unscrew studs by hand on industrial valves.
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  42.  @KendrasEdge757  We we're listening to the STS-125 mission in the shop and when one of the astronauts asked for a "torque enhancer" and the other one asked "3 or 6 foot?" one of the guys believed that he was slipping a pipe over the end of the wrench.
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  43. Synchronicity...many miles away, a November gale is forecast to lash Lake Superior with winds to 55 knots and 18 foot wave heights...the exact same scenario that doomed the Edmund Fitzgerald and her 29 man crew on November 10th, 1975.
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  44. I vote for ctrl-alt-del with the multitude of codes. Almost looks like a power surge. "Here's the plan, here's what I'm going to do...leave the keys in it and the gate unlocked and go home!"
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  45. It's the power station paradigm, or Chuck Noll's favorite saying: "Whatever it takes!"
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  46. ​​ @jhonditch4269 Ever think that the engineering team that designed the vehicle might have known what they were doing?
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  47. 1967 Ford F-100. 352 under the hood, three on the tree. Pull out the choke knob, pump the gas pedal twice, hit the starter. When it fires push the choke knob in about halfway and let it warm up for a few minutes. Once underway push the choke knob in.
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  48. Oh yeah, especially when everyone else said "you'll never get it" just before you got it.
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  49. It all depends on the filter orientation. If you're going to spill out whatever you put in then it's not worth the effort.
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  50. Statler: "It's in mint condition!" Waldorf: "Yeah, for Pittsburgh!" (both men laughing)
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