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At first I was "what's wrong with mounting a power strip on the wall?" Then I saw it. 
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 The book is Fifty Shades of Grey.
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Mar 25, 2016 02:28
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I feel like that's the post this thread has been waiting for all its life.
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Platystemon posted:
The equivalent weight steel plate with the same footprint would be 4.5 inches thick. Amazon quotes a single copy at 1.4 lbs, 8" x 6.8" and it's 47 layers deep I gooned hard on this calculation.
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Platystemon posted:
This place is not a place of honor. No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here. Nothing valued is here.
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Mar 25, 2016 04:26
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So what you're saying is it could possibly be adequate for securing a motorcycle.
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couldcareless posted:So what you're saying is it could possibly be adequate for securing a motorcycle. Jesus loving Christ you guys we don't have to bring up the loving motorcycle four times on every goddamn page.
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Platystemon posted:
Structural smut
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Jesus loving Christ you guys we don't have to bring up the loving motorcycle four times on every goddamn page. What, like we're going to fill books with expanding foam somehow? 
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LonsomeSon posted:What, like we're going to fill books with expanding foam somehow? *doors
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canyoneer posted:This place is not a place of honor. not worthy of motorcycle security.
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Took me a second  I just bought a house, so hopefully I won't be posting original content in h- ah who am I kidding.
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 This was a fun surprise... I turned the water on to the outdoor spigot for the first time, and water began spraying everywhere in the attic. Apparently, this burst on one of the previous owners, and their solution was just to turn off the supply to the spigot. Home inspector missed it (he didn't even mention the outdoor spigot didn't work). Pulling out wet fiberglass insulation is even worse then dealing with dry fiberglass.
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devicenull posted:
Oh man. Burst pipes are my loving favorite. One place I lived in had the supply for the outside spigot running next to the uninsulated garage door in the unconditioned garage. With no shutoff for the pipe aside from the main shutoff for the house. It burst two days before Thanksgiving and sent a stream of water at full pressure jetting roughly twenty feet across the garage.
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They built a new chemistry building on my campus recently, and are in the process of renovating the old one (which is connected in many ways). One of these ways were in the water lines... so a few months ago the contractors apparently hosed something up and wound up bursting a line in the new building, flooding the basement labs with a few feet of water. Feel really bad for all the grad students who lost their experiments (or at least lost all the labels on their experiments/chemicals/whatever).
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Magnus Praeda posted:Oh man. Burst pipes are my loving favorite. One place I lived in had the supply for the outside spigot running next to the uninsulated garage door in the unconditioned garage. With no shutoff for the pipe aside from the main shutoff for the house. It burst two days before Thanksgiving and sent a stream of water at full pressure jetting roughly twenty feet across the garage. At least it was in the garage, though. Should have been (relatively) easy to shut off the water and temporarily "fixing" it by cutting and capping the pipe, right?
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Mr. Despair posted:They built a new chemistry building on my campus recently, and are in the process of renovating the old one (which is connected in many ways). One of these ways were in the water lines... so a few months ago the contractors apparently hosed something up and wound up bursting a line in the new building, flooding the basement labs with a few feet of water.
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Bad Munki posted:poo poo. Wouldn't they have to call in some special cleanup for that? I mean, who knows what might have been added to the water that is now making a nice pool throughout the labs. Granted, it would be super dilute and probably pretty benign, but some poo poo you just don't wanna mess with, and I imagine that disposal of that water would potentially need to be tightly controlled. Sounds spendy beyond the obvious water damage. As far as I know none of the chemicals were spilled in the process, so the worse they probably had to deal with is mold or something in the aftermath. Figuring out how to dispose of the chemicals that were suddenly unlabled was probably a pain though.
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surprisingly not in concrete or motorcycle related news, this poo poo is soothing as gently caress to watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCuvdv8FO54
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Slanderer posted:At least it was in the garage, though. Should have been (relatively) easy to shut off the water and temporarily "fixing" it by cutting and capping the pipe, right? Sorta. The garage was adjacent to the daylight basement so that had to be dried out, too. The fix was actually just leaving the water shut off until an actual shutoff valve and new pipe section could be put in since my then girlfriend (now wife) was going back home for Thanksgiving and I just stayed with my parents for an extra couple days.
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Forgive me thread for I have sinned. While I understand the concept I do not know the reference for the motorcycle/concrete joke.
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I need to secure my motorcycle. I'll cast a 400lb block of concrete with an eyebolt stuck in it to use it.
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Geirskogul posted:I need to secure my motorcycle. I'll cast a 400lb block of concrete with an eyebolt stuck in it to use it. ...and if they can steal it at that point, they can have it. And then a hundred page discussion on how big such a block would be and whether the described block would actually weigh 400 pounds plus or minus the standard deviation. And then maybe something about whether or not an air frame parachute on such a block would be appropriate, it gets a little fuzzy around there.
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H110Hawk posted:Forgive me thread for I have sinned. While I understand the concept I do not know the reference for the motorcycle/concrete joke. The horror begins...: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3431884&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=119#post442930815
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:The horror begins...: Excellent. Also the tesla-salvage-battery-off-grid-PV guy is amazing but in a good way so far, 17 pages in to the thread and he seems extremely concerned with making sure it's all by the book with permits. Crazy to have that many kWh of Lithium in his basement, but still cool.
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Hmm... Something doesn't look quite right I wonder where it goes?  Electrical tape confirms it's lawnmower bait  I guess it's maybe legit? 
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SneakyFrog posted:surprisingly not in concrete or motorcycle related news, I'm just parading my ignorance now but what's the horizontally-sliding vertical post thing with all the holes in it for?
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SneakyFrog posted:surprisingly not in concrete or motorcycle related news, My girlfriend caught me watching this video: "Oh you're going to build a workbench?" I'm flattered that she thinks my pine monstrosities that are cobbled together with screwed together butt joints are considered anything close to woodworking. I wonder why he had to use glue on the feet of the bench. Everything else seemed perfectly fastened with only wood.
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GotLag posted:I'm just parading my ignorance now but what's the horizontally-sliding vertical post thing with all the holes in it for? i have no idea but its amazing. some kind of jig holder?
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GotLag posted:I'm just parading my ignorance now but what's the horizontally-sliding vertical post thing with all the holes in it for? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB0-F6yq8zM
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SneakyFrog posted:surprisingly not in concrete or motorcycle related news, This depresses me because maybe I could build something close to that but the material would still be several hundred dollars.
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With "samurai" in the title, I was hoping he'd be using traditional Japanese joinery, and was not disappointed. The awesome professor that ran the art school wood shop in grad school had a book on that poo poo and good lord, some of those joints were just mind blowing: 
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I was wondering (like on that dead man) how you would figure on the surface area and materials so it doesn't just snap off or break when you're assembling it. The first thing that comes into my head is, well, just try something until it seems to work. But that's why I'm in this thread.
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Sylink posted:This depresses me because maybe I could build something close to that but the material would still be several hundred dollars. Unless you're building furniture for a living, most of those features are going to be wasted. Make a cheap pine bench out of 2x4s and secure it with screws. It''ll do the job. I worked in a shop long ago and we all made a huge loving deal out of our work benches. It was a constant and pointless game of one upping each other, while in the end, we needed very little to get work done.
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I just have to wonder how long all that wood has been aging that he knows it's not going to just warp into uselessness in a month. I deal with that a lot because fresh wood is cheapest.
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Looks like he's drying wood in all corners of his shop.
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Boat posted:With "samurai" in the title, I was hoping he'd be using traditional Japanese joinery, and was not disappointed. thats amazing.
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Mar 27, 2016 14:31
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That's what happens when nails are more rare and expensive than carpenters.
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canyoneer posted:This place is not a place of honor. This is a great post.
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Here's a good documentary on Japanese woodworking and joinery. It's super cool and still appreciated and used today! Ignore the silly title of the show, it's a real Japanese NHK production simulcast in English and Japanese. https://youtu.be/Y8vJ11cXLs4
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