Can The Disco 1 be made reliable?
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Three Wheeling
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Can The Disco 1 be made reliable?
After all the problems I have encounter with my disco, I have started to ask my self this question. I daily drive my disco. I would be happy keeping this truck for a long time if I could keep it reliable.
Are discos just one of these vehicles that always have something?
THANKS!!!
Ryan.
Are discos just one of these vehicles that always have something?
THANKS!!!
Ryan.
Baja
Joined: Mar 2010
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I worked as a Reliability Engineer on the Cruise Missile Program for 10 years.
The best way to improve reliabilty is to reduce the overall part count if possible, the less parts it has, the less there is to fail, seriously. So get rid of all the unnecessary stuff.
The other way is to have totally redundant systems ( basically 2 of everything ) so just buy yourself a second Discovery, same model as your current one and you will thereby double it's reliabilty by virtue of having a second one to use when the first one isn't running. Drive one one day and the other the next. When one is shot you will have a parts vehicle and can add a third one to your fleet.
And above all, limit the number of operators to just yourself.
The best way to improve reliabilty is to reduce the overall part count if possible, the less parts it has, the less there is to fail, seriously. So get rid of all the unnecessary stuff.
The other way is to have totally redundant systems ( basically 2 of everything ) so just buy yourself a second Discovery, same model as your current one and you will thereby double it's reliabilty by virtue of having a second one to use when the first one isn't running. Drive one one day and the other the next. When one is shot you will have a parts vehicle and can add a third one to your fleet.
And above all, limit the number of operators to just yourself.
Three Wheeling
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well, ive been diggin into my disco pretty deep, reading as much as i can.
I DO believe it can be made reliable, and am slowly going in that direction, I think the biggest problem, is the electronics.. Sooo on that note im going to slowly upgrade/remove mine. I'll keep you posted
Right now i'm doing the basics. The PO of this rig did not take care of it in the slightest so im playing catchup !
I DO believe it can be made reliable, and am slowly going in that direction, I think the biggest problem, is the electronics.. Sooo on that note im going to slowly upgrade/remove mine. I'll keep you posted
Right now i'm doing the basics. The PO of this rig did not take care of it in the slightest so im playing catchup !
I worked as a Reliability Engineer on the Cruise Missile Program for 10 years.
The best way to improve reliabilty is to reduce the overall part count if possible, the less parts it has, the less there is to fail, seriously. So get rid of all the unnecessary stuff.
The other way is to have totally redundant systems ( basically 2 of everything ) so just buy yourself a second Discovery, same model as your current one and you will thereby double it's reliabilty by virtue of having a second one to use when the first one isn't running. Drive one one day and the other the next. When one is shot you will have a parts vehicle and can add a third one to your fleet.
And above all, limit the number of operators to just yourself.
The best way to improve reliabilty is to reduce the overall part count if possible, the less parts it has, the less there is to fail, seriously. So get rid of all the unnecessary stuff.
The other way is to have totally redundant systems ( basically 2 of everything ) so just buy yourself a second Discovery, same model as your current one and you will thereby double it's reliabilty by virtue of having a second one to use when the first one isn't running. Drive one one day and the other the next. When one is shot you will have a parts vehicle and can add a third one to your fleet.
And above all, limit the number of operators to just yourself.
soooo..... how many missiles.. or better, how many broken cruise missiles are there lying around?
Baja
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From: Pittsburgh PA suburbs.
Surprisingly they had a very good reliability rating. I was personally involved in the Manufacture and Testing of over 1000 Tomahawks by McDonnell Douglas and only a few ever crashed during the entire program.
We were in competion with General Dynamics, they built most of the bad ones...........
We were in competion with General Dynamics, they built most of the bad ones...........
I bought it with 152,change, it now has 196,change and all I have into it in repairs is less than $1500.
I have put billions into it maintenance wise, but repairs very little.
Yes they are reliable...as long as you take care of it.
Baja
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From: Pittsburgh PA suburbs.
The ones that made it to target hurt way more than the few that fell from the sky short of target.
If you remember when we did invade Baghdad, Wolf Blitzen was staying in a downtown hotel on his fifth floor balcony and he reported watching them come down the boulevard and make a right turn at the corner and they were closer to the ground than where he was standing. They went between his balcony and the street level at 600 MPH airspeed.
That was what was used on the first attaack wave, hundreds of Tomahawks screaming in with their jet engines roaring and their strobe lights flashing illuminating the path they took. They flew their course by maps loaded into memory and made turns as planned by the mission planners guys from sattelite photos of the landscape.
One chase pilot that had flown the chase plane on test firings said they look like a bowling ball with wings on it coming at you because they were so small in diameter, about 2 feet across.
If you remember when we did invade Baghdad, Wolf Blitzen was staying in a downtown hotel on his fifth floor balcony and he reported watching them come down the boulevard and make a right turn at the corner and they were closer to the ground than where he was standing. They went between his balcony and the street level at 600 MPH airspeed.
That was what was used on the first attaack wave, hundreds of Tomahawks screaming in with their jet engines roaring and their strobe lights flashing illuminating the path they took. They flew their course by maps loaded into memory and made turns as planned by the mission planners guys from sattelite photos of the landscape.
One chase pilot that had flown the chase plane on test firings said they look like a bowling ball with wings on it coming at you because they were so small in diameter, about 2 feet across.
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