Things you know you shouldn't be doing.

[cjanota]

Sometimes we do things we know that we shouldn't. Some times you don't have the right tools and sometimes you are just lazy. I'll start off with two pictures of our "reverse press" that just happened last week. Tell us if you have any similar pictures/stories.

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[cjanota]

Sometimes we do things we know that we shouldn't. Some times you don't have the right tools and sometimes you are just lazy. I'll start off with two pictures of our "reverse press" that just happened last week. Tell us if you have any similar pictures/stories.

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[RacingManiac]

so its really that stuck eh? Did you managed to get it apart at least?

[cjanota]

Yeah, It was actually just a light press. But we had no other way to pull on it.

[M3Shark]

O man, I don't even know where to begin we have done so many things we know we should not do.

Probably our biggest is/was our engine test stand for this year. it was basically a giant bucket of water with hoses going to and from the engine that were duck taped, next to a battery that we were using to jump the starter motor (by hand no less), sitting next to a fuel tank that was using old, cracked fuel lines and vented towards the battery.

we did always make sure to have a fire extinguisher around though

[TorqueWrench]

I had one of those moments the other night where I turned to a freshman and told him "I don't want to ever catch you doing this."

Freshman was sanding down a part so that our suspension tube would fit over the connector snuggly. The part got warm when doing this and sleeved partway on perfectly, but he then let it cool on their part way and it was stuck. I could only think of one way to get it off. I am holding the connector in the water fountain with one hand and holding a heat gun an inch from the connector with the other. To add it it, I was balancing on one foot while using my knew to turn the fountain on.

What did the freshman do? Took a video of me doing this to send to his friends.

[Yellow Ranger]

Nothing like keeping your welders on their toes by keeping some brake cleaner around...

things you know you shouldn't be doing...

[Drew Price]

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Nothing like keeping your welders on their toes by keeping some brake cleaner around...
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LOL, the water cooled torches in our 400 amp tig machine like to randomly start dribbling water while being used sometimes, I usually don't notice until it I feel it running down my arm.



Best,
Drew

[J.R.]

Things you know you shouldn't be doing:

Posting the stupid things you do on this website so your school administration sees it and shuts your club down/ makes you get better insurance. Didn't we already learn that lesson from the "Roll Cage Testing" video that was up a few months back??? There is that 'L' word to worry about.

[kapps]

I've seen several of these moments. One can be seen on YouTube as 'Death of a Baja Car'. They finally got it jumping more flat this year... Another is one I really don't even want to mention but it involves a CNC mill that weighs a few tons and how we got it into our machine shop. We've done some scary things and everyone there to see the sight was amazed that everyone walked away.