Houston we haz a Problem
 

well it was Monday today , i actualy got to say " Well There's your problem !!!!!"
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Yes those are Chips in a Baggie insted of on the board
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A job that got put off from last week untill today , untill the above pics ,
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Those are Load cells from a truck scale , approx 4.5 inches of SOLID HARD CORP Stainless Alloy , I have NO IDEA how they managed to Rip them ASUNDER like this ( the trucker said the scale went POW !!!)

Busy F**KING week so far !!!!

Yeah. Holy crap. I'm pretty sure they ain't supposed to do that.

Maybe the circuit board was one of them radio shack kits.

Shawnee could solder all those bad boys in place for you, but the broken load cells are wild. They snapped so cleanly.

To military specifications, even. :)

Gotta admit...manufacturing, mechanics stuff, still fascinates me.

Those load cells ... omg.

They look rusty and badly maintained, is that right, Zippy?

Zip, are the pics rotated 90 degrees ?
That is, so the cells are oriented like this:

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I'm guessing the truck was moving onto the scale when the driver
slammed on his brakes, and shoved the platform horizontally.

These are a different type load cell , they sit horizontal , and yes Zen the Whole scale is rusty , this is a Bulk Fertilizer place , they bring in barges of the Nasty stuff and ship it out in trucks and rail cars , the Whole place is so rusty they have a SHED WATCH if the winds are going to be over a certin speed !!!

I bet that fucker went pow.

Prolly still echoing.

Ok it does go POW , we Both heard it today !!
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Zen said "They look rusty and badly maintained, is that right, Zippy? "
Look closely at this Pic , All that aint mud its Urea , Verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry Corrosive , and those scales are "CLEAN "
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These cables were installed Tuesday of this week
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Damn that must have been a smelly job, too. Did they have a sump they hadn't pumped out in years?

Yuck.

Wow, what a mess. Pays the bills though. :)

Hey it could be worse , it could be pig Shit ( and yes Been there done that , Burned the clothes to prove it )

Dude...aren't you afraid the frigging camera is going to rot, being exposed to that swill?

I hope you didnt get your boots dirty, Zip!!

No wonder he floats naked in the pool on the weekends!

See Ali understands :)

Ok so we had another Monday WTF !!!
What you see here is 255000 lb of certified cart and weights stuck in the dirt .
This cart don't Baja for shit !!!!
And NO i wasn't driving it !!!

255,000 lbs? As in, a touch over a hundred tonnes?

I wouldn't doubt your word or your judgment as a scale tech, but its your typing I'm wondering about. ;)

Oh and, oyyyy, that's kinda stuck. How powerful is your pick-up? :D

Well, it's got 16 of those solid metal cubes, plus the cart weight. According to wikipedia, "The density of steel varies based on the alloying constituents but usually ranges between 7,750 and 8,050 kg/m3 (484 and 503 lb/cu ft)"

They look like about 2.5 feet cubed to me, which is 15.6 cubic feet. So 15.6 x 16 x 503 = 125,750 pounds. Plus the weight of the cart.

Of course, I can't see anything to use as a frame of reference for size except that a man has to be able to stand on that grate on the left. So my 2.5 feet cubed estimate could be way off. And if the cubes are 3 feet, then that would bump us up to 217,296 pounds. Plus the cart.

Wait a second. It has 20 of those cubes, not 16. So that gets it up the the correct range easily. Sucker is heavy.

Hmmmyeahhh ....

I was originally seeing the top of the steering wheel as being about elbow height, and I was putting the blocks closer to 50 cm ( 1'8") meaning eight would make a cubic meter, giving two cubic meters of blocks. Even at eight tons per cubic meter, plus cart, we're still barely 20 tons.

But I am probably underestimating the size, and with cubic measures, errors magnify quickly. For example, if it were not half but one meter, we'd have 16 cubic meters, by eight tons is 120 tons - done.

but .. I don't think they look that big... maybe 60 cm ... ok 65...

oooh yeah.

So, 20 five ton cubes and a kick-ass cart.

And some idiot driving it across a gravel surface.

I kind of suck at estimating, but I would bet the rail wheels are for standard gauge rails (4 ft 8 1/2 in flange to flange). That would help get the width of the cart.

very good point.

There are no shots from the end, but you can see those rail wheels are set back a bit from the sides. So I'd guess it's about 3 of those blocks to fit between two rails, putting each at about 1.5 feet.

Zippy has a non-Euclidean keyboard. His typing is actually fine.

So how to move the thing to where you want it...

Balloons... How many and how big ?

Levers... How far away will you stand ?

Man power... How many men (Texans ? Russians ? Poles ?)

Woman power... only one required, but where's IM when you need her ?

Political power... call Adak for a hand-up
... No, wait, it was the Republicans that put it there in the first place

They need a

It was pavement when he started...

Wow type 1 extra zero ,,,,,,,,
its 25500 lbs ,
each block weighs 1000lbs , there are 20 of them and they are cast iron .
the cart weighs 5500 lbs ,

this cart is So gutless you have to go at speed bumps diagonally

Zen we tried pulling it out with my pickup ( no go , i told him it wouldn't work ), the big truck ( it just dug in deeper ) ,
then the driver did what i said and backed up and lifted all the weights out and and picked the cart ,

we have a few new hires and they have to learn ,
there was 3 of them on a truck scale install ,
they learned a few lessons, but many more to go
as i tell them dont be afraid to make a mistake ,
, just LEARN from it !!!!

I'm betting you're a great teacher, zip. :thumb: