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Should I be concerned?

#21
We've become a warning label society and it's pretty sad. From the "caution-hot" label on McDonald's coffee to the "do not eat" label on desiccant bags, we're pretty much screwed..... common sense seems to have gone the way of the steam locomotive and full size spare tire.

The last fan belt I bought at a parts store even had "be sure engine is off before replacing" printed on the sleeve.
 
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Mike N said:
We've become a warning label society and it's pretty sad. From the "caution-hot" label on McDonald's coffee to the "do not eat" label on desiccant bags, we're pretty much screwed..... common sense seems to have gone the way of the steam locomotive and full size spare tire.

The last fan belt I bought at a parts store even had "be sure engine is off before replacing" printed on the sleeve.
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You know, even if I were willing to risk having my fingers chopped off, I'm not even sure how you COULD try to replace a fan belt with the engine running.
 
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I bought an office chair mat from Staples many years ago, and that label had me concerned because my great-niece lived with me at the time. She was very young, so she spent a lot of time on the floor. I Googled it and discovered, as many posts here have already mentioned, that label could be placed on almost anything.

And yes, I'm in California!:D
 
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turf3 said:
You know, one time I tried to find out whether any data existed showing actual benefits of back-up beepers (I was awakened by one of those damn things this morning) and I spent half a day trawling the internet, and I found exactly ZERO published data showing that accidents or deaths from equipment fitted with them decreased (or, heck, increased either) when they were mandated. I suspect the reality is that they don't do a darn thing. Consider - you're on a construction site with ten pieces of equipment going back and forth all day long. Are you even going to be able to tell which eardrum-shattering beeper goes with which equipment, when all you can hear all day long is backup beepers?
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One of my friends was walking by a construction site and he heard several of those backup beepers going off at the same time. Tragically, he witnessed one of the workers get run over and flattened by an excavator that backed over him when he wasn't paying attention to the warning noise.

Clearly, on that particular construction site, at that particular time, attention wasn't being paid.
 
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turf3 said:
You know, even if I were willing to risk having my fingers chopped off, I'm not even sure how you COULD try to replace a fan belt with the engine running.
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You'd be surprised. I've seen amateur mechanics do a short cut when installing belts by tapping the starter motor to crank the engine over a slight amount to leverage the belt onto the pulley, instead of loosening the pulley, and having to readjust and retighten it.

I can think of about 17 reasons why that's not a good idea.
 
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The warning labels are the goofy accidental consequence of Prop 65 that everybody knows and remembers. Less well known is that Prop 65 was passed because the EPA was not enforcing its regulations, and California voters were fed up. The law resulted in a significant reduction in toxic emissions because most companies actually took steps to reduce their use.
 
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I've become moderately certain that it's actually California that causes cancer. Which is why everything causes it if sold in California. :D:bag::rolleyes:

I mean, take sun, sand, surf - Skin cancer, Silica dust, Perhaps surf gets a pass on cancer, but 2 outta 3 ain't bad. 3 outta 3 depending who spilled what where when relative to your surfing, I suppose.
 
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hbarcat said:
You'd be surprised. I've seen amateur mechanics do a short cut when installing belts by tapping the starter motor to crank the engine over a slight amount to leverage the belt onto the pulley, instead of loosening the pulley, and having to readjust and retighten it.

I can think of about 17 reasons why that's not a good idea.
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I saw that back in the V belt days.

That would never fly with a serpentine belt.
 
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I've yammered on about it a million times and people think I'm nuts. Yet, here we are. People need a warning label on rain drops, to not stare up at the sky with their mouth open, so they don't drown.
Anyway, it's not so much that people (in general) are so stupid that they need all these warnings, it's that they are entitled, dishonest and influenced by crooked attorneys with crooked doctor friends.
The warnings are a CYA label because people do things they know are their own fault and then pretend they didn't know better and try to sue.
You can blame the legal system for awarding people settlements for nonsense.
Now, people can be horrible parents and generally just complete morons and when something bad happens, they can sue someone else for their stupidity and bad decisions.
Attorney advertisements always try to portray the insurance companies as the bad guy,....."big insurance" :roflmao:

Yeah, nah. The ambulance chaser attorneys are what got us here and why we all pay through the nose for ins. And most politicians are attorneys, so, that should tell ya something.
 
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5aP said:
So, this came attached with my new bass. Does anyone knows a bit more about it?

I did some kind of research, but it's rabbit hole and I did not found what I've been looking for.

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It's
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Mike N said:
We've become a warning label society and it's pretty sad. From the "caution-hot" label on McDonald's coffee to the "do not eat" label on desiccant bags, we're pretty much screwed..... common sense seems to have gone the way of the steam locomotive and full size spare tire.

The last fan belt I bought at a parts store even had "be sure engine is off before replacing" printed on the sleeve.
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The saddest part is a litigious moron without a lick of sense sued when they should have been sent to a penal colony and not allowed to reproduce. That, in turn, caused millions to manufacturers to label their product, which, of course, is passed on to us in cost.
 

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