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Posted by fenkashi on 11.19.2010, 06:16 AM:

 

It really sucks knowing exactly how bad all-nighters are for you. Stupid cell bio.


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Posted by jusomekid on 11.24.2010, 10:26 PM:

 

UGGH!
I hate my stomach! stupid pain... it's unbearable! i can't sleep at night. I need to go see a doctor... no medical insurance... >.<!!!Some of the worst days of my life.
sorry to complain. but AGH! so much pain! ..... ....... gosh. this is soooo uncomfortable.. i just puked and it made my stomach burn. and hurt. and my aching lower back... ugh.


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Posted by husky51 on 11.25.2010, 12:11 AM:

 

Jusomekid, I don't know how old you are, but you need to see a damn doctor IMMEDIATELY!!!

Most ER's will at least look at you. Worry about the bills later. It has been that way sometimes with my life and family. What is more important? Your health or money? It could be appendisitis or kidney stones, could be anything... And puking is the body's way of dealing with major, acute pain... I know that much for sure...

Good luck, guy and BIG HUGS to ya...

NOW GO!!!


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Posted by laazd, on 11.25.2010, 01:41 AM:

 

waaaaaaaah , 15cm of snow tonight :'(


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Posted by husky51 on 11.25.2010, 09:46 AM:

 

Hoping that jusomekid went to seek medical help.... concerned... But won't be online again until Friday noon or so...


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Posted by ={HSA}= MORO on 11.25.2010, 08:18 PM:

 

I need new socks. or new shoes. or go somewhere where neither are required..


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Posted by Yay! Kiki on 11.26.2010, 12:20 AM:

 

I. WANT. TO. SLEEP.

But I can't.


Posted by fenkashi on 11.26.2010, 12:48 AM:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2F2GYqgmd...ature=topvideos

...of all the ways to get a bus off the train tracks.

I can't believe this was only 2 days ago! Now it's at freezing and feels like a Chinook is coming in.


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Posted by husky51 on 11.26.2010, 05:18 PM:

 

hahaha, as a former bus driver and bus mechanic, I can relate to this... lol Having to go on breakdown roadcalls, etc. You never know just what you'll find until you get there...

In this case, once the front bus is clear of the tracks, back bus move out of the way, jack up the rear of the front bus, one side should be enough, crawl under and uncage the emergency brakes... then CAREFULLY move the bus, remember, no brakes at all now!

I remember once up in the mountains, heavy snowfall and the roads were icy. I was having a fuel problem with a bus and at one point I had to uncage the emer. brakes. We got it over to the side of the road and got it started again. I asked the driver, "Your pressure is up, are the parking brakes released?". He shouted back, "Yes!", so I adjusted the brakes. I then got behind the wheel and started down the mountain with the bus driver in my service van. (I was more experienced in the mountains) As I got onto the first major downgrade, I realized that the brakes were not working right.

Turns out the driver had been WRONG! The brakes were improperly applied while I was adjusting them, which I couldn't tell from underneath. Luckily I finally got the empty bus stopped after about a half-mile of downgrade that leveled out a bit.

After calming down and refraining from throttling the damn driver, I got them adjusted right and the rest of the ride down was more or less uneventful...

Before I had become a mechanic on the buses, I was coming down from Big Bear with a load of elementary school kids and lost the brakes almost completely... Again, luckily I was able to finally slow down enough to stop. In a situation like that, it is assinine to try and downshift, because if you miss the gear, you're in worse shape...

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Hoping jusomekid got looked at...


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Posted by jusomekid on 11.26.2010, 07:26 PM:

 

I'm still alive. Hmm.. this time i took different antacids, and more of it.. Maloox or something like that. took it before i ate instead of after.. most pains went away.. so i'm hoping it goes away... but i'm fine now.


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Posted by fenkashi on 11.26.2010, 08:42 PM:

 

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Originally posted by jusomekid
I'm still alive. Hmm.. this time i took different antacids, and more of it.. Maloox or something like that. took it before i ate instead of after.. most pains went away.. so i'm hoping it goes away... but i'm fine now.


I'm glad you're okay! My soci teacher had this story about the horrors of not having insurance and having to go the emergency room...

@Husky: lol, this one had the opposite problem...the air brakes were stuck in brake mode. xP I suppose it's better than no brakes. xD


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Posted by husky51 on 11.27.2010, 03:30 AM:

 

That is what I meant, actually. When the air brake system drops below 60 psi (normally between 110-120psi), the rear brakes go into emergency mode, so to speak and the rear brakes lock up, literally. The only way to release them is to resupply the air to back up over 60 psi again, either from an independent air supply such as a big rig tow truck or by restarting the engine and building up the air again.

The ONLY other way is to take a caging bolt and screw it into the back of the brake can (or chamber) (2 of them) and compress the massive spring that is holding the brakeshoes applied. This is a standard safety item on ALL air brake vehicles in the US and Canada. And probably in other countries as well in one form or another.

Prior to going out on the road each day, a standard safety inspection includes, in part, pumping the air down until the brakes lock up. Again, this should occur at about 55-60psi. As a former schoolbus driver, schoolbus mechanic and an vehicle safety inspector for the Calif Hwy Patrol, I have done this test hundreds, if not thousands, of times...


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Posted by Mush on 11.27.2010, 04:37 AM:

 

Oh, wow, this reminds me so much of two days ago when I was designing brakes. Yeah, when they fail, they're designed to fail "on", since it's usually better to have the brakes stuck on than to not be able to use them at all...

I guess they're not supposed to fail when you're on a train track.

I hope they got that thing out of the way! They must be really pressured for time, or else they'd have gotten a tow truck or at least lifted up the wheels. I hate to think of what ramming would do to the bus!


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Posted by husky51 on 11.27.2010, 11:38 AM:

 

It looked like an inner city bus and from the camera in the cockpit of the train, it looked like they had the time thing under control. BTW, lightly (more or less ( ) bumping the other vehicle like that wouldn't usually cause any probs... The bumpres are mounted directly to the frame rails and there is a lot of strength there.


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Posted by fenkashi on 11.27.2010, 05:54 PM:

 

Haha Husky's right. It was just out of downtown and the only real problem was that the trains were put on hold.

And yesterday, I learned that the trains in Vancouver don't have drivers!


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Posted by Mush on 11.28.2010, 12:21 AM:

 

Oh, that's funny. I'm always surprised when I go somewhere else and get on a train that does have a driver.


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Posted by husky51 on 11.28.2010, 04:31 AM:

 

Trains without drivers.... eh! lol

A couple of years ago we had a commuter train wreck down here west of LA where the engineer was actualling texting just before he ran his train into the back of a stopped freight train. Some deaths occured. No cell calls or texting is permitted on the trains, at least in the cab.

AND, since there are no drivers, it must have been a passenger recording...

dang, I sure are intelligint... lol


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Posted by fenkashi on 11.28.2010, 08:05 AM:

 

Oh no, no drivers in Vancouver. Calgary trains definitely have drivers. My friend was telling me how she was on the skytrain and it was really freaky because you can sit right at the front with the window looking out.

And the slacking off problem would be the same, because I'm thinking people are running the trains from some control center?

Random thought of the day? Why do Disney movies make me cry? Even with all their cliches and stereotypes...and the plain old cheesiness? Gah.


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Posted by Mush on 11.28.2010, 04:52 PM:

 

I think they're mostly computer-controlled, but I'm sure there are humans in a control center somewhere ready to take over if something goes wrong.

And Disney movies make us cry because they've narrowed their art into a science.


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Posted by fenkashi on 12.04.2010, 10:52 PM:

 

I wonder if the world will go out with a bang or a whimper.

Oh Eliot, why must you be so depressingly brilliant?


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