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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: MillCreek on February 13, 2021, 09:36:59 AM
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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/09/climate/catalytic-converter-theft.html
I see a lot of posts on area FB sites about converter theft. Apparently, someone with a battery-powered reciprocating saw can be in and out from under your car in about a minute with the converter. A neat trick is using a skateboard to slide under the car.
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Been quite a few people on the Nextdoor app complaining about having theirs's stolen often in store parking lots. Nearly 100% of the vehicles, when they do mention what kind of vehicle, are trucks and SUVs since it's far easier to just roll under many of them to access the converters than with many cars.
BTW: Paywall
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That’s been a problem for a long time. It kinda went away when scrap yards found the law clamping down on them. Guessing covid has loosened that enforcement so it’s back to the status quo ante.
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Here is a thread from nevadashooters of a theft on Christmas morning. It doesn't take them very long to do the deed.
http://www.nevadashooters.com/threads/interesting-security-video-from-this-morning.157613/
bob
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That’s been a problem for a long time. It kinda went away when scrap yards found the law clamping down on them. Guessing covid has loosened that enforcement so it’s back to the status quo ante.
The scrapyards around here are often run by crooked owners so they turn a blind eye to what comes in...
Our field guys hate going to work on the equipment at these yards it’s a constant parade of tweakers eying the $180k service truck loaded with $60k of tools.
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This has popped up in a bug way in my area as well.
I watched a video on it this morning. The fastest way to steal them is to jack up one side of the car and use a chain cutter to cut the exhaust in front and back of it.
A way to spoof these cutters is to rack weld a piece of angle iron onto the exhaust tube before and after the cat- it would probably wouldn’t slow down guys using a sawzall of angle grinder much though.
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Some sort of skid plate, even if just thick sheet metal?
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Packet of white phosphorus mixed with a friction ignition compound attached to the exhaust pipe?
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Packet of white phosphorus mixed with a friction ignition compound attached to the exhaust pipe?
I like the cut of your jib. >:D
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Packet of white phosphorus mixed with a friction ignition compound attached to the exhaust pipe?
Nice idea but, IIRC, most states have laws against boobytraps, esp. those meant for 2-legged animals.
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White phosphorus attached to the exhaust pipe? How temp sensitive is WP?
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Nice idea but, IIRC, most states have laws against boobytraps, esp. those meant for 2-legged animals.
Well, depending on the quantity used, there is also the small matter of not having any car left by the time the WP burns itself out.
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Lose the car to maim a thief? No thanks. The resulting arrest and lawsuit would be a deal breaker for me.
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Nice idea but, IIRC, most states have laws against boobytraps, esp. those meant for 2-legged animals.
Lose the car to maim a thief? No thanks. The resulting arrest and lawsuit would be a deal breaker for me.
I bet you guys are a ton of fun at parties.
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Lose the car to maim a thief? No thanks. The resulting arrest and lawsuit would be a deal breaker for me.
Wait, we were supposed to do it to our own cars?
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https://youtu.be/AH25lc44Og0?t=107
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Wait, we were supposed to do it to our own cars?
:laugh:
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Meh. The car's insured. Same deductible to put new cats in (and fix related damage) as to total it and I go car shopping.
My way the theives thief's friends learn a valuable lesson that sometimes cars just catch fire while you're under them. Dangerous work a life of crime is.
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So... explosive bolts on the lower ball joints?
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Claymores and detcord.
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Rabid squirrels living in the drive train.
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I think it should be legal to set out a trap car and seriously hammer anyone that tries to rob it, either the car itself or for parts.
I don't have any problem with hunting varmints over bait.
:rofl:
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Hhmm? If there was a way to put a fine mesh of copper wires on the underside of the car then a second mesh on the ground, maybe when they squeeze under the car, each side of the mesh is attached to one side of the extension cord. The perp would become the "filament" of light-bulb. =D
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If the perp is on the ground, you probably don't need a ground. Increase the amperage just to make sure.
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This thread reads like a RoboCop movie commercial. [popcorn]
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Catalytic converter 'security system': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fbce8m2KykU
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If the perp is on the ground, you probably don't need a ground. Increase the amperage just to make sure.
There was a science class back in high school where we were messing around with a Van de Graff generator (one of those big ball-headed things) and we were "shooting" lightening bolts from our fingers or lighting up a fluorescent tube by holding just one end. The teacher let us ramp up the voltage to see how much we could take before we couldn't take it. Some of us had it up to about 300,000 volts but it was only about 0.1 amp, so no real "current". Back then, nobody thought of the consequences of possible injuries.
It was FUN !
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There was a science class back in high school where we were messing around with a Van de Graff generator (one of those big ball-headed things) and we were "shooting" lightening bolts from our fingers or lighting up a fluorescent tube by holding just one end. The teacher let us ramp up the voltage to see how much we could take before we couldn't take it. Some of us had it up to about 300,000 volts but it was only about 0.1 amp, so no real "current". Back then, nobody thought of the consequences of possible injuries.
It was FUN !
I certainly hope it was a few orders of magnitude less than 0.1 amp... as much as shooting 30 kilowatt lightning bolts out of the fingers sounds.