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MaverickSawyer
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Fronts have been discs for a LONG time, but rear discs are the last 10 years or so, because of the heavier loads they wind up hauling.
As for damaging the calipers, I doubt it. you would have to either:
-warp the rotors so badly that they rub the calipers, which would seize the brakes up in a heartbeat, or
- wear ALL THE WAY THROUGH the pads and their backing materials... which would be rather remarkable.
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Rear drum brakes are still commonly seen on some variants of b-segment and smaller cars in Europe (think Fiesta/Polo/Ibiza) and light commercial vehicles.
Thunder Chicken
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Drum brakes are cheaper and simpler than disk brakes, but they don't have the same braking capacity as disk brakes. For low end vehicles, you tend to see disk brakes in front (where they are more effective), drums in the rear (because less braking load, and reduced cost).
You tend to see disk brakes front and back on higher end vehicles where performance trumps cost.
You tend to see disk brakes front and back on higher end vehicles where performance trumps cost.
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Andy44
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A similar map of the USA would be centered on New Jersey, which is where all the Italian-Americans live, and where there is a good Italian restaurant on every corner.
Thunder Chicken
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I'd refine that to North New Jersey, closer to the tri-state area.
Although, I don't know if any food in America actually gets to the biotoxic stage of Surströmming. The Norwegian bachelor farmers in Minnesota still do lutefisk, but that is basically just dried whitefish and lye. It is merely sad, not toxic.
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ISProgram
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Well, I like my fake pizza dammit!
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Surströmming was responsible for a women to be thrown out of her rented flat, after she had opened a tin of it in the stairwell. The case went even to court and things looked pretty favorable for her... until she opened a tin in court.
ISProgram
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Apparently when you eat that thing, it's CHALLENGING to vomit first after just the FIRST bite, as opposed to before.
Well. According to that culinary map, it's between "Aesthetically Tasteless" and "Toxic", so not far off.
Well. According to that culinary map, it's between "Aesthetically Tasteless" and "Toxic", so not far off.
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Yup, that's one (of three) LP turbines.
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The blue zone is for loading and unloading only, right?
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Just great... I'm in a state now where the yackety sax starts playing in my head as soon as I hear the word "refactoring" :facepalm:
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No, it is the whole zone where the maintenance takes part - its sticky blue mats everywhere from the foreground to the turbine cases. There are used for removing possible contamination from shoes and wheels and for avoiding early maintenance of the floor below.
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Turbine, Turbine! Here's one we did earlier...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbinia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5bQqih0GEA
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MaverickSawyer
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Also lets you see if you dropped that little 1/4" nut you're trying to fit onto a stud inside of the current project, whether it be a low-pressure steam turbine, a small gas turbine, or a 250,000 lbf rocket engine...
