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I can remember coming across only a couple of accidental fires in a bit more than fifty years of driving. Not that i am in a position to contradict any data presented. Maybe my experience is not that typical. One thing though, there was a fashion a while back for car thieves - mostly young...

Are you old enough to remember 'fly paper'? That's what this thread is maybe, or that is what it has become.

The BMS cutting off power when the pack was at 36volts is a pretty good giveaway that one cell group is much lower than the other cell groups. The pack seems to be unbalanced. Sturmey's suggestion of opening the pack and checking the voltage of all of the cell groups is a good one. To a lesser...

Maybe you need to watch that video again that you refer to and listen to what the presenter is saying. The whole video is totally against the conspiracy rubbish you have been quoting.

That last bit is interesting since I would have thought riding a bike with an illegally powered motor, that then resulted in death, might qualify as killing someone while carrying out a criminal act - which is more or less what manslaughter means. Perhaps the illegal motor does not reach the...

If I am not mistaken, at least one of these riders was riding furiously and shouting in a somewhat abusive manner at a woman illadvisedly crossing the road. He also made unsympathetic remarks afterwards which did him no favours. I think every case of pedestrian / car collisions will be taken...

I know nothing about whether it was a lithium battery fire or not. I don't have any axe to grind at all in the issue. I made a general remark about the way people are eager to suspect conspiracies to hide facts from them. This thread is full of such discussions.

But all this is just contrived. Whatever Crooks intended as he initiated the trigger movement, the bullet struck where the barrel was actually pointed at the moment that it left the muzzle, influenced also also by gravity acting on it in a downward direction, and any wind which may, or may not...

No. There is an error there. Firstly, of course rifle bullets spin. The 'rifling' is a screw cut set of spiral grooves in the barrel of a rifle or pistol or even an artillery piece which tightly grips the projectile as it rapidly passes up the barrel of the piece. The projectile is made...

Yes - as you say you know NOTHING about shooting, but feel qualified to invent all manner of utter cr@p about things you have no grasp of. You assert with huge confidence supposed 'facts' which are nothing of the kind. Please take this from a fifty year rifle owner and shooter of many...

Once people get sucked into the mind set that there is a big conspiracy to hide things from them, they believe anything and then they seek out so called 'evidence' that only supports what they want to believe. It is called cherry picking. They actively refuse to consider any alternate view -...

You can't repair that fork. If you can get a new one to fit, then you can fix it. Welding aluminium is a highly specialised business. You need to 'cure' the whole fork at high temperature for many hours with a controlled cooling process after heating any part of it for welding. Once you do some...

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That makes it much worse - poor fellow. Must have been horrific for him. It could not have happened in a worse place - totally confined.

I don't have any idea how many people know about new rules regarding pedestrians, but I do notice that almost all drivers around here are passing my bike a with a much wider margin than they used to. Cycling on country roads in the old days used to involve a succession of startle reactions when...

This video might be worth a look if you want to understand why and how your battery works.

Diesel is pretty hard to light unless it has been heated up enough to emit a lot of vapour, or if it has some absorbent material to make a wick. If you dip a match into a puddle of diesel it doesn't light, although the match will flare up as it takes on the diesel, but when you withdraw the...

The answer my friends is blowing in the wind.... LiFePO4

I wonder how many Amps this idiot was drawing when I snapped him on my dashcam yesterday. If this had gone on fire, I'd have been very pleased to see it (unlike the poor fellow on the video up top).

It might - just might cool it enough to stop it running away into a horrible conflagration.