IOwnCalculus Apr 2, 2003











MisterSparkle posted: EDIT: er..there should be an 'of' somewhere there in the tile.



As a mechanical engineering student I have some sort of weird fetish for catastrophic mechanical failures.







I saw something similar years ago in person, I wish I had photographed it - a VW 5-valve that had a timing failure of some sort, and mashed all of the valves into the head. One of the valve heads had broken off of the stem and embedded itself firmly (at about a 70* angle) in the valve seat.