"You don't run your blender in the bathtub," McHale said. "Snow and these motors just don't mix."

Truer words.

Beef tea bags?

Schrool lunch room ladies the world over are called to donate their used hair nets to further defray costs. (or should've been) Sweeeeeet!

now i'm gonna stfuagbtw.

This should get the cool tag.

I don't understand where the steak tips work in all of this.

"You don't run your flamethrower in the moonlanding," McHale said. "icecream and these trees just don't mix."

Unfortunately, his plan for using illegal immigrants as railroad ties didn't fair as well...

Submitter is retarded - it's MacGyver.

"McHale, 42, said he then noticed that a nearby butcher's head was about the same size as the air intake cover on the failing Orange Line motors."

Having lived in Boston and having seen a lot of the employees at the MBTA...I can only say this guy deserves a bonus in addition to a promotion and an extra couple of weeks of vacation.

McGuyver?

Like the cheesy sci-fi movie with Mark Hamill?

My lack of interest was maxxed out.

Mark McGwire? I didn't know he played for the Sox...

You mean a government agency was wasting money? No way! Next you will tell me that they hire hundreds of student workers to study for 8 hours a day and staple a few papers for an hour.

doublesecretprobation

The problem isn't just keeping the snow out. You also have to allow enough air in to cool the motors. It's a little more complicated than putting a piece of cardboard in front of your cars radiator. This method just happened to be the perfect compromise. Snow stayed out, but airflow was still enough to keep the motors cool and not overheat.

If only there was a handy fast-loading online search engine that could suggest a correct spelling.

"You don't run your blender in the bathtub."
Speak for yourself.

In the short amount of time I spent in Boston, my favorite T line was the Green Line; hellooooo old cars!

submitter loses at life for bad spelling of punchline.

/RDA disapproves
//where's my image macro?
///didn't rtfa

Good, old-fashioned, American ingenuity.

wtf? This deserves "hero" tag.. that is one nifty solution.

14 seconds?

Dagney Taggert would be proud.

I guess I'm just totally morbid, but after I read the headline, I immediately assumed this was about somebody offing themselves in a mental institution.

Crosshair: The problem isn't just keeping the snow out. You also have to allow enough air in to cool the motors. It's a little more complicated than putting a piece of cardboard in front of your cars radiator. This method just happened to be the perfect compromise. Snow stayed out, but airflow was still enough to keep the motors cool and not overheat.

Dear Jesus, are we all this retarded that we required that additional ex-planatin? Well, explain where you tape the beef tips Einstein...eh?

"You don't run your blender in the bathtub"

Smoking on a night train
Chewing on a jelly roll.

Who's up for investing in my idea to start manufacturing the nets custom-fit for these intakes once the Acme Lunch Lady Supply Co. starts gauging?

So.... I RTFA and found no use of the beef tips in the train... Unless he "used" the beef tips to give him the other idea, which is completely insane.

Fun times on the Red Line

Steak tips?

I prefer grilling and I spend two minutes on a side and flip it to sear the meat and lock the juices inside. Then cook til it reaches your desired doness. I usualy wait until all the red goes goes away, a Medium to medium rare

"You don't run your blender in the bathtub,"

All I can think of is a clean bathtub, a wheelbarrow full of ice, lots of tequila and a couple of cases of margarita mix :D

Hah. The beef tips grease the engine intake servo motor. The bits are important to the continuing viability factor of the continual motion expectation of the mechanism. Probabilistic programs are modelled using the state-transformer monad familiar from functional programming, where the random bit generator is passed around in the computation. Functions remove random bits from the generator to perform their calculation, and then pass back the changed random bit generator with the result.

Don't worry, President Chimpy McFlightsuit armed with only a pair of numb nuts, will single handedly make up for it a million times over.

I'm wondering why the intakes weren't designed with an air filter in the first place. There could be some unexpected side effect of the reduced air flow. That hair net probably cuts the air flow in half. That's the reason you don't see screens on jet engines to keep crap out.

The fact that there was noone whose JOB this was to figure this simple solution out, just makes me want to SCREAM. Here is an idea... why not figure out a metal mesh equivlant so you don't have to buy and continue to replace the melting hair nets???

Great that he figured that out, but don't you think the company would have thought about getting some kind of filters before paying tens of thousands of dollars a year on repairs?

Sorry, kimball_Kinnison, but searing does not lock juices into meat. Doneness is basically a factor of how much liquid has escaped the meat, so if the meat is exposed to flame and no longer raw, guess what has happened?

You sear meat because the browning adds flavor, that's all.

And if the red is all gone, it's medium (and overcooked).

/former professional chef
//so take my word for it
///or look it up yourself, whatever blows your hair back

My hero. (see fark userid)

*scratches head* Wait a minute...this guy invented an air intake filter? And it keeps foreign objects out of the air intake?? Who knew?


"Over time, with stops and starts, the snow melts and refreezes into 3-inch-thick squares that block the intake, causing the motors to overheat or catastrophically fail."

A little bit of common sense here suggests that installing a heating coil around the air intake to prevent the melted snow from refreezing might cost a little less than a friggin' ENGINE REPLACEMENT. Am I missing something?

Am I the only one who thinks this problem sounds like a design flaw that the train company should have dealt with? Maybe with their own filter design, or a heated chamber to prevent the ice forming....

Who the fark is McGuyver?

I know it's been said but submitter has retardation sickness.

Good solution, but why did it take this long to figure it out?

Problem: Snow gets into engine air intakes.
Solution: Install air filter.

Duh?

I also understand that you don't spit into the wind ... tug on Superman's cape ... pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger, and you don't mess around with Jim ... er, Slim.

This hurts my engineering bone.