Comments on: Freeze the balls off a brass monkey.

By: wimminz

wimminz — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 20:03:51 +0000

Nope, absolutely not…

1/ ***ALWAYS*** ensure that the old O ring came off with the filter, ALL of it.

2/ ***ALWAYS*** wipe some oil on the new O ring to help it seal and seat.

3/ ***ALWAYS*** double check it with the engine running and a paper towel to ensure there are zero leaks

*GOOD* oil changed *REGULARLY* with the filter is the cheapest and best engineering maintenance you can do in an engine, even if you do nothing else good filters and a good oil like mobil 1 changed every 5000 miles will save you far more money than it will ever cost

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 19:11:49 +0000

Hmm, I don’t remember Dad telling me to ever pre-fill a filter or not when I was a kid. I guess we were just so ignorant that the idea of prefilling didn’t even cross our minds. Now, I WAS told to rub a thin coating of fresh oil on the rubber seal of the filter, I guess the idea was that you’d have an easier time of tightening the new filter on. I’ve never had any leaks after doing an oil change so I guess it didn’t hurt anything. You’re the expert though. Am I a cunt if I apply a thin coating of oil onto the rubber seal of a filter?

By: wimminz

wimminz — Mon, 03 Apr 2017 14:06:23 +0000

By: wimminz

wimminz — Mon, 03 Apr 2017 14:05:43 +0000

also it was a clear dry day with limited humidity…. you never see this shit demonstrated on days with high humidity or even rain.

I operate a laser daily, the beam produced is the same in properties as this stuff, I can *measure* the power absorbed by the atmosphere on a humid day as opposed to a dry day, and beam travel really doesn’t exceed two metres.

By: wimminz

wimminz — Mon, 03 Apr 2017 14:02:02 +0000

1/ a limited “demonstration” two surface vessels + curvature of the earth = limited range
2/ two surface vessels = very limited target speed or vector changes
3/ the “target damage” very briefly visible at 0:59 seconds is not consistent with a laser.
4/ the “weapon” itself pans around like a home hobby robot or a manually controlled camera mount, servo controlled systems just don’t move like that, and they just don’t move that slow.
5/ a youtube video by itself proves nothing, video is easy to fake and easy to claim it is something other than what it is.

The metal plate shows clear deformation, either from a projectile or from an attached charge, I can easily belive a set up target complete with an attached charge that only needed a laser beam to raise the temp to an ignition point on a primer, there are a lot of things that that is, but a laser weapon is one of the things it is not.

And finally esther, in the video there is a water splash a couple of hundred yards to the right of the frame, port side of the target, that can only be caused by a solid object travelling at some speed, a laser beam is a massless beam, not a solid object.

The brief flare visible in the video is consistent with other laser weapon videos that I have seen, and is nconcurrent with my primer / explosive ignition hypothesis above, I’ll see you and raise you with another entirely arbitrary and entirely ficticious scenario for a real world test, and despite the hype and claims you can see it *barely* gets through the thin sheet metal of a car bonnet and “mission accomplished” is cooking the electronics underneath and killing the engine… No actual range is given, note that the vehcile has to be both stationary and elevated to maintain any kind of target lock, and note that unlike the rest of the body panels of the vehicle the bonnet has again been pre-prepped, another “demonstration” that would be easy to fake with a primer compound of some sort and a thermite compound of some sort, all dressed up to look like old paint.

By: jb

jb — Mon, 03 Apr 2017 10:53:29 +0000

As your own maths shows, you don’t need Megawatt lasers to be effective weapons – a BMG round is highly effective with kJ of energy..
The US NAVY has been burning holes and blowing up targets at a distance (in the air and on water) with a 30kilowatt laser weapon system installed on USS Ponce .. since 2014. See video.
Not even getting into the utility of “dazzle” (blinding) of manned & unmanned vehicles in war.
Also: waaaaay way cheaper to fire than conventional ordnance especially versus e.g poorly armoured pirates / goatherds with AK47s

By: hans

hans — Sun, 02 Apr 2017 09:54:10 +0000

Also I think the Ruskies have you beat in the drunken shit-idea department.

By: hans

hans — Sat, 01 Apr 2017 02:22:03 +0000